The Pokemon Company International and Nintendo announced during the Nintendo Digital E3 2014 Conference that both Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire video games will launch in the United States on the 21st November 2014 for Nintendo 2DS and 3DS systems. Worryingly this release date is explicitly listed as being for the US only, and therefore is quite likely to vary around the world unlike Pokemon X / Y which were released relatively simultaneous between North America, PAL regions and Japan.
As with the games they are based on (The third generation Ruby and Sapphire games), fans can travel throughout the Hoenn region catching, battling and trading Pokemon as they go up against antagonist organization Team Aqua or Team Magma.
Also confirmed today is that the Pokémon featured on the Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire game packages are in fact Primal Groudon and Primal Kyogre, a newly revealed transformation of the Legendary Pokémon Groudon and Kyogre. These two extremely powerful Pokémon clashed in an epic battle that once sent Groudon into a long slumber within the magma beneath the planet’s crust and drove Kyogre into a deep sleep at the bottom of the ocean floor. The transformation is a result of Primal Reversion, when Groudon and Kyogre reclaim their original power from nature’s energy and obtain even greater power than they already have. The power within Primal Reversion is still being discovered, as well as what connection may lie between Primal Reversion and Mega Evolution.
Information on both newly announced Mega Evolutions are available below:
Primal Groudon is brimming with energy, which pours from its body as magma. The magma burns at such an extreme temperature that its body is always shimmering ruby red from the haze of its heat, giving off light in the darkness. Through Primal Reversion, Primal Groudon becomes much larger and adds Fire type to its Ground type, raising the power of Fire-type moves it can learn. Primal Reversion greatly boosts Primal Groudon’s Attack. Its Ability may get a boost during this epic transformation, too.
Primal Kyogre, a Water-type Pokémon, is awash with energy that spills from its body as seawater. Its blue skin shines like a sapphire and is half-translucent like the sea. Primal Reversion greatly boosts Primal Kyogre’s Special Attack. Its Ability also seems to get a boost, although this information cannot yet be confirmed. Primal Kyogre is massive, growing to be more than twice Kyogre’s size.