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New Mega Evolutions for Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire revealed
Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire — 11 August, 2014
Three new Mega Evolutions have been revealed! They are Mega Altaria, Mega Salamence and Mega Lopunny and will be available in the upcoming remakes Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire.
Mega Altaria changes to Dragon/Fairy type and has the ability Pixilate, turning Normal type moves into Fairy type. Mega Evolving increases its Attack, Special Attack and Defense.
Mega Salamence remains Dragon/Flying type but has the ability Aerilate, turning Normal type moves into Flying type. Its Defense gains a huge boost.
Mega Lopunny changes to Normal/Fighting type and it has the ability Scrappy, enabling it to hit Ghost types. It gains a boost to Attack and Speed.
Finally, it has been announced that a shiny Beldum will be available as an event for OR/AS shortly after launch! We'll post more details when they come.
New events for PokeBall pattern Vivillon and Pinsir/Heracross
Pokémon Events — 11 August, 2014
We already tweeted about this but here's a little more detail. The new online Pokemon merchandise store, PokemonCenter.com is now open, and to celebrate they are giving away the special PokeBall-pattern Vivillon!
Since PokemonCenter.com is for America only, so is this event. It runs from August 7th to August 12th so be sure to get it while you can! It's available via Mystery Gift in the main menu, then select Receive via Internet
.
However, the event has also been announced for Europe and Australia, running from August 29th to September 8th. As above it's a short distribution so mark your calendar so you don't forget!
Finally, another event is due to start shortly in America - from August 13th either Heracross (in X) or Pinsir (in Y) are available via Mystery Gift over Wi-Fi.
Heracross has the moves Bullet Seed, Pin Missile, Close Combat and Megahorn.
Pinsir has the moves X-Scissor, Earthquake, Stone Edge and Return.
In addition, from August 18th participating GameStop stores will provide the appropriate Mega Stones for them to hold and Mega-Evolve in battle! This requires a serial code from GameStop so make sure to get there while stocks last.
Fancy Pattern Vivillon available until end of July
Pokémon Events — 25 July, 2014
A new Pokémon event is currently active! Since the GTS in Pokémon X/Y reached 100 million trades, a new Vivillon pattern has been released.
This one is called the Fancy Pattern Vivillon and it comes with an exclusive move, Hold Hands, which increases Pokémon's happiness (but can only be used in double/triple battles).
It is available via Mystery Gift
on the main menu, then Receive Gift
, then Get Via Internet
. The event runs from July 7th to July 31st so make sure to get it while you can!
Mega Metagross details confirmed
Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire — 14 July, 2014
Nintendo have now confirmed details for Mega Metagross, which was recently leaked via CoroCoro.
Upon Mega-Evolving, it gains the ability Tough Claws and remains Steel/Psychic type. Its Speed is greatly increased, but also has small increases in each of its other stats too. More pictures and video below.
Also confirmed are some gym leaders and Elite Four members. These are the same as in the original games, but we see that Elite Four Phoebe uses a Dusknoir, Elite Four Sidney uses a Shiftry, and Champion Steven uses Mega Metagross.
Mega Metagross revealed in CoroCoro
Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire — 11 July, 2014
The latest issue of CoroCoro has leaked and confirms that Metagross will gain a Mega Evolution in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. It will be used by Steven Stone, who was the champion of the Hoenn region in the original games.
Mega Metagross appears to have another Metang fused to it, and from the screenshot below appears to float in the air. It also states that Steven Mega-evolves his Pokemon with a Mega Brooch
rather than the Mega Bracelet the player will use in OR/AS (or the Mega Ring as in X/Y).
Mega Metagross is believed to remain Steel/Psychic type, gain the Tough Claws ability, and have a significant increase in speed. We'll bring full confirmation asap.
Secret Bases confirmed for Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire
Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire — 09 July, 2014
It has been confirmed that Secret Bases, one of the most popular features of Ruby/Sapphire, will return in the remakes Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire as Super-Secret Bases with many additional features.
Super-Secret Bases can be decorated, and decorations can be used to create tricks. You can connect with other players to share your base, battle them, and use special skills
to support them on their adventures. You can also decide what kinds of Pokemon battles are allowed in your base and even create your own Pokemon Gym!
Super-Secret Bases also have a capture-the-flag mini game. Collecting lots of flags improves your team's rank and increases the special skills
of your friends.
New OR/AS gameplay trailer, featuring Megas
Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire — 12 June, 2014
Following straight on from the recent Mega Sableye teaser, the Pokémon Company have released another short gameplay trailer!
This one focuses on Pokémon already revealed: Mega Sceptile, Mega Blaziken, Mega Swampert, Primal Groudon, Primal Kyogre and Mega Diancie. They are each shown using various moves in battle. If you look closely there are also shots of the Acro bike and Mach bike in action.
The trailer ends by saying Diancie will soon be available for Pokémon X and Pokémon Y. More screenshots below!
Mega Sableye revealed for Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire
Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire — 12 June, 2014
The official Pokémon channel on YouTube have released another teaser for Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. This video features another new Mega Evolution - Mega Sableye!
Mega Sableye appears to hide behind a large jewel, which increases its defensive capabilities. There is no word on a specific ability or other details yet.
Update: it has been confirmed that Mega Sableye's ability is Magic Bounce, which reflects status moves back onto the opponent. Its type stays as Dark/Ghost. Its Defense and Special Attack increase, while its Speed decreases slightly.
New Ruby/Sapphire footage revealed at E3
Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire — 10 June, 2014
Nintendo held a Digital Event
at the E3 expo and have revealed some new footage from upcoming games Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire!
The trailer shows a boy entering a cave and discovering cave painting of Groundon and Kyogre. We then see various bits of footage from the games including the Mega Evolutions of Sceptile, Blaziken and Swampert in battle. Watch it here:
It also confirms several details, including that the Groudon and Kyogre Mega Evolutions are known as Primal Groudon and Primal Kyogre. Primal Groudon is Ground/Fire type while Kyogre keeps its pure Water type.
OR/AS will unfortunately not be a simultaneous worldwide release like X/Y. The release dates are:
November 21st in Japan and America
November 28th in Europe
New Mega Evolutions revealed in CoroCoro
Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire — 08 June, 2014
Japanese magazine CoroCoro has revealed new Mega Evolutions and features from the upcoming Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire.
Sceptile and Swampert will get Mega Evolutions, so along with Blaziken in X/Y, all the Hoenn starter Pokémon now have one.
Mega Sceptile is Grass/Dragon and has the ability Lightning Rod.
Mega Swampert stays Water/Ground and has the ability Swift Swim.
Mega Sceptile and Mega Swampert
The legendary Pokémon Groudon and Kyogre also gain Mega Evolutions, but they are being presented as a different type of evolutions, translated as Ancient Devolution
. The new forms are said to be Prehistoric
Pokémon.
Mega Groudon and Mega Kyogre
Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection on DS games to shut down
General News — 19 May, 2014
Just realized I forgot to post this a few weeks ago :/
Nintendo has announced that as of May 20th 2014 (tomorrow!) the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, as used by the Nintendo DS, will no longer be active. This means that all Wi-Fi services from the DS games will no longer work. The online battling, trading and game sync features of these Pokémon games are affected:
- Pokémon Diamond, Pearl & Platinum
- Pokémon HeartGold & SoulSilver
- Pokémon Black & White
- Pokémon Black 2 & White 2
- Pokémon Battle Revolution
- Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia & Guardian Signs
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time, Explorers of Darkness & Explorers of Sky
- Pokémon Conquest
If you have any Pokémon in the GTS you should take them out before tomorrow.
Note that this does not affect trading and battling over local wireless/infrared. Nor does it prevent migration of Pokémon from one generation to another via Pal Park (gen 3-4), Poké Transfer (gen 4-5) or Poké Transporter (gen 5-6).
New games announced: Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire!
Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire — 11 May, 2014
Nintendo have announced a new pair of games for 3DS, to be released November 2014. They are remakes of the third-generation games Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire which were released in 2003.
These games are titled Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire. The box art, which can be seen below, features Groudon and Kyogre like the original games, however they look a little different - note the symbols for the Greek letters Omega (Ω) and Alpha (α) highlighted in their designs. This is a strong hint that the two Pokémon will gain a new form or Mega Evolution (of course this is not yet confirmed).
An announcement trailer (see below) was posted by Nintendo, and then earlier today Japanese show Pokémon Get*TV previewed a tiny snippet of footage, showing the awakenings of Groudon and Kyogre.
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