Today at the Gamescom 2016 event in Germany, a whole new Pokémon has been revealed - say hello to the Blast Turtle Pokémon, Turtonator!
Now that we've gotten the obligatory jokes about the name out of the way, we can tell you that it's a [type]fire[/type]/[type]dragon[/type]-Type Pokémon with the Shell Armor ability. This creature has a shell that is coated with high explosives - something that is used both defensively and to capture whatever prey it supplements its sulfur and other volcanic-based mineral diet with. Its weak spot - and also apparently the vent for its explosive reactions (because that is entirely how it works) is its stomach. Mine Turtle here gets its own signature move, "Shell Trap" - setting a trap at the beginning of the turn, and should its foe hit it with a contact move during that turn, doing a great deal of damage. Fun with prediction!
It also seems to be mighty fond of exploding while looking at you judgmentally.
Turtonator aside, the event also featured a demo of the Battle Royal system, in which a Pikachu was shown using a new, Normal-type Z-Move with a name loosely translating to "Hyper Sprint Attack" - confirming that Z-moves require an appropriate Z-crystal and a move of the Z-crystal's type to be used.
Now that we've gotten the obligatory jokes about the name out of the way, we can tell you that it's a [type]fire[/type]/[type]dragon[/type]-Type Pokémon with the Shell Armor ability. This creature has a shell that is coated with high explosives - something that is used both defensively and to capture whatever prey it supplements its sulfur and other volcanic-based mineral diet with. Its weak spot - and also apparently the vent for its explosive reactions (because that is entirely how it works) is its stomach. Mine Turtle here gets its own signature move, "Shell Trap" - setting a trap at the beginning of the turn, and should its foe hit it with a contact move during that turn, doing a great deal of damage. Fun with prediction!
It also seems to be mighty fond of exploding while looking at you judgmentally.
Turtonator aside, the event also featured a demo of the Battle Royal system, in which a Pikachu was shown using a new, Normal-type Z-Move with a name loosely translating to "Hyper Sprint Attack" - confirming that Z-moves require an appropriate Z-crystal and a move of the Z-crystal's type to be used.