Pokémon Sword and Shield

[bluaki]

The new Switch Pokémon game revealed today is gen8. Releasing late 2019.

Here's the 7-minute Nintendo direct: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOPVBm0sA7Q

The new "Galar region" is definitely Great Britain and imo it's very pretty.
New starters: Grookey (grass monkey), Scorbunny (fire bunny), and Sobble (water lizard).
Gyms are back and wild battles work the same way as they always have.

So far there's no signs of any of the problems with Let's Go carrying over to here, which I appreciate. It'll probably have normal controls and outfit customization too, but those aren't quite confirmed yet. They probably won't say anything about PokeBank support until very shortly before release.

[Samus Aran]

graphically, they look great. i kinda hope the gyms in this game sort of incorporate the "challenges" that sun/moon had. i think a fusion of both would be really cool.

i'm pretty excited about this, always hyped for the next main entry in one of my favorite series

[C.Mongler]

Grookey is maybe the worst Pokemon name I've ever heard and I love it

[6M69I69B9]

designs look like ass tbh
gonna sobble through this gen
sword for sure

[YPrrrr]

If that bunny ends up being fire/electric I will be very happy

I'm p. okay with all the first stages of these guys though so it's all up to the final stages/types

Like I said in the chat thread, I just wish there was an improvement on the game's animations and protagonist's models

Still gonna preorder this and become a pokemon master ofc no matter what

[The Hand That Fisted Everyone]

sobble rules

[Samus Aran]

If that bunny ends up being fire/electric I will be very happy

Fire/electric would rule, and make it so Heat Rotom isn't the only one anymore. We always need more variety. They've been doing good with recent gens and having starters with interesting, varied type combos. Hope we'll get some cool typing again.

[YPrrrr]

Yeah I'm not much of a fan of the Rotom forms so I'd really like to see other versions for Electric: Ghost/Fire/Ice/Grass

Really electric as a whole really suffers from a lack of secondary type diversity that I'm tired of hearing "But Rotom!" as a response

[Samus Aran]

Rotom is dumb tbh, and i'm sick of multi-forme Pokemon

[bluaki]

Unless you count Pikachu (or Jolteon), none of the starters so far have had any Electric typing.

Most of the types have been on at least one starter: Charizard has Flying, Charizard-X has Dragon, Venusaur has Poison, Empoleon has Steel, Delphox has Psychic, Decidueye has Ghost, Primarina has Fairy, and Fighting/Ground/Dark are each on multiple starters.
but none of the standard starter trios have ever, so far, evolved into a Normal, Rock, Bug, Ice, or Electric-type.

I'd like to see Scorbunny get Fire/Electric. That's a really nice typing.

[Mando Pandango]

I could see Grookey turning grass/rock also.

[YPrrrr]

I think Grass/Rock would be cool; it kind of seemed like a drummer in the trailer. So it would be a good pun if it turned out to be a rocker

[6M69I69B9]

graphically, they look great.

what content shown elicited this opinion

[6M69I69B9]

designs look like ass tbh
gonna sobble through this gen
sword for sure

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[Nyerp]

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