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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What if instead of Ash Greninja its the players name? BootyEater69-Greninja for example.
It’s given to you by Ash in the demo.
It says a certain character doesn’t it? Not ash explicitly IIRC… I’d rather we didn’t have weird canon mixing…
Welp guess I was wrong about the starters yesterday, Rowlet’s evolution is priceless XD
Looks like we get the Key Stone and a Mega Stone from Dexio. Also, it looks like you buy the Mega Stones with BP. Also, here is the bottom screen!
EDIT: I think the BP is if you want extra stones!
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Someone translate them please (I think Paul can read Japanese).
1st – Pokemon
2nd – Shikan (or Pokedex)
3rd – Bag
4th – Report (or save)
5th – I think that one is Wireless Connection, due to the icon, but not sure
6th – Festival Plaza
2nd – Zukan, actually
Yeah, realized it after I typed my comment xD
I can read most of it:
Pokemon Pokedex
Bag Report (Save)
Quick Communicate
the last one confuses me, but Festival Plaza makes the most sense (the Katakana reads FeSuSa-KuRu… though I could be remembering my Katakana wrong, because it’s been a while…)
EDIT: Tried typing it, フェスサークル is definitely FeSuSa-KuRu… whatever that’s supposed to sound like, I have no idea.
You read the last one right but I can’t for the life of me figure out what it stands for except for Fes being short for Festival.
Nah the katakana you’re reading is right, it just might mean something else in Japanese
From what I can possibly guess, it means something like ‘Festival Circle’ (Direct translation)
OH, CIRCLE!
Stupid-ass loanwords. They could just have used the Kanji for circle.
丸 (maru)
Yeah, but maybe they thought it would look/sound weird with maru, but I dunno for sure.
Plus, most of the time, the kanji has the hiragana underneath (it is for kids after all so it makes sense) so it would be hard to do it here, I feel, and make it readable
Ah like they never used the kanji for route. Ok then.
On the other hand, they are making kids jump through hoopas and learning loanwords. :p
Well, there would be some kanji that have learned before (like common kanji) but there would be a good amount of them that they would do it for. And it’s just my guess really xD
True, but they have a lot of loan words (heck, it’s why katakana is still around after all, to write them down) so it’s not as bad as having an unknown kanji maybe that has no hiragana underneath and kids not knowing what it says.
MOM WHAT DOES 丸 MEAN?
Yeah this game should be PG. I mean if the kids have to ask mom what war or a superweapon is in XY, might as well add some PG-level kanji…
There’s a lot of kanji that the Japanese use everyday (like over 2000 if memory serves), expecting a school kid to know all of them and recall their different pronounciations is kind of absurd.
Omg. I can’t believe I didn’t pick up on circle quicker hahaha >.<
Tbh,
I found the 2nd half of the menu shown to be more interesting: Trainer
Card, Poke Resort, Poke Refresh, QR Scan (why does this need to be so
prominently in the menu?), Battle Video (moved away from key items?),
and Settings…
Honestly, I think FesCircle is just a pun and Japan suuure loves its word puns. The English word festival would be フェスティバル (pronounced fe•su•ti•ba•ru) in katakana while FesCircle is would be フェスサークル (pronounced fe•su•sa•ku•ru). The two sound and look somewhat alike.
*Sigh* Cmon, we have to get mega stones with BP? =_=
I think you could still get them from NPCs and the environment of Alola. I think this is just if you want more stones!
IF there are new megas, I think that’d be a good route. Maybe get the new ones around Alola and buy the old ones with BP
If thats the case, then I’ll probs only work hard for Charizardite X and maybe MewTwoite X and Y.
But I do hope the rumored Battle Frontier allows for more fun obtaining BP as it seems the new Wifi Plaza only gives us Festival Coins.
I’ll probably only work hard for the one if the BP yeld is anything like the past.
I HOPE good moves are not locked to BP’s either, its erked me when Iron Tail was only through the Battle Maison -O- why kill its TM GF, why?
im gonna guess this is the confirmation no new megas?
That and the VGC ban
I do not like obtaining Mega Stones via BP. 64 is insane, the Frontier better have a greater BP yield.
UGH!!!!!! Having to buy the mega stones using BP is gonna be SUPER annoying…….
BP! My kind of currency! Battle ____ here I come!
Goddammit Game Freak!
You can also obtain some mega stones from people too.
I feel worried and pleased at the same time. Somebody send me a doctor. I need help.
After reading its description I have a new found appreciation for Dartrix. I still like the other two more, but I love Rowlet basically evolves into an anxiety teenager hahaha
Not really anxiety teen, he looks like a rich preppy boy.
Damn auto correct….I meant angsty…..an angsty teenager lol
thats what I thought too, then I heard it stores sharp things in its feathers and I was convinced its a pokemon with some issues
Trainers better bewear of this Pokemon having some major emotional problems lol
More like young Leonardo Dicaprio… Which is what I’m naming mine, Dicaprio
So Rowlet got a weave and an eye infection
Litten got a choker
And Popplio just put on a dress
I’d this trailer only further supports the leaks, the leaker mentioned Ash-Greninja would be in the game, now that’s true. Brionne totally looks like it evolves to a Mermaid, and Drartrix’s Pokedex entry states it stores sharp feathers in its wing (just like the archer in the leaks) and how it strikes with precision, also it makes since to go from darts to arrows. I didn’t like Brionne at first, and Dartrix just looked strange to me, but now I love Dartrix and Brionne is starting to grow on me.
Someone below said that Torracat’s describtion is LuchaLitten or something? Its Fire Cat on the website though
Oh they meant that its description relates to the leaked final evos of the starters.
They killed Mega Evos with the 64BP s****
Who? What? Where? Who did what and where?
lol. That feeling when we jump to conclusions without knowing everything. I’m quite sure you could get every stone in Alola without that. I’m assuming it’s for if you want more stones!
Why would you want more stones?
Trading and if you don’t want to find or send stones!
64 BPs??? For the price of watching a YouTube video on how to find Mega stones?
Going on a treasure hunt only gives you one of each though.
I want them to make Mega Stones tradeable and storeable on Bank
lol I currently have 1000+ BP
I agree it’s very excessive.
Even though it’s not the most elegant way to do so, at least it makes them feel properly “earned” this time round. They keep talking about how mega evolution is a rare thing that requires a close bond between pokémon and trainer, yet you can use it as soon as you catch a pokémon… I know it would be annoying to have to max out a pokémon’s friendship or affection to mega evolve, but at least that would make it feel like a valuable thing, and make you actually choose which megas you want as you’d have to invest in them.
So at least in SM it seems you’ll have to earn most mega stones through a lot of battling, and I think that’s something. It’d be a bit convenient for the stones to be hanging round alola too. A lot of people are probably just gonna gen the stones in, but hey, at least some of us will work hard for them. And hell, I’d rather grind through battle spot than have to collect an obscene number of flags for Aarune to give me a garchompite…
Months ago I told that the anime was creating things apart from the games for the first time in Pokémon history. In that time, I thought Ash-Greninja and Zygarde formes was those creations. Now is clear that Zygarde was meant to be in the Z version (the myth, the legend), but Ash-Greninja confirms my theory. The first Pokémon created in the anime is coming to the games.
what?
Mate do you even have a clue what you’re saying?
Dartrix
Half dart
Half trix
Maybe hinting at split evos?
Sinnoh confirmed
silly owl trix are for kids
Ok finished the shiny predictions here
http://i.imgur.com/K1oPmBv.jpg
AHHHHH <3 🙂
Brionne was like the hardest because the green i did for poppilo didnt suit it at all
Reminds me of the Shiny Kalos Legendaries.
I love that Brionne is the Pop Star Pokemon. I’m certainly thinking more about using Popplio than I was when it was first announced lol
Moment of silence for those who were against Ash-Greninja in-game. Genuinely in tears
I’m against anything greninja
Protean leaves permanent scars, I get it
Nah, it’s just ugly
SHUT YO MOUTH!! HE IS NOT UGLY AND DON’T CALL ME SPOILED/ BUTTHURT
I’m right there with you. I don’t understand the craze over tounge ninja
Hey. At least it isn’t achieved through Synchro Evolution.
Tears of joy.
Synchro is the same as Mega, without stones. I never once thought it would be a seperate thing. I always figured Ash-Greninja would be distributed through an event somehow, but this comes close enough
It’s just gimmicky one-off fanservice. Don’t worry too much.
I was weirdly on the fence about this, because I was absolutely against an expanded concept of synchro, but since ash-greninja had started appearing in spinoffs, I definitely wanted it in the game. In this case battle bond seems to be a weird one off, and honestly I’d have preferred if they just made it mega-greninja and left the weird bond thing to the anime, but I’m kind of apathetic to it as it is. It’s just very confusing how they refer to ash, and how it bonded with him, and looks like him, but how it’s bonding with the trainer… This seems to be a very inorganic way of including it, but hey, it’s better than pokéfusions or whatever. I do have a creeping feeling it might only be setting us up for a future expansion of the battle bond concept, but I hope I’m wrong.
Not only does it have that crap name.. it loses Protean.
I’m sure this new form will give it a 100% 5-hit on Water Shuriken and a small boost (speed and attacks).
I really dislike that Ash is now part of the game somehow.. what a drag.
What I hate is that the demo will probably be the only way to get it and I won’t be able to transform my XY Greninja into Ash-Greninja.
I think all the last stage starters will get a new signature move.
Rowlet3: Arrow Quill
Litten3: Blazing Press
Popplio3: Luring Song
Apparently, according to the text on the anime art, Litten3 gets a new signature move called Beast Swing/Tiger Swing. Would make sense for the other two to get one as well
Would love if they were also dual typed like Flying Press 😀
What are orgins of their names? Does anybody know?
Dart=archer
Torra=wrestler
Brionne=Mermaid
Tora is tiger in Japanese. Also torridity means extreme heat.
Brionne is brine+sea lion. Also maybe the ‘on’ bit comes from ondine, which is french for mermaid.
Dartrix…uh…darts, like how it throws its quills at opponents? Not clear on that one tbh.
Does anyone like me find it odd that we see a lot of Spearow but we have yet to see a Fearow? Could that be a tease for something, or was Fearow shown and I missed it?
So apparently there is an Ice Stone in the games!!! I really hope it gets more use than just vulpix
Where’d you see that, timestamp-wise?
serebii tweeted it out
https://twitter.com/SerebiiNet/status/783301634009030656
Maybe it can also evolve that rumored Snowman Pokemon?
I knew it!
Now if only my Glaceon theory gonna be proven right… I can say “I told you so”
do you mean that glaceon and leafeon will switch to stone evolutions?
That’s what I want. I mean the ice stone and moss stone having to be a map feature just for one Pokemon (each) is silly. <3
Or it could just be the leaf stone
I agree. Glaceon and Leafeon should definitely evolve through the use of evolution stones. A Leaf Stone for Leafeon and this new Ice Stone for Glaceon. I wouldn’t even mind if the way Espeon and Umbreon evolved changed; evolving through the use of a Sun Stone and Moon Stone, respectively, except the stones would only work during the appropriate hours (dawn~day for Espeon and dusk~night for Umbreon), removing the need for them to have max affection towards you in order to evolve.
Just checked and the Ash Greninja form being achieved by way of ability is another Point towards the one 4Chan leak that talked about Oricorio and Bewear! lol
“Mom, I’m going to the mall with Jessica and Brionne!”
WHO CAME UP WITH THAT NAME
It’s a place in Normandy O_O
Brionne and Meloetta have to duke it out now for best pop star Pokémon xD
Yea. With BP, I’m quite sure the Battle Frontier is coming back! Get hype! (hopefully)
:3 If thats what maybe revealed in either Coro Coro or the 14th info dumb, I’m HAPPY!
Do you think there will be more Pokemon with the Battle Bond ability other than Greninja?
I think there will be. There’d be no point to make an all new ability for just on Pokemon that isn’t even a legendary. I imagine it’ll only be a select few, but there will definitely be more.
In balance sake I hope chesnaught and delphox do too, but we’ve seen they don’t care about fairness giving Charizard 2 Megas
There are a number of non-legendary pokemon with transformation abilities that are exclusive to them o.o Like Cherrim
I completely agree. Most starters are definitely good candidates for that. Personally, I am hoping for a Battle Bond Dragonite. About time it got some attention, especially seeing how many people are slowly giving up on it getting a Mega or Alola Form.
wait if u pick up ash’s greninja pokeball, does that mean the anime ends with ash chucking greninja’s ball far into the ocean?
Well, there is an episode title coming up that says, “Goodbye Ash-Greninja”… So maybe? xDDD
The current speculation is that it will be released to be protector of a ninja village, I think?
my idea is better
Debatable. :p
Of course, it can break free and just save itself.
Really? He’s just going to let his Pokemon go?
No wonder Ash never wins.
Right? I’m trying to give the benefit of the doubt and hope Greninja just loses his ability… But Ash is an idiot so maybe not. I rewatched the first anime and he released or tried to release like half of his pokemon at some point
The anime only exists for the soul purpose of selling their merchandises and advertising the Pokemon to what they can do in the game. Little to no point now with the newer games showing more of the Pokemon’s expressions.
RIP Ash-Ninja.
Man. Poke Pelago, Festival thing, Pokesnap, possibly Battle Frontier and maybe a post-game episode like in ORAS? I have a feeling they’re going all out with Sun and Moon. So hyped!
And UB’s, the…seemingly evil Aether Foundation, the starers, and the enhancements made from XYORAS seems to be a great way to maybe end a Gen for Pkm on the 3DS too!
it all comes down to this~