This post contains spoilers for Pokémon X & Pokémon Y. The comment section of this post will also contain spoilers for the upcoming games. Do NOT proceed it you wish to avoid details on the game.
We’re now exactly one week away before X & Y release globally next Saturday, and the wait is becoming unbearable. While fans are eagerly awaiting the release date to come about there’s not a huge amount of news for us to cover. However, as most fans are likely aware the final evolutions for the Kalos Starter Pokémon are now known.
While there aren’t a huge amount of details on the Pokémon we received so long awaited information…
Quilladin evolves into the Pokémon Chesnaught. As we speculatively reported back in July the Pokémon resembles a knight in some ways, and features heavy armour all over its body. It is said the armour covering the Pokémon is able to withstand the blast from a bomb. Chesnaught is Grass/Fighting type.
Braixen evolves into Delphox. The Pokémon maintains the almost magical-theme and resembles a witch of sorts. It is Fire/Psychic type and is able to generate temperatures of up to 5,400°F using its psychic powers.
Finally, but by no means least, Frogadier evolves in Greninja. Again, like we posted back in July, Greninja appears to play on a ninja theme, and looks to be an extremely capable Pokémon in battle. Greninja is a Water/Dark type Pokémon.
We’re drawing closer and closer to X & Y and our coverage could start as early as this Thursday. Some of you may noticed but we haven’t followed through with The Journey to X & Y, sadly we won’t be posting any further articles in the series, as big news is likely to hit daily now. Instead we will move articles outside of the #J2XY and continue them after the games have released.
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Valerie honestly does look like a sweet girl that’ll rip your head off any second…
Dem eyes dough. (Refresh for image)
That’s the main reason :p
So guys which starter evolution you like best? http://strawpoll.me/508140
Greninja!
Delphox!
Haha me too!
Cool:D
Do I get an I Voted sticker?
If you want.
Chesnaught FTW!
Chespinators UNITE!
Greninja
so it seems greninja and delphox are pretty even in popularity.
spoke to soon Delphox leaves Greninja in its dust whilst poor Chesnaut struggles to keep up.
Delphox baby
I can’t chose… best starters since the Kanto.. Like them All but these are the start of something new wit feels haha.. already wondering what the gen 7 theme will be for them.. hmmm
If you cant decide…Just get them all!
Delphox for sure!
Everyone when it come to gyms.. just try using 3 of your Pokes instead of 6… that should make it harder, especially with the already tough clemont
I always try to do that! 😀
Yeah me 2… I hate boxing them for just a battle so i will just save before the battle and turn the game off if I go pass 3 XD
Haha if it gets to a certain point, then I start to use more… XD
AND….Put the others in the PC so you aren’t tempted.
That’s what I’m gonna have to do, but I am still NOT a fan of the direction GameFreak has been going with gym leaders since Gen 5 started. It’s a horrible idea taken from the anime, there’s just no challenge in 3 Pokemon. If they’re gonna do this, then a Challenge mode should be available from the beginning.
meh… I like it but to each his own.. I have Always LOVED the anime so I like the comparisons
Write that on Club Nintendo when you get the game! Maybe they will read it! Make sure to keep everything positive though 😛
I agree man! Remember Winona the flying type gym leader in 3rd gen? She used 5 Pokemon on her team 5! Gym leaders are not as challenging as they used to be.
They are not, sadly 🙁 And Winona was the 6th gym leader too! Gen 5 has started a really bad trend, I hate it.
what special update
Olympia is now reigning Queen of Kalos that’s the special update.
stop it please
I can’t I can’t stop loving Olympia…
seriously stop it is getting spammy
Mega Olympia confirmed
lol
*praying for elite 4 and champion leaks tonight*
I want to know what they all HAVE 😀 and who they are, of course :p
Champion for me? No thank you! That’s like one of the most important people in the game!
Me too.
Did anyone see that there is potentially a male version of Delphox?
Sauce: http://statigr.am/p/560004592694953868_569967784
fake.
…which makes me sad.
sad face :C
if fennekin’s evo was like the pokemon at the left it could be more awesome, athough i like it just the way it is.
“Sauce” Great… Now I’m hungry! Just kidding, but I think Delphox looks great the way it is.
Although fake, I still haven’t seen a photo of Delphox as Male… So there still may be a Male difference, unless newer photos prove otherwise…
I just cannot get past how much I dislike Delphox’s design… I’m just too hopeful maybe? still kinda hopeful that the last evos for the starters are fake. There’s been no confirmation other than like 2 pics each.
There have been several pics of Greninja and Chesnaught. There was a female leaker who started with a Female Fennekin. She either got busted or quit showing leaks… Her Instagram is/was offline for awhile…
No other leaker (that I’m aware of) started with Fennekin, especially a male one. And, I agree Delphox looks really weird and out-of-place to me…
Just looking through the badges again. Just noticed that a few of them actually look 3-dimensional. Or are my eyes just playing tricks on me. Also doesnt make sense because badges are usually viewed on the bottom screen which isn’t in 3D. Is it just me?
Maybe. I mean Clemont’s looks 3D enough.
That screen pops up at the beginning when you battle the gym leaders. So that part is in 3D.
Ah right…makes sense. Would have been cool if you could actually view the badges in 3D and rotate them.
Probably can 😀
ice badge looks like it has water in it haha.. yeah i see that
Anything New over the last hour or so?
GYM LEADERS AND GOODRAS STATS
Gym leaders x.x
I can’t handle all of these names going around.
They are everywhere
With the disappointment out there in another generation without a dark gym, I am reminded of another dark type letdown. Generation II – when they re-typed magnemite/magneton as electric/steel, they should have done ekans/arbok a favor and retyped them to poison/dark. Show Arobok some love…I mean, even Weezing has higher attack. 🙁
At least there have been 3 dark type Elite Four members! That means Dark type is better!
Yeah, Dark Type is the only type now to not have a gym, and also not have a Pokemon representative in the original 150. At the very least, Fairy is going to have FIVE, and Steel two. *Clefairy/Clefable, Jigglypuff/Wigglytuff, and Mr. Mime* At least there is something from Gen 1 that can evolve into a Dark type at least, Eevee.
For the love of god. When someone posts the Champions name. PLEASE put a major disclaimer. Its like one of the only things i don’t want spoiled.
Yes please!
true…
whats so big about a name?.. oh you mean you don’t want the champion to be apart of the story and it suppose to be a surprise in the game but you would have already known due to leaks?
“The comment section of this post will also contain spoilers for the upcoming games. Do NOT proceed it you wish to avoid details on the game.”
Maybe just don’t look in the spoiler section if you don’t want to be spoiled?
Yes but we want to be apart of the discussion!
-_-….I seriously don’t understand whats so hard about putting a disclaimer…Im curious about everything else. I just don’t want one of the biggest swerves of the game to be tainted.
And yet you ask five seconds later ‘what is the champion’s name?’ That seems like a weird way to go about not being spoiled.
Also, we’re in a spoiler section, so it’s a bit pointless to ask people to spoiler tag things. The article warned you ahead of time, if you choose to proceed you accept that you may be spoiled.
I didn’t ask what the champions name was wierdo….lol
Well, someone called JBlack asked “what is the champions name?” less than a minute after you asked not to be spoiled!
wait was it revealed?
No. But i bet it will be today.
Did anyone reveal the AI for the gym-leaders or is it the same?
what’s the Al?
how powerful and smart they are set to be
thank you! 😀
np 😀
Artificial intelligence to be precise
Artificial Intelligence. Basically how they have been programmed. Are they smart enough to switch Pokemon when the type match doesn’t suit them. e.t.c
Chaos do you know what the highest AI belongs to? You seem to know these stuff. 😀
No clue on the more technical stuff. I’m too lazy to compare trainers. Only things i manage to pick up on is the moves the opponent uses to determine their ‘AI’. For example if they have Earthquake and use an Rock move on my Aggron, they are pretty dumb 😀
Thanks. I just figured it out. Whitney ACTUALLY has the highest AI of any trainer higher than Cynthia.
“She knows when it’s time to heal. What attacks to use. How to counter Fighting types.” Her main weakness is that her Miltank is the only Pokemon she actually centers around not the other two.
Dat Miltank though. It’s a freaking beast.
I know. I was so frustrated until my Typhlosion was level 36 lol.
I remember spamming leer with one of my Pokemon and then taking it out in 2 hits with my Quilava. It was the only strategy i could think of.
I remember finally beating her with my level 35 Quagsire! XD It took too many Super Potions.
That explains a lot! It took 7 tries for me to beat her!
Doesn’t Cynthia have the highest AI?
What does Al mean
It’s like a little data-base that let’s you see how powerful NPC’s are. I think the highest AI belongs to Whitney or Cynthia.
O…I heard its low
what is the champions name?
We don’t know yet DX Can’t wait to!! 😀
http://valhallaxy.tumblr.com/image/63176368696
is this true?
no
I saw what looked like a pokedex entry somehwere else that listed it as Poison/Dark. Didn’t seem fake to me.
It’s fake because his pokedex entry isn’t possible. Also, the pokedex entry contained grammatical errors. But coo fakemon.
Sorry, but I don’t get the Olympia obsession. Different tastes I guess
Yeah. There are people who like the head cutting Valerie and there those who like the beauty obsessed Olympia
I don’t know if anyone cares haha but this is my opinion of all the Pokemon so far.
Don’t feel offended if I put a Pokemon you love as a dislike, this are my opinions, but I would love to hear your opinions.
I give them all stars :p
I do disagree with several of your choices, but that’s my opinion and we’re allowed to have our own opinions. ^_^ I personally love Avalugg, Barbaracle, Malamar, and Slurpuff. None of these Pokemon would get below a Neutral from me. :3
Hahaha I just reused the symbol from the original image, for me the square is equivalent to a like, Malamar is cool, in fact, i like it, but I don’t love it.
i was so Team Fenekin but Delphox is kinda ugly and i feel like furries will like it :L
greninja looks badass and chesnaught is cool looking too. it’s a shame though, because my pattern was water grass fire water grass and i thought i was gonna follow that with fennekin but now i’m not so sure
I’m a furry and I’m not that into Delphox. XD
Im sure that you will change your mind about Delphox in 2-3 months!
Can I get a gym leader link?
http://imgur.com/a/zGGUL#0
Here ya go! 😀 http://imgur.com/a/zGGUL#5
Just look below please
Edit: Never mind now
*Looks below* That is verryy lonngg way down.
First time I actually liked all the Gym leaders.
They just scream amazingness to me.
im with u on it
How much time is left til the big Pokemon show?
2 hours I think.
2 Hours Still! *gives out a huge sigh*-__-
1:57 hour left here at Michigan.
Yay michigan!
What is this big Pokemon Show?
pokemon get*tv
Staring the beautiful Pokemon fan girl: Shoko Nakagawa.
Oh ok thank you
I had a thought. This generation there are three pokedexs, each with 150 if I’m correct. What if there are three pixie/mythical mew like pokemon, one at the end of each. Officially the pixie pokemon isn’t there until the special events to get them and aren’t recognized.
Mythical mew is my pokemon name
There’s just something about Olympia and Valerie…
I like Valerie’s eyes.
You can tell they really went all out with this game!
yeah i like valerie more
Now I want to see all their Cities/Towns….
I just noticed. Its taking them awhile to leak post game info stuff. Does that mean E4 is really hard? *Crosses fingers
Yeah. I think so. According to the leakers their Pokemon levels are somewhere in mid 60’s so we can speculate Champion will have 70’s and main Pokemon will be around 80.
*drools on keyboard*
I hate to be anti-hype but I’m kinda disappointed that it seems Gamefreak have chosen to go in the direction of an overly easy game without any challenge to allow anyone to pick up this game and get into it at anytime. Obviously I won’t know until I play through the game but it seems like every area/trainer and gym is a breeze to complete without any real challenge judging from leaks and reviews. One thing I LOVED about BW2 was challenge mode as some fights could get pretty tough but when you did beat that tough gym/boss you felt really strong and powerful whereas here I feel like nothing is going to really challenge me and make me think out different strategies etc..
Apparently Clemont is tough!
While a challenge mode hasn’t been confirmed, it hasn’t been disproven either…so, maybe there is hope. If there is one, I hope it’s more challenging than that of BW2, which I still found easy.
I think it’s so you can use your fave Pokemon, even if they’re terrible. 🙂
I did like challenge mode, though.
All normal NPC’s are set at 0 AI no matter what. The gym leaders though have quite a high AI during Challenge Mode. I have to disagree. This may be the hardest game yet because the AI seems pretty high.
It’s only 3 Pokemon.
Doesn’t matter. For example Heartgold and Soulsilver had the highest AI of any Pokemon game to date. (Just checked that out). Times that by 3 with each leader using 3 Pokemon and your tail would be on fire.
Well Ign’s only weak point of the game was “Brainless trainer AI” which worries me 😮
they always have that type of ai
I think it meant only normal NPC’s. Whitney’s AI was around the same level as Lance’s so Clemont being as tough as Whitney worries me.
Regardless of how high or low the AI is, adding more Pokemon will always increase the difficulty. Which is what people looking for a challenge want. The only reason i can see for Gamefreak doing this is because of the default target audience. However it doesn’t mean they couldn’t have added an optional harder difficulty for the more mature audience.
You never know. Maybe the challenge mode will return. (Please).
Lets be serious. The gym leaders are rarely a challenge. YOu can’t compare the traditional gameplay to something that was only in BW2…..
I heard Clemont is a challenge.
Actually this game is hard. The first Elite Four member’s lowest level is 60! The third gym’s level is around 27! :O Bigger story line and places to explore. That 1.7 GB has to go somewhere doesn’t it? You won’t know for sure until you try.
Makes me wonder, do the Elite 4 only have 4 Pokemon?
I highly doubt it. It would be sad if true :
Well if they’re following the shitty trend they started last generation, I’m going to assume yes.
Didn’t they have 6 Pokemon?
The second time around. The first time, they only had a lowly 4 🙁
And only at lvl 48 in B/W. I was so disappointed
That means they listened to the complaints! 😀 Don’t think they will make that mistake again.
No, I mean the second time around when facing them. In both games, the first time challenging them they had 4 Pokemon.
Ohhh *facepalm*
Exactly I won’t know until I try so I’m remaining optimistic 🙂 Also, 4th gym’s highest is 36! (Gogoat) The level curve of the game seem’s to have a much more unique unpredictable way that previous gens judging by levels so that’s a plus
Also with Fairy type, Dual type moves, level, the new mechanisms they added e.g. paralysis doesn’t affect Electric type Pokemon, Poison Powder doesn’t affect Grass types. Things like that add challenge. I feel X & Y are going to be a great roller coaster that lasts 35 hours (main story).
But higher levels doesn’t necessarily mean harder. The levels may be higher because there are lots of places to train before fighting them. The leaker had a lvl 36 Seviper at the fourth gym.
I would be in love with a game where all trainers have maximum AI
LOL. It would take even Einstein minutes before he could beat the first NPC if they were set at maximum AI.
I would still like a game with bigger version differences – like starting in different cities, different gym order/leaders, etc. I would think Nintendo would try that, as it would encourage more people to get BOTH versions…
You money hungry fiend. Shut your mouth!
I already buy them both, so maybe I’m biased. haha