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.
I am now sure that sylveon is light type (in america) or fairy type(in japan). fairies , as we all know, give off LIGHT and SMALL(therefore lighter, explains that sylveon is the lightest eeveelution) and wings( their main characteristic). plus, the main color of fairies are pink, and have feminine characteristics. plus, in this picture Junichi Masuda tweeted, sylveon has sparkles, which further indicates its typing.
I’ve never seen a pink Fairy…unless you are talking about in Pokemon 25/38 are not pink so still not true.
Sylveon doesn’t have wings….and Sylveon is 2 pounds lighter than Jolteon so it being the lightest doesn’t mean squat since they all have about 2 pound differences. Fairies can also be male and the original version of fairies are more fitting for demons and vampires I think Disney was the first to cuteify Fairies. The original stories all say they kid nap children and torture/eat them.
yeah, fairies dont always fly and ave magic wands, some of them are bad
I don’t think there will be a new type.
Released a few days ago the picture of Eevee, the background of Sylveon has the similar Jet Badge pattern, it is likely that it is flying type.
No…it was close to the Insect Badge pattern. It looked nothing like the Jet badge.
Others have also said it was Sylveon’s ear.
The antagonist is Denzel Crocker from Fairy OddParents.
WIN!
FAIRIES!!!
He has fairy Pokemon lol
OMG FAIRYS REALLY DUDE ITS AWESOME
Why fairy? It seems just stupid. Like the name sounds weak. You may as well name it Light or Magic and have it sound serious.
I think that a new type will throw the felling of pokemon being pokemon it’s like there is something wrong … I hope that Sylveon will be a flying type and Xerneas to be a dual type … there is things that we still don’t know about like a plate called Curse plate or ??? type and a stone called God Stone,etc.
Why on earth would it be flying? Do you see anything flying related about sylveon?
The Samurott picture was not meant to appear.
so they said this would be revealed today…how long are we giving this?
Is Fairy a placeholder name? If so, I think Mythic would make for a better type name and wouldn’t limit the typing to small little generic pixie-like creatures.
Wait was the leaker saying they as in gamefreak/nintendo was going to reveal it later today or was he talking about himself
as i read, the leaker said he doesn’t know when it will be officially revealed.
as for myself, even though i think yet that there is no need for a new type and it would be difficult to introduce it, if this is true (that it seems to, because the leaker worked for a spanish magazine), then i suppose i’ll have to accept it (as the time flows i will like it, sure) and i really hope that GF makes a good use of this type
Not really difficult to introduce. They’ve said in the anime and (I think) the games that the typings are just classifications that are used and invented by scientist and trainers. Who’s to say the scientist that do so can’t discover a new trait that is shared by many old and new pokemon that prompts a new classification for some pokemon?
that’s not why i said it would be difficult. what i meant is that it would be difficult as:
1- they would have to change the types of some previous pokemon in order to make fairy type a type with a decent amount of pokemon
2- they would have to make sure the relationships between fairy type and other types are good, or at least, quite logical: the weaknesses/advantages of fairy type
3- they would have to create lots of fairy type moves, or change the type of some previous moves
it would mean a lot of work and there could be mistakes in the process
For real. I can’t imagine Fairy-type attacks.
The Steel and Dark type had fairly few pokemon in their introduction of 2nd gen. While that wasn’t ideal, it does show that introducing a new type doesn’t mean that the generation has to be flooded with pokemon of that type.
I wonder if this fairy type is real, if they’d change it to light type in English..? I was wondering this when thinking about the whole evil=dark type. Oh well, I’m taking this with a grain of salt until any sort of confirmation, but if it’s real, then cool.
I don’t know why I have a balanced opinion about it. I think it would be cool to add a type but naming it as “Fairy” type doesn’t fit well. There are many dragons thus for “Dragon” type but Fairy type is kinda bit small. I mean it would be a rare type since Pokemon is “beginning to end”(maybe?) . I think I would like a “Light” type however or a “Mythical” or “Legend” that are based on legend (say a leprechaun pokemon– Grass/Legend). Xerneas being Fairy type is wahifaoojfe to me since it doesn’t look like that as Sylveon looks like as a Fairy type pokemon. Maybe some pokemon from the Normal type would share some characteristics to this (maybe Normal + Psychic) thus I think there would be a discrimination for what’s left for a Normal type.
Just want to remind you all about the fact that gen 5 was supposed to be a whole new region, like a whole new start.. they didn’t gaave any pokemons links with old ones, meaning to be all like gen 1. Which makes pretty much sence for me why they would introduce a new type now, since gen 2 had Dark and Steel introduced, even Magnamite and Magneton retyped. Keeping this in mind, a NEW type would make sence to me, due what i explained just earlier.
I personaly hope for another name than Fairy though.. it sounds.. weird for a pokemon type.. yes it does fit with the mythical types.. but it just doesn’t seem right as a type.. than make fairy the japaneese name.. and light or something else the English name.
People say that a new type isn’t needed, um yes it is – it took Nintendo generations long to realize Poison needs more usage. Yessss I’m so happy. Poison finally will get a new super effective lol.
First I was really skeptical about being introduced a new type in this gen, but after all the mistery about sylveon and legendaries’ types I think it could be very probable.
But now, come on guys, fairies exist in so many forms, sizes and types, not just the tiny sparkling pixies like Tinkerbell. Fairy is a generic name for a lot of magical creatures including pixies, leprechauns, gnomes, nymphs, dryads, sirens, selkies, elves…
I would love to see a feydragon (dragon/fairy)!
Just sounds as fake as the other rumors we’ve had. The only reason they said Clefairy is “Fairy type” is because Fairy is in its English name. We had a fake Corocoro scan in the past that said Yveltal was Dark/Flying. This whole thing just sounds like fan service. There’s some other sources saying Togetic will be Fairy type. They’ve never dropped a Pokemon’s type before for a new one, and it can’t be Normal/Flying/Fairy. I mean, if its real, that’s…fine, I guess. This just sounds too fake is all.
(Btw, if this is real, and Clefairy becomes “Fairy” type, what is the Pocket Monsters manga do about that? Is Red’s Clefairy just gonna become a Fairy type?)
Normal would probably turn into fairy type
On Togetic
Well, today is almost over and still no news about the Fairy type. If we don’t get the news within a week, I say that this guy is lying because according to him we are supposed to be getting it “today”.
emm… i just looked again at his tweets and he has never said that it was going to be officially revealed “today”. he only advertised when HE was going to reveal this info. i looked at his answers and he doesn’t know when Nintendo and GF will make the announcement. of course, he also pointed that everyone is free to believe him or not.
I like the idea of the new type so long as it screws everyone up to where they have to recreate their teams, but please, for the love of God, let it be called the Light-type instead of the Fairy-type.
I’m pretty sure this is fake considering it’s been out and unconfirmed for almost 24 hours.
he clearly said that was when he would release the info, he wasn’t refering to Nintendo/gamefreak
Pokejungle is the only visually posting this. His Twitter is locked for sharing so those outside have no proof to this claim. If he says they’ll reveal it, then he’s obviously talking about official sources. If he were revealing it wouldn’t sources have said differently? I think MNN even took it that way, though his “Later today” passed 12+ hours ago.
Can you get a screenshot of his twitter announcement so everyone can see it?
look, i’m spanish, and by that i understand spanish (logical, right). i just read every tweet and answer Hirobyte has given since the reveal. when he said “they” (if he said that, because i don’t remember now) he wasn’t talking about Nintendo/GF, but a facebook group who was the first one to announce it (as an exclusive he gave to that group), and every person that asks him when it will be officially revealed, he answers the same: he doesn’t know.
do you want an screenshot? ok, here you have him answering someone:
Translation:
Sylveon: Fairy Type
Xerneas: Fairy Type
Yveltal: Dark/Shadow
-If it’s true, when will it be official?
-I don’t know, i don’t control when they decide to release information.
So he’s now saying Yveltal is Dark/Shadow rather than Dark/Flying like was originally posted?
Did he reveal any proof to back up his claim?
no, no, sorry, that’s a translation mistake from myself. i didn’t notice, T-T. i meant Dark/Flying
This site is still kinda slow, but much better than before 😡 But yeah, first of all I think you should edit it to make it more clear that he meant thats when HE was going to release the info, not Nintendo/GF, that confused me and others. Also on the possible ‘Fairy’ typing, the word faerie originated in France, the game is based in France, it’s a small connection maybe. I want a Fairy type, it’s exactly up my street. People will find it weird at first but get used to it as has been the case many many times in the past with Pokemon.
Today as in Pokemon will officially reveal it or the leaker?
The “today” was posted like 36 hours ago. Give or take a few hours.
Well, today is over in Japan and Europe. And almost over in America. Still no Fairy type announced! What a surprise. People that are credible can turn into incredible in the blink of an eye. It’s that bad.
First of all, it’s uncredible.
Second of all, whey it says “later today they will reveal the type information”, they mean that the person who leaked the fairy type was going to release it.
No…when the person that leaked it says “They will reveal”, the they that person is referring to is the company.
When I joined the convo, 12 hours had passed already. The leaker is from a spanish site which is a timezone ahead of me so when my day ended which is did 25 hours ago, their “later that day” passed with no news update. Given benefit of the doubt most waited until the 22’nd ended which is did for me an hour ago, though in America there is still 1 or 2 hours left. Though news doesn’t usually update this late at night for us or this late in the day in Japan as its about 4:30 PM, so they have 7 and a half hours left for the 23rd but its too late in japan/early internationally for them to release anything for the fans.
Depending on how you want to look at it the info is a few hours late or a day late.
What makes you know that for certain? Did he say that Nintendo would reveal it?
Who else would reveal it, Sony?
No shit, jackass. What do you think? I was asking when and where he said that Nintendo would reveal it.
And yes, I guess I ended up being right over how it was interpreted. Just goes to show that critical thinking/common sense is a good thing to have.
Critical thinking and common sense all point towards the original post saying there’d be an official post.
Critical thinking and common sense also say that the tweeter is making things up just to get attention since this is the easiest way to go about getting both.
I work with Nintendo employees since they have to come into my store every month to do check ups on the displays. One time an employee told me Sylveon was Dragon typed. She danced around the subject for so long it was hard to get anything close to a solid answer from her, but she dropped a hint that Sylveon was Dragon.
Its not that hard to find a source when you work in a field that revolves around games. My friends at Gamestop met up with Nintendo representatives during their monthly meetings. Pokemon X and Y were on display once and they had talked about various things. They heard the same Dragon rumor I did.
I have a credible source, and so do they. It contradicts things that have been said recently. Thing is. I still don’t believe any of it. I don’t believe what I was personally told. I don’t believe what my friends were told. At the moment I don’t believe the guy that leaked Mewtwo’s form when he said Sylveon is flying type, and I don’t believe this guy saying Sylveon is Fairy typed.
Why? No proof. Common sense dictates that its all false.
My comment about common sense and critical thinking was about how this article was worded, not whether or not Sylveon was Fairy type. Moving said that it was supposed to mean that the pokeexperto guy (or someone who was claiming to be him) would reveal the types later in the day (which he did), not any official source. The fact that no one has updated this article even though days have passed and that moving has repeatedly clarified the meaning of his wording is proof.
Does that mean Hirobyte is telling the truth or that he is who he says he is? Not necessarily, but a rumor isn’t fake unless it’s obvious or it is contradicted in some way (someone admitting that its fake or passing of a date that more info was told to be released, for example).
I don’t believe any of these rumors are real (as much as I want to believe that some of them are), but that doesn’t mean that I’m going to automatically call them fake over a misinterpreted blog post.
Are you getting confused by what I’ve typed in the post? When I said “…has said that later today they will reveal…” I meant that the user will reveal the type. Not Nintendo or any other source. If you’re not getting confused by that I’m not sure where you’re getting that another official source would reveal it from.
This has all been revealed by unofficial sources, supposedly through official sources. I’ll edit the post to clear that up.
OK guys, seems a few of you got a little confused by use of wording in the post. I’ve updated it with clarification of what I meant. Or, if you’re lazy, you can just read it here. 😉
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.
Seeing as its been almost 2 days since he tweeted this. His “Later today” is false correct? I mean he can’t live in a parallel world where Later today happens in 50 hours?
I’m confused by what you mean. His “later today” was referring to himself saying what the two types were. Revealing them himself. Mine meant later in the day on which this was posted, Hiro would ‘reveal’ the types.
Or do you mean something else?
The way its read, he was saying he’d reveal the stuff later in the day, but the types had been there since I first read the news report. Was he supposed to add more to it?
It’s just that I haven’t changed that part of the post. We don’t usually do that 😛
It’s to be read in chronological order. On the day, he said he’d reveal it later that day. Like this post did. He revealed it later that day. We added it to this post.
ANYWAY, he said Fairy type and hasn’t said anything about when official sources will reveal anything. That’s all there is to it.
Xerneas looks so awesome. It can’t be a bloody fairy type.
alright someone please explain how a fairy could be a type?
all types are relevant to elemental and supernatural forces hence psychic and ghost (maybe ghost unless you believe in the element of shadow)
Fairies are mythological sprites or spirits and any moves or designs based on “Fairy” would blatantly resemble magical psychic like qualities or spiritual ghost like abilities
I am IAN and i disagree with this rumor. thank you and good night
I’m guessing Fighting, Normal and Bug are supernatural forces? Fairies seem more supernatural than those three types.
I kind of want this rumor to be real. I’m not totally keen on the term Fairy type as it sounds a little awkward, but it’s growing on me. I partly want this to be real because I’m sick of all the rumors that end up fake. I want something that I can believe in. lol
No es fake