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The pictures above purport to be from a review copy of Pokémon X. As you can see, they claim that this is the final evolution of Froakie, Greninja, and a new Flying/Fighting-type Pokémon called Hawlucha. The latter Pokémon also has a new Fighting-type attack called Flying Press.
UPD2: A new image has surfaced claiming to show the final evolution of Chespin from behind. This is from a different person than the person who posted Greninja & Hawlucha. UPD: Confirmed fake
The poster also mentioned that XP is also much easier to earn and that entire parties will get some from battles with the use of EXP Share, a key item found early in the game. He also mentioned that XY only introduce around 70 new Pokémon. He also said that there barely is any endgame, with you only being able to catch Mewtwo and the Z legendary.
UPD1: A new Pokémon has supposedly been photographed. No other details are currently known. Remember, we do not know if these Pokémon are real or fake, so please don’t consider them as either until they are proven one or the other.
UPD3: We broke the site record for most visits in one day! Also, be wary of all the ‘leaks’ out there, there are so much (blatant) fakes going around that the legit leaks may get lost in it!
Looking forward to reading your comments!
<3 PJ
Featured Thread: X/Y team From now and then by MacSkiddo
Does someone have fan art of that new bird Pokemon?
There is alot. Just search down below.
http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/272/1/9/hawlucha_by_icaro382-d6oiknb.png
yes this is fan art
It really is such a badass…if it is faked, it is still a good design!
I agree. I would so add this to my team
I am so conflicted, because a Water/Fighting Froakie would take up my Fighting slot (so I wouldn’t use this) and a Water/Dark Froakie would take up my Dak slot, so I couldn’t use Malamar!
Don’t use starter, just a suggestion.
That kind of goes against my lifelong trend, so I’m not too sure about that.
It went against my lifelong trend as well, but I still traded my Tepig for an Axew Egg in White 2. Ended up with a team of Leavanny, Azumarill, Haxorus, Braviary, Banette, and Camerupt. Excellent team.
Ok this is what the luchador reminded me of……
http://www.smogon.com/cap/pokemon/tomohawk
YES!!! That was actually my first reaction when hearing flying/fighting
They both remind me heroic Garudamon.
I wish this were real. It’s soooo sexy!
But, I think I’d rather its shiny and regular color switch.
http://www.smogon.com/cap/pokemon/malaconda
Can’t say whether they real or not but….the pic with Quilladin and Emolga, the text for Quilladins name doesn’t look like it reads Quilladin!
it was nicknamed
That’s because he gave it a nickname.
Bye everyone i’ll see you guys Oct. 12!!!!
good luck, fellow adventurer
With all these new ways to gain exp faster, be prepared for lvl 80 and above Elite 4 and almost lvl 90 Champion. I hope not, because that’s really taking these games up to eleven.
I wouldn’t mind….games a bit too easy imo
As much as I would like to leave for these final two weeks, I would be attracted like a magnet.
same here, my eyes would die if i didnt look at it
i just cant leave i have to mutch to study its 11 pm i have to go to sleep but i cant get of the comment section its just way too fun
Yeah, there is no resisting the call. Even if you tried, you would crack. They all do.
So I posted my ideas for Gym Leader rosters on GameFAQs, tell me what you think?
Gym 1 (Viola):
Surskit lv. 11
Larvesta lv. 11
Vivillon lv. 13
Gym 2 (Cosmo):
Dedenne lv. 17
Marill lv. 18
Malfume lv. 21 (Fairy/Poison Spritzee evolution)
Gym 3 (Blake):
Houndour lv. 23
Nuzleaf lv. 24
Honchkrow lv. 26
Gym 4 (Korrina):
Hawlucha lv. 30
Breloom lv. 31
Croagunk lv. 31
Mienshao lv. 33
Gym 5 (Clemont):
Lanturn lv. 36
Emolga lv. 37
Dedenne lv. 37
Heliodon lv. 39 (Electric/Dragon Helioptile evolution)
Gym 6 (Grant):
Graveler lv. 41
Trusk lv. 42
Corsola lv. 42
Tyrantrum lv. 44
Gym 7 (Vernon):
Deino lv. 47
Flygon lv. 48
Noivern lv. 48
Wyveon lv. 50 (Dragon Eeveelution)
Gym 8 (Vanna):
Arbok lv. 54
Victreebel lv. 55
Poissonous lv. 55 (Poison/Water Skrelp evolution)
Nidoqueen lv. 56
Weezing lv. 58
Raise every level listed by 5 or 6
I do like how it’s not restricted to only 3 Pokemon. I despised that about Generation 5 Gym leaders.
I hope in this generation we won’t have another Water or Electric type gym leader. They are practically in every region, and we need some of other less common types. I would love to see gyms of dark, fairy, ground, ghost, poison, bug, grass and dragon.
I dunno, Clemont’s appearance does kinda scream Electric Gym Leader, at least to me…
Yes, I know. I will probably be electric type based, but I would love if he were steel type or something like this. Althoug, I recognise it is a bit evident.
I really do like this. The names and types are very unique. Although I would say Clemont is Steel, but that’s just me.
And I also like having Gym Leaders with more than 3 Pokemon. Creates more of a challenge! 😀
I hope something like this does happen!
More! I must have more!
Somebody noticed the “Home” and “Select” buttons written backwards on some photos? If they are are all of the same source, shouldn’t all the photos being with text information backwards then? Seems fake, but the hawlucha picture in the 3D battle seems very convincing.
The photos were inverted.
I guess for copyright, right?
Probably
im gonna burst into flames if they dont show chespin and fennekin evolution within 30 minutes AAA
*hands you fire extinguisher* You may need this.
thank you *starts crying from sadnes*
They said they leave
but they come back they always come back
http://www.amberbird.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/star_wars_its_a_trap.jpg
there is no way out
Just like the Internet. That’s why there’s no Outternet.
if they are fake i just cant believe somebody wuld mess with us like this ive been here since the begining and if this is fake im gona go to the guy who made this and shuve a nintendo 3ds xl into his ….
…hands, because you’re a nice guy who just wants to play Pokemon with a fellow fan 🙂
exacly i just cant think of this being fake they are so badass and for those who dont like them (read the last part xD)
After seeing Hawlucha, I really want a Quetzalcoatl Pokemon!
Oy, I’ve procrastinated way too long. I have a lot of HW and research to do. Take care everyone!
You too, I gotta go do my hair, and it’s alot! D:
Bye! :3
something strange: Greninja is the first Water starter to “lose” the dark blue. I mean Totodile line and Mudkip line are normal/light blue in all 3 forms. Squirtle is light blue, Wartortle is darker and Blastoise even darker. Also Piplup/Oshawott/Froakie have something dark blue in the base form which grows over with evolutions. But while Empoleon and Samurott are totally dark blue Greninja totally lost the dark blue of Froakie and Frogadier and returns to froakie light blue.I mean why does it loses the dark blue on its hands and legs and instead gains white spots? Isn’t this strange?
that seems like a veeeery small detail
Hawlucha is apparently based off of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garuda
No, it is based in Los Voladores de Papantla, a Mexican tradition in which persons dance while hanging from a rope.
http://imagensubida.historiasdepoca.es/30816.jpg
I also heard it’s based on a masked wrestler.
It should learn a few token Water-type moves so that Crasher Wake has a perfect excuse to use one
Obviously, he is also based in a wrestler, but at the same time in the tradition of the Voladores de Paplanta. He is kind of mixture of both traditions of Mexican culture.
I could go for more mythology-based Pokemon!
Why let Shin Megami Tensei have all the fun?
By the way: I love ohow Game Freak sometimes releases pokemons based in traditional cultures from different countries, instead of just picking an animal and adding it some water/grass/fire details. For example, in the fifth generation we had Braviary, which had the colours of United States flag, was based in American simbolic animal, the eagle, and represented some values traditionally attached to U.S, as it is bravery. I would like to see more often cultural based pokemons. In fact, I think some of these are the best designed.
Barely any endgame?
I might not get the game if this is true, I still haven’t completed all of the PWT in Black 2, it’s really really good.
XY needs a Battle Frontier equivalent or I’m not geting it, Battle Factory is too much fun to give up.
We’ve been over this- the minimal endgame/70 new Pokémon stuff has already been pretty much proven to be Tauros shit. It’s the pics we’re thinking are real.
Like I said, it’s an “if”, I’m not taking anything as 100% real.
Guys…..
http://images.4chan.org/vp/src/1380490101666.png
Real or fake? I honestly think real at this point.
It looks real
I’m not sold :/
I don’t know, I think both of them look fake even though I wouldn’t mind if they were real?? they look seriously off to me for whatever reason
In this screenshot especially, because the ring of grass around the pokemon doesn’t cover his feet like it seems like it should…
ur kidding me right do you not see the photoshop (._.)
it does look like the froakie evolution is bolder than the rest of the screen… good catch
I don’t know what to believe at this point
the evolution is real but this pic is just fake i mean the thick layer of black shows it all
I do agree about that
That just doesn’t seem right somehow. I could tolerate it being real, but that image doesn’t convince me any more.
Blatantly photoshopped. I’m no expert, but c’mon, you don’t gotta be one to know something’s off about that.
My brain recovered, and then you posted this…
what.
Obviously fake.
my biggest question/ concern would be why does the opposing trainer have one? i mean i know there are some in game trainers like in gen four that have evolved starters but still
Rival?
oh yeah!! i never thought of that… im just not on my game today
Since the opponent has one… It has to be the rival! Now is it the super effective rival or the less effective rival? That means he/she has the final evolution of Chespin and or Fennekin!!
But the image of Geninja doesn’t fit the overall image! It definitely looks photoshopped to me. The feet goes over the patch of grass, and it also doesn’t look 3Dish like Fletching is.
Well… It kinda looks like it’s attacking, which would explain why, but that does seem a bit suspicious…
I’m not trying to say it’s conclusive evidence that this is fake, but… why would they be facing a fully-evolved starter with a Fletchling?
Fake; it’s an edited version of this picture: http://www.serebii.net/xy/inkay2.jpg
Went to GameStop in hopes of getting the Shiny Palkia… They already set it t the Shiny Giratina 🙁 I missed the Palkia, The book store was closed so now I’m getting an F for reading… I’m sorry this is not Facebook…
*Happy mood* Sooo, anything new?
Nothing; we haven’t even reached a consensus on whether or not any of the information is valid.
Bummer :
I have an extra Palkia!
The shiny event one?
Of course! You can have it, but it may be a week before we can trade.
Would you be so kind as to trade me it and then I trade it to my games so it can be in the Pokedex and then I trade it back to you?! 😀
I think you replied but when I got done editing the comment it deleted it…
Would you be so kind as to trade me it and then I trade it to my games so it can be in the Pokedex and then I trade it back to you?! 😀
Did it work now?
Yes! And you don’t have to trade it back. Keep it as a gift from ole Basti!
Awww but it’s yours and it’s my fault for procrastinating!
Nah. I have two.
I just wanted them for the data.
Are you 100% positive?
Of course! I just realized I’ve been using reply instead of edit… Damn that’s embarrassing. I had two Dialgas and traded one to another PJ user. That’s another reason I get two.
TCMets is offering me one and he has 3, I don’t want to rid you of one of the 2!
Okay! It doesn’t matter to me. Everyone needs a shiny sparkly legendary!
I Hope everyone noticed in Hawluchas image in the pokedex, the DS’s Home Button is backwards, but the button to go back from the pokedex is facing the correct direction… this just strikes me as poor photo shop >…>
we discussed this earlier, it’s not uncommon for some cameras to invert images
I tested this out and it inverts the image as well! (from the DS image and the games image)
It’s a 3DS
I know!, explain to me than why the image on the Screen isn’t inverted but the DS is!
just because its light does not exclude it from the properties of the web cam…
what makes you think the image isn’t inverted? the entire image is probably backwards
Look in the Pokedex, the arrow to go back points in this direction
The entire image is inverted. I don’t get what you point is.
It is not!, if it was inverted the arrow would be pointing in this direction –>
I have absolutely no idea what you’re getting at. If you were to take the image that we currently have and invert it, it would look perfectly normal. Regardless of which way it’s facing, the arrow always indicates “go back.”
Sigh, I was hoping I’d be able to leave. Last post now, hope this helps:
Here’s an official image: http://mediacdn.disqus.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/637/9159/original.jpg
Then stop calling it a DS. -.- There’s a huge difference between the two systems.
I know the difference I am generalizing them… can I not do that anymore
It’s not a correct statement to call a 3DS a DS. That’s what I’m trying to get out.
Some webcams take photos backwards.
he used a web cam to take the pic apparently
I think Hawklucha is real. But it honestly just scares me that someone has this game and has completed it and claims there to be no aftergame. I’m really scared.
the claims that there is no aftergame came from a different person who has been largely discredited, so don’t worry 🙂
I hope so! I really do!
Why are all the new images of ONLY the Froakie final evo??? Even the possibly photoshopped ones? Wynaut Fennekin or Chespin?
The person who played probably picked Froakie as their starter.
Does anybody else not notice that Greninja can learn Extrasensory? Possibly Water/Fighting, and it can learn Extrasensory! *looks at Fennekin* I need to see you for a second… >_>
He would by pokebeach rumors be good against chespin evo, fennekin evo and froakie evo
Non-Psychic-types learning Psychic moves is not uncommon. Poliwrath and Lucario can learn Psychic. Extrasensory was initially the signature move of Nuzleaf. The legendary goats can learn Zen Headbutt. Need I continue?
He is supposedly based on a ninja, after all, and they’re sometimes portrayed as having mystical abilities.
Plus, Extrasensory’s Japanese name is Supernatural Power (Jintsuriki じんつうりき).
I know, but I’m saying that its cool that it can learn it though.
I see your point…. Hmm…
A ninja or Rogue must anticipate everything to insure victory
too bad its a big heaping pile of Tauros
This is froakie’s description on the official website:
“Froakie may appear absentminded, but in truth it pays close attention to its surroundings at all times.”
Apparently, the original italian lady said that there would be some phoenix that would be Water/Flying with it’s wings wet. Perhaps she mistakened it for Hawklucha?
Doubt it, how can you mix up a wet phoenix with a wrestling bird?
pahahhahahah
Oil Wrestling!
i want to see new pokemon
Who doesn’t? 😀
idk the genwunners i guess