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The Great Big Trial Speculation Thread
Considering the reveal of the Photo Club seems to have killed off the likeliness of Gyms coming to Alola, I guess I can say Trials will be back in US/UM and so that's where I figured we should speculate about what could happen with the trials in US/UM.
What new locations do you want trials to be held at? What new Totem Pokemon do you want to see? What tasks would you like to do in the trials? What new Trial Captains and Kahunas do you want to see? |
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I want Ryuki as trial captain. Kommo-o remaining a totem pokemon.
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Well, for starters, how about giving Mina a trial this time?
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Trials are definitely getting more content, because if they were all the exact same the Pokemon fans would be gathering pitchforks and torches. Potential Trial Pokemon were showcased in the first trailer, and Kahili was given focus in the more recent one. Mina was teased in SM already.
I personally hope all of them are a bit more difficult (the Lurantis one was nice, but the Kommo-o one was a bit of a joke), and maybe bumping the captains up a little nudge. But I'm a sucker for difficult stuff, so that's just me :P. |
Ryuki as a Trial Captain seems likely as we saw him feature in the trailer, and that would mean we get a proper Dragon trial which I'd be cool with! If Mina doesn't get a more fleshed out trial then I really hope she makes it somewhere as an E4 member or something. As for Kahili, she was showing off a Z-move which means she could be one of the Kahunas? If she is one of the Kahunas then this could still mean her later showing up at the Elite Four giving her more of a role in the storyline outside of the E4 which she should have imo.
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Ryuki looks like someone I'd like to see as a Trial Captain, since we did have that Totem Kommo-o running wild because of no Trial Captain overseeing it. It would make sense if that Trial Captain turned out to be him. |
I would say Kahili, but there is that thing about Trial Captains retiring at 20... But maybe she's younger/right at that age?
If she is a captain, then I'm certain her Trial would be at Ten Carat Hill since she's seen preparing to do a Z-Move dance in what looks like a cave, and Ten Carat Hill is where you find Flynium Z. |
just saying if there are any incomplete trials like in SM I'm going to be really, really disappointed. I thought that was extremely lazy of the developers (the Dragon trial and the random Fairy trial captain for no reason) and I hope it does not appear again.
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I don't think there's any reason to conclude Ryuki, who is explicitly stated to be a visitor from another region, will be a Trial Captain just because he showed up in the trailer, first of all. Same with Kahili; note that we've never had an Elite Four member demoted, and she was introduced as one rather than being promoted from Trial Captain during the game. Her age is also an issue.
Second, I'd like to point out that the trials are one of the main elements of the game - only changing them a little bit would start to defeat the purpose of making new games in the first place. Like the story, expect them to change. |
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Maybe kahili just happens to have one. I mean, you have one, and you're not a kahuna.
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Could just be because she's good at golf :p |
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TPC just released a clip of the player encountering Hiker Dave at the Wela Volcano trial site instead of Kiawe.
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wouldn't assume anything until we can see the video (not sure why you didnt post it :() with text. could just be for the Best Hiker thing Japan was doing, could be because you find him on the mountain and he says "Oh Kiawe's not here yet go find him at x" or anything else edit here it is https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xh89YdElp7o no trial gate or anything, so it doesn't even look like there's a trial here at all. BTW he just says "Alola! Sate, watashi wa dare deshou?" Which is "Alola! Now who am I exactly?" Or something like that. |
So I guess it looks like that it's confirmed will be new trials now that Kiawe appears to have stepped away from being a Trial Captain.
I'm guessing maybe he's been promoted to Elite Four, Kahuna, or is neither and just doing something else. |
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Very much hoping theres an Ice type trial but that's of course unlikely since the League is at the only place a trial like that could happen. Also, with Hala being E4, does this mean Hau could be the new Melemele Kahuna? |
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