News: Raichu Alola Form, new Pokémon + more

[blue]

The music for Team Skull is just too good! They give off a sort of gangster vibe which goes well with the Poison-type Pokemon they use.

 

[Nath74K]

One thing we can also extract from the trailer, is that Piukumuku's ability doesn't put the opponent Pokémon KO, but it only hurts them a bit.

 

[thedestinedblade]

This is the first time NPCs have used non-Poke Balls and I think that's actually damn cool. Don't know if there's any significance to it, but it's cool regardless.

Team Skull using Ariados and Golbat, lol. Some things never change.

 

[Nath74K]

"Pyukumuku has a new Ability, Innards Out, which no other Pokémon has had before. With the Innards Out Ability, when this Pokémon faints, it will be able to deal one last bit of damage to its opponent, equal to the amount of HP it had left before it received the final blow."

It's actually pretty interesting. I like it.

 

[Winter]

I can sea you're bringing some good puns.

Guess I made a splash with that one. Hope everyone's not too shocked by it.

 

[Iceshadow3317]

Worth noting but the update was actually scheduled for tomorrow. As in about 24 hours from now. Good work. The leak's probably why Japan had a trailer much earlier than usual. The video getting published locally today probably has to do with the hustle and the fact the surprise is already spoiled.

Laughing right now.

Yeah. This is the second time it has happened now. The video at the start of July was also leaked about 24 hours before, so they went ahead and released the video in Japan. I think the USA held out that time though.

You know Game Freak/Nintendo/Pokemon Company must be starting to get pretty annoyed.

 

[omegarubyknight]

We got everything except Bewear's pre-evo from Corocoro I'm guessing that will be revealed in the next batch of Pokemon news

 

[Nath74K]

Yeah, the Sandcastles Pokémons and Pre-Bewear are CoroCoro exclusives, just like Rockruff and the Koala were. We'll have to wait 3 weeks or a month tops before having it revealed to the whole wide world.

 

[Esper]

I'm glad we got another mushroom Pokemon to keep the trend going. Reminds me of a nightlight a bit. And they took surfing Pikachu and stepped it up with a surfing Raichu. It's going to be hard to choose which Pokemon to use in this game.

I'm amused that the grunts in Japanese use the スカ from スカル in their speech. Well done there.

 

[Altairis]

It seems weird that we have normal Cubone evolving into a Marowak of a different type :x I was expecting an Alola Cubone, too. Pikachu seems a bit weird too but I didnt expect one because its the mascot and all.

 

[Rai]

I am seriously the happiest person alive right now. I have waited for years for Raichu to get some much-needed attention. I literally screamed when I saw it.

So happy :3 <3~

 

[WingsofBliss]

I'm definitely adding Alola Raichu to my core team. I've always wanted them to make an Electric/Psychic, and it's also one of my favorite Electric-types. The surfing motif made me laugh because I think it's an obvious reference to the Surfing Pikachu from the older games.

 

[Sheep]

I am seriously the happiest person alive right now. I have waited for years for Raichu to get some much-needed attention. I literally screamed when I saw it.

So happy :3 <3~

Me too. Your signature is so massively cute by the way, Alola Raichu is just too perfect. I almost always tend to use Raichu on my team so I can see this time won't be an exception. <3

 

[Jason Wolf]

So basically nintendo realized people were grumpy about pokemon that are just a group of pokemon for an evolution and made it a form instead. A form change based on level... *sigh*

 

[kingdenas]

I am seriously the happiest person alive right now. I have waited for years for Raichu to get some much-needed attention. I literally screamed when I saw it.

So happy :3 <3~

Yes, Raichu really needed a lot of love. Thanks to its new Alola Form, it's gaining much more attention! I'm super fan of its new design, he actually SURFS on its tail. It's so cute. I guess GF is trying to give Alola Forms to underrated Pokémon as well.

 

[Nath74K]

Kind of off subject, but wouldn't it be amazing that, when they eventually introduce Gen 7 in Pokémon Go, when you go to Hawaii, you can catch the Alola forms?

 

[Nah]

really the part that got me excited in this trailer was watching Gyarados use Hyper Beam

IT MAKES THE SOUND IT DID IN GENS 1-2 YESSSSSSSSS I LOVE THAT SOUND EFFECT

 

[Hikamaru]

So apparently this is what Innards Out does:

Clarification on the Innards Out ability: With the Innards Out Ability, when this Pokémon faints, it will be able to deal one last bit of damage to its opponent, equal to the amount of HP it had left before it received the final blow.

Hmm... so it's similar to Aftermath in that regard?

Also, I love how badass the Team Skull theme music is!

 

[Lunar]

I loved this trailer so much, these games look seriously good and I'm glad they gave Raichu some much needed attention. Team Skull are looking great and I like the gangsta theme but can we just appreciate how Game Freak named a Pokemon Wishiwashi, it's great.

really the part that got me excited in this trailer was watching Gyarados use Hyper Beam

IT MAKES THE SOUND IT DID IN GENS 1-2 YESSSSSSSSS I LOVE THAT SOUND EFFECT

Poor Wishiwashi though.

 

[Hikamaru]

I only just noticed Ancient Power's new animation:

Adding fossils into the rocks really gives it a nice touch. Also, I love how Spore's new animation now actually has a mushroom in it because it symbolizes the fact it's exclusively learned by mushroom-based Pokemon.