Reports have come in of Twitter users being blocked by Ken Sugimori, the art director of the Pokémon franchise, for inquiring about or sending pictures of the previously covered starter evolutions. Although there is absolutely no confirmation that these starter evolutions have any legitimacy, it is interesting that he’d go so far as to block people if they were fake or fan creations. I’d also like to take a moment to ask you not to tweet at him because doing so is going to have no positive outcome for you or our community.
What do you think? Is this another clue pointing that they’re legit? Thanks for the tip Zeroken! Remember you can contact us any time if you see news!
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I also have beef with some of these names… They will grow on me.. But.. Comfey.. Beware… These are just words to me. Not names. I know nicknames exist.. and many like them. Just saying.
I like beef… Especially grilled or pan seared…
Stop making me hungry! ?
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I’ll go watch a Mukbang on YouTube ❤
Oh my goodness XD
Beware is probebly one of best names we got. People in Alola have to beware it’s strength. Just combine Bear and Beware, and you have a great name.
Also bothersome considering Red Pandas are not bears.
It really confuses me all together.. I get what they did.. But y
I dunno why, but I love Comfey. There’s a lot there. fey, comfy/comfort, rhymes with lei, and comfrey, which is a herb used in medicine. It all fits with it really ^^ 🙂 <3
I cringe everytime someone pronounces it “Com-Fee” and not “Com-Fay”
I hope we get some really cool new moves this gen, but what I really want is a new physical fairy type move, my idea is:
“Enchanting Hug”
Attack power of 60
accuracy 90
It hugs the foe in a strong grip and has a small chance to lower the foes accuracy
I always thought Covet should’ve been retyped
me too
And hopefully bewear gets that move lol
I had it in mind while I was thinking of it, it would give Beware some coverage over other fighting types
So are we expecting news on southern Kalos or is that just for Corocoro?
What I’m expecting:
-Pokemon mounts info
-the new combo synchro feature or whatever it is
-2 new pokemon: 1 ice and 1 dark
-Gym leader
This is the last time I’m gonna speculate we’ll be seeing a gym leader lol
Kalos? You mean Alola? Anyways, your wants are quite similar to mine! (My iPhone wanted to change Kalos to “Kappa”…)
I think he means travelling to southern Kalos, so Zygarde in the game makes sense.
O no you’re right haha. I guess I just put kalos cause “southern Kalos” was actually a thing lol
My hopes for August 1st:
– Arceus. Just more gameplay in the Alola Region.
– Explination if Gyms are returning or not.
– Demonstration of Super Moves.
– The return of Mega Evolutions.
– More mechanics of the Alola Region.
– Fossil Pokemon.
– 3-4 New Pokemon. I really want to see an Ice Type.
I agree. A dark type would be nice too.
Yah I agree wth this except for the mega evolutions. I don’t know if we get new ones or not…
I’m torn on mega evolutions. I don’t want it replacing full evolutions, and I don’t want it taking up the space of more new pokemon.
But megas are interesting, and add to the competitive nature of the game.
Then again, if we’re getting super moves, adding new megas could make it pretty complex, they’d probably need to tone down the amount of new megas to compensate (and since we haven’t seen any yet, that’s probably the case).
Personally I’m against megas.
I like some of the designs of the megas, but personally I’d prefer they were actually full time pokemon or full alternate forms and not just some ‘only exist during battle’ thing. It makes them fleeting, like weather effects.
Plus the limited number of megas means non-megas are more likely to get neglected and it’s hard to run a team without having a mega yourself, which again locks you into choosing from the set of pokemon that have mega evos.
If the new Z-moves can one shot a mega evo, balance will be restored.
Well, you got your wishes. Sort of.
“Explination if Gyms are returning or not.”
No explanation, but a slight hint. They’re probably trying to put off the obvious uproar that will occur when people learn the truth.
“Demonstration of Super Moves.”
Wish granted. Z-Moves away!
“The return of Mega Evolutions.”
Erm… not yet? My money is on Mega Evos being forgotten about now.
“More mechanics of the Alola Region.”
Eh, sort of.
“I really want to see an Ice Type.”
Welp, you got your wish. Oh boy did you get your wish lol
Glad to see a majority of your wishes came true!
I’m glad Pokemon Z won’t happen, XY weren’t a waste of money now.
Maybe to they were going to happen but he might ditch them to spite the people but who knows!
Lol.. I thought that.. what if these Were real.. But they ditch them because revealed too earyly. Hehe. Not likely tho
It is unlikely yet nothing’s impossible
So if you had to make a new ability, what would it be/do? Personally I want more abilities like refrigerate and pixelate. Perhaps one for grass, bug, and steel. I would also like an ability for a rock type called Galvanized that protects it from water attacks.
One for my Steel/Dark evil robot pokemon: Internal Core, gives this pokemon STAB on electric moves, thus making triple type pokemon without making it confusing.
Ghost/Rock skeletal cat pokemon: 9 lives, once you knock this pokemon out, it heals itself to 50%. Works 9 times >:) I’m just kidding, that would be evil lol. But I think a move called reanimate would be really cool for this pokemon. When you use it, it basically is like a revive for a pokemon in your party. Can only be used once per battle. That, or it brings you to 50 health in exchange. I know a lot about dark magic and such is a sort of “give and take” kind of thing. Maybe it’d be a Dark/Rock type then…
The prevo would go from Dark/Electric –> Dark/Steel with a metal coat. That’s why I’d want it to keep that electric stab 🙂
Not new abilities but this is what I would have done for Full Metal Body and Shadow Shield
Full Metal Body – 20% Boost to Steel moves, and take reduced damage from Fire
Shadow Shield – 20% Boost to Ghost moves, and take reduced damage from Dark
I would make Justified make you immune to Dark, and give you the attack boost (Like Lightening Rod, Storm Drain).
As for new abilities, one for Rowlet based on these leaks, real or not
Archer – Projectile moves have their damage increased by 50%
Since this new region is basically water everywhere, it would be great if Ash found Misty there (researching new water pokemon or smt like that). She was one of the best partners he had.
O I miss her so much. Misty had a certain fire and compassion to her that made her so likable. And she was so sassy, her and Ash exchanging quips was golden
I would love to see misty again as a traveling companion and have ash travel with the male protagonist from the region he’s in too (not alola though, the male protagonist looks like he’d have the personality of a foot)
gahd im going to miss serena after the kalos saga ends
Was there a leak yesterday or something? HeavyMetalFairy is reporting that there was a leak yesterday and if it’s true, August 1st will be “friggin lit”.
Can you direct me to whet he says that?
Here’s the link: http://boards.4chan.org/vp/thread/27376543/august-1st-sm-pokemon-profiles
What’s the leak?
http://boards.4chan.org/vp/thread/27376543/august-1st-sm-pokemon-profiles
Thanks dude
The leak was apparently on 4chan. He didn’t give a link. I’ll ask. And it reveals the Starter’s middle evolutions, Yungoos’s evolution, and four other Pokemon. One of them being the Sea Cucumber Pokemon that the Chinese leaker had mentioned. The Sea Cucumber is apparently exclusive to Moon.
Here’s the link to the leak for those that are interested: http://boards.4chan.org/vp/thread/27376543/august-1st-sm-pokemon-profiles
Damn. Tomorrow will be a long day, waiting for these!
If it’s real. People have gotten better at making “My Uncle Works for Nintendo” leaks these days. Wouldn’t surprise me if someone spent all this time writing up the descriptions for these Pokemon and they turn out to be false. And if I recall, the European fired Employee leaker gave the same species classifications for the Starters as this guy did. It doesn’t take rocket science to write up a well though out leak. Just time. Which most “leakers” don’t have. But apparently, this guy did have the time.
I’ve only read a few so far, but the typos and messy sentences make me doubt this. I could be surprised though. 🙂
There are several things to me that give off red flags. I didn’t read the full descriptions of the Pokemon (lazy me) but the one thing that really threw me off was they don’t usually reveal the evolutions of Starters until less than 2 months or so before release. And it also seemed very convincing, but a little too convincing. But like you said, we could be surprised. August 1st can’t come soon enough!
I would assume that if these were real, they’d be copy/pasted, but there are so. many. typos. In Ickle’s description, ‘enduring’ is used where I believe they meant ‘endearing.’ But that’s only one of many mistakes I’ve spotted.
Yeah. This seems like one of your typical before the announcement “My Uncle works for Nintendo” leaks type of ordeal to me. I’ll have to read the descriptions of these Pokemon and see what you mean.
I don’t mind these ideas, but since it’s a text only leak I see it as more likely to be fake.
Either way I think/hope we get starter evolutions on August 1st.
Text-only leaks are usually a good indicator to me as a red flag that the leak is fake. It’s typical to get these type of “leaks” right before an announcement. As August 1st is this Monday.
These leaks aren’t too bad! Also, you’ve been on a roll with finding them. We’ll just wait for Monday to see if there real.
I didn’t find them. It was HeavyMetalFairy that brought them to my attention. Otherwise, I wouldn’t of known about it. xD
What is winbat? I thought it was a wombat, but from the description it’s clearly not, but it doesn’t sound like a bat either.
Knuckle bite? That sounds very specific to Mangoose (and also sounds dumb) and they almost never give special moves to pokemon that aren’t very special in some way (Starters, Volcarona, Legends, etc.) I’m calling fake.
I hope they are fake I think starters final evos should be as Gender neutral as possible. And Gender differences are acceptable as long as they are minor like Venusaurs and others.
Gender differences are cool, but if not, I feel like it doesn’t really matter if they’re fem/masc as long as the designs are good.
Never said anything about fem and masc.People tend to forget that pokemon are that worlds version of animals, and animals barring some species have very minute differences.
Fem/Masc generally refer to specific genders, which is what I’m talking about. You can get all technical if you want…but that’s what I’m getting at.
Go on Google and have a look at the majority of MALE animals, and you will see that its the male animals that are the more impressive, and pretty looking of the many species. So no they don’t need to be made more “Gender Neutral, because if you go by real life, then they are VERY much “gender neutral” Pokemon are based on animals NOT humans, so it does not matter how feminine or macho they come out looking.
Can we not go into this debate again? I know everyone has their own opinion, but these designs are rather okay. I do not care if one looks more feminine or masculine than the other. It’s ridiculous and we’ve had stuff like this in Pokemon before (examples; Gardevoir, Lopunny, and Milotic). It doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things. Additionally, we do not know if these designs are real or fake. Don’t stress yourself.
ONE MORE DAY TILL GALEM GETS HIS SUN AND MOON INFO!
I just hope we get confirmation or deconfirmation of these leaks. I hate being left in suspense, and I don’t feel justified in hating them just yet.
I’m calling it: if we don’t get anyone gym info on the 1st, there may be some validity to the no gyms theory. Not getting any gyms this far is definitely suspicious.
There’s still CoroCoro’s “Southern Alola Guide” next month. And that will likely give more information in addition to the 1st. CoroCoro has been very good with keeping their promise of new info each month.
*cough*marchandapril*cough*
Let me re-phrase that. In April, they annoounced that “special features would begin next month”. Ever since June (Nintendo beat CoroCoro to the punch in May), we’ve been getting news from every issue of CoroCoro.
I know, I’m just making a joke. xD
For reference, X/Y were revealed in January. 5 months later, in June, was when the first gym leader was revealed.
So I guess. August would be like a month late, so I guess it’s not too odd. But if we get nothing, that will add to the theory.
Wtf? Litten’s evo looks super masculine and Popplio’s looks super feminine.
Been there, done that, I’m afraid lol.
Why are people literally just now talking about the designs of these Pokemon? I mean, we’ve had like 4 articles on them at this point, and people are just now bringing up controversy? xD
no people have been doing it since we first saw them
While I was checking sugimori twitter I noticed he mentioned and posted many subjects and pics as well that focusing on wrestling ,tiger mask ,and wrestling in general.
As we know Mr.Sugimori blocked as artist I just wonder Y he posting these ?? ad
could he lead the design in GF by making the designers draw his idea ?
I need more onfo about that and sorry about bad writing but I am sleepy ….ZZZzzzzz
Well aren’t there designs that just didn’t make it into past regions that they still use and stuff?
wat r u talking about ?….I think u misunderstood me.
No, I’m saying couldn’t some of the designs still be Sugimori’s? Like ones he designed in the past?
could that be ??…….that is just ur opinion or did u have any references?
I just thought I had heard somewhere that he has designed a bunch to the point where there is a vault of his pokemon artwork
source ??
No idea. I could try to look
ty by the way.
I tried to find something about him designing an extra amount but can’t really. However, I did find this, which I had forgotten about: Shellos/Gastrodon were originally intended to be Gen 3 pokemon but weren’t included because of time constraints. So not every pokemon he designs make it into said generation! Sort of like what I was talking about.
Funny how adamant ppl get when you voice your own opinion on a subject that differs from their own. Coming from a group thats all about equality and acceptance its laughable.
what are you even talking about? looks like you’re trying to start another fight to me, and we don’t need that any more today
I don’t see what you mean?
Ever since that discussion happened earlier today, I haven’t seen anything of what you are talking about. I’m all for discussion, but when it gets super heated, I tend to tell people to cool down and move on.
Honestly I think you just started a certain convo at a bad time, although I don’t think anyone was being rude. There was a lengthy heated debate earlier with some people getting upset over feminine pokemon. So I think people were just tired of seeing a bunch of topics on it because there are some very polarized opinions on the topic (and not everyone is always accepting about stuff like that, although it’s generally in a respectful manner.) Hopefully you’re not pushed away from the community here though.
aw i missed the conversation! (my curiosity is raging to know what is was about but i guess to avoid any further debate, i wont ask anymore)
You should still probably find it if you scroll down far enough
I’m home, I’m bloated and slightly drunk…..no calls…..good night….zzzzzzz
You’re always drunk
Call me a denial idiot all you want, if I was being sent these designs all the time I’d get pissed and block people too.
Denial idiot.
😉
I will tear out your lungs and feed them to my dogs…. or something. I’m not good at imitating earthen.
Lolllll you can try but I don’t need those lame human things.
I forgot you were a robot, sorry man.
It’s alright, we all make mistakes
Furthermore, I’m sure he blocks tweets of people asking him about what is and isn’t going to be in the upcoming game all the time. Confirmation bias at it’s finest. Not saying the leaks are fake, to be clear.
I know everyone is sick of prediction comments but I haven’t active very much today so why not:
Predictions for August 1st:
Super-moves details
3-5 pokemon (might get starter evo’s too)
Fossil Pokemon in addition to the new ones
Gym leaders????? Only if there are gyms…..
And lastly….. GAMEPLAY OF ALOLA
What do you guys think we’ll get?
My predictions bingo (just think of the blank space as free):
Fossil Piokenon. Lol
Starter Evos.
Possibly mentioning something about the gyms.
Maybe a gimps of the evil team.
New Non-Gym Characters.
Maybe another Island Guardian.
Pikipek Evo
And that’s all I would predict I guess. 😀
I’m really excited for the starter evolutions to be officially revealed. I am kinda in love with Poplio3’s design. It’s really elegant and creative!
If real, the shiny better have red hair…so I can name it Ariel
Haha, that’s great! I love it
An animation should also be it taking out a fork……..and shanking people with it >;)
Dipper doesn’t look like a Mason to me. He looks more like a Matthew if it HAD to start with an M. (Gravity Falls if u couldn’t tell btw)
Welp this is random. BUT GO GRAVITY FALLS YAY!
His name is… Mason?
….
Dang it.. I wanted to read the book and find out :/
I actually read the whole book. Definitely worth your 12 bucks. It’s genius combined with hilarious…
OH I’M SORRY! Should of said spoilers up top, I’m sorry!
Don’t worry about it, it’s okay!
I’m having so much fun with Pokemon Yellow, I really suggest getting one of the 3 originals on the virtual console if you can before sun and moon comes out.