Amazon TCG Listing Accidentally Leaks New Pokémon

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Mere hours away from the Sun & Moon demo going live, a new Pokémon has leaked on Amazon!

Spotted on the side of box art for the upcoming Sun & Moon TCG, the image was uploaded for its listing on Amazon JP. No new Pokémon are featured on the Moon boxart showcasing Lunala.

As of now, absolutely nothing is known about the new Pokémon other than its appearance. Time to get those creative juices flowing – any guesses on its typing or name?

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597 thoughts on “Amazon TCG Listing Accidentally Leaks New Pokémon”

  1. Watch this be the next Trevenant/Ribombee with its name not being revealed until the games come out (barring possible data mining).

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  2. – “In Hawaii it is known as “kaupali” which translates as “cliff-clinging”. It is found on wave-swept intertidal shores in the Indo-West Pacific, particularly on the shores of Hawaii.”
    – Also known as the, “Rock Urchin” or “Helmet Urchin”
    – Are venomous and a delicacy in Hawaii

    I guess another Pokemon for Mallow to feed on… xD

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  9. Probably water/emo. And stretching a bit(a lot) more, it could even be the evo of that black weird thing with red thorns. The design is great regardless.

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  10. I’m exited to see more of this Pokémon! Im loving it’s color scheme. I agree with everyone who has said that it reminds them of Mawile.

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  11. So i first saw it and thought it was a cactus so i was like “oh either grass/poison or grass/dark” but now i see it is underwater so i guess it is based on a sea urchin so probably wont be grass but based on design it seems to incorporate either dark or poison

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  12. I like it, will need to see more of it before I make any decisions like if I’ll use it. Here’s hoping it’s not another Maractus…
    Also I may leave for a day or so soon, I want to play the Demo in peace when it’s available.

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  15. Off topic, but does anyone else wants foot prints to return as a pokedex feature? I actually liked looking at them and seeing how they matched up and whatnot.

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    • Eh, more data than they’re worth.
      Assume they’re all 16×16 monochrome images and they’re stored as 1bpp bitmaps, that’s ~23072 bytes before Alolan pokemon, which is 22.5 KB. Ok, it’s not massive, but still, it’s a lot. You’d probably be better off looking at their feet.

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        • Tbh it’s more the time than the memory.
          They’d have to:
          -make a spot in the pokedex
          -make all 720+ footprint images
          -write code to load/draw them
          -test them to make sure they won’t break

          And then they’d get forgotten about in the storm of all the other features.

          Tbh I’d rather they get time localisation done right, fed up with getting confused by American date formats.

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  16. Amazon “accidentally” leaks new Pokemon. I mean, they could’ve shown the side without the new Pokemon *assuming both sides are not the same* and gotten away. But they HAD to show us the box in that angle. I SEE YOU AMAZON, AND I LOVE YOU!

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  17. I see a crown on its head – could it possibly also have the Queenly Majesty ability?
    It would be interesting to see this pokemon and Tsareena having a rivalry – Tsareena and her Bounsweet – and this pokemon with its preevo (assuming it has one). If they had a rivalry tho, this pokemon would obviously have a disadvantage typewise (assuming it’s water type), meaning that this pokemon should have a dual typing – maybe water/poison bc it’s an urchin.

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    • That would be cool: Queen of the Land VS Queen of the Sea: one is seen as a majestic beauty another as the “Elphaba” or “Red Queen” equivalent, but deep inside all it wanted was love.

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  18. The only way I can see this being related to Pyukumuku is if there’s a stage in between. It’s drastic, and all they really have in common is spikes, but I could see it if there’s a middle man, er… middle ‘mon.

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    • The feet like structure on it actually remind me of the Innards out animation Pyukumuku does when it faints. Similar in shape and size, just a different color. Maybe in an evolution the body grows and opens up?

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    • Pyukumuku has those white innards, which would probably be part of the evolution’s design if it does have one. The Pokémon depicted here doesn’t have a trace of white to it. So yeah, there’s either a middle form or this has no relation. This doesn’t even look like a third form.

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  20. I think if Sirene gets officially confirmed I will literally fall off the face of the earth. So elated with joy I will just float away : D

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  21. @Pharap Does the size of the demo mean anything to you in regards of data mining? In other words, do you think the demo may be too small to leak everything? I’m asking you because you seem to know a lot about this stuff.

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    • Not him , but the size really means nothing as far as info can go. Most of the info will likely be text and that takes up very little space. The only things that could take up a lot of space would be models and textures. So we could still get a ton of info. Just not full models and what not. there may be some, but will likely not be all of the Pokemon.

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      • That’s kinda what I figuered. I’m just reaching for some reassurance at this point. I just have to have a little faith in GF.

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    • It’s hard to tell, it depends on their data format and how much of the size of the actual game is the game engine.

      After seeing gameplay from the demo I’m hoping most of the data is just textures and models because the world certainly is huge, but if they could fit the game engine and the pokedex into 250MB for ORAS, it’s completely plausible that the demo holds the full pokedex.

      That said, it’s still possible that they zeroed out the pokedex entries and just kept the data in as zeroes to A) not draw suspicion and B) not have to worry about writing a compression thing just for the sake of a demo. (Side note: I’m also assming the 3DS file system doesn’t have a concept of sparse files.)

      So ultimately it’s anyone’s guess.
      The fact it looks like they’ve got the whole of melemele in the demo (in code, if not accessible) looks promicing though.

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        • Promising as in it looks like most of the data is going to be map/world and engine code/event scripting. I could be wrong though, there are so many different techniques they could be using. If I had experience hacking ORAS or XY or I could find a datasheet detailing how the modern games store their data I could make a better guess.

          Sadly Bulbapedia only says stuff about the structure of savegame data, it doesn’t say how the ROM data is structured.

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          • I might actually have a peek at the files myself once the demo has been downloaded.

            I bet they’re still using some lame “xor with output from a linear congruential generator” method for encryption 😛
            Maybe they’ve actually upgraded to a mersenne twister this time.

  22. I know its weird, but it could actually be an evo of pyukumuku. Look at the format of her purple thingy feet. It looks like pyukumuku innards. He could open and turn into this

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