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All the things we noticed successful the caller trailer

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet conscionable got a caller trailer, and ohio lad — this 1 is fourteen minutes long. That's a batch to dissect, truthful find a comfy seat and marque yourself a cupful of Sinistea arsenic we spell done everything caller (and expanded!) successful this latest trailer, which you tin ticker here:

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Everything we noticed successful Scarlet & Violet's caller trailer

New Pokémon

We're starting strong, but small, with the caller Pokémon that we spotted successful this trailer. Only 1 was officially announced — Farigiraf, the hard-to-spell improvement of Girafarig, wherever the process has go the head. Farigiraf besides comes with caller abilities... But we'll speech astir those later.

Several different caller Pokémon appeared successful the trailer, though we didn't get immoderate accusation similar names, types, oregon adjacent what they really look like. Here they each are:

Our guesses connected what these are:

Armarouge's pre-evolutionary form
Some benignant of snow-mouse
A parakeet
A salt...mushroom...house?
A spider that's maybe a coin, somehow?

Honestly, who knows.

If you privation to find retired which pre-existing 'mons are getting added to the Paldean Pokédex, we've added the ones from this trailer to our ongoing list:

All The New And Returning Pokémon In Pokémon Scarlet & Violet

Picnics

Improve Your Pokémon's Stats In Scarlet And Violet's New Picnic Function

Pokémon's ever-evolving attempts to marque a Poké-hangout with our 'mons continues with the caller Paldean Picnics, which are beauteous akin to Sword and Shield's camping. Instead of a static first-person camera, it looks similar you'll beryllium successful third-person, playing shot with your squad to enslaved with them.

There's besides a first-person washing minigame (with a small Mareep spoooonge!!!) for your filthy Pokémon, which seems to marque them similar you better. Also, makes them clean.

For immoderate crushed — it wasn't explained — there's a accidental that a Pokémon Egg volition look successful your picnic baskets, giving you escaped Pokémon, arsenic agelong arsenic you don't fry the egg, you monster. Is this a peculiar Pokémon that loves laying eggs successful baskets, oregon is it immoderate aged Pokémon? We'll person to hold to find out.

You tin besides customise your picnics a small spot — by changing the tablecloth! Very important.

But the champion portion of picnics is the food, of course, and ScaVi replaces Sword & Shield's curries with Paldea's sandwiches. It looks similar you tin bargain sandwich ingredients similar lettuce, tomatoes, and ham (presumably from Lechonk) successful town, and past usage those ingredients to make a sandwich wrong a 10 infinitesimal clip bounds (which is simply a truly agelong time, if you inquire us).

It besides looks similar the sandwich has existent physics, meaning that the hard portion is balancing ingredients and breadstuff without it each falling apart. We tin spot immoderate hilarious physics-related antics happening here... and immoderate truly nasty sandwiches.

The sandwich's components dictate however bully it is, and what buffs you get from it — higher EXP rates, amended drawback rates for circumstantial types, and assistance with raid battles are each possible, positive much that we person yet to see. Love a bully sandwich.

New Pokédex UI

The Pokédex has taken its plan cues from Apple Books, it seems, with Pokémon appearing much similar books connected a support than entries successful an encyclopaedia. Each Pokémon volition person its ain photo, positive the accustomed Pokédex worldly of height, weight, animations, and truthful on. It's a batch prettier, but possibly a small little accessible?

New Abilities

Girafarig's evo, Farigiraf, introduces 2 caller abilities to the game:

Chew Cud: Allows the Pokémon to devour a berry twice, implicit 2 turns
Armor Tail: Stops opposing Pokémon from utilizing precedence moves

Armor Tail successful peculiar is simply a imaginable game-changer for competitory play, but we're funny to spot if players tin bash thing chill with Chew Cud, too.

Character Customisation

Pokémon games proceed to summation the magnitude of quality customisation that players tin do, with haircuts and hairsbreadth colours returning, but besides oculus shape, eyelash and eyebrow style, quality marks, freckles, coloured contacts, articulator shape, and constitution options.

As a bonus, it looks similar each of these options are nary longer locked to a circumstantial gender. This not lone means that you tin make a gender-neutral quality if you want, but besides a genderfluid quality that readily switches betwixt a much feminine quality and a much masculine one!

Camera app

We knew astir the camera app, but we got a amended look astatine its capabilities successful this trailer. It looks similar you tin instrumentality selfies and photos of radical and Pokémon, arsenic good arsenic landscapes and different absorbing phenomena. There are aggregate filters you tin use, poses and emotes for your quality to do, and thing to bash with eyes — we'd conjecture that it's a "Look Over Here!" bid similar Animal Crossing: New Horizons has.

If you instrumentality a representation you like, you tin usage it arsenic your character's illustration paper background. We're besides funny if you tin usage pics of Pokémon arsenic their Pokédex profile, similar successful Breath of the Wild.

The TM Machine

We similar the TM Machine. As good arsenic uncovering TMs scattered crossed the satellite oregon buying them successful shops, TMs tin present beryllium crafted astatine a Pokémon Center. Using League Points and Pokémon materials, you tin trade thing you person a look for — however we get those recipes, however, is inactive unknown.

Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Will Let You Craft TMs

League Points?

But wait, did you accidental League Points? What are League Points? We are going to presume for present that they're earned done gym battles, but determination aren't a batch of those, truthful possibly they're besides earned done regular trainer battles. In the latest revamps of the Pokémon anime, Ash and friends person their League ranking monitored and updated by a Rotom Drone each clip they conflict idiosyncratic other successful the Pokémon League, adjacent random trainers, truthful we'd conjecture it's thing similar that.

Pokémon present driblet materials

You whitethorn person noticed that the crafting materials for TMs are Pokémon bits. Don't worry! These are conscionable bits that autumn disconnected a fainted Pokémon, right? Like Snom Thread. We don't cognize what portion of a Snom is thread, but it doesn't dependable similar a assemblage part! And Shinx Fang, well... okay, that sounds similar a assemblage part. Maybe you conscionable punched a Shinx truthful hard its teeth fell out. Don't interest astir it.

Field HUD

While you're successful the field, the Heads Up Display — the word for the interface that's connected the screen, similar maps and wellness bars — has been redesigned to bounds your presumption arsenic small arsenic possible. Instead of your Pokémon squad appearing successful a separate, full-screen menu, it present appears arsenic a semi-transparent sidebar, allowing you to proceed immoderate you're doing portion checking a Pokémon's status.

Mini-map

The mini-map looks similar it'll supply a batch of utile info — adjacent chaotic Pokémon, pins that you tin acceptable yourself, and the locations of utile places similar Pokémon Centers.

There's a paper that you tin unfastened portion successful the tract that lets you entree aggregate options:

Union Circle
Tera Raid Battle
Link Trade
Surprise Trade
Link Battle
Battle Stadium
Mystery Gift

Previously, galore of these things were lone accessible from either a circumstantial determination (like raid battles) oregon from the commencement paper (like mystery gifts). Now, it looks similar each of these features tin beryllium accessed wherever you are!

Offline trading?

We're consenting to instrumentality this 1 with a pinch of salt, due to the fact that the crippled is inactive successful development, but it looked to america similar the crippled lets you bash a nexus commercialized successful Offline Mode. But yes, this could conscionable beryllium due to the fact that the servers aren't unfastened yet.

New info connected terastallizing

The Terastal Phenomenon Is Pokémon Scarlet & Violet's Unique Mechanic

There are 18 Tera types successful total
Tera Pokémon person a benignant that mightiness not beryllium thing to bash with their basal types
Terastallizing mightiness beryllium disposable from the commencement — we spot an unevolved Quaxly utilizing it
Tera Pokémon tin beryllium recovered successful the chaotic — they sparkle

Catching a chaotic Tera Pokémon is simply a substance of getting its HP low, astatine which constituent it volition crook backmost into its basal form
There are uncommon Tera types, which tin beryllium recovered successful raid battles
There's a caller determination called Tera Blast, which changes its benignant to immoderate the Tera-type is of the Pokémon utilizing it
Sudowoodo yet gets to beryllium a writer type!

Raid battles

Tera raid battles diagnostic up to 4 players successful a timed combat with a Terastallized Pokémon. Much similar Sword and Shield's Dynamaxed battles, these Pokémon are other beardown and other rare, with Tera types that possibly can't beryllium recovered successful the wild.

If your Pokémon gets knocked retired successful these raid battles, don't interest — they'll beryllium revived aft 5 seconds, but that mightiness beryllium precious clip mislaid each the same.

If your chosen Pokémon is simply a spot pants, oregon if your squad needs help, you tin take to cheer your allies connected alternatively of making a move. This lets you summation their Atk and Sp. Atk., their Def. and Sp. Def., oregon supply a full-team heal.

When the conflict is over, you and your pals volition person to squad up to drawback the Pokémon, arsenic your Poké Balls harvester into 1 large 1 — but it's not wide who gets it. Maybe each of you?

Titan Pokémon are cowards

We got to spot Klawf, the caller Titan Pokémon, successful conflict — but helium notably scuttled disconnected earlier being afloat defeated. Does that mean we'll person to instrumentality him connected again successful aggregate rematches? Probably!

The Titan Pokémon are portion of the Herba Mystica plotline, called The Path of Legends. We wouldn't beryllium amazed if it's a small much progressive than conscionable "beat this large feline and telephone it a day".

Day/night cycle

There's a day-night cycle! We did already cognize this one, but this trailer confirmed it. No connection connected whether it's existent clip oregon not, but it looks much dynamic than erstwhile games, which stuck to a morning/day/evening/night cycle.

Height differences?

We're theorised astir this for past trailers, but the stark quality betwixt the small trainers and the much normal-sized trainers makes america wonderment if you tin take your tallness successful the quality customisation. Reasons wherefore this would beryllium bully — immoderate players are children. Or short, similar immoderate of the NL team! Reasons wherefore this mightiness not beryllium imaginable — mapping animations onto 2 different-sized frames mightiness beryllium beauteous difficult.

Let's Go! commands

Auto Battle Pokémon With 'Let's Go!', Scarlet And Violet's Newest Feature

We got immoderate caller info astir the Let's Go command, which lets you nonstop disconnected 1 of your Pokémon into the tract to bash worldly portion you bash different things. That includes auto-battling chaotic Pokémon, and picking up items — though it seems similar you mightiness inactive person to micromanage the Pokémon a small bit, due to the fact that you person to really throw them astatine the item. Which saves you, what, 15 seconds?

New info connected Team Star

Team Star Is Pokémon Scarlet And Violet's New Set Of Villains

Team Star — who look to beryllium the main villains, astatine slightest that we cognize astir — person a fig of bases crossed Paldea, each 1 with a clump of grunts and a leader. You'll beryllium allowed to participate the basal with the archetypal 3 Pokémon successful your party, but the sanction of the basal volition beryllium a hint — similar the Fire Squad, for example, which means you should banal up connected Water types.

It looks similar the grunts volition beryllium open-field battles, alternatively than locked-down arena fights; the crippled seems to promote you to usage the Let's Go diagnostic to combat disconnected waves of low-level grunt Pokémon.

When you've defeated them all, you'll unlock the brag — successful this case, the brag of Team Star's Fire Squad, Mela — who rides successful connected a souped-up car that we strongly fishy is simply a Pokémon of immoderate kind.

The trailer said we'd person to hold to find retired much astir these battles, which instrumentality spot on the car, truthful we person to presume that there's immoderate neat twist hidden successful amongst each of this.

Graphical compromises

Yyyyyeaaaaahhhh. Sorry.

It looks similar ScaVi has immoderate superior graphical compromises that it's had to bash successful bid to get the crippled moving connected Switch, which is decidedly preferable to a crippled that punches supra its value and runs poorly.

Even successful a trailer, which is usually polished up, we tin spot debased levels of detail, reduced poly number connected Pokémon adjacent successful adjacent proximity to the subordinate character, debased framework rates connected things similar the windmill, and simplistic textures. Is it a problem? That's up to you to decide. And besides whoever ends up reviewing it for us. In our opinion, it looks amended than Pokémon Legends Arceus did, though.

Some fans person noted that the Japanese trailer doesn't endure from galore of the aforesaid graphical issues, though we tin inactive spot debased framework rates and low-poly animations:

Gallery: Here's A Look At The New Open World In Pokémon Scarlet And Violet

Rotom Phone tin get calls

Ring ring! It's Rotom Phone. Yep, you tin get calls connected your Rotom Phone, a spot similar successful HeartGold and SoulSilver, wherever radical would telephone you to invitation you for battles, advancement the story, oregon springiness you items. Cool!

Those are each the large things we noticed — but here, person a bully assemblage of immoderate different chill screenshots from the trailer that we didn't get to usage already, and spot if you tin spot thing neat:

Did you announcement thing caller and/or antithetic successful this mega-trailer? Are you hyped to max for the game's merchandise connected November 18th? Tell america each your Poképinions successful the comments below!

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