Topic: Pokémon Sun & Moon - Discussion & Speculation

Riding Pokémon is back! The official site has released a screenshot of the trainer riding a Stoutland. The trainer is wearing a helmet, could this be some sort of racing mini-game?

EDIT 1: Zygarde cells can apparently be found all over the Alola region, might this hint on a collection aspect where we need to find all the cells to encounter and use Zygarde?

EDIT 2: The Japanese site confirms that Pichu and Pikachu are number 24 and 25 in the Alola dex, which means we might have even more Pokémon on each route than we had in X and Y. Confirmed Pokémon for the first route so far are Grubbin, Pikipek, Pichu, Pikachu, Ledyba and Yungoos. Considering we still have spots to be filled in the Dex it is safe to assume that the route has at least two more encounters, leaving it with two more encounters than we had on Route 2 in X and Y or one more if one of the encounters is version exclusive.

EDIT 3: The Japanese site also confirms that Zubat, Psyduck and Riolu are in the game.

EDIT 4: The Japanese site also confirms Klefki.

The official site also confirms Charjabug is the evolved form of Grubbin.

Tapu Koko's signature move is now basically superfang, halves your HP.

This could be a good mon as a tank killer. It has a lot of utility... immunity to sleep, basically adaptability on electric type moves, can ignore stat changes and delete 50% of your HP then chunk the rest off with moves when they get too low. I feel like this mon would be very strong and viable. The only thing that would tell us is the stats, if it has flat 100 in all of them or even atleast the same stats as rotom base, it could be pretty good. That speed stat is going to be the major concern.. even if it gets a setup move it can make up for offenses.

Idk if it's a special attacker though... the new move looks like a physical attack and I don't think a special attacker's signature move would be physical if that were the case..

@IceClimbers That's probably looking into it way too much. Although you have to admit those are all fairly likely candidates for Mega Evolution.

@Rensch That's my take on things.

"Dude, stop overanalysing, that's ridiculous. But... errm, yeah, you might be right."

I got my wish! We have English names for Nekkoala and Iwanko! They're Komala and Rockruff, respectively.

..."Rockruff?"

Pretty creative, isn't it? Quite a bit of thought clearly went into that one.

Don't diss Rockruff guys. What did he ever do to you?

Anyway glad to be proven wrong that Grubbin actually does evolve into Vikavolt. Now I know which mon I'm immediately catching in Alola!

I think Vikavolt is one my new favorites of the Gen, along with Rowlett, Littens, and 'Rockruff'. In fact, I think Rockruff is a new all-time favorite — hopefully has a good evolution.

Don't get me wrong, Rockruff's design is one of my favorites so far....It's just that I think a little more thought could have went into the name.

Litten and Solgaleo are my favorite designs revealed up to the point.*

• Disclaimer: Trinexx loves cats.

Is it available for pre-order only on Amazon?

I'm probably late to the party (like always), but screw it. So can I just say, bow down to your new lord and savior, Donald Tru...I mean, Yungoos.

On a more serious note, though, I now have a reason to add Grubbin to my party, since Vikavolt is a thing, and it looks bad***. For once, I'm actually really excited to use an early Bug Pokemon. Tapu Koko looks pretty awesome as well. I'm really impressed with most of the Pokemon designs so far, except for maybe Bruxish and Drampa.

I am totally getting Grubbin. It becomes part Electric-type once it evolves into Charjabug and Vikavolt.

I actually like this one. Having the magma veins flare up for its attack is a cool little animation detail. Very interested to see how the evolutionary chain will look. Something with regrowing tails and magma veins, perhaps?

Salamander-things design I actually like. One of the better designs I've seen so far.

@Tsurii It's called Salandit. Ability is Corrosion, it can poison even Poison and Steel types, not sure how though, through contact or with physical moves, I'm not sure. Maybe it raises the chance of poisoning to 100% on poison-inducing moves.

It looks like a Dark-type, but it actually has an all-new Poison/Fire-combo. I'm picking Rowlet so this looks like a cool substitute. I'm really digging that claw pattern and that awesome Poison-even-Zubat ability.

Pretty ambivalent to this one's design appearance-wise, but I gotta say it's really intriguing.

It has a cool new typing and ability, and I love lizard Pokes. If it has a cool evolution it will end up on my team, but hopefully they won't treat it like they did their last lizard, Helioptile.

Not only am I a fan of Salandit's design, but it has a type combination that I've always wanted to see! I like it enough that I would consider getting Rowlet instead of Litten and using Salandit as my Fire type.

It's too early to tell, of course.

Love Salandit's design. Now hoping we see a Poison/Electric type too.