>slash the number of Gym Leaders to 4 >call them trail

>>27625589
The trial captains are different from gym leaders in almost every aspect, dumbass. They do completely different things.

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>>27625589
>he doesn't know

4.... per island.

>>27625589
4 per island + totem pokemon + kahunas

>>27626177

is that the starting island?

>>27626309
no its the second island

>>27626177
i'm worried by how small this island looks

will there be anywhere to explore?

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>>27626177
LOREST DEEP

4 per islamd? Holy shit, I really dig this. Going from a game where the pizzles are solved by an item from one of your rivals to 4 fucking challenging puzzles on a single island. Imagine the new waifus.

wait a minute, the first four chars were only on the first island?

>>27626333

so the top left one in the region is the starting island right? I'm holding out hope for 4 trial leaders per island, but it doesn't look like there's much going on on the starter island...

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>>27626177
HOW DID I NEVER NOTICE THIS

>>27625589
>trail

Literally swapped two letters. It's not even that hard of a word to spell, you fucking autist.

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>>27626177

So 4 trial captains per island giving a total of 16 trial captains

Then we take into account the Kahuna's as well

>>27627698

At least 4. Some think we could see two unofficial captains.

>>27626177
>that's what the colors mean
Oh shit how did I not catch on to that.

>>27627698
20 major opponents total.
Not considering Totem Pokemon may be battles unrelated to the Kahunas'
We don't even need Gyms/E4 with a setup like this.

>>27626177
>>27626294

>4 islands, 1 kahuna per island
>4 captains per island, 1 challenge and totem pokemon per captain

16 challenges
16 totem pokemon
4 kahunas
1 dai kahuna(???)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahuna

>>27627698
No Dark type trainer though.

For what its worth, I know we're getting more that four captains, but do we know specifically how many?

It could be that some of the other islands only have 2 or 3

>>27628397

that's what I was thinking. Both of the western islands of Alola don't look like they have enough going on to support four trial captains. Maybe two or three on those two?

>>27625589
>they do nothing new
MEH ALWAYS tHE SAME
>they do something new
MEH THEY CHANGED MY GYM LEADERS

>>27627698
>>27627853
And there still won't be a Dark Trial Captain.

>>27625589
>he doesnt know that its already confirmed there are more captains
>he doesnt know there are captains and then a kahuna you battle at the end
>he doesnt realize theres boss battles with other pokemon
>le suck gamefreaks cock maymay
>he can't even make a decent b8 thread

wew

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>16 Trial Cpatains
>18 Pokemon types

>>27628606
At this point is a tradition

>>27628638
There's 16 official captains and 2 unofficial ones on the artificial island.

>>27625589
epic meme

>>27628638
ignore normal, and leave one for the champ

>>27628606

>yfw the evil team leader is a dark-type trial leader

>or a kahuna who uses dark mons

>>27626348

The forest is a lot bigger when you go inside it

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>>27628606
Don't remind me

>>27628684

I thought it was established that there are 16 captains and then the last two are the "champion" equivalent (Hau/Lillie?) and the main antagonist?

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>>27628700
>yfw there is no evil team

>>27625589
>Pokemon is formulaic for 20 years and every game becomes the same
>new game director introduces new main story format that makes the new games actually new games
>bad
Nah

>>27626348

They are zoomed out just to show you the area's in general

They are much bigger in scale, especially when you go in them like the forest

>>27628750

good point, they're bucking a lot of traditions

substitute the "leader of evil team" for "antagonist"

Reminder that Totem Pokemon are tied to the trial leaders

Totem Lurantis and Grass Cook's trials both take place in Lush Forest

Meaning we are also looking for a Normal type Leader since Totem Gumshoos exists

>>27625589
Except they literally said that there are more than four trials, so shut the fuck up.

>>27628606
No one cares, shut up about it

>>27628750
The evil team will be team flare in the post game. There will be no evil team in the main game you will go through the transition and learn the secret of Lilly along the way.

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>>27628750
>mfw i can just take on the trial without having to stop a evil team

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>>27629154

>champion

I'm gonna need a source on that friendo

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>>27629169

>the most boring evil team ever introduced

please no

>>27627853
I fully expect to see 18 Trial Captains so there will be one of every type, with the Kahunas using multiple types to keep things from overlapping as well as being more challenging. If they run it that way then every type gets a specialist, every island will have a mini-circuit of it's own leading to the equivalent of one of the E4 members, and we get top pokemon trainers (Kahunas + whatever the champ equivalent is) that are *actually* challenging instead of getting steamrolled by one pokemon with a type advantage.

This also solves the issue of needing a villain team to provide filler in the various towns that don't have a gym, so they can focus on something to do with the legendaries that is happening all on it's own as a sidestory, almost every town/city has a gym/trial, and we can just enjoy our opposition being wild pokemon and our rival. I think that's just enough of a shake up to the formula to make it really fresh feeling and fun, especially with all the other new stuff like z-moves, Alola forms and battle royale, plus the confirmed return of the much wanted customization and a system similar to amie. Sun/Moon is shaping up to be the best entry to the Pokemon franchise in a damn long time, if not the best ever.

>>27628684
FUCKING HYPE

I have never been so fucking hype.

>>27629227
I don't understand how Team Rocket relates to his post

>18 trial captains
>18 types
>trailer said there will be a z-move for every type
>obtain z-move privileges of the type of trial captains you beat
>???
>profit?

JP site confirmed more than 1 trial captain per island

>>27629292

Team Rocket's not the pinnacle of evil teams either, but at least they made sense as a criminal organization that actually committed crimes for profit. Shady hideout under a casino, taking over Silph Co, taking hostages in Lavendar Town, selling mutilated pokemon parts, stealing shit, taking over the radio tower, etc.

Team Flare was just really muddled in confused. Create a beautiful and bettter world! But also make money! But also kill everything! Why were they so obsessed with mega evolution when it wasn't even relevant to their master plan? Why did Emma happen? They were just so confused.

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>16 trial captains
>4 kahunas that seem to be able to use z-moves
>totem pokemon + other wild pokemon that can summon underlings
>4 legendary deity's that the kahuna's seem to use based on that clip of Hala having Tapu Koko
>and a rival

There are people who

>>27629467
>there are people who are actually mad about gyms being gone

>>27629479
Let them be faggots hidden away on the internet making no difference to anyone's lives.
I wouldn't mind there being a post-game battle resort with a Pokemon league and gym challenge where the gyms were all equally challenging instead of the nonsense scaled leaders of the past, though. If there are gyms in the games throughout the region that we're just not allowed in yet I'd be fine with it.

The whole gym quest thing hasn't made sense since Gen2 and has really just been there ever since. It has never been the goal of the game to be the league champion, it's always been to catch the Pokemon so I'm glad to see them actually changing it up.

>>27629315

OH SHIT THIS MAKES SO MUCH SENSE. THIS ALSO EXPLAINS WHY THEY'D PUT FIRE WATER GRASS AND ELECTRIC ALL ON THE FIRST ISLAND

>>27628684
>>27628744

based on...?

>>27629595

I agree. The goal in every game has basically been to "go on a pokemon journey!" and gyms were just an arbitrary metric they used to measure your progress. But the arbitrary need for 8 gyms led to a lot of gyms feeling lackluster and phoned in

Changing up the structure gives them more freedom to (hopefully) do interesting things to test your progression

>>27629661

that's not the first island tho

>>27628587
I know, right? Its almost as if there's more than five people that post on /vp/ at any given time...

>>27629720
It also helps tell the story properly, the gyms never really communicated much about the region outside of a few leaders having jobs industries that are thriving in the countries they're based on..
But this new trial stuff really sets up Alola as a tropical land set in its folk traditions and that's only ever a positive.

>>27626177
Don't forget that Sophocles is possibly in the blue building at the foot of the volcano