Start your journey on The Road to Sun & Moon!

Some of our older readers maybe remember our Journey to X & Y and Road to Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire countdowns back in 2013 and 2014. Now, we’re with back Road to Sun & Moon!

The Road to Sun & Moon starts here!

Our Road to Sun & Moon countdown will feature tons of content as we edge nearer to the release of Pokémon Sun & Moon later this year. Road to Sun & Moon will start with new content arriving a few times throughout each week. Then, as the games are on our doorstep you can expect content much more frequently.

So what can you expect on the Road to Sun & Moon? Content. Lots and lots of content! We’ve got written content like JungleAsks and our signature feature-piece articles. You can expect a giveaway or two… Is battling your thing? Stick around for a flash tournament. Writing contests, video content, guest articles and more. In addition to all of this you can continue to expect our usual services from rumours and news coverage to everything else.

[Note] We apologise to our European readers! You guys have wait a few extra days, but we’re trying to arrange something special for you guys. We want to make the wait that little more bearable!

Anyway, let’s get things started!

Ask PokéJungle: Alola

We’re going to kick things off with something simple – we had to delay our initial plans, but keep your eyes peeled tomorrow! We want you guys to ask the PokéJungle team any questions you have about the Alola region. We’ll pick a selection of questions and answer them in a future episode. All we ask is you keep your questions specifically about the Alola region.

Ask away!

Stick around tomorrow for something exciting, we don’t want to give it away just yet!

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324 thoughts on “Start your journey on The Road to Sun & Moon!”

    • As long as there are at least some non gen 1 pokemon with alolan forms ill be happy, if they are gen 1 exclusive ill still be happy but slightly upset

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  1. I just found out today my company is taking a business trip leaving early the friday it releases, so I won’t be able to pick up my pre-order of Moon til i get back that monday…tis a sad day for me

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  2. Wow only 2 months already?! I remember when we just got the names and the little concept art for things and speculation about the setting and characters was running wild! Haha i guess time does fly fast

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  3. It’s been a long year of surprises from GF and yet we have no evidence of megas, so my question is will we get megas or not? And if we do, what megas would you expect to see?

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  4. Don’t treat this as an ask PJ question because it’s not related to Alola. With that out of the way, I’ve heard a few people(including me) who would like to stay away from leaks in the time leading up to the game’s release, so I’d like to suggest making a “Spoiler-Free Discussion” article so people don’t have to leave PJ. The article would solely be for discussion of officially revealed stuff. I don’t know, but I thought in the interest of people not leaving for a while that this might be a good idea.

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    • I agree. As much as I want to stay away from spoilers though, my christmas present hunting as a kid trained me to spoil myself before the big day. We’ll see how long I last ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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    • We’ve been discussing spoilers as a staff team lately. We won’t be providing a spoiler free article (we’d ask you to use our forums if you wanted that), but we will be marking spoilers where appropriate. 🙂

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      • I guess I expected as much (How would the forums be better though?). I mean, you can’t really mark all spoilers in the comments, which is honestly what I’m interested in here. I guess I’ll just stick to my original plan, it was worth a shot.

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    • While it seems like an good idea, I personally wouldn’t have that much faith in strangers on the internet. People are actually so petty, that they will spam that comments section with spoilers.
      I understand wanting to stay away from spoilers, but I also think it’s an unrealistic expectation.

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      • I remember that happening all over the place (not here) with the latest Star Wars movie, so I agree this is definitely a high probability.

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    • I hope so. I’d like a Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus (Torterra technically is one though),Ichthyosaurus or Basilosaurus, Megatherium, Andrewsarchus or Smilodon (Sabretooth). I think dropping the Rock Type for a change would be good, perhaps Aether perfect the revival process or use some form of DNA extraction somehow.

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  5. By the design of the leaks, this is probably going to be the very first generation where the massive majority of players will choose the grass starter. The archer will basically reach a charizard-like status, and though that’s cool, i admit i’d never thought a grass starter would pull this off.

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  6. New Alolan Form idea:

    Alola Youngster Joey
    Ability: Top Percentage Alola Rattata.
    Alola Youngster Joey has 6 6IV Alola Rattata and is tanned

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  7. Because Rockruff and the starters all have a secret and Rockruff has Version Exclusive Evolutions, What Will the types be for Each Version Exclusive Starter Evos?

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    • Congrats! 😀 How did you win Rotation? That’s been the hardest one for me, lost so many times >.< You've saved the easiest one for last, as choosing Steven as your partner will lead you to victory 🙂

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      • Well I used Lum Berry/Multiscale Dragonite, Choice Band/Huge Power Azumarill, and Mega Kanga for Super Singles. So I just added my Choice Band/Therian Thundurus from my Super Doubles team and beat Rotation in two tries.

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        • Thanks! I get screwed over with the prediction aspect of it, it’s incredibly annoying. I’ve been using Lum Multiscale Dragonite, Gengar, Vaporeon w/ Wish, and Mega Metagross.

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          • Yea the prediction can be dumb. The way I did it: spammed Outrage for strong 1x STAB damage, rotate to Azumarill when dealing with dragons or fairies, and almost always saving Thundurus for when he is the only logical choice to rotate to, and then Kanga for sweeping up and come backs as my switch in.

            Aether
            Dragonite (Lum Berry)
            Outrage
            Extreme Speed
            Fire Punch
            Earthquake
            [252 Atk / 6 Def / 252 Spe]
            MULTISCALE
            (Adament +Atk -SpA)

            PikaBlue
            Azumarill (Choice Band)
            Play Rough
            Waterfall
            Aqua Jet
            Superpower
            [172 HP / 252 Atk / 86 Spe]
            HUGE POWER
            (Adament +Atk -SpA)

            Quetzalcoatl
            Therian Thundurus (Choice Specs)
            Thunderbolt
            Hidden Power (Flying)
            Incinerate
            Sludge Wave
            [252 SpA / 6 SpD / 252 Spe]
            VOLT ABSORB
            (Timid +Spe -Atk)

            Zelma
            Kangaskhan (Kangaskhanite)
            Fake Out
            Body Slam
            Earthquake
            Crunch
            [252 Atk / 6 Def / 252 Spe]
            SCRAPPY : PARENTAL BOND
            (Jolly +Spe -SpA)

          • Thanks so much! ^_^ I’m likely going to try out this team and that advice as I really want to win all the trophies 😀

          • No prob! I hope it works out for you! I honestly should have won on my first try, but I didn’t fully think out a turn and then everything sorta fell apart because of the one misplay. Haha Sucks when that happens in the 40 rounds.

            Have you heard of the AI logic abuse team for Super Triples? That ones funny and fun.

          • Damn =/ The highest I got in Rotation was high 30s, and then a Walrein just completely went nuts on my team.

            I have not! I did hear of the Doubles Aron+Sturdy+Berry Juice+Endeavor tho, and used that to win Super Doubles xD What is the team for Triples?

          • That sucks. :s OH also, when dealing with ice types I would rotate to Azumarill. I think that one was little more self explanatory. But wanted to make sure I said it.

            Yea that’s it! I’ve only seen it as a Triples team tho. I just got the Super trophy today with it. I almost carbon copied someone else’s team to do it so I can take 0 credit for it. So I’ll link you to the article.

            http://nuggetbridge.com/blogs/entry/438-would-you-like-an-ability-capsule-1000w-0l-triple-maison-team-report/

          • Definitely going to have to bring that one on over when working on Triples xD All I have left is Rotation and Triples, but got so demotivated from losing Rotation a bunch that I’ve been shiny hunting legendaries until getting the courage to re-challenge it xD Appreciate all the advice, good luck to you in achieving Super Multi!

  8. I have some questions which are specifically about the map of Alola, if anyone could answer them, that would be great! Here it is: is the snowy mountain actually connected to the observatory or are they two different mountains? Also, is that a golf course in the east of Akala island or something I don’t know of? And finally, where do you guys think the Team Skull base will be? (or has it been revealed already? The walled of city, perhaps?)

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  9. I wonder if the Anime will be like Spongebob. Think about it. All the episodes from Season 1 to the Spongebob Squarepants movie were great and the Spongebob Squarepants Movie had a great ending where Sponge became the Manager and that was the planned ending of the show. What if Ash becomes something great and the show “ends”, but then Alola Anime will be bad like modern Spongebob and they’ll keep dragging it along as it gets worse and worse like Spongebob season 10.

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    • really? is that just a theory they’re hoping to be true or do they have some proof/signs of this? either way ide be glad to have more trial captains to meet, i dont think the ones we have are enough though we do have the kahuna’s and one of those is Hala as far as we know. i think if we only have the remaining trial captains we know of they would give us a ton of trials just to let us forget that their is only 4 and probably 4 kahuna’s including hala…idk hm if their is evidence or some signs of more than ide be happy but im still salty on that assumption they are making…

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  10. Wait. Where are Zubat and Dragonite stuff?
    A month and a half ago: Stay tuned for more about these familiar Pokemon.
    A month and a half later: *staying tuned* -_-

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  11. Do you want to see more hoard battles or would you prefer it goes back to shaking grass and an Audino pops out, allowing you more experience points? Or some other method, or none at all?

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  12. So I just rewatched the whole team flare arc and at the end. BONNY WAS A MURDER!! Before perfect zygarde attack bonny entourage it to do it even though she knew Lysander was in its way plus! WE all hadn’t a bone to pick with bonny since day one of the x and y real ease of the games lol! (Dicie)

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  13. Dear Pokemon Go,
    Don’t put Pokemon like Seaking and Omanyte in Cornfields that are not accessible without permission. Geez. Put them on the road where I can reach them.

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    • Lol reminds me when there was a Nidoking nearby and Poliwrath at the same time in a community you can’t enter without living in it. UGH

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  14. My Alola question: Hypothetically, if there were an Alola Dragonite what do you all think would be the in-game reasoning for its change on Alola? Also what typing would it be?

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    • Everyone was like: “O. M. G. You look horrible gurl. You used to look so bootyful in High School and You were so cute in Elementary school. What happened?”
      Then she worked out and became blue and got Blue Pearls.

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    • There would be very little reason to change since Dragonite don’t have much problem living anywhere
      They either sleep at massive depths in the ocean or tall craggy mountains but I theorize Dragonites don’t tend to stay in one place since they regularly circle the globe

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      • Perhaps its body becomes more serpentine to navigate the deep waters at a faster pace. Dragonite’s speed is rather lackluster, after all. I’m sure it’s described in the dex as being fast though.

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      • Lol no Pokémon has any reason to change considering every region has had an appropriate microclimate. It’s a for-fun hypothetical. You’re way too negative Nancy all the time.

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      • he never said their would be, he just asked if their WAS an alolan dragonite how would we describe it as type and lore wise. in the end its just a curious question to ask.

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    • hmm ide say it would be water/dragon type if it were to adapt like the other alola forms, and the reasoning would be “Because some dragonite prefer to swim instead of fly to get around, their bodies changed due to its swimming skills. it’s wings are now used like webbed fin’s to help it turn corner’s smoothly and faster” i can picture it being an ocean blue colour with a white shiny tummy, webbed wings and fins, thinner, longer tail and maybe an orb on its head to resemble its pre evolution “dragonair” i suppose i could think of a better lore on its adaption but its the best i got 🙂

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    • hmm i would dress in a nice dark orange tee with a black sun and water below it and an alolan exeggutor beside it. for bottoms ide wear cut offs with a red or purple tips/ends. and hopefully wear flip flops if they give us that option of footwear, if not maybe flat shoes of my favourite colour purple. my hair would be medium long and black though with a different coloured cap mainly blue or purple…xD yeah its a tad specific but i can just picture it 😛

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      • I.. I am still too hyped! And how am I gonna avoid spoilers for 5 days when I go on YouTube and Pokemon Amino everyday?! Oh I guess we could find out what level and where Pokemon are found and evolved!

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        • I will probably go to the stores everyday and ask if they can sell them already. Got the past games a day early of the release aswell!

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