scuba steveE said:
Mitja said:
Way too early for legendary types too. Remember how long we wondered about Zekrom/Reshiram...
Zekrom and Reshiram were revealed worldwide May 28, 2010 as 'Legendary Dragon Pokemon' so we already knew half their types right off the bat. Three days later on May 31, 2010, Zekrom's type was accidently leaked by Shokotan on her blog. Finally, on June 11th, Corocoro officially revealed Zekrom's and Reshiram's type. So they officially revealed their types 2 weeks after revealing the actually Pokemon.
It's been almost 9 weeks since the reveal of Xerneas and Yveltal and we still don't know their types, heck we know absolutely nothing about them.
Now that's intriguing....
Oh wow, guess I don't remember pre-BW times as clear as I thought.
Dragon was essential as they were meant to be viewed as Dragons (unlike DPt mascots which got that type for epicness ala Lucarios Steel type..), but just 2 weeks? I feel like speculation went on for months xDD
I cant seem to find info on how mascot types were revealed for DPt... maybe that could be helpful.
Other than that, I guess they could reveal the types this month...but still feel that they'll keep us scratcing our heads for a few more months.
EDIT:
I did some more browsing through old corocoro scans if anyone is interested
before 2006- we knew of Lucario, MimeJr, Weavile, Munchlax, Bonsly
Jan- hint at "prince of sea"
Feb- Manaphy revealed
Mar- Buizel, Chatot, Mantyke
Jul- MASCOTS revealed
Sep- tons of pokemon revealed (fossils, Carnivine, Happiny, Shinx, Bidoof, Burmy...), mascot types stated, THE GAMES RELEASED
Of course they don't reveal info in the same manner, but its a example of how scarce they can give out info about a new gen game through the year up to its release.
Heres BW
before- Zorua/Zoroark
May- starters and MASCOTS revealed
Jun- handful of new pokemon (Munna, Darmanitan, Sandile, Blitzle, Pidove, Klink, Mincinno), full mascot types revealed
Jul- handful of new pokemon (Musharna, Gothitelle,Woobat, Patrat, Axew, Braviary, Reuniclus)
Aug- tons of info, a dozen new pokemon, battle modes...
Sep-tons of info and leaks, first starter evolutions, like 20 new pokemon, GAMES RELEASED
But note that BW had 50% more pokemon to show off.