Kanto Starters Mega Evolutions, Pokémon Bank Revealed & A NEW Pokémon!

Pokémon Direct Summary

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blhaSxUJ-OU

The recently finished Pokémon Direct gave some great new information about Pokémon X and Pokémon Y, as well as shedding some light on a new service being launched alongside the two games called Pokémon Bank.

New Pokémon?

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Eagle-eyed fans have spotted that a new Pokémon makes a very brief appearance in the Direct broadcast. There’s no further information on the Pokémon. But we’ll bring updates when they arrive!

Pokémon Bank

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This service will allow players to store their Pokémon online in a central place and will work across different copies of Pokémon X & Y. There will be an annual fee, but Pokémon Bank will be able to hold up to 3,000 Pokémon and is accessible anywhere you have a 3DS compatible internet connection.

Sorting and moving Pokémon has been made easy with search tools which allow players to look for Pokémon of a certain type or sort them by different criteria.

Mega Venusaur, Charizard and Blastoise

Mega Venusaur

“When Venusaur becomes Mega Venusaur, the flower on the Pokémon’s back blooms even more fantastically than before. Its legs and frame become more sturdy to support the weight of the huge flower.”

Mega Venusaur’s type remains the same, but its ability becomes Thick Fat which reduces damage from TWO of its weaknesses: Fire-type & Ice-type attacks. The Mega Evolution also grants it increased Defense and Special Defense.

Mega Charizard

 “When Charizard becomes Mega Charizard, its pointed horns and long tail give the Pokémon a look of sleek sharpness. Mega Charizard is in a league of its own when it comes to flying prowess, able to reach incredible heights.”

Mega Charizard also retains its original Fire/Flying typing (sorry to those of you who wanted Fire/Dragon!), but does get an exciting new ability: Drought!  Perfect for Sunny Day teams! The official site has confirmed that it has improved Special Attack.

Mega Blastoise

“The two rocket launchers on Blastoise’s shoulders turn into a single huge cannon when it Mega Evolves into Mega Blastoise. This cannon boasts a blast range so great that it can strike targets more than six miles away!”

Mega Blastoise, like the rest, retains its Water typing, but gains a new ability introduced in Generation VI: Mega Launcher. This ability raises the power of “pulse” type moves, such as Water Pulse and Dark Pulse.

Pokémon X & Y Special Edition 3DS XLs

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For North American and European Pokémon fans, the two exclusive X & Y-themed 3DS XL models have been announced for sale outside of Japan. They come in a blue or red edition to correlate with the games.

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915 thoughts on “Kanto Starters Mega Evolutions, Pokémon Bank Revealed & A NEW Pokémon!”

  1. They all look kinda disproportional to me, I don’t know, especially Venusaur.

    But I’ve always dreamt of Grass pokemon with Thick Fat, finally there is one.

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  2. Exciting news! MegaCharizard looks amazing. Blastoise is ok, and Venusaur would have been also amazing if the pink flower on its head didn’t look so plain…but I’ll live 😉

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    • Vivillon’s wings have the same affect as a kaleidoscope and apparently change colour when seen from different angles!
      It’s not “off” as you said because it came from the real nintendo website and they may be giving genders to all genderless pokemon (maybe to let them be bred?) but obviously not legendaries 😉

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      • Calm down and think about God within us then read my post again and think about what I meant by “off”. You’ll reach the light then.

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  3. My body has wonderguard ability because I’m on the floor and I can’t get up unless I have my weakness (X and Y) in my hands.

    Charizard with Drought and Venasaur with Thick Fat is just the greatest news since Fairy type lol.

    If johto starters get mega forms than I hope Mega Meganium becomes Grass/Fairy

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    • I wonder about Meganium. They don’t seem to be adding types left and right. Although he is too “grass-basic”, so a little change would be nice.
      Charizard-Drought makes me think Feraligator should have Drizzle and Swift Swim!! xD

      NOTE: I thought your avatar said “fart” “poop”.. I feel super childish now..

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  4. Charizard will be a force since he has drought. if a team opens with a mega charizard then its already over. that fire blast will be strong than Reshiram’s goddamit! definitely getting chespin and charmander 😀 i just hope they release a good water type since im choosing charmander…

    oh and i guess blastoise is literally a tank now 😛 lol

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  5. Hey guys, its Mono. If you think about it, the starters we wont recieve, we can also get them by using the PSS in X and Y. So all of us can get each Kanto starter 😀

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      • I think Charizard would be able to take a hit from Jigglypuff considering Fairy type attacks are “Not very Effective” against Fire types, plus Jigglypuff’s Base Attack and Special Attack stats aren’t very high.

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      • The reason I think fairy types can beat Dragon types are because In some Fairy Tales, Dragons are the antagonists (Bad guy/Villain) and are beaten by the protagonist (Good guy/Hero), a Knight. So, in fairy tales, dragons are defeated. Rearrange that and you get Fairy Defeat Dragon. Just what I think.

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    • Water/Steel is a bad defensive typing. It’s weak to Ground and Fighting.
      Fire/Dragon would have made Charizard weak to Ground and Dragon.

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    • I know!!! You have giant metal cannons sticking out of your back Blastoise, you have no business not being steel… But Charizard is really just a flying lizard to me. I mean he looks like a dragon but there’s nothing magical or mythical so wanting him to be a Dragon is like wanting Sudowoodo to be a grass type, IMHO.

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  6. I have some mixed feelings right now; with all this attention Mega Evolution has been getting, I truly worry that new Pokemon ideas will be scrapped in favor of them. However, I really do like the Mega Evolution concept; I was just hoping for something fresh today.

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        • It’s a small fee for a yearly service of extra, optional storage AND what amounts to poke-insurance (having your uploaded pokemon still there if you game is damaged / stolen / lost).

          Oh, and this is also a new version of software that has ALWAYS been sold (Ranch, Box). Considering that this version doesn’t require having a console and basically eliminates any doubts of future compatibility, I think it’s more than fair for them to charge a fee in order to run the servers they will have to buy and maintain to run this.

          Oh, AND they’re providing free trials when the games come out to make sure everyone can transfer for free. Let’s not forget that detail.

          If you don’t like the fee, don’t use the software. You’re missing out on absolutely nothing more than extra space. It’s that simple.

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          • Yeah, but Ranch, Stadium ..and PkmnBox(?) had always been paid once, and YOU had them in a save.. locally. Them being on the internet.. I don’t know. Like game servers being taken down over time. Thankfully Pokemon is way too big to end just like that..

            I see it as we at least get an option. The important thing is that there is a free trial to move all at once to X&Y and not lose anything.
            I wonder how they will allow transfer of old-pkmn after January.

          • Even if the servers were to be taken down and the service ended they would give us fair warnig first as with the dreamworld…

          • That would be the nice thing to do 🙂
            But yeah, something that transfer ALL those pokes faster than before is welcomed. So I guess all is fine.

        • But that’s idiotic, and he explained it, it’s a service that requires maintenance and people to manage it, I don’t like it very much but it’s completely rational. And I will be happy to pay as it supports pokemon. And you don’t have to aquire it if you don’t wanna.

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          • What’s’ idiotic…. You said you didn’t like it either, which is no different than what I said so what you said is idiotic… I couldn’t read the maintenance part due to server issues… but calm down if you are going to reply to me
            I understand to a degree now, but I can’t say it is a must, they have So much money already

          • I said I didn’t like it because I was expecting a fee in the range of 10€ and appenrently it’s much less so I’m perfectly ok.

          • True. Additionally, if a company having lots of money meant they had to start giving their services away for free… then how would they pay their employees? I’m pretty sure people aren’t going to volunteer for free, and eventually that money will run out if they don’t charge for services, so it makes perfect sense. And I agree – I was expecting it to be a bigger price but $5 a year is very, very affordable and reasonable.

          • Oh and also when I said it was idiotic you misunderstood me, I wasn’t talking about your opinion but rather the fact that you said your mind wouldn’t change, because it was almost like saying: Don’t even bother replying. And also because that’s saying that you have already decided without all of the facts.

        • That means you’d be paying about $0.42 a month (save for any kind of inflation), so I think the $5 a year thing is a kind of “sweet spot” for pricing. When I first heard it, I was a little put off, but honestly the only people who would need it are those who have massive collections and want to import their creatures from previous generations – not the majority and while we never had to pay for it before, the idea of having the creatures I raise next month available for years and years to come in future Pokemon games is definitely worth the $5/year price. In my opinion anyway. 😛

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          • I’m going to get it either way because I prefer to have them all safely in the cloud, I have friend that lost a ton of pokemon because of his dog that decided to eat is platinum cartridge

          • Oh, well that’s no fun! I lost all my Pokemon once, but it was the same time as everyone else – from Gold/Silver and Ruby/Sapphire. Very sad – I had sooooo many memories with my Red/Blue/Gold/Silver Pokemon! Even just seeing their nicknames would bring back memories in the same way a journal would for me. It’s a great feeling. Luckily, I’ve been able to transfer all my Pokemon since, so I have plenty of Pokemon in my Black/White/2 from Gen 3 onwards. Still have my Sceptile from Sapphire over 7 years ago! Really cool. 🙂 I especially like the little flavour text the game adds for transferred Pokemon – very neat.

        • And yet you answer anyway… Your side is an opinion – you are allowed to have it – but so is everyone else. 😛

          It’s an additional, optional, online service that requires you “renting” space on their servers. $5 a year is more than reasonable and if you don’t want to pay it you don’t have to, so… You’re being childish and irrational. Sorry.

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          • That was not an answer.. and you did not read around to see what else I said.. which was childish and irrational of you, don’t say anything to me if you can’t look around a lil first =]

          • I did look around. You’ve been whining in reply to everyone’s comment and saying things like “no need for me to answer you” and “waste of typing” to people who responded politely. Your type is bad for the community, so please do not be a jerk.

          • You are scum, you look at words but do not know their meaning, how old are you? You call me a jerk when all the jerkiness is coming from you and the people who ganged up on me for voicing my opinion and getting mad at me when my thoughts did not change. Yes it was a waste of typing when I said my opinion would not waver. No there was no need for me to answer when I already did before showing it was not about the amount of money. You need grow up and learn to see the answer does not always lie within the masses opinion but sometimes you need full context to understand something. Yu make the Pokémon community look bad when you rush to conclusion like So many do here. I said what I did as politely as I could and I couldn’t care less your view of me after. If that last part sounds rude, then ok, you got rude with me first
            GoodDay! =]

          • I’m really sorry you have had the inconvenience to be insulted by this guy. I unfortunately had the same problem yesterday, where as I posted on one article that I didn’t want the evolutions to Kalos’ starters revealed until after release. Someone else replied to it, and then he replied to that reply disagreeing with my opinion, and was, as I quote, “butthurt” that my opinion was different than his. Although, it appears that he has taken this conversation a lot farther with you than me. I sincerely do feel you, though, and even though I do not know much about the work you do, I applaud you for being as honest as possible on the internet. 🙂

          • Thank you. I was really just trying to defend another commentor but it went too far. Now I remember why I typically avoid the “community” aspect of Pokemon. 🙁

          • You’re welcome. 🙂 I read the whole conversation, and it’s no one fault but his, really. Yes, you replied to defend the other commentor, but insults weren’t thrown until he stepped in. You’re at no blame, here. 🙂

          • Yeah, but this place has a great community! Keep being a part of it! Some people just don’t know how to appreciate…

          • Look over this entire comment page and count the number of times YOU whined about the price in reply to someone else’s comment, AND you made a new post about how much you hate it and tell anyone who disagrees with you that they are wrong. Plus you go around saying rude things to others
            who take the time to reply (like “mind not changed, waste of typing”) which is very immature. I mean look at your downvotes – clearly I’m not the only person who is annoyed by your attitude. Our community does not need negative people like you, so please keep your self in check. Thank you.

          • Ok now I am going to tell you STFU.. and I stated my view 1 Time! then when people commented telling me I should change my mind I said No.. they brought it up repeatedly .. not me.. Get out of my face and leave it alone. You are not smart enough to win. Up vote me or down vote, I don’t care. I can see through your mess easily, your nowhere near as smart as you want others to believe

          • It’s okay if you think am not smart. I and everyone who knows me in real life and those who play my online game that I programmed and my boss who consistently thanks me for all the work i do and my co-workers who love how much i help them out and everyone else who isn’t YOU knows the truth, but you can think whatever you want. And yes, I did downvote you again. STFU is another example of the negative attitude the Pokemon community does not need – go play Halo is you wanna be a dick.

          • Wow haha, great reply… I don’t know any of those people, for all I know they could be made up, all I know if the way you presented yourself to Me! like an ass…

          • Well I’m using my real name so look it up if you don’t believe me. I’m a 26 year old web developer with my own art website and my own online Mega Man RPG. Both are real, both were programmed by me, and both are provable by simply searching my name in Google. My LinkedIn also publicly states where I’m currently employed and I have plenty of endorsements from others on the quality of my work. I am presenting myself as honestly as a possible and I a, not lying about anything.

            You hide behind a username, so I obviously can not research your history (though, why would I need to?) but I imagine you are much younger than me else you would be a lot more civilized.

            Also, you posted a PUBLIC comment on a very popular, PUBLIC Pokémon website. Did you not expect people to reply? Because that’s kind of how the system works. To post a comment (that you know is unpopular) and then getting upset when people reply to you? That’s just silly. You post your opinion and other people post their replies – not sure why that is a problem. Are you the only one allowed to have an opinion, or perhaps you think that your opinion is more “right” then ours so we are not allowed to reply? Please enlighten me.

            Also, please do not resort to name-calling. I said you were BEING childish and/or immature. I never said you were scum, called you faggot, or threw out any personal attacks – I only commented on the behaviour you were presenting.

          • I’m really sorry to say it but really both me and Adrian have been far too polite for someone with a beahvior as yours. Say what you please as I won’t bother replying any more, and I think Adrian as been far to kind as to apologise after all your tantrum. Once again sorry for any bother and try to die quickly, I have been far to benevolent twoards you…

          • The feeling is mutual. I much rather handle low life people as yourself face to face. The internet is no place for this. Gives weaklings like you two, Way too much confidence.. try stepping offline for a little while. Learn you are Only on a Pokémon site, and in REAL life.. you are not always right, therefore people Will Not always agree with you. it is as plain as that. But you have learned people will always be backed up on things that the majority stand for. In this case being a True game Freak.. lol.. People who will immediately Love all that is Pokémon and talk down to people who don’t. I am fine. I put you Both in your place the best I could online.. once again offline would be Much Better. Bye =] you will get no more replies from me because I already laid Everything down as it is and that’s final, you can go for the last word if you want.. means nothing 😉

          • You know what, I am sorry. I got upset after I read your “waste of typing” comment to someone else and signed in to downvote you. This has clearly gone too far and I’m sorry for starting what is essentially a flame-war. Everyone should be allowed to have an opinion, and I don’t just mean you – I mean EVERYONE. You were clearly rude and shouldn’t have been, but I was clearly going too far by replying as much as I did. I’m sure if this is the way you talk to people you would have more problems then just Pokemon commenters, but that’s none of my business. Apologies to all!

          • I’m truly sorry but with a the comments you’re writing I at least can’t see how he’s the one being childish, irrational, etc. You really seem to be going a little overboard, and I can say that at least I wasn’t trying to changed your mind when I commented regarding what you said I was simply trying to voice the opinion of others and make understand my and others view, I’m sorry if my comment among others upset you, but you’re really going mental now.

          • Don’t comment on my post ever again, you are just like Adrian and seem to not be able to piece things together well. Plus.. if you just want to help someone see another side of view.. Don’t Start by insulting the persons view As You Did Before ! Especially when you had the SAME VIEW but for different reasons.. lol how crazy. And Don’t become upset when someone puts you in your place for doing it. I am simply typing, no emotion behind it, just saying what needs to be said to some of you crazy die hard fans who will accept Anything Nintendo or GF throws your way then outcast Anyone who disagrees and then try making them feel bad for viewing things a different way, Which Is All You and Others Have Managed To Do! But once again I am Great with putting people Back in their place where they belong.

          • You know I really tried to be polite and can’t see what I have done to get such a reaction, I’d be thankfull if you’d be able to point out exactly what did I say to make you react that away, but for as much at it might be insulting to say, you’re definetly going ranpant, sorry.

    • Pays $40 for the game, what’s another $5? I have no problem with this, I’m just happy I can bring my Sceptile to Y version and play on Pokemon Amie 🙂

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  7. I thought we’d be getting Kanto starters a bit later in the game, now I have a real dillema, cause I wanted to pick Chespin, but the Bulbasaur family are my favourite Pokemon!

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  8. i am really 50-50 on the poke transfer thing, although cool you can finally see which pokemon was legit or not it kinda ruins ones that are. Example the 10 year anniversary pikachu that knows fly,say you have it sitting there in you leaf gren, you want to trade it over to pearl you have to remove fly(no hm moves) kinda ruining its specialness, but you do it thinking you can have it relearned no sweat,turns out you cant without using a cheating device which ruins its legitimacy a little bit. now lets take it another step you want to trade it to white/white2 you got to do the same thing again, thats twice it had to learn fly again through some cheating device even though it originally knew it. Now here comes X and Y, is it gonna stop that pikachu from transfering because it doesnt know it was originally an event pikachu( the pikachu is not in a cherish ball as that wasnt introduce to later generation), thats kinda unfair considering it is real just the only way to keep it’s specialness was through the use of another device, what do you think do you guys have that special pikachu? sorry if i went a little too deep in this thinking i just had a thought and i needed to say it cause i dont think gamefreak thought this one through lol.

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    • That also reminds me that I have 2 copies of the games and I get the event Pokes in both but I only pick one set. The other I leave with the guy on the Pkmn Center so I can reset someday until I get something I want.. I’ll have to pick them before the trial ends or I won’t pass them over 🙁 Stupid paid services. At least.. it is not that expensive.

      Oh well.. I sure hope they allow for event pokes to be passed from old old games somehow.

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    • the only solution i can think of is remove fly and trade it all the way up to x and y and then use a device(not sure if there is an action replay for the 3ds) to teach it fly again, but like you said it loses its legitmacy and it not being in a special pokeball makes it seem even more fishy when people see it then it gets banned from tournaments even though it is real. Good point your right,i am not sure how gamefreak gonna deal with that one lol

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  9. I really love how simple and easy these Mega Evos are! They’re a lot less complicated and intricate than a lot of the other Mega Evos. Good job in keeping the classics plain, Gamefreak. That’s a great way to keep people happy.

    I like Mega Charizard and Mega Blastoise the best as far as design is concerned. In-battle, Charizard is clearly ridiculously OP, although he kinda needed to be in a way. With his awful typing in the Metagame, having Drought is his saving grace. Venusaur also gets a very handy ability in Thick Fat. Blastoise I am a little disappointed at, maybe it will include Hydro Pump and other traditional Blastoise moves?

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      • It’s online, you just need an internet connection, I might be misunderstanding the question but literally a internet connection is all you need…

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        • Well, for example. With the release of Wii U and Network Services.. if you create your account linked to your console location (in my case, Costa Rica), then you get a message saying something like “eShop is not available in your country”.

          So, if they make this accesible with a Nintendo Account (club Nintendo, which I can’t have either), then we get no access.

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  10. If you see the Pokemon direct, not the resumed video, or rather I haven’t seen the resumed video so I don’t know, but in the direct there’s a seen where Xavier is talking to a old men on the beach, and it ight be just me or is his hair different?!

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  11. I must admit, I’m a little disappointed. I did appreciate the transferring from Gen. V and the Mega Evolutions, but the fact that they will be having service fees for the Pokémon Bank and the lack of change in Blastoise and especially Charizard’s typings really brought it down for me. Also no gold XL anouncement and lack of much general game news. However, the good news is that Mega Venusaur and Mega Charizard have great new abilities, I like the three new Mega designs, and that we can now transfer Pokémon to different games much more quickly than trading one at a time! On top of that I notice that the special 3DS XLs don’t come with the games, so perhaps closer to the holidays the gold one will see release after all, with that one coming with one of the games. If that doesn’t happen, I’m glad we got the red one, at least, I like it too.

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    • Too bad u didn’t believe it right from the start…
      I did and now ima happy as a Skiddo (cause it looks so happy and cute)!
      It’s the only rumor that i believed in right from the start for some odd reason…

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      • Fairy could easily have changed a little since WPM’s leaker played the game- he played a beta version after all. It’s likely that Fairy was changed after that.

        Professor Patrice may still turn out to be real, you never know. Possibly like Sycamore’s aide, who happens to also be a professor?

        It may also be that Patrice is no longer a professor, or that he’s since been removed, like Fairy and Psychic’s relationship.

        The one I’m unsure about is Mewtwo’s two forms. Unless if he got a little confused and the second Mewtwo form is actually a Mew Mega evolution.

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