Edit: Woah, Eclipse shared this on his twitter, and it’s generally spreading around the leak scene! Thanks for looking at this, everyone, I’m really flattered! Also, Eclipse isn’t actually credible at all. Like, seriously, he’s gotten 50 different things wrong. Don’t trust this doc and its info because of him. I mean cmon, he called Sun & Moon his least favorite game, do you really wanna trust this dude?

The Background

There is something afoot in the Asian Pokemon community, a leak that’s been spreading like wildfire that hasn’t yet gotten its foot through the Western fanbase’s door... until this post.

You see, in recent days on Pokemon forums hosted by the Chinese tech conglomerate Baidu there has been quite a stir over a certain user’s supposed SV leaks, a user we’ll dub “The Uncle”. As it turns out, The Uncle was the one who first relayed the information about a new Kami based on Genbu, the Pokemon we’ve since come to know as Enamorus. Now they’re back with a vengeance with a host of claims about Scarlet & Violet that even dispute common interpretations of Khu’s recent riddle (more on this later). For now, let’s check out...

The Claims

These can be neatly divided into two categories.

General Game Design

-SV will be pulling heavily from old and scrapped ideas, the game concept has been gestating for a while in contrast to what the 2022 release date would lead you to believe.

-New gimmick is described as "similar to job changing from Final Fantasy but with types"

-Storyline has vague similarities to BW, involves two fueding families who rule the region with one of the two (this number is conjecture on my part as they were compared to Cheren and Bianca) rivals getting the opposite mascot legend

New Pokemon and Forms

-SV will have one of the largest new Pokemon selections in a very long time, around the ballpark of Gens 1/3/5

-Starter final types are Grass/Dark, Fire/Ghost and Water/Fighting, essentially the PLA types but with Grass and Water switched

-The mascot legendaries are Dragon/Fighting and Dragon/Electric

-In addition to the brand new Pokemon surge, regional forms will also still be around. One of them will supposedly be based on Ratoncito Perez, the Spanish mouse version of the Tooth Fairy (While no indication as to what Pokemon it is was given I am convinced this is a Dedenne form as Ratoncito Perez is effectively a Spanish reskin of Le Petit Sorris, the French Tooth Fairy mouse equivalent Dedenne is based on)

-The other claimed form is for, surprise surprise, Tauros. Supposedly Fighting type and Minotaur-based, unclear if it’s a regional or a straight up cross-gen evo (worthwhile consideration in a post-Ursaluna world)

To top all this off, the leaker claimed further hints lie within PLA although no explanation was given as to what these hints are or what they allude to.

Tying it back to Khu

To cap things off, let’s take one last look at Khu’s most recent riddle.

People thought at first considering his followup that this was hinting at starter types, but with The Uncle disputing this interpretation and providing the aforementioned info a new one can be crafted. The Fighting, Dragon and Electric items are in fact not indications of starter secondary types but the mascot types, and this follows with the Pokemon selection. N with Zekrom is self-explanatory, and while at first Cynthia doesn’t seem obvious she too fits into place once you realize that one of her alt costumes in Masters gives her the Dragon/Fighting Kommo-o. Now of course this leaves a question: Does the Masters protag with Regirock have significance? The answer lies in its label as one of the Legendary Titans, the only one in this game. A Titan in between two representations of SV’s mascots. And what is the codename of this game that we know from datamines and website images? TITAN.

So, I’m just a random guy relaying all this to ya. But my hunch as someone who tends to be excessively skeptical of leaks is that this seems pretty legit to me. But what do you think? Is this true, or is it just another faker from a semi-successful leaker over their head to interpreted the riddle in their own way and slapped on a bunch of other random claims to seem more legitimate?