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Rumors & Reliable Sources
As with every preemptive speculative period leading up to a new Pokemon game's release, there are plenty of rumors and fakes floating around the internet. These rumors come in the form of unverifiable images, tweets, posts, emails, articles, and so on and can be made very cheaply or so scrupulously that it's nearly impossible to tell them apart from something real. This leads the public - that's you and me! - to believe that they're real. However! Nothing that has yet to be confirmed by a representative of Game Freak or Nintendo or scanned from a CoroCoro magazine link should ever be trusted.
That's where this thread comes in handy! Here I'll be dropping the fakes that spread like wildfire so you have a place to cross-examine your sources with to make sure what you're looking at has been confirmed as true. I've also provided a list of a few well known reliable sources. Rumors are not to be discussed anywhere in this section. You may speculate about what is yet to be revealed or discuss confirmed information only.
Fake Images/Scans
As with every preemptive speculative period leading up to a new Pokemon game's release, there are plenty of rumors and fakes floating around the internet. These rumors come in the form of unverifiable images, tweets, posts, emails, articles, and so on and can be made very cheaply or so scrupulously that it's nearly impossible to tell them apart from something real. This leads the public - that's you and me! - to believe that they're real. However! Nothing that has yet to be confirmed by a representative of Game Freak or Nintendo or scanned from a CoroCoro magazine link should ever be trusted.
That's where this thread comes in handy! Here I'll be dropping the fakes that spread like wildfire so you have a place to cross-examine your sources with to make sure what you're looking at has been confirmed as true. I've also provided a list of a few well known reliable sources. Rumors are not to be discussed anywhere in this section. You may speculate about what is yet to be revealed or discuss confirmed information only.
Fake Images/Scans
- Mega Milotic and Mega Metagross (grammatical errors)
- Rayquaza Mega Evolutions (you tell me)
- Rayquaza Mega Evolutions(2) (low quality render, poor, messy production)
- Mega Evolution teaser poster (removal of Sableye despite revealed Mega, pre-release screenshots)
- Petalburg Woods overworld (fan game)
- Brendan overworld with PokeNav (manipulated shot of Pokemon X/Y)
- Brendan overlooking sea (god awful 3D render)
- Serebii Mega Evolutions leak (Serebii confirmed fake)
- Serebii Mega Evolutions leak(2) (Serebii confirmed fake)
- Overworld shots of Brendan/May (deviantArt)
- Brendan diving on Wailmer (manipulated artwork)
- Omega Charizard scan (manipulated FR/LG artwork)
- May headshot (May fan art manipulated onto X/Y backdrop)
- Sootopolis Gym (manipulated shot of Coumarine Gym)
- Mega Drapion - taken from deviantart with accompanying Sugimori art to match.
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