There isn’t anything exciting to report about Pokémon Ultra Sun or Ultra Moon, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t anything to talk about! I want to know if any of you have decided on teammates to use in the new games or if you even have an entire team already pre-planned for your run-through!
It is a bit early, since we don’t know if there will be any new Pokémon besides UB: Burst and UB: Assembly or new forms, such as Necrozma’s or Lycanroc’s, but the ability to trade Pokémon from the original Sun & Moon mean that you have a lot of freedom to plan and breed in advance. When we first stepped into Alola we didn’t even have Pokémon Bank to bring our favorites into the new region.
Don’t forget, there’s a whole lot of new wild Pokémon running around the islands as well! You can see some of them above.
Well… I can’t wait to hear (read?) your comments down below!
They’ll probably reveal the Mimikyu Z-move in Pokenchi
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7rususpecttest-637980571
So I’ve been hearing chirps about potential incoming news
Any’all wanna fill me in?
News tomorrow apparently
Gameplay
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It’s just a Battle Demo, nothing revolutionary
Still, they might show a new mon or something
Wasn’t house party a Battle demo as well? And they showed Turtonator in there
Tbf, Turtonator was just a standalone Poké introduced in a new gen, that’s not exactly ground breaking either
Might be somethinggg
Still something new, still something to be excited about
Battle Demo, probably something new revealed there like a Z-Move or form because we know the battle system is the same as SuMo
Mimikyu Z-move prolly, they’re mostly showing Z-moves so far
It’ll prolly be a new Z move. Unlikely anything other than that.
Cosmog evolves twice before Larvesta, Vullaby and Rufflet evolve once
Gotta love Gen V
All 3 put me off using them in gen 5 unfortunately. Although I’m sure I could’ve used them I didn’t know what the level curve would be, coming out of HG/SS i wasn’t sure they’d be evolved by the league which would’ve been a pain.
They’re all slightly above E4 level so unless you grind they’d be unevolved (especially Larvesta, the other two are more realistic)
On the plus side you get the Eviolite starting that Gen
That’s what I thought. I really want all of my Pokemon fully evolved before the league unless I’m not evolving them at all which I’ve never done. Were I to grind them above league level I’d find that too easy. Still I can use them post-game so it’s not like they are blocked to me forever.
There was a level 35 Volcarona in B2W2 though. It was awesome.
It would’ve been heel if the game had HGSS level curve
Might as well of just removed them from the game tbh then XD
Also Mienfoo evolves like 2 levels before Lunala
This kid is reciting the monsters inc script word by word im scared
Zoinks papi
Well, I kind of am half-way there:
Incineroar (Fire Type Stars will ALWAYS be my favorite. I always love using them)
Lycanroc (Dusk) (YESSS!!! I never used Lycanroc, but my little sister did and it’s one of her best Pokemon, so i figured with a new form, i might as well try it out!)
Carracosta (I need a GOOD water type, yet I’ve found them hard to come by as of late, so I’m going to take what I can!)
Lurantis (My sister had a Tsareena, so I’m trying to find a good contrast with her in that)
Salamence (Same with Carracosta, lack of flying types (SPECIFICALLY IN THIS REGION), and having a pseduo-legendary wouldn’t hurt on top of that)
Electivire (I’ve NEVER had one of these before. I think that it looks cool and that I have no excuses not to use one this time around)
Now, I’m sure people will ask why I’m not using some very obvious choices for Pokemon (i.e. Toucanon for flying type). Let me show you my Sun team:
Incineroar
Primarina
Deciduye
Toucannon
Vikavolt
Bewear
Now, I’m trying really hard to use different Pokemon. I used to never really spread-out and used different ones, yet I’m trying to use some that may be a bit more out of the way. Also, I’m JUST WENT THROUGH A REGION WITH THESE POKEMON!!! I’m sick of them, and battling with them is boring…
I’m really just focusing on really having a new experience with my Pokemon, so I’ using ones that i don’t normally use!
Carracosta is an underrated treasure
Well, if you wouldn’t mind here’s my idea of how you could use more Alola mons:
Incineroar
Lycanroc Dusk
Lurantis
Oricorio (the form you like the most)
Araquanid/Toxapex
Electavire/Kommo-o (It’s a pretty cool pseudo legendary)
Not everyone wants to use Pokémon new to that Gen all the time, old Pokémon often receive buffs or just interact differently with the game due to different trainers and wild Pokémon
They said that they didn’t want to use the obvious choices, but they wanted to use these types. Ease up, I’m not trying to FORCE people to do stuff, I’m just curious about their decisions. If you don’t want to see me reply to people, just don’t read my posts. There’s a minimize button for a reason.
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Like this?
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Caracosta is a really interesting pick you don’t see a lot… honestly though I wouldn’t pick it with Lycan
I’m not 100% sure, but this is a tentative team. I had A. Raichu on there, but since I used Pikachu in Yellow I don’t really want to again. I may go Togedemaru or something, but I’m not sure. I wish they would tell us if there are any new Alolan forms. Once I find out what’s available I’ll be able to make a more informed decision. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/00453cdbb71a01f626b5f5b5f9a54626974a4d21ab51fc035abef488f986ff36.png
Hopefully they sort out the level for Shadow Bone, Marowak learns it at level 27 (the level before it evolves) when it should be Level 28 or an evolution move imo
Hmmm I didn’t know that. I’ll have to figure something out if they don’t.
Evolution move would be nice, though it is very strong, maybe put it at a later level, after it evolves.
Actually the easiest place to evolve your Pichu through friendship is the same place you get the Thunder Stone, so you won’t have to use Pikachu one bit! And trust me, it’s worth it for a mon like Alolan Raichu
Eh…..I sort of want to use something else to be honest tho. I’ll keep it in mind, but I think I’d almost rather not use it.
K, I just really like Alolachu, it’s ur choice
They still have relatively similar playstyles, only real difference is that AloChu gets Psychic stab
I haven’t decided on a pokemon team I’ll play on USUM, all I know is that I’ll start with Litten again. I’ll make my team a bit more diverse this time around
Aaaaand not trying to attack, but will you fully evolve your Litten?
Looks behind Butter Geek, sees a knife held bengind his back…walks slowly away. 🙂
If someone wasn’t gonna fully evolve it, they would’ve mentioned it
Why do you care so much? Some people don’t like Inci, some do. There’s a minimise button for a reason
I said ”not trying to attack”
Why are you holding a butter knife?
To spread butter…
Poisonous butter!!
It’s still unnecessary imo
You’re trying to special Attack
I feel like this was more that he was curious of how her team is gonna look like exactly than a “uGh whY yoU hAtE InCi” thing tbh
I tend to use that button alot (more so when people are trolling or annoying bots appear)
Luckily, you don’t use it when people are spamming, or else you wouldn’t be able to see most of the comments.
Jk 😛
The opposing Chandelure used Minimize
Of course I am, I’m one of the few that like the final form
Steals Butter Geek’s butter knife. Runs to Gamer Dragon07 screaming “Die!”
Shoots Sunny with the gun I had in my pocket
…”Rosebud”. A slip of paper falls out of my hand and in front of Butter Geek. It reads,
“Jk, I really like Incineroar. It was a big help when I used it in my Sun Nuzlocke”
I’ll try to make this into a Comic I find it really funny lol
Thanks. That was the intent.
(saying that kinda ruined the joke but nvm)
*uses scald to blast Sunny away*
Why does this always happen when I try to stab people with a butter knife.
You lacked discipline and ambition
Phew! I don’t have to reply with a Passive-Agrresive ” K. ”
I wish this was all you replied with when someone brought this up
It’s kinda a bummer that it’s confirmed now that there’ll be no Alolan Butterfree
I think it could do with a buff and a Mega, Beedrill got one.
The Form could give it a good type and moves that could work like a buff. Like Bug/Dragon with Dragon Breath etc would work.
They’d have to give it better stats, which would then outclass Kanto Butterfree too much. Though maybe in a future region it’ll get one. Personally I like the Butterfree we have, it just competitively isn’t much use.
Yeah Butterfree is my third favorite Bug behind Heracross and Venomoth
Why would Butterfree ever be a dragon
Not sure if I will even be buying the game yet to be honest. Not enough of a reason to.
Probably just watch a playthrough on YouTube or something.
I mean, the Necrozma thing, the revamped trials/totems, the new forms and z-moves, the mysterious figures on the poster, I really think it’s worth playing
Still, this is just a third version overall so a lot of the things are going to be the same from SM.
Those aren’t reason enough. Not even in the slightest.
The thing is all that is just competitive stuff getting a boost, which I will mostly play on Showdown anyway…
If there were enough new areas, new Pokemon (formed or otherwise), major story changes, an endgame with more content e.t.c I would consider it, but at the moment there’s not enough for me personally. Hopping that changes…
I’ll def let you know if it’s worth it if you don’t end up getting it. Though, this is definitely taking a backseat to Battlefront II, which I am actually excited for
Yeah, I will be keeping updated. If I like what I see closer to the time, and obviously watching a couple of play throughs I may end up buying it. But it depends.
Don’t really have any games I’m super excited for at the moment, then again I don’t really get the time to play much any more…such is life.
How did this comment section die so suddenly?
I’d like to have a monotype team like Electric or Dark
any ideas? Alolan Raichu and Alolan Persian are a must
Inci
Alolan Raticate
Zoroak
Alolan Persian
Alolan Muk
Weavile
Alolan Muk
Alolan Persian
Alolan Raticate
Weavile
Tyranitar
Sharpedo
There’s literally a Dark type starter
I prefer giving him good Pokémon
Stop
You started it
stop
;3
I’d send you an Incineroar emoji… Why is there No Incineroar emoji? Why are there No Pokemon emojis?
A lack of an Incineroar emoji is enough to keep me sane
Let’s not ruin Pokemon by adding emojis of them pls
Oh god, I’m picturing them in my head and they look awful.
Now imagina them like these animated emojis from the Iphone X
Even worse
Wait, they have animated emojis on the iPhone X?
Yep
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pls stop
Swap Alolan Persian for Houndoom.
I would but the poster said Persian is a must
Oh I didn’t see their edit.
Yeh
As of now I have confirmed for my team
Decidueye (I can’t drop my boi)
Golisopod
Crabominable
The rest are up for debate
Or… things may change
I do kinda wanna try prim… hmm
I’ll probably use Primarina too. Besides her, the only guarantees I have are Lucario and Lycanroc (Idk whether I want to stick with Midday or use Dusk)
You use Lucario all the time
I mean…. you realize the superior fighting type you could use right?
The cooler one
Lucario’s my favorite Pokemon, of course I’m gonna use him. Who’s the superior Fighting type?
Mienshao
Ew
How the FUCC can you hate Mienshao?
I don’t hate it really. I think it’s average. Lucario is better
Lucario is literally a furry who likes anime
Mienshao is refined af
Mienshao is technically a furry too
Just saying
But it’s refined
Me no like either it just has 0 appeal to me
And how its such a pain to level up
I’m honestly indifferent towards it. It just doesn’t stand out imo.
Yeah I can admit its one of the few of Unova that I think faded into the background and never made it back out
But but
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It’s so elegant
Meh I don’t think Meinfoo’s arms are well done and for some reason its color scheme for Shao doesn’t fit too well
What mons have you used?
Things changed…
Alola has so many cool pokémon I’ll use the ones I didn’t get the chance to in Sun:
– Decidueye
– Mudsdale
– Crabominable
– Vikavolt
– Mimikyu / Minior / Bruxish
– Alolan Marowak / Golem
So I’m not using Deci cause it feels weird replacing my old one….
Anyways
Primarina
Crabominable
Alolan Wak
Alolan Dugtrio
Alolan Eggy
Dusk Roc/Toucannon
Depends on which I wanna use
I have literally nothing wrong to say about this team, even tho I’d choose a little diffrent
Also, Waka waka
There isn’t anything wrong with a team, even if I choose different.
It’s just that I pick ideally to suit mons I haven’t used and type coverage
I said, I like all mons all that team
Yep
That’s why I picked Palossand on my first team, despite a type overlap
Alolan Dug. Fab hair for the win.
And no ghost type?
ALOLAN WAK
Oh Marowak
I thought it was Muk, I’m blind
Mate…
me without a ghost…
Let me test something
aww 🙁
I planned to replay sumo, but never did.
So my team’s going to be my planned team for my rerun probably.
Deci.
A ninetales
Araquanid
Lycan dusk (planned midday originally)
Tsareena
Idk jangmoo if it’s early, or maybe A.Marowak
Noiiice
Thaanks
ywwwwwwwwww
Hmm can’t decide what I want for another Flying type in Granite
Should I make a Turkey Vulture, Condor or a Stork?
Condor
Want to know what forget it
I’ll make all three
And I have to create the idea’s for the environment so I can start to place the Pokémon in the dex
Hmm… I’m trying to use ones I haven’t used, I haven’t finished my 4th SunMoon playthrough yet.
For my first time in USUM, I’ll probably have Incineroar, and the Dusk Lycanroc (bc I’ve used both other forms). I want to use these at some point: Golisopod, Araquanid, Palossand, A-Dugtrio, A-Exeggutor, Turtonator, Mimikyu, Wishiwashi, Togedemaru, and Bewear.
In the current playthrough, I’ve got a Passimian and an A-Ninetales planned. Trying to make a Bewear work, but I’ve got a Kangaskhan and the Passimian, so there’s not much call for her.
Ones I’ve used but weren’t on the final teams: Mudsdale, A-Persian,
4th playthrough???
People like you astound me.
Last time I did it with just a Dunsparce.
I am sort of losing interests this time around though.
I would be too after 4 play throughs of the same game within the span of one year
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0MIK7bb69xk
I now have an urge to go outside
We are now 70% of the way through pre-release season with some promise of something new appearing tomorrow, how is everyone feeling?
*goat screams*
you called?
my screams are so loud you can hear them all the way on Route 32
Terrible
Hungry for House Party 2 – Milan Edition
Now in italian!
I’m gonna buy the game anyway because game freak can milk me like a cow so at this point the terrible marketing doesn’t matter to me
Largely unimpressed. I still don’t quite understand their reasoning for doing a third version after they specifically said they were looking for ways to surprise people and not do something typical. Even if it’s in an “alternate universe” an “alternate telling” is exactly the same thing a third version does. I mean was it really just because they had to divert resources to the Switch pokemon game coming? Or are they creatively bankrupt at this point? Design wise I say they’ve been downhill…but story-wise Sun and Moon started righting the wrongs of Gen 6, even if it still did not reach the heights set by Gen 5.
Also, how do we know something new is coming tomorrow?
There is a game demo tomorrow. Paul Ryan also showed two unknown z-crystals, and two mystery images (that I believe will be revealed tomorrow if I am remembering correctly). Also I think someone important is showing up at the game demo tomorrow. Thus people are expecting for at least a Z-move to be shown tomorrow.
Ah. I don’t use Z-moves and think they’re a huge waste of development time that could be spent on sharpening up the games, but to each their own
I don’t see why people think GameFreak’s ‘getting worse’, they’ve pretty much always been on this same level. Only game that really went above and beyond from an objective viewpoint was BW imo, because it was their second round with the DS and it also wasn’t obviously rushed for something
I actually agree with this.
Gf is in no way getting worse. Heck, SuMo was their best game since BW,and while they did have their faults, they did some things i want to see in future Pokemon games and i really felt gf tried with sumo (until I played the postgame that is)
The problem is, gf isn’t getting worse, it’s just not getting better
Imo Gen VIII really feels like it’ll be the make or break for me. Gen VI seemed sacrificed in a rush in order for the series to catch up to consoles, and SuMo was obviously rushed for the 20th anniversary imo (but that shows up as a lack of post game rather than majorly effecting the main game imo) but Gen VIII not only is getting a break with USUM not diverting too much attention, but also isn’t being rushed because the switch isn’t going anywhere soon.
I’m talking pokemon designs.
Sorry, thought you meant game design
Imo Pokémon design is too subjective to really judge the progress of the series unless it majorly decays (as in lazy, rushed designs that aren’t just subjectively bad), but I do feel completely imo that they have a consistency problem (Gen VII feels super cartoony and comical with some designs which feels jarring for me)
Yeah it’s definitely subjective. I felt the same way about a lot of the Gen 6 designs as well. But part of the problem really could be just that the generations are so small now and likely will remain this way.
I think it’s just down to simple ‘less Mons = less chance of Pokes to like’
Tbh I think I’m lucky because I really like many of 6 and 7’s designs but for all we know I might be in your position next Gen
Yeah, let’s hope not! I’d like a bigger gen though…maybe around 120 would be feasible for them.
At this point I’d sell Pikachu to Satan for a big gen
Already tried. Satan didn’t want it unfortunately
Satan has good taste, Raichu is better in every single way
10000%
Deisgns have always been varied. Every gen has really well designed ones and uncreative ones
Yeah, but personally the bad ones have outnumbered the good ones these last two gens. Usually there are just a handful of ones I don’t care for
If you refer to the Milan Games Week it is not tomorrow. Pokemon will be covere on Saturday, 30 September, while on Sunday 1st October Ohimori and Iwao will sign autographs
He’s not. Pokeshopper said that there wil be a new thing revealed tomorrow and every time that has happened it has been something new
I know I mentioned this before, but it is funny how Paul Ryan has been our most reliable source of info this pregame season. All hail Speaker of the House.
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Don’t always trust what leakers say…
Cause it’s possible he may be wrong every now and then (Idk if da guys right, but who knows _(•_•)_/ )
He’s not really a leaker, he just makes informed predictions and guesses based on product releases
Ok then, so just based on that I’m having higher doubts he’s right for some reason
He has literally always been right and he isn’t a Leakey. He works for a Pokémon mercy site
Leaker*
Personally I am still optomistic. Due to the reveal of the UB recently (new Pokémon) I feel strongly that they are also going to include new Alola forms-probably Johto Pokémon. That is what is going to really draw me into these games and get me hyped. Therefore, I would say that I am currently in a pre-hyped mode.
Hyped for Yo-kai Watch more
Because getting game > info on game
But I want to see if they reveal something more or not
Man finding a Chansey with a lucky egg is such a pain in the butt……..I’ve found 4 with oval stones and one with nothing…..I hate this….I just want a lucky egg so grinding isn’t such a pain in the ass
By the time you find one you probably could’ve done it without, at least if you had my luck.
Found one hahaha
Oh nice 🙂
Im still in route 32. out of food and water
Eat the Fisherman
Another day.
Another disaster
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What’s up with Hollywood adapting Japanese stuff nowadays. I really hope they don’t ruin this one, I mean, unlike the Death note film, this one has a competent director
Japanese stuff is actually creative unlike hollywood maybe.
I don’t care how good the director is, it’s pretty much impossible to translate traditional Japanese stuff like mitsuha’s village and the sake thing for American audience.and all of that was a major part of the movie.
I mean, Hollywood messed up something as easy to adapt as deathnote so this is gonna be shittier
Can’t wait to see how they white wash this one
Or how to Americanize it, because Western culture can’t understand Japanese one apparently
Reminds me, they are still trying to make Akira :/