SPOILER: First Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon Leaks [UPD 6]

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WARNING! SPOILERS AHEAD! WARNING!

Users across the internet have begun posting images and information they claim to be extracted from the digital versions of Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon.

Although we do not plan to cover major spoilers in the form of images from leaks this early, here’s what we know about USUM so far:

POKÉMON

  • There are no new Alolan Forms
  • UB: Adhesive evolves into Naganadel via level up with Dragon Pulse. Changing from pure Poison to Poison/Dragon upon evolution. A fast special attacker
  • New Pokémon/Ultra Beast names are as follows:
    • Poipole (UB: Adhesive) // Poison-type
    • Naganadel (UB: Adhesive evolution) // Poison/Dragon-type
    • Stakataka (UB: Assembly) // Rock/Steel-type
    • Blacephalon (UB: Burst) // Fire/Ghost-type
    • Zeraora (Mythical Legendary) // Electric-type, Fast and offensive with 600 BST

MOVES

  • Mimikyu’s Z-Move is called Snuggle Forever // Physical, Fairy-type, 190
  • Plasma Fists – “The user attacks with electrically charged fists. This move changes Normal-type moves to Electric-type moves”

OTHER

  • Some music has leaked from the games, but we won’t be posting it here
  • Ultra Space encounters aren’t shiny locked
  • This has already been hinted at throughout pre-release, but it’s been confirmed that the worlds you visit via the Ultra Space have humans within them, and most can be battled
  • Shiny hunters rejoice! The only things shiny locked are Necrozma, Solgaleo, Lunala, the Tapus, and gift Pokémon other than Poipole (highlight to view). All Ultra Space encounters are not shiny locked

MAJOR SPOILERS (Highlight to View)

  • Necrozma has a third form called Ultra Necrozma. It transforms into this third form after using it’s Z-Move as Dusk Mane/Dawn Wings Necrozma in battle
  • You battle Hau instead of Kukui for your first battle as Champion
  • Team Rainbow Rocket’s objective is to rule the universe and build an army of Ultra Beasts
  • Ash appears in the game code along side other NPCs, and may appear in game
  • You are gifted a Pikachu that knows Surf for getting the top rank in all four Surf Spots. The NPC that gives it to you has a Pikachu that knows Fly
  • The Kahunas in USUM are the same as in Sun & Moon
  • The Elite Four in USUM consists of Hala, Olivia, Acerola, and Molayne
  • The trials in USUM are the same as in Sun & Moon, except it adds on Mina’s Fairy Trial, and one “unknown” one (according to the game’s code)
  • Mohn returns to the Aether Paradise
  • Marowak, Araquanid, Togedemaru, and Ribombee are the new Totem Pokémon. The former three replace Salazzle, Wishiwashi and Vikavolt respectively
  • You get Poipole as an in-game gift Pokémon

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  4. Competitive Pokemon number 2!: Stakataka
    There’s over 103 Pokemon that have been introduced throughout gen 7 so far. (One probably won’t be out until next year but eh). Out of all of them, including niche Pokemon like Komala and other strange members of the generation, UB assembly, aka, Stakataka, manages to be one of the worse. No.. seriously… this thing is on part with regice, that takes SKILL to be that useless….
    Regardless, if you look far enough… this mon has a MINOR use in doubles

    The moveset you’d run to get ANYTHING out of this mon is this

    -Gyro Ball (This Pokemon actually hits surprisingly hard for something that has defenses like it does. Essential.
    – Toxic (for them nice whittles yo)
    – Protect (This is basically essentially on doubles mons really. More important if paired with Azelf)
    -Skill swap (Oddly it gets this from move tutor. This move defines the set)
    -Alternatively Infestation can be run instead of one of the other non essential moves if ya wanna be a dick

    Now why Skill swap? Because Beast boost is next to useless on this thing. It would pair well with either an Exeggutor/Trevenant or Azelf. Why these? Well
    1. They have harvest, an ability that if given to Stakboi, baaasically makes it invulnerable with the right berry.
    2. Azelf gives Levitate which eliminates any risk of it getting killed by a 4x weak earthquake.
    3. They get beast boost, an ability a better (or at least not as shitty) mon can utilize
    In return it gives them Beast boost. While it makes the harvest mons a lot stronger, this would make Azelf downright TERRIFYING. So as your little blue menance is tearing the enemy team piece by piece or as your tree begins to buff itself slowly, you spam gyros and your supportive moves to be a general piece of human garbage. This allows it to carve an extremely niche yet strange role within doubles. There’s easily a gazillion better options but this one is just kinda fun and the fact that this thing is basically useless in 99% of other occasions isn’t a good sign.

    If you think of any more skill swap partners, lemme know

    Next Up: Naganadel

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    • I mean if I ever run it

      Impish 252def 126 hp 126 spdef
      Gyro Ball/zero idea it got infestation which I like using
      Toxic
      Protect
      Magnet Rise is also a move

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      • Won’t work, trust me.
        This is basically the best way to run it. Your set currently basically lets it do nothing. The way you’re running it would require recovery. Just run Brave, the thing has high enough defense already

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    • Ummm…im guessng you are basing this on doubles but even so I personally see a TR set as being more useful (considering it gets TR itself as well). It can also counter TR since it outslows the likes of Torkoal.

      Toxic Stalling isn’t really a great strategy in doubles considering how fast paced it is. Using Wide Guard to avoid EQ and Rock Slide off that high attack stat would also be more useful in doubles.

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  6. “Lillipup: This Pokémon has excellent judgment. If it decides it can’t defeat an opponent, it immediately turns tail and vamooses.”
    W H A T

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  8. Naganadel’s actual ingame model looks SO GOOD

    And as much as I’m hating to admit it, I’m actually growing to like Ultra Necrozma a fair bit.

    Furry boi is still terrible though

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  9. I have a feeling I’ll be disappointed by the answer, but do we finally get to go into areas such as the golf course and that one light house in these games?

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  10. Sliggoo: It crawls along sluggishly. The swirly protrusion on its back is filled with its brain and other organs.

    Anatomy!?

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  14. Gastrodon(East): When it’s attacked, it gushes a purple liquid that’s not poisonous but makes Gastrodon’s meat bitter and inedible.
    Gastrodon… has… meat?

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  15. Tyranitar(Mega): Due to the colossal power poured into it, this Pokémon’s back split right open. Its destructive instincts are the only thing keeping it moving.

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  16. Mantine: Postcards and posters featuring Mantine leaping elegantly above the waves are popular souvenirs of Alola.

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  17. Ampharos: The light from its tail can be seen from space. This is why you can always tell exactly where it is, which is why it usually keeps the light off.
    Ampharos(Mega): Excess energy from Mega Evolution stimulates its genes, and the wool it had lost grows in again.

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  18. WHY WAS THIS NOT AN ALOLAN
    Paras: Whether it’s due to a lack of moisture or a lack of nutrients, in Alola the mushrooms on Paras don’t grow up quite right.

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    • Don’t get excited, the mushrooms aren’t physically changing or paras either, it’s just that the Tochukaso aren’t growing properly but not so much they cause immense change in physiology, I mean mushrooms need cold wet decomposing areas to thrives and alola is just too warm and sunny

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    • Dude…..don’t get me started. I’ve come to terms with the lack of new Alolan forms and I just need to gets passed it…….I may still be stewing over it tho…..

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        • It’s not enough to justify a form. Apparently some Pokémon have more vivid colours or are different sizes in other regions. It’s a minor difference but it’s the same type of that Pokémon

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      • I have a feeling, and I have had this for a while when I heard about Blacephelon-it was actually one of the images that the Chinese Riddler used for the SM leak season but now we are finally seeing it in USUM. It is probably the same case for Oddish and Paras. The other team has already made these regional forms, it is just that they are saving them for the next generation on the Switch. Remember, every generation needs to pander to Gen I in some way-Gen V being the exception to the rule.

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          • It is true that other people used them to their advantage. But I am saying that this is a similar case because the Riddler backed up the Alolan Oddish one along with everything else that turned out right. He already has credibility from last season, and he got everything else right. It makes the most sense for him to back up this seemingly incorrect piece of info if it is reserved for the next generation.

    • Whilst I do think Paras should’ve got an Alolan, this doesn’t really mean anything for an Alolan. Its plant may not have optimum growth, but if it still works as intended it won’t change much.

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      • Exactly, unless something causes a direct change to Paras’s body or the shrooms so much that it needs to change to survive
        Like introduction of a new predator (unless the shrooms just live off the predator, then it’s just paras being hunted)
        Or a new species of mushrooms growing on paras that do not indulge in parasitism and actually benefits paras

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  19. I wonder if we’ll actually get a new trailer tonight. They took down that notice, but it’d be weird for them to hype one up and then completely retract it. Obviously we already technically have all the info from the games, but it’d be interesting to see which things they were gonna reveal past before the reveal

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      • i doubt it. nintendo was aware someone was going to leak the game so probably told the pokemon company pull your trailer until tuesday as for corocoro its probably nothing new as corocoro hasnt had the legends thing in it.

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          • except your forgetting we rarely got news for this at all. the reason being peopled leaking the full game last year and with what ive seen in spoilers this one is heavy story focused. also nintendo has a habit of removing trailers sometimes before they even come out.

      • Well if it’s in CoroCoro then it would have been anyway. They don’t make changes like that as quick as a few days. Either way I guess it doesn’t matter since the games have leaked. The most we can hope for now is just official art

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  20. Since im getting both games and attempting to use pokemon that I haven’t used before… I haven’t used Litten yet. Objective opinions on it please lol

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    • It takes a bit of getting used to from it going from fast attacker to the bulkiest Alola starter, and until you get Flare Blitz (or Fire Punch, thanks USUM) it honestly feels more like a pure Dark-type.

      It’s also the hardest starter to use purely against bosses, it has bad matchups with all the Kahunas and only has a good match up with Lurantis and arguably Mimikyu. However, the Elite 4 in USUM is more forgiving to it than the one in SuMo.

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      • Kind of sounds like Brionne evolving into Primarina. Felt like a struggle just to make her useful. Does Litten / Torracat learn any good moves that’ll last til it evolves into Incin?

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        • Nope, I guess Leech Life but that’s a TM move. Fire Fang I guess until you get something better but Inci gets all its good stuff by tutors and TMs

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          • It’s only really depressing until you get to Elite 4, I really enjoyed my Inci there

            It gets Drain Punch in USUM via tutor, and one of its moveslots should be dedicated to a stat booster (SD or Bulk Up)

          • Did they find out where the move tutor in USUM is or is it in the same place as SM? I’ve been trying more on this gen to work on coverage, abilities, natures and movesets based on stats.

      • Really? I thought Deci was the worst against most bosses and kahunas. If anything I thought Inci was the best against the bosses.

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        • Yeah Deci gave me a problem against most bosses. TBH it was rarely the first pokemon in my party and I used it in emergency cases. *Although I will say despite its shortcomings it was a rather reliable pokemon on my Sun team*

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        • Flying beats Fighting
          Grass beats Rock/Flying weak to Rock
          Ghost weak to Dark
          Grass beats Ground

          Grass beats Water
          Grass weak to Fire
          Flying beats Grass
          Grass resists Electric, neutral to Bug
          Ghost is neutral as Dartrix vs Ghost, but Deci is weak to the fast Ghosts in the trial
          Deci is immune To Kommo-o’s Fighting, has Flying moves to beat it, and has a high special defense

          It’s even better against Fighting and Rock in the Elite 4 thanks to ghost, it’s dicey with Ghost and it’s weak to Flying

          It’s easier than Litten purely from a type perspective

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          • I was thinking against Acerola’s Palossand and Drifblim it could do good but I didn’t use mine for her so I’m not sure 😡

          • Well I had Deci, Riombee, Toucannon, Salazzle, Mudsdale and Bewear so I had other pokemon to use when Deci couldn’t handle it but I think my Deci was only able to take out Palossand.

          • From a type perspective maybe, but it has so many weaknesses that the bosses use, and it is the weaker offenses, so it can do as much in return.

          • EV training if you spend the time doing that or grinding the game is easy enough to do a solo play-through with any pokemon

  22. I have this gut feeling just a feeling we still havent seen everything from these games it just feels like something is missing that should be there. Not sure what but something is missing

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  25. So I’m going to experiment with many different Kommo-o builds and once USUM comes out,

    I need to decide if Special or Physical is the best choice and paired with the better buff: DDance, Bulk Up, Clangorous Soulblaze, Choice, Automize, Belly Drum

    Physical is looking better since Drain Punch and Close-Combat is just too good to avoid and Iron Head and Poison Jab gives it a chance to fight back Fairies

    But the luxury of a Special Fighting type is nice but lacks decent moves, Clanging Scales, Focus Blast, Flamethrower Flash Cannon and any of the HPs is all you’d ever see

    Or the rare Mixed Sweeper because I can easily see Skarmory just stalling if it’s not carrying Flamethrower

    But to pull this off it needs a buff to speed otherwise it’s vulnerable, so I’d definitely need a Sticky Web to help it,

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