The latest issue of Corocoro has begun appearing online, and with it comes a stash of new information, including new Pokémon, characters and even more!
The scans and our translations can be found below. Remember! These are the Japanese names and it’s almost certain that we’ll get the official English reveal of these Pokémon in a couple of days.
Pokémon Information
- Maaiika: “Rotate Pokemon”, Dark/Psychic with Contrary or Suction cups. It flashes the lights above its eyes and confuses its opponents. As its classification suggests, this Pokémon actually rotates it battle.
- Kalamanero: the “Turnabout Pokemon”, an Evolution of Maiika. Has either the ability ‘Contrary’ or ‘Suction Cups’. It knows the move ‘Flip Around’ which flips the stats of the afflicted Pokémon, much like it’s ability.
- This may actually work through the 3DS’s gyroscope?
- Goronda: “Tough-Looking Pokemon”, Fighting/Dark Knows Arm Hammer. Ability is Mold Breaker or Iron fist. Pancham is hinted at evolving in a special way. It is described as “looking like it has a rough temperament, but cannot stand to see the weak getting bullied. It has a warm heart”.
- Shushuppu: the “Perfume Pokemon” is Fairy Exclusive to Pokemon Y and looks like a pink bird. It has the ability ‘healer’. “It releases a special aroma from its body to fascinate the opponent”.
- Skrelp is a Pokemon Y exclusive, Clauncher is an X-exclusive
- Peroppuff: “Cotton Candy Pokemon”, Fairy type, has an ability called Sweet Veil which protects team members battling from sleep. Exclusive to Pokemon X
- Xerneas: “Life Pokemon”, Fairy type and has the ability Fairy Aura which powers Fairy-type moves. Has a new move called Geo Control
- Yveltal: “Destruction Pokemon”, Dark/Flying type and has the ability Dark Aura which powers up Dark-type moves. Has a new move called Death Wing
- Honedge has the ability ‘No Guard’
Character Information
- Team Flare are the new antagonists, they aim to make big money, but doesn’t seem like their only aim
- Prof. Platane is the new Professor, may battle you
- “The Tree of Hippocrates is the plane tree (or platane, in Europe)” -Wikipedia, This could refer to a 3D plane which has X and Y coordinates, infers third game will definitely be Z.
- Two new Gym Leaders: Citron (likes to invent things) and Zakuro (good at sports)
Game Information
- New “O-Power” which can help you throughout the game, similar to Pass Powers
- “Holocaster” allows you to receive updates on WiFi tournaments through the PSS
- Drain Kiss is a new Fairy-type attack which attacks the opponent whilst recovering HP
- New attack “Flip around” switches around the opponents stats.
Miscellaneous Information
- Maaiika is from Maika, a common Japanese squid, as well as being from the common Japanese phrase “Maa, ii ka!” used to ‘leave something as it is’ and to ‘not bother yourself with it further’
- Karamanero is Calamari (squid), Karamasu (to entangle/entwine)
- Goronda is Gorogoro (the onomatopeia of rumbling or something big rolling), and Panda
- Shushupu is Syusyu (a scrunchie or haritie covered in fabric or lack on innovation/stupidity) and Puchi (french preffix Petit.)
- Shitoron to come from Citron, and Zakuro is clearly from Pomegranate
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What does the little picture of mewtwo say? (The picture Pokejungle didn’t include)
Is it bad that I have no idea what you’re talking about?
EDIT: Ok I see it now. It says absolutely nothing relevant. It just talks about how good the figures are.
Serebii says this poster is regarding Xerneas and Yveltal toys of some sort (Acquired by using some sort of coupon?) so the Mewtwo picture must be regarding the same too.
That pic is about preorders. Preorder and you get a Xerneas or Yveltal figurine.
I see.. well, it’s not important I guess.
It just says what “PokéPla” is (Pokémon Plastic Figurines). It uses Mewtwo as an example.
But yeah, like NL says its just about Xer/Yve pre-order gifts.
The professor looks like Swaine from Ni no Kuni!
While I believe “turning the 3DS upside down while leveling up” is really, really odd. I can’t help but to notice that Maika looks pretty much like a squid, but when it evolves, it looks like Karamanero either blew its top, or it turned upside down, which I have to admit is more likely. I mean it really looks like it, and the rumor even got the typing right. I would have easily mistaken it for a water type.
The Squid is very cool~~~
“Team Flare – They Aim To Steal Money” Well that’s…..surprising. No plot to destroy the world or mind control the populace?
It takes money to look as good as they do.
Makes sense, since this region is base on beauty it’s not surprising to have an evil team that are thieves preoccupied with buying expensive stuff to look good.
The magazine kinda hints that money’s not all there is to it, but money is kinda unexpected, yeah.
that picture makes team flair/flare look FLAMEboyant and not i a gay way just really over the top
Also don’t those Squid pokemon sound like the Inkay and Malimar rumours? It seems like there’s too many similarities (the second one is even called the Turnabout pokemon!)….I suppose they had a name change. Even though the names are wrong, the kind of pokemon and the typing was right. I’m kinda wondering if maybe whatever information this guy had access too was really early and subject to change…
edit: Had a brain fart, of course the names are different….they’re the japanese names.
I didn’t feel like I needed much more proof the pokebeach guy was legit but really can’t see how anybody needs more proof now of his legitimacy.
Inkey and Malimar names he gave would likely have been the English names, we only have the Japanese right now. We should know by the end of the week what they’ll be known as over here.
Some people still think the leaker mixed fake info so that it would look interesting, like when I was using some of the rumors to come up with my theories of what would happen in the SPECIAL manga. But why would he/she do that? Placing fake info would be outright saying “I’m not reliable! Don’t believe me next time I leak real stuff!”, and I don’t think anyone leaking info would do that unless they don’t know anything and are trying to ride on the coattails of previous fame, like Hiro did recently.
LOL Honedge has the ability No Guard
OMG i can’t believe how funny that is
what’s the joke?
He’s a sword yo. Guard with what?
Does this mean a possibility for a shield pokemon?
That would be a cool exclusive (shield pokemon) if it evolved like Karrablast through trade.
shieldon and bronzor
I meant a new counterpart to Honedge. And wasn’t Bronzor supposed to be a mirror?
I thought he was referring to the hilt/guard because he has one but the ability says otherwise
Yeah I figured that out soon after I posted lol
Glad WPM can go to sleep tonight now that he doesn’t have to worry about people calling him a bad webmaster.
But legit did anyone else think Pangoro was a Pokemon done extremely right by GF? Like seriously look at that cape :’)
Not sure why posting legit rumours has anything to do with being a good or bad person.
Anything can happen with the Pokemon fanbase
Also guys, ill be getting Y, so if you’re as disappointed as I am that Skrelp and Clauncher are exclusives ( although I think it was obvious) just hmu so we can trade cuz I want my Super Awesome Pistol Shrimp Pokemon 😀
Oh yeah… in the Misc section it says shushu is scrunchie but I don’t think that’s right –
Shushu is a Japanese onomatopoeia for spraying , and Pu is for something spurting out. It’s the perfume Pokemon after all.
And Maaiika is also a pun that doesn’t translate but pretty much means ‘whatever’.
I think it’s both. I know there’s an onomatopoeia that sounds similar to it, but it doesn’t ring a bell for me. I’ll brush it up later though.
Hmm. Sorry about that. The closest I could find was shuushuu （しゅうしゅう） for breeze and wind sounds
http://www5a.biglobe.ne.jp/~yoion/henmi/30jiten3.htm
I have it in my head that shuu should be spraying and I think I heard it somewhere but Japanese onomatopoeia are kind hard
I was expecting something different from Inkay and Malimar. Malimar looks like a crazy witchy bird with insane hair style. I tried to turn it upside down but it didn’t work:
http://i.imgur.com/Relwk2A.jpg
And Shushupu, Peropuff didn’t excite me at all. However, Xerneas being Fairy and looking badass is epic.
The Gyms are obvious the black guy is rock bc he’s a rock climber and the blonde dude is steel or electric.
I am Goronda who will have the guts to face me an almighty Dark/Fighting Type to a Match?!
Now that we have an Anti-Bullying Pokemon, no longer am I insecure.
How does that ‘mysterious’ downvote make you feel secure, huh?
Also, you’re late with lunch money.
God, I’m gonna summon Lady Gaga, turn up Fireworks from Katy Perry and make a holy anti-bully triangle with Pangoro then.
Lady Gaga Pokémon, where are you?! Hurry up and evolve from the Madonna Pokémon, we need you!
And if we’re lucky the cupcake Pokémon will evolve into the Katy Perry Pokémon and learn the move Firework.
Wait, if there is going to be Madonna, Gaga, Katy Perry Pokemon then Madonna should be the legendary Pokemon.
Pangoro will kick his ass, no doubt.
I guess what I’m really interested in is Flip Around (or whatever it turns out to be) cause it’ll be great against Conkeldurr, Cresselia, Suicune, and more.
For reference, a very cool looking plane tree (or platane): http://nancykricorian.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/plane-tree-kos.jpeg
…Must…climb…
It’s a beautiful tree.
Man seeing all this great news makes me so happy getting pokemon X over pokemon Y. I love the skrelp and the new fairy type pokemon is so interesting but I’m more into Claucher over Skrelp so I’m getting pokemon X, I’m still glad that the legendary fro pokemon X is a fairy type finally something different and that pokemon looks so cool to me for some reason I usually pick the Pokemon that looks cooler but this time I’m getting the one that involves the pokemon exclusives that I am more interested in and the legendary just looks so very majestic and different from what I usually see in a legendary pokemon plus I can always look for others online to trade with.
The pero part of peroppafu is an onomatopoeia for licking. Makes sense with the stuck out tongue
Isn’t it “bero”? I know that bero means tongue in Japanese.
As in Beruringa/Lickitung and Beruberuto/Lickilicky.
Meh. They both are similar, so I guess they share a similar meaning.
That big jellyfish is one ugly-ass pokémon
I usually dislike ugly Pokémon (or Pokémon that are ugly in my opinion), but lately I’ve been liking them more and more. I like Kalamenero quite a lot.
I do like it, looks powerful. But it’s definitely ugly XD
Take a look at it upside-down. I think it looks better.
I like it, either way. I’m happy as long as we get new Pokémon.
🙂
I quite like it how it’s shown in artwork. Gives it an almost humanoid look.
It has a previously unexplored type combination, so it’s all good.
Well helloooo, young hot sexy professor with facial hair 😉
He can give me whatever he likes 😉 I have an idea to dump my starter Pokemon this time.
Dayum i know i’m straight but this guy is shmexy
*cums all over the place*
I think Goronda is villain(gorotsuki) + panda
The professor is hot, Bad guys look..kinda weird,yay more gym leaders
An awesome panda beast ,Tiny squid is adorable and its evolved form looks like a supervillan
The cotton candy thing looks like a poodle/dog and mini flamingo balerina cute, And life and death legendary mons.Sweet, liking the news so far
A couple of months ago, this information was posted in pokebeach:
“New move: Belch a Poison-type attack with a base power of 120 but can
only be performed if the user is holding a berry and the attack consumes
said berry
New move: Draining Kiss a Fairy-type attack which has a base power of 60
and heals user for the same amount that it damages the enemy for
New move: Fairy Dust (fairy), makes the pokemon levitate. Same effect as Magnet Rise.
New move: Rose Thorns (grass), hurts opponents that switch into battle. Same effect as Stealth Rock.
New move: Mirage (psychic), makes you think that the pokemon has been
switched by another one in the team, but it hasn’t. Similar to Illusion
ability.”
Now we know Draining kiss will be real, I think we have to consider the rest of the moves.
Well well well, mirage has my attention and I love the creativity behind the rose thorns.
Great! All we need is another Entry Hazard /sarcasm
No, draining kiss and belch are the moves that pokebeach posted…the other ones were from mossieur leaker (or something like that xD)…and he later said that he was lying, so we can say that the last three moves are fake.
To convince my 9 year old brother to get X (We always get alternate games even though we are seven years apart.) I told him Xerneas was a dark fairy type… Am I a good person? Never mind I just want X exclusives.
He’ll find out eventually that Xerneas is just pure Fairy.
Well until then I will not tell… I swear on my death wing!