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.
Pros:
The Megas.
The new apps.
Mega design changes are an improvement from MegaKhangaskan,
Cons:
Same typings for the Megas.
Pokemon Bank is a paid service.
Overall Conclusion:
I was expecting a bit more, no OFFICIAL new Pokemon, but her, here’s hoping CoroCoro won’t be as disappointing, not that this was disappointing at all, but the information was minor, we could’ve waited a little longer to learn this information. I think there rumors going around about MegaBlastoise’s cannon getting larger, so that isn’t a surprise. The arm cannons are a nice touch. MegaVenusaur has sprouted a tree and a meaner look (like all of them), so this is probably my least favorite as far as design, but playability-wise, I think all three will be great. MegaCharizard has larger wings and “hand-wings,” along with a more red-orange color, an improved tail and a more dragon look to it, but still it remains as Fire/Flying. I wish these would’ve been Grass/Poison, Water/Steel and Fire/Dragon, but whatever. With CoroCoro in a week, I’m not completely disappointed in this Pokemon Direct, but I am saddened for some of it. With 5 1/2 weeks until the game releases, I don’t think they’ve released enough Pokemon (or a potential PokeDex leak from Hiro or Pokexperto), but CoroCoro and possible other reveals on random days might make up for that. I’m loving the games so far, so I hope they will live up to all of our expectations…!
(This is my opinion, so please do not judge me, since that isn’t what Pokejungle is meant to be for, but positive comments are appreciated, but if you don’t have anything nice to say, just don’t say it at all. I’d rather end off the night with a smile on my face from nice comments rather than have my self-esteem lowered because of trolls. :D)
I honestly won’t have a problem with paying. It probably won’t be much at all. Besides, they have to tend to the servers to keep them going for years and years. It’s all understandable. Except Mega Blastoise’s ability.
It is $5.00, and nor do I, but if they keep making mini-apps like this with microtransactions here and there, people will start to get frustrated. Take Plants vs. Zombies 2: It’s About Time as an example. The microtransactions altogether are $20.00, and the game is free. I feel like we pay $40.00 for Pokemon X and Y and that’s that. But I completely understand your opinion and I am not judging or critiquing you in any way. 😀
Nice to see you again, Dedennyden. I am personally going for Mega Venusaur because 1. I have never owned a Bulbasaur in my Pokecareer and I want to get one now, and 2. I will be picking Froakie in Pokemon X which will be my main game and picking Squirtle will make me have two water types on my team and probably no status inflictors SO…yeah.
Well, nice to see you as well! School has been a pain and our professor is completely killing us with a ton of homework and extremely high expectations, but it’s all about the learning. I haven’t owned a Bulbasaur at all either, I don’t think, so it will be interesting to see what the outcome of that is. 38 more days until I get my precious DEDENNE! 😀
I’ll allow you to be the first person in the world to own a Dedenne, because you’re Dicie 😀
Aww. Thanks! 😀
And that is why you are my best friend! Froakie and bulbasaur.
All the way! We’ll make it to the League like no Trainer’s business! 😀
I can totally understand. To me, it’s enough to tie us over until CoroCoro. Sure, I so wanted Charizard to become Dragon (I mean c’mon…..those wings scream dragon) but I kinda understand why: to give them minor changes to appease most people. My least favorite one is Venusaur…..it might just be that flower on its forehead >.< The Pokemon Bank I expect will be cheap and I understand why it's a paid service, for maintenance and to keep it going for future games. I so wanted them to address that new Pokemon, but I'm hoping for CoroCoro for Oorotto and that alpaca pokemon. I agree as well wit the Pokemon, I kidna want just a bit more, not all but most so I can plan my team for the games. It's like 37 days away and I'm still in a pickle. I love what they have revealed (yes even Mega….they're growing on me, just like Fairy type) and I know this will be an awesome game! 😀 I just would like more Pokemon, so that's why that alpaca Pokemon has got my attention the most, really, in my mind.
Yes! Great responses, I am impressed. 😀
Hm… That recent “leaked Kalos Dex List” doesn’t seem to have anything similar to the llama alpaca poodle thing revealed, so I am now 99.9% sure it’s fake.
I hope It’s fake Litleo final stage fire/fighting. Seriously must they have that type combination every generation.
hoping not to see that type combo for a few generations. Hoping for a water/fire combo though
Litleo should be Fire/Poison
I am going to spend most of my free time this weekend going through every Pokemon game I have (Emerald, Firered, Platinum, Heartgold, Black, White, Black 2, White 2) and organizing all of my Pokemon that I want to get transferred to X, while also acquiring new Pokemon along the way. It will be an enormous uptaking in these last few weeks, but to catch them is my real test, and to train them is my cause.
Gotta Catch’Em All. Pokemon!
I have all of the gen 1-5 Pokemon and have them all trained to at least lvl 50…I think I’m going to start breeding them all, so I can train them in X/Y from the beginning again
You sir, are a true Pokemon master. :{D
Impressive, to say the least. The only reason why I don’t have them all is because it is so tedious to transfer, breed, catch, transfer, breed…
Oh no not at all. Everyone has their own definition of “Pokemon Master”, me I love all Pokemon equally so my personal goal is to catch them and train them all. Some people’s definition of a Pokemon Champion is to train the strongest team and competitive battle…Competitive battling doesn’t interest me at all, so to each his own 😀
Oh my gosh, an old memory just occurred to me. I have been trying to think about which Kanto starter had much of an emotional pull for me, and I couldn’t really think of which one, because I was introduced to Pokemania two generations too late. Well I just remembered an old Pokemon card I had (or still have) called Dark Venusaur and it had the “Best” insignia on it, and I thought it was the most incredible card ever. It may not be my rarest item, but it has an emotional pull (just like my holo Electivire that I pulled out of my very first Diamond and Pearl pack). Mega Venusaur for me in Pokemon X!
I started with Yellow version, then I got leaf green and chose Bulbasaur so I’m going with The same. Also For the Kalos starter I’ll choose Froakie, that case if the rumor able the weaker rival giving you their starter is true I’ll have 3 different types.
Started with Red & Blue. Still have the original holo Charizard card (was my very 1st holo too) :D. Can’t wait to use him in XY.
I’m really excited about Pokémon Bank!! I’ve been deciding which ‘mons I wanted to transfer ever since XY were announced, and I was worried I wouldn’t be able to. I just hope there’ll be a way to have it automatically charge my card like Netflix/Crunchyroll/etc. There is no way I’d remember to pay before any deadlines ahaha…
Do you know how some people were asking when they revealed your NPC friends in the game, “How are they all gonna get the starters? There are only 3 Starters and there are 5 of us.”
Well, considering they’re with you when you go to Professor Sycamore, maybe he gives the other 2 one of the kanto starters.
What do you guys think?
That’s a possibility. I had a dream about another section of the Kalos region map.
I had a dream about being a mayor and killing a Vampire Plumber.
likely not happening, but it’s not impossible which is what you imply.
No, Shana & Calem/Serena is with you when prof. Sycamore gives you the Kanto starter!
Meh, at least I gave it a shot.
Well you have a point! It could mean that Shana and the other gender character will get the Kalos starters, while Tierno and Trevor will have the Kanto starters, because they already have one 😉
Mhmmm BAD
mega launcher will only give boost to puls moves or also to beam and cannon moves?will mega launcher only boost power of the moves or also give high priority to those move, to make themhit first in battle?
We don’t know any of those things yet.
Has Nintendo revealed the name of that mystery Pokemon that was battling Venusaur? I keep thinking it’s a relative of Absol.
They have not announced it, and I highly doubt it’s related to Absol.
Omg, guys, have you seen the news?
There is apparantly this new thing called ‘Mega evolution’, where Pokémon temporarily evolve into stronger forms of themselves. Pokémon like Absol and Ampharos will get Mega evolutions.
I seriously hope they reveal a Mega Slowpoke.
By the way, the demo for the UK has been announced, from the 26th-29th of September, it requires tickets which have sold out unfortunately
Ok, can we seriously just take a second to marvel at this?
RNGing a Shiny Charmander is priority 1 for me now… just saying.
found out that the over-world will not be able to be seen in 3d however trainers with roller blades will teach you tricks after being defeated!!!
The 3D limitations were only for the demo though, IIRC.
http://www.serebiiforums.com/showthread.php?594369-New-Gameplay-Graphics-Discussion-Thread&p=16357827#post16357827
look for #2489
also look at this new japan exclusive commercial!
http://youtu.be/wEQEEkENeb4
Aggghhh just away to pre-order the limited edition 3DS Xl but i can’t decide which one to get- they’re both so beautiful! Blue or Red?
Where are they allowing pre orders at?
GAME in the UK- went live this morning 😀
Ahhh, Im in the US so sucks to be me lol
Awww too bad- im sure it will go live in the US at some point soon if not today- its still only noon here in the uk so were a bit ahead of you so it might go live in a few hours.
GUYS A NEW COMMERCIAL SHOWED SUDOWOODO WITH OOROTTO (?) OMG
Does this mean…..
…a battle between fake and real.
Looks completely fake to me but if sudowoodo was to be related to oorotto then i would hope oorotto would evolve from bonsly in a split evolution- maybe through bonsly being tampered with or something but its highly unlikely.
I don’t think they’re related and it’s not fake, I mean sure they’re both trees but… Horsea and Skrelp are based off of seahorses and they’re not
I see your point. Though Skrelp is based on a specific seahorse (weedy seadragon)…but then again they have a robin evolving into a falcon. :/ Typically, though, evolution shows more signs of comparative similarities besides ‘they are both trees’. Sudowoodo is a fossilized tree while Orot looks like a treant or haunted trees you see in scary cartoons…not very related.
Plus, they have shown that Miltank and Tauros have been in Horde Battles together, and, despite fanon, they are officially not linked to each other, but you could still think of them as counterparts, due to the male female only, same BST. So, maybe just Orotto will be a counterpart to Sudowoodo, in that, while it can be encountered in the wild, maybe there will be some disguised as trees, and can be encountered that way. Like, maybe we could have for a change of pace, you try to cut a tree, and instead of being cut in half, it gets angry and attacks. It’s not impossible, you can fight foongus and amoongus both in the wild, and find them disguised as Pokeballs, though admittedly there was precedent for that, and their have been a few sudowoodo encounters, they do use water… *shrugs* Either way, I kind of doubt they are related, just because Orotto does look like it’s a grass type, it’s foliage looks real, as opposed to the green stone circles of Sudowoodo. We should see soon though. If not from official reveal, from the games themselves finally coming out, we just have a little over a month.
That’s awesome, whether it’s real or not. 😉
I don’t want Oorotto to be related to Sudowoodo. They’re based off of different things and they don’t similar enough to me. But a Ghost/Rock Oorotto would be cool. Have we had that combo yet?
Nope c: What would also be cool about it is that it wouldn’t be weak to fighting (rock is 2x weak to fighting)
ghost is immune to fighting
Not fake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wEQEEkENeb4#t=19
If you look closely you can hear and see that it does normal damage to Sudowoodo and not very effective damage on Oorotto! They just placed them together, just like Tauros and Miltank, to define the species. I guess Oorotto will be revealed in the next Corocoro next week 😉 Second time they showed him.
Hmmm I heard that as well, an electric attack is NVE against grass…could be part grass part ghost?
or grass/rock but i hope grass/ghost
Is there any word on whether those new 3DSXLs are going to be limited ed like the Pikachu one was?
Yes they are. I just pre-ordered mines and it said limited edition in the listing.
It will be ‘limited’ yes, in the way it won’t be sold forever, but I’m sure there will be enough stock for months to come.
Is pokemon bank a feature accessible from the game itself, an app like Dream Radar, or a website like Dream World?
An app like Dream radar
I think there may be some ability to access it from within the game as well, at the least I got the implication we can access it by connecting to the internet and getting Pokemon out like if it was a box. Could be wrong though.
Well, the app pulls the data out of the online box and puts it on the card in the card slot or on the SD card if you have a digital copy.
Now if I download the app, it’s on my SD card on my 3DS right? So that if my 3DS ever broke, I would still have everything on that SD card and just put it in a new 3DS?
No, not at all.
Everything you buy on your 3DS gets encrypted with a specific code tied to your 3DS. If you lose your 3DS or if it breaks you’ll lose everything. Even access to your Pokémon Bank seeing as it likely is 3DS tied. That’s the Nintendo way of digital.
Ah, ok then. Thank you!
Congratulations, your Magnezone is now genderless again.
http://www.pokemon.co.jp/ex/xy/system/images/img_sys06_cap_03.jpg
Those English images clearly are mock ups based on the Japanese ones.
Ok this is just confusing?
Heres to wishful thinking that corocoro will surprise us with an early release still pullin for the 7th-12th
Mmm, in light of all of this.. I might just include my Imposter Ditto more often. Copying a Mega poke would be nice if it is possible (and having mine).
I skimmed through the Nintendo Direct and found no evidence of the screenshot of this new Pokémon. Was this shown in the middle of the trailer?
It was shown for a split second, at 15:16.
Can anyone at least Twitter Masuda if they will have the Dream World? That is a mechanic that I grew accustomed to.
http://en.pokemon-gl.com/
Check the announcements.
Hopefully, a lot of complaints will be made if the Dream World becomes unavailable by January.
Helloooooooooooooo!!! Waitin’ for a reply.
Will you still be able to transfer Pokémon that you befriend online into your game? As far as I am concerned, there will be Pokémon that will not be obtainable through normal gameplay.
Those mega evolutions seem like those fake “new gen” pokemon