Pokemon X & Y (October 2013 on 3DS) - [Now out! Go out and play it already]

[Tori Himemiya]

It does look a lot like Swift.

I mean look at the animation on Swift's page since I'm too lazy to upload the pic on photobucket. It does match up. Compare to Lucky Chant and Shiny pokemon entrance and you'll see there's a difference in star coloring.

Edited February 13, 2013 by Crow the BOOLET

[\gunther]

Someone already crafted a fucking Ninfia plush

 

 

How did they manage to do that in the 3 seconds we've known about it srsly

[Solkia]

Someone already crafted a fucking Ninfia plush

 

 

How did they manage to do that in the 3 seconds we've known about it srsly

 

It's made by the same person who did that really fast Fennekin.

 

http://spacevoyager.deviantart.com/

[SenEDDtor Missile]

Someone on /vp/ was kind enough to translate everything:

"'Ninfia' Revealed!!"

"What is this Pokemon that resembles Eevee...could it be?!"

"How did this evolve from eevee!?"

"How strong does it look!? What type could it be?"

"What on earth is it's type now!?"

 

What on "Earth" indeed...

 

(grasping at straws...)

[Thrippa]

Maybe the stars are to show that the movie studios survived, and to get Ninfeon you have to level up a movie-star Eevee.

[Mogtaki]

 

Somebody was quick to take in the reaction of the internet.

[Salamander]

Just to page back a bit, I would really like it if GameFreak retconned a lot of the really esoteric evolutions and made them simpler. Let the likes of Lickitung and Sneasel evolve at certain levels, let Porygon and Rhydon evolve by trading, just let Leafeon use a Leaf Stone. The really obscure evolution methods are just ways of preserving internal consistency by making it so newer Pokemon couldn't have evolved in previous generations, but I think it's at the expense of plausibility. Especially since they messed it up and Lickitung could learn the move to become Lickilicky in a previous generation anyway. As for Ninfia, it may be using Swift in that screenshot, but on the poster with all the other Eevee types it's clearly glittering. I'm almost totally confident that it's a shiny Normal-type that will look entirely Normal and Eevee-ish when non-shiny. In any case, Swift... it's a Normal-type attack, isn't it?

[#AR]

 

English name is Sylveon

Edited February 14, 2013 by Ash Crimson

[Marcello]

I only recognize Swift... What's the card attack?

 

Sylveon.. What is "Sylv-" referencing?

[Cortez]

The fact it's shiny??

...lol

[Marcello]

Someone on another forum said this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvan

 

A forest deity/spirit, which fits with Ninfia deriving from nymph.

 

I was thinking Sylvania since Episode 2. Haha.

Edited February 14, 2013 by MarcelloF

[Blue Blood]

Sylveon is a nice name actually. But it's still my least favourite of everything in the Eevee family. Bleugh

[Marcello]

It's German name is Feelinara. Fee is fairy. French name is Nymphali, whis is obviously nymph.

[Blue Blood]

It's got to be either flying or normal type. Nymphs and fairies? It's hardly going to be fighting type now.

[Octarine]

It's got to be either flying or normal type. Nymphs and fairies? It's hardly going to be fighting type now.

 

 

...Sylveon is a pretty good name, anyway. A lot better than Leafeon, at least.

[PC the Hedgehog]

They're really being hush-hush about what type Sylveon is. Might lend some credence to the "new type" rumors...

[Salamander]

...Fairy-type? That would make sense, as it would diversify a lot of Pokemon presently classified as Normal. Or indeed Psychic, looking at the likes of Celebi and Jirachi.

[Kuzu]

What would a fairy type even be effective against

[Pawn]

What would a fairy type even be effective against

 

They vary a lot in mythology, but some help to guard against evil spirits, so possibly Ghost? Also, Iron was used to ward off malevolent fairies so Steel would be a viable weakness.

 

Actually Fairy is the first suggestion I've seen that opens up a few possibilities that haven't really been explored much in previous generations, like pixies, goblins, gnomes and the like.

Edited February 14, 2013 by Pawn

[Blue Blood]

Way too many old Pokémon would fit into the fairy type to make it a thing. And it sounds daft anyway.

 

I doubt that there's going to be any new types. IIRC, they've pulled the same stunt with announcing Pokémon and not their types before. Not sure if it's only been for legendaries though.
 

[FourCartridge]

Way too many old Pokémon would fit into the fairy type to make it a thing. And it sounds daft anyway.

 

I doubt that there's going to be any new types. IIRC, they've pulled the same stunt with announcing Pokémon and not their types before. Not sure if it's only been for legendaries though.

 

 

With all the recent critisism of most of Ninty's series being all the same(and Pokemon being seen by many as the most noticable), I wouldn't put it past GF to try to add in a type or two and showcase it with an Eeveelution like they did with Umbreon.

[Pawn]

Way too many old Pokémon would fit into the fairy type to make it a thing. And it sounds daft anyway.

 

I doubt that there's going to be any new types. IIRC, they've pulled the same stunt with announcing Pokémon and not their types before. Not sure if it's only been for legendaries though.

 

 

There aren't that many Pokemon classified in the Fairy egg group though, a group that Sylveon shares a similar colour scheme with. Then there's the connection to Norse/European mythology, along with Xerneas and Yveltal.

 

I'm not exactly convinced that there'll be new type myself, but I think this one is worthy of speculation. Perhaps we'll see more fairy-themed Pokemon, rather than a new type.

Edited February 14, 2013 by Pawn

[Dantemustdie00]

Audino, Cleffa, Clefairy, Clefable, Blissey, Togetic, Togekiss, Celebi, and Jirachi are the first that come to my mind for Fairy-like Pokemon.

[Spin Attaxx]

I think it's obvious Sylveon is going to be a Normal-type. I don't see anything suggesting it's a Flying type. I'm sure it's going to be a female-only evolution. There might be a male counterpart for it, too.

[Octarine]

What about Sylveon suggests that it's female-only? The bows? The Gothita line have like a million of those, and they can still be male.

 

Sylveon still seems more like a bug-type to me than anything. The fangs, the glassy eyes... fairies are bug-like enough for that to count, right?