Before we begin we must clarify that whatever is said is NOT to be considered fact.
During the days of Generation V reveals a contact leaked information on numerous Pokémon that later proved to be real. This same source—who apparently has ‘connections’—has said that later today they will reveal the type information for Xerneas, Yveltal and Sylveon as well as a new type. Like we said anything said is not to be considered fact until it is proven 100% real, but there’s a slim possibility we’re in for something.
Update: A little bit of clean up here. In the above paragraph I typed “…has said that later today they will reveal…“, several users mistakingly read this incorrectly thinking that we meant that official sources were going to reveal something that day. When using they we meant the individual who provided this information would be releasing it that day. Nothing about this is official, the user mentioned nothing of an official source revealing anything, let alone in a specific time frame. Seems a couple of other places online may have also received the line correctly. Apologies for the confusion, but declaring it fake (which it may well be) for an incorrect reception of that line isn’t necessary now.
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The individual has posted saying that the new type is indeed Fairy Type as many fans have previously speculated.
• Xerneas is said to be Fairy Type.
• Sylveon is also said to have the new Fairy typing.
• Yveltal gets Dark/Flying typing.
Update: Clefairy is said to have it’s type altered. No word on Snubbull yet though. Both of these Pokémon are classified as the ‘Fairy Pokémon’.
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Staff members have all got their own opinion on this, you can read them below. We also want to hear what you think, so please let us know and get discussing in the comments!
Ozymandis: If you asked me whether or not I wanted a Fairy-type, or any new type for that matter, earlier this year, I would’ve strongly said no. But overtime the idea has grown on me, so if this turns out to be true I’m all for it; I’m just not too fond of the name. I’d be pretty disappointed if Xerneas doesn’t turn out to be a dual type though.
Kriffix: Yveltal makes perfect sense to me. Also, each Eeveelution’s type could be figured out just by glancing at it. Sylveon on the other hand was a little different. No existing type seemed to match 100%. Hence, the introduction of a new type feels like its upon us. I didn’t think I’d be saying this a couple of months ago, but at this point it feels right.
NL: Sounds right, Fairy and Dark sound like they would be super effective towards each other.
Justin: The way they have the types now is pretty balanced (unlike the first gen where psychics pretty much decimated everything). Adding additional types could smudge things up. I think GF would be a bit more creative if they were to add a second type.
Plus, I fear that it would bring a whole new slew of crappy gimmicks to the game. Every generation seems to have something ridiculous; berry mixing, pal park, dream world. . .they’re all so frustrating and pointless.
Dan: I personally don’t feel we will see anything come today, but in coming weeks nearer to the release. My own views are though that Yveltal and Xerneas will be dual types, one of the types being a new one – which I think will be the same type as what Sylveon will be. So one new type, which the 3 Pokémon will share, with Sylveon being pure to that typing.
Sammydodger: I would love to see a new type, as it would shake up the strategic options for the competitive and add some interesting designs/moves/story for everyone else. I don’t like the name ‘fairy’ because it sounds childish, however it would make sense for the target audience.
moving: Personally, I’m quite liking the idea; although I’m not huge on the name. Xerneas seems to fit the Fairy type nicely and I’m sort of excited to see what they do with the current type chart to fit it in. I think everyone already called Dark/Flying for Yveltal, so that’s good too. That is, of course, if this is all real.
So do we actually have a link to wherever this guy is saying this?
It’s all been done through Twitter. We also can’t provide links as his tweets are protected. Take that as you please. 😉
Screen shot?
I can do, but there’s not much point. It was done through a Tweet, in which he linked to a Facebook profile with a shoddily put together image. Then later stated something along the lines of they payed to have the information revealed through them.
I’ll maybe get up another situational post later today, running through some stuff and put it in there. We’re not trying to fool you or anything, so no need to worry there.
@ Sean if you’re terribly curious, get a Twitter account and follow him. It takes like 2 minutes. He’ll answer your questions if you tweet him too. Whether he’s lying or not aside, he’s a pretty polite guy 😀
Astral, Cosmic or something to do with outer space would be the only other element that would make sense becoming a pokemon type. Light easily fits into Fire, Grass, Normal, Psychic, Metal. Magic/ Fairy just doesn’t make sense, when has the pokemon universe ever associated any of their mons to magic that could not be justified by its said type or description. It would make sense if Clefairy Deoxys, Jirachi, Beheeyem were Astral type. That being said I personally don’t want a new type, but if we MUST have one let it make sense to the real world, not something thrown out there just because. Like fairies and magic.
i thought that too, but look at dragon or ghost. It’s basically the same thing.
Fighting.
I think it could be a new type, but not fairy, i think it could be LIGHT. Sylveon’s attack in the teaser looks like a star and light. If Yveltal will be a Dark type, it’s logical that the opposite pokémon Xerneas should be a light type!
I can find no other reason why they make such a turmoil about Sylveons type, there must be something special!
if there is a new fairy type, what do you think it will be weak to? maybe fighting like normal, but i can’t see anything else, other than maybe dark
PLEASE BE WEAK TO POISON!!!
Hahaha yes their fragile pixie bodies can’t handle such horrid toxin 😀
They have fairies that are experts in creating and distributing poisons….some Fae are even poisonous themselves and eat rotten fruit and plants rather than healthy ones.
So it would depend on what kinda fairy they use. Ugly original or Tinkerbell.
;__; Everything I knew is ruined
(Nah thanks for the headsup lol. I imagine the former kind of fairy is near-completely obscure though, so if they want to throw in any of that it’ll be fairy/poison. :L Whoo, speculation.)
Since we were on the topic of weaknesses…they’d be weak to Steel~
Much of the folklore about fairies revolves around protection from their malice, by such means as cold iron (iron is like poison to fairies, and they will not go near it) or charms of rowan and herbs, or avoiding offense by shunning locations known to be theirs. In particular, folklore describes how to prevent the fairies from stealing babies and substituting changelings, and abducting older people as well. Many folktales are told of fairies, and they appear as characters in stories from medieval tales of chivalry, to Victorian fairy tales, and up to the present day in modern literature.
Bloody hell I thought with the design of yveltall pokemon were gonna appeal to older players and then they introduce a FAIRY type?!
I think this will end up being fake. If any new type is announced, it will be the Cosmic type.
First of all, thank goodness for new rumors!! it’s what personally keeps me interested and gets me through months of no official info 😛
Second of all, I really like the idea of a new type being introduced. Hopefully this will help poison get a boost and electric get more weaknesses. Also, maybe ghost/dark will be 4x weak to fairy? I think the thing about pokemon is that it’s innovative and keeps people interested. Many pokemon fans whine about change but very soon accept it and many come to like it. (although fire/fighting starters are not innovative anymore and should not be made anymore! :p) A new type will definitely make things a lot more interesting though 😀
Lastly, if this new type is fairy, then I wonder if mewtwo’s new forme will share that fairy type. Also, something that I’ve been meaning to ask is if mewtwo got a new forme where does that leave mew? If mewtwo, being a clone of mew, has the potential to change forme, wouldn’t that mean that mew, being the original one, must have the same potential to change?
Well, Mewtwo’s new forme is said to be it ‘awakening’, right? And it’s a bit more mew-like than mewtwo itself. So, the change is basically getting it closer to it’s natural state, while Mew could be considered to be in that state already. Also, mewtwo is not a proper clone, it’s genetically different. So the potential to change could have been introduced into it due to it’s spliced genes.
Only adding: Game wise Mewtwo isn’t really a clone. Mew gave birth to it and then the Doctor experimented on it and altered its genetics to make it better.
The way you say ‘the Doctor’ makes it seem like a Pokemon/Doctor Who crossover xP
That’s how they refered to it in the games. They don’t give a full name but a lot think Dr. Fuji due to the anime adaptation. Someone said that you can find a sign in Gen 3 that is signed by Dr. Fuji when he was searching for mew.
Doesn’t Fuji himself say he worked on some projekt with Blaine. And then the books in the burned mansion say Blaine og Fuji created Mewtwo?
Blaine was never mentioned outside of the Manga from what I remember. Fuji was rumored because of the sign on Faraway Island in Gen 3. Neither as far as I remember are the ones to actually work on Mewtwo in the games only hints were left for us to use our imaginations to fill in the gaps.
I’d have to look up the Cinnibar lab again to be sure.
I saw someone saying all this previously but it was the Fairy-tale type. I actually really like this because we never had a proper “opposite” to the dark type. In japan it is the evil type so the opposit wouldnt be a litterate “light” type like most people initially thought but a “good” type. I would really like this to happe soon!! as for retypes i would like milotic, togekiss, chansey-line, and audino, to get this as their secondary types.
Psychic and Dark are opposites.
Psychic is completely weak to dark. Hardly qualifies as an opposite. Can’t really have an opposite in a world where one thing is stronger than another. All you can do is create triangles. Maybe they can do it that way. Psychic SE damages Fairy and is immune to Fairy. Fairy SE hits Dark and is immune to dark, Dark SE hits Psychic and is immune to Psychic.
It would make a SE/Immune triangle which would be new.
Well dark is evil in japan and psychic is esper. Essentially they are opposites. Or at least that is what I learned over the years. I might be wrong because the info I was fed is wrong.
Its just in a world where they don’t flat out resist one another or do SE damage to another they can’t be opposites since one is obviously stronger.
Like in traditional RPGs Lighting and Water are opposing elements since both deal massive damage to the rival element. Same with Fire and Ice. (Since these are the four most common) Fire does double damage to Ice elemented creatures while Ice does double damage to Fire Elemented creatures.
Pokemon’s style of balance, unless they just SE one another or NFE one another they aren’t that good as opposites.
I think the only types that are opposites are Normal and Ghost since both are immune to one another. I’d have to go through the list to see all the Types that NFE both ways between two types. I’m sure there are some and we all just obliviously missed them.
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Did my research based on resistance and only Bug/Fighting came up. They resist one another so neither does heavy damage to the other. Kinda cool.
HELL NO
If it comes to pass, I’m sure they”ll change the new type’s name to something that doesn’t sound like something made for little girls and little fay boys (like moi lol). I like Nymph type. I much would’ve preferred something like a Crystal or Gem type that encompassed the real world scientific attributes of crystals and the “mystical” side of crystals as well in terms of offense and defense from other types and attacks. Sort of like categorizing it as having both the physical and special attributes in Pokemon types from old gens.
I was really hoping for Sylveon being a Flying type. Hopefully maybe it’s not the only Eevolution in this gen though.
Fairy Fail
Fairy type and Yveltal being Dark/Flying is just stupid fan-service.
FAKE LIKE OTHER RUMORS CLEARLY
You got proof?
Hiro always posted real info, you probably weren’t around back when Gen V rumors were being passed
Hiro also said Sylveon was Flying-type…TWICE
I’m alright with Fairy type. I’m just wondering why they gave one legendary a new type but the other legendary is just Dark/Flying. One of the reasons why I don’t think this is legit.
I really don’t think they’re going to retype every single normal type pokemon like some are suggesting. Clefairy, yes. But Audino? Chansey? These are healer pokemon – and belong moreso to a Normal category than Fairy. I imagine Fairy is going to be kind of awesome and not tinkerbell crap – I mean if Xerneas can be Fairy type then…
okay but is “fairy” just a place holder name or are you pretty sure that that’s what the type is going to be called? (i’m okay with sylveon being one but i’m kinda iffy about Xerneas being clasified as “fairy”)
Well I’m hoping this is true; sure the type ‘fairy’ does sound childish, but then again it would be the only type to make sense for Sylveon (and the pokémon to be re-typed). Can’t wait to hear more.
I’m all for a new type, but the idea of ‘Fairy’ just irks me. It feels like it would be weird to classify, and just cross over with normal too much. And Xerneas just doesn’t scream ‘fairy’ to me.
Also, I’ve always thought the version mascots should be connected regarding the secondary typing, i.e. either it’s the same or there isn’t any. Definitely if they’re the first two of the trio. Of all the legendary trios, the only exceptions have been rayquaza, which had a secondary type while kyogre and groudon didn’t, and tornadus, who shares it’s pure type with the other’s secondary type, hence still effectively carrying out the relation. So for yveltal to be dual-typed is weird.
I would of personally liked it the Fairy type was renamed Magic type. It would of sounded much cooler.
It’s worth saying that this is likely a tentative translation… well, less likely now that updates are international? But I think it’ll go through name change before release.. hopefully 😛
Astral/celestial as is commonly suggested is… actually, the more I think about it, the more it fits. It’s just my instinct is to consider it.. spacey, not magic-y. Magic is not quite there, in my opinion. Ethereal? Ether? I said ‘pixie’ in another comment but ‘das lame. Nymph? Okay now I’m just throwing around words at random.
On another note, I think this makes an awful lot of sense considering the secrecy behind the typings so far. I wouldn’t be happy about it, but all the evidence lines up. /using your post to dump all my thoughts. :L
Funnily enough…all of those possible names actually interact with each other based on the history and lore of Fairy. Cosmic, Astral, Magic, Ethereal…these are all ways to describe Fairies at some point in time. XD
Its already April 22 here in Asia~
Should put somewhere that this conflicts with the claim from the kid that leaked the mewtwo. According to the kid that leaked the Mewtwo form, Sylveon is flying typed.
So if they don’t reveal it in the next few hours … it is fake ?
Why would the next few hours matter? I heard someone else say the same thing earlier on another site, but why is time relevant to this rumor?
“has said that later TODAY they will reveal the type information for Xerneas, Yveltal and Sylveon as well as a new type. “
I noticed that sometime after I asked how time was relevant. Though it seems his time limit has passed has it not?
Pretty Much … I am calling BS , I think we will believe him just cause what he did before or Pokemon checked Pokejungle and are delaying the revelment
I’ve cleared this up in a previous reply to a comment. It was probably a bit of bad wording on my behalf. When I said about them revealing the typing today, I meant the individual. Not an official source. Nothing about official sources revealing anything today, yesterday or the day before was mentioned, by us or the individual.
So has the individual ‘revealed’ anything else yet, or not? Seeing as it’s been 3 days now.
from what i read on twitter he will reveal the starters final typing this weekend some time.
Lemme guess. He’s gonna say the Fennekin line is Psychic just to make everybody happy?
So where are the Starters Final Typing? HMMM?!
Hey, just what a kid’s game that already has 17 types needs! Even more of them to unbalance the chart! =/
I Disagree for this rumour because the word “Fairy” seems to be fitted in a Normal Type.If they based it in the Pokemon Description of Clefairy,Snubull,or any Pokemon that is Fairy Pokemon then that is totally FAIL.Because if that’s how they base then what about Gengar or (if there’s)other Pokemon that has the description “Shadow pokemon”?;were the Pokemon Company should make this Non-sense Type?This is also a rumour but I think Sylveon will be a Normal and Xerneas will be a Psychic.If your Expecting for a new type or there will be then the Fairy type doesn’t count…For Me!!!
REMEMBER: DO NOT CONSIDER THIS AS FACT, BUT A RUMOUR