News: Alolan Muk and New Characters for Sun and Moon

We now have English names for old and new Pokémon and characters, and Rainbow Muk abound! Check the trailers and additional information here.

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RKS sounds like Arceus... Good one Nintendo

Disappointed with steene and tsareena.

Woo! Was right about Bounsweet evolving twice :D I really like both designs to. The last evo reminds me of Tsunade from Naruto kinda. Don't think a lot of people will know how to pronounce it's name if they haven't watched animes.

I actually really love Alolan Muk, but I don't get the dark typing at all. However, Muk proves that those were not teeth on Grimer, which most though. It is trash that has gotten stuck,

Won't be able to watch the trailer until later but I am in love with Bounsweet's evolution from the preview!

Wow, Alola Muk looks super odd! I like the way its color scheme "moves" when it's in battle, but that's an odd design '-' Not a huge fan of it, but it's good!

I don't have to much to say about Silvally (what a strange name '-') and Jangmo-o's evolutions. It's nice to see their unique moves, such as Multi-Attack (for Type:Null's evolution) and Clanging Scales (for Kommo-o).

Bounsweet's evolution looks ADORABLE OMG. Especially its middle stage form *-* Tsareena looks kind of weird though '-' I like them nonetheless. I'd like to know what does Queenly Majesty (is Tsareena supposed to represent a queen or princess? Something like Vespiqueen?) do? I like the animation of its unique move though ^^ I wouldn't mind using it, but I'm going with Lurantis *-*

So they finally announced Cutiefly's evo, Ribombee. I don't think this thing is going to evolve, since they revealed, in this trailer, the full evolution line of some Pokémon, so yeah...

I like the new characters! I love Olivia's design, and it's great to see a female Kahuna.
Ilima is the normal-type Trial Captain then. Is he/she a boy or a girl? I'm kind of confused @.@

The trial looks cool, would love to see more of that. Other than that nothing we didn't already know and a rainbowcatthing Muk.

lol rainbow muk

But another ability that negates priority moves?

And the similarities between Type Null, Silvally, and Arceus make me more curious about it....

It looks like there's more than just the initial 4 Kahunas. If we were to count that, we get 6 already. What if... there's actually 2 more, just like the usual Gym Leader system?

By the way, I'm intrigued with the Queenly Majesty ability. Does it disables/blocks any move used by the foe on the first turn it's sent out or switched in? Or maybe when Tsareena is sent out or switched in? Or probably something else like blocking priority?

Jangmoo's evolution's Japanese name is better

HyperMorian said:

It looks like there's more than just the initial 4 Kahunas. If we were to count that, we get 6 already. What if... there's actually 2 more, just like the usual Gym Leader system?

By the way, I'm intrigued with the Queenly Majesty ability. Does it disables/blocks any move used by the foe on the first turn it's sent out or switched in? Or maybe when Tsareena is sent out or switched in? Or probably something else like blocking priority?

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The English website makes it fairly clear that there are only 4 Kahunas, one per island. There may be one on a later island, but from what we know, there is only 4. I don't think the center island will have one. We do have 5 Trial Captains though, which are different from the Kahunas.

Just saw these, a bigger update then I expected. We got another full 3 stage line detailed which was nice. The evolutions to bounsweet are neat, surprised by pure grass typing though. I like Alolan Muk better then Grimer though.

And it's odd we haven't seen Alolan Persian yet.

The_Awesome_Pikachu said:

Disappointed with steene and tsareena.

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Omg I love steene and tsareena. <3

Silvally's name is a bit silly if you ask me. Silvadi sounds a bit more badass. But it's not as ridiculous as Type: Null.

Hakamo-o and Kommo-o look very cool, and I have a feeling this'll be Alola's pseudo-legendary. Although I would've kept the name Jararanga for the last evo.

Bounsweet's evolutions look very nice. I didn't want Bounsweet at first, but these gals could make me change my mind. Although they would've made great counterparts for the Fomantis line if Bounsweet didn't exist, and Queenly Majesty seems to be a Dazzling clone.

Ribombee... meh...

So Alola Grimer and Muk get Bite and Crunch? I think they should get Knock Off too!

A very good reveal for me here:

Alohan Muk looks a lot better in Alohan form than it's regular form. Dark typing makes next to no sense but credit to the designers for giving a new lease of life to a much forgotten Pokemon.

Tsareena may well be my favourite Alohan Pokemon revealed so far. I like the elegance of the design of it and the lore saying it is a Queen is a nice touch. She has a little crown on her head similar to Lilligant. Are the two connected somehow? I am also curious as to how it evolves into its final form.

It's is slightly disappointing Tsareena is pure Grass Type similar to Bellossom, Lilligant and Lurantis. I can see myself using both.

Cutiefly's evolution looks cute too.

did any1 noice that the new Kahuna has only 3 Pokemon on hand? Same was with the Ala or w/e was his name

Speaking of Silvally's name....I thought that they might have gone with something more robotic sounding like Type: Null

HyperMorian said:

By the way, I'm intrigued with the Queenly Majesty ability. Does it disables/blocks any move used by the foe on the first turn it's sent out or switched in? Or maybe when Tsareena is sent out or switched in? Or probably something else like blocking priority?

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It appears to block priority, like Bruxish's ability Dazzling does.

Game Freak must really have come to hate Talonflame or something, giving a Water type and then a Grass type an anti-priority ability, as well as a Rock type with a priority Rock attack lol

Tsareena has definitely made it on my team fabulous! Gonna pair it with my Ampharos and Aromatisse. That team is gonna eliminate with pure elegance.

Kommo-o looks totally cool in-game. He looks triumphed through rigorous training.

Rainbow Muk just makes want to ask more questions about it, but I love it. It must've mix it' polluted body with all the gems in Alola? I oddly love it.

IcyIce said:

Woo! Was right about Bounsweet evolving twice :D I really like both designs to. The last evo reminds me of Tsunade from Naruto kinda. Don't think a lot of people will know how to pronounce it's name if they haven't watched animes.

I actually really love Alolan Muk, but I don't get the dark typing at all. However, Muk proves that those were not teeth on Grimer, which most though. It is trash that has gotten stuck,

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I think it's said like the Russian word for Queen. Which is likely the inspiration for the name.

I wonder if Silvally is even the final. I'm getting a bronze, silver vibe from Null and Silvally so I wonder if a golden might exist. Maybe Type: Null will be a pseudo not only in it's lore.

My initial opinions are that

- Silvally still looks awesome and I can't wait to make it pink with the fairy item.
- Jangmo-o's evolutions look better as in game models imo.
- Steenee is really cute, but Tsareena is a bit meh, I think this might be a rare case of the first stage pokémon being the best in an evolution line.
- Ribombee is just pure forgettable.
- Muk is actually awesome rocking the rainbow colours. It makes Grimer's alolan form look slightly less disappointing.