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

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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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  5. Earthen bored…I think I might call it a night
    Tomorrow I’m gonna rot the teeth out of my skull and maybe bang my neighbors truck in the cover of darkness

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    • Something weird in this generation specially for Rowlet and Litten their stat r not matched with their final evolution……I mean Incineroar didn’t look that fast and Decidueye did’t looks have good amount of HP.

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    • It could evolve in another region. It might not truly be native to Alola. Atleast that is my point of view and could also refer to some of the other pokemon like cutieflys evolution. I think the cutiefly line could use another evolution. Also Drampa needs a prevolution. Maybe the next region/games will have these things.

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  13. Just gonna put this out there.
    It makes a lot of sense that Salandit’s evo is a Raptor. The word raptor is derived from a Latin word that means “to take something by force or without permission”
    If they are staying with the idea of a lizard-ish thing that’s a crook, then yeah. The perfect name WOULD be Krookodile, but….

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  14. I’m gonna leave the sad news here:

    In the last trailer Rowlet has 47 HP at level 16 and in a different screenshot it has 50 at level 15 (consider that Tepix max HP at level 15 are 49). Now assuming it has something like 67 base HP (if 50 is the max it can reach at level 16) in pokemon history when a starter has a stat over 60 in its base form, that stat is never below 100 in its last stage. Now assuming that Decidueye HP will be somthing like 105-115, I’m sorry to announce that that looking at the speed chart of all pokemon, excluding Legends, Mega and Slaking (which all have a lot of base stats), there is not a single pokemon with base HP over 100 and a base speed over 90 (only Darmaritan has 105 base Hp and 95 base speed). So. in my opinion the best speed Decidueye can reach is 90.
    This said, here are my new stat prediction for Decidueye:

    110-120-60-80-70-90 at best
    110-100-65-90-85-80 at worst (This will be the end of the owl competitivle cause is not a sweeper and not a wall, just a neutral).

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        • It’s stats are a bit strange, considering it’s speed was its lowest in two evolutions
          Besides, what if the stats become something entirely random? Would that REALLY be the weirdest thing done in sun and moon so far?

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          • Yeah I think it would be really weird. The only possibility is that it will normal HP when it become a ghost. The problem is that Drifblim exists and this means also ghosts can have high HP. Probably Rowlet has 50 base speed, this also explain why it seems Incineroar cannot be that fast, cause probably it is not. We always assumed Litten was fast just because it was faster then Rowlet, which looked like a fast pokemon. Probably Incineroar will ends up with 100 base speed like most fire starter, which is good but not in the Greninja way. I think GF is tired of all this speed and Priority in competitive. This is why probably all this new ability/moves preventing priority are in s/m.

          • True, though I see Rowlet pulling extremely Greninja or Infernape like stats in my honest opinion. Spirt Shackle is such a good move too…

          • A move that actually doen’t fit a sweeper. Think about it. Sweepers are sweeper cause they are able to kill the target in 1-2 turns. What’s the point for Decidueye to lose a turn preveting the target to switch? I think this means it can take a few hits, maybe at cost of some attack and speed.

          • I know that much… But honestly, you never know with GF, they pull random stuff sometimes
            (If it was a sweeper with that move, I could see some nice switch play strats

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