Pokkén Tournament, the Pokémon fighter brought to us from the same game studio as Tekken, has added a new fighter to its roster: Scizor (image above courtesy of Serebii)! This was widely expected after fans had datamined a game update which also included Darkrai (revealed several months ago) and Empoleon (yet to be officially announced).
Unfortunately, this announcement pertains to the Japanese arcade version of the game and owners of the Wii U version still haven’t gotten an update that includes Darkrai. Many fans are probably wondering if Scizor will similarly be delayed or even not show up on the console version. We can only hope.
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Well I was hoping it’d be Empoleon already. They picked the wrong (datamined) fighter to release second…
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I really wish I could be excited about this…..I love Pokemon and I love fighting games so Pokken should be one of my favorite games……but it’s not…..It’s so clunky and the controls are so weird that I just can’t get into. Plus the story mode is pretty boring…..although I suppose since it’s a fighting game I could give it a pass on story, but without better controls it’s almost not fun to play…….*sigh*……
The controls are good, but you probably have equally good reasons you don’t like it.
Idk I find the whole change between control styles a bit clunky. It COULD be great, but the switch feels weird. at least to me anyway lol
Yeah I guess, I played both Tekken and Naruto…
When I got the game I picked Libre and accidentally ended up learning her infinite combo. I haven’t actually bothered to learn how to use anyone else because of that, but it’s still pretty cool to see new opponents…or it would be if the Wii u version was getting any support.
Doing some research, Scizor does not seem to be that high tier.. His approach is horrid , Darkrai seems to slaughter him in the right hands
Hawlucha as the next fighter please!
pretty much its been confirmed that the next fighter’s Empoleon from data-mining. Though I’m all for the little bugger after him.
I bought pokken and only played it once. Should’ve gotten Twilight Princess HD
I bought TPHD and only played it once. Should’ve saved my money.
Pokkén Tournament looks awesome but doesn’t really interest me since I don’t have a Wii U. I love the way they re-imagined the battles though. So smooth
Boring if it’s not for Wii U it’s not even worth talkin’bout
who wants to hear what I got for my birthday?
-A new computer monitor
-a hoodie
-a succulent plant whom I named “Sebastian” to go with my bonsai “Xi Jong Xao”
-The Doomhammer from the Warcraft Movie
-a bunch of macarons
-and lastly a Roku Stick
But in all seriousness I wish for my Birthday Jarangara was shown because I WANT IT, it looks like a powerful fighter
But it also has unflinching pride and valor which will definitely cause some serious character foil with my rude crude and roguish Beltigre
First I thought Jarangara was weird as hell, now I already like him. But it looks way more like Dragon/steel lol
I’m in the same boat. I posted earlier that I was going to remove it from my team, but it’s already grown on me. I know it’s probably not Egyptian in origin, but its headdress reminds me of Egyptian pharaohs, and that’s what made me like it.
Jararanga is friggin badass!!
I haven’t seen the Warcraft Movie, is it any good? Or do you just like the Doomhammer? Seems like a good amount of gifts right there.
In some places it was still your Birthday when it was revealed, it’s a shame it wasn’t out with the Grimer scan so you could be awake for it. Still it’s here now, I also want to use it. It wasn’t what I expected, the weapon made me think it would be part Steel. What do you think of it’s typing?
The Warcraft movie was very very uncanon
(me, my brother and his friend Mikey we all went to see it, and Mikey is like a Warcraft lore genius and he’s still angry about it to this day)
And the Doomhammer is a very important weapon to me because it is a shamanistic Hammer forged in elemental lava and has a deep connection to the elements, and only it’s true power can be awakened by one who truly can speak to the elements in kind
And as for Jangmo-o-o-o I think it’s an absolute paladin, looks like it will fight tooth and claw to emerge victorious in any battle
Butt despite the inspiring words it has to worry about, Dragons, ice, psychic, flying and a x4 Fairy Weakness
Hopefully this thing has access to Iron Head or Iron Tail because sadly Four Moves Syndrome kinda guts the fun of potential move sets,
Dragon move
Fighting move
Support/buff move
And steel/Rock/ghost move for coverage
Yeah I heard that. Is it just that they went a different story route or was it an actual lore change?
That sounds awesome, do you have a picture of it?
Yeah it has quite a lot to come up against. Maybe it’s abilities (or hidden ability) will aid it in some way. Also it’s stats may make or break it competitively, along with it’s movepool. It could do with maybe a new Dragon or Fighting move that’s good against Fairy.
It depends on it’s stat distribution as to what moves would be best. It may even be a Special Attacker (which I doubt).
It’s just a crappy prop toy but nonetheless it’s still fun to swing around when I’m playing on my Shaman “Eroicus”
Is that your character name?
I have twelve characters
Oh, I thought you could only have one.
You can have 12 toons per realm
And unsurprisingly my realm name is Earthen Ring
hey that’s neat! what kind of plant is Sebastian?
I’ve loved it. I was really hoping to be scizor. Now the ones I still wish to appear are Heracross and Hawlucha, but I know that won’t happen (damn you pikachu libre). Well, at least there will be Empoleon, wich is a nice, weird one to have. But come’on, when will they announce those fighters to the wii u version? I’m crazy to play with Darkrai and now scizor
Guess I’m late. .. but Jurango Totally reminds me of one of my favorite Digimon if not my Favorite.. Gilmon. Highly considering Evioliting it. It’s the Perfect typing balance to my Togetic as well, hmm.
But I just can’t see myself getting down with it’s finally evo.. same with Type: Null.
Their not bad, just not my type I don’t believe
I love Guilmon, not seeing that comparison much though. Maybe the final evo will look better in game, has happened a fair bit this gen.
Their stance and demeanor is the same. Plus guilmon gets armor as well
Yeah I agree on the stance. When he digivolves sure.
My fav. Calumon that or battle wise Coronamon
If they add these new characters to the Wii U version for free I may buy the game. As it is I just don’t have the money for it.
That looks great. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cup-5PXWgAABL2A.jpg
YES, have they shown Midnight yet?
I hope so ..but not yet.
I think it will look wild 😀
Sure.
I’m freaking loving the GX cards!!! I can’t wait for them to go international!!
WOW. I might need to get back to tcg only to get this card
Yes this looks awesome now confirmed cards for S&M 1 set
Solgaleo Gx
Lunala Gx
Lurantis Gx
Lycanroc Gx
Snorlax Gx
Alolan Meowth
Grubbin
What animals are the Tapus speculated to be? I remember one’s likely a squid, but I don’t remember the others.
I need to know because I have an idea for a theory, but I only have half the information, and I want to know the rest before I post my theory in case it’s not actually plausible.
Well Tapu Koko is clearly a chicken lol I don’t think we’ve had any official hints at the others tho. Supposedly according to the Riddler one of the Tapus is that tiki souvenir from the backpacker in XY.
Well several months ago people speculated the animals based on the Hawaiian deities that the Pokemon are likely based off of. Oh well, I guess I’ll have to do some searching. :p
If you’re referring to them being based off the Hawaiian gods Kane, Ku, Lono and Kanaloa, they are a Chicken (Tapu Koko), Squid, Owl and Boar. Personally my guess is electric chicken, ghost squid, fire owl and psychic boar.
Hunting for Drilbur and then running into another wild encounter got me like https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c11816a3ad0f0d9263492f98f3c3ad5fd878ed9adb32a54b2133f2be5d1e25dd.gif
Good to know the characters in the datamine are playable and not support sets, especially as I think scizor is one of the best designed pokémon ever (it’s mega is blech though). Too bad the voice doesn’t fit IMO.
As for the corocoro reveals, I wasn’t a big fan of these them when they were simply text based with no accompanying picture, but now we actually have pics I love these! As with most of gen VI so far, I like every new deisgn here!
Alolan grimer’s doofus zombie art I like a lot, it’s cute, though it’s in-game model looks less good :/ , and it could have used a more imaginative typing.
Jarango and Jararanga are awesome! I was expecting something griffin-like or quadrupedal for Jangmo-o’s evolution, but even though I’m sick of bipedal fire type starters that should be quarupedal, these work perfectly. Bipedal dragons I’m completely fine with since at least theropods were a thing, and they actually look cool and natural and not like lame anthropomorphs.
It would have been cool to have dragon/steel, but dragon/fighting is also new and works perfectly for their amazing Mesoamerican warrior designs.
Silvadi I would probably have preffered as a form, but I love it’s design. It would have been nice if it’s burst of power made it mutate futher, but it works fine as is. I hope it’s at least larger though, otherwise how does losing a mask work as an evolution on a conceptual level???
I’m curious as to how it and type:null will be obtainable as gladion evolves his. Will this seemingly artificial beast be breedable? Doesn’t seem completely illogical to me
I would have treated the arceus theories as complete ravings if it weren’t for the new information we’re getting now. This thing is basically a conceptual clone of arceus, and that’s hard to ignore. It’s even supposedly designed to rival legendaries! I’m eager to see where the lore goes with this one.
It’s still a very weird corocoro IMO though, I’d have expected/preferred for them to keep the Type:Null lore as a surprise for the game, but I guess it’s a good scoop to build up the hype.
What really confuses me is the reveal of Jangmo-o’s evolutions, it just seems like a completely random move that doesn’t fit any previous pattern… But I think it might be telling us that the Jang’ line is not actually are pseudo for this gen, which I kinda like despite Jararanga seeming suitable because it means this gen’s BAMF is still a surprise. It’s probably the new Axew IMO
The only downside to all this greatness is it lays doubt on the credibility of the riddler’s type leaks. It’s weird because the leaker was clearly spot-on with jangmo-o’s evolutions, but put Type:Null down as as unevolving.
Now this can mean three things: either the type leak is a lie or contains false information, though their picture hint info is probably still legit; either we misintepreted the type leak and it’s only speculation on their part; or either the leaker indeed only has partial knowledge as the type leak seems to indicate and as such was not aware of Silvadi. I honestly hope it’s the latter, I need me a big number of new pokémon (the upcoming trailer will serve as a good test of this I guess).
Bring on tomorrow and it’s trailer!!!
neat scizor looks great! clearly empoleon is the next fighter, but theres still a space for one more. I’m really hoping for, in this order:
1: Mienshao
2: Bewear
3: Golurk
4: Hawlucha
5: Zoroark
I was pretty good at this game, I wonder if I should pick up another copy?
I have no Wii U, have no intention of having one so me have no clue how to judge this
so when is the news dropping tomorrow? The usual time? Usual place?
Most likely
The middle one has me wondering, alolan forms for not only 1st gen? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ac14a3e85cc830d78e7d549c849a2560692f9b9133c36ce786db4f0a66474ebf.png
It looks legit but if Gumshoos is the first trial, why is Ilmia the first captain? Her name literally means flower in Hawaiian and in British-Colombia Canada its a moth. I was pretty certain she’d be either a Fairy or Bug-specialist
Design-wise I’d say Normal/Fairy seem most likely.
I thought I read somewhere that none of the people who played it were able to make it to a Trial Captain. How then, do they know a Totem Pokemon unless there can be Totems without Captains?
I think it was confirmed that Gumshoos/Raticate are the Melemele Totems, so they would be the first ones.
And this new Corocoro issue also confirmed that Ilmia is the first trial captain
I thought llama was a male….?
Gender isn’t confirmed yet but its a feminine name in Hawaiian
I guess, but I mean… bugsy, they also have more of the face shape, design and hair that GF usually uses for males, but I guess we’ll see
Ehh yeah I guess but Bugsy isn’t masculine or feminine
OMG OMG Yes please!!!
Also, about “seeing the whole evolutionary family upon evolution”, I hope that only applies to the stage your pokémon has reached at that point, I don’t like the idea of it spoiling whole new evo lines. And how does it work for eevee I wonder?
It may only mean Pokémon that appeared in those games from gen 1, like Geodude.
Awww…That’d be a very contrived, misleading, and honestly evilly confusing way of saying it haha.
Hope you’re wrong, but it’s good you noticed that because now we can’t be caught unaware!
Some guy dropped this on the previous article.
The name for Cutiefly’s evolution and the English names for Jarango, Jararanga, and Shiruvadi will be revealed on October 14th, along with Alolan Persian, Alolan Muk, Robinroot (Dartrix evolution), Beltigre (Torracat evolution), Sirene (Brionne evolution), Marshadow, and an update on Alolan Grimer..
Also, October 14th’s update on Pokemon Sun and Moon will reveal three more Alola Guardians, plus more new Pokemon, plus some new Pokemon with gender differences, plus new Pokemon based on a dolphin, snowman, tiki, and toucan, plus more Alolan forms, plus a few new Mega Evolutions, plus some new evolutions and pre-evolutions of Pokemon from previous generations, plus a new Pokemon based on Aristotle.
That sounds like way too much new content to be plausible. I’d love it if it were true, but I’m doubting this.
I do think its about time we get the remaining 3 guardians. I mean, Hala confirmed they exist so.
I’d like maybe one more, but I want to discover some on my own as well. I suppose I could go offline, but I can’t leave you guys for an entire month.
I agree, one more would be plenty for now.
Final evos of the starters are definitely not coming until next month
Yeah, it would be too soon since the mid-evos.
Is this that TGSChu person? It sounds exactly like their grammar. They’re not worth your time, they just post a wish list each time a video is scheduled that’s either intentionally presented as a”leak”, or is just confusingly seems like one.
On further inspection yes it is them, they do this every time, haven’t been right a single time, just ignore them.
I really doubt this will be true
That is a lot to put on the plate. I doubt the majority of this will happen.
Excited about the Jangmo-o evolutions. They are so cool. I’m also excited about the information we will get tomorrow. I feel like it will be a lot of info considering it’s the last we will get until the game is released in about a month.
Is it? Has this been officially stated? The Demo is out Tuesday.
No, just a feeling. I mean, I’m sure the final evolutions of the partner pokemon wont come out until the day before the release. But, I think we will get some good info tomorrow.
I hope so, I need new Dark and Ice types now.
Me too, and not Alolan forms turning Dark and Ice. I need new Dark and Ice. They are my favorite types ever!
Dang, Ilama has that “I and L” combination that just makes it look like their name is llama
Yup at first I was confused by the name and then I remembered that capital I and lower case l look identical lol
I thought it was 2 l’s and it was pronounced Ya.
His eyes just scream fairy type enthusiast to me so I assume that means there will be some of those early on… also I will call him LLAMA from now on thanks to you 😛
I love Ilama already though
Isn’t it Ilima? With an i instead of an a?
I went home sick this morning so i’ve had time to process the CoroCoro information. Jararanga and Type Null’s evolution are some of my favorite designs in a long while. Also, Dragon/Fighting…YES!
Hope you’re feeling better now 🙂
I also like those ‘mon, probably gonna have Jang’ on my team.
How do you guys pronounce Jangmo-o? Do you say it with a ‘j’ sound or a ‘y’ sound? I lean toward the ‘y’ but I don’t know anyone else who says it that way.
J like a “j” not a “y”, for the same reason why Jango Fett is pronounced with a “j”.
Jang moe oh
Yup that’s about how I do too.
Same
Since its reveal I thought it was supposed to be a combination of ‘young’ and ‘mo’o’ so I guess that’s why I pronounce it like a ‘y’. If that’s not the case where does the ‘jang’ part of its name come from?