Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire Announced for November 2014 Release
Today, we received some surprising news about new games in the Pokémon franchise for release later this year in Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. They are widely believed to be remakes of the third generation games which nobody expected at all. We have no information on the titles outside the release date which is planned for November 2014 as a worldwide release, much like Pokémon X and Y. Also like Pokémon X and Y, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company International seem to have dropped the word “Version” from the titles of the games.
Nintendo says that, “Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire are a fresh take on Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire, which launched in 2003 and were fan-favorite hits on the Game Boy Advance system. The new titles promise to take players through a dramatic story within a spectacular new world.”
With a November 2014 release, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire will not make it in time for the first Regional Championships of the VGC ’15 season in October. Like the VGC ’13 and VGC ’14 seasons, we expect to play using Pokémon X and Y at the fall regionals before switching to Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire after mid-December. Keep in mind that the VGC ’15 season will be the first year we will hopefully have events on a regular basis if the current Premier Challenge pilot program pans out. It remains to be seen how long that Play! Pokémon decides is sufficient before sanctioned events switch to the new games.
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Mega Metagross @Metanite
Ability: Tough Claws
Nature: OP
EVs: doesn’t matter
-Hone Claws
-Meteor Death
-Zen Deathbutt
-Protect
Mega Metagross made the meta mega gross gg
to me the billion dollar question is this: Will Nintendo Patch in the Hoenn Megas into X and Y?
Steven Confirmed Champion via Main site. Also the Pikachu costumes have a page, but they say we’ll have to wait until next month to figure out what the deal is with those.
Also: Mega Metagross is said to get boosts to all stats but HP (of course) with a substantial boost to speed. Seems like MegaKhan 2.0 to me.
I hope so…or at least patch it so ORAS can battle XY trainers and still use those Megas. I personally doubt they’d be attainable in X and Y, but I would like to see it nonetheless!
Wait, no need to be alarmed. Mega Metagross will just miss everything.
I know I should wait till release and onward into VGC 15 to see what to expect from Mega Metagross when we know more about it, I think I will put my personal thoughts on how this thing could work out.
As stated, Mega Metagross is going to have a greatly boosted Speed stat, telling us it’s not going to be a great candidate for Trick Room (unless you may want to run Hammer Arm which you can easily do with normal Metagross), it also gets a boost to it’s other stats (barring HP), here are Metagross’ current base stats and what Mega Metagross could end up having:
HP: 80
Attack: 135 –> 150
Defense: 130 –> 140
Sp. Attack: 95 –> 105
Sp. Defense: 90 –> 110
Speed: 70 –> 115
The set-up for this instantly made me think of M-Pinsir, Clear Body = Hyper Cutter, it then Mega Evolves and ignores any attempted Attack drops from M-Manectric because Metagross is naturally slower than normal Manectric, your not getting the Lum Berry anymore, but that doesn’t mean Safeguard isn’t going to help with Swagger shenanigans or preventing Burns.
I have no idea what the 2015 format will be, it could be National Dex with Native Flag, it could be National Dex including previous Generations, it could even be an expanded Hoenn Dex from ORAS. Whatever it is though, I feel that this Mega has potential to do well, it hits hard, it will even eventually regain Ice Punch from Tutor, but it does have a decent enough movepool to do damage to most Pokemon, with Meteor Mash, Zen Headbutt, Earthquake, Rock Slide, Hammer Arm and a very likely returning Ice Punch, what does want to take on this thing? I’m just going off of initial thoughts here. lol
Well mega Swampert keeps its Water/Ground typing and is bulky enough probably to take hits and return with EQ (I don’t see them dropping his defense upon mega evolving, he looks like the Hulk after all). And with Swift Swim he can rain in EQs on Metagross easily. Mega Blaziken waits a turn with Speed Boost, then Overheat is probably a near KO, that or it and Flare Blitz will knock it silly. Steel doesn’t resist Ghost or Dark, so Hydreigon and Gengar can have their fun. But that’s all highly speculative, who knows what’ll even be legal yet.
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and also some elite four and gym leader clips
…so is it just me or do they all seem to have big heads this time? Even XY didn’t look that disproportionate…some of the females in the game and art also seem to have had their “assets” shrunken. Probably for more kid friendliness.
You don’t have to censor them. We’re allowed to talk about girls’ noses.
Dunno about the heads; I think that just might be the XY chibiness + all those closeups. As for the girls… yeah. Something about that disappoints me, even though I really shouldn’t care.
Anyone think Permaweather will be returning?
I thought the new Primal weather abilities were the permanent weather. The other ones just function as they already do in X and Y, afaik.
Felt this was the best place to post this. I was reading an article on Kotaku about ORAS, and it said about the ‘sneaking’ mechanic for wild fights: you can find Pokemon with better stats (i.e – decent or perfect IVs) and special moves. The special moves however were egg moves: the examples given were Poochyena with Fire Fang, Lotad with Fake Out and Zigzagoon with Charm.
So…catchable Lotads with Fake Out! Yay!
Apparently move tutors will be returning, if this website is to be believed:
http://www.usgamer.net/articles/so-does-pokemon-omega-ruby-and-alpha-include-trainer-customization
People have datamined the demo already. Not suprising. I’ve kept away from most of it but apparently the inevitable moveset changes have occurred, and…
So…if thats true, thats awesome
Apparently there was big leak from something called Project Pokemon.
It’s got all of the stat spreads for the new Mega evolutions:
http://pastebin.com/eKAmvkQn
If it’s true, Mega Gallade breaking the 100 speed benchmark is awesome.
Mega Beedrill’s stats are also hilariously lopsided.
Trumpet hype! Woot woot!