Praise The Sun... and Moon - Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon

[Trevore 76]

As much as I am really amazed by Rowlet's final evolution and its Grass/Ghost type, I am proud to say I am definitely choosing Litten like I was going to originally. Fire/Dark? Hell yeah, we're about to make a Mono-Dark team! Popplio's final typing was obvious, Water/Fairy and all.

And CYNTHIA returning?! IN FULL 3D FORM?! EXPAND DONG, I AM ON THE HYPE TRAIN!!! <3 <3 <3 If ALL of the Champions make an appearance, I will forever be satisfied. Making our own league?! Let's put Cynthia at the TOP, because out of everybody, she was definitely the most challenging and DESERVED to be Champion.

I'm surprised that Tapu Bulu and Tapu Fini aren't Fire/Fairy and Ghost/Fairy, but eh, their Pokedexes fit with why that's the case.

Alolan Persian though, holy shit. I'm definitely getting one in Pokemon Moon.

And what the hell is COSMOG?! Hear me out, this just SCREAMS Aether is bad. Hell, we saw Aether's battle logo a couple days ago! Looks familiar? It looks just like a villain's logo! Aether is evil, and Alola is in trouble!

Red and Blue returning though.... I'm especially hyped for that. Battling two legendary trainers is DEFINITELY going to be worth it in the end.

My only concern is why? Why would Gamefreak reveal so much information such as the starter final evolutions AND the rest of the Tapus? Why would they reveal part of what appears to be the post story too? It's as if they want to spoil us to death. The starters is understandable, because we have been speculating for MONTHS about it, and after that whole datamine, I guess Gamefreak decided to finally reveal them to us. But the Tapus? The Battle Tree? All of this could have been revealed on November 1st or around then, but I'm just surprised they revealed them so soon. That's just my take on it. Regardless, I am hyped, and I'm ALREADY going to set up my team. LET'S GO!

[Chilibunny 0]

Did definitely not expect that type change with Rowlet. I LOVE it! It doesn't really look like a ghost type, though. They could've made it's face a little more sinister looking so it'd fit better. Starter choice confirmed, hundred percently.

[Ice Cream Sand Witch 1650]

sigh, Incineroar making a pokemon look like a fighting type (including the belt), have a clearly a fighting related move but then making it a dark type, technicalities. Not cool. Honestly what's their deal with that? The ghost typing of decodueye is quite suprising but his signature move is certainly the best. Primarina, heals the burn of he target really? I suppose it has synergy with toxic and the sandcastle and that is it. The guardians are certainly cool, they have a nice mask theme and a z-move unique for them is quite nice. The fact that they all set the field might indicate to a bit more challenge. That psychic field also prevented sucker punch which is quite interesting. Cosmog is cool and every aloan persian I catch will be named Tom (if I ever catch one because butt ugly). And now Cynthia Hyyyype (oh red and blue are here too). The inclusion of Wally might include some other "rivals" which I'm not too fond of like Barry and Hugh.

Incineroar is apparently based on a type of wrestler that's fond of using dirty tricks (I think they're called heels), so it fits. I expect it to get Foul Play because of this.

[Shinoda Yagami 1]

Grass/Ghost typing isn't really the best typing but I hope it gets great stats. Im more hyped about water/fairy and I hope its as good as the other water/fairy type we all know and love :]. I guess we should have expected fire/dark after we got fire/fighting and fire/psychic lol [Gen 8 fire/fairy confirmed??]

[FairFamily 197]

Incineroar is apparently based on a type of wrestler that's fond of using dirty tricks (I think they're called heels), so it fits. I expect it to get Foul Play because of this.

Still does't take away that they choose for another fighting related fire starter, the second wrestler to boot.

[Gaunt 4]

They obviously wanted to make another Fire/Fighting starter and changed it at the last moment when people got upset. Now (for the first time after gen 1) i'll probably go with the Grass one because Ghost is awesome (still hoping for a split evo for the starters).

Red? Is that really him? His new design isn't "threatening", gone are the sharp eyes and aggressive pose, i just don't like it...he reminds me of that one kid i played videogames with long ago but then he stopped and became all "adult-like".

[Sapphire 0]

Cynthia confirmed. =D

Best character with one of the best themes!

[Chase 94]

- WHA-WHAT. GHOST. DECIDUEYE. WHAT. THE GAME CHANGER. THE WHAT....WHAT. NO! DAMN IT GAME FREAK. I THOUGHT I KNEW WHAT I WANTED. I THOUGHT. THAT MOVE THOUGH!....WHAT THE....OH MY GOODNESS. WHY. WHAT.

...*sigh* Incinaroar is still cool - but Rowlett's line is definitely still trying to be considered. One of you kind souls would trade me a Rowlett later, right?

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- I don't see the problem with Incinaroar being a Firefighter or even resembling one. It's actually much better done than Emboar in comparison when it comes to it's wrestler appearance.

I also like how the website actually indicates that it's a Pokemon that is disliked. It reads that Incinaroar sometimes attacks opposing trainers. It also has the strange contrast in that it enjoys praise from children to big crowds, and when the crowd watching it fight isn't on their feet it begins to fight poorly (or because it's based on a heel, cheaply.) I actually think Darkest Lariat is a pretty great move too - it's a physical move that ignores stat changes - meaning it could bypass speed and defense gains. That might actually give Incinaroar some competitive value higher than NU.

It will most likely come down to whatever hidden ability it has. I wouldn't be surprising if it got Moxie since it enjoys pleasing crowds (and fainting the opposing Pokemon does that) or Intimidate due to it's supposedly fearsome appearance and heel nature.

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Primarina is pretty interesting. Sparking Aria - it's special move - is a special type move and NOT a utility move. That means that it still does damage....right? Water type moves (as I'm assuming Sparkling Aria is) are good moves to have a damage causing attack with status healing in because of abilities like Water Absorb - that heal the target.

This makes Sparkling Aria useful in double battles............depending on who you use. I'm not going to be spending too mind time defending our Siren infleunced Water starter. It's my least favorite and it doesn't seem to fit my playstyle well.

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...On the flip side though, the Water Island Guardian is pretty -and- cool looking (as is all the Tapu-mons) and OH MY GOSH is Guardian of Alola powerful looking.

I'd get a little sadistic too, if I were the trainer in that video.

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It makes sense for Red and Blue to be dressed in summer garb and look a little relaxed because we know for sure that Alola is based off of real world Hawaii - a place that is a known summer travel spot. What doesn't make sense though - is why Cynthia is still wearing her normal all black coat-pant-suit thing. It's like a THOUSAND degrees outside lady.

(It's probably because GF has a sense of humor and knew a few other gentleman out there would notice and be disappointed.)

Anyway, back to the league. This seems to be more like Unova's Pokemon World Tournament than the actual Pokemon League - and if that's the cause, this isn't much of a spoiler save for some end-game content.

[Trevore 76]

Imagine if Cynthia was in her clothes that she wore in Best Wishes. That would be cool! Or maybe even one of her two-piece swimsuits, but NINTENDO WOULD NEVER DO THAT.... right? Please, Gamefreak, make a scene of this in Sun and Moon <3 <3 <3

[AeroWraith 3]

HOLY SHIT CYNTHIA! BLUE! RED! IN MODEL FORM! WE GET TO BATTLE WITH OR AGAINST THEM! Aw man, also that music that was playing while they were on screen was a nice touch. So Rowlett's final evo is really making me feel slightly sad that I'm going for Litten instead, having a ghost starter is pretty sweet. Speaking of Litten, I'm really warming up to it's final evo design, especially after that trailer and to me has the best signature move out of the alolan starters.

[Chase 94]

So, having read up some more on this new "League" here's what seems to be going down.

• Sun/Moon/Whatever the hell your name is appears to get to Alola before a Pokemon League is even constructed yet.
• The player goes on the Island Challenge and likely deals with Ultra Beasts/Aether/Skull/etc during construction.
• The previous champions (or at least Red, Blue, and Cynthia) arrive at Alola
• You battle up a tree of renown trainers with some help from them as you advance.
• You become Alola's FIRST. I repeat - FIRST Pokemon Champion.

That's pretty cool.

[Jericho 114]

Man, every time I think Popplio can't get any worse, I am proven wrong. Signature move heals burns. LMAO

[Zumi 2466]

fUCK

[Hiss13 1]

Tapu Lele...is so cute. I wanna snuggle with her and frolic in the fields with her. Can I have her, please?

[Swampellow 116]

Hehehehe yes, yes my pretty Bwark! Rise! Become the best starter! Double advantage over the kat and only solo weakness to the birb! Rise! Rise!

Really though, the signature move is cool, hoping that is has some decent BP, at least comparable or better than Scald, cause it is the reverse of it.

Grass birb is cool, the type change was unexpected, and only somewhat unwelcome, would've been cool to have another grass flying (also is this the first time a starter has had two types and then had its secondary type changed upon evolving?). It's move is cool as well, I'm assuming it to be a ghost type move soooo? More trapping I suppose?

Fire kat, pretty much what I expected, signature move doesn't really surprise me (nor the type) considering the speculations that it is based off heel(which is now confirmed, cause lol species name). It is useful I suppose as a move, it's a stab move that essentially functions like Unaware against opposing mons but still lets you set up, which could be important depending on stat spread.

Not that it matters, Bwark! still decimates kat on type alone.

[NickCrash 250]

Grass/Ghost got: MeanLook.02

Fire/Dark got: Turboblaze.move

Water/Fairy got: Anti-Scald

[Chase 94]

Cosmog looks oddly uncanny to Lunaala > like... Cosmog is essentially kinda "baby Lunaala"

If that's the case - I'm kinda glad Game Freak didn't tease baby Solgaleo.

[mde2001 236]

I'm a big fan of the latest trailer in general. I don't hate Incinaroar as much now I've seen it animated.

Strangely enough I thought the still images of Decidueye looked better than the animated ones.

I'm definitely picking Poplio now, I really love the way Primarina looks. The signature move looks kinda dumb, but I'm hoping it operates like smelling salts where its BP doubles if the opponent has a burn.

[Lucky98 74]

I'm still picking Litten. Fire/Dark makes it better imo. So for the past hour or so I have been listening to a looped version of Blue's theme that played at the end of the trailer. My hype level for these game pretty much doubled after this trailer, and I was already really excited about it

[Bearadactyl Prime 31]

Primarina honestly has lackluster attack compared to the other two. One ignores stat changes, the other arena traps, but no; the water type can heal burns. Something you seldom experience in the game.

[Eagleby18 95]

This totally means we're getting metas for Dragonite, Milotic, Volcarona and Haxorus, right?

They wouldn't seriously make a big deal of all the past champions returning and leave only half of them with mega signatures, right?

Well this is Gamefreak we're talking about here, so... We'll see.

[Azeria 390]

This totally means we're getting metas for Dragonite, Milotic, Volcarona and Haxorus, right?

They wouldn't seriously make a big deal of all the past champions returning and leave only half of them with mega signatures, right?

Well this is Gamefreak we're talking about here, so... We'll see.

Dragonite is in the demo code and no mega model has been found for it soo.......

[Trevore 76]

I don't think Cosmog is exclusively for Lunala, per say. After looking closely at the two baby-looking Pokemon, it LOOKS like Cosmog is the first of a three-evolution chain. The "Baby Solgaleo" appears to be a coccoon, like Shelgon or so. And then, depending on which version, it becomes Solgaleo or Lunala, VERY much like how Rockruff evolves based on what version it is. Sun: Solgaleo, Moon: Lunala. Only difference is that it would be a three-evolution line, like the starters. That's just my theory on it, anyway. Going from this, I still believe that Aether is directly involved with Solgaleo and Lunala. Just what the hell is Aether's goal? Immortality? We'll just have to find out!

[The Swordsman 98]

Primarina looks much better ingame and has the water/fairy typing I hoped it would have, so while I won't be using it as a part in my main team, it does have a spot on my Fairy run and will be the Aloha starter I pick at the beginning of the game. I just wish it had a better signature move and the gender ratio matched its appearance.

Thanks to their shared Z move the Aloha Guardians remind me of the Giants from Majora's Mask

The Hype Train is going strong with with the returning trainers! I am excited for Wally, (2nd favorite character in Pokemon) Red and Cynthia. Though Red looks a bit weird. (his face looks off for some reason)

[Chase 94]

Yeah, puberty hit Red like a train....

I'll get used to it though. All legends grow old someday.

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WHOA WHOA WHOA there's a cocoon thing that looks like it's somewhat like "baby" Solgaleo-....oh, you're talking about the datamine...or the leaks...

It's a good thing I've already seen those, but I was trying to respect those that were only here looking for "released" information on Sun and Moon. Upon further looking, I can see where that's likely.

Cosmog is definitely in the interest of the Aether Foundation.

From the website:

"This extremely rare pokemon is known to very few people in Alola. At one time, it was only to the kings of Alola and to their heirs, and it was known as "the child of the stars." The Aether Foundation is researching this unusual Pokemon, and one of the professors at the foundation recently dubbed it Cosmog."

This means that not only Aether is involved with what may eventually be the box legendaries > but that they for sure are involved with naming their possible origin Pokemon.

Furthermore, people are speculating that the noise that comes from Lillie's bag is the cry of Cosmog.

Does this have something to do with the Ultra-Beasts?

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Eagleby, you are like the king of wishful thinking my friend. I will say though, it's astonishing that Dragonite, of those four, doesn't have a mega-evolution. I just really think Megas are hardly the "in" thing for Sun and Moon.

Mega Evolution being in the game at all was in doubt by many until recently. Seeing as everything else has been mined though, and there's no mention or proof anywhere suggesting there's ANY new Megas, I'm going to be a skeptic.