The weekly Pokémon show in Japan, Pokémon Sunday, showed a silhouette of a brand-new monster due to be the first announced creature in the forthcoming fifth generation of the popular critter catching series.
Pokémon fansite Serebii has since gotten its hands on scans of the latest issue of CoroCoro Magazine, which has images revealing the identity of the new Pokémon and its first form. It's time to say hello to Zorua and Zoroark!
Zorua is the first form and classified as an "Evil Fox Pokémon", it's 0.7m tall and weighs 12.5kg. Zoroark is the evolution and is classified as a "Monster Fox Pokémon", it's 1.6m and 81.1kg.
Abilities of the two are to be announced at a later date and it's been revealed they will feature in the next Pokémon film "Phantom Champion Zoroark".
[source serebii.net]
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Cool. Alright!
Looking good. Hope they play well.
...Looks like I've Gotta Catch Some More, lol
Have it's types actually been pinned down yet? Because I though it looked Fire-type-y.
Otherwise, yay for new Pokémon! It means a new generation can't be too far off. :3
Yay! More Pokemon games!
I predict that it will be a fire/rock Pokemon.
@PheonixSage they are confirmed Dark types, no hybrids and such.
I really wish they'd stop coming up with a million new pokemon and try to refine the games a bit. So far, every single pokemon game has been pretty much identical. But, I suppose that's just my opinion.
I thought 150 would be enough but 438? Plus this new one?
As hard as I try, I could never catch 'em all!
They are very awesome and, just like Lucario, very Digimony. Which is a good thing for me.
well well well i think i know whos going to be in my main team when this new pokemon game comes out
just like i made a
firered team
diamond team
Platinum Team
and soon heart gold and soulsilver team
MORE Pokeymen? Haven't parents spent enough money already?
@Sylverstone: Catching them all hasn't been the primary aim (or the secondary, or for that matter even the tertiary) of Pokémon games since Gold and Silver. The message nowadays is "there's a whole lot of them, get your favourites." Besides which, it's 493 + these new ones + the hundred-or-so other new ones on the way, as in previous gens
I like these guys, they look cool. Zoroark looks quite a lot like a Dark Lucario with a new hairdo.
Ahh, so they are confirmed as pure Dark-types. Oh well, if you can't be a Fire-type, Dark-type is a great secondary choice. :3
well they're confirmed to be Dark types, but they look like they should also have the Fire attribute....well i guess Vulpix and Ninetails already claimed ownership of the title of "Fire Type Fox Pokemon"
That first one (left) looks VERY familar, like they've done it before and now they just changed the pallette.
COUGH goth COUGH Vulpix COUGH
'Scuse me.
First time a Pokemon has had a gym leader's name in it's name.
Hopefully this also means that the DS successor is not too far off also .
Still i can't wait for what the new Pokémon b#e like & what the new region of the unnamed county be like .
They look pretty cool, especially the pre-evo.
I really don't think that it looks like a goth Vulpix. Enough differences to make them two different pokemon, at least in my mind.
From the looks of it, it may be a pretty fast Pokemon that is attack oriented. This is just a guess though...
Say hello to the main pokemon of the dark gym leader!
(which there better be, or heads will roll)
looks kinda like poochyana/vulpix/shinx. But thats just me.
This guy looks like a potential team member! I will name him/her chibo for no reason whatsoever.
WOOOOOOOOT!!!!!
@Supermagaman
I too will definitely make this Pokemon part of my main 5th Gen team.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Maybe it could be a Dark and Fight type, that's what I thought when I first saw the second form...
OMG got hyped O_o
I dunno... I agree with a few other people here, they look too much like other already existing Poke'mon: Vulpix and Lucario... just darker...
I think after this fifth generation they need to combine all five gens together into one, huge, epic, adventure! You could traverse the entire Pokemon world from Kanto to whatever this new place is called.
Hmm, Pokemon Rainbow Version perhaps?
I miss the old pokémon designs... So simplistic by comparison. @SmaMan If there were to be an ultimate Pokémon game like that, you could count me in!
as a reply to Objection_Blaster's comment
"That first one (left) looks VERY familar, like they've done it before and now they just changed the pallette."
Yes, it seems to me that they have just changed the color palette for Shaymin. I believe that you are correct with that thought!
Holy crap, how many of them are there now? I'm pretty sure it's nearing the 50,000 mark. Just stop. 151 was fine.
Now I gotta catch more of 'em? sigh
**** YES.
@grenworthshero: There's 493 thank you very much. >_<
From the 3rd generation onward it seemed as if they were running out of ideas, even with attacks. (Like "tickle"... wtf?!) I think this pallet swap is proof of that.
It's good that the number of Pokémon are increasing. Pokémon are akin to flora and fauna in our world and there are a million species out there, some of which we haven't discovered.
Though the designs are starting to look a little bit too similar for my taste.
I like the idea of the all-in-one compilation. But I wonder how they will fit that all in a DS cart?
From a gameplay perspective, I they would make crossbreeding a possibility and not just to transfer movesets but come up with an entirely different Pokémon altogether. Of course these new breeds have to be sterile (incapable of having offspring) to keep the no of possibilities in check.
The way I see it, even when there were only 151 Pokemon, there were only a few of those I actually cared about. Now that there's 256,000 Pokemon, that means that many more worthless Pokemon.
@Rerun
My guess is it would be a console release, IF they decide to do it. I'm thinking with all 5 worlds combined into one game it would begin to rival the size of Azeroth! (from World of Warcraft) Also, they'd probably have to raise the max level... to keep things interesting past the 2nd place you'd visit.
Dave, I'm afraid.
Sweet? well, lets hope they stay in the lines of previous pokemon reality, and not something over done or the thought running out of original ideas.
@Pikamander2 ROCK?!?!?!?!?!?!
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