We CANNOT confirm these images and we also encourage readers to assume things are fake until proven otherwise but I’m sharing these because it is reminiscent of the anime leaks which occurred in Gen V, but then again it also looks like fan art.
There are no names listed for the Pokémon (just Owl 3, Tiger 3, …) but there are some details about each (including color palette):
Rowlet evolution:
- Stores arrows in its wings (orange tips), uses the vines from its bow as the string
- “Hood” closes around its face when it is unhappy
Litten evolution:
- New attack or fighting style “tiger swing”
- Fire attacks come from belt
Popplio evolution:
- Attack seems to be listed but too hard to read
You be the judge:
Thanks Crystal Creatures for the heads up.
<3 PJ
ps- this was Noivern’s reference art for the anime in Gen V for comparison
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ohgod my feelings are so mixed on this..
i hate the fire one and i hate that it’s likely *yet another* fire/fighting, but the owl looks seriously amazing
ah well, we’ll see where this goes
I dig the owl, but the other two… Yikes! If these are real, I feel like GF is really starting to overdesign. The starters are pretty simple/cartoony for the most part, why not keep it that way through their final evolutions like with the earlier gens? Plus, that final Popplio design is way too feminine for my taste. (Yes I’m sexist when it comes to my Pokemon.)
Please give us a fire and fighting starter Nintendo
fake fuck
These look legit and remind me of Wottergate all over again. I would be thrilled with all of these as long as that Litten isn’t Fire/Fighting. Fire/Dark, Poison, Ground or Pure Fire evil wrestler would be fine.
I’m just not understanding these designs, other than Rowlet’s. Rowlet’s makes sense as a sort of assassin that takes out targets based on its orders (this meshes with its description of “turning its head to take instructions from its trainer” really well).
However, Litten’s doesn’t make sense when taking its description into context, as Litten’s description states that it is passionate but “remains cool-headed.” I can’t see a cool-headed Pokemon turning into a wrestler, of all things.
And Popplio’s REALLY doesn’t match its personality and behavior. Popplio is described as being big on “showmanship,” and its whole clownish, entertainer personality has really been played up in the trailers and in its art. It makes zero sense that it would turn into a mermaid.
Starter Pokemon have always tended to retain their basic personalities or design aspects as they evolve, such as Piplup being a spoiled little princess penguin that ends up as a crowned emperor, or Froakie going from a saluting sort of foot-soldier to a full-blown ninja, or Chespin retaining its “hoodie.” It’s difficult to see Litten and Popplio changing so drastically.
I will say that I quite like the designs of Rowlet’s and Popplio’s “final evos,” though
Love Popplio fake-final-evo
Well damn if these are real I might need to pick the grass type after all. The fire type is pretty cool though to.
I’ve done an evolution graph of how the new evolution for the new starter Pokemon should look. Note that the mid evolution Rowlet, I’ve discovered in leaks before the reveal of Rowlet, and by chance, alongside Rowlet when revealing the conspiracies over some fakes. I don’t know about you, but I feel that this midway pokemon is somehow connected between Rowlet and the final evolution.
Also, I’ve altred El Tio Rexas’s graph of the final evolution’s graph in order to add the three new starters in, with Litten’s being based on the Tiger Zodiac, Rowlet’s based on the prehistoric bird, Haast’s Eagle, and Popplio’s mermaid tail fin being based on a club.
I’ve already given the final evolution a nickname of ‘Owlinhoot’, a twist in name to both Owl and Robin hood.
http://raven-bones.deviantart.com/art/Litten-Starter-Fake-Evolution-611472822
http://coalbones.deviantart.com/art/Rowlet-Fake-Evolution-611075542
Just gonna leave these here and hope the other stuff is fake, because these designs are awesome, and they should be real.
sorry mate, but those pictures you’re revealing to this site are obviously fake. The real deal is hard to get used to, I know, many here are trying to wrap their heads around them.
Fake or not, I really like Rowlet’s final evo design. I do hope he gets a hooded/archer type theme.
Well the confidential stamp does say it all. I’m surprise most skim right passed it! I believe that however this person got these from Game Freak, these are definitely the real deal. All we do now is to wait and see what typing and names they will be. Am hoping for a Robin Hood based name for Rowlet’s final evolution
I pray that Fire/Fighting is not a possibility, we have three out of 7 fire starters that are fighting type. I think it would be cool if these new starters carry a secondary typing that is stronger than the previous gen. Since we know that Rowlett is a grass/flying, it is stronger than chesnaught final evol. Therefore, it would be cool to have fire/dark bc delphox was fire/psychic, and poplio as water/fairy since greninja was water/dark. The reverse would be cool as well for litten and poplio – water/psychic and fire/poison. But absolutely no fire/fighting. There are so many combination out there, why would fire always get match up with fighting, regardless of the theme.
About the design, not too crazy about the water and fire, since they are so gender specific. However, we see the likes of milotic and chesnaught having male and female counterparts, respectively, so it is very possible that these will be the final evolution designs. All three do not look good, however. I like it when designs look similar to the animals they represents (gyarados, meganium, Arcanine) and less human like.
hey pokejungle fix your article, noivern is a gen VI pokemon and its reference art is not for the anime, is from the games (that the anime series adapts later)
those are fake. i know for a fact. moving on
UPDATE: More sources of the possible true starter evolution being real found here: http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/gen-vii-pok%C3%A9mon-sun-and-moon-new-info-post-4193.3549746/page-199
all of the words for the noivern leaks were type and everything was neat and not drawn images so i think these are fake. Maybe i think that because i hate litten’s evolution and i was going to choose him but really nice try guys
As i thought … they are fake .. they forgot the little details, the confidenial logo is compared to the quality of the designs just bad and only copy pasted .. the designs don’t match with the hidden icons when rowlet/litten/popplio were revealed (ground/flying/fight) … they don’t fit in the concept that there are always 2 pokemon on two legs and one on four legs … in the fake leak they used other letters (handwritten) … there is also no head to toe scale like in every other concept art from GF .. when GF uses the confidential logo it is always at the same place (left under corner; a logo is normaly always at the same place and they know that cause they are designers) .. and in the fake they didn’t use any guiding lines for the letters they are just placed anywhere .. so yeah .. that was all 😛
The typing revealed in the Japanese Pokemon website is probably done on purpose to try and trip many people up from knowing their true typing. GF are known for their unexpected surprises. Plus, there is both the chinese and European leaks that seem to reveal them being accurate, being Archer/Wrestler/Siren. Such as riding the Pokemon, the Fire/Poison Lizard (Salandit), Rockruff evolving into a werewolf (hinted on Rockruff’s description), and the gem bracelet that increases the Pokemon’s attacks. Another thing to note is that these reference sheets have been mysteriously taken down on Google, possibly by GF because they are revealing their big surprise too soon. The writing may look like last minute sketches on the ref sheets, yes it got me too when comparing X and Y’s Noivern. But it maybe done by some else who works with GF. The Pokemon designs you do realise are not all done by the main illustrator, just a few.
Did you know that one of the illustrator’s favorite animes is ‘Tiger Mask’, in which seems to be Panthster’s inspiration, like many a few Pokemon are.
I personally believe that the scary clown one, the panther and the hooded figure leaks are all fake, because one they don’t look like the sort of thing that Game Freak would think up, it’ll be too obvious for a fake when comparing to the usual patterns GF does with the past evolutions. Don’t ask me how or why, it’s just a hunch. And two, I personally think Rowlet, Popplio and most especially Litten’s evolutions look way too off in compaired to the possible leaks of Robingroot, Panthster and Entermaid. The designs, the poses and the expressions (which is obviously for the upcoming Anime) are just too perfect to be fake. Only time will tell, we still have the mid evolutions yet to compare them to.
I think this image below pretty much sums some Pokemon Fans up.
http://shironakarius.deviantart.com/art/Pokemon-Fans-in-a-nutshell-620374422
The part with the Rockwuff evolution was just obvious (it’s says in the discription that it howls when it is evolving plus we haven’t seen its evolution) .. salandit was a lucky guess .. i’m pretty sure that they’ll leak a poison/fairy too ^^ the part with a bracletts and multiple gems to changes was preticted when they were first shown plus a 5th move because of pokken … he also stated that the next leak will include a beaver and a gorilla (it should have been the leak we got a few days ago) and he wasn’t right … the logos in the concept art is always in the left under edge (in the fakes they arent) .. the scary clown, panther and hooded rowlett were never in my mind to be real .. and at least .. the images of the fake final evolutions arent even taken down from google? there are still at least 50 × 9 pictures of the (searched them yesterday) soo yeah .. it is just an other fake 🙂
well maybe the announcement was delayed, but at least he’d got the diamonds right of helping to increase the abilities of the Pokemon. And the whole reason of why the final evolutions are still on Google is because many are still posting them up, and who knows, perhaps if we keep posting them on the net, the more likely GF will have to reveal them. As for the hooded Rowlet, Scary Clown and panther, they don’t seem to fit very well to how GF would draw them, and if you look at this picture, you would see the obvious pattern that the starters would have to follow.
http://shironakarius.deviantart.com/art/Starter-Pokemon-Graph-include-Alola-Pokemon-616974433
The three pictures above however, you must remember that Ken rarely draws Pokemon, but only approves those who mostly draw them in the studio. These are obviously GF studio made.
You were right. Soooo fake. So disappointing.
and the names in the fakes don’t say their names (normally in every pokemon design there is their name on the design) .. it only says owl3, tiger3, sealion3 ^^
I really don’t really like litten final evolution. also popplio shouldn’t be a siren. i mean how is it going to look like as a male?
http://i.imgur.com/PzG7U3U.png
4chan thread got taken down, so I thought you would like the link for later use.
I think Robingroot’s name was mistranslated by the european, because if it’s suppose to be a reference to Robin hood, it should’ve been Robinroot. The rest I find understandable. Though the announcement is yet to appear, he is right about the diamonds.
Sorry friends, no Mega Stones this gen.
i hope these are legit, a hunter archer owl that shoots feather arrows using its wing as a bow, that’s fucking badass unique design seriously
also loving wrestling fire tiger looks great, okay sure sure it seems it would end up as another fire/fighting and we’re all sick of that fair enough but this designs seems so good i’d put up with it again just to use it
was hoping water starter would be part fairy but in a masculine way not feminine, tho this design does look very beautiful nonetheless
Actually, the fire tiger, Panthster, is a Fire/Dark Type, a heel wrestler, inspired by ‘Tiger Mask’, one of Ken’s favorite shows.
Also, Entermaid being a feminine style Pokemon is not the only one
Please read the description someone has just posted below.
posted where exactly? lol
just copy and pasted it here then
I hope litten’s final evolution won’t a fire/fighting type.Those are real maybe they’ll be scaped later.
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Fuk the other evolutions . GO POPPILO!!!
With the new video that came out today, I think these are confirmed real cuz you can see one of the trial captains, Mallow, in the artwork for the Litten evo, and these images showed up ages ago!