A new Pokemon Presents dropped and boy howdy was there a lot of new info. If you don’t have time to watch the entire thing, I’ve got a breakdown of the main points here. If you do have time though, here’s the Presents… it’s pretty.
- Pokemon World Championship
- The Tournament will be from August 18th – 20th and will include the normal lineup of cards, Pokken, and recent Pokemon titles.
- Pokemon Go and Pokemon Unite will also be added to the tournaments.
- If you go in person you’ll find the world’s largest Pokemon Center pop-up shop.
- It will all be live streamed.
- Pokemon GO
- The Ultra Beast Finale Event will be on Aug 27th
- You’ll be able to catch the four different Ultra Beasts that have been added to the game.
- There will be new research added to catch Sky Forme Shaymin
- The story will finally tell you what happened to Professor Willow
- The Daily Incense was talked about
- This new form of incense grants you 15 minutes a day of draw time as long as you’re walking.
- During this time there are also specific legendaries that might appear.
- Pokemon Unite
- New events and campaigns are going to be added to the game
- Pika Party – This quick play mode will feature only Pikachu.
- Buzzwole is added to the game as of today.
- It’s a melee tank that gets quicker as it defeats enemies
- There will be Halowear gifted during this event (see above image)
- Pokemon Masters EX
- A new Trainer Lounge will be added during the three year anniversary event
- What you can do in this lounge those was not said
- Pokemon Cafe Remix
- Mewtwo will return
- Completing one-minute cooking sessions will allow you to unlock Mewtwo on your cooking staff.
- Latias will be added to the game
- Victini will return as well for a second chance in hiring it
- Pokemon Scarlet and Violet
- Paldea Region
- New Paldean Woopers were revealed
- These heavily poisonous type have bones sticking out the side to look like a skull and crossbones type poison warning
- The story-specific legendaries (Koraidon or Miraidon) will be with you from very early in the story
- While it seems like they’ll be a bit smaller and learn their way up, it seems to be your primary form of transportation
- It can transform into everything from a motorcycle to a glider to a jetski
- When on foot you can have your lead Pokemon follow you.
- You’ll also be able to bring out your party similar to in Arceus
- Depending on the game you’ll enroll in one of two different academies that will send you on quests
- There are three main story paths you must take
- The first one is the standard gym battles.
- Eight gyms + victory path were confirmed
- As the game is open world, you can tackle these in any order you choose
- The other two were not revealed
- New Pokemon were revealed
- Paldean Wooper – the poisonous one mentioned earlier
- Fidough – A squishy puppy
- Cetitan – A big mouthed creature that looks like the reaper ghost from Bubble Bobble with teeth
- There was a research gallery shown briefly that seems to indicate a particular book for each Pokemon hinting at an Arceus-like research system.
- Union Circles were shown to be the place to go to start playing multiplayer
- Multiplayer allows you and three friends to play the game at the same time, exploring towns and roving the area together
- Info on how independently you can play during this time wasn’t revealed
- The Terastal phenomenon was revealed
- This is the gimmick for Scarlet and Violet
- By throwing a special Pokeball at your Pokemon during a battle, it will take on a new Tera form in which it becomes crystalized.
- Being crystalized strengthens it’s type and attack
- There will be rare instances where you’ll encounter Pokemon that have alternate tera types meaning they’ll switch types when Tera formed
- One example was a Pikachu that, when Tera’d it gained crystal balloons on it’s back and become flying type
- This particular Pikachu is also a pre-order bonus
- Another example showed an Eevee that Tera formed into grass or water types (see above image)
- You can see the type the Pokemon is by the crystalline formation on their head.
- Examples
- Normal is a large diamond
- Water looks like a frozen fountain
- Fire looks like a chandelier
- Grass looks like a flower
- Tera Raids will be added to the game
- The Tera Raids allows you and three friends to compete against rare Tera-formed Pokemon similar to the raid battles in Sword and Shield
- Unlike Sword and Shield, however, these battles are in real-time and your characters move at your own pace without waiting for your teammates meaning you’ll all attack at the same time like in Pokemon Go
- Pokemon Sleep
- Still nothing…
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- One example was a Pikachu that, when Tera’d it gained crystal balloons on it’s back and become flying type
- The first one is the standard gym battles.
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- A new Trainer Lounge will be added during the three year anniversary event
- New events and campaigns are going to be added to the game
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- The Ultra Beast Finale Event will be on Aug 27th