Chinese Riddler Makes Us Solve Their Leaks

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Some of you may have heard about the mysterious Chinese leaker who hasn’t actually leaked anything concrete, but instead gives clues as to what is in the upcoming Nintendo 3DS titles Pokémon Sun & Moon. They seem eerily accurate in rather unique ways. Here’s most of what they’ve gotten right so far:

  • Pyroar & Zubat before the reveal of Solgaleo & Lunaala
  • Pikachu covered in a sheet prior to seeing Mimikyu
  • Image of rock-paper-scissors and innards (?) before Pyukumuku
  • Sandcastle & shovel for Sandygast & Palossand
  • A skeleton on cloth for Team Skull

aristotleThere are still a few unsolved mysteries left to figure out, however. A bust of Aristotle that was posted remains a mystery; some say that Type: Null could be what the Riddler was referring to, others are not as sure. There’s also a grid of Pokémon which shows officially revealed (or, with the starter evolutions, leaked) Pokémon with some teasingly marked with question marks. It even hints that Marshadow may not even be the third legendary, it could simply be an event Pokémon.

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Underneath that are also small sprites of Pokémon which may appear in the games (colored) or get an Alolan form (faded). If this is correct, and that is the meaning behind it, we could expect Alolan forms for the following Pokémon:

  • Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, Venusaur
  • Voltorb, Electrode
  • Horsea, Seadra, Kingdra
  • Staryu, Starmie
  • Porygon, Porygon2, Porygon-Z
  • Gen II starters
  • Chinchou, Lanturn
  • Larvitar, Pupitar, Tyranitar
  • Spheal, Sealeo, Walrein
  • Axew, Fraxure, Haxorus
  • Hawlucha

Certainly would be exciting to see some for Pokémon outside of the original Red & Blue!

anabel-spriteThey’ve also posted a picture of Anabel who runs the Battle Tower in the Battle Frontier in Pokémon Emerald! Does this mean the Tower returns? Or the whole damn Frontier?! An exciting prospect for many who pined for its return in Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire. Junichi Masuda has claimed that its omission had been because players nowadays want faster gratification from their games and he didn’t think it would be widely appreciated.

colressSo what is the current fuss about? It just so happens that the Riddler’s avatar is none other than Colress, a villainous researcher and Team Plasma’s second leader from Pokémon Black 2 & White 2 who sought to unlock the ultimate strength within Pokémon. Definitely Z-Move vibes from his past motivations and he even hinted that he wanted to make a device that allowed humans and Pokémon to communicate; could he have been the developer of the Rotom Dex?!

Some fans even claim that Colress was seen during the recent trailer in the Aether Foundation’s headquarters, but the evidence is tenuous at best.

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They’ve also hinted that there may be multiple professors in Alola, but whether this means other professors from previous regions may make an appearance or that Prof. Kukui is not the only Alolan Pokémon professor is still up in the air.

Perhaps the most interesting information is that of the potential Alolan forms, but there’s certainly enough to speculate about for the moment! WHAT DO YOU THINK?!

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733 thoughts on “Chinese Riddler Makes Us Solve Their Leaks”

  1. If you look carefully, you can see in the grid, in the list of previous pokemons, there are more that are depicted in shadows, so there must be be more alola forms. The problem is that, that ones, are covered by some words, so we can’t see which of them are. As they are ordered, we can imagine that those pokemon must be between Tyranitar and Hariyama. It means that they must be one of the firsts pokrmons in generation 3.

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  2. Anabel has 6 letters. You know what also has 6 letters? Leader aka the Gym leaders. Elesa was a gym leader in Unova. Unova is home of the Pokemon World Tournament.
    POKEMON WORLD TOURNAMENT IS COMING BACK

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  3. Sony and Apple’s events were rather good today. I just got a 6S about two-three days ago, I’m not buying that. I already have a regular PS4 and I’m not going the Slim nor Pro. Their a big waste of money in my opinion and don’t serve any purpose aside from 4K (on the Pro). I seriously need the Spider-Man PS4 and Mass Effect: Andromeda. It looks absolutely outstanding! Also, Super Mario Run looks really fun. It’s a fully Super Mario Game and it’s going to be on the App Store first, then the Google Play Store. Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing mobile was pushed to releasing before March 2017. It’s no longer releasing this fall and a 2017 release date is most likely.

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  5. Anyone following the current Ps4 pro fiasco ?

    The shots are being fired by Microsoft’s Major Nelson ?

    ” Want a 4k streaming And gaming console ? XB1s shipping NOW ”

    Hahah love a good sly dig ?

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          • Ah they all are to be honest haha. Eventually it will come to an end just not in the way we expect. And this is coming from someone who works in the gaming industry.

          • Yeah, I know. But I like cutting people down when they kind of overstep themselves. Nobody knows the future exactly. But it is safe to say Microsoft is probably going to switch to being pc exclusive next gen.

          • I imagine next gen they will release a PC but market it as a product similar to what gamers call a “console now” but it’ll be a PC.

            Sony if they do make a ps5 again will simply be a glorified PC like Microsoft’s but marketed as a console to ‘fickle’ customers. Who just think it’s a console not a PC.

          • Well when Microsoft can basically have it’s game be played on a PC which is an ever evolving thing without the need for them to actually make a system themselves I can’t blame them. PC’s have always been the better systems technically. It’s just that many people are used to what the typical console is.

          • Ehh, there’s debate for that, but that neither here nor there. Really I just meant it as someone trying to act very high and mighty when Sony destroyed them with the PS4 and that after the disappointing launch of the XB1, they were considering it being the final console, simply due to the fact that it was much better for them to make/publish games and have them put in windows then to make a box to play them that can lose many of its sales if one person says the wrong thing.

          • Oh I agree that Microsoft is one to talk. I think all the companies could probably do better in one way or another. Hitting a good stride can be tough tho. Also debate for what? lol

          • On PC’s being the better system. From a tech perspective I fully agree, they are better, but their are things that home console has over it in my opinion, but I meant it really didn’t matter for the conversation. Its mostly a thing of preference and certain games benefit more on one or the other.

          • Oh yeah I meant tech wise lol I agree with you about regular consoles. I think the main difference that often divides people is the ability to play on the TV and the use of a proper controller. either way I think those are easy fixes. In any case we seem to be on the same wave length lol

  7. So Marshadow is leaked to be a dolphin with a jewel on its forehead. I think Solgaleo (Psychic/Steel) and Lunaala (Psychic/Ghost) will be obtained by collecting a sundial puzzle from each Trial Leader. Marshadow, however, is not confirmed but people are starting to beleive that the leaks are true. Marshadow’s type might be Psychic and either Water or dark. If Marshadow IS NOT a LEGENDARY following the pattern BUT a Mythical it might be Water/Dark or Water/Ghost. Marshadow might be name by Marine (Found or produced by sea) and Shadow. It is also said that it might have a unique move set. I think it might have the power of the aPOKElypse lol.

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  10. Off topic, but I really hope we can catch the Ultra Beats, or that they have catchable forms. Otherwise they’re just entities like Bittercold and Dark Matter, which always irritated me. I just wanna catch ’em all. ;-;

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      • I understand that, but still it bothers my collecting tendency. If there’s something I can’t obtain, it’ll bother me to no end. ;p

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        • There might be a special section of the pokedex to record data about them, so you might still be able to ‘collect’ the data about them by encountering them.

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    • Judging by their visual similarities to some of the human characters, I’m betting they’re strongly tied to those characters, if not outright part human themselves. And you can’t catch humans. That would be weird (although it’s TOTALLY normal to be able to catch Pokemon that look like humans, Pokemon that control the weather and spacetime, and Pokemon that are literally god).

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  13. ~ Most popular theories thus far:
    1. Ultra Beasts – Pokemon or ethereal beings capable and powerful enough to jump between worlds by utilizing aether/ether (credits to Lockstin / Gnogign) or experiments by the Aether Foundation.
    2. Type: Null – A failed attempt at cloning the Pokemon equivalent of God: Arceus by utilizing the four elements: salt (Rowlet), sulfur (Litten), mercury (Popplio), and lead (Rockruff). According to user SSJKamui of Youtube, he writes, “Null means ‘zero’ in German and in programming languages, ‘variable not set/defined.'” He writes furthermore that he has a strange idea by saying, “… According to German mystic Master Eckhardt and the Japanese philosophers of Kyoto School, “God resides in nothingness… Nothingness is equal to God”” He proposes that the meaning behind the name of Null is due to these aforementioned reasons.

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  14. I need to clear something up: yesterday I said something about fighting Hala at lv. 30 or so. Well, I watched the JP trailer again, and I mistook lv. 15 for lv. 35. My mistake, sorry for any confusion. Altough only lv. 15 for a kahuna? I mean, crabrawler’s lv. is never shown, but I assume it’d be around popplio’s lv.

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    • Well maybe we don’t actually battle the Trial Captains and only battle the Kahunas. Though that’s kind of weird honestly.

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        • Well we do know we battle the Totems of their specialities. so there’s that. And maybe they’re just like the gym trainers you fight in the gym rather than the Leaders. I don’t know. This is why we need the Demo released so we can figure this out. I’m still confused how the Island Trial system works.

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          • I don’t think they’re totems of their specialties considering there’s a normal or dark type you’ll be facing at the same place depending on the time.

          • True though I think that both are available to encounter in each game, it just depends on when you play. Serebii and everywhere I’ve checked seem to think it’s just version exclusives, but I thought they said it was dependent on when you reach that point in the story.

          • The trial captains don’t own the totem Pokemon though. This and their type specialties make me think you can battle them.

  18. In Ancient Greek mythology, Aether (Light) and his sister named Hemera (Day) were the offspring of the cosmic egg that was believed to have given birth to the universe itself. Aether also represents the classical element, “Aether” which is the material that fills the region above the terrestrial sphere and was used to explain phenomenas and provided a medium through which light could travel in a vacuum. Aether is also related to a Greek word meaning, “to burn,” “incinerate,” or “shine” or could literally translate to “people with a burnt visage.” If the level of aether or ether were to ever deplete to a morbidly low level, it was believed Earth could be affected by the heavens and gods themselves meaning a literal rip in space and time. Drinking an elixir of aether or ether was believed to rid the body of impurities or illnesses. How does this relate to Sun/Moon? I don’t know, but the research was intriguing.

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    • Well for starters Arceus was said to hatch from an egg from the center of the universe, and has been speculated to be a reference to the cosmic egg.

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      • And in the mythology of Aether and Hemera, it was said that time (Dialga) and space (Palkia) circled around the cosmic egg in a serpent-like motion after having given birth to the primordial gods and goddesses and the universe.

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        • Also that point about Shine could connect to the whole guess that the president of Aether is going to be like Lucifer given one of his name meanings is the shining one.

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          • True. Lucifer was the morning star, venus, shining one, how ever you want to describe him and as any reader of the Bible knows, even though Lucifer was considered the holiest of the holy angels, he soon fell to corruption and wanted to be better and greater than God and that is how I see Lusamine: a woman who is holy, pure, and non-corrupt but soon develops a god complex and leads the Aether Foundation into darkness.

  19. Aristotle is probably referring/predicting the Aether Foundation as Aristotle, as the student of Plato, did a lot for integrating aether into the four element model that was popular at the time.

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  21. Lucifer was the morning star, venus, shining one, how ever you want to describe him and as any reader of the Bible knows, even though Lucifer was considered the holiest of the holy angels, he soon fell to corruption and wanted to be better and greater than God and that is how I see Lusamine: a woman who is holy, pure, and non-corrupt but soon develops a god complex and leads the Aether Foundation into darkness. Lucifer was one of four archangels created by God, but became deceitful and prideful and was then cast down to Earth to forever be condemned by the creations of God and as a warning to all those we object God. Lucifer is also known to have created demons and although his ways are wicked, they see him as their God and father.

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    • EDIT: he was an archangel, but he rallied other lower angels into rebelling against God to seize his throne and was known to have carried an, “intimate secret” belonging to God.

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    • Out of topic: I dont understand the bible. How can an angel become a demon if he does not have free will ? and why only humans get tested? I guess its flawed and man made just like the fainting Arceus lol although arceus is regarded as the creator of pokemon he can be caught in a free premier ball.

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      • The archangels, the holiest of the holy angels were servants of God who oversaw the hierarchy of heaven itself and thus, had freewill as mentioned by Isaiah and other books of the Old Testament. As such, when Satan or Lucifer was casted down onto Earth, he was still able to practice free will akin to Adam and Eve who committed mortal sins. However, due to Lucifer being an angel of God, his sin amounted to a much greater scope than that of Adam and Eve.

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  22. I’m open to the idea that Pokemon outside of Gen 1 will get Alola forms but I have doubts about Pokemon that already have Mega Evos getting them. Still, anything can happen.

    A thought just came to me: maybe the Mega stays the same across the species regardless of whether they are original flavor or Alolan.

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