5:32 is Skitty. or the beta Skitty (tail and ears gave it away) 14:19 Scrapped evolution of sableye? (based on its gem like eyes) also looks like a combination of Elgyem
Grovyle was originally not a starter Pokémon. There was a leak a few years ago showing unused/early dex entries for Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire (you can find it on the cutting room floor) It describes a Pokémon like Grovyle, but rather, a fossil Pokémon instead. That's why this early Grovyle looks nothing like a grass type
Kind of wild to know Blazitias (Blaziken/Latias) was actually implemented in the game, before they separated it into Blaziken and Latias; never thought it went further than the concept design.
@@crh1985 @TheRealLazyBacon He knows. The concept art is old news. The sprite is not. He was surprised that that they got as far as making a sprite of Blaziken-Latias.
Austin, I rarely, if ever, write comments on RUclips. But I gotta commend your effort on keeping this leak stuff very clean and just fun without spoiling anything. You're very wholesome and just the best
same here, I was tempted to have a look at those spoiler leaks but decided against it. I can wait. I just hope it doesn't cause them to change anything withhin the plot just to go against these leaks.
it's also odd that apparently instead of being split up into blaziken and latias initially according to this it once awkwardly coexisted with the latis??
I think I can figure out a few that you couldn’t. 2:15 hard to know for sure, but since it seem kinda like a flower I’m going to guess it’s roserade 2:30 I don’t think it’s ursaring considering ursaring was in gen 2 and already figured out by this stage, but maybe a beta evolution of ursaring? 2:51 you kinda zoom by them but I’m pretty sure the one on the left is shiftree as it resembles a tengu, which is what shiftree is based on 3:08 that’s back when blaziken and latias were once one Pokémon in the beta stages. We’ve had beta art of it for years but this is the first time we’ve seen a sprite! 4:08 small thing but that’s Lotad, not Lombre 4:38 you correctly identify this as Masquerain but got their gen wrong lol 5:18 not sure about the one on the left but the right is definitely skitty based on the tail and ears 5:45 that’s shroomish! What a cute beta design! 5:52 it’s a stretch but I think it’s jirachi based on the star shaped head
Guess for stuff probably mispell a few names 2:53 looks like shiftree and maybe the green/grey thing is seviper or zangoose 3:01 maybe whismers beta design 3:48 the beetle could be volbeet 4:23 the doll idk shuppet maybe 5:14 red guy could be a pikaclone but the other is skitty 5:45 the orange puffball shroomish and the other maybe wurmple 5:56 I think burmy might be gen 3 so maybe that 12:19 maybe drudagon that single stage dragon from gen 5 14:40 maybe a cubcho middle stage or another design they had
The reason Stunfisk was blue is probably because it was originally a water type. Gamefreak has stated that Stunfisk was changed to a ground/electric late in development, for balancing purposes.
Honestly Game Freak should do a podcast or something of their beta design from Gen 1 to now. Ones that didn't make it into the cut. I like learning what was basic design to what it is now.
They're too obsessed with violating other companies in order to make that type of content. They barely reach out to fans and all they ever do is think about how else they can make pokemon into a new app. Look at pokemon sleep, it's ridiculous. Pokemon Go has died down quite a lot, Pokemon Masters EX doesn't get as much hype as it used to, and Unite has lost quite a few of its players. They heavily depend on the mainline pokemon games for hype and a continued player base, and while that is obvious, them being their main interest for fans, it is also a detriment for constant profits when all your fans do is buy and play your main game, ignore the rest and drop the game once the hype is dead. Look at SV, and the time lapse till ZA. Pokemon is forgotten till then for the most part.
Violating other companies? wtf The rest is also merely your unfounded opinion. Raid lobbies in SV fill up very quick everytime there's a new raid. Just because *you* forget Pokemon inbetween games, it doesn't mean that everyone else is doing so as well.
@@ugn154Yeah like the other guy said, Pokémon doesn’t just rely on their mainline games. They still have plenty of players on all of their spin-offs, and you completely left out the TCG. A game doesn’t have to have tons of hype for people to still play and enjoy it. Not to sound like a nerd, but Pokémon is an absolutely ginormous company that can never just be forgotten. Just cause you only play the mainline games and nothing else, doesn’t mean everybody else just forgets about Pokémon too.
@@ugn154 Yeah, I think it's a culture thing and lot of game freaks higher up are all old dudes. Also don't mistake Game Freak and Nintendo who wanna protect all their assets. lol
We knew Sharpedo stemmed from the twice-scrapped shark design from the Gen1/Gen2 leaks, but seeing it with the tail finally fills in the missing link between those designs, super cool.
Mm-hmm, but what I want from them is what team they would each use as a post-game boss. Any stated favorites is immediately added to the team(Ishihara-san has Exeggutor and Pelipper, need four more, for example. Source is Bulbapedia. I know, but where else?). Masuda could be the catch tutorial, with the player and about five new children trainers watching(The player won’t see the children after that). Masuda sends out his favorite, Psyduck, to catch a Route one ‘mon of whatever and before that, the dialogue is: “I can tell you’re not new to this, friend. But let’s have the kids learn how to catch a Pokémon, okay? You don’t have to participate.” Then it goes to the player able to roam free. A kid mentions the Psyduck if one chooses not to see the catch tutorial. The player is 16 years old with a 19 year old brother. I should stop talking unless this idea somehow fascinates somebody… If you have more ideas, let me know. I am a very observant person.
The sad part is, a lot of lower level nintendo employees, rather than the high brass, got doxxed to obtain the leak. I am not pro nintendo as a cooperation, but the fact a bunch of the Larry/everymans got doxxed in the process of obtaining these leaks feels dirty
8:14 I'm just looking at glimmora with legs. Maybe glimmora was planned for gen 3? Scapped then ultimately picked back up? The face is exactly what Glimmora's entire frontal design looks like
My guesses for the Gen 3 sprites 2:15 Maybe Roselia? 2:37 Beta Rayquaza who was a white serpent according to a previous leak 2:51 Tengulist, that's definitely a Tengu 3:10 Early Corphish line? The colours match. 5:16 The one on the right is Beta Skitty, it has the same tail; the one on the left is maybe an early idea for the Whismur line. The big ears look a bit like speakers and their signature ability also exists under a different name in the game files 5:46 Shroomish but its personality took a 180° turn, colours are also similiar to Beta Breloom 7:26 Early idea for the Slakoth line, Slaking resembles a Gorilla more than a Sloth
I was thinking that might've been beta-Rayquaza, it definitely has more bird-like aspects than its final design, which fits with the theory that it's supposedly inspired by Ziz, some gigantic bird from hebrew mythology iirc.
2:15 is a cut spider lily pokemon, a bug/psychic type that mimics plants (the dex forge 3 leaked years ago, you can look it up, I can try and put a link later)
Soon as I saw about all the news I was thinking to myself, I really wish I could go some where to see scrapped ideas but still NOT be spoiled for the upcoming games and boom, Austin! We can always rely on you. Thankyou for being such a stand out member of RUclips community
4:50 this isn’t the first beta Sharpedo we’ve seen. The Spaceworld Gold and Silver beta has a shark Pokemon, Anchorage, with an anchor for a tail. Our new leak here looks in between that and the final Sharpedo design. Spaceworld also had beta Huntail, which evolved from Anchorage
I’m so upset sharpedo doesn’t have a tail. Get rid of the first design’s face and put sharpedo there cuz it’s better, but please keep the tail it was such a disappointment to see what could’ve been.
Gen I also had a cut shark design named Jaggu (not sure what people have decided to call it in English). However, if I were to choose the shark design I liked the most, it'd be Anchorage. It seems Game Freak had wanted to make one for a while, and even this design is quite different from what we got.
I saw that Blaziken Latias was a Delibird evo 2:51 shiftry 3:44 manetric evo 4:23 baltoy 6:29 applin 11:11 i think it's still wash rotom just not using a western design A lot of pokemon combined and separated into 2 pokemon
It's not a bidet, it's a top-loading washing machine. In Japan they are popular due to apartment size restrictions and they often have semi-transparent loading top door so you can watch the swirling
Sprite Timestamps 1:55 Could be the base for Scorbunny 3:52 Looks like Snom 5:25 Looks like Skitty 5:37 Could be the base for Vespiquen 5:44 Looks like they split that up into Breloom and Lilligant 5:56 Looks like they split that up into Brosly and Ferroseed 6:03 Looks like Litwick 6:29 Could be the base for Phantump 6:43 Could be the base for Bellibolt (I find this a strech myself) 6:45 The white/purple mon also looks very familiair, might be Zangoose idk. 6:46 Could be the base of Cosmog 7:23 Call me, crazy but I see a early Delphox here 7:27 Could be the base for Slaking (I find this a strech myself) 8:14 This is giving me a bit of Glimmora vibes 8:16 Could be the inspiration for the Stoutland and Maschiff line 8:39 Could be the base for Mienshao line 12:19 Might be the base for Chesnaught
Before this becomes a thing. My first comment was: "Let me introduce you to Scorbunny" After that I edited my comment and made this list. Austin's replay was to my initial comment.
10:48 That shade of purple is often used to indicate transparency in spritesheets. So it was probably meant to go over a white or otherwise bright background.
2:36 - Huntail? Haunt tail, so a ghost fish thing. 2:52 - Shiftry and not too sure on the other one. 2:55 - Might be Torkoal. 3:06 - Might be Corphish. 3:10 - Blaziken and Latias. 3:23 - Either early Snorunt or a scraped Snorunt evo. 3:24 - Scrapped Manectric evo. 3:42 - Medicham? 3:48 - Volbeat. 4:09 - Lotad. 4:33 - Seedot. 4:34 - Masquerain. 4:43 - Sableye, looking through a magnifying glass (Thats why the eye is big there) 5:25 - Skitty. 5:44 - Looks like Smoochum could also be early Budew and the other one is Shroomish. 6:45 - Zangoose. 8:02 - Xatu? 8:14 - Roselia?
Dr. Lava once wrote that Game Freak was going to reboot Pokemon completely in the third generation and based on the leaked concept art, Pokemon would have gone more edgier and darker direction, lookin more Monster Hunter -like style. However, the three-legged Cacturne monster and the Unown stone abomination is still interesting concepts.
This is the best kind of leak. Not spoilers, not speculation, just neat history bits that we wouldn't have known otherwise. Seeing the early design process is really cool. 2:50 The one on the left is probably Shiftry, the geta on the feet and the long nose scream 'plant tengu' 4:24 Looks like maybe proto-Shuppet. 5:20 Skitty probably, by the tail. 9:28 a box turtle! 9:47 Maybe proto-Baltoy 15:30 I really respect that. Thank you!
I love the idea of Water starters not being an aquatic animal! The only time that's happened so far is Sobble. Grass starters aren't just plants. Fire starts aren't all animals commonly associated with fire. So it always seemed lopsided that almost all Water starters were aquatic animals.
5:32 It looks like Skitty. 7:05 Either Spinda, Alcremie or their love child? 8:32 Vulpix and Mienfoo, the color scheme looks like Mienfoo's. 8:32 Stunky/Vulpix hybrid? 12:19 Rock/Ground type Carracosta? 12:25 Baby Mew/Azurill? 13:38 Tornadus/Deoxys hybrid? 14:22 Mer-Sableye or Sableye from the Marsh?
So much pain in the first 5 minutes: - "Ursaring before it became a brown bear." - That's Beartic - "Lombre" - That's DEFINITELY Lotad - "Is Masquerain gen 3? No, it's not." - Yes it is???
Also thinking it's a beta Ursaring design is extra funny because Ursaring is a Gen2 'mon Why would it have a beta design in the games _after_ its debut
Thanks for showing these! Data breaches are scary stuff, and thank you for taking spoilers and personal data seriously. I feel like they should have released these sprites officially since they're now 15-20 years old and it'd be fun for anniversary stuff
I think at 3:01 The “vacuum mon” is actually Gulpin and Swalot because their dex entries talk about them being able to swallow huge objects like a tire in Swalots dex entry. And they kind of resemble them. But later on the video at around 8:00 we see a different mon that looks a lot more like Gulpin or Swalot.
4:48 I think that Sableye is holding a piece of glass of some sort that is magnifying its eye. You can kinda see from the other squinted eye that it has the same pupil.
Cool and much apreciated you're doing this, I mean many of the gen 3-4 leaks were already out such as that Blaziken Lati in the thumbnail a couple years ago, but more of it is always cool. Especially as I state in another comment it could mean we see these designs in the future. I like Flygon's colors... but I don't like bald Flygon lol, needs his Antenna.
5:23 I don't know the bunny neo pet thing, the other is Skitty the tail gives it away. 5:45 shroomis prior to being green and eyes change to angry. 8:02 looks like a hummingbird but also a book and the tail is a bookmark.the inner tube rabbit reminds me of Buizel and Flotzel. 2:33 Usaring is gen 2 is more beartic beta. 3:23 Snover then Abomasnow looks like were not part of the same evo line.
13:06 I like the implication that the beta Emboar line is getting darker as it evolves because the pork is getting cooked more and more. I imagine that the beta for Tepig would be more pink than orange.
I guess so with the tail feathers, but it obviously has a lot of duck mixed in there. I always interpreted it as more a anthropomorphic duck wearing the brazilian Carnival costume.
@@RealLifeIronMan It's exactly that, a Carnaval duck, if you think about it, it's like a convergent evolution with peacocks, both are different species, but have similar features that serve the same purpose haha
3:02 Looks like an early version of Bellibolt to me 3:04 looks like an early Klawf 3:51 looks like Snom 5:17 The tail and ears make it clear that thats an early Skitty 5:52 reminds me of Inkay in a weird way 8:31 Early Nickit? 9:13 Early Togedemaru?
“Minun & Plusle are definitely one of the Pokémon you didn’t know” hope this helps and good work on these type of videos I love when you help me out when I am dedicated to completing a game and your a part that helps me so thanks and keep it up ❤
Crazy how the style of the beta UI for gen 3 looks like the UI in gen 5. Kinda strange that they held of that stylized UI for 2 generations. Ngl I miss that cool stylized gen 5 UI, it just hasn’t been the same since and all subsequent UIs just got progressively more boring imo
I actually really like the Water bunny starter. While I like Mudkip, this starter looks really cute and I'm curious what its evolved forms could have been. It's really interesting to see what some Pokemon looked like before their designs were finalized and which ones were scrapped. I am also pretty curious about the anime related leak information. I don't want to risk getting spoiled on future games, but the whole information on why Ash was replaced would be interesting to read.
As much as I found this entertaining, I'm highly disturbed. I would've loved to have a lot of these beta designs as actual pokémon. I would've loved having the Blaziken/Latias crossover. And a lot of these beta designs are better than the final designs. I am highly disappointed that they changed Reshiram and Zekrom. And I'm especially VERY disappointed that they changed the Water Rotom Form. 14:39 Baby Chien-Pao??? That's Gold!!!
They apparently leaked that gen basis based around greece, with starting letters being version K and version N, so i did a lil greek mythology research to find that K could be kratos, greek god of war, or kydoimos greek god of confusion and uproar. Born in the midst of battle(as far as im aware). N could be Nemesis greek goddess of revenge and retribution. Just as a speculation of the box legends for gen 10.
Thank you so much for this video! I certainly don't want to see anything related to future projects outside of e.g. official trailers. Such beta-designs however are always interesting. I find it quite disgusting though, that personal data was leaked as well... 2:22 The Flygon line is based on antlions, not on dragonflies (which by the way have nothing to do with dragons besides their English name) 2:50 My guess would be someone in the Shifrty line, as it has the Tengu 👺 look 3:20 It's really interesting how this Blaziken/Latias/Latios fusion became three different Pokemon in the end 3:50 Looks like the ice-hippo might have turned into Snom somehow 5:25 I believe that might have turned into Skitty 7:45 I do remember Grumpig and I think the final design is prettier but maybe that uglier one would've been more memorable lol 8:10 Very good impression indeed haha 8:50 With most designs I'm happy that they were changed into what they are now, but the storm Castform really is pretty cool 11:05 Rotom Bidet probably would've been too powerful, so they scrapped it... what a fun design 12:20 Gen.5 seems to have had some cool stuff going on. Interesting dragon Pokemon 12:30 I'm glad they were able to make something nice out of that Hydreigon line beta design 12:40 I bet all three monkeys would've been liked more if they were... fat. Looks more likeable lol 12:55 Liepard looks pretty cool and I like the beta Basculin as well I wonder if some of the designs aren't compeltely scrapped and we see some of those in a future Generation as a new Pokemon or regional form. Thank you again for keeping the spoilers out! I can't wait for the next Nintendo Direct / Pokemon Presents for some official news!
2:52 Shiftry on the left 4:10 Lotad 4:42 Masquerain is gen 3 5:16 Skitty on the right 5:36 Vespiquen 6:45 Zigzagoon 6:47 Clearly a Monster Hunter/Digimon thing 😂 7:23 Maybe a really really early Wo-Chien 8:14 Maybe a Sunflora evolution?
If Z-A is mostly complete, then I take it as a good sign that it's not being rushed out in its current state and (presumably) being polished and tested for now
12:39 I need friend shaped Simisear right now c'mon Legends Z-A make it happen. or at the very least put the elemental monkeys in the game they haven't been in a game since SM/USUM and haven't been catchable in the wild since XY
11:10 that's rotom washing machine at least quite similar to the model we had growing up. So much better to load the laundry from the top than the side, not sure why they don't sell those anymore
You have to load them carefully or they'll get off balance and they may not spin the clothes out properly. And they're pretty deep, so good luck getting things out of them if you have mobility issues (or short arms) that might make it difficult to reach down in there.
The shell of clampearl having eyes and the pearl having eyes makes a great design. It becomes a mouth where its tongue is a lure like an alligator snapping turtle
Really wish they released some sort of official artbook or something featuring all the concept art and beta designs. I love to see the process behind game development.
Many of the designs are low key better than what we got, Claydol especially. I wonder how many of these are works in progress that were worked on significantly afterwards?
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5:29 that's skitty!
that is most definitely a skitty
This better be Skitty I don't want it to be spinda xD
Also came to say this 5:27
Dat's a Skitty yup.
That tail... Dead Giveaway!
10:14 now it makes finally sense why Lickitung evolves only with rollout
We got robbed
It’s so much better
@@glumada2 it looks to me like the packaging for the Hubba Bubba Bubble Tape gum.
"Is masquerain even gen 3?", "It's not, okay".
It most definately is Gen 3.....
Me myself was asking me that as he denied it and was going crazy for a bit :O
i look back at my footage and I just did a Control+F and I mistype its name and it say 0 results lol
@@AustinJohnPlays all this craziness for a typo XD have a great day
5:32 is Skitty. or the beta Skitty (tail and ears gave it away)
14:19 Scrapped evolution of sableye? (based on its gem like eyes) also looks like a combination of Elgyem
Meanwhile doesn't even question that Ursaring isn't gen 3
Grovyle was originally not a starter Pokémon.
There was a leak a few years ago showing unused/early dex entries for Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire (you can find it on the cutting room floor)
It describes a Pokémon like Grovyle, but rather, a fossil Pokémon instead. That's why this early Grovyle looks nothing like a grass type
Could it have been a prototype for Archeops?
@electricelephant7471 Yeah that's definitely a possibility
i don't need any leaks for the new games personally but I am absolutely loving all the beta designs and concept art.
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@@AustinJohnPlays how could you?!? and I thought this channel wouldn’t spoil me… 😂
@@AustinJohnPlays you monster 😭😭😭
@@AustinJohnPlays lmao
@@AustinJohnPlays lol that it the entire game has been ruined for me now.
4:45 "looks like he's holding a tm" I think it's supposed to still be a stone and it's magnifying his eye
Kind of wild to know Blazitias (Blaziken/Latias) was actually implemented in the game, before they separated it into Blaziken and Latias; never thought it went further than the concept design.
I think people forget we know of that pokemon for years now when we where shown some gen 3 concept art
This is old news
@@crh1985 @TheRealLazyBacon He knows. The concept art is old news. The sprite is not. He was surprised that that they got as far as making a sprite of Blaziken-Latias.
Wasn’t it confirmed that it was supposed to be a Delibird evolution?
Wrong. Latias and that blaziken design was different
Austin, I rarely, if ever, write comments on RUclips. But I gotta commend your effort on keeping this leak stuff very clean and just fun without spoiling anything. You're very wholesome and just the best
same here, I was tempted to have a look at those spoiler leaks but decided against it. I can wait. I just hope it doesn't cause them to change anything withhin the plot just to go against these leaks.
The blaziken and latias fusion has actually been well known in the community for years but we had never known that they made sprites for it
Why was it a speculation in the first olace
it's also odd that apparently instead of being split up into blaziken and latias initially according to this it once awkwardly coexisted with the latis??
Yeah I felt like I had seen it before, maybe I gaslighted myself tho
It reminds me of the digimon aquilamon i think was his name that big bird from the female
@@kreze9696 There was concept art of an unknown person riding on top of it in concept art.
I think I can figure out a few that you couldn’t.
2:15 hard to know for sure, but since it seem kinda like a flower I’m going to guess it’s roserade
2:30 I don’t think it’s ursaring considering ursaring was in gen 2 and already figured out by this stage, but maybe a beta evolution of ursaring?
2:51 you kinda zoom by them but I’m pretty sure the one on the left is shiftree as it resembles a tengu, which is what shiftree is based on
3:08 that’s back when blaziken and latias were once one Pokémon in the beta stages. We’ve had beta art of it for years but this is the first time we’ve seen a sprite!
4:08 small thing but that’s Lotad, not Lombre
4:38 you correctly identify this as Masquerain but got their gen wrong lol
5:18 not sure about the one on the left but the right is definitely skitty based on the tail and ears
5:45 that’s shroomish! What a cute beta design!
5:52 it’s a stretch but I think it’s jirachi based on the star shaped head
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Guess for stuff probably mispell a few names
2:53 looks like shiftree and maybe the green/grey thing is seviper or zangoose
3:01 maybe whismers beta design
3:48 the beetle could be volbeet
4:23 the doll idk shuppet maybe
5:14 red guy could be a pikaclone but the other is skitty
5:45 the orange puffball shroomish and the other maybe wurmple
5:56 I think burmy might be gen 3 so maybe that
12:19 maybe drudagon that single stage dragon from gen 5
14:40 maybe a cubcho middle stage or another design they had
@@awesomeguy9513to add to this, the water bunny ended up being floatzel and buizel in gen for :D
The reason Stunfisk was blue is probably because it was originally a water type. Gamefreak has stated that Stunfisk was changed to a ground/electric late in development, for balancing purposes.
Honestly Game Freak should do a podcast or something of their beta design from Gen 1 to now. Ones that didn't make it into the cut. I like learning what was basic design to what it is now.
They're too obsessed with violating other companies in order to make that type of content.
They barely reach out to fans and all they ever do is think about how else they can make pokemon into a new app.
Look at pokemon sleep, it's ridiculous. Pokemon Go has died down quite a lot, Pokemon Masters EX doesn't get as much hype as it used to, and Unite has lost quite a few of its players.
They heavily depend on the mainline pokemon games for hype and a continued player base, and while that is obvious, them being their main interest for fans, it is also a detriment for constant profits when all your fans do is buy and play your main game, ignore the rest and drop the game once the hype is dead.
Look at SV, and the time lapse till ZA. Pokemon is forgotten till then for the most part.
Violating other companies? wtf
The rest is also merely your unfounded opinion. Raid lobbies in SV fill up very quick everytime there's a new raid.
Just because *you* forget Pokemon inbetween games, it doesn't mean that everyone else is doing so as well.
@@lukasmihara no, it's fact, and not just my opinion.
@@ugn154Yeah like the other guy said, Pokémon doesn’t just rely on their mainline games. They still have plenty of players on all of their spin-offs, and you completely left out the TCG. A game doesn’t have to have tons of hype for people to still play and enjoy it. Not to sound like a nerd, but Pokémon is an absolutely ginormous company that can never just be forgotten. Just cause you only play the mainline games and nothing else, doesn’t mean everybody else just forgets about Pokémon too.
@@ugn154 Yeah, I think it's a culture thing and lot of game freaks higher up are all old dudes. Also don't mistake Game Freak and Nintendo who wanna protect all their assets. lol
We knew Sharpedo stemmed from the twice-scrapped shark design from the Gen1/Gen2 leaks, but seeing it with the tail finally fills in the missing link between those designs, super cool.
Masuda: We got hacked!
Ishihara: What do they know?
Masuda: Everything…
Mm-hmm, but what I want from them is what team they would each use as a post-game boss. Any stated favorites is immediately added to the team(Ishihara-san has Exeggutor and Pelipper, need four more, for example. Source is Bulbapedia. I know, but where else?).
Masuda could be the catch tutorial, with the player and about five new children trainers watching(The player won’t see the children after that). Masuda sends out his favorite, Psyduck, to catch a Route one ‘mon of whatever and before that, the dialogue is: “I can tell you’re not new to this, friend. But let’s have the kids learn how to catch a Pokémon, okay? You don’t have to participate.” Then it goes to the player able to roam free. A kid mentions the Psyduck if one chooses not to see the catch tutorial. The player is 16 years old with a 19 year old brother.
I should stop talking unless this idea somehow fascinates somebody…
If you have more ideas, let me know. I am a very observant person.
Ishirara: Get Furukawa on the phone, tell him to release the assasins.
@@Lucario1121 deploy nintendo ninjas
The sad part is, a lot of lower level nintendo employees, rather than the high brass, got doxxed to obtain the leak.
I am not pro nintendo as a cooperation, but the fact a bunch of the Larry/everymans got doxxed in the process of obtaining these leaks feels dirty
@@mebreevee they are heroes, we wouldn't have an entire Grimmoire of beta mons without them.
The end justifies the methods
8:14 I'm just looking at glimmora with legs. Maybe glimmora was planned for gen 3? Scapped then ultimately picked back up? The face is exactly what Glimmora's entire frontal design looks like
2:51 I think is the original design for Shrifty
Probably, especially since it’s red like traditional tengu tend to look
"Do we have a peacock Pokemon"
Quaquaval: I can count..... technically? Right guys?
My guesses for the Gen 3 sprites
2:15 Maybe Roselia?
2:37 Beta Rayquaza who was a white serpent according to a previous leak
2:51 Tengulist, that's definitely a Tengu
3:10 Early Corphish line? The colours match.
5:16 The one on the right is Beta Skitty, it has the same tail; the one on the left is maybe an early idea for the Whismur line. The big ears look a bit like speakers and their signature ability also exists under a different name in the game files
5:46 Shroomish but its personality took a 180° turn, colours are also similiar to Beta Breloom
7:26 Early idea for the Slakoth line, Slaking resembles a Gorilla more than a Sloth
I was thinking that might've been beta-Rayquaza, it definitely has more bird-like aspects than its final design, which fits with the theory that it's supposedly inspired by Ziz, some gigantic bird from hebrew mythology iirc.
2:37 Looks way more like an early version of Arceus to me with the white body and gold accents
2:15 is a cut spider lily pokemon, a bug/psychic type that mimics plants (the dex forge 3 leaked years ago, you can look it up, I can try and put a link later)
Tengulist?
@@rainbz The German name of Shiftry
Soon as I saw about all the news I was thinking to myself, I really wish I could go some where to see scrapped ideas but still NOT be spoiled for the upcoming games and boom, Austin! We can always rely on you. Thankyou for being such a stand out member of RUclips community
4:50 this isn’t the first beta Sharpedo we’ve seen. The Spaceworld Gold and Silver beta has a shark Pokemon, Anchorage, with an anchor for a tail. Our new leak here looks in between that and the final Sharpedo design.
Spaceworld also had beta Huntail, which evolved from Anchorage
Going from a Sharpedo (Anchorage) to a Huntail is a downgrade if you ask me.
I’m so upset sharpedo doesn’t have a tail. Get rid of the first design’s face and put sharpedo there cuz it’s better, but please keep the tail it was such a disappointment to see what could’ve been.
Gen I also had a cut shark design named Jaggu (not sure what people have decided to call it in English). However, if I were to choose the shark design I liked the most, it'd be Anchorage.
It seems Game Freak had wanted to make one for a while, and even this design is quite different from what we got.
I saw that Blaziken Latias was a Delibird evo
2:51 shiftry
3:44 manetric evo
4:23 baltoy
6:29 applin
11:11 i think it's still wash rotom just not using a western design
A lot of pokemon combined and separated into 2 pokemon
It's not a bidet, it's a top-loading washing machine. In Japan they are popular due to apartment size restrictions and they often have semi-transparent loading top door so you can watch the swirling
That's probably why that design was scrapped so people wouldn't mistake it as such.
@@GlacierStripez most certainly!
Ya the bidet wouldn't really work with the motor theme would it?
13:34 looks like it was originally one pokemon that got split into tornadus, landorus, and thundurus
Sprite Timestamps
1:55 Could be the base for Scorbunny
3:52 Looks like Snom
5:25 Looks like Skitty
5:37 Could be the base for Vespiquen
5:44 Looks like they split that up into Breloom and Lilligant
5:56 Looks like they split that up into Brosly and Ferroseed
6:03 Looks like Litwick
6:29 Could be the base for Phantump
6:43 Could be the base for Bellibolt (I find this a strech myself)
6:45 The white/purple mon also looks very familiair, might be Zangoose idk.
6:46 Could be the base of Cosmog
7:23 Call me, crazy but I see a early Delphox here
7:27 Could be the base for Slaking (I find this a strech myself)
8:14 This is giving me a bit of Glimmora vibes
8:16 Could be the inspiration for the Stoutland and Maschiff line
8:39 Could be the base for Mienshao line
12:19 Might be the base for Chesnaught
is is checking off 0 of the boxes of Scorbunny other than "✅ is rabbit"
@@AustinJohnPlays Bro only read the first timestamp lol
Some other sprites looked very familiar but I couldn't place them.
Feel free to add or correct me on this list.
Had a lot fun compiling it!
Before this becomes a thing.
My first comment was: "Let me introduce you to Scorbunny"
After that I edited my comment and made this list.
Austin's replay was to my initial comment.
I believe 7:23 is a mantis shrimp
10:48 That shade of purple is often used to indicate transparency in spritesheets. So it was probably meant to go over a white or otherwise bright background.
4:40 Masquerain is Gen 3, no idea why you think it's not
Came to say this^ thank you 😂
Think he confused it for Mothim
He gets A LOT of stuff wrong here
2:36 - Huntail? Haunt tail, so a ghost fish thing.
2:52 - Shiftry and not too sure on the other one.
2:55 - Might be Torkoal.
3:06 - Might be Corphish.
3:10 - Blaziken and Latias.
3:23 - Either early Snorunt or a scraped Snorunt evo.
3:24 - Scrapped Manectric evo.
3:42 - Medicham?
3:48 - Volbeat.
4:09 - Lotad.
4:33 - Seedot.
4:34 - Masquerain.
4:43 - Sableye, looking through a magnifying glass (Thats why the eye is big there)
5:25 - Skitty.
5:44 - Looks like Smoochum could also be early Budew and the other one is Shroomish.
6:45 - Zangoose.
8:02 - Xatu?
8:14 - Roselia?
Dr. Lava once wrote that Game Freak was going to reboot Pokemon completely in the third generation and based on the leaked concept art, Pokemon would have gone more edgier and darker direction, lookin more Monster Hunter -like style. However, the three-legged Cacturne monster and the Unown stone abomination is still interesting concepts.
@@danielmalinen6337 im here for it
This is the best kind of leak. Not spoilers, not speculation, just neat history bits that we wouldn't have known otherwise. Seeing the early design process is really cool.
2:50 The one on the left is probably Shiftry, the geta on the feet and the long nose scream 'plant tengu'
4:24 Looks like maybe proto-Shuppet.
5:20 Skitty probably, by the tail.
9:28 a box turtle!
9:47 Maybe proto-Baltoy
15:30 I really respect that. Thank you!
To answer the question at 7:45 Yes I do remember Grumpig. I have a shiny I nicknamed Mind Bacon, and he's the best!
16:00 skitty
13:50 with the betas it is easiler to see the Swords of Justice where originally based more on goats, sheep, and antelope.
14:08 That Karrablast Evo would legit be one of my favorite pokemon. Even tho it aint real i would still kill over this thing
Water-bunny hate is a real problem! stop Water-bunny hate today! Only you can stop water-bunny hate!
If innertube bunny has no fans, that means I'm dead. I love you innertube bunny!
Waterb-bunny hate? Most people love the water-bunny. so much in fact that they tekken cliffed Mudkip. Stop the mudkip hate.
Is this comment using the popular poetic technique of anaphora to solidify its message?
Water bunny looks so adorable !!
I love the idea of Water starters not being an aquatic animal! The only time that's happened so far is Sobble.
Grass starters aren't just plants. Fire starts aren't all animals commonly associated with fire. So it always seemed lopsided that almost all Water starters were aquatic animals.
5:32 It looks like Skitty.
7:05 Either Spinda, Alcremie or their love child?
8:32 Vulpix and Mienfoo, the color scheme looks like Mienfoo's.
8:32 Stunky/Vulpix hybrid?
12:19 Rock/Ground type Carracosta?
12:25 Baby Mew/Azurill?
13:38 Tornadus/Deoxys hybrid?
14:22 Mer-Sableye or Sableye from the Marsh?
Agreed on 12:19. Definitley the ancient turtle boy.
5:28 the one on the right is beta Skitty, look at the tail!
I think I like it more than regular skitty
11:00 skibidi rotom
So much pain in the first 5 minutes:
- "Ursaring before it became a brown bear." - That's Beartic
- "Lombre" - That's DEFINITELY Lotad
- "Is Masquerain gen 3? No, it's not." - Yes it is???
Also thinking it's a beta Ursaring design is extra funny because Ursaring is a Gen2 'mon
Why would it have a beta design in the games _after_ its debut
Oh my god how embarassing
@@WhimsicottFanaticI was thinking that too 😂
That’ll be $6.99 a month to join the channel 😎
Thanks for showing these! Data breaches are scary stuff, and thank you for taking spoilers and personal data seriously. I feel like they should have released these sprites officially since they're now 15-20 years old and it'd be fun for anniversary stuff
The scrapped content is really interesting ... Althout I bet someone on Reddit or 4chan will use that personal data for something really bad :/
1:43 Nowadays, they would have just kept that mudkip design.
5:25 my guess is Skitty based on the ears and pincushion tail.
5:22 skitty on the right, lefty over there might just be scrap
The bear looks more like an early Beartic, ursaring was gen 2. Unless they were going to give ursaring an evolution
Maybe they were already thinking of regional variants that early on (jk)
2:16 Roselia 2:52 Shiftry 3:01 Varoom and Revavroom 3:23 Snover 3:42 Abomasnow 3:48 Volbeat/Illumise 3:51 Snom 3:53 Milcery/Fidough 4:03 Alcremie 4:34 Nincada/Ninjask 5:29 skitty 5:47 Shroomish 6:30 Phantump 7:24 Trevenant 8:20 Mabosstiff
5:19 The one on the right looks like Skitty
IT IS SKITTY 100%
I was going to say the same thing
Appreciate you gathering it all here for us Austin John. haven't bothered looking anything up due to the ease of fake stuff right now
8:04 is that a bookworm/hummingbird Pokémon???? Can we bring that back please? It’d be on my team so fast.
I think Absol design is pretty damn cool
I’m so happy my favorite Pokémon line wasn’t a rabbit in a tube
I think at 3:01 The “vacuum mon” is actually Gulpin and Swalot because their dex entries talk about them being able to swallow huge objects like a tire in Swalots dex entry. And they kind of resemble them. But later on the video at around 8:00 we see a different mon that looks a lot more like Gulpin or Swalot.
4:48 I think that Sableye is holding a piece of glass of some sort that is magnifying its eye. You can kinda see from the other squinted eye that it has the same pupil.
Cool and much apreciated you're doing this, I mean many of the gen 3-4 leaks were already out such as that Blaziken Lati in the thumbnail a couple years ago, but more of it is always cool. Especially as I state in another comment it could mean we see these designs in the future. I like Flygon's colors... but I don't like bald Flygon lol, needs his Antenna.
5:13 Chipmunk has the Skitty tail. Maybe Skitty? Maybe the pink peach squirl is Plusle and Minun's betas?
Yes, I'm totally thinking that led to Skitty
it doesn't even look like a chipmunk, that's clearly still a cat
@@ethanjohnson1231 pecharunt normal fairy type??? And maybe pachirisu's evo?
2:28 but Ursaring was gen 2...
Thank you!!!
Thanks for this vid, I've been wanting to look at the beta content without getting spoiled on future content
the trix rabbit went from stealing trix to becoming a water type Pokemon 💀😳
5:23 I don't know the bunny neo pet thing, the other is Skitty the tail gives it away. 5:45 shroomis prior to being green and eyes change to angry. 8:02 looks like a hummingbird but also a book and the tail is a bookmark.the inner tube rabbit reminds me of Buizel and Flotzel. 2:33 Usaring is gen 2 is more beartic beta. 3:23 Snover then Abomasnow looks like were not part of the same evo line.
13:06 I like the implication that the beta Emboar line is getting darker as it evolves because the pork is getting cooked more and more. I imagine that the beta for Tepig would be more pink than orange.
7:17 gen 9 duck quaxly final evo is peacock
I guess so with the tail feathers, but it obviously has a lot of duck mixed in there. I always interpreted it as more a anthropomorphic duck wearing the brazilian Carnival costume.
It probably inspired a lot of mons, since i can also see Espathra.
@@RealLifeIronMan It's exactly that, a Carnaval duck, if you think about it, it's like a convergent evolution with peacocks, both are different species, but have similar features that serve the same purpose haha
Ho-oh has some peacock qualities too
@@RealLifeIronMan I can't see anything when I look at Quaquaval except Pavé the peacock from Animal Crossing.
3:02 Looks like an early version of Bellibolt to me
3:04 looks like an early Klawf
3:51 looks like Snom
5:17 The tail and ears make it clear that thats an early Skitty
5:52 reminds me of Inkay in a weird way
8:31 Early Nickit?
9:13 Early Togedemaru?
5:31 pretty sure that it’s Skitty by the tail
“Minun & Plusle are definitely one of the Pokémon you didn’t know” hope this helps and good work on these type of videos I love when you help me out when I am dedicated to completing a game and your a part that helps me so thanks and keep it up ❤
As adorable as the Castfrom we got is, we were ROBBED.
Crazy how the style of the beta UI for gen 3 looks like the UI in gen 5. Kinda strange that they held of that stylized UI for 2 generations. Ngl I miss that cool stylized gen 5 UI, it just hasn’t been the same since and all subsequent UIs just got progressively more boring imo
7:21 we got a peacock Pokémon with Quaquaval.
So many people forget or not notice Quaquaval is a peacock and a duck and not just a duck.
@12:19 looks like beta druddigon.. also kinda a bit shelly like the komo-o line
I actually really like the Water bunny starter. While I like Mudkip, this starter looks really cute and I'm curious what its evolved forms could have been. It's really interesting to see what some Pokemon looked like before their designs were finalized and which ones were scrapped. I am also pretty curious about the anime related leak information. I don't want to risk getting spoiled on future games, but the whole information on why Ash was replaced would be interesting to read.
As much as I found this entertaining, I'm highly disturbed. I would've loved to have a lot of these beta designs as actual pokémon. I would've loved having the Blaziken/Latias crossover. And a lot of these beta designs are better than the final designs. I am highly disappointed that they changed Reshiram and Zekrom. And I'm especially VERY disappointed that they changed the Water Rotom Form.
14:39 Baby Chien-Pao??? That's Gold!!!
5:50 WHAT DID THEY DO TO JIRACHI?!
That's shroomish
They apparently leaked that gen basis based around greece, with starting letters being version K and version N, so i did a lil greek mythology research to find that K could be kratos, greek god of war, or kydoimos greek god of confusion and uproar. Born in the midst of battle(as far as im aware). N could be Nemesis greek goddess of revenge and retribution. Just as a speculation of the box legends for gen 10.
11:40 “Remains mostly unchanged”
La Mustache: AM I A JOKE TO YOU!?!?
11:05 Bidet Rotom was top tier design!
Thank you so much for this video! I certainly don't want to see anything related to future projects outside of e.g. official trailers.
Such beta-designs however are always interesting. I find it quite disgusting though, that personal data was leaked as well...
2:22 The Flygon line is based on antlions, not on dragonflies (which by the way have nothing to do with dragons besides their English name)
2:50 My guess would be someone in the Shifrty line, as it has the Tengu 👺 look
3:20 It's really interesting how this Blaziken/Latias/Latios fusion became three different Pokemon in the end
3:50 Looks like the ice-hippo might have turned into Snom somehow
5:25 I believe that might have turned into Skitty
7:45 I do remember Grumpig and I think the final design is prettier but maybe that uglier one would've been more memorable lol
8:10 Very good impression indeed haha
8:50 With most designs I'm happy that they were changed into what they are now, but the storm Castform really is pretty cool
11:05 Rotom Bidet probably would've been too powerful, so they scrapped it... what a fun design
12:20 Gen.5 seems to have had some cool stuff going on. Interesting dragon Pokemon
12:30 I'm glad they were able to make something nice out of that Hydreigon line beta design
12:40 I bet all three monkeys would've been liked more if they were... fat. Looks more likeable lol
12:55 Liepard looks pretty cool and I like the beta Basculin as well
I wonder if some of the designs aren't compeltely scrapped and we see some of those in a future Generation as a new Pokemon or regional form.
Thank you again for keeping the spoilers out! I can't wait for the next Nintendo Direct / Pokemon Presents for some official news!
2:52 Shiftry on the left
4:10 Lotad
4:42 Masquerain is gen 3
5:16 Skitty on the right
5:36 Vespiquen
6:45 Zigzagoon
6:47 Clearly a Monster Hunter/Digimon thing 😂
7:23 Maybe a really really early Wo-Chien
8:14 Maybe a Sunflora evolution?
7:55 Swalot looks like Burt the Bashful from Yoshi's Island
Hear me out 9:53 gives tapu lele energy
Finally an Austin John video I can watch without worrying about spoilers!
I looked at all the leaks on twitter and this is supposedly only 10% of what's to come (it did ruin my day)
4:04 I think that wound up being the Alcremie line.
If Z-A is mostly complete, then I take it as a good sign that it's not being rushed out in its current state and (presumably) being polished and tested for now
Hoping they don’t take this video down
3:09 that is the origin of Combusken and Latías, there is some older fan art of it out there too!
12:39 I need friend shaped Simisear right now c'mon Legends Z-A make it happen.
or at the very least put the elemental monkeys in the game they haven't been in a game since SM/USUM and haven't been catchable in the wild since XY
@@CyberWolf04 that Simisear shouldve been the one. All the others are dook dook.
5:31 THAT'S SO OBVIOUSLY SKITTY!
5:45 Shroomish maybe
11:10 that's rotom washing machine at least quite similar to the model we had growing up. So much better to load the laundry from the top than the side, not sure why they don't sell those anymore
We still use these models in Brazil
They are less water efficient, harder to clean, and really hard to reach the stuff on the bottom, in my experience.
You have to load them carefully or they'll get off balance and they may not spin the clothes out properly. And they're pretty deep, so good luck getting things out of them if you have mobility issues (or short arms) that might make it difficult to reach down in there.
8:38 the kungfu weasels I forget their names
05:30 That is ABSOLUTELY a beta Skitty, just look at the tail.
Could 8:16 be an early Zangoose? The colour scheme fits
That is the squeaky chicken😂
2:50 first one is nuzleaf/ shiftry
5:20 second one is skitty
7:20 quaquaval is a peacock
9:20 the second one definitely inspired scraggy
5:23 The tail looks like Skitty's
The shell of clampearl having eyes and the pearl having eyes makes a great design. It becomes a mouth where its tongue is a lure like an alligator snapping turtle
9:26 a box turtle. comedy.
Really wish they released some sort of official artbook or something featuring all the concept art and beta designs. I love to see the process behind game development.
8:32 tail looks like mienshao s arms
Many of the designs are low key better than what we got, Claydol especially. I wonder how many of these are works in progress that were worked on significantly afterwards?
7:05 Smeargle Pre-Evolution??
11:55 gallede looks sick with actual fingers and hands