Yep. Just like the people blindly saying that there will be a new switch soon, despite the fact that Nintendo hasn't said anything remotely close to that.
I greatly remember when the official starter evolutions for the Alola starters were leaked and everyone took them as fake right away, only to be proven wrong when the middle evolutions were shown.
I think it was proven right when they showed the gym leaders for Akala and Mallow was shown, which confirmed that the leaked final evos were real since Mallow was also included in that leaked artwork. Im pretty positive they revealed Mallow before the mid evos.
i remember when the final evolution designs of the alolan starters was leaked, i prayed so hard hoping that it was fake because i hated incineroar's design but noped, turned out to be real and thus i never picked litten as my starter ever
people actually convinced themselves that the Sound-type would be in XY by telling themselves things like "Yveltal looks like a tuning fork when it folds its wings back" lol
@@KaiCyreus I don't think Sound(or any other new type) should be introduced, but if they did do a Sound type, it should be similar to the fan game Pokemon Xenoverse's Sound type. It's strong against Water, Flying, and Fairy. It's resisted by Dragon, Psychic, and Electric. It's weak to Dragon, Psychic, and Electric. Exploud should also be at least part Sound type if it is ever added.
The most ridiculous rumors I heard was that you could breed Latios and Latias to get Latiosa and you could take all three along with Rayquaza to altering cave and catch a legendary Pokémon named “Rayquaoza”
Still remember when I believed that Chespin would become a dark type and Froakie would be a fighting type. When it turned out to be the opposite of that.
The wait for SwSh's reveal and then release was painful. I remember leaks such as the one that talked about how there would be a Kanto game set in the future and that the plot of Gen 8 would be "tradition vs innovation" back in 2018. I even remember a leak where I also remember a SwSh leak that had a Grass/Electric apple fakemon and another leak that had a goldfinch fakemon called Lofinch. I also remember the Ben Affleck leak, which turned out to be real.
I think that Kanto rumor came from a real screenshot from LGPE of a Lapras and a Gyarados in the overworld. And that Gen 8 rumor was so nice, they made up clues for people to solve, it was actually fun lol
I remember wasting so much time trying to get some of those pokegods, because they often had some crazy method to get. The Flareon-evo for instance had you go in and out of the Celedon City store 50 times. And with other things that did work like Missingno and Glitch City, it seemed plausible to us back then.
I remember before Megas got officially revealed that people had leaked mega mewtwo y and claimed it to be mewthree 🤣 and I freaking beileved it back in the day
popplio is and always was my favorite out of the 3 of them. I actually always liked the siren-like end design. I mean, the tiger looked like a male wrestler in the end and no one complained about that (I know it’s less likely to get a female starter but still -.-) I’m just glad my popplio didn’t evolve into that sinister-looking killer clown seal 🦭🤡 (also, I only know the german names of the pkm which is why I didn’t use them)
Pokegods and fakemon leaks always look crazy and very interesting (There was a rumor I did remember,it was a golbat card that said "if shown in the bathroom with the lights off the blood will be shown")
As of 2021, I Feel like it's sort of safe to say most of the Gen 1 Pokegods ended up being Mega Evolutions, or Pokémon from Gen 3 onwards , aside from the Nidos Like for example: The Starter evos- Mega Charizard Y, Mega Venasaur, Mega Blastoise Doomsday- either Dusknoir or Darkrai both from Gen 4
I remember when the Galar starters were first revealed. I saw them on Twitter and have become so desensitized that I thought they were fake, even after seeing the video reveal 😅
This took me back to the day I begged my mum queue for Pokémon Red on release day whilst I was at school. She told me they'd sold out, then surprised me with the copy she had gone into town to reserve before release. I was hooked and remember spending all of my allocated internet time reading serebii, marilland, and any other sites I could get my hands on. I remember all of the rumours, the fakemon, everything. Such happy times.
Speaking of fake 4chan leaks, there were people on the /vp/ board that are pretending to be video editors for Nintendo and making false leaks for BDSP.
Same. When the gen 7 fakemon were released I was planning on starting out with the bear inspired fire type Pokémon before being delightfully given a cat based Pokémon.
I rewatched a video a few months back for laughs where they were talking about the heavily rumored new evolution method for sword and shield called armored evolution.
I still find it unfortunate that Ken Sugimori said that there will be no more Eeveelutions. He even asked in a joking, "No way," sort of way if people would want to see a Bug-Type Eeveelution, but, with the fan art there is of Bug-Type Eeveelutions, heck, sign me up, and I'm not even a fan of the Bug Type in general! XD My favorite of those Bug-Type Eeveelution fan art pieces is an Eeveelution that was based on the Venezuelan poodle moth. That is so adorable!
Random (and overly long) Question: Is there no such thing as a Calculator or Program or Witchraft-Tool; Science or Magic; that allows for QUICK and EASY research on-the-go about EV-Training? I mean, do i have to memorize Masses and Masses of Data about how Everything reacts to Everything?! There must be an easier way, yes? Just something that asks of me the work to memorize what Stat my Pokemon 'need' to grow in, and then i enter this simple Stuff into something. I mean, i dont wanna look up all the Pokemon And create a Custom-List for any Route i enter: Someone must have made something like this for his own re-usability, or not?? Like: "I have 3 Magikarps. I want them to become the Fastest Magikarp and have them break the Sound-Barrier. But i also have 3 Charmander. And I'm on Route-4. So what Pokemon should i defeat here and with who??" Get what i mean? Sorry for the long comment. ...I'm no speech-maker, after all...
I don’t remember where I heard this from, but I somebody once shared a rumor about Gorochu finally making an appearance in some form during the release of the Pokémon Let’s Go games. If only I had the information to back it up.
I've always been surprised that a steel-type eeveelution never came to be. Historically, New eeveelutions always came in pairs and one was always a counter to another. Would have made plenty of sense to introduced a steel-type alongside sylveon. I guess they really wanted to feature fairy in Gen 6. Though it actually would have made sense to for a steel-type to be released alongside Umbreon in Gen 2 given that steel and dark were the new types featured in those games.
@@tlp2123 it seems like more of a weird duck thing than a mammal, like I'd expect it to have feathers and not fur. Though for all I know it was smooth, rubbery skin
I still remember when I was a little, there were kids in school claiming they have seen clips of the new Pokemon Movie 2000, about how it was gonna take place in the future, where Pikachu dies, and Misty gets pregnant
Ooh last time I was this early, we thought Oshawott was a platypus with an acorn on its head . . . Would those be considered fakes or just creative fan art guesses? 😅
I remember hearing of the metal snake and wooden horse and drawing my guesses on what that would be lik, the horse was to resemble the Wooden horse the Spartans hid in with shields and the snake was metal and would be lined with retractable swords with and swords as fangs, tho I completely forgot about that by the time Zacyan and Zamagenta were revealed
PokéGods and the Mist Stone! Oh, man, that takes me back. I always heard the Venusaur evo's name as Sapusaur, personally, with a "u" in there, but yeah. I remember names like Locustod, Beepin, and Flareith, too- evolutions of Butterfree, Beedrill, and Flareon. And apparently the way to get Flareth was to talk to a specific NPC an absurdly large number of times in a row until you annoyed her and she offered to give you Flareith if you went away.
I scrolled a bit in the comments and couldn't see this leak mentioned, back in the Sun and Moon leaks days, when people were talking about a 3rd game called Pokémon Eclipse, it was rumoured that the Sun legendary was a big cat or lion, Moon legendary a wolf and Eclipse legendary a scorpion and you could fuse them together to make a manticore "à la Kyurem style".
The fake platypus water starter at 15:10 was made into a Temtem, after the creators bought the rights from the artist. So it DID become true, just in a different ip!
I got into Pokémon around the time XY and still remember so many of the rumors for a 3rd game and new Zygarde forms whether it be Pokémon Z, Pokémon X2 and Y2, Pokémon XZ and YZ. Also I completely forgot about Corocoro leaks after Gen 7
Litten and fennekin are so good, and their fan evolutions are so much better than their actual ones... It seems like they're trying to make characters, and not a believable species
I remember spending several hours in Viridian Forest during my Pokemon Blue days fighting 500 consecutive battles in order to encounter Pikablu also using Gameshark to get one that was just missingno
Unpopular opinion maybe but I genuinely love leaks, real or fake. A lot of the rumors are super interesting and creative and it's fun to wonder whether they're legit or not, and how they'd be implemented if true. Leak culture is often toxic because people take what they see as truth and act like they were gypped when it turns out to be fake, but once you learn to take everything with a grain of salt it becomes tons of fun. (Heck, finding out which ones are real or fake is half the experience lol). Plus it just makes for good memories. When you started talking about "Gen 6.5" and the SM starter leaks I got so giddy because I remember how excited I felt about all of them. The fact that they weren't real doesn't take away from that.
I started playing Pokemon after the first gen games were released so at a time when a lot of other kids around me were playing Pokemon too. However I've actually never heard about any of those rumours (or in fact any rumours at all) until many years later when I started to watch Poketubers or channels that focused on gaming mysteries and rumours or the like.
There was also a big leak before the Let’s Go games were announced that said the games would be set 100 years after the original Kanto games and that the region had been torn apart and completely new cities and areas had emerged. The leak also claimed that the legendaries would be a spider and a snake (or smth like that) and that there would be new starters and tons of other new Pokémon.
fun fact the design of the platypus in 15:13 was bought & used in a game called temtem its called platypet, evolves into platox, and finally into platimous
9:37 You can't ignore the fact that those leaks, despite fake, were pretty accurate to what the actual Pokémon turned out to be (looking at that Cofagrigus, Alomomola, Basculin, Drilbur, Pansage and Galvantula) as well as actually real Pokémon (Swanna, Deerling and Victini).
10:13 as someone who started with black 2 as my first ever game, I can say I am happy we got the origninal unova starters not the new ones, even though I really like the water platypus, and the owl looks like the took maractus, and tried to make rowlet 4 years before rowlet was a thing
wait your telling me that they aren't still making armored pokemon? my friend told me they where a looooong time ago. I just thought they where still making them. I wanted a armored mewtwo, like in the movie
The skitty one looks like it would be a prevo of Meowth tbh. Which, at this point, I don't think we really need more Meowth lol. But I would've been down for it 20 years ago.
My favourite rumours from when I was 8 years old playing pokemon blue and yellow were there was a rare water type charizard you could get, pikablue was a particular playground favourite. Lapras could evolve into lugia (the movie 2000 was out but I didn't have the game yet), a nugget could push your pokemon to level 150 if they were at 100. I miss the old days of little to no internet the pokemon rumour mill was more mysterious than the game itself.
Random (and overly long) Question: Is there no such thing as a Calculator or Program or Witchraft-Tool; Science or Magic; that allows for QUICK and EASY research on-the-go about EV-Training? I mean, do i have to memorize Masses and Masses of Data about how Everything reacts to Everything?! There must be an easier way, yes? Just something that asks of me the work to memorize what Stat my Pokemon 'need' to grow in, and then i enter this simple Stuff into something. I mean, i dont wanna look up all the Pokemon And create a Custom-List for any Route i enter: Someone must have made something like this for his own re-usability, or not??
well considering on how Beta Shinx looks more like Korochu it would make sense that Korochu was used to be a semi teaser to gen 4 so maybe the April fool's day prank was the thought that the pokemon was never going to exist
I remember before Black and White was released in 2009/2010 when the trailers were released. This is when Sigilyph was revealed. Me, and lots of other people immediately assumed it was the evolution of Unown.
I remember hearing people say that normal types would be super effective against fairy types before release and while it would of been good if that happened i didn't think it would be the case.
@@TwistedDonners bug doesn't need a buff per se, just mons that don't die to sneezes, have a decent stay spread and have actually good movepools and abilities.
you know it amazes me how much the legends of the Mist stone and its "super evolved Pokémon" reminds me of MEGA stones and MEGA Evolution, even if it is just a total coincidence.
I remember when I was a kid and heartgold and soulsiver just dropped in my elementary school there was this rumor about, "alternative shinies" which were even rarer that normal shinies, and a kid I met was claiming that there was a hidden green Gyarados at the lake of rage and he was trying to find it. Truly simpler times
What a trip down memory lane. I was around for nearly all of these since I started with Gen 2. Mostly in the Serebii forums. During Gen 3 my friend and I tried to make fake Pokemon game boxart called "BloodRed and "PitchBlack" to trick people. That didn't work, but she did end up creating the fake Unova starters, but not as an intentional trick. 😄 And we had actually stopped being friends by that point, so I was kind of stunned when one day I saw Serebii linking to her page and posting her art in the fakemon section! I was a BIG proponent of Light type. I made this Solrock badge for my Serebii forum signature that said "I believe in Light Type". We'd argue about the usefulness of a Light type, and it was really fun. I remember thinking Grenjnja was a fakemon when I saw it, and I even put it in Photoshop to prove the art was uneven. People believed me! It's funny since Greninja is one of my favorite Pokemon now. At first I thought that I didn't even pay attention to any Sword and Shield leaks, but boy did I forget about the peanut bug footage. I remember people connecting it to an actual species of bug before the creator admitted he just got the design from a bunch of stuff in the room. 😆
Well I do know that there was a bootleg raboot plushie that was based off of a somewhat leaked beta version of what was there before it was officially shown but it's actually rare to come across it someone else talked about it and one of their videos about bootleg plushies and I'll tell you it was pretty interesting
alright but metal snake (Eternatus) and wooden horse (Zacian and Zamazenta) kind of a stretch but hey also the legendaries did get "armored forms" specifically with their corresponding armor giving them different forms I personally believe the theory that it was true but with fake info thrown in too close for me
Pokemon games by their very nature from the beginning where made for you to want and wish for more. I remember wanting to play in Orange island next when their was no next generation yet. DLC makes it possible to do now.
The rumour that got me was gen 4 and you could catch shadow Legendaries via Arceus's event. Where you would make your way though a maze while climbing stairs to make your way to Arceus. And encounter shadow pokemon. Including the lake trio.
Something that's always a good tip-off for fakemon - they look like they're done in the "standard" furry art style but with the flatter shading and colors of Pokémon. Also the fact that there are usually several convincing fake leaks that come out around the same time. I remember the fake Sprigatito leaks looked vastly different, but one that was interesting looked like it had been recreated from a fairly accurate description of Meowscarada. Like, the specific details were all wrong but the broad strokes were pretty darn close.
Dang with that one Sword & Shield leak they went to a lot of trouble doing all that 3D modelling and stuff. Also is it just me or does that fake mon look a lot like one of the new Regis from the expansion pass??
5:50 also another question (dont know if you found one of my other comments) whats your favorite depiction of combusken and skitty (dont know if its fakemon or depiction but i think its depiction tell me if its a fakemon) mine is skitty, why? Because it would be the replace of pikachu if people start growing bored of pikachu in the future
Armored evolution is a Digimon thing actually. Digimon can "special digivolve" using a set of items called DigiEggs (DE) and turn into a Armored evolution, or an entirely different Digimon from the original evolution line. But I think if it did come to Pokémon it would just be "slap an armor into charizard, done, Armored Charizard" instead of evolving charmander/charmeleon with an item to get a special Armored Pokémon (not charizard!) kind of like Gardevoir and Gallade. An example in Digimon would be Veemon, who can evolve by level into ExVeemon or Vdramon. But using DEs to evolve it can become Flamedramon, Miragemon, and one other. which all three are exclusive to that evolution method
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I love how half of the Pokémon fandom say they’re too smart to fall for leaks, then talk about the 3rd dlc coming up
Yep. Just like the people blindly saying that there will be a new switch soon, despite the fact that Nintendo hasn't said anything remotely close to that.
I’m not too smart to read that comment properly. I thought it said fail for leaks, not fall for leaks
@@haydenlaw1484 lmao they announced the new switch today but not too much is new so idk
@@rorypeters155 Hey, guess what, dork. That comment was written 2 weeks ago, before any such thing was revealed.
@@haydenlaw1484 why u so mad😂😂
I greatly remember when the official starter evolutions for the Alola starters were leaked and everyone took them as fake right away, only to be proven wrong when the middle evolutions were shown.
I think it was proven right when they showed the gym leaders for Akala and Mallow was shown, which confirmed that the leaked final evos were real since Mallow was also included in that leaked artwork. Im pretty positive they revealed Mallow before the mid evos.
It actually got proven with mallows reveal.
I knew it was real
I hoped they weren't real because they looked like something a fan would make up. Still think Incineroar and Primarina look bad.
i remember when the final evolution designs of the alolan starters was leaked, i prayed so hard hoping that it was fake because i hated incineroar's design but noped, turned out to be real and thus i never picked litten as my starter ever
people actually convinced themselves that the Sound-type would be in XY by telling themselves things like "Yveltal looks like a tuning fork when it folds its wings back" lol
Noivern actually makes sense to be part Sound type, if that type had been introduced in Gen 6.
@@haydenlaw1484 yeah, but i guess sound will just always be an attribute to the Normal-type, sound is pretty normal after all
Same with Xerneas I remember someone saying it looked like he's blind so he'll be using echolocation to see and therefore sound will be the new typing
@@KaiCyreus I don't think Sound(or any other new type) should be introduced, but if they did do a Sound type, it should be similar to the fan game Pokemon Xenoverse's Sound type.
It's strong against Water, Flying, and Fairy.
It's resisted by Dragon, Psychic, and Electric.
It's weak to Dragon, Psychic, and Electric.
Exploud should also be at least part Sound type if it is ever added.
I remember that. Good times
I remember when people led me to believe that Chesnaught, Delphox, and Greninja were fake
Is because they are so amazing for look oficial lol
@@RedoCasshan huh
@@RedoCasshan only greninja looks amazing the other two especially delpfox look ugly and weird
@@Chrisr-je1tw For me all are amazing
Same with Decidueye, Incineroar and Primarina when they were leaked
15:08 So cool that Temtem added the water platypus into their game, so wished that it was real back when it was leaked for pokemon
The most ridiculous rumors I heard was that you could breed Latios and Latias to get Latiosa and you could take all three along with Rayquaza to altering cave and catch a legendary Pokémon named “Rayquaoza”
it is actually true
Pokémon incest
@@cacao2cream369 what are you doing step latios?
“Rayquaoza” 😭✋
@@valeriopasqualini6679 wtf
Still remember when I believed that Chespin would become a dark type and Froakie would be a fighting type. When it turned out to be the opposite of that.
still hoping for a water/poison platypus pokemon starter.
@@TheHammerGuy94 maybe the gen9 starter that water type turns into a wtaer poison?
The wait for SwSh's reveal and then release was painful. I remember leaks such as the one that talked about how there would be a Kanto game set in the future and that the plot of Gen 8 would be "tradition vs innovation" back in 2018. I even remember a leak where I also remember a SwSh leak that had a Grass/Electric apple fakemon and another leak that had a goldfinch fakemon called Lofinch. I also remember the Ben Affleck leak, which turned out to be real.
I think that Kanto rumor came from a real screenshot from LGPE of a Lapras and a Gyarados in the overworld. And that Gen 8 rumor was so nice, they made up clues for people to solve, it was actually fun lol
Well, it sure seems like we're getting that whole Tradition Vs Innovation plot in S/V, so that's a plus.
I remember wasting so much time trying to get some of those pokegods, because they often had some crazy method to get. The Flareon-evo for instance had you go in and out of the Celedon City store 50 times. And with other things that did work like Missingno and Glitch City, it seemed plausible to us back then.
I remember before Megas got officially revealed that people had leaked mega mewtwo y and claimed it to be mewthree 🤣 and I freaking beileved it back in the day
Same lmao
I would have believed it but that was before I got internet :P Mega Mewtwo Y is my favorite Mega Mewtwo though becuase I DID get Pokemon Y
I always thought Mega Mewtwo X looked more like the rumors from back when I was a kid.
Might have been from Genesect and the Legend Awakened
2:23
I kinda hoped that sandslash got a ground fighting type evolution in gen 4. It's really underrated
Before sun and moon came out
All I remember
Is the amount of hate and toxicity
Towards popplio-
And Water/Fairy ended up being a broken type combination so everyone used a popplio. The irony
Lol
still hate it in design . then again I hate the owl in its first and 2nd form too. only in its 3rd it gets cool
Men hate feminine designs , men tingz 😜🤪🤪🤪
popplio is and always was my favorite out of the 3 of them. I actually always liked the siren-like end design. I mean, the tiger looked like a male wrestler in the end and no one complained about that (I know it’s less likely to get a female starter but still -.-)
I’m just glad my popplio didn’t evolve into that sinister-looking killer clown seal 🦭🤡
(also, I only know the german names of the pkm which is why I didn’t use them)
The pokegods just sound like gen 1 mega evolotion.
@Falcon Hyperion and gen 4
@@Frogboyaidan 3 generations later would be gen 4 bud
I am beholden to the idea that the Pokegods were an idea that got back to the pokemon company and they just renamed it mega evo
@icats
It’s evolution. You spelled it wrong
Pokegods and fakemon leaks always look crazy and very interesting (There was a rumor I did remember,it was a golbat card that said "if shown in the bathroom with the lights off the blood will be shown")
As of 2021, I Feel like it's sort of safe to say most of the Gen 1 Pokegods ended up being Mega Evolutions, or Pokémon from Gen 3 onwards , aside from the Nidos
Like for example:
The Starter evos- Mega Charizard Y, Mega Venasaur, Mega Blastoise
Doomsday- either Dusknoir or Darkrai both from Gen 4
Do you mean the rumors may have inspired them?
I remember when the Galar starters were first revealed. I saw them on Twitter and have become so desensitized that I thought they were fake, even after seeing the video reveal 😅
This took me back to the day I begged my mum queue for Pokémon Red on release day whilst I was at school. She told me they'd sold out, then surprised me with the copy she had gone into town to reserve before release. I was hooked and remember spending all of my allocated internet time reading serebii, marilland, and any other sites I could get my hands on. I remember all of the rumours, the fakemon, everything. Such happy times.
Speaking of fake 4chan leaks, there were people on the /vp/ board that are pretending to be video editors for Nintendo and making false leaks for BDSP.
I think I remember seeing fake leaks for Megas for the starters and staraptor.
NGL I wouldn't complain if a lot of these were put into actual games sometime
I just wish more cut designs came back. Many of them are better than some of what we've got
Gamefreak does it best tho
Same. When the gen 7 fakemon were released I was planning on starting out with the bear inspired fire type Pokémon before being delightfully given a cat based Pokémon.
id accept "cut" pokemons as new pokemons but i will never accept "fan made" pokemons into games atleast not in the main story line.
theres a reason why every gen a water platypus fakemon is "leaked" the community NEEDS a water platypus starter !!
I rewatched a video a few months back for laughs where they were talking about the heavily rumored new evolution method for sword and shield called armored evolution.
I remember that. People claimed there would be an Armored Charizard, an Armored Mewtwo, and I forget what else.
damn I remember this, woulda been better than dynamaxing imo
@@Ben-wu3or Definitely
@@karaoconnoraliasraidra Zeraora and Flygon.
@@haydenlaw1484 Thanks
How to get severely hammered (and possibly alcohol poisoned) while watching:
Take a shot for every mention of the words "Fake" & "Leak".
I still find it unfortunate that Ken Sugimori said that there will be no more Eeveelutions. He even asked in a joking, "No way," sort of way if people would want to see a Bug-Type Eeveelution, but, with the fan art there is of Bug-Type Eeveelutions, heck, sign me up, and I'm not even a fan of the Bug Type in general! XD
My favorite of those Bug-Type Eeveelution fan art pieces is an Eeveelution that was based on the Venezuelan poodle moth. That is so adorable!
Pikipek was "leaked" when the frame was announced in the Sun/Moon trailers and every artist slapped on a skin of pokemon.
Random (and overly long) Question:
Is there no such thing as a Calculator
or Program or Witchraft-Tool;
Science or Magic;
that allows for QUICK and EASY
research on-the-go about EV-Training?
I mean, do i have to memorize Masses and Masses
of Data about how Everything reacts to Everything?!
There must be an easier way, yes?
Just something that asks of me the work
to memorize what Stat my Pokemon 'need' to grow in,
and then i enter this simple Stuff into something.
I mean, i dont wanna look up all the Pokemon
And create a Custom-List for any Route i enter:
Someone must have made something like this
for his own re-usability, or not??
Like: "I have 3 Magikarps. I want them to become the
Fastest Magikarp and have them break the Sound-Barrier.
But i also have 3 Charmander.
And I'm on Route-4. So what Pokemon should i defeat here
and with who??"
Get what i mean? Sorry for the long comment.
...I'm no speech-maker, after all...
@@slevinchannel7589 www.pokemon-tools.com/bw/en/ev_counter/ I think you mean something like this?
@@slevinchannel7589 w u t?
I don’t remember where I heard this from, but I somebody once shared a rumor about Gorochu finally making an appearance in some form during the release of the Pokémon Let’s Go games. If only I had the information to back it up.
I've always been surprised that a steel-type eeveelution never came to be. Historically, New eeveelutions always came in pairs and one was always a counter to another. Would have made plenty of sense to introduced a steel-type alongside sylveon. I guess they really wanted to feature fairy in Gen 6. Though it actually would have made sense to for a steel-type to be released alongside Umbreon in Gen 2 given that steel and dark were the new types featured in those games.
It's cool that the little blue platypus was bought for Temtem. If it were in Pokémon it would be my favorite Water starter
Y'know Golduck is a blue platypus
@@tlp2123 it seems like more of a weird duck thing than a mammal, like I'd expect it to have feathers and not fur. Though for all I know it was smooth, rubbery skin
At least, Psyduck seems to have feathers in Detective Pikachu. Maybe Scarlet and Violet will give them more detail
I remember the mega Solrock/Lunatone for Pokemon S/M. Biggest disappointment ever.
That is such a missed opportunity, give solrock/luntone mega evolutions for the games to keep the gimmick of mega evolutions alive
does anyone remember the pokemon Plus & minus leaks after ORAS?
I still remember when I was a little, there were kids in school claiming they have seen clips of the new Pokemon Movie 2000, about how it was gonna take place in the future, where Pikachu dies, and Misty gets pregnant
Ooh last time I was this early, we thought Oshawott was a platypus with an acorn on its head . . .
Would those be considered fakes or just creative fan art guesses? 😅
You desid
I remember hearing of the metal snake and wooden horse and drawing my guesses on what that would be lik, the horse was to resemble the Wooden horse the Spartans hid in with shields and the snake was metal and would be lined with retractable swords with and swords as fangs, tho I completely forgot about that by the time Zacyan and Zamagenta were revealed
5:27
Oh my god I really love this, I still love swampert more but WAW I love this soooo much
Anyone remember the PokéGods Doomsay and Doomsday?
Pokemonfactory days
Another great video! I loved seeing the fan art and past Pokemon designs that were scrapped. Very cool and interesting video! Keep up the great work!
I swear I remember a Mr Mime evolution leak from around Gen 5 that was essentially Galarian Mr Mime
PokéGods and the Mist Stone! Oh, man, that takes me back. I always heard the Venusaur evo's name as Sapusaur, personally, with a "u" in there, but yeah. I remember names like Locustod, Beepin, and Flareith, too- evolutions of Butterfree, Beedrill, and Flareon. And apparently the way to get Flareth was to talk to a specific NPC an absurdly large number of times in a row until you annoyed her and she offered to give you Flareith if you went away.
07:21 - I think the fake Empoleon actually looks pretty cool, I wouldn't mind it being real.
I scrolled a bit in the comments and couldn't see this leak mentioned, back in the Sun and Moon leaks days, when people were talking about a 3rd game called Pokémon Eclipse, it was rumoured that the Sun legendary was a big cat or lion, Moon legendary a wolf and Eclipse legendary a scorpion and you could fuse them together to make a manticore "à la Kyurem style".
I remember a long time ago my brothers friend told him that Cinchino had a male counterpart called “ Kingchino.” I actually believed it for a bit.
The fake platypus water starter at 15:10 was made into a Temtem, after the creators bought the rights from the artist. So it DID become true, just in a different ip!
12:33 that box legend battle arena for Yveltal is interesting because when I caught Yveltal the arena was more fiery rather than shadowy
me: *sees rhinox*
Are transformers now pokemon?
Also, both Beast wars and Pokemon started the seme year
Rhinox looks like a foundation for Heatran and Volcanion
@@Mahvendren Vulcan?
6:54 I NEED to see these remade in a Sugimori artstyle
Surprised no one remembers mega solrock and mega lunatone rumours from the sun and moon announcements, it made so much sense at the time...
I'd love an update to this video when Scarlet and Violet come out with all the hotly discussed rumors that turned out not to be real.
I got into Pokémon around the time XY and still remember so many of the rumors for a 3rd game and new Zygarde forms whether it be Pokémon Z, Pokémon X2 and Y2, Pokémon XZ and YZ. Also I completely forgot about Corocoro leaks after Gen 7
Litten and fennekin are so good, and their fan evolutions are so much better than their actual ones... It seems like they're trying to make characters, and not a believable species
I was around the gen 6 "leaks" and rumors and I remember it foudly, waiting to see what fenniken evolved into
I remember spending several hours in Viridian Forest during my Pokemon Blue days fighting 500 consecutive battles in order to encounter Pikablu
also using Gameshark to get one that was just missingno
Unpopular opinion maybe but I genuinely love leaks, real or fake. A lot of the rumors are super interesting and creative and it's fun to wonder whether they're legit or not, and how they'd be implemented if true. Leak culture is often toxic because people take what they see as truth and act like they were gypped when it turns out to be fake, but once you learn to take everything with a grain of salt it becomes tons of fun. (Heck, finding out which ones are real or fake is half the experience lol). Plus it just makes for good memories. When you started talking about "Gen 6.5" and the SM starter leaks I got so giddy because I remember how excited I felt about all of them. The fact that they weren't real doesn't take away from that.
I started playing Pokemon after the first gen games were released so at a time when a lot of other kids around me were playing Pokemon too. However I've actually never heard about any of those rumours (or in fact any rumours at all) until many years later when I started to watch Poketubers or channels that focused on gaming mysteries and rumours or the like.
SAD FOOTBALL FISH! GRASS OWL STARTER! OMG I remember those! Those were so cool!
There was also a big leak before the Let’s Go games were announced that said the games would be set 100 years after the original Kanto games and that the region had been torn apart and completely new cities and areas had emerged. The leak also claimed that the legendaries would be a spider and a snake (or smth like that) and that there would be new starters and tons of other new Pokémon.
fun fact
the design of the platypus in 15:13 was bought & used in a game called temtem
its called platypet, evolves into platox, and finally into platimous
has anyone notice that Empanda unintentionally foreshadow Ursuluna
9:37 You can't ignore the fact that those leaks, despite fake, were pretty accurate to what the actual Pokémon turned out to be (looking at that Cofagrigus, Alomomola, Basculin, Drilbur, Pansage and Galvantula) as well as actually real Pokémon (Swanna, Deerling and Victini).
10:13 as someone who started with black 2 as my first ever game, I can say I am happy we got the origninal unova starters not the new ones, even though I really like the water platypus, and the owl looks like the took maractus, and tried to make rowlet 4 years before rowlet was a thing
wait your telling me that they aren't still making armored pokemon? my friend told me they where a looooong time ago. I just thought they where still making them. I wanted a armored mewtwo, like in the movie
The idea was that they’d be in gen 8 due to the British-European inspiration having relation to like, armored knights, etc
The skitty one looks like it would be a prevo of Meowth tbh. Which, at this point, I don't think we really need more Meowth lol. But I would've been down for it 20 years ago.
Armor evolutions sound sick tbh
Also, remember when Decidueye, Incineroar and Primarina were leaked, and everyone called them fake.
My favourite rumours from when I was 8 years old playing pokemon blue and yellow were there was a rare water type charizard you could get, pikablue was a particular playground favourite. Lapras could evolve into lugia (the movie 2000 was out but I didn't have the game yet), a nugget could push your pokemon to level 150 if they were at 100. I miss the old days of little to no internet the pokemon rumour mill was more mysterious than the game itself.
This was such a freaking cool video. I've been a pokemon fan all my life and I never heard of even half of these leaks. Thank you!
Everyone talking about old leaks in their memory, then I'm just noticing an Italian gameplay at 0:56
Random (and overly long) Question:
Is there no such thing as a Calculator
or Program or Witchraft-Tool;
Science or Magic;
that allows for QUICK and EASY
research on-the-go about EV-Training?
I mean, do i have to memorize Masses and Masses
of Data about how Everything reacts to Everything?!
There must be an easier way, yes?
Just something that asks of me the work
to memorize what Stat my Pokemon 'need' to grow in,
and then i enter this simple Stuff into something.
I mean, i dont wanna look up all the Pokemon
And create a Custom-List for any Route i enter:
Someone must have made something like this
for his own re-usability, or not??
at least the platypus made it's way to tem-tem
god,that thing haunted me ever since i found out about it. thank goodness it's solved
I can't wait for the switch release!
7:20 that so called turtwig evolution scared the shit out of me when I was a kid....from time to time I still have nightmares from it 😒
One of the fakemons that was presumed a real mon in the gen 5 games is Sadfish, it was added into pokemon Clover.
As a TyranitarTube fan, "Sadfish" sounds like a nickname Ttar would give to one of his Pokemon.
@@karaoconnoraliasraidra true
I wonder if the Pokegods rumors inspired mega evolutions eventually
Why does Sapsaur, Charcolt, Nidogod and Nidogodess look like they just came straight out of a terrible Creepypasta lol
That's funny. I've never thought of it that way.
I remember there was a rumor that you could somehow fuse two of the starters together. I always wanted a Charisaur or a Blastzard
Venustoise from the anime perhaps?
well considering on how Beta Shinx looks more like Korochu it would make sense that Korochu was used to be a semi teaser to gen 4 so maybe the April fool's day prank was the thought that the pokemon was never going to exist
I remember before Black and White was released in 2009/2010 when the trailers were released. This is when Sigilyph was revealed. Me, and lots of other people immediately assumed it was the evolution of Unown.
I remember hearing people say that normal types would be super effective against fairy types before release and while it would of been good if that happened i didn't think it would be the case.
It'd be nice if normal types got some love. But the Ice types probably need a buff even more.
@@lucifermorningstar8562 same for bug types
@@TwistedDonners bug doesn't need a buff per se, just mons that don't die to sneezes, have a decent stay spread and have actually good movepools and abilities.
Very informative, thanks.
You forgot to mention Dragonite's evolution into Yoshi.
you know it amazes me how much the legends of the Mist stone and its "super evolved Pokémon" reminds me of MEGA stones and MEGA Evolution, even if it is just a total coincidence.
I remember the X and Y fake leaks :D brings back so many memories. I've always wanted the ferret fakemon and Peppanero.
Welcome to Early town
That mist stone thing was just time travelers trying to tell us about mega evolutions and we didn't listen
I WISH THE FAKE SKITTY IN GEN 3 WAS REAL
WHY DOES IT LOOK SO GOOD
I remember when I was a kid and heartgold and soulsiver just dropped in my elementary school there was this rumor about, "alternative shinies" which were even rarer that normal shinies, and a kid I met was claiming that there was a hidden green Gyarados at the lake of rage and he was trying to find it. Truly simpler times
What a trip down memory lane. I was around for nearly all of these since I started with Gen 2. Mostly in the Serebii forums.
During Gen 3 my friend and I tried to make fake Pokemon game boxart called "BloodRed and "PitchBlack" to trick people. That didn't work, but she did end up creating the fake Unova starters, but not as an intentional trick. 😄 And we had actually stopped being friends by that point, so I was kind of stunned when one day I saw Serebii linking to her page and posting her art in the fakemon section!
I was a BIG proponent of Light type. I made this Solrock badge for my Serebii forum signature that said "I believe in Light Type". We'd argue about the usefulness of a Light type, and it was really fun.
I remember thinking Grenjnja was a fakemon when I saw it, and I even put it in Photoshop to prove the art was uneven. People believed me! It's funny since Greninja is one of my favorite Pokemon now.
At first I thought that I didn't even pay attention to any Sword and Shield leaks, but boy did I forget about the peanut bug footage. I remember people connecting it to an actual species of bug before the creator admitted he just got the design from a bunch of stuff in the room. 😆
The BloodRed idea sounds cool
Those fake sun and moon starters unlocked a massive memory. They were so prevalent on the scene back then
PokeGods Era Yes I’m that old 🤣🤣🤣
Just telling my daughter about pikablue and mewthree the other day
Same I'm 28 dam we all getting old
@@peteryanes9339And I'm six years older than you Lol Makes me feel like a grandpa
Havent been early since the realisation that yoshi isnt in pokemon
Well I do know that there was a bootleg raboot plushie that was based off of a somewhat leaked beta version of what was there before it was officially shown but it's actually rare to come across it someone else talked about it and one of their videos about bootleg plushies and I'll tell you it was pretty interesting
alright but metal snake (Eternatus) and wooden horse (Zacian and Zamazenta)
kind of a stretch but hey
also the legendaries did get "armored forms" specifically with their corresponding armor giving them different forms
I personally believe the theory that it was true but with fake info thrown in
too close for me
Metal snake and wooden horse are great concept, those could to make way in gen 9
Pokemon games by their very nature from the beginning where made for you to want and wish for more. I remember wanting to play in Orange island next when their was no next generation yet. DLC makes it possible to do now.
The rumour that got me was gen 4 and you could catch shadow Legendaries via Arceus's event. Where you would make your way though a maze while climbing stairs to make your way to Arceus. And encounter shadow pokemon. Including the lake trio.
I remember seeing the galar bug dragon thing and believed it was real up until the games came out and was confused to find it wasn't there
Something that's always a good tip-off for fakemon - they look like they're done in the "standard" furry art style but with the flatter shading and colors of Pokémon. Also the fact that there are usually several convincing fake leaks that come out around the same time. I remember the fake Sprigatito leaks looked vastly different, but one that was interesting looked like it had been recreated from a fairly accurate description of Meowscarada. Like, the specific details were all wrong but the broad strokes were pretty darn close.
Perhaps the PokéGods are what inspired Mega evolution and Gygantamax
Dang with that one Sword & Shield leak they went to a lot of trouble doing all that 3D modelling and stuff.
Also is it just me or does that fake mon look a lot like one of the new Regis from the expansion pass??
the times inbetween the shilouettes of the unova starters being revealed and the designs being revealed were... interesting...
I remember in a video someone told these gen 8 leaks
early pokemon was something else with those playground rumors and glitches in gen 1 and 2, it was something u had to be their to get the full impact
Rhinox looks remarkably like volcanion without the hoop.
@Falcon Hyperion that is a legit shout tbf. I missed that one
5:50 also another question (dont know if you found one of my other comments) whats your favorite depiction of combusken and skitty (dont know if its fakemon or depiction but i think its depiction tell me if its a fakemon) mine is skitty, why? Because it would be the replace of pikachu if people start growing bored of pikachu in the future
“I will never fall for a fake leak!”
*Proceeds to fall for every single one
Armored evolutions sounds like a digimon thing. Would be a cool concept tho : D
Armored evolution is a Digimon thing actually.
Digimon can "special digivolve" using a set of items called DigiEggs (DE) and turn into a Armored evolution, or an entirely different Digimon from the original evolution line.
But I think if it did come to Pokémon it would just be "slap an armor into charizard, done, Armored Charizard" instead of evolving charmander/charmeleon with an item to get a special Armored Pokémon (not charizard!) kind of like Gardevoir and Gallade.
An example in Digimon would be Veemon, who can evolve by level into ExVeemon or Vdramon. But using DEs to evolve it can become Flamedramon, Miragemon, and one other. which all three are exclusive to that evolution method
15:10 thats from a game called temtem, its called platypet, and its my favorite one.