Sword/Shield Spoiler Pokémon Sword and Shield - Leaks and Speculation Thread
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I thought mix of an axolotl and chameleon when I first saw it, so Water/Ghost makes the most sense to me personally.
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The trailer had a lot of emphasis on cheering crowds and stadiums, and based on the map it looks like most of the gyms will be in stadiums, so I would be really surprised if there wasn't some tie-in to football/soccer.
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Sobble's a chameleon, since its Japanese name is Messon: a combination of Mesomeso (sobbing) and chameleon. Just the same, its French name basically translates to Tear Chameleon.
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I am loving Scorbunny because rabbits are gr8.
Sobble is a cutie too. I'm not a fan of Grookey though. :c
Sobble is a cutie too. I'm not a fan of Grookey though. :c
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This is a very minor thing but something that would really make the game for me. Although I would miss gym puzzles, I'd really like the feeling of battling in front of a large crowd of spectators. No other Pokemon game has quite managed to capture feeling of battling on top of Realgam Tower.
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all three starters are absolutely precious to me. I feel very very hesitant to pick a favorite right now because there are SO many possibilities with their evolutions and I could see them all evolving into something I love or really don't love. that said i am not creating any expectations.. am not big on speculation. they could really turn into anything and im content to just wait and see!
also the female protag is a super cutie too!!!!! and the region looks so cozy!! everything about this region is so aesthetically pleasing to me so far lol, even if im still a bit sick of 3D graphics.
also the female protag is a super cutie too!!!!! and the region looks so cozy!! everything about this region is so aesthetically pleasing to me so far lol, even if im still a bit sick of 3D graphics.
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I agree, I just can't choose right now since they're all so cute!
I'm so pumped about how pretty it all is. When ORAS came out I thought it was pretty and I'm still wowed every time by the art.
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I've seen a lot of people speculate about Scorbunny's evolution(s) going into the direction of a football player. If so, the 'scor' in Scorbunny could actually come from 'score' rather than 'scorching'.
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I'm not even sure about whether or not all Pokémon Generation VII video games Pokémon Sun, Moon, UltraSun and UltraMoon will be able to be transported to Generation VIII video games Pokémon Sword and Shield with using Pokémon Bank? This is because Nintendo Switch isn't actually backwards compatibility with any video games for all Nintendo's previous video game consoles, like Nintendo 3DS? But I didn't actually think so. Did you?
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My guess is that transferring Pokemon woild be done through Pokemon Bank like it was for gens 6 and 7. You wouldn't need to connect the consoles directly, just connect to the cloud and dump them into the new games.
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Is Pokebank accessible on the Switch?
Hey what if... Now hear me out... What if Scorbunny is actually the Water-type starter? Everyone keeps saying it's gonna be another Fire/Fighting starter, but what if it was literally a firefighting starter? As in a pokemon that rescues people and pokemon from burning buildings and puts out flames with water?
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They'll likely just make a Switch port of Bank to go with the releases, although we'll likely have a short period after release where the games are isolated and there is no Bank, as always.
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I'd be surprised if they didn't have Pokemon Bank in place for the Gen 8 games. Like, it's been in place for awhile now for the previous generations and people basically have all their Pokemon on it. GameFreak would made a lot of people angry if they didn't allow people to use it with the new games.
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Not to mention, people are paying for subscriptions to it. Making a port to the Switch with an update for Gen 8 compatibility is almost a given.
Apparently though, it uses your SD card as a primary method of storage and just uses cloud backups? So that might need to be changed since now instead of having it only work on one console (because of NNID) it'd be used on multiple devices and be linked to a Nintendo account. I imagine that'd still be pretty easy to implement, though.
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These people sound a bit too sure of themselves for these to be merely predictions. If this is all coming from someone who is working on the games, that's definitely not gonna fly with Nintendo.