Kalos is here! 72 new Pokémon, Mega Evolution, the Safari Zone and your very own rival!

Generation 6 is here#

All 72 Pokémon from Kalos now spawn, hatch, evolve and battle everywhere, so get out there and start filling up your Pokédex! It now runs all the way to 721.

To kick things off, it's Kalos Week! Kalos Pokémon show up twice as often in the wild, so this is the best time to fill those new Pokédex pages.

Forms to collect#

Some of the new Pokémon are a whole collection on their own! Every Vivillon has its own wing pattern, every Flabébé has its own flower color and every Pumpkaboo comes in its own size. You can also trim your Furfrou for free from its /pokemon info card.

The Forms page on /pokedex keeps track of all of them, with new pages for Vivillon's patterns, the Flabébé line's flowers, Meowstic, Furfrou's trims, Pumpkaboo and Gourgeist's sizes and Aegislash's two formes.

A gift from the Professor#

The Professor has a gift for you! You get one starter from every region you didn't start in, so if you picked Charmander you can now grab a Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova and Kalos starter too. Press Professor's gift on /start and pick the one you want from each region.

They join your box at Lv. 5 and can't be traded or sold. Go fill out your team!

Mega Evolution#

Mega Evolution is finally here! Seven Megas to start: Mega Charizard X, Mega Gengar, Mega Venusaur, Mega Blastoise, Mega Gyarados, Mega Gardevoir and Mega Lucario, with way more to come.

Earning a Mega Stone#

Every Mega Stone has its own research, and it's the only way to get one. Catch a Pokémon from one of these families and its stone research starts on its own.

It's three short steps with that family, then a real fight for the stone. Korrina wants to see your aura at the Tower of Mastery. Diantha wants to see how far you have come. Lysandre is after the Gyaradosite for himself, so stop him! And some Megas are out in the wild and out of control, so you'll have to calm them down. Win with one of the family in your party and the stone is yours!

You can try the fight as many times as you want. Press Mega list on /pokedex to see where you are.

You can only get each Mega Stone once, and evolving, hatching and trading will never give you one. Your first stone also comes with the Key Stone, which is what lets you Mega Evolve.

Mega Evolving in battle#

Give the stone to the Pokémon that uses it, then press Mega Evolve in the FIGHT menu and pick a move! You can Mega Evolve once per battle in wild battles, research battles, the Trainer Circuit and PvP, and your Pokémon changes back when the battle is over. Wild Pokémon will never Mega Evolve.

Every trainer in the Ultra Ball and Master divisions can Mega Evolve now too, so make sure to bring your best team!

The Mega list#

Press Mega list on /pokedex to see every Mega you have lined up in front of Prism Tower! A Mega will also show up on your Forms page the moment you earn its stone.

The Safari Zone#

The Safari Zone is finally open! Once you have caught a few wild Pokémon, you can take one free trip a day with /safari. Pick a real Safari area from Kanto, Johto or Sinnoh and catch what lives there with your Safari Balls. There is no battling in the Safari Zone, only Ball, Bait, Rock or Run, just like the games! It even looks like the games, with the wild Pokémon on its own plate and your Safari Balls counting down at the top.

Want more? You can buy up to three more trips a day with ₽. Running low on balls? Grab a Top-up for a few more balls and steps once per trip. And if you want the big one, take an Expedition: one long trip a day with twice the Safari Balls.

The Friend Safari#

Pick Kalos in the Safari Zone to enter the Friend Safari! There is a zone for every type, 18 in all. Some of the Pokémon you catch there will have their Hidden Ability, and the Mega families live there too, so it's a great place to start their stone research.

The Rival's Road#

You've got a rival now! Pick who they are, and every time you clear a division on the Trainer Circuit, your rival is waiting at the gate. They build their team against the six you bring, they remember how you play, and trying the same thing twice only makes them tougher. Beat them at every gate and then the Champion to win a Master Ball! You can try as many times as you want and swap your team whenever you like. Clearing a gate again still pays, just a smaller prize than the first time.

The Master division is now an Elite run. You take on its trainers back to back, your HP and PP carry over, and you get a small bag of Full Restores and Revives for the whole run. Lose and you start again from the first trainer, so bring your very best team and do /circuit!

The World Tournament#

The Trainer Circuit has brand new trainers at the top! The Ultra Ball division is now the World Leaders, with Korrina and her Mega Lucario, and the Master division is the Champions, with Diantha and her Mega Gardevoir and Cynthia. Everything you already cleared still counts. Get your team ready and do /circuit!

Smarter trainers, fair rules#

Circuit trainers now build their movesets from every game, so they keep up with the moves you can teach. They also read the battle better. They stop using moves that do nothing, they go for priority moves when they are about to faint, and a trainer built to counter you brings a real answer to your strongest sweeper.

The whole board got tougher too. Trainers now match the six you bring, and once word gets around that you keep winning, they start building teams to beat yours. Higher divisions train their Pokémon and use items, and Master trainers come ready for weather teams and set up Stealth Rock.

The Challenge also has proper clauses now. A team with Double Team, Minimize, an OHKO move, Baton Pass, Moody, Bright Powder or Lax Incense won't get in, and it tells you exactly which Pokémon to fix. Win it the real way!

The Hall#

Every trainer you have beaten on the Trainer Circuit moves into the Hall, along with other players' teams that beat an Ace. Three of them are in each day, and you get three Hall battles a day. Beat them to earn titles, from Baron all the way up to Grand Duke! Other players' teams show up as Ace Trainers, never by name. Do /circuit to take them on.

PvP: Rematch and open challenges#

After a PvP battle, either of you can press 🔁 Rematch to run it back with the same rules. You can also run /battle without picking anyone, and any trainer can take you on!

Every move from every game#

Your Pokémon can now learn any move its evolution line could learn in any game! They show up as TMs on the Teach screen in /pokemon info. Egg moves still come from breeding, so the Day Care is still the way to get those.

Day Care upgrades#

The Day Care got a lot of love!

• Babies now hatch in their mother's Poké Ball, just like the games. With a Ditto, they take the other parent's ball. A Master Ball never passes down.
• Two of the same species from different trainers now lay an Egg faster, and the Day Care card tells you how well the pair gets along.
• Pokémon in the Day Care now gain EXP while they are there.
• A hatch you missed now shows up the next time you open /daycare.
• Starters now have a gender, so they can breed with more than just Ditto.

Held items, the games' way#

Plates are now held items. Any Pokémon can hold one for a boost to that type's moves. In your bag they all sit together in one row.

King's Rock, Razor Fang, Razor Claw, Deep Sea Tooth and Deep Sea Scale can be held in battle now too.

/daily got a revamp#

/daily now shows a quick look at your Eggs and your research every time you claim. You still get free ₽ and 2 Poké Balls every day, and a Rare Candy every 7th day.

HOWEVER, you don't have to remember to claim anymore to keep your streak. Any day you catch a Pokémon, win a wild battle, hatch an Egg or finish a research task keeps your streak alive!

Wild Pokémon past Level 60#

Wild Pokémon don't stop at Level 60 anymore! They now keep climbing with your Training Level, up to 5 levels above it, so the stronger your team gets, the tougher the wilds get. Weaker Pokémon still top out where they always have, so no Level 90 Caterpie.

Research you can actually play#

The Special Research tasks that asked you to finish a number of research slates are gone. Every one of them is now a real task, like catching, winning, hatching or fishing, so you can finish it by playing. Nobody loses any progress.

Finishing a whole Field Research slate also gives your lead a friendship boost now, and a step up on your Fish for… target!

Fishing got a big upgrade#

• A fish now bites in 10 to 40 seconds.
• The Old Rod keeps its 10 casts a day. The Good Rod now gets 12 and the Super Rod gets 15.
• Lead with a Pokémon that has Suction Cups or Sticky Hold and the fish bite even faster, just like the games.

Run /fish and set your target to a Pokémon from that rod you've already caught. The more of it you catch on a hook, the more often it bites. From your 5th catch it can show up with its Hidden Ability! Good luck!

A brand new website#

catchemcord.com got a full redesign for Kalos! It's still the site you know, now with a Lumiose City look.

There's also a brand new Tools page, and every tool on it runs on the exact same rules as the bot:

• Breeding calculator: pick two parents to see if they can breed, the exact odds of the IVs, nature and ability you want, and the quickest plan to a perfect Pokémon.
• Stat calculator: see a Pokémon's exact stats at any level, or type in the stats from its card to find its IVs.
• Damage calculator: see exactly how much a move will do before you pick it.
• Team checker: see which types hit your team hard and which ones your moves can't touch.

Check it out at catchemcord.com/tools!

The wiki now covers the whole game, with 33 pages on everything from catching to the Rival's Road. New to Kalos? Start here: catchemcord.com/wiki/new-to-kalos. The online Pokédex now has all 721 Pokémon, and you can search it in nine languages.

Sign in with Discord#

You can now sign in on catchemcord.com with your Discord account! See your own trainer page and fill the breeding calculator straight from your box. Every PvP battle is saved too, so you can watch it back turn by turn on catchemcord.com/battles. Everything on the site is view only, so catching, trading and buying all stay in Discord.

New supporter looks#

Supporters can now put a gold or silver frame on their Trainer Card, catch cards and Pokémon cards, and the frame shows up on /show too.

There's also a new card color every month, and once it's out it stays in your picker for good. The first one is Fairy Pink, for Kalos' brand new type!

Supporters can also pick which Pokémon stands on your Trainer Card. Open it in /pokemon and press 🪪 Put on my card. Your lead and team stay the same.

Not a supporter? Press 👀 Try on a look on /supporter to see your own card in any color and frame. Only you can see it.

The little things#

• /release takes ranges now, like 10-40 or 3, 10-40.
• Day Care Pokémon get a Give Item button in /pokemon.
• Stone and Rare Candy evolutions are announced in your level-up channel, just like level-ups.
• A big bag spreads out into more columns instead of shrinking.
• Two benched Pokémon with the same nickname show their species on the switch buttons.
• /specialresearch lists your stories in the same order every time.
• A Circuit trainer that switches now says so, so a switch never looks like a free attack.
• Focus Band, Focus Sash and Sturdy now tell you what saved the Pokémon.
• Battle cards load faster.
• A wild Pokémon with two types stands on one field with both type symbols, instead of a split ground.

Fixes#

• A freshly hatched Pokémon's card says Hatched again, and it keeps its ability.
• The status badge now shows up on the line that causes it, not at the start of the turn.
• No more lost EXP when a chat message and a battle finish at the same time.
• Mirror matches show stat drops on the right side.
• The FIGHT menu greys out a move you already know is blocked, like a Fire move into Flash Fire.
• Battle text always starts with a capital letter, and a fainted Pokémon is called by its real name.
• The battle text box is solid, so the floor no longer shows through the words.
• The faint animation no longer replays every time you press a button on the Circuit.
• A Pokémon at 0 HP is no longer drawn standing, and 1 HP shows a sliver of the bar.
• A trainer's Full Restore can no longer heal a Pokémon locked into Outrage.
• Fainting Pokémon's shadows fade away with them.
• A failed press in PvP now gets an answer instead of "This interaction failed".
• Giving an evolution stone now tells you why it can't be held.
• /bag and /pokedex pictures load the first time, and the grey blur on some cards is gone.
• Your starter's first catch card no longer says "ABILITY None".
• Trade and Day Care cards keep every Pokémon at full size.