Earlier today new details were revealed for Pokémon Sun and Moon - these include 'Hyper Training' and expanded options in the Pokémon Global Link service.
In addition six new Pokémon got revealed, so as is now the norm we've looked through the Pokémon Twitter feed and official website for the full lowdown and images on the new 'mon.
Check them out below!
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Wimpod have a cowardly nature and are wary of noises and sudden movements. If you approach them in a group, they'll immediately run off. When Wimpod feel threatened, they spit out a poisonous liquid. The stench of this toxic fluid signals others that danger is near.
Despite their extreme cowardice, their curiosity leads Wimpod to approach people or Pokémon that are standing still.Wimpod eat and store anything that they find fallen on the ground. They also scavenge any garbage that's been dropped in the sea, so they're highly valued as cleaners. They sometimes carry pearls or other valuable items, so humans or Pokémon like Murkrow may target them.
Wimpod has the new Wimp Out Ability, an Ability that no other Pokémon has had before. With the Wimp Out Ability, if this Pokémon's HP drops below half in battle, it will run away or swap out for another Pokémon.
Mudsdale is known for its powerful body as well as its emotional fortitude, which keeps it from being agitated by anything. It never cries out, no matter what kind of trouble it's in, and it defeats its opponents with a single powerful blow. Its legs are coated in protective mud, and the weight of this coating increases the force of its kicks. One kick, and a car is a pile of scrap!
Mudsdale's running speed is not too swift, but it has excellent power and stamina. It can carry on for three days and three nights despite dragging loads of over 10 tons!
When Mudsdale gallops in earnest, the power of each hoof-clop can dig out huge holes, even in asphalt. Mudsdale is forbidden to run on some of Alola's public roads.
Mudsdale can have the new Stamina Ability, an Ability that no other Pokémon has had before. With the Stamina Ability, this Pokémon's Defense goes up by 1 when it's hit by an attack.
Mimikyu lives its life completely covered by its cloth and is always hidden. People believe that anybody who sees its true form beneath the cloth will be stricken with a mysterious illness. People in the Alola region are convinced that you must never try to peek beneath its covering. Mimikyu's health fails when it's bathed in the rays of the sun, so it prefers to stick to dark places. It's rumored that the reason it covers itself with a cloth is to avoid sunlight.
The rising popularity of Pikachu-styled merchandise around 20 years ago is the reason that Mimikyu makes itself look like Pikachu. In fact, this Pokémon is dreadfully lonely, and it thought it would be able to make friends with humans if only it looked like Pikachu.
Mimikyu has the Disguise Ability, a new Ability that no Pokémon has ever before possessed. The Disguise Ability allows it to escape damage from an enemy's attack just one time, and then its appearance changes.
Comfey picks flowers and always carries them around. It makes a ring of blossoms and spreads oil from its body on it, which changes the flowers so they emit a soothing fragrance. It has a habit of giving these flower rings to those it's fond of. The aroma can soothe both itself and its allies. Comfey also helps with the treatment of people and Pokémon at Pokémon Centers and hospitals, thanks to its aroma.
When attacked by other Pokémon, it throws its flowers at them to create an opening, and then it either flees or strikes back.
Comfey can have the new Triage Ability, an Ability that no other Pokémon has had before. With the Triage Ability, this Pokémon's restorative moves gain the highest priority in battle.
Because it exudes a delicious smell from its entire body, Bounsweet is popular with Pokémon and people of the Alola region. Bounsweet's scent has a calming effect on humans, so many people let them live inside their homes as a sort of air freshener. Unfortunately, it's sometimes swallowed whole by Pokémon drawn to its aroma.
When running away from other Pokémon, Bounsweet flees danger by skipping along the ground. Since its bouncy movements don't convey to others that it's actually in desperate flight, no one ever comes to its aid.
When attacked by enemies, it drives them off by rotating the calyx on its head. The downside is how dizzy it gets afterward!
When Bewear is acting in a friendly fashion, just swinging its arms around, you must never dare to approach it carelessly. It is acknowledged to be a dangerous Pokémon, even within the Alola region. You may see warning signs posted near places it resides.
When Bewear grows fond of its Trainer, it may show that feeling in a fond embrace—but the force of that hug is tremendous! Trainers must teach these Pokémon how to restrain their strength when showing affection.
Bewear may have the Fluffy Ability, a new Ability that no Pokémon has ever possessed before. The Fluffy Ability halves the damage taken from attacks that make direct contact, but in return it also doubles the damage taken from Fire-type moves.
Some wild Bewear use amazing martial-arts moves. Apparently the Pokémon learn these moves by watching Black Belts practicing when they go out to train in the woods.
Bewear's arms and legs are strong and highly developed. Its powerful spine enables it to lift objects weighing a ton or more. It loves to give crushing bear hugs—a tight hug from this Pokémon's arms will split anything at all in two!
[source pokemon-sunmoon.com]
Comments (36)
That Mimikyu looks like a bad drawn pikachu
Who else thought Mudsdale was going to be a fire type
"The rising popularity of Pikachu-styled merchandise around 20 years ago is the reason that Mimikyu makes itself look like Pikachu."
That's just meta, on so many levels.
Show me what's underneath the disguise, Mimikyu!
In all seriousness, I'm really curious to see if it will evolve. Because if it does, I think it'll completely abandon the disguise and turn out to be really awesome. More-so than it is already.
I'm really interested in Wimpod's typing - but that ability seems... just so useless. And that dialled some of the excitement on it back for me. The rest are okay in my opinion. There isn't anything I outright dislike so far, which is a great sign. But I'm really interested in seeing what else they've come up with.
But all in all, Sun and Moon is rocking!
I'm still strongly disliking Bewear and Comfey, but the rest are looking good now that I'm getting used to them.
No bases or contest it seems....
I say Mimikyu hits home the most. I'm sure a lot of Pokemon would like to be as popular as Pikachu.
Plus, that description breaks the 4th wall in a sense. 20 years ago...heh.
I like bewear and mimikyu
@Xaessya They only started showing stuff like 2 months ago and we're still like 5 months out from release, relax man.
Bewear has entered my top 10 Pokemon.
Looking at this crap just further solidifies my OPINION that gen 1 is the best of all time. 2 is 2nd.
maybe we will learn more about Alola region next month when Corocoro releases. Apparently in Corocoro next month it will get a Southern Islands Alola Guide.
Mudsdale kicks
"and it defeats its opponents with a single powerful blow"
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So far, my most anticipated Gen 7 Pokemon (based on visuals) has to be Mimikyu, Mudsdale and probably Salandit. The rest aren't bad. But those are the ones that sort of stuck out to me (and Mimikyu's dex entry is just so damn creepy and hilarious).
Poor Mimikyu it's so lonely and creepy
Man, most of the new Pokemon I've seen for Sun & Moon are just bad. A couple are fine, but the majority are plain bad. Either they've got new character designers who just aren't as good as the guys who did the original Pokemon designs for the likes of Red and Blue, or they're seriously running out of good design ideas. At least that's how it seems to me.
@Acein210 Yeah, I def think the gen 1 actual Pokemon designs are basically the strongest overall.
I like Comfey, Mimikyu and Mudsdale. I particularly like Mimikyu's typing.
Bounsweet is ok. I don't like bug types, so I don't like Wimpod. Bewear is...interesting? If it was Fairy/Fighting rather than Normal/Fighting I would probably like it more.
Comfey, Bounsweet, and Mimikyu are all cute and I love them.
Mudsdale looks kind of cool. The other 5 look like either cheap near doubles of old Pokemon or drawings from 7 year olds.
Can we just talk about how terrifying the dex entry for bounsweet is? It tries to be nice and make things smell good but gets eaten for it, and nobody comes to help because they think its playing. I mean, jeez.
Comfy has a stupid name, Wimpod is supposed to be dumb, and Mudsdale is one of my least favorite Pokemon introduced so far.
@Rhydas well we know wimpod is gunna evolve and its ability is more of a pvp ability for usefulness.
@Kirk I hate to be this guy, but all Gens Pokemon have their good and bad, for example, Geodude.
@xPH03N1Xx86 You can't talk sense into genwunners :3
Mimikyu, I choose you!
@xPH03N1Xx86 Yeah, but this gen appears to have more than its fair share of bad. I mean, if these are the ones they're actually proudly showing off.
Also, Geodude as an actual aesthetic character design looks pretty good, simple but generally aesthetically pleasing, and better than at least half of these new Pokemon we've seen.
Most of the new designs are just weird, awkward, and slightly "off", imo.
I like them all! Leg-warmer horse looks like a non-evolver though.
While Mimikyu looks amazing I'm 100% certain that every single team will use it for at least 1 year after the release, and this kind of thing is the real turnoff for me in Online Pokémon. And this combined with a mediocre single player is dulling the experience to me since X/Y unfortunately.
@edgedino As much as I'd love to believe that - we don't know if it will evolve or not. That aspect of Wimpod hasn't been revealed yet, so I'm a little curious on how you managed to come to that conclusion.
@Kirk Well each to their own but I'll take red pandas, trilobites, shire horses, faries and mimics over 6 eggs, ball, upside-down ball, blob 1, blob 2, blob 2 but bigger, magnets, more magnets, ground sausage and 3 ground sausages.
Honestly it's completely fine to not like the new design and art style, which has changed a lot since the first gen, that's personal taste and fine. But to suggest they're less creative ideas now is absurd and really unfair. Some of the subtleties of these designs, even ones I'm less keen on, are insanely clever.
Also I feel like since they've been able to animate sprites we're seeing a lot more with concepts that really need that movement to truly be appreciated. Bewear looks super dumb but in motion it works! I actually felt the same way about Psyduck when I caught one in Pokemon Go recently. It looked so rubbish and I was bummed as I remembered it being so much more fun! Then it did it's little headachey animation and I was right back on board with it's design!
I like Geodude too.
@Ogbert "Also I feel like since they've been able to animate sprites we're seeing a lot more with concepts that really need that movement to truly be appreciated. "
Yeah, but that kinda goes to my point: The best character designs shouldn't only look good in motion, they should look good regardless, even in silhouette—that's basically the dictionary definition of a good/strong character design.
A really great character design should actually suggest the likely motion too, just by the look and pose, even in a static image. Like, you at least know a Diglett doesn't move just by looking at it (apart from maybe popping up/down or in/out of the ground, like one of those Whack a Mole games), right? You know Snorlax is just gonna lay about doing nothing, right? You know Charizard is an awesome dragon that's gonna fly around and attack you with fire, right? And you know Magikarp is just gonna flop around helplessly, and then . . . it totally blew your mind when it evolved, because its unevolved state made you think it was totally gormless and useless.
Everything matters: Colours, proportions, pose, characteristics, line of action, silhouette, expression, overall aesthetic appeal, etc.
@Rhydas its the fact there is no way they would leave it at that when they have given an evolution to each other of simularity plus this is the first 1 not to be a fossil pokemon, the only thing i wondering of it though is how similer to the other to it will become, fast like kabutops or bulky like armaldo.
@Kirk some of the gen1 Pokemon have the worst silhouettes. To of them are literally just balls.
And I think these all have strong and interesting silhouettes. Mimikyu you can tell is some kind of wrong-Pikachu, something is amiss and slightly sinister - perfect for a ghost type. Wimpod looks like it would scuttle about - you can imagine them rapidly dispersing as you open a door to a darkened room and they all scatter. Mudsdale looks stoic and powerful. Boundsweet looks bouncy and cheerful and not super powerful. Bewear is a poor choice of default pose I'll grant but it's clearly both cutesy and solid looking from it's silhouette. Comfey is an odd one but the concept fits super well with the new locale and it's silhouette is unique is nothing else.
I feel they have all those things you claim are lacking, whilst some earlier ones I would argue don't. My point about the animation is this is where the concept side of the design shines through more often. Going back to Psyduck, without it either being in the headache pose as a static image or being animated it's just a badly drawn duck.
@Ogbert Did you recognise them as balls in silhouette (or indeed "orbs")?
Also, for the record, I never said ALL the Gen 1 Pokemon had great silhouettes.
And, Psyduck is a more appealing design than many of the new Pokemon, imo. You put him alongside all the other latest Pokemon we've seen from Sun & Moon in front of the average kid, and I'm confident many of them will pick him as their fav. And his iconic and instantly recognisable pose—which goes entirely to my point, by the way—is part of his character design; you can't just delete core aspects of the character design to support your argument.
Psyduck is the epitome of simple, cool, fun, and appealing character design, imo. I mean, his name and design tell you pretty much everything you need to know right there: He's a duck (although actually a platypus ) that's either psychic or psychotic, or both (probably both, considering he's a platypus that's called/treated as a duck, and he does indeed have psychic powers).
And, when you see him in action, he's basically exactly as you'd imagine him to be:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDH0au9qRL8
To be clear, there are quite a few good designs among the new Pokemon too. I'm just shocked at how many fugly ones there are as well, as I see them.
Nice to see a Pokemon based around a Clydesdale horse.
Scotland comes to Pokemon
@Rhydas yep its evolution has been leaked and it is just as i said all that time before even though it looks slowish.
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