Regarding seemingly limited Pokemon habitats; with major theme of Z-A being "construction", I wonder if we'll be able to swap Wild Zones for different biomes, a la Johto Safari Zone?
Hm, I could maybe see as you progress through the story the Wild Zones go from under construction to a finished "product" which will also result in more Pokemon showing up (and/or maybe causing some Pokemon to move from one Wild Zone to another to fit their niche). However I don't think the player would have any say how the final result will looked as that should have been planned out way before the player arrives to Lumiose City.
Now there will probably be a day & night cycle, but other than that I can't see much else. Would be neat if the story technically takes place over a year thus there will be time skips and you see the Wild Zones go through the different seasons (which you can later revisit in someway, like there's that "cyber" aspect, maybe there's a virtual Lumiose City which the player can use to create simulations with), but that's also more of a Unova/Gen V thing.
If shedinja is present and Champions allows customization within itself, Tera Electric Balloon and variants completely dominate the meta.
Someone tries this and learns that Wonder Guard was made non-compatible with Terastallization so all you did was make Shedinja a 1-Hit-Wonder to all Types (except for Ground thanks to Air Balloon, ironically).
This isn't likely, no Pokemon's base model is changed with Holowear.
Unite isn't likely to ever have Pikachu Libre because this game never actually references that kind of stuff unfortunately.
Just throwing ideas out; personally I see it as their loss (I say for a game they probably already made billions on).
Actually, it's been pointed out in various places but Urbain and Taunie in their rival appearances actually look a lot like the player characters themselves.
(...)
(Which by extension, also means Z-A's player characters' "canon" names are most likely also Urbain and Taunie)
Welp, congrats GF you got one up on me (would you mind doing that more often, I'll gladly have my statements & predictions look ridiculous if it makes for a better game). But, hey, that's good to hear, glad GF are experimenting more with what they can do with the unchosen protag as the rival; if only with appearance.
As for that being their canon names, hm, that's a good question. Would seem the obvious thing to do; but at the same time I can also see GF thinking, since the rivals do technically have a different design to the player despite using the same base model, that they are different characters in terms of presentation (and merchandising). Like think if they were added into Masters EX, previously since the unchosen player rivals still looked like how they would had they been chosen by the player it didn't matter in terms of presentation/merchandising who they chose to have been the protag & rival; they look the same regardless (even for Calem/Serena who I bet most people didn't realize they had a different haircut in addition to missing their hat). But not so here, if that is the character's chosen name than theoritcally half the players Urbain and Taunie aren't going to look correct (granted, they could later do a costume swap and handwave a reason for a little story). But, to make things easier, it might just be better to consider them all different characters.
BTW that's doesn't negate my point. My issue was I thought they designed two new rivals but no matter what you got the opposite gender one thus you might as well just got the unchosen protag as the rival. But them being the protags just palette swapped falls within addressing my issue, even if in lore they're counted as separate characters. They can call the protags Taunain and Urbanie.
Paris. Catacombs. If we don't get to find a movie theater being visited by a bunch of ghost pokemon beneath Lumiose, I'm going to riot.
Phantom of the Opera-Duskull family Regional Variant? (BONUS: Duskull family were not part of the Kalos Dex, Friend Safari are non-canon)
Introducing the final forms for the starters in Legends: Tin Tower, it's Poliwrath, Shiftry, and Chandelure!
I was still implying the Starters will be what GF call the "First Partner" Pokemon, just that as long as they follow the traditional Type Triangle they can pick whoever.
Think of this Public Relations Officer for a small shipping firm
... So I don't really watch a lot of TV, if you're going to post a character from a television series that you'll only know if you watch that TV series, I and whoever didn't watch that TV series is not going to know them.
The Latis are literally the easiest of them to justify, they've already been established to just go roam around random regions for fun.
Yeah but then they couldn't use them as save data unlock bonuses and we can't very well have a Pokemon game which now doesn't smack you over the head to buy another game.
Strangely, Water is almost as badly off in this regard. There are tons upon tons of Water-type Pokémon out there, but only a handful of three-stage families that aren't starters (Poliwag, Marill, Horsea, Lotad, Spheal, Tympole). Grass, however, has plenty to choose between: Oddish, Bellsprout, Hoppip, Seedot, Lotad, Roselia, Sewaddle, Bounsweet, Applin and Smoliv. More than one per generation on average.
BTW, another thing: As of right now, Starters only evolve via Level. So this disqualify all 3-Stage Fire which require a unique method to evolve. Grass has Hoppip & Smoliv (maybe Bounsweet and Sewaddle if you really want to push it), and Water has Sealeo & Tympole.
Clemont watching his life's work turn into a giant gun while the vengeful Team Flare true believers threaten to level his block
I'm pretty sure Clemont didn't build the Prism Tower.
I'm intrigued by Lumiose Museum's prominence in the map illustration. (...) I wonder what could be going on there this time around for it to get higher billing than, say, Sycamore's lab
I mean, protag is a tourist.
Inshallah Meganium will get Flower Veil now
And while your at it have it also affect the Pokemon which as the Ability. Flabebe and Comfey are carrying flowers they bonded with, they should count.
My tinfoil hat idea is that we get regional Kalosian/Lumiosian forms of Meganium, Emboar, and Feraligatr and while they don't get Megas themselves, we'll see Megas for Chesnaught, Delphox, and Greninja instead.
We should give out club jackets to everyone who said this
... if only to tell others that "
yes, this idea has already been thought of; here's your jacket".
Come to think of it, actually kinda conspicuous that this trailer didn't show off Chespin, Fennekin, and Froakie in any capacity, much less their evolutions.
I don't think they showed much of the Sinnoh Starters before Legends: Arceus release.
(In addition to the popular theory that one will be given out as a second Starter who can Mega Evolve,) Just like the Sinnoh Starters, they'll all be catchable as normal Pokemon in Wild Zones, the question is what form will that take? Will there be three seclusive Wild Zones which, while having other Pokemon of course, is mainly a place to have the Kalos Starters hanging out? Or maybe you need to do something to have them start appearing in certain Wild Zones; maybe permanently, maybe temporary and next time they'll move onto another Wild Zone.
We don’t know much about ZA outside of basic information on the game.
1. Regarding new megas, I don’t expect that many new megas. Ash Greninja being converted into Mega Greninja (X).
2. Yveltal and Xerneas will get Mega-like forms but not true megas, just like how Groudon and Kyogre got Primals.
3. Most like the Aces of gym leaders get Megas besides Avalugg.
4. Another potential Mega would be AZ’s Floette. Either it Mega evolves or Florges-AZ is introduced.
1. Nah, they'd want to keep Ash-Greninja separate from a proper Mega Greninja for marketing purposes (and lore). Plus Ash-Greninja I don't feel changes much like a proper Mega would. Like I can see Mega Greninja changing from your traditional ninja into one who uses mystical power derived from the
Kuji-kiri (aka "Ninja Hand Signs"). OR, maybe wanting reinforce its French-based Kalos roots, it becomes something like a gentleman thief (aka
Arsene Lupin, the basis for Lupin III); using its tongue like a grappling hook maybe?
2. I could see that, Mega Legendaries are already super powerful they do seem to want to give a limitation to the ones with 670+ BST. Primals immediately go through Primal Reversion on their first turn as Kyogre and Groudon can't resist absorbing as much energy as they can to get one over the other. It has to go with their lore of course; maybe connect it to their Signature Move, they have to use their Signature Move and then knock out an opposing Pokemon.
3. I think normal Avalugg can still get a Mega. Normal Slowbro has a Mega.
4. Mega, maybe, akin to Diancie's. But no evolution into a Florges, I think the implication is Eternal Flower Floette is sort of "manufactured" Floette as it was made to bond with a flower its species normally doesn't. Because of that it's unable to evolve into a Florges as the genetics needed for Floette to fuse with the flower isn't there. Though, because the Eternal Flowers seemingly have a connection to Infinity Energy, the special bond makes an Eternal Flower Floette nearly as powerful as a Florges. And because of that, I wouldn't mind seeing an Eternal Flower Flabebe (with stats nearing a normal Floette), as I imagine the way the Eternal Flower bond is done is via giving an Eternal Flower (maybe a budding one) to a newly hatched Flabebe.
I wouldn't be surprised if Battle Bond Greninja just becomes a relic of the past like Spiky Pichu.
They'll probably pull it out every now and again, like I wouldn't be surprised if Ash makes an appearance in a later season of Horizons (or maybe the anime series after if Horizons only sticks around for Gen 9) and he has Greninja just so in the games they can have Ash-Greninja again. Heck, Ash could just become a "Legendary Trainer", like a folkloric hero, and maybe in referencing that they'll come up with a way for Ash-Greninja to return.
As for Spiky Eared Pichu, let's give it the next games based in Johto before writing it off.
Given we already know that we can use teleport pads to get onto rooftops, and our Rotom Phone to hop across them, I’m not sure how many more traversal options would even need to be offloaded onto (a) Ride Pokémon.
Maybe return of the Rotom Bike?
Bicycles are popular in Paris.
So the chaps over at Hidden Power have posited that Eternal Flower Floette (shown in the trailer) may well be the original “Paradox Pokemon”.
That's not how Paradox Pokemon work. I would more argue Eternal Flower Floette is more akin to Bloodmoon Ursaluna, Cosplay Pikachu, and yes Ash-Greninja. They're just notable members of their species instead of an entirely new species like the Paradox Pokemon are (not to mention how they came to be).
I had this old crackpot theory that Ash-Greninja really was supposed to be "<player>-Greninja".
Sounds familiar.
I could have sworn there was an article where it said Ash-Greninja was a creation of the anime team who wanted a special Pokemon as strong as a Mega but only Ash would have.
I've heard various proposals similar to this in that they entail bringing in major elements from other regions (for instance, another idea I've seen fairly often is having Ultra Beasts/Necrozma play a story role). Honestly, I'd rather not: This is Kalos' time to shine first and foremost and I don't want the continuation of its story, characters and worldbuilding getting cannibalized. LA Ingo worked because of how unexpected he was and how despite that he still tied into the overarching themes of time-space displacement and finding value in a strange new land.
One of the neat aspects of Legends: Arceus was seeing the ancestors of certain Pokemon characters, and not just ones from Sinnoh. While it referenced those characters, it also was used to help world build Hisui as these characters had important roles.
Keeping in mind this is Kalos's time to shine, maybe we can still do the "relative to known character" but this time instead of a descendant it's a family member? Parents, siblings, cousins, aunts & uncles, spouses, children, etc., we sometimes hear about them but rarely do we see them (or we do and they're given a generic trainer sprite/model). Have them working for Quasartico, having been brought on because they have a special skill deemed necessary for this special redevelopment project creating a city where people and Pokemon co-exist.
The biggest one is the Switch 2 coming up on the horizon. Ain't no sense in splitting up bread for inferior hardware.
Yeah, best to wait for Switch 2 then.
Why is there a question mark?
Why does it learn Headlong Rush?... WAIT, nevermind,
apparently its Japanese name is a sumo wrestling term.
--------------------------------------------------
CAUGHT UP!
