Our friends over at PokéBeach have broken down the numbers from the upcoming Pokémon Sun & Moon TCG expansion and they’ve made some interesting connections that may just reveal how many new monsters we’ll be seeing in the Nintendo 3DS games next month.
Sun & Moon [TCG] will feature over 40 new Alola Pokemon, including some Alolan Pokemon like Alolan Meowth. This is the same number of new Pokemon as XY. The first XY set featured around 40 new Kalos Pokemon, Black & White featured over 70 new Unova Pokemon (when they were doing the whole “older Pokemon don’t exist” thing and had 156 new Pokemon to show off), and Diamond & Pearl featured almost 60 new Sinnoh Pokemon. This may be a large hint that Alola will have around the same number of new Pokemon as Kalos, since, generally, the TCG takes between three and five sets to introduce a new generation’s Pokemon.
The general consensus from Pokémon X&Y was that the games lacked a sufficient number of new Pokémon, so this could be worrying. Of course, this is just an estimate based on past examples, so don’t lose all hope just yet.
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Remember that the games almost double the size of XY, that should mean something more than a bigger world and better graphics.
It is quite literally impossible for S/M to have the same amount of Pokemon as X/Y because including ones revealed, ones we know about from leaks, and ones we can assume have at least one unrevealed evo, the count is already over 69.
I hope not; that’d mean they pretty much revealed every single Pokemon with the exception of evolutions. Why would they reveal most of their new Pokemon?
I was watching a clip on YouTube by someone called “Medical Gamer” and he was going over the last “leak” this “Riddler” was going to give and it said how many of each type we’re supposed to get.
I did the calculations and it added up to about 120 Pokemon. That’s including Alolan forms.
I’m guessing we’ll have about 100 new Pokémon and about 20 A forms.
I’m not happy Alolan forms are replacing new Pokemon, but it seemed like a decent amount.
That post was marked as speculation, so it was just the riddler guessing
Alolan markowak would have been better if his skull was set on fire.
would have been better if its head actually floated separate from its body like it was decapitated
So when are they going to introduce new actual evolutions again? Not redesigned versions of the same old Pokemon..
Here’s hoping that this is just a coincidence…
A 70-sized dex seems way to small considering how many slots this gen seem to be going to Legendaries and Tapus and UB’s and all that stuff.
i heard that there’s a corocoro leak in like 18 hours
on 4chan
but don’t take it seriously but that would be great if they did that
Since sets usually have multiple cards for a single Pokémon, it’s likely it might just be a small set. Regardless, I don’t care at this point. I’m tired, I want a proper meal, and school is killing me. I need some Pokémon to help me relax.