Bevendre

Wow, Sun and Moon leaks. Allegedly the ENTIRE LIST of new Pokemon has been posted on 4chan and can be found here with a listing of names and types. The list is absolutely unconfirmed as of this post, and should not be taken as fact until it gets some form of confirmation. New news is scheduled to drop on 8/12 which could confirm the information. Until then, have a summary of the 103 new Pokemon.

The starter evolutions having types listed as “Grass/Various” “Fire/Various” and “Water/Various”
Also mentions Rockruff’s evo having 4 potential typings based off of location which the previous leaks mentioned.
Bounsweet looks to have a branched evolution where it either gains a Psychic subtype or becomes pure Poison.
New Possum Pokémon 2 stage family that’s Dark. Evolutions for Comfey and Cutiefly,
A Normal/Flying that evolves into a Fairy/Flying.
Komala gaining a Psychic type on evolution.
Bruxish having a preevolution.
A second 2 stage Water/Psychic family.
Minior evolves.
The cat with various secondary typings does evolve.
A Bug/Ice line with a Bug/Dark offshoot, maybe like Shedinja.
2 stage Snowman line that’s Ice/Ghost like the previous leaks.
Water type Dolphin that evolves into a Water/Steel, Water/Fairy, Water/Ice or Water/Dragon dolphin depending on origin.
A sea cucumber/anemone line that starts pure Water and gains Poison on evolving.
Mimikyuu doesn’t evolve.
Neither does Togedemaru.
2 stage Ground type line that gains Dark on evolving.
Wimpod has a preevolution and an evolution.
Fighting/Ground type Pokémon, single stage, possibly gorilla.
Drampa has a preevolution.
3 stage Psychic line.
2 stage Steel/Water line.
Salandit has a pure Poison preevolution and a Poison/Fire evolution.
3 stage Grass family that gains Fire subtype in the second stage, possibly peppers?
A 2 stage Poison/Fairy line.
A 3 stage Fighting line that gains Steel typing in the final stage.
Getting in to potential legendaries there’s a Normal/Water, a Fire/Water and an Electric/Water sharing names ending in -atom. It’s either a trio, or a branched evolution.
2 stage Steel family.
Single stage Ice/Fighting Pokémon.
Single stage Ground/Fairy Pokémon.
3 stage Dragon line that has a branched evolution that is either part Steel or part Fighting.
3 stage Dark/Electric line.
4 guardian Pokémon, including Tapu Koko each listed as Tapu and with Fairy typing and secondary typing matching Oricorio’s (Fire, Electric, Psychic, Ghost).
Third legendary over Solgaleo and Lunaala is Dark/Fire.
With Magearna it takes the Pokedex up to 825.

Again, unconfirmed, but we’ll find out more on Friday 8/12. More Alolan forms are also expected, and possibly more Megas. This generation looks to be huge.

In light of the Sun and Moon trailer from 8/1, the “leaks” from early in July have been gathering a lot of attention again, in part because of the Grass Trial Captain Mallow appearing in the description for the Litten evolution, and in part because the leaks talked about a lack of traditional gyms, and the bracelet being used for a mechanic similar to but different from Mega Evolution, both of which were confirmed in the trailer. More information and leaks have been dredged up from that initial leak dump, and further leaks recently, including new Alolan forms as were shown with Vulpix/Ninetails, Sandshrew/Sandslah and Exeggutor.

Added as of yet unconfirmed leaks include:

Rowlet retaining a Grass/Flying typing throughout its line, its final form is known as Fukurou
Litten gaining a Dark type and only learning Fighting moves. The final form is currently listed as Tora
Popplio’s final form being Water/Fairy and currently listed as Aniku
Rockruff having a branching evolution, including one that involves knowing Howl and leveling up or being left by certain locations at night, leading to a werewolf with typing and stats varying on which island it evolved at (not unlike has been confirmed with Oricorio, also mentioned in the leaks)
A 2 stage snowman Pokemon with Ghost/Ice typing
A normal cat Pokemon, that if bred has a secondary type and color that depends on the father
Ash-Greninja appearing in the game
Characters such as Blue, Zinnia, AZ, Lance and Cynthia appearing, along with the S.S. Anne
More styles for Furfrou, along with the ability to change its style directly in the updated Amie
More Alolan forms including Fighting Abra line, Water Growlithe line, Dark Rattata line, Bug/Psychic Butterfree, Poison/Fighting Nidoking/Queen and Fighting/Flying Doduo line
Older forms being attainable and breedable through transfer, but not through natural encounter
Starters either having a branching evolution line based off of time like Rockruff (Corocoro leaks have stated that the starter and Rockruff lines share a secret) or having the same species name but different stats and design dependent on time of evolution, not dissimilar to the gender dimorphism shown in Meowstic.

Information is to be taken with a grain of salt, but the leaks that the information came from in early July hit a LOT of the points brought up today. Not confirmed yet, but definitely looking likely. Can’t wait to see more.

Thoughts on the Sun/Moon trailer 8/1

NEW POKEMON REGIONAL FORMS CONFIRMED! Say what you will about the new variants, that they exist at all opens up huge opportunities.
Oricorios is a really interesting concept, with regional typing, design and moveset. Hello Galapagos inspirations.
Minior is an interesting new Pokemon as well, always neat to see more alien Pokemon and one that is a sentient meteor with a squishy core definitely fits the mold.
Yungoos and Gumshoos being compared to Trump is only going to continue, poor Pokemon
Fomantis and Lurantis being mantids but not bugs? I’m okay with this. Good ability and nice design, with a new attack. Can’t wait to see how they work.
Mudbray is my donkey child and he is precious.
Riding Pokemon look to be a much more prominent feature with several areas requiring them to pass. Given the outfit the trainer wears and the summoning mechanic, as well as the harnesses on all of the ridden Pokemon they could end up being a rental feature that you can summon at will in certain areas. I doubt it’ll fully replace Surf or other traversal mechanics and will likely be used to open up or traverse certain routes much like it was in X and Y.
Island challenge instead of gym challenges? I’m okay with this. From the looks of it there are 4 trial captains who will pose a puzzle or challenge of some sort, and likely fight you after completing it, and then the 4 kahunas who will challenge you further afterwards. Still 8 “gym leaders” but presented in a less traditional way which makes sense for a region that’s so different from the others. It reminds me a lot of the Orange Islands in the anime.
Boss battle Pokemon that can summon help. Why has this not been a thing before?
Z-Moves are interesting, an alternative to Mega Evolution that allows a single use power attack instead of a form change. Given the slot on the bottom of the bracelet it looks like you’ll be able to get a keystone and Mega stones as well. Based on the information it looks like any Pokemon can use a Z-Move so long as they’re holding the appropriate crystal and have a move of the appropriate type. Considering Professor Kukui’s specialty is Pokemon moves this makes a lot of sense, the professors’ specialties are ALWAYS reflected in the mechanic or Pokemon changes introduced in a generation
The starter evolution leaks showing Litten as a wrestler got some added support with the introduction of the trial leaders, one of whom can be seen in the art

More information should be dropping during Gamescom towards the end of the month.

Rowlett evo: Great design, cool concept. Doesn’t really seem to fit with Rowlett’s theme but it wouldn’t be the first time that’s happened.

Popplio evo: A little odd for a starter evo, but very nice design and definitely appealing.

Litten evo: DON’T YOU FUCKING DARE!!!!!

New Japanese trailer for Sun and Moon showed off more than I expected including:

Riding on Tauros, Lapras, Sharpedo and Stoutland
Trainer acting and posing in battle, possibly connected to Synchro evolution
Synchro evolution possibly not changing a form or sprite, and just boosting stats or effectiveness, kind of like having max friendship from Amie
Synchro possibly being usable with unevolved Pokemon
An expanded Pokemon Amie function wherein you can groom Pokemon
Several newly shown locales including an active volcano

More information is set to be shown on 7/16

Thoughts on the new Pokemon 6/30-7/1

Drampa: Don’t you touch grandpa Falcor! He is a precious fluffy noodle beast who definitely looks more draconic than a number of earlier Dragon types. Sap Sipper is always a strange ability on a Dragon type, but always a good ability overall for teams with Grass trouble, especially if it has the moveset to take advantage of the Attack boost. If Drampa is more specially focused its new ability Berserk sounds amazing, giving it an as yet unspecified boost to its Special Attack when below 50% health. Great potential and a lovable design.

Togedamaru: Precious spiny derpball and what looks to be a new spin on the Pika-clone trope. Togedamaru looks to be MUCH more defensive between its Steel typing and Iron Barbs ability, while also being offensively viable using Lightning Rod. Also it sneezes and prickles up, which is adorable.

Charjabug/Vikavolt: More Bug/Electric types are very much welcome, and since these are the evolutions of Grubbin are likely available early on. Charjabug’s Battery ability gives a boost to ally Pokemon’s Special Attack, making the bug-bus a potentially viable pupae Pokemon for the first time ever. Then it evolves and becomes the Vikavolt, gains Levitate, and looks awesome.

Bruxish: The only design that I’m really iffy on so far. On one hand it looks gaudy as hell, on the other hand it’s a colorful and relatively complex design for a fish, and the setting is tropical. There are some freaky looking and painfully colorful fish IRL, so I can’t really give Bruxish too much crap design-wise. We haven’t gotten a Water/Psychic Pokemon in a while, and Strong Jaw is always a welcome ability so long as it has the right moveset. Barring that it has the new ability Dazzling which prevents moves with a heightened priority from hitting. Eat your heart out Prankster and Gale Wings users.

Cutiefly: I want one. I don’t care if it’s not good. I don’t care if it evolves or not, though I’d love to see an evolution. The little bugger is adorable, and it’s Bug/Fairy which we’ve yet to see. Also it has Honey Gather which means Horde Battles are back, or special trees are returning. Sinnoh confirmed.

Tapu Koko: Tiki bird warrior. I shouldn’t need to say anything more. New ability that instantly makes the field Electric Terrain (No sleeping, and 50% Electric power boost) and a new move, Nature’s Madness that halves the opponent’s HP, coupled with its description as a guardian deity definitely hints towards legendary or pseudo-legendary status

Overall good designs, or at least designs that aren’t bad and are growing on me. Can’t wait to see more.

Things from Sun and Moon I didn’t realize I wanted: Amiibo support. Tap an Amiibo to unlock a themed trainer i.e Link, Samus, Mario, etc. to battle at a predetermined location.

Things that excite me from the new Sun/Moon trailer:

New region being a chain of islands, so Surf will actually be used more than once
Rotomdex
Real time updating Town Map on the touch screen that marks places of interest
Expanded character customization
Solgaleo and Lunala
That day/night cycle difference!
That night cycle skybox.

Things that are possibly alluded to in the new Sun/Moon trailer:

Possibly two rivals, Hau and Lillie (Hau was shown to choose the starter weak against yours)
National Dex integration during main game through QR codes
Second starter set? Your initial starter is not given to you by Professor Kukui, or his assistant, and there are still 4 generations of starters without Megas
MORE MEGAS
Non-static Pokemon locations
Day/Night variation in Pokemon locations and rarity

So much potential from Sun and Moon so far. Can’t wait to see more.

Seeing people not shit on Popplio like:

I don’t know which to choose! Curse you Game Freak and your adorable starter Pokemon!