Pokemon news discussion 2: Spoiler Tag Boogaloo

i swear im not making a your mom joke

seems pretty offensive

Damn. I just have no words. Glorious.

skrelp probably evolves too

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Okay, if one thing's for sure, they know how to give Pokémon good English names in this generation.

For the first time in about forever, I don't even care what this Pokémon's Japanese name is.

So Mega Launcher affects Aura moves, too. Unfortunately, there aren't many of those that aren't Pulse moves too, and some of the ones that aren't already Pulse moves don't seem to fit in with the spirit of the ability (e.g. Force Palm). Basically, Mega Blastoise got ripped off.

I bet they said that in english because Aura Sphere is a Pulse move in japanese and it might confuse people why it is being affected

Oh yeah, that evolution is kind of neat I guess, I still think it should have been bug type.

And yes, Megablastoise got ripped off.

The point is, it's nigh-useless on Blastoise without either a drastically-expanded movepool or a metric crapton of new Pulse moves introduced that it can learn. Otherwise, there are way better abilities it could have gotten, from what we know.

Water Pulse, Dark Pulse, Dragon Pulse, Heal Pulse and Aura Sphere as far as I know, so, yeah...

But I've been saying that since the beginning.

Skrelp evolution! Yep. Definitely still getting Y. No word on names or typing yet.

Goodra. So, no dragon slug. God damnit. At least it looks like a dragon now...

Gourgeist, Pumpkaboo's evolution. So done, give me one of these fucking pokemon right now.

Avalugg, the evolution of Bergmite. I really like this one actually.

Florges, final evolution of Flabébé. I am disappoint. Grass/Fairy, I'm guessing?

Rumor has it he's Trevenant. That's so badass.

Trevenant. Damn, I love that name.

Skrelp's evolution is confirmed to be named Dragalge. Shit, now I NEED TO KNOW ITS TYPE.

Aegislash, the final evolution of Honedge and Doublade. Son of a bitch that's awesome. #DoubladeWasWorthIt

Well, I guess we figured out why Doublade's stats were so weird. And FINALLY WE KNOW OOROTTO'S ENGLISH NAME WAS THAT SO HARD PEOPLE. As for Dragalge, it's most probably Water/Poison, with Water/Dragon and Poison/Dragon being the other two likely candidates.

Wow, I really hope it's Poison/Dragon, even if that would copy Kingdra even more.

chesnaught jolteon (must) pyroar aegislash (fuck yes) avalugg and ?????? i was thinking about tyrantrum but apparently its not very good??? so??????

So I decided to give Yveltal a go. Since it's level 50 and hasn't gained any exp, I assumed that it was newly caught and had no EVs. I wasn't sure what the nature was, though, so that complicated things a bit. Bracketed numbers are the possibilities with a positive/negative nature for that stat.
HP: 126-141 [134]
Atk: (118) 131-146 (163) [140]
Def: (79) 88-103 (115) [96]
SAtk: (118) 131-146 (163) [140]
SDef: (73) 82-97 (109)  [90]
Speed: (88) 98-113 (127) [106]

Probable spread: 120/135/90/135/90/100
Reduced a few things to fit with 670 BST. Looks like a strong mixed attacker with fairly lacking defences for a legendary, although its Speed stat looks promising for Ubers.

Skrelps evolution looks not that bad, though I kind of doubt it'll evolve in a dragon if Klauncher is just mono water type. Or at least it won't lose Water type.

Goodra. Pretty disapointed but I was kind of expecting that.

Gourgeist, Pumpkaboo's evolution. Eh, not all that excited but it isn't all that bad. Though since we're getting two Grass/Ghosts who both have two stages, maybe they'll be version exclusive?

Avalugg, the evolution of Bergmite. Doesn't look too bad, a little odd but I guess I can see it as sort of neat.

Florges, final evolution of Flabébé. Actually, this is probably my favourite fairy type so far. While it DOES look like, well, a fairy, it still looks like a serious Pokemon, at least to me. If it's really Fairy/Grass that'd be unfortunate but still, favourite fairy of this gen so far.

Trevenant. Eh, not excited but I'm happy we know it's name now.

Aegislash, the final evolution of Honedge and Doublade. Well, I guess Honedge just redeemed itself. Honestly, not my favourite design but WAY better then Doublade. This is a final evolution I can accept.

Well, that looks better then the 5th gen evolution at least