Official Pokémon Sword and Shield speculation thread (Updated June 5th, 2019)

[Desdar300]

At best, they'll just show off the early protein of the game like last time

 

[Grass Type Gardenia]

Latest rumor stated that May 11th will probably be when the next Sword and Shield Trailer will be dropped.

 

[TechSkylander1518]

A day after Detective Pikachu's premiere? Doesn't sound like good timing to me.

 

[Plubio]

A trailer on a Saturday.... eh...

 

[Grass Type Gardenia]

A trailer on a Saturday.... eh...

It was based on the numbers when Masuda went to Singapore.

 

[Knightwolf09]

Tweet from masuda

"Today on April 26th, the game Freak was able to celebrate its 30th anniversary. I really appreciate the fact that I have come so far thanks to everyone who loves the game. In the future, game freaks will continue to make things that enrich people with a commitment to not forget the spirit of challenge. Thank you from here! "

 

[prog rocker]

Is he implying that he will up the difficulty of the games? I'm in. Just don't pull another Ultra Necrozma and I will be happy.

 

[SuperNintenDex]

Didn’t the new Detective Pikachu trailer drop the day before or day of SwSh announcement?

 

[Oriden]

Didn’t the new Detective Pikachu trailer drop the day before or day of SwSh announcement?

It did, yeah. Day before or day of depending on your timezone, I think.

 

[Lunala]

Is he implying that he will up the difficulty of the games? I'm in. Just don't pull another Ultra Necrozma and I will be happy.

I remember how easily total party wipeouts used to happen. Though not with much fondness.

Now you can pretty much steamroll through the games without a large amount of effort.

I prefer it the way it is now honestly. I don't have as much free time as I used to when I was a kid.

 

[prog rocker]

I remember how easily total party wipeouts used to happen. Though not with much fondness.

Now you can pretty much steamroll through the games without a large amount of effort.

I prefer it the way it is now honestly. I don't have as much free time as I used to when I was a kid.

Really? The opposite happened to me: the older games where completely easy and then Sun/Moon started to actually challenge me.

 

[Lunala]

Really? The opposite happened to me: the older games where completely easy and then Sun/Moon started to actually challenge me.

Huh. Not my experience. I suppose I'm playing better now? I dunno. Sun and Moon was easy for me, about the same as X and Y.

Gen 1 and 2 were the hardest for me, and the difficulty gradually decreased until it reached what it is today for me.

 

[William-Jdubz]

Huh. Not my experience. I suppose I'm playing better now? I dunno. Sun and Moon was easy for me, about the same as X and Y.

Gen 1 and 2 were the hardest for me, and the difficulty gradually decreased until it reached what it is today for me.

None of the games are really challenging. Gen 5 with the challenge mode is the only time there was a actual AI increase. Otherwise its remaining somewhat the same.

 

[FlashFire926]

Due to golden week we aren't getting news before May 7th. That's the earliest possible date for news.

Spoiler

Kill me now

 

[AngryBinacle]

I don't think anyone cares if news is close to the launch of the movie; they don't oversaturate, but only complement each other. They're fully different products with fully different marketing teams, I guess.

Anyway, we'll probably see nothing during either Golden Week or weekends.

 

[PkmnTrainerV]

If gyms have something special about them they won't reveal it that early on (they usually wait for august)
our reveal is going to be starters actual game models, characters, show off new places, legendaries and maybe new small thing.
i won't rule out new mons reveal on the end of may tho. since we likely getting the trailer before CoroCoro.

They mistakenly tweeted the Gym Masters thing so I think they'll announce it fairly early.

 

[KiranTheWitch]

Something is happening on May 10th other than Detective Pikachu

 

[colours]

I dunno if I would put much stock in Masuda's tweet and would probably just take it at face value, if anything. A mix of PR and feel goods-y stuff, so to speak.

That said, Pokemon and difficulty were never really compatible with one another. Because of the way that Pokemon especially handles elemental weaknesses as well as EVs/Natures and other things, it's actually not difficult to construct any sort of "overpowered" team and just brute force through most of the game. No matter how "smart" you make the AI, there's not much it can do if it's like 5-10 levels below your team.

 

[ParasectfulDreams]

Just wanted to throw this out there from the Pokemon Facebook page:

Spoiler

Not sure if the movie will actually have anything Gen 8 related, but we might get some more rumors claiming to have been at this.

 

[Boss1708]

I dunno if I would put much stock in Masuda's tweet and would probably just take it at face value, if anything. A mix of PR and feel goods-y stuff, so to speak.

That said, Pokemon and difficulty were never really compatible with one another. Because of the way that Pokemon especially handles elemental weaknesses as well as EVs/Natures and other things, it's actually not difficult to construct any sort of "overpowered" team and just brute force through most of the game. No matter how "smart" you make the AI, there's not much it can do if it's like 5-10 levels below your team.

I think "challenge" in Pokémon should only be expected for the postgame battle facilities. They should be challenging, and they are.

I am fine with the main game journey being an enjoyable stress-free one. I would prefer something more challenging, but I don't desperately need it.