Pre-Release Theories
- A windmill giant Pokémon based on Don Quixote.
- It would also look just like the wind turbines seen in the earliest screenshots. One of the characters has a grudge against one of this Pokémon and goes around attacking the turbines thinking it's that Pokémon.
- Maybe something like Paldean Duraludon?
- Jossed
- A Pokémon based on Islamic Alchemy.
- Jossed
- A tomato or a chili pepper grass-fire Pokémon.
- Confirmed with Scovillain, who is based on the habanero.
- A kite Pokémon, possibly the main bird of the region.
- Jossed
- An Iberoporus, preferably the regional bug.
- Jossed
- A conquistador.
- Jossed, unless Kingambit counts since Bisharp already does look a bit like a conquistador
- A non-dragon pseudo-legendary.
- Jossed, the Frigibax line are part-Dragon.
- The legendaries could be based on infrared and ultraviolet.
- The third legendary will be a grayscale Pokémon, used by the villainous team to remove all colour from the world.
- Kind of. The legendaries seem to be based more on the "past vs future" angle, though both of them incorporate their respective colours into their designs.
- A warrior based on Saint George and/or the dragon he slew.
- Jossed
- A Pokémon based on Spanish myths, like the basilisk, or on South American folklore, like the chupacabra.
- A bull (pretty safe bet. Maybe a regional variant of Tauros?)
- Confirmed!
- A pre-evo of Tauros that evolves into either it or Miltank depending on gender?
- Jossed
- An Iberian wolf
- Jossed
- An Iberian lynx (Sprigatito's final evolution?)
- Confirmed
- An Andalusian horse
- Jossed
- A Pyrenean mastiff (regional dog in similar vein to Furfrou, Rockruff, and Yamper, maybe Normal/Ice)
- Confirmed (well, not the Normal/Ice part, that's Jossed).
- A quaker parrot (there's a large feral population in Barcelona, possibly a regional bird?)
- Confirmed.
- Another isopod like Wimpod. Believe it or not, Spain is full of the little buggers.
- Torvosaurus and Miragaia as two-staged fossils, with either Lusotitan or Dinherosaurus as a single-staged fossil (in the same vein as Aerodactyl).
- Alternatively, a Rock/Water Pelecanimimus that evolves into a Deinocheirus. They're both ornithomimosaurs, and the latter has been known to eat fish, thanks to fossilized stomach contents
- Both Jossed
- A basking shark.
- Jossed
- A bearded vulture, maybe even a regional variant of Mandibuzz. It helps that Mandibuzz's habit of wearing bones, and the bearded vulture's ability to literally eat bones are in the same field.
- Jossed
- A Carmen-inspired flamingo, preferably a Fire/Fairy-type.
- Semi-jossed; it goes by the name Flamigo but it is a Flying/Fighting type.
- Version exclusive orange- and grape-based Pokémon. The two fruits seemed very prominent in the live-action sections of the reveal trailer to the point of being on some coat of arms.
- Jossed
- A Pikachu clone based on a water vole. Electric/Water, maybe?
- Jossed.
- A new monkey Pokémon since Spain, part of the Iberian Peninsula (which is the influence for this game's region), is the only European country that actually has monkeys native to it.
- Confirmed with Grafaiai, though it's based on the aye-aye, which is native to Madagascar.
- The regional Bug-type Pokémon could be either a cockroach or a mosquito, given how much of a pest they are in real-life Spain.
- Jossed.
- Any scrapped Pokémon from the GS Spaceworld demo:
- The Water-Fire-type seal Bomushika, considering there is a small population of monk seals in the Mediterranean.
- Sunmola and its evolutions, though Anchorage and Grotess will separate evolutions of Sunmola much like Clamperl.
- Both Jossed
- A Llama to represent Spain's history with the Incas.
- Jossed
- A regional form of Phanpy and/or Donphan that references Hannibal's elephants, as his base was in Spain.
- Half-jossed.
- An Ifrit, referencing the Islamic era of Spain and very possibly the Psuedo-Legendary.
- Jossed
- A Pokémon based on Snowflake, the only documented albino gorilla who was caught in the wilderness and lived in the Barcelona zoo until he passed away.
- This could be represented through the presence of Galarian Darumaka and Darmanitan.
- Jossed... unless you count Annihilape since it's Ghost-type
- A photovoltaic cell, evolving into a miniature concentrated solar tower, referencing Spain as the worldwide leader in solar energy and solar power plants. Electric or Electric/Fire. Has Solar Power as one of its Abilities.
- Jossed
- Completed versions of the Galarian fossils.
- Jossed
- A locust => grasshopper, a speedy Bug/Grass-type.
- Half-jossed. There is a grasshopper, but it's a Bug/Dark Kamen Rider Shout-Out.
- A legendary Pokemon based on Huītzilōpōchtli, since we already have a Pokémon based on his rival, Quetzalcoatl.
- A beaver, due to Eurasian beavers being the largest rodent in Spain.
- Jossed.
- A goose, possibly Quaxly’s final evolution if it’s a literal “Duck, Duck, Goose” phenomenon.
- Jossed.
- A capybara.
- Jossed.
- A rockhopper penguin.
- Jossed.
- The well overdue dolphin Pokémon.
- Confirmed! The dolphin Pokemon's name is Finizen and its evolution, Palafin.
- Cthulhu, either as a Legendary, Mythical, or even as a regional evolution of Malamar.
- Jossed
- A literal golden eagle.
- Jossed.
- A Legendary Pokémon based on Geryon, a tyrannical giant that Hercules slew. His remains were buried in Northwestern Spain, where the lighthouse known as Torre de Hercules stands.
- A regional evolution (or form) of Exeggcute that is a pun on "Spanish omlette".
- Jossed.
- A Portuguese dogfish that evolves into a massive, sluggish Sleeper shark. Not only are they in the same family, but one of the former's ranges includes the waters off of the coast of Spain, and is also known as the deepest-living shark species ever discovered. Could be any combination of Ice, Ghost, Water, Dark, or Psychic.
- Jossed
- A Bug/Dark vampire-like butterfly based on the Madrilenial butterfly. There could even be gender difference for this Mon, with the male being a count, and the female being a vampiress.
- Half-jossed. We got a Bug/Dark type, but it's a grasshopper.
- Puss-in-Boots, potentially a feminine equivalent as Sprigatito’s final evolution.
- Puss-In-Boots is an Italian story in origin, with no real connection to Spain outside of the character's depiction in Shrek, which would make it an odd choice.
- Jossed.
- A rooster-like Pokémon inspired by the Rooster of Barcelos. Based on the tale that inspired it, its typing could be Normal/Ghost, or something along those lines.
- Jossed.
- A Water/Poison Pokémon inspired by the Portuguese man o' war.
- Jossed.
- An evolution of Dhelmise, given how much the exploration of the seas shaped the Iberian Peninsula's history.
- Jossed.
- A flamenco dancer as the Three-Stage Feminine Pokemon. (like Gardevoir, Roserade, Gothitelle, Florges, Tsareena, Hatterene)
- Half-jossed.
- The Pikachu line (admittedly a safe bet).
- Confirmed!
- Swablu and Altaria.
- Also confirmed to be coming back.
- Oricorio, particularly due to its Baile (flamenco) form.
- Confirmed!
- Dhelmise.
- Eevee and its evolutions.
- Confirmed!
- Pincurchin
- Confirmed!
- Spoink and Grumpig.
- Confirmed!
- The Lotad line
- Confirmed in The Teal Mask.
- Inkay and Malamar; due to the significance of squid in paella.
- Confirmed in The Indigo Disk
- Teddiursa, Ursaring, and Ursaluna; as there appear to be phases of the moon.
- Teddiursa and Ursaring confirmed — though Ursaluna is not yet clear. It is likely, however, considering Hisuian Zoroark is in it.
- A new form of Ursaluna was added in The Teal Mask called Blood Moon Ursaluna, and the original one can be transferred from HOME.
- The Wooloo line
- Jossed
- Mimikyu. Given how popular it is, it should show up as a mainstay of each regional Dex.
- Confirmed.
- Zubat and its evolutions, as they've been in every main-game Dex so far.
- Jossed
- Tentacool and Tentacruel
- Confirmed in The Indigo Disk
- Magikarp and Gyarados, as, like with the Zubat line, they've had perfect attendance in the main series.
- Confirmed!
- Pokémon Dexited in Sword and Shield:
- Mankey and Primeape.
- Confirmed! It even has a new evolution!
- The Slakoth line
- Confirmed!
- The Skiddo line
- Confirmed!
- The Scatterbug line
- Confirmed!
- The Sewaddle line
- Confirmed in The Teal Mask.
- Minior
- Confirmed in The Indigo Disk
- The Elemental Monkeys
- Jossed.
- Blitzle/Zebstrika
- Confirmed in The Indigo Disk
- Gligar/Gliscor
- Confirmed in The Teal Mask.
- Venonat/Venomoth
- Confirmed!
- Phanpy/Donphan
- Confirmed! Donphan even has two Paradox counterparts!
- Shroomish/Breloom
- Confirmed!
- Tynamo/Eelektrik/Eelektross
- Confirmed!
- Ducklett/Swanna
- Confirmed in The Teal Mask.
- Crabrawler/Crabominable
- Confirmed!
- The Flabébé line
- Confirmed!
- Aipom/Ambipom
- Confirmed in The Teal Mask.
- Girafarig
- Confirmed! It even has a new evolution!
- Stantler, provided Wyrdeer is obtainable in the game.
- Stantler is Confirmed!
- Glameow/Purugly
- Jossed
- Houndour/Houndoom
- Confirmed!
- Ekans/Arbok
- Confirmed in The Teal Mask.
- Spinarak/Ariados
- Confirmed in The Teal Mask.
- Surskit/Masquerain
- Confirmed!
- Komala
- Confirmed!
- The Weedle line.
- Jossed
- Shuppet/Banette
- Confirmed!
- The Geodude line
- Confirmed in The Teal Mask, and the Alolan version is in The Indigo Disk
- Rattata/Raticate
- Jossed
- Grimer/Muk
- Confirmed!
- Mankey and Primeape.
- In short, there are 63 species in 27 families from Gens 5 to 7 that aren't used in a Gen 8 Pokémon game and have effectively missed out. They're bound to return for Gen 9, alongside all the Hisuian Pokémon, especially since Hisuian Zoroark was shown in the trailer.
- Alolan Geodude, Alolan Grimer, and Alolan Rattata will be available in the game.
- Regional variants have never left their home region before.
- Not entirely; Alolan Forms are available in LGPE and Sw Sh, Alolan Vulpix is also in Legends: Arceus.
- Unless received through in-game trades, regional variants such as Alolan Forms are only usable if the default variants in question are actually available in the games, more so once connectivity with Pokémon Home is established and online.
- Semi-Jossed. Only Alolan Grimer/Muk came back.
- Now two-thirds Confirmed. The Geodude line returned in The Teal Mask, and their Alolan variants can be transferred from HOME. No sign of Rattata though.
- Ultimately confirmed. Regular Geodude line is in The Teal Mask, while Alolan Geodude line is in The Indigo Disk
- Regional variants have never left their home region before.
- The Lycanroc line, to reference Iberian wolves.
- Confirmed!
- The Nickit line.
- Jossed
- Larvesta and Volcarona, as references to Spain's solar power infrastructure and a Visual Pun with the Tower of the Sun.
- Confirmed! Volcarona even has two Paradox counterparts!
- Zangoose, though it’s hardly a stretch since Seviper is seen in the first trailer. However, Zangoose could be Scarlet-exclusive while Seviper is Violet-exclusive.
- Confirmed!
- Eiscue
- Confirmed!
- Rhyhorn and its evolutions.
- Confirmed in The Indigo Disk
- Skrelp/Dragalge
- Confirmed.
- Wimpod/Golisopod
- Jossed
- Dunsparce
- Confirmed, even with a new evolution to boot!
- Gen V and VI starters, as they've all been Dexited from all Gen VIII games (except for the Oshawott line showing up in Legends: Arceus).
- All past starters are confirmed to be returning for The Indigo Disk.
- Kubfu/Urshifu
- Confirmed in The Indigo Disk
- Impidimp and its evolutions.
- Confirmed!
- The Applin line
- Confirmed! The DLCs even introduce one new form each!
- Pawniard/Bisharp
- Confirmed! It even has a new evolution!
- The Gible line.
- Confirmed!
- The Beldum line.
- Confirmed as DLC!
- The Dreepy line.
- Confirmed!
- The Jangmo-o line.
- Confirmed in The Teal Mask.
- Clobbopus and Grapploct
- Jossed
- Drilbur and Excadrill
- Confirmed in The Indigo Disk
- Bergmite and Avalugg
- Confirmed!
- Staryu and Starmie
- Jossed
- Bunnelby, or at least any rabbit species. In real life, rabbits originated from Spain.
- Half-confirmed. Bunnelby is jossed, but Azumarill returns.
- Gen 8 regional evolutions:
- Perrserker
- Confirmed. It's not in the Paldea Dex, but you get one from Salvatore by completing his quest line.
- Mr. Rime
- Cursola
- Sirfetch’d
- Obstagoon
- Runerigus
- Except for Perrserker, all Galarian guesses are jossed.
- Sneasler
- Overqwil
- Confirmed in Indigo Disk
- Basculegion
- Confirmed in The Teal Mask
- Kleavor
- Confirmed in Indigo Disk
- Wyrdeer
- Ursaluna
- All of the Hisuian regional evolutions are in the code, but must be transferred from HOME.
- Perrserker
- Confirmed:
- Tauros, who will be more similar to toro bravo, the breed of cattle used in bullfighting. It will be larger, more muscular, and much more aggressive than a regular Tauros, and will have black fur. It will be used in whatever Paldea's version of bullfighting is.
- Wooper may get a regional form and become either Water-Psychic or Water-Ghost based on the cave olm. It might either evolve into a Paldean Quagsire, a new Pokémon much like Galarian Meowth, or a Paldean Quagsire that evolves into a new Pokémon.
- Half-Confirmed, Half-Jossed: Wooper is the first to receive a Paldean form, but it becomes a Poison/Ground-type.
- Half-jossed:
- Bisharp, maybe a conquistador.
- Half-jossed: It's not a Paldean Variant, but it does get a brand new evolution.
- Jigglypuff line — pure Flying with a bigger emphasis on them being a balloon.
- The Magnemite line — Iono seemingly has two Magnemites in her hair, one blue and one pink, their Paldean forms will have genders and they will be pure electric-type like Magnemite and Magneton were in generation one.
- Jossed. Those are hair clips.
- Alternatively, her hair decorations are based on actual Paldean Magnemites. Owing to their pastel colors and larger, more expressive eyes, they would be Electric/Fairy. They would then be joined by a third, yellow Paldean Magnemite to become Paldean Magneton. It would then evolve into its own Pokémon rather than a Paldean Magnezone.
- Dunsparce — Becomes a Fairy/Dragon-type serpent that could evolve into a feathered pseudo-deity.
- Sinistea and Polteageist, possessing coffee instead of tea.
- Alternatively, a Sinistea variant that evolves into a Pokémon that ressembles a moka pot. Maybe a Ghost/Steel Pokémon?
- Semi-confirmed; Teal Mask added a convergent form based on matcha tea.
- Bisharp, maybe a conquistador.
- Jossed:
- Meowth (and maybe Persian?), as it's basically become the poster-child for Regional Variants. Someone more versed in the cats of Iberia can probably elaborate further for me.
- Seems to be jossed already, since the trailer shows regular Meowth, but there's no word on Persian. Also, thanks to a screenshot of Hisuian Zororak in the game (meaning it and Hisuian Zorua are gonna pop up), it appears that the Alolan, Galarian, and Hisuian variants of Pokémon in this new regional dex are gonna be in the game. Furthermore, the Alolan and Galarian Meowth lines are also gonna pop up somewhere.
- In general, Paldean variants (and regional variants in future regions, for that matter) may now include more Kalosian, Alolan, or even Galarian species, as Legends: Arceus introduced the first regional variants of Alolan and Kalosian species.
- Honedge/Doublade making them more like rapiers or other dueling swords, maybe with a regional evolution that has them retain the twin-rapier aesthetic over the sword-&-shield motif of Aegislash.
- A cubist Porygon.
- Wimpod, with a regional evolution fully evolved to live on land.
- Phantump and Trevenant, maybe as non-Ghosts.
- A teaser just posted as of this edit shows photos of painted trees and rocks based on the real-life Painted Forest of Oma. Perhaps Grass/Fairy?
- This teaser was the run up to the introduction of Grafaiai, nothing to do with regional forms.
- Natu and Xatu, with a more tropical or gothic appearance.
- Due to the significance of oranges and grapes, Tsareena could gain a new regional variant and become Grass-Fairy. Maybe her regional variant changes depending on what version you’re playing.
- Murkrow, based on the New Caledonian Crow. It would get its own evolution separate from Honchkrow.
- Jossed. Both Murkrow and Honchkrow are confirmed to be in the game, but without Paldean forms.
- The Elemental Monkeys, pulling from the Barbary Macaque and perhaps adding a reverse type circle for good measure.
- A variant of Roserade that fights with sword-like flowers, referencing Zorro.
- Mandibuzz, with a Paldean form based on the bearded vulture.
- Trubbish and/or Garbodor, given that the previous two main regions introduced regional forms for the other two pollution families with Alolan Grimer/Muk and Galarian Weezing. Additionally, they would be Poison/Steel, given that the secondary types of the other two lines were introduced after Gen 1, and Steel is the only one of the three that hasn't been paired with Poison.
- They could use metal bins as armour, a small bin for Trubbish and big rubbish that they found outside of Pokémon shops for Garbodor.
- Alternatively, Trubbish would use a personal-size wastebasket while Garbodor would use a big dumpster.
- An Ice-type Crystal Onix.
- Sudowoodo, which would become a Grass-type or Rock/Grass upon adapting to much more healthier grasslands or forests. Like Galarian Mr. Mime, it may even get a new evolution.
- Semi-jossed. While Sudowoodo appears in the game without a specific Paldean form, one of the Gym Leaders uses a Sudowoodo with a Grass Tera type.
- Chatot — it could receive a slightly different look and even an evolution, possibly based on a macaw or cockatoo.
- The Pidove line could become Rock-Flying types as a nod to the *rock* dove, the common pigeon's wild ancestor, and could be made exclusive to Scarlet.
- Flamenco Gardevoir.
- Meowth (and maybe Persian?), as it's basically become the poster-child for Regional Variants. Someone more versed in the cats of Iberia can probably elaborate further for me.
- Phanpy: Violet
- Donphan: Violet
- Zangoose: Scarlet
- Seviper: Violet
- Unovan Braviary: Scarlet
- Mandibuzz: Violet
- Flappe: Scarlet
- Appletun: Violet
- Cufant: Scarlet
- Copperajah: Scarlet
- All guesses are jossed.
- Sprigatito's final evolution.
- Grass/Dark
- Confirmed!
- Grass/Electric
- Grass/Fairy
- Grass/Psychic
- Grass/Steel
- Grass/Rock
- Grass/Water
- Grass/Fire
- Grass/Fighting (Again)
- Pure Grass (Again)
- Grass/Ground (Again)
- Grass/Ghost (Again)
- Grass/Poison (Again)
- Grass/Dark
- Fuecoco's final evolution.
- Fire/Steel
- Fire/Dragon
- Fire/Poison
- Fire/Rock
- Fire/Ground
- Fire/Electric
- Fire/Grass
- Fire/Water
- Fire/Ghost (Again)
- Confirmed!
- Pure Fire (Again)
- Fire/Dark (Again)
- Fire/Fighting (Again)
- Fire/Flying (Again)
- Quaxly's final evolution.
- Water/Ice
- Water/Flying
- Water/Fighting
- Confirmed!
- Water/Psychic
- Water/Normal
- Water/Ghost
- Water/Fire
- Water/Grass
- Water/Fairy (Again)
- Pure Water (Again)
- Water/Dark (Again)
- Water/Steel (Again)
- Water/Ground (Again)
Sprigatito
- Based on climbing ivy, due to the ivy leaf shape on Sprigatito's face and dewlap. Could combine with that of a mountain lion, big cats with an affinity for climbing. The final evolution will remain quadrupedal; like Venusaur, it would use its vine growths as appendages.
- A Smilodon-based creature that uses its sabre teeth as swords in a musketeer-like capacity, possibly influenced by Puss in Boots from the Shrek franchise.
- A bipedal cat person, much to the dismay and ire of people who want a quadruped starter. However it'll be different from Incineroar in that it'll be more feminine, maybe resembling a Cat Girl.
- Confirmed.
- An Iberian lynx based on sprigs of mint.
- Possible evolution names:
- 2nd form: Blynx, or Bloomynx, combination of "bloom" and "lynx"; Sprigato.
- 3rd form: Florlina, combination of "flor" (Spanish for "flower") and "felina" (Spanish for "feline"); Sprigatogrande.
- A fluffy lynx resembling a ghillie suit
Fuecoco
- Its resemblance to an apple/pepper, the underbelly resembling an apron, and the small yellow bits coming out of its head bearing cylindrical shapes, suggest it will evolve into a chef-themed dragon. Wields a frying pan with the tip of its tail shaped like a spatula.
- By the time it's fully evolved, it will resemble a dinosaur.
- More specifically (not sure how to describe it further), it belongs to the family the T-Rex is in, mainly in its body shape as well as how its arms are proportionally small and constantly holds onto its belly.
- Possibly even a Carnotaurus to represent the Ox on the Chinese Zodiacnote .
- Fuecoco's shape, color, and "hair" resembles a pepper, while its white face and beady, black eyes give it a look akin to a toony skull. Its final stage will likely be a ghost pepper based Fire/Ghost type, skirting as close to a Grass theme as possible without actually using any plant in its design (think Lurantis and it mimicking Bug types).
- Confirmed to be Fire/Ghost indeed.
- The shape also bears resemblance to a cocoa bean, including a white inside much like Fuecoco's face. This chocolate and dessert theme will persist through the evolutions and be chef-like (as suggested above), but a pastry chef with Fire/Fairy typing.
- Possible evolution names:
- 2nd form: Fogataiman, or Fogacaiman combination of "fogata" (Spanish for "bonfire") and "caiman".
- 3rd form: Incendrilo, combination of "incendio" (Spanish for "fire") and "cocodrilo" (Spanish for "crocodile").
- Or, Quemadrilo, combination of "quemar" (Spanish for the verb "burn") and "cocodrilo".
- Its arms will stay proportionally small and constantly hold onto its belly.
- A gharial with glowing spikes and teeth
- It's evolved will look like Croconaw and Feraligatr being bipedal crocodiles.
Quaxly
- The hairdo on its head resembles a classic sailor's cap, so it is likely to evolve into something themed on sailors or boats. Comparisons to Donald Duck have not gone unnoticed.
- Will gain a more warrior like design, eventually leading to being based on Don Quixote.
- A Water/Fairy-Type Wizard that learns Special Moves of all Types while also having a few healing moves.
- For added points, its Hidden Ability would be Anger Point or Berserk.
- Why not BOTH the Don Quixote warrior AND the Kingdom Hearts Donald design? It can be a mixed attacker.
- Will become a goose/boat hybrid for its Quaxly children to ride on.
- Its cap will develop into some sort of stormcloud, which will lead to a Water/Flying, Water/Electric, or Water/Ice combination.
- A Water/Ghost or Water/Dark pirate/privateer.
- Possible evolution names:
- 2nd form: Mallancho, combination of "mallard" and "Sancho" from Don Quixote.
- 3rd form: Patador, combination of "pato" (Spanish for "duck") and "matador" (Spanish for "killer"/"bullfighter")
- Or Quaxautic. Quack, Quixote, Exotic, Nautical.
- A conquistador.
- All jossed. It's instead a Water/Fighting dancer.
- Jossed: There's 103 new Pokémon in the base game alone, and Pokémon #1000 is Gholdengo.
- Just a coincidence up until now, as some lines don't match up at all (Typhlosion is most certainly not a rat, Delphox is not a dog - even though foxes are canids, Chinese folklore distinguishes between foxes and dogs very clearly, with both carrying different connotations).
- A concept used for a few generations but abandoned.
- It's not supposed to strictly apply to the first 12 generations.
- The priority to keep the motif of Fire-types starters is less compared to keeping the motif among starters of the same gen.
- The extent they follow the zodiac motif is lesser than normally we expect.
- The zodiac motif, if it was ever intentional, only started in Gen 3 (Typhlosion is not a rat, Delphox is not a dog, and Charizard does not resemble a Chinese dragon), and has been retired.
- Confirmed. It is a crocodile.
- Jossed
Should the trend continue, including regional variant evolutions, here are some candidates:
- Dunsparce: One of the most requested and well-known candidates overdue to receive an evolution.
- Confirmed
- Another split evolution for Yamask, provided if it receives another regional variant.
- Maskerigus, themed after opera (Psychic)
- Yanma: So much pun potential.
- A physical attacker with a reskinned Skill Link themed after Bullet Hell
- A special attacker that is a pun on Yandere
- Falinks: Could evolve into an army of 12 Fighting/Steel-type knights.
- Heatmor: Becomes a Fire/Steel-type furnace/anteater hybrid.
- Eevee: After missing out on an evolution in the previous generation, maybe Eevee could perhaps gain a new evolution or two in the new games. Based on the significance of Pokémon types from what we see from the trailer, maybe we would get all Eeveelutions for the remaining unused types.
- Girafarig: Could get something based on its beta design which fully mirrors its body.
- It could also evolve into something based on an extinct giraffid that lived in the area.
- Confirmed! Girafarig evolves into Farigiraf, where its tail-head becomes like a hood surrounding its front-head.
- Maractus could gain both a pre-evolution and evolution much like Roselia did in Gen 4.
- Relicanth: a relatively forgettable one-stager that could get some new interest with an evolution.
- Sudowoodo: Becomes better at resisting water to avoid blowing its camouflage.
- Dewgong: Becomes a narwhal/whale hybrid capable of smashing through icebergs with its much stronger, more icicle-like horn.
- Delibird: Becomes an avian Santa Claus/Krampus-like figure with a beak that lights up like Rudolph’s red nose.
- A split evolution for another variant of Corsola that embodies colourful coral.
- Primeape: Evolves into an enlightened Fighting/Ghost-type spirit that could tie into the lore of its Gen 7 PokéDex entry that states it gets so angry that it dies, as well as introducing a whole new evolution mechanic surrounding fainted Pokémon.
- Confirmed, even got the type right. Unsure if it evolves by fainting, though.
- It doesn't, but it does evolve after using a move 20 times.
- Confirmed, even got the type right. Unsure if it evolves by fainting, though.
- Wooper: Like with the Galarian variants of Meowth and Yamask, Paldean Wooper could evolve into an entirely different Pokémon.
- Confirmed, it evolves into Clodsire.
- True, but considering that many trends have been broken in recent generations, maybe this one will be broken as well.
- Jossed. Girafarig gets an evolution called Farigiraf, and Dunsparce gets a joke evolution called Dudunsparce.
- Both Quaxly and Fuecoco look more headed into tougher directions character design-wise, but Sprigatito's design could easily develop to fit the niche of the more elegant or feminine starter that's been carrying on for several generations.
- Confirmed.
- Arguably speaking, Quaquaval is almost on the same level as Meowscarada for being the "pretty" final-evolved starter, being based around a peacock and all. So it's somewhat confirmed.
- Confirmed.
- Jossed.
- Confirmed.
- Normal/Bug
- Normal/Ice
- Winter-exclusive early Com Mon
- Normal/Poison
- Confirmed with Grafaiai
- Normal/Rock
- An ancient Normal-type Pokémon restored from a fossil
- Possibly the legendary Pokémon behind the Terastal phenomenon
- Normal/Steel
- Grass/Fire
- An exploding Tomato
- A hot pepper
- Confirmed!
- Bug/Dark
- A Pokémon based on a Skulltulla from the Legend of Zelda games
- The type combination has been confirmed, with a grasshopper.
- Bug/Dragon
- A mass of bugs in the shape of a dragon
- Ghost/Rock
- A tombstone version of Spiritomb
- Poison/Ice
- Poison/Steel
- A sentient engine of some kind, possibly being the very motor that operates Team Star’s flamboyant car.
- Confirmed! It’s the Revavroom line.
- A sentient engine of some kind, possibly being the very motor that operates Team Star’s flamboyant car.
- Fighting/Fairy
- Confirmed, it's a Paradox Pokemon called Iron Valiant.
- Fighting/Electric
- Confirmed with the Pawmi line
- Fighting/Ground
- Confirmed with Great Tusks, a Paradox Pokémon that resembles an ancient Donphan.
- Fairy/Ground
- Fairy/Fire
- A lantern-wielder
- The third legendary (if it exists) could be one as it counteracts the types of the box-art legends. Its Fairy-typing not only makes it immune to Koraidon and Miraidon's Dragon-type attacks, but reduces the damage taken from Koraidon's Fighting-Type attacks while its Dragon-typing reduces the damage taken from Miraidon's Electric-Type attacks.
- As of release, Jossed.
This has literally been the ongoing tradition ever since Gen III, and nothing has truly broken the cycle in a sense.
- Jossed. Whether you consider Ogerpon or Terapagos as Third Legendary, neither is Dragon-type.
- Lugia & Ho-oh: Depths and Skies + Storms and Clear Weather + Despair and Hope
- Groudon & Kyogre: Land and Sea
- Dialga & Palkia: Space and Time
- Reshiram & Zekrom: Truth and Ideals + Yin and Yang
- Xerneas & Yveltal: Life and Death
- Solgaleo & Lunala: Sun and Moon
- Zacian & Zamazenta: Sword and Shield + Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object
And since the Region looks to take place in Spain, we're narrowed down to some possibilities:
- Modernity & Tradition: A classic parallel duo. Spanish is a very modern country like the rest of the world, but there is a heavy root of tradition in its people. A Legendary Duo with a modernity-tradition theme would be an interesting take. Black and White and Black 2 and White 2 explored this concept, but they were not tied to any of the Legendary Pokémon or the plot in general.
- Industry & Nature: This was explored in Sword and Shield already, but that wasn't the theme of the Legendary Pokemon that were a part of that game.
- Religion & Royalty: Spain is a very Catholic country. It was also known for its extensive monarchy as well. Perhaps Scarlet will give us a Religion-themed Inquisitor Legendary while Violet will give us a Royal King Legendary.
- Past & Future: Spain and Portugal are two countries both steeped in history they're proud of and on the cutting edge of technology and infrastructure. This is not the same as "Modernity & Tradition"; this is more "What Used to Be & What Is Yet to Be." This even extends to the game title names being Modern takes on the colours Red and Blue.
- Seemingly confirmed. The new Professors emulate a Caveman and Futuristic asthetic respectively, while the new mascots Koraidon and Miraidon look like an ancient dragon and a futuristic jet dragon. Furthermore, "korai" means past, "mirai" means future.
- Confirmed: Koraidon and Miraidon are Past and Future.
- Seemingly confirmed. The new Professors emulate a Caveman and Futuristic asthetic respectively, while the new mascots Koraidon and Miraidon look like an ancient dragon and a futuristic jet dragon. Furthermore, "korai" means past, "mirai" means future.
Now considering that as of this WMG, there are two hidden videos on Pokémon’s playlist that came up recently, so we may have very little time to speculate before we verify it all.
- Koraidon
- Fire/Rock — It would match with the ancient pre-historic aspect of the evident past and future theme that the games seem to have. Given the mascots also have a sort of Motorbike theme going with them. The Fire could represent Petrol bast combustion of older motorcycles.
- Dragon/Fairy
- Rock/Dragon
- Fire/Dragon
- Dragon/Fighting
- Confirmed!
- Pure Dragon
- Dragon/Ground
- Fighting/Ground
- Miraidon
- Electric/Steel — Unlike Koraidon, Miraidon is visibly radiating an element which appears to be electricity. Its jet-like body would also make it a clear candidate for Steel type.
- Electric/Ghost
- Electric/Psychic
- Electric/Dragon
- Confirmed!
- Steel/Psychic
- Pure Electric
- Steel/Dragon
- Steel/Flying
- Time Travel is certainly not out of the question, as the concept of Time Travel has existed since generation 2 through Bill's technology. Plus with the existence of Space Time Distortion, there can be many ways for a Pokémon from the future to appear in present time.
- Confirmed!
- Bonus points if it has a Yellow or Green colour scheme to go with the Red and Blue of Koraidon and Miraidon.
- Adding onto this, it will be named Genzaidon, after the Japanese word for present time (genzai), to go along with the theme names of Koraidon (past) and Miraidon (future).
- Alternatively, it could be called Genraidon (Genrai is Japanese for Return) to keep up with the -raidon theme the other two has.
- There's also the fact that Ouroboros is generally depicted as a circle, which would visually connect an Ouroboros Pokémon to Koraidon and Miraidon due to the two of them having wheels as their visual motif.
- Having said that, with Koraidon and Miraidon being visually reminiscent of fan-throated lizards, the Ouroboros Pokémon will not look like a snake, but rather, an armadillo lizard (which is scientifically called Ouroboros).
- Jossed. If we consider Terapagos as the Third Legendary, it's a turtle.
Koraidon
- A move that rewinds the state of battle to the beginning of the previous turn, undoing all effects and damage that happened in the meantime. Cannot be used consecutively, as otherwise you'd effectively play consequence-free (at least until its PP runs out).
- An Ability that rewinds the state of battle to the beginning of the previous turn the first time in a battle Koraidon enters play. If Koraidon enters play to replace a fainted Pokémon, that Pokémon is no longer fainted, but Koraidon can no longer rewind. Does not take effect if Koraidon is present when a battle begins or if Koraidon enters battle on the same turn as Miraidon.
- Intimidate, but for Special Attack.
- An ability that lets it use its Attack stat for speed calculation.
- An ability that makes it immune to opposing status moves.
- All jossed. It's ability sets up Sun and boosts its attack by 30%, while its Signature Move does additional damage to super effective opponents.
Miraidon
- A move that sends the battle one turn ahead. Any passive effects that would happen during the skipped turn (such as Sandstorm, Leech Seed, Leftovers, or Speed Boost) or moves that can't be controlled once started (such as Rollout, Gorilla Tactics, Choice Items, or Outrage) immediately take effect. Cannot be used consecutively, as this could easily lock an opponent in a bad situation they can't avoid until they lose.
- An Ability that sends the battle one turn ahead the first time in a battle Miraidon enters play. Does not take effect if the skipped turn would decide the battle or if Miraidon enters battle on the same turn as Koraidon.
- A self-buff move that combines the effects of Agility and Magnetic Rise.
- All jossed. It's ability sets up Electric Terrain and boosts its Special Attack by 30%, while its Signature Move does additional damage to super effective opponents.
- Smoliv:
- Grass/Poison (due to the potency of the oil it secretes).
- Grass/Fire (the Pokédex mentions that it likes to bask in the warm glow of the sun, and some olives are very spicy).
- Grass/Steel, based on canned olives with the can providing the Steel-type. Whereas Smoliv's oil is very bitter and unappetizing, its fully evolved form has oil that's mild and pleasing, to reflect the taste of real-life olives between fresh and canned.
- Stays Grass/Normal
- Game mechanics-wise, the Normal typing is to let it stay immune to Ghost moves and possibly give it STAB Boomburst.
- Lore-wise, the Normal typing could reflect its sociability factor, being able to get along with people well while providing them with mundane utility (for this case, olive oil).
- Confirmed.
- Lechonk:
- Normal/Poison (due to its Weaponized Stench)
- Normal/Ground (being a pig and all).
- Fighting/Ground, a radical type change when exposed to a Dawn Stone.
- All jossed. Lechonk's evolution stays a pure Normal-type.
- Pawmi:
- Electric/Fighting.
- Confirmed
- Pure Electric.
- If the electric shock capabilities of Pawmi’s paws are expanded into a defibrillator theme, it could gain Electric/Fairy type as it becomes a healer.
- Electric/Fighting.
- Fidough:
- Fairy/Ground
- Fairy/Fire
- Pure Fairy
- Confirmed
- Cetitan:
- Ice/Steel
- Ice/Poison
- Ice/Water
- Pure Ice
- Alternatively, Cetitan is the fully evolved form.
- Confirmed. It has a pre-evo called Cetoddle.
- Jossed.
- Gen I: Mewtwo and Mew
- Gen II: Lugia and Celebi
- Gen III: Latias, Latios, Jirachi, and Deoxys
- Gen IV: The Lake Trio and Cresselia
- Gen V: Victini and Meloetta (well, one of its forms)
- Gen VI: Hoopa (both forms)
- Gen VII: The entire Cosmog line and all forms of Necrozma
- Gen VIII: Calyrex (both regular and Rider forms)
- Jossed; the box legends aren't part Psychic-type, but Munkidori is.
- Gen III: Rayquaza
- Gen IV: All three Pokémon in the Creation Trio
- Gen V: Both Pokémon in the Yin Yang Duo, and all three forms of Kuyrem
- Gen VI: Zygarde
- Gen VII: Ultra Necrozma
- Gen VIII: Eternatus
- Confirmed: Both mascot legendaries are part Dragon-type
- And their version exclusive counterparts in Violet would probably be the Ultra Beasts.
- Jossed: Hisuian mons are available by transfer while Ultra Beasts are unobtainable. However, Paradox Pokèmon play that role instead.
- This also ties in nicely with the speculation that the third legendary will be an Ouroboros. Ouroboros represents a cycle, and stagnation is a negative example of a cycle, where people do the same thing day in and day out, never reflecting on the past to avoid repeating any past mistakes and never striving to create something new for the future.
- Jossed. No such legendary to represent stagnation.
- Confirmed yet jossed. The one thousandth Pokemon is Gholdengo.
- Based on the reveal of the Terastal ability, an alternative for this calamity is something far more direct: physical crystallization of people, Pokémon, and landscapes that the players will have to quite literally break in the climax.
- So, like the third Anime movie?
- Jossed. The calamity is instigated by the human Sada/Turo instead of a pokemon, and said calamity is Introduced Species Calamity instead.
- Meowth: Kantonian Meowth will be exclusive to Scarlet while Galarian Meowth will be exclusive to Violet. Galarian Meowth because Perrserker would contrast better with Persian.
- Hisuian Sneasel for Scarlet and Johtonian Sneasel for Violet would work as well... provided that Hisuian forms are catchable to begin with.
- Note: May not even be exclusive to older regional variants. New one could fit as well.
- Galarian Meowth and its evolution are based off Vikings, who are from the past. Why would they be in Violet, which is themed after the future.
- The logic may be a matter of evolution rather than theme. To explain this using another Pokémon, G-Zigzagoon would be Scarlet exclusive since it's meant to be the original while regular Zigzagoon would be Violet exclusive because it evolved from G-Zigzagoon.
- Galarian Meowth and its evolution are based off Vikings, who are from the past. Why would they be in Violet, which is themed after the future.
- Jossed. All regional forms that are in the game's code (with the exception of Galarian Meowth) can only be obtained in the game via transfer.
- Hisuian forms appear but it's unrelated to time travel, they just exist in remote locations.
- A pre-evolution? Cosmog was revealed to be a prevolution to both Solgaleo and Lunala, so this is probably the most likely outcome. Obviously, what Cyclizar evolves into would differ by version — Koraidon for Scarlet, Miraidon for Violet.
- A descendant Pokémon that comes from breeding? Phione comes from breeding Manaphy, so it's not too far-fetched that breeding Koraidon or Miraidon would get a similar Pokémon.
- Just a similar Pokémon that doesn't evolve into/descend from either? Consider the case of Luvdisc and Alomomola — very similar Pokémon that look like they should be related, but aren't. Could Cyclizard just happen to be similar to Koraidon and Miraidon?
- Something like Diance and Carbink?
- Past and Future forms?
- Confirmed!
- Koraidon and Miraidon end up being Cyclizar individuals turned into that state by an unrelated outside individual? Akin to Ho-oh and the Legendary Beasts.
- The duo are one-time (each) permanent terrastalization of Cyclizar.
- They aren't crystalized and don't have hats.
- They are found there, but are also found in other areas.
- Jossed: Grafaiai's unique move is a Normal-type status move that copies the target's ability for Grafaiai and its allies.
- Jossed. They can only be obtained via transfer.
- Confirmed! They both evolve from Charcadet
- Confirmed. You feed them Herba Mystical to gain more movement abilities.
- Water
- Water/Ground
- This seems most likely due to them being seen in beaches as well as their similarity to garden eels.
- Bug/Ground
- Fairy/Ground
- Rock/Ground
- Normal/Ground
- Confirmed pure Water on the official Scarlet and Violet website
- Option 1: A trio of Wigletts intertwined just to poke fun at the fact that Wiglett resembles Diglett a lot.
- Option 2: A clam pokemon. At least one Youtuber points out that although Wiglett superficially looks like garden eels and is even called such officially, garden eels are generally found nowhere near the Iberian peninsula. Instead, taking note on how spotless Wiglett looks, it's possible that it may be the tongue (actually foot) of a clam which it sticks out to survey its surrounding, for reasons because Wiglett is found on the beach instead of underwater, as well as that clams are comparatively a lot more common in the Mediterranean area.
- Option 3: Something resembling Bobbit worm. After all, while garden eels and Bobbit worms are entirely different animals, they have a few similarities: The have long, slender bodies, and they generally hide in the seabed, poking their head out only when they're about to feed.
- Option 4: A more literal take on the term garden eel, turning into a Water/Grass type.
- Option 5: A trio of Wigletts, but separated a short distance from each other, the way groups of garden eels are actually distributed.
- If we do get three Wigletts, the name could be Wagtrio to continue the convergent evolution theme.
- Confirmed, but the Wigletts are located on the same rock and are red in colour.
- If we do get three Wigletts, the name could be Wagtrio to continue the convergent evolution theme.
- Oinkologne stays Normal-type but still possibly confirmed…one of the sandwich ingredients is ham.
- Flygon: Bug or Flying (the former because it's a dragonfly, a type of bug, the latter because it has "fly" in the name)
- Clobbopus and Grapploct: Water (being based on octopi)
- Dhelmise: Steel or Water (being based on an anchor, as well as being covered in seaweed)
- Mismagius: Fairy or Psychic (appears to have magical powers)
- Psyduck and Golduck: Psychic (it's in the name)
- Electivire: Fighting
- Sunflora: Fire (being based on the sun)
- Luxray: Dark (learns several Dark-type moves)
- Luxray isn't evil or underhanded. Is this just because it has black fur?
- Empoleon: Ice (being based on a penguin)
- Brassius refers to his Grass Tera-type Sudowoodo as a 'Truelywoodo/Truedowoodo.' Perhaps other gym leaders will do the same. Empoleon belonging to a gym leader seems unlikely, though, especially since Grusha is already shown to have a Cetitan as his ace, and Empoleon has no connection to the ice type outside of being a penguin. (One that's made of, well, steel.)
- In addition, having a starter outside of the region they're associated with would be very unlikely. One feasible choice is Hisuian Zoroark, who is confirmed to be present in Paldea and is associated with frosty climates without actually being an Ice-type.
- Brassius refers to his Grass Tera-type Sudowoodo as a 'Truelywoodo/Truedowoodo.' Perhaps other gym leaders will do the same. Empoleon belonging to a gym leader seems unlikely, though, especially since Grusha is already shown to have a Cetitan as his ace, and Empoleon has no connection to the ice type outside of being a penguin. (One that's made of, well, steel.)
- Toxel and Toxtricity: Dark
- Klinklang: Electric (being based on gears and machinery, as well as having Plus or Minus as an ability, which only Electric-type Pokémon usually have)
- Seismitoad: Poison (being based on a frog, having several Poison-type moves, and potentially having the ability Poison Touch)
- Mienshao: Flying (moves gracefully like the wind)
- Cacturne: Ground (being commonly found in the desert)
- Tyranitar: Dragon (being heavily inspired by Godzilla, a draconic fictional being)
- Florges: Grass (being based on a flower)
- Conkeldurr: Rock (carries two blocks of stone/concrete)
- Greavard: Fire (has a candle on its head)
- Any Pokémon in general: Fighting (because they, well, fight)
- All jossed, this does not happen.
- Jossed, the only other Pokémon with Cud Chew is the newly introduced Paldean Tauros.
- Jossed. Terapagos is Normal-type.
- Jossed. It is an evolution but the pre-evolution is called Tadbulb.
- Jossed — their Tera Types matches their primary.
The candle will multiply into multiple snaking flames, elongated ones that evoke the snakes said to be on Cerberus.
Or...
- Both jossed, it evolves into a skeletal dog with a tombstone on it's head.
- Jossed. They are two forms of the same species, Gimmighoul.
- Sort of jossed. It doesn't learn Pay Day, but its evolution does learn Make It Rain which does the same thing.
- Snowasaur, Icysaur, and Blizzarsaur: Ice-type Bulbasaur-inspired line. The bulb on its back would keep it warm in its first stage, before blossoming into a snowdrop flower upon its final evolution.
- Dirtle, Boulderotle, and Mountoise: Rock/Ground type Squirtle-inspired line (becoming Rock/Steel upon its final evolution). These turtles would be cave-dwellers instead of water-dwellers, their shells being made to withstand rockfalls. Mountoise's cannon would have more of a steely look, and would be equipped as a Sand Blaster instead of a water cannon.
- Chargemander, Chargemeleon, and Chargeizard: Electric-type Charmander-inspired line (becoming Electric/Dragon upon its final evolution). These mons would have sparks of electricity on their tails instead of flames.
- None of these are in the base game. Instead, we got a mushroom equivalent to the Tentacool line called Toedscool and Toedscruel.
- Confirmed
- Confirmed.
- Jossed, they are a student.
- Confirmed! The Player doesn't need to attend the classes, though.
- Carob.
- Rice. Bonus points for it being a pretty popular family name.
- Palmera, Spanish for palm tree.
- All jossed. The Professors' names are Sada and Turo, which seems to have derived from the Spanish words for Past and Future, Pasada and Futuro respectively.
- Jossed.
- Jossed. The three main plots are important especially to unlock the final plotline.
- Confirmed
Possible backstory: People who had beef with Turo decided to murder him in the most indirect way possible by using a time machine to travel back and kill his ancestor, erasing Turo from existence. Turo managed to stop the villain and rescue his ancestor Sada, but found he only had a single charge left in his time machine to make thejump. What he did next is the major plot deviation between versions:
- In Scarlet: Turo decides to leave Sada in the care of some people in the modern day he knows will care for her and then travels back to the future.
- In Violet: Turo gives Sada the time machine to send her back to her time period, trapping him in the modern day and decides to become his own grandpa to ensure his existence in the future.
- Jossed, so very, very jossed
- Amusingly, a time-displaced Professor gets to chat with us, and some of the things we can say may have inspired the professor to create their time machine and AI robot. So, not a voluntary time traveler, but they do.
- Confirmed, sort of? Clavell isn't a Pokémon professor, but he does have a plant name. And if we count Briar as a professor due to her interest in Terastal phenomenon, well, that's another plant-named character.
- Confirmed - Professor Jacq, who created the Pokédex app for the Rotom Phone, is named after Zinnia elegans Jacq., a type of flower. His Japanese name is Zinnia.
- More specfically, she would have all of the qualifications of a regional Pokémon Professor, but she submits her research and scholarly articles through Sada or Turo instead. Nemona might be afraid that people wouldn't believe her findings due to her being far younger than people would expect a professor to be. Rather, Sada or Turo are adults Nemona would trust to keep her secret and, as the public faces of Nemona's research, gain professorhood in her stead. Eventually, it'll become known that Nemona is the real brains behind Sada's or Turo's reputations, and the adults gracefully relinquish their statuses as Pokémon Professor and allow the institutions to transfer that title to Nemona.
- Jossed.
- Jossed, there is not one.
- Violet Nemona recruits her younger self either by bringing her forward in time or travelling back to the events she wishes to change depending on the version. Violet Nemona, however, would be the leader of the decoy team trying to counter the true big bad.
- Alternatively, Violet Nemona will be truly the big bad of the game, manipulating everyone, even her younger self. This would be the play with expectations that she'd be the leader of the decoy team.
- Jossed. The official website shows Nemona in a violet outfit in one of her pictures, at the same spot you see her battle the player character in the second trailer.
- Highly doubt it, what if you play the male character in Scarlet, or the female character in Violet?
- Maybe it'll be like Gen 3 or Gen 6 where the not chosen player character becomes a rival character instead.
- Jossed.
- Sort of? They don't fulfil the traditional professor role and Clavell is the one who gives the player their starter and plays a more professor-like role, and his alter ego's name is Clive (as well as his name in many languages being plant-based).
- Could just be the not chosen player character that becomes the same age rival.
- Nope.
- Or possibly he's somehow gained immortality, like AZ or possibly Cogita, allowing him to live to the modern day. He did say he'd keep trying even if it took centuries, after all.
- Jossed.
- Clavell might be a candidate as well for the father. Their face structure and skin color are similar to each other.
- Arven is confirmed to be the son of Sada and Turo
- Jossed: Geeta is the champion of Paldea. This does not discount Clavell being a former champion, however, though based on in-game lore he was more involved in Pokémon research than battling.
Unlike most legendaries, Koraidon/Miraidon will be relatively weak, being not that much stronger than the player's starter.
After beating it, Koraidon/Miraidon will then allow the player to catch it and use it both in and outside of battles.
As the player progress, Koraidon/Miraidon will get stronger until it is powerful enough to match previous generations' legendaries.
- The framing of the trailer suggests there’s multiple of this species, and that they’re given to students as part of the Treasure Hunt.
- Partly confirmed. You do not obtain it to use in battles until the end, but it will join you early on.
- If Penny indeed picks her own starter, it may be a Pikachu, partly as a nod to Gen 1 where Pikachu serves as starter for Pokemon Yellow, and partly also as a foreshadowing of her true identity (see below).
- All jossed. Clavel takes the starter strong against you, Nemona takes the starter weak against you, Arven has his Mabosstiff and Penny has a team of Eeveelutions.
- Confirmed.
- Already jossed, Grusha’s ace is Cetitan and it is ice type. Iono's ace is Bellibolt, which is electric type.
- Confirmed, actually (those aren't their strongest Pokémon); Grusha has an Ice-Terastal Altaria, Iono has an Electric-Terastal Mismagius. Larry, the Normal type gym leader, is the exception; he uses a Staraptor that he Terastallizes into a pure Normal type.
- Both jossed.
- Jossed, his only correlation to the Poison type is his use of a Swalot (that doesn't even have any Poison moves aside from Toxic).
- Jossed.
- Maybe Opal will make a cameo here, given how she passed on the role of gym leader to Bede back in Sword and Shield.
- Jossed.
- Overall jossed, but Penny is from Galar.
- Seemingly Jossed. Brassius has been revealed to be the Grass-type gym leader, Iono has been revealed to be the Electric-type gym leader and it seems there may not be an Elite Four again.
- Jossed: The Elite Four types are Ground, Steel, Flying and Dragon.
- I'm placing my bets on a Bull... er Tauros fighter who uses Ground-type Pokèmon.
- A Fire-type gym leader based on the titular character from the Carmen opera. Bonus points if she's the gym leader of the Pokémon equivalent of Seville, where the opera takes place.
- A Fairy-type or Normal-type Gym Leader who makes paintings for a living, specializing in either cubism (to reference Picasso) or surrealism (to reference Dalí). His Gym would be an art museum, and the puzzles would involve perspective tricks based on his paintings' style.
- Jossed: The Normal-type Gym Leader, Larry, is an ordinary salary man.
- Espana (Spain)
- Ibera (Iberian Peninsula)
- Brasila (Brazil)
- Orona (From Oro and Corona, the Spanish words for the Sun and the Crown respectively)
- Lusio (Lusitania)
- Veria (Iberia)
- All Jossed. It’s Paldea.
- We've had younger protagonists before, heck the game started with them! It's unlikely that the player character will grow up within the game.
- Jossed
- Actually semi-confirmed, although it's only a few weeks at most and happens very early in the game for the sake of skipping the player's classes in order to start the treasure hunt.
- The map of the region was revealed and there seems to be a giant crater in the center. Maybe that is where AZ's ultimate weapon hit?
- The crater is unrelated to the ultimate weapon.
- Nature Badge: Bug, Grass, and Poison. Plenty of bugs are poisonous, appear in the early stages, and Bug/Poison and Grass/Poison are common typings, with some of the very first Pokémon being this type. Additionally, even Bug and Grass type Pokémon that aren't part Poison can learn Poison-type moves, or even moves that can poison the opponent despite not being Poison type.
- Earth Badge: Rock and Ground. In Gen 1, there were no pure Rock-type Pokémon, and most Rock types were part Ground. Both of them lend themselves to Dishing Out Dirt, both are super effective against Fire and weak to Water and Grass. Nearly every Rock type can learn Ground-type moves (most notably, Earthquake), and quite a lot of Ground types can learn Rock-type moves.
- Slush Badge: Water and Ice: Both types resist themselves, they are super effective against Ground, and (most importantly of all), the number of Water-type Pokemon that can't learn an Ice-type move (notably, Ice Beam) can be counted on one hand (with more than a few pure Ice types being able to learn Water-type moves as well). It encapsulates the Ice Magic Is Water trope well.
- Magnetic Badge: Electric and Steel. Both are weak to Ground and resist themselves, as well as being able to learn both types of moves. Magnetism involves both electricity and metal, making a viable type combination. Moves like Magnet Rise and items like, well, the Magnet, are Electric type, despite being more associated with Steel.
- Magical Badge: Psychic and Fairy. Both types are super effective against Fighting, are resisted by Steel, and more than a few Psychic-type Pokémon being able to learn Fairy-type moves and vice versa. More importantly, Psychic and Fairy have a lot of overlap with light, space, and magic especially, with the Abilities Magic Guard and Magic Bounce being found on both Psychic and Fairy types.
- Power Badge: Normal and Fighting: Both have no effect whatsoever on Ghosts, and a lot of Normal-types can learn Fighting-type moves and vice versa. Several moves with the words "punch" and "kick" are Normal-type (when you'd think they'd be Fighting-type), and Karate Chop was converted from a Normal move to a Fighting move.
- Shadow Badge: Dark and Ghost: Both of them are super effective against the exact same pair of types, Dark-type Pokémon can learn Ghost-type moves and vice versa, and both of them lean towards Casting a Shadow with some of their moves.
- Draco Badge: Fire, Flying, and Dragon: Despite sharing only one resistance between the three of them (Grass), both fire and flight are commonly associated with dragons. Dragons can breathe fire and fly with ease, Dragon/Flying was the very first dual type combo to involve the Dragon type, and Pokémon like Charizard, Dragonite, Salamence, and more can learn all three types of moves.
- Jossed. The gyms each have one type. However, the other two stories each have 5 bosses, so combined there is one major opponent of each type.
- Zigzagged: While there are cases of people dying in the story, there aren't that many dark aspects in the story.
The villain team in each version of the game might be remnants of the other reality, who are trying to use the legendary's time powers to change history into *their* version of history.
- Jossed. The region's name is Paldea in both Scarlet and Violet.
- Jossed
The round harbor resembles that of Carthage, and Carthage has history with Spain. Some legends say the family of Hannibal founded Barcelona.
- Jossed, though there are large caves.
Both Clavels would orchestrate by preferring 1 school, while maintaining individualized hooks. Since Jacq is already an adult, he likely already settled into the Violet school thus Clavel would plop Arven there, maybe to act as a paradox-proof anchor of some kind, while Penny has a non-descript design for her uniform which would connect with either school (primarily the one the player starts in), while they need some motivation by distancing Nemona from Arven.
Jacq is presumably a former Macro Cosmos employee, due to having the same Hexagon shape (in his case, his glasses), which would be similar to chairman Rose's belt buckle and pin, Oleana's earrings and Bede's coat. His Pokedex app for the Rotomphone is probably vital for whatever purpose the Clavels has with the main character and the box legend.
I may also have to wonder if Korai/Miraidon happened to be a pair of Cyclizar that the scientists owned, but got seperated from their trainers, and got ireversibly altered into their current forms before they were found by the player. Clavel probably can't act on his plan the moment they met, but could probably keep tabs on them via the Rotomphone's reports (under the veil of calling them school projects).
- I'm pretty sure there's only one school in each game, and every 'school' character belongs to the one the player character is in, with uniform colors changed accordingly. Jacq and Arven are not exclusive to Violet.
- A Rock-type character to help send home the Terastal phenomenon, perhaps even the one who discovered it.
- Final answer: A set of Elite Four does appear in the game, consisting of a Ground-type league receptionist, a Steel-type Mini-Moe, a Flying-type specialist who doubles as a Normal-type Gym Leader and a Dragon-type art teacher.
- Confirmed.
- Confirmed. It's the [artificial intelligence] Professor corresponding to your game, with a full team of the associated Paradox Pokemon (Ancient for Sada, Future for Turo) and a second-phase fight against the cover Legendary
- Two old families, both alike in dignity that have great sway in the region. Depending on the version, one will try to obtain more influence in the region over the other.
- Considering that Spain (as well as Portugal) has a long history of kings (and Spain is currently a kingdom), and in particular, Spain was formed between a union of Aragon and Castile (although those weren't the only kingdoms, those were the most prominent), they could make both teams royalty.
- Class/Caste representation, to better match the oddly different fonts the words Scarlet and Violet are written in.
- Old and Young. Perhaps taking the idea of influence from another above.
- Us vs. them, where we (the playing character) belong to one of the sides depending on the version.
- Isn't that implied given how Magma and Aqua worked in the games?
- That was figurative; this time it's literal.
- Isn't that implied given how Magma and Aqua worked in the games?
- Casual trainers vs Competitive trainers. One can be the Lesser of Two Evils depending on the version you play.
- A seemingly benevolent organization that is eventually revealed to be evil.
- A Pokémon version of The Spanish Inquisition, presumably worshipping Arceus. Because nobody expects the Arceus Inquisition!
- Two unrelated evil teams, with agendas that have nothing to do with one another.
- Rival schools, considering the current motifs surrounding it.
- The Affably Evil vs a Jerk who is not as evil by technicality.
- Past vs. Future, reflecting the styles used in the logos. A Legendary Pokémon would have the power to change the world into that of a previous state or a future state. "Team Scarlet" wants to revert the world back to how it was in the past, as if the time between then and now never happened; while "Team Violet" wants to skip time into the future.
- For once, the Plot Twist could be the Professors themselves being secretly evil and using the protagonist to further their ends. That would actually fit the Past vs. Future theme from the suggestion above, given that Professors Sada and Turo also follow the same theme.
- Jossed, Team Star is the sole evil team in Paldea. They are split into five sub-teams though.
- The last point about the Professor, however, is confirmed, in a way.
- Jossed, Team Star is the sole evil team in Paldea. They are split into five sub-teams though.
- Jossed
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- Jossed. Your version's professor is the antagonist, while the other professor doesn't appear.
- It's unlikely that either will be evil. Who would act as the supporter then? Plus, they generally give you your first Pokémon, and it's unlikely an antagonistic professor would want to give you any asset.
- They’d be twist villains, not starting out antagonistic.
- Jossed. The Professors never attempt to sabotage Nemona and the Player's relationship.
- '"Confirmed.'' Arven and Penny are also our rivals.
- Jossed.
- Confirmed!
- This doesn't happen. Also, they really bear zero resemblence aside from hair color and skin tone. It's not even that close; Mela's red is a much more cherry-red while Lysandre's red hair is more orange.
- Jossed.
For Victory Road, as a Mythology Gag, your rival during your journey to become the Champion (or Champion-rank this time) ends with a final rematch against them. Nemona wants to fight simply because she's So Proud of You for getting as far as you have under her tutelage.
For Path of Legends, Arven will be an Optional Boss once you complete this story, and it'll reveal him being terrible at battles is because he lacks confidence in his battling technique, but he proves to actually be a pretty competent Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass.
For Starfall Street, Penny will be your ally fighting against Team Star, and either reveal herself to be a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing or will have a friendly battle with you after Team Star is dealt with to prove how much stronger you've helped her become.
Confirmed for Nemona, half confirmed for Penny (you do have to fight her but she is definitely not a full-on Bitch in Sheep's Clothing) and half confirmed for Arven (he is neither optional nor hindered by a lack of confidence).
- Jossed. The Big Bad is the AI of the professor, who's only acting on their programming. Even the Professor who programmed them is not evil, just too focused on the powers of the time machine.
- She's a dragon type specialist of the team the same way Mela is for fire types. Her hair, when seen from the front, interestingly enough matches the old dragon type icon used until Gen 4 with blue on the top and red beneath.
- She, like others, were pushed into joining and she's an atoner.
- She's the one who founded Team Star to begin with. May or may not cross over with the dragon type specialist or atoner points... or both.
- Half confirmed. Penny is the founder, but isn't a dragon type specialist.
- Confirmed. Penny is the leader, and Mela is the leader of a sub-group of Team Star.
Guesses on other crews:
- A group that manages the caverns and focus on Rock-type and Dark-type Pokemon.
- A Dragon-type group located about southeast of the snowy mountain, an Electric-type group located in the craggy mountains in the northeast, a Dark-type group located south of that oasis city, and a Fairy-type group located near the northern lighthouse. There are flags on the illustrated Paldea map at these locations, and this is following the pattern of the dark red flags pertaining to Mela's Fire-type group as seen in the 4th trailer.
- A ground-type specialist who specializes in setting up traps.
- Dark and Fairy are confirmed. The one on the northeast region is instead Fighting-type, and the one southeast of the snowy mountain is Poison-type.
- There will be Alderamin squad, named after Alpha Cephei whose constellation is based on King Cepheus, Cassiopeia's husband.
- Then Alpheratz squad, a.k.a. Alpha Andromedae whose constellation depicts Andromeda, Cepheus' daughter.
- Then Mirfak squad, a.k.a. Alpha Persei whose constellation depicts Perseus, the man who saved Andromeda and later married her.
- Then possibly Markab squad, a.k.a. Alpha Pegasi, whose constellation depicts the pegasus who became Perseus' mount.
- Then, lastly, possibly Menkar squad, a.k.a. Alpha Ceti, whose constellation depicts the sea monster Cetus whom Perseus slew to save Andromeda.
For bonus points:
- Whoever leads the Alderamin squad will be The Dragon of Team Star's leader by way of Meaningful Name: Cepheus was a king, and the name Alderamin came from an Arabic phrase that means the right hand, i.e., Alderamin squad leader is the right hand man.
- The leaders of Alderamin and Mirfak squads will be male because Cepheus and Perseus were men, and the leader of Alpheratz squad will be female like Mela since Cassiopeia and Andromeda were women.
- These may or may not be jossed already, if only because one could trance the flags visible on the map to form the Cassiopeia constellation and the flags associated with the Schedar Squad being perfectly aligned with position the Schedar star takes in the alignment. If anything that may be a hint to the Team Star commander being a woman due to the Cassiopeia connection.
- Totally, absolutely jossed indeed. Not only the five bases are named after the five stars of Cassiopeia, the very character who starts off your Starfall Street campaign is named Cassiopeia.
- These may or may not be jossed already, if only because one could trance the flags visible on the map to form the Cassiopeia constellation and the flags associated with the Schedar Squad being perfectly aligned with position the Schedar star takes in the alignment. If anything that may be a hint to the Team Star commander being a woman due to the Cassiopeia connection.
- Ms. Geeta is highly suspect, due to the star-compass symbol on the back of her glove and being described as the strongest champion of the region while also being the chairwoman of the league. This could parallel well with Cassiopeia's arrogance leading to her fall as well as her having been a queen. The champion is defeated and being the Team Leader on top of that would guarantee a fall from grace.
- Alternatively, it could be Penny, since she's the only rival so far not connected to any of the 3 storylines.
- Confirmed. It's Penny.
- Jossed, they do not use it.
- How did a bunch of delinquent students get their hands on a plane or submarine? Although one could ask the same question about the Pimped-Out Car.
- Such students owning expensive vehicles may lend credence to the suspicion that Team Star is under someone important's payroll, such as Clavell or Geeta.
- Jossed, they aren't on anyone's payroll and they all only have cars run by Revavroom.
- Jossed
- Jossed on the latter part: Riko and Roy are the protagonists of the Paldea anime instead.
- The fact that Iono battles in person and actually looks like that does call the idea into question, however. Some explanations are that this is a remotely controlled automaton or a hologram, though she does look pretty convincingly real (in-universe, at least).
- Alternatively, Iono is Penny's cosplay Alter Ego. We've seen very little of Penny, and those times she skips schools may be her streaming as Iono. Furthermore, the cosplay idea can explain why, although Iono in the trailers is indeed virtual, we can also fight Iono in the real world.
- Jossed
- Comfirmed, he is less friendly than past grass leaders, although more somber than unfriendly.
Brassius
- Smoliv (Confirmed)
- Sunflora, due to everything about him involving Sunflora in some way
- Sudowoodo with a Grass-type Terastal (Confirmed)
- A new Grass-type Pokémon we haven't seen yet or a Sunflora evolution.
- Both unconfirmed are jossed, his third( first sent out) Pokemon is Petilil.
Iono
- Magneton, as she has Magnemite hair decorations, but her location seems too late for Magnemite but too early for Magnezone
- Pikachu, as a viewer to her livestream guessed it as her partner Pokémon. Also, if indeed Iono is Penny, this Pikachu may be the very Pikachu she picked at the start of the story.
- Klank or Metang with an Electric-type Terastal; alternatively, Croagunk with an Electric-type Terastal
- Bellibolt (Confirmed)
- All unconfirmed are Jossed, she has Wattrel, Bellibolt, Luxio and an Electric Tera type Mismagius on her team.
Grusha
- Cryogonal
- Abomasnow
- Hisuian Zoroark with an Ice-type Terastal
- Cetitan (Confirmed)
- Again, all unconfirmed are Jossed. His team is Frostmoth, Beartic, Cetitan, and Ice Tera Type Altaria.
In response, Professor Sada and Professor Turo split up, but remain in contact with each other. Depending on the version, once of them stays in the research lab south of Mesagoza to keep tabs on Clavell, while the other one, with Penny's help, (her being either the other professor's daughter, or the first student to realize something is wrong) gathers students who have caught on to Clavell's scheme, and forms Team Star, to be used as an organized resistance group to overcome Clavell, storming the academy with the Starmobiles as necessary. However, due to being disorganized and spread out, as well as Penny's Shrinking Violet personality, which makes her a poor fit to coordinate Team Star, years have passed without Team Star making any progress, and the Professors, crew bosses, and ordinary grunts all become frustrated. Furthermore, Clavell has gotten wind of Team Star's actions, has branded them as delinquents, and has cut off communication between the professors. They need another plan.
You, the player character, move to Paldea, and into the village nearby the research lab south of Mesagoza. The professor there, depending on your version, sees great potential in you and sends you into the academy alone. This professor had found a de-powered Koraidon (in Scarlet) or Miraidon (in Violet) washed ashore and secretly arranges for you to find it for your use. You are not aware of it yet, but you are that professor's next plan, to have one very promising person enroll in the academy, join the Treasure Hunt, and perhaps defeat Clavell one on one. Clavell is not privy to this and thinks you are just another student, and so do you.
Meanwhile, Arven has long suspected Clavell is up to something, but he isn't sure what. Seeing the six Premier Balls on Clavell's waist and knowing he (Arven) isn't a very good trainer, he figures he stands no chance at uncovering what's happening and continues with his studying. While researching cooking and ingredients at the academy's library, he stumbles across a book describing the Herba Mystica and wants to set out to go find it. Seeing you, the player character, show your skill in battle, he requests your help in finding it. The reason why he's seeking out the Herba Mystica, regardless of the danger involved, is that collecting a full set of Herba Mystica would bring out the minor Legendary Pokémon, hence its nickname of "the legendary herb" and why Arven's quest is called "Path of Legends." His plan is to draw out these minor Legendary Pokémon to even the gap in power between him and Clavell. Once Arven meets up with these Legendary Pokémon, you clear "Path of Legends."
Since communication between the professors has been cut off by the time your journey begins, the other professor, and Team Star with them, don't know you are on the same side as them. They fight you to their fullest capacity until you take out all of their crew bosses, upon which the professor running Team Star emerges to battle you himself (if Turo) or herself (if Sada). That is when they tell you what they want, and learning the truth, you join with them, clearing "Starfall Street."
What Clavell ultimately finds is a time rift, either to the past or the future, to find Miraidon (in Scarlet) or Koraidon (in Violet)—that is, the other Box Legendary. He wants to harness their power over time to overpower Geeta, Paldea's current Champion. This is where "Victory Road" comes in: Clavell is sick of being Always Second Best to Geeta ever since she went on her own journey as a challenger. He has never been able to beat her in battle, and by harnessing Miraidon's or Koraidon's power, he could beat her, hence his scheme to take over the academy and find Miraidon or Koraidon. The people on his side were people who challenged Geeta in the past and lost too, and they desire to see Geeta defeated by proxy.
By the time you've collected all of the Gym Badges and challenged the Pokémon League up to her, Clavell and his people will arrange to prevent you from challenging her. It is up to you, Nemona (who is just another student, not knowing of what's going on until the end), Arven, Penny, the Professors, Team Star, the minor Legendary Pokémon, and maybe the Gym Leaders and the Elite Four, if they're in the game, banding together to take out Clavell and all of his assistants, and save Paldea. While all of Clavell's people are eventually defeated, Clavell uses his Box Legendary to overpower Geeta with ease, becoming the new Champion. However, he has let his Box Legendary's time powers run amok and threatens the stability of only only all of the region, but also the entire Pokémon world as well. Clavell himself doesn't care, as long as he's the Champion, and it's up to you to stop him, which you do through the power of your own Box Legendary.
With Clavell's Box Legendary quelled and sent back to its own time, Clavell himself de-powered and imprisoned, and peace to Paldea restored, Geeta becomes the Champion once again, and you challenge her for the title in the way the League had intended. Defeating her clears "Victory Road."
- None of this happens even a little bit.
- That would give him parallels to Brycen if this is true. Would they do that?
- It is quite possible, as the major difference would be that Brycen was able to move on and pursue an acting career, becoming even more famous and well-liked than before, whereas Grusha is stuck grumbling about his past and hates his current life path.
- Confirmed!
- Jossed, the new gimmick is Terastallizing.
- Jossed. You get all the tutorials before you reach the school.
- Could bring in some Z-Move elements and just have trinkets for both types and specific Pokémon to balance it out.
- Jossed, the gimmick is Terastallizing
- Jossed, the gimmick is Terastallizing
- Jossed.
- Or it could be simpler than that, becoming stronger the more Pokémon have fainted on your team. Gym Leaders, Elite Four members, villainous team leaders, and other notable trainers would save it for last. This would give starter-only runs a severe disadvantage, however.
- Jossed, the gimmick is Terastallizing.
- Live-action hasn't been used in the Pokémon games before (The Mystri Stage event notwithstanding), and the "old looking room" is just Game Freak's office. Seems unlikely.
- Jossed, the gimmick is Terastallizing.
Possible users:
- Pikachu and/or Eevee: Mascots.
- Clefairy: It’s the progenitor of the concept.
- Pseudo-Legendaries: For those who prefer the middle evos but know that the final evos are strong.
- Kanto starters: Because Game Freak.
- Branched Evolutions: Maybe you can even choose which one to evolve into!
- Jossed. The new mechanic is Terastallizing.
- A revamp of the EXP system in which points are no longer given out once you're sufficiently overleveled, much like with Paper Mario 64. This prevents the sort of power-leveling that would allow people to go off-course and skip large parts of the story. Similarly, EXP Candies and Rare Candies are provided in finite quantities until the postgame.
- The Badges work like the star system in Pokémon Legends: Arceus in that they affect how your Pokémon obey you, not how Pokémon from other players' games obey you. This requires you complete parts of the story for your team to be functional and allow you to keep up with Trainers and wild Pokémon in more areas. This also means the story beats would be tied to the Gym Leaders, who will only battle you once you complete every part of a particular segment of the game.
- "Open world," in this sense, does not mean "Every location is accessible the moment you finish the starting area." Rather, areas will be blocked off by terrain, NPC Roadblock, and obstacles that require you complete particular story flags to be able to proceed. This would give it more of a Metroidvania style progression than earlier generations had. Additionally, you may be denied access to areas you haven't visited until you take on every Trainer in the area, in keeping with series tradition of having you fight most Trainers along each individual Route.
- A Level Scaling system in which important characters have Pokémon at levels scaled to yours. Wild Pokémon, however, are fixed.
- Wild Pokémon and NPC Trainer Pokémon in areas you're not supposed to visit yet are able to land attacks on you and/or your Pokémon that make it difficult to impossible to win regardless of level difference.
- Everything is optional besides becoming the Champion. This includes defeating the villainous team, reconciling with rivals, resolving crises pertaining to Legendary Pokémon, and helping NPCs. All of those can wait until you feel like it, if you ever do.
- Perhaps a combination of the above. The Badges won't prevent you from using Pokémon caught within their stated limits, but would prevent wild Pokémon caught above that limit from obeying you and perhaps even going so far as to prevent the experience yield if the Pokémon is above your badge progression. NPC Roadblock would prevent access to gyms unless certain requirements are met, such as obtaining a prior gym badge or even a certain amount of Pokédex progression. The gyms themselves could be scaled to the player's own team level, preventing players from just sweeping through.
- Confirmed to be a combination, specifically two and three. Badges now work like the star system and it's recommended you fight Gym Leaders in a specific order. It's also recommended to work on fighting Titans as they allow you to explore the world more easily (and one can't be done without fighting a certain Tian).
- Jossed.
- Dynamax is Galar-exclusive, since the lore explicitly states that it can only happen there. There's no way it could return without some Retcon.
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- Jossed. You get the Shiny Charm.
A tire appears on a billboard in the background during Nemona's gameplay footage, the Pokémon Centers in this region resemble gas stations, there's what looks like a dirtbike arena in a desert area, and Koraidon and Miraidon have motorcycle and jet kibble respectively. Either this is going to factor in the past vs. present theming of the games, the Poké Rides from Sun and Moon will become vehicles outright (for example: an ATV for traversing through rough terrain and heavy snow like Mudsdale Gallop and the Mamoswine ride from X and Y, using Surf with a jetski, the Rotom Bike from Sword and Shield outright becoming a Rotom Car, etc), or both. Either way, you probably will get to ride your Olympus Mon like a motorcycle.
- Confirmed! You get to ride your version legendary like a bike.
- Half-confirmed: There are no sections where you are forced to change your outfit for major battles.
- Half-jossed: You wear your school uniform the entire time.
- Jossed, it is sandwiches
- Jossed. There is a DLC.
- Jossed: according to the website, European Spanish is the only type of Spanish available.
- Normal: a large gray or white gemstone (possibly referencing the Normal Gem)
- Fire: a candelabra
- Grass: a bouquet of flowers
- Water: a fountain
- Flying: a bunch of balloons
The remaining types may be as follows:
- Electric:
- a lightning bolt coming down from a dark cloud.
- An oversized light bulb
- Confirmed
- Psychic: a crystal ball on a pedestal
- Jossed, it is an eye
- Fighting: an arm with an oversized fist
- Confirmed
- Ice: a pointy snowflake
- Confirmed
- Bug: a generic insect with all its legs together in the crown
- Jossed, it is insect antennea
- Ground: slabs of flooring
- Jossed, it is what looks like half of the Earth.
- Poison:
- a wisp of dark gas with a skull at the top.
- A skull and crossbones
- Confirmed
- Rock: a tan or yellow gemstone with a hexagon cut
- Jossed, it is a Roman- or Greek-looking building
- Ghost: a purple ghost whose "tail" is within the crown
- Confirmed.
- Dragon: a dragon's head
- Confirmed
- Dark:
- the moon, held up by a group of black shards coming from the crown
- Two hands that hover-grab the Pokémon's head with a silhouette of a face at the background. This gives an impression that the Pokemon is under control of a demon lord Big Bad.
- Both jossed, it is a weird...grinning, spiky face thing.
- Steel: a cross-beam
- Jossed, it is an axe
- Fairy: a stylized butterfly
- Jossed, it is a heart with wings.
- Are we sure the flying type one isn't exclusive to that Pikachu? I don't imaging birds would have balloons when wings would be a better option.
- Yep, you can see Drifblim with the balloons as well.
- Poison: Is now super-effective against Water (since poison can contaminate water), is now weak to Steel (since Steel is immune to Poison and there are other types that are super-effective against the type they are immune to).
- Does steel, already one of the best types in the game, really need to be any stronger?
- Water: Is now weak to Poison (see above) and is no longer neutrally effective against Electric (water and electricity don't mix, while water conducts electricity easily).
- Electric: Now resists Water (see above), is now super-effective against Steel (because metal is a good conductor of electricity, much like water), but is no longer neutrally effective against Rock (the Ground-type, which is similar to Rock-type, is immune to Electric).
- It doesn't make sense for water to resist electric because of conductivity, but steel to be weak to it because of conductivitiy. If anything, both should be weak to it, for concistency.
- Fairy: No longer resists Bug (it's a mystery as to why the type even resisted Bug to begin with).
- Ice: Is now immune to Water. Water-type attacks now deal no damage and raises Defense.
- Type chart effectiveness never raise/lower stats. That sounds more like an ability.
- All jossed.
- Terastal types could be bred down if one or more parents (more likely the father) derives from a Raid Battle and is holding a specific hold item. The offspring would be the lowest evolutionary stage of the mother (barring special cases like Azurill and Bonsly) but will have the same Terastal type as the father. Without these conditions, the offspring will have a Terastal type that's the same as one of its natural types.
- A consumable item becomes available, rare before the post-game but readily available after that, though with high cost (such as BP), that changes a Pokémon's Terastal type to another specific type. This would follow in the class of items such as Max Soup (for Gigantamax), Bottle Caps (for maximum Individual Values), and Mints (for Nature-based stat boosts and drops). There would be 18 of these items, one for each type.
- Confirmed: you can collect items known as Tera Shards and 50 of them will allow you to change a Pokemon's Tera Type.
- Like with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, climbing these tall structures would be necessary to make a detailed map of Paldea. While warp traveling would still involve towns and Pokémon Centers, you will only be able to visit the ones you've visited AND have filled in on the map. Watchtowers chart mainland areas, and lighthouses chart sea and island areas.
- You may be tasked with learning more about the history of Paldea, of which people from older times had documented at the tops of the lighthouses and watchtowers. There is one toppled watchtower in a desert area to the west, partially buried in sand (and is seen in the distance in the third trailer as the Pokémaniac is throwing out a Pokémon), suggesting these structures have been in Paldea for a long time.
- The lighthouses and watchtowers are a source of a mysterious power in Paldea, and they can only be activated from the top. Gathering and harnessing this power may be necessary to stop some calamity coming from the crater in the center of Paldea or an attack from a rogue Legendary Pokémon in the story's climax. While you can see something has been activated, its purpose won't be apparent until later on.
- Inversely, the mysterious power from the lighthouses and watchtowers will empower some calamitous force in the climax, unbeknownst to the player character, who then must help to stop it. A character you meet towards the beginning, either the one who first tells you about these towers and/or one who accompanies you around the region as you activate them, knows full well what they'll do and is attempting to use this power for their own ends.
- This is a simple collection sidequest. You're climbing to the tops of these structures for no reason other than you can.
- Titan Pokémon will only appear, or can only be defeated, after climbing to the top of a certain number of structures, or climbing a certain group of structures. For instance, Klawf might not show itself until you've reached the top of every watchtower in that arid area to the east of Mesagoza.
- Should be noted the lighthouses are positioned and match the colors that indicate direction on the minimap so they might not mean anything other than cardinal direction, especially since one of the them(the green/north one) are behind a pair of flags. However an examination of the map shows both small and large watchtowersand some overlapping(the western area has a mostly buried large one in the desert and a smaller one near the oasis? town slightly to the east) in areas which may indicate different functions based on size.
- All jossed, however, the towers do provide a few bonuses:
- You may find find Gimmighouls up there.
- The towers also serve as warp points like Pokémon Centers.
- Jossed
- The icon for Drowsy, another Legends Arceus status effect, can be seen in one of the trailers, making this quite likely.
- Sadly jossed.
- Wonder Guard: Terastal will change the Pokémon's STAB and type for all other purposes, but the Pokémon will still be vulnerable to the same type(s) it was before. This is to prevent people from giving Shedinja a Terastal type of Electric and an Air Balloon to make it invincible to all direct damage.
- Color Change, Protean, and Libero: Once Terastal activates, these Abilities no longer function. The Pokémon remains that type regardless of the types of moves used on it for Color Change and moves it uses for Protean and Libero.
- Confirmed for Protean and Libero: once Terastallized, their effects wears out. However, as Kecleon is unavailable in the game, Color Change remains unanswered.
- Camouflage, Conversion, Conversion 2, and Reflect Type: Once Terastal activates, these moves no longer has any effect.
- Unanswerable for Camouflage, as it cannot be selected in battle.
- Unanswerable for Conversion, Conversion 2 too, as the Porygon line are not in game.
- Burn Up: If Terastal is Fire and the Pokémon was originally Fire-type, the Pokémon no longer has a type but keeps a power boost to the Fire type. If Terastal is a type other than Fire, the move has no additional effect.
- Jossed; once Terastallizing into a Fire-type, Burn Out does not cause the user to loose its Fire-typing.
- Transform and Impostor: If Terastal activates before Transform or Impostor takes effect, the Pokémon takes the form, stats, moves, and Ability of the target Pokémon but has the Terastal type.
- Confirmed.
- Forest's Curse and Trick-or-Treat: If targeting a Terastallized Pokémon, Forest's Curse will add the Grass-type to the Pokémon's Terastal type, and Trick-or-Treat would do the same with Ghost.
- Soak and Magic Powder: These moves have no effect on a Terastallized Pokémon.
- Adaptability: This Ability would add to STAB equal to 50% of the move's original power regardless of Terastal type. That is, if the Terastal type is different from the original type, the original type would get no STAB, but the Terastal type would get x2 STAB. If the Terastal type and original type are the same, that type now gets x2.5 STAB.
- Jossed, stacking Teastal type with the original type gives the STAB x2.25.
- Mimicry: The Pokémon no longer changes type based on the active terrain.
- Revelation Dance: When Oricorio Terastallizes, the move remains the type pertaining to Oricorio's style.
- Jossed; Revelation Dance becomes the user's Tera Type if Terastallized.
- Aura Wheel: When Morpeko Terastallizes, the move remains Electric for Full Belly Morpeko and Dark for Hangry Morpeko.
- Zen Mode: A Terastallized Darmanitan does not change types when Zen Mode activates, but it changes its appearance and stats.
- Forecast: A Terastallized Castform does not change types with the weather, but its form does.
- Relic Song: A Terastallized Meloetta who uses Relic Song will change to Pirouette Form and assume Pirouette Form's stats but will not change type.
- You do not choose pronouns in this game, but have non-gendered character customization.
Not only that, but if you look closely, it appears that the male avatar also has an option to wear makeup.
- Full customizablity has been confirmed across gender (no appearance traits are gender-locked and the two 'bases' can be switched between at any time, so it is possible!
- Possibly already confirmed in the very trailer that introduced the Technical Machine Machine, as when one of the players used the Let's Go feature to send out Quaxly to obtain the Swift TM, a pop-up about the machine being updated was shown. If anything, confirmed for the method of obtaining the TM prior to it appearing in the crafting machine.
- Confirmed for Gym Leaders, but jossed for Team Star (Aside from their leader, Penny, Team Star admins don't use terastalization at all, and also jossed for Elite Four (they do terastalize their type-specialty mon into their own type specialty).
Alola
- The islands to the east of Levincia, as they most likely correspond to Mallorca and Minorca. They are the closest counterpart to tropical islands due to their warm climate (for European standards).
- A possible DLC based on the Canary Islands, due to having a subtropical climate.
Galar
- The area with the village where you begin and the lab where Professor Sada or Turo works, as those correspond to Gibraltar, whose tip is under control of the United Kingdom.
Hisui
- Whatever area that is on the official site in which the player encounters a wild Hisuian Zoroark.
Regionless (for the purpose of evolving something to its default form without it counting as Paldea)
- The area underneath the swirly vortex of clouds in the center of Paldea. It seems to be a no man's land, unknown and largely unexplored. Hence, it wouldn't be under the jurisdiction of any region and thus be regionless, much like how Ultra Space is considered regionless within Alola.
- All jossed.
- The old gimmicks will appear in paintings that show the events of the previous games in the series.
Post-Release Theories
- Koraidon is mostly a draconic-like Pokémon with red body, representing scarlet, or, in other words, red/infrared.
- Miraidon is a draconic Pokémon of an indigo/violet colour, representing violet/ultraviolet.
- Cyclizar is the middle point between both colours, having a traditional colour associated with lizards, that is, green. Cyclizar represets "our time", since Koraidon (and the Past Paradox Pokémon) comes from 1 Million B.C., and Miraidon (and the Future Paradox Pokémon) comes from The Distant Future. In other words:
- Koraidon: Past, beginning of the light spectrum.
- Cyclizar: Present, middle of the light spectrum.
- Miraidon: Future, end of the light spectrum.
- The rift Magneton fell into was caused by the Time Machine.
- There is a wild Magnezone outside of space-time rifts in Hisui. Also, Magneton isn't a robot, and there are already living rocks, plants, bells, and yes, magnets (Probopass, a compass covered in metallic filings just like Sandy Shocks's legs) in the ancient past of the pokemon world. It fits right in alongside Hisuian Voltorb who eventually becomes metallic, and all the future paradox pokemon are literally pokemon for whom one explination for their existance is that they evolved to appear metallic. Why couldn't there be an ancient living piece of metal, when stuff like that exists naturally in this universe? Saying it's out of the question for a metal creature to be alive in the past just...doesn't really make much sense when there's already a ton of living object creatures in the past
- Possible, as Koraidon and Miraidon's former names followed Paradox Pokémon's naming conventions as "Winged King" and "Iron Serpent", respectively. However, none of them seem to have official names, so like Type: Null, their names are their current monikers.
- Yeah, that's more than likely not happening, as the National Dex order is fixed, and if Tinkatink is indeed Nat. Dex number 1000, it will stay as that.
- The thing is, that isn't the actual Nat Dex number. We can't know what the exact numbers are until linking to pokemon Home is possible, and I'm not sure where the current numbers came from in the leaks, but they are more than likely placeholders, due to how incredibly odd and out of order they are.
- Ultimately Jossed: Gholdengo takes that #1000 position.
- It being a Basilisk would also fit with the other two main legendaries being lizard-like, since while the mythological Basalisk was a giant snake monster, there are real world lizards named after the basalisk.
- Jossed.
- The time machine being a time machine is never really placed into question.
- A Paradox Magikarp: In Pokemon's Red, Blue, Y and Violet pokedex Magikarp is described as being stronger in the ancient past. It will be a water/dragon duel type with similar stats and appearance to Mega Gyarados.
- Alternately, Magikarp & Gyarados will gain a convergent Pokémon in the DLC, due to datamines implying it was planned in the base game.
- Paradox Fossils: Giving players the ability to see what they use to look like before their were revived from the fossils.
- Past Paradoxes based on unused Beta designs like Gorochu and the planned Gen 2 Evolutions: A nice way to bring them back without making them feel out of place, and if we believe the Wish Machine theory, we wished them back into existence.
- Paradox Kyurem: The original dragon, from before Reshiram and Zekrom split from it. Perhaps an alternative future form, based on the three dragons recombining.
- All jossed, the only new Paradoxes are the Swords and Beasts.
Additionally the King being evil and greedy was to blame but given that the entity is described as the Basilisk Pokémon, and Basilisks are considered the Serpent King which notably Koraidon's and Miraidon's 'Paradox titles' contain part of such a mantle (Winged King and Iron Serpent respectively), a "king" was in fact to blame, but it was the Basilisk Pokemon rather than the Paldean King.
- Where is the entity described as the Basalisk Pokemon? It is only called the Disk Pokemon in the book.
- It's unfortunately not. However it should be noted the image from the Scarlet/Violet Book for the Entity looks remarkably similar to a woodblock print of a basilisk by Ulisse Aldrovandi, just minus the globe with hexagons it's standing on and the position of the crown being over it's torso rather than what appears to be it's head. That same portion also resembles the real life animals named Basilisks to a degree as well. So there's some credence to calling it a basilisk if not simply for the sake of the speculation, especially given the Raidon correlation mentioned.
- Adding to this, and going off the above WMG about the Entity's possible connection to the Treasures of Ruin, Arceus is based off a Kirin which occasionally is treated in place of a dragon when associated with the Yellow Emperor who presides over the Four Auspicious Beasts which is represented by the Forces of Nature which the Treasures themselves contrast (along with the Tapus). There's some credence to this connection.
- Terapagos isn't much like this at all. Also it's not a Basalisk, it's a World Turtle.
- Raidon: It's similar to the Paradox Duo except this emphasizes it's association with the Terastallize phenomenon and the raids. The lack of prefix changing the Rai portion to mean something else connects with it being the "present" in contrast.
- Raidox: same logic as above but the dox derived from Paradox, tying that in as well.
- Suecra: just Arceus backwards, this is more of a joke based on the Arcues WMG above.
- Parado: paradox missing an x. Could also be derived from Pallas, a titan from Greek Myth.
- Paldea: giving new meaning to the name of the region, Pal is a corruption of the first three letter of Paradox and Dea means God-like. May or may not fit with the Arceus guess.
- Terask: A combination of "Tera", "Disk", and "Tarasque".
- The name of this generation's phenomenon is "Terastallization", a portmanteau of "Tera" and "crystal". Now, the first part, "Tera", does not seem to be explained in-game, but it is possible to surmise that it derives from the Greek root terato-, meaning 'monster'.
- Another possibilty draws on the picture of the creature in the Scarlet/Violet book: the monster seems to be some sort of globe with a crown on it. The crown may point to a word meaning royalty: rex, regis (Latin), roi (French), rey (Spanish).
Actually, if one reads the mysteriously-smudged page on Scarlet/Violet Book, the black blocks littering that page blank out on average two letters per block. Some blocks do conceal a single letter each and some even three, but most of the blocks hide two each. With that in mind, given that the mysterious entity's name is represented via six blocks, it's possible that its name contains more than six letters, maybe even the full twelve as per the name limit in this game.
Here's the copied smudged page as case study.
- A █isk P█é█n?
While sep█ated from the resea█h team in the crater's dep█s, I found a s█ange...en█ty. Whether it was a █kémo█, or even █liv█ at all, I kn█w no█. It bore a s█ll with layers of o█rlapping he█gons, and glea█d brig█er still than █mstone. Vie█d as a whole, it res█led a mys█ious, █illiant d█sk.
And this is how the text would look like with proper letters revealed; notice how often a block conceals two letters instead of just one:
- A Disk Pokémon?
While separated from the research team in the crater's depths, I found a strange...entity. Whether it was a Pokémon, or even alive at all, I know not. It bore a shell with layers of overlapping hexagons, and gleamed brighter still than gemstone. Viewed as a whole, it resembled a mysterious, brilliant disk.
- It should be noted, the image of the entity in the Scarlet and Violet Books utilize six characters in the Pokemon world language so assuming it has only six characters in its name is perfectly valid.
- With this in mind, another suggestion is Terapiña: From the spanish word for pineapple (given the yellow crystals during the first half of the battle with the AI and the Disc Pokemon's resemblence to a pineapple), 'Tera', and 'terrapin' (scientific name for a turtle).
- All Jossed. It's actually Terapagos — but the last one is close.
- Confirmed! They're part of the returning Pokémon in The Indigo Disk.
- It doesn't.
- Only Iron Treads, Bundle, and Moth are described as being ancient or from aliens. These descriptions come from the Occulture magazine, which in-universe is most likely an unreliable source based on speculation coming from the Scarlet/Violet Book and rare sightings of ones who escaped Area Zero. Cyclizar is said to have been a companion to humans for 10,000(?) years — as for Koraidon and the past Paradoxes, “prehistoric” is probably a better word to describe them than “ancient”; if they actually are time-displaced then they probably lived before humans even existed.
Probably not Eternatus's meteor, but the thing about meteors is that they don't just wipe out ecosystems by squishing them or blowing them up. Meteors create massive plumes of dust that reduce sunlight and alter temperatures. Sudden climate shifts are canonically what wiped out the Corsola variant that became Galarian Corsola, and it is speculated that this was because of Eternatus's meteor, but the Ancient Paradox Pokemon also are all clearly tied to the sun with their shared Protosynthesis ability that boosts them up in the sun. Add in the fact that several, like Brute Bonnet and Flutter Mane, are compared in text to dinosaurs and pterosaurs, as well as how several of their weaker descendants and their evolutions are more associated with elements like Moon (stones) and Dusk (stones,) and how Slither Wing's current counterparts are associated with the sun and, notably, generate their own fire and heat, what happened to them originally was a dinosaur-esc death by meteor choking out their ecosystems with their lineages surviving from less dominant relatives adapted to less sun-tied niches or who rapidly adapted to using alternate fuels for their growth, and their lower stat totals are from lacking the limitless powersource that is the sun.
The massive Terra crystals, some of which are eating away at the lab and terra raid dens are but one sign of it- the terrastizing phenomenon as whole might be a means of further extend its reach. Not to mention the eyes that appear on the crowns of terrastaized pokemon, may be a means of the entity perceiving things outside of its normal area.
There are other signs of it- Herba mystica originates from area zero and has several effects, not the least of which being able to turn pokemon into giant forms of themselves.
Finally, it seems to have some connection to paradox pokemon. While most of them were brought here from the time machine, at least one of them was there prior to set the events that led to its creation into motion. Furthermore, it is made clear that if allowed to run rampant, they will result in a Introduced Species Calamity, which further hint towards a terraforming theme.
- Interestingly, while this WMG is overall jossed, Terapagos' Stellar Form does have the ability named Teraform Zero, which cancels out the effects of weather and terrain. So, in a sense, it does terraform, just not in a way usually seen in stories.
- Paradox Donphan
- Past (Great Tusk)
- Tuskphan
- Donphasaur
- Future (Iron Treads)
- Treadphan
- Dontreads
- Tronphan
- Past (Great Tusk)
- Paradox Volcarona
- Past (Slither Wing)
- Slitherona
- Stegomoth
- Volcaterpillar
- Bulkorona
- Future (Iron Moth)
- Volcaracid
- Satseraph (combination of "satellite" and "seraph")
- Volcarobo
- Acidrone
- Volcorrosion
- Past (Slither Wing)
- Paradox Jigglypuff (Scream Tail)
- Cacophuff (combination of "cacophony" and its name)
- Screamilypunk (combination of "scream", its name and "punk")
- Squigglyfluff
- Paradox Amoonguss (Brute Bonnet)
- Broonguss (combination of "brute" and its name)
- Moongusarus (blending its name with stock dinosaur name)
- Bungamoonguss
- Humoonguss (humongous+Amoonguss)
- Dinospore (dinosaur+spore)
- Prehisporic (prehistoric+spore)
- Crushroom (crush+mushroom)
- Mushdoom (mushroom+doom)
- Oongaboongus
- Paradox Misdreavus (Flutter Mane)
- Manevus (combination of "mane" and its name)
- Misdactyl (combination of its name and pterodactyl, since the occult magazine said it was the ghost of a pterosaur)
- Misterror (same as the above, but with the play on pterodactyl with "terror")
- Mystereavus (mystery/mysterious+Misdreavus)
- Misdreamus
- Paradox Magneton (Sandy Shocks)
- Oreton (combination of "ore" and its name)
- Magneferro (combination of its name and “ferrofluid” since the ‘fur’ on it resembles the magnetic spikes created by ferrofluid)
- Ferrorex
- Magneterra (Magneton/magnet+terra (earth))
- Paradox Salamence (Roaring Moon)
- Salamoon (combination of "moon" and its name)
- Malamence (combination of “malevolent” and its name)
- Salamenesis (Salamence+nemesis)
- Paradox Suicune (Walking Wake)
- Suishodai (Suisho (Japanese word for crystal) + kodai (Japanese word for ancient))
- Suirex (Playing of Suicune's naming origins, -cune (kun, monarch) is replaced with rex (Latin for king, typically used for dinosaur names))
- Basilisaur (Basilisk lizard + dinosaur)
- Suiraptor
- Paradox Raikou (Raging Bolt)
- Thunderneck
- Raikirin (Rai (Japanese for Thunder) + Kirin (Chinese mythological creature that's based on a giraffe))
- Paradox Delibird (Iron Bundle)
- Deliguin/Delinguin (combination of "penguin" and its name)
- Delibot (combination of its name and "robot")
- Santron (Santa+tron)
- Giftech (gift+tech)
- Paradox Hariyama (Iron Hands)
- Hariyborg (combination of "cyborg" and its name)
- Palmmot (palm + Pawmot, a separate Pokémon with similar fighting style)
- Robozuna (robot+yokozuna)
- Sumomega (sumo+omega+mega)
- Paradox Hydreigon (Iron Jugulis)
- Flydreigon (combination of "fly" and its name)
- Hydrugulis (combination of its name and "Jugulis")
- Cydreigon (cyber/cyborg+Hydreigon)
- Hydreitron (Hydreigon+tron)
- Paradox Tyranitar (Iron Thorns)
- Tyranithorn (combination of "thorn" and its name)
- Tyranitron
- Tyranitech
- Shockathorn
- Iron Valiant
- Galladevoir (combination of both "Gallade" and "Gardevoir", the two Pokémon it's related to)
- Gardellade (same as the above)
- Gardevade (same as the above, but also works as a corruption of "guard" and "evade")
- Gardroid
- Valkyrlia (Valkyrie + Kirlia)
- Paradox Virizion (Iron Leaves)
- Viridiode (Viridion + diode)
- Virizitron
- Alloizion (Alloy + Champion)
- Paradox Cobalion (Iron Crown)
- Coblitzion (Cobalion + Blitz; the word tachyon in Tachyon Cutter refers to a theoretical particle that always moves faster than light)
- Cobaltron
- Cobalitron
- Jossed. It's Terapagos.
- It's also interesting to note that Glimmora's outermost shell is a set of six petals, and Tera crystals are of hexagonal, a.k.a. six-sided, shape. Furthermore, in Teal Mask DLC, you can find Glimmet and Glimmora up the top of Oni Mountain.... and there is a tera crystal deposit at the summit, giving further credence that Glimmet/Glimmora is closely related to terastal phenomenon.
- Not particularly.
- The entity looks spherical, and judging by the waves and boat on its illustration, it could be planet-sized. If we can catch it at all, we're probably only going to be able to catch an avatar of it similar to Arceus in PLA.
- I don't think that Terapagos is a representation of Earth.
- Jossed. The earth-like look is Terapagos' Stellar form.
- Not as of The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero.
- Jossed - we get confirmation that they are a Legendary in the Pokémon Presents, and it's called Terapagos.
- Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire: While not the game that debuted Mega Evolutions, Mega Rayquaza gains the honor of having a direct upgrade to the gimmick, being the only Mega Evolution to not require a Mega Stone to undergo the phenomenon.
- Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon: Ultra Necrozma had been a nightmare for many Pokemon players for good reason, and it's a Mega Evolution-style form that can only be accessed by having it equip it's exclusive Z-Crystal, the catalyst for the game's gimmick, Z-Moves.
- Sword & Shield: While we can't access it like we could Ultra Necrozma, Eternamax Eternatus could also be considered a direct upgrade to Dynamax/Gigantamax, being the only Pokemon that has a BST of over 1000.
- It has an exclusive Omni-type Tera Jewel, dealing SE damage on all types but only being weak to Rock-type.
- Its Ability is effectively a Legend Plate where it can change it's Tera Jewel on the fly.
- Alternatively, its ability allows Terapagos to mix-and-match three types when it Terastallizes (So it can be Fire/Dragon/Flying or Bug/Ice/Steel, for example).
- Confirmed! Terapagos is the only Pokemon that naturally comes with a new Tera type called Stellar-type, with gives a STAB to all moves regardless of type.
- Alternatively, its ability allows Terapagos to mix-and-match three types when it Terastallizes (So it can be Fire/Dragon/Flying or Bug/Ice/Steel, for example).
- Scenario 1: The shell that encompasses it is just inorganic walls and the actual third legendary Pokémon is actually just the size of Chi-Yu.
- Scenario 2: Assuming the basilisk-like thing behind the disk is indeed a Pokémon, it may be the Dondozo to the real third legendary's Tatsugiri, bringing in mind the similar situation of Calyrex and its steeds (i.e., aside from its head, Calyrex is pretty small, clearly outsized by either of its steeds).
- Scenario 1 is confirmed, in Pokémon Horizons: The Series, Terapagos's Normal Form is small enough to fit inside a child's backpack. Even in it's Terastalized form, it's still itty-bitty.
- Looks to be potentially confirmed due to how Terapagos looks like from the Presents.
- Jossed, it doesn't change types at will nor does it have a unique form for all types. However, it's Stellar Type form embodies all types at once and it can make any attack not very effective against itself.
- New Legendary Titans (Regieleki and Regidrago were unexpected yet welcomed surprises, and something that feels like GameFreak would make a trend out of for the DLC.)
- Regismog: Poison-type Titan representing the pollution-filled Industrial Era.
- Regimpire: Fighting-type Titan made of bronze representing the Bronze Age, where war and empires were rising.
- Green Charcadet Evo: This could be a more defense-oriented Evo, the armor used could be called "Inconspicuous Armor".
- Paldean Miltank: Tauros and Miltank are counterparts of sorts and with Paldean Tauros in the game with no sign of Miltank anywhere which leaves the door open for a new form of Miltank to appear.
- All jossed.
- Jossed. Terapagos has them as part of their actual form.
It is known that our Raidon was previously in the care of Professor Sada/Turo, which superficially explains why it's amicable with humans. However, given that the second Raidon the professor pulled was so dangerous that it ended up killing the professor not long after it was retrieved (even if indirectly), it starts to get strange that our Raidon was that friendly, even to little Arven, especially once you take into account that said first Raidon is the only Paradox Pokémon in the entire game whose mindset isn't "kill everything on sight". Thus, this opens the possibility that not only our Raidon might not have actually been Koraidon/Miraidon to start with, it might have already been conditioned to human interaction by being someone's pet/partner. Being Heath's partner who somehow got plucked out of time and morphed into a Koraidon/Miraidon would explain so much about its friendliness.
What might seem to be the case, instead, is that the Area Zero entity and Terapagos are pieces/parts of the same being, for example, the Area Zero entity being the body, and Terapagos being the soul. And similar to how Calyrex can muster its full might only when reunited with its steed (even if it was already powerful enough to convert mere worship into fertile lands), the Area Zero entity is not able to channel or contain its power properly without its soul, causing all the tragedy that passed in Area Zero. Plus, while we have yet to actually see Terapagos's size, it doesn't look like it's anywhere near Eternatus' size, which makes it seem rather tiny, way too tiny, for something capable of coating the entire depths of Area Zero with Tera crystals (look just how huge the crystals around and inside Zero Lab are).
Also, the image in the last page of Scarlet/Violet book seem to contain what could be a crowned turtle at the top of the incredibly immense disk structure, opening the possibility that Terapagos and the massive disk-covered being are distinct beings. Plus, Terapagos being the Indigo Disk may mean there are others.
Lastly, Terapagos looks suspiciously like the turtle princess from the tale of Urashima Taro, opening the possibility that the plot of Indigo Disk is to bring it home to Area Zero, in this case thus "completing" it and allowing it to control its terastal power better (even if it can't undo any damage the Area Zero entity has done).
- Some evidence pointing to this is that the Area Zero entity is described as having hexagons on its shell (and hexagon motifs are semi-prominent in the game as a whole), while Terapagos is covered in pentagons. Considering attention is specifically brought to the shell patterns, it seems like an odd change to make in the "official" design, unless Terapagos is a fragment of the Area Zero entity at most.
- There's also the fact that Terapagos will be the central Legendary in The Indigo Disk, which should take place in Blueberry Academy, an overseas academy that isn't even so much as hinted at in the base game, thus opening the possibility that Terapagos has also been away from Paldea for quite some time and thus unlikely to be responsible to all the fiasco that happened in Area Zero.
- Jossed. The DLC outright states the Entity mentioned by Heath is Terapagos.
- They don't have the same BST or signature ability of paradox pokemon, they aren't in Area Zero (and it's pretty much stated the Titan was the only one to make it out), and none of them are dual-type, while all of the paradox pokemon are dual-type with one of the types being the type of the pokemon it's counterpart has. They also do not follow the design conventions of past and future paradoxes, with past pokemon all having yellow eyes and a tail, and future pokemon all having robotic segments and glowing sections with light-up dots. The Regis also have temples they're sealed in, because they are Regis, and none of the paradox pokemon have anything similar relating to their origin.
- Sort of confirmed; he developed Paldea's Pokédex, and he indeed was also a researcher before becoming a teacher.
- They don't even need to be actually dead for this to work, the incident could have sent them through time but they're gone either way.
- I think the lore josses the time machine idea, but it may be that a spacetime anomaly happened which took away the missing professor.
- The professor never tells Arven that their spouse “left” though - it’s written in one of the research journals in Area Zero, presumably when Arven was much younger. Unless the professor wrote these journals thinking Arven would read them in the future, there would be no reason for them to do this, unless they wrote it thinking it would hurt them less.
- This comes with the Fridge Horror that Larry is a kid-friendly representation of Karoshi, a.k.a., death by overworking, which unfortunately happens quite often in real life with myriad of publicized cases from Japan.
- Likely Jossed, since a post-Indigo Disk cutscene shows that those aren't Eri's natural hair and eye colors (and she has eyebrows, they're just usually covered by her face paint).
- Jossed so far.
- Jossed completely on the antagonist part, though the DLC does heavily imply she used to be a graverobber, so confirmed on the Ambiguously Evil part.
Given that most legends in the franchise turn out to be at least partially true, it's possible the player will eventually learn more about the unidentified Pokémon in the book and the apparent contradiction in Paradox Pokémon's origins. Pursuing these mysteries will likely invite more discussions of the Scarlet/Violet Book, and in turn about Heath himself. The simplest role he could play is that, since it's been 200 years since his expedition, he's long dead and would be a posthumous character who exists in legacy only.
As shown with the Professor there are still ways for a character to appear even if they should be dead, though, so Heath (or some recreation of him) could still make a physical appearance as either friend or foe — he might even battle the player using one or more of the unidentified Pokémon teased in the book. Perhaps Heath has taken the same path as Charles Muntz?
- Just because the time machine brought the Raidons to the present first, doesn't mean that Area Zero didn't have spacetime anomalies that brought the Paradox Pokémon to the then present while Heath was around.
- Currently we know that Briar is Heath's descendant and is eager to learn more about the terastal phenomenon, and being a Blueberry Academy teacher, her role likely doesn't end in Kitakami. We'll see if Heath will have any actual posthumous role, though.
- As of The Indigo Disk, Heath still hasn't had any kind of physical appearance on-screen. Briar's obsession with proving his stories correct does play a large role in the plot, though.
- Confirmed, she's actually only 9 years old and looks half that age!
- Her proportions are kind of off
- It'd fit with her electric/tech theme
- The way her Magnemite hairclips spin and levitate seems a bit much for a fashion accessory
- The AI's are stated to only work in Area Zero, and Iono is clearly not there. Also, her proportions are not that off for a character in this kind of anime style, she's just a bit short. Even if her art was a bit off, that is not evidence towards her being a robot, since the professor's robots are 100% perfect in replicating human proportions and features, so 'slightly off proportions' isn't a trait that established robots have.
- Those are just the professors' AIs. Who's to say that hers doesn't come from someone else and thus can work outside A0?
- The professors say such advanced technology is only possible due to the Area Zero crystals, you couldn't simply get something as advanced 'somewhere else', that's not how it works.
- 1. Who's to say some other eccentric scientist didn't go into Area Zero somehow, get some crystals, and build a robot with them? 2. Even if they didn't, the Pokémon series is no stranger to crazy-advanced tech. If they can turn digital data into physical living creatures, create portals to alternate universes, and not only reanimate fossils, but turn them into cyborg super-soldiers, I see no reason why people other than Sada and Turo could make A.I.s and robots. After all, WE can make those things in real life (albeit not as advanced as in fiction) without magic time paradox crystals.
- There's the key phrase—not as advanced. Not to mention the permissions are very restricted as to who's allowed in Area Zero, since it doesn't matter who makes the robots, we know from the AI themselves that it just wouldn't work outside of Area Zero, even if you took a couple crystals somewhere else. That's why they cannot leave.
- Yeah, the professors SAY that humanity can't make such advanced A.I.s, but they aren't omniscient. Perhaps whoever created her is the only person who knows how to make such advanced A.I.s without using Zero Crystals and they're just hiding the fact that she's an AI-powered robot. Besides, it's hard to believe that nobody else in the Pokéverse is at least trying to make advanced A.I.s given how many tech geniuses there are.
- The AI's are stated to only work in Area Zero, and Iono is clearly not there. Also, her proportions are not that off for a character in this kind of anime style, she's just a bit short. Even if her art was a bit off, that is not evidence towards her being a robot, since the professor's robots are 100% perfect in replicating human proportions and features, so 'slightly off proportions' isn't a trait that established robots have.
- This is completely ridiculous. Not only does the player character have established biological parents, they came from elsewhere to Paldea. The Area Zero Entity can only make things inside the deepest part of Area Zero, which is why all the paradox pokemon come from there and move outwards, not the other way around.
- The Tera Raid Dens appear to support the idea that The Area Zero Entity can create stuff outside of Area Zero, since Tera Raid Dens are created by energy unleashed from Area Zero, and some dens contain Pokemon that cannot be found in the wild such as Gengar or Armarouge and the seven star dens have Pokemon that aren't even native to Paldea. It is also plausible that The Area Zero Entity could have created The Player Character's Mom to be a guiding figure of sorts. With that being said, the story of moving from another region could definitely be a convincing lie that could be made in service of fulfilling the role The Player Character was meant to fulfill.
- Terapagos doesn't make the Tera Raid Dens. They are caused by excessive amounts of energy leaking through the ground out of the crater, much like how the Paradox Pokemon can escape out through the crater. Additonally, the Entity making all these things completely whole cloth goes against how it works. It doesn't innovate, it doesn't elaborate, it grants wishes and dreams. It only made perfect copies of all the paradox mon as they were described in the book. The possibility of Nemona, Penny, Arven, and the AI Professor all vaugely wishing for the exact same person of the exact same description and exact same background to come help them is infinitesimally small.
- Possibly confirmed; the League Club feature in the Indigo Disk DLC allows players to invite characters from Paldea to battle and trade with. Only gym leaders have been shown so far, but it's not out of the question to imagine you can summon Geeta, the Elite Four and other characters like Nemona/Arven/Penny for infinite rematches. The only unclear detail at the moment is if their teams are updated.
- Very confirmed! The rest can be invited, but have to be unlocked by befriending the Gym Leaders (through battles and trading). And yes, all teams are updated.
Some time before the start of the game, the third legendary became focused on the wishes of three particular children in Paldea: Penny who wished to save her friends from expulsion, Arven who wished to save his Mabostiff, and Nemona who wished for a worthy rival. The entity eventually decided to grant their wishes in one fell swoop by scanning the region and its surrounding for a promising person (The same way Arceus reached through time to pluck PLA's protagonist to Hisui), and ultimately came across the Galarian protagonist. Then it gave them and/or their mother a prophetic dream which inspired them to go to Paldea. After that, just a little twist of fate here and there to ensure that the protagonist meets Nemona, Arven and Penny all on the same day, intertwining their fates and ultimately fulfilling their wishes.
- I don't think that Terapagos had brought the player to Paldea.
In fact, while she lets the protagonist keep the treasures for now, she could actually have been planning to swipe them from the protagonist's hand: By banking on the possibility of Clavell and/or Jacq finding out about the Ruin Quartet in the protagonist's possession which hopefully will be followed up with the two kindly seniors asking the protag to hand the quartet to a more suitable adult, at which point Raifort would step up to claim them.
- Jossed.
- The Tera phenomenon comes from Area Zero, and was observed 500 years ago. Rose isn’t that old.
- The crater has existed for millions of years and the weapon was fired only 2000 years ago. The timeline just doesn’t work out.
- It may be obscured because the contents of that crater differs depending on the version. Scarlet, being themed on the past, would have a prehistoric jungle, while Violet, being themed on the future, would have a futuristic city or industrial area. This wouldn't discredit the above theory; it could be that the Ultimate Weapon's impact was so powerful that a permanent time rift (or Space-Time Distortion, if you'd prefer) appeared in Paldea.
- All jossed. Not only Kalos has nothing to do with the crater (it exceedingly predates human civilization for crying out loud), the crater's landscape in both versions is simply pristine nature.
- Perhaps, instead of this, he instead was turned into a Gimmighoul for his deeds, much like how various people connected to him were turned into the Four Perils.
- They say that humans can't return to the present, not that they can't use it.
- The idea that tera crystals is a phlebotinum that grants wishes surprisingly has weight when we look at terastallization. How many times we, players, see a Pokémon and tell ourselves, "Oh, I wish this Pokémon were of that type instead of this type"? That's exactly what terastallization does!
- As plausible as it might be, a secret cutscene after the end of The Indigo Disk seems to confirm that it was real time travel all along with an example of a Stable Time Loop: a new entry from the Professor's journal tells the story of them being transported to a lake in the east where a child gave them a white book. Sure enough, flying to the Crystal Pool after catching Terapagos causes the latter to summon the real professor from the past, at which point the player character gives them the white book Briar wrote about their own expedition.
- The phrasing of the cutscene heavily implies that the professor is not only from the past, but also from an Alternate Universe. So the original guess is partially correct; it's not a time machine, but appears to be an Alternate Universe-machine.
- The legendary is a small crystal, but perhaps the machine is based on it.
- Confirmed!
- One likely outcome is that they will use it to catch a Legendary Pokémon, continuing what Hop started in Sword and Shield, a rival with a Legendary in their team.
- Confirmed on the sentient part, although the intellegent part... not so much.
Part of the reason is terastalization: When a Pokémon terastalizes, not only its type changes, but its body becomes crystalline, to the point that with some of them, you may notice that their body even becomes translucent. This suggests that the power that enables terastalization is capable of physically distorting a Pokémon, with the Paradox Pokémon being the result of a full-blown physical do-over compared to the more controlled terastalization via Tera Orb.
Interestingly, this can serve as a Watsonian explanation as to why some Pokémon that are version-exclusive somehow have a Paradox variant in the opposite version. For example, the reason why we have Flutter Mane and Roaring Moon but not Misdreavus and the Bagon line in Scarlet is because the "time machine" has converted too many Misdreavus and Bagon in Paldea and thus those two Pokémon are as good as extinct in the wild; same case with why we have Iron Thorns and Iron Jugulis but not Larvitar line and Deino line in Violet; too many of them got yanked and morphed by the machine and thus they're gone from the ecosystem. This indirectly also means that the ecological disaster that the AI Professor warns us about actually has happened; we merely prevent a second wave. And, as a Fridge Horror, this also means that aside from creating Tera Orbs to harness terastalization power, the original professors actually have failed in their dream of creating an actual time machine to reach through time.
- Jossed. The Indigo Disk implies the Paradoxes come from alternative timelines.
- Perhaps Grass/Dark?
- It looks like a Bug type to me.
- It's likely considering another thing I've noticed. The Loyal Three have abilities and somewhat designs that seem to imply that they are part-Poison type. Poison is only strong against Fairy (which doesn't have a clear connection here) and Grass. If the Loyal Three are said to have defeated Ogerpon, it would make sense for them to have their one of their typing to be super-effective against Ogerpon.
As for it's actual typing, I'd say it's probably either Grass/Ghost or, if the "Loyal Three evil" theory discussed down below is true, Grass/Dark. After all, it would follow the trend off Dark-type Pokemon labelled as evil when they clearly are not.- Confirmed, it's predominantly Grass-type: It is a Pure-grass Type in it's base form and its type changes dependant on the mask it wears.
- Confirmed on the Momotaro part, inverted for the antagonist part.
- The region in the DLC appears to be based moreso on Japan, going off of the name. And those three pokemon look more like sublegendaries than starters.
- Be weak to Rock (and only Rock), since it's super-effective against four types and not very effective against three types.
- Take neutral damage from Water, Fire, Ice, Flying, and Fairy.
- Resist Grass, Bug, Steel, and Dark.
- Be immune to Normal, Fighting, Electric, Ground, Poison, Psychic, Ghost, and Dragon.
- A new type just for one Pokemon is ridiculous when type-switching abilities exist and would be more balanced and feasble, and it has symbols for the current 18 types on it's back (not 19, no new symbols, just 18 types and tera raised above the rest). New types are not added just cause, and it would be the opposite of balanced — balancing being the only reason new types are introduced.
- Honestly, if anything, I'd imagine it instead has an ability that effectively gives it a second Tera Type based on a new held item.
- Maybe it'll have something similar to Arceus or Silvally's signature abilities, but unlike those two the type changes are more random.
- The reveal of the rainbow-hued, as yet unnamed new teratype, with a symbol shaped like Terapagos's back, almost certainly hints that Terapagos will have a special tera type. How an omnitype like this will function is yet unknown.
- It does have new Tera type, and it allows all moves to gain STAB.
- In terms of only typing, Jossed. Terapagos is pure-normal type. It is however, locked to the new Stellar type if it Terastalizes.
- It is emphasized that it's wearing a mask. It could have a maskless form, with a more heroic face (in some of the art we can even get a glimpse of its real face).
- Well, it does have a tera form, but a maskless non-tera form also sounds plausible.
- Zigzagged. It has different forms, but it has four of them.
- Zigzagged - the Loyal Three are villainous, but Ogerpon had masks even before the trio. In fact, they stole Ogerpon's other masks.
- Semi-jossed.
- Now completely Jossed.
- Fezandipiti:
- Fire/Fairy
- Flying/Fairy
- Fire/Flying
- Poison/Fire
- Pure Flying
- Fire/Psychic
- Poison/Flying (basis of the poison typing is its ability, Toxic Chain)
- Poison/Fairy
- Confirmed.
- Okidogi:
- Grass/Dark
- Grass/Fighting
- Grass/Psychic
- Poison/Grass
- Pure Fighting
- Grass/Fairy
- Poison/Dark
- Poison/Fighting
- Confirmed.
- Munkidori:
- Water/Psychic
- Water/Ground
- Water/Fairy
- Poison/Water
- Water/Fighting
- Water/Dark
- Pure Dark
- Pure Poison
- Poison/Psychic
- Confirmed.
- The reveal of their shared signature ability implies they will all share a Poison typing.
- Zigzagged. It puts masks on to change typings, but there are only three different masks that allow it to do so and they appear to be independent of the Tera-type and are instead determined by an item.
- It could just be an ability called Tera Type to constrast Arceus's Multitype.
- If it's a Tera Type in and of itself, it may be labelled Legend to go with Arceus's plate.
- It has a special Tera type called Stellar type, embodying all types.
- Confirmed! The multi-typed turtle we saw first was actually Terapagos' terastalized form, and a special "Stellar" type grants a crown that does resemble the one seen in Scarlet/Violet book.
- Highly likely, given the reveal of more Paradox beasts/swords that will be in the dlc.
- Zig-zagged. They did technically tease the fact that the Paradox Swords of Justice and Legendary beasts would be in the DLC, but nothing else.
- Half confirmed with a twist. We take Terapagos out of Area Zero instead of returning it there, but it does bring someone to a different time period, namely a past version of the version-exclusive Professor being temporarily brought to the future (that is, the game's present time).
- Confirmed. The Terarium in Indigo Disk's Blueberry Academy is shown to have Alolan Exeggutor, making it likely other past regional forms will be obtainable.
- Given the presence of a Wild Area-like overworld for Blueberry Academy, likely jossed.
- Mostly confirmed. The majority of Pokémon in Blueberry Academy's dex are indeed found in the Terarium, but a rare few (such as Terapagos) are found in Paldea instead.
- Signature Move:
- Night Parade:
- Dark-Type
- Lead your entire party to cause mayhem on your foe. This move has more power dependent on the number of Pokemon in your party that haven't fainted.
- Isn't this almost the same thing as Infernal Parade
- Nope. Infernal Parade's a Ghost-type move that deals damage and has a chance to inflict Burn. This move is different.
- Potent Elixir:
- Poison-Type
- Throw a splash of elixir at your target, inflicting Confusion and lowering evasion.
- Night Parade:
- Signature Ability:
- Potion's Influence: This Pokemon is immune to Confusion. Any move that would Confuse this Pokemon will instead increase evasion by 1 stage.
- Given that it's three rivals are poison type, Ogrepon being poison type is doubtful. The Direct implies it'll be Grass type. Also not sure where the focus on potions is coming from, since it has nothing to do with potions.
- All jossed. It's signature ability is Embody Aspect: a new ability which only appears when Ogerpon is Terastalised and it adds a stat boost in addition to Ogerpon's pre-existing ability (in a similar vein to As One) that is dependant on what mask it is wearing.. Ogerpon's signature move is Ivy Cudgel, a Grass type, physical, 100 base power single target physical move with 100% accuracy that has an increased to crit and changes types dependant on what mask Ogerpon wears.
The Teal Mask
Confirmed:- Vulpix/Ninetales
- Yanma/Yanmega
- Seedot/Nuzleaf/Shiftry
- Chingling/Chimecho
- Feebas/Milotic
- Grubbin/Charjabug/Vikavolt
- Volbeat/Illumise, as fireflies are associated with outdoor festivals.
- Confirmed
- Nincada/Ninjask/Shedinja, due to cicadas being a Japanese symbol of summertimenote
- jossed
- Jangmo-o/Hakamo-o/Kommo-o, being based on East Asian monks and the last pseudo-Legendary line not confirmed for Scarlet and Violet in some way.
- Confirmed.
- Lotad/Lombre/Ludicolo, to go with their counterparts.
- Confirmed
The Indigo Disk
Confirmed:- Seel/Dewgong
- Beldum/Metang/Metagross
- Blitzle/Zebstrika
- Cottonee/Whimsicott
- Espurr/Meowstic
- Milcery/Alcremie
- Shaymin
- Every starter
- Geodude/Graveler/Golem, due to a Geodude silhouette used in the interface of the weather monitor in the trailer.
- Confirmed, with the regular variant appearing in The Teal Mask and the Alolan variants in The Indigo Disk.
- Swinub/Piloswine/Mamoswine, due to a Mamoswine silhouette used in the interface of the weather monitor in the trailer.
- Confirmed, though appearing in The Teal Mask.
- Tornadus/Thundurus/Landorus/Enamorus, as they control weather and may be the why Blueberry Academy has a weather monitor.
- Vullaby/Mandibuzz. Since Rufflet/Braviary are already in the base game, their counterparts should be added either in the Teal Mask or Indigo Disk.
- Confirmed in The Teal Mask.
- If this winds up being true, would it be too much to hope that give it a geographic relation to the other Japanese regions and mention either "Johto/Kanto to the east" or "Hoenn to the south/south-west"?
- Jossed. Briar revealed that Blueberry Academy is somewhere in the Unova Region.
- Well, close enough, considering that New York and New England geographically are very close to each other...
- Jossed, although that said, Stellar Tera does allow a dual-type Pokémon to keep its dual typing instead of having to become monotype.
- Normal: Ghost
- Grass: Any type combination combining Grass, Bug, Fire, Poison, Flying, Dragon, and Steel.
- Fire: Water/Rock, Rock/Dragon, Fire/Rock, Fire/Water, Fire/Dragon or Water/Dragon.
- Water: Grass/Dragon, Grass/Water, or Water/Dragon.
- Electric: Ground
- Ground: Flying
- Bug: Any type combination combining Ghost, Fairy, Fire, Poison, Flying, Dragon, and Steel.
- Rock: Steel/Ground, Fighting/Ground, or Steel/Fighting.
- Fighting: Ghost
- Ghost: Normal
- Poison: Steel
- Psychic: Dark
- Dragon: Fairy
- Flying: Rock/Steel, Electric/Steel, or Rock/Electric
- Ice: Fire/Ice, Ice/Steel, Fire/Steel, Water/Steel, Water/Ice, or Water/Fire.
- Steel: Water/Electric, Fire/Electric, Steel/Electric, Water/Fire, Water/Steel, or Fire/Steel.
- Dark: Fairy/Fighting, Dark/Fighting, or Dark/Fairy.
- Fairy: Steel/Fire, Steel/Poison, or Fire/Poison.
It doesn't change type, but Terapagos will make an incoming move not-very-effective when it's at full hp.
- Overall jossed. Kiaren's antics does result in a rather unwelcoming atmosphere in the academy, but once that's dealt with, the academy is as friendly as Paldea's academy.
- Confirmed! They are in fact, the school's Elite Four.
Whoever ends up traveling with the player will probably provide someone to talk to and possibly a subplot (like how Sonia set you on the path to catching the Swords of Justice in the Sword and Shield DLC), but they won't get involved in the main plot due to a combination of their stories wrapping up for the most part in the main game and the presence of Carmine and Kieran (who'll most likely be the central human characters of both parts of the DLC).
- Jossed. The three of them are not involved in this DLC's story at all.
- Zigzagged. While they do not appear for the DLC, they do appear and play a major role in the DLC's (as of the time of writing) unreleased) epilogue.
- Who’s to say they couldn’t be the true villains, and Ogrepon had been unfairly framed?
- As the old saying goes, "History is written by the victors". It is a possibility.
- There's also the fact that those purple things they wear are chains coated with poison so potent, merely being near them can inflict Bad Poison on other Pokémon. This is not the sort of weapon good guys would use.
- Confirmed!
Further expanding from this, Lacey is related to both Teal Mask and Indigo Disk plots due to the fact that, in terms of folklore basis, she is "in the wrong place". Teal Mask should've been based on Momotaro, and Indigo Disk should've been based on Urashima Taro, and thus as a momo Taro, she should've been in Kitakami, but instead she displaces the Urashima Taro in Blueberry Academy, causing all sorts of problems.
- Jossed. The only Blueberry Academy residents who have any role at all in Team Mask are Briar, Carmine and Kieran. Also, the actual truth about the "Momotaro legend" in Kitakami is a backwards retelling of the believed tale.
- Even more Jossed by the reveal that Lacey is the daughter of a Unovan Gym leader, most likely Clay.
- Jossed. A version of the version-exclusive professor does however appear in a special event in the Kitakami Crystal Pool.
- Raging Bolt:
- Electric/Dragon
- Confirmed.
- Electric/Dark
- Electric/Fighting
- Electric/Dragon
- Iron Crown:
- Steel/Normal
- Steel/Ground
- Steel/Dragon
- Steel/Dark
- Steel/Psychic
- Confirmed.
- Steel/Flying
- Celebi? Why not Ho-oh, the one who actually has a connection to the Beasts.
- Celebi/Keldeo are both mythical Pokemon of Johto/Unova, while Ho-Oh is a box legendary. Including it without including Reshiram or Zekrom for the Swords would probably create a glaring imbalance.
- Zekrom and Reshiram have no connection to the Swords aside from the game they're in. Keldeo and Ho-oh are both the unoffical fourth member of the trios with a story connection to them. Several paradox pokemon have their stats lowered from their original forms, so there's no need for power imbalance.
- Understandable, but it'd certainly be strange to see Ho-oh or a variant thereof without Lugia to go with it.
- We can think of this as balancing the fact that Lugia starred in the DX games complete with a spiffy Shadow form.
- Confirmed! They are called Gouging Fire and Iron Boulder.
- Jossed.
- Likely jossed, as she does mention Heath but says nothing about Brassius.
- Confirmed.
- Jossed for Ogerpon: While it does require items to access specific special effects from Terastalisation, at its base it will still get a special form from terastal.
- Also Jossed for Terapagos.
- Jossed. The mask is completely nonsentient.
- And Drayton has been stated to be from Opelucid City, and is a Dragon-Type specialist.
- Confirmed! Dialogue from Hassel confirms that Drayton is Drayden's grandchild.
- Rock/Dragon or Rock/Fairy would also make sense, as those types usually indicate something of great magical power like Terapagos seems to have.
- Jossed. It's pure Normal-type like most other type-changing pokemon.
- Confirmed! Gouging Fire and Iron Boulder are indeed Fire/Dragon and Rock/Psychic.
- Celebi can be found. Celebi is a mythical Pokémon like Deoxys and Keldeo and there's been a recent tread where Mythicals are easily given out but in a way that makes them catchable by the player. Given the name Timeless Woods, and the fact that Celebi's shrine in Johto is in the Ilex Forest there may be a connection to our favorite time travelling onion fairy and this new location. All that and Perrin is trying to find a certain Pokémon to take a photograph of it.
- Extinct Pokemon or variants will be found. This includes fossils as well as the Hisuian forms.
- Semi-confirmed: it's the home of an Ursaluna variant, but that and White-Striped Basculin are the only Hisui Pokémon there.
- The player character from Legends Arceus will be found and battleable just like Red once was on Mt Silver.
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- Jossed. It's Kieran.
- Zigzagged. Terapagos does serve as final boss, but it doesn't give out the unique item. Instead it's obtained post game by battling rare wild terastallized Pokémon or forking over 50 Stellar Tera shards like other types.
- This doesn't happen.
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- Confirmed! It's called Hydrapple and is still a Grass/Dragon type.
- For now this theory is Jossed.
- Crispin as psycho-Arven: Both are Chef of Iron, but Crispin probably came from a privileged background and is loved by BBA students, in contrast to Arven who takes care of himself despite his famous background.
- Amarys as psycho-Penny: Both are bespectacled and emotionally-subdued, but the fact that Amarys seems to hold a stopwatch at the start of her battle suggests she's a Neat Freak and a Clock King on top of being an expert battler being an Elite Four, in complete contrast to Penny who's disorganized and not quite competent at actual battling.
- Drayton as psycho-Nemona: They have so much contrast between them: Drayton is an academic Lazy Bum who has repeated a school year several times, while Nemona is a hard-working Student Council President. Drayton seems emotionally laid-back, Nemona is Genki Girl par excellence. Drayton's ace is a Dragon-type a.k.a. a rare, pompous, better-than-you kind of type, while Nemona's ace is a mere starter Pokémon.
- Lacey as psycho-Juliana/Florian: A nice person and the face of the team, and the strongest trainer among their gang.
- A connection is never drawn and bullying isn't a major element. Also they aren't antagonists.
What if Heath left Paldea after public began to scorn his Scarlet/Violet book? The base game does mention that public opinion on Heath slowly soured as they accused him of making things up, so perhaps after he couldn't take it anymore, he took all his prized possessions (including some tera crystals) and departed to parts unknown, maybe even leaving behind his family (who might or might not have joined in dissing him), eventually meeting Ogrepon and arriving at Kitakami. This could also help explain why Briar, his descendant, is interested in Kitakami; not just because there are tera crystals there, but also because Kitakami was her ancestor's last resting place, so she could actually be going there as pilgrimage.
Some tropers mentioned that, assuming Kieran was accurate, six generations have come and gone since the foreign man arrived, and Heath was alive about 200 years ago. 33-ish year per generation is not impossible, although admittedly rural places like Kitakami would more likely encourage women to give birth sooner.
- Heath looks nothing like the man accompanying Ogrepon in the flashback; the man is much larger and broader, and has long hair with a ponytail. Ogrepon's companion is also implied to be killed by the Loyal Three. Being dead would make it impossible for him to have descendents (and it seems unlikely he'd have had children beforehand if he's such an outcast that he's living in a cave with an ogre).
There is also precedent given to him befriending Ogerpon, as while his Floette had held a special place in his heart, he has been shown to have formed bonds with other Pokémon, particularly his Torkoal, Golurk, and Sigilyph that he uses to battle, meaning it's just as possible that he could have formed a bond with Ogerpon as well.
The only noticeable contradiction in this theory would be the implied death of the man who befriended Ogerpon, as AZ is very clearly still alive. Since this "death" was left rather ambiguous however, it doesn't completely count this out of the possibility.
- AZ and the man have a completely different build. The man is very muscular and AZ is a human beanpole.
- This would make the villagers completely right in not trusting him, lessening the "judging outsiders is bad" moral Mossui Town needed to learn, not to mention make Ogerpon an even bigger woobie than she already was. While it's certainly possible that Pecharunt could've influenced him to some extent, it feels really unecessary.
- Jossed.
- Cheren (he became a teacher in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2; perhaps he ended up being "promoted" to working at Blueberry Academy after gaining more experience, though since he's a gym leader, it's more likely he'll be a "guest lecturer" of sorts; as a bonus, he'll be given another redesign to show how much time has passed since the last time we visited Unova)
- Bianca (if Cheren appears, Bianca will likely appear as well, possibly as a full-fledged Pokemon Professor this time)
- Hilbert/Hilda (given their status as player characters, it's possible that they won't appear in-person, but they'll likely be mentioned somewhat prominently, such as having someone talk about "a hero who saved this region many years ago")
- N (rounding out the "main" characters of Black and White, N is popular enough that he'll likely have an appearance or at least a cameo in the story)
- Rosa/Nate (for the same reason as Hilbert/Hilda)
- Hugh (perhaps as a disciple of Cheren's)
- Emmet (obviously researching at Blueberry Academy to look for clues regarding his missing brother)
- Benga (if Alder is also a faller, as some have theorized due to a portrait resembling him being in the Diamond and Pearl Clan camps, then maybe Benga will also be looking for leads on where his grandpa disappeared to)
- Alder (alternatively, Alder's still around and as the former champion, he shows up to give trainers pointers)
- Members of the Elite Four (we've already seen Grismley in Alola, so having Caitlin, Shauntal and Marshal appear would be appropriate. Perhaps we'll also meet Grimsley's replacement)
- Colress (he already returned in Sun and Moon, so maybe he'll show up here too)
- Iris (she's presumably still champion of the region; plus, if Drayton is related to Drayden, it would mean Iris is sort of related to Drayton too, since she's basically Drayden's adoptive daughter)
- All jossed.
- Confirmed.
- The orange face made me think she was meant to be a peach, because momotaro.
- Another possibility is that Ogerpon is afraid of Kitakami natives in general and not just Kieran. Some scenes that can be taken as evidence for this:
- Ogerpon's instant liking to you seems to indicate that she recognizes you as a fellow foreigner, and yet the two times she sees you with a Kitakami native, she'd rather leave the scene: She hides behind a rock when you and Kieran investigate the Dreaded Den, and despite having been chummy with you she instantly flees when Carmine catches up to you, even abandoning her Teal Mask instead of trying to take it from your hand when Carmine is standing nearby.
- She does warm up to Carmine fairly quickly while you and Carmine are getting her other masks, though, which is notably before Kieran tells the real story to the other villagers. Ogerpon might still be able to tell that the player character is a foreigner, but this at least indicates that she's capable of judging the Kitakami natives on an individual basis.
- Carmine's grandpa seems surprised to learn that Ogerpon still visits the Festival of Masks, suggesting that no one in his family has seen Ogerpon for ages despite their ancestor's hospitality to Ogerpon and her companion. The fact that you notice that Ogerpon is standing where no one notices her suggests that she tries her best not to be noticed by the natives, and meeting you, a foreigner, drops her guard.
- Ogerpon is clearly reluctant to enter Mossui Town, and even after Kieran assures her it's ok, she still cowers in fear until she finds out that the villagers have changed their opinion on her.
- Ogerpon's instant liking to you seems to indicate that she recognizes you as a fellow foreigner, and yet the two times she sees you with a Kitakami native, she'd rather leave the scene: She hides behind a rock when you and Kieran investigate the Dreaded Den, and despite having been chummy with you she instantly flees when Carmine catches up to you, even abandoning her Teal Mask instead of trying to take it from your hand when Carmine is standing nearby.
Hence, it seems more like Ogerpon fears the Kitakami natives than feeling uneasy near only Kieran; she thinks the natives will mob her owing to that long-past misunderstanding.
- Zigzagged. A Momotaro Pokémon exists now, named Pecharunt. However, it is as of currently unreleased and it does not appear in the Indigo Disk storyline at all.
- Very confirmed thanks to dataminers! Pecharunt's event story confirmed it can brainwash others, which is why the Loyal Three went evil.
- Jossed.
- Zigagged. Pecharunt is an antagonist, but it doesn't become Kieran's partner. It's implied, however, that the Pokemon was the reason of Kieran's worsening behavior.
- I fail to see how Carmine and Kieran are 'copies' of Nemona and Penny.
With this in mind, given how insane Kieran has gone by the end of Teal Mask and how even more insane he will become by the end of Indigo Disk (since as an NPC in a Pokémon game he's pretty much doomed to lose to our player character), he may absentmindedly "wish" for something, anything to give him the means to finally beat you... and the tera crystals, whether in Blueberry Academy or in Area Zero, answers his wish and conjures a Paradox monstrosity to satisfy his desire to obliterate you. For bonus point, owing to Kieran's obsession for Ogerpon, this conjured Paradox Pokémon may very well be something like a Paradox Ogerpon.
- Jossed.
- Kind of confirmed. They're all slightly to significantly higher leveled than they were previously, though in the 80s rather than 90s or 100, and you do get some small cosmetic awards for beating them. Also, you can invite up to two instead of just one at a time.
- Kieran's eyes are already yellow, though.
- His irises are; his sclera could still turn yellow (though Fezandipity's are more whitish-looking than the other two).
- Seemingly confirmed. Datamines for the Indigo Disk have revealed a new Mythical Pokémon that appears to be based on a peach (being the Momotaro to the Loyal Three) which is also part-Poison type and appears to use the same toxic chains that the Loyal Three use.
- Jossed on the "Evil Counterpart to Terapagos" part though.
- Jossed.
- Lacey:
- Fairy
- Confirmed.
- Ground
- Amusingly, she does have an Excadrill, though she terastallizes it into Fairy-type anyway.
- Poison
- Fairy
- Crispin:
- Fire
- Confirmed.
- A mix of Fire and Grass
- Semi-confirmed. He has an Exeggutor, which has Solar Beam and can use it instantly due to his Talonflame setting up the sun.
- Fire
- Amarys:
- Steel
- Confirmed.
- Water
- Electric
- Steel
- Drayton:
- Dragon
- Confirmed.
- Steel
- Dragon
Basically, perhaps Poppy was an actual adult woman in the past, then at some point she absent-mindedly said something along the line of "I wish I looked younger" when she was maybe researching in Area Zero or when she unknowingly was within an earshot of Terapagos. This resulted in her waking the next morning in the body of a child, which indeed makes her look younger.
- If this happened, it would probably be noticed and commented on, IE the profs would realize their time machine is actually a wish machine. When characters look younger than they are, it's usually commented on, IE Lusamine. Poppy doesn't just look young, she clearly acts and thinks like a child and is treated as such by the other E4. Also, Poppy is not and has never been suggested to be an Area Zero researcher or to have ever been there.
- Jossed. She's just a 9-year olf girl who somehow managed to climb all the way up to the Pokémon League, that's all.
- Confirmed! Although, not really for long...
- Path of Legends: We first see Arven as an abrasive jerk, only to learn later that he's a stressed-out boy who hasn't seen his parents in ages and nearly loses his only friend. In fact, while he still remains a bit caustic in the end, he's definitely a whole lot nicer once we help him with his problems.
- Starfall Street: Team Star, the so-called school bully, is actually the victim of bullying, and their undeserved reputation stems from their bullies bailing out upon being fought back and then-school staffs not helping to clear things up. Also, many people are surprised that the leader of Team Star is an assuming snarky pipsqueak that is Penny.
- The Way Home: The professor you've been interacting throughout the game is actually a robot copy. In addition, while no doubt a respectable researcher, the actual professor is also a nutcase who's perfectly fine with bringing invasive species (and dangerous ones at that) onto Paldea just for the sake of making their paradise.
- The Teal Mask: Ogerpon went through pretty much the same trauma as Team Star: she killed the Loyal Three out of revenge for stealing her masks and (presumably) killing her companion, but instead the townsfolk thought she was a heartless murderer and her bullies ended up being unjustly revered.
Admittedly, this WMG has one wringer: The Teal Mask has clarified via Heath's original manuscript in Briar's hand that Heath did suspect that Terapagos' body contains Tera crystals, the material that causes terastal phenomenon. However, as a counter-argument against this wringer, Ogerpon, despite seemingly not from Area Zero, is able to achieve a unique terastallization no other Pokémon has displayed before, meaning that just because you are not made of Tera crystals doesn't mean you can't do special things about it. Hence, going back to the "more than meets the eye" mentality, Terapagos probably didn't cause terastal phenomenon or create Tera crystals, but merely is so attuned to Tera crystals that it can also achieve a unique terastallization even if it isn't the progenitor of terastal phenomenon and merely decorates its shell with Tera crystals. For bonus points, if Terapagos' benevolent portrayal in Pokémon Horizons carries over into the game (namely, how it protects Liko and Sprigatito from Amethio's Ceruledge), maybe Terapagos is deep under Area Zero to protect Paldea from the true source of Tera crystals, even as it's slowly losing grounds (similar to how Zelda traps Calamity Ganon for a century before it musters enough might to overpower her).
- Jossed, jossed, jossed. It's stated multiple times that Terapagos is the source of the Terastal phenomenon.
It will also establish that, unlike Sada/Turo who were Well Intentioned Extremists who did evil things for what they believed was a good cause, Briar is entirely self-serving and willing to harm others just for her own gain.
- As an additional point, maybe Briar isn't a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing from the very start, but rather, she becomes an unhinged villain because she snapped after discovering that her ancestor Heath really did lie about his findings in Area Zero, sending her into a denial in her attempts to vindicate him which prompts her to use Kieran in her plans.
- Jossed. Briar is not really a villain, more of a Terastal fanatic who unintentionally acts as an echo chamber to Kieran's darker side.
- Lacey is the first one to meet the player when they land on Blueberry, and professor Cyrano mentions her father is a Gym Leader in Unova, speculated out-of-universe to be Ground-type Clay.
- Drayden is speculated to be Drayton's son, due to some physical resemblance between both and the fact that they are Dragon-type trainers.
- With this in mind, it is possible to connect Amarys to Lenore, the Normal-type Gym Leader, leaving Crispin the only one out and lacking a connection to Unova, though he could be seen as an apprentice to Chilli, the Fire-type triplet.
- Crispin is from Virbank and Amarys is from Castelia so they do have more subtle connections to Unova.
- Considering the title screen changes after The Way Home and The Indigo Disk, it seems likely that it'll change again after the epilogue is completed. The question is whether it'll turn into night or morning, and, if the latter, whether there'll be an "in between" screen after the epilogue has been started.
- Videos about the epilogue material have surfaced, and they show this is Zig-zagged. Ogerpon is not scripted to interact with Pecharunt in anyway. However, you can bring her to your fight against Pecharunt. In addition, Pecahrunt does not appear to be doing this out of any specific desire to harm Ogerpon, but seemingly just to cause even more chaos and mayhem.
- There are special battle cutscenes that occur if you bring out Ogerpon and/or the Loyal Three, but nothing more than that.
- Alternately, they're ancient ancestors of the Pokémon Ho-oh reserrected.
- Unnecessary and unlikely for several reasons. We know from other games that there are wild populations of Fossil Pokémon derived from revived fossils, and that Lapras are no longer endangered (not that they'd be unreasonable to appear in the Terarium even if they were still endangered, given all the other rare Pokémon found there). Sada/Turo are never implied to have summoned anything but Paradox Pokémon, and they may well have been dead before the Terarium was even built.
- Both have a longtime friend.
- Both see their friend die.
- Both have to deal with a trio.
- Both have basically been sealed away for a long time (Literally in X's case, figuratively in Ogerpon)
- Both trios consist of a Speed, Smarts and Strength core with a bigger evil behind the trio who can control others via their means to bend to their will:
- Okidogi and Violen are the the muscle of the group
- Munkidori and Serges are the brains of the trio
- Fezandipiti and Agile are the lean speedy member
- The Loyal Three's leader is Pecharunt who controls others via poisonous Mochi while Sigma uses the Sigma virus to control other reploids to do his bidding.
- Both have their default weapon replaced by another weapon of their choice (X's Variable Weapon System changes the weapon that you fire, defaulting to the Mega Buster while Ogerpon has her masks that changes the typing of Ivy Cudgel, defaulting to Grass without any mask equipped)
- Jossed, it was too fearful and slow to get away before being attacked.
- Considering Ogerpon has a special reaction if you send her out against Pecharunt, it's heavily implied that Pecharunt was at least there at the start of the incident. Fleeing also wouldn't be out of character for it, so it seems like some combination of these two WMGs is likely what happened.
- Confirmed, after being attacked it used the last of its strength to withdraw into its shell where it went dormant, presumably being picked up by a Kitakami local some time later and mistaken for a decoration.
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- The game has an oddly downer ending compared to past pokemon games, and the chance of DLC is likely.
- Jossed.
- It's complicated. The Crystal Pool event has the professor give you a copy of their Scarlet/Violet Book, which in the original timeline is used as a key for their time machine, and state that they will go home and enjoy reading Briar's book, possibly letting them stay with Arven in their own timeline. So it probably is indeed setting right what once went wrong, but not in canon timeline.
- Jossed so far. The HOME connectivity update came and went with no sign of Bill.
- The problem with wiping the professor from time is that it would cause Arven to be wiped from time and the events of the game will never have happened because the professor never caused them. A side effect of that is you never caught paradox pokemon or the box legendary.
- Jossed.
- And we may also get an appearance from a certain researcher of myths…
- Jossed and jossed.
- Or rather, either the Terastal phenomenon acts as a supressant for Pokérus or by the time Scarlet and Violet takes place on the timeline, every Pokémon had been infected by it in some way, causing a natural immunity to it which gets passed on through the Eggs.
- And in a massive bout of irony like with Sun and Moon, the player will recognize the other Professor as Arven's other parent, but Arven himself will have no idea what their other parent looked like since they walked out on them when he was a baby.
- Jossed.
- Jossed. She does indeed get an opportunity to teach a health class at Blueberry, but it's merely as a guest teacher.
- Confirmed. Also, clothing is already not gender-locked.
- Amusingly, you do get Team Star's customized uniforms after finishing the main story in The Indigo Disk... and you can wear either the male or female variant, regardless of your character's gender. So further confirmed!
- Confirmed! The Teal Mask gave us 30 new TMs, and we get even more in Indigo Disk.
- Jossed.
- Greninja, as the Water/Dark type combination would be able to fight the Poison-type weaknesses of Psychic and Ground.
- Jossed. Instead, you can customize Blueberry Academy's League Room.
- Past:
- Numel/Camerupt (Ice/Ground, Arctic camels with either cryovolcanic humps or humps made of fat like real camels have)
- Sharpedo (Water/Rock, prehistoric sharks like Megalodon and Cretoxyrhina)
- Genesect (before it was modified, Bug/Fighting or Bug/Normal)
- Dragapult (before it went extinct)
- Barraskewda (Xiphactinus)
- Bouffalant (aurochs)
- Beheeyem (ancient alien conspiracy theories, Psychic/Dark or Psychic/Electric)
- Drapion/Gliscor (Water/Ground sea scorpions)
- Ursaring/Ursaluna (Dark/Ground cave bears)
- Persian (Smilodon)
- Empoleon/Eiscue (Waimanu, Water/Ice)
- Espathra/Doduo/Dodrio (moas)
- Sceptile (dromaeosaurs)
- Reuniclus (early single-celled organisms)
- Torterra (Ankylosaurus)
- Inkay/Malamar (belemnites, Dark/Water or Water/Psychic)
- Stantler/Wyrdeer/Sawsbuck (Megaloceras)
- Slaking (ground sloths)
- Future:
- Golurk (giant robots)
- Indeedee (robot maids/butlers)
- Greninja (Steel/Dark or Water/Electric, cyborg ninjas)
- Falinks (sentai or other superhero teams)
- Vikavolt (spaceships, Electric/Flying)
- Beheeyem (aliens)
- Camerupt (metal-smelting equipment or nuclear cooling towers, Fire/Steel, Electric/Steel, Fire/Water, Fire/Electric, or Electric/Water)
- Tinkaton (inventors, Electric/Steel or Normal/Steel)
- Revavroom (electric/flying cars, Electric/Steel, Flying/Steel, or Flying/Electric)
- Garchomp (jet-based Transforming Mecha, Dragon/Steel or Dragon/Flying)
- Coalossal (uranium ore, Electric/Steel, Electric/Rock, or Fire/Steel)
- Garganacl (bismuth crystals)
- Aegislash (lightsabers)
- Clawitzer (energy weapons)
- Greedent (garbage disposal robots)
- Cofagrigus (cryostasis capsules)
- Meloetta (Vocaloid-like characters)
- Torterra (domed greenhouses/cities)
- Watchog (futuristic police officers)
- Braixen (a more sci-fi take on magical girls)
- Stoutland (search-and-rescue robots/ambulances)
- Tentacruel (UFOs)
- Octillery (tanks)
- Skarmory (fighter jets)
- A Grass/Electric Paradox Sunflora or Meganium based on the concept of solar panels
- Paradoxes of starter pokemon seem highly unlikely
- All jossed.
- Jossed.
- Semi-confirmed. There's a secret event where by bringing Terapagos to the Crystal Pool, the player character summons the real Professor from the past and has a conversation with them, forming a Stable Time Loop. Arven isn't there, but the Raidon is, and their expression is just as heartbreaking.
- Jossed.
- February 24th to 26th, 2023: Rillaboom with Tera Fire. The Fire-type may represent the heated passion of playing the drums. All three types Fire is weak to also happen to be weak to Grass.
- Jossed, The 7-Star Raid that is happening during during this time frame is instead Pikachu with Tera Water. Further jossed as Rillaboom had Normal-tera during July 28th raid.
- March 24th to 26th, 2023: Delphox with Tera Fairy. Being based on a witch, the Fairy-type would be a fitting type as both are based around magic and mysticism. In addition, Fairy is weak to Steel, which Delphox's Fire-type can counter; and Poison, which Delphox's Psychic-type can counter.
- Jossed, we instead get Flying-Tera Decidueye. Also, this raid marks the start of two-week cycle of 7-star Tera raids, given that the raid in the next two weeks after Decidueye is Bug-Tera Unovan Samurott.
- Counter-jossed: While Fairy-Tera Delphox didn't appear on the exact aforementioned date, it did show up on July 6th to 9th.
- Jossed, we instead get Flying-Tera Decidueye. Also, this raid marks the start of two-week cycle of 7-star Tera raids, given that the raid in the next two weeks after Decidueye is Bug-Tera Unovan Samurott.
- April 21st to 23rd, 2023: Hisuian Samurott with Tera Electric. I don't know exactly how this type might play into the Pokémon's theming, but its sole weakness of Ground means it can feel safe with its Water-type attacks.
- Jossed. We did get a Samurott raid, though it was Unovan with Bug-Tera. Further jossed as the Hisuian Samurott raid we got had Water Tera instead.
- It's also been confirmed that there will be a 20+ minute Pokémon Presents on said day, so it's looking even more likely that DLC will be announced then.
- Confirmed!
- Given Enamorus is now transferrable, with no sign of it unlocking Hisuian Evolutions in SV, jossed.
- If the pattern continues, Terapagos will probably have some trauma in its past that the player helps them overcome (like Koraidon/Miraidon with the events at Area Zero, and Ogerpon being shunned and villainized by Mossui Town).
- Jossed.
- Given what a hit Terastalizing has been for Paldean trainers, the Tera Orbs Sada/Turo made available thanks to their research have likely more than made up whatever their backers (implied to simply be the League given how they have all authority regarding Aea Zero) invested some ten years earlier. There's no sign Briar has made any request to enter Area Zero aside from the one time that she mentioned that she has yet to hear a reply on, so it's unclear just how much she has actually been blocked. As for the Paldean Empire, it's made out to have completely fallen apart and its people assimilated with the people of surrounding areas. There's no sign even vestiges of royal lines still exist (unlike Galar with its preserved castles and famous families).
- All jossed.
- Building on the entries above that posit Kieran teams up (or somehow comes under the influence of) the "Momotaro" Pokemon, and that the Loyal Three are in service to the "Momotaro" Pokemon: Kieran's face ends up somehow changed as an indicator of the Momotaro Pokemon's influence. It could be as mundane as a psychotic facial expression or changes in eye colour, or something more extreme similar to how the Loyal Three were massively altered by their Toxic Chains. The promotional art for the Indigo Disk released so far conveniently hides Kieran's face in shadow - and given we already know what he looks like from his official art (which was released around the same time), this is fairly suspicious.
- Completely Jossed. Out of all the player's friends/allies, he's also the only one who doesn't get brainwashed by Pecharunt, whereas Carmine, Arven, Penny and Nemona all get affected by its brainwashing mochi.
- Given the nature of the Stellar-type, it seems a bit more likely that it'd be reserved for other kinds of form changes rather than being upgraded to a "proper" type. That said, getting some other similar Stellar forms would be pretty awesome.
- Was it ever actually stated anywhere that Billy works in realty with O'Nare?
- I double-checked. The closest it comes is when O'Nare calls Paldea Realty "our company" while talking with Billy. Doesn't seem very conclusive, but it seems more like Billy's only job is stroking O'Nare's ego.
- That said, the servant looking for them in Kitakami acts as if she works for both O'Nare and Billy.
Past Events
Every now and then, over a single weekend, a Paradox pair is made the subject of a Tera Raid Battle event: one Ancient Pokémon and one Future Pokémon, which you can catch as many as you like. So far, all of them have something in common with each other:- Event 1 (June 2023): Great Tusk and Iron Treads, alternate versions of Donphan
- Event 2 (September 2023): Slither Wing and Iron Moth, alternate versions of Volcarona
- Event 3 (January 2024): Flutter Mane and Iron Jugulis, Paradox Pokémon found only in dark caves
Possible Upcoming Events
Accordingly, the ones in the future may be as follows, though not necessarily in this order:- Brute Bonnet and Iron Hands, the slowest Paradox Pokémon in their categories; both are also hard-hitting physical attackers
- Confirmed for the weekend of March 21st to 24th, 2024.
- Sandy Shocks and Iron Thorns, two unusual Electric-types found on rocky terrain in the upper layers of Area Zero
- Scream Tail and Iron Bundle, cute Pokémon that Penny encounters during the story before entering Research Station 2
- Roaring Moon and Iron Valiant, Paradox Pokémon with higher base stat totals, with both being the final Pokémon used by the AI Professor
Past Events (Legendary Trios)
In addition, we had an event where you're allowed to catch one of each featured Paradox Pokémon:- Recurring Event: Walking Wake and Iron Leaves
Possible Upcoming Events (Legendary Trios)
We might have more of these in the future to allow people playing one version to get the other one, with these Pokémon paired together:- Raging Bolt and Iron Crown, special attackers introduced together prior to the release of Indigo Disk
- Gouging Fire and Iron Boulder, physical attackers kept secret until the release of Indigo Disk