The long awaited Nintendo Direct is just a few minutes away from going live! We’ve been promised a 45 minute presentation about what’s up and coming on the Nintendo 3DS family of systems, and the Nintendo Switch – and we’re incredibly hopeful that we’ll be getting some new details on Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon! We’ll be updating this post with any Pokémon relevant live updates down below (be sure to refresh this post), and make posts about any heavy hitting news shortly after! Sit back, relax, and join us in the comments for today’s Nintendo Direct!
LIVE UPDATES
- 0:40 – The Direct is starting off with Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon!
- 0:45 – USUM trailer is showing off lots of new footage from the games. Including new areas, and a beautiful cutscene showing Necrozma absorbing Solgaleo/Lunala.
- 1:30 – Overview of Necrozma’s focus on the USUM story, and confirms the English names Dusk Mane Necrozma and Dawn Wings Necrozma.
- 1:50 – “Charting New Areas of Alola” feature that shows new locations in Alola such as a beach where surfers gather (notice the new surfer NPC and Poké Ride Mantine), and a valley full of Pikachu. New clothes such as a Pikachu hat and shirt is featured as well.
- 2:15 – The way you choose your starter in USUM is incredibly different. The three Alola starters defend you from a wild Yungoos, and you choose one shortly after.
- 2:20 – Reminder of the event Rockruff that can evolve into Dusk Form Lycanroc that will be distributed for players who purchase the game before January 10th, 2018. If you purchase a digital version of the games before January 10th, 2018 you’ll receive 12 Quick Balls in game.
- 2:47 – Reminder that Pokémon Gold & Silver versions are coming to the eShop on September 22nd. If you purchase either one you’ll receive a special Celebi for your SM or USUM games via code. You can pre-purchase the Virtual Console games shortly after the direct ends
- 3:10 – NEW ULTRA BEASTS! UB Burst will be exclusive to Ultra Sun while UB Assembly will be exclusive to Ultra Moon
- 3:40 – A gorgeous PokéBall Edition of the New Nintendo 2DS XL will be available November 3rd
- That’s it for Pokémon! Enjoy the rest of the Nintendo Direct!
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DANG… New pokémon… Actual new pokémon. I legit can’t believe it…
This is probably the biggest surprise I’ve ever seen GF pull (I think most would agree), and it’s really a testament to how much some of their traditions are entrenched, yet they keep slowly teasing them apart, with this being the biggest shift.
A long time ago, when USUM were first announced, I was vaguely excited this might be a possibility. Vaguely because I didn’t really believe it. I had long since given up on that, as due to GF’s recent “let’s spoil 95% of the game beforehand” policy, I surmised this game was under-advertised because it would have little new to offer, it’s depth being sacrificed for more work on the switch versions…
I’m SO HAPPY I WAS WRONG.
Because not only do I not believe these are the only new UBs we’ll see, I feel fairly confident supposing we’ll probably get new Alolan forms. Come on now. All we got last time was a paltry 15 or so, and A significant proportion were Jokemon. They can’t just add NEW pokémon and not a few extra forms, expanding both this gen’s pokémon “sort” additions.
I’m gonna bet on 5 new UBs: mostly cause I think they’re going to replace all the version exclusives from SM with new ones, so each version has 4 exclusives, and I think they’ll throw at least one more into the mix (maybe 2 to replace guzzlord and Xurkitree, or maybe every UB is new here, who knows???)
GF will probably dissapoint any reasonable estimate we might make of new content , as usual, (a big part of me is expectig them to bail on Alolan forms, but I really hope they’ll have the decency…) But still. There must be at least one or two more UBs hidden in there, and that’s really exciting.
I really like UB:Assembly too. It’s a testament I can be excited about “these things” at all, really shows how I’ve turned around and come to embrace UBs.
Still can’t believe how sick this is though, bring on more!
Other thoughts: Same about smash bros, but I kept telling my brother it wasn’t happening and he took its absence a lot harder. I still think they have too much big games coming, and they’d rather wait for having a hype gap to plug to reveal it.
Odyssey looks better and better each time. Here’s hoping there are still some big surprises left at launch though!
Aaaugh, now I have to buy the four Zelda champions amiibos, I neeeeeeed those armours…
I think Kartana was seen in a trailer so not all new UBs. It wouldn’t surprise me if these 2 were the only new ones. Also I’d rather have new breedable Pokemon that I might actually be able to use in the story.
I would really love new regular pokémon too, but honestly, very much like this bombshell, I’ll believe that when I see it. GF has lowered by expectations too many times for me to want to get hurt again.
And yeah, it’s completely within their pattern to just reveal these too and that be it, but meh, this is so unexpected that I’m allowing myself to dream a little bigger for this one. And really I expect there to be at least one more. I feel they simply can’t break such a tradition just for two pokémon.
I’m honestly still batting on us getting full white-dragon necrozma “repaired” form in these games
Y’all here?
Can we get some Megas Again??
Mega Staraptor?? Fighting/Flying! Please??
One of the few reasons I want sinnoh remakes is just for megas again’
Mega Staraptor
Tough Claws
Fighting Flying
HP: 85
Atk: 150 (+30)(Also highest Atk for a Tough Claws user)
Def: 90 (+20)
SpA: 50
SpD: 75 (+15)
Spe 135 (+35)
Omg This would probably be insta banned. Literally only scarfers and mega aero, and priority can handle this. And think of the moves!!
Close Combat + Tough Claws
Brave Bird+ Tough Claws
Quick Attack + Tough Claws
Double Edge + Tough Claws!1
U-Turn + Tough Claws
Oh… we’re on USUM… right… Maybe in 3-4 years..