Friday: Pokémon Sun & Moon News + Pre-Orders + Pokémon ORAS - Shiny Mega Gengar Event + Pokkén Tournament - New Playable Character + National Championships Stream
01-07-2016 04:05 BST / 23:05 EDT by Serebii
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Edit @ 06:00: Nintendo Badge Arcade | Edit @ 06:10: Gengar Event | Edit @ 06:14: Pokémon Sun & Moon Pre-Orders | Edit @ 12:05: National Championships Stream | Edit @ 14:03: Sun & Moon
In The Games Department
Pokémon Sun & Moon
Following the leak and subsequent early reveal yesterday, the English trailer for the new Pokémon has been released, confirming various details that leaked yesterday as well as giving some further English details.
First, Iwanko and Nekkoala are known in English as Rockruff and Komala. Next, Tapu Koko's ability is called Electric Surge.
Komala's ability is Comatose. Vikavolt's ability is Levitate. Charjabug's ability is Battery which boosts the power of its partner's Special Attacks. Zygarde's Power Construct ability allows for it to change form when health drops to 50%. Bruxish can also have the ability Strong Jaw. Cutiefly has the Honey Gather / Shield Dust abilities. Drampa can have the Berserk / Sap Sipper abilities. Berserk boosts its Special Attack when its HP drops below 50%. Togedemaru's abilities are Iron Barbs / Lightning Rod
Riding Pokémon is back
14:23: New screenshots have been added to our Pre-Release Screenshot Page
14:52: Updated the New Pokémon Page and the New Pokémon Forms page with clearer images, as well as the details
15:01:Updated the New Attacks Page and the New Abilities pages with localisations and effects
16:12: Updated the Alola Region page
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In The Games Department
Pokémon Video Game Championships 2016 - US National Championships
Today marks the first day of the US National Championships and, for the first year, the entire event is going to be officially streamed by The Pokémon Company International across four different streams. Each game has got its own individual stream and there will be a stream that switches between the two
All streams begin shortly before 14:00 BST / 09:00 EDT / 06:00 PDT / 23:00 AEST
Click the following links to go to the respective streams
Pokémon National Championships - Main Stream
Pokémon Video Game National Championships
Pokémon Trading Card Game National Championships
Pokkén Tournament National Championships
In The Games Department
Pokémon XYORAS - Shiny Mega Gengar Event
A new event has been announced for Japan. This event follows on from the recent one to give a Shiny Mega Gardevoir based on Kimia's Gardevoir from the upcoming movie, Volcanion & The Ingenious Magearna. This distribution gives a shiny Gengar based on the Gengar that Jarvis uses in the movie. This Gengar comes at Level 50 with the Gengarite and the moves Mean Look, Hypnosis, Psychic & Hyper Beam. It is to be distributed between July 9th and July 15th 2016 and the code works until August 31st 2016. The code is obtained at the 7-11 stores' special 7-Spot on the Nintendo 3DS. Our Event Database has been updated with the details of this event
In The Games Department
Pokémon Sun & Moon - Japanese Pre-Order Bonuses
The pre-order bonuses for Pokémon Sun & Moon have been announced for the Pokémon Centers in Japan. If you pre-order the games at the Pokémon Centers from July 16th 2016, you'll be eligible to receive a special figure with your game based on Solgaleo or Lunala depending on the game you get. If you get both or get the Double Pack, then you'll get both figures as well as a special art book about the games
In The Games Department
Pokkén Tournament
It has been announced that the arcade version of Pokkén Tournament is to add the characters Garchomp, Braixen and Shadow Mewtwo on July 20th 2016. However, in addition to this, it's also adding a brand new playable Pokémon. This Pokémon is to be announced through a NicoNico livestream on July 14th. We'll provide full news as it happens so keep checking back
In The Games Department
Nintendo Badge Arcade
The free piece of Nintendo 3DS software, Nintendo Badge Arcade, had its weekly update in Europe and with this update, it has added several new badges panels, all of which were previously released in Japan. Our section has a full list of badges so click the image to go to the section.
