>>40553983No one on the Pokemon staff handed this highly confidential document to a 16-17 year old Korean boy. This image has only ever existed with that boys watermark and there's no way he would have gotten it otherwise. He's also constantly proclaimed that it's his publicly with his real identity and name available and he's seen no legal repercussions. The entire reason people believed the Alola starters was because Nintendo started sending legal threads to websites covering them. No such thing happened with this design.
It's not real. The internal code name is different from Scorbunny, it's always been connected to a specific artist this entire time, it first appeared well before SS was announced, nothing about it matches Scorbunny itself design-wise except fire rabbit, the bandages are gone, and it loses the sporty genki kid theme. It's just another fake fire rabbit in a sea of fake fire rabbits. They're a dime a fucking dozen.
