As many trainers have probably realized from this morning’s announcement, more gen 3 Pokémon will be released later this week.
Niantic has announced that 50 new gen 3 Pokémon will be released in phase 2 of its Hoenn lineup. The 50 will be in addition to phase 1 of the Hoenn lineup, where we saw the Duskull family, Sableye, and the Shuppet family released. Which 50 new gen 3 Pokémon will be released?
We currently have five sources to speculate from: The official announcement, the official trailer, the announcement banner in pokemon.com, this Japanese article, and a series of tweets from Serebii including this one. The following gen 3 Pokémon are present in the five sources:
- Treecko family (Treecko, Grovyle, Sceptile)
- Torchic family (Torchic, Combusken, Blaziken)
- Mudkip family (Mudkip, Marshtomp, Swampert)
- Poochyena family (Poochyena, Mightyena)
- Zigzagoon family (Zigzagoon, Linoone)
- Wurmple family (Wurmple, Silcoon, Beautifly, Cascoon, Dustox)
- Lotad family (Lotad, Lombre, Ludicolo)
- Seedot family (Seedot, Nuzleaf, Shiftry)
- Ralts family (Ralts, Kirlia, Gardevoir)
- Slakoth family (Slakoth, Vigoroth, Slaking)
- Skitty family (Skitty, Delcatty)
- Mawile
- Aron family (Aron, Lairon, Aggron)
- Electrike family (Electrike, Manectric)
- Plusle
- Minun
- Gulpin family (Gulpin, Swalot)
- Wailmer family (Wailmer, Wailord)
- Zangoose
- Seviper
- Absol
- Bagon family (Bagon, Shelgon, Salamence)
- Groudon
The list above totals 51 gen 3 Pokémon. Since Groudon is a legendary Pokémon, I cannot see it being released immediately and would likely be part of tier 5 raids. Eliminating Groudon would have our 50 gen 3 Pokémon from all the sources.
Some trainers are skeptical on the Slakoth family’s release, since Slaking’s high max CP of over 5000 might break the game meta. However, one of the new fast moves in the datamine, Yawn, might be reserved for Slaking, since it does no damage in the games. The lack of fast move damage might help nerf what would be an unstoppable lazy Pokémon.
Another possibility is that the sources do not reveal the 50 actual gen 3 Pokémon being released. For instance, the Whismur family would only require 12 and 50 candies to achieve its next tier evolutions, but they were not featured in any source. It could be that the Whismur family would replace the Slakoth family, and the Slakoth family would not be released until Abilities are introduced (if they ever would be).
While everything is still speculation on which gen 3 Pokémon will officially be released, we all know after today that they will be released later this week with the new update. Nonetheless, trainers will have to complete their dex once again!