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Gen 5 felt rushed on Gamefreak's part. After all, X & Y was in development way before black and white. Gen 5 designs really felt like a last minute resort to try to rack up as much money as possible on the DS.
However, X & Y so far has really thoughtful designs. I really like the panda, and the non grey colors of the starting bird (I'm look at you Starly and Pidove!).
However, X & Y so far has really thoughtful designs. I really like the panda, and the non grey colors of the starting bird (I'm look at you Starly and Pidove!).
Gen 5 gave us many new things, such as more items, abilities and moves than any generation has ever given us before. It gave use dream world abilities which has never been done before what so ever. New battle styles in triple and rotation battles were also introduced, which were huge for a pokemon game. It also gave
us an improvement to the graphics of the game with animated sprites and just in general compared to other generations, the graphics in Gen 5 are significantly better. I don't know what you mean when you say gen 5 didn't give us anything, because if anything it gave us the most new features of any gen. I'd expect gen 6 to be no different.
...alright, departing from the genwars, has Game Freak ever released early the starting route bird without the starting route rodent? If not, then they're either parting from tradition or perhaps the new Normal/Electric-type is the potential starting "rodent" (well, lizard).
Seriously? I look through 4 more pages to find that still nobody has translated the sylveon segment of pokemon smash? We could have pretty solid evidence of sylveon's type if someone just knew japanese...
Seems likely that Sylveon is a new type at this point though it's the last thing we'd ordinarily assume.
It's weird that they would be secretive about the type of an Eeevelution, of all things, and even weirder that we can't easily guess. Flareon, Jolteon, Umbreon, Leafeon, for example, are the embodiments of their types; the names and design completely give the typings away. IF there is a 'fairy' or 'sylph' type the puzzle is completed as far as Sylveon's design and name (Sylveon/sylph, Ninfea/nymph) are concerned.
I will not be the least bit surprised when a new typing is confirmed.
It's weird that they would be secretive about the type of an Eeevelution, of all things, and even weirder that we can't easily guess. Flareon, Jolteon, Umbreon, Leafeon, for example, are the embodiments of their types; the names and design completely give the typings away. IF there is a 'fairy' or 'sylph' type the puzzle is completed as far as Sylveon's design and name (Sylveon/sylph, Ninfea/nymph) are concerned.
I will not be the least bit surprised when a new typing is confirmed.
STOP.
Big bold blue letters on the first page. This is not confirmed information, so we're not going to discuss it.
Besides, somebody whose name I forgot posted those same rumors (actually, with even more info) at May 1st on GameFaqs. And suddenly, WPM posted them saying "his source's been giving him info since February". This alone completely undermines his credibility, so screw that.
Nah, it's going to be "SmellYaLater".
Actually, with the single feather as a tail, I feel they will expand upon this detail and make it into some kind of peacock.
(e.g. next evolution has three feathers, final a full dress)
Has anyone considered the fact that Slyveon might be dual type pokemon. This could lead to the strenghts and weaknesses it has.
Yes, I think bouncing back the effect but then forcing the user to switch is the most likely outcome.
Even if it does force the target to switch, it will be a very gimmicky move. But it could be interesting depending on how the stats drops work.
Are you sure? Damn... at least there's Smash next week. The official release date is before Sunday at least I hope? So that we can get maybe something new from Smash.
Alright, guys, cool it with the talk about Sylveon. We have no idea what Sylveon's type is. Japanese shows in general do weird stuff like that, so we can't base anything on it. So shut up.
We really need to focus on the stuff that already exists. There's a reason we had to kill the old thread - it was almost four-hundred pages of utter garbage, talking in circles and speculating on all sorts of things that we legitimately have no clue about.
So, as I said, let's focus on facts we already have. For starters, has Game Freak ever pre-released the starting route bird without the starting route rodent? If so, we have a possibility that Elikiteru is the starting route rodent/there may be no starting route rodent, or that Yayakoma may not be the starting route bird.
But, I emphasize, this prediction will be based on existing data. We look at previous trends to take a guess about the potential future of a Pokemon. Not blindly guessing what a type will be or even a new type based on something a Pokemon-related show is doing.
We really need to focus on the stuff that already exists. There's a reason we had to kill the old thread - it was almost four-hundred pages of utter garbage, talking in circles and speculating on all sorts of things that we legitimately have no clue about.
So, as I said, let's focus on facts we already have. For starters, has Game Freak ever pre-released the starting route bird without the starting route rodent? If so, we have a possibility that Elikiteru is the starting route rodent/there may be no starting route rodent, or that Yayakoma may not be the starting route bird.
But, I emphasize, this prediction will be based on existing data. We look at previous trends to take a guess about the potential future of a Pokemon. Not blindly guessing what a type will be or even a new type based on something a Pokemon-related show is doing.
@Lucario Guy That seems like speculation on their part. I was saying it would be nice if somebody would actually translate what was being said during that segment (both verbal and the text). Also, people seem to be forgetting that Masuda is going to be on smash next week to reveal something big.
I'm sorry, but what. Of course we don't know Sylveon's type, but Pokémon Smash does, and all those weird tryouts for its typing aren't random. If they say it isn't Fighting-type, it's not Fighting-type, as wacky as their presentation is. There's no blind guessing in "well it's not going to have the same typing as other Eeveelutions, it's not Fighting and it appears to be strong to Ice, so Rock", we are working with the current patterns in Pokémon and whatever hints an official source has given us.
Of course we shouldn't start some "it's going to be Love-type!!!" or "they are changing the types' effectiveness!" madness, but saying that it *might* be a new type, based on concrete proof, isn't baseless speculation by definition.
Yeah, I was just about to say that. We know that sylveon exists and it has an unknown type. Eliminating what it is unlikely to be is not baseless speculation. We certainly take it for granted that its typing is different from that of the other eeveelutions. And the fact that we can't clearly determine its type from its appearance and name (it IS an eeveelution after all) really strengthens the possibility that it's a type that does not currently exist.
So if we're assuming smash was in fact teasing what Sylveon's type strengths are, I'd say it's extremely likely that Sylveon's type will be what Masuda reveals next week. Otherwise, that was a pretty random time to be teasing that.
Have they eliminated Normal-type yet?
The only ones eliminated were Poison, Steel and fighting. Basically everything was eliminated because she was strong against ice and weak against poison.
Cresselia~~
Junichi Masuda likes this!!
Valid.
Just imagining, that sounds very alike to the love type theory,
even when I originally believed in the fairy / pixie/ yosei theory.
I originally thought that based on the names Nymphia and Sylveon, which probably comes from Nymph and Sylph/ Sylphide, it should be based on some mythological stuff.
And we know that in Japanese media, Europe is pretty much stereotyped to be with the mythological creatures like fairies.
But then, being strong against ice doesn't really relate to fairies for me, whilst love probably is associated to warming cold hearts, and that people tend to poison themselves for love.
However, I think it would be kind of stupid for POkemon to put love in as an element.
And I don't think that Sylveon's new move have anything to do with love.
(PS: Poor ice types now have another weakness :c )
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