Well, allow me to break this down once more.

1. There a plenty of pink normal types with that color scheme, i.e. Igglybuff line, Miltank, Clefairy line, Lickitung line, Happiny line, Snubbull, Porygon line, Skitty line, Audino, and there's also a pink Deerling. Those large, round blue eyes can be seen on several of these pokemon. It actually seems pretty obvious.

2. See my second point from earlier. Plus, as you said, the starters typing was obvious, but that's only for their primary type. There is a good possibility that the starters will at some point in their evolutionary line be dual-typed, and those second types have not yet been revealed.

3. Introducing 1 new types seems unlikely, and so 2 new types is even less likely. Plus, normal types have a weakness, which is called fighting type if you didn't know. Reason for not revealing this fighting type one? See #2 above. The first three eeveelutions did not come in pairs, as it was a set of 3, and Flareon was not super effective against any of the other eeveelutions at the time.

-How do we know its typing would be obvious if a so called sound type existed? We probably wouldn't that the type actually exists, and Sylveon's type apparently isn't obvious to some people like nearly all eeveelutions are. And when would it be "relevant"? They could reveal what pokemon they want when they want, and nothing controls how much sense the timing of the reveal would make.

Here's my counters to your points here:

C/1. Just because pink is a bunch of Normal type pokemon's color doesn't necessarily mean Sylveon would be Normal type; look at Milotic, it has pretty much the same same color scheme as Sylveon and is a Water type. As well, most of the aforementioned 'pink' Pokemon belong to the 'Fairy' Egg group, I'm pretty sure. Who is to say they won't add the 'Light' type on to these? considering the only weakness being added would be 'Sound' type as I mentioned earlier. But also if it was so OBVIOUS it's supposed to be a Normal type, why wouldn't they have just revealed Sylveon's type?

C/3. If you had read my point earlier, you would have noticed that I said 'When they introduced new Eeveelutions', meaning after the first generation's initial 3. Where is this always a type and it's weakness, but they aren't weak back and forth.

C/-. Is it obvious that Leafeon is a Grass type? or Glaceon an Ice type? Flareon = Fire? My point here is that Eeveelutions have always been extremely obvious what type they take after. If the Sound type were to be released, they would give it away by showing the Sound-type Eeveelution, which in its obviousness would have some sort of sound device relation like that of the Whismur line.

Been a few days so I thought i'd post again.

There's a Pokemon/Black/White tournament I'm entering in this Saturday at the anime convention here in the Kansas City area. I'm entering my White 2 with this team:

Cloyster
Chandelure
Scrafty
Tyranitar
Ampharos
Cofagrigus

Not sure if there's a prize or not, but I've been working my buttocks off training these in-game to fill up EV's and getting to level 100. It's going to be a Double Battle tournament

Quote from: Fenror on March 12, 2013, 04:26:35 PM

-When Gold and Silver were released, pokemon was still very new, and it was its first ever sequel. Due the fact with pokemon being still fairly new, it was easy to just add in another type.

-Sure, when new types were added, magnemite and magneton had steel added to their typing, but there are much more pokemon now than there used to be, and so you'd have to change many more pokemons' types than that, and adding a new type could throw off veterans and force them to change their strategy altogether.

-They don't want to reveal too much. It's good to have some surprises and it keeps more people interested in the upcoming releases, and I do believe that it was said that its type would be revealed, assuming you're talking about Sylveon.

-You mentioned the word spirit, which, just saying, fits ghost more than some "light" type. Also, when the average person thinks light, things that may come to mind include good, heroic, holy, happy, nice, etc., and annoying, distracting, and useless don't fit the characteristics of light.

-When I see Gyrados, for example, I think water and dragon, not flying(it also has quite a bit dragon type moves, much more than it can learn flying type moves. It also learns what I believe to be 3 dragon type moves while leveling up, but not a single flying type move). A pokemon's looks and even movesets don't always exactly follow its typing. And as for looking like other pokemon, still assuming you mean Sylveon, it resembles jigglypuff and wigglytuff a good bit, especially the coloring and the eyes.

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I agree as well here.

Earlier when I said something about the 4-way circle of Light/Sound/Flying/Grass, it was just a theory behind the Pokemon team's designs. To add on, I would believe Sylveon to be a Light type and here's a few reasons;

1. Its color scheme is pretty different, as the other Eeveelutions are pretty obvious what type they are, as this isn't.
2. The developers are keeping it's type a secret, when they could have just revealed it as they revealed the starters' types (but those are pretty obvious anyway).
3. When they've introduced new Eeveelutions, they came in pairs in which 1 type will have advantage over the other and following my 4-way type advantage wheel it would make sense to add in a Sound type Eeveelution.

-Why not reveal the other 'Sound' Eeveelution, you ask? Well, Sound in itself would have a pretty obvious design, if being designed for an Eeveelution, and therefore wouldn't be revealed until it was relevant to do so.

Again this is just a theory I have, for if they indeed are developing more types. I myself don't believe in it, it's just a possibility

I think it's fake, I can't imagine a water/fire  Pokemon. ._. but we'll see C:

I had a bit of a revelation thinking of the rumor of them incorporating Sound/ Light types: Xerneas looks like a Light/Grass type, while Yveltal might be Sound/Flying so I imagine there's a 4-way cycle of weaknesses here


Light>Sound>Flying>Grass (Imagine as a circle);

Light is faster than Sound
Soundwaves knock Flying types down
Flying already beats Grass
Grass/plants absorb light.

On another note...

This is kinda what I had in mind for a Flaracuda Water/Fire pokemon or it's pre-evolved form. It's based off of the idea of a barracuda and the fact there's underwater volcanoes. I imagine some Pokes would live near/ around these areas, so yeah :p

If you know what I mean. >

A better question would be to how they implement the Eevee-evos this time around, as they add a new evolution technique with each one it seems.


Although my vote would be a Ghost type with a Latin based name like Animeon, whereas Anima is the base which means 'soul' (yes it looks silly)
either this or Poison type with a name like Contageon, built off of 'contagion' or Miasmeon, off of 'miasma'

*watches as they unload all the rest of the Eeveelution types at once in this PokeDex update*

O_O


Gimme dat action (>'-')>