Trials, Gyms or Both?

[PurplePopplio]

Do you see them keeping Trials and improving them? Replace them with Gyms, which are hopefully upgraded? Or having both together?

 

[StandbyForBattle]

I would like it if they have it together.

 

[Boss1708]

Both, or just Gyms.

 

[Sakuraa]

I'd prefer them doing only Trials again. I find them to be much more interesting than gyms as a whole.

 

[Wishy-Washy]

I think it will be just Trials based ff that Lycanroc scene looking quite similar to how Totems appear in cutscenes and the fact it doesn't seem to a sequel but a enhanced version like the third versions so I don't except them to change it so much that Trials are gone.

 

[Alola]

I wouldn't mind either really. Trials were pretty fun and have that initial novelty, but I miss the Gyms.

Given the trailer though, there may be new Totem Pokemon such as Midday Lycanroc and Togedemaru. Mimikyu looks like it is staying XD

 

[godiego]

i don't think they'll be dropping Trials for Alola at least. at best gyms might be something postgame, but i'd honestly be surprised if they appeared at all.

 

[Deku-Mimikyu]

If they do have trials again, I hope they change them up. Like how in third versions, they'd change the layout of the gyms and the parties of the gym leaders. Maybe different Totem Pokemon, different challenges. Stuff like that, y'know? I wouldn't mind having the same trial captains as long as they change things.

 

[Like_Fahrenheit]

I'm hoping just Trials. They make Alola a little more unique than other regions.

 

[Peppermint Phoenix]

Hopefully both because I always wanted to see Pokemon without an evil team.

But they will probably just be trials because if they don't want to do trials in other regions they would want to do every trial idea they think is worth doing now

 

[Galactic_V]

Trials only as long as it's Alola. But they could make them more interesting, like adding things the originals don't have. No idea what, just a general thought.

 

[SinnohEevee]

Are they going to ditch Trials just after introducing them?

 

[Mikuri]

One of the few things I'm looking forward to in these new games is Mina's trial so they better stick to the island challenge and save Gyms for Generation VIII.

 

[Team Gaara]

Has to be trials. Just can't see Gyms in Alola when that's what makes them unique from other regions. I like Gyms, but keep them in the regions they belong it~

 

[Hidden Mew]

I wouldn't be necessarily against Gyms being in Alola, but I think that would take away from how unique and distinct the region is compared to the others. The Island Challenge is part of their culture and it helped to give Sun/Moon a fresh yet familiar kind of challenge. I like the idea of Gyms being in the post-storyline content, although I'm not sure why they'd have Gyms and Trials at the same time, but I suspect that Trials will be around. Maybe they could increase the number of Trials.

 

[SinnohEevee]

I wouldn't be necessarily against Gyms being in Alola, but I think that would take away from how unique and distinct the region is compared to the others. The Island Challenge is part of their culture and it helped to give Sun/Moon a fresh yet familiar kind of challenge. I like the idea of Gyms being in the post-storyline content, although I'm not sure why they'd have Gyms and Trials at the same time, but I suspect that Trials will be around. Maybe they could increase the number of Trials.

I don't see the point of Gyms unless there's another region to explore post-game, which I think is as likely as Ash winning the Alolan League (if there's one).

 

[PinkIceFox]

Both. Both is good. Gives me more game battles to have that aren't shoved into the end of the game behind a 'fun' wall of pseudo meta-game nastiness.

 

[Silktree]

I agree that post-game gyms in the same region would be pointless. They wouldn't add anything that SM didn't already cover (you can battle all the trial captains, but only Ilima and Lana during the main story).

The 8 empty lots in SM are suspicious. At the very least they toyed with the idea of Alola gyms, and it could work (for the main story) if they simply had each gym tied to a Totem (you would need one for the other). They'd probably remove the grand trials in such a scenario, but whatever. Olivia already seems to have been demoted provided that Lycanroc is indeed a Totem.

Not that I care.

 

[MrMeowPuss]

i don't think they'll be dropping Trials for Alola at least. at best gyms might be something postgame, but i'd honestly be surprised if they appeared at all.

I'd actually really like if gyms where post game, it would add so much to the post game.

 

[Karamazov]

I hope we go back to Gyms, or see a revamp of the Trials. Trials were basically gyms without the fun battles, aside from the Totem. But I'd like a hybrid, where we do the Trial games, then battle the Trial Captain to earn the right to confront a Totem. Or they use a Totem on the team.