Pokémon Legends: Z-A Officially Confirmed to Bring Back a Popular X and Y Character

During today's Pokémon Presents, we saw a ton of caller footage of Pokémon Legends: Z-A, including a marque caller Mega Evolution. But for lore nerds, what was acold much absorbing was the official, confirmed quality of a precise fashionable quality from our escapade successful Pokémon X and Y. And yes, I'm going to spoil it for you beneath this video, truthful don't support scrolling if you don't privation to know.

If you watched today's trailer, you'll cognize this isn't overmuch of a spoiler: Emma, from Pokémon X and Y, is officially confirmed for Pokémon Legends: Z-A. Emma has been a portion of instrumentality speculation ever since the crippled was announced, and theories astir her beingness successful Z-A person lone multiplied implicit time.

For immoderate context, Emma is simply a young miss successful X and Y who is adopted and trained by Looker, a detective successful Lumiose City who's go a fan-favorite quality aft aggregate crippled appearances. At the extremity of X and Y, Looker efficaciously hands implicit the keys to his Looker Bureau to Emma. We've already seen that the Bureau appears successful this futuristic Lumiose, truthful it makes consciousness that Emma would beryllium moving it. What's more, her plan suggests she's inactive moving astir the metropolis arsenic the crime-fighting Essentia, based connected the outfit nether her jacket.

That said, Emma's beingness does beg immoderate questions. When precisely is Pokémon Legends: Z-A set? We don't know! Emma is decidedly older successful her Z-A appearance, but astir apt not truthful overmuch older that determination would person had clip to fundamentally rebuild Lumiose from the crushed up, from its X and Y aesthetic to the futuristic metropolis appearing successful Z-A.

Have determination been time-traveling shenanigans? Is this Emma's daughter, besides named Emma? Probably not that 2nd one. Maybe the denizens of the Kalos portion are conscionable really, truly accelerated astatine gathering cities.

Serebii Update: Official artwork for Emma & Mable successful Pokémon Legends Z-A https://t.co/NWlAdn57aQ pic.twitter.com/zsdP9u36Dw

It's besides worthy pointing retired present that different acquainted look from X and Y appeared during today's trailer, albeit 1 that's possibly a small little instantly recognizable. If you spotted Mable, the caller manager of the Pokémon Research Lab, you mightiness person recognized that she's a erstwhile subordinate of Team Flare. She's uh, not precisely the astir motivation of radical successful X and Y, truthful it volition beryllium absorbing to spot if she's reformed since past oregon if there's thing unsavory going connected astatine the probe lab.

There were different reveals during today's trailer, including marque caller characters similar Naveen, Lida, and either Urbain oregon Taunie. We besides saw a marque caller Mega Evolution, Mega Dragonite. Pokémon Legends: Z-A is coming to Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 connected October 16, 2025.

You tin drawback up connected everything shown during today's Pokemon Presents close here.

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