You just can't fully trust any leak. Any of that is either fake or real, regardless of what anyone had a say about them. The best way to denounce the fakes from the reals is waiting for the datamining to come, which is coming up the next week or even few days before release at most.
So Nintendo has only to blame itself for the leaks?
I will be very impressed if everything turns out to be a hoax, given the volume and quality of some of the early screenshots (like the elephant). Most of the guide pages, ultra blurry ones notwithstanding, do look pretty convincing. But in general I agree that there's going to be a lot of fake stuff thrown in during lulls between anything legitimate that may be leaking, and that Cinderace image is a top candidate for something suspicious. It did come out at a notable delay after the Intelleon & Rillaboom image, definitely enough time for someone to fake it and match the style, so if it turns out to be fake it wouldn't necessarily invalidate everything, but it would cast some much-needed doubt on things.
I would consider any image with that quality and background fake. The kitsunoh "leak" and several others that have followed have all been this same blurry grainy format with that same background. Rillaboom and the snakes had similar backgrounds but much clearer image quality.
What other stuff did the guy who leaked Cinderace also reveal? Was it shown by someone other than the guy who leaked the new Gigantamax forms?
That's the big thing here. If my bad vibes turn out to be telling the truth, this is a true behemoth far beyond even the Grinch leak. The consequences of that scenario will extend far beyond this community: Videogame leaks all over will never be trusted or taken seriously ever again unless it is literal gameplay footage.
I know, but the issue is I really want a lot of this stuff to be real. Gigantamax Garbodor and Centiskorch are really cool! I also don't want a repeat of the 18 gyms fiasco where after the fluke is revealed people delve right back into cynicism saying stuff like "the one thing from this game that interested me isn't even real". Please GF, give us more trailers that confirm something from these leaks...
The thing about Cinderace is, when Rillaboom and Intelleon were leaked from that guide, the image didn't show Cinderace, and the leaker said that they weren't going to show Scorbunny's evolutions yet
Oh, you mean like that old Bug/Dragon?
It's hard to tell where most of this is coming from... there was a guy on twitter reposting the guidebook pages saying he was getting them directly from the leaker on discord; he did ultimately post the Cinderace picture a while after saying the leaker didn't want to show it, and I thought I saw Cinderace on 4chan before he posted Twitter, but maybe I'm remembering wrong. It's hard to tell when 4chan is posting stuff they've found on Twitter and when people on Twitter are posting stuff they found on 4chan. So Cinderace being fake could throw the guidebook leaks into question, it could mean the poster is throwing fake stuff in with real, who knows.
I think its not that perfect of a leak yet. Scorbunny3 looks like a 2d drawing and looks pretty different compared to the grookey3 and sobble 3 pics which show their 3d models in the guidebook
such a shame they scrapped porygon and porygon-z, loved that 2 stage li- oh wait what
What did the The Shadow Knight said. I've seen inconsistencies in this list (I mean, look at the orange spot on all of the Weedle line!) and we already considered it as somewhat bogus.
Aaaand there's goes datamining possiblity for now! I'm not surprised though; I did told myself that two weeks before a full release is way too early for a possible datamining.
That would be great, especially if they did a reverse theme as well, just different from Malamar. Imagine a Psychic/Ice Pkm whose weaknesses and resistances are reversed. It would be probably the best defensive type combination an ice Pkm could have with such an ability. That would be quite useful in Monotype. Being resistant against Steel, Rock (especially Stealth Rock!), Fire, etc.
I checked old threads for SM. The games were slated for a November 18th release, but the datamine was happening by November 8th. So early, but not as early as we are now.
I remember at least 1 week b4 of the official release, i played the save file that was already on the internet to be played
Just like with Z-Moves, Gigamaxx forms seem to be just anothwr way to masturbate Kanto while keeping some new mons there to hide that fact. Same with Galarian forms so far, with Zigzagoon being an exception to justify furry Gene Simmons without bringing back cross-generational evolution. I bet whatever the number of Gigamax galar mons is, the Kanto amount will be higher. And everyone knows Garbodor is there just out of spite.
