Interesting. It comes much earlier than usual, to the point it comes even before the SwSh chapter. Are they planning to release something else later in the month. Could we be getting SwSh on Sunday Webry starting this month?
Just as a reminder, Yamamoto said he couldn't finish the last eight pages of last month's update, so that's probably what this is going to be.
Don't expect a super long one.
Maybe it's just me, but I find it hard for just eight to be able to finish the story at this point. Last we saw, they were using the Pledge moves to stop the fire. They still need to finish that scene, and still settle a bunch of stuff. Basically:
-Hue's sister's Purrloin being found and returned to her.
-N going around returning every stolen Pokémon. We don't need to see everything, obviously, but they need to at least have N leaving on a journey for that.
-Achroma (Colress) somehow escaping to set up Alola events.
-Handsome (Looker) arresting someone.
-Everyone being unfrozen.
-Obligatory reference to Gen 6.
We could also have Lack-Two and Whi-Two be revealed to be aliases. I mean, their backgrounds basically imply could be using aliases. Even when Lack-Two said his name to Handsome, the wording seemed a bit ambiguous to me.
And also, we could have the Pokédex resonance sound. I mean, seriously, we haven't had it since Sinnoh. We have been basically
a decade without the resonance sound showing up, and this absence in B2W2, like I said before, seems suspicious, like there's still at least one more Pokédex around.
I can't see them creating the Rusted items, but I can totally imagine them having a hand in creating Instant and Eternity, the sword and armor Guile used.
Soudo's name is Japanese in origin, so it's possible his family could've originated from Sinnoh or at least one of the other Japan-based regions.
That doesn't mean much when:
-Yellow, a Kantionian, has a surname mixing Italian, English, and a location name.
-Platinum, a Sinnohnian, has Berlitz as a surname.
-Mary (Marnie), a Galarian, speaks in the Hakata dialect (the same as Sapphire, by the way).
-Characters still write in Japanese even in the non-Japanese regions.
So, yeah, I think there's no reason his family couldn't be Galarian.
But I can see they creating Instant and Eternity, specially if DP remakes happen this Generation. Maybe they'll even tie it into the Isle of Armor somehow. Like, it has "armor" in its name.
I have two theories how the Gym challenge could work.
The first way is branching paths and separate journeys.
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The second way is a competition!
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I think you're forgetting the simplest one, and that's Double Battles.
You see, everyone is basically thinking about it the way the games do things, and that's one challenger versus the Gym Leader. But the thing is, PokéSpe doesn't always do things the same way as the games. Remember the DP chapter? Every time Platinum challenged a Gym Leader, she was given an option of which style of battle she wanted, including Double Battles. That was not in the games. In the games you can use however many Pokémon you want against a Gym Leader that only has two Pokémon, and Gym battles are
rarely Double Battles.
But PokéSpe? It can do whatever it wants, and
has done whatever it wants, including having characters earn Badges in a different order from the games, or getting them outside of a Gym.
Seeing how Soudo and Shieldmillia were endorsed by the same person, I can see some Gym Leaders wanting to take on both at the same time, specially due to all the interest in them, as they were endorsed by the Champion.
Maybe they could even say there are specific dates where Gym Leaders accept multiple challengers at once. Who knows?
EDIT: Forgot to reply to this.
Pretty great chapters for SwSh and B2W2 but I do have some mixed feelings about some stuff. The first problem I really have is Shirudomiria having a full team so early. It kinda looks like she won't get anymore pokemon because she has a full team which means no future potential Isle of Armor DLC pokemon like Kubfu or even Slowpoke joining which kinda saddens me because I wanted her to get some.
To be honest, I think Klara and Savory (Avery) are going to get a Kubfu each, specially if
my theory about your Rival having the other Urshifu form in the game is correct.
Also, Galarian Slowpoke is probably going to be one of their teams. Which one, I don't know. Its Psychic-type implies Savory at first, but it learning Acid makes it seem like Galarian Slowbro is going to be Psychic/Poison. If that's the case, then it's a toss-up, as any of them could have one, or maybe
both could have one.
