ALLUSIONS TO ANIMAL-BASED BIOLOGICAL DISASTERS RESULTING IN THE MAN-MADE INTRODUCTION OF AN INVASIVE ALIEN SPECIES TO NEW ECOSYSTEM?

IN //MY// POKEMON?

Question: what region is it native to? What is the other Pokemon? Will it be hard to find because of Yungoos?

SO SO THIS WAS A REAL THING IN REAL LIFE! During my various course studies of Japanese history, I remember an instance where Japan (specifically Okinawa) was having trouble with a certain species of venomous snake. And so they introduced a foreign species of mongoose to help deal with the issue. Unfortunately, the mongoose didn’t help out too much and Japan wound up with a ton of mongoose, making in an invasive species.

What does this have to do with Alola and it’s real world counterpart, Hawaii? I’M GLAD YOU ASKED! Well! It turns out that SAME species of mongoose was introduced to Hawaii to deal with an outbreak of rats during a prosperous sugar cane farming season!  

To further specify about this mongoose, it’s plainly called the Small Asian Mongoose ( Herpestes javanicus ) and it originally hails from South/South East Asia. It looks like this:

So this could lead to a couple of possibilities for that “certain other pokemon” in Sun and Moon. If they are to follow what happened in history in Hawaii, we might expect another rat-like Pokemon. If for some reason, they follow what happened in Japan, we could maybe expect a snake.

These are just my observations based off real-life events, so we’ll have to wait and see what the future holds for us in Pokemon!

I couldn’t have been the only one to have thought of this…

The Alola Region

As we all know, the Alola region is based off of Hawaii. But so far we only have seen one island. And that island I believe is based off the real life Hawaiian island of Oahu.

The shapes of the two islands generally match up. Additionally, note where the cities are on Oahu and where they are in Alola. They’re a match! Also, Alola’s big city corresponds to Honolulu which is Hawaii’s capital. Because of this fact, chances are this city will probably have some major importance in the games. Maybe it will be the final gym or where the professor’s lab is. Who knows? I can’t wait to explore this place!

OMG, Guys!

A Different Perspective on the Pokemon Sun and Moon logo via Reddit

Team spacevillains using solar eclipse to destroy the pokemon planet confirmed

Confirmed for Fire/Psychic, Water/Fighting, and Grass/Dark to even it out.

Who will you choose?

This doesnt confirm anything, they are just speculating the video just as we were.

Well it does make some sense….

-grass is strong against water, but dark is weak against fighting (Chespin)

-water is strong against fire, but fighting weak against psychic (Froakie)

-fire is strong against grass, but psychic is weak against dark (Fennekin)

so these typings allow for weaknesses to be covered. it’s very interesting!

Is this from Nintendo Force? I think this is really more speculation, but as majortvjunkie said, these secondary types would really add a level of sophistication in the way they'd counterbalance the primary types of the starters. Hmm! I'm excited to see how this pans out!