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Since Episode One of Journey to X & Y (which you can read here if you haven’t already!) we’ve had lots of new Pokémon X & Y information fed to us. Several new Pokémon, some new features, new moves and the main focus of this article: the Kalos region. In this episode we’re going to take a brief look into the Kalos region and let our readers have their say in what they want from this new location when the games release. But first, we need to take a look back at the input we got from episode one…
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At the start of the month I put out episode one of this series and I wanted to hear your ideas for the evolutions for the starter Pokémon of X & Y, and the possible evolutionary routes you believe they could take. So let’s begin!
I started (and continued saying until the very end) that I wanted the Water Type starter Froakie to evolve into something that was swift and strong. Previous Water starters have all turned into big bulky critters that look as though they’d be heavy hitters, but not particular quick. Something I want to change. This was also something commenter Dominic also agreed on, saying I just don’t want Froakie to be bulky! I don’t know how it wont be Seismitoad if it is on the larger side… something that hadn’t crossed my mind before I read what they had to say. They make a fair point!
Blue Jay considered the typing of Chespin by drawing from its real-world inspirations Chespins final evo could be grass/dark, which i personally want, and makes sense too. Chespin is based on a hedgehog and these animals are mostly nocturnal. Grass/Dark typing for Chespin is something a lot of our readers seem to support, will it fulfil their wishes? Only time will tell!
Other readers also looked into the real-world inspirations of Fennekin and made their views heard accordingly. With Freedom believing that Fennekin would be Fire/Ground, I like the idea of Fennikin turning into a nice looking desert fox, gaining a nice orange colour as it evolves. perhaps getting some dirt in its lovely golden coat. Other users also think Fennekin will take on a secondary typing of Dark or Psychic.
All of this will likely be revealed before release so reader speculation will finally be laid to rest. But until then, what’s better than more speculation? Not much!
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Kalos, the home region of the sixth generation Pokémon games Pokémon X & Y. We’re going to spending the next few years of our Pokémon adventure there so it’s important the region has lots to keep us occupied and busy. For reference there’s a map of the region embedded at the bottom of the post!
The region itself draws heavy inspiration from real-world France. Lumiose City is a representation of Paris, including an Eiffel Tower-like building in the centre. Off the coast of the region there’s a small island which supports a castle structure. Mont St. Michel? Yep! The stone ruins located near by the coastal island, almost definitely drawing from the Carnac Stones found in France. There are countless more comparisons to be made too, but they’re for you to identify. Kalos is also split into three key areas: Coastal, Central and Mountain. Whether that goes deeper than Pokédex classification is unknown, but that doesn’t stop people from discussing what it could mean for the region. Kalos looks to be a fairly large region, with a route system that’s not as linear as we’ve had in previous generations.
One of the most exciting things about a new region is the exploration players must do in order to progress on their adventure. Exploration leads to new things. Other than Lumiose City and locations shown in trailers we haven’t had any official confirmation of what areas are. So, we want to hear from our readers what they think areas are. That could be in relation to the story, what happens or can be found there, or even what the location functions as. For example is one of the many castle-like buildings in Kalos house to the regional Pokémon League? Could well be!
Secondly, we’d like to hear what you route you believe players will take on their journey over Kalos. Where will your adventure begin and where will you challenge the Champion? How about Gyms, where will they be on the map?
Finally, it’s a free for all! We just want to hear any opinions, expectations or fears you have on Kalos. Anything!
Just like last time we’d like you to comment with your input below and we’ll feature some of our favourites or the most interesting responses in the next episode! Feel free to suggest topics for the next episode too. See you all down below!
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here is where i believe the gyms will be along with my suggested route in blue
8th Gym looks more like the first town in the game, and just before it looks like route 3 in the video.
well it has yet to be confirmed if that is the first town or not. even if it was i don’t see why it could not be the 8th Gym they did it with Viridian City. and the fifth gym was the first you saw in hoenn. so i don’t see why it could not happen
The path leading up to your 8th Gym is Route 3.
like i said it has yet to be confirmed if that spot on the map is the first town or not so how can you know that the path leading up is route 3 . even
if it was i don’t see why it could not be the 8th Gym they did it with
Viridian City. and the fifth gym was the first you saw in hoenn. so i
don’t see why it could not happen
there are official screenshots that have been released, showing the route number, with that town to the left side.
It pretty much confirms it.
that is a lot of proof about route 3 and kudos to you for getting this all together but i still don’t see why it could not be the 8th Gym, they did it with Viridian City. and the fifth gym was the first you saw in hoenn. so i
don’t see why it could not happen here. and i do and don’t think it would be interesting, the only way i would find it interesting is if the prof. that you get your pkmn. from was your parent
Not saying it couldn’t be the 8th Gym, but that 7th Gym is most certainly the starting town.
I think that the town or city on the left side of route 3 is where the last gym is, because as you can see, there is a route on the right side of that city, leading to the rumored victory road and pokemon league, and what made me think that this city or town have a gym is because you can see the gym logo on one of the places the character is sitting on a bench, and that place is similar to the town on the left side of route 3 from the first trailer
Seems realistic apart from this distance from gym 1 and 2
not really in my opinion a lot of the 1 and 2 gyms are far apart in other regions
true. you saying that jst reminded me of the first 2 gyms in hoenn
yea but you never really had to walk that or surf it but there is a descent gap in other regions
8th gym is hometown
where hometown is on your map will be where daycare is
4th gym is 1st gym fairy type
6th gym is 2nd gym and will be steel type
5th gym is 3rd gym and will be flying type
Elite 4 is 4th gym and will be psychic
7th gym is 5th gym and will be a water type gym and the only way to get to it is by surfing
1st gym is 6th gym and will be electric gym
3rd gym is 7th gym and will be Fire type
the building in the left hand corner will be a dark gym underground and you will have to take thing long stairs looking as if your going into the pits of hell
remember appearances can be deceiving
gym 2 is the elite 4
thats what I think at least
The region is designed almost identically like France with a natural flavor of balancing Nature and Metropolis. The region is shaped like a star with each side representing each of the four seasons. West: summer, East: winter, North: Autumn, and South: spring.
The region looks decent and immense with Metropolis cities, small towns, forests (which basically cover the whole region), a desert area, mountains, and a chain of small islands.
The culture appears to be somewhat modern and somewhat revolutionized with castle and with an ancient structure erected in the most western part of the region. There appears to be about thirteen different cities and towns which are somewhat half decent sized with Lumiose city being the biggest and most central part of the region.
One of the most eye-catching towns and cities excluding the main city is the town near Lumiose city with a protective wall with green and white buildings (gym leader location)?, and the town with the erected pink structure by it’s left. What ever the secrets these places may be hiding, without a doubt, this region seems to be one of my personal favorites as it’s flavor and over-all theme just sticks out to me.
Your wording is off. As is your punctuation. But I do agee that this region is interesting in both concept and design.
What do you mean? But, thank you. 😀
Your use of the word “flavor” is off, and “metropolis” is a noun (as in “nature”); it’s harder to use nouns as comparisons when using them descriptively. For that first sentence, the correct use of those three words could be integrated into the first sentence as “The Kalos region draws inspiration from the real-world country of France, where rustic charms meet modernized beauty in an artistic flavor known only to be found in France.” Something like that xD
Thank you and as an aspiring author I will try to commemorate these in future writings and remember it. Thank you.
And use “metropolitan” instead of “metropolis” 😉
Oh, (LOL) I forgot about that. Sorry for the misunderstanding. I wrote this pretty fast so I didn’t get cut off on the poor grammar and wording. I will try harder next time, and thank you.
No need to ‘try harder next time’, just keep doing as great as you are now, and you’ll be good 🙂
thanks 😀
I think it’ll be sweet if we will live in a Mansion in this game, the southern most home, and begin the adventure by picking our trainer skins/outfits, and setting off to a fancy party downstairs with a bunch of people in it. And the main ceremony our Parents let us decide which starter to pick. Then we set off northward and meet the main Professor and ya-ta-ya-ta etc . It’ll make things feel really fresh, fancy, and well… European.
Rumours from 2ch….
– Chespin evolves into Grass/Dark, ninja like, pretty fast and uses pins as weapons, high Speed
– Fennekin evolves into Grass/Psychic, very floaty appearance, high Special Attack
– Froakie evolves into Water/Fighting, slim and judo/karate based, high Attack, also quite fast
– Regional rodent is a Capybara, gains water type on evolution
– Regional bird already seen in Fletchling, remains Normal/Flying
– Gyms are Bug, Fairy, Fighting, Poison, Psychic, Fire, Ice and Dark.
– Poison gets a lot of love this generation with Gym and a few cool new Pokemon. Gains new type combinations with Fire and Electric.
– Fairy indeed introduced, weak to Poison and Steel, strong against Dragon and Fighting
– Xerneas is Fairy/Steel
– Yveltal is Dark/Flying
– Third legend is Poison/Rock
– You can do gyms 4 to 7 in any order you like, game registers which you complete first and relevels others because of this, an example is the Poison gym having level 28 as best if challenged 4th and level 46 as best if challenged 7th. Some gym leaders have different rosters.
– Some Gym Leaders may be familiar. Ghost is related to fantina.
Fennekin becomes Grass/Psychic? WOW! Two grass type starters, finally grass type is getting some love.
Jk, know what you meant. Still just rumors and I’m more inclined to believe Chespin will be slow and defensive.
I really like these rumours. Especially the whole Dark gym. FAIRIES!!
I was going to mention Fennekin’s typing but it seems like I was beaten to it xD I really like these rumors. These are the kinds of rumors that are interesting to read because they sound so plausible.
These rumors seem very credible and I do hope that we get a dark-type gym! If fairy does turn out to be confirmed and weak against steel, I wonder what the basis for that would be? I can see fairy being weak to poison, but why would it be weak to steel? I really do hope that Fantina makes a cameo in this game 😀
In a lot of folklore fairies and similar creatures are weakened or repelled by iron, I imagine that’s probably the reasoning.
There are a few interesting locations on the map that peak my interest. First off, the pink boulders. One cluster near the center of the map and another near the lower half of the mountain. Did someone spill jelly there? No, I believe this will be a specific evolution location. Which Pokémon you ask? None other than Ditto! A perfect ditto one that can perfectly replicate full PP moves, but perhaps (maybe it will have unique imperfect sprites for every Pokémon?). Another location is the giant pink crystal formation in the upper half of the right side, another evolution inducing location? Something big will happen there and it will be beautiful, surely. One thing I haven’t seen anyone comment on is the bridge to nowhere on the right side of the map. Where does that go? Is this region connected to the Unova region in some way? We may find out in the second installation of this gen. Besides these things I’m not too concerned about Kalos’ other locations, I aspire to perform at the Colosseum-type place, there are much too many caves, all the neat little places where Legendary Pokémon might be hiding are quite interesting to speculate about. All in all, October can’t come fast enough.
oh yeah and thanks Moving. Although the typing was not my original idea, I can, however, take credit for the dusty fennekin evolution of my imagination.
I think those “boulders” are flower patches. But, we don’t know yet xD
The bridge just goes to the train station. The map Moving posted is cut off for some reason.
http://www.pokemonxy.com/_ui/img/_en/downloads/Kalos-Region-Pokemon-X-and-Y_1920x1200.jpg
I know it is a bit early to say, but this generation might be my favorite one. I like all of the Pokemon that has been revealed; and yes, even the new Mewtwo form. And the Kalos region looks different and spacious when comparing to the past regions. Kalos makes the Unova region look kind of dull when placed side-by-side.
Starters Finals will be Grass/Dark Fire/Psychic Water/Fighting
Gym 1 is Fairy Type
Gym 2 Steel Type
Gym 3 is Flying Type
Gym 4 is Psychic Type
Gym 5 is Water Type
Gym 6 is Electric Type Gym
Gym 7 is Fire Type Gym
Gym 8 is Dark
Elite 4
1-Dragon Type
2-Grass Type
3-Ground Type
4-Ice Type
Leader of Elite 4 will have a mix team but the opposite legendary pokemon than what you have say you have y he will have x or if you have x he will have y
1st gym is 6th gym and will be electric gym
3rd gym is 7th gym and will be Fire type
the building in the left hand corner will be a dark gym underground and you will have to take thing long stairs looking as if your going into the pits of hell
remember appearances can be deceiving