Trivia / Pokémon X and Y

• Ascended Fanon:
  • For a long time people have been asking Game Freak to change up the starter trio instead of always doing Grass<Fire<Water. The most common suggestion on how to do it? Fighting<Psychic<Dark. Gen 6's starters in their final stages are Grass/Fighting < Fire/Psychic < Water/Dark.
  • The fact you have to hold the 3DS upside down to evolve Inkay may be a reference to the old April Fools joke of evolving Lickitung into Luigi by holding your Game Boy upside down. Since the fine folks at Nintendo themselves started the rumor, it's most likely intentional.
• Bad Export for You: The games are officially available in China... but with no Chinese language option, only the other 7 main languages. The same happened in other countries, like Brazil and Portugal for example. Sun & Moon finally catered to Chinese audiences by having Chinese language selection for the first time in a main Pokemon game.
• Blooper: In the Battle Chateau, Baroness Francine's Flabébé has the cry of a Floette.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: The ESRB rating synopsis for Pokémon Y refers to Electrode as an attack. Strangely, it's corrected to Electro Ball on the X synopsis, but the error remains in the Y one.
• Defictionalization: There is now a real Honedge sword and Klefki keychain◊.
• Development Gag: Rollerskates were intended to appear as far back as Gold and Silver, but were cut out for unknown reasons.
• Dummied Out:
  • An NPC mentions an item called a Shalour Sable, which is a cookie that acts as a Full Heal. It was removed because the Lumiose Galette does the same thing. From Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire and on, it's possible to obtain Shalour Sable.
  • The Gems are in the game's coding (including a new Gem corresponding to Fairy), but none of them bar the Normal Gem can be obtained.
  • AZ's Floette, deemed the Eternal Flower Floette by the games, has different stats from other Floette, closer to Florges' but with a more offensive orientation, and she wields the powerful Fairy-type attack Light of Ruin. However, said Floette cannot be encountered in the games, and remains unreleased via events. Light of Ruin can be called by Metronome and its name appears in the Hotel Richissime room service minigame, but can't be learned by anything currently officially available in the games. In terms of brute force, it's the strongest Fairy-type attack and it also happens to be the only special attack with recoil.
  • Mega Latias and Mega Latios were in the games' coding from day one. Despite what official sources say about Mega Stones from Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire being incompatible with X and Y, Latiasite and Latiosite can be traded into them and will function normally.
  • The official game of origin values include two unused Kalos slots between the slots for Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire and Sun/Moon, implying that a second pair of Kalos games was intended to come out before Generation VI was capped off. In addition, the Generation VI games have incomplete coding for two new Zygarde forms, along the unused moves Thousand Waves and Thousand Arrows fully coded and functional. As the latter would eventually be used in Generation VII as Zygarde's signature moves, it's likely that they were originally meant to be assigned to Zygarde in the planned Kalos follow-ups (which would have featured this one as their version mascot), along with new forms to coincide with them.
  • Although Zygarde has a Shiny skin like all Pokémon, every game it's obtainable in to date has shiny-locked it, preventing it from being caught in those colors. However, an event in 2018 allowed players to download a Shiny Zygarde.
• Fandom Nod: Before their names were revealed, the protagonists Calem and Serena were given the names Xavier and Yvonne respectively, deriving from the French theme of the game and the names of their versions. The official X and Y website has this screenshot◊ in the section talking about the PSS, which features a male PC named Xavier and a female PC named Yvonne in a Wi-Fi battle.
• Life Imitates Art:
  • A user of deviantART drew alternate evolutions of Flaaffy and Mawile, Wattyion and Fhaneater, both of which bear a shocking resemblance to their Mega Evolutions years before Mega Ampharos and Mega Mawile were revealed officially.
  • Hawlucha is a Fighting/Flying Pokemon based off of a fighter in a winged costume. The description is very similar to Tomohawk of Smogon's Create-a-Pokémon project, which debuted one generation before.
• Role Reprise: Ikue Otani reprises her role as Pikachu, who now uses Pokémon Speak instead of a cry.
• Schedule Slip: Pokémon Bank had to have its international release postponed after its release in Japan coincided with the massive influx of new Christmas users for both the 3DS and Wii U and implementation of new user profiles for old accounts, causing Nintendo's online services to screech to a halt.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: X and Y were released early in Italy and Canada, which resulted in leaks that caused Nintendo to crack down hard on the leakers and the stores that broke street date on the games.
• Urban Legend of Zelda: It's no surprise that these games have produced rumors on a scale that rivals the original games themselves.
  • Tipping NPC's with the max value of 1,000 all the time increases the chance of Shiny Pokémon appearing. Allegedly.
  • Rumored moves on Pokémon, such as Froakie getting Rapid Spin by egg.^note It doesn't.
  • Given that new Eeveelutions have always released in pairs, and Nintendo has been known for not advertising Eeveelutions in the past (Glaceon and Leafeon weren't known until hackers saw their sprites in rips and thought they looked a lot like Eevee), there are rumors that there's a secret second Eeveelution in the title.
  • A supposed list of all Mega-Evolutions in the game was quickly called out as fake because it included Zangoose without also including Seviper.
  • There were also rumours on how the latest Pokemon evolves. For example, it was thought Honedge needs to defeat another Honedge to evolve (probably to gain a new sword), and Clauncher and Skrelp evolve by leveling up while knowing Crabhammer and Camouflage respectively.
• What Could Have Been: A Mega Evolution for Flygon was intended to be released for these games, but Game Freak couldn't think up of a good design so they didn't go through with it.

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