During yesterday’s Nintendo Direct, the Japanese developer and publisher unveiled plenty of new Pokémon games, including updates for the next game in the franchise.

It turns out that DLC is already on the way, despite Pokémon Legends: Z-A not launching until 16 October, and as part of that DLC campaign, we’ll get to recruit and use a new Raichu evolution that nobody saw coming.

With a teasing trailer starting with the letters ‘X’ and ‘Y’ you could have been fooled into thinking we were getting a remaster of the classic games, but no, it was a bombastic introduction to the new Raichu mega evolution.

Fans of Pikachu’s final form will get to further evolve this electric dynamo by using mega evolution, choosing between the ‘X’ and ‘Y’ forms.

The design is wonderful, with Raichu having larg

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