NOTE: This article is purely speculative and is based on facts and current information available from various sources.
There’s no denying that there’s a new Pokémon game of some variety coming somewhere along the line, whether it’s a follow up to 2013’s X & Y, the first generation seven games, or something entirely different. Whatever it turns out to be, we’re getting something and there are at least two new Pokémon (or formes) coming along with them.
It’s been two weeks since we learnt of the mysterious new kaiju-esque Pokémon that will show up in the next Pokémon movie (due out in 2016) and it’s widely accepted amongst Pokémon fans that the Pokémon is a forme of Zygarde. Chances are we will receive an announcement soon as to what exactly this Pokémon is (perhaps alongside a larger reveal such as a game, much like Black and White Kyurem were revealed alongside Black 2 & White 2) as it’s rather unlikely fans will be left waiting one whole year for a full announcement on what exactly this Pokémon is.
Since then we’ve learnt of another Pokémon’s existence, being the green blob-like thing shown off at the end of the screenings for Hoopa & The Clash of Ages movie. This green Pokémon is perhaps the most interesting… From what we know it seems rather unlikely it is a forme of Zygarde, but instead an entirely new Pokémon, shown off in the same way Victini was before Black & White were released way back in 2010.
This in itself is possibly a huge pointer towards new games (with a new generation) being on the horizon, with an announcement even closer still. But, we wouldn’t be writing this article if there wasn’t more, would we? As we all know, Junichi Masuda gets around. The Pokémon Director visits an awful lot of places in his time and often tweets about those places.
On July 3rd Masuda tweeted that he was at The Pokémon Company, something not too out of the ordinary one would think, but there’s something that makes this a little more interesting. After Satoru Iwata’s passing Masuda published another tweet suggesting he had met with Mr Iwata and that he seemed well. While there’s no available evidence to suggest the fact, some believe that both Iwata and Masuda were at The Pokémon Company preparing for an announcement in the near future.
みなさん、おはようございます！今日の東京は久しぶりの大雨でびっくり！金曜日、頑張っていきましょう！！！ I’m at The Pokémon Company! pic.twitter.com/vizejyfsrJ
— 増田順一@GAME FREAK inc. (@Junichi_Masuda) July 3, 2015
Next month is already a fairly big month for Pokémon, with the World Championship taking place towards the end of the month and it’s certainly not out of the question that some sort of announcement regarding new Pokémon could happen too. What is uncertain is how we could receive a new announcement, Corocoro is due out on August 12th and could bring an announcement, but there’s also the chance that Iwata and Masuda were recording a Pokémon Direct similar to the one in which X & Y were revealed. Pokémon Get☆TV in Japan also could hold an announcement soon as they have been known to do in the past.
We could exude more and more from the information we have readily available, but we’ll save that for another day (;)), but for now that’s all. We do believe there’s an announcement of some kind just around the corner, we just don’t know what! We want to know what our readers think is going to happen, will we receive an announcement soon and what will it be for?
As always, we’ll bring you any information as soon as it is released, right here on PokéJungle, so keep your eyes peeled!
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Hey all, I think I know what the two forms are, at least as much as I can based on existing evidence. Both pokemon shown in the teaser are forms of zygarde.
Firstly, and this may seem like sidetracking but I promise it isn’t, a few months ago, Pokebeach revealed that the next TCG set will be the start of the “XY Break” era. It will be a split set called XY Break: Blue Impact and XY Break: Red Flash, starring Mewtwo’s megas. This new set introduces a new mechanic called Break Evolution: “In order to Break Evolve, you need the BREAK card, the pre-evolved Pokemon, and the Evolved Pokemon”. I think that Break evolution will be a new form of mega evolution, that uses the pre-evolved form in place of a mega stone (All break evolvable pokemon revealed so far are at the end of their evolution chain, Raichu, Golduck, Luxray, Zoroark, Chesnaught and Noivern). But Zygarde doesn’t have Pre-evolutions, I hear you say. But we don’t know it’s connection to Xerneas and Yveltal. They could potentially allow Zygarde to Break evolve into more powerful forms.
Going into Zygarde’s mythology, it maintains the balance between life and death. It also has two signature moves that seem to be designed to counter land based oppponents (Thousand Waves) and airborne ones (Thousand Arrows).
It seems to be common consensus amongst the fandom, that the giant pokemon is the Thousand Arrows form. I agree with this, as it appears to have several spikes on its head, along with the four arms. The Giant is Zygarde Break X, which borrows power from Xerneas. This makes sense, if you consider that Zygarde is taking power from life (which is why it grows), to defeat death.
The blob is the opposite. If you watch the animation for Thousand Waves, the user turns into several small particles (or blobs, perhaps) and attacks the opponent. If the population of the ecosystem gets too large, Zygarde becomes a bacterium using Yveltal’s powers, to reduce it. It’s also worth pointing out that the blob pokemon has a red stomach. Which member is red? Yveltal!
Break evolution is a TCG exclusive thing, but nice try. Though I’m in agreeance that they are both related to Zygarde. I don’t know about the fact that it’d incorporate the other two legendaries but eh maybe.
How do we know Break Evolution is TCG-exclusive? I’m fairly certain I’ve read everything in Pokebeach on the subject, and nowhere does it say that. True, we haven’t heard about it being in the games/anime, but it’s not impossible that Break Evolution is the method by which Zygarde becomes the huge creature shown in Corocoro. And we know nothing of Mega Evolution Act IV.
As for why it’d incorporate the other two, Zygarde does need something to tie itself to the lore of the other two. We know that in the TCG, Break Evolution requires both the pokemon and it’s pre-evo. Plus it would make sense for Zygarde to channel the power of life to combat death and vice versa.
Because the card game adds all sorts of weird mechanics and such never touched upon in the games. It ties into the lore by existing.
True, but I don’t remember Pokemon Prime, Pokemon legends (the HGSS mechanic, not legendaires in general), Pokemon EX, Lv. X pokemon or any other mechanic like that being made such a big deal out of, except maybe the new pokemon EX.
Just by existing? No. Just no. While a certain amount of wishful thinking may have gone into the Break Evolution part of my theory, there is no obvious connection between Zygarde and the other two in XY. Rayquaza’s role as mediator was revealed in Emerald, Giratina’s role as the being that counterbalances Dialga/Palkia was revealed in Platinum, and Kyurem’s Absofusions were only in BW2. All three, and Zygarde in XY, were hardly mentioned in their debut games, and never in relation to the other two members of their respective trios.
couldn’t it be possible that they announce something at gamescom in europe ?
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