New Pokémon revealed for Pokémon X and Pokémon Y

[bullados]

There are 16p2+16 potential type combinations.

 

[PokePharos]

There are 16p2+16 potential type combinations.

what does the P stand for?
It is fair to say 90% of the types are ruled out by just looking at the pokemon. It is clearly not a bug, or a rock, or dark, or ice or fire or grass etc.

I have to play devils advocate.

and I believe there are 153 different possible types.

 

[LegendCallerL]

The 16p2 is a permutation, meaning the number of options you have when arranging a group, counting different orders as different combinations.

16p2 means all the ways you can combine 16 types into 2 slots, counting things like fire-fighting and fighting-fire as different, and the additional 16 is for single types. However, there are 17 types, so it should be 17p2+17, or 289 permutations, I think.

Not counting inverted pairs as different would indeed be 153.

 

[Otaku]

I just came up with a long, long shot way of justifying this as a Poison-Type... and I think I like it! :lol:

Especially if the ribbons are extensions of its body... what if Sylveons bows were like a jellyfishes tentacles; covered with small, stinging cells. What about its name implying Sylvan/Sylph, nymph, and fairy connotations?

Imagine a creature trailing ribbons dancing through the woodlands... and when people get close to it they get brushed by a ribbon and are either Paralyzed, Poisoned, or Confused?

This would be so epic!

 

[PMysterious]

My guess would be that this Eeveelution will be a Normal-type. I mean, look at the moves it does. It did a Fire-type attack and I think a Psychic-type attack. Only 1 type can do multiple types of attacks without being a dual-type Pokemon, and that's Normal.

 

[pnoodle5]

My guess would be that this Eeveelution will be a Normal-type. I mean, look at the moves it does. It did a Fire-type attack and I think a Psychic-type attack. Only 1 type can do multiple types of attacks without being a dual-type Pokemon, and that's Normal.

Maybe I'm confused, but that's not strictly true. Mew can learn Flamethrower, for example.
And Feraligatr gets Crunch by level-up.

 

[Phazon Elite]

Given the first part of Sylveon's name, my guess is that it's a Metal type. With every other Eeveeloution, the part of the name preceding "eon" has always indicated the Pokemon's type.

 

[Otaku]

Given the first part of Sylveon's name, my guess is that it's a Metal type. With every other Eeveeloution, the part of the name preceding "eon" has always indicated the Pokemon's type.

I've heard that before; people see "Sylv" and think "Silver".

Ignoring how the Pokémon looks (I've already said, while a stretch it could be justified as a Metal-Type despite the looks), consider the Pokémon's name in other languages.

Spanish: Sylveon

"Silver" is "plata" in Spanish.

Italian: Sylveon

"Silver" is "argento" in Italian.

French: Nymphali

"Silver" is "argent" in French

German: Feelinara

"Silver" is "silber" in German.

Of course, if that wasn't what you mean, my bad. That is how it has been explained by others who have suggested it.

"Fee" means "fairy" in German and "nymph" (or nymphe) means "nymph" in French, if Google translate can be trusted. Both are magical creatures that may be spirit instead of flesh. "Silvan" relates to wood spirits and sometimes magical woodland creatures, and is derived from Silvia/Sylvia, Roman goddess of the woods and the moon.

I have also heard people suggest that the "Sylv-" comes from "Sylph", a term used for certain spirits and in particular wind spirits (or "magic creatures", depending on the setting), but this would require the "ph" be transmuted to a "v"; such a change has not occurred with any other English name for an Eeveelution, but it does occur with other Pokémon so this could be the first.

 

[Phazon Elite]

Good points. I'll have you know that I spent pretty much zero time researching my hypothesis and merely went with the most obvious clue I saw. lol

I'd be much more confident in my guess if "Sylveon" was spelled "Silveon," though.

 

[Otaku]

Understood.

The subject's old now (lol internets) so I had a lot I could "info dump" with very little effort.

 

[HRPrime]

I just hope this isn't a prank Pokemon.

 

[bullados]

I just hope this isn't a prank Pokemon.

Sylveon is official. It's on virtually every official Pokemon resource. Anything that's not Sylveon, the Basic Starters, and the X or Y Legendaries at this point cannot be confirmed.