As promised, a brand new trailer showing off new features and story elements of Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon has been released!
New Information:
- Team Rainbow Rocket has assembled under Giovanni to bring together the biggest baddies of the last 20 years.
In Pokémon Ultra Sun and Pokémon Ultra Moon, the greatest villainous organization in history appears! It’s Team Rainbow Rocket—made up of the bosses from past titles in the Pokémon series!
The boss of Team Rainbow Rocket is none other than Giovanni, who was also the boss of the villainous organization known as Team Rocket in Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue, the first games in the Pokémon series.
But that’s not the worst of it—Giovanni has gathered into one group the bosses from the various past games in the Pokémon series! You and your allies will have to square off against what might be your greatest challenge yet!
What in the world could Giovanni and his allies be after, appearing in the Alola region so suddenly…?
- New Battle Agency feature allows you to battle using rental teams!
When you don your sunglasses and become an “agent” at this facility, you can take part in Single Battles using rental Pokémon. You’ll have three such Pokémon to command as you try to defeat the three Pokémon in your opponent’s team. Try to win your way to being the best of all the agents!
- Totem Stickers seem to take the place of Zygarde Cells and can be found throughout Alola and ultimately redeemed for totem-like Pokémon!
With Pokémon Ultra Sun and Pokémon Ultra Moon,you’ll be able to collect stickers called Totem Stickers all around Alola. Totem Stickers glitter and shine in the field.
If you collect these Totem Stickers, you’ll be able to get a huge totem-like Pokémon for your team, based on how many stickers you’ve collected. It’ll surely shock your opponents to see you using these oversized totem-like Pokémon in battle!
The totem-like Pokémon that you can get as allies can differ based on whether you’re playing Pokémon Ultra Sun or Pokémon Ultra Moon. For example, you can get Lurantis as an ally in Pokémon Ultra Sun or Salazzle in Pokémon Ultra Moon. Search every corner of the Alola region and collect masses of Totem Stickers!
- Catch lots of Legendary Pokémon depending on your game!
- Pokémon Ultra Sun only: Ho-Oh, Raikou, Groudon, Latios, Dialga, Heatran, Reshiram, Tornadus, Xerneas.
- Pokémon Ultra Moon only: Lugia, Entei, Kyogre, Latias, Palkia, Regigigas, Zekrom, Thundurus, Yveltal.
- Island Scan feature returns with new Pokémon, including Charmander, Grovyle and Greninja!
- Next batch of new Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon information will drop November 9th, 10pm PST (November 10th JST/5am UTC)
What do you think?!
SO COOL! I guess there are more version exclusives than I thought. (Where’s Suicune on the list? In both versions?) I hope they’re not shiny-locked: never really hunted a shiny legendary before.
And there are stickers! Never cared for the Zygarde cells (still gotta finish getting them, because I need the hideous 100% form for completion reasons).
I guess Lysandre *didn’t* die.
I really doubt there are more Alolan forms.
And I get my Poke Ball 2DS tomorrow! So excited!
“Villains” never die!
And Sucuine is in both versions but you need both Raikou and Entei to be able to catch him.
Really? How’d you find out?
But Zygarde complete is awesome
It scares me. Doberman was sorta weird, Matrix Dragon was creepy, Zygarde complete is “kill it with fairies!”
Kill it with ice
Better! 4x weakness!
I hope to god Pokémon Switch is done with the dual versions cuz I’m sick of version exclusives.
I doubt it. They want you to have to trade with other players and stuff (or buy both). But they had BETTER not cost $60 each.
Eh, at this point version exclusives aren’t too much of a problem but if they conveniently disappear you won’t see me complaining
He was pulled from an AU where he won
Would you guys prefer they finish of Kanto Alolans or would you rather USUM had different regions if they do occur?
Whilst I’d prefer multiple regions (seeing as we’re getting more focus on every region thanks to Rainbow Rocket) I can see them just using Kanto again.
Pegasus Rapidash
Make it happen GF
At this point they could do nothing else and I’d be content with life
More regions
Anything that gives us a huge region filled to the brim with never before seen Pokemon
CINCCINO IS CATCHABLE? HAU HAS NOIVERN? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/491db59b7545e0b300ee12eb6d455c357f02ac6242a68ee7a0e8a268303ff876.png I CANT WAIT ANY LONGER LET IT BE THE 17TH ALREADY
YAS
Also is that Lillie battling?
I thought Chichino was confirmed a while ago
That’s a clefairy
Its a double battle, Cinccino is the other mon
Minchino actually
That’s clearly a cinccino it has the white hair
Oh I thought the hair was the tail
Nope Minccino is the pre evo
Hmmm Hau has a Noivern huh? That’s interesting. Cool Pokemon. I used one in my X playthrough. It’ll be interesting to see what other changes to the roster there will be.
‘Why should I buy USUM’
Me:
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UB Adhesive is the only reason anyone needs to buy USUM lol
Meh just some fugly big head
But I am annoyed I can’t get Cellblox in Sun
Then get Ultra Moon
I am but I don’t want it to be my main game
So stop complaining?
Until I catch one with a decent nature
Decent nature? You’re pretending that stony shitt will be able to do anything more than take a rock smash from a mankey
Let him dream haha
Seriously can’t I just try to like something these days without everything constantly reminding me that everything is terrible
Like a pokemon that isn’t trash than
Says the one who likes Bug types
Araquanid exists
So does Volcarona
And Genesect
Not all Pokemon I like are trash ;3
Besides you like Poison types, I’m sure arbok treats you well
I was just saying a lot of them have wasted potential and are in PU/NU, no need to get triggered lol
I really don’t care about competitive anymore but I guess you still think I care for some reason?
I know, I’m not triggered m8
I’m just saying you’re in the same boat
I know I am and I don’t attempt to self validate my opinions with competitive worth? I mean you don’t see anybody give you hell over Masquerain
I know, I just brought it up cause you did
Then why insult something Earthen likes for being bad in comp when tons of the stuff you like is lower tier?
Salt because the mon had potential to be a different type
That’s all :3
LOL
Well said ?
I like Cellbox damn it
I like the look, it’s type is fine by me, I want to see what it can do, it’s probably gonna suck and will rely heavily on Air Balloon but who the eff cares
Jesus
But they made it literally the most bland type
Like…. why? Isn’t the entire point of UBs to be unique in some way?
I don’t care, honestly there’s only like one rock/steel line and it’s Aggrons
And I like rock and steel types
Bastiodon and Probopass but that’s still only four fully evolved Pokémon
It’s as common as Grass/Ghost really and people think that’s original
Reminder: There is only one Grass/Ground
Actually why
I refuse, that piece of bland typed garbage needs to be called out for the wasted potential it had
Why
Because I don’t want to see Lunala when I start my game (nor ride it in ultra space), and I like the sun version exclusives
Based on the prerelease cards from a week or so ago it seems like you’ll be riding Lunala into Ultra Space anyway if you pick Sun. Check the pic out again an look carefuly
I’ll trade you
Deal, but I want it to be either Impish or Relaxed
And I will give you my Komburstion
Modest or Timid
Timid is always the right nature for something like that
Unless it’s physical for some weird reason
It may not have a whole lot of speed that even invested won’t do so much
And by the way did you notice it has pupils on the stars? And if it chucks it’s head does that mean it’s mouth is directly linked to the neck hole?
I don’t think it has a proper mouth because it seems to suck up vitality in a non physical way due to typing and description
Good point it was just a thought
It could be its mouth but I’m not really sure myself XD
I see that because it has to have an eating animation in refresh and I can see it just burning a pokebean or just opening up a hole in its frilly neck
Iirc stuff like Magnemite can still eat in Refresh? So it might not be the best indicator
It’s an Ultra Beast
Trying to understand them is like attempting to swim in fire at this point
Ultra beast or not it still has some discernible physiology and anatomy
I mean Xurkitree
Cluster of tendrils to move, grounding claws in the tips and tail that can “plug” into the ground and absorb electricity and it’s brain, and energy storage might be in that glowing spiky head
But like what act as its arms and legs? Are they the same thing?
…it has legs and arms and a tail all in the appropriate places
I forget that’s a tail
And it walks like a mostly regular abet silly frolicking way
True
I am just trying to establish some sense of biology on these extrademensional creatures, I mean they have working bodies and I wanna learn how they work even if they don’t apply to our laws of science
Nice hacked Combusken
Piss off
You talking about natures as if you already know its stats distribution lol
It doesn’t take a genius to hypothesize that Assembly is a physical wall and Burst a special attacker
“Vikavolt is fast”
It is probably fast compared to a human.
I know I’m just saying apperance doesn’t always effect stats
Inb4 its reversed
Inb4 it’s a special glass Cannon with higher speed than Pheromosa
Harsh!
UB Sticky isn’t the ONLY reason:
Mantine Surf, baby!
Wait i thought they dont have their own personalized area, just this gray room? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2274f78e7d4372a9e6a776a25762953b367042ab36730cdc5ff306eaac3a6a3d.png
I think each room is more or less the same only with minor differences to match the specific Pokemon’s traits
The legends in ORAS had their own locations but a generic background
It’s not surprising
So the only thing from the credible leaks that I’m having a hard time believing is the part in the USUM Wishlist where it says “new Pokes”. New UBs are one thing (which it also stated there would be new ones of) and new Alolan forms almost seem like a given to some degree, but new Pokemon in general seems like a stretch. I don’t think they’d introduce regular new Pokemon part way through a gen. Not at this point. I wish the leak was a bit more specific (as in brand new Pokemon or just new to Alola). That would make it easier to understand. I think USUM would be considered one of the best Pokemon games of all time if it not only had everything we’ve confirmed, but also had brand new Pokemon to boot.
Does Dusk Lycanroc count as a new Pokémon?
No it’s a form like the other 2
I think it’ll just be a new mythical tbh
That could be. I’m just wondering at this point where it’d fit in the list as a whole. While it seems weird that Magearna and Marshadow are the only mythicals to date for Alola it also seems fitting as we have a crap ton of other legendary Pokemon in the games as well. I just don’t know at this point.
Fingere crossed by new Pokes they also mean “new evolutions” for pre Gen Pokemon.
New information on the 10th? Its happening https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d3101c4543d1ac9ac5101ccec0496c309ce03b6dfb51e952bfceb7c98f0ac48f.png
Nice fan art bruh. But seriously yeah I think the 10th will have Necrozma’s final form and FINALLY show off the new Alolan forms.
All the evil teams in one? Sounds like 12-year old me’s wet dream. Something a kid making a fan game would’ve created. Honestly, I’m concerned about how this is going to play out.
Battle factory thingy!! It’s not a fronier but it’s progess!
Catchable totems are neat, not much more to say.
Overall pretty heavy news, but there’s a nagging part of me that is worried about RR. Seems to throw all continuity and to an extent, reason, out the window. :/
Sunny has now fused with Soliera to form Sunnyliera.
Make that Sunniera. Sunnyliera is too much of a mouthful.
*Cough*
I kind of wish they had used ORAS Maxie and Archie. I prefer their designs from those games than their original designs……..
Their newer designs are just so much better. I think there is certainly a reason why they chose those designs
Since this is post-game, I am guessing that Team RR took advantage of the mess made by the dimensional traveling Necrozma in the main story and invaded our world/timeline.
I also prefer the redesigns, especially Archies’. If they include admins the ORAS versions are better too.
Original designs suit the series celebration and theories better, but the newer designs are way better
Aren’t they from a parallel universe, where they all reached their goals (aka won) and therefore never came into conflict with the PC of their respective games?
And they came to our world to only be beaten by another 10/11 year old. I fear that this may be the inescapable destiny of all adults and not just villainous leaders.
Wait, so we have three now?
We had Mega timeline, and non mega timeline. These designs are from the former, and we have mega evolution.
Because screw continuity
There’s pretty much Infinite time lines
That’s the point. 1 timeline is perfect. 2 is fine. Any more than that is too many.
Side note, they didn’t have to create a new one for megas. Why couldn’t they just have said that megas were a recently discovered phenomenon?
I mean it was bound to happen since they introduced time and space travel all the way back in Gen 2
Idk man its in the 4chan leaks which says that these versions of the evil teams have all won and Giovanni summoned them to Alola to conquer the world
That makes it even worse, now have at least three, probably four (an unknown timeline where RR comes to be but no megas).
Hang on but that’s not possible
Ghetsis and Lysander couldn’t exist because Cyrus destroyed the existing universe while creating the new one
It’s mostly like several parallel universes where they succeed, because Maxie and Archie can’t have their goals happen at the same time
I still think the craziest announcement of today was “regigigas is exclusive to UM
Yo i’m finally getting my boi Regigigas through legitimate methods instead of using a cheat on emulator
Wait seriously?
Never got it in gen 4 & then i took a break from Pokemon until late 2012 so when i came back i sorta forgot about all that lol
Didn’t you have ORAS?
I have ORAS but as i said i dont have the Regi trio in any of my games, so i dont have Regigigas either
Hmmm
It should be in both and linked to the other Regi, it’s so strange to not do that.
Yeah it’s really friggin weird tbh…
I agree with that, I would have expected it to be Cresselia since its counterpart is Heatran.
Isn’t Cresselia’s counterpart Darkrai?
Actually why is Darkrai even a mythical?
Think about it in this way. Cresselia is loosely associated with the moon and Heatran might as well be related to the sun in comparison.
Hmmm…
I dunno.. I really don’t know if I’m on board with it but it makes way more sense than Regigigas Heatran
So the only thing still missing from the infamous USUM wishlist that hasnt been confirmed yet, is the grass/poison gen 1 Alolan form & Molayne in the E4.
I’d like it if the E4 was all non Kahunas/Captains tbh :0
Molayne! I liked that guy.
There are no new Alolan mons. And eh I am not sure about Molayne. Maybe.
Another question
The only Kahuna we haven’t seen on a battle screen is Nanu
So like even though he’s fighting Guzzlord he hasn’t been literally confirmed as a Kahuna
Does this mean anything?
We also see Kahili in a cave.
Where she belongs
Never to see the light again
Beat her to death with her own golf club
Use her Skarmories wings to stab her
She has a Toucannon
Show no mercy
I’m more annoyed about her….special crobat….
Supersonic hits every damn time
Why didn’t she teach it Confuse Ray?
I don’t want to talk about it XD
Getting style tips from Alolan Dugtrio.
Your dream E4 for USUM?
Mine is
Plumeria
Molayne
Kahili
New character
Not Ryuki tho because in sick of Dragon E4s lol
Plumeria
Olivia
Mina
Nanu
Ryuki
Molayne
Guzma
Wicke (as an Ice specialist)
Why the hell would Wicke be an ice specialist
She would use normal types if anything
No fairy types like Swirlix and Spritzee because she’s so sweet
Truee
And Faba is soooo Psychic looking
I mean he kinda is imo? And it fits his personality
His personality makes it make sense though?
Nothing about Wicke leads to Ice. She is a warm loving sweet sweater mom
Then I’m going back to my ”Lillie is an Ice specialist” theory (even tho it might be wrong, we double battle someone with an ally using Clefairy)
I’m assuming she’s Ice/Fairy
So basically Star-chan is in the game
I mean everything about Lillie’s design is Ice. In anime her only mon is an Ice type (and Anime also suggests she’s related to Ice type few times)
Her mon also becomes part fairy, the Pokémon she’s portrayed with most is Clefairy
I dunno if GF would do a double type specialist. One theory would be that there’s a Fairy/Ice Alolan Clefable so Lillie’s a specialist in the end, but we all know that won’t happen
I mean in general I doubt she’ll be a type specialist
Her team will probably be cute/beautiful
Like her mother’s
Cept probably cuter
She was shown with an icy background once and it’s because she was being cold towards her mother.
Almost every time Kiawe has something like that it’s Fire related. The animation crew know what they’re doing.
Clefairy is not ice
Also it’s VERY likely that secondary battler with a clefairy is Lillie
Yeah, that’s the only problem I see with my theory.
The difference being it happens far more frequently with Kiawe and he’s already been established as a fire specialist
I personally hope ghost or fire so she could use a Litwicke
That would be wicked
– Kneecaps kid
– The two female Skull Grunts who were fighting over the Skull Tanks (counts as one)
– One of those old NPC guys who wear shorts pulled up too high and knee socks with sandals (he has a Zekrom for no reason)
– The female swimmer who hides Poke Balls in her bikini somehow (she’s in a pool when you meet her)
Or maybe the guy in the Machamp costume, and he uses only fairy types, including a level 96 Cutiefly
Plumeria (post redemption)
New Characters
OR we fight 4 people with balanced teams; it’d be way harder
I’d be fine with that if we replace Kahili with … someone random
Guzma
Actually yes
Olivia and Hala can stay. I don’t mind if they replace Kahili and the Ghost captain with someone new like Molayne
Kahili is one of the first trailers too where i think she was outside Ten Carat Hill. Maybe she has some role in the main story too
Plumeria for E4? Ugh
Wait
Archie and Maxie won’t have Megas
Their designs are from the non mega timeline
1. Invade this timeline
2. Steal Mega stones
3. Profit
We’ve never seen Giovanni with a legendary or Mewtwo
Things change. Giovanni could’ve given them Stones.
If the legendary Pokemon are shiny locked I’ll be really https://media.giphy.com/media/3oAt21Fnr4i54uK8vK/giphy.gif
Speaking of a shiny legends, I wonder what shiny Necrozma’s forms will look like :0
Red light probably.
YO WHEN ARE WE GETTING BLOOD MOON LUNALA DISTRIBUTED?
Gen 8 when the re-release every legend they will remove the shiny lock on Lunala
We got shiny Resh/Zek and Yvel/Xern at points so it’s defo inevitable
I have to be honest, I’m not the biggest fan of Faba being the real villain of Aether
Faba’s role in SM was way too small so im glad he’s getting more attention now.
I am too but like… I wish it wasn’t so obvious … like when Aether was revealed, people took one look at Faba and was like “this is an evil team”
I bet in the 11/10 batch, we’ll hopefully see something new like new Pokemon
Yup. Alolan mons, UBs, maybe new Tapu forms!
Idk where this is, but the background is beautiful :3 https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f0251da1da6b9a4f8b19d051989582e1dce58c323474e67678d5cd823d86a99c.jpg
Brock’s Gym because you’re light years away from facing him
No, it’s not far enough.
True true
I noticed that too. Graphics look well polished. Alola ain’t playing games!
Seems like the Celesteela one. Pretty background for a pretty Pkm x3
Celesteelas looked a lot more destroyed
I’m placing my bests on guzzlord or a new UB
This is Celesteela’s https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/da3db4d94db881bbf02d303925b8f4bf1c70338aceb9e7a8413dbf55d6bb2f93.jpg
Oh, that’d mean that the one before was from Guzzlord’s
They both look incredible nonetheless
Since you’re light years away it’s possible that the mascot legends move through portals faster than the speed of light ….
Both are slower than purugly
Wormholes.
But if they’re like hyperspeed or something….
They connect 2 points in space creating a corridor between them, they don’t need to travel fast through them. It’s like folding a piece of paper to get to the other side instead of travelling the full distance I think.
I wish that wasn’t true… cause yknow
Or distance works differently in ultra space
I really hope it doesn’t just for the idea of light speed puruglies existing
The portals helped them
What if the portal is a purugly
Sinnoh confirmed then
What if all of Sinnoh is just a giant purugly
It’d become the worst region
Wait no it already is oooooooooohhhI think you’re thinking about Kalos
Sinnoh is the region that’s poorly paced with actual a terrible type spread with a good story that’s the only real redeemable factor besides frontier
My prediction for Lillie’s team:
As an Ice Specialist
AloNinetales
Glaceon
AloSandslash
Lapras (Maybe)
Crabominable (Maybe)
Not as an Ice specialist
Clefable
AloNinetales
Minior
Oranguru (Maybe)
Comfey (Maybe)
Bewear (Maybe)
Quit pushing the damn ice type on her, the only reason you or anyone thinks this because they gave her an Alolan Vulpix, which is just to push merch and to go with her white outfit
Totem Ribombee. Yes or no?
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It does look big but that could just be an overworld thing.
No, it’s about the size of the players head so I imagine it would need to be bigger
It’s only 8 inches big normally
But I imagine the player’s head isn’t that much more than that size
It’s like the size of a player head and nearly a whole other considering the rest of its legs and antennae
Hmmmm
Personally I don see it being one because Acerola
Or maybe they added eight trials or something
I dunno
I mean
It’s confirmed Mina has a Trial
Either the Kommo one isn’t there or we have 8 of them
Kommo-o is still there, we have eight
How do we know that?
The Japanese trailer I’ve been on about all day? :p
I mean I think there might be eight
I’d like if it was eight so we don’t have Mina Kommo-O again
Unless the ghost totem changes Mina’s and Acerola’s totems are gonna share a type anyway
What other Alolan Ghost mon could be a Totem in an abandoned Super Market?
Dhelmise ;3
-Thrift Market! Now introducing our new Anker lineup!
Decidueye if they’re willing to use starters, and if they make the store even more broke down or put a sand box in randomly I can see Palossand
It is near a beach so Palossand would make sense.
Black sand beach too, imagine how cool a totem Palossand would look :0
*shiny
<3
True ….that’s weird
It already shares a type with Totem Marowak too
Nuuuu…
Aren’t totems supposed to be intimidating? 😛
Is totem Mimikyu intimidating tho?
Does this look like the face of mercy?
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KIILLLLL ITTT
I’m not sure
It Looks like a Totem encounter
Tho I dunno bout the size
But again it’s Bigger than regular Ribombee probably
If I had to decide, i’d say yes
Hapu’s Mudsdale is Level 54 in USUM, 6 levels more than SuMo
Could indicate a steeper levelling curve even before the Altar
Only one thing… it’s implied post game legends are level 60 and that Lysander is level 65
That means the last part of the game has like a 5-7 level radius to work with
Post Game RR leaders were shown with Pokémon at level 65, so we can assume the Champion will have Pokémon of a slightly lower level than them.
Kukui’s highest in SuMo is 58 so if it’s the same raise Hapu has then it’d be 62, which means it’d be the right kinda range for the post game episode
*64 actually wow
LOL I’m dumb
except im going to assume post game pokemon will be level 70+ because i doubt whole heartedly RR is post game material wouldnt make any sense whatsoever that it is because then we have 0 conflict for the main part of the game plus this whole game is supposed to be double the length of SM
Double the script of USUM, its length was never revealed.
no double the script of SM which is a total of roughly if you read everything 40 hours of game play so about 20 of script
tobefairitslikelyfabaandthereconsquadareyourconflict
no its not
no one knows if RR is post game …. it never said and i have my money on it not being post game as we dont even have a reason for the box art legendary to exist yet
Would that mean new areas between the two?
it would mean like ive been saying that RR isnt post game
But RR’s positioning compared to Hapu’s level is irrelevant unless they’re before her (super unlikely)
aether foundation was before hapu in the SM if team rocket is now the new main villian after forcing aether out it stands to reason it will take that spot of being before
But we know that some version of the aether plot happens because we’ve seen it through all the trailers
RR are lv60+ so that would mean that the league is 70-ish? Nah thats not happening unless its rematches
really not happening huh im going to point this out in x and y the E4 levels in the high 60’s the e4 levels were lowered in sun and moon because t was a peaceful environment the general problem in that game was one person so the kahuna didnt really need to intervene. now against 6 people who have each dominated their own region before storming into alola the E4 would have a reason to have stronger pokemon. usually goes hand in hand the stronger the villian the stronger the E4
Headcanon that all the Rainbow Rocket Grunts thought they were signing up to perform in a pride parade and they are all very confused… but maybe I just want the male Grunts to be gay