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Kalos is here! The Kalos Pokémon are out in the wild, Pokémon can Mega Evolve, the Safari Zone is open and the Trainer Circuit got a rival. This page is the short tour of everything new, with a link to the full page for each part.

The Kalos Pokémon

Every Kalos Pokémon from Chespin to Zygarde now spawns, hatches, evolves and battles. Xerneas, Yveltal and Zygarde are out there too, as rare as any other legendary, and Xerneas rests in its Neutral Mode in the wild and switches to Active Mode in battle.

New trainers can pick Chespin, Fennekin or Froakie with /start, and /start now opens on Kalos.

Forms to collect

Some Kalos Pokémon are a collection on their own. Every Vivillon has its own wing pattern, every Flabébé its own flower color and every Pumpkaboo its own size, all rolled when it spawns. Furfrou can be trimmed for free from its /pokemon info card, and Aegislash switches between its two formes inside every battle. The Forms page on /pokedex keeps count of all of them. See Pokédex and the Form Dex.

Mega Evolution

Seven Megas to start, with more on the way. Catch a Pokémon from a Mega’s family and its stone research starts: a few short steps, then a battle to win the stone. Track it in the Mega list on /pokedex. Your first stone brings the Key Stone, and then Mega Evolve sits in the Fight menu. The full rules are on Mega Evolution.

New places to catch

  • The Safari Zone. Once you’ve caught 10 wild Pokémon, /safari gives you a free trip every day. Pick Kalos for the Friend Safari: one zone for every type, and some of what you catch there has its Hidden Ability. Safari Zone.
  • Fish for a Pokémon. /fish target: lets you fish for a Pokémon on your rod’s table that you’ve caught before. The more you hook it, the more often it bites. Bites are quicker now, and the Good and Super Rod give a few more casts. Fishing.

The Trainer Circuit

  • Rival’s Road. After your first Circuit win a rival shows up. You pick his look and his name, and he waits at the end of every division. Beat the Champion for a Master Ball. Rival’s Road.
  • The Hall. Every trainer you beat moves into the Hall along with real players’ teams, three a day, for titles from Baron to Grand Duke. Trainer Circuit and the Hall.
  • New faces at the top. Gym Leaders in the Ultra Ball division and Champions in Master, and they Mega Evolve once a battle.

A better /daily

  • /daily now shows a quick look at your Eggs, your research, your Fish for target and your Mega Stone research, and a day you really played no longer breaks your streak. Daily rewards and voting.

The Professor’s gift

Already playing? The Professor has one starter for you from every region you never started in. Press Professor’s gift on /start and pick one from each. They come at Lv. 5 and can’t be traded or sold.

Also new

  • Pokémon, move, ability, item, nature and type names in French, Spanish and Italian as well as English and German: /language me. Settings.
  • An Egg hatches in the mother’s Poké Ball (the other parent’s with Ditto). Breeding.
  • Plates and Drives are held items now: any Pokémon can hold a Plate and its type’s moves hit harder, and Arceus and Genesect change type with what they hold. Items.
  • Supporters can put a gold or silver frame on their cards, pick which Pokémon stands on their Trainer Card, and a new card color arrives every month. Supporter perks.
  • Pokémon learn every move they can learn in any game, so the TM list and the Move Reminder got longer. Moves and TMs.

Welcome to Kalos. Go catch your first one!

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Checked against the game on November 7, 2026.

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