Leaks/Rumors Discussion Thread

[Famon]

I don't think I've ever heard of them doing that, since they do design Pokemon well in advance. I remember hearing development on Sun & Moon began as soon as X & Y were released so they pretty much designed these starter evolutions at least three years prior.

Ya , But We also remember how GF react when fully evolve from of BW Starter were leaked One day before the game release .
Not to mention , They should already learn people reaction toward those stater evolution.
Maybe , They can at least improve Litten's evo design ! They can give him a Body similar to Lucario.

 

[blue]

Looks like someone has an encrypted version of the demo already downloaded. Nothing new just yet but apparently they're looking through.

Spoiler:

*Demo is apparently 390mb which is bigger than ORAS demo.

Whole thing could be fake but it wouldn't surprise me if someone did have some sort of download this early, even if it is encrypted.

 

[Caaethil]

I don't think the middle evolutions are worth looking to far into in terms of confirming leaks. The appearance of Mallow confirmed them, no need to beat a dead horse. What is interesting is how different Dartrix in particular is to Robinroot (or whatever you want to call the archer). Makes me think that the branched evolutions may really be a thing.

 

[Pinkie-Dawn]

Looks like someone has an encrypted version of the demo already downloaded. Nothing new just yet but apparently they're looking through.

Spoiler:

*Demo is apparently 390mb which is bigger than ORAS demo.

Whole thing could be fake but it wouldn't surprise me if someone did have some sort of download this early, even if it is encrypted.

Aww, you already beat me to it. I've been looking through the comments about this on 4chan, and the only piece of information I found from the datamining thread was that Torracat's HA is Tough Claws.

 

[MegaKuriboh]

Is there datamining already??? Oh boy, time to avoid this thread.

 

[Hikamaru]

Torracat getting Tough Claws as a hidden ability might give Litten's evolution line some interesting competitive usage, especially if it gets some good moves.

 

[mew_nani]

...3dsDev? Weird folder name there, especially since it's located in another folder named Michael. If that's the actual demo for Sun and Moon they need to fork it over to me. :3

 

[Z25]

Looks like someone has an encrypted version of the demo already downloaded. Nothing new just yet but apparently they're looking through.

Spoiler:

*Demo is apparently 390mb which is bigger than ORAS demo.

Whole thing could be fake but it wouldn't surprise me if someone did have some sort of download this early, even if it is encrypted.

Hm..... If true, then that means the Demo must be on the servers somewhere. If this gets big, I'm leaving, as I don't want to be to spoiled. Though torrocat would be pretty nice with tough claws.

 

[Hikamaru]

I almost feel tempted to want him to leak more stuff, and find out the dirty secrets we've been hidden from for so long.

 

[clbgolden]

NOOOOOOOO.

Please, please tell me that they only left Pok?mon data in there. I really don't want any story details/UBs spoiled. :s

On another note, with today's confirmation we can add another right thing to the Bewear leak, as it said Ash-Greninja would be in the games. That may seem like a safe bet, but it's the only leak I know of that said that Ash-Greninja itself would be in the games and not a "Z-Form" version of it or whatever.

 

[clbgolden]

I mean, it's kinda a given that whenever a demo like this is released, someone is going to datamine the crap out of it, right? :x

True, but GF can at least do a good job of deleting any big information left behind. The Smash Bros 3DS demo did a pretty good job of that.

 

[Pinkie-Dawn]

Blue Cyclone is back, and he's apparently calling out on the Riddle Leaker through a hashtag.

 

[Bobbylicious]

I'm seriously disappointed with their choice to add Ash-Greninja to the game. It's clear that they're pandering to greninja over the other two Kalos starters. u_u

Greninja was voted the most popular Pokemon tho, it makes sense. Also Ash-Greninja was most likely going to be in th game from the get go, since it came out with perfect Zy for the anime, so it's not a situation of them "adding it in the game" - it was going to be in the game regardless, they just gave the anime a very early sneak peek

To you, do the starters evolutions confirm the leaks or not?
Except for Popplio, I feel like the mid-evos don't really lead to the leaked final evos we have seen...

Yes.
Litten2 I think does the most. It's collar is essentially the belt from the leaked evo.mtheres no way you can deny their similarities.
As for the other two, Popplio2's design very much looks like it's final, and Rowlet2 kind of has than "cool" vibe I'd imagine an archer to have. Plus all of their entries on the site seem to support it too.

****ing ash greninja I swear I almost threw my phone at a wall when I saw it appear

and its still called ash-greninja! AHHHHHHHHHH

Yeah I'm not annoyed by any means of it being in the game, since I know it'd be there, but why is it called ash-Greninja? It doesn't really make sense, unless the demo character is default named Ash, and that's how it works in the demo, but then what when you transfer it over? Where does the bond go? Does "Ash" like die at the end of the demo and then his soul lives on in your character which allows you to still use the bond ability?

Yes. Not sure I would call it a leak, though, since it is in official websites.

We can assume Vulpix will evolve with it, but I wonder what else will use it.

Ice Stone was a leak because the Spanish website removed the image not long after posting it.

 

[Iceshadow3317]

I don't think the middle evolutions are worth looking to far into in terms of confirming leaks. The appearance of Mallow confirmed them, no need to beat a dead horse. What is interesting is how different Dartrix in particular is to Robinroot (or whatever you want to call the archer). Makes me think that the branched evolutions may really be a thing.

Well he is using feathers as throwing darts, which is the reason for is name Dart and Tricks. So it isn't too farfetch'd to see him changing into an archer.

When honestly, I am really surprised people haven't picked up on that yet. But I do still think there is split evos non the less.

80-90 Pokemon is ridiculously low, especially if that's including Alola forms. @_@;

I can already tell you that if that is including Alolan Forms, it is almost guranteed to be fake, as I can easily name more than 85 with Alolans and what we already know. That alone adds up to 78 which isn't counting UBs.

 

[Charlie Brown]

Saw this as part of a tweet from people cracking the demo. Would be really cool - wonder what sort of memories and past events it would be tied to. Seems kind of similar to Memory Link from BW2 but cooler since it's tied to your data and not connecting games.

 

[Afterglow Ampharos]

Can someone remind me what the most established/most likely names for the leaked starter final evolutions are? Please and thank you.

 

[Z25]

Memory link may be returning? That's pretty hype! One of my favorite features of BW2. It has a lot of potential to build on the 6 gen stories and more. Really interested to see where that goes.

 

[Charlie Brown]

Memory link may be returning? That's pretty hype! One of my favorite features of BW2. It has a lot of potential to build on the 6 gen stories and more. Really interested to see where that goes.

Yeah I think so! I wonder how it will link up the stories of XY with the plot of Alola.


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Something else that's very interesting that I don't think was mentioned was the selection of products you can buy in Festival Plaza:

I just found it very interesting that there's no Kanto set. Such a huge focus on Kanto in these games (Alola forms, Alola Oak, Kanto Pok?mon getting Z Moves)... seems odd there's no Kanto Set available for purchase. Unless you can only buy a Kanto Set in Kanto itself? I remember there was a 4chan leak which has got some things correct, that mentioned the SS Anne being back...

 

[Charlie Brown]

I don't feel there's a reason to visit Kanto either, but I do feel like all this Kanto Kanto Kanto stuff can't all be a coincidence. Even things like Oricorio's flavour text mentions Kanto.

It all seems like a bit much to be random and coincidental.

 

[clbgolden]

Yeah I think so! I wonder how it will link up the stories of XY with the plot of Alola.


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Something else that's very interesting that I don't think was mentioned was the selection of products you can buy in Festival Plaza:

I just found it very interesting that there's no Kanto set. Such a huge focus on Kanto in these games (Alola forms, Alola Oak, Kanto Pok?mon getting Z Moves)... seems odd there's no Kanto Set available for purchase. Unless you can only buy a Kanto Set in Kanto itself? I remember there was a 4chan leak which has got some things correct, that mentioned the SS Anne being back...

Oh gosh, plz no. The Kanto pandering is already strong in this game, to actually go back to the place would be overkill, IMO.

Besides, we all know Kalos is the region we need to return to.