Official Twitter Shows New USUM Footage

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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:

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!

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    • No, because both trailers have shown trials, trial guides, trial gates, and the trial amulet.

      Kiawe has a sidequest in Sun version where you can find him in his home instead. Maybe this is teasing that he’s no longer a trial captain, but it could also just be a useless clip to go with their silly promotion.

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    • Nah. Based on the new Alola map and how trails have been part of Alola’s culture for centuries (based on info from within Sun & Moon) trails will definitely be in USUM – whether or not gyms (or some kind of other form of gyms, ala the recent footage of Lt. Surge’s gym) will be part of the game in addition to trails is a different question 😉

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  2. For those wondering, other than the blue corner with the bubble motif in the popup, and Kiawe being replaced by the hiker, there’s no other real difference between this area between Sun & Moon and what the footage showed.

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  9. maybe he move somewhere or maybe something came up and kawie had to take care of it. didnt the girl with the milktank cry because we beat her and we had to wait/ do something else so she would stop crying?

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  10. I’m not surprised that trials would get replaced by new ones, but it’s odd for Kiawe’s trial to be one of the ones being scrapped for another one.

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    • Maybe I am just speaking for myself, but the main appeal point of his trial was the surprising and humorous nature of his trial. Totem Salazzle isn’t really able to take hits and I feel is the easiest Trial to complete. In USUM, they are hard-pressed to keep Kiawe’s Trial such that it is able to maintain the fresh appeal that made it my favorite Trial in SM and not make the mistake of just doing the same joke. Also there isn’t really much sense in keeping one of the weaker trials in the improved versions.

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  11. Enough with the teasing, freaking just give us something big. Dusk Lycanroc isn’t enough. Do we get more Alolan forms? Will Shadow Mewtwo be in the main series? Will there be Alolan Mega Pokémon? What other new forms are there? TELL US GAMEFREAK!

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      • GF is quite cruel to not include everything in the main series. The more new forms that become exclusive to spin offs and the anime, the more I hate GF. Also, GF has taken a terrible turn when it comes to event exclusives. First, Spikey-eared pichu got left behind, then cosplay Pikachu. Also, most event exclusives don’t evolve or can breed for no apparent reason other than they are event Exclusives. Like how can Ash’s hat, extra hair on one ear, or a different ability, prevent evolution or cause infertility?

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  13. I know it isn’t but I hope this is some sort of precursor to more news soon. We all know this is probably the new (and strongest) Kahuna Hiker David.

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  14. You know what’d be a cool spot for Kiawe to do his trial? INSIDE the volcano. Like I imagine if he’s still a captain then Davy is just there because his trial is somewhere new. Sort of how in BW2 the old Nimbasa gym had a bunch of randoms and at the end you were told the gym leader moved. I could see the same situation happening here in a way. Either way I’d love it if we had to go inside the volcano in order to dot he trial. would be a very cool dungeon to explore as well.

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    • B2W2 introduced shiny charm… that’s the other thing really that I liked from it. Other than that, it was just a sequel.
      Usum is supposed to take place in an alternate universe but one year later, so it won’t be like Platinum or like B2W2. It’s story will be completely different.

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        • If you haven’t noticed, in SuMo if you take you cover legend to the alter at their corresponding time of day, you can go to an alternate version of Alola. I believe Usum is just expanding on the whole alternate universe thing and maybe we can go to the original world that appeared in SuMo at some point.

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          • Gamefreak doesn’t want to do the same thing again or else they will become predictable. Also, it allows us to believe anything can be possible for Pokémon, if they keep changing stuff up and introducing new things.

          • I don’t know what you’re taking about. With this alternate dimension thing, there can be a sequel like story plus reimagined people and places. With this, new Alolan Pokémon can exist because it wouldn’t make sense for a new ones to appear in just one year, but if this is an alternate reality. They already existed, thus are possible.
            So in the end, an alternate universe has more potential than just a sequel.

          • I mentioned this before, but there is a possibility that we travel to the SuMo version of Alola at some point. Who knows what will happen.
            Also, technically every Pokémon game is a different universe. That is why fairy types exist now and that there is version exclusive Pokémon.

  19. I’m so mad rn!
    I want to restart emerald, but don’t want to lose all my Pokémon

    So I have to over train in Diamond to beat the E4 and Cynthia (f*ck!) To transfer then pray I can catch them all

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  21. My muscles ache….some crazy wanted 30 pounds of cat litter for her store and I was the only guy who could actually lift and haul….

    But tomorrow I can binge watch the new season of Dragons

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  23. I’m having so much trouble with my USUM team. My Moon team was basically perfect other than Lycanrock Day

    The only Pokémon I know I want are

    Deci
    Mareanie
    Ribombee/Ninetales

    But the rest I have no idea… maybe I’ll just transfer in some other Pokémon

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