New Pokémon Sun & Pokémon Moon Information [SEP 20]

by

As promised a bunch of Pokémon Sun and Moon information has just been released! The update brings us information on Pokémon and the region of Alola!

Japanese Trailer

New Information

  • Passimian is a new Fighting-type Pokémon with the ability Receiver, exclusive to Pokémon Sun. The new Receiver ability appears to allow the Pokémon to take on the abilities of fallen Pokémon
  • Oranguru is a Normal/Psychic-type Pokémon with the ability Inner Focus/Telepathy. Oranguru can also learn a new move called Instruct
  • Pikachu has an exclusive Z-Move called Catastropika
  • Extreme Evoboost is Eevee’s exclusive Z-Move
  • Pokémon Refresh allows trainers to take care of their Pokémon after battle. Trainers can clean their Pokémon, pet them and even cure status conditions. Similarly to Pokémon Amie, Refresh will also give boosts to Pokémon that have become affectionate towards their trainer – dodging moves and holding out even longer when they’re near fainting
  • Lycanroc is the name of Rockruff’s Evolution. It’s Midday Form is exclusive to Sun version and is Rock-type with the ability Keen Eye/Sandrush. Midnight Form Lycanroc is exclusive to Moon version, remains Rock-type and has the ability Keen Eye/Vital Spirit
  • Accelerock is a move exclusive to Midday Lycanroc
  • Lunala and Solgaleo influence Rockruff when it evolves and causes it to evolve into either Midday or Midnight Form Lycanroc
  • Trainers can spend Festival Coins to customise their appearance

[NEW] Even more Pokémon Sun & Moon news will be released on October 4th at 9am EDT, 6am PDT, 10pm JST, 3pm CEST and 2pm BST.

Don’t forget to Like us on Facebook and Follow us on Twitter! While you’re here why not also visit our forums and come along to have a chat?

Supporters

Nick F

Smearg

Foil Island

Conglome NERD

alcremie sundae

Radiant Blutle

Zachery

Dragoniteo

Austin John Plays

Help support our work by becoming a Patron on Patreon! Swadloon Platoon members and above will be added to our site supporters list!

2,359 thoughts on “New Pokémon Sun & Pokémon Moon Information [SEP 20]”

  1. I honestly don’t think the 2 primates will be standalone pokémon, they give me a stage 2 vibe. I can easily see us getting a baby orangutan and a small lemur carrying a berry.

    Reply

  7. So, the Pokemon Company confirmed game development of Pokemon Games on the NX. I’m quite sure S/M are going to be the last 3DS Pokemon games. I’d like to see a D/P remake for the NX.
    Also, I’m already seeing people jumping to conclusions that the NX is a hybrid due to his statement. That might be the case, but its another form of overanalyzing. All he said was console or habdheld; how does that present anything? I don’t have a problem with the NX being a hybrid, but except from the idea of creating something new; a hybrid device with the rumoured NX features has already been done.

    Reply

    • To be honest it’s kind of a no brainer that a Pokemon game will be on the NX. While I do think we’ll see a main series game on it I have to mention that since it was the CEO of TPC rather than game freak saying this, it could very well just be another Pokepark or something. Ishihara over sees everything Pokemon from the company and the series has a lot more game out there than just the main series…..so yeah…..lol again I’m sure we’ll see a main series game at some point tho!! lol

      Reply

  10. Is anyone here good at making pixel art? I need a couple sprite sheets for a game I need to make for class. Payment can be discussed.

    Reply

    • Depends on the style.

      A sheet of 16×16 sprites and a sheet of 32×32 sprites are different from full scale cut in stuff.

      And you could always just take sprites from existing games assuming you aren’t being graded on the art and just on the game itself. That’s what I did when I was at college.

      Reply

  12. Seems like Sand has a new toy to play with.
    A Rock Type with Sand Rush is awesome. Here hoping it has a good Attack Stat and Bulk.

    I like the design of both Monkeys but I don’t like the Normal/Pshycic typing of the orangutan.

    Pikachu and Eevee news is whatever.

    Reply

  13. Passimian: I like to move it, move it…..
    Oranguru: *whacks* I swear if you said that and call me Harambe one more time….

    Reply

  14. Where on earth do you find the Chinese Riddler’s picture clues? I can’t find them anywhere. I looked on this site’s article on them, and Bulbagarden’s forums (not thoroughly though) and it’s driving me nuts!

    Reply

      • Aside from them spelling it as ‘sulfur’ instead of sulphur, I’m not a fan of the alchemy overtones. If they were going to use alchemy they could have done a lot better job.

        Reply

        • I mean sulfur is still an accepted way to spell it though, americans change words all the time so we cant really get too nit picky can we? 😛 but like we always knew about the alchemy thing, but how would you do it?

          Reply

          • Not where I’m from. We were explicitly taught that ‘sulphur’ is correct and ‘sulfur’ is wrong.

            I don’t mind Rockruff too much (although I should point out that’s not actually one of the alchemy symbols for lead, so this image is pretty bogus), but I would have expected more steel typing or more of a strong/obvious alchemy theme, with actual moves and abilities based on alchemy/science concepts like filtration, electrolysis, squaring the circle etc.

          • cant say I have any objections to your thoughts on the alchemy theme. As for the spelling of Sulphur, or sulfur, you’re not from America as I recalled you saying so that would be why you are taught otherwise, like I said the americans kind of butchered the languages they took their words from and made it their own, like color, its colour, which is one of many examples, I’m not an american either but you have to understand that in the US its pretty much more the norm to spell it “Sulfur”

          • Yeah, if I’d been doing it I would have had a Fire/Ground for sulphur, a Steel type for mercury (with a special ability reflecting its liquid state,but no Water typing), a Rock type for salt (with a special ability, possibly involving water), and a Poison/Steel type lead pokemon.

            Doesn’t mean we have to accept it. The US get their way with a lot of things, but I’m not budging on the English language.

          • you don’t have to budge on the way you spell it, but you also cant control how others do, is all I am saying.

            Also I want a poison steel type now

          • you know what I mean dear Pharap, come now, you’re better than that. I mean, sulfur at this point is an accepted form of spelling in the US so you can’t tell people not to spell it that way since its now established.

          • Things can always be changed.

            When the US was the new world and the pilgrims went over to colonise it, it was spelt sulphur, much like colour had a u.

            Plus there’s a difference between the two, the ‘ph’ and ‘f’ make different sounds, they involve moving the mouth in a different way.

            Besides, standardisation is a good thing, it brings us SI units, UTC and USB.

        • Finally somebody who know how to spell Sulphur. I was adamant in all my exams to spell it as Sulphur even when the teacher insisted on using ‘sulfur’ when teaching .

          Fight the system.

          Reply

  16. Holy hell, the animation for Z moves takes forever. Here’s to switching off battle effects.

    Also good to know that not all Z moves will be straight forward offensive moves. Eevees is OP as hell.

    Reply

    • You can’t turn them off in online battles, at least it’s only once per battle. Though maybe like Megas they’ll skip the trainer animation online.

      Reply

      • You should check out pokengine.org. It has a lot of fanmade Pokemon that I think should be real. The majority of them I find awesome! They should definitely send their ideas to Game Freak. There is this grass starter that looks like a sloth and can learn some killer moves (Mosslo). I’d pick that as my first Pokemon!

        Reply

        • Sometimes I think the fans should band together to make a game similar to pokemon but change the rules and stuff so they can’t be sued for copyright (e.g. don’t call it ‘evolution’).

          Then they could make the features they want to see and not worry about copyright and stuff because they wouldn’t be using any pokemon, just their own creations.

          Reply

          • Well, I believe that fans should submit their ideas to Game Freak and they would become real Pokemon in the next Generation. Take yours truly for example. I wish to have a cute Grass starter that looks like an anthropomorphic watermelon, named Melum. (Meruika in Japan; the words melon, “maru,” meaning round, and “suika,” meaning watermelon).

          • Gamefreak don’t accept fan submitted stuff.

            Hence why making a fan game that cuts all ties to pokemon would work better.

          • People have tried many times, they’ve always refused fan submissions. It makes sense, accepting fan submissions would undermind their well paid designers.

          • No it’s not.
            Entrepreneurship is “the process of designing, launching and running a new business”.
            What you’re suggesting is submitting a character design to an existing company, which is a completely different thing.

            And here’s my evidence for nintendo refusing to use fan submissions: http://www.nintendo.com/corp/faq.jsp#idea

          • Too late…I already read it on support.pokemoncenter.com. I feel like a jerk for suggesting that. But still, I thought my ideas would be cool. I am sorry. I guess I don’t deserve the rights of a Pokemon fan… *tear stream*

          • I’m upset that the question about pokemon go has overtaken the fan submission one.

            The rights of a pokemon fan don’t include Nintendo accepting fans’ pokemon designs. They never have done. By all means you can design pokemon, just don’t expect Nintendo to accept them 😛

            Like I said, if fans got together to make a fan game, kept 80% of the mechanics, introduced new ones and completely distanced it from pokemon, they could have their cake and eat it too.

          • The issue about Pokemon GO? So that’s why you have been overcritical. I understand your point about Pokemon, but creating video games is not about “voodoo” and crud. Try to use a more understandable choice of words.

          • I’m only upset with it because it means there are more people who don’t know Nintendo has almost nothing to do with Pokemon Go than there are people wondering where to submit fan designs to Nintendo.

            Octrees and binary space partition always seemed like voodoo to me.

          • Ok. I read the link as you requested and I completely understand your concern. I just thought that Nintendo had the staff to accept ideas. But at least they have reasons in which I can accept.

  20. I have the feeling that Passimian (Nagetsukesaru – ナゲツケサル) and Oranguru (Yareyuutan – ヤレユータン) are evolved Pokemon and their pre-evolved forms will be revealed, just like they did it in Black & White (with Gothitelle and Reunicus).

    Reply

        • No, they made a conscious choice to scrap gym leaders and add trial captains because people wouldn’t stop whining about the games being ‘repetative’.

          Reply

          • yeah but from what I have seen you seem to believe whatever you want, no problem with that I suppose, but considering the amount of detail put into the games, I can almost guarantee you that it was a conscious decision

          • Then where did the trial captains come from?
            If they were doing gyms, the gyms would have been one of the first things to be added.
            And they’re not hard to add either, they’re just buildings with scripted trainers.

  22. Well at least we didn’t get any more on them Ultra Beasts. Personally I think whatever secrets they have for them should be left for the actual games.

    Right now we just need info on Pokemon to keep us speculating.

    Reply

  23. IS there an option to turn it off? Please…

    “Sometimes they’ll avoid attacks from opposing Pokémon—and even hold out when they’re on the verge of fainting. “

    Reply

  24. Will there be an option in which you can switch the cries from Gen 1 thru 5 between modern and classic? Call me strange, but there are some minor options that I am dying to have.

    Reply

        • It would take too much space on the cartridge.
          720 + 649 + 493 + 386 + 251 + 151 = 2650 cries.

          Each cry would need data for probably at least 2 channels of sound for between 0.181 (Pidgey) and 2.238 (Jynx) seconds stored in compressed Differential Pulse Code Modulation format. That’s going to take up a sizeable chunk of the cartridge, no matter how good their compression algorithm is.

          Reply

          • Welcome to the realities of video game development.

            There’s boolean logic, lambda calculus, matrices and other horrible forms of voodoo involved.

          • Voodoo!

            data Tree a = EmptyTree | TreeNode a (Tree a) (Tree a)

            treeNode x = TreeNode x EmptyTree EmptyTree

            instance (Show a) => Show (Tree a) where
            show (EmptyTree) = “()”
            show (TreeNode x l r) = foldl (++) “” [“(“, (show x), “: “, (show l), “, “, (show r), “)”]

            instance Functor Tree where
            fmap _ (EmptyTree) = EmptyTree
            fmap f (TreeNode x l r) = TreeNode (f x) (fmap f l) (fmap f r)

            insert v (EmptyTree) = treeNode v
            insert v (TreeNode x EmptyTree r) = TreeNode x (treeNode v) r
            insert v (TreeNode x l EmptyTree) = TreeNode x l (treeNode v)
            insert v (TreeNode x l r) = TreeNode x (insert v l) r

            main = print $ foldr (insert) EmptyTree [1..10]

          • I’m just being practical, I’d be a bad programmer if I weren’t aware of these realities.

            If it weren’t for the memory constraints then yes they could do it, but there are memory constraints and something else would have to suffer, most likely the graphics or the music.

            This is why a lot of game developers prefer PC, you can usually expect ~8GB of RAM and at least a few GB of non-volatile storage.

    • The only one I’d really like back is Pikachu’s cry, I wasn’t particularly happy they changed it to actually saying it’s name. It’s a very minor thing though and I’ve somewhat made peace with it.

      Reply

Leave a Comment