RUMOR: Chinese Rumors & Google Takedown of Final Starter Evolutions?

imageA Chinese rumor about Pokémon Sun & Moon has seemingly gained credibility after predicting a Poison/Fire-type Pokémon which was fulfilled with the reveal of Salandit. You can read it below, translated by Cresselia~~ of Smogon Forums.

  • There will be no traditional Gyms and no Pokémon League in Alola. Your goal is to actually create one. After you do, an Elite 4 will appear which are the leaders of each island
  • The final starter evolutions will be an Archer, a Wrestler and a Siren
  • The diamond stones will be collectible throughout the region and act similarly to Mega Stones but not exactly
  • New Pokémon based on a dolphin, sea cucumber, snowman, mushroom and a rugby monkey are there
  • Rockruff’s evolution is a Werewolf
  • Mashadow, another copyrighted Pokémon name, has a very unique type combo

In addition, it seems that the majority of the images of the “leaked” starters (seen above) have mysteriously disappeared from Google image search. There is no way of knowing but it is possible official takedown notices have been sent to have them removed from search results. This is a warning: I may soon remove the images myself.

<3 PJ

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2,275 thoughts on “RUMOR: Chinese Rumors & Google Takedown of Final Starter Evolutions?”

  1. What do people still think of the other types listed on the main site (the grass flying ground fire water fighting icons) that everyone was talking about a while a go. Does that negate the starter evolutions in the leak?

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  2. Random: If you could assign a pokemon to the different users on here based on their comments and not based on their name or type preference, what would they be?

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  3. What about corocoro, is there gonna be any new info there? If not, there’s any clue about when/where new stuff will drop?

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  4. The what Pokemon are users made me think, do any of you guys know your Myers Briggs personality type? Mine is intj btw.

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  5. I really hope this is fake just because I hate the Starter evos so damn much. Making Litten a wrestler is the worst decision they could ever make.

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  6. Question: Anyone think Sandilit will have a different model for the female forme?
    (The one in the trailer had a male symbol next to the health bar)

    I would love to see a bonnie and clyde motif in the anime. I could see her bandit mask appear like to downward pig-tails. Or something completely different.

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  7. Well, guys that’s it for me. It’s 1 AM so I’m going to bed. Thanks for hearing me out about my cat, it means a lot. I’m really happy that I found this place like 4 years ago. Bye! 😀

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  8. okay guys to make sure this doesn’t go crazy, let’s try another topic: let’s talk about the Diamond Stones and see what part they play in this game.

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  9. Okay, now that I know what’s your MBTI type, tell us what’s your Zodiac sign 🙂 (I’m a Scorpio and my rising sign is Sagittarius). And according to Unova Zodiac, I’m a Scolipede haha.

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  10. Well, I’m heading off for the evening! See you all later! I think I’m going to take a break from Pokejungle for quite a while… It’s been very hectic around here with the leaks (as today set the example). Hopefully, like someone said earlier, CoroCoro will clear some things up. I don’t want these leaks stewing for months. I’ll also send a last ditch prayer to Arceus. Anyhow, good night everybody!

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    • I got two eggs today my Eevee evolved so did Kakuna, also caught Squirtle, Zubat, Staru, and possibly a 184 co Venonat I would if severs weren’t down and I pod died during

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      • I got an egg today too. I can’t wait for it to hatch. It had better not be a Needle it something, I can catch a bunch of those from my living room.

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      • I wish I can get eggs, but I have no nearby Pokestops other than something that I have to drive to get to (which I don’t want to do alone, I ‘m waiting for my bff to come back so we can do some exploring together)

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  11. the artworks are fake .. if you take a look at the noivern artwork that was released to esrly for x/y you see that the letters are much thinner and written on a computer .. the letters on this artworks are hand written .. in addition to that this sun/moon artworks are colored and the orange stemps in zhe edges are just copy pasted 😉

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        • Yeah but has anyone even considered that if the starter leaks are indeed fake, that the artist knew about the Noivern art and replicated it for the starters to make it look more official?

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          • Impossible fam.
            Clearly the only logical option is that, even though the starter leaks came after the Noivern art, because they are similar they must be legit. /s
            Go back 2 Pre-cal

          • Wait but the Fired guy worked for Nintendo and GF during it right so mabey he replicated the design to create hype or stole the design and posted it and leaked more stuff along with it

          • yeah i think so .. at the time when x y just got annonced a little later they leaked this noivern artwork .. it was laked by 2ch or 4chan .. i can’t remember .. but i think in this source they mentioned 2ch .. so if someone knows about that it is no big deal to fake artwork .. they look pretty good but the orange stamps in the edges are the biggest mistakes the artist has done … if you compare the quality of the pokemon designs with the orange letters you see that the letters are copy pasted 🙂

          • some speculations from the past could link to fake .. in 2015 there were unoffical names: robinroot, panthster and entamaid ^^

          • The Fired guy might have stolen it or copied the concept it’s all up in the air for now but I know they have to be at least 25% of the game because it’s less than 6 months they have to be somewhat done

    • They don’t have to do the SAME exact way they did it 3 or so years ago. Maybe (if these are in fact real) they used a different thickness of pen or a different font.

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      • yeah i don’t really care about the thicknes of the letters or if they are hand written .. just mentioned it .. but compare the graphics of the pokemon designs with the CONFIDENTIAL logo .. you see that it is just copy paste .. that means they didn’t use vectors to create it 😉

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        • Who knows maybe they did copy and paste the Confidential logo. why keep recreating it when you have a perfectly good stencil right there? Anyway I guess we’ll find out if these are truly real or not sometime in the next week. Until then it doesn’t really mean anything whether we think GF would be lazy with a logo stamp or not hahaha

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    • idk man, replicating a certain artist’s or art style so perfectly as was done in these “leaks” would take a heck of a lot of time and effort, and even then there would be little bits of your own style somewhere in the artwork unless you worked on your technique for like a year, you just don’t see fakes this polished and this true to the natural style of the pokemon company imo

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      • I agree, it looks so much like Sugimori’s art style the more I look at it.
        It’s really hard to copy someone’s style so well that way

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      • yeah it is hard work .. but the designs also don’t fit with the hidden typing of the startets .. like popplio should be water/fight

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  12. Tired…..I just want the weekend to be done with
    The sooner we get through this week the sooner Corocoro

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  13. Speaking of art, I felt like drawing so I pulled up the video Sugimori did on how to draw Pikachu, and here’s my result <3
    I'm not the best drawer but I wanted to pass some time
    I'll color in the red hearts soon
    Refresh if you can't see it

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  14. Well there it is, folks. Shiny Pokemon are in GO. My real life will now be consumed by shiny hunting. It was nice knowing you all.

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