(2) 'EX Battle Boost' leaks, ‘CoroCoro’ unleashes a torrent of new information [7/10]

[Charizard3712]

okay I'm calling it now, the squid pokemon thing is going to be the one you flip your 3DS upside down to evolve it. You heard it here first!

 

[StarlightSearcher]

in4b Zakuro is the first Dark-type Gym Leader.

I don't know; Zakuro just has that kind of vibe. *shrugs*

 

[Luna_Cat16]

I definitely have a feeling that the money thing won't be the entire purpose of the organization. And who knows, if it is they might not be completely amoral idiots! The plot could quite easily be that they want to capture the version-exclusive mascot to sell it to the highest bidder and you have to stop them. Maybe this highest bidder person could be the villain who actually wants to do something horrible? This could separate Team Flare from Rocket by having them not as evil.

Otherwise I am impressed with all the Pokemon, though Malimar kind of weirds me out. How does it walk with those tiny floppy fins??? That will be really strange to see.

Also ten bucks that the X version exclusives will evolve into things that are generally happy or really lively while the Y version exclusives will all be horrifying in some form or another.

 

[Teal]

Come on, Zakuro's hair is a mountain with gems (WTF) and he is a climber... Rock type.

 

[StarlightSearcher]

Come on, Zakuro's hair is a mountain with gems (WTF) and he is a climber... Rock type.

I'm thinking Dark; probably because of the gems remind me of a Sableye for some reason.

 

[Teal]

Come on, Zakuro's hair is a mountain with gems (WTF) and he is a climber... Rock type.

I'm thinking Dark; probably because of the gems remind me of a Sableye for some reason.

Or his hair actually represents chocolate because it made me think of chocolate and he has candy in his hair and actually his skin reminds me of chocolate too and now look in the screenshot with him THERE IS A CHOCOLATE BAR so he will use Food type Pokémon like the cotton candy and the ice creams and Snorlax I think for some reason.

PS: Food type is the huge news of August you will see.
PPS: Also he ows a flying baguette. Food/Flying

 

[Bashamo]

-So many people complain about the vanillite line but I haven't that many complaints about the cotton candy pokemon. I have no problem with either but it makes me wonder if people in general prefer cotton candy over ice creams...

It looks more animal like so people tend not to get as annoyed by it.

I think Zakuro is a rock gym-leader, if he is, this would be the first time we get a rock leader who isn't 1st in the region. I'm happy for that fact alone.

The blonde guy (I don't know his name) I think s either steel, electric, or psychic.

 

[Pomchu190]

I definitely have a feeling that the money thing won't be the entire purpose of the organization. And who knows, if it is they might not be completely amoral idiots! The plot could quite easily be that they want to capture the version-exclusive mascot to sell it to the highest bidder and you have to stop them. Maybe this highest bidder person could be the villain who actually wants to do something horrible? This could separate Team Flare from Rocket by having them not as evil.

Otherwise I am impressed with all the Pokemon, though Malimar kind of weirds me out. How does it walk with those tiny floppy fins??? That will be really strange to see.

Also ten bucks that the X version exclusives will evolve into things that are generally happy or really lively while the Y version exclusives will all be horrifying in some form or another.

Malimar also seems to be floating in one of the CoroCoro images. Doesn't it?

 

[Trainerhan1]

I'm thinking Dark; probably because of the gems remind me of a Sableye for some reason.

Or his hair actually represents chocolate because it made me think of chocolate and he has candy in his hair and actually his skin reminds me of chocolate too and now look in the screenshot with him THERE IS A CHOCOLATE BAR so he will use Food type Pokémon like the cotton candy and the ice creams and Snorlax I think for some reason.

PS: Food type is the huge news of August you will see.
PPS: Also he ows a flying baguette. Food/Flying

Ow my God, that is a chocolate bar.

 

[FT10]

I definitely have a feeling that the money thing won't be the entire purpose of the organization. And who knows, if it is they might not be completely amoral idiots! The plot could quite easily be that they want to capture the version-exclusive mascot to sell it to the highest bidder and you have to stop them. Maybe this highest bidder person could be the villain who actually wants to do something horrible? This could separate Team Flare from Rocket by having them not as evil.

Otherwise I am impressed with all the Pokemon, though Malimar kind of weirds me out. How does it walk with those tiny floppy fins??? That will be really strange to see.

Also ten bucks that the X version exclusives will evolve into things that are generally happy or really lively while the Y version exclusives will all be horrifying in some form or another.

Malimar also seems to be floating in one of the CoroCoro images. Doesn't it?

I still think that they could stick with the "all they care about is money" plot with Team Flare and still have an interesting story. For example, they could be this gigantic corporation that destroys local businesses through predatory pricing, but the kicker is that they're exploiting Pokémon in pseudo sweatshops in order to produce whatever it is that they produce. They could kidnap people's Pokémon and enslave them, they could level the local ecosystems in order to seek energy sources, etc.

If the giving life/destruction and/or DNA theme will be prevalent in the story, maybe Team Flare's actions will cause the version mascot to stand up to them. Maybe in X, Team Flare's actions cause widespread death and loss of life in the Pokémon world, causing Xerneas to spring into action, and maybe in Y, Flare overuses genetic engineering experimentation on Pokémon, causing Yveltal to rise to action?

In short, there are many ways the "money above all else" angle for the evil team can end up. I'm sure it won't simply be a company that uses immoral business practices or deceptive marketing strategies to make a few extra dollars!

 

[Koreku]

The cotton candy pokemon... oh my... err, uhm

It looks... cool? :x

 

[Keeper of Night]

That hideous pile of cotton candy, on the other hand, has no right to be considered a Pokemon. I do not like my Pokemon being edible. It is a fantasy world, which is great because I can chill with a Krabby and not have to worry about boiling it and serving it with butter, or I could raise a Miltank and not have to one day lop it into bits so I can feed my family as we struggle with today's emerging agricultural-industrial complex. However, when you make a Pokemon out of something that was designed to be eaten, such as Ice Cream or Cotton Candy, then you are hurting the illusion. There's a reason that there is no Big-Mac-mon, it would be stupid and shallow and look goofy and be completely useless, and that is exactly what we are doing with this thing. If it's design could be made a bit less derpy, and its 'stick' could be replaced with some actual appendages, then it would look alright. And if you take that new design and remove the fact that I could just bring it out and chow down on it right then and there, then you would have a solid Pokemon. You would also have the equivalent of Jumpluff or Whimsicott.

Just because we have "Ice Cream" pokemon and "Cotton Candy" pokemon does not mean they are designed to be eaten. Plenty of other pokemon are confirmed to be eaten by people in the pokemon universe (Farfetch'd, Basculin, ect.). The Vanillite line are only shaped like Ice Cream, but are actually made of ice and are covered in snow. Just because this new pokemon looks like cotton candy, it could just as easily be a cloud or plant.

 

[DawnOfXatu]

The type is great, and having Contrary being more widely dispersed is a good thing. It may even give Swagger new life if Malimar proves to be offensively designed.

I'd like to point out that I'm pretty sure Contrary only reverse stat boosts on the possessor of Contrary, not everyone. Other than that, your post was simply perfection.

I meant as a hard counter to an Attack based Malimar, although I can see how my wording was ambiguous. Imagine if Malimar has something along the lines of 110 Atk and a physical move pool that worked with the general strategy. A speedy Pokemon or a Trickster would be able to render it completely useless with a single attack, as a Double Attack lower + Confusion would be crippling.

Just because we have "Ice Cream" pokemon and "Cotton Candy" pokemon does not mean they are designed to be eaten. Plenty of other pokemon are confirmed to be eaten by people in the pokemon universe (Farfetch'd, Basculin, ect.). The Vanillite line are only shaped like Ice Cream, but are actually made of ice and are covered in snow. Just because this new pokemon looks like cotton candy, it could just as easily be a cloud or plant.

I feel like you missed the larger point, which was that I don't like my Pokemon being based off of food. Perhaps Big-Mac-Mon is actually a couple of oddly colored rocks that only coincidentally look like a goofy joke of a Pokemon. It is still a bad idea. Next thing you know there will be Philly-Cheesesteak-Mon or Snickers-Mon. I don't care too much if I can eat these Pokemon (especially since they are not real, and I am not going to argue over the edibleness of imaginary creatures, although I hear Unicorn steaks are fantastic) I care more if it seems like I can eat these Pokemon.

 

[Puff-Sun]

Imakuni? could actually make Heatran good if you flip heads. It's the only way besides Munna of giving yourself a status condition. Fire typing is gonna be awesome next format, so maybe it could work.

 

[Raptor9229]

nonononono. Money is a very basic concept. "I want money" is a natural greed desire in everyone and that is not "evil". It's the goal for the canon fodder in many of the games, hell, it's even an issue for the player. To 'liberate' Pokemon can be taken in many different ways and you can speculate on that phrase alone however the wanting of money or wealth is...almost a given. It's like announcing that Ash wants to become the Pokemon master. Why is the money part emphasized?

It makes it sound like Team Flare is the only form of crime out there. It makes it sound like society in the Pokemon world is stable to such a degree that it takes a massive crime syndicate to dream of illegally earning money, an incredibly basic crime in comparison, which is obviously unrealistic because of the last five crime syndicates that came before. Why revert to something so simple and monotone when even having a little imagination in Pokemon you can come up with a whole array of story lines.

Simplicity is brilliant when done well but just "I want money" is a bad and cliché motivation.

i have to agree. If this was the first ime they did it i would be cool with it, but seriously your original team even had the same motivation

Um hidden agenda for Team Flare?

 

[le Roi-Soleil]

Here is my take on the Gym Leader, Citron:
Citron is the Gym Leader of Lumiose City, and he is an Electric-type user.

• Lumiose City is based on Paris, France, the "City of Lights." What are lights? ELECTRICITY.
• The Lumiose City Gym's gym sign is yellow. Yellow=Electricity.
• Citron is french for Yellow. Yellow=Electricity.
• Citron has a sprig of hair atop his head, and it appears to be a lightning bolt. It is stated that he loves to invent. What does that invention behind him look like it runs off of? ILLUMINATI! ELECTRICITY.

Yeah, that's all about him.

Zakuro... Apparently, he likes playing sports, so perhaps he is the fighting type.

Team Flare is horrible, as of now. They just don't seem like a villainous team, but it is far too early to form any intelligent opinions.

Is that Professor John Stamos? I think it is.

I like the new Pokemon... except the cotton candy one. I think that covers the list.

 

[Ohman177]

I'd like to point out that I'm pretty sure Contrary only reverse stat boosts on the possessor of Contrary, not everyone. Other than that, your post was simply perfection.

I meant as a hard counter to an Attack based Malimar, although I can see how my wording was ambiguous. Imagine if Malimar has something along the lines of 110 Atk and a physical move pool that worked with the general strategy. A speedy Pokemon or a Trickster would be able to render it completely useless with a single attack, as a Double Attack lower + Confusion would be crippling.

Just because we have "Ice Cream" pokemon and "Cotton Candy" pokemon does not mean they are designed to be eaten. Plenty of other pokemon are confirmed to be eaten by people in the pokemon universe (Farfetch'd, Basculin, ect.). The Vanillite line are only shaped like Ice Cream, but are actually made of ice and are covered in snow. Just because this new pokemon looks like cotton candy, it could just as easily be a cloud or plant.

I feel like you missed the larger point, which was that I don't like my Pokemon being based off of food. Perhaps Big-Mac-Mon is actually a couple of oddly colored rocks that only coincidentally look like a goofy joke of a Pokemon. It is still a bad idea. Next thing you know there will be Philly-Cheesesteak-Mon or Snickers-Mon. I don't care too much if I can eat these Pokemon (especially since they are not real, and I am not going to argue over the edibleness of imaginary creatures, although I hear Unicorn steaks are fantastic) I care more if it seems like I can eat these Pokemon.

Pokemon are not based off of food. Food is based off of pokemon. In the Pokemon world, they saw vanilish and thought "HEY let's make something that looks just like that. Maybe it will taste good" or something. They did the same for the cotton candy one.

 

[Momaster12]

Is that Professor John Stamos? I think it is.

I laughed too much at this.

 

[slashman41]

I doubt that Team Flare will be as simple as CoroCoro claims it is. We know that they want money, but to what extremes will they go to in order to get that money? GameFreak has been incorporating the version mascots into the evil team's plots since Generation III. They have no reason to stop that trend now.

Also, I like the implied Fire-type theme, since Fire is my favorite type.

 

[Phoenix EX]

Team Flare...Team Magma...3rd Gen remakes confirmed.