Gen 5 rumor mill thread

In the end, keep in mind that completely new Pokemon are not a bad thing, even if they appear strange or weird. Considering Pokemon are based off real world organisms, and scientists in the real world have only identified 1.8 million of the estimated 10-100 million species that exist, it makes sense that so many new species, and thus Pokemon, when translated into the video game world, can exist.

theres still no lion-based poke iirc.
im still all for two-three new eeveelutions, theres still some scenarios that could arise for it to have new evo's. with the last generation, they introduced area-specific evolution in magnezone, probopass, leafeon, and glaceon. while yes this is a good thing, its also a bad thing in that unless you have access to either the GTS, or can trade to D/P/Pt, you wont be able to get those 4 pokemon. then there was the introduction of gender-specific evolutions with frosslass and gallade for example. Gen 2 introduced time-based evolution with espeon/umbreon and gen 3 introduced weather-changing pokemon with groudon, kyorge, castform, and cherrim.

what could be added next is beyond me. id still like to see a castform for a sandstorm condition, which i always found odd. a flying/fighting type would be neat, seeing as with staraptor's introduction they have it learning close combat, a fighting-type move. Maybe have that pokemon be based off of say, an eagle, or a vulture. some of the pokemon from that sprite sheet were interesting. a grass/dragon starter is, well... hax, and the water/ice mixing starter was interesting. finally seeing a non-legendary elec/flying mix would be a well welcomed change; rock/fighting and fire/bug seemed a bit... gimmicky. Oxywaddle though, now i can entirely believe that one to be true, just because of how absurdly named the real LickiLicky is. Hitmondo, hitmonsumo? What would the first one be based off of? Lee = kicks, Chan = punch, Top = spinning, maybe capoera. Sumo = Hariyama, so bad idea there. but what would Hitmondo be based off of, ki? Thank you, we have medicham for that.

From that list though, im more impressed with the ghost/hybrid typings, the dragon/fire pokemon, even if it is just a rip-off of charmander's evolution line IMO, dragon/psychic for its obvious OP in s.atk, and some of the evolutions on existing pokes, like Laplantis, neobeat/neomise, and viperside. im let down on the lack of absol love, but those really stood out to me. if i were the guy who made these, id have sent those into nintendo for consideration more than any others, along with some of the original hybrid type mixings.


if what this new battle appearance shows, its that now you can see the entire backside of the pokemon instead of just a cropped view of it. i will say from the images from corocoro that i dont like how that city scene looks. its too dark and bleak for my tastes. already said this in the other thread, but my hopes are high to moderate for it, depending on how the pokemon move when sent out of their balls to battle, and if they have any animations for specific moves. ive seen people play with those animations turned off, and i have to ask whats wrong with them. some of the move animations are cool, and to forego them for speed? disgraceful.