Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire: Discussion/Speculation

I won't debate that you may indeed be right. Hey, who knows? Your guess at this point may be no more valid or invalid than anyone else. In fact I rather hope you ARE right. However, at this point, until the game arrives, there's a remote possibility you might get surprised. For that reason, I wouldn't start counting your chickens just yet. I could make fantastic claims right now and no one would be the wiser until release day. That's all I have to say on the subject.

It's nice to find out a bit more on the "Super" secret bases. I like the fact that you can make them into a mini gym where people can battle you. I hope a lot of my friends do that instead of being a collector of dolls and such. However, to each his (or her) own.
 
Super secret base sounds fun. One thing I hope returns is letting your lead Pokemon walk around with you. Its not much of a needed change but its the small things that make the game fell more life like. Also would be nice if they did a dungeon crawling mode where you can find items with your Pokemon. Would be cool for a mini game.
 
P_A said:
Well, to be honest, we don't know how Metagross' stats will be affected, so getting to be a mega may not necessarily be a blessing. It's just more of a guess at the moment.
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There's since been information that Metagross is going to get a big buff to its Speed (I'm guessing bumping up to the typical 100) and the rest of its stats are also going to be buffed, as well as getting Touch Claws as a new ability, additionally the same source also said Mega Diancie is going to lose defenses and pick up a lot in the speed and attack stats.

In regards to Megas I'm excited for Mega Metagross and Swampert, both are bulky to begin with and have good movepools and typing, but I'm not sold on Mega Sableye or Mega Sceptile yet. Sableye losing prankster is a pretty big deal, and while it promises to become bulkier, I'm not convinced it's going to be enough to make it worthwhile. Sceptile's problem on the other hand has always been its movepool, focusing on physical attacks when its stats emphasize Special. I'm expecting Sceptile to pick up Dragon Pulse, but unless it gets something more that'll leave it at about 4 types for special attacks (including Hidden Power), and its ability while nice doesn't cover any of the major weaknesses its typing gives it.
 
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Sceptile already learns Dragon Pulse, right? I could have sworn I came across on that did it. With DP, Giga Drain, Hidden Power Fire and maybe Focus Blast, it would work well with Lightning Rod. Its may get faster. We can only wait to see if it gets anything else.

Where is my mega pidgeot though. Thats what I really want.
 
Yes, I did notice there had been some news about Metagross. Good to see it, since I used that, Deoxys, Rayquaza, Swampert, and Kyogre a lot when I was playing the original Sapphire game. Hopefully they'll give Rayquaza a mega as well. In any case, it's good to find out that vaporeon's suspicions were confirmed. I'm really looking forward to ORAS.

LOL ..... On a side note, just to show you what's going on at our house, my son Josh (who is 25 this year) had me take him to EB Games to preorder the games. I assumed he was planning on preordering one of them for me. So I asked him which one he wanted for himself. He says to me, "Both of course! Get your own, Dad!" Apparently he really loved that pokemon set of games, so wants to play both when they come out this time. That's a first for us, since usually he gets one game and I get the other. So I guess I'll just have to buy both for me! Na na na! Take that annoying youngster! ;)
 
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vaporeon said:
Sceptile already learns Dragon Pulse, right? I could have sworn I came across on that did it. With DP, Giga Drain, Hidden Power Fire and maybe Focus Blast, it would work well with Lightning Rod. Its may get faster. We can only wait to see if it gets anything else.

Where is my mega pidgeot though. Thats what I really want.
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Dragon Pulse is currently only a move tutor move from gen 5 sad to say, unless they give it Dragon Pulse it'll be stuck with Dragonbreath, but they've been throwing Dragon Pulse around a lot in XY, so it'll probably get it anyway. Even so, those 4 moves aren't enough to sell me on an attacker, especially when Dragon has little coverage and is now blocked by Fairies.
 
Yeah but 2 stab is good enough for the mega though since it will be hard to switch into... Even more so if it got the lightning rod boost. It would need a good fairy counter move though. I still have my Black 2 game so I should be able to get Dragon Pulse on mine. I did not know it was a tutor move. I thought it was a egg move. Thanks for letting me know that.
 
So now we have more megas coming out. How many have been announced so far?

Metagross
Audino
Slowbro
Salamence
Lopunny
Altaria
Diancie
Mawile
Sableye
Swampert
Sceptile

I guess Kyogre and Groudon aren't really considered megas, but they are going to see some changes as well.

Any others I'm forgetting?
 
P_A said:
So now we have more megas coming out. How many have been announced so far?

Metagross
Audino
Slowbro
Salamence
Lopunny
Altaria
Diancie
Mawile
Sableye
Swampert
Sceptile

I guess Kyogre and Groudon aren't really considered megas, but they are going to see some changes as well.

Any others I'm forgetting?
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Mega Mawile is already out :p

I think we're going to be getting a Mega Slaking as many prerelease shots have tended to include only Megas and the starters (with the exception of the E4 having Shiftry and Dusknoir), and Slaking is in some of the screenshots for Mega Slowbro.
 
MEGA MR. MIME!


lol, nah- perhaps Mega Unown-

I think that with some Pokémon getting Mega treatments, it is helping to balance out the games a bit more and adding Fairy types in IMO was a good move-

now if the new 2014/15 VGC format gets announced, we'll see where the balance goes in favor of.....................
 
In a recent bit by Pokemon Get TV, it was apparently revealed that the moves used by Primal Groudon and Primal Kyogre are new moves. However their effects and names were not revealed. This reminds me though, we don't know what their abilities are yet.
 
Do you think that maybe they're calling the new forms of Groundon and Kyogre "Primal," it means that maybe there'll be a return of Primal Dialga and with it the Sinnoh region?" If so, think of the battle music. If anybody has played MD2 and beaten it, they know what I'm talking about. Plus, Primal Giratina would look amazing and Primal Palkia might actually get a typing that makes sense. Maybe new type, such as Mystery or Cosmic. It would definitly give pokemon like Deoxys or Unknown something unique. Why is Deoxys a phychic, anyway? Shouldn't it be Electric-Phychic instead of just the plain Phychic? 'Cause that would make a lot more sense. Speaking of which, how about a Primal form of Deoxys? Too much? Probably.
 
Primal Deoxys? Yummm! Doubt it, but definitely a nice dream. As for the rest .... I guess we won't know 'til later.
 
TheRolesWePlay said:
In a recent bit by Pokemon Get TV, it was apparently revealed that the moves used by Primal Groudon and Primal Kyogre are new moves. However their effects and names were not revealed. This reminds me though, we don't know what their abilities are yet.
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The new Corocoro is leaking, which means we're getting the names of those attacks...although Kyogre's still hasn't been leaked yet.

Primal Groudon gets "Land of Endings" as its ability and the attack "Cliff Sword"
Primal Kyogre gets "Sea of Beginnings," and the attack as stated has not been leaked yet.
These abilities summon "strong sun" and "strong rain" probably meaning infinite and maybe other effects

Also 3 more Megas have been leaked, Gallade (no further info), Mega Sharpedo having Strong Jaw, and Mega Camerupt. Kinda sad to see that Wally's staple Pokemon is gonna be Gallade an not Gardey now, but I guess Diantha already stole that thunder
 
It's even sadder to think that Diantha's isn't really all that good. I'd say, if they were going to make the boss's pokemon decent they should make them a bit more of a challenge.
 
Heck- why not give the gym leaders pokies that can mega evolve and have a double battle to make it a bit more of a challenge-
 
Smeargle1, can you explain what you mean? I can't figure out how that would be done, other than by taking an opponent you played with and advancing their pokemon, and giving them the most devastating attacks. The problem with that is that sometimes an older learned attack sometimes is more effective - for example trick room. And how would you choose the players that become gym leaders? On second thought, maybe you should make a separate thread for that - I don't think it would really fit in this one.
 
My guess on what Smeargle is saying is that it would be awesome if players could upload a team to the system and then another player would be able to download that team into the game as a gym battle.

The hidden bases has that sort of a set-up that it is like a gym, where your friends are there to battle in I am guessing in a gym fashion.


I think it would be awesome if there was a way to "up-grade" the gym leader's gym with downloads. Say you play through the game, get all the badges- defeat the E4- and, you would then be able to download the up-grade to each of the gyms. Different Pokémon and of course higher levels, and each time you go to the E4- there would be a successor to you who has come in after you and is the new champion.

In a way it would be even better if there was like say 16 people who are on-line wifi battles for you to earn a badge from the wifi gym. They could have like 10 different teams at their disposal when challenged so that the battles are different every time if you have to rematch if you lost the match. That and not everyone who challenges them will face the same team. Personally, I like the idea but I highly doubt that something of that manner would happen. To me, wifi opens up so many ideas for Pokémon and how the games could be interactive with options other then trading and battles - like there could be a Pokémon universe mode that is a virtual world region set up like XD:GoD where it is a union area for the players to do all sorts of things.
 
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