Has it been confirmed that we need to transfer over the originals from Gen VI or the R(G)BY to get them? I think I read it somewhere.
I like super saiyan blue ninetales and sandslash, but the coconut dragon makes me unconformable. And angry about the fact that we still don't have a proper grass/dragon pokemon, only alternate forms with that typing.
It's also possible that it was for demonstration purposes. The Arcanine was pretty low leveled for a wild fully evolved mon, even if it does evolve by Stone.One of the leaks says Arcanine becomes a water type. However this is either false or both forms can be found in Alola in one form or another.
In the small trailer shown during the Hong Kong Championships, a wild Arcanine is battling a Rockruff. Arcanine is obviously the same color and model.
In other words, take the leaks PokeJungle posted with a grain of salt. Either it is false, or it is true and both forms can be found in the wild.
Edit: The leak said they must come from older games, however this is already countered by the fact that these pokemon can be found in the wild.
It's also possible that it was for demonstration purposes. The Arcanine was pretty low leveled for a wild fully evolved mon, even if it does evolve by Stone.
Just you wait.
I'm willing to bet Real, Legitimate™ Currency that Pikachu will get an Alola Form but through some "unexplained genetic restructuring" the Alola Form Pikachu cannot evolve.
Mark my words. It will happen.
I wonder how they will deal with evolution. Vulpix needs a fire stone to evolve, I wonder if it will still need a fire stone or if something else will take effect. Having an Alolan Vulpix needing a Fire Stone would kinda break the reasoning for it being Ice. So I wonder what they plan to do.
We still don't know if only the Alola forms with appear in game.Didn't they already show Tauros in-game from July's Japanese trailer, and it just happen to be a regular Tauros?
Welp. I was welcoming the new stuff they brought up to this point (especially the newly used design space regarding abilities, non-gym story, totem boss fights, etc), but the new Alola Forms struck a nerve.
I am more than ok with such forms in general, and Exeggutor is very well done. Changing only the secondary type, ability, and maybe stats. But giving old mons completely new types? The Sandshrew-line with Ground into Steel, well, ok, that's somewhat reasonable, I would've even be fine with Ground/Ice, but Ice/Steel? And Vulpix is just another piece of pie. How does a Fire mon change into Ice? It even evolves with a Fire Stone! Microclimates and all, but what the in the blue moon causes a such drastic change? I honestly can't wrap my head around it.
Hopefully I will get used to those forms until release, or I will have a very hard time enjoying the games :-/
I very well read the infos on the website, thank you very much.They moved to the mountain tops when they were brought to Alola so that they did not disturb the pokemon already in the Region. Over time, they have adapted and changed form. This is explained in the info on the main site.
Basically, it is no different than a normal animal or Eevee. Plus there is a such thing as Arctic Foxes who have changed because they live in cold and snowy climates. So it really isn't odd at all.
I hope GF will give some love for the 5th gen Pokes. I don't want all the Alola Form to be on 1st gen Pokes. Come on it's the 20th anniversary of the franchise and that includes gen 2 to 6.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exn0s6Dukmk
So take this video and replace every reference to the film North with Alola forms and you would get my opinion on them.
I wouldn't be so sour if it weren't more gen 1 pandering bull****, if the designs made any sort of sense, and they stopped beating around the bush and gave us more proper evolutions and/or tweaking the Pokemon to fit the current generation instead of redefining the same Pokemon over and over again. Honestly I could barely take them seriously.