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New 'Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Trailer' Shows Off Hot Profs, Decent Trees And Lechonk

June 1st, 2022 - 12:17 PM EDT by Adam Downer

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A new trailer for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet dropped this morning, and while it seemed that the trailer's main purpose was to reveal the games' release date of November 18th, the few glimpses it showed of the game in action had Pokémon fans buzzing.

There's a lot to cover here, but the breakout star in the trailer's immediate aftermath is undoubtedly Lechonk, a pig Pokémon who seems to be occupying the traditional "early-game Normal-type" Pokémon position held in the past by the likes of Rattata and Wooloo. According to Washington Post games reporter Gene Park, the name is likely a play on the word "lechon," which is a Filipino roasted pig dish. Of course, with the addition of a "k" to lechon, you have a name very similar to a popular meme.

Fans were also excited about the two new Pokémon professors that will be unique to each game — Scarlet's Professor Sada and Violet's Professor Turo. It appears the games will have an ancient past/distant future theme respectively, and thus Sada has some cavewoman-like accessories while Turo, to put it bluntly, resembles Gigachad.

The internet has deemed them both "very hot," and you can be sure to keep an eye out for the eventual Know Your Meme entries for each character once the inevitable fan art rolls in as it does for every "very hot" character in the Pokémon franchise.


The trailer also introduced the box art legendary Pokémon, Koraidon and Miraidon, whose design seems inspired by motorcycles, though some say they resemble other things.


And last but not least, at least one Pokémon fan highlighted the trees in the trailer, as the trees in Sword and Shield were a very contentious point for some fans at the time.

The big gameplay hook revealed in the trailer was that the games would allow for four-person co-op, allowing a group of players to adventure through different locales, battle and trade at once.

One interesting tidbit provided by Pokémon that didn't make it into the trailer is that players will be able to explore without being restricted by the story. One wonders if that means players will also be able to access a majority of the games' Pokémon immediately without being restricted to catching certain types in typically late-game areas. We'll have to wait six more months, or at least until the next trailer, to find out.

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Aztecelotl

Jun 01, 2022 at 06:00PM EDT

Actually, "Lechón" also means Little Pig in Spanish. Yeah, because in that language there's a name for the baby forms of the main land eatable animals

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Misspelled Tiger

Jun 01, 2022 at 02:11PM EDT

"he name is likely a play on the word "lechon," which is a Filipino roasted pig dish"

Also in spanish it just means a piglet, so his name would mean "fat piglet"

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Timey16

Jun 01, 2022 at 01:29PM EDT

1. PROPER Open World title… so not just Open Areas like PLA, straight up BotW open world and as they say it's "not locked off by story progression"

2. Full Coop mode. Up to four players can adventure together. Catch trade and battle.

3. NO new battle gimmick was shown off so maybe there is none. Although I doubt Megas will ever come back since Gamefreak never liked them and their death knell was their last appearance in USUM when their dex entries can be summarized as "every living moment is agony".(also only avalable late game and half of the megas were locked behind timed events)… ok technically last appearance was Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee but only Gen 1 ones.

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Soxar

Jun 01, 2022 at 02:36PM EDT Timey16

"every living moment is agony"
this is me waiting for megas to come back

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RemChi

Jun 01, 2022 at 04:05PM EDT Timey16

Megas were terrible for competitive balance and also enjoyment of the game considering most of them were after the credits rolled…

They should have been what regional variants are, an improved version of a worse pokemon with different stats and typings.

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Timey16

Jun 01, 2022 at 05:56PM EDT RemChi

Regional variants are essentially what replaced Megas in the first place… a way to rework old Pokemon and give them new/alternative evolutions.

While at the same time not nearly being as "overdesigned" and OP. They are generally well centered in the lore, the region and well loved by the fans, which is why the focus on regional variants is so strong now with even PLA bringing new ones even without being a new generation.

Maybe they can bring at least the Mega FORMS back somehow.

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