Pokémon Sun & Moon (+ultra versions)[3DS]

[Galaxian]

Place your bets now. Maskless Type: Null will be an evolution, a Mega, or a Forme change?

[shadow1296]

Originally Posted by Requiem-x

I'm not sure whether to be glad or dissppoint no one has brought up the Lilie stuff in here.

you mean the theory's about her being UB-01 or the ones about her being the Aether foundation's leader's little sister, honestly at this point in time there is to little info story wise to put stock in either theory, i mean the theory about the skull enforcer being the leader's little brother holds more weight with the similar hair design and him having type: Null who is possibly an artificial pokemon

[serenade_beta]

No Mega information so far gives me hopes. Gives me hopes!

[Chosen_Hero]

^Don't worry, there is still enough time for them to show it.

Also, a new trailer has dropped:

[homohominilupus]

So even professor Oak got alolan form lol

[Chosen_Hero]

Rockruffs' evolution Lugarugan:

Day evolution:

Spoiler for Midday form:

Night evolution:

Spoiler for Midnight form:

UB-02 Absorption (Pokémon Sun exclusive) and UB-02 Beauty (Pokémon Moon exclusive):

Spoiler for Ultra Beasts:

Spoiler for Additional scans:

This seems to confirm that the starters' final evolutions will have branched evolution depending on whether it is day or night.

[GDB]

Those two exclusives look atrocious. Holy crap.

[Seafoam]

^Agreed. Although there's something about UB01's design I like.

[GDB]

01 is fine. The two 02, however, are awful and almost enough to negate all the interesting things they've shown up until now.

[Awrya]

Am I the only one then that finds UB02 (red one) to be so bad that it's good?

[Rising Dragon]

So what exactly are Ultra Beasts?

[Chosen_Hero]

Originally Posted by Rising Dragon

So what exactly are Ultra Beasts?

That's the mystery, but taking what we know so far into account they are not Pokémon.

[homohominilupus]

They'll probably be the world-threatning danger that you'll need to stop in this game (at least thats what I think).
Honestly, I'm slightly worried that Game Freak is too much stuff and that the games won't live up to expectations.

Still gonna play them

[Asuras]

Ub02 Expansion looks like something Saitama would fight in OPM. xD

[Guido]

When X and Y games first came out about three years ago and found out on the Mega-Evolutions concept at first I thought the franchise had jumped the shark, until purchasing and acquiring the games and found them a novel concept though clichéd in my opinion.

However, learning that this upcoming generation of games introduces the Ultra-Beasts and having a sneak peek on them makes me to ponder about the franchise's future. I shouldn't judge until playing the games, but I can make a preliminary assumption.

Maybe the concept can have a novel twist by using it to make the storyline more interesting and fresh, though I have reservations since this trope of pitting different species of monsters against each other has been tried over and over before turning into clichéd and uninspiring; I'm not forgetting that Pokemon battles are precisely pitting the Pocket monsters creatures against each other, if anyone thought that I missed that key factor of the games.

[serenade_beta]

As long as you cannot use the Ultra Beasts in WiFi battles... I mean, surely, Digimon are not allowed to fight in Pokemon battles, right?

Originally Posted by Guido

I'm not forgetting that Pokemon battles are precisely pitting the Pocket monsters creatures against each other, if anyone thought that I missed that key factor of the games.

Oh yeah, PETA hasn't done any publicity stunts lately. I actually kinda liked the effort they put into the stunt.

[shadow1296]

Originally Posted by serenade_beta

Oh yeah, PETA hasn't done any publicity stunts lately. I actually kinda liked the effort they put into the stunt.

didn't they get a cease and desist after their last one or be basically sued to the point of bankruptcy by nintendo

[Chosen_Hero]

More Sun and Moon news:

Lugarugan Midday form learns a move called Accelrock which is a priority move (so long flying and fire type Pokémon), Midday form is apparently a Sun version exclusive evolution.

Spoiler for Midday Form:

Meanwhile, Lugarugan Midnight form learns the move Counter, Midnight form is apparently a Moon version exclusive.

Spoiler for Midnight Form:

So I guess this means that the starter final evolutions will be different and exclusive to the version you get of the game, let's call them the Midday and Midnight forms for now. Personally, I think this is a pretty cool idea to differentiate the versions, I am still planning on getting Sun version but I hope that the final evolutions for the starters on both versions are awesome.

[GDB]

Why would this mean the starter final evolutions are different by version?

In fact, why assume they have alternate final forms at all?

[Chosen_Hero]

Originally Posted by GDB

Why would this mean the starter final evolutions are different by version?

In fact, why assume they have alternate final forms at all?

Because Rockruff shares a secret with the starters, and in the last issue of Corocoro before this one it said that this month (as in the scans you are seeing now) would reveal Rockruffs' secret evolution. Now I know you will say, "but the secret can be anything", but what is there left to reveal and keep secret about them at this point? It can't be the a secret Z-move because we already know that some Pokémon will get specialized Z-moves only they can do and that wouldn't be too much of a secret now would it? It can't be Mega Evolution because they are against giving Mega Evolutions to the current starters (Ash-Greninja is just anime bs until proven otherwise by the games), etc.

Now taking into account that what we know about Rockruff sharing some kind of secret with the starters it isn't that difficult to put two and two together, of course it is speculation until they are properly revealed but it would be foolish to ignore the bait swinging right infront of our eyes. I will admit that having the possible alternate final evolutions be exclusives sounds like a stretch (and it might just be) but thinking about it, it would be a good move on their part to push out even more copies of the game and to give the fans more reasons to pick out their version wisely (unless you are picking up both then good for you, I guess)