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I wouldn't be surprised if we saw the next Pokémon games announced beginning of May.
Or not much later... either way. Here is my expectations/predictions based on past and current information, official and datamined, on the more safer parts of speculation, muh patturnz, and simply trying to be as realistic as possible taken into account as many relevant things as possible.
EDIT: changed the list around, now to be even more accurate and with clearer reasons for the predictions
EDIT2: I started a blog for stuff like what I usually post in this journal pokehype.blogspot.com/
-Zygarde will be the mascot (this is self-explanatory)
-it's going to be 2 games, with a new form for Zygarde for each of them. The 2 forms will be meant to counter (at least plot-wise) Xerneas or Yveltal (who might get a new form, Mega, Primal or similar as well), depending on which one wasn't woken by Flare in the initial Version (X2=ZygardeX vs Yveltal, Y2=ZygardeY vs Xerneas).
This quite specific prediction is implied by:
1. hackers having found that XY/ORAS are programmed to be compatible with 2 more games (the pentagon symbol has 6 origin-region values, here is the source: pastebin.com/zPgwx6mb)
2. the 2 hidden moves "Thousand Arrows/Thousand Waves", as these are identical to Zygardes current only signature move Land's Wrath (all 90P spread-Ground moves) with an additional effect each (hitting airborne targets and trapping enemies respectively), not to mention the new moves have animations involving green hexagons flying across the screen. (It pretty much gives away that Land's Wrath will be like Kyurems Glaciate. It will change to one of the other moves when it changes form, Glaciate->Ice Burn/Freeze Shock, Land's Wrath->Thousand Arrows/Thousand Waves)
-The Versions will likely be called X2 and Y2 following gen5s follow-up games. However GF might cleverly use the fact that the letter Z resembles the number 2, and call them XZ and YZ. Not to mention Zygarde itself might somewhat resemble Xerneas/Yveltal in its design.
-a third round of new Mega evolutions is obvious in this case.
The only ones I am 100% confident about getting in is the Kalos starters. Because GF would be stupid not to grab this opportunity to make the "repetition" of the newest starters in the sequel more interesting with a mechanic this generation introduced in the first place!
-Battle Frontier!
otherwise the whole tease with the Battle Resort in ORAS would be just a big middle-finger with spotlights (lets face it, Delta Emerald is not gonna happen just for the Battle Frontier, even by Gamefreaks standards that would be a new low)
-a whole new southern part of Kalos (including the starting town), as well as new places, routes and dungeons popping up throughout the rest of Kalos.
This isn't merely self-explanatory from BW2, there was actually plenty of places in XY that felt unused or not fully explorable to imply that this is the case (Rhyhorn Tracks, all those Powerplants, Train stations..). And of course there is Kiloude City which is supposedly an example of southern-Kalos culture.
-of course the path through the region (and the gyms, their types and leaders etc) will be radically different as there will be new protagonists and the story taking place years after XY, with a climax in the mascot-stuff mentioned above.
-the customization wardrobe will definitely make a return for the Kalos-sequels and changed to fit the new characters as well as get expanded.
-references to XY and ORAS should be everywhere (we might even see characters like Zinnia show up), if not even further explained. In particular, Lookers situation from ORAS, and AZs background (definitely its special Floette made available somehow)
from here on anything else is pure speculation and personal wishes.
I'd love to see Challenge mode return (and be actually available from the beginning)
Or not much later... either way. Here is my expectations/predictions based on past and current information, official and datamined, on the more safer parts of speculation, muh patturnz, and simply trying to be as realistic as possible taken into account as many relevant things as possible.
EDIT: changed the list around, now to be even more accurate and with clearer reasons for the predictions
EDIT2: I started a blog for stuff like what I usually post in this journal pokehype.blogspot.com/
-Zygarde will be the mascot (this is self-explanatory)
-it's going to be 2 games, with a new form for Zygarde for each of them. The 2 forms will be meant to counter (at least plot-wise) Xerneas or Yveltal (who might get a new form, Mega, Primal or similar as well), depending on which one wasn't woken by Flare in the initial Version (X2=ZygardeX vs Yveltal, Y2=ZygardeY vs Xerneas).
This quite specific prediction is implied by:
1. hackers having found that XY/ORAS are programmed to be compatible with 2 more games (the pentagon symbol has 6 origin-region values, here is the source: pastebin.com/zPgwx6mb)
2. the 2 hidden moves "Thousand Arrows/Thousand Waves", as these are identical to Zygardes current only signature move Land's Wrath (all 90P spread-Ground moves) with an additional effect each (hitting airborne targets and trapping enemies respectively), not to mention the new moves have animations involving green hexagons flying across the screen. (It pretty much gives away that Land's Wrath will be like Kyurems Glaciate. It will change to one of the other moves when it changes form, Glaciate->Ice Burn/Freeze Shock, Land's Wrath->Thousand Arrows/Thousand Waves)
-The Versions will likely be called X2 and Y2 following gen5s follow-up games. However GF might cleverly use the fact that the letter Z resembles the number 2, and call them XZ and YZ. Not to mention Zygarde itself might somewhat resemble Xerneas/Yveltal in its design.
-a third round of new Mega evolutions is obvious in this case.
The only ones I am 100% confident about getting in is the Kalos starters. Because GF would be stupid not to grab this opportunity to make the "repetition" of the newest starters in the sequel more interesting with a mechanic this generation introduced in the first place!
-Battle Frontier!
otherwise the whole tease with the Battle Resort in ORAS would be just a big middle-finger with spotlights (lets face it, Delta Emerald is not gonna happen just for the Battle Frontier, even by Gamefreaks standards that would be a new low)
-a whole new southern part of Kalos (including the starting town), as well as new places, routes and dungeons popping up throughout the rest of Kalos.
This isn't merely self-explanatory from BW2, there was actually plenty of places in XY that felt unused or not fully explorable to imply that this is the case (Rhyhorn Tracks, all those Powerplants, Train stations..). And of course there is Kiloude City which is supposedly an example of southern-Kalos culture.
-of course the path through the region (and the gyms, their types and leaders etc) will be radically different as there will be new protagonists and the story taking place years after XY, with a climax in the mascot-stuff mentioned above.
-the customization wardrobe will definitely make a return for the Kalos-sequels and changed to fit the new characters as well as get expanded.
-references to XY and ORAS should be everywhere (we might even see characters like Zinnia show up), if not even further explained. In particular, Lookers situation from ORAS, and AZs background (definitely its special Floette made available somehow)
from here on anything else is pure speculation and personal wishes.
I'd love to see Challenge mode return (and be actually available from the beginning)
Potential Galarian form candidates
EDIT: updated. Made more Galardex confirmed mons grey and picked orange for confirmed to either have a new form or evolution in their line.
Went through all PKMN and marked all the highly plausible candidates for getting Galarian forms. Grey are evolutionary families of which at least one member has been confirmed to appear in regular form in Galar (so they could still get a form for a late unconfirmed stage or gain a new evolution, but otherwise seem less likely than white ones).
Things I assumed as a disqualifier (of which any might be incorrect):
-having gotten a cross-gen stage before
-having gotten a Mega
-already having a gimmick i
The news we just got is bigger than you'd think
Obstagoon is essentially the encapsulation of multiple bits of information that are all huge news in their own right to me.
1. By confirming regional variants to not merely be a "gen7 gimmick", it can now officially be called a staple feature, which isn't just great for SwSh but for the franchise.
2. By showing us that regional variants are NOT exclusively generation 1 PKMN, which makes me hopeful that eventually some obscure Unovan PKMN will get a piece of the spotlight etc.
3. By, on top of that, confirming that permanent new cross-generational evolutions are a thing again for the first time since 2006 (I'm not counting Sylveon for being
Let's Go were predictable since Sun/Moon
I think I just blew my own mind and feel dumb for not having predicted this xD...
At this point it should be really obvious to everyone that the Alola forms (or rather which PKMN got them and what types they had added) were made specifically based on what the first generation of PKMN isolated is lacking in type diversity (in the context of the 3 new types since then, as well as overall).
I realized that early on (they weren't based on popularity and they definitely weren't random or shared any other traits, besides complementing the original Pokedex really well with every single addition), but didn't understand why they would ever do that,
Poke Maniac Charon
I've been going by that nickname anywhere related to PKMN recently as you may have noticed. And since I've even started using it in the signature on my art, I went to check if there is a way to change your nickname on deviantArt.
Sure enough there is, but it's exclusive for Core members XD
So I've been thinking about whether it's worth getting that just for the name change...
But I've also found out that you cannot even buy a 1 month membership for yourself, the lowest is 3 months. You can however gift someone else a 1 month one, because..reasons? xD
That got me thinking of another option. Does anyone have any kind of request I could fulf
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