Pokémon Sun/Moon - Nov 18, 2016

[Yeager]

So is Mimikyu a Ghost/Fairy type? I saw that Z move that looks very much like a Fairy type move.

[Seravi Edalborez]

Yeah, and that probably is the Fairy Z-move.

It uses Thunderbolt because I think pretty much every Ghost type learns Thunderbolt.

[Rooney]

RNG much?... was picking up keldeo and had 3 of the first 4 have a 0 IV. Also, what's up with the mysterious man in the demo? He keeps giving different dialogue every time I talk to him, even though he doesn't give me anything.

[Zealot]

Was hunting around for 3-star Machops today and got a 2-star shiny. I think I'll name it Banner.

[Kirin]

So far my party for Moon will be:

Owl Assassin
Fake Pikachu
Tribal Marowak
Railgun Mosquito/Gundam Crab
Shadow Raptor Lizard
Mortar Turtle/Submarine Sardine

TM slave: Detective Otter

[Kincard]

I don't think you'll need a slave this time around? They're removing HMs and the ride Pokemon fill that function now as far as I can tell.

Not a big fan of Litten's evo, so I think my team will be Popplio, Fomantis, Salandit, Rockruff and Oricorio (Ghost). Haven't decided on a sixth- might take Snow Vulpix.

[Taim Meich]

I definitely will have Rowlett and Munchlax. The candidates for the rest of the spots are many, but so far I like Salandit (the poison/fire lizard), Mimikyu, Oricorio (the dancing bird), Jangmo-o (the dragon/fighting one), Oranguru, Alolan Marowak, Rockruff, that anchor-looking one...

[Zealot]

If anyone has a spare minute today to do an evolution trade, I have a Machoke I need to evolve.

[Zealot]

Derp, just realized I can do all the trade evos myself through GTS since I have OR and AS.

[Seravi Edalborez]

^ I'm still lazy and GTS for trade evos if it's just for (living) dex.

Speaking of, might just complete before Sun/Moon drop. 542 living, 649 caught at the moment. Just have to level all the breed babies and catch all the legends I've been putting off.

[Taim Meich]

Ugh, breeding the babies (and leveling up the middle evolutions) is the worst part. I finished the other day the 2-3 that I had left, and even with the big amounts of exp you're provided at endgame, it's still pretty tedious. Other than that, I'm only missing three legendaries, two of which are Genesect and Meloetta who come in the next two months, so it's pretty much done

[Seravi Edalborez]

For me the worst are day/night evos and Porygon for making me need to trade basically 3 times to get 2 and Z both. Also basically anything in Gen5 because god those level-evolve levels.

[Scythiroth]

I'm slowly working on Living Dex, got the Oval Charm in OR/AS at least to help with all the breeding nonsense. But I keep getting distracted by other games and stuff.

[Vaspinne]

For me the worst are day/night evos and Porygon for making me need to trade basically 3 times to get 2 and Z both. Also basically anything in Gen5 because god those level-evolve levels.

The high level evolves aren't too bad once you get some Blissey bases going. This page has 12 you can use. They're all triple-battles with self-killing level 50 Blisseys so even if you're going in with all level 1 pokemon you can still eventually win. And if you're post game, you can get a thing from Battle Resort that unlocks the bases and lets them jump up to level 100.

http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads...hores.3524033/

[Seravi Edalborez]

Oh I have plenty of Blissey bases but I try to lowball the exp as much as I can in a given session so I don't end up with say level 60 Charmeleon. Plus the B mashing. Can usually only take a couple rounds of it per day. Which is fine since here's no rush and I have most of the high level evolves done by now.

[Silenka]

I only need one three pokemon to complete my living dex and I've been putting it off for over a month.

Yaaay.

[Kirin]

I'm not going to lie, I QR'ed most of my living dex. Was just a lot easier.

That said though, I bred all of my egg move pokedex. I don't really want to have to do it again for 30ish more pokes sans evolutions.

[Seravi Edalborez]

Japanese TCG previews give us "official" confirmation of the starter evos. JP names are apparently (Mokuroh > Fukuthrow >) Junaipaa, (Nyabby > Nyaheat >) Gaogaen, and (Ashimari > Oshamari >) Ashirene. Still no word on any secondary typings though.

Spoiler: show

edit: Oh hey official videos. Here we go boys.

Grass/GHOST Decidueye (has a unique damage+trap move Spirit Shackle, looks Ghost type)
Fire/DARK Incineroar (unique move Darkest Lariat, ignores enemy stat buffs)
Water/FAIRY Primarina (unique move Sparkling Aria, ...cures burns of targets it hits? Ok then)

Gotta say they all look good in action, I don't dislike Incineroar. But jesus Decidueye is clear winner.

Remaining island guardians are Tapu Lele (Psychic Fairy, brings in Psychic Terrain when it comes in), Tapu Bulu (Grass/Fairy, Grassy Terrain-making ability), and Tapu Fini (Water/Fairy, Misty Terrain-making ability). All 4 Tapus share a unique Z-move.

One of the presumed "baby" legends revealed, a pure Psychic called Cosmog with Unaware.

Alola Persian can have Fur Coat / Technician.

Battle Tree as the new Battle (whatever), fucking Cynthia is a multi-battle partner jesus christ. Other returning characters include Wally and Red and Blue.

I think there's literally too much hype in here but uh, very promising.

[Akiyama]

Also don't forget the end of that video

Spoiler: show

Team ups with Wally/Cynthia and battles vs Red/Blue!

[Seravi Edalborez]

Yeah was editing in as I watched. That's nuts.

Tapu Lele is gonna be an instant pick for VGC17. Auto-Psychic terrain (priority has no effect on non-Levitate, non-Flying pokemon) is probably huge. The effect text is also pretty funny ("The battlefield got weird!")

Waiting eagerly for the first person to nickname their musclecat Fangief.

JP trailer expands a little on Cosmog but otherwise doesn't have much else the english trailer doesn't.