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This is a list of all early information about Pokémon games that has leaked earlier than by the official media and turned out to be true or was not available to wider audience.

Leaks

Pokémon Black and White

CoroCoro leaks

Monthly Japanese magazine CoroCoro used to published news for Pokémon Black and White and early scans or photos regularly surfaced on the internet.

On June 10, Pokebeach reported some rumoured CoroCoro content circulating on the Japanese forum 2ch before any leaked scans that would confirm it. As the same thing happened a month before, the leaks seemed trustworthy and were shared on Pokebeach:

  • the professor is female and named Araragi
  • the evil team is named Team Plasma
  • there will be triple battles
  • there are around 150 new Pokemon
  • the silhouettes of the region’s legendary trio look like cotton, a dog, and a bipedal animal

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Anime sheet

On June 27, 2010, an anime sheet had leaked that depicted Ash wearing clothes of the male protagonist of the Pokémon Black and White, a girl whose name was correctly read as Iris (Japanese: アイリス), a man with Umbreon and four previously unknown Pokémon: a small bipedal Pokémon (Axew), a bat-like Pokémon (Woobat), and what appears to be second stages of Tsutarja (Servine) and Mijumaru (Dewott). This sheet was confirmed to be real on July 1, 2010 when a silhouette of Iris was shown that day.

  • Leaked anime art sheet

    Leaked anime art sheet

  • Silhouettes of Ash's companion

    Silhouettes of Ash's companion

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Thirteenth Pokémon movie

On July 5, 2010, the movie Zoroark: Master of Illusions revealed a name of a new Pokémon,「ネズミミ」 Nezumimi (actually Minezumi - Patrat), and the looks of another (Victini) whose interpretation can be seen below by a fan who saw it in the theater.

  • Leaked Pokémon interpretation

    Leaked Pokémon interpretation

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Toy figures leak

On July 5, 2010, toy company Bandai revealed images of two Pokémon figurines. One of them appears to be the same as the small bipedal Pokémon from anime sheet leak (Axew) and the other appeared to be a green monkey.

  • Figurine of the Pokémon leaked before

    Figurine of the Pokémon leaked before

  • The green monkey

    The green monkey

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Starter final evolutions

On September 1, 2010, images of the second and final evolutionary stages of Tsutarja (Snivy), Mijumaru (Oshawott), and Pokabu (Tepig) leaked. Later the same day, an image of Yanappu (Pansage) with two unannounced Pokémon also leaked. These were blue monkey Hiyappu (Panpour) and Baoppu (Pansear). Their names and visual similarity imply they are forming a monkey trio.

  • Second and final evolution of Tsutarja

    Second and final evolution of Tsutarja

  • Second and final evolution of Pokabu

    Second and final evolution of Pokabu

  • Second and final evolution of Mijumaru

    Second and final evolution of Mijumaru

  • Hiyappu and Baoppu with Yanappu

    Hiyappu and Baoppu with Yanappu

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Early Petilil

Unknown previously green Pokémon (Petilil) appeared in one of the trailers published on September 1, 2010, running around in the overworld.

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Pokexperto leak

As Pokebeach states, a webmaster of Spanish Pokémon fan site Pokexperto, Melkor, had a contact with an internal source on Pokémon Black and White and leaked a ton of information to him. This leak was confirmed legit on September 6, 2010, when TV Tokyo advertisement showed a purple cat Pokémon, currently known as Purrloin, that appeared as a silhouette on Pokexperto. After that they have been publishing new Pokémon for a few days with their drawn fanarts extrapolated from sprites with short descriptions and Pokebeach published whole list on September 10, after consulting with Melkor.

On September 19, 2010, webmaster of Pokebeach informed that he and other fansites were requested to take down photos and scans of all new Pokémon by Nintendo lawyer.

Pokémon Black 2 and White 2

Early purchase

On June 20, 2012, three days before the official release of the games, an article on pokejugle was published reporting that some 2ch users obtained the games early and leaked all elements of the story.

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Pokémon X and Y

Fairy-type leak

Pokebeach webmaster claimed he used to have a contact with an insider in regards to information on upcoming Pokémon games X and Y. Despite getting the leaks since February 2013, he published them in May when the official trailer revealed a new move, Parabolic Charge, that correlated with some of the infomation provided by his source.

Additionally, he realized that the filename for Mewtwo's new forme on the official Pokémon movie website is infoM2x.png, correctly guessing there might be a "Y" version too.

First set of leaks were published on May 11 and go as follows:

  • Fairy will be a new type. It is weak to Poison and Steel, immune to Dragon, super effective against Dragon, Dark, and Fighting, and Fire and Psychic-type Pokémon take half damage from it.
  • Sylveon is Fairy-type. Some older Pokémon will be reclassified to Fairy, such as Mawile (Steel/Fairy).
  • Mewtwo has two new formes, not just one. Both are activated via items.
  • The professor’s English name is Patrice.
  • The Starter final evolutions are Fire/Psychic, Grass/Dark, and Water/Fighting. (Chespin and Froakie’s final evolutions were switched from correct ones.)
  • The first Gym is Bug, the second is Fairy, and the fourth is Fighting.
  • A few attacks will be dual-typed.
  • There will be a new type of battling style that Flying-type Pokémon and Pokémon with Levitate can participate in.
  • You will be able to see a Pokémon’s EVs at a certain in-game facility. You will be able to boost the EVs through mini-games. It will take about two hours to get one stat to max EVs.

Second set was published two days after, in May 13:

  • The goat, Gogoat -> Gogoat. It’s a goat that goes. No need to change the name I guess?
  • The panda, Yancham -> Panchum. Obviously “punch ’em,” with the “punch” starting out as “pan” because it’s a panda.
  • The bird, Yayakoma -> Fletchling. Fletching or fledgling + hatchling?
  • The “lizard,” Elikiteru -> Helioptile. A heliophile is any organism attracted to sunlight, so that + reptile?

The third set was published after another five days, on May 18:

  • Pancham evolves into Pangoro in the early level 30s. In order to evolve Pancham into Pangoro, you need to have one other Dark-type Pokémon in your party. Pangoro’s type is Fighting/Dark.
  • A Pokémon named Inkay evolves into Malimar. To evolve it, you have to hold your 3DS upside-down when it levels up (the 3DS has an accelerometer and gyroscope, so it can detect that). Malimar’s type is Dark/Psychic.
  • A Psychic-type Pokémon named Espurr (ESP + purr) evolves into Meowstick (Meow + mystic?). (Sounds like Psychic-type cats. Meowstick’s name sounds too similar to Meowth to me though.)
  • Like in B/W you have two rivals – one is friendly and the other is competitive. Your rival that is more friendly gives you his/her fully evolved starter Pokémon after you beat the game.
  • Another professor named Sycamore gives you either Bulbasaur, Charmander, or Squirtle.
  • Even though it shows the player riding on a Gogoat in the new trailer, players can’t ride on their own Pokémon. What was shown is just an alternate way of getting around Lumiose City and it only works with Gogoat.
  • HMs still exist but there’s a lot less of them.
  • Players will be able to see their Pokémon’s EVs (probably through the same in-game facility mentioned in the other post).
  • A new move, Belch, is a Poison-type attack that has a base power of 120. The user must consume a held Berry to perform it.
  • Draining Kiss is a Fairy-type attack that heals the user for the same amount of damage performed. It has a base power of 60.
  • If the previously revealed forme of Mewtwo can be said to look roughly similar to Mewtwo’s original design, the second supposed form of Mewtwo can be said to look roughly/vaguely similar to Mew‘s design.
  • In case you missed our correction the other day, the Starters’ final evolutions are Fire/Psychic, Grass/Dark, and Water/Fighting.

On June 15, Pokebeach claimed his source went silent and revealed two last bullet points.

  • A Psychic-type Pokémon named Espurr (ESP + purr) evolves into Meowstick (Meow + mystic?). (Sounds like Psychic-type cats. Meowstick’s name sounds too similar to Meowth to me though.)
  • Like in B/W you have two rivals – one is friendly and the other is competitive. Your rival that is more friendly gives you his/her fully evolved starter Pokémon after you beat the game.

Later, another admin of Pokebeach, MageLeif, apologized and stated that they won't reveal anything about Pokémon X and Y anymore as they signed legally biding contract.

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Trevenant in a movie

On July 12, 2013, the movie Extremespeed Genesect: Mewtwo’s Awakening had premiere in Japan which featured a new trialer for Pokémon X and Y revealing tree looking Pokémon Orotto (オーロット). Pokejugle reports that a Twitter user who had a chance to see the movie a week before the premiere had also mentioned this Pokémon, since then a few drawings made by fans who had also seen it surfaced on the internet.

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Trademark database leak

On July 17, 2013, Pokejungle has reported a list of japanese Pokémon names. The list previously appeared at Pokexperto and was found at the Japanese trademark database.

  • ディアンシー Dianshii (Diancie)
  • ハリボーグ Hariboogu (Quilladin)
  • ゲコガシラ Gekogashira (Frogadier)
  • ボルケニオン Borukenion (Volcanion)
  • デデンネ Dedenne (Dedenne)
  • ホルビー Horubii (Bunnelby)
  • ニャオニクス Nyaonikusu (Meowstic)
  • ブリガロン Burigaron (Chesnaughy)
  • トリミアン Torimian (Furfrou)
  • テールナー Teerunaa (Braixen)
  • ジガルデ Jigarude (Zygarde)
  • マフォクシー Mafokushii (Delphox)
  • フーパ Fuupa (Hoopa)
  • ゲッコウガ Gekkouga (Greninja)

After the games release in October 12, 2013, three of these Pokémon Dianshii, Borukenion and Fuupa didn't appear in the games and turned out to be the mythical Pokémon that were revealed later.

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Furfrou in a Direct

In a Pokémon Direct that premiered on September 4, 2013, which revealed Mega Evolutions of the Kanto starters's final forms, a new unrevealed Pokémon (Furfrou) appeared for a tiny fraction of a second what wasn't adressed at all.

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Pyroar on IGN

On September 11, 2013, the gaming website IGN leaked Pyroar one day early. Pyroar was revealed to be the evolved form of Litleo and a Fire and Normal-type Pokémon. Its abilities were Rivalry and Unnerve. and it could learn the moves Echoed Voice and Noble Roar. IGN only showed male form while the YouTube trialer publoshed the next day showed both, male and female.

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Espurr in a commercial

On September 24, 2013, Pokebeach reported finding a new grey Pokémon in Pokémon X and Y game commercial. This Pokémon was later revealed to be Espurr, whose name had already leaked before.

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Final starter's evolutions types

This leak is not found, it is mentioned in "Hawlucha and Greninja leak" and allegedly was posted on Pokebeach. However, the types were almost predicted they were also allegedly known by Hiro, a known leaker.

Hawlucha and Greninja leak

On September 29, 2013, an anonymous leaker made a thread on 4chan where they explained that they got the game early because they write for an online game publication. The only Pokémon that leaked were Greninja and Hawlucha. Rest of the leak states that:

  • there are about 70 new Pokémon with Xerneas being about 715/716 and the Z legendary being two slots after that
  • the final starter leaks are real
  • there's almost no post-game, player can catch Z legendary, Mewtwo with Mega Stone depending on version of the game and legendary birds
  • Exp. Share is an early Key Item giving every Pokémon full experience instead of dividing it
  • new Pokémon are: final evolution of Froakie is Greninja, Aumoros (misspelled Aurorus) is Rock and Ice type and Hawlucha, a hawk luchador with Fighting and Flying type with a move "Flying Press"

At the same time another leaker on Pokebeach forum revealed some screenshots of the new game showing a new Pokémon, Binacle which is Rock and Water type and is #021 in the Coastal Kalos Pokedex. Besides that, he also claimed that Aerodactyl has a Mega Evolution.

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Mythical Pokémon

The French fansite Pokemontrash reported that Hirobyte and his friend ALMR94 leaked on October 20, 2013, on Twitter the English names of three Pokémon known before only by their japanese names along with their National Pokédex numbers and types. These were:

  • #719 Diancie (ディアンシー) - Rock/Fairy
  • #720 Volcanion (ボルカニオン) - Fire/Water
  • #721 Hoopa (フーパ) - Psychic/Ghost

These names, as the names of these Pokémon in different languages could be easily confirmed by requesting them in GTS trades in Pokémon X and Y which wouldn't show up for the different players if they weren't eligible Pokémon names.

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Pokémon X and Y hidden Pokémon

On October 31, 2013, photos of three Mythical Pokémon leaked on Facebook by a hacker who got into the Pokémon X and Y gamecode, articles on Neoseeker and Pokejungle say.

The same hacker later confirmed their types and said there's no new Pokémon after that, but he revealed two new Mega Evolutions which were Mega Latias and Mega Latios and again later AZ Floette as a Pokémon form useable in battle. He also confirmed Fairy-type Arceus, Poké Ball and Fancy Pattern Vivillon.

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Early players

Screenshots from people playing Pokémon X and Y started surfacing on October 1, 2013. Most notable being Jadieekong and Kosthedin who was posting screenshots on Instagram and claimed Nintendo confiscated their cartridge.

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Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire

Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire Demo

The demo of Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire that was made available on October 15, 2014, revealed many information about future full versions in its data. After being datamined, most notably by Kaphotics, the demo leaked all remaining Mega Evolutions and, as a surprise, a new form of Hoopa.

Mega Evolution on the Korean site

On August 12, 2014, the official Korean Pokémon site for Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire has revealed Mega Slowbro and Mega Audino which were quickly took down. These two Pokémon were offcially revealed two days later.

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Pokémon Sun and Moon

Alola starters final forms

Three concept arts of final evolutions of the newest starter Pokémon leaked on June 4, 2016. It was confirmed on August 1, when the trailer revealed Mallow, a charater that appears on the concept art of Fire-type starter's final form. Their names weren't revealed, as they were only described as "owl 3", "tiget 3" and "sea lion 3" and the fire one was revealed to have a new move named "tiger swing".

Additionally, on October 16, person known as "ElStrawFedora" claims he and his friend had a chance to meet with Junichi Masuda and get their fanart of the leaked Pokémon signed by the Director. Although due to poor knowledge of the language they didn't understand what he said, they believe that the Game Director commented on the fanart saying "these haven't been officially released yet" and complimented the drawing.

The three starter Pokémon were leaked for the second time with their Japanese names on October 27, a few hours before their official reveal. They appeared on a Twitter post from the official Japanese Pokemon account on the cover of game card sets, but were quickly deleted. Their japanese were revealed to be: Junaipa (ジュナイパー), the Fire as Gaogaen (ガオガエン) and the Water as Ashirene (アシレーヌ), however their types were still unrevealed for this short period of time.

  • Rowlet's final evolution

    Rowlet's final evolution

  • Litten's final evolution

    Litten's final evolution

  • Popplio's final evolution

    Popplio's final evolution

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Chinese Riddler

On the Chinese forum Tieba a person known as "Chinese Riddler" is known to leak information on upcoming Pokémon games in form of riddles and hints.

First batch of information from the Chinese source on Pokémon Sun and Moon appeared before July 7 when Salandit was revealed and somewhat confirmed the chinese leak as it predicted Fire and Poison-type Pokémon. On Smogon forum, the user named "Cresselia~~" translated the leak giving better understanding to international fans. The leak stated that:

  • there will be no gyms
  • Alola region has no leagues and the main objective is to build a league, Elite Four will be owners of each island
  • Starter's final forms with be an archer, a wrestler and a siren; the siren Pokémon is Water and Fairy-type (this complements the previous leak about starter evolutions)
  • there's a new wristband that can make all abilities stronger; you can load it with collectable logo diamonds that can have many types ("logo diamonds" are Z-Crystals that appear in the Japanese logo of the Pokémon Sun and Moon games; they don't power up abilities but moves)
  • some limited diamonds can transform Pokémon's shape, which Greninja is an example of (this is false Z-Crystals don't change Pokémon's form; Greninja transform when it has special ability)
  • there will be new Pokémon based on dolphin, mushroom, snowman, rugby monkey, sea cucumber, Rockruff evolves into a werewolf (mentioned Pokémon are most likely: Tapu Fini, Shiinotic, Crabominable, Passimian, Pyukumuku and Midnight Lycanroc)
  • the trademarked name "Marshadow" is a mythical Pokémon with very unique typing
  • there are many unmarked locations on the map, which form districts; these districts contain very strong Pokémon, known as overlords (the leak most likely means Totem Pokémon)
  • there's a new function which lets you ride almost any Pokémon (PokéRide allows only few Pokémon to be ridden)

Another batch of Chinese leaks was compiled on September 7, by Pokejungle. The Tieba forum user "gsdmdqca6hy", also known as the Chinese Riddler slowly gained credibility as his hints hit the target. His post showed:

  • Pyroar and Zubat before the reveal of Solgaleo and Lunala
  • Pikachu covered in a sheet prior to seeing Mimikyu
  • image of rock-paper-scissors and innards before Pyukumuku
  • Sandcastle and shovel for Sandygast and Palossand
  • a skeleton on cloth for Team Skull
  • he also hints at Marshadow not being the third legendary and rather an event Pokémon
  • there's a bust of Aristotle that was posted remains a mystery
  • a list of old Pokémon that could be in the regional Pokédex
  • he also posted Anabel and uses Colress in his profile image

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Zygarde forms in the movie

On July 12, 2015, scans from July CoroCoro issue leaked and revealed silhouette of an unknown Pokémon that is going to appear in the trailer airing after the movie Hoopa & The Clash of Ages which had premiere July 18, 2015, and was being pre-screened on July 5.

After the movie premiered, a lot of fans reported another new Pokémon appearing after the movie, this one looking like a green blob with one eye bigger. These two Pokémon were later revealed to be Zygarde 100% form and Zygarde Core and were one of the first teases for Generation VII despite being new forms for Pokémon from Generation VI.

  • CoroCoro page with unknown Pokémon

    CoroCoro page with unknown Pokémon

  • Zygarde Core

    Zygarde Core

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Mareanie in TCG

Amazon has revealed a new Pokémon (Mareanie) on October 18, 2016, which could be seen in TCG artwork on the side of the TCG Collection Sun Booster Box.

  • Collection Sun Booster Box

    Collection Sun Booster Box

  • New Pokémon on the side

    New Pokémon on the side

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July trailer

A day before the trailer that revealed Tapu Koko and a few other new Pokémon from the Pokémon Sun and Moon, an anonymous made a thread on 4chan on June 30, 2016, with screenshots revealing some Pokémon and their names which were: Drampa, Togedemaru, Vikavolt, Tapu Koko, Cutiefly, Bruxish and Charjabug.

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Ice Stone leak

On October 4, 2016, Spanish official Pokémon Sun and Moon site revealed a new item, Ice Stone, on Poké Pelago subpage, but it was quickly deleted. This stone was expected to be the method of evolution for Alolan Vulpix which turned out to be true, however contrary to speculations it didn't evolve Eevee into Glaceon until a generation later.

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Pokémon Sun and Moon demo datamine

The Pokémon Sun and Moon demo was released on October 18, 2016, and despite the names of all unreleased Pokémon being erased, their images weren't which allowed datamining them. Notaby, this is how Alolan Geodude line, Alolan Persian, Morelull's, Wimpod's, and Salandit's evolution forms leaked.

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Early players

On November 7, 2016, first screenshots of the games surfaced, which was 11 days before the official premiere. Notably, the game was reported by an anonymous under pseudonym "Lurantis" on 4chan.

Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon

Pokémon Stars

On the day of release of Pokémon Sun and Moon, November 18, 2016, a rumor circulated that the third version was planned to be released mid-2017 under the name Pokémon Stars. This game was supposed to be an upgraded HD version avaiable on home console which would apparently be Nintendo Switch. That would also make it the first game to be on a different console than other games from the same generation. It is unknown if Pokémon GO's success influenced production of Pokémon Stars as Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon that weren't released on Switch which is actually what happened to the next game, Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu/Eevee!, game that could be prioritized due to connecting Pokémon GO to the main series.

Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu/Eevee!

Meltan datamine

On September 21, 2018, a new Pokémon has been datamined by "Chrales" on Twitter from Pokémon GO which appeared to be a Ditto-shaped grey body with a hexnut head and zigzag-shaped red tail. The next day, Pokémon GO players started encountering this Pokémon and catching it resulted transforming into Ditto. Due to that reason it was believed by some to be a placeholder and potentially an early test of Kecleon. It was officially revealed as Meltan on September 25 and it turned out to be the special Pokémon announced to appear in Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu/Eevee! in May 30 Trailer.

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Chinese demo with Lapras screenshot

On March 27, 2018, Pokejungle posted an article stating that their Chinese and Taiwanese readers showed them images from internal working demo of future Pokémon titles. The article reports that the new game allows riding Pokémon, specifically Lapras, mentions return of following Pokémon, in this case an Eevee on the trainer's head and overworld encounters. The article also alerts on the route looking very similar to one from previous games, as it looked like a water route from the Kanto region.

On March 31, 2018, this exact photo surfaces on the internet and was widely discussed.

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Let's Go leak

On April 1, 2018, an annonymous posted a thread on 4chan leaking how the upcoming new Pokémon game will look like.

Let's Go:

  • Yellow remakes for Switch
  • Two versions, Pikachu and Eevee
  • Red and Blue play a role in the story, you and your rival are new trainers
  • Following Pokémon return
  • HMs still replaced with Pokeride from alola
  • Online has a hub for players
  • Pokémon Go integration
  • Catching Pokémon works like in Go
  • Rewards in game and in Go for linking the two together
  • New accessory can be used with both Go and the games
  • Announcement soon, releasing this year

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Pokémon Sword and Shield

Pokémon in trailers

In a trailer on June 5, 2019, a black silhouette of a fat squirrel Pokémon appeared on a shirt of a child in the gym audience and another squirrel appeared physically a few times in the audience as well. These Pokémon turned out to be Greedent and Skwovet.

In July 8 trailer, banners with a black dog silhouette and pink humanoid Pokémon appeared in the gym. Additionally, a new elephant looking Pokémon showed up for a franction of a second when Rose was throwing a Poké Ball. The first one was revealed to be Boltund, the second - Impidimp and the third - Cufant. Impidimp appeared a few times later during the marketing campaign without being offcially acknowledged. Notably, it appeared in the playable demo which was available on E3 event happening from June 11 to 13 where its name was confirmed. Impidimp appeared again later in the Galarian Ponyta reveal livestream on October 5.

On September 5, Cramorant was revealed with its ability Gulp Missile where it spit up a fish Pokémon that was later revealed to be Arrokuda.

On November 11, a Pokémon similar to Mr. Mime and a ghost tombstone appeared without being officially named, now known as Mr. Rime and Runerigus.

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Affleck leak

On May 23, 2019, a thread on 4chan was created that described general plot, characters and a few Pokémon from the upcoming games. It appeared about two weeks before the first trailer after the games announcement. The leak was confirmed to be real by the June 5 trailer which revelaed Dynamax, a phenomenon named in the leak. The thread was posted on /v/ board (dedicated to video games) and had only two replies both belonging to the original poster.

  • Your rival is named Hop, but you will also be facing of against Bede and Marnie
  • Team Yell is the gang in this game, who are well meaning fans of Marnie causing trouble
  • To become part of the gym challenge, you will have to get an endorsement. Bede gets an endorsement from Chairman Rose and his secretary Oleana
  • Eternatus is the evil legendary. The other legendary will be a wolf, who will either have a shield mane or hold a sword like Great Wolf Sif. Don't recall its name
  • Dynamaxing and Gigantamaxing are new dynamics that will supersize pokemon in specific areas. Gigantamaxing is different from dynamax as it changes what the pokemon looks like. Meowth looks like long cat. Lapras gets layers like musical bars to its shell and musical notes. Pikachu looks like retro fat pikachu
  • Sonia is Leon's former rival who is researching the dynamax phenomenon at the behest of her grandmother and professor of the game.
  • Some pokemon, like Farfechtd, will get regional evolutions, like Sirfechtd. Meowth looks like a ball of spiky grey fur
  • Skwovet and Greedunt iirc are chipmunk pokemon who will hide in berry trees and attack randomly if you shake for too many berries. If they attack, you lose half the berries that dropped.
  • The fourth gym is the first Fairy type gym, led by an actress named Opal. Milo, Nessa, and Kabu are the first ones.
  • Before fighting the gym leaders, you have to complete the gym challenges.
    • Milo has you herding sheep pokemon named Wooloo, but Pamper, electric corgi pokemon, will startle them and send them rolling elsewhere.
    • Nessa has you running through a maze where water blocks the way
    • Kabu requires you to catch pokemon and get 5 points, but you have to be in a party battle with another trainer who's also trying to catch it
  • While there is a transit system, you will have to go through the Wild Area at times, an open world biome that has a weather system and little pockets where wild pokemon dynamax and have to be beaten in a for person raid. You will randomly see nearby players and interact with them to get their league cards and items
  • Camping is how you play with pokemon now. You'll get two toys, a feather toy and toy pokeball, which can raise friendship. You can make curry which will raise starts and friendliness
  • Pokémon will not walk beside you in the overworld map
  • Scorbunny will have fighting moves, but is pure fighter. It becomes Raboot, but I don't remember the final evolution, except that it looks like a fighter. It looks humanoid
  • Sobble becomes Sizzile and then Intelleon, a chameleon with a spy theme
  • Grookey will end up as a giant gorilla that beats a wood drum to attack.
  • There's a lot I'm missing, but I wasn't planning on leaking until now. I'm angry and upset, and while I liked what I saw, I didn't get too far.
  • The best Pokémon so far is the blue seagull who when it dives, either gets a barracuda in its mouth or a pikachu, which it launches at its enemy

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VR Plant Leaker

VR Plant Leaker who reveald a few informations about other Nintedo projects has spoken about Pokémon Sword and Shield as site Resetera reported on June 5, 2019.

The leak said:

  • Wild Pokemon are like Pokemon Let's Go (not sure about catching mechanics)
  • "Open World" in routes
  • Will have raid battles for local and online
  • Release date is November 15th

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Meteodaina

On May 3, 2019, a leak from a Japanese fan appeared and was reported by Pokejungle on Twitter. More of this leak was summarized on Bulbagarden forum by TechSkylander1518.

The leak states that:

  • The evil team is called Team Yell.
  • One of the Gym Leaders is a girl named Ruri, a Water user. (Ruri is the Japanese name of Nessa)
  • There's a mode that turns certain Pokemon big called Dynamax.
  • There's an early-game Normal-type named Wool. (The name is actually Wooloo, but close enough)
  • It's a sheep Pokemon.
  • It's like a combination of Zigzagoon and Mareep.
  • The one who looks like the minor legendary is called something-dyna.
  • I forget, but it was six kana.
  • Also, Rotom Dex is back. (Although the Rotom Phone is introduced, it is functionally similar to the Rotom Dex).
  • Like I said, the new feature is gonna be Dynamax.
  • The Pokemon grow huge.
  • The Pokemon GO-like raid battles will probably be done in the PV stadium.
  • The evil team is Team Yell.
  • The new feature is Dynamax.
  • The Pokemon grow huge.
  • That one big Pokemon can fight multiple Pokemon.
  • I just remembered the minor legendary's name.
  • I'm sure it's Meteordyna (meteodaina).
  • It might be a major legendary.
  • Also, the early-game Normal-type is Wool, a sheep Pokemon.

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Galarian Mr. Mime

A post on 4chan from October 16, 2019, stated that Mr. Mime will get a Galarian form with a new evolution, that fossil Pokémon are going to be created by a combining different fossils and that next year game is a remake of Sinnoh with catching mechanics from Let's Go, Pikachu/Eevee! game. This was confirmed on November 11, 2019, with another trailer that presented what appeared to be regional evolution of Mr. Mime. Later, Chinese Riddler commented on this leak, on January 15, 2021, adding that "Pokémon Legends" site was registered.

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Gigantamax screens

On November 2, 2019, a few screenshots of unrevealed Gigantamax Pokémon from a game guidebook were posted on Discord, that shorty after appeared on Reddit and 4chan. These screenshots featured Gigantamax forms of Machamp, Eevee and Kingler. The two defendants have agreed to settle with The Pokémon Company and were required to pay $150,000 each in damages and attorney fees.

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Early players

First screenshots of fans playing Pokémon Sword and Shield surfaced on November 1, 2019, 14 days before the official release. Notably, first leaked Pokémon were Thwackey and Drizzile, and one of the players happened to catch Shiny Impidimp.

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Pokémon Sword and Shield datamine

The datamine of leaked Pokémon Sword and Shield started on November 11, 2019, which is four days before their official release. Kurt on Twitter (@Kaphotics) has revealed that the new games, beside Pokémon, also removed some moves, notably Hidden Power, Return, Pursuit, Z-Moves and signature moves of Partner Pikachu and Eevee and got a new decription saying "This move can’t be used. It’s recommended that this move is forgotten. Once forgotten, this move can’t be remembered."

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Returning Pokémon in DLCs

As @abcboy101 on Twitter claimed, right after the Isle of Armor was released, Pokémon HOME spoiled the list of all Pokémon returning in both DLCs for Pokémon Sword and Shield as they deleted Pokédex entries for these Pokémon instead of leaving them blank. This was discovered before the list of all returning Pokémon appeared on 4chan and IGN on May 13, 2020.

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Isle of Armor

On May 22, 2020, CPokemon reported that the newest Pokémon HOME update spoiled the names of 21 new moves, which were later added to the games in the Isle of Armor expansion; 18 being moves for each type and 3 were signature moves of Urshifu and Galarian Slowbro.

Later, on May 28, 2020, like Thegamer reports, datamining also revealed two abilities, Urshifu's Unseen Fist and previously unknown "Quick Draw" along with some new items like Max Honey and Mark Charm.

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DLC datamine

From the datamine of the Isle of Armor, known dataminer @mattyoukhana_ on Twitter discovered on June 18, 2020, leftover models for the second DLC, notably models of Peony and his daughter.

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Hakuba and Kokuba

On June 17, 2020, another dataminer Michael (@SciresM) found in the code of Isle of Armor 4 titles of missions that were supposed to appear in the second DLC, these were:

  • "The Terrible Titans... Lurking Locked Away!"
  • "They Came from the Ultra Beyond!"
  • "The Sacred Bonds of Sovereign and Steed!"
  • "A Legendary Tree of a Legendary Three!"

On June 18, 2020, he also found a list of brand new Pokémon that were going to appear in the Crown Tundra, two of them not being revealed before and decribed by monikers "Hakuba" and "Kokuba" meaning "white horse" and "black horse" which were meant to fuse with Calyrex "KURAUN" (crown) into "HAKURAUN" and "KOKURAUN".

On June 16, 2020, a Chinese leaker Riddler Khu hinted at two quadruped Pokémon appearing in the Crown Tundra and said that he started cooperating with CentroLeaks giving them insider information.

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Glastrier and Spectrier

On October 20, 2020, Centro posted on Twitter Pokémon HOME renders of the two horse Pokémon - Glastrier and Spectrier along with their fuse form with Calyrex and Pokédex data.

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Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl

The first leak about this game has been metioned below in "Anniversary leak" section.

Riddler Khu

Twitter user known as Riddler Khu who has been leaking Pokémon Legends: Arceus for a while also gave some insider information about Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, mostly in form of riddles:

  • Nov 5 refreshed graphics, very little changes
  • Nov 6 three main riddles
    • Nov 8 riddles are about: legendary, underground and contest
    • Oct 26 riddle 1: Pal Park is a good place for newcoming fans
    • Oct 26 riddle 2: Nov 10 quest about catching 151 Diglett in the underground
    • Oct 31 riddle 3: Nov 9 Jasmine appears in concests and is wearing a new gothic dress
  • Nov 8 Distortion World is in form of a small room, all mythical events were programmed to the game
  • Nov 8 only Battle Tower, no Battle Frontier
  • Nov 8 Gym Leader rematches

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Early player

On November 6, 2021, the game had leaked and was being reported in form of photos and videos what noticed by Chinese Riddler.

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Pokémon Legends: Arceus

The first leak about this game has been metioned above in "Galarian Mr. Mime" section.

Anniversary leak

A few hours in advance on the day of planned Pokémon Presents on February 26, 2021, a reddit leaker, who revealed previous Ninendo Direct before, named "PracticalBrush12" revealed future remake titles to be "Brilliant D and Shining P" in chibi style and that they were developed by ILCA because Game Freak was making an open world game in "feudal" Sinnoh designated to be released early 2022.

At the same time, two screenshots and a short video from the Pokémon Legends: Arceus surfaced, what the leaker noticed. First image presented female character hiding in the grass and three silhouettes of rideable Pokémon, which were later revealed to be Wyrdeer, Sneasler and Hisuian Braviary. The other document presented some battle scenes with player being able to freely move during battle and another unknown Pokémon, a yellow shining duck-like creature with axe arms attacking the player, who is now recognized as Lord Kleavor. Both screenshots were watermarked with the text "hsu@pokemon.co.jp - 21 Jan 2021, 14:29:16 GMT+9". The video only sshowed the title screen of the game.

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Riddler Khu

On October 1, 2021, CentroLeaks posted three pairs of emoji, muscle+baby, kimono+ghost and butterfly+fullmoon and encrypted message "SE, P.DP, D22". On October 13, he decrypted the message saying: "Starter Evolutions, Primal Dialga Palkia, DLC 2022 (for Legends)".

On October 15, 2021, CentroLeaks posted an image with riddles for 12 new Pokémon that were going to appear in the Pokémon Legends: Arceus game with three of them being the origin of the emoji riddle. Allegedly, this image was created and posted by Riddler Khu first who claimed to be CentroLeaks's source and that so far he's the only one who can solve these riddles due to them being based around Chinese and Japanese cultures. Since then Riddler Khu started posting leaks himself and accusing CentroLeaks of stealing. The solution to the image goes as follows:

Hints to the riddles:

  1. Oct 23 A Yokai from Yokai Watch, her Japanese name is the key, once you know it, you will understand all abt this mon.
  2. Oct 23 Check out the recent official announcement.
  3. Oct 23 New poke, one of the post game contents.
  4. Oct 23 A no-brainer stuff.
  5. Oct 23 That lady Noble poke.
  6. Oct 23 Kotori, Asian fans will know what it was immediately.
  7. Oct 23 Kanji on this pic is the key. Only Japanese can get it when that poke gets revealed.
  8. Oct 23 A new variant, can tell the type from it.
  9. Oct 23 A Japanese pun, when you solve it, you know the type of one starter.
  10. Oct 23 This poke was based on this thing, visually.
  11. Oct 23 A Japanese manga, what happened to her is the key. In fact you must have seen it way earlier than you ever noticed.
  12. Oct 23 You knew what it was from the thief. That's all.

Solutions to the riddles:

  1. Hisuian Typhlosion - kimono wearing girl yokai, Damona, from "Yo-kai Watch"
  2. Hisuian Zoroark - two characters from One Piece, Roronoa Zoro and Perona, the latter having ghost powers
  3. Enamorus - new Pokémon, heart clouds
  4. Hisuian Electrode - a Hisuian Poké Ball
  5. Hisuian Lilligant - Maki Nishikino, a tsundere type of character from "Love Live! School Idol Project", who is saying "殴るわよ" (I'll hit you) and looks similar to Arezu
  6. Hisuian Decidueye - Kotori Minami, a character from "Love Live!", whose name means 小鳥 - "small" (小) (ko) and "bird, poultry, fowl" (鳥) (tori), pasted on muscular body
  7. Hisuian Qwilfish - Gigantuar from "Final Fantasy" whose special attack is called "1000 Needles" (針千本, Hari Sen-bon), also known as "Blowfish" which is also Qwilfish's Japanese name
  8. Hisuian Goodra - a metal ring in shape of a snail
  9. Hisuian Samurott - moth and a fullmoon which in Japanese combine into Gekkouga, Gekkou (ゲッコウ) means moonlight and ga (ガ) is moth, Gekkouga is the Japanese name of Greninja
  10. Hisuian Avalugg - glacier aircraft carrier
  11. Hisuian Sneasel - a shot of a manga where Kamaitachi plays a role
  12. Hisuian Ursaring - a bear lying on its stomach

Additional hints:

New Pokémon:

  1. Oct 31 17 Hisuian Forms and 7 new Pokémon

Ancestors:

Returning characters:

Ride and Noble Pokémon:

Trivia:

Pokédex:

New mechanics:

Plot spoilers:

Review:

DLC:

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Chinese Riddler

Despite Chinese Riddler not playing big role leaking Pokémon Legends: Arceus, he hinted a few elements of the upcoming game.

  • Mar 09 - hinting starter hisuian evolutions
  • Aug 17 - hinting regional evolutions
  • Sep 09 - hinting hisuian Voltorb
  • Sep 16 - hinting hisuian Sneasel
  • Oct 02 - hinting Volo
  • Jan 01 - screenshots of the game

He also critizied Centro for reposting a leak with three images that were riddles for Hisuian starter evolutions in form of emojis as the whole meaning of them was lost. Then Chinese Riddler posted the correct riddle that later became a part of Riddler Khu's image riddle.

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Pokémon Scarlet and Violet

Site registered

On July 14, "ami@Japan" posted on Twitter that domain "http://pokemoncenter-sv-campaign.pokemon.co.jp/" was registered.

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Twitter leakers

Beside RiddlerKhu, on Twitter there appeared another leaker on July 9 named "Kaka" who posted blurried images of Girafarig and Pawmi's evolutions and photos of most gym leaders. Both of the leakers were posting informations and riddled every few days about the whole game allowing fans to learn a lot of about new Pokémon and game mechanics. All of their leaks were reported by @CentroLeaks.

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Trailer leaks

On August 2, a post on 4chan revealed the content of the trailer airing on the same day in three hours:

  • Trailer is 19 mins long w/ half of it dedicated to SV
  • Paldea Region
  • Naranja academy and Uva academy
  • Professer/headmaster/principal? Clavell tasks students to do a treasure hunt
  • Legends acts as rides/HMs. Koraidon swimming movement is nice
  • Leaked rival is correct. her name is Penny
  • Leaked Ice gym leader is correct. name is Grusa and uses Cetitan that looks like a spiky bipedal white whale (think Qwilfish body)
  • Arven is an upperclassman
  • Jacq is the student's biology teacher
  • Paldean Wooper is brown in color
  • Fidough is a pastry dog w/ Yamper color scheme
  • Gimmick is called Terastal that increases type moves or changes other pokemon's type (Pikachu becomes Flying)
  • Terastal turns mons to crystal w/ ornaments on their head (Fountain for Water, Flowers for Grass, Candles for Fire, Balloons for Flying)
  • Raids let you battle mons w/ different Terastal types

Similarly, on September 7, another post spoiled another trailer:

  • 3:21 min trailer
  • 1st path
  • Starfall street
  • Team Star
  • Boss Mela
  • 2nd path
  • Path of Legends
  • Battle bosses to get Herba Mystica
  • Klawf (crab boss)
  • 3rd path
  • Victory road
  • Chairwoman Geeta
  • Grass gym leader Brassius (male with thorn like hair, uses Tera Sudowoodo)
  • Fire knights shown at the end of the trailer (probably the split evo leaked)

On October 25, another post leaked information from trailer a while before:

  • Greavard the ghost dog. Has a candle on its head w/ purple fire

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Pokémon in trailers

In the June 1 trailer for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet a boy was wearing a shirt with black Tauros head hinting at regional Tauros forms.

On September 7 trailer, a new engine-looking Pokémon appeared but it wasn't officially acknowledged as Pokémon. In one of the official arts, it appeared to stick out tongue helping identify it as a living being. This Pokémon was Revavroom.

The trailer from October 6 revealed a lot of Pokémon in the English and Chinese versions contrary to Japanese trailer. First three new Pokémon, a parrot, a pair of mice and a cube, appeared on a minimap, then what appeared to be preevolved form of Armarouge and Ceruledge showed up in a distance in Team Star's base, a smaller variant of the engine Pokémon was visible at the back of Mela's car and lastly a Pokémon with antennas was visible when a trainer was making a photo. Additionally, in the Chinese trailer a chinese name of a new spider Pokémon, 团珠蛛 (Tuánzhūzhū), appeared when the trailer was presenting new TM mechanics. These all Pokémon are currently known as Squawkabilly, Tandemaus, Nacli, Charcadet, Varoom, Gimmighoul and Tarountula.

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Coin Pokémon leak in GO

On November 4, 2022, a coin Pokémon was found in Pokémon GO code by @poke_miners. It appeared to be the same Pokémon seen hidden in the English trailer for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. The next day this Pokémon started appearing for all people playing the game, but it couldn't be catched and only left coins.

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Early players

On November 6, a Spanish couple posted a few screenshot of the Pokémon Scarlet and Violet game, notably revealing Fuecoco and Smoliv's evolutions, black Tauros, Flamigo and Tarountula.

On the next day a short video of game's intro with green parrot Pokémon Squawkabilly appeared on 4chan.

On November 8, all new Pokémon slowly started leaking on 4chan starting with Skeledirge and Clodsire.

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Trademark leak

On November 15, PokéXperto on Twitter posted that Game Freak registered a new name along Generation IX Pokémon which was UNERUMINAMO ウネルミナモ, suspected to be the name of Paradox Suicune.

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Trivia

  • Along with the leaks there also happen to be revealed the codenames of Pokémon games which are used between creators instead of the actual names for confidentiality, many of them seem to reference different constellations, these are:
    • Pokémon Black and White: Syachi
    • Pokémon Black 2 and White 2: Swan
    • Pokémon X and Y: Kujira
    • Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire: Sango
    • Pokémon Sun and Moon: Niji
    • Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon: Momiji
    • Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu/Eevee!: Beluga
    • Pokémon Sword and Shield: Orion
    • Pokémon Sword and Shield Expansion Pack: Rigel
    • Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl: Delphis
    • Pokémon Legends: Arceus: Hayabusa
    • Pokémon Scarlet and Violet: Titan
  • The webmaster of Pokebeach reported an alleged leak for Pokémon Black and White on his site on June 11, 2010 that comes from Martijn Müller a webmaster of an old and famous Zelda website who's thought to be a "reliable news reporter". Despite this alleged leak missing almost all of its information and being generally considered fake, it describes a legendary Pokémon as "a large, green cobra" that "will accompany Reshiram and Zekrom", accurately prediciting Zygarde that accompanies another legendary duo that appeared in the next generation. The same leak also claims that Generation V will consist of 650 Pokémon total, exactly one more than the actual number.
  • Theoretical Pokémon Gray and Pokémon Z were never created despite being expected or hinted at. Full video about this was by made by DidYouKnowGaming? on YouTube.
  • Pokebeach reported on July 22, 2010 that Play-Doh toy will be released on October 30th but the product's decription lists two unknown Pokémon: Onokkusu (オノックス) and Burokko (ブロッコ). These two appear to be early names for Axew (キバゴ Kibago) and Pansage (Yanappu ヤナップ) respectively matching what appears on the toy's box. Axew's early name is very similar to official na of Haxorus (Ononokus オノノクス).
  • An anonymous person on 4chan made a thread where he claimed to know early ideas and plans relating to production of Pokémon X and Y, where he mentioned Xerneas and Yveltal having swapped colors. What's interesting, in Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee! icons of Pokémon X and Y also have swapped colors, red for Xerneas and blue for Yveltal.
  • From the list of trademarked Pokémon names[1] by Nintendo from June 2012 to June 2013 there can be gathered that they trademarked Pokémon which were supposed to get Mega Evolution. The only exception is Jynx, what could imply its Mega Evolution was scrapped. Jynx is infamously controversial Pokémon what could lead to that decision. What's interesting, this list predicted Latias and Latios also getting Mega Evolution that were revealed to be in Pokémon OmegaRuby and Alpha Sapphire, but they also exist in Pokémon X and Y gamecode. In 2020, another rumor about Mega Jynx started when a Jynx like cry was found in Pokémon HOME.
  • Due to the fandom of Pokémon creating their own ideas for Pokémon they sometimes happen to make the same name as an official Pokémon created later.
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