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SPOILERS! Scarlet & Violet Leaks Thread - Data/Mechanics
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Only hint I’ve seen that MAYBE corresponds to it is him saying he got two shiny Applins, and that doesn’t necessarily hint at an evo. No other hint really directly hinted at Dipplin evolving that I’ve seen.
Yeah I don't think there has been anything from what the leakers have been saying that really suggest Dipplin will evolve further.
It is and always has been a fan theory that people came up with because to them the concept of Dipplin looking not that different from Applin makes them believe that it can evolve further when really it's just a matter of Dipplin...looking like that.
The "naturemonevo" thing could be anything. I think Dipplin will just be a standard 485 BST mon like Flapple and Appletun as a third branch to a two-stage line and turn the Applin line into a new Hitmon situation and that's that.
It is and always has been a fan theory that people came up with because to them the concept of Dipplin looking not that different from Applin makes them believe that it can evolve further when really it's just a matter of Dipplin...looking like that.
The "naturemonevo" thing could be anything. I think Dipplin will just be a standard 485 BST mon like Flapple and Appletun as a third branch to a two-stage line and turn the Applin line into a new Hitmon situation and that's that.
People are assuming that like how the Steel/Dragon type would reference Black City that a potential Dipplin Evo would reference the White Forest being Grass/Dragon. Especially as Drayton looks like the final E4 member for Blueberry Academy and some theorise that Kieran will be the champion with Dipplin being his signature Pokemon.
It's Khu. Any hint he gives is so cryptic that it's impossible to tell what it means half the time until after what it's meant to spoil has been already released. Remember his leak of "one of them or none of them" for the new Ursaluna form? Saying he's been hinting it evolves is utterly useless.
Yeah
Sides split
We’re waiting every night.
And, Fnaf movie is out in just over a month
ill be devils advocate and say that ogerpon has a good shiny
I remember that. Unfortunately
Or those but ghost instead of grass
This was gamefeak realistic until i saw Ogerpon, I mean that is fake as hell. Hopefully
The 19 “teraforms” weren’t individual forms, but the Tera crowns. I think
Also, somebody, please pipe up
Has Khu actually hinted at it? I follow him via Pokeleaks, but in all honesty I (lost interest) haven't been following too closely, I thought Black City / White Forest represented Archaludon and Dipplin?
I know there's the two snakes symbol, but again, isn't that just Dipplin as it's two worms in an apple? Has he hinted at Dipplin specifically getting an evo since?
I think he did, and two wyrms become a caduceus, or the symbol of Hermes/Mercurey? Yeah, its likely.
Archaludon and Dipplin were revealed in the same presentation.
After it aired, Khu did a “breakdown” of which riddles had now been answered. For the Black Tower / White Treehollow clue, he posted that Archaludon was the answer to the Black Tower half, while the White Treehollow half was still “not revealed yet.” So it can’t just be referring to Dipplin itself, since Dipplin was revealed at the same time.
He also never posted anything saying that Dipplin was the answer to the Caduceus staff riddle. However, we know that the clue is related to Galar. So, people have speculated and drawn connections — Dipplin has two wyrms, while the staff has two snakes spiraling around it and relates to a Galar Pokémon, as does the White Treehollow clue.
It's a combination of hints:
-The white forest representing a new mon (not revealed yet)
-Stating that one gen seems to have gotten most of the love (already clearly Galar)
-The caedus symbol quoted above, which was stated to be related to Galar - and Dipplin has two worms in it. If it referred only to Dipplin, Khu would have given a breakdown already revealing it as the answer.
-Khu caught two new shiny Applin when they already have a living dex
Add on to that that Keiran is shown using a Dipplin in Teal Mask, and also seems to be battled during the BB League in Indigo Disk (face not shown but clothing matches), it's a reasonable guess that he might have a new mon as his ace, and a Dipplin evo could fit.
The assessment that the riddles point to a Dipplin evo is the conclusion of the community that popped up around trying to decode Khu's riddles, and they have a pretty good track record of figuring things out (plus I think they occasionally got more direct hints through Twitter circles). There's a reason we were talking about Blood Moon Ursaluna before it was leaked.
Could it turn out they got this one wrong and the riddles actually point to something other than a Dipplin evo? Yeah, sure, it's possible. But it's not the case that "Dipplin evo" speculation is just based on "looks too much like Applin."
I would personally remove skitter smack, steel roller, corrosive gas, and coaching, but otherwise, okay
I just have an expectation that Game Freak would put all 18 Isle of Armour tutor moves as TMs. Currently we have 4 confirmed
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Yeah, doesn’t mean i want them. Or triple axel Chien-Pao
I feel like people are giving way too much credit to Khu's riddles when half the time they're purposefully misdirects or nonsense just to grab attention. Plus, if you were to show me the coiling snakes as "this is a new thing related to a Galar mon" my mind would not jump to Applin, but rather, yknow the galar snake pokémon that's known to be all coiled up at all times
After all, both the other Galar Pokémon that got something new are mons that had a G-Max. Could just be a Silicobra split evo or something. Really doubt they'd add Dipplin now and only announce an evo a few months later either way - Don't really see the point in splitting the evo line like this instead of adding both of them at once
After all, both the other Galar Pokémon that got something new are mons that had a G-Max. Could just be a Silicobra split evo or something. Really doubt they'd add Dipplin now and only announce an evo a few months later either way - Don't really see the point in splitting the evo line like this instead of adding both of them at once
Dipplin has 2 wyrms, it could become a caduceus. Sandaconda cant, its only one snake.
Add on to the fact that the White Tree Hollow clue quite obviously suggests that whatever Pokemon is suggested by it most likely will have the Grass typing which heavily implicates the Applin line as they are the Grass type from Galar that has the most connection with trees bar perhaps the Grookey line.
This is essentially what they did with Galarian Slowpoke in SS, where they added one evolution in the first part of the DLC and then the other in the second part. So while not the exact same case, the precedent is already there.
And it would be weird for a Doduo's evolution to learn Tri Attack. Doduo only has two heads. What? Are you saying a Pokémon can get another head or something on evolution or even become a group? That's just crazy.
Seriously though, it's possible it could be a Dipplin evo, but arguing it can't be Sandaconda when they were talking about a Silicobra or Sandaconda evo because it only is one snake.
Well… just to play devil’s advocate, Applin itself goes from 1 wyrm to 2 wyrms by evolving into Dipplin. Theoretically, Sandaconda could do the same and go from 1 snake to 2 snakes (but I think it’d be a lot harder to make that work conceptually).
I think that's at least somewhat different because it was Slowpoke getting another evo rather than Slowbro evolving further. You could argue for a fourth Applin evo I suppose
I can very easily see the sand sack it has around its neck serving as the second snake that coils around. I'm not huge for either option of what the answer may be, but I really dont think its unreasonable to think it may be related to Silicobra/Sandaconda any more than Dipplin
I think that the list of 30 will include at least a few of the new moves released in gen 9
Spin Out comes to mind; despite the name (in japan its Wheel spin, even) its description has already referred to "straining its legs" rather than "wheels" which felt like purposeful futureproofing.
Triple Dive too, for that matter. While it's clearly meant to go with Wugtrio being 3 eels, the move's name and description easily lend it to further expansion
Comeuppance, Mortal Spin also come to mind as candidates (honestly maybe Rapid Spin too)
It's Gen 8, but Jaw Lock also feels like something they may throw into the TM Pool
And Maybe Power Shift. The move is still inexplicably in the game and it was a tutor in Legends Arceus so like...even if its just a clone of Power Trick it shows they have some intention for it to be wider spread?
Spin Out comes to mind; despite the name (in japan its Wheel spin, even) its description has already referred to "straining its legs" rather than "wheels" which felt like purposeful futureproofing.
Triple Dive too, for that matter. While it's clearly meant to go with Wugtrio being 3 eels, the move's name and description easily lend it to further expansion
Comeuppance, Mortal Spin also come to mind as candidates (honestly maybe Rapid Spin too)
It's Gen 8, but Jaw Lock also feels like something they may throw into the TM Pool
And Maybe Power Shift. The move is still inexplicably in the game and it was a tutor in Legends Arceus so like...even if its just a clone of Power Trick it shows they have some intention for it to be wider spread?
Have you heard of the practice of cold reading? It's something phony psychics employ, where they present very vague, very general information, and use that to insist they have found the "truth" without having to actually say it, and thus have it used back at them if the info is wrong.
That's basically Khu's whole trade.
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