These are probably not Pokémon you’ll see in Sun & Moon

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Ah, the fresh smell of a new generation. So fresh. So crisp. But what’s that? That slightly burnt, mostly unpleasing odor I detect? FAKES LEAKS! All new games have their fair share of dubious screenshots, mock-ups and magazine pictures to ensnare unsuspecting fans into believing they’ve found unreleased information. Pokémon Sun & Moon, due this winter, have proven to be no exception and have already graced us with some fakes:

Any of them catch your eye? It’s alright to wish that maybe we would get a dolphin-like Water starter. Who knows? It could happen. Then again… so could another Fire/Fighting-type 😉

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363 thoughts on “These are probably not Pokémon you’ll see in Sun & Moon”

  1. Currently not believing in anything until we get closer to the weekend when CoroCoros leak percentage will b greater lol. Out of all of the “leaks” u have on the article I think the only ones that haven’t been 100% proven fake yet are the weird grass owl and those sketches. I still don’t believe them as they look too crisp, but I guess we’ll find out soon enough lol

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  3. I know it’s fake, but it’s remarkable that the grass owl “leak” looks like the Unova Starter leaks. Think the design is fake though (the perspective is off), but it was a smart addition making it look more real.

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      • I did too! Now I’m glad they’re real, because they are amazing (except for Emboar, he’s not amazing, he’s just good).

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    • Bruh. The owl colors are literally leaking. People had very minimal doubt about the Dewott and Samurott leak. A huge amount of people knew it was legit.

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      • You know English right? You do know what “I know it’s fake” means? I put that sentence in my comment to avoid comments like yours 🙁

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    • This is what has me thinking it could happen.

      It’s very reminiscent of the unova leaks. A few things to add:

      1) This is most likely concept art if real, which makes a lot of sense.

      2) I don’t think the owl is off, but the image is slanted and covered. If it’s real, it will probably look better.

      3) The grass owl, fire rabbit, and dolphin were all posted by the same guy in the thread on 2ch. Which was deleted mysteriously. 2ch is much better then Japan, and has posted legit things before, and they always get corocoro fist. It runs out of Japan, so if the leak is real, it makes a lot of sense.

      4) The unova leaks were heavily criticized in most places. With the biggest being 4chan. Which ironically has had legit things put on their site before, and people say it’s fake. Which happens here with the grass owl. It’s also worth noting that someone tried to claim they made the leak, like someone did with Unovas, but it was ultimately disproven, and the user said they had lied. Leaving this leak, and the unova leak un debunked until an official reveal. The fact that these pokemon are un traceable, shows that a good amount of effort was put in if fake.

      5) Nintendo has had leaks like mad lately. The last direct was fully leaked for Europe( which leaked most of the other regions directs), Their entire game line up for wii U and 3ds was leaked this year. Pokemon sun and Moon helped prove this, in addition to it’s other facts. Sun and moon are labeled ninji on the official site in the file name of the logos. Which happened to be the codenames in the leak. Not to mention everything in this past direct was on that leak to.

      At this rate, I wouldn’t be surprised if the NX stuff that’s been leaked is real. Thanks to the leak that listed the full lineup for this year, we know the NX is most likely coming at the end of this year. Which will definitely be interesting with all that’s been “leaked” for it.

      Even Nintendo Insdier called Nintendo out on all these leaks! Oh and another thing Sun and Moon’s logos were purposely put out there by an employee. So there has been major leakage at Nintendo. At this rate they should fire mario(hehe), he can’t do his job!

      Which is why I wouldn’t be surprised if we get at least one legit sun and moon leak, or if these starters are real.

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  4. The pokemon in the bottom left of the top left pic looks like a mini Reshiram with Nightmare Moon’s tail. ♥

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    • I just hope we actually get stuff from the Corocoro issue. Remember for X and Y we didn’t even have full pokedex until like the day the game out! I’m too OCD for that… I need a full pokedex before to start working out my teams, which of course change 17 times before I actually start playing.

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      • Same, I don’t like rotating my teams
        Granted my X team really only consisted 4 Pokemon I wanted to use my Barbaracle, Hawlucha and Avalugg but they just didn’t level fast enough to be of use

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        • Yeah i like to plan my teams way ahead of time. My X team was Chesnaught, Vivillon, Arorous, Aromatisse, Dragalge, and Aegislash

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          • Chesnaught, Diggersby, Pangoro, Tyrantrum
            But I did want to truly use Barbaracle and Avalugg but they just weren’t making the team, especially Binacle it took me ages to find a Male with Tough Claws until I actually bred one my first run of the game
            And as for Avalugg I truly wanted it to stay a Bergmite a little bit, then it just evolved too fast and I rarely battled with it

            And Hawlucha was just a Flyer

          • The 1st and 2nd gyms were spaced too far apart and i didnt want to have too large of a team by then, but because of that, at the 2nd gym chesnaught and vivillon were lv. 40 as they were my only team members.

        • Yeah. I’m OCD and my team has to fit the character perfectly. I had two X teams and one Y team. Y was Delphox, Charizard, Samurott, Abamasnow, Pangoro and Beartic. X was Greninja, Charizard, Mamoswine, Umbreon, Meowstic and Pyroar. Other X was Chestnaught, Blastoise, Ampharos, Honchkrow, Aromatisse and Glaceon

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  8. Do you guys imagine that the CoroCoro only show us information about Magearna, more about Zygarde, Pokemon Go and the logos of Pokemon Sun and Moon.

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    • And when they do make Mega Flygon I really hope they give it a massive Sp Attack boost
      You give this thing Heat Wave, Giga Drain, Bug Buzz, Draco Meteor, Boomburst, and Earth Power and only give it a base 80 Sp Attack

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  15. Out of thesr only the long tailed Koala looks good, even great I would say. That water starter is not only a fake it is a terribly designed fake. Shame on you fakers.

    I really hope CC gives us starters at least. Just so I would survive till next month.

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  17. I actually love the lemur and kind of like the design of the “sun and moon” legendaries…. But it’s for sure fake…

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  18. That grass owl thing and maybe the blue bird seem to be just about the only ones that could pass as legit to me. The others all look very amateurish. Definitely not believing anything until CoroCoro though.

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    • Sometimes they’re really fake. Sometimes they seem so real you just want to slam your face on the keyboard when you find out they’re not real.

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  22. The Mothman Pokemon I posted last night still hasn’t been conclusively proven fake. Many have tried, but it seems like none have succeeded. That’s the only leak that I know of that has not been traced to another part of the Internet, while also appearing legitimate. Just thought I’d provide an update.

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    • Actually, the owl and the dolphin and rock rabbit thing all come from the same source and are un proven. The grass owl looks pretty legit and Ken sugiormi like to me, and I have a good feeling all 3 are real and the starts. Which always get leaked. A similar scenario happened with the Unova starters.

      Another funny part to that is that like the unova starters, someone has tried to claim they made this leak and was exposed as lying. The same happened with these. A user admitted to copying the original leaks owl and trying to make it look real, but came out and said they were lying.

      Mothmon wasn’t disproven yet either, but I feel like it won’t happen. It be awesome though. right now, I have high faith in the grass owl, it’s just giving me vibes…

      And hi everyone, lurked here awhile, bit wanted to post this. May post again, but not super often.

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        • Sure! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e4a84f1cf4d054a042f45169443bbe75fa74e26dd03c02cbf68d1c2c51df7f13.png
          https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/29b1fc29da02e903842c35bb2ca79f973ef677b956bbc74687744087945427f9.png
          https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6de3d33acf3786b24470cbab83a7daba3233c2a7871b57c199c28c2df9e90998.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/18259106269248f89e6970d20d08d78281914c81b61fa19f5d63eb03c4314f58.png

          These were all posted to 2ch a few days ago. With the words( in Japanese, since it’s a japanese site) good morning. The owl looks pretty legit to me, but we shall see. The thread was closed by mods fast, and it began to spread to 4chan. None of the mons were found, and the way the owl is drawn made me think of the Unova starters leak. Its done in the same style so we could be seeing a repeat of history here. Another interesting point is that someone took the owl and made their own versions of it, trying to fool people. But they admitted that they only made the newer pics by copying the style of the original leak. An event that happened with the Unova starters. It be pretty interesting if it was real. The similarities are surprising. One thing worth noting is that if fake, in addition to how well done this is, is that the fire starter appears to be a rabbit. This would fit the Chinese Zodiac theme that each fire starter has. It’s a cool way to make a rabbit to. It looks like the took a rabbit expanded the fluff of the ears( to make them firey), then it’s legs stretch out a bit. It also appears to be made of rock. So that be a cool look and type combo imo. The dolphin doesn’t have full color yet, which could suggest this is concept art if real. As Ken Surigormi draws them out like that first. If these are real, then the starters have a good base for inspiration.

          If the region is hawaiin based, then we could get a pokemon somewhat based on the region as a starter( there’s an owl species that I saw, that resembles this one), The rabbit is the zodiac theme, and the Dolphin could be full inspiration from Hawaii if real.

          Maybe Fire/rock, Grass and Flying, maybe water and psychic? Depends on the dolphin’s full look.

          Whether fake or real, I really like these. They are cool and really well done. I wouldn’t mind one bit if they were the real starters.

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          • Thats super awesome, I really hope they are real. My sister would love the dolphin pokemon. I’d probably pick the grass owl myself.

          • They all seem pretty cool. It definitely be tough for me to choose. The owl and fire one could end up pretty cool with how they are designed. Maybe we will see in corocoro this month! Although it’s probably just the legends. Kind of hoping that for the anniversary we get a little more.

  25. It’s the 9th morning here in India, and leaks have come out as early as this in the past. Since a new generation has been announced, the leakers may try harder to get the information. On the flipside, corocoro may also be extra wary to prevent the leak. So it could go either way i guess. I just hope the leakers get a win :3

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