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- Mega Evolution can only occur when the trainer and Pokemon have a strong enough bonds.
- Kanto Starters have Mega Evolutions
- Starter Pokemon to be given by a friend, Professor to give you a Kanto starter
- Annual fee to cover maintenance of the Pokemon Bank system and future compatibility with title.
- Pokemon Bank is a paid service which stores Pokemon in an online “Box”. Another app called “Pokemon Transporter” will allow Black, White, Black 2, and White 2 will allow for Generation V games to upload to it.
- Discussing link cable in original Gameboy games before the internet
- Mr. Ishihara is hosting today
- Pokémon Direct is starting shortly
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Featured Thread: You are now a gym leader by butsukoy
FAIL. I was thinking Drought was DrySkin…Wow, Charizard with Drought? Forget Dragon typing lol
Now I’ll also be able to transfer my Shiny Charizard and make it Mega Shiny Charizard!! :O
Shiny Mudkip!
Did you get it yet? 😀
April fools 🙁
Ohhh =/ In September ;(
Patience 😀
I have 38 days to find a shiny Mudkip! Time goes by really fast! Look how fast these months went by lol.
I can give ya a shiny Mudkip Jordin
As much as I would love to be lazy and accept your offer, I can’t : Wouldn’t it feel great to finally get one yourself after going through all that effort? Thank you for the offer but I’m going to have to decline 😐
Venusaur with Thick Fat…em yes please!
So then Venusaur’s weaknesses will only be Flying and Psychic…That’s awesome for a Grass type
Well… Mega Charizard has Drought. That kind of renders of it the same.
Also, I hate to say it but “the Mega Ring resonating with the Mega Stone” for Mega Evolution reminds me of the crest and tags to digivolve into Ultimates lol
Hahahha maybe the anime will have a cool mega evolution cut scene complete with epic music!
I don’t see this as a bad thing, as I would want it to be hard to mega evolve but not too hard to do it.
though lol at your comment since it is So true
This is insane!! So excited 😀 Though now that we get a Kanto starter I can’t take Fennekin as I want Charizard! I guess it depends how early in the game you get them…if it’s like half way through the game then I guess I could take Fennekin.
We probably going to get all the hoenn starters as well so got to pick from 3 most likely.
I dont know that we will be able to get all Hoenn starters since there’s the torchic event
Completely forgot about Torchic now…Gahhh Mega Blaziken or Mega Charizard! Can’t decide hahaha
I am getting both games so if you want to trade for one I will have an extra
Hehe thanks…I think I might have to give up megacharizard and go for megablastoise
cool I can breed you a charmander or restart one game to get all three that way I get mine and have some to trade
I don’t think you have to decide you can get both
I know but I don’t want to have two fire types on the team 😛 and worst part is they’re two of my fav starters.
now im pretty sure that all starters gonna take mega evolutions!
They are liable to be events like Blaziken, though. As in, we get the Starter Mega Evolutions when they GIVE us the Starter Mega Evolutions.
maybe after you beat it you can get totodile chikorita and cyndquil!!
or Piplup, Turtwig, Chimchar
Words cannot express how badly I want a MegaFeraligatr
On the pokemon x and y website it has a section that says Classic Partner Pokemon so maybe there will be more starters.
On that note.
In Pokémon X and Pokémon Y, it’s not Professor Sycamore who gives you your first Pokémon. Instead, when you receive a Pokémon from the professor, you’ll be able to choose from Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle! These Pokémon were the first three Pokémon you could start your adventure with in Pokémon Red Version and Pokémon Blue Version, released in North America in 1998, the very beginning of the Pokémon series! And now you’ll be able to include them in your party once again.
So that confirms pretty much, from a story perspective, Sycamore will have nothing to do with our Kalos Starters, and likely Pokedex, For what it’s worth.
do you think that we will get mega stones for the starters depending in what starter you choose?
It would make sense. I dunno if they will or not, but it seems likely enough.
it’s fair.
I was wondering if they would consider using battle points to buy Megastones. It seems like a good way to prove that a trainer is skilled enough to handle a Mega
interesting, it would be great!
im still pick froakie and charmander!!!
I’m leaning towards Chespin and Bulbasaur…Though I plan to get all 18 starters eventually
I’d hate to repeat types, but im picking Froakie and Squirtle
i’m going with chespin and squirtle, because we’ll get the torchic through distribution too!
1. they know how to make people feel old =( kids today will never understand the joyment (or headache depending how you look at it) of the link cables.2. pokemon bank 0_o dont know what say i am 50-50 on it but seeing as how i am late to white and might not get white 2 this could come in handy, shame the poke transfer only responds to gen v games, and poor spikey ear pichu every pokemon gets to go 3d except you, making you useless, no body loves you =(.3. mega evolutions its so weird i dont think anyone can deny there some digi in the idea of it but it might be cool once you get use to it i want that mega blastoise. 4. so that was blastoise(mega) in the back in that mystery title? guess that game might be real after all, here the pic case anybody wondering, to the far right in the back it looked like blastoise when i first saw it but different.
I had a link cable it was not the best thing to use.
Never actually got one, surprisingly enough. I did have a friend with one, but then that was my only real opportunity to trade, and not even that when he stopped playing Pokemon.
I don’t see Blastoise in that pic AT ALL
top right in the back, that blue balloon
Okay lets watch the video with whats her name is she wearing a bracelet? or any gym leader for that matter
Korinna seems to have a Mega Stone in her glove
thats what i also saw!
By the Way, Pokemon Bank is the last tab on the Official Site, so all the tabs are finally filled.
I’ve said yesterday that the ??? box will probably gonna be revealed in today’s Pokemon Direct!
A side note, am I the only person that’s gonna use generation VI Pokemon only, no matter how awesome some mega-evolutions are…?
Probably, in gen 5 it would make sense to do that since there were no non-Gen 5 Pokemon before you beat the game….but in this gen, non-Gen VI pokemon will be part of the game
I might just have a team with a differnt Pokemon from each generation.
I prefer to have my in-game team with Pokemon only from that generation, not region
My battle team will probably have one of each gen tho (maybe with a few Mega-Evo Pokemon)
ok im not the only one, as much as I love mega Blastoise, I only take Pokémon on their corresponding regions. But if there is plenty of things to do after the elite four, then I’ll defenately use my Squirtle
I do that with every new region. 😉
Who’s getting the 3ds Pokemon Consle because i’m not
I would if I didn’t already have a 3DS
Yea that’s thing with Nintendo and the hand helds
If I can get the money for it I will. As, I was going to sell my current 3DS to a cousin so he can get one at a cheaper price, and I will have some extra money towards a new XL.
I am! I have a regular 3ds but the 3ds xl is simply amazing, I was just waiting for an awesome edition for me to buy one and here it is!
What’s the differnce between the 3ds and xl?
one is larger
yes its simply larger but I really like it because not only is it simple to transfer everything from your old 3ds to the new one, but the screen is stunning it only adds up to the great graphics and 3d effect
I’m definitely gonna get this one. When I saw that it was gonna get released in Japan I was really hoping EU (and US) would be getting one as well. I already have a normal 3DS but I guess I can get the money in time to get this 3DS XL. I’m also glad that it comes out before the game comes out and not after.
I was able to get all 649 Pokemon of the prior gens through the help of online trades…It’ll be interesting to see how many (if any) of those are fake when I try to transfer them. Hopefully not too many, well hopefully none
At least if you restart a game on your in Pokemon X and Y you can have all your Pokemon if it works that way. Plus, you know someone’s gonna try to find a new app or something to make hacked Pokemon.
Of course they will. However, I’m thinking if there is an exploit, it will be something that Pokemon can readily fix by patching it, and then the exploit wouldn’t work anymore. At least there is one good thing about Pokemon Bank*well, several, but primarily* WE CAN TRANSFER OUR POKEMON WITHOUT HAVING ACCESS TO ANOTHER DS. YAY.
Thank You nintendo you saved me money.
By making you spend five bucks XD. But Five bucks if FAR preferable to over 100 bucks.
It really is but, what they should’ve done in the video is told the price but they might not have the price so only time will tell. Best we can do is try to find out.
Well, the price in Japan IS 500 Yen, so it should be about the same for us. PLUS, there is supposed to be a free trial til January. So yay for that too. ON TOP OF THAT, this almost certainly means we won’t have a padding mini game to play to transfer Pokemon finally! Just upload to the box, and be done with it.
I heartily agree! Borrowing someone else’s DS to make all your pokeransfers can get quite tiring!
I had to do it with online people…300+ pokemon, it was SO annoying
I hope the shiny Meinshao I got isn’t fake. It’s my main team member. I got it at level 40 (or something near it) so I assumed it was legit. 🙁
I wonder if the Pokemon Bank is the only thing we can download hmm…..?
Pokemon Bank is going to be 500 Yen ($ 5) a year in Japan. No US price announced. Goes on sale Dec 25th, free trial lasts until Jan 31st.
Free trial? Thank god. -.-
going to transfer all my main pokes and get them out and the never use poke bank again!!! mwuahahahah
They mentioned that the amount of Pokemon you can store in-game is limited…so good luck with that
This game will be much easier with all the trading feature’s which I think is a good thing because now I might complete my Pokedex for the first time.
Anybody else happy that there not changing the tpe of the first gen starters.
I am ecstatic! i think with mega evo’s that retyping them would of messed up things
The only type change I could see is Charizard getting fire dragon and that’s it.
Well, they could have retyped them for the Mega Evolutions… Also, it is worth noting that making Mega Charizard Fire/Dragon would NOT help against Stealth Rock, it would already be in the fight… But, who knows, if Fairy Types are strong enough, Charizard being fire without worrying about strong neutral hits could be a blessing.
You’d think that with THREE guns, Blastoise might get a secondary steel typing…
Yea, I wish Blastoise would’ve gotten a secondary typing but whatevs…
I mean Empoleon has no guns and it’s half steel. #notonegun
Didn’t think of that.
When I heard DLC my heart was racing, so Pokémon Bank was a bit of a bummer, but I love hearing I’ll get to keep my old favourites!!
Has it been revealed who that old dude talking about Mega Evolutions is? If it has, I can’t believe I missed it. >.<
What’s up with the female Magnezone? XD
Magnezone can have gender’s?
I didn’t realize that. That’s weird….Why would they be gendered all of a sudden??
This sucks I hope that there is a free trail now I’ll have to get a deput card just for pokemon
ok this should keep things interesting until corocoro comes out late this week into next week
I’m most excited about MegaVenusaur only having two weaknesses….I mean a grass type with only two weaknesses…CRAZZZZZY
But I wonder if that is a better option than chlorophyll…
Well, with the increased Defense and Special Defense, that means Mega Venusaur could probably do some epic Sub Stalling, leech seeding and other things like that.
That is true, I didn’t know what boosts in stats Venusaur got, so thanks for the info =)
Chlorophyll only works in a pinch anyway, so it will be good for those people who don’t let their Pokémon get too beat up.
I think MegaVenasaur will make a good bulky grass, specializing in countering rain parties. Leech Seed and Sleep Powder =)
Very true, and we do need plenty of rain counters since rain teams are extremely powerfull XD
DUDE, THAT MEGA CHARIZARD and MEGA BLASTOISE LOOOOOOK AMAAAAZEBALLS.
MY BODY IS MELTING.
I CAN’T COPE. I CAN’T. TAKE MY COINS AND PANTS MASUDA
Female Mangezone???
http://www.pokemonxy.com/_ui/img/_en/screenshots/sept_bank_p3_01_quoa3.jpg
… Get Equipped with Gender? That IS weird.