Pokemon XY Preview Announcements

[Jindred]

I believe these are just fan concept art.. but they are kind of badass!

[cityofchamps]

Yea, they are just fan art. They do not follow the game artist's style.

[awesomeace]

The Water one looks like a wise monk kinda

[cityofchamps]

The most persistent rumor going around the web is that the starter evolution types are:

Fire/Psychic
Grass/Dark
Water/Fighting or Water/Ice

I have also heard that Sylveon (new Eevee evolution) is a Flying type.

[cityofchamps]

WARNING! MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD! FOR ANYONE WHO DOES NOT WISH TO HAVE A LOT OF IMPORTANT INFORMATION THROWN AT YOU ALL AT ONCE PLEASE DO NOT READ!

Summary of details:

- More than 100 new Pokémon.

- There are indeed new evolutions and pre-evolutions, most of them focused on Gen V Pokémon However, a few older Pokémon, including Gen I classics, are getting surprising new developments.

- No new types, but there are “Cross-bred” Pokémon introduced. Certain father/mother breeding pairs will result in a visually distinct child, who will be the mother’s species, but will, for example, have a pattern reminiscent of its father or a slightly altered color scheme. This is basically the new Gender Difference and is simply an aesthetic bonus, nothing extreme and only certain pairings result in this…the Pokemon is still considered the species of its mother, it’s not a new species. One example I can give is that it is possible to get certain Pokemon sporting Pikachu’s red cheeks.

- The Starters become Grass/Steel, Fire/Psychic, and Water/Electric. They’re inspired by various European-centric archetypes…Chespin becomes a knight with chestnut armor, Fennekin a wizard with a majestic fur cloak, and Froakie a Nordic Viking with a thunder-cloud mullet/beard.

- Xerneas is Ice/Steel, and Yveltal is Fire/Dark. They have a unique ability where they can shift types with each other, Xerneas becoming red and Fire/Steel, and Yveltal becoming blue and Ice/Dark. Supposedly, Game Freak chose the typings in part due to members of the team being fans of R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, among other reasons.

Here is a link for other information. There are spoiler blocks (meaning that you have to click on the "show spoiler" buttons if you REALLY want to see the rest of the info). This is all from someone who works for the company. Believe it if you want or not, but this all seems to detailed for it to be fake. It also makes sense and corresponds with how pokemon tends to do things with their games.

www.serebiiforums.com/showthread.php?597274-IMPORTANT-ANNOUNCEMENT-Pokemon-XY-RUMORS-amp-FAKE-SCANS-Thread

[cityofchamps]

There are more details in the thread about the new features and such.

[Panther]

That's fake...

Been confirmed fake for a long time, no way in hell they'd publish all that info at once.

[cityofchamps]

Disclaimer

Just to let everyone know, these rumors were originally leaked on 4chan, so take what you want from that.

[cityofchamps]

Okay, my bad. False Alarm. Got a little too excited and posted before doing a little of my own research.

[inoccent]

I stopped playing after ruby/ sapphire. They just keep getting worse and worse IMO