Pokémon X and Y Discussion Thread

"Jaw issue"....AHAHAHA! Oh dear, you summed that up perfectly!

On another note, I read somewhere, maybe Tumblr idk, that there would be another Eeveelution. Though I expected this, the type isn't dragon they said. What do you think their type would be? Poison?

 

http://bulbanews.bul...echanic_changes

It's an interesting read considering it has some of the questions we have answered (Happy that Ghost-types can free escape from battle now, and ESPECIALLY getting experience will be a bit less of a chore now. XP).

The one question I want answered is if the Mega Evos are temporary (like I think it will be) >>

 

It's already been confirmed that they are. A Pokémon can be called to Mega-evolve during battle if it has the suitable Mega-stone attatched to it in its item slot. After the battle it goes back to normal. You can however attack and Mega-evolve in the same turn.

 

I see; wasn't exactly sure since I didn't get to see any confirmation.

 

So there's new rules for how the Exp.Share item works..and they are basically the old rules from the EXP ALL days, slightly modified. Instead of having an Exp.Share on a Pokémon in your party not in battle, allowing that Pokémon to gain some of the EXP the battling Pokémon gets, the Pokémon battling holds it, getting 100% of the EXP it would normally get, and every single other Pokémon in the party gets 50% of the experience. At first, I wasn't too sure of this, but the more I thought about it, I like it. It's a much more efficient way of leveling an entire party at once.

 

As I mentioned somewhere earlier (Not in the forums), if this works for EV training too (And it probably will) then it'll be easy to EV train a whole bunch of Pokémon. Just take 6 physical attacker Pokémon with a simple 252*2, 4HP spread and train away.
Buuut this also means that if you're EV training 'mon, you'd proably want to keep untrained Pokémon away from your party if they don't share a similar EV spread or at least need the same stat building as the one(s) you actually want to train.

Regardless, I kind of think that the Exp. Share functioning like that is kind of too easy. I hope they drastically improve trainer AI to make up for it

 

It does make it much easier to level, yeah, but I think the reason they may have made it so much easier is the sheer volume of Pokémon that will now exist. This will allow people to be able to experiment with all sorts of different teams as they go through the game without bogging down the player as much. I experimented and changed my team around many different times through the middle of Black 2 for example and story progress was often halted as I tried to level the new ones up to par, just because of the time it took.

 

I think it'd be cool to get a Poison type Eeveelution instead of a Dragon one, and it would be a nice surprise for the games. Because of the deal with Espeon and Umbreon everyone seems to be expecting Dragon since that's how the Eeveelutions were dealt with then, but they've only added new types once before. There's no evidence to say that would become a consistent theme.

 

All I have to say... I won't post spoilers though so dw

 

I was trying to avoid spoilers, but when I saw a video of the full Poke'Dex in my subscribers on YouTube, I watched it... xD

Well, I'm waiting for tomorrow to get the game. For one thing, I don't have anyone who can run to Target right now, and I just overall think it's a better thing to do to wait until tomorrow. It'd be nice to have it today... I have absolutely nothing to do all day, but I think I'm better off waiting than not.

 

I really, really hope the box system is like the previous games, where it gets expanded as you fill it up. Maybe it's explained soon in the game, I haven't even gotten the first badge yet, but if it stays at only 7 boxes the whole game, that's shitty. Even if the Pokémon bank is only 5 bucks for a whole year, I think it's bullshit if they will basically make it a requirement if you feel like having more than a third of all available Pokémon.