Alternative evolution of Smoochum being Ice/Dark? I´m remembering than in the video where it appeared, it was hit by a Fire attack. And it was Super-Effective.

The Meguroko thing seems like sort of a stretch, though. The design has nothing to do with eyes as it is, and it wouldn’t be named as such even if its evolution does. After all, Tsutarja didn’t have anything to do with electricity in its name despite the rumor stating its evolutions would be called Tsutawire and Tsutatesla.

This set of rumors, overall, seem pretty disappointing after the last ones. A lot of depressing things, like Hihidharma, Chiraamii, and Shimama being said not to evolve, and Mamepato turning out to be of a defensive nature. I just hope its secondary typing later neutralizes its Rock weakness at least. I also really hoped Pigeon Heart (personally, I feel this is the intended translation– after all, the marking on its chest resembles a heart, but it’s not unlikely that’s just coincidental) didn’t just negate Defense decreases, since that’s awful situational.

Munna evolving is no surprise, but I don’t think it’s really supposed to be like Magikarp -> Gyarados, who has a reason for it, or Feebas -> Milotic, who are just parallels of Magikarp and Gyarados, but rather it’s just a diminutive Pokemon evolving into something surprisingly strong.

Gizagem having different color schemes sounds interesting. Not really much to say.

And this is just really nitpicky, but “Gear” is probably not the most correct romanization for Giaru– something like “Gearu”, which is how I refer to it personally, seems more correct. Gearlu is probably even more correct, but that sounds dumb.

There is no way to be sure whether these rumours are true or false. However as you say the japanese names when translated to english do sound like things that would describe the pokemon (such as Goshikkuro being a mixture of Gothic and Black)

and as long as there is even a shread of a chance that these rumours are true then they should be known about.

I enjoy those rumors nonetheless and I hope actual stuff comes out soon.

And frankly I think Hihidaruma will have good base stats even if he doesn’t evolve and I can’t wait to use him <3