RUMOR: Pokémon Sun & Moon’s HUGE SECRET Revealed?

Spoiler & rumor alert: The contents of this article are speculative in nature (based on evidence from demo contents & official documents) and may also spoil surprises in the game. You have been warned.

ash-sun-moonDots are being connected in what could be the biggest Pokémon crossover between the anime and games that the franchise has ever seen. Pokémon Sun & Moon could be the first titles in which Ash, the star of the Pokémon anime, makes an appearance.

Although his in-game counterpart, Red, has a storied history since debuting as the protagonist of the first Pokémon games, Ash has never actually appeared in any games of the main series. Ash-Greninja being available hinted at his existence in the game canon and the demo also made passing reference to him, but it was not widely speculated that he would actually be an opponent in the games, until now.

satoshi-trademarkRecently a trademark filing by Nintendo & Game Freak for ‘Satoshi’ (Ash’s Japanese name) was discovered. This is interesting because it is obviously game-related, not simply a filing for the anime. Although Ash-Greninja will be available to players in Pokémon Sun & Moon after transferring it from the demo, there wouldn’t be much more reason that they’d need to trademark Ash’s name: after all, the anime season featuring his Greninja just wrapped up. The filing also makes no mention of a Pokémon in correlation to him either.

ashs-pikachuIn addition, his Pikachu has already been confirmed by game data mined in the demo! Whether this is an event for players (probably) in addition to a Pokémon he may use on his team is still unclear. It does however point to one thing: Ash is definitely tied into Sun & Moon heavily.

This all comes together with the recent unveiling of the Battle Tree, a location in Alola that allows players to battle with and against some of the most famous trainers in Pokémon history! Sounds like a great place for Ash to make his game debut…

I’ll finish up by reminding everyone with exactly the same warning I gave going in: this is not confirmed. It is, however, definitely something that is being strongly hinted at!

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2,212 thoughts on “RUMOR: Pokémon Sun & Moon’s HUGE SECRET Revealed?”

  1. I don’t typically listen to video game music but just purchased the BW music off iTunes and I’m so happy. I could listen to this forever.

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  2. Does anybody know when people are going to receive their s/m copies for review? Two days till November, so we’re pretty close (yeah!). Also, you know how long before we get Famitsu score?

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  3. Odd question, but does anyone else have their FC memorized? I’ve typed mine out so many times that somewhere along the way I’ve committed it to memory.

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  4. Anyone want to trade FCs? Mine is 2767-2720-7405

    And if you see someone in your friends list on pokemon with random names and appearances after you add me, it’s almost definitely me with one of my theme teams or characters. Right now on X, my character is called Janet for my Rocky Horror Team

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    • GG and I know, we always have super crazy matches ^^
      And yeah, and my crit on Earthquake probably mattered as your Ampharos would have lived it

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  5. can u guys add me 2638-2631-7157 i used to have most of you but i got a new 3ds. ill add u back once i finish up this dexnav

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  6. Seeing as there’s a bit of FC exchange going on, have any of you ever had a Friend safari of yours spawn in a type that suited you? My current one is Fire iirc so flaming homo jokes have been made XD

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  7. Guys, seeing as all this FC exchanges are going on, we should totally plan some sort of casual (so no competitive Pokémon, just for fun) battle thing for SuMo 😮

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  8. My favorite themes from Pokemon:
    – Wally’s battle theme
    – X and Y credits theme
    – Emotions
    – Zinnia’s battle theme
    – Wally’s Emotion
    – Diantha, Iris, and Cynthia’s battle themes
    – Most of HeartGold and SoulSilver
    – Most of Platinum
    – Most of Black and White and Black and White 2
    – HGSS, BW2, BW, and Platinum ending themes
    – ALL the route 1 themes
    – Nuvema Town

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  9. Alright guys, two things

    1) This is more interesting for you guys-who wants to do an in-game team tournament on November 30-December-5ish kinda time period? It’d be a week after the international release and gives ample time to give your team TMs and the like

    2) SO THERE WAS A KNOCK AT MY DOOR AND I WAS PITCH BLACK SO WE THOUGHT
    IT WAS A CLOWN BECAUSE THEY’RE HAVING A PURGE TODAY AND TOMORROW IN THE UK APPARENTLY

    SO MY SISTER OPENED THE DOOR AND

    I was jump scared by an adorable 3 year old who still can’t pronounce my name despite being my cousin and my uncle XS

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  10. I feel that it’s unlikely to get the mods to make a seperate “Friday night battle” article, but we should just do it anyway lol.

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  11. It’s scary how these regions only have 500 – 1,000 people living… Makes you wonder if the Great Pokemon War wiped out like 75% of the population and the protagonists are living in a post-apocalyptic world.

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  12. Alright guys, competitive and casual tournaments on the official games seem to be a popular idea! So how about we do some theme tourneys?

    I was thinking

    Casual: Christmas (Red, Green and White Pokémon, Ice-Types, Tree Pokémon and some sort of Reindeer stand in-only Red, Green, Yellow (Gold) and White Z-Crystal also are allowed

    Competitive: something festive, but not as restrictive as Casual

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  13. Aw……..come on I missed everyone sharing FCs…….Well just in case anyone wants to swap with me here’s mine…4768-7447-7816. I think I have some of you guys, but I’m not sure who. My name is Alec just in case you already have me and want to double check lol I’ll add anyone I don’t have. Just leave your codes for me to collect at my leisure. hahaha

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    • I think Brendan and Gary are among the worse. With Gary, he’s just do dickish that it’s to the point where I pity him for trying to one up us and act cocky when he really can’t.
      With Brendan, I just find him super bland and something just rubs me off the wrong way.
      Plus those two don’t change in the games, like nothing about them shows they’ve learned anything and changed in any way.
      I love Hugh because there is actual change there. He opens up to you and learns that you will be there for him and that you are a bigger friend that he has ever treated you. And his Purrlion arc also helps him grow. I just love it.
      But, we can agree to disagree, es all cool. Different opinions makes life much more interesting.

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    • Yeah Huge was……..well he could have been better. His design was good and it was cool having a rival that had a story of his own going on in the background, but yeah….all he did was complain the entire time and it definitely made me think less of him lol

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      • Like I’m on the Plasma Frigate in Driftveil and we are fighting Team Plasma and he is like “It was youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu who stole my sister’s purrloin!!”

        And isn’t it so weird that it is his sister’s? Not his? Why doesn’t his sister get it instead? Or just make it his Purrloin as his sister doesn’t seem to care all that much

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        • Well to be fair she’s much younger than you and him so it makes sense that he’d be the one going after it, but yeah….he really needed to chill out. You’re having these epic battles and all of a sudden Huge shows up and starts making it about himself hahahaha

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    • You can’t deny that his theme is good though.

      Also, no, shauna was THE most one dimensional character in pokemon history, hugh was better.

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  14. So is anyone doing anything special for Halloween? I’m giving all my friends and sister a Small Gourgeist (Pumpkaboo but it’ll evolve).

    There’s nothing special about them at all? But does anyone want one?

    EDIT: I said the wrong size, it’s the right one now

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