With a new trailer forPokemon SwordandShieldshowing off some brand new Pokemon,including Galarian Forms of Pokemonlike Weezing and Zigzagoon, it’s easy to miss that they weren’t the only things that were revealed. A previous trailer confirmed the new rival character, Hop, who begins his journey on the same day as the players and aims to be the Champion, but he won’t be the only one gunning for that title, as the trailer announced two other rival characters - Bede and Marnie.
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The other rival is Marnie, who also aims to become Champion with her Morpeko, one of the new Pokemon that was announced. She’s apparently already quite popular in the Galar region due to “her sense of style and calm, calculated battle strategies.” In fact,Pokemon Sword and Shield’svillain team, Team Yell, are her adoring fan-base, though it doesn’t look like she actually leads them like Guzma did with Team Skull inSun and Moon. It seems like they act independently of her, as they’ll do rather underhanded deeds in order to help her become Champion. As for what other Pokemon she could use, her black, punk rocker outfit could suggest that she uses Dark types.
The cast ofSword and Shieldis gradually getting bigger and bigger with these new additions, and there are still plenty more characters we have yet to see. After all, we only knowfour of the most likely eight Gym Leadersthat will appear, and given that each version of the game has at least one exclusive Gym Leader, it’s possible that we may see more than that.
Pokemon SwordandShieldwill release exclusively on the Switch on November 15th.
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