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While we wait for Gen 8 info, here's a quick history lesson for those that didn't remember how things got revealed in Gen 7. Video dates:>Feb 26, 2016 - Sun & Moon Announced >May 10- Starters Revealed >June 2 - Legendary Info & Explore the Alola Region >June 14 - Pikipek, Yungoos, Grubbin, Battle Royal >July 1 - Tapu Koko, Charjabug, Vikavolt, Drampa, Bruxish, Cutiefly, Togedemaru >July 7 - Salandit >July 19 - Wimpod, Bounsweet, Comfey, Mudsdale, Mimikyu, Bewear, Hyper Training >August 1 - Alolan Forms announced, A Exeggutor, A Vulpix, A Ninetails, Oricorio, Minior, Gumshoos, Fomantis, Lurantis, Mudbray, Riding on Pokemon, The Island Challenge, Trials, Mallow, Lana, Kiawe, Totem Pokemon, Hala, Z-Moves >August 11 - Wishiwashi, Pyukumuku, Morelull, Team Skull, Plumeria, Guzma, A Meaoth, A Marowak, A Raichu >August 19 - 2016 Pokemon World Championship Trailer - Crabrawler, Sandygast, Palossand, Stufful >September 1 - A Rattata, Pokemon Specific Z-Moves, Munchlax Giveaway with Snorlax -Move >September 6 - Type: Null, Jangmo-o, A Raticat, Version Differences, Aether Foundation, Lusamine, Faba, Wicke, Gladion, Zygarde Cells, Poke Finder, Ultra Beasts, UB-01 (Nihilego) >September 14 - UB-02 (Buzzwole), UB-03 (Pheromosa) >September 20 - Version Exclusives, Passimian, Oranguru, Lycanroc, Character Customization, Pokemon Refresh, Pikachu Z-Move, Eevee Z-Move >October 4 - Dartrix, Torracat, Brionne, Festival Plaza, POke Pelago, Mega Evolution, Demo Version with Special Greninja October 18 >October 14 - Silvally, Hakamo-o, Kommo-o, Steenee, Tsareena, Ribombee, A Grimer, A Muk, Olivia, Ilima >October 27 - Decidueye, Incineroar, Primarina, Tapu Lele, Tapu Bulu, Tapu Fini, Tapu Z-Move, Cosmog, A Persian, Battle Tree, Red & Blue Fight >November 14 - Starter Z-Moves, UB-03 (Xurkitree), UB-05 (Guzzlord), A Diglett, A Dugtrio >November 18 - Sun & Moon Released
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>>37808570 wow did we really wait that long from the announcement of gen 7 to seeing the first images of the starters? We're getting spoiled this year for sure
Anonymous
>>37808589 I'm pretty sure that one of the directors said they regretted the way they revealed stuff.
Anonymous
>>37808599 I imagine we're gonna get less pokemon each reveal, but they'll be more spread out over the extra 5 months.
We'll probably get Legendaries in the next couple months.
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Did we ever figure out who leaked the starters?
Anonymous
Why release information four days before release but wait three months between the announcement and starter reveal?
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I can't wait until the shoddy leaks start coming through
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>>37808668 The Announcement for Sun & Moon was kind a nothing. It was that trailer where they just showed everyone working on it at Game Freak and we saw some concept art and the back of Pikipek's head.
So it wasn't till May that they finally had enough shit to show I guess.
Whereas this time they're giving it to us way farther in advance, probably cause they've been working on it for so much longer.
Anonymous
Remeber when /vp/ denied Hawlucha because of the three dexes in Kalos? Or gen V starters because the pig was fire/fighting?
Anonymous
>>37808836 I hadn't started going to /v/ before Gen 7, so if anyone's got screenshots of those, I'd love to see them.
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>>37808836 To be fair, it's difficult to discern the one or two true leaks from the dozens of fake ones. Like if the gen 8 starters had been posted before the direct, next to no one would've believed the leaker. It's never obvious unless it's in hindsight.
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>>37808861 Shit, i meant /vp/.
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>>37808625 it'd be nice if they revealed less stuff overall but I know that is just a pipedream
Anonymous
>>37808570 Do you know the date for the Rockruff and Komala CoroCoro?
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I hope they don't show every pokemon, it'd be cool to have some surprises
Anonymous
>>37808911 No, I don't have any of the Corocoro dates. I thought those may be even more annoying to find out.
I based the above off of just the videos on the Official Pokemon Channel.
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>>37808911 those are from june 11, 2016
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>>37808570 When did legendary names drop?
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It's really sad people keep trying to recreate the magic of Gen 7 leaks. It won't work twice.
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>>37808589 Absolutely, it was horrible between February and May, all those fake starter and legendary leaks... fucking roothoot.
>>37808625 This is what I'm hoping. instead of 4 months of nothing, then 4 months of getting news 3 times a month, I'm hoping they start dropping news once a month, making it slightly less back heavy.
Anonymous
>>37808861 Just google Greninja/Binacle/Hawlucha, for other gen VI leaks you could search for Josh and whoever that Russian guy was. they and another user leaked stuff on Instagram along with Delphox.
Also here's a bunch of x/y info that got leaked:
https://www.pokebeach.com/2013/06/pokebeach-x-y-rumor-roundup-and-clarifications Anonymous
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>>37808668 Probably a mix of being worked on longer (IF they aren't lying, they claimed the planning stages started even before deciding to put it on the Switch or something) and Masuda admitting they handled the promotional period of SM and USM horribly, and that they should have released more information earlier on.
Anonymous
>>37808836 The gen V starter incident was hilarious, and is what created the Serebii Confirmed shit.
Its also why when someone says
>This is fake! look, it looks exactly like X pokemon! You can just laugh because of people claiming Serperior was Milotic, Pignite was Lickylicky, Emboar was Rhyperior, and Samurott was Dialga.
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>>37809534 samurott is still fake
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Its also worth noting that for gens 5, 6, and 7, the final evolutions of the starters were leaked before official release, with gen 6 being closest to release due to coming from leaked copies, and 7 being the farthest from release.
Anonymous
>>37809534 There's was also "No es fake". Was that 5th or 6th gen?
Anonymous
I wonder if Gamefreak has adopted a more strict means of preventing leaks like joe Sakurai and Nintendo were basically able to keep Ultimate pretty dark.
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>>37809590 Gen 6, it was in relation to the new fairy type.
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>>37809534 The tone of the lying anon always annoyed me.
Anonymous
>>37809596 Considering we know they actually tried to hide shit in the SM demo by putting in dummy data, but then managed to forget the dex sprites so we got all the pokemon anyways, I'd not hold my breath.
Anonymous
>>37809636 And didn't it happen again with the gen 7 starter leak? some random autistic came in and claimed they were actually the ones to make it.
Regardless, while you should always be skeptical of leaks, always be equally skeptical when someone claims they're fake and that they made them.
Anonymous
>>37809596 leaks boost the hype.
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>>37808570 I forgot that the starters were leaked so early.
Like one month after the first stage reveal.
Yeah ... we had to wait for 2nd stage reveals to compare.
Wonder how things will unfold now
Anonymous
>>37808963 Red - weren't oficially revealed
Green - were revealed under codename "UB-??"
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>>37809673 This.
Its an actual business strategy to intentionally leak information to build up hype. And I would be willing to believe that's what happened with the gen 7 starters.
With that said, things like what happened in the Demo as said here
>>37809641 feels more like incompetence.
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>>37809636 This image is hilarious because it shows how much GF reuses design aspects in new pokemon, like 99% or fakes aren't believeable because they're cool and unique, like Ballio and Astrobunny
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>>37809596 >>37809673 Remember when Someone got Masuda to sign a drawing of the leaked starters of 7th gen?
They claimed he said they haven't officially been released yet.
Anonymous
>>37809673 >>37809707 I can’t deny that it can be fun but context should matter. Small leaks that can’t be 100% proven like the final forms of Gen 7 and people wondering if the Grinch leak for smash was real or fake did their job of hype because it added to the speculation which can fuel hypes for long periods of time
But if somehow a real leak happened by means like an asshole breaking the rules and puts out like 90% of the stuff online or some really bad fuck up by accident and we got full info and there’s little question to it being fake and if the timing is too early, I’d call it the opposite of hype because you’ve killed the speculation, people wouldn’t think about it after the initial buzz until the game gets put out.
It just feels like there’s a right and wrong way to go about it. It’s like film editing, be able build hype up by leaks something without us being able to tell it’s happening means it’s doing a good job
Anonymous
>>37809596 Seems like It's too hard to make pokemon leak proof.
Too many turning gears and too many things that have to be put into play at the same time.
Someone's gonna want their crack at web fame. That search for web relevance is part of why serebii doesn't know shit/ isn't told shit anymore.
(he got caught pirating some gen game before release and they cut him off )
Anonymous
>>37809698 I remember Celesteela and Kartana being revealed in Corocoro
Mareanie was also leaked because it was on the side of some TCG boxes
Anonymous
>>37808911 >>37808965 Corocoro is easy because its always the 10-12 of every month
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>>37809978 Mareanie was leaked, but wasn't oficially revealed
Celesteela and Kartana haven't even codenames (UB-something) until games themselves came out on November 18
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>>37809924 It was Black and White, he pirated the game and claimed you didn't get EXP from the rival fight at the start (the anti-piracy of that game was no EXP gain) so he and other sites that posted it got hit with a DMCA.
Probably did it with previous games, but they either didn't have anti-piracy, or it was obvious like HGSS where it just wouldn't boot at all.
Anonymous
>>37809856 People played XY illegally because stores broke the release date. That didn't kill the hype though probably because it was close to the actual release date.
The dex leak/datamine sort of did kill the hype for sm though.
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>>37810015 Well, sometimes its the 9th and 13th as well, but those are fringe cases. There was also a couple of 7th and 8ths, but those were months where corocoro as a whole was releasing earlier, so it'd be expected.
Anonymous
>>37810055 Honestly it didn't kill SM hype nearly as bad as the ORAS demo datamine killed ORAS hype.
Anonymous
>>37809978 Every single pokemon was datamined from special demo version on october 18, if I remember right
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>>37810088 correct, but we only got sprites, so we didn't have anything like types or base stats.
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>>37809673 AC (Ubisoft) saga in a Nutshell
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>>37808570 Wasn't the game leaked a few days before the last trailer?
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>>37810080 was that the one that revealed that there was nothing else left?
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God. So many forgettable Pokemon in gen 7. I had fun but there were real shit mons there.
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>>37811142 yes, it leaked the 10th, I believe.
Anonymous
One thing this list is missing--the fact that the Mallow reveal confirmed the starters leak, and that epic thread where an anon met (I think) Masuda and had him autograph some fanart of the starters when he said "You're not supposed to know about these yet"
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>>37808625 I'd be more than happy to get 1-2 new pokemon revealed each month desu, maybe 1 special reveal for events, just not blowing their load with 9 new pokemon reveals at once like they did with SM
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>>37811269 I remember that, it happened after Mallow confirmed them, yet some people still claimed they were fake and said Masuda actually meant they were good fakemons.
What a good time.
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>>37811456 I was arguing on here and with my friends that they were real from June 4th onward that was such a vindicating moment
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>>37811456 GENERIC
HAWAIIAN
GIRL
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>>37808965 >that litten How about you learn some self respect and keep that leg lowered you little slut
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>>37808589 I really hope they've unveiled the starters early because they have so much new material to cover in the game like more new pokemon overall, maybe even an new type or a new eevee typing
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>October 17th, almost everything leaked thanks to a demo datamine https://www.youtube.com/user/Kaphotics Anonymous
>>37808599 didn't they learn anything from Brawl and Sakurai's daily updates? especially with how terrible most of the Gen 7 designs are.
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>>37811824 >November 8th, everything else leaked in a datamine of the leaked game Anonymous
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>>37808911 Oh shit, right, Komala exists. I keep forgetting.
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>>37808570 The one thing I hated about this is that they revealed 95% of the new pokedex. This led to:
>Us thinking that we'd get way more pokemon than we actually did >ruining any chance of actually discovering new pokemon ourselves also, why introduce new pokemon if you're gonna have them only have a 1-5% encounter rate
Anonymous
>>37811841 Gen 7 unironically had the best designs though.
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>>37808570 The whole dex leaked with the demo, and the whole game leaked the day Trump got elected president.
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>>37812797 > especially with how terrible most of the Gen 7 designs are. imagine having this much of a trash taste
