WMG / Pokémon X and Y

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Meta-Related Guesses Part 1

Pokemon X and Y had been under development at the same time as Pokemon Black 2 and White 2, or as far as Pokemon Black and White.

That's why Gen 6 came out so fast!

• Supposedly, Gen 6 has been in development for 7 years back when Game Freak first got their 3DS development kits. So back around the time Diamond and Pearl came out.

We'll be able to travel to the original four regions this generation.

The titles are back to simple red and blue, and that was the colour scheme used by all the main games of the 1st four generations. Red- Duh, Gold, Ruby, Pearl. Blue- Duh, Silver, Sapphire, Diamond.

• People said the same for the titles of Black 2 and White 2. How did that work out, again...?
  • Strongly supporting that theory, as I hoped would happen with B2W2 (disclaimer: that theory wasn't mine, anyway). Reason? Well, first of all, traces of fully 3D Pokémon titles can be found in the Pokédex 3D Pro - why else developing a polygonal database for the entire national Pokédex? Additionally, the fact the overworld graphics (so far) seem to resemble those of a DS game (3D effects aside) is further proof of this, as "inferior" graphics would allow Game Freak to use all that saved space to cram all of the previous regions into a now-way-more-capable 3DS cart. "Proof" aside, hoping doesn't hurt. - Alex Sora 89
  • Where on earth do you get the notion that the 3D environments take up less space than the previous titles? The reason to develop a national Pokedex of polygonal models should be obvious; so all Pokemon are actually usable in the game!
    • Of course. I'm not as tech savvy as you, but my guess was a comparison based on the graphical engine; specifically, the overworld graphics for X and Y aren't as "good" as the ones used in, say, the Pokémon Orre Games. And with this example, what I mean is that the 3DS actually can pull off the Colosseum graphics (see Mario Kart 7, as its graphics are as good - if not better! - as the ones seen in Mario Kart Double Dash). Now compare the 3D graphics of Bubsy 3D with those of Super Mario Sunshine: of course a single level in the latter game should take as much space as the entirety of the former. Which is why I supposed that Gen IV/Gen V level graphics can allow all previous regions to be crammed into X and Y. And even if, eventually, Game Freak doesn't pull this off (which is likely, considering the short, New Super Mario Bros. 2-esque announcement-to-release timespan), generations IV and V actually seem to show Game Freak's desire to unite the entirety of what we've seen of the Pokémon world so far, the most obvious instance of this being the Pokémon World Tournament in B2W2. Alex Sora 89
    • We've seen only a few snippets of footage in 2D. When you account for things like the day/night system, seasons, 3D effects, and more scenes we haven't seen yet, there's no telling what the filesize for the games may be. This may simply also be a resolution problem that you're referring to from watching a blown up video; at native resolution, it's possible the graphics are superior to the Gamecube games; we already know the battles sure look a lot better than they did in the Gamecube games. They're certainly not inferior to DS quality games, and even with the 3DS cart being much larger than a DS cart, it's still utterly preposterous to assume Game Freak can or would fit in more regions because of that. Also quality =/= filesize, because different engines accept different file types which may be differently designed or compressed.
    • Logic settles in when you realize that the original bit of this specific wmg never said anything about the regions being in one game. Simply that we will be able to travel to the original four regions this generation. Whether that means after X and Y, two sets of dual games with two regions each will be made or not, can be debated upon.
• Ultimately Jossed. The generation only ended up visiting Kalos and Hoenn before ending abruptly.

If previous generations are "cut off" like G/S/C to R/S, then there will be some connectivity feature with Gen V (possibly IV) games as a token.

Possibly similar to the one in Pokémon Dream Radar that lets you capture the Gen IV legendary mascots; linking to Black will let you catch Reshiram in a certain area, linking to White will unlock Zekrom, and linking to Black 2 or White 2 would either give you Black/White Kyurem or regular Kyurem along with the DNA Splicers.

• Let's hope not, thank you very much. That's still a painful wound for all Trainers worldwide, and Nintendo, given the Gen III-to-Gen IV-to-Gen V backwards compatibility, has learned from that mistake. Hopefully. - Alex Sora 89
  • Given the DS can migrate information to the 3DS, there likely will be some sort of functionality, but it will likely be a 1 way transfer.
    • Most likely it's going to be another Pal Park thing. And the cut-off is like the only thing you can't blame Game Freak of, because it was actually Nintendo's fault (how ironic). GSC and RSE just couldn't be compatible.
    • GSC and RSE's cut off was a double edged sword though. Nintendo made the devices incompatible, so Game Freak took the opportunity to completely overhaul the engine. Who's to say there might not have been some workaround that could've been used.
• Jossed in the sense that the original premise has been invalidated by the reveal of Pokémon Bank.

There's gonna be a Time Capsule-esque device for backwards compatibility.

Contrasting the above theory. It should make trades even easier! - Alex Sora 89

• There cannot be. This is the same reason B2/W2 wasn't on the 3DS; 3DS architecture is not compatible with DS architecture (unless it's running a DS game but that's obvious). The most immediate reason? Friend Codes are built into the system, as opposed to the game.
  • I wouldn't count it out so quickly. Pokemon Dream Radar is an example of a 3DS game interacting with a DS game. They'd just need to add a program that did what Dream Radar did but in reverse, taking Pokemon off of the DS game and storing them on the 3DS, and then you switch cartridges and put them in the 3DS game. Or if you get the Pokemon games as digital downloads, you could just transfer them directly.
    • Hence that would fall into the above mentioned 1-way transfer (in the WMG above this). The suggestion of Time Capsule goes back to idea that "These may be able to trade and battle directly" which is impossible.
• Jossed. The new Pokémon Bank app for the 3DS lets players transfer up Pokémon from Generation V, indicating that Generation V and Generation VI games cannot directly interact. Not to mention, if Game Freak wanted to reintroduce the Time Capsule mechanic, they would have done it during Generation V, since both Generation IV and Generation V were on the DS. On the bright side, the transfer process seems to be much easier than it was in Generations IV and V: not only does it appear that there is no minigame required, but the player can move entire boxes of Pokémon at once.

The third game will be called Pokemon Z

It's the last 3D axis.

• Jossed. No third game ever materialized before Gen VI ended.

Pokemon X and Y will give you the ability to customize your trainer's appearance, (or at least their clothes.)

The outfits for the male and female trainers this generation are a bit more plain then usual, almost resembling the outfit of a deliveryman or something similar. This could perhaps be a hint at the ability to swap outfits.: The male PC's outfit looks no less plain than usual, and we've barely seen the girl's.

• Confirmed. As of E3 2013, we know that players will be able to customize skin, hair, and eye colors, and game footage implies that players will at least be able to mix and match accessories for their outfits.

Fans of Gen V will start crawling out of the woodwork to talk about how much better Gens IV and V were.

What, it happened with the previous ones - I remember in 2007 where Gen III suddenly got mysteriously accepted by Pokémon fans, and then in 2011 when people started talking about things Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum did right but Black and White did wrong. Before, those guys had nothing but bile hatred for Gen IV. Also, Game Freak will still receive almost no credit for making the games - with all the shit-posts and hate-mongering about Gen V, very few of them actually pointed fingers at Game Freak, the DEVELOPERS. (even the Headscratchers, back when they were called "It Just Bugs Me" and allowed Complaining About Shows You Don't Like, people still didn't realize it.)

• Hey man, this is wild mass guessing, that's pretty much a given.
  • Woodwork? Who was ever in any woodwork?! Gen V is the bomb! (VI's badass, too, mind.)

The third and fourth versions, or dual sequels, will be Pokemon W and Pokemon Z.

They're the other chromosome pair.

• It's more likely it will simply be Z, considering the X and Y more likely refer to the axis measurements of 3D space rather than chromosomes.
  • The Japanese logo for the games have very obvious DNA Helices in them, making the game titles an obvious reference to X and Y chromosomes (Pokemon X and Pokemon Y Japanese Logo). Meaning that the chromosome implications of the title are probably just as important as the 3D-axis ones - and maybe even more so, as DNA and such will probably be relevant to the story/plot of the games too.
• Also, they fit with a possible axis theme. The X-axis and Y-axis are length and width. The Z-axis is depth, and the W-axis is time aka the fourth dimension.
  • Pokemon W will be the sequel or updated rerelease to the console RPG, Pokemon U.
• There is a Z legendary that's confirmed (Zygarde, a Dragon/Ground), so this looks likely.
• Jossed. There were no further Kalos games in Generation VI.

The inevitable sequel games/third version games will be named Pokemon XX and Pokemon XY.

To drive home the chromosome point.

• Jossed. Turns out the sequels/third versions weren't so inevitable after all.

This game will be an allusion to Gen 3, and possibly Gen 4

Not as closely as the previous gen was to G1-G2 but it'll still be there.

Pokemon X and Y omits the "Version" suffix due to the fandom.

Makes sense really. We've been calling the Red/Blue Version just "Pokemon Red/Blue" forever and have continued this habit through each new generation. So, why not?

The new Sky Battles and Horde Encounters will become Scrappy Mechanics.

So far, the only difference between sky battles and regular battles is that only flying types and Pokemon with levitate can participate. This means for multiplayer, there will be no reason to have them, and for single player, to get passed routes people will need to make sure they have a flying type or a mon with levitate with them at all times. Horde encounters, however, could be even worse, as they would basically make it much harder to get past routes unless you have multi hit moves. Bonus points for if they also happen early in the game when you don't have many opportunities to obtain those moves.

• Semi-Jossed. They've already confirmed at the developer's conference that Sky Battles are all optional encounters.
• Horde battles ended up being fairly popular for EV training and finding Hidden Abilities.

Fans will hack Levitate onto unfitting Pokemon for the lulz

You just know someone will hack Levitate onto a Diglet or something just for the amusement of seeing it.

• And they will respond to Diglett/Dugtrio by having their necks extended out into the skies.
  • I imagined they would use rock pillars to get up into the skies... yeah, that also would be destructive, but Wynaut?
    • Because Wobbuffet.

Most likely nicknames for Litleo

• Simba
• Mufasa
• Scar
• Kimba
• Nala
• Kiara
• Kovu
• Leo
  • I will be nicknaming mine Cinba. Like a portmanteau of Cinder and Simba. Clever, right?

The Berserk Gene will make a comeback.

Only it will function differently from Gen II. Instead of a hold item, it is a Key Item. When used on any Pokémon (this can only happen in battle) it will have the same effect as it did in Gen II, only it is not consumed and the Pokémon is pernamently confused for the rest of the battle (not even switching out will work). When used on Mewtwo (either in battle or on the field) it will instead trigger/reverse his transformation into his new forme.

• It also raises Attack by 2 stages. Also bit of funny trivia - if you were to encounter wild Mewtwo in G2, sometimes it would have Berserk Gene. (PS. It's Japanese name is はかいのいでんし Disruptive Gene)
• Well, seems to have been Jossed as far as the Mewtwo part is concerned.
• Though it's not likely, it would be cool if Mewtwo's Mega Stone was actually called Berserk Gene. It even has the DNA-like shape to match.

Game Freak is manipulating us

Not just that, they are EVIL GENIUSES. Everyone hear this out here. We all know the fanbase will be livid if Fennekin is Fire/Fighting. But, Fennekin won't be Fire/Fighting, it'll be different, maybe Fire/Psychic. That way, it will look like Game Freak is giving us what we want, right? However, then they release Torchic AT LAUNCH, with it's new Blazikenite that you CANNOT FIND in game. Thus ensuring that people will get excited and want the Mega Evo, thus STILL having a Fire/Fighting anyway. Basically, they are manipulating the fans to use a Fire/Fighting, even though it's what most of have raged against since Emboar.

The random number generator will be impossibly byzantine.

Since Game Freak are probably savvy to players RNG abusing for the past three generations and want to stop that kind of thing. Though knowing the player base, they'll eventually find a way to exploit that.

• They will do. Smogon will do that. Also, considering they derped Emerald, who knows...

The Game Freak staff has been playing a lot of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale lately.

Mega Blaziken looks like Heihachi. The Espurrs look like Toro and Kuro. The Chespin Evolution looks like Fat Princess.

Sky Battles will finally show how Doduo and Dodrio are able to fly.

My guess is tiny wings that are usually tucked into their feathers, out of sight.

• Jossed. Doduo and Dodrio cannot partake in Sky Battles.

There is a special reason why Game Freak is keeping the final evolutions of the starters such a big secret.

They're going to be fighters in the upcoming game, Super Smash Bros 4, under the leash of a new Pokemon Trainer. Nintendo wants to reveal it on the same day Game Freak reveals the final evolutions.

• Jossed, though Greninja, Froakie's final stage is a fighter. No 'tag teams' like the Pokemon Trainer will appear in SSB4; characters who had multiple forms in the past will be completely separate characters.

PETA is going to try to have their revenge and do a "mock" version of X/Y, just like they tried to make a mock version of Black/White 2.

They were pretty late for the party, especially since Pokemon has been out for years and even for Super Mario 3D Land, which isn't the first game Mario wears a raccoon suit.

• Confirmed. Though Your Mileage May Vary as to whether it protests Pokémon or McDonald's.

The Generation 6 metagame will suffer from the worst balancing since RBY.

If you're going by what /vp/ say lately. Fairy will be the equivalent of Generation 1 Bug (due to their lowish stats), Dragon and Steel will be more dominant than ever (with Ghost being a strong new contender), and the only Mega-Evolutions will be those of already powerful Pokemon which will atomise the metagame. To be fair, that board is in full Hype Backlash mode at the moment.

• Jossed.

New/Changed Moves and other mechanics Guesses

The Doubles/Triples Move combo system of X&Y will be far more expanded compared to gen 5.

Self-explanatory since the fact that only 3 moves limited to starters and Smeargle that only had 3 different combos made the gen 5 combo system feel like a prototype.

• Jossed.

Weather will be nerfed in some way.

If there's a God heaven, it will be nerfed. One of the main complaints about the gen V meta-game was how over centralized weather had become with the dream world introducing perma-weather abilities to non-Uber Pokemon. As such, weather will be nerfed to where it isn't as be all, end all like before or introduce an ability that removes weather effects for a few turns.

• They already have Abilities that remove weather. They were there since Abilities were introduced, even.
• It seems that at least rain was nerfed, judging from that Gamescom demo. Sylveon could not have survived a boosted crit-hit Hydro Pump from a Politoed with the rain boost on top without defensive stats on par with Blissey, which I doubt it has.
  • Jossed. The weather bonus is about the only part of this that hasn't been nerfed. Hydro Pump's BP was lowered and so was the crit-hit multiplier.
• To add onto this WMG, its real purpose is to yank charizard's chain, bringing it down to NU again!
  • Mega Charizard gets Drought, I doubt we'll see our Dragon Friend in back in NU anytime soon.
  • But gaining Drought is the part before its chain gets yanked.
• Seems to be confirmed. Auto-weather abilities now work exactly like the move counterparts: the weather lasts five turns instead of forever (ten turns with the rocks). No word on what that means for Charizard Y (still, Drought-boosted Fire attacks coming from 150 Special Attack seems a tiny bit too high for NU)

Weather won't be nerfed in any way.

Gen VI will still be all rain teams, all the time. Or maybe it'll get worse and introduce five different kinds of Excadrill.

I mean, it's not like Game Freak has had a good record with balancing the game and all. *coughMOODYcough*

• Jossed (see above), weather did get nerfed.
  • Well, not so much weather itself as the weather-creating abilities.

The player character will be customizable. The ones we see in the trailer are just the "default" forms.

Thanks to Marriland for this one. Since we see the player character looking into a mirror at the beginning of the trailer, it is possible that the mirror will be used to customize your character's appearance, similarly to how other video games (for example, The Sims) have done. Either all of the options available at the start to give you an avatar, or with accessories that you pick up throughout gameplay. Or maybe a mix of the two.

• And you'll be able to customize and change the hat into a fez. Because it's France, and fezzes are cool.
• You will start the game being able to chose from only two characters (male and female) and have to earn stuff like hairdos, faces, clothes, etc. like in Animal Crossing and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (DS). You can only change your look at certain places by looking into the mirror.
• X and Y probably will have more emphasis on multiplayer, as past Pokemon games have done. Allowing a certain level of sprite customization, even just a little bit like being able to change outfit colors, would be beneficial for that.
• What's more, the male trainer character is seen with sunglasses on his hat for most scenes. But in a later scene, he doesn't have them. It's been attributed to a glitch, but even then, that means that the sunglasses aren't attached to the sprite.
• Confirmed! Although, so far only skin color and hair color are adjustable. Costumes and accessories are hinted at.
  • The game starts you with three default skin color and hair color combos. Costumes and accessories are sold separately. You can also later dye or get a new hairdo, but not change skin tone.
    • You can also change eye color using contacts. Unlike clothes, which are changed in a Dressing Room, eye color can be adjusted with the key-item Lens Case.

The day and night feature or the seasons feature will be removed

When it comes to either one of these features, I think Game Freak will only keep one for this game, and chances are, chances are, it will be the day and night feature that is kept, while the seasons are nixed in this Generation.

• I don't think so; if anything, the visuals for the Day/Night system will improve. We may see the sun rise and set.
• Not to mention that removing the day/night feature would make some evolutions impossible, and removing the seasons feature would contradict the existence of Deerling and Sawsbuck. Rather, thanks to the 3DS's bigger processing power, the game might even get additional features, like the previous troper said.
• Day and night is still here. Seasons seem to be gone, but we'll eventually know how to do Deerling/Sawsbuck formes.
  • The map actually seems to be divided up into seasonal areas- I'm not sure where exactly spring and summer split from each other, but Laverre and the routes around it seem to represent fall, while the Dendemille and Snowbelle area seems to be winter. This is further supported by the names of Lumiose's streets.)

Oorotto evolves from Bonsly

Making a branch evolution

• Jossed

Eevee will get a megaevolution

Excluding Gen 1 every time Eevee has had new evolutions added it was done in pairs

• Jossed.

Whatever new item evolves Eeevee into Sylveon will also work on Gogoat.

Because where there are fairies, there's probably a satyr. Bonus points if the female looks more like a dryad; gendered evolutions seem to be a trend in this generation.

• Nope.

Honedge has a three stage evolution and a Mega Evolution

Doublade will evolve into a Pokemon composed of three swords, and it's mega evolution will be composed of nine swords with a dark green tassel.

• Jossed, it's been confirmed no Kalos Pokemon will have a Megalution this time, and it also trades away one sword for a shield when it becomes Aegislash.

Meowstic are some kind of Expy for Nidoran

Learning different moves based on gender? Where I've heard that before...^note There's that WMG above about retconning them (Nidoran) into one species. Considering they do this with Meowstic, it MIGHT be plausible. Giving them one National No. but different index numbers should do the job. Generation V gave these for battle-only forms (giving Castform's and Cherrim's forms animated minisprites, though they had static ones in HGSS)

Neither the Contests, Pokealthalon, or Musical will make a return this Generation, instead, we will get an entirely new distraction

We will become Pokemon Watchers. Now...before Tracey Haters jump on me here, let me explain. This entire game is rendered in full 3-D, and thus, there could easily be a mini-game in it that functions like Pokemon Snap, and serves as our "distraction" in this game. Instead of Contests, Pokeathalon, or Musical, we instead travel to certain areas and get pictures of Pokemon, and get some reward for it. Heck, in the trailer, around 0:58 to 0:59, a trainer that SEEMS to have a camera is following the male player character around, she could easily be the person who shows you the ropes.

• Well, such a feature would take advantage of the new 3D Pokemon models.
• Since this is Poke France, maybe a Parkour-like minigame that lets you find new Pokemon and items, think Mirror's Edge. It would be a great use of the new 3D software
• Looks like we might get Photography, if the rumors are true...
  • Confirmed, we get Photography. Slightly jossed, we don't get Parkour. We get a skate park roller derby gym though.

Thanks to the Wi-Fi and StreetPass features, you'll be able to meet other irl trainers in-game.

As in, literally see them walk around in the overworld, either anytime à-la Nintendogs or just when both of you are playing at the same time. The trailer stressed the importance of player interaction, and given the 3DS's capabilities, they might implement a "friend" system that allows you to have real-time interactions with other players anywhere in the overworld.

Stealth Rock will be nerfed.

Possibly by having it work identically to spikes, or by preventing the two from stacking with each other.

• Either that, or they'll introduce a second Stealth Rock-type move (possibly "Ice Fence" or a Grass-type "Stealth Thorns") that will nerf even more Pokémon. Either Smogon will be reasonable and ban both Stealth Rock and the new move, or players will use both entry hazard moves to death and the list of viable Pokémon in OU will narrow down to only about 10-20.
  • Or more than likely if another SR type move is put in that it can't stack with SR or SR can't stack with the new move come on now while Game Freak might not focus on single player balance as much anymore but 2 SR type moves at once would be way too much even for the VGC format.
• Or perhaps nerf the damage output, but reduce certain stats of the target.
• Alternatively, Stealth Rock will not be able to be used in some battles, such as Sky Battles.
• Paritally confirmed and partially jossed. Stealth Rock itself is unchanged, but Defog has been buffed to clear all entry hazards now, and since Defog cannot be spinblocked, Stealth Rock is far less useful.

You'll get to pet and play with your Pokemon

The trailer talks about creating stronger bonds with your Pokemon, so maybe playing with them (a la Nintendogs) makes them like you more or gets you other bonuses.

• Come to think of it, the stronger bonds thing could very well be an expansion of the friendship stat which currently does nothing but evolve a handful of Pokemon and is utilized by two moves.
  • So it would be like the Ability Link?
  • Confirmed at E3 with the "Pokémon-Amie" feature, which seems to be about this.

The evolution effect will be the same as Pokemon XD

Because XD had an AWESOME evolution effect, and the "collapse into data and reconfigure yourself" evolution method from Gen V really has to go.

• There you go. It's not in English, but it doesn't matter.
• The XD evolution is rather plain in my opinion. After you remove all the sparkles, all the Pokemon does is shrink down and then the new Pokemon grows to its full size. I like the "collapse into data" thing, but I hope the evolution will be more like a full-fledge model morph. It might get a little creepy at times, but it will be awesome!

Berries will return to the main game like they did in R/S/E

As in, they will return in an actual growing capacity. They've been absent from the actual games as berries you can grow around the region for four years (ever since HGSS, where they were only grown in pods that shouldn't have fit the plant in the first place, but let's not get into that), and that's far too long to have removed a mechanic that wasn't causing problems in the first place.

• Confirmed. You get an entire berry farm to yourself.
• Well, Unova is as urbanized as Kanto, (or at least their Real Life counter parts are,) so...

Secret bases will return, or be brought back as a similar feature.

Generation III featured "secret bases", little hidden spots in rocks or trees that the player could use as a clubhouse and decorate with furniture, dolls, posters and rugs. If one player mixed records with another person, the other person's secret base would show up in their game and would allow the player to battle that trainer every day. Secret bases were around in Generation IV but they were a lot different. I predict that X and Y will bring back secret bases like the ones in Gen. III. It will take advantage of street pass by downloading the secret bases of passerbys and allow users to download secret bases over Wi-Fi through use of friend codes. If trainer sprites can be customized, such a feature would be taken advantage of.

• Jossed. The Pokemon-amie bottom screen is as close as you get to a customizable Secret Base in this game. No trainers visit though. And the Pokemon that visit are based on StreetPass. And the Friend Safari makes use of friend codes instead.
• However, secret bases returned in a later game this generation.

X and Y will have a clubhouse feature.

A more advanced version of secret bases, the clubhouse feature would have more options to customize. Floors and walls can be customized along with the furniture, and clubhouses could be upgraded to have extra rooms or stories. There will be a town that the clubhouse is built in. If the player meets other players through StreetPass, regular link play or WiFi play, the clubhouses of the other players will show up in the town. Alternately, the clubhouse can be built anywhere in the outside world, and other players clubhouses will still show up.

• Jossed, sadly.

HMs will be removed, or overhauled as TMs

This generation is described as an "evolution" of Pokemon, and thus it's reasonable to think that more should evolve than just the graphics and battle system, so, why not go through a complete overhaul of Machines? TMs can stay, those merely teach new moves, however, HMs could be replaced with simple "Field Abilities" that every Pokemon has access to depending on their type. It's perfectly reasonable, since it's perfectly unreasonable for you to catch a Pokemon in the water...and it be unable to already use Surf, when the move's out-of-battle useage is....swimming. Or any Flying-type Pokemon that are able to learn Fly in the first place, they shouldn't have to be taught to do something they should already be able to do. So, my theory is HMs will be overhauled as TMs, to keep the moves they teach, but any Pokemon who can learn these moves will be able to use their out-of-battle effect as a "Field Ability", so you don't need to go teaching them something they should already know.

• There has already been one Pokemon that is said to be mountable... and it may be an evolved form. (I can't see the Player flying on the back of a Pidgey, though)
• Highly doubtful. If something like this were to be implemented, it would change the entire structure of the adventuring aspect of the game. Imagine if you could go to Cinnabar Island after getting a Squirtle in RBY. It would completely break the game. Although it does inherently make sense that certain Pokemon should be able to do those things naturally, it's going to be tricky to implement something like that that doesn't negatively affect adventuring.
  • The gym Badge restriction on HMs would remedy this. You usually have the HM by the time you beat the gym required to use it anyway.
  • Jossed: There are six HMs in this game. Also, Rock Smash and Flash have already been overhauled as TMs since before.
    • HMs are less commonly required however, only Surf gets much mileage as mandatory for progression, the others are mostly used for unlocking shortcuts or getting to hidden goodies.

The models for old Pokemon will be taken right from Stadium, XD, and Battle Revolution

As far as I am aware, all the older Pokemon models have really never been changed from their Stadium Counterparts, even when they were brought into Battle Revolution. And such, any models that aren't new Pokemon will be ripped right from 3D games they've already appeared in.

• Then explain Pokedex 3D pro.
  • There doesn't seem to be anything to explain, looking at the Pikachu that appeared, they don't even seem to be using the Pokedex 3D Pro sprites.
  • You, quite frankly, have little faith in Game Freak creating new 3D models... Besides, the Pikachu looks about the same.

The game will add benefits and incentives to using StreetPass.

Use StreetPass and it will offer benefits like increasing the chance of encountering a shiny, or making certain Pokemon available after coming across enough people on StreetPass.

• Confirmed, you get Poké Miles through people you StreetPass.

There will be a tie-in game/app on the Nintendo 3DS shop.

Similar to the Pokemon Dream Radar with Black 2 and White 2, there will be a tie-in game or app to go with X and Y. Like the Dream Radar, the tie-in app will allow players to capture Pokemon otherwise not available in the game, including legendary Pokemon. If connected to the internet, the game will update and hold certain special events.

• Half confirmed, the downloadable app is Pokemon Bank, a storage system.

X and Y will be compatible with Pokemon Dream Radar.

• Jossed.

Chatter will be fixed.

Such that the microphone feature will no longer be used to change chatter's chance of confusion. This will lead to Chatot being allowed in tournaments and Chatter being Sketchable.

• Confirmed, with the exception of Sketch.

X and Y will add a way to create "genetically altered" Pokemon.

Players will be allowed to alter the appearance, and maybe even stats, to a certain extent. This would give the super hardcore players more to do to keep up. Colors of the Pokemon can be altered a bit, though not able to look like shinies. There can be notch-eared Pokemon, some given bob tails or longer tails, or different skin or fur patterns.

• Heart-Cheek Pikachu, Blue Flame Charizard, Flower instead of leaf Turtwig... Personally I hope this happens now since customizing our own Pokemon to be more unique would allow our bonds with them to grow but it would probably work out like the Dream Eaters
• Going even further, entire types of Pokemon can be (optionally) changed for the sake of balance. Charizard's and Gyarados' crippling Flying element could be replaced by Dragon, for instance. These changes won't come cheap though, and only certain Pokemon can be changed into certain types, replacing only certain default types (Charizard can only use Dragon to replace Flying, not Fire, and can't have any other changes).
  • Sadly jossed, but this would've been a cool feature. The only Pokemon that can alter appearance is Furfrou and it's through "haircuts".
  • Like hell is it "jossed!" Through mega-evolution, Charizard and Gyarados gain ways to do exactly those two things. Right down to Charizard's blue flames.
    • It is. There's no genetic alteration, and Mega Gyarados isn't a Dragon-type; it's a Dark-type.

Some of the old Pokemon have different sets of abilities in this particular region.

For example, Patrat in the Unova Region have the ability Run Away or Keen Eye. But in this region, its ability is either Quick Feet or No Guard instead. The only way to have the old set of ability is to either transfer your Pokemon from previous games or breed.

• Jossed.

There will be a new Fairy type.

• Sylveon will be the first to receive this new type. In addition, the fairy-like Pokemon such as Clefairy, Jigglypuff, Snubbul, Togepi, Audino, et cetera, will be re-typed. It will be super-effective against Dragon, and Steel will be super-effective against it.
  • Fairy-type confirmed. So far, it's been confirmed as Sylveon's type and Gardevoir, Marill and Jigglypuff were some of the Pokémon confirmed to have been shifted to that type. All that's known about it currently is that it is Super-effective against Dragon-type Pokémon.
    • Everything in this WMG has been confirmed except for Audino's retyping, and even that's not exactly wrong as it received a Mega Evolution that gave it the Fairy-type.

There will be a new method of evolution introduced.

Judging by the reveal of Sylveon, anyway. Past Eeveelutions that showed up all used whatever new method of evolution that was introduced in the generation. So the question is, what will this new evolution method be?

• Confirmed, in a sense. We know Pancham evolves through some new method, although we don't know what it could be, and there's no word on Sylveon at the moment.
• One Pokemon evolves when leveled up with dark types in the party. Another evolves in the rain. Another evolves when leveled up while the screen is upside down.

(2) New types will be introduced.

• A lot of guesses all around, especially about Sylveon, speculate this, so might as well put it all in a separate heading. But, if they were going to introduce a new type, they probably would introduce two at a time.
• Xerneas will be one of the new types. Yvetal will be the other one.
• Sylveon will be one of those types.
• Possible Types:
  • Light - This seems very reasonable, and it would fit Sylveon and Xerneas very well.
  • Time - This would be cool. Yvetal seems like time would fit him. And, since the game is 'evolution' themed, time would make sense.
  • Sound - Suggested below.
  • Zombie, ranging from classic hoodoo magic zombie(pure) to brain eating walking corpse(zombie/ground, zombie/dark) to Frankenstein monsters(zombie/steel). Strong against electricity(brought the monster to life), water(infected fluids seep in), ghost(no fear of death) and fairy (because balance). Weak to grass(thick cell wall blocks infection while taking in leaking body fluids), psychic(zombies are dumb), dragon (the real reason a dragon counter was introduced, not fan complaints), resists itself (zombies usually work together), poison (hoodoo zombies are created by using poison to make the victim appear dead), electric and ground. Resisted by ice(Haiti is a hot place), grass, rock and steel.
• Jossed, only one type (Fairy) was introduced.

The weight-reflecting mechanic will be expanded.

In Generation V, a neat feature is introduced - depending on how much Pokémon weighs, it will have a visual and sound effect upon landing (unless it's airborne due to one or another reason, like levitating, flying or being a water Pokémon like Seaking... Or it's a damn Diglett or Dugtrio.).

• 1st group - anything that's lighter than Zweilous (50kg). Small shake and normal SFX.
• 2nd group - from Zweilous to Bastiodon (149.5kg) - medium shake and... slower/lower SFX?
• 3nd group - Emboar (150kg) and heavier - heavy shake, dust and... "heavy" SFX?

As you see it's not that complicated... even more than you think.

Counting ALL Pokémon, even those who do not apply the mechanic:

• 1st group consists of 437 Pokémon (this doesn't count Sylveon) or about 67.334% of all; or about 2 in 3 Pokémon.
• 2nd group has 153 Pokémon or about 23.574% of all or about 1 in 4 Pokémon.
• 3nd group has just 61 Pokémon (without counting Yveltal and Xerneas) or about 9.399% of all or about 1 in 10 Pokémon.

(the new region's starters have no weight revealed)

Any comments on this, or how they could expand this?

Strip clubs and prostitution will be other ways to make money in this game

In light of [1]◊ that, someone had to say it.

• You can work at a hotel in this game, that's as close as it gets to these M-Rated businesses.

The male playable character will opt to wear Scottish clothing.

To go with the girl's pants option.

Among the costumes winnable are Gym Leader Outfits & Styles

The conditions for the earnable would be to beat the Elite Four & Champ with a same-type team.

It's Table Time!

Type	Male	Female		Type	Male	Female
Normal	Cheren	Lenora		Fire	Blaine	Flannery
Fighting	Brawly	Maylene		Water	Marlon	Misty
Flying	Falkner	Winona		Grass	Cilan	Erika
Bug	Bugsy	Bugsy		Electric	Surge	Elesa
Poison	Koga	Roxie		Ice	Brycen	Candice
Ghost	Morty	Fantina		Psychic	Tate	Liza
Rock	Roark	Roxanne		Dragon	Drayden	Clair
Ground	Clay	er...		Steel	Byron	Jasmine

Conversely with the Ground-type having a Male-Only costume, a female that beats the Elite Four with all Dark-types will get a Maid costume. The reason being is that the female trainer in the Striaton Gym uses a Dark type. On that note, defeating Cilan would also allow his brothers' hairstyles to be accessible once you earn Blaine / Marlon respectively.

And conversely with Bugsy having the androgynous Ranger Suit, Whitney (see a WMG below) will be available once beat the Elite with an All-Fairy-type team.

Then again, there are multiple Gym Leaders that could also be chosen... perhaps you eventually get all of them with extra costumes obtained after defeating the Elite with the specified Type five times?

• All of the above is jossed.

Whitney's Plain Gym will be Retconed to being Fairy-Type...

... as will her signature move: Attract. Clefairy will justify the former whereas The Bard and Cupid shalt justify the latter.

• It's a moot point for X and Y, since it's virtually guaranteed that we won't be visiting Johto in the games. It's still highly unlikely for the rest of Generation VI, since Hoenn remakes are far more likely (and useful) than a second set of Johto remakes.

Ash's Pikachu's power to let electricity hit Ground-Types will finally be introduced here.

And, to tie it further to Pikachu, it would be a Fairy-type move (only applies if the Pikachu line gains Fairy-type).

• Jossed. Pikachu has had Grass Knot since Gen IV to hit Ground Pokemon super effectively.

(Trainer) Horde Battles still operate on the "one Pokemon per Trainer" rule

It's just five trainers against the Player. Evil Team Gang-up much? This means that each mook could have Pokemon in reserve. Conversely, you would also be able to swap if otherwise unhindered.

There will be a gym where you can choose between a Flying-type Gym Leader or a Dark-type one. The Flying-type leader is fought via Sky Battle and the Dark-type leader by Horde Battle.

• Or perhaps two Gyms in the same city, both having the "8th" Badge.
  • Jossed.

We will have Walking Pokemon again

Doesn't seem like it, but maybe it's an option that we can turn off at will. We can already ride Gogoats, why can't we walk with them?

• Jossed.

Fairy Type relations to other types

This WMG is closed. Type Chart Revealed on 9/11/13.

• Normal
  • Normal types would be Immune to Fairy Attacks (It's either one or the other, or maybe both... DonaldthePotholer)
  • Normal attacks hit Fairies normally. (DtP)
  • Normal Types would resist Fairy Attacks. (RainingMetal)
    • Jossed, Confirmed, jossed (1x on both sides)
• Flying
  • Mutually Normal (DtP)
    • Confirmed.
• Poison
  • Fairy types are weak against them.
  • Fairies would do reduced damage to Poison Pokemon (You know, because Pollution = Poison DtP)
  • Also, Poison really needs all the help it can get right now... (sidakarya)
  • Poison could also be completely immune to Fairy Attacks. (RainingMetal)
    • First two are Confirmed.
• Ground
  • Fairy types resists them.
    • Any particular logic as to why? (I mean, Poison gets SE due to balance issues.)
    • If they are going to balance out dragon, I figured they'll account for Garchomp too.
    • Also, they can... fly?
    • Jossed, both neutral.
• Rock
  • Either Super-Effective against Fairy types (much like Bug-type weakness), or non-effective, for balance. (RainingMetal)
    • Again, Jossed.
• Bug
  • It's been confirmed to resist Bug-type
• Ghost
  • Fairy types are super effective against Ghosts. Either that, or effective against Dark types. Someone told me this to counterbalance Spiritomb. (RainingMetal)
    • Jossed, neutral on either side.
• Steel
  • Fairy types are weak against them.
  • Fairy Attacks do normal damage to Steel-Types. (Come on, Steel needs more "normal" defense values... DtP)
    • Confirmed to resist Fairy and weaken it.
• Fire
  • Fire's super effective on Fairy. Why? Fire BURNS THING! ... That and there was just nothing here and I wanted to e a part of the conversation... I like Fairy Type. (JTroper)
  • Fire resists Fairy, going from that one leak. (Confirmed!) As for why?
  "Courage to strengthen / Fire to blind / Music to dazzle / Iron to bind." (sidakarya)

  • Confirmed to resist Fairy-type, does normal damage to it.
• Water
  • Fairy types resists Water attacks
    • Any particular logic as to why?
    • Same as Ground's, but for Kingdra, in particular.
  • Jossed. Accordingly to this, Water moves do neutral damage to Fairy Types.
  • The previous video link also confirms fairy moves dealing neutral damage to water types.
• Grass
  • Fairy types are vulnerable to Grass types, and Fairy attacks aren't effective against Grass types (more balance excuses). (RainingMetal)
    • Jossed. Mutually Normal.
• Electric
  • Fairy Attacks would be super effective against Electricity (and thus Electric Pokemon) (Plus, Game Balance. DtP)
  • Fairies would resist Electric Attacks (DtP)
  • Jossed on both counts; Mutually Normal (Doh! & Come on GF!)
• Ice
  • Like Poison, Ice needs some support, this time defensively. So Fairy attacks will not be effective against Ice types. Not to mention the lack of adorable mythical creatures of the cold (as far as I know). (RainingMetal)
  • Also, it could be where the "cold" part of Cold Iron comes in. (sidakarya)
  • Jossed. Mutually Normal.
• Fighting
  • Fairy-types resist Fighting. Can't use brute force against magic. (sidakarya)
    • Confirmed, resists and is weakened by
• Psychic
  • Psychics and Fairies would resist each other's attacks, as each is a different type of "Magic" (DtP).
  • Psychics resist Fairy, but not the other way about. Fairies may be inscrutable to ordinary mortals, but a psychic might say otherwise... (sidakarya)
  • Jossed on both counts; Mutually Normal (Doh!)
• Dragon
  • Already confirmed that Fairy moves are super-effective against Dragon types.
  • As another speculation, Fairy-types resists Dragon moves
  • Fairy-types are immune to Dragon, like Dark is immune to Psychic. This is actually rumoured to be the case. (sidakarya)
    • Confirmed to be damn immune.
• Dark
  • Fairy types are super effective against Dark types. Either that, or effective against Ghost types. Someone told me this to counterbalance Spiritomb. (RainingMetal)
  • Fairy types deal regular against Dark types. Based on a previous trailer where Gardevoir used fairy wind on Hydreigon. Despite being described as a powerful move, it did not knock Hydreigon down. Definitely not x4 effective unless that gardevoir's level or sp. attack was much lower.
    • It has 30 PP◊, so it's likely not stronger than 80 PP (which should still KO Hydreigon if it's 4x effective...) Incidentally, 40 BP with 4x damage (or 80 BP with 2x) would deal more or less the same amount of damage as in the trailer with Gardevoir's special attack.
    • Still not confirmed, still not confirmed, still not confirmed...
    • Sorry Hydreigon, Fairy weakens and resists Dark-type.
    • Take that, Wondertomb!
• Fairy Itself
  • Fairies resist their own attack types, they know their own tricks for the most part. (DtP)
    • Jossed, 1x.

There will be a way to change a Pokemon's Secondary Type

For example, contrary to the trailers, you will still encounter a pure-Normal Jigglypuff, but you can get to turn it into a Normal/Fairy type.

• This would only work on monotyped Pokemon, right? Because attempting it on preexisting dual-types would cause issues IMHO.
  • Mentioned above, there could be a way to change a certain type of a dual-type Pokemon to another type (but not much else; the options would have to be limited). An example would be to change Charizard's Flying to Dragon, for example (to not be as vulnerable to Rock attacks).
  • Apparently, no it wouldn't. The Pumpkaboo and Phantump lines each have a signature move that adds a specific type (Ghost for Pumpkaboo, Grass for Phantump) to the target, even if it already has two types. It's not permanent.
• Confirmed at least with Ampharos, who can turn into Electric/Dragon type.
• Jossed at least in the sense of picking a specific secondary type.

The Surfing Pikachu animation from the Pokémon Stadium series will be present

• The game already uses Stadium-esque animations. Just like in Stadium, when Pikachu uses surf (which will be either obtained from a Mystery Gift or from a Gen VI Pokémon Stadium spin-off), it will ride a surfboard.
  • Jossed.

Thousand Arrows and Thousand Waves are Zygarde's signature moves, but can only know one per Forme.

Both are Ground-Type, and these moves are unable to be learned by any Pokemon. It stands to reason that each of Zygarde's battle-ready formes learns one. As an example, if a Zygarde in it's 50% Forme knows Land's Wrath, and changes to, say, 10% Forme, then Land's Wrath with change to Thousand Arrows/Thousand Waves, much like how Black-Kyurem and White-Kyurem could only learn Freeze Shock and Ice Burn, respectively.

Meta-Related Guesses Part 2

Some moves that might be retconned into Fairy-type

It happened in Gen II (Bite changing into Dark) and it introduced new types, so it might here.

• Swift Jossed, still normal
• Moonlight (like Sylveon's Moonblast) (confirmed)
• Entrainment
• Safeguard
• Lucky Chant
• Metronome (associated with Clefairy, Togepi and the like above)
• Attract, Charm, Captivate (presumably based on Glamour) (Charm is confirmed as Fairy-type)
• Lovely Kiss and Sweet Kiss (Sweet Kiss confirmed as Fairy-type)
• Sing
• Very likely Fairy will be one of the Hidden Power types.

Fairy will fail to balance out Dragons

Something that just occurred to me is that dragon's brokenness derives not just from the 120-150 BP attacks associated with them, but that combined with the extensive attack coverage that many dragons get, and (I dearly hope this won't come to be) merely the supposed immunity to Dragon (see above) won't be enough to un-break them. Think of Garchomp, for example: it's not just Outrage and Swords Dance that makes him powerful, but the near-perfect coverage with that plus Ground, Fire and Rock attacks. Their base stats also add to the equation: they were long considered to be the Infinity+1 Type, and even many non-legendary dragons were bestowed amazing stats to boost their attacking potency. Azumarill and Gardevoir, on the other hand, are just too slow, and Sylveon doesn't exactly scream "tank" from what we can see.^note Though I'm not discounting a new Lightning Bruiser Fairy that can go toe-to-toe with dragons. And if the rumour about Fairy being weak to Steel is true, let's not forget about a certain red bug that is constantly paired with offensive dragons.

• One gets the impression is game freak was not really concerned with dragons since it made so many legendary and pseudo legendary dragons in the first place. Perhaps X&Y's box legends will both be fairies but most likely not since more powerful ice types, or just varying type and stat distributions in general would have kept one type from being so imbalanced in the first place.
• There will be another type that is weak to dragon, it will be the second most common type in the Kalos region after the always common water type and furthermore dragon will actually be immune to fairy.
  • The demos show that fairy attacks do damage dragons. Though you have to wonder why a (supposedly) 4x effective attack coming off Gardevoir's base 125 special attack doesn't KO a Hydreigon...
    • Why would it be 4x? It's using Fairy Wind, which would be super-effective against Hydreigon's Dragon type but not Dark. What gave the impression that Fairy is also strong against Dark?
    • Apparently it's also effective against dark and fighting, if you go by some rumours floating about. (It's still not confirmed, of course, but a lot of the other infos in that link are)
    • Even if it is 4x effective, a brief demo reel footage is hardly an indication of how an actual battle would pan out. It is possible that Gardevoir has mismatched stats or Hydreigon has an item or other various reasons.
• (OP) Leaks came about the new Pokemon and apparently, this is what many people think will happen. Their stats do appear to be pretty lowish compared to dragons and pretty underwhelming (but then, any type has lowish and underwhelming stats compared to dragons). (At least until Togepi was confirmed pure Fairy, making Fairy/Flying Togekiss very likely.)
  • Fairy/Flying Togekiss is confirmed. Stone Edge Garchomps incoming.
• Jossed. Dragons are no longer the Infinity Plus One Type, although they are still one of the better types in the game. On the other hand, Fairy is a great type but didn't become the dominant type itself, as many people feared, so... mission accomplished? (Admit it, it would be plain stupid if Game Freak introduced a new type only for it to be lackluster.)

There will be a hard mode where Pokemon can die.

This will be the only way to acquire a Spectreon and other new Ghost-types.

• It would be cool to basically have a Nuzlocke mode added as a difficulty option, but making it mandatory to use in order to get certain Pokemon? I'd hope not...
  • Jossed. It's still a Self-Imposed Challenge.
  • Besides, what if you're using an Arceus or Deoxys that you'll probably never get again, and it dies? Thanks Gamefreak... but then again the player would have to be an idiot to use one of those if they had that mode.

Pokémon-Amie will become a Game-Breaker.

The official site says that bonding with your Pokémon with it will make them perform better in battle — including landing more critical hits and dodging attacks, presumably randomly. Now translate that into competitive battling, and Hilarity Ensues.

• Jossed.. online at least. Affection levels in Pokemon-Amie do not affect battles with Human Player opponents but do give an upper hand against AI ones in game.

The macaroon treats will be like the Pokeblocks/Poffins/Aprijuice and have their own flavors.

The Pokemon-Amie shows the trainer feeding Sylveon a pink macaroon, which means it must be a Sweet-flavored one. Oh, and the macaroons would make the Pokemon better fighters (among some other parts of Pokemon-Amie), but hopefully not permanently changing any stats.

• I noted five distinct colors, so it's more than likely. I'm also pretty sure it'll just affect how much the pokemon likes it, loves you in return
• It might bring back the taste preferences by nature from DPPt, with the same kinds of flavours as Poffins.
• Jossed. Pokepuffs have no stats to manupulate.

There will be a Dark-type move representing The Sacred Darkness.

It will finally break 100 power, and gain additional effects if the Pokemon knows no other Dark moves (representing a pure mind). The Japanese name for will be retconned from Aku (evil) type to Yami (darkness) type.

• I can't see Japanese name being retconned. Hardly ever any Dark-type attack actually represents darkness, most of them are based on dirty tricks. Something like Dark Pulse or Night Daze, they do... but rest?
• The Japanese dark type was Always "evil".

Yveltal's Secret Art "Oblivion Wing" will goddamn finally break the 100 mark for Dark-Type moves.

It's about time that it did. Even Ghost got Shadow Force; all Dark has is something that doesn't even use your own attack (and that's still 95).

• Jossed, it's an 80 power move that drains over half the damage dealt. It's also Flying-type, not dark.
• We do get a Dark move with almost 100 power, though. Knock off is now 65 BP and it deals 1.5x damage if the foe has an item.
• Meta-jossed. While Oblivion Wing is actually an 80-power FLYING move, Yveltal's ability Dark Aura increases the power on Dark-type attacks on your team. But it'd have to power up Dark moves by at least 25% so that Dark Pulse can sort of go more than 100 power.
• In Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire, Hoopa's alternate form (Psychic/Dark) has a 100-power Dark move called Hyperspace Fury.

There will be multiple typed moves.

I.E. Ice Punch will be an Ice/Fighting type move, Muddy Water will be a Water/Ground type move, est. Just imagine the competitive players of the world...

• Alternatively, it will be one type but deal damage like another type, like Psyshock but with type effectiveness. Maybe that new Glow Punch move is a Psychic or Fire attack that deals Fighting-type damage.^note It does appear to at least do Fighting damage — you can hear the super-effective sound when Fennekin uses it against Litleo.
• Confirmed with the move Flying Press. It is a Fighting move that is both Fighting and Flying at the same time.

There will be an NPC in-game who gives out Mega Stones

With a feature like this, Game Freak can't limit them all to DLC, the fanbase will be more than livid at missing a chance to get the Mega Stone for their favorite Pokemon. Thus, there will be an NPC, either in a place so obvious you'd miss it, or some game you really have to look for, who will, under certain circumstances, give you a Mega Stone, either randomly, or if you have the necessary Pokemon in your party. Hell, Steven likes rare stones, maybe he'll be the one you go to the obtain Mega Stones.

• Apparently at least some of them are obtainable in the Master Tower.
• Confirmed. Some Mega Stones are obtainable from NPCs.

The method to move Pokemon forward from the previous games (along the lines of Pal Park and Poké Transfer) will be...

A pinball-type of game in which you have to hit your six Pokémon choices with the ball to recapture them.

• Pokemon Bank is already the way to do it with no minigames, sadly. But I'd love a "remake" of pinball as a minigame.

New items related to Fairy Type

• Very likely there will be a Fairy Plate for Arceus.
  • Pixie Plate confirmed to exist. Are you ready for Fairy Arceus?
• A berry that reduces super effective damage from Fairy type attacks. Most likely based on the sugarplum, because of Sugarplum Fairy.
  • Who knows, maybe an e-Reader berry from Generation III will make a comeback.
  • Roseli Berry confirmed by Serebii.
• A hold item that increases Fairy type attacks, perhaps Fairy Dust.
• If Gems are returning, there will be a Fairy Gem.
  • Semi-Jossed. There is a Fairy Gem in the data, and the event Diancie held a Normal Gem, but no gem is easily obtainable in XY.
• An incense that boosts Fairy-type attacks, which you need to breed a Fairy-type pre-evo (most likely of something that's Fairy-type by Retcon)
  • I don't really see the Fairy-type incense. We have at least one item boosting certain type, Plate for every type but Normal, Gem for every type, Berry weakening super-effective attacks (or any Normal-type attack since it doesn't weaken anything) but incense? There are 9 incenses out of which 5 boost FOUR types in total.

All Mega Pokemon are going to be an intentional Game Breakers!

Especially when their stats and boosted to an equivalent to a legendary's. Or for Mega Mewtwo's case, Arceus.

• This might be why you can only have one per team.
  • Wait, where did you hear that?
    • That's only one of several things that are either confirmed or floating around. Among them, besides only being able to have one Pokemon that can Mega Evolve hold a Stone on your team, the other is that you can only Mega Evolve once per battle. If you use it at the wrong time, you're screwed. Use it at the right time, and it can turn the tide of a battle. It makes sense, for Mega Evolution to have multiple limits to ensure it doesn't become a really broken concept.
    • ... Well, there goes my strategy for a Mega Kangaskhan Triple Battle...
• Leaked stats indicate they have at least 600 BST, some of them with the most ridiculous stat spreads (see the stat calculations I've gathered up earlier). Mega Mewtwo Y apparently has 760 BST — as in, higher than the Canon God the Almighty of Pokémon Arceus himself!!!
• Hold your horses. Mega Evos are forced to hold an item, and can't use other held items. Think about that. So you'd be losing your Leftovers, Choice item, Life Orb, type Gems, Sitrus Berry, Chesto/Lum Berry over a fairly minor stat boost. This loss will be apparent when you reach the first Battle Tower/Subway analog in the game.

There will be a "Pikachunite" Mega Stone.

Just because the franchise mascot should get in on the action. This would subvert what we've seen so far, though, with Mega Stones being available only to fully-evolved or non-evolving Pokemon.

• Alternatively, there will be "Raichunite" just to make him competitive again.
  • Or there will be.......BOTH, and Pikachu's mega evo will be slightly stronger, maybe the Light Ball will be retconned as Pikachu's Mega Stone, and of course then there'll be an episode of the anime where ash goes up against mega raichu, loses, gets a Mega Stone for Pikachu from someone, rematchs the guy, Pikachu mega evolves and wins.
  • Jossed so far. how about in Z?
  • The only way I can see Pikachu, a middle-stage evolution, getting a Mega is if it's a very special Event Pikachu that's coded so it's the ONLY Pikachu in the games that can Mega Evolve and that it cannot be traded or evolve to Raichu, so it's essentially like a Mythical Pokemon or the Cosplay Pikachu that eventually came out with ORAS. Furthermore, it would be Ash's Pikachu, as that has been given out before, and as his Pikachu specifically is the mascot of the franchise. And it'll be a Japan-only event, so I guess technically it's Satoshi's Pikachu. I see Mega Pikachu being only marginally better than Raichu itself is, stat-wise, except with Pikachu's speed advantage. Raichu's Mega would be the superior one of the two by a longshot.

There will be no way to transfer Pokemon from Gen IV and V to Generation VI

From what I've heard, communication between the 3DS and DS systems is very difficult, if not impossible, and Game Freak themselves pretty much said that, while they are trying, there's no confirmation. So, kiss your hard raised teams from Gens III, IV, and V good-bye.

• All they need to do is do what they did in Dream Radar, but in reverse...
• Didn't that cost money? It's unfair to charge someone to send over their Pokemon.
  • The Dream Radar costs money sure, but we're not talking about literally using the Dream Radar. Just the transfer process. Which I'm pretty sure is easy to switch around. Also I'm pretty sure communications between separate DS and 3DS systems might be difficult, but not a 3DS and itself, which is all you need.
    • Makes sense. Because giving away all these event Pokemon so close to the release date seems pointless without a transfer process.
• And Game Freak will be blamed instead of Nintendo. Again.
• Jossed. Pokemon Bank, but you have to pay for it, except for a free 1 month trial.
  • The fee apparently issomething around 500 yen (5$, I think), and it's annual; as you pay once per year.

There will be a new weather effect that harnesses the moon.

Opposite of Sunny Day and intense sun weather, there will be a "Full Moon" or something similar introduced as a new weather condition. It will boost Fairy type attacks, as they apparently use moon power, and increase the accuracy of Dark and/or Ghost type attacks. Dragon and maybe Grass might get debuffed by it as well.

• Sunny Day is actually... misleading translation. (explaining why Moonlight is boosted by it). The Japanese name means Clear Skies (a clear sky equals to more Sun/Moon^note Moonlight is Moon reflecting Sun's rays, remember? being visible), so I am not sure how this would work.

The DLC transporter was because an in-game transfer analogue wouldn't connect well to a normal DS game, prompting the new method

Pokemon-Amie will be required to evolve Pokemon that evolve via happiness.

• During the game, your Pokemon will now only bond to you up to a point. In order to get them to achieve max happiness with you (which will allow Pokemon to evolve that require happiness), you will need to play with them in Pokemon-Amie.
  • Jossed except in the case of Sylveon. Others who evolve via friendship can evolve with no interaction in Amie whatsoever.

Ghosts will become the new Dragons.

Now that Steel is no longer resistant to it, Ghost is now one of the best attacking types, resisted only by Dark and Normal — and those are easily covered by a Fighting attack (most commonly Focus Blast). On top of that, they have two immunities and two resistances, and its only weaknesses are Dark and Ghost (and only Dark is safely exploitable for obvious reasons). Remember how Dragon used to be weak to just Ice and Dragon?

Furthermore, Ghosts are now immune to trapping moves like Wrap/Mean Look/Magma Storm/etc. If this extends to abilities, it means that no amount of Arena Trap/Shadow Tag/Magnet Pull (for Honedge) is going to work on them too.

Gengar in particular will become a top-tier threat now that it has an excuse to run STAB Poison, which has fantastic coverage along with Ghost. If Mismagius gets retyped to Fairy, she'll be even more terrifying: dual STAB only resisted by Pyroar, four immunities, plus Substitute and Nasty Plot to boot! Expect to see a lot of Scizor, T-Tar and Blissey, plus random Mons carrying Shadow Ball, Crunch, Night Slash etc. to counter Ghosts.

The only thing that keeps Ghosts from reaching Dragon levels of brokenness is that Ghost attacks barely reach 80 BP (not including Giratina). Still, there's nothing discounting Game Freak just putting their hands up in the air, saying "fuck balance" and making a Ghost-type Draco Meteor. I mean they weren't hesitant to make Garchomp a Mega Evo, after all.

How Mega Evolution works

It's been said that Mega Evolution has something to do with how close the trainer and Pokemon are. Also, in all the videos that shows a Pokemon Mega Evolving, the trainer is surrounded by the same light as the Pokemon.

My theory is that Mega Evolution occurs by fusing the trainer and Pokemon together, and the high friendship is required because the fusion can't hold if the trainer and Pokemon are in disagreement.

• Jossed. A high level of friendship/affection isn't required at all, and the process only changes the Pokemon, with the trainer staying the same and in control.

Some of the Pokédex height will be retconned as length, and the Pokémon will get the second measurerent which would be the usual size.

Because who is going to believe that Arbok is as large as Groudon?

• Jossed: It still says Height when they mean Length. Steelix is 30 feet.
• When will people learn that all long Pokémon balance precariously on the tips of their tail when their "height" is measured?

Any flying Pokemon can take part of Sky Battles.

And by flying Pokemon, I mean Pokemon that can fly. They do not have to be Flying-types, have Levitate ability or even be immune to Ground moves! Magnemite is one example where it can enter Sky Battles.

• Or alternatively, any grounded Pokemon that knows the move Fly (like Golurk) can enter as well, but only if it has that move in its move slot.
• Levitate mons and Dodrio are already confirmed for Sky Battles.
• Jossed. Here's a very specific list.

All Pokemon with Mega Evolutions have an X version and a Y version

This will tie into the in-story explanation for how it works.

• Almost certainly Jossed, considering that we know Lucario and Blaziken use Lucarionite and Blazikenite, respectively. Mewtwo and Charizard use Mewtwonite X/Y and Charizardite X/Y, respectively. Also, we only know about two Pokémon with version-exclusive Mega Evolutions. That's not enough data to make a reliable extrapolation.

The reason there are so few new Pokemon is because it is based on France

France is not known for ecological diversity due to the many centuries of human habitation and habitat destruction. Only recently has some form of it returned. There are also a lot of species there that are not native, thus all the old Pokemon.

• Not really. There is still a ton of variety, new Pokemon aside.
• Variety of introduced/invasive species, considering this topic is all about lack of new Pokemon.

Hidden abilities in Gen VI

Are not the same kind of hidden abilities accessed in Dream World. For example, Venipede can get Speed Boost only in Horde Encounters or Friend Safari, but you can only encounter Quick Feet Venipede in the Dream World.

X/Y are a retelling of Zelda in the Pokemon universe

Lysandre is Ganondorf - he looks like Ganondorf gone Super Saiyan, he has royal lineage, and wants to use an ancient power to wipe out anyone who opposes him and rule the world. Professor Sycamore is Zelda - he provides sage advice to the hero, and while he's not literally kidnapped by Lysandre, he is fooled by him and doesn't realize he's up to no good.

And Sycamore's theme music? It's got to be a remix of the Dragon Roost Island theme from Wind Waker!

• That would make the player character Link, then. Fitting, seeing as everyone seems to have a thing for Sycamore anyway.
• Hero fights villain and gets help from a third party. Yeah, only Zelda did that...

Mega Charizard X was a calculated attempt to get people to buy Pokemon X.

Nintendo knew people would like Y more because of Yveltal. To make sure X gets a comparable amount of sells, they decided to make an even more popular and wanted Pokemon: a black Fire/Dragon Charizard

Cilan is secretly behind the development of Pokemon X & Y

• Why else would this generation be french-themed and have more emphasis on aesthetics and red herring, than a wide variety of new Pokemon and actual post-game content?

There's actually a mistake in the Critical Hit system.

Level 3 supposed to have 25% chance of Critical hit, Level 4 should be 50% and 5 100%, but a programmer made a mistake.

The decision to buff certain Pokémon's stats slightly came really late in development.

Alakazam was among those that received a 10-point boost to one of its stats, specifically Special Defense. All other Mega Pokémon have Base Stat totals 100 points higher than their regular forms, but Mega Alakazam's is just 90 points higher. This makes sense if the Megas were coded before the stat boosts were implemented and they just forgot to adjust Mega Alakazam after buffing Alakazam.

Third Game Edition Speculations

The Third Version will be called "Pokemon Z"

Or, there won't be a third version, it will be X 2 Y 2.

• Maybe it will be called X-Squared and Y-Squared.
  • Or maybe even XX and XY.
  • Or ZX and ZY
  • Or, as stated above, they could be named Z and W after the other chromosomal pair.
• So far, it seems to be jossed. No additional games, just straight on to Pokémon Sun and Moon!

The third game will not be Z or a second pair of games, but rather, Pokemon M.

X and Y may refer to axes. Notice how Xerneas is a deer. A land animal. Something that runs. While Yveltal is a bird. Something that rises. In algebra, the change in the Y and X value between two points is referred to as the rise and run, respectively. Dividing the rise by the run results in M, the value of the slope of the line between those two points. If this is the case, the third mascot may be something that travels on slopes, perhaps in a rolling motion. An armadillo or hoop snake, maybe?

• Pokemon M?! Does that mean we get to be spies with our Pokemon?
• If this is the case, Yveltal wouldn't be able to go diagonal, forward, or sideways. Same with Xerneas. Also, you're telling me Xerneas can't jump, and Yveltal can only go up and down.
  • It's just a metaphor, and I kind of like it.
    • Same guy. Sorry. Pokemon W and Z sound better in my opinion. W and Z can be both chromosomes and axes, so it's fair. Game Freak does seem to like surprising us, so maybe we'll get something completely different. I mean, how many people expected Pokemon to crossover? With Nobunga's Ambition, of all things!

Pokemon Contests in ORAS will be present.

And you will have to option to dress up according to the contest you'll partake!

The playable character's default clothing

will be green-colored to fit the hypothetical Z version. To be specific, their default clothing are:

• Male
  • Wide-Frame Sunglasses
  • Two-Tone Bag Olive
  • Zipped Jacket Green
  • Vinyl Pants Black
  • Ankle Socks Black
  • Short Boots Black
• Female
  • Wide-Frame Sunglasses White
  • Tassel Purse Green
  • Short Parka Lime green
  • Pleated Skirt Black
  • OTK Socks Black
  • High Tops Black

They will use these defaults when connected to the previous versions if they were to wear clothes new to this version.

The letter Z will be played around.

In that the "2" in X2Y2 is shaped as that letter.

Serena will have shorter hair in this game.

It seems weird that both the anime version of Serena and Y from the manga have cut their hair.

'Pokémon Z', or whatever the third/sequel version is, will give Xerneas and Yvetal Mega Forms.

That or Zygarde will receive a Mega Form. The third version usually features some sort of legendary transformation and this would be the most obvious way to do it. Plot wise it will probably go along the lines of Team Flare tries to get a legendary to go Mega in X/Y, but the player foils them. In 'Z' however, they succeed and the player has to defeat a Mega-Legendary with another Mega-Legendary.

Like Black and White, X and Y will have two versions of a direct sequel.

• Now that it looks like mega-evolutions will be version-specific, Game-Freak will either have to go with the fifth generation's set-up or create third mega-evolutions for each Pokemon that already has one.
  • Unless (as is typically the case with held items) Mega Stones can be traded.

Pokemon Z and the Ruby and Sapphire remakes will include Mega Stones that are not in X and Y.

Just a feeling that I get.

• Confirmed! With Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire at least.

Pokémon Z or whatever it will be called will occur in a new region

• In Pokemon X and Y, a tourist tells you he is from a region we haven't been to before. We will get to go to that region in the next main series Pokemon game.

"Z" will be a third game, not a sequel, but...

It will also have a second region in it.

The next game will be a sequel

Emma, who is sixteen now, will be at least eighteen, for one.

The next games will follow straight on from X and Y, and they will be called A and Z.

Set in the Poké-UK, featuring another seventy or so Pokémon, creating approximately a full generation's worth. Pokémon Trainer AZ isn't from Kalos.

The next game will only be one, Z, but it will still be a sequel.

Lysandre's fears about greed destroying the world come true, prompting Sycamore to seek out a new group of children to send out on various missions in an effort to save Kalos from collapsing on itself. On one such mission, the protagonist and rival awaken Zygarde, whom is righteously pissed off, leaving the mines to wreck city after city in order to fix the damage done. Sycamore then reveals himself to be the true Big Bad, his plans having been to find a trainer strong enough to replace Lysandre and finish his work.

Pokemon X and Y will not receive a third version or sequels, but prequels

A lot of questions about the story of XY will be answered in the prequels. More of Lysandre's and Team Flare's backstory will be expanded upon, we will see more of AZ and his eternal search for his Pokemon, and we will receive a much more detailed history on Kalos, especially the war it was engaged in with neighbouring regions.

The playable characters of this journey will be Dexio & Sina. In game they mention they went on a journey to years ago, and are often referred to as "Defenders of Kalos" when in their superhero disguises, hinting they may hold the same title the player and his/her friends receive at the end of X and Y. What they did to earn this title is anyone's guess.

Mr. "You'll see my region soon enough" guy isn't breaking the fourth wall.

He's talking not to the player as we all assumed, but to the player character- you see, he's part of an insidious plot to bring another region crashing down on Kalos. He just happens to be rather friendly about it. This will be the plot of the next Gen VI games.

• A floating continent would make the Pokemon World much more interesting.

Malva

will be the new boss of Team Flare

• We've seen very little of her actual role in Team Flare, so it seems like a bit of a waste of a character so far, not to mention the fact that she goes completely unnoticed and unpunished for whatever crimes she may have helped commit. If the next game is a sequel, Lysandre won't be available (for different reasons depending on your version), so someone just as powerful must take his place. Not to mention her potential as a Villain with Good Publicity- her status as a newsreader and member of the Elite Four will help get plenty of people on her side.

Alexa will have a role in taking down Team Flare

• She will play a similar role to Looker in Platinum, trying to investigate Team Flare's motives and expose them to the public. Like Malva, she had a surprisingly small role to play in the original games (A nameless NPC speculates that she may be a stronger trainer than her sister Viola, but we never get to battle her or even see what kinds of Pokemon she has). She may even wind up teaming up with Emma as part of a detective duo!

Zygarde will gain TWO megalutions, and there will be two sequel games, XZ and YZ

Team Flare will use a mind control device (similar to what was used on Emma/Essentia) on Zygarde, forcing it to enter the super weapon, and the left-over energy from Xerneas/Yveltal will create a new mega stone, Zygardite X or Zygardite Y, depending on the version. The resulting mega will look like a mix of Zygrade and the respective legendary. Plus, Zygarde is quite weaker than Xerneas/Yveltal, and the hybrid mega form would help it out a lot. Also, Emma will willingly join Team Flare and permanently become Essentia, and she will become a high-ranking admin of TF, or possibly even the new leader.

Olympia will have a bigger role in Z

She certainly seems rather major.

The sequel will take place in a region east of Kalos

You will get to it from the Coumarine train station. It will be the region the Hotel Hiker comes from, and the "amazing machineefers to is the same machine that the Coumarine Pokemon Centre Scientist refers to, the one that lets you become a Pokemon. The message in the Luminose station is related to this, and the Skiddo are actually transformed humans.

Rather than go the sequel route, they'll have a spinoff sequel that acts as a midquel

The Unnamed Pokemon Detective game would have the plot shortly start after the finale of the Looker sidequest in X/Y, perhaps you'll be a nameless character with a Pikachu as their superior, the game starts off as a sequel to Hey You Pikachu/Pokemon Channel in gameplay but has a narrative that expands the Generation VI universe. In XY, after defeating Team Flare, their leader is Crushed under rubble, you would've thought that would be done and dusted? infact they might have survived due to the effects of the cannon so Malva would have to kidnap Clemont to work on machinery for their own goals. (and to dig up Lysandre

Team Flare probably still has some connections to the Holocaster, and since Clemont somehow invented a whole virtual landscape for Pokemon to be trained and cared for, this leads to the next bit: The Evil Blue Pikachu is actually an agent of Team Flare by using their surplus from embezzling Two-Million Pokedollars from the rich, Team Flare is actually secretly building Hard Light projectors throughout Kalos.

The Blue Pikachu obtains a conscience, sees his errors and becomes good at the end, but probably gets deleted...but not before Team Flare gets resurrected, indirectly, Clemont probably steps down as Gym Leader due to having free (if forced/controlled) reign in inventing with limitless wealth during his captivity in Team Flare's labs, gains a new lease on inventions. His father who in the anime has a Blaziken, and he'll have to take up the mantle of the Fire Gym Leader for Z/X 2 Y 2/XZYZ/Whatever.

Malva will inexplicably leave the Elite Four, Mega Evolution is presumably going to be much more widespread...just to sidestep the issue of Mega Rings, Mega Evolution may take place much earlier..possibly at Luminose City whilst having more convincing roadblocks than a power outage in the daytime...building developments? maybe they'll go the BW 2 route and have new towns built?

The Kanto starters in X/Y will be replaced by Johto starters in Pokémon Z

• And they will receive Mega-evolutions.

Pokemon Z will still be a 3DS game

• But it will be enhanced for the New 3 DS.

If Pokemon Z is made, Mew will be available.

Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire made a lot of people happy by allowing you to get Deoxys without an event. Similar to the Delta Episode, Pokemon Z will have Mew part of the after-story and available. This'll also be a good opportunity to play up the importance of the Mew/Mewtwo relationship: Mewtwo will be the Rayquaza equivalent, used to get Mew. Mew'll probably get a Mega or Primal Evolution.

• This needs to happen. In fact, to go one further, you will have to have Mewtwonite X and Y to get him, perhaps requiring a leading Mewtwo to Mega Evolve to each in fights against some kind of "guardian" (like the non-Pokemon in Pokestar Studios). Not only that, but Mew will have both a Primal and Mega Evolution, each boosting different stats. For my preference, Primal Mew is Psychic/Normal, but with an ability that changes the second type to that of an attacking move, and to a type that resists/nullifies moves used against it. Call it "Primal Protean". Mega Mew is Psychic/Fairy (representing the latest evolution in Pokemon typing) with access to Light of Ruin and a signature "super-Metronome" that always uses a Super-Effective move against the opponent when selected. Call it "Genetic Memory".

The sequel(s) of X/Y will have Lysandre return

• Lysandre was given immortality by being so close to the ultimate weapon as it activated, sending an energy wave directly inside of him. A Team Flare member will return to the base and dig Lysandre out of the rubble. Lysandre will carry out a new plan to use Xerneas' and Yveltal's power to turn the sun into a supernova, destroying the world. The player will be able to use Zygarde's power to interrupt this process and fight Lysandre. Afterwards, he will be warped into another dimension by the Legendaries as punishment.

Zygarde Perfect has a BST over 900!

Because it's in Pokémon Z, get it?

Zygarde will be obtainable way early in the game.

You'll start with Zygarde Core, then as you play through, it slowly gains new formes.

Zygarde will be a Sequential Boss.

The plot of Z will borrow from Platinum

Specifically, Lysandre getting both Xerneas and Yveltal but all of the Zygarde core that you've been collecting doing a Fusion Dance with those Pokemon to create Perfect Zygarde; the same mistake that Cyrus made.

Perfect Zygarde will be so powerful, the player will only be allowed to have it and no other Pokemon on their team.

I mean, look at the guy. He's huge and bulky! Forget Xerneas and Yveltal- he could probably snap Mega Rayquaza in half if the player wanted to.

Tweaks for a potential third version:

• The ancient war will be elaborated on.
• The EXP Share will be reserved for postgame.
  • The EXP Share will be given to the Rival instead of the player.
  • The EXP Share is still there, but you can be told "turn it off if you want a challenge" by the person who gives it to you and in the menu, it says "Turn it off if you want a challenge", since most viewers didn't put two and two toether when they started to outlevel the Pokémon.
  • Or they could bring back the difficulty selection option like in Black 2 and White 2 but have it available from the start in addition to receiving the Exp. Share so people who liked the spread out experience don't have to suffer for people who didn't but also people who didn't like it but don't want to be thrown into being underleveled fast stand a chance, too.
• The Ultimate Weapon will be explained more.
  • The scene where the weapon is turned on will be changed.
• The player will decide whether or not they forgive the villains.
• Having certain species in the party will change some scenes (As examples, having an Absol in Lysandre labs, or a Ghost when encountering AZ).
• Clemont will take part in the Team Flare plot.
  • Also, Malva.
• Knock Off will be nerfed to 55 Base Power.
  • Unlikely, given that they'll have to be compatible with the original games.
• The Rival will not be grinded under the heels of the Protagonist all game and will not feel like some Broken Ace.
  • The other rivals will be fleshed out more, too. If they go the Platinum/Emerald/etc. route and not the Black 2/White 2 route, we'll actually SEE Trevor and Tierno help out Dexio and Sina against Team Flare, for starters. We'll also see them actually go places with their goals- maybe Tierno could open up the sixth generation equivalent to the contests/musicals/etc. in the form of a dance studio? Trevor could become an apprentice to Dexio and Sina, unless that's too similar to Bianca working with Juniper at the end of Black and White. Shauna... I'm not sure. Maybe become some sort of tour guide? She seemed more interested in making memories and seeing everything. Or something with her puzzle skills...
• They will Sequel Hook the Hoenn remake. If at all.
• Sky battles will be fixed: several Pokémon who were disqualified due to their idle poses not flying will be given new ones. Also, sea battles.
  • Or they'll simply be ignored.
• AZ's Floette will be a recurring character, starting with an expanded version of Dextra and Sinis' explanation of the fairy type.
• AZ's capture by Team Flare will be seen. Malva will be the one to bring him in.
• The Lumiose Ghost will be expanded on
• Riolu will be removed from random encounters, just so you don't box Korrina's Lucario forever.
• Zygarde will be the mascot legendary, but Xerneas and Yveltal will both be able to be caught later on.
• Refinements will be made to the AI to make the battles a little more challenging.
• The long-awaited return of being able to walk with your Pokemon.
  • Especially with Pokémon Amie, this actually would make lots of sense. Maybe using Amie would affect how they interact with you in the overworld, too, like a higher affection changes their "dialogue" or increases the chances of them finding something (couldn't they do that in HG/SS, or am I remembering wrong?).
• More customization options would be nice too, like glasses or scarves or jewelry, or even the option to remove certain items like hats or socks. Maybe a wider range of hair colors as well, or even unnatural colors!
• One of the gym leader will retire and a new gym leader will take their place. And the new gym leader will not be specializes in Dark type.
• AZ will be more involved with the plot.
• During the end credits, KISEKI will have sung lyrics. Sounds good... until you realize they're sung by a vocal synthesizer. Bonus unintentional creepiness points if they're sung in the secondary language.
  • What's so creepy about that? Vocal synthesizers can do decent singing- just look at the Vocaloid community.
    • Just take the fake- and bizarre-sounding Village Bridge song from B/W up to eleven. They could do a good job with it (or even hire a human singer), but considering the Village Bridge song there'll probably be some degree of Unintentional Uncanny Valley.
• There will be an event where you get AZ's Floette. But then again, he waited 3000 years to find it it's doubtful he'll give it to you to fight, especially since fighting is what separated them in the first place.
• There will be a shitton of new Mega Evolutions. Zygarde is a given, and Hydreigon is pretty likely too so it can laugh in the faces of fairies. Speaking of fairies, they could make a few strong and/or cool-looking Fairy-type Mega Evolutions such as Mega Arcanine and Mega Dragonite, since the Fairy-types are pretty controversial right now for their lack of badass and/or masculine species.
• If Diantha is still champion, she would get a bigger role in the story.
• The Froakie line will no longer have its eyes always closed in Pokemon Amie and in the same game mode, Pokemon will be able to properly wink.

Potential Mega Evolution candidates for the 3rd installment.

Since Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire introduced more new Megas, there is no doubt that there are more to come. With that in mind, here are some worthy candidates.

• Butterfree (It would be fair, since Beedrill got one. Plus, it will be Bug/Psychic to even the advantage between them in battle.)
• Machamp
• Golem (Along with Machamp to catch up with Alakazam and Gengar to complete the Mega Trade Evolutions group.)
• Rapidash
• Marowak
• Lapras
• Dragonite (To continue the Mega Pseudo-Legendary trend.)
• Slowking
• Granbull
• Flygon (Once Game Freak comes up with a satisfactory design, that is.)
• Toxicroak
• Rhyperior (A little something to celebrate the franchise's 20th anniversary, since Rhydon is one of the earliest Pokémon created by Game Freak, after all.)
• Froslass (To go along with Mega Glalie, just like Mega Gallade in ORAS.)
• Watchog, Basculin, Garbodor or Sawanna will be among the candidates as they are the only fully-evolved Gen V Pokemon not to have any triple-digit base stats.
• Zebstrika
• Gigalith and Conkeldurr will be the ones completing the Mega Trade Evolutions group, not Machamp and Golem.
  • Machamp and Golem would be completing the Gen 1 three stage Mega Trade Evolutions Group that Alakazam and Gengar are part of, but Game Freak pulling off a twist by using their Unova counterparts instead is not out of the question.
• Sigilyph (Incase AZ gets to be a Mega Evolution user.)
• Golurk (Same reason as Sigilyph.)
• Hydreigon (Same reason as Dragonite.)
• The Kalos Starter Trio, making them relevant in Kalos again.
• Vivillion, as the common early-bug Pokemon who will be the counterpart of Mega Beedrill instead.
• Diggersby, who will be the early Com Mon counterpart to Mega Pidgeot.

Not only there are various formes of Zygarde, but they're purposely hiding the existence of 1 from the Movie. presumably with the intention to keeping the idea of the dual-game's sequel a secret

In the Anime, there is a Red core and a Blue core. now logically you'd assume that Puni-chan was involved in the creation of the Perfect Zygarde. but why would they tote a new Pokemon in the form of a chibi which might not even be usable in battle? because they might be using it as a plot token to justify how Zygarde would shift forms. in the Movie there is Volcanion which appearance is unexplained yet "stars" as a main character.

The theory in-universe is that Team Flare would imprison Volcanion in the effort to power up one of the cores, preferably the blue one. with this it'll shift into a corrupted form rather than a perfect form. essentially this would imply that Perfect doesn't appear in the movies and the existence of a Red-Imperfect form would make it an unmentioned form variation sort of how Rotom's forms were only mentioned in ads, vs Giratina & Shaymin getting new formes right off the bat in their movie. in the Games, the core you get depends on which legend was siphoned so in X2, the player's intervention meant that Xerneas' energy wasn't released from the Geosenge Weapon which Zygarde takes into rejecting the Red core to vastly empower itself for the Blue core (Life) whereas in Y2, the lack of Yveltal Energy would result in Zygarde adopting the Red core (Death). perhaps by direct intervention by the Dragonid, surplus energy from one universe can be siphoned into a version of Kalos without as much energy in one aspect than another.

Perfect would be a Primal forme, whilst the Red/Blue formes would be considered as Megas called Death/Life formes, but to cater to a younger demographic, they'll call it the Prosperous forme and the Entropy forme. Notice that the only new art we've seen of Zygarde is the Core, 10% and Perfect? all of them besides Perfect only shows Red. perhaps this is a Broad Strokes Retcon to justify why the idea of 2 Cores didn't exist before the Core was revealed. the Dog forme has the justification of being built for speed and only has teeth for close range protection hence the prominent Red Core being shown, whilst the "Perfect" form is that; perfect to protect the core where it doesn't need the power because the environment is in perfect balance, they skip straight to Perfect forme in promotions to trick the audience into thinking it's just that; Red, Blue and White is France's national flag's colors so it'd be reasoned as that. but Zygarde was still shown in silhouette meaning there's still either the potential for single-core "perfect" formes, or even the possibility that Blue Core may have a different 10% form from Red, possibly a more hellish wolf form to differentiate itself between Man and Nature. (Dogs and Wolves?)

Nintendo will pull an Atlus and announce everything but Pokemon Z

Just like what Atlus did with Persona 5, Game Freak and Nintendo will have a huge announcement related to the 20th Anniversery, where they use the big announcement to announce multiple games (including the already known upcoming Pokkén Tournament and the Detective Pikachu game), and possibly throw in a musical rhythm game, like with Persona 4 (though that would not be too bad of an idea), with absolutely no hint towards a X or Y sequel. It may be in production, but they won't tell.

• Confirmed. The games announced are the next generation, not a third version or sequels!

The Third version will contain some of the following

• A southern area of Kalos perhaps being a new region (Possibly the country that waged war against Kalos)
• 50-70 new Pokemon (Magearna is perhaps implying this
• New side features
• Seeing the other side of the wars story and the consiquence of AZ's weapon
• Some more Mega Evolutions (potentially ones they couldnt do, like Mega Flygon)
• Glitch fixes
• More changes to the Meta
• A Possible second Eeveeloution

Pokémon Z is to be reserved for Gen 7.

Third game editions for past gen had been improvements from their otherwise-dual counterpart such as graphic-wise, so how could Z one-up X and Y when they are highly acclaimed? By being on the next console that has the capacity to upgrade the game even further!

• Tentative joss based on the logic. Generation VII has been announced, but they're not on new systems at all, and no follow-up to X and Y has been announced.

Remainder of Generation VI

If there is "Pokemon Black 3/White 3" starring the original dragon, Ghetsis himself will be the final boss of the entire Unova Saga.

No, not Ghetsis' Pokemon; Ghetsis himself. Since Pokestar Studios has given us "non-Pokemon" that can be fought, they might have some plot device where, after you defeat the Original Dragon (possibly a new Kyurem forme), Ghetsis will then merge with it himself (or absorb its power) and declare himself a god, and it's up to you and your Pokemon to defeat him.

• His typing will either be Dark/Dragon, or possibly Dark/Psychic, referencing how completely insane he is
  • OP: And his One-Winged Angel form could look like some sort of Eldritch Abomination, bonus points if he merges with his Hydreigon too and gets extra heads, making him look like a Spear Counterpart of Cloud of Darkness.
  • Whilst I doubt Ghetsis himself will appear, it wouldn't be too far fetched to assume that Game Freak used Black 2 and White 2's Pokestar studios feature to test out the idea of battling entities other then Pokemon.

There will be a pseudo-remake of Red and Blue on the 3DS eShop.

While the Game Boy itself would not work with the new stat system and would not support more than 256 Pokemon due to the coding of the games, pseudo-remakes (with the same graphical style, but the modern type chart and stat system and Pokemon from Gen II-VI hidden in the data) would easily be possible. While this would piss off the people who want RSE remakes yet again, it would take less effort to make than a full RB remake.

• Essentially confirmed, although they were straight ports for the Virtual Console and didn't arrive until Generation VII.

If there's a Stadium, Colosseum, or Battle Revolution type game, it will be backwards compatible.

Since Gen V never got one of those games, it'd only be fair to people who like Black, White, Black 2 and White 2 to be able to use Pokemon from those games on the TV the same as Gen VI players. And because of the wireless connection, it might actually be possible to have backwards compatibility with Gen IV as well, even though that's already covered by Battle Revolution.

• Sadly, Gen VI never got one either, so the theory is moot.

This game'll have co-op multiplayer.

As seen in this video, when the male character is running around a forest, a female character (looking different from the one we've seen) is following him in a path a second player would. Or maybe there's trainers that'll force you to fight by chasing you down.

• Or maybe she's like the trainers that follow you in Diamond and Pearl.
  • If you look closely, you can see she isn't following directly in the player character's footsteps like most games that feature All in a Row (including previous Pokemon games). Maybe there's new multiplayer gameplay similar to the Entralink in the Black and White games.
• Jossed.

Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire Remakes will come this Generation

Because Junichi Masuda did say he wanted to do something special with Hoenn, and if a fully 3D Hoenn isn't special, I'm at a loss as to what is.

• I'd honestly be surprised if we didn't get Gen 3 remakes in Gen 6. Gen 5 was so short, and, while this may just be a coincidence, the previous two remakes were done two gens after their original release (Kanto in Gen 3, Johto in Gen 4). Plus, then we could call the Hoenn remakes... Gen ''3''DS.
  • Oh, you deserve money man.
    • He got something even better: CONFIRMATION.

There will be two remake games this generation, but they won't be of Ruby and Sapphire...

They will be of Emerald and Platinum. Purely wishful thinking on my part, but Game Freak's been so unpredictable that I find it hard to believe that they'll play the Hoenn remakes completely straight. Besides, due to differing plotlines, R/S and D/P are seemingly non canonical in favor of the third version plots recieving far more Call Backs. Gen 4, now 2 generations ago, fits the previous remake pattern as well.

• Heart Gold and Soul Silver incorporated many of Crystal's changes to Gold and Silver, so it's possible that the Ruby/Sapphire remakes would incorporate Emerald's adjustments. We're probably not going to see remakes of Diamond/Pearl/Platinum until DS compatibility is phased out, which won't be for a while.
• Jossed. The only remakes we saw in Generation VI were Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire.

While Gen V evoked Gen I, This Gen will Evoke Gen II

Self-Explanatory. Feel free to put your own theory's.

• NEW EEVEELUTIONS! Oh, God, let there be more Eeveelutions!
  • Since new Eveelutions after Gen I appear in even-numbered generations, it is quite likely.
    • Confirmed.
• Travelling across Unova after beating the new region.
  • Jossed. Each game only contains one region, and none of them revisit Unova.
• The new region shares it's Elite Four with Unova.
  • Jossed. Kalos has an entirely new Elite Four.
• Roxie will become an Elite Four member like Koga.
  • Her son will become the new gym leader in her place.
    • Roxie's a bit young to be having a son old enough to take over a Gym, don't you think? She can't be older than 14-15.
    • There could always be a Time Skip, though it would still have to be a pretty darn big Time Skip.
    • Alternatively, Pop Roxie takes over for awhile until someone takes over, and explains his daughter is on tour (to explain why the Elite Four will be unavailable for a rematch until you get all eight of Unova's badges). Cue to him being a Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass with an excellent team of poison types.
• Hugh will become a gym leader.
  • And his sister will be the last trainer the player has to pass through to get to him.
• Alder will become the champion again. (An explanation: It's assumed that Lance was the champion before Blue came in and took the title. Blue was defeated by Red, who left to stand on a mountain for 3 years. He then took his original position back.)
  • Alternatively, N.
• This region seems to start Route numbers over again, which means it is too far away from Unova to share anything with it. And Unova wasn't the best region, I doubt anyone wants to waste 3D graphics going back to it.
• 2 New types. Sound and Light.
  • Also, the balancing between typings is just fine as it is. There is no need to add two new types that cannot help the balance that we currently have. If you remember, Dark and Steel were introduced merely to combat the ungodly cheap Psychic-types.
    • Well, Light has been one of the most requested types in the franchise, and the sound thing makes sense. Plus, I could imagine that it would help break the cheapness of psychic types that there is. I could imagine that Light would be super-effective on Psychic, Ghost, and Dark-type Pokemon, but takes super effective moves from Bug, Fighting and Dark type attacks. Dark type will be weak and strong against Light type. I could imagine that sound would be super effective on rock, ice, fire, psychic, and steel, but not very effective on water. Sound would be weak to ground and Water.
    • "The balancing between typings is fine"? Grass, Poison, and Ice would all like a word with you.
    • Actually, a Light type would probably be resistant to Grass (Photosynthesis) and Ice (Reflections) therefore giving those two some resistances that should be there.
  • Semi-confirmed as of now, with the new Fairy type (I guess you could call it Light if you were stretching it. It's the only type introduced so far though). It's supposed to counter the overpowered Dragon-types.
  • At least Semi-Jossed, there will be no "Sound" Type. Some may consider Fairy as a "Light" Type in that it beats both Dark and Fighting (in addition to Dragon).
• Though there will be plenty of new Pokemon evolution lines, Gen 6 will primarily focus on evolutions and baby forms of Unova Pokemon (which is not just a characteristic of Gold and Silver, but of even numbered generations in general)

There will be some hidden caves similar to Lascaux or the Chauvet Cave.

After all, it does take place in a France-like setting. The caves will have paintings of ancient fossil Pokemon, maybe even a hidden Mew. Fossils can be found inside the cave.

• To add to this: Every future visits will involve a little puzzle for the player to do to earn rewards that earn them items.
  • New region's Hidden Grotto equivalent?
  • Ruins of Alph 2.0...? Intriguing...
  • Jossed

There will be a small area based on Africa or India in the X and Y region.

Simply because it would be cool to have more variety in the region, and take advantage of the wide variety of wildlife in the areas.

• Jossed

The region in X and Y will be a large mish-mash of European cultures.

Rather than just being based on France or England, the region will be based on several cultures in Europe. The north will feature Nordic-inspired culture, imagery, and Pokemon, maybe even have a legendary based off something in Norse myth. Another area will have the ruins of some English castle, maybe even containing some cool dragon Pokemon. There will be a town based on Venice, where you can use Surf to get around.

• Bonus points if Latios and Latias are somehow important to the town based on Venice.
• Jossed. The region is based exclusively on France.

There will be a game on the Wii U that can connect with Pokemon X and Y.

And Pokemon from the Wii U game can be transferred to X and Y.

• So... Pokemon U?
• Pokemon Universal. Pokemon 4U. Pokemon Universe. Pokemon Ultra & Pokemon Alpha.
• Pokemon Stadium U or Battle Revolution U?
• For sure it'll probably not be Rumble U since that's based on the toys.
• Jossed. The only Pokémon game the Wii U got was a pseudo-crossover with Tekken.

There will be a Journey to the Center of the Earth style area in the new region.

The player will go into what appears to be a normal cave, but after going deeper inside they find an area full of prehistoric plants and Pokemon. Pokemon based off extinct creatures can be found here, including some fossil Pokemon from previous generations. Alternately...

• And a floating island which will be hard to access^note Even with guide, I couldn't get to summon island... we're talking about the same game, right?
• Goddamn it, it'd definitely be great to have a Journey or Dinotopia or Land of the Lost areas. It'd be even more exotic than the Safaris from previous gens.
  • Nope

There will be a "Prehistoric Pokemon Park" on an island.

A lifeless island was reformed to support plant life, and work as a reserve for prehistoric Pokemon. Pokemon based off prehistoric creatures can be captured here.

• Safari Zone meets Jurassic Park, not bad!
  • Jossed

Pokemon X and Y will have a really cool underwater area.

Dive is used to get to it, and it will be full of Scenery Porn. It would also be a great way to take advantage of the 3D.

• Jossed

Obligatory "Leaf's gonna appear" theory

Yes, yes, we know she doesn't technically exist. HOWEVER! One of two things could happen to allow her to show up in X/Y:

• She could come from an alternate reality, perhaps brought to our reality by Dialga for no reason.
• She could be the genetically engineered daughter of a mad scientist.

So, what d'ya think?

• Jossed.

There will not be a light type.

Because the Dark type is more like evil than literally dark.

• Step 1:Make a Good type.
• Step 2:Translate it into English version as Light type.
• Step 3:...
• Step 4:PROFIT!
  • Note that Dark-type is already Evil-type in Japan, so if this happens, it'd probably be Holy-type in Japan, while we get Light-type.
  • Confirmed?...The logic is correct, that a light-elemental type would be a conceptual mismatch with the Dark type (set up with Fighting in Japan), but we did get the Fairy type which encompasses the lighter side of magic and some light-based attacks.

The regional Pokédexes' orderings will be slightly different between versions

Each version will only have its own version-exclusives in the regional Pokédex. Furthermore, one version will have more Com Mons from Gen I-IV (Geodude, Machop, etc) and the other will have more Com Mons from Gen V (Roggenrola, Timburr, etc).

• Alternatively, you can customize the regional Pokédex before playing, to some extent.
  • Actually, the Dex is going to be broken up into 3 different dexes: the Central, Coast, and Mountain dexes.
  • ...sounds like the Central, Western and Eastern Eurpoean time zones?
• Jossed. As always, the Pokédex has the same order between the two games. It's just the flavor text that differs.

The Theme Naming for towns and areas in the Kalos region will be based on stars and other astrology and light-based things.

Unova had a cloud theme for their cities (At least in the English version), for these games, it'll have an astrology theme. The Kalos region is noted to be star-shaped and the one city revealed so far is called "Lumiose City", which is based on "Luminescent".

• Actually, that's because Paris is nicknamed "the city of light". I guess your idea is still valid, though.

Sprites will be used somehow.

• From what little we've seen of the new Pokédex, it seems like there will still be the little icons (like in the PC). That's probably all we're gonna get, though.

The next specialty healing item will be some sort of French-style pastry.

Starting from Pokémon Gold and Silver, you can obtain a healing item that resembles a dessert: Pokémon Gold and Silver (and remakes) had the Rage Candy Bar, Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire had the Lava Cookie, Pokémon Diamond and Pearl had the Old Gateau and Pokémon Black and White had the Casteliacone. Since the Kalos Region is based on France, there's certainly going to be a reference to its food somewhere... But what is it going to be?

• Brioche?
• Croissant?
• Biscuits? Pizza or Pasta? (if we get a chance to go over to the British Isles or Italy equivalent...)
• It's actually the Lumiose Galette.

There will be a city above the clouds.

Considering these sky battles, and sky trainers, I foresee a Skyloft-esque area where these people live high in the sky and have a connection with Yveltal.

• Jossed

There will be a new 3-D Pokemon Snap game.

One of the characters in X/Y is a photographer, and wouldn't that be the best thing ever?

• Confirmed that X and Y have "Photo Spots" where you can take photos. Bulbapedia says "When taking these photos, aperture, shutter speed, brightness, and other features can be adjusted. Tilting the 3DS will change the angle of the photo. The focus and zoom can be adjusted as well. These pictures can be added to the player's homepage on the Pokémon Global Link."

There will be Red and Green/Blue remakes this generation.

With that anime special being about Red and his journey, it just seems to much of a coincidence. Everyone place your guesses on what names might be.

• Probably something greater than Fire and Leaf. Like Blaze Red and Forest Green. (though technically there is fanproject of remakes made from scratch which includes the second protagonist as another Trainer you can fight)
• Why not both (Green and Blue)? Also, GF will make a Kanto sequel instead of another remake. Like Black 2 and White 2. So for this case, it will be called "Red 3", "Green 3" and "Blue 3"!
  • That completely goes against the reasoning behind the WMG. It was meant as green having its name changed in English (which is unlikely though considering how the previous Kanto remakes didn't), and sequels ruins the reasoning that created the guess.
• Close, but no cigar. Instead of remakes, it was a Virtual Console release, and it didn't happen until Generation VII.

Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald and Fire Red/Leaf Green will be put on the eShop.

• And there will be a feature added that allows you to transfer Pokémon from them straight to Pokémon Bank.
  • Maybe something like this would be a thing for Red/Blue in the eShop?
    • RBY/Bank compatibility is jossed.
    • Not necessarily, The virtual console versions of RBY with be compatible with Pokemon Bank. Albeit they can only go to Pokémon Sun and Moon from there.

Every existing Pokemon will be available in some form in this gen, without requiring the older games; the transfer is only necessary for those who want to keep their specific Pokemon

They dropped the "Gotta catch 'em all!" slogan in Gen III, partly because when Ruby and Sapphire first launched you couldn't catch them all. They've just reintroduced that slogan for Gen VI, which may mean that it will now be possible to complete the entire National Dex using only Gen VI games. This might also be a way to minimize complaints about the annual fee for the Bank application that comes with the transfer utility; if you never need to use the old games, it'll still be possible to complete the Dex without either paying or working quickly to transfer all the needed Pokemon in the free trial period.

• Right now, only Gen V hasn't made a few Pokémon available (such as Mew), and besides that only Gen II didn't have all non-event^note Required for diploma, I mean (since Lugia and Ho-Oh weren't required in Gen III and DPPt Pokémon catchable in any game.

The Kalos Pokémon are getting Megaevolutions in the next version after X and Y.

Ever since Generation 3 (with Deoxys), each new game in a generation has introduced new forms for certain Pokémon. This will likely be applied on a massive scale on the new Pokémon to generate hype for Z and other games. Plus, this would give Game Freak time to gauge which ones need Megaevos based on their three criteria (visuals, popularity, balance).

• Mega Sylveon. Make it happen, Game Freak!
• Mostly Jossed. The only Gen VI species to get a Mega Evolution in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire is Diancie.

Mega Stones are related to the Smash Balls from Super Smash Bros.

The Smash Ball granted certain characters form changes, so it's possible. They're also just as colorful.

The girl in Lumiose City is the ghost girl from Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum versions.

• This may sound REALLY far-fetched, but hear me out. Reading from the D/P/Pt WMG page, there's a WMG there that says that the player may have accidentally killed that girl and her butler. Now she wants to find her killer. Cue her showing up in Kalos, and saying to the protagonist that they "Are not The One." this refers to the fact that the protagonist didn't kill her... the player did. That's right. She's looking for YOU.
  • What? They've already been dead when you come to the Chateau! How can you kill someone who is already dead? Also, what about people who didn't play the game?

The Chamber of Emptiness will have an event in the future

Only an Arceus plate and Banettite are there now, but the cave seems a lot just for that.

• The fact it is stated to be "A void where nothing can exist" that sounds like a perfect place for an Arceus event.
• Jossed. If there was ever a plan for the area, it fell through.

There are unrevealed Pokemon in the game data

We know Mew was discovered by hacking in Gen I, Arceus wasn't immediately revealed in Gen IV, and Keldeo,Meloetta and Genesect were found by hackers in Gen V, so it wouldn't be surprising if more event mons were found when people figure out how to read the games' data.

• Betting on a second Eeveelution.
  • Confirmed. People have discovered the names of 3 new Pokemon thanks to the GTS: Diancie, Hoopa and Volcanion.
  • Data exists for a playable AZ's Floette.

People like Riley and Sir Aaron, and Lucarios are from Kalos originally

Think of it: Riolu are easily catchable in the Kalos region, and Kalos has a history of warring with other regions, where warriors that can use Aura and Pokemon that can understand human speech might be in high demand.

Swampert and Sceptile have Mega Evolutions, but they haven't been revealed yet.

It's kind of weird that Blaziken is the only member of the Hoenn trio that has a Mega Evolution. Maybe Swampert and Sceptile have some as well, but they haven't been revealed yet. They will either show up when someone hacks the game and finds the items and evolutions in the data, or when Nintendo has an event to give out the stones.

• It's not so weird if you consider Charizard has two mega evolutions, while its counterparts only have one each. They clearly didn't care for keeping any sort of symmetry there.
• Perhaps they could do Mega Evolutions to showcase the Hoenn remakes? Don't tell me a Grass/Dragon Mega Sceptile wouldn't be awesome.
• Possibly confirmed.
  • Absolutely Confirmed

List of unreleased content in X & Y

Here, before someone hacks into the game to find out, let's speculate what kind of contents are hidden in X & Y:

• About 30 more Gen VI Pokemon, and that excludes event Pokemon.
  • A second Eeveelution, maybe? The new Eeveelution's always come in pairs - Espeon and Umbreon, Leafeon and Glaceon - and Nintendo didn't promote the latter two.
• As mentioned above, the 4th dex after Central, Coastal and Mountain.
• Mega Evos for:
  • Watchog, Garbodor, Basculin and Swanna because they are the only Gen V Pokemon without any base stat over 100.
  • Latias and Latios have be confirmed.
  • Swampert and Sceptile, since Blaziken has one.
    • Or alternatively, Mega Blaziken forms a trio from starters from from its original region like Meganium (becoming a defensive Grass/Steel)and Samurott (Becoming an offensive Water/Fighting).
• Extra space for downloadable contents to be combatable with future games within this gen.
• Trainer customization items and options, to be given out for events.
• A legendary trio, to be released as event Pokemon.
• BW 2's Challenge Mode.
• DLC unlocks of additional (themed!) Battle Maison opponents
  • Previous gen Gym Leaders and Champions and Elite 4
  • Previous gen protagonists
  • Previous and current gen villain teams
  • Previous gen Professors, or Sycamore
  • Your Mom!
  • Your Gen 6 rivals and other major characters who aren't in jail like AZ.
• DLC post game quests!
  • Maybe more of Looker and the fate/backstory of Xerosic or Lysandre or AZ.
  • Emma or Essentia, and Mimi, going on missions with the protagonist.
  • The return of N.
  • Various sidequests involving previous gen legendaries.
  • Anime tie-in quests. (a.k.a. Canon Immigrant Ash Ketchum finally appearing in game)
  • Sidequests and rematch with Professor Sycamore.
• A later update featuring the return of phenomena, like rustling grass (which have a high rate of swarm encounters) and dust clouds.
• About seven more moves (based on the how the moves are ordered by index) not shown in X or Y yet, including:
  • A Dragon status move that even Eevee can learn (through move tutorial)!
    • Eevee can then evolve into a Dragon-type evolution in a similar style to Sylveon's.
  • A King's Shield counterpart, but for Sp. Att.

Zygarde has a mega evolution.

But the Zygardite is the one big Pokemon World EVERYONE lives in!

• So wouldn't that mean Zygarde could Mega Evolve anytime you want, anywhere you want?
• Probably in a similar way to Rayquaza.
• Well... Not quite a Mega Evolution.

Alder and Lysandre are related.

Just look at their hair!

Lysandre will appear in any sequels haunting Lumiose City moaning, "VEEEEENGEAAAAANCE!"

Come on, someone had to make that reference.

• You win the internet.

Locations for future events in X+Y:

• The Chamber of Emptiness, as said above. Possibly Hoopa's nest, as it is rumoured to be at least partly Ghost-type.
• A secret area in the Reflection Cave. Possibly Diancie's nest; it is rumoured to have the same typing as Carbink.
• The other three inaccessible power plants.
• The Place Rose, going off a dialogue between two NPC's about a "Volcano" Pokémon, possibly Volcanion. (Though this could just be Heatran instead)
  • It appears this is a mistranslation; in the original Japanese, one of the women was mimicking Heatran's sounds, and the other complimenting her on it.
• The Sea Spirit's Den. It's where you meet Articuno, Zapdos, or Moltres, depending on your starter, but its name implies the nest of a different Pokémon (possibly Lugia?). It may appear once you've already caught the legendary birds.
• There's a train station in Couriway Town. Could that go to an event?

These will all be activated by a Key item, which you receive through Mystery Gift or the Global Link.

Mega Rings are rings.

They are to be worn by Mega People.

Valerie is from Johto

• Valerie's leader title is "The maiden from a land with history." Johto itself is the region with the most value set in its own history, with legends and lore taking a pivotal role, being the first games to put emphasis on legendary Pokémon being actual legends in-game. Johto also seemed to have a theme of "purity", as shown with the three starters, who remained monotyped throughout the game. Purity could tie well into Valerie's love of all things "beautiful", to be beautiful is often seen as a form of purity. Ecruteak itself seems to be the center of Johto's history, myths, and lore, and located within this city is the Kimono girls. Valerie favors sewing and is seen in the company of furisode girls, a style of kimono distinguishable by its long sleeves. Valerie even used an Eeveelution much like the Kimono girls do themselves, and she as a distinctly Japanese look that many other trainers in Kalos lack, even if her name isn't obviously Japanese.
  • Actually it's confirmed by 1 of the rotating hotel tenants that she's from Johto, the real WMG here should be that she might be related to the Kimono Girls.

Valerie is otherkin-identified

Or, if she doesn't know that's a thing, she would be if she did. She says she wants to be a Pokemon and cosplays as.. Something Fairy Pokemon-like.

Another Valerie theory.

This one's a bit pervy, so I'll spoiler it in case you're not into that. You know how she doesn't appear to have any arms? Maybe she's secretly into bondage, and has them tied together behind her back underneath her outfit, or possibly tied to whatever she uses to support her sleeves and make them so stiff (probably a metal bar or frame, or something, considering how her outfit apparently weighs 33 pounds)? This would explain how she throws Poke Balls without having visible arms. If she's into that, she may still want to be a Pokémon, or she may just use that as a cover story. She probably has special contact lenses and/or a full face mask, going by her eyes. And this is just me, but for some reason I think she's wearing a latex catsuit under her outfit.

• Congratulations, you made my friend drool reading that]]. I hope you're happy. I however, have no problem with this theory.

Yet another Valerie theory.

This one is going off of her appearance. Specifically her eyes. Valerie is possibly blind. A relatively common trait for people with congenital blindness is their pupils/irises appearing cloudy or solidly-colored. Valerie's eyes happen to be just exactly like that, especially seeing as how her official art gives them an oddly murky tone compared to every other character's. Perhaps giving her a bit of a Blind Seer appearance.

Olympia is a Time Lord.

I know it's an old thing said with a lot of these series but that is honestly the sort of vibe she gave off to me. A mysterious woman in a gym that can turn bigger on the inside and show the stars. The gym guide even looks like an aged version of the Eleventh Doctor and Looker is about this region as well and you know how some fans felt about him. Even with the PokeBall in it the marking on the carpet of the gym which triggers the change in layout to see the true form looks a bit like Gallifreyan writing.

The Lustrous Orb, Adamant Orb, and Griseous orbs are in fact Mega Evolution stones for Kyorge, Groudon and Rayquaza

Jossed. Groudon and Kyogre go through Primal Reversion, while Rayquaza doesn't even need a Mega Stone to undergo Mega Evolution.

• I believe the poster meant Palkia, Dialga, and Giratina, not Kyogre, Groudon, and Rayquaza.

In the next game, Clemont and Bonnie will get a new sibling

In the next game, Clemont and Bonnie might get a new adorable baby brother/sister. There has been no other gym leader with a baby and that would be cute.

The Soul Dew will be Retconned into Lati@s' Megastone

The item seems to be unobtainble in game and Both of the eon dragons seem to have a Mega-Evolution. It would also make sense for an item like the soul dew to become a Mega Stone (especially since the mega form looks a lot like a Fusion Dance)

• Jossed. They have their own Mega Stones.

Volcanion is living in the Kalos Power Plant

Like the Sinnoh event legendaries, the Kalos event legendaries are located in the game itself, but in areas that cannot be accessed without a key item. One of the sites that leaked the information on the event legendaries even wrote that "Volcanion seems to be related to the Lumiose City blackouts", and there are still three doors to the power plant that remain locked even after you've reached the postgame. The key to those doors, or to one of those doors, is an event-only key item, and Volcanion is inside. Continuing the theme of "Event legendaries in in-game locations", there's a rather suspicious-looking area of Reflection Cave granted, once you've gotten the upgrade to the Mega Ring, said area houses Alakazam's Mega Stone, so it's not a complete red herring even now, which just so happens to be where wild Carbink are found. It's hardly a stretch to think that a key item could allow Diancie to appear there; perhaps as an added bonus, you'll have to bring a Carbink with you to make it appear. Hoopa...maybe the Chamber of Emptiness? It's a very small cave which doesn't even contain any Pokémon, and the only items it contains are all related to Ghost-types a Spooky Plate available immediately and Banette's Mega Stone after the Mega Ring has been upgraded, which Hoopa is.

• Alternatively, Hoopa is somehow related to the Hex Maniac in the Lumiose City Fighting Dojo.
  • The Hex Maniac's ability to disappear is because she is Hoopa in disguise. The event-only Key Item causes Hoopa to recognize you as the one that it's looking for and reveal its true form to you. It may even join you without a fight, since it was apparently looking for you, or it may decide to test your strength, but like Darkrai and Shaymin it'll have a much higher catch rate than your average Legendary.
• Jossed. Volcanion's event was just a giveaway unconnected to any area in-game, with no indication that anything more was ever planned.

Diancie's relationship to Carbink

From what little official information has been announced, it is said that "Diancie is born from a Carbink that undergoes a mutation." In a rare display of Gameplay and Story Integration, the event giveaway to obtain Diancie will in fact be a key item (again, similar to Gen IV) which, once obtained, will allow a one-time event in which a Carbink can be turned into a Diancie, inheriting the Carbink's moveset at the time that the event is triggered.

• Alternatively, Diancie will be able to breed with Ditto to create more Carbink, similar to Manaphy breeding with Ditto to create Phione. While a legendary being related to a non-legendary in in-game terms seems like a bit of a stretch, even though it's been confirmed that at least in terms of flavor text the two are related, it should be noted that Carbink's BST is actually higher than Phione's.
  • On that note: Diancie is obviously not the Kalos "Mew clone" (100 in all six stats). Carbink's got 150 in both defensive stats, and Diancie's theoretically should be even higher.
    • Partially confirmed. Serebii's listing Diancie's stats as 50/100/150/100/150/50, so it is indeed greater than or equal to Carbink in every stat; however, the additional hundred points was put into attack stats, not defense stats. The Manaphy/Phione parallel is apparently Jossed, though.

The next game's villains will want to turn people into Pokemon

It's talked about by various people in the game, including Valerie, a gym leader, who will be the new leader, replacing Lysandre after his apparent death. Incidentally, she's also the gym leader of the new Fairy type, highlighting her importance. Furthermore, Team Flare seems to believe all people are evil and the only logical solution is to destroy them all - maybe they'll later believe that only Pokemon are good, and the equally logical solution will be to turn people into Pokemon.

• Luckily Bill has a machine that can separate Pokemon DNA from Human DNA. Assuming the transformation works that way.

Almost everyone in Team Flare died alongside Lysandre

• By that point, most members were located inside the Secret HQ, and only Xerosic, Malva and a handful of grunts were outside. But most of the other members, including Aliana, Bryony, Celosia and Mable, were probably inside an ark built to protect them from the Ultimate Weapon, and were all crushed to death when Lysandre used the machine to either immortalize the player (X) or outright kill him/her (Y), which caused it to collapse. It's a fitting end to the franchise's Nazis.

There will be an event where you can get a Mega Arceus

• It will take place in the Chamber of Emptiness. And the Mega Arceus will have 200 for every stat and will have an ability that makes it every type in existence.
  • Wouldn't that be an instant Game-Breaker though?
  • Exactly. That's the point. As an added bonus, its ability would cause it to heal itself and make all of its moves super effective against any Pokémon. It'll be awesome.
    • It'll be the incitement of the rage of Smogon is what it'll be.
    • It'd be a good way to add Cynthia to the game though.
  • Having all types would mean its only weakness is Rock, because fossils disprove God! (no they don't, but this isn't the place to have a philosophical debate)
• Jossed. Arceus never received a Mega Evolution.

There will be Sinnoh remakes

• Come on. You know they're coming.
  • Maybe in a generation or 2. But not soon.
• Jossed for Generation VI, but there's always the possibility we'll see them in a future generation.

Alternativly there will be Kanto remakes... again

Kanto was remade when Hoenn was new, meaning it shares the same technical problems. Plus imagine returning to Kanto in 3D - just in time for the franchises's 20th anniversary!

• Jossed, although RBY did get Virtual Console releases during Generation VII.

X and Y will receive a patch to allow compatibility with the new Mega Evolutions in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire.

Possible since the Hoenn remakes also introduced new signature moves for all three members of the Weather Trio that apparently aren't available within the programming of X and Y. That, and the only Pokémon with Mega Evolutions you can't get through normal gameplay in X and Y are Blaziken, Latias and Latios (the latter two not even publically released yet).

• Jossed, unfortunately: no patch will be given to Pokemon XY, so the Mega Evolutions introduced in Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire will be exclusive to those games. That said, if a Pokemon Z is released, it will most certainly have those Mega Evolutions.

X and Y's inaccessible areas are what links it to Hoenn, and will be accessible in the Hoenn remakes

Why are there several waterfalls on the map that are blocked off by stones? One is in Victory Road, another outside Frost Cavern, a couple in Couriway Town (which are really obviously meant to be accessible), another is in the route leading from Snowbelle City to Victory Road. Were they designed for portions of the game that never got finished and just left in to be ornamental? Or could those routes possibly be what connects Kalos to Hoenn? Perhaps you'll be able to access them if you have a Pokemon X and Y save file on the system whilst playing the Gen III Remakes (especially if you have both games installed on the system)? There are strong hints that there is code in X and Y which was never pointed towards anything (certain Mega Evolutions, for example, were meant to be accessible, but you can't get the stones to do them until the Hoenn remakes, the station in Couriway Town doesn't have any trains, and several NPCs talk about far away things). Furthermore, in Black And White 2, you can access some areas that were never in Black And White, but conversely, there are some places you can no longer get to. In the previous games there were sea routes that were blocked off by stones, which is understandable. But this game clearly does away with most of the long sea routes, which makes these blocked off areas puzzling. My theory is that the Hoenn remakes will feature a remade Kalos, which you will reach post-game via Couriway Station. This will take place several years after Team Flare has completely disappeared so some places will be quite different. No idea as to whether it would feature the whole map.

• Jossed as far as the Hoenn remakes go, although given that Hoenn is based on a region of Japan and Kalos is based on France, their lack of proximity to one another is not surprising. But the inaccessible areas being accessed in X2Y2 seems like a decent guess.

Zygarde will have two alternate formes, same as Kyurem

There are two moves that are known to exist in the code for the Generation VI games, but are not known to be learnable by any Pokémon. Both are Ground-type moves and they immediately precede Zygarde's signature move, Land's Wrath, in index number. Presumably Thousand Arrows, which has the effect of being able to hit Flying-types (like Yveltal) despite being a Ground-type move, will be learned by "Zygarde X", while Thousand Waves, a trapping move (think "underhanded technique"—related to Dark-types) will be learned by "Zygarde Y".

• 2? How about 4 confirmed forms?
• Technically confirmed, although Jossed in spirit. Zygarde did receive new forms, but none of them had anything to do with Xerneas or Yveltal. Apparently Zygarde is an amalgamation of Zygarde cells controlled by a Zygarde core; the more cells it has, the stronger it becomes. The giant serpent we first met is at 50% strength; 10% strength turns it into a dog, while 100% strength makes it humanoid. All forms can learn its signature moves. Unfortunately, none of these other forms made it into the games until Generation VII.

We either have a very short, or very long, wait ahead for Generation VII.

(Written July 2015) Thus far, the waits between Generations have averaged just over three years, with Gen I -> Gen II being the shortest at 748 days (2 years), and Gen III -> Gen IV the longest at 1,495 days (4 years, 1 month, 3 days). So, if the wait for Gen VI -> Gen VII hits the average, the release date would be October 2016, only 16 months from now! Of course, Gamefreak could be planning to hold out for a major blowout Gen VII, to celebrate Pokemon's 20th anniversary. That would be a whopping 1,812 days (nearly 5 years) since X & Y came out, and the longest wait yet. Of course, they could also split the difference and give us Gen VIII in 2018, making Gen VII -> Gen VIII the new shortest wait yet.

• Evidence that the next game is in 2018? The ROM has Wonder Cards through Pokémon Movie 2018.
  • That's not proof. Generation V had Wonder Cards for Pokémon Movies all the way to 2020, even though it ended in 2013.
• Magiana's only added more fuel to the fire. Proof of Gen VII or still possible to be in Gen VI?
  • Confirmed on the "short wait" side. No follow-up to X and Y has been announced, but Gen VII has for late 2016.

Magiana is connected to Diancie.

The two are very similar in design, both being feminine creatures with dresses, so it seems that Magiana might be Diancie's Steel-type counterpart, created as an imitation.

Magiana will make an Early-Bird Cameo.

It is a Gen VII Pokémon, but it will make an appearance in Pokemon Z.

• Jossed. There was no Z version or equivalent thereof for Magearna to cameo in.

Xerneas and Yveltal will each gain a Super Mode through Zygarde Cells

On the next remake, they can be infused by a portion Zygarde Cells to become more powerful. They can be aided by Zygarde whenever they need to defend themselves.

Timeline Guesses

After ORAS implied there is a Pokemon multiverse, why not add a folder for Timeline/AU guesses?

In games where Mega Evolution can't happen, Kalos doesn't exist.

In Black and White as well as B2/W2, you can find Relic items which date back to approximately the same time as the Kalos war. In ORAS it's revealed that there's one Pokemon universe where Mega Evolution exists and one where it doesn't, and the point of divergence was approximately 3,000 years ago, the same time as the Kalos war. The timeline split based on how AZ used the Ultimate Weapon. The one where he didn't end the war with it ended with Kalos being destroyed, leaving Relic items in Unova. When he did, we got X and Y, Mega Evolution, and OR/AS. This also explains why Mega timeline games are darker - in order to even GET to that point, countless Pokemon had to die.

• Strictly speaking, Zinnia tells us that in the other timeline, the war in Kalos just never happened, period, and the weapon was never built. Kalos (or the area that would become it) must have been in a very different state at the time for the war to not break out, and it's implied by Lysandre's notes that the war started when other countries became envious of Kalos's wealth and prosperity (which was ushered in by AZ, using "technology unlike any seen in that era" to unite Kalos for the first time). Maybe AZ wasn't even around in the non-Mega timeline?
• Alternately, it's possible that a version of Kalos could still exist, it's just be vastly, vastly different from what we see in "mainverse" Kalos. Going off the point immediately above this, there's two things that immediately come to mind. Either Kalos was considerably poorer in that timeline (no one can get envious of Kalos's wealth if the wealth isn't there), so perhaps it simply faded away and folded into other regions (mostly into Unova, tying into the Relic Items from the OP). Or possibly Kalos was so well off that they were able to donate money and treasures to other regions. No need to go to war to take it all if Kalos is giving it away. And in that case, there still could be a present-day Kalos, though whether or not it could maintain its present levels of beauty if it got rid of a good chunk of its historical artifacts is anyone's guess.

In games where Mega Evolution happened, Team Flare created Mewtwo.

ORAS has established that a multiverse exist. In the non-Mega timeline, Mewtwo is always found in the Cerulean Cave. In the Mega timeline, Mewtwo is found in the Unknown Dungeon in Kalos. In this universe, the scientists who made Mewtwo live in Kalos. But whom? Team Flare, that's who! Lysandre wanted a living weapon of mass destruction to help him, in case Xerneas/Yveltal didn't work out. Unfortunately for him, Mewtwo decided it wanted no part of it, so it fled. The Mega Stones are made to serve as a counter towards other legendaries.

RSE are still prequels to XY

While ORAS is the prequel to the 6th gen's third game edition.

• Sadly jossed by the fact that Kalos doesn't seem to be getting a third version (and/or sequel).

Pokemon X and Y are Continuity Reboots.

With the release of ORAS, it has been confirmed that there are alternate universes in the pokemon world. It is said that the war in Kalos never happened in the RSE universe, explaining the lack of Mega Evolution in the first five generations. But that would mean that since X and Y have Mega Evolutions, they take place in the ORAS universe. As such, Pokemon Sun And Moon will follow this continuity and continue its story.

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