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One hint you missed for Legends Arceus: a lot of the tracks include a lot of Sinnoh lietomotifs, but the second theme for Cobalt Coastlands instead uses Coumarine City’s theme from X and Y

Last summer, pokémon go had an event called "From A to Zygarde". I feel like that is significant

a couple of months ago, pokemon go added routes. as an incentive, you can find zygarde cells around routes. the quest is called "from a to zygarde"

There's an interesting fact about the border of France and Spain: a river runs along the border of France and Spain, and there is an island known as "Phesant Island," both Spain and the Island have joint ownership of the island. Still, neither is permitted to build on the island without the consent of the other, which neither seems willing to do for the time being, so the island is basically a nature preserve for the time being. At some point in the future, it could be fun to see this location make an appearance in the Pokemon franchise.

I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE THAT THE AURA TRIO WEREN'T IN THE INDIGO DISK

Near the blocked off area northeast of Paldea are three Dragon Tamers who all use Dragon-type Pokemon originally from Kalos. That might also have been a hint.

This is basically every "kalos dlc hints" video released before the actual dlc lol funny how everyone forgot about these hints after indigo disk took us to unova. "We just didn't notice cuz johto and unova" nah, people noticed

I realized the other day why it is named Z-A I was watching a video about why Z was never made after X and Y, the video talked about in the game files there were two reserved kalos games that were never made. Assuming that there would have been two sequel games like they did for black and white before and and sun and moon after, the games would have probably been named pokemon Z and pokemon A. And im sure we will learn the significance of the letters in the game when it comes out.

I dont think Kalos on the map was a hint. More just to make sure Paldea didnt look like it was a island or smth.

Kalos is based on northern France Paldea borders southern France Unless we get a region based on southern France in the future that land is blank territory till then Kalos is the top half

It is literally impossible not to look at Hoops’ Slowpoke plush and not smile😂

Since you mentioned the Aura trio not being present in SV, there are other legends completely absent. Like the Tapu Guardians. PLA had the Kami trio from Unova present, so could PLZA have the Tapus involved somehow?

If Rei was a hint for Legends ZA, then Hikari might be a hint towards a Alola legends game in which we are part of that other- worldly organization that controls the Ultra Beasts.

the aura trio not being in the DLC made the most sense for me. People were talking about Zekrom / Reshiram and all those tweets - which was utter nonsense

Oh my god thank you someone finally talking about the absence of the Gen 6 legendaries in scarlet/violet. I noticed and suspected Kalos but everyone was so hyperfixated on Johto or Unova.

Something I also noticed which felt weird but makes sense now is the fact that Geeta's team was kind of random. She has 4 Paldean Pokémon, which makes sense, but she also has an Avalugg and a Gogoat who didn't fit in there at all. And to top it off she added Chesnaught to her team in the Indigo Disk which is A F-ING KALOS STARTER 🤯 That makes 4 Paldean Pokémon 3 Kalos Pokémon (and Dragapult😂) You can't tell me that this is a coincidence

Also Pokemon Go has a mission thing called from A to Zygarde. I wonder if that was a hint as well.

I know some people were scratching their heads about the legends Arceas MC just being stuck in the past, it would be really cool to see an older version of them show up in kalos and have some vague dialogue about living here in a different time and making peace with where he his now, or maybe they could go as far as helping him get back to the future (TM) i think it would be the first time being able to meet a past MC other than red in gold and silver and ultra sun and moon to my knowledge

When the dlc came out, I noticed the XY legends missing, and all I thought was 'huh, that's weird.' And then just hours after Z-A was revealed it clicked for me 'oh, that's why they're missing!'

This was very interesting, Hoops, and your video is an awesome occurrence for my birthday!

It funny that all the leakers didn’t know about this game. Which maybe people remember about a past remour about three DLC for Scarlet and violet and it was right till the third DLC which was called hexagon which is who is Zargarda. So this is why everyone was surprised this is the third DLC but now a game

2 other possible hints: The gen 9 champion has 2 Kalos pokemon on her team- Gogoat and Avalugg. Have you noticed the past variants (jigglypuff and misdrevus for example) are not fully evolved? That's because they didn't have access to the evolution stones at the time. Guess who else fits in? That's right, Floette

I was reading bulbapedia while watching this and: "Professor Sycamore theorizes that Mega Stones originate from special stones, potentially Evolution stones, that were irradiated by the power of XerneasX/YveltalY that was fired from the ultimate weapon 3,000 years ago." What if these special stones were in fact tera orbs or tera crystals?

There's an Ash Greninja Painting in Nemona's House ( i'm not sure but i think it's there)

For me, the biggest indicator was the XYZ trio's absence from Scarlet and Violet. They brought everyone else but those three back, but it still felt like a shot in the dark to say that something Kalos related was coming. Boy am I glad I was wrong.

It's pretty cool how Rei's shirt signifies that Legends ZA could've been in the works, or at least planned even before Legends Arceus came out. Also I'm glad that you pointed out how we all LITERALLY just forgot about the Aura trios exclusion from The Indigo Disk lol. Maybe we were just too hyper fixated on Johto or Unova as you said. Though I think that was probably a direct hint we could've taken towards this next game. 😂 Great video! 💯

7:39 the fact that area zero and az is just a coincidence cause "area zero" is only in english, italian and japanese. For instance in spanish, it's called "Área Cero", so it doesn't make sense.

EF Floette can't be a Paradox for this reasons: - paradoxes only have 570 or 590 base stats - paradoxes are meant to look ancient or futuristic and EF Floette doesn't look as neither of them

Floette AZ is variation of a middlestage pokemon, we find it only in paradox pokemon. AZ reminds Area Zero. The origin of paradoxes still is not so clear. Gamefreak could do a very nice scarlett and violett update: with a legend za save file the locked area would be unlocked, starting a new episode, the Z episode, in which they can fix lore lacks about paradoxes and maybe introduce paradox floette

I think the fact that the Kalos region can be seen in Paldeas map was, looking back, a pretty big hint that something relating to the Kalos region was about to come.

You can tell you really know pokemon and the way they work by now. love these discussion videos, see you in the next one

I'm so glad they are taking a year off to work on ZA.

Would be cool if beating legends ZA unlocks some event in that blocked off area in Scarlett/Violet on your switch

I feel like we could go back to Alola sometime soon as well. Why? That was the first place where NPCs lost their memory and awoke in a new place they’ve never been like Looker, Ingo, and the bald guy on the beach in Alola. Looker is first seen in Sinnoh and then Kalos. Ingo was in BW then ends up in Hisui back in time. Crazy how all these reigions play a part when it comes to space and time and mysteries I can’t wait to see how it comes together!

There should be a game where you could travel to all the regions in one game

There's an NPC on the beach near where you can do the bidding that I think beaks in French or says some French things

I had a thought: if Floette is revealed as a Paradox Pokemon, and it’s in all likelihood a Past form, would its Future form look and represent the timeline where AZ had destroyed Kalos/All Pokemon, but stayed by AZ’s side? Because I can totally see AZ losing the rest of his humanity after such a monstrous act (plus the trauma of what he’s seen, and further loss in a 3000yr span) and even extending that same regard to all Pokémon, including Floette. It believably could have lead to him having been driven completely mad by the anxiety at the thought of ever losing Floette again (despite Floette literally being biological immortal) but especially the fear of being alone for another 3000 years, could make him take “Immortal” to its extreme and quite literally, leading him to experiment on Floette to the point of forcing them to turn into Future Floette (Ruined Melody/Withered Melody/Songless Melody?) It would also completely explain why in the future we see so many future Pokemon looking the way they do; it could have been the result of AZ’s guilt at the Pokémon’s lives he took, and overcorrected everything he could to preserve them. Which might explain why the Future ones are so aggressive; it’s basically a Fruits Basket/FNAF situation-they are being forced to live past what is normal by the same abnormal means he used to create the Ultimate Weapon.

Just my personal thoughts: I noticed a connection you missed. the sundial in anistar city in Kalos that has a very distinct description that parallels the crystals responsible for terastallizing pokemon found around the time machine in scarlet and violet. The crystals that make up the sundial also look very similar in material and since the ultimate weapon required an insane amount of energy(thought to be a reason the sundial gives off the mega evolution energy) not only could remnants of it be likely if it created the area zero, but also could have been from crystals originating from Kalos. It's not impossible to believe that the energy combined by the ultimate weapon resulted in the slight alteration or amplification of those crystals and upon being used by the ultimate weapon were distributed like spores where the weapon hit. Enabling them to grow in an ideal environment likely due to a phenomenon similar to radiation but causing the opposite effects (life/power instead of death).

I wonder if we'll get a paldea legends game in the future. Until the starters for the new games are revealed, I will forever think that popplio and its evos are gonna be one and primarnia might get a Phantom of the Opera reference regional form. The aura trio not being in the indigo disk never really clicked cause my brain was questioning why the two horse legendaries from Sword and Shield's Crowned Tundra dlc were the only two brought to Scarlet and Violet via a dlc besides Kubfu and it's evo instead of Calyrex, Zacian, and Zamazenta. [Idk if the legendary bird trio's galar forms count.] Plus other legendaries like the element trio and some mythicals ain't available via capture in the dlc and are only available via transfer [Calyrex, Zacian, and Zamazenta and the aura trio included]

Year of the snake = Snivy confirmed as Legends Z minus A starter.

So... 2022 legends arceus - 2025 legends z-a 2023 detective pikachu returns - 2026 some gold/silver remake game? Since there are huge Lugia and Ho-oh posters in one of the mansions for no reason... It seems like hints are usually given 3 years before the next game...

Are we just skipping the whole narrative of the giant war that went on that many comment in the Kalos side created the great crater of Paldea?

Wait... Light of Ruin... That reminds me of the Ruin Legendaries with their Treasures of Ruin. Do you think Floette is a potential 5th member of this?

Theres also the greninja painting in Nemonas house

CALLING IT: Eternal Flower Floette will evolve into Xerneas!

You forgot the Greninja mural in Nemo's house lol

could area zero be the area where the ultimate weapon's beam hit or was part of the war that took place

This made me wonder if the eternal flower flowet is a paradox pokemon

I'm guessing that the marked section of the Paldea map is less of a hint towards Legends Z-A and more just blatantly referring to where Kalos is in relation to the rest of Paldea. After all, the real world inspiration of the locations are close like that. As for why it's inaccessible, that's likely because S/V is fully Open World, while X/Y were linear, and they didn't know quite how to translate that area of the Kalos map into Open World. Area Zero having the initials AZ is likely just a coincidence. But who knows. If it is a hint, I like that it doesn't feel forced. 2025 being the Year of the Snake, and being the year Legends Z-A releases it highly unlikely to be just a coincidence. But that's likely only in the sense of why we're getting a Kalos Legends game rather than a Unova Legends game (if one will even be made).

Since legends ZA isnt coming out next year, there HAS to be something more that has to come to SV to keep the games going.

Holly shit, paldean Map size just like a 5 small circle of lumiose map pokemon legend z.a ? So lumiose city must be huge than GTA v map 😮😮😮😮

I guess a hint was when pokemon home updated sprites for the megas

yeah, these feel like stretches, or coincidences

There’s kind of a plot hole with AZ’s Floette unless it’s a distribution I can’t see AZ giving it up because he loves it so much. He even made a doomsday weapon and sacrificed other Pokémon to bring it back to life.

8:06 well that shirt design doesn't look so familiar

this is the video i've been waiting for

Maybe Area-Zero was the impact sight of the ultimate weapon or whatever it was called that AZ built, there was a war after all.

I can't say much against the data about Megas in Legends Arceus, there defo was something going on during the development. Nor can I say much about those two Paradox mons, or the Aura trio not being at BB Academy, BUT Rei wearing a Kalos shirt being a hint? Then Akari wearing an Alola shirt was hinting at Legends Necrozma all this time, but look where that took us😒 Mentioning that area that would be the south west of France in real life, and saying that it was intentional? Yes it was, for continuity of the inspiartions, like how Kanto, Johto, Sinnoh, Unova and Kalos itself had land outside the region and not water just because irl, the places also have other countries (or states) surronding them. That's no hint at all. And mentioning that maybe we could one day see that part, yeah, that copium might be hitting a bit hard, because a tweet from the official twitter account mentioned that it's going to be all in Lumiose. You can't stay more in the northern part of France that inspired Kalos than by staying in the liddle of it. And you would think that this point about Area Zero being related to AZ because of these initials would carry over to French, since it is related to Kalos. WRONG! It's called the Zone Zéro in French. Another point lost to the bias of confirmation. In the end, only three points that I've noted (not that I would have missed a lot of them) can still make sense, one of them being about the development of a game, which can simply be a simply decision of the devs not to put the megas in after programming parts of it and simply not thinking about taking it out, and two paradox mons, one of which is a robot which can be explained by the hypothesis that the one who made the first like the design of mega gallade, and the other one having an explanation in the form of the pokedex entries of mega aerodactyl in both X, the Moon games, and the Let's go games, claiming that it was its true appearance, which could also be the case of Roaring Moon. In the real end, only the Aura trio misisng can't be explained that easily with an explanation not involving Legends ZA. If I had to qualify this video with one word, it would be copium. Copium of thinking that there was a big brain moment here.

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It would be interesting if the Eternal Flower Floette was the, Now don't hate me for saying this... But its the "PRE-ORDER BONUS" when you Pre-Order the game...

Is the naming Area Zero aka AZ alil nod too?

Something that i saw on the trailer was big circle around the map i think that they will be the boss fights either alphas or new-old megas that you will need to beat to get new areas for the town

5:32 No one else remember that train station that leads to another region in gen 6? Paldea was always a region in mind. I hope ZA alludes to this.

Southern Kalos is probably going to be a different region. If Japan can get four regions, why can’t France have two?

Are all the Pokemon, that show up in the space time distortions, available in kalos?

The female character also wears a shirt from a previous gen but it’s for alola, hop that means we’re getting legend Alola afterwards

Out of curiosity, when arceus was announced and then released we got brilliant diamond, and shinging pearl the year before. Is there a chance we might be getting an x and y remake this year, as legends is in 2025?

In scarlet violet nemonas house there is a picture of greninja hinting za

We weren't given any clue that Legends ZA is going to include mega evolution. We got the symbol, that's it, and not confirmation

Nice

I wonder if this Legnds game is a paradox in it of it's as if di d Gamefreak long term plan this game out or did Game Freak had an emergency meeting their investors on changing plans last minute due to Palworlds resection instead of making Black and White remakes

Wicked! ❤

Pokemon x and y had a lot of kalos/Z references lol, it was just a matter of time and complaints.

Everyone wants EFF to be obtainable but no one considers that it would break the lore since it’s one of a kind and it has to be wild so that it can go back to AZ in the future

10:04 Lucas not rei Rei is the rival if u pick Dawn

I knew Unova remakes weren’t coming because with the exception of Kanto remakes, they always come in even numbered generations Gen 4 gave us Heart Gold and Soul Silver Johto Gen 6 gave us Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire Hoenn Gen 8 gave us Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl Sinnoh So following this pattern, if Unova DOES get remakes they won’t be until the 10th generation… though I still don’t want Unova remakes. Unova is only decent in 2

i am calling it the 3rd legends game will be in alola

What if the eternal weapon is what created the great crater of paldea, causing the ancient paradox Pokémon like Roaring Moon to go extinct. And the ricocheting energy from the lives of the pokemon and the eternal weapon is what created mega stones/energy 🤷‍♀️

Allergies with you too? Started a month ago with me. I have nice pills against the most symptoms.

The male player's starting outfit in PLA isn't really evidence for anything. The female player wore a T-shirt from Sword and Shield and shorts from Sun and Moon. They just reused assets because they didn't wanna model and texture a new outfit for what would become redundant in the first half hour of the game.

Did you know? Near the blocked off area where Kalos should be located, almost all Pokémon that spawn there are from Kalos. You are welcome.

Plot twist: AZ’s Floette is male.

"spain and rest of iberian peninusla" bro disrespecting portugal like that

Eternal flower flowette is the original ruin pokemon & AZ was the king.

some of these are the biggest reach imaginable

Commented so much about this floette on so many videos. Not one KZfaqr paid attention at all. Poof here comes all the content :,)

Did this man really just say "Spain and the rest of the Iberian Peninsula"? There are 3 nations there, Portugal, Spain and the Principality of Andorra (Gibraltar is UK territoy so it does not count as a nation). Being Portuguese I hate when that happens, specially when anyone just says "rest of" as if there were just tiny bits of non-spanish lands. Portugal is one of the oldest countries in the world, older than Spain. If you don't know it, go check it, its a pretty country with a weird and very rich history. And for those who don't know, Portuguese comes from Portugal, not Brasil (even if its in the name, there's a lot of people that think otherwise).

I have to disagree with the last part because just because a pokemon is absent doesn't mean this is hints for a new game. If that was the case, then where's Legends Victory? Absences shouldn't count for hints.

Pokemon Legends: Zed-Alpha sounds better

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They hinted at it with the change to the Light of Ruin move

you missed the ash greninja picture from scarlet and violet, it appears in nemonas house, i think it was intentional. Is asg greninja coming back?

I❤Kalos

I feel like we are gonna get Eternal Flower Floette as a past Paradox Pokemon, fully revealing it to be a Paradox Pokemon rather than a form of Floette, and then we will also get a future Paradox of Floette, called Iron Flower or something. Can't wait to see what's gonna happen in this game.

Cool!!!🌟🌟💯💯

AZ

Doesnt AZ kinda look like an older Arven? That would make sence if he would have continued the time traveling his parents did before they died so I think it wouldn't be that weird of a theory. Arven also starts with an A and if his last name started woth a Z his initials wpuld be AZ explaining AZ's name

Bright 🍬 😅💋

In Legends Arceus the Goodra and Avalugg gained hisuian forms but the Goodra and Avalugg Lines were added in Kalos which is the next legends game so maybe that was a hint