We’ve covered various rumors which have mentioned Team Rocket returning under a new name, but we may have finally gotten official confirmation about its existence. A Japanese retail display shows what appear to be Team Rocket grunts in front of a rainbow background preparing to battle the protagonist.
Other screenshots seem to confirm that Team Rocket has set up a headquarters of sorts in Alola (or they could have taken over a certain location). We’ll bring you more as it comes! As always thanks PokéSirena for helping us keep news coming fast!
Really excited for this because it’s a great celebration of the franchise: especially if other evil team members come back for this!
But if their name is literally Rainbow Rocket my eyes are gonna roll to November 17th
Ikr..absoutely amazing how they’re linking the past with the present/future.
I wonder how they’ll play in the story and if we really will get the other teams. That would be just amazing
Prepare for trouble…
…and make it double!
To protect the world from devastation!
To unife all peoples within our nation!
To denounce the evils of truth and love!
Go extend our reach to the stars above!
Sun!
Moon!
Team Rainbow Rocket blasts off at the speed of light!
Surrender now or prepare to fight!
Nebby, dat’s right!
(Lillie in the background trying to get Nebby in the bag and Hau just watching open mouthed)
Gladion just stares like what’s this rubbish!
O H. B O I
O H. G E O V A N N I
I T ‘ S Y A B O I
GUZMA
Wowowowowow Amazing!
YES! MEGA EVOLUTION YES!
Tell me! who isn’t hyped to see the original gangsters back!
Tell me this game is a carbon copy of SM??
Gamefreak have really out done themselves. I like how they are linking the OLD with the NEW!
guess the rumors of a returning team are true then. Can I expect more aloha forms too?
Yes!
To be honest, no. I wouldn’t expect them, but rather be honestly surprised if they do happen. Leaks have gotten stuff wrong/thrown in fake stuff before.
Two different leaks who hinted to rainbow rocket mentioned also new alola forms. So yes, you can expect them.
TEAM ROCKET UNDER A NEW NAME
THIS IS LITERALLY RAINBOW ROCKET
THESE LEAKS ARE REAL JESUS FUCKING HELL IM HYPED
I guess Molayne become elite four is also legit
Apparently we’re getting a trialer in like three hours (2pm in BST)
O H M Y G O D Y E S IM STRUGGLING NOT TO JOY SCREAM
I’d like to point out it’s from 4chan so it’s not entirely confirmed, but GameFreak/Nintendo deliberately released these download cards knowing what was on it. This isn’t a leak at all, so it’d make sense a trialer actually explaining it is coming soon.
AAAAAAAAAH
*3PM don’t judge me I’m tired
Really where how what when???:O
Where did you hear the news about the trailer?
4chan
4chan but it’s a rational guess anyway because GF deliberately released this Rocket info
People are saying the next game may be a reboot
With the absolute NUTHOUSE that USUM is cracking up to be, I wouldn’t be shocked
This isn’t the culmination of a system. This is the culmination of a fucking ERA
I want a total reboot where I can’t even transfer my old Pokemon until they reintroduce them in the third version/remakes that come after them
I’m fine with that as long as we get em at some point
Yeah I was thinking exactly the same.
They’re throwing everything into these games including elements from past games.
I definitely see a BW approach coming gen 8 which would be great!
If the Reboot wouldn’t be a new region with new mons, I’ll be kinda dissapointed
So the rumour of Geovanni getting all the evil teams together and capturing Lusamine where we have to battle them all would be amazing if its true.
If this makes it then USUM maybe the best poke games of all time !!
Actually it was never specified to be Lusamine. Just someone dear to Lillie, it is probably going to be Nebby in my opinion. However I am quite hyped that the USUM wishlist and Rainbow Rumors are turning out to be true leaks.
If it’s Nebby then it could not be a post-game thing.
can you imagine aqua/magma, galactic, plasma and flare returning because geovanni influenced them.
Crazy!
This game is gonna be bananas
Bananas, Apples, Mangos and every damn fruit!
No. But I don’t have to imagine it because that is what is going to be happening in these games!!!!
These games are gonna be crazy like a culmination of the entire series like one last hooraaaa!
My imagination is running wild like how will it all play out so much possibilities. I should stop now!
Honestly, if they hadn’t confirmed a game for Switch, I would suspect this would be the last one!
I don’t know why but I feel like GF wanted to make these games the culmination of a long-time plot. With “all comes together” and rainbow as codename it seems like they want to end something with USUM.
I think Gen 8 will be something completly different from what we have had. Maybe a reboot?
This makes me THAT much more hyped for these games. Can we expect Alolan forms of their original teams? Oh god that would be interesting
Anything is possible when we have a revived team rocket coming to Alola!
And just think people were complaining this was gonna be whack
Exactly but I was one of the few people on here keeping my hopes on GF. They now seem potentially the best games ever
I think GF learned from XY/SM to not leak or announce everything ahead of time
Well, it’s difficult because if they came to Alola through the wormholes as the leaks say they should have brought their pokemon with them, so they must have their regional pokemon and not the alola forms.
Thats true but you never know what happened to the pokemon traveling through these wormholes. Im sure GF would make up some reason as to why they’re using Alolan formed pokemon lol
The leaks are really!!!!!!!!!! Rainbow rocket for the win!!!! I can’t wait to see the new Alolan forms!!!
Sam Smith comes out as gender non-binary, and Twitter goes into meltdown. At least, on my timeline.
Umm… Pikachu?
Who?
A British singer
Homosexual Adele
Gender non-binary Adele
I must be a really bad gay cause i had to look up what gender non-binary meant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAR5cqVYQKw
I was gonna make a joke about this, but I got nothing. But seriously, Team Rocket returning sounds cool
That means Molayne is in E4? Neat, he was kinda cool. And again, What did the RR leak say about new Alolans?
It says Grass/Poison types are getting Alolan Forms
So maybe Victreebell
The leak said that it is most likely the Oddish line
Good moooorning douchebags
So that new Switch update lets you use GameCube controllers if you have the smash adaptor
Did you notice that Team Rocket is back?…
I did, and i feel indifferent towards this newsflash
Cool? but why on earth would you wanna use a Gamecube controller if you can just get a Pro?
Alolan Farfetch’d or bust
Typing and what would happen with the infamous stick?
Grass/Flying and it’s become one with the stick
Dark/Flying and the stick is now a machine gun because now it’s human season
Ghost/Flying and it’s floating with its stick because it was made into soup
Steel/Flying and it’s sick of everyone’s shít so it picked up a katana and some armour and let loose
I like the machine gun one
Still want to see Farfetch’d’s evolution, Rapscallion.
Might be nice to see how Team Rocket and Skull interact with each other.
Rocket, huh? Wonder if Giovanni is back in the seat.
For those wondering, this is the Rainbow Rocket leak:
– There’s a new battle facility in the festival plaza that resembles the battle factory in past third versions that allow you to rent pokes from your friends and you earn festival coins and rewards after beating your opponents
– There’s also a level system to it, as you level up you get to rent more powerful pokes
but it’s true that all of them are coming back
– RR will capture Aether Paradise and kidnap Lillie’s you-know-who
– And you will have to fight all of them in order to rescure her
– Those bosses are summoned by someone from RR from universes in which they accomplished their agendas
– Gen 1 grass/poison pokemon gets alolan form
– Molayne is one of the new elite four
RR is short for Rainbow Rocket, the grass/poison Pokémon is probably Oddish. Those evil teams’ bosses use legendary pokemon and they are summoned by Giovanni (in real world of Alola) from alternate universes…
What does “but it’s true that all of them are coming back” mean?
You rent them, they come back to their owners
I feel like that goes with saying though
Actually this leak, is a collection of rumors that someone from 4chan, I believe it is the Chinese Riddler, collected and said that he or she backed them up. Don’t be disheartened, the USUM wishlist is from one source and says the same thing as these rumors but was more vague.
This could play out really nicely in the Anime with Jesse, James and Meowth. Maybe there’s a new Rainbow Rocket trio, with a guy, a girl and an Alolan Meowth.
Wouldnt surprise me if they just bring back Butch and Cassidy because why not & they are lazy
It wouldn’t make sense… Maybe just Jessie and James from the RR universe where they have a talking Alolan Meowth
I think you mean bart
Inb4 Rainbow Rocket gets co-opted by the lgbtq community and they all start cosplaying as Rocket members lolz
W H A T
Just you wait haha
#Gayovanni
So I guess this means that in this alternate universe Gold/Kris never shut down neo team rocket in Johto because idk how they could’ve opened a new branch in Alola without Giovanni or any of the admins especially when in Johto they were weak enough to be take. Down by one child
Maybe Giovanni just defeated Red
Heresy!!!
Yeah but red is at the battle tree so he would have to have something that makes him such a legend so I’m assuming that GS was the game with different events
But RR is from an alternate universe
…
yes…
Which would mean something would have to change in this universe to allow them to regain power in Alola
Some apparent rumour posted below says an alternative universe where each team accomplished their goals like Magma and Aqua taking over Hoenn with land and water respectively.
Which I think would be really cool
So at this point, USUM has 4(?) evil teams(and possibly even more). Thats more than the last three gens had combined. But we were told that USUM are crap, have nothing new and are going to flop. Explain?
I think GF have set so high standards and people are just so pessimistic at times it annoys me.
Anyways just as I predicted USUM are gonna be crazy because its the last 3ds game they need it 2 keep us busy till gen 8!