Official Pre-Pokémon Sword & Pokémon Shield Speculation & Leaks thread

[Lixarion]

View: https://twitter.com/The_BlckPhnx/status/1097026841917960192?s=19


Crown and scepter again....

 

[Poke Dragon]

View: https://twitter.com/The_BlckPhnx/status/1097026841917960192?s=19


Crown and sceptre again....

Still considering this as fake until Pokemon themselves announce it. (If ever)

 

[AngryBinacle]

Plenty of people that could make those animations.

 

[Silktree]

Surely that's easy to fake.

 

[Scruffyjay]

I still love the names Crown and Sceptre even if everyone else doesn't. But it's just a bandwagon to make fake crown & sceptre stuff lately. No way that's real.

 

[ParasectfulDreams]

So, this is probably not the best indicator that it's fake, but I wanna throw out there that the hashtag is #PokemonCrownAndScepter, but the hashtag for SM (iirc) was #PokemonSunMoon, without an "and" in between the two titles. That might not mean much, to be fair, but I think it might add some points to it being fake (granted, we all seem to agree that it is, but I thought I'd throw it out there anyway). Not sure if any of the other games' hashtags included an "and" or not, but based on SM's, I'd say that they try to use as few characters for the hashtag as they can while still saying the whole titles, so they'd leave "and" out because it's not technically a part of the titles.

 

[Oriden]

View: https://twitter.com/The_BlckPhnx/status/1097026841917960192?s=19


Crown and scepter again....

What is with those goddamn logos. We've seen them enough on fake artwork at this point and yet they still keep trying to push them. Someone just doesn't know when to give up. >=/

Also there doesn't appear to be a release date on there beyond just saying 2019. They could have at least picked a day if they wanted to be convincing. No way we're getting a title drop without a release date.

 

[Defiant]

People are pointing out in the Masuda tweet of Weedle from Go he makes an odd reference "got a bee dollar" no idea what that means, but more interestingly:

In addition to the 226 candy suggesting February 26,
the CP is 199 which is the ID number for SlowKING/YadoKING and
the weight is 4.16 kg , 416 is the ID Number for VespiQUEN/BeeQUEN

 

[Oriden]

People are pointing out in the Masuda tweet of Weedle from Go he makes an odd reference "got a bee dollar" no idea what that means, but more interestingly:

In addition to the 226 candy suggesting February 26,
the CP is 199 which is the ID number for SlowKING/YadoKING and
the weight is 4.16 kg , 416 is the ID Number for VespiQUEN/BeeQUEN

Bee dollar is the crappy twitter translation for weedle- Masuda apparently posted it because it's the first weedle he's found in a long while.

Also gonna throw in that yes, the numbers are quite a coincidence but no, Masuda surely did not hack a weedle with those stats into his game or post an image of a photoshopped weedle.

 

[Blast]

This is just my opinion, but I think examing every single digit on Masuda's phone screen in Pokémon Go is almost as ridiculous as looking for hints hidden in the food he has for lunch. The man has a full-time job at a game company, surely he wouldn't spend hours trying to catch a Weedle with the exact weight and CP or whatever to give out some ultra cryptic hint that almost no one would figure out anyway.

 

[Defiant]

This is just my opinion, but I think examing every single digit on Masuda's phone screen in Pokémon Go is almost as ridiculous as looking for hints hidden in the food he has for lunch. The man has a full-time job at a game company, surely he wouldn't spend hours trying to catch a Weedle with the exact weight and CP or whatever to give out some ultra cryptic hint that almost no one would figure out anyway.

Oh come on, Februrary 26th, a king pokemon and a queen pokemon all in the same tweet when he's been proven to tweet crpytic hints in the past is a bit more than a coincidence.
If it was just the 1 number, then yeah easily dismiss it, but all 3 at once?

In terms of spending hours to get the exact stats, he can most likely edit/set the Pokemon stats he wants, because yknow he's Masuda.

 

[Oriden]

Oh come on, Februrary 26th, a king pokemon and a queen pokemon all in the same tweet when he's been proven to tweet crpytic hints in the past is a bit more than a coincidence.
If it was just the 1 number, then yeah easily dismiss it, but all 3 at once?

People are also conveniently ignoring the other numbers in the image because they don't tie in with their theory.

 

[Poke Dragon]

Or the other numbers don't matter when looking for hints in Masuda's tweets. Not everything shown in the tweet will be used for hints.

 

[PkmnTrainerV]

View: https://twitter.com/The_BlckPhnx/status/1097026841917960192?s=19


Crown and scepter again....

There are literally entire fanmade trailers out there (some even featuring new gameplay).

It would be a cakewalk for someone with even an inkling of that experience.

For instance:

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cbHkSVH5LkA

 

[Icy Wind]

Or the other numbers don't matter when looking for hints in Masuda's tweets.

Why do certain numbers matter, but others don’t? Seems like a double standard.

 

[RileyXY1]

Crown and Sceptre has already been proven fake. Clearly, people didn't get the message.

 

[Oriden]

Or the other numbers don't matter when looking for hints in Masuda's tweets. Not everything shown in the tweet will be used for hints.

So Masuda hacked a weedle to have 199 CP and weigh 4.16kg for the sake of an obscure hint but didn't care about its 74hp or 0.33m height?

 

[Poke Dragon]

Why do certain numbers matter, but others don’t? Quite the double standard.

Because they are random, that's why they don't make sense. The number of candies for example, isn't random and thus, able to make hints out of them.

 

[Poke Dragon]

So Masuda hacked a weedle to have 199 CP and weigh 4.16kg for the sake of an obscure hint but didn't care about its 74hp or 0.33m height?

Nope, the weight and cp points are random, what's not random is the number of candies. That number is the only one that matters when making the hint.

 

[Icy Wind]

Because they are random, that's why they don't make sense. The number of candies for example, isn't random and thus, able to make hints out of them.

Why is the number of candies any less random than the amount of cp points? This makes no sense at all.