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Generation VII, what changed

Generation VII replaced HMs with Ride Pokémon and added Z-Moves

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Generation VII retired HMs, so travel no longer cost a Pokémon a move slot. Sun and Moon went on sale on 18 November 2016 for the Nintendo 3DS and replaced the gym circuit in Alola with island trials. The generation added 88 species for a total of 809: 81 in Sun and Moon, 5 in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, and Meltan and Melmetal with Let's Go, Pikachu and Let's Go, Eevee.

Generation VII: Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, Ultra Moon and the two Let's Go games. Main-series games only.

Types18
Stat formulaIVs, EVs, nature, Hyper Training
Physical and specialBy move
BreedingDay Care, ball from either parent
Battle mechanicZ-Moves
GamesSun, Moon, Ultra Sun, Ultra Moon, Let's Go

The defining change

HMs and triple battles left the series

  • HMs were removed and replaced by Ride Pokémon called with the Ride Pager.
  • Triple battles and rotation battles were dropped.
  • Moves learned on evolution arrived as a level-up category.

Alolan forms gave old species new types

  • No new types arrived; the chart stayed at 18.
  • Eighteen Alolan forms of Generation I species changed types, such as Alolan Vulpix becoming Ice and Alolan Ninetales Ice and Fairy.

The chart held and Dark gained a Prankster immunity

  • Dark types became immune to moves boosted by Prankster.

Critical hits, burn and paralysis all weakened

  • The critical hit base rate dropped from 1 in 16 to 1 in 24.
  • Burn damage dropped from one eighth to one sixteenth of maximum HP.
  • Paralysis cut Speed to 50 percent instead of 25 percent.
  • A Pokémon that Mega Evolved used its Mega form's Speed on that same turn.

Hyper Training made IVs adjustable at level 100

  • Either parent could pass its Poké Ball when both were the same species.
  • Hyper Training let level 100 Pokémon treat chosen IVs as 31 for a Bottle Cap each.
  • Let's Go, Pikachu and Let's Go, Eevee had no breeding, no held items and no abilities.

Z-Moves and regional forms arrived

  • Z-Moves arrived, once per battle, powered by a held Z-Crystal.
  • Regional forms arrived with 18 Alolan forms.
  • Psychic Terrain arrived, along with the four Tapu abilities that set terrain on entry.
  • Ultra Beasts, SOS battles and the Battle Royal format arrived.

Moon ran 12 hours apart from Sun

  • Moon ran its clock 12 hours offset from the system clock, and Sun matched the system clock.
  • Sun featured Solgaleo and Moon featured Lunala.
  • Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon added Ultra Necrozma and Ultra Wormhole travel.
  • Let's Go connected to Pokémon GO and used only the 151 Generation I species, their Alolan forms, Meltan and Melmetal.

3 releases, 2016 to 2018

Type chart era

18 types in the Generations VI to IX chart

Battles in these games follow that chart, shared with the rest of Generations VI to IX. Open the type chart by era

Generation VII adds Alolan form rows and evolution moves

  • The forms block lists Alolan forms with their own types, stats and learnsets.
  • Learnset tabs Sun-Moon and Ultra Sun-Ultra Moon show evolution moves as level 0 or "Evo" rows.
  • The Let's Go tab has no egg or tutor columns.
  • The matchup column is the Gen VI and later chart.

88 of the 1025 species this site covers arrived in Generation VII

All species

The first 24 by number.

Terms this generation shaped

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