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Leaks and/or Rumours Thread

blitzle stan

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Yeah I’m kinda back on the “I’m sick of this” train just with how this whole past week had been pages and pages of thinking about a series of seven abstract clues that all led to the vague notion that SOMETHING rides ONE of the legendaries at some point in the game.

That’s a new level of vague and just playing around with the community, especially with how drawn out it was. Zekrom and Lugia aren’t even ridden by the player character, so don’t even get your hopes up that this means the player actually rides the legendary. It could just be another vague hint within a vague hint that the legendary has vehicle design inspiration but is NOT ridden EVER.

Idk this whole thing was just so excessive. I liked the monthly riddles where it was clearly hinting at a certain Pokémon or a certain thing, but this feels different in a bad way.
 

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Yeah I’m kinda back on the “I’m sick of this” train just with how this whole past week had been pages and pages of thinking about a series of seven abstract clues that all led to the vague notion that SOMETHING rides ONE of the legendaries at some point in the game.

That’s a new level of vague and just playing around with the community, especially with how drawn out it was. Zekrom and Lugia aren’t even ridden by the player character, so don’t even get your hopes up that this means the player actually rides the legendary. It could just be another vague hint within a vague hint that the legendary has vehicle design inspiration but is NOT ridden EVER.

Idk this whole thing was just so excessive. I liked the monthly riddles where it was clearly hinting at a certain Pokémon or a certain thing, but this feels different in a bad way.
Yeah, I do agree that this hasn't been his best riddle.

I wonder if the timing has something to do with it, considering we're due for another trailer right around this time. We know he doesn't know trailer info much in advance, but he may have gotten wind of something dropping soon and decided to drag it out? At least, I hope as much, because it feels like everything's been gearing up for one but we still haven't gotten an announcement yet.
 

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As far as we know, he's supposedly said he'd start putting out more of these posts when we're close to some actual official news, which I keep hoping we'll get VERY soon. Hopefully before June even. Part of me isn't even sure we'll get an announcement tomorrow since Hisuian Snow is being released tomorrow.
 
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As far as we know, he's supposedly said he'd start putting out more of these posts when we're close to some actual official news, which I keep hoping we'll get VERY soon. Hopefully before June even. Part of me isn't even sure we'll get an announcement tomorrow since Hisuian Snow is being released tomorrow.
Hisuian Snow and the Home update, and there's a Masters thing starting the day after... really seems like prime time to post a Presents about everything happening.

I guess the Home update already happened, though.
 

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Hisuian Snow and the Home update, and there's a Masters thing starting the day after... really seems like prime time to post a Presents about everything happening.

I guess the Home update already happened, though.
Home update did launch, but they're still under maintenance. Part of me questions it, because I don't know if announcing something tomorrow would take away from Hisuian Snow, but with all of this stuff happening and out of the way, it is time for a big SV news drop.
 

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Home update did launch, but they're still under maintenance. Part of me questions it, because I don't know if announcing something tomorrow would take away from Hisuian Snow, but with all of this stuff happening and out of the way, it is time for a big SV news drop.
Nah maintenance has apparently been over for a few minutes now.

 

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Actually the whole thing was about Violet's legendary, who has something to do with the dog with wheels. May be vehicle-based.

Here, someone made a good reconstruction of the teaser Khu gave us-
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That "track a trail" wording also feels like a hint to me.

Pokozzo pretty much solved it
 

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Gotta be honest I feel completely opposite. This is something almost nobody guessed, especially not at first. I don’t really care about the riddle format one way or another, and honestly mostly agree that it’s kinda annoying, but this seems like such a bizarre reveal that it’s actually got me extremely curious and excited to see how riding the legendary plays out in the game
 

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Seriously, this is where Khu is crossing lines. We already had the full collage, so going out of your way to add this comment about Centro is completely uncalled for and unnecessary. He comes across as a bully because of it.
 
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Ignoring the Centro part because I'm good at that, I am leaning more towards the vehicle idea now that he was so specific about this introducing us to just the Violet Legend. So that's a thing, and a weird thing to pick to tease at that because we are probably going to see the legends revealed officially anyways sometime in like the next month.
 

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So from the various posts we can conclude that Khu: Likes both box legendaries, thinks SV has a lot of cool designs, but finds the starters Meh (From his post right after the poll that was never shown here)

Anyways as for that above, I am guessing the violet Legendary specifically has a Motif about being rideable while the Scarlet legendary just... is rideable without being designed around it.
 

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If Violet legend ends up being some horrendous monstrosity, I won't be able to take Khu's word on anything subjective. But to nitpick, I think Khu specifically said that "meh" would be everyone else's reaction, not his necessarily. But I can live with "meh". He didn't say we'd be angry or upset, so maybe that means no overly anthro designs.
 

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All 3 of them being "Meh" Is honestly better than other starter trio's, Usually they have at least one I don't like so i'll take a Trio that i don't hate any member of even if i don't particularly love any member of either. But I also liked a lot of PLA pokemon that I recall Khu saying he didn't like or that the fandom wouldn't like so y'know.
 

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So the mascots have different motifs but function the same, and Khu personally likes the Violet one more.

Not really anything at all to go off there. Literally every mascot pair has a different motif but functions the same. Lmao

Again, can’t even assume anything about the Violet one beyond “it’s vaguely vehicular and/or gets ridden by someone at some point”.
 

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What he thinks about the starters is subjective. While they may be meh to him, they could be awesome to many. I'd consider Fuecoco_3 great if its real.

Yeah, I find it to be a very tight, solid design even if I felt that there would've been "more". But that can just be me and others being trained to expect "more" due to the past three starter evos we've had.
 
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