General

I played Pokemon Quartz.

I enjoyed it. I liked the challenge in some of the gym battles, though some of them were a bit overpowered. Plenty of the dialogue and other details were amusing too.

They just revealed the new Pokemon stuff for Gen 8! Pokemon Sword & Shield versions.

Starters are a Grass Monkey (Grookey) Fire Bunny (Scorbunny), and Water Chameleon (Sobble).

The region is based off the UK and it looks gorgeous and even much better than LGPE.

Clicking on the 'Pokemon Direct' image below will lead you to the video of the reveal:

For anyone who saw it, there was an apparent short vid of a new peanut bug pokemon floating around but it was fake. An impressive fake though. Guy goes into the steps of how he made it.

There's a new apparent leak from Pokemon Go about Armored Mewtwo being a new form for Mewtwo.

screenrant.com/pokemon-go-leaks-hint-armored-mewtwo/

I think it's a poss tie in with the upcoming release of the new movie Mewtwo Strikes Back EVOLUTION

New Pokemon Direct for the games, click on the image below to watch:




The new legendaries are Zacian and Zamazenta. Some people noted that it looks like their names literally mean 'the cyan' and 'the magenta' which fit the version colour scheme too. They might be Steel/Water and Steel/Fire especially in the quick part where they glow in the trailer, the hilt of Zacian's blade gets a fish tail and Zamazenta's shield gets a heat aura.


The new gimmick in the games is Dynamax, which turns one of your Pokemon into a giant for 3 turns in battle, which also appears to boost all of their stats. All battles against Gym Leaders seem to be with both Pokemon in a Dynamax/giant form, and all Gym Battles are in stadiums. Dynamaxing is restricted to certain areas like Gym Battles and Raid Battles and presumably features in multiplayer.


Some wild Pokemon appear in giant form and you can take them on in a raid battle similar to Pokemon Go with up to 3 other players when connected online. Some Pokemon can only be caught with this method, and only one of the group can use their own giant Pokemon against them if they choose to use one.

There is a vast area between towns known as the 'Wild Area' which has free camera control. The Pokemon in this area can change depending on things such as the weather and location. Giant/Dynamax Pokemon can appear in these places for raids. For example, Steenee can be encountered when it is sunny and Lanturn when it is raining.



Professor Magnolia is researching Dynamaxing, and is assisted by her granddaughter Sonia.


Leon is the Champion, he appears to have a Charizard. He is undefeated and is quite popular. He's a childhood friend of Sonia.


Hop is one of your rivals and is Leon's brother.


Gossifleur (Grass), Wooloo (Normal) and Drednaw (Water/Rock) are some new Pokemon.


Corviknight (Flying/Steel) is another new Pokemon, and also acts as the new Fly ride Pokemon for this game which can take you to towns you have already visited.


Eldegoss (Grass) evolves from Gossifleur. Their Cotton Down ability lowers speed of whoever attacks them when struck.


Milo is the Grass-type Gym Leader for the Galar region, who uses a giant Eldegoss in battle.


You now have a Rotom Phone which also contains your Pokedex. You can also do other things with your Rotom Phone like attaching it to your bike to make it move faster on land, or use it to help you travel over water.


The official release date is November 15.

OMG I want a WooLoo plushie!!!! It looks so soft

'Pokemon Sword & Shield Won't Let You Transfer Every Old Pokemon Over'

gamespot.com/articles/e3-2019-pokemon-sword-and-shield-wont-let-you-tran/1100-6467720/

It's not a temporary thing for this game like in past games, it's a deliberate decision. You'll only be able to transfer a limited number of Pokemon - ones that are already in the game. Mega Evolutions and Z-Moves are also gone, only Dynamaxing is in the game.



Very odd decision from them. They've already reused the same models over and over and they'd even future-proofed them which is why the 3DS games chugged a bit, so it shouldn't have taken that much more work - and they didn't say anything about patching it in... and historically they don't like patching stuff. And they called it a 'new direction' for them implying they haven't done this kind of thing before. We can even see the exact same models being used in Sword and Shield. Also they already implement banlists in tournaments to restrict usage of certain Pokemon which takes care of the balance problem.

And now any Pokemon that gets uploaded to Pokemon Home (released next year as an evolution to Pokemon Bank) will be trapped inside it if they're not in Sword & Shield. >.> Fans of those will have to hope their fave pops up in a newer game I guess. The internet's reception of this news isn't the best, to put it lightly.

Edit: Just adding a couple more things:


Nessa is the Water Gym Leader, who has a Drednaw.


Yamper(Electric) and Impidimp (Dark/Fairy) were also introduced.

A few things in this vid. Gigantamaxing is another version of Dynamaxing for specific individual Pokemon that you can only get via Max Raids. Not all individuals of a particular Pokemon will be able to Gigantamax. No idea if you can breed the 'Gigantamax gene' or whatever onto other members of that species. Drednaw, Corviknight and the newly introduced Alcremie can all potentially Gigantamax. They all have particular G-Max moves as well.


Speaking of new Pokemon, we have Alcremie (Fairy), Duraludon(Steel/Dragon) and Rolycoly(Rock). Rolycoly can have the Steam Engine ability which drastically boosts its speed when hit with a Water or Fire attack.



Two new version-exclusive Gym Leaders were introduced - Sword has Bea the Fighting Gym Leader and Shield has Allister the Ghost Gym Leader. Bea is confirmed to have a Hitmontop and Allister has a Mimikyu.



We are also introduced to Chairman Rose who setup the Galar Pokemon League and his secretary/vice president Oleana.

Lastly it was confirmed that the Deino and Jangmo-o families are exclusive to Sword and the Larvitar & Goomy families are exclusive to Shield.