And now for some incredibly unlikely Pokemon Black and White 2 rumours!

[CM30]

From Neogaf, which itself took them from other sources. Chance of these being real is nearly non existant:

Battle Subway area replaced with a Battle Frontier
Battle Frontier areas include: Battle Hall, Battle Subway, Battle Contest, Battle Factory
Battle Contest is an area focused on displaying battle skills more than fighting

That would worry me if true, it'd take away an interesting difference from the past games. Indeed, it makes it seems more and more like another generation 3/4 style game.

Professor Ichii (species of Oak in Japanese) replaces Professor Juniper
These Pokemon will now appear in Unova: Geodude, Scyther, Machop, Hoppip, Tyrogue, Togepi, Corsola, Cacnea, Trapinch, Croagunk, Starly

These seem plausible enough.

New Gym Leader: Sutebia (Stevia)

As does this I guess, we've already seen two new gym leaders already.

* The rumored New Pokemon advertised in Movie 15 Merchandise, and the silhouette seen in the AR Reader, is named Toridii (トリディー), with its name written out as ToriD in the magazine in English. It’s a Red and Blue bird-like Pokemon composed of prism-like crystal wings, and is said to be a Dimension Pokemon. The “head” on the silhouette is actually it’s crest, which is a red-and-blue spiral pompadour basically. Electric/Flying, despite its color-scheme.
* ToriD has a cameo appearance in the Meloetta Short, and is apparently the Pokemon responsible for all the old cameo Pokemon appearing…he brings them all together. Players who bring their 3Ds to the movie not only obtain the Giveaway Pokemon Meloetta, but will also be sent a special 3D video focusing on ToriD through SpotPass, said to reveal its secrets.
* There is a special sidequest in Pokemon Black 2 and White 2 involving ToriD and featuring 3D effects, unlocked only when playing the game on a 3Ds system (think the Advanced Shop in the Zelda Oracle games) and by finding ToriD in the AR Searcher. Doing so is required to trade the Pokemon in AR Searcher to Black 2 and White 2.

As cool as the idea of a new Pokemon being in the game may be, I really, really doubt this. It'd pretty much make battling between Black and White and Black and White 2 impossible for one thing, what the hell would the opponent see? There's no data for any 'hidden' Pokemon in the original games.

Homika’s Gym features a rhythm-based mini-game, and it confirms Shizui’s Gym is the one with the lillypads. Homika is confirmed to use Koffing in-game, and Shizui has a Mantine.

Mini game is debatable, use of Koffing and Mantine is plausible.

New Grass-type Gym Leader revealed, name is Chisa (チサ). He’s an older guy with wicked sideburns that resemble the Libra Scales, and he’s a prosecutor apparently, involved in a case against the Six Sages from BW. Gym is a courtroom involving judging type match-ups. His main Pokemon seems to be Ferrothorn.

Plausible enough, damn cool if true.

Old Gym Leaders are returning alongside new ones, shows Chilli, Burgh, and Iris with updated looks. Chilli now is wearing a greaser outfit and has established his own Gym as the three brothers apparently split up. What happened to Cilan and Cress, the magazine asks. Iris is older and more mature looking, fusing her pigtails into one big pony-tail that resembles wings of a dragon. The impression is that she is the Gym Leader in both versions now. Burgh has a top-hat and cane now, Willly Wonka is one way I saw him described, and has opened up an art gallery in Nacrene. Is he now the Gym Leader there? Magazine also shows art of Houndoom, Altaria, and Vespiquen around them, so that’s probably their new Pokemon.

I hope something like this is true to be honest, I'd love it to turn out that there are 16 gyms or something, like in Gold and Silver except without a second region. It'd be like the TV show where it turns out that many more gyms exist in each region and the protagonist just only goes to a few of them. Wouldn't it be cool if you could choose what gyms to take on before going against the Elite Four?

What do you think of these rumours?

 

[SpoonySage]

While some are possible, most just seem silly. And yeah, they wouldn't introduce anything new not already programmed into the games because it would prevent interaction within the same gen. They already have several legendaries programmed in that are not being released until BW2, so why not just leave it at that?

I think the stupid things said there just discredit the otherwise plausible ideas.

 

[Bee Gee]

Too bad it doesn't come out in May...

 

[Gelivable]

It's impossible to introduce a new Pokemon...most of these seem fake to me.

 

[Uzumaki Community]

Hmmm.... Well it all seems interesting enough but I doubt all that is true. But I sure hope they prove me wrong! And it would be awesome to be able to choose what gyms you face. All we can do is wait for more details from a more trustable source.

 

[AkaenRievkelar]

* There is a special sidequest in Pokemon Black 2 and White 2 involving ToriD and featuring 3D effects, unlocked only when playing the game on a 3Ds system (think the Advanced Shop in the Zelda Oracle games) and by finding ToriD in the AR Searcher. Doing so is required to trade the Pokemon in AR Searcher to Black 2 and White 2.

that's what I've been saying this whole time could/would happen.

 

[SpoonySage]

* There is a special sidequest in Pokemon Black 2 and White 2 involving ToriD and featuring 3D effects, unlocked only when playing the game on a 3Ds system (think the Advanced Shop in the Zelda Oracle games) and by finding ToriD in the AR Searcher. Doing so is required to trade the Pokemon in AR Searcher to Black 2 and White 2.

that's what I've been saying this whole time could/would happen.

You've been saying this?

Because there is no such thing as ToriD on any Japanese site or even any English one with any credibility whatsoever. It is a rumor with no foundation in reality.

 

[AkaenRievkelar]

* There is a special sidequest in Pokemon Black 2 and White 2 involving ToriD and featuring 3D effects, unlocked only when playing the game on a 3Ds system (think the Advanced Shop in the Zelda Oracle games) and by finding ToriD in the AR Searcher. Doing so is required to trade the Pokemon in AR Searcher to Black 2 and White 2.

that's what I've been saying this whole time could/would happen.

You've been saying this?

Because there is no such thing as ToriD on any Japanese site or even any English one with any credibility whatsoever. It is a rumor with no foundation in reality.

Not that. I meant the forward compatibility.