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They probably kept the japanese name Expansion because when a mosquito sucks blood, its body (abdomen) expands. In this case, it might be the Beast's muscles that expand. Lol...who knows man...I'm just making stuff here...Well I get that, but why isn't the Japanese name just Absorption too then? Why bother with English names if the actual English names aren't even the same?
I know the same is done with characters with English Japanese names, but now they did keep Beauty and changed Expansion...
Yeah, the wait for the entire week was long, and till 20th it is going to be the same. I just hope they reveal starter evos too along with rockruff's! Because rockroff's evo on 20th is basically confirmed. And they won't reveal just one pokemon, there will be more. The question is whether this 'more' will be the starter evos or some other Pokemon. I wouldn't mind Jangmo-os evos too.At least they finally did put up a trailer. Maybe they were having some technical difficulties earlier and they couldn't get the video uploaded when it was supposed to go up. While seeing that there will be different Ultra Beasts in the two versions is kind of interesting, it really isn't enough to warrant a trailer alone about it. Maybe I'd feel slightly less disappointed if I saw this when I woke up this morning, but this still seems surprisingly lackluster for their announcement trailers.
If they threw in a couple of new Pokemon and/or Alola forms, it probably would have been fine, but just revealing a couple of Ultra Beasts isn't really enough for me. I do like the concept of the Ultra Beasts and I'm curious about them, but I wanted more than just Ultra Beasts. To be fair, I did get really excited for this update, so that's at least part of the problem here, but all of their other announcement trailers have delivered to some extent for me, so seeing such a disappointing announcement is both sad and surprising in a bad way.
At least they finally did put up a trailer. Maybe they were having some technical difficulties earlier and they couldn't get the video uploaded when it was supposed to go up. While seeing that there will be different Ultra Beasts in the two versions is kind of interesting, it really isn't enough to warrant a trailer alone about it. Maybe I'd feel slightly less disappointed if I saw this when I woke up this morning, but this still seems surprisingly lackluster for their announcement trailers.
What do you imagine?
I just naturally assumed the battles vs the UBs would be 3v1, but I have no idea!
In fairness I think we would all be a lot more surprised by this had Corocoro not leaked, but as always, that's the trade-off that comes with getting it early.
In the alternative universe where people don't leak Corocoro, all of the UB-02 speculation that we've already gotten in is only just starting, and those "us" are due to see Rockruff's evolutions tomorrow.
I wonder if we get to visit the dimension that the Ultra Beasts come from like the Distortion World in Platinum. That would be really cool to see.
Wait is it really gonna be that the Ultra Beasts are part of the story on top of everything else? So that's a potential of 18 Totem Pokemon, 4 Kahuna, battles against Skull and their conflict, battles against Aether and their conflict, Ultra Beasts and Perfect Zygarde all before the credits roll, compared to 8 gyms, the elite 4 and the evil team with the box legends. How the fuck is this even going to work.
There kinda has to be 18 trials going by the trailers, as its obvious you gain the crystal from the totem and the pose from the captain, hammering in the synergy and relations between Pokemon and Humans. Specific Pokemon Z Crystaliums can be handwaved in the pose department, but I cannot see it being done for the type crystals.My guess is
- There probably won't be 18 Trials/Totem Pokémon
- We may not battle the Aether Foundation (if we do it may be only a few instances with the higher-ups - I believe it was @godiego who pointed out that the Foundation "grunts" don't seem to have nametags along with their dialogue boxes, which seems to be the case with generic NPCs)
- Zygarde is probably a sidequest
At that point, what you actually have is the Trials Challenge running in parallel to Team Skull and then closer to the end of the game, the AF and the Ultra Beasts, with Zygarde as a distraction to be resolved whenever you finish collecting Cells.
Still not sure as to when Solgaleo and Lunala might come into play, though.