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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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so guys any new leaks today?
GYM LEADERS GOODRA STATS
http://imgur.com/a/zGGUL#7
I can already imagine all their personalities. (The gym leaders).
I think Wulfric will be like a mix of Wake and Santa :p
That’s what I’m thinking. A mix of jolliness + sternness + wiseness
I’m slightly upset that there is no dark gym….
But at least there is a Fairy.
I love the fairy gym but still…. I think I’d rather a dark gym than another bug,grass,rock,fighting,psychic,ice,electric gyms…
Oh my god my genitals just exploded… Those Gym Leaders <3
umm…. thanks for sharing???
Im trying my best to stay for new pokemon and avoid looking at gym leader names but damn its hard x.x
Me too! I don’t want to know about anything related to Kalos specifically. Except for the actualy Pokemon since they are what the game is based on!
Key is to minimalize as soon as you expect the names to be imbedded in your head x.x
I still haven’t looked at them, and I’m not trying not to, just as long everyone else don’t post the pics (Thats right I’m talking to you guys >;)
I’ll just put this here….don’t mind me c:
http://imgur.com/a/zGGUL#6
Still not looking >:)
Your genitals…exploded. You’re royally f*cked.
Thanks?
Where r u guys seeing leaders?
http://imgur.com/a/zGGUL#7 Here
I can’t stop seeing them…
Olympia…
ikr
DAT OLYMPIA DOUGH
I NKOW!! IF ONLY HER NAME WAS ROSS. MRS.ROSS THE BOSS!
need some kisses to make it better? I lvoe that fairy gym leader
Wulfric is so amazing!
Bug Badge = Metamorphosis Badge
Fairy Badge= Arcane Badge/Eye Badge (Fairy eyes)
Psychic Badge= Life-force Badge/Mindset Badge
What are you saying about those? I think those are the actually names of the badges.
I know. I meant what I would actually call them.
Yeah, those badge names are a bit uncreative. But the leader designs more than make up for it!
I would personally call them these:
Instead of ‘Bug Badge’ – ‘Cocoon Badge’;
Instead of ‘Fire Badge’ – ‘Blaze Badge’;
Instead of ‘Psychic Badge’ – ‘Stellar Badge’.
Fairy, not Fire. ._.
It’s going to be interesting to see how the gym leaders are in the anime. Looking forward to it.
Yeah.. you need to play the game and watch the anime for the Full story =]
Agree. I am interested in the fairy gym leader the most. Her eyes are just freaky haha.
eep.. Yeah haha
So Fairy gets a gym the generation it’s released, yet Dark has been around for 5 generations now without a gym. It had better get an Elite 4 spot. ;(
Better get the champion spot ;_;
Dark has had three E4 spots.
wasn’t there already a dark elite 4 member
>69 New Pokemon Discovered so far
>Z Legendary brings it to 70
>There’s still the trio and the pixie missing which brings it to 74
>Nitx brings it to 75
>Noivern’s inevitable Pre-evo brings it to 76
>Ground/Fairy by Kotaku brings it to 77
There’s still these left to be found which brings it to 83
Dianshii
Borukenion
Burigaron
Jigarude
Mafokushii
Fuupa
Lets hope they get leaked soon
Woah. I’ve not heard of those last ones. Interesting! 🙂
They were trademarked names, I think
Mafokushii is Delphox’s Japanese name.
Burigaron is Chesnaught’s Japanese name.
Fuupa is talking about a pokemon related to wind and borukenion is translated as Volcanion or something similar
What are those last ones from? And what’s Nitx??
Bug/Dark bat
ohh didn’t know that that was its name :p
You’ve seen it?
Nope, I’ve been checking like 3 forums for a while..
There was a drawing of it though
no thats the typing of it I think its either Bug/Dark or Fair/Dark
Some that supposedly has the game said nixt is like the celbi of the region
There’s supposed to be a new ground ghost too according to a reviewer, isn’t there?
Yup 🙂
and a ground/fairy
By the look of this looks like we need even more clues.
What’s stinks about all of this is that these are all the japanese names.
So these could be already revealed names.
Seriously….who gives a shit about having a dark gym leader. Its not like they’ll be anymore difficult than any other type of gym leader. Why is so many people whining about it.
I think people are frustrated because Dark has been around for 5 generations now and is the only type to not have a gym (since Fairy has a gym this gen)
I dunno. Maybe its just me but as long as i could get my hands on a dark type and the gym leaders had great design and character i don’t care what type they have. But i guess i understand the sentiment a lil bit because i believe every champion should be dragon haha.
I’ll be waiting for next Gen! I don’t really mind because these ones seem great!! 😀
They are great! And we might get a Dark gym this gen if soemthign gets switched up in Z/sequels
I wanted a dark pokemon gym. These are good but i have prefered a dark type better than one of electric type.
It’s true we haved a elctric type gym in all the generations. In the second, we fought against Lt.Surge.
The difficulty of the gym leaders is not really the point. It’s just the fact that, Gym Leaders are one of the primary aspects of the games, and also their gyms, which can have some novel aspects to them, and every Type has at least one, except Dark. Especially after Gen 3, when they had a gym by, all accounts, SHOULD have been Dark, due it’s gimmick of being pure dark and opening up when you defeat trainers. It’s a no different argument than for those wanting a Poison Type legendary, because you can easily say ‘Legendaries suck, why would you want a Poison Legendary then.’ And that is a very weak point to be taking, especially when you have basically this universal concept within the games, Legendaries, and Gym Leaders, and you apply them to everything but these single types, that seems like it is being singled out. Besides, you ignore the aspect that Gym leaders are generally pretty cool in designs, so that’s another reason to have them, and so are Legendaries.
One tiny comment about the Gyms….badge names, 3/8 are the types, oh well, easier to remember
After seing the gym leasears which pokemon think u will have any one of these?
GYM LASERS ACTIVATE!
Sorry 🙂 I wanted to put leaders
Musharna
OMG! My Disqus is 216+
I have no idea what that means but congratulations!! 😀
That number next to “Disqus” that means you have 216 replies.
I hope this is the longest anime region EVER! I want it to ba reminiscent of the original season and Pokemon Origins
I hope they drag the gym’s out a bit longer and mix villain’s with gym leaders more … BW had everything so seperate and systematically played out
We still don’t know which Pokemon gets the lucky pokedex number of 666…
ooo i think it’s flabebe
well that would be ironic
makes sence its cute but it could be hiding something HERE COMES THE CREEPYPASTA
its trevanant
I just counted in order….. I think it’s Vivillon :p
the cycle of bug/flying pokemon is complete muahahahha!
I’m soooo happy with the gym leaders but at the same time so sad it’s confirmed they only have 3 pokemon each. I just hope the difficulty level makes up for it!
Just chose 3 Pokes of yours to battle them with and use no more
Josh said that Clemont is one the toughest Gym leaders he’s ever fought.
also the funnest
Hope that’s true! Hype level rising! xD
I always struggle with electric gyms anyway.
Lol he must not have had a good ground type
He said there was an area full of Ground types right before going to battle, but he didn’t get them because having a Dugtrio in there would have been too easy.
WHEN WAS THAT CONFIRMED?!?!?!?! If that’s true I’m REALLY upset…… But I still love the way they look 😀
It’s such a DUMB idea taken from the anime. Gym leader can only use 3 Pokemon, absurd.
strange considering they finally have enough of their type to fill a team from the region, while in the early gens they had multiples of the same just to have enough … I’ll just have to challenge them with only three pokemon then
When was this confirmed?
Yesterday, afraid I can’t remember who confirmed it but it’s definite. There’s a list of who uses which pokemon and only 3 each sadly!
Has there been any news about shines I want to know if their easier or harder to find
Hopefully they are !!! but that would be something in the encryption of the game so we probably won’t get that until the games release and the techs get their hands on it.
Let’s all have a moment of silent and stare at Olympia…
so true
where is dae and simkenno
shhh, silent moment go to the pic of Olympia and stare at her. xD
I absolutely love the new Gym Leaders and the Badges. I think that they are some of the most interesting and fantastic designs we’ve seen in a long LONG time.
I think that the names for the badges could’ve been a bit more inventive though. Not that I’m complaining of course. But just like ‘Prince Azulon’, these are names that I would personally choose for them. What about you?
Instead of ‘Bug Badge’ – ‘Cocoon Badge’;
Instead of ‘Fairy Badge’ – ‘Pixie Badge’;
Instead of ‘Psychic Badge’ – ‘Stellar Badge’.
There is no Fire Badge, it’s a Fairy Badge.
My bad – haha. I had no idea what I was thinking. Edited. 🙂
😀
Just saw the gym leaders… Olympia… <3
IKR!
XD
http://images.4chan.org/vp/src/1381005271695.jpg
Olympia fanbase…
Sign up sheet:
Prince…
Star
Gecko
poor little thing
so, with the new pokemon of the fairy type, plus retroactive fairy typing, as a whole, are the number of fairies higher than number of ghosts?
Off topic, i was what plate i should choose for my Arceus and i realized that we will have a fairy plate. (my Arceus is going to swipe some dragons.)
I don’t get it. Is Olympia hot or something. Ive seen the pic but i don’t understand the hype. Not trying to be a dick, I’m legitemtly curious about the hype.
Ya, I don’t get it either .-.
I love her because she’s got a space theme. :3
YOU…YOU…YOU…
OK, you see, Olympia’s design is AMAZING and everything about her just screams STARDOM!
i like valerie more
lol, im kind of confused too. All the gym leaders look good, but no single one stands out to me. i think we’re just oblivious to something
Lol I don’t get it either. I’m fangirling over Valerie’s outfit though <3
#TEAMVALERIE!!!
she’ll rip your head off…lol…
That’s what I said! XD
The hype comes from her design rather than her being aesthetically attractive. These Gym Leaders have some incredible designs!
amen
Its too flamboyant to me. I like more simple designs like Brocks or the blonde guy in gen 4.