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Can you catch your favorite Pokémon in the Alola region?
I'm just surprised when I saw the regional dex of Alola that most of my favorite Pokémons are in it.
Check the Pokédex over here (spoiler warning): Spoiler:
As well as Smeargle as Porygon-Z are in it, even Garchomp and Talonflame are into it. This looks great, it looks like all the popular Pokémon are into it. |
The pic has Spearow, but where's Pidgey! A tragedy!
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I don't have a favourite mon but most of the selection for the dex looks fine so OK.
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There's a few of my past-gen faves, but not a lot of them. Hopefully we'll be able to obtain the missing Pokemon in the postgame, since not everyone has Pokemon Bank.
Also, way too many Kanto Pokemon. This generation feels the like ultimate Genwunner pandering games when you think about that. |
Nope. Actually a LOT of my favourite Pokemon aren't available. Cofuhgrigus, Reuniclus, Scolipede, Darmanitan, Ampharos, Mawile, Malamar, Dragalge, Sigilyph, Conkeldurr etc etc I could actually go on. :P
I appreciate Starmie, Crobat and Gengar being there though. They were my Soul Silver mons. :P (also Flygon was one of my White 2 mons) It's why I'm initially not too keen on this pokedex....but on the other hand I already used all of the Pokemon I mentioned above anyway and I don't like using Pokemon I've already used so I guess I'm not missing much. It would have been nice to see more of my old favourites though. :( |
Overall, it looks really good, and has a number of my favourite Pokémon in there like Garchomp, Honchkrow and Weavile.
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Well, I see Pikachu, Raichu, Clefable, Arcanine, Poliwhirl, Alakazam, Machamp, Cloyster, Gengar, Exeggutor, Marowak, Starmie, Electabuzz, Pinsir, Gyarados, Lapras, Ditto, Vaporeon, Aerodactyl, Dragonite, Crobat, Lanturn, Politoed, Espeon, Scizor, Skarmory, Porygon2, Miltank, Hariyama, Sableye, Flygon, Milotic, Salamence, Metagross, Rampardos, Gastrodon, Drifblim, Mismagius, Honchkrow, Garchomp, Lucario, Weavile, Magnezone, Magmortar, Leafeon, Porygon-Z, Froslass, Lilligant, Krookodile, Archeops, Vanilluxe, Braviary, Talonflame, Pangoro, Goodra, and Trevenant. So yeah, a lot of my favourites are here.
Although I also would've liked to see Tyranitar, Volcarona, Ferrothorn, Chandelure, Galvantula, Hydreigon, Gliscor, Tangrowth, Togekiss, Staraptor, Luxray, Roserade, Reuniclus, Sigilyph, Musharna, Drapion, Dodrio, Mr. Mime, Jynx, Heracross, Azumarill, Steelix, Ampharos, Haxorus, Zoroark, Ludicolo, Florges, Clawitzer, Gogoat, Meowstic, Dusclops, Dusknoir, Rhydon, Rhyperior, and the other Kanto fossils. Maybe the Hoenn and Kalos fossils too. |
my favourite is Flareon and I see it on the dex.
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I was actually really surprised to see how many of my favourites from each region are included in the Alola dex.
Parasect & Gengar from gen I Ledian, Ariados & Crobat from gen II Finneon, Lumineon, Weavile & Mismagius from gen IV Whimsicott & Vanilluxe from gen V Klefki from gen VI |
I quite like this dex. There are some of my old favorites like wigglytuff, all the eeveevolutions, whimsicott, crobat, lapras,
I really like alola marowak, raichu and vulpix. |
My favourite Pokemon Lilligant is catchable in Sun/Moon which is very welcome.
However inexplicably the Gardevoir line has been left out and I am bemused why a Pokemon as popular as Gardevoir would not get in. The only Gardevoir like thing there is Alakazam, with Gothitelle and Reuniclus not getting in either. Hopefully there is some way to get Gardevoir in S/M without waiting for the Bank. Whilst there is a good variety of Grass Types in Sun/Moon the lack of the Oddish line is disappointing. |
I'm somehow bothered that Kanto pokemon outnumber Alola-native pokemon.
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Yep a lot of my favorite pokemon are here.
Sandile, Rufflet, Tourtouga, Vanilite, and Phantump. I am really glad that Rufflet is on Melemele Island. There are a few that I am not seeing, but I also find it a bit strange than Phantump is there, but not Pumpkaboo. I wonder why that is? It seems like the tore a lot of the trading evolution pairs apart. Here are a few videos that have broken down the Island dexes. Melemele and Akala so far. So far Melemele has 120 Pokemon and Akala has 130. I am not sure how he found this out though. Not had any other dataminers say anything about it. Not to mention he is a new tuber. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHYmaMtxuOI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_Bjj3OHTYQ |
These might not be the actual numbers but here's what the Melemele Dex is looking like:
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Unfortunately that's only half of my planned team (Raichu, Lycanroc, Popplio final evo) for this first island, so I may have to use random previous-gen Pokemon as fillers until the later islands. |
If they explained the fact that the Alola region is still not old enough for new fossil Pokemon, I am not sure why the older generation fossil Pokemon are in-- Then again that was just speculation.
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There are a few Pokemon in there that I've used before, but I make it a point to never reuse the same Pokemon with very few exceptions so I probably wont use any of them. Aside from those few I don't really care for any of the older Pokemon they've put in here and I don't like most of the new Pokemon, so this is going to be... interesting, and likely not in a good way.
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Nah, no Druddigon (I'm probably the only one wanting it, lol), Snover. Litwick, Pawniard or Joltik. At least Torkoal and the Unova fossils are still available though.
I still feel like Tropius, Solrock, and Lunatone need to be in this game. The Oddish line too. Vileplume are active at night, and Bellossom is pretty much wearing a hula skirt. They'd fitting nicely with the theme. |
No, many of my absolute favorite Pokemon are absent, which is why I'm praying for more unrevealed dex. I don't know why there are so many Kanto Pokemon, tbh gen 1 has most of my least favorite Pokemon in it, and it really bothers me that there is so much pandering with such mediocre Pokemon.
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I don't see Mareep and it's evolution line in there. SAD DAYS! ; ~ ;
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I'm upset but not really surprised I can't catch my favourite Pokemon in Alola, Zoruas are pretty rare after all. Despite that, there's loads more Pokemon that I really like in the Alolan Regional Dex so it shouldn't be too bad :)
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No the Gardevoir line isn't in the regional dex, but that's fine as I'm transferring one over anyway. Also there's Popplio's line which is becoming my favorite starter line and Bounsweet line which is competing for favorite grass line.
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Honestly a bit disappointed by the leaks. And no Mudkip :(
At least there's Cutiefly and Ledian :/ |
The dex seems a bit small for my liking, but oh well.
I'm looking forward to using the Gen 7 mons anyway and they gave me the Lucario and Snorlax lines, so no complaints there. Most dissappointing thing on this dex reveal was that they'd leaked like 95% of the new mons already anyways, I was really hoping for a much larger dex with how much nintendo had been willing to reveal. And on that, Alola variations are great, but why only Kanto pokemon? I mean Johto is literally attached to Kanto, no Johto mons made it to Alola and changed with the climate? Leave the other regions out if you have too, but I feel Johto shouldve gotten more love. But maybe im biased, I have been playing since the release of Red and Blue, but Gen 2 and there remakes are still my faviourite games |
Yes I can and there is even an alolan form for it. Cu-cu-Cubone!
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I feel like it's possible we'll get Lapras surf early since the Sharpedo one seems like more of a late game thing since it can break rocks. In a way it seems kinda crazy to me that Rufflet and Vullaby are available so early, I remember them being REALLY late in the game back in gen 5. Too bad I'm picking Rowlet I guess. |
Surprisingly many of my favourites are there, I can't believe Klefki made it considering how little 6th gen Pokemon are there, I hope you can find them early in game.
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A lot of my faves are missing, which is a good thing because I never repeat Pokemon that were in another region's party. So Im encouraged to try new ones or use old Pokemon I could never fit into my other teams. One that I am thankful is in the game is Garbodor. In the last few years I have grown to absolutely love it but refused to sacrifice the Poison type I had in my Unova team (Scolipede), so I can finally add him to my crew. =)
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THERE'S MY BOY WHIMSICOTT
Plus, Clefairy is available. I plan on using it in Moon. I don't plan on using Whimsicott since I plan on using Rowlet3, Tsareena, and Lurantis. |
Going by that datamined list, currently, no.
But my favorite Pokémon is a starter (Swampert, to be exact), so I'm kind of used to it by now. :( |
In a video I've watched about them being interviewed-- They said that only Kanto Pokemon were given Alolan forms because they're more recognised amongst the older generation of Pokemon players than the other generations. Probably their way to try pulling back the oldest generation to play Pokemon again. That being said, my friends all expressed interests in Pokemon again ever since I'd been posting on Sun and Moon on Facebook. I guess it does help, afterall my generation was the one whom grew up with Kanto!
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Sadly, my absolute favorite pokemon never had a chance, being a starter pokemon.
However, I do like Pichu, Phantump, and Shellos. The latter two don't matter though, as I'm planning on using exclusively new pokemon anyway, but Pichu will make it on the team because of Alolan Raichu. |
Well they completely shunned Oddish so no Vileplume, and Ninetales got an Alola form which is pretty rare, though regular Ninetales is my favorite Pokemon and it's only available by trading as well.
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Love that Scizor is in. Disappointed that Hydreigon didn't make it, being the only pseudo-legendary not shown any love. At least Tyranitar has a Mega Evo.
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I found this picture on 4chan and uploaded it to imgur. It lists Pokemon by the island they first appear on. I've found it handy to get an idea of what I might want to catch.
https://imgur.com/a/zLK7q#DZslJIK Yellow is Melemele island, pink is Akala, red is the bottom right (3rd island) and purple is the leftmost region with the Pokemon boats. |
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I feel like my team is naked if I don't have Crobat in it.
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All my top favourites are there, yes! Ninetales, Vaporeon & Whimsicott.
If only Houndour/Houndoom was available too, everything would be perfect. |
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There's a lot of overlap between the islands, so obviously this image has more Pokemon for the first island because every Pokemon on the first island is shown. It's going by the idea that the order you visit the islands is: Melemele (Yellow), Akala (pink), bottom right island (red), leftmost island (purple). |
I'm dying to see how they work my boy Porygon into these games. Free gift? The new Togepi? Game Corner returning?
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Also Sabrewulf, that Imgur link isn't working. |
I'm happy that a lot of my favorites are on this list.
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I hope that they just haven't showed us that the Gardivoir line actually is there. I need my Gallade. That thing is the ultimate legend hunter.
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Castform? Yeah.
Buneary? No. Diancie? A mythical. Carbink? Satisfies me for the lack of Diancie. Sylveon? Yeah. |
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If so then I'm a bit disappointed. Not because it's bad, but so little new stuff, really? I mean we have the last gen7 mon we'd see in a while in the dex at #29, and there's no more for 30 entries until #59, and no new stuff until #80. I know it's most likely real (and I hope not) and if it isn't then I hope they make some new mons earlier. I'm also surprised with Rufflet and Vullaby being early considering they evolve late(lvl 54). And why is freaking Cabrink here yux gen6 mons can go die |
After looking at a leaked Dex list on Imgur (with colour coding to show which island that Pokemon is found on) I guess I'll have my planned team completed as early as Akala Island which I'm definitely content with.
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Half of my top 10, including my top 4 are included. Not bad. I am hoping more pokemon and unova starters are available post game.
Poppmaid Milotic Tsareena Lilligant Vespiquen Liepard Rapidash - Not in XY Serperior-Not in XY or ORAS Samurott - Note in XY or ORAS Lurantis |
Finneon/Lumineon, Petilil/Liligant, Poliwag/whirl/wrath/toed, Skarmory and Fletchling/Fletchinder/Talonflame are all in so that's most of my favourites included.
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Does this work: https://i.imgur.com/DZslJIK.jpg |
Well, as long as I have Popplio I dont mind what other Pokemon are in the Pokedex :)
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No Leavanny... No Minccino... Emm, no, I can't.
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Most of my favorites aren't included. That's to be expected, since a lot of my favorites are starters, but still, I'm bummed that they aren't giving out any extra starters this time around. The Kanto starter gift early on in X and Y was one of my favorite elements of those games. Pikachu is one of my favorites, so I'll probably pick one of those up early on and use it for my team (and hopefully get one of those hats for it). I like some of the pseudolegendaries a bunch, so I may use one or more of those, and there are a few other lines that are decent that I'll probably use. Maybe this will also be a good time to use some lines that I've simply never paid attention to before.
I'm leaning towards using a bunch of new Pokemon + whatever I find on my initial playthrough (probably Moon), and maybe bringing some old Pokemon to Moon and sending them over to a new Sun file once Bank gets updated. If the exp share mechanics are still the same, I'll probably train a lot of Pokemon (everything I catch) on my initial run. It's a shame there aren't more new Pokemon, and that the dex isn't bigger, as I was really hoping for an improvement over the paltry number of new Pokemon we saw last time around, but there are a number of new options that look fun to use, so I'm excited to try those out. |
I just noticed something interesting.
http://www.pokemon-sunmoon.com/media/uploads/june_2_assets/art/qrscan.jpg The picture is from the QR scanner feature mentioned here: http://www.pokemon-sunmoon.com/en-us/discover-pokemon-using-the-qr-scanner/ None of the Pokemon in the image are available in the Alola pokedex. (according to dataminers) Serperior being a starter isn't that unusual but even Medicham and Dunsparce are nowhere to be found in the Alolan dex. Does that mean this is a post-game thing or do you think it might be a workaround to get certain Pokemon you can't normally catch in Alola? It seems kinda strange to me that they would promote a feature using Pokemon that won't appear until the post-game......I guess that could still be the case though. It's a bit mysterious. |
This could work like Friend Safari in XY probably.
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i'm actually still fucken pissed that there will be gen6 mons in the dex
they should come later or even better not be in at all gen6 had the worst mons tbh |
WHY do they hate my electrics?! Luxray is my favorite pokemon. I also really love Zebstrika. Gone.
No Magnemite, voltorb, heliolisk line either. :( |
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You most likely can eventually.
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Something occurred to me about the QR code feature. Assuming it does only allow your game to generate QR codes for Pokemon that are currently available to you...
I'm just wondering would it be possible for somebody in the postgame to obtain a QR code for say....a Ralts, share it with someone still playing through the story and then they would be able to find Ralts by scanning the QR code even though they haven't reached the postgame yet? I'm not sure how likely this theory is.....although it would be kinda lame if you scan a QR code and it says you can't find this Pokemon for some arbitrary reason. I'd really love if it turned out like that actually. It would actually turn the late Europe release into a positive since by the time the 23rd of November comes around there would be QR codes available for all kinds of Pokemon. |
My favorite pokemon is Raichu and he has an Alolan form so I am happy. The rest of the dex is nice but my god are there too many Kanto pokemon. I really wish there was a much wider variety. I think they could have done a much better job. I wish they would have given us five or so Alolan forms per gen. I think that would have been nice and well catered to all fans no matter what gen is there favorite.
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One thing that's neglected is that in most previous versions you've been given the option to capture Pokemon from every region post-game. Why wouldn't that be implemented this time?
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