[DISCUSSION] Pokemon Sun & Moon News Thread (Will Contain Pre-Launch Spoilers)

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New Stuff Revealed at Gamescon and Worlds!

New Pokemon got revealed around this time with some we might have covered and others completely brand new. Today we'll go over all 5 new Pokemon revealed starting with the new Pokemon revealed to the ones that now have localized names.

The Blast Turtle Pokemon: Turtonator
Type: Fire / Dragon
Height: 6'07"
Weight: 467.4 lbs.
Ability: Shell Armor

Turtonator was revealed at the German Video Game Event Gamescom at the end of the Pokemon presentation via a video from Junichi Masuda and Shigeru Ohmori. As everyone probably has heard this for the billionth time, this is the first Fire / Dragon type Pokemon to have its typing not exclusive to either a Mega Form (Charizard X), or a legendary (Reshiram). Again Fire / Dragon typing is relatively good especially if Turtonator looks as rather "defensive" oriented as it only has two weaknesses being Dragon and Rock. From its descriptions, Turtontator lives near volcanic areas often feeding itself with sulfur and other volcanic material. As a result, this turtle dragon's shell is extremely explosive and any strong contact or strike will ignite Turtonator's shell, which it uses to disorient its prey. A new exclusive move, Shell Trap highlights this behavior. In battle, Turtonator "sets up" a trap, and if the opponent targets the Fire-/Dragon-type with a physical contact move, the opposing Pokemon gets hit with an "explosive attack". The way they are describing Shell Trap reminds me of the moves Powder and Counter but together. Most of us know Counter doubles the damage dealt by the opposing Pokemon in retaliation, however Powder is exclusive Vivillon as its a priority move where if the opponent strikes the user with a Fire-type move, an "explosion" inflicts the attacker. Still we don't know how exactly Shell Trap is, but it seems like a "retaliation" based move like Counter, Bide, Mirror Coat, etc.  If anyone wants to watch the video, here's the reveal of Turtontator.

The Boxing Pokemon: Crabrawler
Typing: Fighting
Height: 2'00"
Weight: 15.4 lbs.
Ability: Hyper Cutter / Iron Fists

The latest Pokemon revealed was actually do so by Junichi Masuda himself is another crustacean Pokemon: Crabrawler. Given how Masuda wanted to showcase the "similarities" between Crabrawler's behavior and the competitors at worlds, I guess the staff at Game Freak wanted this thing to be at least "usable" in battle. Just because we saw this thing being able to faint Kangaskhan, Cresselia, Talonflame, Smeargle, and Landorus-T, I think its more so like it being able to take on stronger opponents or so. Anyways, this Pokemon is very competitive in nature and will fight other Crabrawler for food and are dangerous to people if provoked. Likewise, this crab is shown to be a pure Fighting-type Pokemon with Hyper Cutter and Iron Fists. Given that Crabrawler has the ability Iron Fist, we might see some attacks like the elemental punches, Hammer Arm, Mach Punch, Bullet Punch, and other "punching moves" for Crabrawler.
 

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The following Pokemon have been revealed before I won't go over their descriptions. 

 

The Sand Heap Pokemon: Sandygast
Type: Ghost/Ground
Height: 1'08"
Weight: 154.3 lb
Ability: Water Compaction

Note: The ability, Water Compaction raises the Pokemon's defense by 2 stages, however only if its hit by a Water-type move. 

 

The Sand Castle Pokemon: Palossand
Type: Ghost / Ground
Height: 4'03"
Weight: 551.2 lbs
Ability: Water Compaction



The Flailing Pokemon: Stufful
Type: Normal / Fighting
Height: 1'08"
Weight: 15.0 lb
Abilities: Fluffy / Klutz

 

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Guess that's all I'll be covering for the time being. There was some news regarding how Z- Crystals work and all, yet I still think we need more information, until I can cover the exact mechanics. For now, see you all later.