Pokémon X & Pokémon Y may have been released over four years ago, but a mystery still looms over the games… whatever happened to AZ’s Floette (also referred to as the “Eternal Flower” form) that was coded in as an event Pokémon but never released?
AZ was a mysterious character who is revealed throughout X & Y‘s story to be a former king that built a machine to resurrect his beloved Pokémon who died in a great war. Unfortunately, although successful, he was not completely satisfied simply to have his Floette reunited with him—he wanted to end the entire war. In order to do so he re-purposed his machine into a weapon of total destruction which was fueled by the very life essence of Pokémon around it. After using it, the war ended, but his beautiful flower Pokémon refused to forgive him for the deaths he caused and disappeared.
Although AZ ultimately reconciles with his Pokémon, players eagerly waiting for this unique Floette form have not had such an auspicious conclusion. The form is still unavailable to this day and has never been formally mentioned by GameFreak. What’s more, its base stats differed than standard Floette’s; altogether it has a BST of 551 while its normal evolution is just one point higher at 552 (a normal Floette has a measly BST of 371). This isn’t all that surprising though given that it is evolution-locked and cannot evolve into Florges. It also has access to a special move, Light of Ruin, which is the strongest Fairy-type attack, but is currently usable by no other Pokémon besides this unreleased enigma.
There are many theories as to why this may have been. Was it meant for another game, possibly a third title for Generation VI, which explored Kalos’ lore in greater depth? Was its grim history too much for a family-friendly game? Or was it coded in for an unused battle against AZ, only existing as a model for the NPC to use?
What do YOU think happened and would you like to see it distributed some day? Maybe in the X & Y remakes!
According to Serebii’s twitter, PokeSwitch is still being pushed for ‘2018 or later’
I mean good on GameFreak for not making promises, but I hope they don’t rush it for 2018.
I still think it’s coming out this year. The fact they say 2018 or later shows that 2018 is the plan. Or later is just in case it’s delayed for some reason like diamond and pearl were. The main question is how long have they been working on this game.
Hopefully the “later” part. The more time they take the better tbh
Very late update on my blaze black playthrough. Haven’t been able to play past few days but got around to playing some more. Just got my eighth badge and had the final battle with cheren. Currently in victory road! Will try to finish up main story later today! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6841f3d83030a2b637f5b29fd466c73cadf1987ac166f1876154b8c4029c5af2.jpg
I would still hope it would be released to us! I love it! Why would they have put the same exact flower in ORAS as well??!?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=78&v=r2mF4jH_uIY
….ok
Pyuku song?
the same VA!
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lol’d
OMG ALL THIS TIME YOU WERE JUST POINTING OUT THE VOICE ACTORS WERE THE SAME!?
Still no shiny onion fairy……..why am i working so hard for something i hate?
In a way you are working hard for something you love
Aka
A shiny Golisopod
I just won a 164 turn stall match
Well I’m immensely pissed
-bad night of sleep
-my brother overslept and missed the bus and had to rush him to school and made a mistake on the way
-a really stupid cashier at 711 couldn’t figure out how a plastic bag and triple knotted it
-my other brother trashed the kitchen (and I’m 100% he ate all the damn roast beef WHICH I JUST BOUGHT LAST NIGHT)
-dog puked on the carpet which is doublely bad because not only do I hate cleaning puke now I gotta keep an eye on him Incase he’s sick
-still no shiny Celebi which I’ve spent all my time on for the last 2 days
– And I have a stress migraine
I find it immensely frustrating that we have an article here posing an interesting question about a Pokémon-related topic, yet the comments section is an absolute disaster of mismatched conversations. This website has such potential but absolutely no organization. It feels like a virtual elementary school lunchroom, with kids just shouting over each other.
I have that off-topic feeling too sometimes, I think that is because there is no moderation or only a little… but we have to understand that the people running this site don’t have the time for that, so it’s up to us to contribute to unrelated topics or not…
and I wouldn’t say this is like elementary school… I find this site and the people in the comments very mature and welcoming everyone, one of the most friendly Pokemon sites where people use to respect each other’s opinions without bad reactions or personal attacks in general.
one could not say the same from other popular communities…
I think the code is there just for the model… and it won’t have more relevance than that, maybe in the gen 6 remake? who knows
do we know if the code is also in gen 7? if true they may be considering it for a future event or game…
The comments section are wild in here! Very related to the topic. haha