VIDEO Happy 20th anniversary.
Release Date: November 18 2016 worldwide.
1st Trailer
VIDEO New starters: Rowlet (Grass/Flying), Litten (Fire), Popplio (Water)
New region called Alola Region based on Hawaii
2nd trailer
VIDEO Legendaries are Solgaleo and Lunala
~New Rotom Form involving a Pokedex, but isn't in-game and more of communication.
~New professor is Professor
Kukri Kukui
~Partners include Lillie and Hau
~Solgaleo's type is
Steel/Psychic , ability is Full Metal Body, which appears to be similar to Clear Body for the moment. New attack called "Sunsteel Strike", not a Fire move.
~Lunala's type is
Psychic/Ghost , ability is Shadow Shield. New attack is Moongeist Beam, powerful Psychic move.
There is also new QR codes telling you about Pokemon locations and can share them with friends.
Update 8/1/16: MAJOR leaks
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Whelp... Also LMAO Gumshoos. And oh here's the summary on the Chinese leak.https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/4vcv5i/rumour_an_updated_translation_on_that_chinese/ Plus...So the info is still kinda the same which is pretty interesting and yeah, I do agree on the last part, they have been on those forums for a long time so there's like no reason for them to lie. I still believe that those artworks are nothing but beta designs and quite possibly not how the final forms will look like, but still if they are a guess, they are a really dam good one. Also, someone here posted some very interesting info earlier this morning (at least in my time lapse) about alleged info that was shared by an individual from a translation team. I can't link the thread since it unfortunately got deleted. But there were some very interesting info there, like Wimpod being the Gyarados/Milotic of this gen and its evo looking like a Scolipede/Kabutops hybrid or some pokemon like Bruxys not having an evo or pre-evo or Rockroff evolving depending on the starter you pick. This bit reminded me of your previous post where the newer leaks say Rockroff has more then one evo and combined with the types found on the site and Rockroff's connection with the starters, this is the conclusion I reached: Rockroff will have a total of three evolutions and they will all be influenced by the starters, Rock/Ground if you pick Rowlet, pure Rock if you pick Litten and Rock/Fighting if you pick Popplio. Mudsdale and Drampa have pre-evos The third guardian looks just like the Souvenir like I said, Bruxish and Mimikyu and someone else don't have evos or pre-evos the entire starter based evolution with Rockroff Cutiefly evolves into a hawk moth there's a new battle style were two pokemon "merge" to become more powerful (this I'm HIGHLY skeptical about) there's a shovel pokemon and three based on the rock-paper-scissors game Salandit has a gender split evolution the entire diamond mechanic and how it also involves Ash-Greninja. It's very fuzzy cause I barely woke up when I first saw it. But basically the diamond mechanic works like you go in like a quest to find the diamonds and it powers up moves and such. And if I remember correctly, it also said it amplifies the power of the abilities of the pokemon. And for the merge battles, again, very fuzzy, but basically is like I said, two pokemon merge to form a more powerful one in battle, kinda like the Gems in Steven Universe. And i also remember it said "like the guardians", so this could confirm the theory that the Island Guardians like Tapu Koko do indeed form a totem pole. And I just remembered more ! Lilly is the key to the main story and also to perfect Zygarde aside from Zygarde, there's a total of 7 Legendaries involved in the story, so basically Lunala/Solgaleo/Marshadow and the guardians. EDIT: Even more confirmed leaks.