Pokemon Sun and Moon are out! Alola, MoTK!

[Phasm]

Speaking of Type NULL, i hope they make it so that you can't capture it anywhere, and the only way to get it would be throught events or maybe somehow Gladion would give it to you. It wouldn't make sense for there to be thousands of these chimeras who have the power of a legendary pokemon walking around route 1 or something like that. Having only 1 of them would make Type NULL more unique.

[Bio]

They can just have it be a only one capture in its own area.

[Phasm]

Tomorow we will get a new trailer, lets see what we might get...
Probably Alolan Grimer reveal and Janmo-o evolutions and Type NULL, same as Corocoro.

[ふねん1]

Tomorow we will get a new trailer, lets see what we might get...
Probably Alolan Grimer reveal and Janmo-o evolutions and Type NULL, same as Corocoro.

Indeed those are correct, plus some additional reveals, including Technicolor Alolan Muk, the two evolutions of Bounsweet (Steenee and Tsareena), that alleged evolution of Cutiefly that was seen in an earlier Japanese trailer (Ribombee), the formal reveal of Ilima (a Normal-type Trial Captain), and even the Kahuna of Akala Island (Rock-type specialist Olivia). Still nothing too out of the ordinary here, a decent set of info to lead us into the demo coming in half a week.

Also can I just say they're really playing up the idea of Type: Null and Silvally being

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an artificial Arceus

? Even the name of the latter's ability kinda gives it away

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(RKS=Arceus anyone?)

. I can't be the only one who suspects these two are gonna be important to the story somehow, likely as a one-of-a-kind mon because of their very nature.

[MatsuriSakuragi]

holy shit that first song in the trailer is SO GOOD i hope it shows up often in the game

also steenee is adorable aaaaaa

so is ribombee please don't suck i want a good bee

[The Greatest Dog]

Re: Silvally

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I'm really glad that Silvally is so similar to Arceus. If I recall correctly, Arceus has never really been expanded upon or talked about in its history, but now we know that humans have taken this divine inspiration, done some really controversial things by putting parts of various Pokes together, and actually managed to pull it off.

I think it mirrors Mewtwo and Mew, and I agree that Silvally should be very significant in the story.

[Phasm]

Which is why i am worried that a chimera who has the power matching that of legendaries might be caught in the wild and isn't part of a special event or occurence ingame, it just really takes the WOW factor of Type NULL and Silvally and throw it in the garbage since you could potntially have as manny as you want, it also diminishes Type NULL and Gladion's potential relanshionship.

[Mеа]

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oh man, the type:null -> sylvally thing is really spooky. With type:null you have this thing that literally looks like it's being held together with that wooden contraption thing on it's head so it won't fall apart, but then it evolves and hey, everything sticks together like glue! You have this artificial thing that's a flustercuck of random bits of whatever pokemon, but feed it enough exp and it evolves into an 'actual' individual mon. Kinda creepy if you ask me, about the nature of pokemon and evolution in general.

[Drake]

All of this music oh my god the BASS aaaaaaaaaaa

The first song is almost definitely Gladion's theme. In that case I hope he shows up a lot.

[BT]

That first song reminds me a lot of BW2 music where they just add a bunch of synth sounds in the background but, like, there isn't really anything that stands out about it. Can't make everyone happy, I guess.

Hakamo-o >>>> Kommo-o. What a cluttermon.

[Bio]

Apparent data-mined stats for Ash-Greninja: 72-145-67-153-71-132.
That's a pretty powerful frog.

Battle Bond lets it transform when it knocks out an opponent. That extra 10 speed lets it matchup well against Darkrai, Mewtwo {X} and Talonflame (with the now special Water Shuriken).

It's pretty comparable to Deoxys normal form now.

[Phasm]

People have found the final starter evolutions in the demo. It seems the leaks were right after all, so this means badass Rowlet, Beautiful Poplio, and... the 5th fire figthing starter ladies and gentlement they did it again!

https://twitter.com/TKOWL/status/788259326603431936/photo/1

[Jq1790]

Wait types were confirmed too?  I had heard that despite the pose it was actually Fire/Dark instead...Please let that be the case instead of ANOTHER Fr/Ft.  Please.

;_;

[Phasm]

Still its riddiculous the fact Litten becomes bipedal, i swear every fire starter becomes bipedal at some point, its like a curse. But thank god we have a badass grass starter... the grass types only have 2 badasses out of 7 ( Treeko and Rowlet )

[MatsuriSakuragi]

yyyyyyyyyyyep sold on popplio

[commandercool]

Playing the demo now.

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Lol wtf Team Skull's animations.

PROFESSOR KUKUI YOU DUNCE, FOCUS BLAST IS A SPECIAL MOVE SO A MACHAMP USING IT WOULDN'T EVEN HIT THAT HARD. GOD. Or maybe he's just making fun of me?

I really like the menu design and stuff. It's thematic without feeling completely over the top. Not subtle exactly, but nicely balanced I think.

Not sure what I think of the UI thing that tells you whether or not moves will be effective. I guess it's fine, right? Cutting down on memorization required isn't bad.

Ooh, we get to see how totem Pokemon work! Looks like they get a modest stat boost and can summon allies. Looks like you don't have to take out the allies to KO the totem Pokemon, and they don't seem particularly strong (at least in the demo) but it's got potential.

Was kind of hoping there would be a chance to like, actually see Greninja's ability, but the demo only lets you fight one thing at a time. Oh well.

Yeah, that was fine. Basically nothing happened, but seeing the stuff was nice I guess. BRING ON THE REAL GAME!

[ふねん1]

Not even past our first encounter with Team Skull and they're already laying on the bone-related puns. I hereby dub thee Team Sans. :V

Anyway, finished the main story of the demo, though I'll save the "post-game" stuff for later. Pretty basic introduction to the game, but seems solid enough. Still can't wait for the full release! Also according to Serebii.net, the next batch of info will be revealed on October 27th, so stay tuned for that!

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Was kind of hoping there would be a chance to like, actually see Greninja's ability, but the demo only lets you fight one thing at a time. Oh well.

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You can kill the summoned Pokemon during the Totem Hakamo-o fight to trigger it. I want to say there'll be times in the post-game you can do it too, judging from the trailer that introduced Ash-Greninja, but don't quote me on that. Still have to do the rest of the demo first lol.

[commandercool]

Not even past our first encounter with Team Skull and they're already laying on the bone-related puns. I hereby dub thee Team Sans. :V

Anyway, finished the main story of the demo, though I'll save the "post-game" stuff for later. Pretty basic introduction to the game, but seems solid enough. Still can't wait for the full release! Also according to Serebii.net, the next batch of info will be revealed on October 27th, so stay tuned for that!

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You can kill the summoned Pokemon during the Totem Hakamo-o fight to trigger it. I want to say there'll be times in the post-game you can do it too, judging from the trailer that introduced Ash-Greninja, but don't quote me on that. Still have to do the rest of the demo first lol.

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Oh right, that's... Weird. I did do that and I don't recall it triggering. Maybe I just missed it somehow?

Also didn't know anything about a "postgame". How does that work now?

[Think Komachi with a Rifle]

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Oh right, that's... Weird. I did do that and I don't recall it triggering. Maybe I just missed it somehow?

Also didn't know anything about a "postgame". How does that work now?

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The demo has a few things open up after the end of its plot
there are at least 3 trainer battles with multiple pokemon. Also a load of character saying things like come and help me with X in Y days

Also try to spin on the spot when walking  or mashing B whilst moving.

[Jq1790]

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You can go catch Pokemon if you go to a certain area in Ten-Carat Hill as well during the "postgame".  Catch at least 3 and you get a Nugget which can be sent to the full game later.

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Go to the south area of town(near a Slowpoke blockade) and talk to a girl in a hoodie there; she'll take you somewhere you can acquire some Stardusts, also transferable.  I was amused by the "character" who gives em to you, if he can even be called such.

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1 milllion PokeDollar vending machine?  Geez, how loaded do they think their customers ARE!?

[Lishy1]

I haven't gotten a chance to play the demo yet. What are people's impressions?

[Jq1790]

Seems fun.  Team skull are a bunch of goofballs and will be hilarious.

The OP Greninja made it hard to get a real feel for much else though.

[Hikarin]

Well, I can't exactly say that I like having to press A to open doors now, but that's not too bad. Sun's walking animation looks dumb. That aside, it's pretty cool.

The people in the Alola region actually seem like people who live in Hawaii, and the new interface is really intuitive. You can no longer use the D-Pad to move (or so it seems, unless there's movement stuff like in XY), but I never really used it anyways. Kukui doesn't seem like a professor, and that is cool by me. I kinda lol'd when he said he lets himself get hit by moves to gauge their strength, especially since he has abs to prove it. That's about as far as I've gotten in the demo. For the most part it's impressed me.

[Suikama]

Who needs a bike when you got motherfukin TAUROS

[Hikarin]

Seems legit Rotom is automatically in the PokeFinder; you don't have to work for it.


Also Pok?mon Snap 2 is this game.

[ふねん1]

Yeah, it's just a demo, so there's not a ton to go off of. Given the series and who's behind it, you kinda expect the gameplay to work properly and stuff lol. I also don't really like having to press A to open doors, and I noticed the HP bars drop slower than they do in Gen 6, which is still throwing me off a bit (though it looks like they still drop over a set amount of time like in Gen 6, so there's that). The characters and the game world itself are gonna be the big attractions this time around, but of course a demo like this would only give you a small taste of those. The next month of waiting is gonna be a killer.

[Hikarin]

So I got a Z-Move. All I can say about this game now is this:

Pok?mon: The Last Airbender: Snap Edition.

[Raikaria]

People have found the final starter evolutions in the demo. It seems the leaks were right after all, so this means badass Rowlet, Beautiful Poplio, and... the 5th fire figthing starter ladies and gentlement they did it again!

https://twitter.com/TKOWL/status/788259326603431936/photo/1

While I don't care about leaks or trust them until confirmed [It could even be GF trolling; these look rather low-quality]; I will say that Litten 2's bio on the pokemon website that I posted before pretty much screams 'FIGHTING TYPE' so Fire/Fighting was all but confirmed already.

Also it's #4; not #5. Blaziken; Infernape; Emboar.

But if Litten is indeed Fire/Fighting I can automatically see it being the least popular starter because literally the entire older fanbase will flip out. Personally I won't pick it either because I don't want to play some stat-rearrangement of Blaziken again.

And that's saying something when there is such a feminine-designed pokemon [if the leaks are true] that is only 12.5% female since it's a starter and every male kid won't be seen dead using it.

So... yeah. Rowlet wins? I think this might be the first time ever that the Grass-type starter is the most popular. Usually it's the least popular...

Oh wait Snivy probobly won Gen 5. I always forget that because unless you go Oshawott you box your starter by Gym 3 because Tepig and Snivy are both completely and totally outclassed by that point [Petilil and Darumaka]; and honestly the Gen 5 starters all suck not design-wise but batle-wise [And unlike Gen 2 where the level curve is so flat and grinding is a chore because wilds are hilariously underleveled; it's easy to Audino grind a replacement in B/W]

[Hikarin]

Seeing that, I actually kinda want to soft reset for Popillo. Originally I wanted to use Rowlet because fanart, but this changes things to be honest.

[Lishy1]

My first impressions... For once, I'm very confident in the story of Pokemon.Between what I'm seeing, and what I've been spoiled, I think this has the potential to be the best Pokemon storyline so far. Super hyped.

Nintendo confirmed Ultra beasts are catchable.

http://www.polygon.com/2016/10/18/13323138/pokemon-sun-and-moon-catch-ultra-beasts-theory

This solidifies my choice for Moon. I want the UB-02 Moon Beauty Succubus thing.

It is said that any Pok?mon that sees UB-02 Beauty, regardless of its own gender, will become infatuated with it and lose the will to battle. The exact reason for this reaction?whether it's an unidentified pheromone exuded by UB-02 Beauty or a hypnotic effect induced by its appearance?has not been determined.

 I guess the only ironic thing about this is that there is a high chance it will be genderless and not know attract.