Generation VI Rumors… and More!

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Too soon?? Maybe, but Dual Pixels is reporting on some industry rumors that a tipster has given them. A tipster that’s been right before… Let’s take a look! As usual please do not use this information as fact!

Pokémon Rumors:
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  • Gen VI coming in about 2 years
  • Storyline focused on a world in crisis
  • Full 3D world and models
  • New type will be introduced
  • Fewer new Pokémon, but some existing ones get new forms/abilities
  • Wii U will get a Pokémon Battrio (Japanese arcade exclusive right now) game which uses NFC technology

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Thoughts?? What do you want to see in Gen 6? Rainbow type? :p Thanks for the tip Josh!

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80 thoughts on “Generation VI Rumors… and More!”

  1. I have a feeling Gen VI would come out around 2 year from now, but the only think I’m not so comfortable with is, a new type. I would love to see one happen, but if it is Rainbow, I just wouldn’t know what to think. I can’t think of new types, but I want to see more done. I loved Gen 2, because we had new Eeveelutions, and 2 new types that I absolutely love to this day. I hope they can match up to that. Seeing how the new Mystery Dungeon game is fully 3D, I am more than positive it can be done with Gen VI in 2 years time. I think it is just way too early to be have rumors around. I know that the 16th movie will most likely have a Gen VI Pokemon in it too. The last movies usually always do that, and I don’t see why they would change it.

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  2. Maybe the reason that they haven’t announced Gen 3 Remakes are because they’re not happening this gen. If you think about it,

    Kanto-First appeared Gen 1, didn’t appear again till Gen 2
    Johto- First appeared Gen 2, didn’t appear again till Gen 4
    Hoenn- First appeared Gen 3, if it follows this pattern, it won’t appear till Gen 6

    Meaning that the second time the region is seen again isnt 2 generations later, it’s double the region number it was introduced on :O

    MIND BLOWN…

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      • They haven’t even dared to touch the type chart in minor ways like giving Ice a resistance or making Rock resist its own hazard..in 4 generations, including a reboot basically with BW. And now AFTER that theyd randomly add a type? Does that sound anything but unrealistic?

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  5. I believe that a new type can happen. Most likely space (strong against ground, electric, dragon, flying) (weak to normal 🙂 [finally a reason not to hate their type], bug, ice Light (strong against dark, bug, ghost) (weak to ghost, ground, psychic) Crystal (strong against psychic, dark, light, space, bug, ice, flying) (weak to fire steel, rock, ice, fighting, ground.) But these are just guesses. I think that we got waaay too many new pokemon last gen. So less is fine. Some of the new abilities are ridiculous, so I’d be glad to see less. And there should be 150 tms. I would like to see RSE remakes in gen 5, though. They should make a way for spiky ear pichu to be transferrable only to remake games. I’d hate to leave her behind for good on Heartgold. Oh, and put the pkmn follow u option back in.

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  6. You guys I think if there will be a new type then hopefully if there really gonna go out of the way to spice things up that much its only plausible it would have to counteract the already overpowered dragon types and underpowered Poison types therefore I have two theories for what and how they could work:

    Light Type- bare with me, this would be less about the obvious mostly already covered White magic/religion aspect of it and be more about things like laser beams, solar energy, rainbows/prisms and strobelight like attacks that could cause status ailments. The reason these could be a likely candidate for a dragon killer is because from my understanding all of the dragon pokemon except 2 (dragonair fam. And altaria) are pretty savage creatures that dwell in dark caves, are hardly seen and therefore would not be use to things like sunlight or kindness based holy deities (what most would prob. Be like). Pokemon families that would/could/should change to this are: clefairy, dragonair, porygon, sunflora, cresselia, ninetails, arcanine, chimecho, mienshao, dunsparce, luvdisc/alomola, furret, mr. Mime, elegym, theres a few others obvs. But i cant name them all as it would be pretty obvious which ones would work.

    Magic type- as someone said earlier this would be the end all everything not yet covered in pokemon type. With the popularity of things like Harry Potter and witchcraft in general its very easy to assume the next type would add on to the ghost/dark/psychic paranormal group and would cover almost every aspect of each type due to the fluidity of it all but would be unique in that one aspect. This would also fit with the popular rainbow type. Also dragons are ofthen villainous objects/charecters of magical folklore therefore magic could be the only way to counter them as they can see or detect them.

    as far as the other types they dont seem to counteract Dragon like I would hope but they could still work:
    Sound – moves like screech, uproar, would be obvs changes but more pokemon like exploud family would be made. ( eww) Also roxies gym really sold the idea and made me wonder if that had been going through their heads but they scrapped it and decided to introduce it later.
    Nuclear – im surprised this hasnt been covered as this is a pretty interesting idea except that the only thing I could really see as an issue is that it would be an obvious way to strengthen the weak poison type as grimer, koffing, and trubbish are waste products but they could of course cover atom splitting, radiation, and substances like uranium,
    Tech/Computer – With computers and technology vast in the pokemonworld how could Porygon simply be the only thing from Cyberspace? This would include obvs computer viruses, robots, artificial intelligence

    Wind – With someone pointing out flying as bird type in Japan, and there refusal to just let it be its own thing. I am a little annoyed at this point there isnt a frog pokemon that sucks in air andblows it out at opponents, or a rare bird that only can be seen in the midst of tornados. Idk just ideas but If flying is air shouldnt wind be an offshoot to that similiar to water/ice, ground/rock/steel, grass/bug? Haryama, chimecho, exploud, wailmur(it can suck in air) All of the stupid over abundent normal/flying types (that should of just stayed flying) would be changed.

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  7. It woudn’t make sense if nintendo takes another 2 years to release gen 6 games. The anime is almost over with the unova region and the fillers will most likely will take place in HOENN region (just like previously). I doubt they can keep running the filler episodes for the next 2 years! Most likely we will get a R/S remake but will that be for ds or 3ds is still questionable.

    Therefore I believe that the next generation will be released by 2013 …

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    • Well, Q1 2014 is still technically two years, although in reality it’s much closer to a year. So let’s say May 2013 for remakes and March-April 2014 for totally new games. 😉

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        • Well, I don’t believe that the whole rumour is true. I was just saying two years seems a good educated guess, considering the fact it lets them do a mainline Pokémon each year. 🙂

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  8. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a Fire Red2/Leaf Green2. Kanto has appeared in every generation, except generation V. WHile FRLG were interesting, They lacked an awful lot of features. FRLG2 could be like the inverse of HGSS, taking stock from BW2 and traveling through Kanto and Johto again. I’m thinking this could happen as BW were the first games named after a colour since RGBY that wasn’t a remake. Also in the anime, they have sped through Unova at a fast pace, so to boost these sequel remakes, they could journey through Kanto again, so Ash can challenge the Indigo League/champions league, to reflect the games.

    As regards a new type, Poison, Ice and Fire really suffer at the moment and have fallen far from grace. a new type being introduced would have to be resistant/S-effective on rock/fighting and either water/dragon/dark types, while being weak to Poison, fire and ice. when you look at nature, the only things that is comparable is a contagen or virus, as poisons\antibodies/fire/ice kill them. I like the idea of a cosmic or stellar type.

    No more fire/fighting starters, would love a fire/dragon(though could be too like Charizard) as fire doesn’t get a lot of love anymore. what could be super interesting is a set of starters who end up being Fire/Water, Water/Grass, Grass/Fire.

    There also needs to be a new Eeveelution (or three), prevo for Sawk and Throw, I’d love there to be an Evolution for Fearow and Farfetch’d, and maybe Weezing.

    There needs to be bette fossils. A Sabre tooth tiger (fire/rock or electric rock) or Mammoth (I know we have mamoswine, but a ground/rock or grass/rock could work), just no more Dinosaur/Reptile based ones for a while, a Spider fossil or an original Genesect could be awesome. Legendary fossils would be a nice turn about.

    Some awesome gyms would be appreciated. No more water or ice gyms. They have been done to death. They also need to be a lot harder. I’d love to see:

    1: Ghost Type Gym
    2: Steel type gym
    3: Normal Type Gym / new type gym
    4: Psychic Type Gym / new type gym
    5: Fire Type Gym
    6: Ground Type Gym or Rock Type Gym
    7: Dark Type Gym
    8: Posion Type Gym

    E4:
    1: Electric/Dragon
    2: Rock/Grass
    3: Water/Poison
    4: Ice/Flying

    The reason for this order is the initial gyms are far too easy. Ghost type is an interesting debut gym, as normal moves wouldn’t work.
    E4 would be nice to vary between versions. Or have two types they specialise in. Maybe not though.

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    • In regards to FR2/LG2, I actually hoped they would do that one game as a combo of Hoenn, Kanto, and the Sevii Islands. It would be on the 3DS so that they had enough space in the cartridge, and it would be an experiment for the new mainstream games. Although I’m not sure what they’ll do with the anime during that time period, I’m sure that Ash could go through these regions again or travel the Sevii Islands. Also, considering that currently in the anime they’re going to begin the Episode N saga after the Pokemon League ends, this is also a perfect time to create the games.

      Now for my own opinions:

      -If there is going to be another type, I am not buying this whole rainbow or light or cosmic whatever thing. Magic makes sense, considering we already have Mismagius and other Pokemon that could cover this. I don’t understand the rainbow idea, and the light thing, although I like Lasereon’s idea for it more than some others, I feel that it’s covered in the fighting/ psychic types (kind of courage, the counterpart to dark, etc.). I don’t understand what people mean by cosmic. Godly? Alien?

      -I like the sound of a world in crisis, but isn’t that a bit mature for a younger audience? I’m sure that’s exaggerated, although if it isn’t then yeah, I like it, seeing that if so, people are aware of the villainous teams.

      -The 3D world thing ties in with my first idea, and is also supported by the new Mystery Dungeon. It’s about time, GameFreak. Although, it has been said that sprites are better supported.

      -Evos, please, forms are appropriate in some cases but in others I feel is doesn’t work.

      -I think there should be 7 legends, two trios + one on it’s own, or other combos that can be made with that number. Plus mucho returning legends because, again, it’s on a 3DS= lotsa memory.

      -Don’t care much for Battrio, but seems interesting… ish. Didn’t they replace Battrio with another game?

      -Other stuff on the main game: Mostly just a Safari zone, larger regions, definitely battle frontier, and a lot more post-game stuff. If it’s going to be on the 3DS, and I know people are going to disagree, put DLC. Maybe like new areas, or a new challenge. Multiple file support- so that I can unlock Challenge mode and play an entire file with it.

      Yeah, that’s about it. And maybe a new Gale of Darkness or Stadium or Colosseum.

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    • Im sorry but we do have evidence that they will not go on to kanto before hoenn

      …
      Dont believe me then travel to humilau and compare it to pacifidlog
      Travel to reverse mountain and compare it to groudon/kyogres lairs
      Travel to lentimas town and compare it to the route and town after you get off the sky lift
      Travel to the route by seaside cave and compare it to the route to evergrande city
      Ruby and saphire remakes were 50% done when black2 white2 were finished. The only thing left for them to do is think up a new story.
      The actions for the sprites, the moving truck, the lyogre the groudon the rayquaza the ship to the second gym the ship to the 3rd gym the rival battles all that is done. All they have to do is apply the hexes to new sprites. So whats left aftrr that is two things
      Maps and story
      The maps were polished off with black white 2 ( very smart marketing imo on gamefreaks behalf) now the only thing left for you to decide is how long you think it will take gamefreak to create a story and implant into the blackwhite2 cartridge space and get a few months of advertising done before hand

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  9. What if, instead of introducing a new type, they made it so that moves could have multiple types? It’s pretty much just theoretical since I can’t think of any examples right now, but… It could make for some interesting combos. Fire Punch: Fire/Fighting, maybe. Hmmm. Don’t mind me, just a fan blurting out half-baked ideas.
    I do think that team sizes should be increased to seven. You have your starter pokemon, and then your team of six. It would be possible to switch out your starter later on in the game, when another pokemon’s happiness was raised sufficiently. I also think that the HM moves should be inherent qualities to the pokemon, and their distribution limited a lot more. IE, no more pidgey or starly with Fly. Water type pokemon that doesn’t know how to swim. DERP.
    In saying all of that, however, I know that I – like the vast majority of readers here – will fangasm over the next pokemon game no matter which rumours turn out to be true. 😉

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  10. There’s no way there’ll be a new type, first of all, so I think we can safely say that these particular rumors are fake; for those of you somehow unconvinced that a new type is impossible, please read any of the dozens of coherent, well-written arguments against such an overhaul already above my comment, and if those don’t do it for you, stuff your head between two pillows until Gen VI comes out so that you’re not embarrassing yourself during the speculation period by being one of those diehard “gamefreak wil maek teh new type in gen vi!!1!” sorts.

    That being said, new generation speculation is always fun, even if this particular spat of news is very premature. Personally, I’d love to see a break for the Ghost-type in the next generation. There’s been either a Ghost-type Gym Leader or Elite Four in every single generation up until now. I think it deserves a break. I’m not crazy about new formes, but in scarce enough quantity, I think they wouldn’t get old too quickly. Full 3D sprites sounds atrocious. While I’m not a fan of the pixellated quality of Gen V backsprites, turning everything 3D, while a perfect way to show off what will presumably be the 3DS engine that Gen VI will run on, is a horrible overreaction. I think higher-quality 2D sprites would suffice just fine. Also, the idea of the player character’s sprite or any human sprites being in 3D sounds just as unappealing. I’d also love to see a return of the follow-behind Pokemon in Gen VI, if that’s not a feature already being added to the R/S remakes or whatever games are still to be released in Gen V.

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  14. My thoughts:

    As far as the “two years” thing goes… do we know if this is referring to the English or Japanese release? Because I agree it’s a little far for the Japanese release, but it’s not too far off for an English release. My personal timeline puts the next main game at release in Japan late 2013 – probably last quarter. Now, BW were six months, IIRC, but if they’re redoing so many key things I could see a year for localization, which would make the two years nicely.

    As far as the new type goes – I’m not going to speculate on what it’s called, but I will speculate on what it does. It needs to be weak to Poison and Dragon. Poison types and Dragon types have so few things they’re SE against it’s ridiculous. Yes, there are a lot of dragons around, but it’s the ONLY type that’s weak to Dragon, while Ice type is SE against Flying types, one of the most popular types in-game.

    On full 3D world – Honestly, Pokemon has stuck with the flat maps for far too long, and the four-direction movement hasn’t changed since R/B. The fans have put up with it for quite a while, but we’ve been waiting for the upgrade for a long, long time. Even the Mystery Dungeon games have diagonal movement. With the release of Pokedex 3D Pro, it’s clear that they have enough 3D models of the Pokemon. Full 3D Mystery Dungeon Infinite gave them a chance to test out all their 3D, and now it’s time for a main game to make the leap.

    On fewer new Pokemon –

    There has been a pattern.

    Gen 1 – ~150 (151)
    Gen 2 – 100
    Gen 3 – ~150 (135)
    Gen 4 – ~100 (107)
    Gen 5 – ~150 (156)

    So having 100 new Pokemon would follow the pattern.

    The rumors make sense. Time will test if they are true.

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  18. I like the idea of a “world crisis”, mostly because it makes me think that it would finally be the game that brings all of the regions together. Including being travel between them all, sort of like in silver/gold/crystal, where you could go between Kanto and johto. It could even open up the option of choosing the region you want to start in and moving on to the rest, getting a starter from each as you get to it. After you go through all the old regions, there could be a new one where the base of this crisis is taking place. Or flipped where you start in the new region and travel to the others to put a stop to the crisis.

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