New Pokémon Sun & Pokémon Moon Information [SEP 20]

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.

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

  1. Dont bite my head off if a million and one people mentioned this but, didnt the leaker say there was a football/rugby monkey? And it happened so that’s cool :0

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  2. I really like Passimian and Oranguru, definitely will try using both of them at some point. Couple of things on their designs, I’m not overly fond of Passimians cap, I think the bit at the front looks odd, maybe if it had visible ears it would offset this a bit. I think Oranguru should just have lighter purple running through the darker purple fur, instead of the light orange and blue, or perhaps just one or the other. These are fairly minor issues I know. I am not entirely sure I even like the Purple at all actually. Passimians ability is interesting, though I’m not overly fond of abilities that are only usable in double/triple battles. Oranguru’s Attack seems likely it could be very useful, as long as it and it’s battle partner survive long enough to use it. Both seem like they could have other members of their evolutionary lines (most likely pre-evos) but I wouldn’t be surprised if they are standalone. So far Passimian is the Fighting type I will be using, unless a better one comes along.
    I think Lycanroc is a good name, very fitting, though I would kind of prefer if it ended in a K, with or without the C before it and I’m not really sure why. I am slightly disappointed that Midnight’s pure Rock too, though only really because I thought it would either gain another type or change type entirely. I would have preferred Accelerock to be more widely available, unless it just means Midnight can’t learn it but other Rock types may be able to. I will still definitely be using Lycanroc, I hope it’s fast and strong and not with paper thin Defences or HP.

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  3. I feel the same as some people on here, I like some of the Pokemon but none of them are pushing me to that must have feeling. The ones that do are just variants of old Pokemon so they don’t really count I don’t know perhaps like oras I skip this generation. On a different note its a shame that water arcanine won’t be a thing after so much talk of it I actually would like to see one now

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      • The story and the region looks interesting know doubt, but I have some doubts of them answering some questions left in x and y even worth zygarde there I feel they will half heartily finish what was left which may make x and y look like they just rushes it out. To explore the region with Pokemon I don’t care for would be hard I will have to wait till bank updates transfer over to sun and moon,then take what I do like put it in bank and never play the game again.this is how I feel and hoping that will change but so far nothing doing it for me

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        • They did rush X and Y though, there’s no doubt about that.

          Are there really no pokemon you like?
          Komala, Cutiefly, Lurantis, Mudsdale?

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    • The mechanics would strip me of the must have feeling for me. First the addition of Fairy-type, then making certain Normal-types to pure Fairy-types and making them as hard as rock for Fighting-types, and now the stripping of gym leaders from this Generation. What gives? I have Pokemon X Version (only for Yveltal), but I do not see much reason to playing it. The music for wild and gym leader battles rather suck, and there aren’t much new Pokemon. But a Pokemon game with out gym battles? That’s even worse!

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  4. So I’ve been looking at revealed and predicted pokémon numbers, and we’re getting up to quite dangerous pre-release amounts.

    So far 45 new pokémon have been revealed, along with 10 Alola forms and 3 Ultra Beasts, whatever the hell those are.
    Pre XY-release, 42 pokémon (42/72, that is) have been revealed, along with 13 mega evolutions (13/30).
    SM will doubtless have more new pokémon than XY, but I’m not betting on more than 100 honestly, for fear of being disappointed.
    So if we take a relatively conservative benchmark of 90 pokémon in total, half have been revealed, and we’ve still got a little less than two months worth of reveals to go. They seem to have thankfully slowed down a bit with pokémon reveals in favour of features, which is great, but over half is still too much for my tastes, I want to legitimately have stuff to discover, and if it’s only 20 pokémon I’m not sure it will be worth going out of my way not to be spoiled.

    And that’s not even taking into account pokémon we know will exist. If we add in 2 more stages for the starter and pikipek lines, 3 more Tapus, Marshadow, 4 fossils, two other mythical pokémon, (arguably those last two or three we have no info on, but they’re still something predictable), and if we get 2 stage lines for (running on my own predictions) Komala, Drampa, Bruxish, Bounsweet, Minior, Pyukumuku, Morelull, Turtonator, Crabrawler, Passimian and Oranguru, and maybe the Dolphin and Snowmen pokémon, and 3 stage lines for (again, purely my own predictions, and in any case they can be stand-ins because we’re gonna get at least some three stage lines) Salandit, Wimpod and Jangmo-o; all that’s 39 more predictable pokémon, bringing us to an inferred total of 84. That leaves us with only a few (maybe 6-16) completely unexpected pokémon left, and we’ll definitely get to know a few before release. That’s not much :/ . And and at least 1-2 of those are probably toucans haha.
    Alola forms wise we’ll get at least 20-30 I’d imagine, and we already know that Persian is doubtless happening, but that’s about it.

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    • I think you’re being generous with salandit and you made everybody Pokémon part of an evolutionary line. I’m thinking the new monkeys, drampa, crabawler, monior and turtonator are all stand alones. But then again we won’t know for two more months and that’s half the fun 🙂

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      • I don’t think I’m being too generous with evolutions at all really , gen 6 only 4 non-legendary standalones, though tbf gen 5 had 14 but that had 156 pokémon to work with, so I guess we can expect 6-10 of them, and closer to 6 because I’d expect them to scale down the percentage of them if the number of new pokémon isn’t that high.
        I didn’t give Togedemaru, Mimikyu, Comfey, Oricorio, Wishiwashi, or Type: Null (assuming it’s not legendary) any evos as I feel those are very probably standalone, and that’s already 5 or 6 standalones. I’m definitely counting all pokémon I think could evolve in here, so in that sense I’m being generous, but I do feel all of these could easily be part of evolution lines, and I’d be surprised for many if they weren’t.

        I’m exepcting prevos for the monkeys (cute baby orang utan and small fruit-throwing lemur), for turtonator ( as small fiery terrapin) and crabrawler (some sort of cute small crab), and for drampa, but all five of these could work as standalones (though I’d be dissapointed), and I’m very highly expecting a Minior evo. Seriously, why the hell would they call it Minior if it doesn’t evolve into Mighteor???

        But yeah, Salandit I’ve nothing to back with, I’m just feeling it might end in a big komodo dragon so I’m betting it’s a three-part line.

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  5. You know Lycanroc (Midday) is now in my top 5 favourite Pokemon. Tied in third place with Tyranitar. Especially after reading its description, it’s perfect partner Pokemon material. I seriously love it.

    My team for Pokemon Sun now is:

    Rowlet
    Lycanroc
    Salandit

    Maybe Crabrawler or Passimian, undecided at the moment.

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  6. As long as Wondertrading comes back and Scyther is available before the 5th gym then I’ll be happy! Also please, please, please have lots of unused type combos in this game! There’s already quite a few but I want more!!!!!

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  7. I just realized I kind of predicted Z-move in a way cause in my fan Manga (not published only partly created) in the chapter before S&M I called the Volcanion chapter My Goodra and I found a strange stone and when stopping the bad guy Goodra used a powerful move then Proffesor Oak sends me to Alola to learn more of this secret power held in the stone

    Not the most accurate description but it seems it sounds like it in the long run

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  8. I can’t be the only one, but isn’t the music in today’s trailer the rival battle that was in the very first gameplay of Sun and Moon?

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    • Ugh, I know. At least Raichu finally got something though, even if it’s one of the most random concepts that I think they have ever produced.

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          • It isn’t that bad if you just stay on the right blogs and tags. I haven’t once encountered any insane men hating “feminists” on my 6(?) months on there

          • Feminism isn’t bad on its own, but 3rd wave feminism irks me alot. A lot of it rides off of the wage gap (which isn’t entirely real), issues not pertaining to feminism such as LGBTQ rights (gay marriage legalized, some go “we did it feminists”) and in extreme cases, blind hate against men.

          • sorry, but we are far from having equality, I don’t think we will ever see true equality in our lifetimes though

          • I wish feminism would focus more on gender roles and stuff like that. Like, I love my girly pretty stuff but not every girl is like that. Girls should be encouraged to play with monster trucks and army men if they want and boys could be encouraged to play with dolls and make up if they want.

            And even in adult stuff. Alot of women can get away with stuff men cant. Men are more likely to be ignored if raped by a woman, men are often expected to hide their emotions and be all big and tough and just alot of double standards like that is what I wish they would work to improve.

          • I started disagreeing at the begining (I’ve known girls who did play with that sort of stuff and turned out pretty much the same as all the girls who didn’t). But then you brought up some of the inequalities men face that people like to forget about.

            If I ever catch anyone telling me to “man up” I swear I will punch them.

          • I wouldn’t say we’re completely equal, but I think there are a lot of other places that are less equal that are more deserving on the campaign.
            Look at what Malala did for the girls who weren’t allowed to attend school. (I used to like her until Hermoine Grainger convinced her to label herself a ‘feminist’)

          • I dislike tumblr for more than just that.
            They just cemented my dislike of it.
            Before them it was a blackhole, now it’s a blackhole in the middle of a nuclear war.

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