This confirms Mallow at least is on the top-right island

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Therefore I believe that the Lush Jungle will be located close-by, probably these trees around here, with the path leading to the small lake

>>27521007
I noticed this yesterday, too, but didn't point it out because it's already too dang obvious her trial is on this island. (Lurantis is the Totem pokemon of her trial)

>>27521090
So then that means we know whuch island Akala is.

>>27521141
yeah

>>27521007
But can you find
pearl harbor?

>>27521007
Does this mean we know no Trail Captains for Melemele Island? The fire one is likely second island and the water one is likely the Legendary one.

>>27521007
poke slower, brosephina. we all know the 4 kids are all on the top right island and that that island is Akala.

>>27521007
Nice find, add this cap to our list of speculation folders. So Akala is the 2nd island we go to.

>>27521007
We already know the four known one are from that island

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>>27521320
I reckon the 4 announced were all located on Akala Island

>>27521007
Aww hell yeah, good job people! To everyone who has realized it earlier and to this OP. Good job!

Akala = Second island confurmed.

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>>27521320
>The fire one is likely second island and the water one is likely the Legendary one.

Nope nope and nope
They're all from the same island

>>27521427
Lush jungle is LITERALLY on MeleMele

you can see it in front of the ceremonial battle place

>>27521228
>Pearl Harbor
>pearl
>DP remakes confirmed.

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>>27521444

>>27521320
Anons are saying that the water trial leader matches the legendary island based on the fact she's on a raised platform over water. However, the legendary island has light colored docks, not a greyish colored bridge between a sandy and grassy area. There's nothing that should lead one to believe she's from the legendary island.

>>27521444
Lurantis is a Totem pokemon of Akala.

>>27521473
Precisely

>>27521395
I was thinking this too. It makes sense since we know--per the Japanese site--there are more than the 4 trial captains revealed so far.

2-4 per island might be nuts but with the formula being turned sideways this generation anything is possible.

If there are 4 captains on each island, that means there are 16 captains, and 4 kahunas

20 gym leaders yo

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>>27521444
Taken from the official site

>>27521444
Lush Jungle is in Akala, why else would Lurantis be the Totem poké of Akala if its in that Jungle

>>27521444
The official Pokemon site outright refutes this claim by saying >>27521475

>>27521473
It's an old rickety pier. I checked. You can also see a small waterfall behind her. The same setting as the Lapras ride.

>>27521485
If the Chinese link is anything to go by, kahunas will likely serve as the "E4", too.

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>>27521509
If you look at the water basins you can see a bridge, a beach and a waterfall all in close proximity tho.

>>27521452
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Head,_Hawaii

Here's a question: why would the reveal Akala's captains first? Could it be that someone important is a captain? Maybe Kukui or Lillie?

>>27521485
Keep in mind that the bottom left island probably has nothing
And we don't know how many captains the starting island has, but I doubt there are 4 of them

>>27521551
Pokemon Diamond Yanks and Pearl Nips confirmed

>>27521555
Because they are going to branch out and cover more of the other islands, as we know even less about them than Melemele. Plus CoroCoro is supposedly covering the other southern islands, so it might be a lead on that

I was investigating something else, but I instead ended up analyzing the trials and the ride pokemon. See if I can match up some locations.

>>27521615
go on then. No one has actually tried to piece in-game locations seen in the trailers to the map yet

>>27521666
I've already failed to place where Totem Gumshoos is. It's seen both at a grassy cliff with trees above it, and in a rocky area with an overhang. One is uncertain and I can't find the other at all.

>>27521666
What? That's what this entire thread is about.

The corral that Mallow is in with the Miltank and Tauros is on Akala, just north of that collection of houses on the dirt and southeast of all those tiered pools of water.

>>27521692
I think Trumpgoos is in Melemele

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assuming that gumshoos isnt on melemele
its a mossy cave of some sort, haven't seen anything similar in the trailers

Wait, so what about the first island? The trail captains are not there? So what is this island about?

I'm getting so fucking hyped up. Why can't it be November already?

>>27521007
You arrive on Mele Mele Island, not that one.

>>27521773
I reckon Melemele has got trial captains but they haven't been released/shown to us yet. Remember, a strong theory is that there are 18 trial captains, each of a different type, that gives you a different z-stone after completing each of their trials. These 4 are probably for Akala, and there will be about 4 with other typings on Melemele

>>27521853
I know, I'm talking about after leaving Melemele

>>27521320
There are 4 trial captains per island.

>>27521914
I'm not sure about that. Maybe you there are only 2 kahunas. (Hala and a queen one)

>>27522023
There's a Kahuna for each island

>>27522075
Well if Hala is the kahuna for the top-left island, the trials for him should be in HIS island, but they are in the top-right island.

So there is no kahuna for the top-right island.

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>>27522138
Taken directly from the official site

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Relevant to the discussion, I started with Mallow's area. The same kind of area for 3 different things. Also the Stoutland on the farm.

>>27521555
Wild speculation: they showed anime important characters first.

Less wild: captains on the main island are people we've already seen. Lillie/Professor/Someone else.

>>27522138
You're trying to contest stated fact. It has been confirmed there is a kahuna for each island.

You assume that the trial captains correspond to Hala. Nowhere has this been said. Nor has it been said, I believe, that kahunas have anything to do with trials. It's said that typically children only complete trials of their own island, as that is the case for the four trial captains we have seen.

Read the website first. There's a lot of information there.

>>27521320
>>27521395
Lana may be on Melemele Island.
But yeah, Mallow and Kiawe are definitely both on Akala.

Sophocles may be on the bottom right island, there's a big city there and he looks like a city boy.

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>>27522163
The top right pic is definitely this area on Akala

>>27522163
You see the sign? We know that its four colors represent the four islands. How likely do you think it is that when the tiki legendaries combine, they resemble that general shape? The top portion looks like Tapu Koko to me.

>>27522209
tbf it is difficult to pinpoint where Lana and Sophocles are based, but I do believe they probably are in Akala, otherwise why would they announce these two with Mallow and Kiawe, who clearly are from Akala

>>27522256
They all have flower pins with their type colors on the top petal
That confirms they're from the same island

>>27522219
Are you blind? Not only does that pool of water fail to resemble what you've highlighted, but the presence of Tauros and fencing confirms it to be the corral located a significant distance north of this.

Granted, you can't see water near the corral, but that's the less important feature of the two.

>>27522281
Yeah, I think the other islands will have different petals colored with their typing

>>27522177
I largely agree with you, but it is stated that the final trial, the Grand Trial for each island involves facing off against the island's Kahuna. So it's a safe assumption that the other trials, led by the Trial Captains, are to judge whether you're ready for that. So the Trial Captains are effectively subordinates of the Kahuna.

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>>27522281
I wouldn't say "confirms," but it certainly goes a long way. Another piece of evidence is that their typing corresponds to RGBY.

The phrasing here also implies they're all from the same island. Look at the singular vs plural: they all undertook trials (multiple) in their own island challenge (singular). It seems that they all completed the same challenge.

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>>27522340
You seriously need to read the website

>>27522340
Ah, forgot that part. Very good.

>>27522380
Err, thanks for quoting exactly what I was talking about?

>>27522365
Actually, never mind. I just figured out you can interpret that as all captains have to clear all of the trials on all the islands. I had figured captains only have to complete the trials on their own island.

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>>27522365
Their typings also correspond to the Z-Moves revealed so far
So they are more than likely going to be introduced together
Plus all of their locations seem to be found on one island

Won't basically every island captain be of a similar age (roughly early 20s) if the island challenge is for basically teenagers and they all completed it a few years ago?

I want to cum inside Mallow's round brown butt

so four captains for each island meaning 16 "gym leaders"....i like this idea; i just want a their to be an evil team and a champion like character

>>27522439
thank you anon

theres a power plant and observatory on the southern most island, would that be the place that fat kid captain would be or would he be in the lighthouse on the 3rd island

So... Best girl lives in the best island?

Sounds good to me.

>>27522439
Uh, thanks. I'm already aware of this. I was trying to find additional evidence.

>>27522482
20 if you count the Kahuna for each island.

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My great Lana water trial collage.

>>27522482
>so four captains for each island

Nope
Bottom left island probably has none and the starting island must have one or two

>>27522482
>champion like character
I can definitely see that being Hau. The fact that he's the Kahuna's grandson and your fight at the beginning almost seems referential to Blue Oak. He picks the starter weak to yours, just the opposite of Blue, who makes a point of picking the stronger one. I think Hau will mature a lot and be very important to the story.

>>27521692
I'm guessing it's the Rattata of Alola and is found everywhere.

>>27522608
I imagine that the first island will only have a few captains (maybe Bug, Normal and Flying to correspond to early route mons) and the last 2 islands will cover the rest of the types

>>27522608
You're right insofar as that I highly doubt all of the islands will have four. We've been looking at one of the more diverse islands, along with the southeastern one.

However, I believe the southwestern one will have trials, despite the lack of a large town.

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So we can actually say that Cynthia and Lance will appear in the post-game according to leak 4, that seems 100% real.

Maybe they are the "champions"?

>>27522439
The Japanese trailer and website alike make it a lot easier to infer all four are on the same island, and the site confirms there are more Captains.

What's with the English material deliberately misleading people into thinking they're each on different islands?

>>27522439
I like this informative pic, nice work anon.

>>27522657
No chance. I can think of few things lamer than reusing Champions.

I think they will be optional postgame content, likely being able to be challenged at that hotel we saw in Akala. Or perhaps at that artificial island, which could definitely house a battle facility.

>>27522668
Probably poor translation
Or they might be trying to make thing seem more mysterious for us, I can't say

>>27522688
Somebody else made this but I saved it

>>27522668
A lot of it is just that people on /vp/ genuinely cannot read.
It's like this every single information release. You have to spend most of your time clearing up misconceptions and correcting people than actually discussing the information.

>>27522439
This image is good, but we see isn't a bridge on the map. It's just a jetty or dock that stops dead in the water. Also, the rock of those basins doesn't seem to match the color pictured in the screenshots. Granted, the waterfalls still all but confirm that location.

>>27522600
I haven't looked at the Japanese version of the Gen VI games, but didn't Gen V start using a few kanji? Have they gone back on it? Come on, most kids would know what 私 is.

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>>27522236
>tapus form the petals, with the artificial magearna being the middle part
>alola symbol is a cross/four-petaled flower
>TPC boss ishihara ching chong said that pokemon in 2016 will involve "flowers"
>AZ floette holds a unique flower
>zygarde likely involved with Z(en) moves
too much pottery at once

>>27521395
Oh, this makes sense

>>27521473
I mean, the official map could just have slightly different colours.

>>27521485
The first island barely looks big enough for two Captains

>>27522728
Yeah, I realized that that particular image is wrong
I think that it might be the area directly to the right of the incorrectly circled pier

>>27522734
The games have both a kana and a kanji mode.

>>27522742
damn
it got spoopy here

>>27522713
I've seen people confused about the number of Trial Captains everywhere.
And while we can clear the misconception with website info, it's nowhere as clear and conclusive as the Japanese version.

>>27522657
I hope the thing about no new megas is fake; wanted more.

>>27522749
Even if we get an average of two on the other islands (maybe more on snow island, less on melemele), we'll still get ten captains and four Kahunas. Which is an increase from other gens.

Add to that the rival battles, the bad guy teams, and you have lots of action.

>>27522831
We still don't know if there's an evil team yet.

I don't think they'd drop that aspect but with them changing the way the league works, honestly, who knows?

>>27521320
The toy Z-bracelet comes with Fire, Water, Grass, Normal, Fighting, and Electric gems. We know there's a normal-type totem-Pokemon somewhere early in the game, so maybe that and the fighting one are on Melemele? Maybe the electric one too, since that's where you get the electric gem.

>>27522163
This mantis looks like it could be a totem pokemon

>>27522881
Since we had no hint of a villainous team until now, and usually they start by revealing grunts, I'm thinking we may have a solo villain or small group instead of a big organization.

>>27522903
...it is

>>27522903
>>27521486

>>27522903
It is. It has the totem aura, and the official website confirms there is a totem version of that pokemon.

>>27522903
For fucks sake

>>27522915
A solo villain would be fucking cool tbqh

maybe he's trying to steal the power of the Totem Pokemon or something like that

What a boring generation.

These trials are just boring, we actually fight only the totem pokemon and the kahuna. 4 fucking serious battles in all the region.

>>27522967
>4 trainer battles featuring legendaries
>at least 4 JRPG boss battles with a summoning gimmick, pretty much confirmed to be more
>no word on the artificial island yet
I don't see the problem

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>>27521452

>>27522967
Why do people keep assuming that you wont fight trial captains?

>>27522996
I don't think the Kahunas will use the island guardians, at least not right away. It would be kinda ridiculous a legendary matching early game levels.

I'm hoping once it's time to capture the guardians late game you have a rematch with each Kahuna.

>>27522967
Oh shit, you've played the game already? Please don't spoil anything else for me :^)

>>27523000
TRIPS SAY SINNOH CONFIRMED MOTHERFUCKERS

>>27523016
Nothing implies you will.
I'm certain you will fight them at some point because come on, it's Pokémon, but I'm not so sure if it's part of the tirals.

>>27523016
It's stated that Mallow will ask you to find ingredients and Kiawe will ask you to tell the difference between his dances as their trials
Some people might find that boring but I like the idea of some puzzles and stuff to do instead of a piss easy boss battle

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I want to know what's the deal with the sprout on this island. Reminds me of Jack and the Giant Beanstalk or those beanstalks in Minish Cap.

>>27522831
I can see there being around 10 captains.

>>27522657
what if ninetales wrong typing was intentional?

>>27523050
You won't fight them. They don't even have pokemon and if they did, we should have know.

>>27523059
There's no reason to not have both.

>>27523093
The fire guy has a Marowak.

>>27523030
There's nothing suggesting that the guardians are legendaries.

>>27523093
Kiawe has a Marowak.

>>27522922
>>27522928
>>27522937
>>27522939
Disregard that, I suck cocks

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>>27523093

>>27523097
True. I would like both. Like you do their task then fight them

>>27523101
You're joking, right?

>>27523059
Why can't you do both?

>Go into gym, fight trainers and solve a puzzle
>Fight unique character with type themed strong team

>Do some sort of challenge/s
>Fight unique character with type themed strong team

I don't know why people think this is going to be a drastic change rather than a more interesting version of gyms, why would they make them just like gym leaders to not give them teams?

>>27523101
True enough. It's just that as each is impled to be some kind of guardian deity of the island it's difficult to see them as anything but legendaries.

>>27523119
Gym confirmed then

>>27523129
Yeah, I retracted my statement
I would really like both but I wouldn't be too heartbroken if we didn't have to fight the captains; we definitely have to fight the totems and the Kahunas

>>27523093
Even ignoring the fact that the website says your wrong, why wouldn't the people that run the pokemon trainer trials not be pokemon trainers?

>>27523093
All of the captains are described as specializing in a certain type of Pokemon. Hard to specialize in a type of Pokemon if you don't own any Pokemon.

READ THE WEBSITE

ACTUALLY WATCH THE VIDEOS AND READ THE WEBSITE BEFORE YOU POST

>>27523157
We'd at the very least get a mix, unless they are only doing a handful of captains theres not many challenges you can come up with in pokemon that don't involve pokemon battles

>>27522460
She's white, but tanned

So maybe Marowak becomes a Fire type

>>27522915
Solo baddy would be a cool change.

>>27523243
No
There's no Marlon argument here either, she's brown

>>27523247
Probably since Kiawe specializes in Fire types
Fire type Alolan Marowak confirmed

>>27523240
True enough. I'd like to see both

>>27523279
Nope. She's white, you can tell by her eyes and hair

>>27523016
I'm sure we will fight them because all of them specialized one type.

>>27523313
How could I forget that all white people have brown skin, green hair and green eyes?

>>27523101
At E3, the girl doing the treehouse presentation mentioned legendary Pokemon being integrated into the story in a way that Pokemon hadn't done before. I think she was referring to the guardians.

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>>27523247
Think it might just be because he is the only poke that fits in with this

>>27522600
>Speaking in third person
Trash

So we get our z stone for every trial captain? We get the grass one for passing mallow' etc? 16 captains 16 types?

>>27523619
There are 18 types though.
Maybe we get a freebie or two.

>>27523619
There hasn't been any stated connection between trial captains and Z stones. Sure, it seems logical, but it's also entirely plausible that they are unrelated.

>>27523101
There certainly is plenty of evidence. They clearly have an elevated role in the story befitting legendaries. Additionally, they are referred to as deities. "God-like" Pokemon are always legendaries.

>>27523683
I juat assumed we get handed our starter types stone.
>>27523740
True enough. I was just being optimistic.

>>27523016
We already fight the totem pokémon of each type, and they seem challenging enough with their abilities and support pokémon, so what would be the point of also fighting the captain of the end of the trial?

If those leaks about building your own league are true, I think we'll only be able to battle the captains after they become gym leaders in the postgame.

>>27523838
I think the building your own league bit was either falsified, lost in translation, or misinterpreted by the leaker. I believe he simply was referring to the island trials.

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This is my best attempt to match the location for this. I realized the rocks have the same consistency and that cave opening is seen behind Gumshoos.

>>27522657
So does the thing about VGC mons having Pre-6 typing mean that things like non-fairy Mr. Mime/Jigglies are "Kanto forms" of these mons? Will they look different if transferred from RBY to reflect the different typing?

>>27524111
Nice trips. It's hard to say. Personally, I'm of the opinion that this bit is false. It just seems too farfetched for me.

>>27521007
link to japanese trailer

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>>27524053
also this.

>>27524381
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iaav6J6XzFs

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Now on to business.

The Tauros ride takes place in a fenced area as well. I can't seem to match it with anything, but the way this plays out, the camera may be rotated. We're seeing something from a different angle than on the map.

>>27524545
Well it seems very likely that Tauros riding would occur in or near the corral on Akala.

>>27524564
Mudsdale can be ridden on Route 2

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>>27524564
Took another shot after it turns left to smash rocks. The road continues ahead and there is this left fork too.

>>27521007
This map looks comfy as fuck

I wanna see what the hotspring/waterfall zone looks like. Hopefully there will be an Alola Seaking.

>>27521422
kill yourself

>>27521395
I think they're all on the same so this makes sense.

>>27524808
Looks like it's heading into a forest based on the shadows. Probably the forest behind and to the side of the ranch.

>>27524775
Cool, good to know. Not really related to Tauros, but cool nonetheless.

Oh, if you're mentioning that because of the artwork that was released, where both Mudsdale and Tauros are being ridden in the same area, that picture clearly doesn't depict gameplay. It's nothing to go by.

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This is the Mudsdale area. I believe it's on the big island.

>>27525092
no it is shown in the Japanese trailer, next to a sign saying route 2

>>27525221
Mudsdale is shown next to the route 2 sign, or Tauros, too? I'm saying Tauros doesn't necessarily have to appear as rideable on the same route as Mudsdale just because the artwork depicts it that way.

>>27525112
I'd say you're right.

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Finally, the Sharpedo course. Also the big island, in it's lagoon.

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>>27525524
What is this supposed to be?

>>27525598
I don't know. That is why I focused on those shots. I saw something in the distance and didn't know what it was.

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>>27525598
Pokecenter

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>>27525636
Yeah, the door matches, it's a PC even though the sides look weird. I guess it's just because it's far away.

At first glance it looked like a tribal monument or something.

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>>27525598
A door to a temple in the inside the montain.

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Pretty obvious senpai

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More tauros. A grass patch and turning again.

All these speculations make me impatient to explore Alola.

>>27525824
They are more then 4 trials and Spoiler: You only guess Fire Trial right.

>>27525738
Dude, you didn't even try with this perspective. Light would have to curve around that lower island you highlighted in order to see anything over near the mountain, and based on the scale of the PC, there's no way you could see that far over.

Your angle on the aerial view is larger than your angle on the frontal view. That makes no sense.

>>27525903
>They are more then 4 trials
Where was this said?

>>27525524
Huh, looks like you can make out the grey building from the map in that top right picture, middle and high.

That image is taken from the southern most portion of the lagoon.

>>27526028
Hi, im the Official Pokémon Sun Moon Site.

>>27526028
fucking lurk in this thread before posting

This is getting ridiculous.

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>>27521770
Yoongos is a Route 1 Pokémon, I believe the Goomshos battle is on Melemele.

>>27523502
Isn't that just how Japanese works though?

They don't have pronouns exactly like in english.

Melemele seems so tiny to have 4 trials

>>27523068
it s
>an exeguttor

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>>27526014
I know that.... anyway, There is the more accurate version.

>>27523059
If we don't have battles there isn't even a reason to the game to exist.

>>27526061
Ive checked the site, I don't see anything specifying the number of captains, could you point me to where, exactly?

>>27526420
It can be 3-4-5-6

>>27526458
If you look at the full map, there's supposed to be a pokemon center there. That could be the front of it

I haven't been hyped for Pokemon in a long time but this gen seems amazing.

>>27526525
nah... Too far for that.
There is definitely something in that beach

>>27526418
Pronouns can be omitted or changed for similar words, but people don't usually refer to themselves by their names unless they're children, childish people and tryhards who try to appear cute talk like that.

Other than that, I've only heard normal people refer to themselves in third person when they're talking with someone of their family, like "your mother is very worried about you" or "please do as your sister says".

>>27526584
Ooor the beach is hidden behind the island, because clearly it has two levels.

>>27526498
But there are battles, that's what the Totem Pokémon are for.

And some captains will probably ask you to battle them as part of the their trials. The electric kid at least seems to do so.

>>27525112
So Tauros is Steel type there?

>>27526584
Doubtful. The beach is also on level with the water, while the house is raised above. It all lines up.

Do we have any art of pokemon center doors? Because that might show it

>>27526520
Hi, the quantity is more than only four trials.
Exists Four kahunas, to you battle them you need beat the trials.
Is more than only four trials.
And look the images, the water trial have waterfalls, the volcano trial has a Volcano active.
If each island have a Kahuna we have 4-3-3-4 captain for each grand trial.

>>27526584
>Too far
It's literally right behind the beach.

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And now for no real reason, I give you
The Flowers of John Gamefreak.

These are the flowers that Oricorio feeds on. I only found one of them, the others are nowhere to be found or can't be placed.

>>27526697
Where are the pink flowers?

>>27526738
That's what I said. None of the vids had Pa'u in it's flower field.

>>27526604
Humm.... right, at the same time, the art style is very different front the pokemon center's door, but, looking in the map, we can see a florest behind the pokemon center, and its entrance is on pokemon center's left, so maybe that is the entrance to that florest.

Why its a door and not just a passageway is a good question.

>>27526767
Why the pic, you might ask? I was trying to see if there was a point where there would be forest with the volcano in the background on Akala. There are many places that could do that.

>>27526697
Given the trailer for Magearna showing the yellow flowers makes me think its early enough that they didnt mind showing it off in an early trailer such as it. Oricorio's electric type also reassured mr that it is indeed an early location, aka thr first island. I'm betting it's on the other side of the island, maybe where you exit the forest.

>>27526807
considering we got the trial caps for the first 4 gems there, we might get the fighting, normal, steel and rock ones on 12th maybe (the next 4 there)

>>27526675
So it's not actually confirmed information and just theory? Alright then.

>>27526848
Also the boardwalk for the red version looks like the left island, so at least we somewhat know where we need to search.

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So, since we've figured out that the trials and captains shown belong to Akala Island, I did a bit of speculating on what areas could correspond to what Types in the other Island.

Anyone else have opinions on this?

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>>27526807
How about this? Big island gets 8 trials because it seems fucking huge compared to the others.

>>27526983
Bug could be in the raised house at the south of the island and poison could be in the murky forest. Plus that Japanese town feels like either a Dragon or Flying trial area to me

I think the factory is Steel.

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>>27527017
Oh shit I forgot to write on that one, yeah, I think the Japanese town with the high tower could be Flying, but here is what I think the Dragon one will be.

>>27526873
The Japanese site explicitly says there are more than the four shown Trial Captains.

>>27527091
Yeah I agree with this

>>27526458
Still not accurate enough. Your angle is too large on the right picture. You're looking way too far out to sea.

Also, your angle hasn't included the island to the right that you included earlier and which is obviously there.

>>27526873
READ. THE FUCKING. THREAD.

>>27526983
>>27527091

Also, the place where you find Totem Gumshoos is probably on the first Island, considering it's the evolution of an early-route mon. Also makes sense to consider that it is part of the Normal type trial, since Lurantis is part of the Grass type trial.

If we consider that you receive the corresponding Z-Stone at the end of each trial, we're probably looking at the first trial being a Normal one, which makes sense, since almost every Pokémon can learn a Normal type move, allowing them to use the Normal Z-Power.

>>27522209
No, Lana is on the second island. Gamexplain translated the story bits from the japanese trailer and she meets you right after you get off the boat. Unrelated but Hala mentions some group known as the Princesses of Pokemon when you receive the Z ring.

>>27527442
>>27524053
*shrug*

>>27523059
They specialize in a type.
We will battle then eventually even if the battle has nothing to do with their trial.

This whole "no gym" meme was a horrible mistranslation or, at best, a half truth. Captains are gym leaders in every way other than title.

>18 Z stones
>Cores
>Cells
>Arceus plates
>Megastones
>Boost objects
>TMs

Is it just me or we're up to one helluva of scavenger hunt?

>>27528194
good - it should expand the story more than x and y did, at least in terms of trying to find all these items

>>27528194
maybe new zone post game unseen on the map

or else it'll just be a hell out of pokeballs everywhere on the ground

>>27528194
Sounds good to me. I hope the region has metroidvania like areas only accessible when certain requirements are met.

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>>27527006
>>27527091
>>27526983
Tried to mix both the Z-Crystal arrangements with the speculation about the trials locations.

I couldn't find anything on not-Hawaii/Ulaula (Southernmost Island) that could fit Fairy-type so I want with something random. I think Trial >>27527091 is probably right and it's on the giant tree.

Same for Bug-type not fitting anywhere in not-Kauai/Poni (Westernmost Island), so I bet it's on that foggy forest/swamp in Ulaula.

>>27528194
I wonder if they'll bring back berry trees like in Kalos. Or interactive backgrounds.

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>>27528549
Bug could be here. There's a tree and the whole structure kind of looks like an arthropod.

>>27528549
1 island
>Normal
>Figthing

2 island
>Fire
>Grass
>Water
>Electric

3 Island
>Rock
>Ground
>Steel
>Ice
>Posion
>Fairy
>Psychic
>Ghost

4 Island
>Bug
>Flying
>Dragon
>Dark

>>27524167
I think it might be real because they are also now showing you weakness/resistance in the battle menu. So you could look at gen 1 mr. mime and see "oh it has a different set of weaknesses than the other mr mimes I fought, it must be from the old games"

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What about this arrangement?

>>27528847
It makes no sense "in universe". Why the fuck would two IDENTICAL Mr. Mimes have different Special stats and different types? Why would they go throught retyping shit to Fairy only to then be like "lol nope it can ne both fairy and normal!"

I think this part of the leak was mistranslated and they just wanted to clarify that transferred mons wouldn't suddenly turn into Alola forms and would just stay the same as Gen VI

>>27529035
It gets even more retarded when you consider Magnemite. It is literally made of steel, why would one arbitrarily not be Steel types?

>>27529035
This.

Having a couple of shitmons with different types and stats, but who otherwise look exactly the same, seems completely pointless and convoluted.

You seem to forget trading and transfers defy the laws of space/time.

>>27528874
>Z-Crystals are sign of completing trials

I like this...I wonder what we'll get to signify the defeat of a Totem Pokemon and Kahuna?

>>27529142
Dude it's not about laws of space/time, it's about it being fucking retarded. There's no explanation they could give to the Magnemite thing.

And it's not like any person this would appeal to (diehard genwunners) even matter because they won't be playing these games anyway.

It's pointless, arbitrary and ruins the world-building.

>>27529177
The totems are confirmed to be part of the trials.
I imagine the trials go like

>meet Captain, hear task
>do task at the place, at the end of place you find Totem
>go back to the leader after completing the trial and Totem and battle them
>after defeating all the captains in one island, battle the Kahuna

And the very first scene in this japanese trailer with the Z-Stone floating looks very much like a "badge get". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iaav6J6XzFs

>>27529189
What this board thinks the pokeworld is is either not followed by the rest of the franchise or a complete fabrication that has no bearing on official word at all.

>>27521770
>>27526374
But is there only one totem pokemon on each island or is there one per trial?

>>27529280
I'm not saying it won't happen beause of this, I'm saying that it is fucking stupid. And since I am optmistic, I will for now consider this specific part to be wrong, as it has happened before with leaks.

>>27529308
The video says "Totem Pokémon await at the end of each trial".

>>27529247
If that's the case, and there being 18 crystals, this game could easily end up being 25+ hours. I'm excited, I loved the Gym 1 to Gym 2 gap in XY.

>>27529360
It's also flipping stupid you can have more than one Arceus.

>>27529092
it said pre gen 6 typings retard so magnemite would stay steel its just the fairies won't get their fairy type and pokemon like raichu and poliwrath wont get the additional 10 base stats they got in gen 6