Pokémon X and Pokémon Y

[nocturnal YL]

Jan 14, 2013 11:18:57 GMT -5 Johans Nidorino said:

Thanks, YL!

New update from the official site: Chespin is pure Grass, Fennekin is pure Fire, and Froakie is pure Water.

You're welcome!

Pure type starters has always been the case if I'm not mistaken. It's when they evolve that they gain their secondary type. Naturally, the official site isn't covering this yet.

Fennekin doesn't look like it'll be Fire/Fighting, but then, neither did Torchic.

[Dances in Undergarments]

Bulbasaur was Grass/Poison even in his first stage, but then the first gen was super weird.

[mrmolecule]

Wait, Pokémon X and Y aren't just placeholder titles? What happened to colors/precious metals?

[Da Robot]

Feb 1, 2013 14:23:21 GMT -5 mrmolecule said:

Wait, Pokémon X and Y aren't just placeholder titles? What happened to colors/precious metals?

er . . . they ran out of good titles?

But here's some reasons for "X & Y" (that we know of with the limited infomation avalible at this time originally posted in the Nintendo Direct thread.

Jan 8, 2013 6:37:16 GMT -5 Dances in Undergarments said:

From Bulbagarden, via GAF

Junichi_Masuda was just in France, and his Twitter photo is him with the Eiffel Tower
We have what appears to be an Eiffel Tower like structure in the trailer, together with other classical European style architecture
Starters based on things stereotypically associated with France, including Chestnuts, Frogs and Fennec
The Cartesian coordinate system (you know, X & Y) was developed by René Descartes, a French philosopher

Gen VI confirmed for France.

[Arcadenik]

So, I just had a Pokemon-related dream. I was walking through a grassy route early in the morning when I got a weather forecast warning me about asteroids or hail or volcanic rocks. I got hit by a falling rock and then I entered a battle with a new Pokemon based on Triops but it would evolve into a Pokemon that looked like a three-eyed Pyramid Head.

[Koopaul]

Huh! I can't believe I'm the first one to post this:

gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=196024&sid=4487042a8537848803da8ede297d3f1a

New Eeveelution. The question now is: what type is it?

It could be a Dragon type since that is the last Special Type that Eevee doesn't evolve into. Every other type was Special so I thought they might continue that pattern.

[Flint]

I expect Froakie to evolve into something like this zeldawiki.org/images/d/d3/Zephos.png it already gives me a Benjamin Franklin vibe, so I could se it becoming Water/Flying, Water/Electric. As for the new Eevee, that reeks to a Normal type Evee

[Koopaul]

Bah how boring would that be to end up being just a Normal type. Why would they keep that a secret?

[Dances in Undergarments]

Maybe they're going to introduce a butt-ugly type and that will be its first member.

[8bitretroshit]

Pink is pretty much the national colour of the Normal type, though the butterfly bows and blue tips on those ribbons give me a little bit of a flying type vibe.

[Koopaul]

Pink is also associated with many Psychic types too.

[8bitretroshit]

But we already have psychic!

I wonder if this is the only eeveelution we'll get this generation, because I kinda really want a dragon-type one now (and I'll eat my sock if this one's a dragon-type.)

[Arcadenik]

Maybe it's Flying-type and it's exclusive to Y version... And maybe there is a Ground-type Eevee that is exclusive to X version... And there is a Ghost-type Eevee that is exclusive to Z version.

My reasoning: Y-axis is vertical, ergo Flying-type. X-axis is horizontal, hence Ground-type. Z-axis leaves the plane (of existence), therefore Ghost-type.

[Dances in Undergarments]

So, it turns out this evolution has been 'hiding in plain sight' for a while now. The logo for the upcoming Eevee short for the new Pokemon movie had a letter of each coloured like an Eevee-lution, and look what is in the middle:

There are also stars there for some reason. Star-themed Eevee incoming?

Also, many people (inlcuding myself) are inclined to think this may be a female only evolution, and one of the more interesting theories I've seen is that the two bows represent XX Chromosomes, and a counterpart male Eevee would have an XY formation on it (I've seen suggestions that a necktie could work for a Y, for example). I'm inclined to go with this for now, I quite like the theory.

[Koopaul]

That might just be Espeon. If you count how many characters there are, there's just enough.