Smash has just finished airing and the Official Pokémon site has just updated with the brand new Pokémon, leaked earlier in the week. Gameplay of the new Pokémon can be found below.
The Pokémon shares many similar traits with Mewtwo but isn’t quite the same, which would suggest it’s not perhaps the form we all expected it to be. The newly discovered Pokémon is suspected to have some connection with Mewtwo however, perhaps something a more than a forme? The Official site also mentions how Mewtwo was engineered for battle and it’s sheer power and how a new chapter begins with this new Pokémon. It’s probably also worth noting the the site refers to it as an individual new Pokémon, rather than hinting it being a forme.
We really don’t know a huge amount about this new Pokémon, but from the official information given there’s a lot of room for potential speculation. There’s information to both suggest it is a form of Mewtwo and that it is something entirely different and perhaps not even a legendary Pokémon at all (it’s only referred to as a Pokémon, rather than Legendary Pokémon like Xerneas and Yveltal).
It’s definitely uncertain exactly what this Pokémon is, and it’s just another question we all have about X & Y, but what do you think or want this Pokémon to be? A Mewtwo forme? A descendant of sorts? A completely new Pokémon? Or something entirely new? Get discussing!
This got me thinking maybe there was another attempt at cloning mew when Mewtwo ran away or this pokemon was cloned along with Mewtwo and was considered a failure.
That would actually make a lot of sense. One of the discarded wrong clones, that was actually just “gestating” from a Ditto into this beast! It would explain its resemblance with Mewtwo and the fact that it is its own separate new pokémon.
I am NOT convinced it’s a new pokemon; I think it’s Mewtwo’s new FORM. Game Freak and Nintendo, I would think, would have the common sense NOT to make a NEW pokemon (a new clone of Mew or not) have THIS MUCH of a resemblance in design as Mewtwo. Reason #2 is that the NEW MOVIE’s TITLE is about MEWTWO….not a “NEW POKEMON”. So, considering the new movie is titled “Extremespeed Genesect: Mewtwo Awakens/Mewtwo’s Awakening” is sufficient enough reason for me to believe this is going to be a new form….not a whole new pokemon.
I think everyone is reading in to the whole “a newly discovered pokemon” wording the “press release” from Nintendo. It’s a new pokemon in the sense that it’s “new” and it’s a “pokemon”; that’s it. Guess we’ll wait until April 19th when the new trailer for the movie comes out; it’s going to have the new form in it.
P.S.
No idea why some of you are all like, “Wah! I wanted a new pokemon! Oh well, as long as this is a new pokemon and not a form i’ll be happy!” Nevermind that we have some NEW NEWS.
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everyone is entitled to their own opinion so you can have yours and i can have mine. So you can just pipe the fuck down and let me express my opinion and you can express yours 🙂
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These are not “NEW NEWS”. We’ve seen this in the begining of the week. Also, “Big News” hinted that we’d have some new pokémon, not just one (or, as you argue, a form, which is a lot worse) or, at least, a new pokémon and some news about existing ones (like Sylveon or the legendaries) or about the map, plot, whatever. This is more of a “new movie news”, than “X & Y news”. I’m very disappointed… I thought that if the news were related to this Mewtwo thingy, they would at least have the decency to reveal something else as well. I hope this is not a form because I don’t like them too much and because it would turn these news into less than they already are. As for the creature itself, it would be interesting if it was its own individual pokémon, even if related to Mew. As for the design, I don’t like the tail coming out of its head, but besides that, it’s not that ugly.
And because apologizing for “my bad english” is a cliché and I’m not that bad at it, I won’t. Still, bear in mind that it isn’t my native language… Portuguese is! And no, we’re not a spanish province of some sort, we are a country. 😀
Ha I like you XD 🙂
Thanks, man. 🙂 I guess I like you too, then.
But they’re going through such lengths to not explicitly say it’s still Mewtwo.
Also, in the episode of smash they actually say it isn’t Mewtwo. (38:20-ish) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NHoxmzLa54
Admittedly Masuda San says “I wonder” after, but that was in response to “Perhaps it has some relation to Mewtwo”, not so much to the part where he said “It’s not Mewtwo”.
What happens if this new pokemon is actually inside the red genesect and controlling it in the movie.. Could explain why mewtwo comes back
God NO !
why don’t you like it?
A pokemon inside another pokemon, possibly a robot in the shape of a pokemon…. not my idea of a good story. Its just my opinion but my GOD NO.
Also, don’t you think the movie could be called “Mewtwo Awakens/Mewtwo’s Awakening” because a new and stronger power is awakened in Mewtwo (Thus leading to a new form!) ? Just saying..
The fact that they’re being very silent about whether this is a new form of Mewtwo or not makes me very suspicious. However, the movie IS still about “Mewtwo’s awakening,” so it is very difficult to lean towards one prediction. I find it quite interesting that Mewtwo is relevant again. This most likely means X and Y take place after Gen I and III and that somebody has tampered with its DNA. It would be amazing if this supposed Mewtwo forme was incorporated into the main story. Unfortunately, I think Xerneas and Yveltal will be the main focus of the main game and Mewtwo will be a major sidequest in the post-game. I hope I’m wrong, though.
I agree completely id love to see this in the main story 😀
They’ve been very silent about EVERYTHING!!!
Maybe they can add it to the story the same way they did with Suicune in HG and SS… Make it important, but it doesn’t have to be a main legendary.
Realistically its probably going to be a forme of Mewtwo, sure it even replaced it on the poster haha. It could have looked alot worse than this, at first I was like HELL NO. But its grown on me even in this short time, especially the gameplay video 🙂
Agreed! It looked different in the leaked movie picture, that is why I did not like it. But I like it now, alot 😀
Exact same here 😀
When I first saw it, my reaction wasn’t “HELL NO.” but more, “is this really necessary?” It’s certainly not the worst-designed new alternate form out there, and I didn’t hate it right away.
The one thing I hope it’ll reveal – but I very much doubt it – is the return of the Berserk Gene item. At least if they go that route, it would be more plausible for myself; but we’ll just have to wait and see.
Yeah I agree with is it necessary alright. A lot of people didn’t like the design but like yourself, as I said it could have been a lot worse. Hopefully there will be a plausible reason for it in game. But I’m good either way 🙂
See, we CAN have an intelligent conversation without necessarily agreeing. Let’s keep it that way! 🙂
Just goes to show even opposites can attract 😉
Since Genesect is here, I guess that means backwards compatibility is confirmed, huh?
I hope we get Zekrom and Reshiram in Generation 6
You can by transferring them from older games… Same way you get all main legends from older games
There is not confirmation that you can trade over BW Pokémon. However, as both BW and XY use the same wireless protocol, I don’t see why they wouldn’t do it.
We saw Genesect during the battle with the new Mewtwo thing, so… wonder how that got in there..
Thanks for the info 😀
I honestly like the optimism here. Most other people are frustrated that they “messed with their precious Gen I Pokemon.” Semi-unique idea of giving older Pokemon new forms (if even so), especially ones that are strongly tied to genetics.
Haha I was the very first person to comment on serebii’s post on facebook about it and it was negative haha, now im positive about it 😛 lol oops
I know right, Pokemon is more fun when you don’t have older players complain on newer things and let younger players enjoy the game.
Its coz of older players that there’s games today instead of game freak stopping after gold and silver, so I think u should show a bit more respect
If majority of the other older players had their way, no game would have existed past Generation 2. Hell according to a lot of older players, Gen 2 doesn’t exist. gen 1 is the only real Pokemon game. It isn’t just about older players that made the games big. Gamefreak took a gamble and kept going with the thought of attracting new players. That’s what kept the games going.
That may be just some grownups who didn’t play after gen 2. I’m only 14 and my first game was red so if loads of people had a gen 1 game as their first its only natural for it to be your favourite
No, that’s called not being able to see past your nostalgia. First generation was not that amazing, people just overcredit it. I can confidently say I welcome new Pokemon games the same way as I did my first. I’ve been playing since it came out.
Nobody didn’t say not to welcome new games, some people just don’t like them as much as the first. You can’t just expect people to love every gen more than the last
“If majority of the other older players had their way, no game would have existed past Generation 2”
If by “majority” you meant “small and annoying vocal minority who by no means represent older players as a generational whole”, then yes, carry on. Otherwise, no. No sir. All the no.
If you refer to Older as in age rather than when they started playing, they you’d be right. Gen wunners aren’t a minority. There are a lot of them and they believe every game is crap other than Generation 1. A lot of them are against new games in general. They also bitch and complain about spin offs. Gen wunners aren’t a small group. Neither are the Hoenn advocates who like Gen wunners think nothing past Hoenn exists as Pokemon Canon or anything other than Hoenn is the best game ever.
They may be small where you spend your time, but they outnumber the groups I hang with.
I know this is your personal opinion but I strongly disagree with this, I wrote a comment a while ago on this but honestly, the “majority” of older fans think nothing of the sort. Perhaps you see this from one certain Pokémon community but if you have a search around the internet, I promise you’ll see that most older fans are not blind aggressive ” fans ” attacking anyone who disagrees with their opinions. You will see in different sites and communities that some older fans like myself and many other from this site even , welcome the new Pokémon and games with open arms 🙂
This is the most accepting site I’ve ever seen. I go through a lot of sites and I change frequently based on how well they present news and general air about the site. Practically every older fan that I’ve met have been Genwunners or Gen three babies. Both stay with their extreme. I’ve only met a handful of people that like Gen 4 and Gen 5.
While mine may be opinionated, the same is for the disagreeing posts. Those are simply your opinions. I’ve lost count at how many times I’ve run into Gen wunners, Both passive gen wunners who don’t argue but completely drown out everything you say and the aggressive ones who insult and troll you. I’ve definitely met more Gen wunners than I’ve met people on here and Pokecommunity. This is both on the net and IRL. definitely
That saddens me because you’ve just had rotten luck seeing that much hatred usually that wouldn’t have been seen. Im sure someday you’ll find another site like this one that are not crazed pissed off fanboys haha 😛
Oh god you should have seen the rant flying when it was confirmed as an alternate form. I have chat logs of two others bitching at each other.
Hahah Im not gona lie id love to see that lol. Some people can be soooo foolish 😛
So the Japanese site also updated but the wording is also kinda ambiguous there.
Changing the subject here, but what moves were Mew….thing using in the video?
It looks like mostly stuff Mewtwo already gets (including Psystrike), but what was that last move? Was it Focus Blast or some new Fire move or what?
Edit: Realized everything but Psycho Cut was a special move.
One thing that makes me believe this is a new separate pokémon is that it has question mark under its picture on the official pokémon site, hinting that it has a new name. If it were a form, it would be labeled as Mewtwo, I suppose. Everything seems to point that it is, in fact, a new pokémon and I would like that, but at this point in time, I don’t want to get too clingy to an idea, or else I might be disappointed in the future…
In other PokéNews: Sylveon (Ninfia) has had its ??? type color change to pink on the official Japanese Pokémon site.
I’m pretty sure there isn’t a type that’s affiliated with the color pink. Could this signify a new type?
https://www.facebook.com/Bulbagarden/posts/10151559844124668
It signifies Sylveon’s amazingly blushing pink skin, which often leads up her being hunted illegally by shooters; because her skin is the most expensive piece of animal product after Sawsbuck musk.
o.o;
Damn, Pokéhunters. Damn you!
That really is kind of a disturbing image…
Reality hurts.
I guess you don’t know about the massacre of Clamperl.
Good thing there isn’t a turkey Pokémon, yet.
It would be delicious.
You got a good point there. Espeon’s Psychic-type is highlighted in violet-pink. But it might be merely a concealment of its true type by Nintendo, as putting erm, lavender may easily lead us to believe it’s a Flying-type
No, the info has been pink. I’ve been stalking both Pokemon.com and the Japanese site. The Japanese one hasn’t changed. Sylveon has always had the Pink Highlight to it and its type. The English site wasn’t updated in any way. If one were updated they both would have been.
This.
Can I just say that I suspected this for a really long time.
Does anybody remember back to the first film when Mewtwo was created? After it ran amok and destroyed the lab on cinnebar island, the researchers went about cloning again to see if they could achieve a better result. Maybe this is the result that we never got to see?
I don’t know, usually what happens in the Anime and movies are not the same as the games… But this is very viable… DARN IT POKEMON STOP MAKING ME EXCITED…
So we can say that X&Y are happenning later than the former games.
Not really. I mean in the first episode of Pokemon, Ho-Oh was already around. It backs up what I’m saying about the new cloning of Mewtwo, every pokemon existed we just didn’t know it yet.
So basically they just keep trolling us LOL! Maybe this is what Mewtwo originally was until the scientists changed it into what we were introduced to in the first Pokemon Gen. So after all this time Mewtwo has been in the world it manages to “heal” itself from the genetic engineering done to it?
So, it’s somewhat well known that the Pokemon games draw inpiration from and take after the Earthbound/Mother series – I think the staff even overlaps a bit.
One of the inspirations for Mewtwo was Giygas as it appeared in the original Mother (“Earthbound Zero”). And I saw a comment that this new Mewtwo might be closer to Giygas… what do you guys think?
bit.ly/10IWyqE
(I really love Earthbound, so I couldn’t pass this up)
I don’t want it to be a form, plain and simple. I don’t necessarily hate it, or love it. If I had a name for it, it would be either Mewthree (obviously) or Mew X, which i prefer Mew X.
I was leaning more towards it being Mew-Z or Mew Z as sort of a play on Three and the fact that it seems much more rounded than Mewtwo, who was introduced in 2-d games, where as this one is in a 3-d game where z is the 3rd axis to the xyz 3-d coordinate plane. But then again, I’m probably looking too much into it.
Not bad. Kinda like Porygon-Z.
Maybe this new Mewtwo is a result of scientists messing with Mewtwo’s DNA. Or something along that line. That’s why this pokemon appears more feminine (X), and maybe they created another one too, more masculine (Y). Could be possible since X and Y coordinate with DNA.
Hey! This comments section isn’t filled with negativity and bile! That’s refreshing.
i think that mewtwo created this new pokemon in his image and it turned on him
MewOne. That should be its name. Mewone.
Oh God… what if they gave Mewtwo a Phione? ;_;
A much more extreme, powerful, equally stoic-looking Phione with bulbous fingers and toes.
…Who also kinda looks like an alien combined with a shinto god (the thing on it’s head looks like a shinto-like halo).
The games do have DNA symbol on its Japan cover so I think it failed new attempt
Maybe this was another attempt at cloning Mew from another person who was trying to follow in Team Rockets footsetps yet wanted to win this time. All I know is that Genetics has a HUGE role since X and Y are sex chromosomes that can hold genetic information and mew is the pokemon of genes. I am not postive, but I am curious on how this will play out… Maybe the new movie will help clear ideas… Maybe genesect will get a new form too since it was created the same way.
If this is a form of Mewtwo, then it’s probably an Origin Form/Perfect Form.
If this is a new Pokemon but somehow connected to Mewtwo/Mew then I believe this may be one of the many clones of Mews. Here’s my fictional story:
Back when scientist where trying to clone Mew, many clones were created until a perfect one came to being. The unsuccessful clones where probably destroyed during the fire at Pokemon Mansion. Notes on how Mew was cloned where recovered and it wasn’t until now that scientist managed to clone Mew again.
Or genetic makeup of Mew was survived the fire (or maybe Mew was captured again) and some evil organization managed to recover it and….
Or a clone of Mew still in it’s fetus stage (and somehow cloned to a different process as Mewtwo) managed to survive the fire and was recovered from Pokemon Mansion. The people who recovered the clone raised it and once grown, trained it and….