THESE HAVE NOW BEEN DEBUNKED AS FAKE! The artist has been found. Now you can let us know if you’re RELIEVED or DISAPPOINTED by the news. We’re still leaving the post up in its original form for continued discussion.
A post, apparently made on a Chinese forum, included three photographs of what purport to be the starting Pokémon for the next game. As with all rumor posts we advise you not to treat these as real until officially confirmed.
We’re remaining very suspicious until there’s any other outside corroboration to their authenticity. Because of the situation with Gen VII’s leaked final evolutions some artists may just be wanting to get our hopes up early this time. We encourage users to treat these as FAKE until there’s any more evidence! The Japanese does not seem quite up to par.
If you’re interested though, here are the final typings that were mentioned alone with the photos:
- Grass-line ultimately becomes Grass/Electric-type
- Fire-line ultimately becomes Fire/Steel-type
- Water-line remains pure Water-type
Hopefully we’ll learn the truth about these in the coming weeks!
VIA: Skinny Snubbull
Weren’t the creative designs for the Alola starters inspired by movement? Each of these “new” starters seem to have a very expressive face, which would give them all an overlaying theme of “expression.” I feel like that gives them some validity 🤷🏻♂️
”Inspired by movement” which is pretty ironic because the Alola starters are among the slowest mons in existence
It’s the entire Alola Dex who is inspired by movement then…
Fire starter looks like a real joke, please. I don’t like grotesque designs like that. It’s too cartoonized.
Grass starter is somewhat interesting, I hope it does not turn into something absurd as Chesnaught. Before, I would think that Nah, starter becoming Electric is too much. But after one starter having ghost type, I don’t think they have limits on that.
I’m mostly curious about Water starter. It is really interesting.
The only thing fishy about this is CONFIDENTIAL mark down.
the spots on the bear face are made that way so at dark when they glow it looks like a scary face. The cave thing means this…Electric is quite obvious
I think the grass starter will be dark, water one might be ghost …..I like the fire one though
Snowy will learn Aurora Veil ahhhhhhhhhh please give us Nintetales soon & make Lillie the top 1 female travel companion https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/93cc547d65ab18a01fe0cf21a8ca292e4e143629f303e80bc4dd1b6392e71035.jpg
Good Night
Switch Online is coming in September.
http://i.imgur.com/QxsORXq.jpg
I remember when that happened lol
OMG, it’s so iconic.
That’s a matter of design tho. The problems with the new “leaks” isn’t the design of the Pokemon, but the shoddy Japanese used on the sheets. If someone at GF really drew them then they’d be fluent in Japanese and wouldn’t make such mistakes.
I don’t know about this. Can you elaborate?
So the thing you posted about the gen 5 starters: people said they were fake because they looked too similar to old Pokemon right? (obviously a dumb argument lol) The problem with the new “leak” isn’t the designs it’s the Japanese written on the sheets. People that can read Japanese are saying there are multiple grammatical errors on each sheet. Errors that a person fluent in Japanese wouldn’t make. Also if you look closely the picture frame is in the same spot in each picture meaning that the person wasn’t just taking a pic of them as they were on the wall, but was actually taking the frame off the wall and replacing it. The art is super solid, but the fact the Japanese isn’t is really a red flag.
I would instantly believe this if it didnt came from Trollchan
To be fair the alola starter evos leaked there as well. That said if these are fake whoever designed them deserve props for how good they are
Unfortunately …..Debunked. https://marix20.deviantart.com/art/Fake-Grass-Stater-728585182
NOOOOOOOOOOO
Well crap lol can’t wait to see the real starters still
Than again now that I think about it someone did the same thing with the alola starter evos…..I have no idea what to think lol we shall see I suppose when the starters do get revealed. If they are fake they are fake if they are real they are real
Um pretty sure hey just added those to their deviantart…
Do u think this’s real?
Idk but I’m pretty sure that person just recolored those pictures and added them trying to debunk them.
Nintendo Switch Online in September. Now, I wonder what game could possibly launch alongside it…Smash Bros perhaps?
https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/958872936257019904
Gotta be something otherwise why get it? Mario Kart and Splatoon? Good games, but they’ll be dated at that point.
Whoa, they just announced Mario Kart Tour coming to mobile before March 2019!
Fucck this’s look real. https://img00.deviantart.net/027d/i/2018/031/d/7/fake_fire_starter_by_marix20-dc1s43x.png
Yeah I’m pretty sure they were just recolored and added to their deviant art. The bear has three comments all from the last ten minutes.
Wait, why are the eyes blue on this one? Something doesn’t add up.
Yeah it looks better in this one.
I think Rockcrawdaunt is right. It’s probably someone that took the art from the “leak” and redrew them.
I don’t think this’s the case the other pictures doesn’t show the true colors due to the lighting
The color schemes are different on all the starters…
I think they just looks darker at first pictures
These are from deviantart. Some artist took the original and made these ones. We don’t know if the colours are accurate. We don’t even know if these are real so whatever…
Honestly I am not taking this as proof of them being fake. Remembered someone in 2016 came out and said they created the gen 7 starter evos before they were officially revealed. Could be the same situation for all we know
This thing looks so stupid and it’s nose looks like a big fist, and talking about a fire starter, this is always scary
If it was real, it would go bipedal in third stage, resulting in humanoid horse creature. That’s how GF works nowadays.
The Super Mario movie was just formally announced by Nintendo, being produced by………….ILLUMINATION!
Shame they suck.
Wow, that sucks. They make mediocre movies. I would’ve begged Disney to do it if I was Nintendo.
https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/958878633652731904
Probably won’t be anything special now. Their best movie is Despicable me 2
I hated that.
Still their best
That’s unfortunate.
Yep…though the best thing to come out of their entire studio is Tori Kelly’s cover of “Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing”
I stopped seeing their movies after Minions, it was their last chance after DM2 for me and whilst it wasn’t the worst thing I’ve ever seen it wasn’t enough to regain my interest in them.
Oh, don’t get me wrong, I haven’t seen Sing, but I’m a fan of hers and naturally she slayed her tracks from the movie. Minions was bad though.
It was. I’ve only seen DM 1+2 and Minions from them I think, and that’s enough. I dislike their style and the movies just aren’t very good. I’ll get a few laughs out of DM 1 and Minions, but not many. This could be done by Disney since they are doing Wreck-it-Ralph.
I think The Lorax is this only one which was even remotely good. The original Despicable Me was also funny.
Dear god I hate the lorax. That further cements how much this will suck
well it had a good run
Dead before it even began
just like my social life
Idk if the Bears gimmick with the scary face is plausible for a starter. It only works in the dark so it would be quite a situational defense mechanism especially to market through the anime or merchandise. It kinda strikes me as odd the more I think about it.
Freaking tied but can’t sleep I need to know if those starters r real or not?
I don’t believe the DeviantArt page is the original source of the starter leaks. The color difference is the biggest giveaway…
That’s a pretty bold thing to claim though, I think if it was 99% fake before, it’s now 99.9999% fake.
I think it is 99.999999999% fake
Starter Pokemon’s VA seems to be confirmed?
-the Grass pokemon like Racoons will be voiced by Shizuka Ishigami
-the Fire pokemon like Horse will be voiced by Mutsumi Tamura
-the Water pokemon like alien will be voiced by Ayahi Takagaki, Not Ryuichi kijima. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/00117a3437f243c94e61d6ad27f403b7d93ed34fd0ff9b6d86ab337941e9c3fe.jpg
Mario, you need to explain yourself or Bowser will kidnap the princess!
I think we got it the first time lmao
Why’d the last one change?
ughhhhh another defeat via Venusaur and Weezing…….i swear Poison shouldn’t be a problem but that stupid mega and floating gashole carry the whole team
This is clearly light blue, and the picture on the leak was clearly gray. Even light changes and stuff like that wouldn’t make such a drastic change. I’m so confused right now.
http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1517448977488.png
Urrrrrrrrrrrrgh
The more that’s “released” about these, the more fake they seem to me….plus they haven’t redacted these images yet.
https://marix20.deviantart.com/journal/Pokemon-Gen-8-starter-leaks-728538884 So earlier the person who claims he made the starters was discussing if they were real or not. Something doesn’t add up here
He/she didn’t create them, just made art from the original concepts. It happens quite often on deviantart. They are fake but not for this reason…
I am still waiting before I pass them off as fake for sure. Mainly because of what happened with the gen 7 starter evos.
Forget it. He admitted he created them…
The grass one should be dark….and water on should be ghost or rock
So they’re fake? FUuuuuuuuuckkkkkkkkkkkkkk
We don’t know for sure yet. When the starters evos leaked out in gen 7 someone eventually came out on deciantart claiming that they made them. Could be same situation here
I hope..
Long time no see! Anyways, if these are real I’m definitely choosing Fire!
Pretty sure they are fake, look at the gallery of the artist here https://orig00.deviantart.net/6c97/f/2018/031/4/d/fake_grass_stater_by_marix20-dc1s3xa.png
https://marix20.deviantart.com/gallery/
i don’t really think another pure water starter would be a good idea, as we have had 3 already, blastoise, feraligatr, and samurott. i would say 3 should be the limit for starter type combinations. at least for a while.
I think there was a chance the types were from elsewhere but I can’t remember. Anyway if you look through this artists gallery I think it confirms he made them.
I mean, something happened similarly with the Real Alola leaks and the coloration is off so it’s hard to say for sure
Real talk we’re gonna get a fuckin direct. Doesn’t it seem weird nintendo is tweeting so much?
“Animal Crossing Direct announced for tomorrow, February 1 at 6pm EST”
Wait really or?
It’ll be a nintendo direct if anything
It could be a direct of Aonuma latest colonoscopy
Don’t be makin stuff up now… we’re dealing with a lot of leaks and info right now.
Sorry I figured it would be obvious since I’d totally be way more excited D:
Hopefully soon. Doubt it would mention Pokémon but you never know
Pokken Blastoise gameplay
That would probably be it sadly lol I just want a mention of the switch games that’s it. Hopefully zenora is revealed soon so people can stop screaming it’s too early for new Pokémon
No
But I want one pls, this year seems empty as f and we need a direct to fix that
Oh those r real. http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1517451343640.jpg
A politician saying something. Yeah I wouldn’t believe it lol
“Original image by me”. The starters are fake, created by this guy:
https://marix20.deviantart.com/art/Fake-Grass-Stater-728585182
In the Mareep episode of Johto journey the little girl that owns the Mareep calls Swift “Speed Star” hahaha
i think that girl is voiced by the woman who voiced Tiff from Kirby RBAY
I would imagine a lot of people were on both shows. They were both 4Kids dubs
troo
Just found out Swift is called Speed Star in japan so that’s actually very interesting
there’s one episode of BW’s Dub where Ash calls Razor Shell Shell Blade its japanese name