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

[SodiumChloride]

Yeah. It's completely ridiculous. And, this will screw over the anime too.

Not really. The anime is in an alternate reality, so it could be a reality where meania and kanto are compleatly different places

 

[TechSkylander1518]

Writing yourself into a corner where you can't reuse any NPCs is already a bad idea, but it's especially so right after Gen 7, which featured a character traveling to Kanto for a new journey (Lillie/Gladion), an unexplained NPC (Ryuki), and made a point of bringing back characters as far as 20 years ago. (Red and Blue)

If GF really wanted to do one region with another region under its seas, they could just...make a new region that's underwater? Boom, now that region's been gone hundreds of years and all our characters are still around.

 

[Silktree]

Call it Atlantis.

 

[RileyXY1]

Writing yourself into a corner where you can't reuse any NPCs is already a bad idea, but it's especially so right after Gen 7, which featured a character traveling to Kanto for a new journey (Lillie/Gladion), an unexplained NPC (Ryuki), and made a point of bringing back characters as far as 20 years ago. (Red and Blue)

If GF really wanted to do one region with another region under its seas, they could just...make a new region that's underwater? Boom, now that region's been gone hundreds of years and all our characters are still around.

Yeah. I don't think that GF will do something as drastic as drop the most iconic region in the franchise under the ocean and kill all of its inhabitants.

 

[SodiumChloride]

Yeah. I don't think that GF will do something as drastic as drop the most iconic region in the franchise under the ocean and kill all of its inhabitants.

They could have just left or evactuated...

 

[Silktree]

Millions of people and Pokemon without any casualties? Eh.

Not that it matters when the rumor is strictly about Pallet Town and Piuk has no credibility. He's just good at getting attention.

 

[Lillie Blossoms]

I'll never take that Piuk guy seriously with his "leaks" the fact that he was going on before about Gen 8 with Sri Lanka and Ground/Flying type Eeveelutions and the airplane with something relating to Unova or Alola. And NOW he's going on with this totally not BotW stuff....and one thing that pisses me off is that you really think they have ALL these beloved characters in the series to this point to be killed off just like that like GONE no more cameo battles or appearances hell no....I'm 100% don't believe this one bit sound like a big pile of BS...

 

[Aizen44]

Trime travel could be a thing here, as someone mentioned before i think. Maybe in switch games the protagonist is willingly or unwillingly drawn to a future kanto. But all in all the future thing doesn‘t seem likely to me too, if it was travelling to the past, then it could work like f. ex. to prevent a coming apocalypse on kanto.

Oh wait actually i have an idea, where the future thing could work. Reffering to piuks posted line:“ Hundreds of years ago, this submerged town gave birth to one of the most famous trainers of all times. It’s name was Pallet Town.”
Maybe the future kanto is in danger and Red is known in the future kanto as a legendary trainer, so they need his help. So as he is probably dead in the future, they go get the red from the past. This could work with the anime too, where ash is the legendary trainer to save the future and when mission is done he travels back in time. That way no pokemon or npcs are killed off.

Just thoughts, i don‘t think any of this will happen.

 

[Riahi]

How will that screw over the anime? Ash never ages so he can be the MC even 100 years later.
No but seriously the anime doesnt hold back the games, it's the anime that adapts to the games

 

[LeukaHaruhana]

I'd rather have a Kanto 100 years later rather than a complete remake of the firsts games.

 

[RileyXY1]

How will that screw over the anime? Ash never ages so he can be the MC even 100 years later.
No but seriously the anime doesnt hold back the games, it's the anime that adapts to the games

But, that will create a massive problem for the anime.

 

[Aizen44]

But, that will create a massive problem for the anime.

Not if ash time travels to a possible future kanto, but yeah i think piuk is bullshit too.

 

[WallflowerCanyon]

Call it Atlantis.

Bruh don't you mean Pokelantis

How will that screw over the anime? Ash never ages so he can be the MC even 100 years later.

If that boi doesn't age past 10 years old once he reaches 100 I would like to know what botox doctor he goes to.

 

[LeukaHaruhana]

Or they could make a new protagonist that isn't Ash.

 

[SodiumChloride]

View: https://twitter.com/Nintendokusou/status/994722582527119360?s=19

 

[William-Jdubz]

The anime has incorporated time travel before as well as alternative dimensions so the anime wouldn’t be too badly impacted if the claims are true.

 

[SGD]

Or they could make a new protagonist that isn't Ash.

We all know that's not going to happen for a long time, if ever because of two reasons, Pikachu and primarily MARKETING!
Were it not for that simple reason and Pikachu being the Mascot, I imagine they would've replaced Ash already, probably following a similar method as Yu-Gi-Oh! where they bring in a new Protagonist every series, and needless to say we all know Pokémon could easily have done the same.
But ya know, gotta keep Pikachu around somehow, and Ash is their best way of doing that.

View: https://twitter.com/Nintendokusou/status/994722582527119360?s=19

…Well fu-Nothing we can do but wait and see!

 

[lavandula]

"They won't just kill off everybody"
What about reincarnations?

Or maybe not the whole game is set in the future, but a time slip happens during the game.
It's not too far fetch'ed if we can get to ultra space in USUM.
Moreover, time slip has happened in other Pokemon games.

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[Ashura]

What did the Japanese riddler post?

 

[Ashura]

View: https://twitter.com/ClouzSensei/status/994684139948429313

Woah...