Something in my mind tells me that fairies will be an excuse to give us a really, really good Dragon.
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Pokémon XY General Discussion
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Huh what? What did I miss?
imo, we'll have Xerneas being Psychic/Fairy and Yveltal being Dark/Dragon.
GF said it was so people would not solo the game with just one pokemon.
In the video, the last segment showed froakie facing 5 houndour presumably in the wild. So i figured it was a new encounter type? Unless of course im wrong and it was just literally 5 houndour and 1 froakie?
Serebii showed it aswell, okay, thank you. Also, could someone link me that video?
Really? Thats an interesting concept. Make the storyline a lot longer by forcing the player to have many pokemon. I wonder how long itll take to actually travel through the whole region, considering its in 3D, and get to the post Elite 4.
You guys (or girls) can see it at pokebeach http://pokebeach.com/ and they're called horde encounters.
Right in the main page
Right in the main page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si7oFO5y1e8 Here you are. (you should just google Pokebeach or Serebii to find all news)
"Who thinks this Pokemon is either powerful, everywhere, or mediocre?"
i.e.
"Who thinks this is a Pokemon?"
Not worried at all. Torchic has base 45, Bulbasaur has base 45, Chimchar has base 44. Their final evolutions are OU or Ubers. It's gonna evolve.
Har har I meant pick one not is it one of those.
The official site mentioned that you might be in trouble in horde battles if you don't have a move which hits more than one Pokemon. So I guess that will be another thing to think about strategically. I hope this turns out to be a Pokemon game with at least a little bit of challenge.
From pokebeach
From pokebeach
Don't know if this has been mentioned already, but Talonflame looks like it could very well blow through some of the bulky Steel types that plagued Staraptor competitively [Skarmory, Metagross, Bronzong, etc] without needing Reckless. The reason I say that is because of the description of Talonflame on the Pokemon XY website:
"An evolved form of the recently announced Fletchling, Talonflame is a Fire- and Flying-type Pokémon that gains a whole new level of speed and firepower. It dives at foes, and then attacks with devastating kicks."
...Devastating kicks? Hmmm...leads me to believe this bird is going to learn Close Combat or some type of Fighting move. And it's pre-evo already learns a Fire-type move in Flame Charge IIRC. The site also states that Talonflame learns Brave Bird. If this is true, this bird's coverage will be near perfect since Fire/Flying/Fighting is devastating. Of course the biggest drawback is the 4x weakness to Stealth Rock, unless the SR damage calculation changes by some miracle.
I know I got a bit into the competitive side there, so I apologize if I wasn't supposed to. We'd have to see this things base stats as well. Either way, this thing looks way too cool and I am definitely throwing it on my in-game team if I do pick up XY.
Hiro's rumors (which I see no reason to be wrong) say Xerneas is pure Fairy* while Yveltal is Dark/Flying
*Admittedly, it could have just been "It IS Fairy" instead of "It is PURE fairy"
I'm not liking Horde battles so far. How the hell are you supposed to survive a 5 v 1 battle? I mean, your Pokemon would always faint at the end of the turn with 5 Axew using just, like, scratch, let alone dual chop or dragon rage. Or do all five not get turn at once? Either way it seems way too challenging to take out five Pokemon at once - especially early game. Besides, it seems to go against the idea of double battles or triple battles when you send out only one Pokemon when you're up against five - who does that? "Five Axew? Better send out one Pokemon!"
The only way I could see this working is if the horde gets in a single file line and you take them one at a time. But then it's not really different from running into a wild Pokemon in five consecutive steps.
The only way I could see this working is if the horde gets in a single file line and you take them one at a time. But then it's not really different from running into a wild Pokemon in five consecutive steps.
You are not supposed to survive, you level your other pokemon up. But I am sure there is some leveling system for it so you do not black out.
I have a feeling that Froakie (and its evolutions) will be especially helpful in horde battles, since they'll most likely learn Surf like all the other Water-type starters.
In the picture with Tauros and Miltank, they're level 14 and Fennekin is 25, so it's still gonna be tough and near impossible to end a turn without your mon fainting.
I know we don't have full details and blah blah blah, but how much more do you need to know other than it's 5 v 1? You're gonna take a lot of damage, you're gonna have a faint, you're gonna use A LOT of PP, and it's only one wild encounter.
I know we don't have full details and blah blah blah, but how much more do you need to know other than it's 5 v 1? You're gonna take a lot of damage, you're gonna have a faint, you're gonna use A LOT of PP, and it's only one wild encounter.
well technically it's 5 wild encounters
just at once
and really you're probably e: NOT going to be attacked all at once
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