Recap of the week
After almost a week of server issues, we’re back! And hopefully better than ever. As you were all hopefully aware we were using a specially created PokéJungle tumblr in order to deliver you news as quick as possible, and despite having to use a different platform we still got you news faster than other sites! Now that we’re back at our usual home we thought we’d give our readers a recap of what’s happened in the Pokémon World of the last week…
Special Broadcasts & Announcements
- The Pokémon Company announced that on Monday 16 September they have a surprise announcement for Pokémon fans. It seems as though it’s related to the accidental trailer uploaded to the Official Pokémon YouTube channel earlier this week, advertising the website GottaCatchEmAll.com
- Pokémon Smash will finish at the end of September. The show will resume airing again under the new name of Pokémon Get☆TV on October 6, and will feature the return of some fan favourite hosts, as well as some new but familiar faces!
- Pokémon: The Origin will broadcast in Japan on October 2 at 7pm and will run for approximately an hour and 50 minutes, if possible we will provide a live stream of the special broadcast, stay tuned!
- On September 23 a special broadcast will be made in Japan focusing on the Pokémon X & Y games, XY anime and Pokémon: The Origin. Stay tuned for more details on our coverage of this!
Pokémon Smash X & Y Special
Yesterday we covered the Special XY Episode of Pokémon Smash, for our brief write-up, please click HERE!
Official Pokémon Site Update
The official update with new information about some of the Pokémon revealed in the recent CoroCoro leak! First, the starter evolutions:
- Quilladin is the evolution of Chespin “When Chespin evolves into Quilladin, the hard spikes on its body grow even sturdier. Despite its prickly appearance, Quilladin is considered a gentle Pokémon that avoids battle.”
- Braixen is the evolution of Fennekin “Once Fennekin evolves into Braixen, it no longer eats branches. But it still keeps a tree branch in its tail, which seems to calm the Pokémon.”
- Frogadier is the evolution of Froakie “Frogadier evolves from Froakie, and when it does, its jumping skill improves. During battle, Frogadier confounds its opponents by leaping about the ceiling or into trees.”
Next, some of the others who were revealed!
- Furfrou is the mysterious white dog from earlier this month. Its hair can be styled
- Meowstic, just as Beach’s leaker said
- Tyrunt is the mini t-rex. It has the Strong Jaw ability
- Amaura is the Rock/Ice fossil Pokémon. It has the Refridgerate ability
- Pyroar has distinct gender differences
In addition, a NEW feature has been revealed!
- Trainer PR Videos allow you to make 10-second clips of you and your Pokémon!
Pyroar Reveal
IGN.com exclusively revealed the Royal Pokémon Pyroar earlier this week, after a few issues with the Pokémon being leaked early that is!
October Corocoro
As we predicted, Corocoro began leaking on the 11th of this month, and provided a bucket load of new Pokémon X & Pokémon Y information, more on that follows!
New Pokémon and Mega Evolutions
- Mewtwo will receive two Mega Evolutions:
- Mega Mewtwo X receives Psychic/Fighting typing, along with the Steadfast ability
- Mega Mewtwo Y is Psychic Type and learn Hypnosis
- Mewtwonite X and Mewtwonite Y are the two Mega Stone used to Mega Evolve Mewtwo
- Evolutions to the Kalos Starter Pokémon were revealed:
- Hariboogu the Thorn Armour Pokémon. The Pokémon is 0.7m tall and weight 29.0kg. Hariboogu has the Overgrow ability and is Grass Type
- Tērunā the Fox Pokémon, is a height of 1.0m and weighs 14.5kg. The Pokémon has the Blaze ability, it is Fire Type
- Gekogashira the Bubble Frog Pokémon is 0.6m tall, weighs 10.9kg and has the Torrent ability. It is Water Type
- Garchomp receives a Mega Evolution, it has the ability Sand Force
- Torimian is the Pokémon we saw in the Pokémon Direct broadcast. It is Normal Type and has the Fur Coat ability that halves the damage done by physical attacks. Tormian learns a Fairy Type move called Baby-Doll Eyes. You are able to trim and style the fur of the Pokémon
- Chigorasu is a Rock/Dragon fossil Pokémon, it has the ability Strong Jaw which increases the attack power biting attacks
- Amarusu is a Rock/Ice fossil Pokémon
- Nyaonikusu is a Psychic Type cat Pokémon, that has male and female forms, and has either the Infiltrator or Keen Eye ability. The male uses Miracle Eye, while the female uses Extra Sensory
- Flabébé changes the colour of the flower it holds according to where you are
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So happy to see the site up and running. Thank you all so much for creating the tumblr account so we could all still follow the corocoro leaks 🙂 This is why i love u guys at this site so much you always look after us fans 🙂
We missed you! 😀
Thanks 🙂 i had loads of exams ( which i passed 🙂 ) but then sadly there was a fire in my house and most of it burnt down 🙁 so its been hectic ! Im safe and sound tho 🙂
Good to hear your’re safe and sound and CONGRATULATIONS.
Sad to hear that. I hope everything will get fine soon 🙂
So some of the stuff I’m about to post may be old hat, but here goes…
1.Mewtwo X using what appears to be high jump kick
2.either Bonnie or clemont has a dedenne
3. Probably Clemont, could Bonnie be the new Max?
4. Look at the third pic and u can see flabbergasted multicolored
Just make a new post, don’t try to ride on other posts’ popularity, or else discussion gets cluttered
Ok sorry advanced artificial intelligence 010001000110000101100101011001000110000101110010011001000111010101110011 and yeah that’s your username in binary
Nerd! just kidding binary is so strange though, about as strange as braille in the Pokemon world. Still never knew why exactly braille was used in RSE.
So kids could exercise their brain by getting out, exploring the world, and learning something new.
I think the Mega Mewtwo-X was using was giga impact. I think a user called “Number” said the text was Japanese for giga impact when it was shown on smash.
Awesome 🙂
I think you are right. Must be Bonnie with Dedenne. In the anime poster it looked like there was something on her head but I couldn’t work it out. Maybe it’s a Dedenne?
I can’t wait for the new games, will help us get through another miserable winter!
Him/his sister having a Dedenne would mean he’s an electric type leader… I would be disappointed to find Clemont to be another one, since apart from generation 2, we’ve gotten one in every region. His name suggests having to do with “lemon” but that doesn’t tell us much about his pokemon preference, probably just his hair. I’m hoping his love for technology might mean steel type instead.
Been a while simmy!
Too long lifes been hectic i left a comment to prince there about the last few weeks so lifes been crazy !
I’m glad the site’s up again too! Maybe we should Celebi-rate with classical music! Why? Because we’re Bach in Business. *rimshot* *is shot*
It was a busy week indeed so good to see everything back up and running now!
Also people should join the forums as well to discuss the week!
Thanks so much – you guys are my no.1 for pokemon news!! Question – is this ‘announcement’ tomorrow going to be a Direct? Or just a statement via the website or twitter? Because I’m out all day but if it’s a video announcement I’mma find a Mcdonalds and leech off their wifi to watch xD honestly I’m not sure what other ‘big’ reveals they could have left after this last amazing week…
I am pretty sure it is not a Direct but just simply an announcement and video of something which is highly likely to do with a trailer they accidently leaked last week to do with a website called gottacatchemall.com
It’ll probably be the horrible new ‘Pokérap’ song that got leaked a few days ago.
i don’t think it sounds that bad, for one at least is catchy( sort of…)
Dubstep and autotune. Just no.
I know but still this song isn’t exactly targeted to people who care what their music sounds like
That doesn’t mean I can’t find it horrible 😛
Touche
“Mewtwo Y learns Hypnosis”
Why not write Mewtwo learns Hypnosis?
I mean its not like there can be varying learnsets for temporary in-battle formes. Its a Mewtwo outside of battle.
The feeling when I typed pokejungle.net and see that it opened…
Still wondering who that one guy is who isn’t glad we’re back.
I’ve got haters you know. I’m used to it.
When It comes to themes in X and Y, my favourite is probably this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHa6-Sk2kA0
I honestly don’t know why it appeals to me so much but it does.
I see some of IAMTHELEAKER’s leaks came true, maybe they should have waited a bit longer!
Which ones were they?
I just remember the Rock/Dragon T-Rex, Meowstic having gender differences and the original Mewtwo form being the Y one. Just goes to show that with enough guess work you’re going to get something right!
http://imgur.com/r/pokemon/pJxf5Yx
Sadly, 99% were also false.
The only very few correct predictions were from the pokebeach leak. including the fairy type strengths and weaknesses and that Mewtwo has two forms. He literally didn’t offer one original prediction that was true.
I started to not believe him when he said that Bug/Ground was a new type combination (someone forgot about Nincada), and Snow Cloak is a move that causes freezing (said someone forgot that it’s an ability, which BTW, does something else)
Good to see the site back, missed reading the comments (couldn’t comment on my
iPhone)….even the spam comments (although I didn’t miss em that much)
That poke rap thingy, I think I’ve seen that, full of auto tune…?
Hopefully it won’t be, time will tell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqtXTe0UY7I
Ash’s voice is heavily edited with Autotune to make it sound metallic.
Yeah, I thought they’d actually do an updated rap with all Pokemon cleverly said, they didn’t 🙁
it isn’t that bad we until 20 seconds then it just gets really bad and plain weird
On Monday September 23rd is going to be a special episode titled:
The Games! The Anime! Pokémon Red and Green to X and Y Massive Special
Any thoughts?
On Pokemon Smash will just be a giant recap.
No! The smash episode is Sunday 22nd, this is on the next day!
You can check it on this site: http://www.pocketmonsters.net/
Thanks for making the temporary blog , guys. Good to know that the site is back.
I have a question though. What’s gonna happen to Gen 1 week?
Gen I week will sadly be cut short, I think there are two more articles to go our. But then we will move straight on to Gen II.
We want to have the dates to line up to XY release date, and we’re already behind 🙁
I’m sorry, but I couldn’t be more disappointed with the starters’s evolutions! They look like bad devianart drawings!
That’s how I felt at first, but now I’ve gotten used to them! Give it time 🙂
I hope it goes like that, because they look pretty fan-made to me.
Not sure if that is an insult to Sugimori or a compliment to deviantart.
An explicit critic to Sugimori’s recently created pokémon.
Well they weren’t actually recently created. Remember that dream Pokemon someone talked about in Generation 1? 4 Generations later came Munna! These designs could date back to first/second generation but were never used or saved for a later time! By now they could have half of the next generation (Gen 7) Pokemon! The starters and their evolutions were made even before the announcement of X & Y.
So when was the Fairy-type thought of…. and Fairy-type Pokémon…
Probably a long time ago they were just waiting for the perfect moment!
No fairy type in Gen IV because it would have distracted gamers from the Physical/Special Split, and no Fairy type in Gen V because it would have distracted players from Team Plasma’s awesomeness, specifically N.
To be fair, some of these pokemon we depicted in unflattering angles…okay, maybe just one…Quilladin. It looked much better from a hovering view of the 3D model. Maybe he’ll have better luck if their is something similar to dreamworld art.
On paper? definetely…In 3D? Hell no, Quilladin is actually improved in 3D (I like the frowny expression when it goes to attack), Frogadier has some badass ninja pose….and Braxien, the way it pulls out the stick, it lights on fire and then it uses it as a wand…Let’s just say I’m leaving attack animations on!
They do have cool positions, but they do look ugly as fuck in their official artwork
Yep you guys really are impressive – Your site was down yet you still brought Pokemon news fast! 😀
Yup, Pokejungle is the most advanced artificial intelligence script there is, including ten different staff personalities and the ability to screw up to look normal.
Who are all the staff members? I know of you, moving, PJ, Kriffix, NL, and ozy. Who are the other 4?
Dan, JannyB, Mrbojingles, Mechanos and Sammydodger
Thank you!
That makes 11…..
Moving and I are the same person.
O.o
Thank you guys so much for all the trouble you go through in trying to please us! I LOVE having the site back up, and it’s good to know that we’ll be back on a regular schedule! 🙂
Will you continue to put posts on tumblr? I’m glad to have the site back, but I think t was quicker on tumblr; this site still lags a lot for me. :/
Nope, tumblr isn’t a great site to work with. Weird that the site still lags for you though. WordPress is finally working for me as it should be. Where do you live?
Kentucky. It usually takes at least 30 seconds for a page to load. Then another 15 for Disqus to load.
30 seconds?! That must be something on your side, seeing as the Disqus is only a plugin and has nothing do with our servers.
Well everything was working fine until around the time the entire site started to act up. I had assumed everyone was experiencing this.
It’s blazing fast for me, while the months before it was ridiculously slow.
It’s strange, seeing as we are on dedicated server now that costs more than $100 a month and the loads aren’t high at all.
Not full posts. It’ll be used similarly to how we use Facebook and Twitter.
At least that’s what I’m planning. Full articles there draws from the main site.
Ok, cool. I liked how easy it was to view the articles on tumblr. But I understand that you want to focus on the main site.
It would be cool to post fully articles and posts there, but that would potentially be a whole new site.
I’m thinking we can still use tumblr for more social interaction though!
Are you and Dae the same person?
There was an arguement about this awhile back. The consensus was that they are not the same person. 😉
Oh ok!
No…
…
Then tell that to Dae 😉
Does he say differently? :O
ABSOL-utely! 😀
Pfffft. We’re different people. I’m infinitely cooler 😉
Ya’ll are the best staff we could ask for! Now get back to work and give us some articles! XD <3
We already gave you a week of Corocoro! Geez, people will always find a reason to complain.
XD
In the new anime trailer there’s something on garchomps neck and its going crazy do yo think it has something to do with team flare?
In the new anime trailer Garchomp has something around its neck and is acting crazy do you think it has something to do with team flare and you can tell its a girl so maybe it could be Cynthia’s Garchomp?
The last image…. Looks angry and in pain…
I don’t think that is Cythia’s at all!
This appears to be the work of a malevolent force.
i think you are right. this seems like team flare’s doing!
Do you think it could be some kind of mind controlling device
yeah, a lot like the waves that team plasma used in the anime
Maybe it could be Team Flare trying to force it to Mega-Evolve but the attempt fails because it has not been bonded with properly (ie: Amie)
You could be right
I have a feeling the final evolutions for the starters are going to be Grass/Steel, Fire/Fairy, and Water/Fighting. Now looking at the type chart this does in fact make two triangles. The Grass/Fire/Water one we’ve always known but it makes the triangle Steel/Fairy/Fighting too. This isn’t the one we’re hoping for, but it seems to be the most likely.
The problem being it wouldn’t actually make a trio with the starters though. The Dark/Psychic/Fighting works because they are able to hit each other with super effective damage uninfluenced by the Grass/Fire/Water triangle. In terms of the starter matchups, Chespin would be at a disadvantage because Steel would only do normal damage on Fennekin, and he’d otherwise be weak to both Froakie and now 4x weak to Fennekin. No matter how to break up the other triangle, something will only do normal damage. If Grass/Fighting, Fire/Steel and Water/Fairy, which the latter two have no chance of happening anyways, the Water will cancel out the Fairy, so steel does normal damage, though no one is put at a major disadvantage. If Grass/Fairy, Fire/Fighting*which also is NOT happening*, and Water/Steel, the fire will cancel out the fairy so it will only do normal damage, and also make Chespin lose it’s weakness to Fire, and Froakie it’s weakness to Grass. I do know that something kind similar happened in Gen IV, but either way, Dark/Psychic/Fighting, can mesh with the starter types, and allow super effective damage any which way it would want. Besides, the Pokebeach Leaks do say Fire/Psychic and that one never changed, and Fennekin is learning a crap ton of Psychic moves, so that one seems to be just about a lock at this point.
Yeah, I was thinking about Fennekin bceoming part Fairy and having the Fairy-Fighting-Steel combo then i thought ‘They’d never had a x4 weakness for a starter’
But then I also thought, they’d never have a starter resisting another starter (only with Dark/Psychic) but it’s more plausible than Grass/Steel
Swampert? Charizard? They have 4x weaknesses. And Quilladin is most likely a combo of quill and paladin, a heavily armored knight, which is where I get Grass/Steel.
Charizard did pop into my head but I completely dismissed it!
Whoops, but I dunno, either way, it won’t matter to me, having all 3, and if Fennekin becomes part Fairy it’s good cause I want one on my team this gen
Don’t forget poor Torterra…that 4x ice weakness is a killer.
We can make a starter set! Mudkip, Charmander, or Turtwig? Who will you choose?
1) TURTWIG
2) Mudkip
3) charmander
Mudkip then turtwig then charmander but personally they would be the 3 i would pick as a trio out of all starters lol
Did we all forget that Pupitar, a heavy shell, evolves into the cool and dark type Tyranitar. And how Bagon evolves into a big shell (shellgon) before becoming the voluptuous Salamence?
Quilladin will break out of his shell and evolve into a dark type bigger chespin, I can see it.
There are a few issues with your assessment.
– Fairy does NOT resist Fire. Fire actually resists Fairy. If Chespin’s final evolution were a Grass/Fairy type, it would take super effective damage from Steel AND Fire. Neither of Chespin’s final evolution’s STABS would deal super effective damage on Fennekin’s final OR Froakie’s final.
Or, that wasn’t what I said. I wasn’t talking about Fire vs Fairy. I was talking about Fairy vs Fighting, because my entire point was talking about this reverse triangle. And Fighting is weak to Fairy. But Fire DOES resist fairy, which was my main point, so a grass/fairy vs fire fighting vs water steel still wasn’t a triangle. Which in the end, still proves my point.
if chespin became rock and grass, it would also work
It would be super effective on Fire then, yes, but it wouldn’t be a real trio, because Rock isn’t super effective on Psychic or Fairy. Plus, it would get rid of Chespin’s weakness to fire, and then Fennekin no longer has STAB super effective damage on Chespin at all. Thus, breaking the trinity.
I agree, I mean after all in CoroCoro it said Quilladin learns Mud Shot to deal with Fire weakness, Frogadier learns Bounce to deal with Grass weakness, but Braixen doesn’t learn any moves that help her weaknesses. Perhaps her Psychic moves help her future Fairy weakness to Poison? Also Braixen uses a wand, just like a Fairy.
Why does everyone say Braixen is female while starters will likely have the 7/8 male ratio again? 😛
Because it’s wearing a skirt :p
That’s sexist. Why can’t guys wear skirts?
…
They should have an exclusively-male bagpipe pokemon with a kilt.
He didn’t say that guys can’t wear skirts.
But he does imply that skirts are a predominantly female fashion is true. You don’t look to exceptions as examples.
It’s not just the skirt, but its facial features, specifically the eyes.
Same with Chikorita!
Though, they really should inverse the ratio.
Haha I’m sorry Dae, bad habit. 😛
No, it’s fine actually. The same goes for Gardevoir too. 😛
I can be your Gardevoir baby, you can be my Gallade. ♫ ♪
Braixen uses a wand, just like a Wizard, not a Fairy. If anything… Harry Potter would be a Psychic type not a Fairy Type. Braixen will be Fire/Psychic deal with it.
Haha I agree that a wizard would be Psychic, but at the same time fairies are notorious for using wands as well 😉
the only other type trio that is working as a grass-fire-water is rock-flying-fighting
I don’t see fennekin becoming fairy type. The wand/broomstick, learning psyshock, and simply the assumption that if one of the starters was a new type almost everyone would pick it over the others, are the reasons why i think it won’t be fairy.
Not many people LOVE the idea of Fairy, so I think it wouldn’t really matter.
I agree with you there. I personally like the new type but fenniken seems like it WANTS to be psychic
So does Ninetails, but it’s still a pure fire type.
true but keep in mind that vulpix didn’t learn a legit psychic type attack until 4 gen (and it was extrasensory which a number of non psychic types learn ex: shiftry)
oh, I didn’t know that.
yeah me and you are in the same boat here. I always wanted ninetails to become a psychic type but it couldn’t even be taught psychic or even shadow ball
I agree.
Although:
Fennekin’s line, Ninetails, and Zoroark, are all 3 based on the “Kitsune”. A japanese mythical fox that was depicted in different ways.
Fennekin was made Fire/Psychic cause although its a Kitsune, it gets more inspiration from a Wizard. Thats where its psychic abilities come in.
If anything Ninetails/Zoroark are candidates to be retconned to Fire/Fairy and Dark/Fairy. Both of them have huge mythical stories/pokedex entries behind them, one even has powers of summoning a drought and one has the powers of illusion. Perfect traits of a fairy.
I think a Fairy typed starter will be saved for maybe Gen 7 or 8.
What if the starters do get the leaked secondary types, but in a different order?
Chespin: Grass/Fighting
Fennekin: Fire/Dark
Froakie: Water/Psychic
The second triangle still works.
Hrm. I hope there is something unexpected tomorrow. Yes, I know we are getting the kind of stupid Pokerap thing, but it also is coming along with a website. I just hope the WEBSITE has something interesting. My fantasy right now is that it’ll be dedicated to X and Y Pokemon, and will have a rough Pokedex area, where we basically see how everything is laid out numerically, and maybe even see what the number of Pokemon we will be getting. Extremely unlikely though.
oh how I missed this site lol.
Love having this site back!
Great to see the site back up 🙂 So what does everyone think of this potential “gottacatchemall.com” announcement will be about?
a rap :p
Lol, I saw that (catchiest thing ever!) But would they really hype a rap?
The original Pokérap was one of the more famous things about Pokémon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEwz0Nygpy4
Really? I didn’t know it was that famous. So this announcement will heavily include this rap probably.
I hope it does, but that dubstep doesn’t give me any good hope though.
Lol, yeah. But the only part I disliked was the repeated “I choose you!”, autotuned
http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/You_497711_1486547.jpg
XD
Glad to be back! I hope the Gym Leaders had fun reading our welcome back PokePunFest! 😉
“Home is where the heart is”
Pliny the Elder
And no that wasn’t sarcasm; that’s Daes second language~
Wow It’s good to have the old site back. I couldn’t comment for almost a week becuase of the server lost.
Quiladin is the ugliest Pokemon I have ever seen in my life! It looks just like Tiko from Dora the Explorer
The 3D model is much better, if you haven’t watched the new gameplay video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOEd-eDPYoM
You have to watch this XD
lol XD
Compare this :
http://youtu.be/3qQPNO9D8rw?t=7s
and this: http://i.neoseeker.com/n/0/quilladin_official_screenshot_1.jpg
To this http://www.pokemonxy.com/_ui/img/_en/art/Quilladin-X-and-Y.jpg
Big difference huh?
It’s all Quiladin… I don’t see a difference….. Unless that’s the point you’re making…
The official art doesn’t do Quilladin justice; It looks better in the game with the 3D model.