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2 Hours - Theories and Speculation


RihannaRTT

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Today's The Day. There's just under 2 hours left until whatever in the name of Arceus we're getting today! The Pokemon JP twitter account revealed that news would come at 22:00 JST - that's in 2 hours - and a rough translation (aka Google Translate) tells us that they stated there's a video. For that reason, keep an eye out on these two channels:

https://www.youtube.com/user/pokemon

https://www.youtube.com/user/PokemonCoJp

 

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Now, let's revert to the past. A full 3 years ago, during the X and Y hype train. I took the time, a couple of weeks ago, to go through all of the trailers we had for these games and compile a list of all the information we received. It's a long list and you can click below to see it:

 

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January 8: 
Trainer Designs
First Look of Region
#FranceConfirmed (ala Eiffel Tower)
Starters
Look inside 2 gyms and 1 E4 building
Legendaries
Release Month

February 14:
Sylveon revealed

April 6:
New Mewtwo "forme" (later, to be shown as Mega Mewtwo Y)

April 17:
Footage of Mewtwo from the Genesect movie turning into Mega Mewtwo Y

May 14
Riding on Gogoat
First Look at Shauna
Fletchling
Helioptile
Pancham
Gogoat itself
New moves: Parabolic Charge, Parting Shot (both names not shown though)

June 11:
Region Name
Region Map
Vivillon
Noivern
New Moves: Boomburst, Moonblast, Fairy Wind
Fairy-Type (Sylveon confirmed as Fairy alongside Jigglypuff, Gardevoir and Marill)
Pokemon Amie
Release Date confirmed - October 12

June 11 (Trailer 3):
Sky Battles
Talonflame
Skrelp
Clauncher
Horde Battles

June 12:
PSS
France confirmed

June 14:
Tierno, Trevor, Alexa and Viola shown
Scatterbug
Spewpa
Litleo
Flabebe
New Move: Noble Roar


July 5:
Honedge

July 12:
Sycamore revealed
Inkay
Malamar
Pangoro
Swirlix
Spritzee
Team Flare revealed
New Moves: Topsy-Turvy, Draining Kiss, Geomancy, Oblivion Wing

August 9:
Mega Evolution confirmed
Mega Lucario
Korrina revealed
Shalour City gym shown (3rd gym so far)
Diggersby
Dedenne
Skiddo
New Moves: Nuzzle
Torchic event announced
Mega Blaziken

August 11
Mega Mawile
Mega Absol
Mega Ampharos
New Move: ??? (Mawile is using something but I can't tell what it is)

September 4
Kanto starters revealed
Mega Venusaur
Mega Charizard Y
Mega Blastoise
Pokemon Bank
Poke Transporter
Special Edition 3DSXL System

September 13
Quilladin
Braixen
Frogadier
Tyrunt
Amaura
Meowstic
Furfrou
Pyroar
Mega Garchomp
Mega Mewtwo X
Furfrou Grooming
Character Customization

October 2:
Mega Charizard X

October 11:
Coumarine Gym inside shown

October 12:
XY released worldwide


 

 

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So... as you can see. The above list does look a bit different to what we've got so far. But in general, the release patterns can't be too different. Obviously X and Y were released in Mid-October, and Sun and Moon will be released in Mid-November, so there's a month difference. So, now that we're in June, we can look back to what we got in May. The screenshot above reveals the important things we got in Corocoro - at the time, the videos would usually come out after Corocoro. Evidently, they have changed this so they provide the news instead of some random leakers. In may, we got 4 new Pokemon, some new move animations, and the first look at the weaker rival; Shauna. Of course, there's no guarantee that it'll be the same today. We could easily get trolled and get Mangina's hidden ability for all we know, but now we've reached the stage where we will get news every month, so we should all be a bit more optimistic! 

 

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So what do I think we'll be getting? I believe we'll probably get to see the names and typings and some battle animations of the legendary Pokemon - probably named Solgaleo and Luna'ala. In addition, I believe we'll see a few more random areas being used in the trailer as the player walks through them. I also think that we'll get 2-4 new Pokemon (when I say new, this could also include the unnamed, officially unrevealed, wire-frame bird or the Corocoro dog). Finally, I believe we'll get some more information / artwork on the player character, possibly the rival, and maybe a small hint at character customization. 

 

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Do you agree with me? Do you have your own thoughts? Let me know below if you think we're getting something else. I'll also be using this to check back on and see how right - or most probably, how tragically wrong - I was. After all, it's only less than two hours to go. So get fucking hyped! See you then! 

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