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?
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
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
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.
The one thing I’m worried about with the pokebank, is that they are going to give us limited storage inside x and y to try and make us buy the bank.
I really hope they don’t do that. But I don’t think GF would do that type of stuff.
yeah they won’t do that because it’s an optional feature
True
I’m sorry to disappoint you both but in the Nintendo Direct…They clearly said that the ability to store Pokemon in-game would be limited. So it does seem they’re going to do that to encourage Pokemon Bank usage
I’m sure 20 boxes (or 25 I don’t remember) like the previous games is more than enough for me….I don’t fill pokedexes. I battle.
To be fair, the Storage System has been limited in all of the games.
I hope they don’t, but the might give us 12-18 boxes instead of 24.
I just completed my pokemon black pokedex (HURRAY) but I had like 20 boxes and assuming they will have 100+ I need like 24 D:
Were those 3 moves used in the trailer Frenzy Plant, Blast Burn, and Hydro Cannon?
Yup.
Blast Burn looks freaking amazing, but slightly disappointed by Frenzy plant. I want gigantic roots rushing at the opponent and slamming into them! Like this: (Go to 2:30) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-X03D3tSVU
They have different animations, Mega Blaziken had a different one so did they change it?? I liked the Mega Blaziken Blast Burn better.
Really? I’d have to watch Blaziken’s again.
Oops, I thought you linked the recent trailer! They did change though.
Nah, I linked something else with how I want Frenzy Plant to look instead lol.
I know I saw :p I hope they make an animated trailer again!
That move Blaziken uses isn’t Blast Burn. It’s overheat
Oh okay thanks for clearing that up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BftrqE2CQiQ&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PLQWzKIaERirwczLwQE6HegZyd4pYV5AwH
Blaziken Blast Burn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blhaSxUJ-OU&list=PLQWzKIaERirwczLwQE6HegZyd4pYV5AwH
Charizard Blast Burn
Hmm, we don’t see the end of Blaziken’s attack, but they both start out with that circle of fire!
The difference I see is the fire circling around Blaziken but Charizard’s doesn’t show it circling him. It could be they skipped frames but..IDK.
We’ll find out in due time 😀
My calender is ready XD I should probably get to finishing my homework! Nice taking to you, bye 🙂
Ok, take care!
That is Blaziken’s Overheat btw ^^
I’m REALLY disappointed with Frenzy Plant ESPECIALLY after how AMAZINGLY AWESOME Power Whip’s animation is
Yup, still unhappy about the recharge though
Lol, I don’t mind the recharge.
…if you are able to knock out the opponent by then.
Well there has to be repercussion to a very powerful move. Imagine if Hyper Beam had 150 power and 30 PP..*shivers*
I want them to do RBY mechanics, where if you KO, there is no recharge. I know that psybeam and hyper beam have RBY sounds….maybe this is possible…?
That would be amazing.
Hopefully we can transfer a hole box at a time rather than only six. I have over 16 boxes of Pokémon that I need to transfer from my White 2.
I think they showed that in the video where the whole box was grabbed.
I think that also at that part it showed it asking if you wanted to send that box to the storage too. I just hope that is the same for transferring from the generation five games.
I would want to have the ability to manipulate the box of my BWB2W2 games while I transfer so that I don’t have to close the software, boot the game, and do it for “convenience”.
Oh yeah. In the past while transferring it would always tell me i cannot transfer because of hm moves. It would be nice for it to be ok to have hm moves and to be able to move pokemon out of one of the boxes that players wish to transfer.
Are the prices for the Poke Bank revealed for other countries than the US ? 🙂
Use this 😀
http://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/
It’s about $5.
Thanks! 😀
I’m willing to bet money that this new pokemon is the one from the anime trailer. 🙂
I love these new evolutions, but I’m kind of disappointed that Charizard didn’t get Dragon. Oh, well. At least he gets a boost in other ways.
And we won’t find out from GF what it is, just like they did with Oorotto 🙁 (UNLESS COROCORO)
We can only hope that Corocoro will reveal Starter Evolutions, Oorotto and this llama-thing to fill in missing gaps!
And other Starter Mega Evos :p
Even if charizard was fire/dragon with levitate, you would still have to switch out to charizard and then mega evolve so you can’t really get rid of that pesky 4x weakness to rock.
OMG! We had you the first time! Stop riding blastoise dick. It’s not bash charzarid day. Sheesh
I’m not allowed to state facts?
Well it seems that Megas will get boosts in 2 stats, so perhaps Charizards other stat will hopefully be speed- so you can LEAD IN-> MEGA-> Drought-> PWN.
It is already confirmed indeed that all mega evolutions get two stat boosts. For Charizard it will be twoo boosts in Special Attack. For Venusaur it is 1 in Defense and Special Defence. Just Like Lucario. It will be Two in Attack. So yeah, these Mega-Evolutions will really be PWNAGE! Use thief or knock off and they’re back to normal 😉
I wonder about that. I guess the only way to see is to try it for ourselves in a month-ish. Im not sure if the Knock off strategy will work- seems like the mechanic is much too fleshed out just to be counteracted by something as simple as a move. Im thinking once the evolution happens, it stays, regardless of what its holding- since the item allows it to Mega Evolve, instead of it being instantaneous.
What we really need is a freaking ability to clear entry hazards… unless they nerf Stealth Rock. Maybe make the mon frail to provide balance to it (since hazard removing through ability is a bit OP).
Is it just me or were Charmander and Charizard’s cries different?
Cries are updated.
I know that but the other’s that we’ve heard didn’t seem TOO different…
Actually Bulbasaur sounds different too, where Squirtle sounds more like ugraded version of the older one.
They updated cries! Venusaur’s sounded the most different!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=An8IZNbAHXU ok in this at about 50 seconds you can see the trainer with short hair!
Who do you think that guy is? Champion? Champion’s Dad? Champion’s GRANDPA? Leader of the Bad Guys? Someone with the International Police? Korrina’s Dad?
some random guy by the tower of mastery? 😀
Random Person around the Tower of Mastery!
Great news and all, but I’m not looking forward to trading my Pokemon from my Japanese versions of Black/Black 2 to my English versions of White/White 2.
Blasted region lock… :/
I guess by “later” they mean when you either beat the champion and/or complete the regional dex.
Akamaru pokemon confirmed
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Akamaru pokemon confimed
Where in the video was this shown? Beginning, halfway through, or near the end?
The clip was for like a second at the end and akamaru is from naruto…
Six things that ran through my mind :
1. Thank Arceus we can transfer Pokemon!!!
2. What? I have to pay?? well at least the free trial will be helpful…
3. Yes! Kanto Starters get mega-evolutions… because trainers and pokemon have mathching jewellery???
4. Oh dear, Charizard has drought … I can hear the weather wars
5. Better question why the psyduck is Blastoise not part steel????????
6. apparently there was a llama
Yes, a llama there was and a llama Gamefreak shall hide until they decide to reveal it in full 😀
ok i hope that there is a system in x/y like in past generations where u can transfer pokemon over im not paying a $5 fee for my level 5 mudkip
It’s only $5 for a WHOLE year. If it was $6 a year, that’s 50 cents a month, so it’s actually less than that.
Your not paying? $5 FOR A YEAR! Pokemon is just being generous! It takes money to save and store all of the data. Without paying they will not have the funds to keep it! Also, you get a month free trial. Then you have to pay the fee. It’s not much.
wait its $5 dollars a year oh i thought it was monthly sorry for beign stupid 🙁
Well, hate to burst your bubble, but this IS the System. It will have a month free trial when it first comes out, so you can at least do all your transferring then.
$5 for 20 years is much better than a 2nd 3DS for $189, which is not going to last 20 years, as a nintendo 4DS will come out by then.
Does anyone know at what point in the video the new llama was shown? I don’t want to research the whole thing because I’m a Snorlax. >.>
I think about 15 minutes in….it’s barely shown for a split second.
Ha wasn’t supposed to be shown
Or was he? It may have been an accident, but it’s a blink and you miss it affair, and even finding in the video is kind of tricky. They’ve had other new Pokemon showing up in other official stuff for sometime, such as Skiddo, so it may have just been a nice treat to the perceptive viewer.
You’re going to have to have very good freeze-frame reflexes if you want to see it in the video itself.
Hey everyone on pokejungle I’m new to writing on here but I have been reading your articles for a while and I just wanted to mention that this new white pokemon that has been shown is confirmation that the recent “leaked kalos dex” is fake I checked all the descriptions that were on the “leaked dex” and none of them seemed to fit.
Thank you! I’m so glad someone took the time to check that! ^-^
No problem I was just curious as to whether the list was real or not lol
Dude ur name is Sick!
Thanks bro
Yes, no fire/fighting littleo evolution or 9-tailed fennekin evolution.
As did I earlier too! 😀
I couldn’t find a compatible description either… I’m really am glad, not ready for the full list to leak till at least October 1st (at the earliest), and a lot of the list seemed to redundant…
I had a brief check over that like when I first saw Follama (Folicle because hair lol and Llama). Glad someone went through the list properly! I only really looked at the Normal, Ice and Psychic types. Because that’s the types I think it might be.
Still, I am a little sad. The backwards-in-time Fairy dragon Psuedo legend sounded really cool, and there were some other cool and interesting Fairies as well.
Can somone make a godlike picture for me of Luxray that says MErfth.plz
🙂 Credit to Xous54 on DeviantART for Luxray.
All of these megas are really good, but think about Venusaur. It has boosted defenses and because of thick fat it is only weak to phychic and flying type moves. If Venusaur is fighting a Fire type or something with a fire type move, no worries. Mega evolve to take that hit well and use earthquake.
If you’re fast enough…
I don’t need to be faster because I’m not going to take too much damage. Oh no, unless his pokemon decided to become mega aswell. Now i wonder how much this will change battles with all of this uncertainty.
Edit: For some reason I assume that your pokemon becomes mega at the beginning of the turn.
I think Milotic means fast enough to mega-evolve
Yeah, sorry if I didn’t clarify.
Does mega evolution happen at the beginning of the turn?
No. You activate it manually.
Yeah, but does it happen going by how fast my pokemon is or does it happen before anyone gets to attack?
Well, we don’t know that for certain, but I’d imagine it’ll probably be based on your speed, as you transform when it’s your turn. It could activate before that though. Doesn’t help our only test of it is a Pokemon that outsped the competition tremendously, so that didn’t really tell us. *Mewtwo vs the Demo Pokemon*
Crobat’s as well as Mewtwo’s base speed stat are the same at 130.
Yeah, but I think if I remember correctly by that point he was already evolved, because I don’t think Sycamore started with Crobat. *goes to check*
It can happen anytime at the touch of a button, and still attack the same turn. 🙂
poison too can be a big weak for venusaur
Poison types resist poison type attacks, so Venusaur receives neutral damage…
Poison -> Poison, NVE
Poison -> Grass SE
Grass/Poison neutralizes the weakness for Poison-type.
I have a question: How can I transfer my pokemon from pokemon blanck and white 2 to x and Y!! I mean, black and white 2 is compatible with the pokemon banc app!! we needd a video aout it how does it works
Their is the Pokemon Transfer app that works in conjunction with the Pokemon Bank app. You’ll use the Transfer to send your BW2 Pokemon to the Bank, which can then be accessed by X and Y.
ohhh okokok like when you are sending a random pokemon to another person right?
… eh? No, you just use the tool to select Pokemon, from the official website, entire boxes even, and just upload that to the Bank. They are transferred to the Bank, and then you can access those Pokemon in the Bank Boxes in X and Y.
Right, but you will be sending them to yourself instead. B&W and B2&W2 can only deposit PKMN into the bank, X&Y can deposit and withdraw PKMN.
I know that but pokemon has made it before pokemon blank and white realesed
Not quite sure I follow what you mean… ?
sorry my english sucks,but forget it
Its all good… If you care to explain a little more I’d be glad to help.
Sooo Pokemon, PokeJungle, GameFreak and Nintendo!! Thanks for everything, you made my day :’) thanks a lot for the news and now I begin to believe that Samurott can get a Mega-Evolution 😀 thanks Arceus
hopefully they reveal the new pokemon and orrotto in next corocoro. mega blastoise is my favorite btw.
Mega Venusaur <3
right now all the people love venusaur but he needed it 😀
I’ve loved the Bulbasaur line since the beginning!
I favourite Blastoise, think that Venusaur is the best, and aknowledge the potential of Charizard’s drought.
mega venusaur is my second favorite ;D I am probably in the minority of liking mega charizard the least
Don’t feel alone. I am with you. I will always be with you.
buy me dinner first, then we will talk 😉
I don’t have a job yet and am saving my money for Pokémon X.
I can wait.
Well I am sure I’ll see you around here at pokejungle.net
Thanks for linking us I’m sure we would have never found our way back to the site we are currently on XD just kidding of course
I’m with you…even as a Venusaur fan, in my opinion:
1. Mega Blastoise
2. Mega Venusaur
3. Mega Charizard
I like all three of them.
pokemon has two pokemon that they didnt reveled! Ooroto and that weird pokemon
yeah that kind of bothered me. but then again, I was already grumpy watching pokemon direct at 4 in the morning.
I hope they reveal it, Mega Kangaskhan, and Oorotto. <3
oh yeah, almost forgot about mega kangaskan. they need to reveal him too.
my team: Froakie, Torchic, Bulbasaur, Samurott, starly and another one
So far mine is: Fennekin, Venusaur, Flabébé, Helioptile, ???, and ???
EDIT: Where do the Starly and Samurott come from? The Bank?
i have too many favorite pokemon, i have no clue what my first team will be
Am I the only one who doesn’t play with “teams”, I just catch all Pokemon and play with them all
I think the new Pokemon we saw is an evolution of Swirlix. Pokemon have undergone rapid changes in appearance before. Look at Magikarp and Gyarados. If I didn’t know any better, I would of thought they were unrelated. I personally love the new Pokemon. It looks so cute!
That’s a possiblity, but Gyarados kept the whiskers that Magikarp had. I don’t think Swirlix would go through that drastic of a change, unless it maybe needed a Dusk Stone to evolve.
Swirlix still has the white, fluffy appearance if it were to evolve into this. I think it’s entirely not out of the question. I’ve seen so many rapid changes in evolution for some Pokemon. Some are more similar to their pre-evolutions though, such as Weavile.
Swirlix is white?! I’m color blind! I thought it was pink!
It’s white and pink. And this shot of the new Pokemon is low resolution, taken from a video still of the Direct. So it may actually be showing some pink that we can’t really see!
Heck, I didn’t even know Swirlix had feet until the official screenshots came out. xD
Also, it still has the same tail like Swirlix, just bigger. If you look closely. You are right and that Pokemon keep one important feature when they evolve. I think for Swirlix it’s the tail and fluff to it’s appearance. I can not wait to see the official Ken Sugimori artwork of this Pokemon! <3
I made a theory earlier that Swirlix will evolve into a poodle and that may not be so Farfetch’d at the moment 😀
Yes. 😀 I’m really excited for this Pokemon!
I love Mega Blastoise, but I’m not quite sure about its ability. Mega Launcher “raises the power of pulse type moves, such as Water Pulse and Dark Pulse (Dragon Pulse as well)”. This sounds great but the only “pulse” move Blastoise can learn is Water Pulse. Yeah sure the power boost would be really helpful…but maybe we will see new “Pulse” moves? Technically there could be one for every type sense it’s an extraction of energy. A Mega Blastoise with Water Pulse and Ice Pulse would be pretty cool.
It would be nice if we had Electric Pulse. Lol.
Immediately after I read ‘Mega Launcher’ I thought “Hydro Pump’s going to get powered up!” Then I was told it only affects pulse moves :p
who knows they might count hydro pump as a pulse move
Mabye the animations for the Pulse moves for Blastoise will show it firing from its cannons
There could be a major overhaul of movesets for PKMN, due partially to Mega Evolution. Ampharos can now learn Dragon Pulse now for instance, in X&Y.
Mega Blastoise sounds like it will really shine in triple battles.
Oh my god! I really want Swirlix to evolve into this! I really do! A poodle would really be perfect! It’s fluffy, just like cotton candy! Please make it happen Game Freak! Not only is it food, it’s an animal too! Awesomeness! And I love poodles. I have a miniature poodle as a pet. <3
Me too! Poodle friends! XD
YESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If they are unrelated, I might have to send a tweet to Junichi Masuda! xD They have the same tail, color, and fluff. I really want this to be the case! I want Spritzee to evolve into a Flamingo. It’s official website entry says it’s scent changes based on it’s diet. Flamingos change color based on their diet. It could be a combo of a flamingo and the plague doctor. Best of both worlds. Lol.
I just think Spritzee is too cute to be based off of the plague doctor. Such a grim topic for a kid’s game. But then again, we have Chandelure that burn souls. o.O
Don’t forget about Hypno, or Hypno will make you forget about yourself. *shudders*
I’d expect a poodle to be more curly or with its generically recognizable hair cut. Looks more like an alpaca to me…
All I would like to say is that if they could at least make a Fairy/Flying type evolution for Spritzee, I would thank Masuda for that. Spritzee does look like a bird, right?
Yes! Very fast transferring.