Yeah, the way to do so is legitimately stupid though. You have to go to the GameFreak building in HeaHea City and talk to one of the people in there and they'll give you the option to use the circle pad
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Pokémon Sword and Shield announced. Coming Late 2019
- Thread starter Xavi
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I came to the same conclusion
It's just done this way because of how much the UK obsesses with football so they obsess with Pokémon battles. Why people think "Oh it's football", I have no idea.
Nowadays post-game content in Pokémon is still story focused
Ah of course. Perfectly logical GameFreak lol. Thanks for clarifying this for me, I can go explore a bit further now :)
Eh, I don't think they will. Some Pokémon were not revealed before launch in S/M, they'll do something like that again.
Not every single Pokémon, but yes @ every single feature.
I hate that approach, but whatever. It's how it is now.
Or course they are not revealing every single mythical, legendaries and some evos/prevos, but pretty much every common family.
Here are the Pokémon which were not officially revealed by the time Sun and Moon came out;
Trumbeak
Toucannon
Crabominable
Mareanie (its picture appeared on the side of a TCG booster box, but no official reveal)
Toxapex
Dewpider
Araquanid
Shiinotic
Salazzle
Golisopod
Dhelmise
Cosmoem
Marshadow
So yeah- every legendary was revealed.
Trumbeak
Toucannon
Crabominable
Mareanie (its picture appeared on the side of a TCG booster box, but no official reveal)
Toxapex
Dewpider
Araquanid
Shiinotic
Salazzle
Golisopod
Dhelmise
Cosmoem
Marshadow
So yeah- every legendary was revealed.
I mean technically Necrozma, Kartana and Celesteela were only revealed officially in Japan 1 day before launch
Wasn't Necrozma featured in the last news broadcast that had the starter Z-Moves in it?
Kartana and Celesteela perhaps weren't revealed worldwide, but they were still out there by the time the games came out.
It wouldn't be a game freak game without an incredibly dumbass way to do something simple
Yeah, thank you. I was looking for that list.
I hope they hide enough this time.
Not in the trailer but in the press release 2 days before launch, yeah
To be fair they haven't gone all the way and revealed stats and movepools for Pokemon before launch, that stuff is usually up to dataminers (especially stats, since determining them can be a bit of a pain till post game otherwise). It would be neat if Gamefreak would start revealing base stats ahead of time, but I imagine we'll have to wait for the game launch as usual.
I'm in the Grookey gang and I am prepared to be disappointed with its final evolution. The last two gens I have absolutely made my decision based off of the final evos and if I can avoid doing that this gen I'm gonna try. Don't know if I'm equipped to to avoid Pokémon reveals like Neo though
Stats are never revealed. Pre or post launch, Game Freak has never recognized stats as numeric values. They don't want to treat Pokémon as data.
Oh I know this, I just would 't mind a change is all!
At the very least, we can estimate stuff from trailers and screenshots sometimes. We got pretty close with the starter Pikachu and Eevee stats for example.
If not numerical maybe a "x out of five" bars like I recall some official guide books and the like doing that were aimed at a younger crowd. That way you get a general impression what they focus on without the nitty gritty. "Oh this Pokemon is slow but Special Def."
At some point, they need to reconcile what they want and what they do
Maybe because the trainer is seen wearing a football uniform?
If he was still wearing his normal clothes, or other kind of costume that hinted at "sports" in general or some kind of new fancy thingy like the one for Poké Rides in Alola, everyone would've assumed it was just a normal stadium like the ones from the anime. But why would the trainer have to change his clothes to a soccer uniform out of all things? Or why don't we see him outside the stadium wearing that outfit?
I mean, after all, it's just a costume, and it doesn't confirm anything, it is even most likely going to be optional, but with the precedent of Trials instead of gyms in Alola, I don't find that crazy that most of us thought about a new soccer-inspired mechanic replacing the gyms after watching the trailer (which I'm totally not excited about if it's the case).
Ah i remember that night when the Sun and Moon stats leaked and Slow Alola became a thing.
Yep. Lately we've only had a handful of new mons be an actual surprise when the game launches.
Yep. Same as with smash. No point in trying to keep surprises at launch.
yeap I confirm that, I have no source , but I think the same
It really does feel like the reveal was forever ago at this point, I honestly have to remind myself sword and shield are a thing sometimes. Weirdly the fact that we got a full reveal makes it easier to forget unlike gen 7 because we have way less questions that need answered in general.
At least our expectations aren't as high thanks to them not showing concept art that will go unused
He's wearing a single throwing glove though, implying that a Pokemon battle is about to take place. I'd say football is very unlikely to be involved.
And while trials may have mixed things up, they didn't add new mechanics from what I remember. Rather they repurposed familiar ones.
Yup. Now I'm 100% expecting Armored Mewtwo to be an actual form implemented into the main games.
Wheter this means Armored Evolution is real though, that's a whole different topic.
There are lots of things in GO that aren't in the main games. Look at the 20 Spinda forms for example, and the various hat Pichu/Pikachu/Raichu
As I have said. Armored Mewtwo is in the movie. If it was a new thing such as Armored Evolution, they'd have hidden the name. The first merchandise listing for Armored Mewtwo this year predates the Armored Evolution rumour.
They registered the trademark for Armored Mewtwo. They didn't register any trademarks for specific Mega Evolutions or Alolan Forms, however.
This is almost certainly a tie-in for the movie
I legitimately don't know if Armored Evolution is a thing at present, but this doesn't add up to it in my view.
We are overdue for a movie trailer and next week's Pokénchi does have a movie focus.
Last year we had Lugia arrive in GO to coincide with the prebooking of tickets for last year's movie. Prebooking of tickets for this year's movie start Friday
Last year we had Lugia arrive in GO to coincide with the prebooking of tickets for last year's movie. Prebooking of tickets for this year's movie start Friday
I interpeted this similarly and I would argue that it's more likely that armored Mewtwo (and perhaps therefore armored evolution as a whole) is nothing more than a movie thing - simply because why would they debut a new form in Pokemon Go before the main games? At least, if it is a new form, we'll hear about it being in the main games very soon.
I mean to play devil's advocate, they introduced Meltan in GO before main games.
However, if this is Armored Mewtwo in GO, I would argue that it puts that Armored Evolution rumour into further question.
That's what I've been saying since it was even mentioned. We've had a number of one off special Pokemon, like that and Surfing Pikachu
Hah I thought about this but didn't think it quite counted considering it was a tie in with Let's Go and also they weren't/aren't available without having Let's Go.
All depends whether Bank will connect to Let's Go. We're getting a movie distribution on Friday for Mewtwo
I can't believe we're getting yet another Mewtwo form.
They're really going to have to sell me on Armored evolutions, because I can't see this as anything other than another short lasting gimmick intended to spice up battles.
All evidence points to this just being a thing for the movie at this time.
There is zero evidence at this time that this will carry over to the main games
This month actually, if not, May for sure. You won't have to wait until E3
