It appears that a brand new Pokémon has been unintentionally leaked from the network traffic of Pokémon GO, presumably being the new character that has been promised to appear in the upcoming Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! games.
Images of this potential new Pokémon have been shared online by @Chrales, a well-known Pokémon GO dataminer. According to Chrales, this Pokémon is actually listed as "Kecleon" in the game's files (an already-existing character) and has a number tag of '891', causing a lot of confusion among fans of the series. The new Pokémon expected to appear in the upcoming Switch games was presumed to have a Pokédex number of '808', following on from the current last entry Zeraora (number '807'), but this '891' tag could well be a different form of coding entry for Niantic, rather than having any relation to the Pokédex.
Here are the images in question.
Fans have been quick to point out that this could be some sort of placeholder, although the two different designs (which seem to show a regular and shiny variant of the creature) would suggest that this is indeed a complete Pokémon in its own right. As always, until any official confirmation for this design is released by The Pokémon Company or Nintendo, we'd urge you to remain slightly sceptical. It certainly seems like we could be looking at a brand new character, though.
Do you think this design could be the real deal? What do you think of it? Let us know in the comments below.
[source serebii.net, via twitter.com]
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Ooooh... Aaaah...
Nothing to see here, people.
This is a pretty surreal situation.
I can see Niantic coming under fire from TPCi for this faux pas, but the timing of this also maybe suggests they're going to reveal this mysterious new Pokémon soon.
Going by the number I'd have to guess it's probably the new mythical Pokémon for Gen VIII, it looks like a magnetic putty Pokémon of sorts.
I mostly just don’t like how it has a ditto. Body. Makes it less unique on first glance.
If this was a ‘leak’, it’s still not as bad as when Gamefreak left data for all the remaining Alolan Pokémon in their own demo. You got your work cut out for you Niantic, if you wanna catch up to Gamefreak in that regard.
Ultra Beastto?
Oh, I thought they were glitchy assets.
These people think that THAT is going to be a Pokémon let alone a legendary?
It looks like a held item (or a generic placeholder) if anything.
Looking forward to Nutso and its companion legendary, Boltus, as well as their respective games; Tinker Brass and Fix-It Bronze. I can't wait for their sequel, Shiny Steel, featuring Washeri, the missing link between the two previous games.
It looks like a character from Banjo Kazooie.
@Silly_G Have you seen some of the Pokemon in this series? Magnets, balls, ice creams, origami, cable ties...
Personally, I think it looks just like a Pikmin wraith enemy. Gooey fluid enemies with an attachment to a physical object.
@Knuckles-Fajita : Haha. I'm surprised that they haven't come up with an origami Pokémon (I even checked as I couldn't think of one that matches that description).
Well, on the other hand, Digimon has a character that is anthropomorphic poo (and a number of other Digimon also projectile poo at their enemies), and yet they have never been called out on it.
Lol. Half salt shaker, half nut. Now they’re just using things laying around the office to make the ‘mons
@AG_Awesome : Pokémon Salt and Pokémon Pepper confirmed for 2019.
@Lizuka : Oh, that's right. Cheers.
@Silly_G They did make an origami Pokemon.
Has leaked or has BEEN leaked? Can never know with pets.
Hmm, I'm kind of hoping this is a placeholder... otherwise it just looks like a Ditto with a brass nut on it's head. Or maybe it's what happens when a Ditto & an Unown love each other VERY much?
@Silly_G I think the poo Digimon is called Squishimon.. or something along those lines. The US dubbers were never very original with their naming.
Junichi Masuda should really just step down. Between USUM, these new games, and this new Pokémon, it seems like he’s really out of touch as Director of the series.
@Knuckles-Fajita None have been this bad. At least the Vanillish line look like living creatures to some extent.
It looks like an as- a giant black hole. It's the anus Pokémon. 😏
The body is literally Ditto, almost identical to how his 3D sprites have been done for... forever? At least through the 3DS era.
I highly doubt this is real. The body's too similar to Ditto, this is almost definitely a fake leak. Move along, folks.
It's good to see they aren't running out of ideas yet
@saintayu Using Fissure is not very effective!
I can see why some think its body resembles Ditto. But last I remember, Ditto doesn't have arms that defined or pronounced, to be more accurate.
@DanteSolablood : Sukamon, actually. It also has a variant (many Digimon have palette-swap variations) called PlatinumSukamon which is anthropomorphic crap of precious metallic constitution (try saying that backwards five times ).
Welp, if it’s indeed a new Pokémon, then I guess I can kiss this series goodbye...
Come on, it’s got to be a placeholder, right?
Also, it’s interesting to notice that this “thing” has 2 different designs, and each has its color tied to the cover Pokémon: yellow for Pikachu and brown for Eevee. Wonder if it means anything?
I think it's really cute, I hope it's more of a Munchlax or Bonsly than a Magearna, because I really want to see it evolve! And if it's not Mythical, that means I still won't have to buy Let's Go!
@clvr You're gonna drop the series because of the design of one Pokemon? And I assume the darker colored one is a shiny form.
Could be something like the Zygarde cells from S/M, I hope
If this is the incentive for us to dabble into GO and Let's Go, then Arceus help us all: Nintendo and the Pokémon Company have finally realised the Pokémon fanbase will eat up anything.
its kinda cute
Calling it now, they're gonna make missingno an official pkmn in these remakes and the way this pkmn looks like an aberration of nature makes me even more convinced.
@TrendanBrendan nope, actually the last two generations disappointed me as well, and I hope Gen VIII will be a turning point for the series (though it probably won’t).
@RupeeClock there is also the chance that gen 8 will have a lot of Pokémon like they have done with very few gen's.
the only new pokemon that have a place in a pokemon yellow remake is a pokemon that is mentioned in kanto lore.... Bring MissingNo
https://pre00.deviantart.net/ad27/th/pre/i/2013/269/7/5/ga_hq_art_contest___wild_missingno__appeared__by_omurizer-d6o16ed.png
What am I looking at?
Cheetah Pokémon: Electric Type
Tiger Pokémon: Ice/Normal Type
Flamingo Pokémon: Water/Flying Type
Crane Pokémon: Normal/Flying Type
Clock: Steel Type
Hourglass Pokémon: Steel/Ground Type
Peacock Pokémon: Grass/Flying
Sphinx Pokémon: Rock/Psychic Type
Stegosaurus Pokémon: Electric/Rock Type
Parasaurolophus Pokémon: Fire/Rock Type
Angel Pokémon: Fairy/Flying Type
Jester Pokémon: Dark/Fairy Type
Gazelle/Antelope Pokémon: Normal Type
Rattlesnake Pokémon: Rock/Poison Type And a porcupine/gopher Pokémon that look just like Pikachu: Electric/Ground Type.
Dolphin Pokémon: Water Type.
It is just half of a Ditto. No news here. Move along, move along.
Oh it's real alright. It was in Pokemon Go for a half hour. It's related to Ditto.
@Heavyarms55 Yup I can confirm this too. Thing ran away on me but it was there! It’s tiny, it’s CP and name were “???” and when it attacks you can see it has a tiny little red wire/tail coming out the back.
@UmbreonsPapa Ditto can shapeshifter to look however it likes but it is commonly depicted as having arms like this in it’s base form.
@Ogbert If you caught them in Go, they were always Ditto. I caught at least 10.
@Ogbert If you caught them in Go, they were always Ditto. I caught at least 10.
@Heavyarms55 Oh weird! I haven’t seen another one yet, but also noticed it hadn’t added a slot to the Pokédex for it either. Perhaps it’s some sort of faulty or synthetic Ditto that can’t transform properly?
@Ogbert I believe that it's just a teaser and was not actually obtainable. That's why they all were Ditto.
I just caught one in Pokemon Go and it changed to a dito Proof on Twitter!
Can confirm today. It's just Ditto. Nothing to see here.
It’s definitely a new Gen8 Pokémon that’s related to Ditto in an unknown manner. It was confirmed as a tease by Niantic and Pokémon Company.
It appeared for about 30 minutes in Pokémon GO today right after it’s Community Day event ended in your local time.
Catching it always made it turn into another Pokémon, mostly Ditto but Chikorita was confirmed too.
In some regions the spawns turned into Kecleon after some time passed, so maybe they’re some kind of synthetic Pokémon made by a Gen8 enemy team that combined Ditto’s unusual body with Kecleon’s adaptability??
It was confirmed by "Niantic's head of marketing for Pokémon GO in Japan, Kento Suga, has started tweeting about this, indicating that it is a tease and not a mistake."
-Serebii
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