I wonder how many trailers there are left until release. There's only 25 days left until the games come out, a little over 3 weeks away.
If I had to guess, I Imagine the starters will have one soon (I'm surprised we haven't seen the second stages yet) and then maybe 2 or 3 more trailers showcasing some of the Pokemon we already have seen snippets of and then some evolutions.
Starter evolutions have almost always been kept under wraps until the games are released. After that, though, they'll be promoted aggressively (and may get playable representation in a Smash Bros. game). I really wouldn't be surprised if we don't know anything about them besides their basic forms all the way until the 15th next month.
That dragon is obviously Rayquaza. I think it could be hinting at a Let's Go Pichu/Togepei. In lore there are connections to Rayquaza and Johto along with Hoenn. How cool would it be if they end up replacing Kanto with Hoenn in a Gold/Silver remake
Pichu and Togepi? How is that supposed to work? They have even lower stats than Pikachu and Eevee. They wouldn't be usable to the end of the game unless they get an insane base stat boost. (And what does Rayquaza have to do with anything in Johto?)
Pichu and Togepi were Pokémon of their time though. They're not enduring pop culture icons like Pikachu is, or to a lesser extent Eevee. If they make Johto versions of Let's Go! (which I find doubtful, since
Pokémon GO playership dropped off before Niantic could add in Generation II), it'd likely star Pikachu again and maybe someone else.
Im sick of game freak giving all the gen 1 pokemon all the good stuff like do we really need another charizard form? I did like how they gave the zigzagooon family some more love by giving it a evolution and galar forms but they need to show some more love on other generations of pokemon
The videos serve one purpose: to persuade people to buy
Pokémon Sword and Shield. With the exception of the initial announcement, they've been aiming these videos at different potential buyers. The one in May/June 2019 (forgot which) was for people who get new Pokémon games for the new Pokémon. The one shown at the World Championships was aimed at competitive players, to show the potentially metagame-disrupting new things. The one part of the September 2019 Nintendo Direct was aimed at the people who want to bond with and play with their Pokémon. The nature-cam one is for people who are most interested in Pokémon biology (and there are a good amount out there). The one earlier this month showing Gigantamax Pikachu, Eevee, Charizard, Meowth, and Butterfree were aimed at the Generation I fans, fans of
Pokémon GO and fans of
Pokémon Let's Go!, who would otherwise give the game a pass or not know about
Pokémon Sword and Shield at all if not for this video. (That last one, in particular. There were plenty of cases of people who had stopped playing since the original Kanto games or only played
Pokémon GO and/or
Let's Go!, found out about this video via word of mouth, and thought, "This looks so cool! I'm going to get
Sword/
Shield now!" THAT was the intended response and intended target audience of that video, not any of us here.)
That appears to be the approach this time. They make one video for each group of people who might by the video game. Chances are there was one video you really liked while the others were not quite as good.
In any case, I think there will be more Galarian forms for generations past I. They're focusing on that at the moment because those are the ones that will sell the most games. Perhaps there will be Galarian Patrat and Galarian Watchog, Galarian Helioptile and Galarian Heliolisk, and Galarian Duskull and the Pokémon it evolves from, but they won't sell games the way Gigantamax Charizard will.
agreed, I can now play it on my home console instead of just a handheld
Yep, and now I can actually record footage when I play. I haven't been able to do that since
Pokémon Battle Revolution, since I don't have a means to record off the DS or 3DS.