What to Buy: Pokemon X or Y? Harder than picking your starter. What’s your choice?

It’s one of the hardest questions you will ask yourself this week, which version of the new Pokemon game do I buy?

We’ve put together a quick guide together with the basics of what’s different. As more and more people get the game there will be more revealed but in this pre-launch state here’s what we know will be in Pokemon X and Pokemon Y.

As usual the storyline and general gameplay will remain the same between the versions.

So then? Which version for you?

The boxes are different

Well that’s an obvious one isn’t it? On the X box you have Xerneas and on the Y box there’s Yveltal. Who are they? That brings us very quickly to the next difference.

There are different legendary Pokemon

Xerneas and Yveltal are your new legendary Pokemon, their the Pokemon of life and destruction. Xerneas which is the deer looking Pokemon on your left is pronounced ZURR-nee-us and is a Fairy type Pokemon. Yes Fairy, it’s the new type of Pokemon in X and Y.

Yveltal, prounounced ee-VELL-tawl is a Dark/Flying type. Despite the two Pokemon looking quite different they’re about the same weight, that’s even with Yveltal being twice as tall.

There are exclusive Mega Evolutions

The new Mega Evolutions are sure to change the way Pokemon battles take place, however if you’re after certain Mega Evolution you better be sure to buy the right version of the game. Some evolutions are exclusive to one version, some Mega Evolutions take place across both games. Here’s what we know so far.

Mega Charizard X and Mega Charizard Y (left/right)

Mega Charizard X – Type: Fire/Dragon & Mega Charizard Y – Type: Fire/Flying

Mega Mewtwo X and Mega Mewtwo Y (left/right)

Mega Mewtwo X – Psychic/Fighting & Mega Mewtwo Y – Psychic

Version Specific Pokemon

Outside of the two above Mega Pokemon there is of course a range of Pokemon that will be exclusive to either Pokemon X or Pokemon Y. We don’t have a complete list of Pokemon, Nintendo hasn’t revealed all of them and we’re not sure we want to know. We’ve included the Pokemon below out of the already revealed Pokemon.