General

On that note, people might want to look up about the 'Magnemite Coil':



^^ As someone put it elsewhere. Why Magnemite? 3 reasons.

1- Japanese players started it when they first got the game. May as well follow through with what they've already got established.
2- Magnemite's are found really early, in Virbank Complex. They're easy to find in the inner area, with a 25% chance of popping up. They're easy to catch too. Heck, you could use your own Magnemite's Sonicboom to chop off 20HP at a time and not worry about criticaling them to death.
3- Magnemite's are genderless so you don't need to worry about specific genders to trade for/with.

The Magnemite Coil is pretty big right now so it's worth looking into for an easy way to level up your Join Avenue. For those who don't know what Join Avenue is, look here:
serebii.net/black2white2/joinavenue.shtml

There's a lot of useful shops available for you to put in there! These include a Raffle Shop, Beauty Salon, Dojo, Market, Flower Shop, Antique Shop, Cafe, and Nursery.

The starter Oshawott is probably the best Water you can get to play through Black/White. With a Heart Scale it can relearn Megahorn as a Samurott, which works nicely along with moves like Aqua Jet and Blizzard.

However if you didn't start with him then I'd recommend going for Tympole/Palpitoad/Seismitoad. Tympole is fairly terrible but when it evolves into Palpitoad it becomes a Water/Ground type and becomes much better, especially when it learns Muddy Water. It's got good coverage and it's fairly chunky defensive-wise - mine managed to tank the hits from the most dreaded of the 'final boss's' Pokemon since it didn't have any Grass moves - Seismitoad's only weakness, which really impressed me. It learns Drain Punch too. If you got a Swift Swim one it's speed will double in the rain. These are first found outside of Pinwheel Forest. Palpitoads are around the Moor of Icirrus, but that's around the 7th gym.

Panpour/Simipour is fairly nice especially since it learns Scald early, though it can be tricky to find since it's only in the shaking grass in Pinwheel Forest, assuming you didn't start with Snivy and get a free one in the Dreamyard. You can evolve it with a Water Stone early after getting Scald, though you'll miss out on Crunch, though the Shadow Claw TM gives it pretty much the same coverage. Up to you. It's quite fast and hits with good power.

Lastly Ducklett/Swanna aren't too bad. It's fairly quick and it hits fairly well too, and it's got a lot of good moves it can learn, including some self-healing moves like Aqua Ring and Roost; plus Featherdance halves an opponent's attack when used. It can also serve as both a Surfer and a Flyer. These are randomly found in the shadows on Driftveil Drawbridge.

bulbanews.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_X_and_Y_announced





Video here:



Above are Froakie(Water), Fennekin(Fire), and Chespin(Grass). They are a frog, Fennec fox, and hedgehog respectively.









And lastly the legendaries, based off a stag/elk and a bird/wyvern, it seems. Probably also related to actual legends as well.

Update: The legendaries are Xerneas(pronounced ZURR-nee-us) and Yveltal (pronounced ee-VELL-tall).

Hedgehog. It's various names have references to chestnuts, hedgehogs, pins and needles mainly.

My fave starter trio is probably Treecko, Torchic and Mudkip, I've got quite a soft spot for them. They were the first trio to all be pretty effective in battle too.

Proper artwork of Xerneas and Yveltal has been released.

New Eeveelution:



Update: It's English name is Sylveon. It's not known what it's typing is though.

YouTube vid here:

I've heard that it's going to be a new light type, but it's all just speculation so who knows.

Interesting point. Yes, some have said Sylveon reminds them of a kite, and looking at it it's got some things that resemble streamers on it. Also seemed to have a breeze blowing around it in that video, though it could have just been in set in a windy area. Unless that was a subtle clue in itself. It doesn't seem to be able to fly, but Flying does double as the 'Wind' type in the game. Rotom-F and Gyarados both lack proper flight, for example. Although Doduo and Dodrio are forever baffling, haha.



Time marched on I guess. =x Collectable card games always have lots and lots of cards come out regularly, so they need to invent a load of new ones. There's been 56 sets of Pokemon cards so far (54 in Japan).

New Mewtwo form! Or possibly Mewthree or something, it's currently stated as having a connection with Mewtwo.

Video here:



As though Mewtwo didn't seem enough like Frieza already, haha.

www.serebii.net has everything you'd want to know about Pokemon. I frequent that site whenever I play my games. My friend and I were wondering if the new Eevee type may be a Dragon since they already did Psychic with Espeon. True, it doesn't look like a Dragon type and Psychics are usually pink somewhere, so it could be Dragon/Psychic like Latios and Latias.