Pokemon X/Y Legendary Types, Professor, Gym Leaders Revealed

The types of Pokemon X and Y's legendary catches have been revealed, alongside Professor Augustine Sycamore, who challenges players to battle, the nefarious Team Flare, and two new gym leaders, Grant (a jock) and Clemont (a science nerd).

Legendary Pokemon Xerneas is a Fairy-type. Its exclusive move, Geomancy, "features rainbow-colored light that erupts from the earth around it," while its Fairy Aura buffs all other Fairy Pokemon in battle.

Yvetal is a Flying Dark-type Legendary Pokemon, with an Oblivion Wing attack that fires "a powerful beam of red light that scorches the ground below." The Dark Aura ability boosts Dark Pokemon stats.

Also revealed today are O-Powers, multiplayer-enabled specialties with important single-player effects.

O-Powers "allows players the ability to easily power up Pokémon in their party and provides other benefits." You can share these powers with other online or local players to, for instance, "increase a Pokémon’s stats, while others make it easier to catch wild Pokémon or increase the Experience Points gained in battle."

In addition, The Pokemon company has detailed the skills, exclusivity, and traits of six more Pokemon, including Malamr, Swirlix, Spritzee, Inkay, Pangoro, and Clauncher. Check out their full, official details below.

• Players will encounter Inkay in Pokémon X and Pokémon Y. This Dark- and Psychic-type Pokémon has the ability to drain other Pokémon’s will to fight by flashing the transmitters above its eyes—giving Inkay the opportunity either to attack its foes or to hide from them. It’s said that the flashing emitted from Inkay’s transmitters can also be used to communicate with its friends. Inkay can learn a new Dark-type move, Topsy-Turvy, a tricky move that will reverse all of the stat changes that are affecting a target. For instance, if opponents increase their Attack and Defense stats during battle, it will suddenly come back to bite them when Topsy-Turvy is used.

• The Dark- and Psychic-type Pokémon Malamar is the evolved form of Inkay and may have the strongest hypnotic force of any known Pokémon, helping it to bend opponents to its will. As a result, humans with ill intentions try to use Malamar to aid in their devious plots. Malamar can learn the Psychic-type move Hypnosis, which leaves opponents asleep and for the most part unable to take any actions during battle.

• The Fairy-type Pokémon Swirlix, which can only be captured in Pokémon X, comes with the new Ability Sweet Veil that keeps Pokémon on the same team from being left asleep in battle. Use Swirlix when facing Double and Triple Battles featuring Pokémon that know moves like Hypnosis. Swirlix can learn the new Fairy-type move Draining Kiss, which does damage to a target while also restoring some HP to the user. Battles will be much easier when you can attack an opponent with Draining Kiss and restore your Pokémon’s health at the same time. Swirlix only eats sweets, causing its body to be sweet and sticky, like cotton candy.

• Only available for capture in Pokémon Y, the new Fairy-type Pokémon Spritzee emits a unique fragrance that causes anyone who smells it to fall under its spell. Spritzee can learn the Grass-type move Aromatherapy, which causes a Pokémon to exude a relaxing fragrance that heals its allies’ status conditions, such as sleep and poison.

• It is now known that the previously announced Water-type Pokémon Clauncher can only be captured in Pokémon X, and the Poison- and Water-type Pokémon Skrelp can only be captured in Pokémon Y.

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