Pokemon X and Y: The Rumor Mill

With about five months left before the release of X and Y, and will very little information released, we have a lot of rumors going around about the game. Because a lot of rumors have been proven false, I never bothered to post anything about them.

However, with this rumor, I found it necessary to make this thread. Feel free to post and discuss any rumors that come out. If you want to talk about the rumors that was proven false, also feel free to post and discuss those.

Here's the newest batch of rumors:

Pancham evolves into Pangoro in the early level 30s. In order to evolve Pancham into Pangoro, you need to have one other Dark-type Pokemon in your party. Pangoro's type is Fighting/Dark.

A Pokemon named Inkay evolves into Malimar. To evolve it, you have to hold your 3DS upside-down when it levels up (the 3DS has an accelerometer and gyroscope, so it can detect that). Malimar's type is Dark/Psychic.

A Psychic-type Pokemon named Espurr (ESP + purr) evolves into Meowstick (Meow + mystic?). (Sounds like Psychic-type cats. Meowstick's name sounds too similar to Meowth to me though.)

Like in B/W you have two rivals - one is friendly and the other is competitive. Your rival that is more friendly gives you his/her fully evolved starter Pokemon after you beat the game.

Another professor named Sycamore gives you either Bulbasaur, Charmander, or Squirtle.

Even though it shows the player riding on a Gogoat in the new trailer, players can't ride on their own Pokemon. What was shown is just an alternate way of getting around Lumiose City and it only works with Gogoat.

HMs still exist but there's a lot less of them.

Players will be able to see their Pokemon's EVs (probably through the same in-game facility mentioned in the other post).

A new move, Belch, is a Poison-type attack that has a base power of 120. The user must consume a held Berry to perform it.

Draining Kiss is a Fairy-type attack that heals the user for the same amount of damage performed. It has a base power of 60.

If the previously revealed forme of Mewtwo can be said to look roughly similar to Mewtwo's original design, the second supposed form of Mewtwo can be said to look roughly/vaguely similar to Mew's design.

The final evolutions will be Fire/Psychic, Grass/Dark, and Water/Fighting.

Chespin doesn't look like a dark type though. ;~;

There is a new Rumor floating on the internet about the Elite Four. Instead of them using a singular type, or theme, the Elite Four will use Pokemon of certain high stats. These stats include attacking, defensive, hit points, and speed.

What are your thoughts on this rumor? I think it's a very refreshing change of pace.

About time really. Maybe it'll actually make the Elite Four a little bit of a challenge now.

J.J. Knight wrote:

There is a new Rumor floating on the internet about the Elite Four. Instead of them using a singular type, or theme, the Elite Four will use Pokemon of certain high stats. These stats include attacking, defensive, hit points, and speed.

What are your thoughts on this rumor? I think it's a very refreshing change of pace.

At least they won't be much of a joke anymore that way.