FAKE: Could the Gen VIII Starters Have Leaked?!

IMPORTANT UPDATE: These have now been CONFIRMED FAKE as the artist has been found! They came out in a Facebook post. It’s unfortunate that these weren’t real… but let’s just hope that Game Freak manages to do even better!

These were posted anonymously, there are some concerns about the Japanese, but mostly pedantic discussion of hiragana vs katakana use. Most likely fake.

These do not come with names, but it appears as though we have a Grass-type Lemur, a Fire-type Rabbit and a Water-type Platypus!

Guess we’ll have to wait for more details to see if these are real or not! What are your initial impressions?!

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2,331 thoughts on “FAKE: Could the Gen VIII Starters Have Leaked?!”

  1. if people developed a “fake until proven real” mentality rather than a “real until fake” one this place would be a lot better off.

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    • If people let other people have fun with their discussions, no matter which side they were discussing, instead of trying to dictate each other’s behavior, the internet in general would be better off.

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  2. It just occurred to me that the grass lemur and fire rabbit both have a light tan body. GF would never do that. No two Starter Pokémon of the same region have had the same body colour.

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  3. Not surprised at all, but still a little sad! Props to the artist, these were gorgeous. I’m still hoping GF gives us a fire rabbit this gen, though! I’ve been wanting it for years now lol

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  4. Well going to relax eat pizza and watch the captain underpants movie lol huge part of my childhood. Will be back later tonight everyone!

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  5. I personally feel no one has yet to create a fakemon that truly captures that sugimori feel.. But let’s say if Popplio had released On It’s Own as a leak
    ..

    That would have REEEALLY sent us all into chaos.
    #BreakTheInternet #BreakTheJungle

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  6. Not saying it’s real. But looking at this guys previous work from not even a month ago, I find it VERY hard to believe he is the person that drew it, personally.

    It’s also really convenient he has a nice “Commission” picture pinned immediately after his “confession”.

    Then there’s the time lapse video of him “drawing it” where he makes absolutely no mistakes and has the finished product at the end.

    Not saying they’re real, nothing is “real” to me until GF themselves say it, I’m just saying how convenient everything is.

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  7. I’m actually still so sad about these leaks being fake. I thought the sadness would pass more quickly but it’s really not. One thing that is certain is, the standards for leaks have just gone WAY up. That means perhaps we’ll see less of this in the future…doubtful though.

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  8. Ok so if it is true that smash is coming with new content I want:

    Pichu back
    Tiz Arrior
    Isaac from Golden Sun
    Celica cuz we all know they love FE

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  9. Not sure what’s wrong, I keep thinking everybody has left but then I leave and come back and again comments just weren’t showing up for me.
    Anyway I just watched the Archeops episode of BW and was reminded of its’ dumb ability that I still don’t understand why they gave it. I would have taken lower stats overall over it.

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    • I would too I mean when it drops due to defeatist it actually becomes inferior as a Physical attacker at only 50%

      And it’s too frail with its type leaving it open to many Pokémon that can out speed and hit hard enough to faint it or get it lower than 50%

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  10. game freak/ Pokemon need to give us a sign about their official Pokemon starts. seriouly if i see one more leak i wont look at it, and if i do i will called it fake

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    • Give it time. If the games are coming this year it should happen pretty soon. Won’t shock me if Zeraora is revealed randomly soon like marshadow was then we may get titles not long after. Then probably the starters will be officially revealed along with the legends in May. Unless they pull an x and y reveal on us. It’s hard to say really

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  11. Huh, another week another set of fake leaks I guess. Though I liked the other two, at least grass has a chance now! Regardless, it was fun to speculate.

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  12. So Ash is getting his Torracat today (the 22nd technically) huh? Will be interesting to see how its personality changes. Will it stay the way it is as a Litten or change a bit?

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  13. Well it was a fun ride with the starters. I always enjoy it when we have possible leaks. Although this is the one time I think I am genuinely upset about them being fake. Really loved this group. Hopefully gamefreak does something just as good if not better! Please gamefreak give us a platypus starter one day! It has so much potential!

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      • Hopefully you are right! That said if the supposed Chinese zodiac theory continues I fully expect the rabbit to happen this gen. If not that snake would be interesting. All I know is I can’t wait to see the actual starters!

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