August Corocoro Leaking — New Pokémon, Characters and More!

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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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378 thoughts on “August Corocoro Leaking — New Pokémon, Characters and More!”

    • I’m actually getting both. Female character for X and male character for Y. I can’t choose between the legendaries. Yveltal looks awesome but Xerneas reminds me of one of my favorite movies, Princess Mononoke.

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    • I’m getting X because I love Cotton Candy!!! Thought that wasn’t the first reason. I had a feeling that pokemon was gonna introduce a new type this generation (which they ultimately did in Fairy) and since I couldn’t think of a plausible typing for Xerneas I believed it would be the new type (Yay I was right) which is why I wanted X all along.

      Plus I knew all my friends would get Y because Yveltal’s design is badass!

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    • Actually, if they didn’t say so, i wouldn’t think it was a cotton candy. It looks like a cat/dog like pokemon with fluffy appereance.

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    • I’m thinking of a poodle cotton candy dog that it will evolve into…maybe female only (and poodles are stereotypically french dogs)

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    • By this time, it should be obvious that GameFreak always creates Pokemon like that every generation. But that’s no reason to hate an entire generation of Pokemon.

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  5. I came to a different conclusion with Karamanero.
    Calama[ri] + manero (‘imitate’, ‘mimic’)
    I
    say this, because the pokemon is clearly standing on feet made from
    it’s crown, to imitate a person, which also fits with it’s Reversal
    Pokemon classification.

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  6. I love these new Pokemon! 6th generation is turning out to be wicked amazing for me. Also, Pancham’s evolution. Now I KNOW I am using Pancham on my team.

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  10. I was expecting them to reveal Mewtwo’s other form and tell their names, since the magazine legally comes after the movie (I was expecting this before reading this month’s issue would come one day earlier due to holidays), and since the movie is about Mewtwo, I would expect the other form to be in the movie.
    So, unless Mewtwo’s supposed third other form doesn’t appear in the movie and they decide to showcase it in the Xerneas/Yveltal movie, I think we’ll get info on the next CoroCoro.

    By the way, Moving, even if the Planate thing hints at a Z, I still think there’ll be a W. Since there’s a biology theme going ont, they wouldn’t make Z without a W. So we may have X/Y and Z/W, and possibly an O or 0 version since the origin connects all axes. So:
    -X: X chromosome and lenght.
    -Y: Y chromosome and height.
    -Z: Z chromosome and depth.
    -W: W chromosome and the fourth dimension.
    -O or 0: The absence of chromosome (X0 system, with 0 sometimes being called O), and the origin (absent of axis due to being their connection, composed of 0’s, and represented by an O).

    In other words, five games, with the legendaires being the four stags, the nameless eagle, Níðhöggr, Ratatoskr, and Yggdrasil. I’m very confident in this theory, and I’ll only give up on it if they release a solitary Z version with no W, which I find unlikely because of the ZW system, or if they don’t release an O, which would be wasting the letter, and since the Japanese pronunciation of the name of the Latin letter O is the same as their word for “king”, they would be wasting the pun of having a legendary master in the “king” version. I don’t see GF wasting this wordplay, and there would be no other chance to use the letter unless they make Generation Whatever being Pokémon I and Pokémon O from “input” and “output”, which couldn’t possibly have a “king” pun unless the O mascot is the king of the I mascot, which would defeat the purpose of two mascots being paired.

    If you want the rest of my theory and some other speculation regarding it, see http://www.serebiiforums.com/showthread.php?594366-Legendaries-Speculation-Discussion-Thread&p=16074822#post16074822

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  11. Alright! So, those PokeBeach rumors are definitely true. For those who didn’t already believe… Shame. Shame on you!
    That means we already know a few English names ahead of time. For example:

    Maika is Inkay, Karamanero is Malimar, and Goronda is Pangoro, respectively. Draining Kiss seems like it’ll remain the same.
    Professor Plantane will most likely be Professor Sycamore in English, seeing as Plane trees (platane in French) are known as sycamore trees in North America. Also, because the rumors say so. Although, the rumors do state that he is another professor, meaning he’s not alone. But, based on CoroCoro, he will be the first prof. we run into. Wonder who’s the other guy? Or Gal.

    As for Citron, I wonder if he’ll keep that name. I hope so, but Lenora’s Japanese name, Aloe, was similar to his name (to me) as it was based on edible plant life and that, sadly, changed upon English release. Zakuro comes from 石榴 zakuro, pomegranate; also possibly from 黒 kuro, black. Based on similarity, maybe his English name will be Zack. Zack and black sound similar, so I think it would be pretty fitting name for him. Team Flare should definitely stay the same. Their name sounds like a pun off of the words flare; to burn with a sudden intensity, and the word flair; an ability to do something well; stylishness and originality. Just look at them! They’re flaaaaming~! Seriously, that hair. What kind of gel…? I don’t even… But, I like it.

    Anyway, can’t wait for that English info! Shushupu and Peropuff. Please name them well, Game Freak!
    I can’t even imagine a half-decent name for Shushupu right now, but I’m excited to see it evolve! I sense Fairy/Flying-type Flamingo~!
    Peropuff… you shaggy pup, you..! That cute face of yours better evolve into a poodle! I predict Peropuff’s English name to be Coddle. Lol, right? -_- It make some sense, though! D: Cotton Candy + Poodle! Right? Right..? No..? (◞‸◟；)

    PokéBeach rumors: http://pokebeach.com/2013/06/pokebeach-x-y-rumor-roundup-and-clarifications

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    • No, profesor Plantane would be “Patrice”…Sycamore would be another professor who give us one of the Kanto starters (as Pokebeach posted)

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      • I’m hoping that if this is “Patrice”, then it will be changed to Patrick or something. I always saw Patrice as a girl’s name.

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      • Well, sir, these rumors haven’t been wrong so far, so you’re up against a mighty tall hill because it’s never stated which professor we’ll meet first on our journey. Plus, Patrice is a female’s name and Patrick… is too busy down in Bikini Bottom being Patrick. Either way, we’ll found out for sure in a couple of days.

        Bet you a hundred bucks I’m right? >:D

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        • Well, that’s right, we don’t know who will we meet first…so, maybe you are right…maybe not xD…who knows, let’s wait and see :)…but yeah, i belive you will right, did’t see that way first, sorry xD

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        • Patrice is a men’s name in French, though.

          …Honestly I’m thinking this guy is going to be Plantain in English. You know, the tree related to bananas?

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  12. Anyone else notice that Team Flare (who happens to wear all RED) is shown on the Pokemon Y version exclusive page and not on the BLUE Pokemon X version exclusive page! Maybe they just change to blue colored outfits in X or maybe there is another evil team. I’m not trying spark a crazy debate but if there is a “blue” evil team could they somehow connect to the old Team Magma and Team Aqua???

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    • I’m kinda bothered that they would reuse the Hoenn type teams. I would rather they had a grass type orientated evil team who were all “nature and mother nature”. They could wear rags and live very simple lives. Sorta like druids. It would be a good opposite to how over the top and dressy Team Flair is.

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      • I like the druid idea. It could still happen.
        Flames of destruction versus leaves of life.
        Fire vs. Grass.
        Death vs. Life.

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  13. Is nobody going to mention that cotton candy is sometimes called “fairy floss?” They just showed us a fairy-type fairy floss Pokémon. Well played, Ninty.

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    • I was going to in what I typed down there, but I already felt I was gonna need to type a TL;DR cause of how much I typed. :
      But, yeah… Cotton Candy is known as Fairy Floss in some places like Australia. Hence, its Fairy-typing.

      Have you noticed Citron’s outfit has a Clauncher-like theme? That blue and yellow! Citron will most likely be an Electric-type Gym Leader, so it might be safe to predict that Clauncher will evolve into a Water/Electric-type~!
      Going with themes here, wouldn’t it be awesome if Citron had a Pokémon that looks like that sunny device behind him?
      A satellite Pokémon that’s an Electric/Steel type with the appearance of a sun, ya know, since we get light from electricity as well as the sun. Levitate being its ability, of course. I’d love that. Also, electricity and steel goes along well with him being an inventor.

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          • I was looking at Citron’s sun/arm/thing, and I noticed that the thing coming out of the middle somewhat resembles a lizard’s head. (Notice that I said SOMEWHAT). Anyway, the rays of this sun branching out from the middle resemble Helioptile’s frills. Could this hint at a Helioptile evolution?

          • Lol @ somewhat.

            It could be Helioptile’s evolved form. Since it is a heliophile it would make sense to have a sun-shaped frill around its neck. Hmm… Me likey. Hopefully, you’re right.

          • Well, if you look at Helioptile’s face and pull the yellow triangle out to a point, then double the point at the top of its head, it would look similar to the thing on Citron’s sun-arm.

          • Wonder what its type will be.
            Will it remain Normal/Electric-type or become a pure Electric-type. Maybe it’ll be (insert type here)/Electric-type?
            Hmm…

          • I think it will electric/rock 🙂 in a special recently it was anounced that it learns rock slide! It lives in a rocky area so yeah.. who knows 😉

          • I don’t think it’s so much a “heliophile” as a “helios (sun) reptile” — It’s frill is literally made of solar panels. I don’t think the sun comes into it any more than that’s where it gets it’s energy source.

          • That’s what I thought when I saw that solar thing on his back. It’s clearly Helioptiles evo.

  14. Do you think that typing order (e.g. to be Flying/Dragon or Dragon/Flying) must take some kind of benefit? Something like a bit more stab bonus..

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    • I agree with Similarity. Typing order has no benefits, whatsoever.
      I believe it’s mainly used to show the Pokémon’s main alignment.

      Some examples:
      Charizard – Fire/Flying-type. It’s strength lies in its Fire-type moves, yet its also adapted to flying through the skies. It’s similar to how typical dragon’s breathe fire and soar through the skies.
      Honedge – Steel/Ghost-type. This Pokémon is a sword first before it is inhabited by an ancient soul.
      Noivern – Flying/Dragon-type. I’d assume, since Noivern utilizes sound waves, its Flying-type is its primary type because sound usually travels through a medium that is usually air. Sound travelling through air is a repetitive disturbance of the air particles. The Flying-type incorporates actions used by birds as well as the wind and air.

      Hope that clarified things.

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  17. I dont know but Xerneas’s attack looks sooooooooooooooo AWESOME AND OMG!!! THE PROFFESSOR LOOKS REALLY REALLY AWESOME

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  18. Māīka is really cute to cute and Karamanero just looks so evil, i am going to get a female one and name it Ursula

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    • OMG me too!! I thought of the little mermaid when I saw it and thought it looked like Ursula (for some reason). That or Medusa or Sedusa. <33

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    • Never realized how short Genesect are.
      Oh, and dat Mewtwo Superiority! Mah goodness! ♥

      Still waiting on the reasoning behind that Mewtwo’s feminine voice.
      :

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    • Kriffix watched the Mewtwo Special earlier, then mentioned how one of the Genesect has the voice of a female child. I found it hilarious.

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    • MewTwo’s voice was also feminine.. I know it’s probably because of the new voice actor, but I can’t help but think it has something to do with AmberTwo.

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        • http://pokemon.wikia.com/wiki/Ambertwo

          AmberTwo, or Amber, is the deceased daughter of Professor Fuji (One of the scientists who created Mewtwo). Though Giovanni funded the researched to find Mew’s DNA and create ‘the strongest pokemon’, Fuji also used Mew’s DNA to try and give life back to Amber.

          AmberTwo, Mewtwo, SquirtleTwo, BulbasaurTwo and CharmanderTwo shared a brief moment in a limbo-like state called the ‘Remember Place’. In it, Amber explains to MewTwo about life. When MewTwo asks “Why am I born?”, AmberTwo answers “That is for you to find out”. Even just as she vanishes, she tells MewTwo, “Life is beautiful”. Meanwhile in real life AmberTwo dies in her chamber, but MewTwo is successfully created. This is why MewTwo is searching for “life’s purpose” in Movie 1, while also being unreasonably angry and sad.

          Here’s a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUzoWrcWgCI

          Unfortunately, this all happened only in the Japanese version of the movie. It was removed from the English version, because they thought the story was too dark for children. It’s a shame really, all it would have done is made the movie even better. It also would have answered MewTwo’s activities, instead of portraying MewTwo as a mad and stubborn villain.

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        • http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Amber_(anime)

          From “The Uncut Story Of Mewtwo’s Origin”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1a34c65YxY

          The whole Amber-Mewtwo thing didn’t make it to the English movie (Except for special editions), as they thought the theme was too dark for children. It’s a shame really. Not only did they cut out the important backstory of Mewtwo, but left out the whole reason for Mewtwo to have acted that way in the first movie.

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        • I typed two comments previously explaining AmberTwo. I don’t understand why they didn’t show up. In any case, search for AmberTwo in Google or “The birth of Mewtwo” on YouTube.

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  20. wow, all this info is incredible! first, cool evolution of pancham, and i’m intrigued of its new evolution method. then, maaiika and kalameron are quite good, the first being nicer and the second looks so prepared for battle! and the new fairy pokemon are cute, overall Peropuff (which i thought it was a cloud with dog’s face and tail), but as I’m getting Y, i will have Shushupu, which i expected to be flying, as i like to have a flying pokemon, but i don’t want to have two fire pokemon in my team (fennekin and talonflame), so maybe i could get Shushupu and then i’d also have a fairy pokemon!

    the types of Xerneas and Yveltal were revealed by Hiro, and i trusted him, so i’m happy it has been finally confirmed! cool new characters (although i expect Zakuro to be Dark-type leader, because of its clothes and the image of the gym), but if it is good at sports and it has a look of a climber, then it could be Rock-type.
    and finally the features are also interesting! the o-powers (will have to make those minigames to get them?), the holocauster, so you can be updated with info of the Global Link and the “miracle trade” (which you haven’t mentioned)… what will it be?
    well, so much info. and in the next issue there will be even more (as it has been said in Serebii)

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    • Yeah, we seem to have left it out. I don’t really know what the miracle trade is though. Is it just supposed to be the GTS Negotiation feature, but with a different name?

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      • i don’t know neither, and it seems there is no more information about that yet. maybe when the official website is updated we will see more info about that.

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    • We’ve been waiting for a Dark type gym leader since gen 2, but I really don’t think they will get one based on the information we’ve seen so far and the leaks (which are slightly more reliable now) that Hiro gave to PokeBeach.

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  21. Did anyone else notice that Goronda’s ‘cape’ splits down the middle? I’m loving these new Pokemon so far! All except for.. the cotton candy one. And I’m not hating because it’s cotton candy, but because it just seems so lazy and it really feels useless and unneeded. Everything else though, is looking great! Especially the squids <333333

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  22. Does anyone else get the feeling that the Professor is going to be the Leader of the evil team? He looks quite interesting… 😀

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  23. So far, the Pokemon I want on my team(s) are the following: Fennekin, Noivern, Pangoro, Clauncher, and Helioptile. But because of my OCD and not wanting two Pokemon of the same type on my team, I’m going to get both games and start with Chespin/Froakie so that Talonflame can be my fire and flying Pokemon. 😛

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    • The same thing happens to me, LOL. I can’t have Pokemon on my team of the same type. It makes my team weaker. Before I start the game I plan my team, no same types. Ever since I saw the X & Y announcement I decided immediately that Chespin was my starter. (Mostly because everyone was choosing Fennekin or Froakie.) So far my team would be Chespin, Fletchling, Helioptile, and Sylveon.

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      • what i have been doing. is since they are still gonna be a lot of pokemon to be revealed. i am finding nicknames for the pokemon that they revealed that i want to catch

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    • I was setting up my team of 6 too, but then I realized that there are like 100 to 150 more to be revealed so there might be some that you’ll like over the ones you already chosen. :p

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  24. Guess the rumors about flipping the 3DS upside down in order for Inkay/Malimar to evolve is true 🙂

    Literally everything has turned out to be true so far except a few things were waiting on

    – Mawile evolve form

    – Mewtwo Y Form

    – Final Starter Form types (Fire/Psychic, Water/Fighting, Grass/Dark)

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  25. Since it is difficult for actual flamingos to take off when flying, I started to think of other types that this Shushuppu could end up being other than Flying. Then I thought about the name flamingo. Flamingo. FLAME-ingo. We might get a Fire/Fairy type flamingo. But wait, if this is a perfume pokemon, how could flames be incorporated into this pokemon? Hmm… Perfume = HIGHLY FLAMMABLE!!! Could we be getting a pokemon advertising the dangers of aerosol? Aerosol -> aero -> air -> bird -> flamingo

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    • How about Poison if she’s wearing a plague mask? Doctors wear them and she has healer ability (and perfume connection with strong smelling substances in mask that repels bad smell?) But wearing plague mask doesn’t mean being poisonous, it actually repels Poison…hmmm…

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