Pokémon Sun & Moon Essentials Guide – Part 3

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SPOILERS AHEAD

Over the past few weeks, several anonymous sources have been leaking details about the upcoming Nintendo 3DS games, Pokémon Sun & Moon. As usual, we won’t be sharing any images, but we have been keeping track on any and all details about the game. Below is a compilation of information we’ve previously reported on and some new ones as well – all in one place for your convenience! Part 1 can be found here, Part 2 can be found here. Anything related to the plot of the game will be “highlight to view” – Read at your own risk.

Pokémon Buffs

Stat Changes

  • Arbok – ATK +10
  • Dugtrio – ATK +20
  • Farfetch’d – ATK +25
  • Dodrio  – SPD + 10
  • Electrode – SPD +10
  • Exeggutor – SPD +10
  • Noctowl – SPA +10
  • Ariados – SPD +10
  • Quillfish – DEF +10
  • Magcargo – HP +10, SPA +10
  • Corsola – HP +10, DEF +10, SPD +10
  • Mantine – HP +10
  • Swellow – SPA +10
  • Pelipper – SPA +10
  • Masquerain – SPA +20, SPE +20
  • Delcatty – SPE +20
  • Volbeat – DEF +20, SPG +10
  • Illumise – DEF +20, SPD +10
  • Lunatone – HP +20
  • Solrock – HP +20
  • Chimecho – HP +10, DEF +10, SPD +10
  • Woobat – HP +10
  • Crustle – ATK +10
  • Beartic – ATK +20
  • Cryogonal – HP +10, DEF +20

Added Second Ability

  • Wingull – Hydration
  • Pelipper – Drizzle
  • Torkoal – Drought
  • Roggenrola – Weak Armor
  • Boldore – Weak Armor
  • Gigalith – Sand Stream
  • Vanilite – Snow Cloak
  • Vanilish – Snow Cloak
  • Vaniluxe – Snow Warning
  • Cubchoo – Slush Rush
  • Beartic – Slush Rush

Pokémon Nerfs

New Ability

  • Gengar – Levitate Cursed Body

New Hidden Ability

  • Raikou – Volt Absorb Inner Focus
  • Entei – Flash Fire Inner Focus
  • Suicune – Water Absorb Inner Focus

Items

New Items

  • _____ Memory – Memory discs that contain different data for each type. It changes the type of the holder if held by certain species of Pokémon. One for each type, eighteen total.
    • Normal Memory, Fire Memory, Water Memory, Electric Memory, Grass Memory, Ice Memory, Fighting Memory, Poison Memory, Ground Memory, Flying Memory, Psychic Memory, Bug Memory, Rock Memory, Ghost Memory, Dragon Memory, Dark Memory, Steel Memory and Fairy Memory
  • Z Crystals – This is a crystallized form of Z-Power. It upgrades moves to Z-Moves. One per type, 18 total
    • Normalium Z, Firium Z, Waterium Z, Electrium Z, Grassium Z, Icium Z, Fightinium Z, Poisonium Z, Groundium Z, Flyinium Z, Psychium Z, Buginium Z, Rockium Z, Ghostium Z, Dragonium Z, Darkinium Z, Steelium Z and Fairium Z
  • Bottle Cap – A beautiful bottle cap that gives off a silver gleam. Some people are happy to receive one
  • Gold Bottle Cap – A beautiful bottle cap that gives off a golden gleam. Some people are happy to receive one
  • Z-Ring – A mysterious ring that enables Pokémon to use Z-Power. It requires both the willpower and the physical power of the Trainer wearing it
  • Decidium Z – This is a crystallized form of Z-Power. It upgrades Decidueye’s Spirit Shackle to a Z-Move
  • Incinium Z – This is a crystallized form of Z-Power. It upgrades Incineroar’s Darkest Lariat to a Z-Move
  • Primarium Z – This is a crystallized form of Z-Power. It upgrades Primarina’s Sparkling Aria to a Z-Move
  • Tapunium Z – This is a crystallized form of Z-Power. It upgrades the tapu’s Nature’s Madness to a Z-Move
  • Marshadium Z – This is a crystallized form of Z-Power. It upgrades Marshadow’s Spectral Thief to a Z-Move
  • Aloraichium Z – This is a crystallized form of Z-Power. It upgrades Alolan Raichu’s Thunderbolt to a Z-Move
  • Snorlium Z – This is a crystallized form of Z-Power. It upgrades Snorlax’s Giga Impact to a Z-Move
  • Eevium Z – This is a crystallized form of Z-Power. It upgrades Eevee’s Last Resort to a Z-Move
  • Mewnium Z – This is a crystallized form of Z-Power. It upgrades Mew’s Psychic to a Z-Move
  • Pikanium Z – It converts Z-Power into crystals that upgrade Pikachu’s Volt Tackle to an exclusive Z-Move
  • Pikashunium Z – It converts Z-Power into crystals that upgrades a Thunderbolt by Pikachu in a cap to an exclusive Z-Move
  • Forage Bag – A bag to carry ingredients gathered during Mallow’s trial in the jungle
  • Fishing Rod – A Fishing Rod made by Captain Lana. Cast a line over piles of underwater rocks to fish for wild aquatic Pokémon
  • Professor’s Mask – The mask that belongs to The Masked Royal. This pro wrestler apparently sews his mask on a machine himself
  • Festival Ticket – A ticket that allows you to host a mission in Festival Plaza
  • Sparkling Stone – A stone entrusted by a Pokémon that has been venerated as a guardian deity in the Alola region. There is said to be some secret in how it sparkles
  • Adrenaline Orb – Using it makes wild Pokémon more likely to call for help. If held by a Pokémon, it boosts Speed when intimidated. It can be used only once
  • Zygarde Cube – An item to store Zygarde Cores and Cells. You can also use it to teach Zygarde moves
  • Ice Stone – A peculiar stone that can make certain species of Pokémon evolve. It has an unmistakable snowflake pattern
  • Ride Pager – By entering certain numbers on this pager, you can summon Ride Pokémon in an instant
  • Beast Ball – A special Poké Ball designed to catch Ultra Beasts. It has a low success rate for catching others
  • Big Malasada – The Alola region’s local specialty—fried bread. It can be used once to heal all the status conditions of a Pokémon
  • Red Nectar – A flower nectar obtained at Ula’ula Meadow. It changes the form of certain species of Pokémon
  • Yellow Nectar – A flower nectar obtained at Melemele Meadow. It changes the form of certain species of Pokémon
  • Pink Nectar – The flower nectar obtained at the flowering shrubs on Royal Avenue. It changes the form of certain species of Pokémon
  • Purple Nectar – A flower nectar obtained at Poni Meadow. It changes the form of certain species of Pokémon
  • Sun Flute – It is said that the tones it produces were offered up as an expression of gratitude to the Legendary Pokémon of the sun
  • Moon Flute – It is said that the tones it produces were offered up as an expression of gratitude to the Legendary Pokémon of the moon
  • Enigmatic Card – A mysterious card. Written on it is a request for you to go to a guest room in an Akala motel on Route 8
  • Terrain Extender – An item to be held by a Pokémon. It extends the duration of the terrain caused by the holder’s move or Ability
  • Protective Pads – An item to be held by a Pokémon. These pads protect the holder from effects caused by making direct contact with the target
  • Electric Seed – An item to be held by a Pokémon. It boosts Defense on Electric Terrain. It can only be used once
  • Psychic Seed – An item to be held by a Pokémon. It boosts Sp. Def on Psychic Terrain. It can only be used once
  • Misty Seed – An item to be held by a Pokémon. It boosts Sp. Def on Misty Terrain. It can only be used once
  • Grassy Seed – An item to be held by a Pokémon. It boosts Defense on Grassy Terrain. It can only be used once.

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1,008 thoughts on “Pokémon Sun & Moon Essentials Guide – Part 3”

  2. So going over the new Pokemon move pools and I think I might actually hate Oricorio’s move pool. Like a lot actually. I can get over the fact it doesn’t learn moves of fire, electric, psychic, and ghost typing naturally, but the fact that it can’t learn any of those types through TM at least is bs. It should have been able to learn something like Flamethrower, Thunderbolt, Psychic, and Shadow ball, but it doesn’t at all. The only move that it gets of any of it’s first types that are useful is Revelation Dance. It bums me out majorly. I really like Oricorio’s design and background, but its lack of moves that would be STAB for it other than Flying type moves is frustrating…….

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      • I hope that doesn’t happen. But if we’re getting day 1 3D Mario, I’ll survive. Hopefully if Zelda isn’t day 1, it’s a summer title.

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    • Well yeah, but not official news. Nintendo already stated it’s not saying anything until January. So we’ll have to see what Eurogamer says and see if it’s complete truth or just parts of it are. Either way it’s more like a rumor than real news.

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      • EuroGamer doesn’t put out rumors unless they know they’re true. They’re the ones who leaked the Switch design. And I’m not a Emily Rogers hater.

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        • Yeah, but even the Switch design wasn’t 100% accurate. It was basically the same, but there were details that were wrong. I’m not saying the info they post will be fake, but it might not be completely all there or exactly what we get. Either way it should still be interesting to see what they post lol

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  6. So I’m away off until I complete the games! Going to miss you all! So I’ve decided to do a. ‘Pre-Release Period in Review’-basically, everything I’ve learned from my time here, or in other places during pre release

    1) Site has a ton of LGBT+ members
    2) Fairies are Pokémon Marmite
    3) There’s bigger dorks than me
    4) I’m not the youngest
    5) The people here feel like actual people, not just people over the Internet you know nothing about.
    6) Love y’all <3
    7) You're all so open to ideas such as a shared fanfic universe, CAH, casual tournaments
    8) Gonna miss you all on my hiatus
    9) Sombra is bae, good but not OP. She can act as a flanker, a lure, a pseudo healer (hacking health packs), a pure assistant for more damaging characters, a scout… And you can practically switch on the fly!

    (Seriously Star be excited Sombra is awesome AF)

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  7. Right, before I go, does anyone recognise either of these friend codes? They’re down as Star and Ithsme but idk if I got them wrong or you guys forgot 😮

    Also, final image is my FC for anyone interested! (sorry for the images, my phone is actually Satan)

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0eee0118f30921c25ce111972aa8572af5cce2c97421590e1ea8347f4e5aefb9.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2b62a96e68e6a1614db8332f712724cc67dc9ebcfb74bae2551998d60f24ce7a.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/58b7a675004b70babc5e895d1cc25bccfb31acf4a260bdaf1910e9203455e7a2.jpg

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  8. As per usual, I need to know something… Does anyone know how much Base Power Stoked Sparksurfur does, and also can I only use it on thunderbolt?

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  10. Here is what I started off with:

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    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/67526a5075f0d4244db8fe080b7a33ece6d05c81c5f9d1d21ec140768903b8cf.jpg

    And here is what I’m thinking now:

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/86dd4c52d4572a1afeb00cd90d03b169befc7fe17e62b759929041cad2850251.jpg

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/75cbcce71f1778ca763071999da5720b3e03f19b312bcc4525b7170d165a80b6.jpg

    Which group (Before or After) do you like best?

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    • I’ll add this stuff as a reply so people don’t have to refresh, I chose Desidueye because I always choose the grass starter the first play though, Alolan Dugtrio for kind of nostalgic reasons (I had a really strong Dugtrio back in the days of Red and Blue who I loved), Alolan Raichu for the same reason, Talonflame for fire and flying coverage, oranguru because he’s cool and water spider because he’s a beast!

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  16. One day left? I might as well come back from the shadows. Lol its been almost 4 months of barely any spoilers. I wonder/hope (if) my gaming experienced will be enhanced.

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  20. I can’t wait to do battle royales on here.
    Battling was so fun back in gen 6 on here, so I can’t wait to relive that (but even better!).

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  24. SERIOUSLY THOUGH!! Did they finally remove:
    1) The name rater? Can I just rename pokemon from the menu?
    2) The dumb rule that a pokemon that was traded to you cannot be renamed? (I despise this rule.)

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