FAKE: Pokémon “Stars” Leaks (UPDATE)

FAKE ALERT: The information contained in this post has now been debunked!

It’s that time again folks! A Pokémon Direct has just been announced for tomorrow and Pokémon fans are frantically speculating over what the 8 minute broadcast will announce. Meanwhile, some users online have begun posting information claiming to have insider knowledge on the upcoming game.

One user on 4chan posted the following information regarding the game:

  • The games will be available for both 3DS and Switch and the two versions can communicate with each other
  • The above image shows Gladion in his new outfit
  • Alola will be the setting for the game and Kanto will not make an appearance
  • Characters from Sun & Moon will appear and have grown up since we last saw them
  • Gladion now runs the Aether Paradise
  • Gyms are now present in Alola, with Trials no longer existing
  • No new Pokémon or Mega Evolutions
  • Necrozma receives a new form
  • New exclusive Z-Moves
  • Plot of the game is heavily focused on past events and will feature many cutscenes
  • The game will explain how Necrozma fell into our world
  • Characters are called Kaosu and Hoshi

CONFIRMED FAKE: In addition to the above supposed “leaked” concept art was also posted online, show a number of reference poses for Gladion in his new getup. It has been confirmed the the screenshot and concept art are both an creations, consequently meaning the leaked information is also false. Art done by Italian artist Emdy.

As always with rumors and “leaks” we urge our readers to take this information cautiously. We do not claim it to be real and have chosen to post it for discussion purposes. We believe these images and information are 100% false. That said, how would our readers feel if this did turn out to be true? Is it something you like to see in a Sun & Moon follow-up game? Let us know in the comments below!

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1,539 thoughts on “FAKE: Pokémon “Stars” Leaks (UPDATE)”

        • ITS TOTALLY FAIR CUZ IF SLEEP WORKED SUPER WELL WE WOULD NEVER GET TO BATTLE EVERYONE WOULD JUST BE NAPPING

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          • BUT LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE MATCH
            I LOST SO MUCH FREAKING POINTS, I DONT FUCKING GOT A LOT THINGS TO KEEP ME HAPPY AND ADJUSTED I NEED ALL THE VICTORIES I CAN GET

            I had 1389 40 minutes ago and dropped to FUCKING 1279 THAT IS INSANELY BAD

    • Same thing kept happening when I was trying to catch my Xurkitree, then they always used Electric Terrain immediately after they woke up.I was using Spore thhogh, not sleep Powder.

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  1. So what is everyone’s hopes for Stars? Mine are:
    – BF (please make it happen GF, I don’t give a shit if you think people will get bored with it)
    – New Alolan Forms
    – More on the UBs
    – Side quests

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  2. Seraph-kun needs to change his profile picture…. just need like an hour… I’m kinda in the mood for something adorable
    Once I’m done I’ll go back to Dappou for a bit (yawn)
    I’m exhausted … and worn out

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  3. @lastlittenfanstanding:disqus Here I found some you could do:

    – Long Tailed Goral
    – White Stork
    – Wolverine
    – Common Northern Viper
    – Lynx
    – Amur Tiger
    – Blakiston’s Fish Owl
    – Asiatic Black Bear/ Moon Bear (Maybe could be a Psychic type for your region)

    These were some I could find, hope I can help you out with these as ideas.

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    • I think it’ll be childsplay for you until you reach round about where you got last season, from then on you’ll just have challenges that’ll force you to grow

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  4. I wonder if we’ll get a new UB or 2? I would prefer regular Pokemon tbh but it’s a possibility.

    Also what Nature is good for Guzzlord (I know it isn’t great but I still want a good Nature for it).

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    • Hmm, I’d probably try and patch up its defenses whilst not worrying about the attack stat you’re not using

      I kinda want prevos of the current UBs tbh XD

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        • Yeah, I’d love it if they got naturalised like Solgaleo and Lunala are. They’re the right balance between familiar and alien tbh

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          • I can imagine a tiny Mosquito pre-evo for Buzzwole that looks really spindly and weak. Others I’m struggling to imagine anything for right now. Then again Solgaleo and Lunaala aren’t much like Cosmog or Cosmoem at all.

  5. Agrresivhole
    Dark/Ground
    The Flame War pokemon
    Likes to create an account just to act like a total *BLEEP*. It has a giant ego and complains about stuff nobody cares about. It attacks people that have diffrent opinions. He’s so “macho” he hates fairy types for existing.

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  6. On the bright side if this leak is fake we’re possibly getting a Pokémon game anyway because every Pokémon direct has revealed a new game or more details on a new game

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      • Not really. Remember when the Alola starter final evolutions leaked in concept art in this exact style WAY in advance and everyone thought they were fake? They were in this exact same style. Same with when Lilly and Mallow leaked in their anime concept art. It is actually very difficult to fake designs that quality.

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        • This is actually why it is easier to fake them. Because the style is so similar with those concept arts it is easier to copy it and produce a fake. People do it with Sugimori style all the time.

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          • They do them all the time. if anything this is far easier to fake than corocoro scans etc due to the more simplistic nature of concept art. But hey, this could be real, I’m not against it.

          • This is what seperates creators from appreciators of art. The linework, the shading, the original elements. No corocoro fake has ever been this believable. Corocoro leaks may look more complicated because of all the japanese words and crazy backgrounds – but they arent actually. If the above is fake, I salute them, its freakishly well-made.

          • There was this fake ages ago that was realistic enough serebii actually posted it, I’ll try and find it

          • oh wow – no. those were terribly bad. You could see it in the inconsistent shadowing and line work

          • What about the faked starters before the three we know were revealed?
            Goat, bear, and lizard ring a bell?

          • The lizard from that fake was actually very convincing. If it was just him, I might have believed it. What ruined it was the trainers that also “leaked” along with them that just looked terrible, and the bear wasn’t great either. Also, when you look at the three of them together they look A LOT more like Neopets than Pokemon. This SuMo leak above is perfectly on style.

    • I’m about 50/50 about it. Like what you said, the concept art is legit, but the one with “in-game footage” is prob fake because its the same position used for a Grunt in the opening sequence of Sun and Moon.

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    • Have you not seen the Rayman leak, NX leaks, and the recent Smash Bros leak? People go out of their way to make thing seem real.

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    • There are people that can mimic Matsuda’s style really well, and the fact that the photo is painfully bad, the model looks lame compared to what a Switch can do.

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  7. OKAY, so we’ve lost our hype, our energy, and our excitement for this game. Let’s try to keep the negativity low and get pumped about this new game announcement!

    QUESTION TIME:

    Would you rather live in a world where you favorite pokemon didn’t exist OR live in a world where you least favorite pokemon was the mascot for the pokemon company?

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  8. Lol you guys are lagging my phone and I haven’t looked at the comments further down

    I missed this ;-;

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  9. I hope Oricorio, Lycanroc and the starters get new forms, though that’s more blind hope than speculation at all

    What do you guys hope?

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  10. It fucking amazes me that I have the absolute worst luck
    I go on Splatoon to try and chalk up some wins
    The very first fight some gigantic flapping anus is cheating with a mod
    The minute the match starts the entire team dies and every single inch of the board is covered in the opposing team’s ink

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  11. I’m so happy that there’s so many people here discussing about Pokemon rumors. I know that I’ve said this lower in the comments, but still, it makes me smile to see the Jungle pumped with dozens of comments every minute again. When it was rumor and news drought for the past few months, it got very quiet and still, so I wasn’t here as much. I really missed the activity so much.

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  12. So… I’m supposing one of three things will happen
    Sinnoh Remakes
    Kanto Remakes
    Alola Remakes

    So I’m curious…. what starter would you pick for each?

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  13. I just want a cute lil fire fairy… I want it so bad…
    Along with that id want an
    Electric/Ice, Electric/Poison , or Electric/Ghost
    JUST GIMME ONE OF THOSE AND ILL BE HAPPYYYY

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  14. The starters all get new forms, that work similar in function to Lycanroc’s forms (no type change, but stat and ability changes do occur and their design can change a ton)

    What would they be? I feel Inciny would be easy to do this with but Deci would be harder and I can’t think of a fairy Primarina that isn’t our actual one

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  15. As much as I dislike Incineroar it proud of the nickname I gave it. It’s actually really good (and no it’s not an insulting one)

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