Unless someone has found one in a friend safari, it dosent look like meowth is in game. Wait til the pokemon bank opens up i guess.

@Graptakular
FUUUUUuuuuuu...... I didn't know certain PKMN weren't in the game.

Preeeeetty sure I caught a Purrsian, so I think I can breed Meowths outta that. (Unless I'm thinking of my girlfriend catching one.)

You can't catch a Persian in X and Y it needs to be transfered from a previous game via Pokebank. Here is the list of unobtainable pokemon in X and Y. It consists mostly of starters and legendarys and a few other pokemon. http://serebii.net/xy/unobtainable.shtml

Jaysus, 125 Pokemon not in the games?

Not too bad for numbering overall with this series,

Every time someone with "poke" in their name replies, I imagine like a tiny little Iwata leaning over my shoulder and whispering stuff in my ear...

"...it's not that bad for how many we have..."

"...the EV system is way better..."

"...you'd ruin years of balancing and hard work..."

"...isn't my girth magnificent...?"

@Xbob42

I'm changing my name to Jay Poke-Arr.

In other news, I went to Barns and Nobel to check out the strategy guide for this game (for after I beat the story and if I still want to "catch them all" which I kind of think I may want to try) and it was sealed in plastic and $20. BOGUS. How am I supposed to know if it's going to be useful to me if I can't flip through it?

Also how are they going to sell something you can basically get for free on the internet by making it HARDER for people to decide if they want it by sealing it? So dumb.

Wow, Miltank was way more difficult to capture than I anticipated. Finally got the cow on my team, but man that was a struggle.

Someone got two shiny Mareep in one hoard battle. That's a 1 in 16,777,216 chance.

I guess, when you think about it, all the thousands of people playing Pokemon X times all the thousands of battles that each person has, it probably happens pretty often.

How do you tell?

@-JKR-

That they're shiny? The pink ones are shiny. Only difference between shiny Pokemon and regulars are that the shiny ones are different-colored. There's about a 1 in 4000 chance of encountering one in the wild in X and Y.

Don't they also have slightly higher stats?

That's pretty unbelievable. Maybe the odds of a second shiny in a horde are less than a regular shiny? Too bad you couldn't catch both.

I caught a shiny Voltic in Pokemon Black. I didn't even know what it was at first.

While trying to fill up the local Pokedex, I went looking for Honedge. The first one I've ever seen in the game ended up being shiny! Of coure I caught her (its a girl).

By the by, anyone have Y version willing to send a Spritzee my way? I haven't encountered one in a trainer battle so I can't request one from the GTS. I'm willing to trade other X exclusives or breed something you're looking for.

@Graptakular
If you know the name of the Pokemon you can request it on the GTS still.

@DapperDave

Nice icon!

@Pokefreak

I tried that already. If you see the pokemon in the wild or owned by an npc, or if an npc mentions the pokemon in conversation, then itll be searchable in the GTS. (Try searching for any of the Regis, you cant). Sadly, I have yet to encounter Spritzee in any way shape or form.

@Graptakular
No you don't. The Pokemon just has to be on the GTS which is why the Regi's won't work. Type in Spritzee and it will work.

ah, you are correct. since i stopped at "S" i didnt go down far enough to notice the option to type in a name. Now I just hope someone will find my trade amongst all the requests for legends.