Official Pokémon Sword and Shield speculation thread (Updated June 5th, 2019)

[RileyXY1]

What were the grass and water ones paired with that?? Generally curious now.

The grass starter was also a monkey, while the water starter was a platypus. The leak was originally posted in February of last year.

 

[BlindCaptainDrip]

The grass starter was also a monkey, while the water starter was a platypus. The leak was originally posted in February of last year.

Oh, gotcha. I remember that now, thanks.

 

[SodiumChloride]

Mabye all gyms take place in these stadiums

 

[RileyXY1]

Mabye all gyms take place in these stadiums

I don't think that's happening.

 

[Almonds]

Seeing the industrial areas, I'm assuming Meltan to be in these games?

 

[badwolf1234]

So much ready for this game right now im leaning to pokemon shield and my partner would be sobble no matter what since Im all water type starter all the way!

The cold of the region really gives me a Sinnoh vibes along with the elegance of Kalos but right now I felt it s too linear at the moment but what if we could challenge the gyms in any order?

My specultion:
*Gyms would be a broadcast sports like arena
*Theme would be nature vs technology

I watched a video that is very much interesting here watch it below:


View: https://youtu.be/bHHTM_0yHYc

 

[Cresselia92]

PLEASE TELL ME THIS IS FAKE

Suppose leak of the final evolution of the fire starter.

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I'm so sorry idk how to put spoiler warning

I find this kind of change a tad too drastic, tbh. There is no reference to Scorbunny's design about turning into a sort of... mecha-rabbit.

It's a cool design, imo, but seems a bit fake-y to me right now.

 

[RileyXY1]

Seeing the industrial areas, I'm assuming Meltan to be in these games?

I don't think that Meltan will play any role in these games.

 

[Knightwolf09]

I don't think that's happening.

Well there's a lot of them spread across the region, I think there's 8

 

[Adelon]

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I've done some research and have come up with what location in the Galar Region is which. Yes some areas are not as accurate as in real life, but hey, that's Pokemon for you.

Great map

 

[Scruffyjay]

Those fakes (with the fire rabbit and grass lemur and water platypus) were by a specific artist (50shadesofheliosk) who came out about it, and they also made evolutions for them. So unless they work for gamefreak, no, those are not original versions of the gen 8 starters.



View: https://twitter.com/leopold65107856/status/970644600485568513

 

[SinnohEevee]

I don't think that Meltan will play any role in these games.

No offense. I see you many times saying something like "I don't think XYZ Is true/false" but I would like if you elaborate.

 

[RileyXY1]

No offense. I see you many times saying something like "I don't think XYZ Is true/false" but I would like if you elaborate.

Meltan is not a Gen 8 Pokemon. Why do people think otherwise?

 

[dvor]

Well, that was fast.

Spoiler

 

[Serpy]

So do you guys think we'll get any Galaran forms?

 

[Knightwolf09]

So do you guys think we'll get any Galaran forms?

I'm still iffy if regional variants was just an alola thing

 

[Kumo59]

I almost read Galaran as Galran and started laughing at myself.

 

[LuxrayOfTheWild]

So today we got the reveal trailer with a good look at the starters, in game graphics, and the Galar Region. Going off of what we know from past hype train rides to the launch, we can kinda expect our next major bit of news to not happen for a couple more months. X and Y, and Sun and Moon did have about two to three months before we started getting any real news from corocoro and official news releases. I wanna say they'll continue to do the monthly trailers. though we probably won't get the first big one until May.

 

[TechSkylander1518]

Meltan is not a Gen 8 Pokemon. Why do people think otherwise?

I don't think people are speculating on Meltan being involved because they count it as Gen 8, they're just speculating because it didn't get much lore and they're hoping it might get more for these games. (like how Zygarde got more in Gen 7)

 

[nostone]

Meltan is not a Gen 8 Pokemon. Why do people think otherwise?

Meltan is Gen 8...why would you say otherwise?