The highly anticipated games Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon are now starting to become available on the Nintendo 3DS’s eShop as midnight hits in different regions. Currently the game is out in Australia & New Zealand, but very soon it will go live in Japan as well. Unfortunately, Europe is still slated to get the games on November 23.
For those living the US, we’re embedding a live countdown for Eastern Standard Time:
It’s been a long, long wait, but we’ve almost made it to the end. Here are some BRAND-NEW pages to help you get started in Alola!
My question to you… what will you do first in Sun & Moon? Any particular Pokémon you want to catch?
FEATURED DISCUSSION: Dream Sun & Moon Team
first heh heh heh
also where’s my alolan farfetch’d holding bamboo
I wanted it so MUCH
So much hype!!!
did you see I changed your name on the forum finally? lol
Oh I haven’t! Thanks! 😀
Man….is it even fair that part of the world gets to live in the future? If I lived in the future I’d be playing Pokemon too…..lol
Here in Japan we play Pokémon Went on our phones
Oh god wow…..hahaha
Can’t wait to play the game with Alolan Vulpix *_*
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/49435928ec11ff83ec54d3bb878ad02b96209f5c19320f56df99ff1fc4341e95.gif I’m ready
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its been 3000 years since gf decided that we didn’t need this event floette
Not gonna lie……..I have it……..It’ll stay in my box, but I got one just for funsies. lol
:c welp, I’m slightly jelly but at the same time I wouldn’t want a hacked pokemon so I’m not too jelly
well naturally I would never use it. Just wanted it for the sake of having it.I don’t think I’d be able to do anything with it at this point anymore. I got it before XY/ORAS got a patch so now it’s likely I wouldn’t be able to use it in any fashion even if I wanted to. It’s certainly never going to the bank. I don’t think it’d be allowed lol
Real talk, I love this scene so much.
So far, the hype train hasn’t derailed, but I sincerely wish YouTube would stop recommending the walkthroughs of Sun and Moon for me >.>
Do version exclusives really matter now since we have the QR-Codes? Also HYPE! European here trying to not spoil himself with playthroughs Dx
I think the QR codes just put it in your dex
Great :’D
I got Moon thinking it had Alolan Ninetales so… Yeah…
I mean if you want a version exclusive from the other game to use, you still have to get one traded to you, all the QR code does is register it in the pokedex as seen
The QR Codes are out there now I think. I found a page with basically all of them. But apparently the QR codes just put it in your dex so nevermind.
I’ll be off when the game hits America, no offense but I don’t want to be in for five days with people talking first hand aboit it 😡
I’ll be pretty careful but I’ll be talking about my experience with it and my team and fangirling 😛
Nah, it’s fine, I’m really wanting to avoid it anyway since it’ll just make time frag on regardless
Thanks for offering to be so considerate though!
There should be a regional mute option where you can block comments from people of a certain region for a certain amount of time, would be useful.
New avatar to celebrate the games coming out!! Not sure I’ll use a Bewear, but it’s definitely one of my favorite Pokemon to date. Probably gonna be my mascot for a while lol
God it’s been so long. It’ll be even longer for me. I’ll get the game December 3rd for a national holiday. I have such a hard time staying away from this website, but I’ll manage 🙂 I looked at the version exclusives, and Sun really pulled the long end (except for Drampa and Turtonator). It got Braviary, Garchomp, Carracosta and Ninetales instead of Mandibuzz, Metagross, Archeops and Sandslash.
if only moon had ninetales it would have everything I need :c I’m gunna need to do some trading lol
if only Sun had Sandshrew :'(
honestly it seems odd what games they put them in, ninetales seems more suited to moon while sandslash more suited to sun
Not even December 5th on the real national holiday? Nah.
December 3rd is on a Saturday, which is more convenient 🙂
& don’t hate on my Sandslash :O
English trailer for Sun and Moon anime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ognbgUqb09g
It looks really good, I might start watching it again 🙂
GAHHHH PYUKUMUKU!!!!! ❤️✌️
It’s gonna be a long 6 days of avoiding Story Spoilers.
Also Cilan met Brock and Clement and Ash was not mentioned once and that’s kind of annoying cause if they can make the unlikely scenario that Cilan can suddenly meet Brock and Clemont days after ash left in both series then it’s not a far stretch for someone to say “I guy I know named ash” and the other one to recognise that and laugh about it.
I too will be offline starting tomorrow until probably next week Wednesday, when the games come out in Europe for me.
Soooo when we gon’ get all the official Sugimori art for the rest of the Pokémon and UBs? I need them in my life. If for no other reason than Dhelmise.
You didn’t mention Canada…..are you saying we’ll be getting the games 1 month later like with Go?
no we get them tomorrow too
I know that, just pointing out how Canada is always overshadowed and forgotten.
true
A lot of people think we’re a state or just forget about Canada so I usually just assume US also means Canada
Art least you’re not in Europe.
Playing Now !!! In the UK thanks to my Australian 3DS :DDDD
I’m in the UK too but I have an American 3DS so I still have to wait :/
I’m in the UK with a UK 3DS. *CRIES*
I just realized…the event Munchlax has Happy Hour, which alone is a nice move to play through a game with ($$$). But add Normal Z-Crystal and it also gives a boost in every stat! I was gonna have an all-Alolan team, buuut….
Oh shoot you’re right. Does happy hour get boosted by amulet coin?
Yes, I believe it does. So Amulet Coin and Normal Z-Crystal are both great options for Munchlax! For a play through anyway.
Has anyone found out the Player characters canon names yet?
Or are they the same as the Games for the first time since Gen 1?
Solio is one I think? They showed them in a battle royal trailer
I always thought it was Sun and Moon because they kept using that in the trailers and in the demo.
Elio and Selene.
I like these way better than Hilda and Hilbert
it still says one day on my nintendo 3ds, i bought it on eshop
It won’t be out everyone (sans Europe) until tomorrow
I finally got around to doing a mock-up of my teams, I think I will be doing the sun one first though so I can have a perfect moon run. (There are spoiler pokemon in here)
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Look at all those faires ?
T_T ?
Best team
I’m sorry but can we appreciate how good the SuMo anime is
Best girl better evolve at least once though
Komo-o move pool is TRASH. The strongest physical fighting move it can learn is sky uppercut. ?
A lot of things are trash
Nope still 5 days longer to wait…
I feel you
This is my team. Not based on its “goodness,” but simply the ones that stood out to me. There are more, but these are my six favorites.
BTW there are spoilers.
https://richi3f.github.io/pokemon-team-planner/#decidueye+toucannon+lycanroc-midnight+marowak-alola+golisopod+sandslash-alola
Also, my sixth might change.
Okay so far the level curve is moving along quite nicely. I only have 2 Pokemon and the trainers where I am are all pretty close to my levels (just before 2nd Trial).
What will I do first… that’s a hard one. I guess I want to capture a Rockruff and play with it and Litten in Pokemon Refresh! EDIT: I think I’ll play Moon first, because I’ll be up all night probably and also that’s got Drampa in it.
Also, I’m pretty sure I won’t be heard from again for at least a week.
well guys,since tomorrow is going to be the release Pokemon Sun and Moon,we need a special video to dedicate this to Pokemon Sun and Moon!:D anybody got any ideas?
I’M SO HYPED THAT I CAN’T STAY AWAY FROM THE POKE FAM!!!!
Avatar changed for the new series!!!
It was hard so HARD staying away from the spoilers, but I did it.
Does anyone know where Brazil falls in terms of the eshop release? The software says the release date has passed but when I launch it, it says I have to wait for it to be released 🙁
What time is it right now? There is a timer at the end of this post, that’s how much time’s left to the game’s release.
It’s half past midnight here so I thought it might be available since it’d fit what the software says but I guess I’ll just go to bed and check it after work tomorrow. Thanks anyway tho
No problem man, it’s just the timezones though, the game’s releases in a little over 2 hrs.
So why on the 3ds is it telling me that the time has passed launch the game to play then when I go to play it tells me to wait till the game releases?
Hi everyone! So I launched Moon, but it freezes on a black screen. Any ideas how to solve this issue?
If you have an old 3DS, just wait a while the black screen will go away on its on.