As part of a campaign in Japan to determine which Hiker is the best across all generations, the official Japanese Pokémon Twitter account has just posted some brand new footage from Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon!
The 20 second clip shows the male protagonist walking up to the peak of Wela Volcano, where Kiawe’s trial was in Sun & Moon, only to encounter a hiker instead. Upon talking to him he says “Alola! You’re probably wondering who I am, huh?” – you can watch it below:
さらに！ #やまおとこ総選挙 で大スクープ！ 11月17日（金）発売予定の『ポケモン ウルトラサン・ウルトラムーン』でも、やまおとこが大活躍！ ヴェラ火山公園 ぬしの間に立つ、このやまおとこはいったい!? #ポケモンウルトラサン・ウルトラムーン pic.twitter.com/rW8Wakjt4B
— ポケモン公式ツイッター (@Pokemon_cojp) August 24, 2017
Is the peak of the volcano no longer a trial site? Is this video teasing that Kiawe is no longer a trial captain in USUM? Or was this footage just taken during Kiawe’s sidequest where’s he’s at home instead? Time to speculate in the comments!
CONFIRMED: Gamefreak hates us Pokémon fans and are trying to torture us.
Hahaha it does feel like torture I guess
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Anyone here just use what they find in the wild on their team than actually planning out their team for the new game in an unnecessarily complicated manner?
Whenever I do that, my teams turn out shitty
What do you mean? It’s not complicated to pick what pokemon you want to use
I feel it’s completely unnecessary. There are many good Pokémon in Usum so just swap out when you find a better one. It’s not that hard.
I would rather use my favorite Pokémon and not waste time training Pokémon I don’t care about as much
All Pokémon should be loved (except Mr. Mime & Jinx) besides, I like to use Pokémon I haven’t used before in my play throughs for a more unique experience.
Sorry but a good amount of Pokémon suck. I want to use the ones I actually like. If I want to use Pokémon I have never used I’ll do a nuzlocke
You must not be a true Pokémon fan if you hate 90% of all Pokémon.
-.-
Sorry that I have opinions? I don’t hate 90% of Pokémon. There are a lot of Pokémon I think are meh or just bad. When you have 800+ monsters they aren’t all going to be good.
Welp, I tried to change you. Too bad I guess.
??? You asked people what they did wtf
I was just explaining my point of view. Just wanted to get you to understand it.
but it makes no sense?
Please elaborate
I just explained why. If you want to catch pokemon randomly thats fine but planning a team is just as valid since you can actually use the ones you want
Question. Do you breed a different Pokémon every time you start a Pokémon game or do you literally have multiples of the same competitive Pokémon?
I don’t do comp anymore. I just catch the ones i want unless I’m using a pokemon not in the dex (ex. Meowstic in Alpha Sapphire)
Oh, if you’re just grabbing favourites then I guess that’s fine. I don’t know if I’ve been confusing with someone else I’ve been conversing with but yeah, I thought of doing a fav Pokémon run but I get too lazy. Still, competitively breeding Pokémon just to use in a main story is pointless to me.
no thats not what i mean. When I run a pokemon game, if I don’t like the pokemon I’m using it ruins my enjoyment which is why my second Y playthrough was so bad (other than the fact it is Y version) I only liked 2 out of the 6 I used.
Meanwhile I planned my team for Moon picking all of the ones i liked that fit well together and ended up with the best team I ever had.
Best team as in Pokémon you like or Pokémon that are strong?
I had the most fun using it because I loved all of the pokemon I used.
The Heart Gold nuzlocke I did made me use many pokemon I hadn’t used before but while I did get some new favorites, Sandslash is ruined for me now.
Why? Sandslash is cool and cute.
Because it weighed town my team since it had such terrible moves in gen 4 and it was the only pokemon I was glad to have dead. It kept me from using Pokemon I actually needed on my team because of its type
True it’s weak, but it has a great shiny. M
I only dislike maybe 5% because I only dislike, like 6 different Pokémon
Wormadam, Gourgeist, Salamence, Talonflame, Toxapex and Ferrothorn
These are just ones I don’t like, but most Pokémon I neutrally love
Salamence and Toxapex? Those are odd picks. Why?
Toxapex’s has a bland design to me and crushes every trick I use to fight it
Salamence just bugs me (Its on the border of meh and dislike alongside Wormadam and Talonflame)
Really? Toxapex is pretty unique imo
I hate how it can set up better than even Ferrothorn and has liquidation and Banful bunker at its disposal
Only counters are Alkazam and Espeon with psychic before it sets up
Ferrothorn suuuucks
Agreed Star, Agreed
I did discover A.Muk with Fire Blast is its big weakness now
BUT Ferrothorn looks really cool soooooooooooo yeah…..that’s all I wanted to say go back to your conversation
toxapex is cooler
Wormadam is cool because of the form Evolution mechanic.
Gourgeist is still cute, not as cute as Pumkaboo tho.
Salamence is ok. I generally like dragons tho.
Talonflame is cool. Good egg hatcher too.
Toxapex is ok looking I guess.
Ferrothorn is beast tho.
We all have our opinions I guess.
You can do that with planning though.
Also why Mr.Mime? https://68.media.tumblr.com/4c5a2ca3c591991d23c38eef8968a2a4/tumblr_myaoyujQNk1s62zc4o1_500.gif
Planning takes the fun out of it. Plus Mr. Mime is a poor design.
Both are your opinions. http://pa1.narvii.com/5768/64f88caaa648b5e515847666dece18a0a16d70a8_hq.gif
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I think mime.jr. should have split evo into Mrs.Mime and Mr.Mime
Other than that I’m totally fine with it
In Japanese it’s called Barrierd. It was named in English before Males and Females were properly identified in the games (except Nidoran), so it is for that reason I disagree. Imo if you have a female and are uncomfortable with the name you can just nickname her. I’d like a next stage evolution or Mega for it.
Yeah it’s par with Slowbro and Slowking for that (which makes me wonder how Slowqueen was not considered) lol
This was brought up recently but ‘king’ can be applied to women in rare circumstances. I feel like they named it in part because of the word play with ‘slacking’ (not to be confused with Slaking).
We might as well stop fighting a never ending battle, we no one can be persuaded to change.
But we don’t need to change? We are both entitled to our own opinions and ways of playing the games. I wasn’t trying to fight with you, merely expressing my own opinions within the conversation. Not everyone has to agree on everything. https://am24.akamaized.net/tms/cnt/uploads/2015/10/newpikachu.gif
I said that wrong. I meant I wanted you to see my point of view and understand it.
Oh question are you new? I Don’t recognize you
I’ve been spying seen before XY. Just realized I can link my Twitter to Disqus so I could chat lol.
Same except I think I’ll give Gumshoos another try (I got rid of it right after evolution and I feel bad about it)
It’s ok. Just pretend Trump doesn’t exist and it’s decent.
I like to breed my teams and have them be usable competitively after. I also prefer to use Pokemon of differing types which planning can help with, especially with coverage moves. I feel that it is fine whatever you want to do, as someone with an obsessive nature I prefer planning ahead a balanced team with plenty of coverage.
But the main game is so easy, competitively bred Pokémon are completely unnecessary.
It’s so you can use them after the game and keep the memories or whatever with it
You can do that with any Pokémon, not just competitively bred Pokémon.
You cant use non competitive pokemon competitively unless you want to lose
I lose no matter what I use. The memory of them is the thing that counts.
… thats on you then
No. I just have bad luck. Plus I’d rather spend my time shiny hunting then planning the perfect competitive team.
ok then. so then you got do that and he will plan his teams and breed them because thats what he likes to do
K.
Not to me, since I tend to grow closer to them using them in-game.
You can grow closer to them using them online. You can grow closer to a non competitively bred Pokémon in main game. It doesn’t really matter.
Obviously it does to me https://i1.wp.com/www.society19.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/intro-4.gif?resize=671%2C503&ssl=1
I don’t battle, only shiny hunt. I guess we are different in that sense.
I shiny hunt too, I just like my Pokemon to be the best I can make them, which in my opinion involves making them competitively viable, I guess I don’t see what’s wrong with that. I’m not sure why you seem to have a problem with what I choose to do, which I only wrote about in response to your question.
I do competitively breed my shiny Pokémon only to make them more valuable.
I just think is unnecessary to plan and bred competitive Pokémon just for a new game but to each their own.
I also often have some of my team be shiny, so that’s partly why.
I have an OCD issue when it comes to shinys so I don’t usually like to “tamper” with them by giving them Exp and such. I don’t know, maybe I like how I caught them so I can more likely remember how I obtain them. Only certain situations like if I have dupes, then I evolve and train them.
I have OCD, so I can understand obsessive compulsion to do things a certain way. Since I hatch most of my shiny ‘mon I remember where I got them by hatching them in certain locations. I tend to remember most of my shiny catches anyway.
I do. Personally I dislike planning the entire team however I do think “Well I’ll probably use Incineroar, Kammo-o or this..” before the game.
I usually rotate between 8 to 10, 12 mons.
This makes it more flexible for me but to each their own
Agreed.
I normally plan, then throw the plan away and use what I find (Except Turtonator which I traded with my brother for)
Understandable
Sort of.
Ok I guess
I play competitively so planning is very much necessary.
I think Disqus is messing up, I clicked off the site and came back and suddenly there are a ton more comments :/
Fountains of sorroooooooow
YOUR SORROW IS NO MORE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgTptp1q-Hw
I saw this earlier and loved it
You have no idea how bad I want the outfit
It’s amazing
Few things make me as happy as Jeff Kaplan’s existence
Not even my existence? 🙁
It makes me happy but like… not the the extent of Jeff
Not even Lopunny’s existence?
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I got a Dusk Ball Rowlet through wonder trade and it got me thinking, I hope in USUM there is a place to catch the starters with their HA’s like in X/Y. I would then try and breed a Shiny Popplio in a Dive Ball. I could also have Decidueye in a Dusk or Moon Ball and Incineroar in Premier. Actually if Dream Park became a thing we could get them in Dream Balls too which would be cool for Primarina and other Alola ‘mon.
I have to say, Haruhi In Wonderland is such an amazing episode of Ouran, even in all of it’s craziness. It’s definitely one of my favorite episodes, if not my favorite.
Wow how exciting, thx gf
basically
Gave us the hint Kiawe might not be a trail captain anymore (Maybe he retired)
thats all they want to do. They want to tease us and build up expectations just to snap them. That’s why they showed the rockruff
I wouldn’t say that just yet, but there’s definitely too much build up at the moment. We’re less than 3 months away and all they’ve really done is teased us. Could turn out really good, but we have no real indication either way.
But at this point I’m beating a dead and already rotten horse.
Oh, the Rockruff, not the Lycanroc. Nvm
They really know how to get me hyped for the game
oh wow im so excited a hiker on a mountain wow im so excited theyre really doing some new stuff
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Dat Brock though
Ok guys time for some serious talk.
Question: What do you predict/what options do GF have to base the gen 8 switch games on and what could they be called?
So after Sinnoh we got…
– BW about ideals, ying yang?
– XY was based on beauty
– SM well idk Sun/Moon? Space?
On a serious note it’s driving me insane. Obvs GF will have a few ideas by now.
Lets see they had Black and White, Kalos had beauty and then Sun and Moon.
What could possibly come next?
SM was about family
Really?
Well as in Lusamine, Gladion and Lillie?
Well there was that but also
-Team Skull was like a family. Plumeria treated them like siblings and she was the “big sister”
– Guzma had an abusive home and found refuge in Team Skull
– Hau feels like he has to be as strong as his grandfather, Hala
– Player’s mom is there for the player in the festival
– Lillie is like a mother to Nebby
Hmm good points but have GF ever mentioned anything like they did with XY specifically the games were based on beauty.
Anyways what about gen 8!!
Well if ya wanna go by that then they are about flowers lol.
X and Y was the only time they explicitly stated the theme I think
Hmm I think they did for BW also.
Anyways they’ve used quite a few different themes/game titles.
What comes next?
Also for gen 8 I have no clue but I feel like it will tie into the switch somehow. Maybe exploration?
Yeah to take adv. of switch graphics.
Where do you see them basing the region on?
Im 100% on the theory that it is based on China.
I do kinda want Italy tho
It will be interesting what they go with because I feel by gen 7 they’ve explored so many diff themes and countries.
Like after a tropical region in Alola I guess it won’t be tropical again so maybe China makes sense!
Hmm I really have no clue
But I think the region will be one of 3
China (most logical choice)
India (Yungoos could be the hint at it)
Or Australia (we are overdue for this one imo)
Yeah I feel the next one might be where Yungoos is from.
Yep If India is next calling it now fire Bull starter is coming (because of how sacred they are there)
That to me would suggest a Bull legendary though.
Hmm true true
I’d love Australia and China too.
I just feel Australia would be similar in being a warm tropical country like Alola. I feel like they’ll have to take a diff route like China but then again they need a nice big region for the switch
Yeah with lots of space to run and bike and ride and explore
At E3 they said SM is based on Life (which is why they chose Sun and Moon), so the Switch games will most likely be Exploration or something to that effect as the theme since they did confirm it’ll be an open world adventure. My guess, based on that, is South America themed due to global pop culture using it as a place for many adventure stories with ancient mysteries and treasures. On top of that, the past several regions were based on places that are popular vacation places for the Japanese, such as Hawaii, France, and various parts of the mainland US. It’s very likely that the next several regions will be South America/Brazil, Italy, or China. However, due to the fact that only China and South America/Brazil are really big (as Italy is a rather smaller place), I believe they’ll likely favor one of those two places most of all. At least, for the debut of open world pokemon. I do see them doing all 3 eventually, though.
I hope they make a Brazil based region, because it’s where I live. The evil team could possibly be a organization trying to destroy Amazon, since that’s what’s happening here rn (Unfortunately).
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Oh hahaha sorry I’ve been all over the places. How long will you be online today??
For at least an hour more.
Ok I just need to do something. When im back ill give you FC etc
Mine when you’re ready: FC = 0748 – 2744 – 4660 IGN = James
I need to sleep soon, it’s 1am here.
Ok… Ok sorry for the political talk, but I just heard this from the other room on ABC news
Trump stated he will shut down the government if has to, to build the wall with Mexico
I can’t be the only one who sees the utter ridiculousness of that comment by him!
Welcome to politics and the modern day where the corruption at top positions in the World is what keeps the clock ticking.
Yeah just the how ridiculous
And one things for sure the government would never agree to shut itself down
There’s little he says or does that isn’t ridiculous tbh.
A wall that will cost more than the annual NASA budget not including staff and upkeep that will cut through mountains and towns that won’t even stop immigration because airplanes exist and they can fly over walls
If Mexico won’t pay for it then we are going to have to. So much for Trump’s promises of lower taxes and financial stability for the working class
Instead of building a useless expensive wall let’s actually take the issue head on by regulating drug use and helping Mexico with its economic and drug issues. But our current leader is brain dead so lets wall them off and take away LGBT rights
I’ve never understood the point of the wall, it won’t work or be sustainable. It feels like he’s pushing for some sort of Berlin Wall 2.0. Utter buffoon.
I think we could get a chimp to do a better job then him
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New law: Destroy the power puff girls
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I agree this needs to stop
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Wth is that?
Power Puff Girls (2016)
Ew http://31.media.tumblr.com/ebe6436b40d8acb77ae15b2e52dd4360/tumblr_n2jae43En31r74f9lo1_500.jpg
I agree completely
If we can’t keep them out, then go down and kill the problem within and make people want to stay in Mexico instead of come here and not just Mexico alot of South America
And LGBT rights, why mess with them? They have fought for 30+ years to overturn the no Same sex marriage law and other such laws, just for a bunch of old White Christian conservatives to spit them in the face and take away even more rights they have
I may be straight, but I know alot of people who are being treated unfairly because of their sexuality and I think its BS that people who are different should get so much bad sh*t!!!!
Welcome to the current state of conservatism in America. Different people are scarrrrrrryyyy
Yeah I bet my one friend was probably made fun of because last year he took the vow of silence to support his fellow LGBT members (he did say bye to me on accident, but only I heard him and said I wouldn’t tell anyone he made a mistake)
I wanna brighten the mood
What’s everyone’s go to Pokémon when battling in a serious battle competitively or otherwise
Mega Raquaza Life Orb
Hm, not sure I have any, I like to use
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and generally my in-game teams.
I tend to use zoroark and seismitoad a lot
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Knowing is half the battlle
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scMvXB0BEmY
When was Gamescom?
3 days ago i think
Oh, I thought it might have a small chance of news. Don’t know if there are any other events coming up where news could happen, guess it’s corocoro and official site releases for now.
So, what do you guys think of Goku’s new transformation? Have you been keeping up with the Universal Survival Arc?
I haven’t seen it.
So it’s like his base appearance with spiked up hair and silver eyes? What’s it called?
The name hasn’t been revealed yet, though people are calling it Limit Breaker for various reasons.
I had expected him to follow the super saiyan transformations but blue so it is interesting, though I do prefer when they look more different from base form. I wonder how he attains it and what it is comparable to in terms of power etc.
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