One of our staff members, Sammydodger, has now received his copy of Pokémon X! This is the beginning of our coverage of the game. We’re compiling our own experiences, along with information from 4chan, Reddit, and a large chunk from Serebii’s early explorations. This post will be updated constantly with information and images 🙂
Region Information
Towns
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- Vaniville Town
- Aquacorde Town
- Santalune City
- Lumiose City
- Camphrier Town
- Cyllage City
- Ambrette Town
- Geosenge Town
- Shalour City
- Courmaline City
- Laverre City
- Dendemille Town
- Anistar City
- Couriway Town
- Snowbelle City
- Kloude City
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Locations
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- Santalune Forest
- Parfum Palace
- Connecting Cave
- Glittering Cave
- Reflection Cave
- Sea Spirit’s Den
- Kalos Power Plant
- Pokéball Factory
- Lost Hotel
- Frost Cavern
- Terminus Cave
- Pokémon Village
- Victory Road
- Chamber of Emptiness
- Pokémon League
- Flare Cafe
- Team Flare HQ
- Azure Bay
- Battle Chateau
- Battle Maison
- Tower of Mastery
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Pokémon
Abilities
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- Proteon: Changes the user’s type to match the last attack used
- Competitive: Raises a user’s Special Attack when one of their stats is lowered
- Pixilate: Turns Normal-type attacks into Fairy-type attacks
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Battles
Mechanics
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- Inverse Battles: In these battles the type-chart is inversed
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New Attacks
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- Dazzling Gleam: (TM99)
- Play Nice: Lowers opponent’s attack by one stage
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Game Features
Gyms
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- Bug Badge – Pokémon up to Lv. 30 will obey you without question.
- Cliff Badge – Pokémon up to Lv. 40 will obey you without question.
- Rumble Badge – Pokémon up to Lv. 50 will obey you without question.
- Plant Badge – Pokémon up to Lv. 60 will obey you without question.
- Voltage Badge – Pokémon up to Lv. 70 will obey you without question.
- Fairy Badge – Pokémon up to Lv. 80 will obey you without question.
- Psychic Badge – Pokémon up to Lv. 90 will obey you without question.
- Iceberg Badge – All Pokémon will obey you without question.
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Pokémon-Amie
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3 Mini Games
- Berry Picker – Pick berries and give them to your Pokémon before they lose patience. The more you do the better rating you get. Things speed up as the timer counts down. Difficulties – Easy, Medium, Hard, Unlimited (3 Lives).
- Head It – Head strings of wool as they fall from the sky, timing is everything. The more you hit without missing the greater the combo (but the faster they come!). Aim for a highscore. Difficulties – Easy, Medium, Hard, Unlimited (3 Lives).
- Tile Puzzle – Old traditional slide puzzle, try and reorganize it.
Other people’s Pokémon visit your amie home and can give you gifts.
You unlock Poképuffs and furniture for your amie home by playing the mini games and interacting with your Pokémon.
Make facial expressions and the Pokémon might notice!
Your other party Pokémon join in with the mini games too.
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Post-Game
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- Friend Safari: Area in which you can capture Pokémon with their Hidden Abilities. Type of Pokémon appearing depends on registered friends and user selection
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Items
Held
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- Ability Capsule: Allows to switch between the two normal abilities of a Pokémon. Costs 200BP
- Assault Vest: Raises Special Defense, but prevents use of status moves
- Safety Goggles: Prevents damage from weather and ‘Powder’ attacks
- Weakness Policy: Raises the holder’s Attack and Special Attack when hit by a super-effective move.
- Exp. Share: Received after the first gym, now affects all Pokémon in a trainer’s team
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Neat Little Details
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- Player bends down when talking to youngsters.
- You can turn your head side to side when sitting down on a bench.
- Player blinks and stretches.
- Nicknames are 12 letters not 10.
- When trading in game you don’t need to get the Pokémon out of your PC as it will let you pick from there automatically.
- If you character walks past a sign, for example, they will turn their head and face it. You can then press A to interact and read the sign.
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<3 PJ
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Let he games begin!!!
I want my copy!! X/ Curse you Best Buy, why must you abide by the rules??
I’m wondering the same about Game Stop…though at least it helps for the party to stay on the weekend so that’s good i guess. Pokemon, friends and tacos, what more could you want?
I want mine, Flare Cafe sounds like a pleasant place
cant wait!!!!!!
I’ve got both of my copies here. Want any information or help guys – ask away. 🙂
Do you know if Feebas can be seen in the Kalos Pokedex? And if it’s true that Milotic is now Water/ Fairy
I’ve battled someone that has used a Feebas, so I’m guessing he’s in the game, however, I’m afraid I don’t know about Milotic yet as I’m not sure of the method to evolve it in these games (I assume it has something to do with Pokémon Amie).
SO? FEEBAS CAN BE SEEN IT THE GAME?! *O*
I really wish it’s a Water/Fairy ToT
I need it for my balanced team =)))
I hear that nobody has found him yet… Maybe he’s as hard to get as he was in RSE…
Can you find a Moss Rock or an Ice Rock for Leafeon/Glaceon on Kalos?
I’ve yet to find either, however, I will keep a look out!
I have found the Icy Rock somewhere in the snow area I can’t remember where, but you have to search for it -.- (It was a pain)
1 HOW DID YOU GET IT
and 2 how early can you catch pancham?
like before 1st gym or 2nd…
1. I got it because my retailer always delivers games at least one or two days early! 😀
2. I’ve not encountered a Pancham yet, and I’m just leaving Lumiose City (second main place to go).
Is it true that the game has no post-game?
There is a section on this article called, “Post-Game”. I think it will have some, plus there is a lot of legendaries to go around and catch I gather.
This is not true at all, there is a lot to do after you beat the game. I think if you do enough the elite four might be harder I haven’t tested it out yet. I managed to find a lot of open areas in the game that are just empty for no reason. I am hoping events will happen there :3
This isn’t true, but I’m not there yet. I only have one badge! 😛
When are you able to start trading via Wireless + Infared?
You can start almost immediately, I would say within the first 15 minutes
I’ve already traded with two people and battled with one! 😛 I love it!
Do you know where Goomy is found?
I love that thing so much more than I thought I would.
Goomy is found close to the 6th Badge
what is greninjas movepool like? is it more physical or special? can he get dark pulse or sucker punch?
inb4 he started with Fennekin..
I started with Chespin actually – hahahaha.
Either way I think I got my point across 😉
He does learn some Dark type moves, Albeit they are not that good. But Tms and tutors in the game supplement for his pitiful dark type move pool (He learns extrasensory for some reason)
His move set revolves around a mix between the 2 special is more preferred though
thanks, is water shuriken physical? is it even good?
To you know if you can catch a togepi
Togepi is indeed catchable in game although significantly rarer than I had originally though! and yes it is fairy type ^-^
What are all the Fairy retypes that you have seen?
snubbul/granbull, jiggly line, togepi line, plusle/minun, clefairy line, a few others I can’t remember atm. Volbeat and illumize are rumoured to be fair but it isn’t confirmed and I haven’t seen one yet.
Cheers man 🙂
Mr. Mime is as well isn’t he?
yeah, forgot about him. volbeat and illumise are confirmed pure bug btw
What do u mean rarer
Just that it is available in less places I’d assume.
Do u kno which locations u can catch it??? Sorry for bugging you
Personally, I don’t have the game, so I couldn’t help you there sorry. 🙂
It’s cool thanks for all your help
No problem
Two questions please:
How far into the game do you find noibat/noivern?
And, how far in do you find helioptile?
Thanks 🙂
Well, suppose I’ll be the first to ask if it’s true:
Fenrir Pokémon real or not?
Can you tell me if is possible to get a Charizardnite if i chose squirtle?
Well damn! Pixilate (haha pixie) will work great for some of the fairies that have normal moves (ie the ones that got switched over from Normal to Fairy)
For now, I only have a few things to say:
1) OH MY GOSH I AM SO JEALOUS OF YOU SAMUEL!!
2) Congrats on getting the game before the majority of us! 🙂
3) Thanks for putting up the spoiler tags, really appreciate that
4) YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST!!! 😀
Jesus Tits 99 TMs?
I’d just like to say, thanks everyone for making the build up to this game a load of fun. From pun wars to tears of joy over seeing new things, it has been great to discuss things with you all about the new games. I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy soon and share it with you all. Now let’s all enjoy the games for ourselves!
Aww, I’m so jealous of you all. 🙁
I would never be able to keep up with an ‘inverse battle’. XD
Apparently there is only one place where you can battle like that though! That is really disappointing! They should spring them up on you more often I think.
The poor 7 year olds playing the game would be so lost!
I wonder what it does with Immunities and x4… Will Ice on Garchomp do 1/4 the damage, but will Electric do x4, x2, or be just regular damage?
Interesting isn’t it, I guess we will just have to find out!
Since apparently we get to battle a Psychic during the battle, we’ll most definitely be able to test Psychic attacks on Dark Pokemon to prove this. I hope it’s a multiplayer battle mode too- that’d be cool.
This sounds so confusing.
I may be a bit lost at first too, but I already love them.
Not sure if this was confirmed, but I’ve just used Fairy Wind against another Flabébé and it did neutral damage.
Never mind, I can see that was already confirmed…
Hopefully if the games are coming out then maybe some people have their hands on the players guides too. We might be getting a lot of information all at once pretty soon.
Aren’t Infestation, Water Shruinken(?), and Mystical Fire other new attacks? And whatever Chesnaught’s new move was?
Chesnaught’s signature move is called ‘Spiky Shield’, and yes they are new attacks. 🙂
On topic of new moves, are Geomancy, Glow Punch and Oblivion Wing confirmed to have type(s) yet?
Fairy, don’t know, and Flying.
Because CoroCoro said they were ??? typed
The typings for those moves have been shown in screenshots. I haven’t seen Glow Punch’s type yet or if I have I can’t remember.
Ok, thanks.
Not a problem. I was hoping for Oblivion Wing to be Dark type but I’ll get used to it.
Yeah same..
Does Water Shuriken have priority? It was rumored to, but it sounds OP if it is.
I’m so excited, I’m rushing to the store when they open to get my copy of X.
I’m pretty sure I want X now, I keep switching, I’ve heard a rumor about the story of Y being alot more dark then the story of X.. I love the story of these games alot.. that it makes me switch constantly..
So X has a different story from Y?! :OO
I heard alternate endings was a thing.
A couple quick questions:
1. Is the Ability Capsule a held item? It seems a bit odd…
2. The same goes for the Exp Share. I thought it was a Key Item.
3. How did you find out about the Friend Safari so soon- did you fly through the game?
4. What Pokemon has the ability Proteon? That sounds interesting, but confusing.
5. Where are the Inverse Battles?
That stuff was on Serebii who has played through the game already.
Ah, gotcha. Thanks.
Proteon is Kecleon’s ability I believe…Kind of an inverse of Colour Change, giving the user more control
Nice. Kecleon for OU 😛
Now all we need is Mega Kecleon
I checked al of the gamestores in Alkmaar (Holland), nowhere.. or they couldn’t yet sell them to me.. AAAAHHHHWWWW, frustrating.
I’ve checked every GameStop and big retail store in Amsterdam yesterday, lol. Two more.. long.. days.. for everyone in The Netherlands. 🙁
Maybe I will check mediamarkt in Amsterdam tomorrow..
I pre-ordered from amazon, they’re dispatching tomorrow. I’ll probably have X by tuesday! I don’t think it’s at mediamarkt yet
Tuesday>? That;s late…
Yea I know! I’d hoped that amazon would be good and kind and give me the game before release date 🙁
I heard that people who ordered it from amazon Spain and another country already got their copy.. (not dutch people)
Yea I contacted amazon.co.uk, they said that I’d probably receive my order Tuesday, but with a bit of luck it will be here sooner and Ill spend my weekend efficiently by studying
Nice! Other Dutch people!! 😀
I preorderd it at bol.com. Sometimes i get a game 1 day before the releasedate but i haven’t got a deliverymail yet. Maybe tomorrow! 🙂
I have preorderd pokemon X. Which games are you getting?
I cancelled my X at bol.com, because it said that they would send it on the 12th.. So, I saw no point in waiting when I could get it myself a lot earlier probably.
I don’t know about places outside the US, but I’ve heard that chains that don’t specialize in video games (like Walmart) and open early should have the game without risk of running out if you go early.
They say that the releasedate is 12-10-2013 but I preorderd other games in the past there and sometimes I got it 1 day earlier than the date they were saying. So i’m hoping!!
mm.. on my account it said dispatching from the 12th. I’m going to Turkey in the afternoon, so I have to have a copy by then, otherwise no pokemon for me unfortunately
O no! That sucks! Hopefully you get one before you leave
Yeah I will get my copy myself so I;m not worried, but thats why I cancelled my order at bol.com ;). I pre order my copy of Y at mediamarkt
I’ll have my fingers crossed for you! 😀
I’m most likely going to get X. Spoilers keep me switching
Haha me too! But I liked Xerneas better than Yveltal from the moment i saw both. Plus Charizard X and Mewtwo X are better in my opinion. 😀
Hello fellow Pokejunglers, I decided on finally making an account as TheDutchOne (TDO). I’ve been a long time reader of articles and posts and guess what, I’m looking forward to playing pokémon x!
Huh, the Friend Safari lets you use your own Pokemon and you’re not restricted to Safari Balls… OH YEAH!!!
Also, it sounds like our Friend Codes from that post will really come in handy. When I get my Friend Code (tonight or tomorrow), should I post it on the latest thread or should I post it back on the original one?
Post it on the original thread but put it as a reply to people who you have added so they know to add you back.
I wanna get friend codes but I have NO IDEA where to start on that article. How many friends can I even have?
no more legendary ….. thats disappointed
BTW, is somebody gettin’ the 2ds for Pokemon X and Y? Or just using their 3ds/XL? I might be getting a 2ds, because I’m one of the few people who thinks it’s design is actually pretty cool XD
Serebii – “Oh my… the Mewtwo battle music is a remix of the classic one…”
So for all you music enjoyers, you are gonna love that.
http://www.serebii.net/xy/pokemon.shtml pokedex
“Click the Pokémon to go to their Pokédex page”
lol, jk, nope. There’s no Pokedex page yet 😛
Poke Radar returns….any news on the Vs Seeker?
Yeah it is back!
Wait..PokeRadar and VS Seeker are back? Holy shit…This game just gets better and better.
Turns out Serebii meant VS Recorder instead. He fixed it after I posted this.
Damn. Still going to be awesome games so I don’t really care that much.
Yeah same 😛
That’s some pretty cool information. This game is adding so many small tweaks that I don’t know if I can keep up with them all! But it’s cool because a refreshing take on the series is exactly what it needed and I think what we all wanted.