Mega Rayquaza Revealed for Pokemon ORAS!

Sorry this is a bit late. My Internet has been out all day and this is the first chance I’ve had to post anything. Nevertheless, enjoy this trailer for Mega Rayquaza!

Mega Rayquaza, who supposedly Mega evolves differently than all other Pokemon, has the new ability Delta Stream that sounds really powerful. The official website explains that Delta Stream will cause all weather type moves and abilities to fail (wow, talk about powerful) and will cause all moves that would normally deal super effective damage to flying types to deal normal damage. What a powerful ability! Rayquaza also can know a move called Dragon Ascent, which, though it sounds like a Dragon move, is actually a super-powerful Flying type move. Sounds like Rayquaza is going to be incredibly powerful, fittingly enough for the way it looks. Talk about an intense design. Additionally, in some of the screenshots on the official website, Mega Rayquaza looks gigantic. Though its height and weight are marked as ??? for some reason, it’s obvious this thing is going to be massive both in strength and size.
I expected a Mega Evolution announcement today, but I’m surprised to see that the reveal was of Rayquaza, though I’m not disappointed. I expected Rayquaza to get a Primal Reversion form, though it’s said that the reason it’s Mega Evolving instead will be explained within the game’s story. The official website details the new legend regarding Kyogre, Groudon, and Rayquaza. Check it out for yourself by clicking here. It’s interesting to see the changes they’ve made, and the similarities to the plot of Emerald are hard to ignore. Will this game borrow some elements from Emerald too? I certainly hope so, and I don’t think that’s too outlandish of an assumption at this point. I can’t wait to play the new games to find out.
Well, that about covers it for now. Smash Bros. for 3DS is released tomorrow and you can bet a “Five Things” style review similar to my post on Tomodachi Life will follow in a few days.

Until Then,

-The Nintendo Nerd

Pokémon ORAS-Mega Gallade, Mega Sharpedo, and Mega Camerupt!

The scans of the October issue of CoroCoro were released today and with them came some exciting new information about Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire! What news exactly? More Megas of course!

My absolute favorite Mega we’ve seen thus far is Mega Gallade. Gallade has been my personal favorite Pokémon since Gen IV, so I’m very excited to see it getting a Mega in these new games. And it looks so cool, too! That helmet and those coat tails look awesome. They make a nice complement to Mega Gardevoir. Not much is known about him yet stat wise or even type and ability wise, but that’ll likely change in the near future as more information comes to us.

We even get a chance to see the newly designed Wally with longer hair and a new coat. His signature Pokémon is, in fact, his Gallade. This means the player will likely still help him catch a Ralts at the beginning of the game. I just hope we see a little bit more of Wally than we did in the original Ruby and Sapphire. Will his Mega Stone factor into the plot at all? Everyone else with a Mega Stone seems to have some importance to the story, so it makes me wonder if his role has been expanded.

Thoughts on All the New Info for Pokémon ORAS

Wow, there sure has been a lot of news on Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire in the last few days. After the CoroCoro scans showed off the new Mega Evolutions and contests as well as the official reveal of these same details later, we got even more leaked information from the Korean Pokémon website. And that is, Mega Audino and Mega Slowbro. Talk about a surprise! I would never have predicted these Pokémon would have received Mega Evolutions as well, but I’m glad to see it nonetheless.

Since there is so much to cover, though, I’m just going to give a few thoughts on each of the recent reveals.

Mega Altaria- This was definitely a Mega I wanted to see. If we didn’t get Mega Altaria, I would have been disappointed. It looks really cool and I’m very intrigued by its typing when it Mega Evolves. Fairy/Dragon sounds like a potentially big threat.

Mega Lopunny- Honestly, this Mega surprised me the most. Though Mega Slowbro and Mega Audino seemingly came out of nowhere, I really didn’t expect that, out of all the Pokémon, Lopunny would receive a Mega Evolution. What they’ve come up with for it seems pretty nice. Normal/Fighting is an interesting type and, though it’s design really hasn’t changed that drastically, I think it really does look like a Normal/Fighting type. It’ll be interesting to see if this new Mega helps Lopunny stand out more as a Pokémon.

Mega Salamence- I think everyone saw this coming. Though, maybe not everyone saw this design coming. It’s unique, for sure, and very intimidating. This new Mega seems to emphasize its Flying type over its Dragon typing with the ability Aerialate (will there be a form of this ability for every type one day?), which makes it stand out against the other Dragon type Megas we’ve seen already.

Mega Metagross Confirmed for Pokémon ORAS in CoroCoro Scans!

More Pokémon ORAS news! How exciting! They came from some recently leaked CoroCoro scans, and it contained some major news! It’s Mega Metagross!
Click this link to see the scans for yourself on Serebii.net’s Facebook page!
In addition to Mega Metagross, you can see some awesome new artwork of Steven (one of my personal favorite Pokemon characters). These scans also confirm that Steven will Mega Evolve his Metagross (and his Charizard from the last scan??) using a Mega Stone he has on his brooch!
And, if you look at the bottom of the second page, you can even see artwork of Roxanne, Flannery, Norman, and Wattson–all who have seen to undergone a bit of a redesign! I wish those images were bigger, though; I want to see them in even more detail. If you squint enough, you can even potentially see Sidney from the Elite 4 on the bottom of the page too with a Shiftry. (will we see a Mega Shiftry soon, perhaps?) I’m glad to see Sidney getting a little love, though. He always seems to fade into the background as far as Elite 4 members go. Maybe this new game will feature him a bit more prominently.
Hopefully, all these reveals will make their way to the official website so we can examine them in more detail and learn a little more about them.

Until then,

-The Nintendo Nerd

New Trailer for Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire

Following the Mega Sableye reveal yesterday and the E3 trailer we got a couple days ago, a brand new trailer for Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire was revealed today on Pokémon’s official YouTube channel. Though much of it seems to be dedicated to showing us more on the three starters and their eventual Mega Evolution, the video allowed us to see some brand new scenes from the game as well. Included in these were images of the battles with the Team Magma and Team Aqua grunts (which, unlike X and Y, feature the official art for the trainers and not 3D models, though we’ve seen that Maxie and Archie do have in fact have models). Additionally some of the scenes showed the player riding their bike across those tricky bridges, engaging in a fight with their rival, as well as Mega Evolving Diancie.

The end of the trailer also revealed that Diancie will be available for distribution in Pokémon X and Y, while Diancie’s Mega Stone will be available in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire.

Watch the trailer for yourself by following this link.

E3 is still going on today and I’ll be sure to post something if any other new and interesting information is revealed.

Until then,

-The Nintendo Nerd

Mega Sableye Announced for Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire!

Just a short while ago, The Official Pokémon Channel on YouTube posted a video of a new Mega Evolution that will debut in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire this fall! Mega Sableye! Mega Sableye gets a huge gem to use in battle. Pretty cool! Click here to watch the trailer!

In other news, The Nintendo Treehouse at E3 is still going on and will be for the rest of today and tomorrow. There’s supposed to be a brand new 3DS game announced today, so I’ll probably post something about that when it’s revealed.

Until then,
-The Nintendo Nerd

Pokémon ORAS- Thoughts on the June 7th CoroCoro Scans

It’s my inaugural blog post! How exciting! I know I’m a bit late to the game with this news, but I’m so hyped for these games that I can’t help but write about them. And, since this is my first post, I figured this would be a great way for my readers to get to know me, my style, and the type of content I’ll be bringing to this blog..

On June 7^th, 2014, we were all given a glimpse of Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire thanks to some lovely scans from CoroCoro. In short, these scans were amazing and packed with information about the new entries into the series. Let’s break it down!

Since this news is almost two days old now, I won’t go into too much detail about it. Instead, I’ll just give you a few words of opinion on each reveal!