“Everybody wanna be a nigga but no one wanna be a nigga.”
~Fire and Ice types
The rumors are starting to pile up now.
Possible story spoilers.
Spoiler
-A racing minigame. You can ride pokemon on land, sea and air.
-Gogoat has two versions, the trailer one is a male. There is an unridable female without horns, apparently visible in the edge of the trailer.
-The final evolutions will look like this:
Chespin will look like an (American) football player, with helmet and protection. Fennekin will have large ears that look like bat wings/cape. He looks like a flying Zorro. Froakie looks like a ninja from a Japanese painting.
-There are more new pokemon introduced than in Gen IV.
-Sylveon is Eevee’s only new evolution.
-Clefairy, Togepi, Jigglypuff, Chansey, Lickitung, Snorlax, Dunsparce, Audino, Snubbull, Skitty and Whismur, and their evolutionary lines are Fairy.
-Mawile, Absol, Misdreavus, Milotic (not Feebas), Chimecho, Uxie, Mesprit y Azelf are half Fairy.
-Mawile has an evolution with 2 mouths instead of one. Apparently it looks like a horse’s tail? It might be a reference to Hastune Miku (?). It learns quiver dance, a bug move.
-Eevee, Mawile, Sableye, Dunsparce, Bannette, Tauros, Heracross, Pinsir, Bisharp, Maractus, Cryogonal y Drifloon have new evolutions.
-Lickitung, Throh/Sawk (shared?) and Absol have pre-evolutions.
-Drifloon’s new evolution is an alternative to Drifblim and is ghost/fairy.
-There are 2 new teams, Team Acid and Team Base.
Acid has ‘punk rock’ motorcyclists who want to experiment on pokemon to create the best one. Their leader is a long haired woman. Their important members are ‘admins’ and they use poison pokemon.
-Team Base are less evil and more misguided. They wear Tai Chi clothes and want power to protect what is important for them. They steal weak pokemon from trainers to make the pokemon strong. The leader is an old man, (with a muscular white horse?)
-Xerneas and Yveltal represent life and death. Kalos has had numerous wars where Yveltal destroys it only for Xerneas to rebuild it.
-Xerneas represents purity and is Fairy type. Yveltal represents ambition from the sky?. It is dark/flying.
-Two new legendaries. One is dragon/flying and looks like a classic chinese dragon with three forms. The other is fairy /steel and has 3 forms, going from a gold bell with angel wings to a knight angel.
-A new poison/flying legendary based on the ‘Zhenniao’. It looks like a green hummingbird. It might be protagonist in the next Pokemon film.
-Xernas and Yveltal will each have a set of three subordinate (might be that they form a trio alongside the subordinate 2) legendaries. Xerneas has to small women-like Fairy/grass pokemon. One is skinny and the other is chunky. They are humanoid and wear a leaf, one is orange and the other green. Yveltal has two dragon/flying pokemon. I think they are pegasi. One has spikes that form a sun on its side.
-There is no third legendary to Xerneas and Yveltal, though there is a water/rock leendary that looks like a giant squid with a head covered by rocks that looks like an ancient city. It also has two subordinate water types which have tentacles and mouths with teeth.
-More legendaries will be distributed by DLCs. It has not been specified whether you have to pay for them. (My guess is they will be like Darkrai and similar pokemon, where you unlock the mission by going online?)
There are different clothes, including an outfit similar to Team Rocket’s. Other outfits might be released as DLC.
-There is only 1 fossil, a rock/dragon that looks like a T-rex. You get it similar to Spiritomb, by having a number of players. I think there is a minigame where you play with others and find him in parts (head,arms, tail and legs).
-You can pass over pokemon from 5th gen through a program downloaded from E-shop. You can transfer 25 (in one go, doesn’t mention repeatability) and they appear in your pc. You have to buy the pokemon using ingame money/tokens though. This is to stop you transfering high level pokemon when you are a very low level. You can rename the pokemon you transfer.
-The strongest new pokemon are poison pokemon.
-GYM SPOILERS
-bug, ghost, normal, fighting, ghost, ice, fire and psychic. They have a different order depending on the game version. Bug, fairy and normal are in central Kalos, afterwards the order depends on the game version.
-Progression may not be as linear as in previous games.
The Elite 4 is based on stats HP, attack, defense, speed, rather than type.
- RIVAL SPOILERS-
Your rival becomes the champion. (Another Gary? Oh yeah!) You have 4 rivals, a childhood friend looking for some bullies, a fat millionaire, a traveller looking for the perfect site. The main rival a hunter that begins as your mentor. His favourite pokemon is tauros, afterwhich he uses its evolution. At the game’s beginning a girl follows you aroudn the beginning forest and teaches you the game’s basics. She is the Professor’s daughter. (Maybe the girl in the trailer screenshots that looks like the female PC?)
Take it with a lot of salt. And I mean a lot.
HERACROSS EVO BETTER NOT LOOK STUPID OR IMMA PUNCH A HO.
There are some very questionable things in that rumor list, particularly the bit about DLC. Some of the rumored evos are NOT needed at all (seriously, as much as I love it, Heracross doesn’t need to evolve) and you might as well remove the Normal-type completely if every classic Normal is getting Fairy retconned. Although Snorlax and Chansey/Blissey becoming Fairy would instantly put them back in the saddle as premier special sponges/tanks.
Some of that stuff concerning story and the dynamics of the new antagonists and the relationship of Xerneas and Yveltal I could see being possible.
I’d say that about 5% of those rumors have a shot at being real.
I hate these douches that create these Pokemon rumors… and I could’ve sworn that dude that leaked the B/W Pokemon a month before release got dealt with by Nintendo. They don’t fuck around with people who break NDAs… Their lawyers were gonna shut down Serebii.net, so you KNOW Iwata and Miyamoto ordered a hit on his ass.
Heracross needs to evolve in order to stay relevant thanks to the power creep gamefreak has insisted on. Pinsir needs to evolve period
Pokemon has a built in solution to power creep and it’s a basic game mechanic, so fix that shit. Either that or rebalance all the fully evolved dudes.
Pinsir needs the ground dual typing with slight boost in speed and special def.
Heracross can be fixed with a choice scarf.
Not directing this at anyone in particular, but I don’t think that the way to deal with the power creep is to keep power creeping older mons by evolving them… How many people actually use Electivire and Magmortar for example? (Although to be fair, no one really used Magmar or Electabuzz all that much anyway)
It’s a nice band-aid to keep older guys relevant and nice way to pad out the Pokedex, but I hope all the future Pokemon don’t wind up being related to older gen guys. I wanna see more original concepts like Chandelure and Hydreigon who don’t overshadow older pokes yet are good enough to stand alongside them.
(Yes, I know Chandy has that stupid base Sp. Attack, but its other stats aren’t anything to write home about and its Speed keeps it in a spot where it can be easily checked by something faster, Choice Scarf notwithstanding.)
For a long time my Heracross this gen was scarf less, and then finally I put a scarf on her and she rolled on bitches. I love you Herahanna.
Please hire me Nintendo, I will rebalance the full evolved stats.
If the new Pinsir evo is confirmed I will be fated to buy it.
The Fairy and dual type Fairies all seem logical. Snorlax being Fairy +Immunity trait would be hella good. A Dragon immunity and no weak to Fighting, YES PLEASE!
Ghost/Fairy Misdreavus has FOUR immunities now, that’s sexy as fuck!
Lol. I said the exact thing a while back. Great minds think alike lol.
To the folks who doubt these rumors, 10+ years tracking Pokémon rumors has made me an optimist. Even if the specific rumors aren’t 100% right they’re usually 60-70% accurate in some way. All the generations have proven this.
To give you an example when Red / Blue were announced there was an anonymous English name rumor list on geocities about the game, even before the US cartoon aired.
The list showed a list by someone claiming to be a friend of an insider.
A few examples:
Rattatak - Rattata
Hocus - Abra
Pocus - Kadabra
Alakazam - Same
…And a few others I can’t remember but were fairly accurate.
Now a lot of info was off, but only slightly. Keep in mind this was back in the Geocities days when the modern internet was still in its infancy.
Yet somehow they still find a way to mess things up. Salamence enters the scene and made Dragonite look like a complete joke, so GF introduces Garchomp hoping things would be different and he ends up breaking the metagame.
If Chandelure would of got Shadow Tag it would virtually have no counters, and it would of shot straight up into ubers.
I get the whole idea about things being different, I just hope that GF has learned their lesson from G5. When I see stuff that has a 175 atk base and access to a move that only has one resistance, things get pretty dumb.
So… Apparently the leaker of all that Fairy type news was paid a visit to by the Nintendo Ninjas. Let’s just say he ain’t talking anymore.
Alright, that leaves a question.
If you had to send a Pokemon on an Assassination mission, which do you send?
Darkrai. Put em to sleep and let him slowly kill them. Make it look natural.
… Not that I’ve thought about this.
I’m thinking Alakazam. Between Teleport and Psychic, you’re only limited by your imagination as to how to make the death look.
Pinsir if you wanna send a message.
Tangela if they got a wife and kids.
Nah, if you want to send a message, you bring out the big guns. The scariest damn thing you can send, and the most violent. Idk, I’d send fucking Hydreigon for a message.
You wanna send a message to their whole family, you send a Cofargrigus over. Have everything eaten. Tell everyone you give absolutely no fucks.
Houndoom as a warning…cause who can resist fearing a hell hound? If they don’t comply, Salamence
Or have the lights turned off, send in a Blaze Infernape.