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

[Grass Type Gardenia]

Also, Ryuki means "Black Nightshade", a plant that is native of Europe, specifically ancient Britain

Black Nightshade was part of the native flora of the island until agriculture came about. But with Britain mentioned, along with Ryuki's Rock Star attire, he could might as well be more of a hint than we thought.

Still, I can't seem to translate the word on Google, so where did you get the translation?

 

[Lauralegal]

Still, I can't seem to translate the word on Google, so where did you get the translation?

Bulbapedia

 

[Grass Type Gardenia]

Bulbapedia

I was going to edit before you told me, which is where I found the info.

 

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@Champion Cynthia

Please stop telling people what to do, you’re not staff and you have no authority over anyone. If you have a problem with a post, report it and the forum staff will deal with it.

 

[Cainhxrst]

Sword and Shield are my favorite names to have come out of these rumors easily

 

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Sword and Shield are my favorite names to have come out of these rumors easily

I think those are pretty good names too. It’s less ambigious than Crown and Sceptre.

 

[Takumi_Tarou]

Translation of that 4chan leak for those who care to read it; apologies if this was
translated already:

Spoiler

Pocket Monster Ken (Sword) and Pocket Monster Tate (Shield). Area is based on London/England.
There will be 120 new Pokemon. Announcement trailer will released on February 12th.

That honestly sounds like the most believable rumor so far. Short, sweet and to the point. Probably still fake, but February sounds closer to what I'd expect anyway. (Especially since Giga Wrecker was just basically "announced.")

Again its for me the most suspicious and least believable leak of them all.
First is that GF doesn't give games japanese titles since gold and silver.
But still i'm team england though, but the japanese and titles makes everything suspicious.

 

[RK9]

Sword and Shield are my favorite names to have come out of these rumors easily

Do you want the Steel/Ghost-type Aegislash, the Ghost/Steel-type Aegislash or the Steel and Ghost-type Aegislash as your starter?

 

[KiranTheWitch]

So if nothing this week, does that mean nothing this MONTH too?

 

[Oriden]

These leaks seem more legit to me than any of the others. Real leaks wouldn't just drop a ton of legitimate info like that. They'd be more scarce, like real leaks in the past have been.

Only legitimate if it's real- personally, I don't buy it because Google translate translated it too cleanly.

Plus if all leaks have to do to sound real now is say two names, give a number of pokemon, a location the region could be based on, and a trailer date... someone's gotta tell the fake leakers they're trying too hard. We could get hundreds of those easily with that level of effort.

I think you're right about the legit leaks being scarce on detail, but it's usually detail on interesting new features, not just generic things like how many pokemon there are.

 

[techitisJ]

So if nothing this week, does that mean nothing this MONTH too?

We still have 21 days left in this month, so this month still has lots of time to announce and reveal something

Idk if it will happen, but we still have time

 

[Myth]

I think it's safe to say we will have nothing this week.

 

[Oriden]

I'll be pleasantly surprised if we get anything this month... assuming it doesn't lead into another "spoil everything" news cycle.

 

[PocketMonster]

Would they do Feburary 5th? Lunar New Year.

 

[Grass Type Gardenia]

If a leak has been proven correct once in the past, then what makes us think that it would happen a second time?

 

[Icy Wind]

Would they do Feburary 5th? Lunar New Year.

February 5th is a Saturday, so no.

 

[PocketMonster]

February 5th is a Saturday, so no.

Tuesday This year

 

[Icy Wind]

Tuesday This year

Ah right, I was looking at January 5th.

 

[Grass Type Gardenia]

Imagine a Pokemon Region similar to Skyrim?

 

[Oriden]

If a leak has been proven correct once in the past, then what makes us think that it would happen a second time?

I don't understand this statement, what are you asking?