6th gen News

A SWORD?!?!?!
What the heck is wrong with these guys this year?

I like the sword. It's one of the few object pokemon that's cool. Like chandurle.

Green Charizard wrote:

Behold the newest Pokemon for x and y the sword! English name hasn't been released yet but it is a steel/ghost type.

That.Thing.is. AWESOME!!!!!

I read on Serebii that when not in combat it's sheathed, and it actually unsheathes itself to fight.

Hey, I'll be getting this sword (I'm sure it's got a high attack stat) but it's just a bit… weird. Who even comes up with these ideas?!

Mehahah! A living sword! I wonder if it evolves into anything? It'd be cool if it turned into a knight or something. Regardless, its English name is Honedge.

New pogies: The evolved panda, Pangoro
A glowing squid, Inkay
Its evil upside-down evo, Malamar
The disturbingly edible Swirlix
Spritzee, a cute fluffy plague doctor
Oh, and Xeas and Ytal have their types revealed: Fairy and Dark/Flying.

Yveltal is clearly a villain of sorts compared to Xerneas. Yveltal is Dark/Flying, and is called the Destruction Pokemon.

Xerneas is obviously supposed to be a good guy, it's a Fairy type, and it's called the Life Pokemon. Actually, I suspected it was going to be a fairy type, considering it had that look to it...so where's the legendary poison type?

I got reservations to get Pokemon Y, so I guess you could say that I have a bad habit of choosing evil Pokemon over good ones. Although perhaps Yveltal isn't genuinely evil, and is responsible for making sure that cycles remain in place. It might be like an anti-hero in the Pokemon world or something.

Probably there will be varying interpretations of just how "evil" Yveltal is, just like Mewtwo or Darkrai. Oh, and there's an evil tree Pokemon that a select few have seen but not been allowed to photograph.

From this alone it doesn't look very interesting or original, but maybe there's a key design aspect we're missing.

Evil tree, seriously? Okay, I know some of the Pokemon aren't very well-thought up, but this is their worst design yet, if that's what it looks like. I've seen a million other TV shows with trees that look like that.

As for Yveltal, I would like to think it was a sort of anti-hero. People don't like it, but it actually does a lot of good things.

Unrelated to the legendary Pokemon, I found this blurry image from what appears to be an official advertisement for Litleo's evolved form. It started off as a snip from a youtube video, and it appears to be legit, I watched the video slideshow, just to make sure.

I hope that isn't real; it looks extremely bland and generic. And I think you might misunderstand the term "antihero," it refers to a protagonist that lacks hero qualities, and regresses rather than grows more mature.

Well, you can bet that I'll be getting Pokemon Y instead of X.
Unless, of course, they put Yveltal in X, like how they mixed up the colors in Pokemon Black and White. Weird idea if you ask me.

Well first the tree is real. The just weren't allowed to take pictures at the conference so they had to sketch it. Here is an more up to date sketch.



Also box art has been confirmed so the legendarys will be in their proper games.

Well, about Pokemon designs, the legendary Pokemon are gradually becoming more impressive, but it sometimes feels like the designs of non-legends are starting to go downhill...are they running out of ideas?

At any rate, I found out that Xerneas has the Special Ability Fairy Aura, which will strengthen fairy-type moves. Yveltal has Dark Aura, making dark-type moves stronger.

Xerneas' signature move appears to be Geomancy, and Yveltal's is Oblivion Wing.

You know how every previous Eeveelution release came with two? Well I just saw this:

If this is real, it's probably Dragon, the last formerly Special type.

Yeah, although people suspect it may be a male counterpart to Sylveon, or perhaps that's what the male looks like. Both have those ribbons, either way.

Pretty odd to give a female-only evo to a 90% male Pokemon.

Well, like I said, it might not be another evolution, it might be what the male looks like. If you compared the two, there's a lot of similarities, although one looks more masculine, and the other is more feminine. They have the same main color, but Sylveon's accent color is pink, and this one is red. Again, they also both have ribbon-like features. The tail, though...

At any rate, here's the enemy team, featuring their grunts. I am pleased to present Team Flare, which is obsessed with making money, rather than a plot to take over the world. Maybe they want to capture the legendary pokemon to threaten people into paying high fees so they don't do anything too rash. People have also dubbed Team Flare the fashion police, because they're pretty sharply dressed. Meh...I'm a little taken aback by all that red.

Mega Evolutions, Gogoat's prevo, a ground rabbit, the Pikachu variant and better pictures of the evil tree thing: http://www.serebii.net/xy/pokemon.shtml