As promised a new batch of Pokémon Sun & Moon information has just been dropped! The new drop contains information on the Starter Pokémon Evolutions!
New Trailer
New Information
- Partner Pokémon evolutions revealed!
- Dartrix is Rowlet’s evolution. It remain Grass/Flying-type with the ability Overgrow
- Litten evolves into Torracat, remains Fire-type with the Blaze ability
- Brionne is Popplio’s Water-type evolution with the Torrent ability
- Festival Plaza allows players to interact with one another and earn Festival Coins.
- Festival Coins can be used in shops to purchase a variety of things, from stat increase items to clothing and accessories
- Poké Pelago is a new location that Pokémon stored in PC Boxes can visit. Poké Pelago can allow you Pokémon to attract Wild Pokémon, uncover new items or even train and increase their levels.
- Mega Evolution returns and is achieved through the Z-Ring
- Demo for Sun & Moon releases October 18th on the eShop
- The demo version of the game allows players to use a special Greninja that can transform in Ash-Greninja when it becomes charged with its Battle Bond. Ash-Greninja can be transferred to the full copy of the game
- Trainers can battle other trainers teams in the Global Link by scanning their QR code
New Japanese Trailer
[NEW] The next drop of news for Sun & Moon will arrive on October 14.
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Congratulations! Your Rowlet evolved into an emo preteen!
What about their names, do you guys like them? I have mixed feelings about them. Torracat is kinda cute, but Dartrix is very weird. And Brionne sounds like a person’s name (probably a black girl in harlem).
About the names, I would really love some etymology on them. Dartrix most likely comes from dart (throw darts, blow darts, ammo for crossbows) and tricks (rogues play tricks and use bows/crossbows). I have no idea what the torra in Torracat comes from and know even less about the origin of Brionne.
Right? I’m a bit confused as well. These names aren’t very catchy.
‘Tora’ means tiger in Japanese
Yeah, I know that, but torra is what’s in Torracat’s name.
Torracat is fine. Has a nice ring to it even though I don’t understand where the “torra” comes from…
Dartrix sounds edgier than it should be for an emo preteen owl
And brionne… Bless this poor child’s soul… At least it’s final evo is a bad ass mermaid
Tora (not torra) is Japanese for tiger, so it could be a play on that. Dunno why they’d add an extra r though.
That new Draco Meteor animation looks dope.
Also awkward moment where Protean Greninja will be way better than Ash Greninja. When GF don’t realise exactly what made Greninja so popular on the first place.
Also I don’t really care about any of the new features, and the starter evolutions don’t exactly fill me with joy. Looks like the leaks were right after all. If I had to guess I would say we are getting Grass/Flying, Fire and Water/Fairy for the starter final evolutions.
either Fire/Fighting or Fire/Dark
and i still pray that sea lioness is pure Water or even Water/psychic anything but Fairy
I’m actually thinking the Fire Type will be Single Type since we’ve only ever had One Fire Type starter (Typhlosion) without a dual typing.
because it had no other attributes
it’s clearly going to be Dual/Typed either Fighting or Dark
It’s not that clear to me.
Popplio final evolutions is more clearly a Fairy.
i still don’t base everyone on looks alone, all of them have some kinda fairy correlation minus Azumarill because that never needed to be a fairy and now causes me unrelenting stress and misery
Water3 might be a complete Water-Type. Yet, I doubt that. It looks like a Water/Fairy to me. I don’t think it’s Water/Psychic at all.
I’m still confused on how everyone “knows” protean greninja will still be better. We have no idea how this form affects stats? It could very well boost greninja’s speed and att/so.att or defenses. It will potentially be able to outspeed any of greninja’s counters or survive any hits from its counters. I think it’s a bit early to be making that claim
becuase nobody will bother knowing they can get away with STAB Ice beam or STAB Whatever
STAB Doesn’t help you much if it’s a glass cannon firing it. Greninja’s base defenses don’t really allow it much time in battle. All it has going for it is speed at that point. And since it can only have four moves it becomes easy to get around its stab hits. A little prediction here, a little planning there and boom.
Although I supposed I’m biased because I’ve personally never had any trouble dealing with protean greninja and therefore never saw why he was such a big deal
The thing is by the time you’ve figured out the moveset, it’s already taken a chunk out of your team. Unpredictablilty is key factor in making Greninja so strong
If and only if they boost Greninja’s stats to the same amount as a Mega Evolution.
Do you know how strong gaining Stab on each move is.
Greninja would need 183 base Special Attack to do the same amount of Damage with Ice Beam and no Protean.
Again, I’ve never had a problem dealing with protean Greninja so I just don’t get most people’s fuss over it. Stab on anything is cool, and unpredictability does play a part. But it’s only unpredictable to a degree. Greninja’s move pool doesn’t allow it to learn a damaging move of every type, and some of the more unpredictable type moves it can learn aren’t very good. Most players use ice beam as you’ve pointed out, scald for burn, acrobatics, and grass knot/rock slide/thief/dark pulse. Pretty predictable if you ask me…
You forgot two common moves, Gunk Shot and Low Kick. Greninja has quite a big move pool and can be unpredictable if played right. It’s not supposed to sweep entire teams, but weaken checks to other Pokemon or clean up late.
Whether or not you’ve struggled with it or not, I have personally used and been on the receiving end of a well played Greninja, and can attest to its strength and unpredictability.
But fair enough if you’ve never had a problem with it. But the point about Protean Greninja being better than Ash Greninja still stands.
I’m pretty certain it’s Grass/Flying, Fire/Dark, and Water/Fairy. Litten3’s leaked concept art talks about it fighting dirty.
and that’s what i likes about it
i need a warrior who’ll fight to his last breath and do whatever it takes to win
also the belt omfg i love the belt of fire it just works so well for it
Where is your honor! xD
my honor is promising my opponents they’ll be broken, singed and defeated
Fair enough. It could be. But I mean we’ve only had 2 Generations where all starters had a dual Type (4 and 6) and never 2 generations in a row.
Probably shouldn’t be looking for a pattern, but it’s just a feeling I have that at least One of them will be Single Type.
Hey, on the bright side, they could possibly have more than one evo… I’m not crazy about the idea of version evolutions but it gives me hope that I can get something aside from El Tigre
They probably know what made Greninja popular. But they chose kids popularity instead of competitive popularity.
I hope they give us the ability to use HA capsules, for once I’d like to keep the first Pokemon I got and use it for online battles and max its Ivs
Might be nice, but it’s almost pointless too since we have the bottlecaps and you can just breed a pokemon with that hidden ability really quickly. I feel like there’s got to be another way to get HA pokemon this gen though. Gen 6 had hordes and the friend safari so I bet there will be some new method in these games. Hordes will likely return though but horde pokemon are limited
i still can’t believe everyone is so lenient with Bottlecaps
thinking that they’ll just be able to fork over a handful (which they think will be easy collectibles) and just magically waltz in and make their pokemon perfect on the spot
my theory is they’re mondo expensive and hard to get, like a ton of BP or FC for one silver and even more for gold which might be only exclusive to rare events
And don’t forget you still gotta breed the right natures and moves and ability and get them to 100 to even use the service
Ive said a bunch of times that I doubt they’re easy to get. But that doesnt change the fact that there is still probably going to be an infinite number of them available to you as long as you have the time and effort to get them. Natures, moves, abilities is so easy though, especially if you have a living dex.
So long as the option is there, then it’s fine. I’d rather spend time working to improve my pokemon rather than just throwing it away for a master race version. The HA and nature thing still bother me, but hopefully we won’t have another greninja case where the HA is mandatory.
At the very least, it’ll add hours to my game, which I love. Maxed out the timer in XY and had over 800 in BW1.
They really had to go and choose the derpiest pose to use as Brionne’s official art, huh
Popplio is just forever derpy, even the mermaid is awkward-looking to me because (assuming the mermaid evo is real), the artists insist on having them all stand on their tail at some point. I know performance seals actually do this, but it’s still weird looking.
Sketch preview of mah new pic
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/559a17c0c42864c6a5f3b26f51d93a0d265eefb3819965841ea452fbb319dabd.jpg
These make me want split evos even though I doubt it will happen
The video was going well until the mega evolutions…
I like the stage 2 forms of all the starters, but Dartrix and Torracat don’t look like they match the leaked stage 3 evolutions, only Brionne does. At this rate I’m thinking that whatever I pick I’ll stop it evolving into its 3rd form.
I love the Festival Plaza and Pokepelago.
Probably two of my favourite features.
I like them more than Z moves, the Ultra Beasts and possibly Skull and Aether.
Kind of disappointed at mega evolution returning.
Ash-Greninja is going to be annoying, hopefully people will forget about it by next generation.
Seriously.. Ash Greninja is the worst thing to ever happen to an actual Pokémon game. Specially since it’s named that way. Losing Protean might make it viable in Smogon’s OU again.. if that’s worth anything.
I love Pokepelago, and having 6 different Battle Boxes!! Page said you could even assign one PKMN to different boxes. I like having several teams ready to brawl and this is great!!! Also, rental QR codes.. so much stuff in this games.
Yeah, if they’d called it “Bond Greninja” or something I’d be less annoyed, but I don’t like them tying the anime that closely to the game.
I don’t use Showdown/Smogon much, except for smogon’s articles about how the battle mechanics work, but that’s mainly because they interest me as a programmer.
Yeah, Pokepelago is definately the most positive thing to happen in the last few weeks.
I love having nice relatively easy ways of getting evo stones.
Multiple Battle Boxes will make things much easier.
It kind of feels wrong that I’m more excited about the minigame stuff and the locations than I am about the story, region forms and Z moves.
Well, the small “fixes” to these games are always one of my favorite things. The rest tends to be just hype.. like Mega evolutions.
Yeah, for example I’m genuinely going to miss gyms.
I’m willing to give the trials a chance, but I’m expecting to be wanting gyms back by the end of it.
The main story is usually over pretty quickly anyway, after that it’s the minigames and side stuff that’s going to keep people going.
Besides, the more diversions from the main plot that are available, the longer the main story will last.
Part of me wishes they’d lock some of the story off until a fixed amount of time elapses or the player’s team has an average of a certain level to force the player to slow down a bit and enjoy the scenery. Speedrunners would complain though.
Yes, most likely, I’ll feel the same about Gyms. But still, after the surprise in Mt Silver, must challenges have paled in comparison ever since. It’s hard to have a build-up for every character (like with Cynthia)..
I think it’s more about impact than amount of time.. which isn’t bad either, and yours isn’t a bad idea.
I love TORRACAT!! And thank god that leaks are fake.
I love torracat too! I’ll be really sad if the leaks are true because there so much potential for a different direction
It’s not fake…..look at TORRACAT neck it the same thing that Litten3 belt.
yea the paws are a ded giveaway
i see as it evolves
the bell spews out a dual stream of flames that wrap around its body like a vortex of flames, its body shimmers white and it STANDS UP HAHAHHAHAHAAHAHA
And I love this Muhahahaaaaa……y ppl think I am evil.
you evil? what remotely evil thing have you done?
i on the other hand have threatened everyone at least once by now
Violence and evil are very different things ……Humans r the most evilest creatures in the planet and that cuz they r the most intelligent……so actually the actual evil thing is the brain.
Ah yes I’m just now seeing the neck collar. But it still makes a huge leap. Really surprised it’s not standing in two legs
making the final stage unpredictable is the new GF Orientation but the leak ruin that for them.
But he’s still quadruped… and a biped cat it’s very weird. I hope they don’t ruin everything like Delphox.
Mate, the front legs have claws and the back ones don’t.. they are also bulkier.
Delphox is awesome, thank you very much!
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Delphox is not horrible guys! It’s just that stupid fucking gown. If it was a little edgier, there would be no problem
The leaks are so real.
I honestly think the middle evolutions support the leaks. Dartrix’s Pokedex entry states it stores sharp feathers on it’s wing just like the leaked evolution, and you can even see in both artworks that they store them exactly the same way in the exact same place. Torracat’s bell looks similar to the leaked evolution’s belt, and the style of the fur on their faces are almost identical. Also Torracat’s Pokedex entry states how strong it is and how it can knock out large men, where do we usually see large men fighting each other? Wrestling, nuff said. Brionne is the strongest evidence to support the leaks in my opinion, it looks very femenine just like the Mermaid from the leak, it’s ears have light blue and white tips, the Mermaid’s hair is the same light blue tone, and has white beads tying her hair. The little tutus look similar to the things the Mermaid has on her shoulders, hips, and tail.
But I don’t know if I like the new Close Combat animation. I miss the pokemon beating…
Every fire/fighting starter has aquaried their fighting traits in their second stage. So with this in mind, hopefully litten3 won’t be a fighting type after all!
its gonna be a fire/dark
Hopefully. But what if it’s just a cruel trick on GAMEFREAKs part ( like before starter finals were leaked) where they raise your hopes then cut them down… a bit sceptical but as a fire starter lover ( I love torchic, chimchar, tepig, fennekin, Litten) and seeing the mess that tepig fennekin and litten turn into really gets my goat…
Oh, and this:
http://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/aE79dGK_700b.jpg
OMG YES I THOUGHT OF THIS AS SOON AS I LAID EYES ON DARTRIX! I knew game freak was gonna pull this stupid shit on us
They came so close lol
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Evolutions got me like
Am I the only one who hates Brionne’s eyes?
I can live with stupid skirts and bally ears, but those eyes are satanic.
YES! Thank you
Me too, they ruin Popplio.
Hahahaha
I think her eyes is very nice touch….I love it.
You mean it. Starter pokemon are never uniquely male or uniquely female.
Well Braixen…even it’s cry was girly. Though Delphox went a tad more neutral, even though its cry is like literally screaming “WTF!?”
Braixen looks like it could be either in my eyes. The face is definately ambiguous, it’s the skirt that tends to sway people:
http://orig03.deviantart.net/455b/f/2016/049/1/0/braixen_is_prettiest_pokemon_princess_by_bubblesishot46853-d9s84cw.png
I think they should definately focus on giving more pokemon gender differences though.
I hate it too
Now that we have the second evolutions of the starters I’m curious to know what everyone’s teams are now? Here are mine:
Sun 1 (Cosimo):
Torracat
Lycanroc
Komala
Oricorio (Sensu Style)
Crabrawler
Jangmo-O
Sun 2 (Aurora):
Brionne
Ninetales (Alola Form)
Bewear
Oricorio (Baile Style)
Lurantis
Oranguru
Moon (Jeff):
Dartrix
Lycanroc
Drampa
Salandit
Raichu (Alola Form)
Palossand
Rowlet
Rockruff (Midnight or Midday, haven’t decided yet. I’m playing Moon, but may trade just to evolve)
Salandit
Water type that hasn’t been revealed yet (The ones so far I don’t really care for unless their evolutions change my mind)
Altaria
And then an Alola form, but I wanna see the full selection before I decide. As of right now it’d be A-Ninetales.
Moon:
-Torracat (as long as the final evo is not Fire/Fighting)
-Mimikyu
-Wishiwashi
-Vikavolt
-empty (Alola)
-empty
Sun:
-Brionne
-empty
-empty
-empty
-empty
-empty
I am quite indecisive with Pokémon this generation because I like nearly all of them so I don’t really want to commit.
Litten, Mimikyu, Salandit, Passimian, Alolan Maroak and Arcanine
Popplio, Comfey, Salandit, Vikavolt, Jangmo-o, and one of the Oricorios. Probably ghost. I really wanted to use Bruxish, but as time went on, I began to realize that it was probably gonna just be a mid-tier, niche one trick pony.
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This one seems the most different, really makes me believe there are two evos
I don’t think they look that different. The fluff of feathers under it’s orange bow tie makes it look like a Tuxedo shirt, and I feel like Dartrix is meant to symbolize a Butler or something along those lines. Dartrix’s “hair” could be what becomes the hood, and you can see that they both store their sharp feathers (Darts and arrows) on their wing the same exact way. Also just remember Dewott to Samurott and they won’t seem so different anymore.
Nobody remembers Dewott and Samurott.
We’ve spent too long trying to retcon them.
*applies more brain bleach*
Samurott who?
Ok I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels that way about Samurott xD
I can see it happening with Tony The Tiger too. People liking Litten and Torracat but despiting Tony.
Yeah dewott to samurott takes the cake. This is nothing compared to that… No matter how stupid
I think Tony the Tiger is on par with Samurott.
Yeah, I see a butler as well, everyone says its an emo
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7c60da4e69721f9aaf19d4927c85e2f6b5807faa815f51257ef384e40803f93c.jpg
I am still picking Litten, Every evo looks so great! Torracat does not disappoint!
Torracat is nice, Tony the Tiger is not.
http://i.imgur.com/73Y1H8Y.png
Yeah it’s official. The size increase and leap from four legs to two is just so jarring still to me but as long as it’s not fighting, I’m going to pick litten and stick with it until I beat the main game. At which point I’ll hunt for another enter fire starter to add to my ultimate team. Maybe Blaziken or infernape
I still hate Tony but I’ll upvote for Blaziken and Infernape.
Heck yes,I was not disappointed either
It is the best starter so far imo
i swear today is just another losing streak
SEVEN FUCKING LOSSES ALL BECAUSE OF HAX
10
11
Stop spamming
I am pissed, all day I’ve been losing AND THEY DRIVE ME INSANE
Spam their chat rooms. If you’re talking about the Smogon Battle Simulator thing that I can never remember the name of, I feel like their effect rates are increased compared to the actual games.
These mediocre. I like Rowletts Evo, Litten’s is increasingly generic, and I have nothing positive to say about Brionne except its model is better than its art. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/974fc60d030ca232c4d0729a14bd7ebd0dbbd0530459156142648b3cd9883224.png
These are my favorite starters since gen 4
I like them better than Gen 5 and 6 but damn Popplio’s is ugly
It gets the best final IMO
If there is a Water/steel alternative to it possibly but I really like birds and Rowlett is a bird
Empoleon?
Yes like Empoleon. I’m not a big fan of Fairy Types.
Everyone here agrees Mimikyu is by far the best poke of this generation, right?
Lycanroc is better
Nope.
I like Komala and Lurantis the most.
Lurantis is cool but grass….
Grass pokemon are good.
It’s not my fault they made grass type have so many weaknesses.
pls this is epic https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/987e17a73478067c91813f57991de1e05b701a47dad5100967210a100405eadf.jpg
nope Komala
Komala lovers unite!
I’ll be honest, I like Komala’s concept, ability and design… But I forgot completely about it xD
; n ;
who is komala? :p
http://www.pokemon-sunmoon.com/media/uploads/july_01_assets/komala.png
http://www.pokemon-sunmoon.com/media/uploads/july_01_assets/komala-770×562.png
Mimikyu is the wallpaper on my phone.
I don’t give a flying shit about that little annoyance
Disguise will just be a free Sub and allow it to set up a sub no problem and most likely spam Wisp and do nothing but hide away like a cheap coward doing absolutely nothing yet somehow wins
Its definitely up there, it’ll be on a lot of teams for sure
Favorite? Nah. Top 5? Hell yes.
Mudsdale is still my favorite… Aside from Alola Marowak, but if we’re talking new pokemon and not Alola Form, Mudsdale.
Mimikyu design and concept wise is a really terrific Pokemon.
Eww…
So another Alolan ice type pkmn or maybe another new Ice type evolve with ice stone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ-je7f0MZU
It’ll be how Vulpix evolves into Ninetales most likely. Since originally you needed a fire stone.
It’s not possible they made this stone just for Vulpix…..I am sure there will be more.
Oh yes, I don’t doubt that. Just saying though…
Like the guy said, it might replace the ice rock. Though, that could be wrong since Alola does have a snowy area.
I “think” they can just let whole Eevee evolves with different evolution methods thing go and give it a chance to evolve with leaf stone and ice stone. Afterall, ice rock and leaf rock are just like huge evolution stones that contains enormous amount of energy to evolve Eevee. I’m also for Eevee evolving into Espeon and Umbreon via Sun and Moon stone. Dawn and Dusk stone could also work namewise but not logicwise since dawn stone is exclusive for gender evolutions and got japanese name “awakening”. Morever, Eevee into Sylveon with shiny stone could also work. I kinda want these because it simplifies things a bit.
But I don’t see all of these happening.
And I also think they have to keep location based evolutions since we have “magnetic field” evolutions unless they choose to simplify it too.
Pretty much waht I said further up lol
They could change the magnetic field rules to make the pokemon level up whilst holding the ‘magnet’ item or something. There are loads of items that hardly ever get used that would make good evolution items.
just reached 200 of my hunt of shiny vulpix