According to the same fans who presumably want to know why Game Freak can’t just do their job properly and create custom animations for each Pokémon and the attacks they can use which would result in literally thousands of unique animations, the models for this generation’s pocket monsters are lifted straight from the previous 3DS games. Not so!

The most electrifyin’ dragon in all of Pokémon sports entertainment, Zekrom, as well as the fire-breathing paragon of elegance known as Reshiram, are available as free downloads in Pokemon Sun, Moon and its Ultra spin-offs this month.

After twenty years, you have to understand that Pokémon is the Star Wars of the gaming industry: Everywhere, more regular than a middle-age colon and stacked to the top with merchandise. Fans count on that schedule of seeing a new Pokémon game every three years, that pushes the ideas of the franchise in new directions and unleashes dozens of new pocket monsters in the process.

Zygarde will be up for grabs, available to all players of the Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon versions of the latest Pokémon games. This specific version will feature a colour scheme of white and teal, which kind of also looks far better than the regular Zygarde’s camouflage which makes it look like it’s trying to blend into a Monster Energy Drink warehouse.

Choose your Pokémon, level it up and stick to four moves. Simple. Except, it really isn’t. Beneath that familiar surface is a very different game. A game that has been tweaked and transformed over the years to shake up its formula and then some. Here’s ten such changes made over the last two decades, that have been strokes of genius for the franchise.

Regigas and Heatran will be up for download next month in Pokemon Sun and Moon, giving players a chance to add a Normal and Fire-Type legendary to their arsenal. Here’s how you can get them, and the numbers attached to the pair for you serious battle folks.

While all Pokémon games are great, they aren’t all equal however. If you had to line up those games according to said greatness, you’d probably have a list like the one I have below. Which I do. Convenient.

There isn’t much to recommend here for anyone who has already experienced an Alolan vacation in last year’s Pokémon Sun and Moon, but for everyone else? Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon is easily the definitive remix of that tropical adventure and a fitting final hurrah to the handheld that defined several Pokémon generations.