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Indeed, Decidueye has so much potential.
Simon was in no way a safe prediction, dude. I want Decidueye badly, but let's not resort to revisionism.
Actually, his leak beyond Simon has proven nothing so far. Isabelle hasn't been seen at all. If she were an echo fighter of the Villager, you would think she would be top priority. Right now, I'm getting serious Gematsu leak flashbacks.
Personally I think it's because Isabelle isn't an echo at all. I've always banked on her being fully unique.
Before E3? Not at all. After Snake and the Bomberman AT, though? Yeah, it would've been a safe assumption.
You're moving the goalposts. That's literally hindsight bias.
You're missing my point. I'm saying that Simon would've been predicted after E3 even if it wasn't for the leak. I know I would've predicted him, at least.
That, and his sources have been wrong in the past. Most recently, the infamous Dragonball FighterZ characters/DLC fiasco. So, his sources could be completely wrong about Decidueye and possibly only saw early development bits.
Then that's a wholly irrelevant hypothetical. Being able to be predicted after the fact isn't a point against Vergeben no matter how you slice it.
Could the Alola thing be inaccurate? Yeah. There's always a chance. But as of now it's abundantly clear Vergeben has insider info. His insistence that Ridley would be an E3 reveal and that Snake and the Ice Climbers were back basically proves he saw the E3 demo way ahead of time, as that'd match up perfectly. Ice Climbers, Snake, No Cuts, and Simon have all been accurate so far, so as of now we have no reason to believe things like Isabelle are false. But because Vergeben expressed some slight doubt at the Incineroar source, there's still a chance.
The bold part puts the validity of the entire leak into question. Even if Vergeben tries to say that he doesn't necessarily believe that part himself, it still means his source was wrong. If they can be wrong about King K. Rool, they can be wrong about the Pokemon newcomer.
I think a lot of people have talked about it over the past months.
You realize the DK thing came from a completely different source that he never put his faith in, right?
Speaking of sources, supposedly a post on Gamefaqs claimed Vergeben or someone else claimed a leak for one of the remaining newcomers was under the codename "dancer" possibly implying Shantae. I'm not sure of it's validity and I'm having difficulty finding it
Oricorio though.
Pfft. Still though, after the bombshell of the Shovel Knight AT, I wasn't really expecting to potentially expect Shantae for the base roster. I figured she would be a prime DLC candidate.Oricorio though.
Is there any source showing Vergeben actually said that though? Code names aren't his MO.
I've not found anything yet beyond a post from Gamefaqs claiming the possibility he did. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/234547-super-smash-bros-ultimate/76884307?page=1
How do you know it was a different source? We know he didn't trust it, but I see nothing saying that it was only one source that said no DK rep, and that that source had nothing to say about Pokemon. Also, if it was just one guy that he didn't trust, why did he include it in the leak at all? "I heard there is no DK rep, but that sounds nuts so maybe there is a DK rep." to me, is a non-committal way of making a bold statement. "I predict this, but that could be wrong" means he gets credit if he's right without risking anything if he's wrong. I don't trust the leak.
He later said that the guy who said "no DK" was a known BSer. He was asking loz in a private message whether he heard anything about it to corroborate it. Loz was a **** and leaked the private message.
The countless "leaks" came long after Vergeben. They were piggybacking. Vergeben was the one who brought Simon into the spotlight.
Show me literally any shred of evidence toward the Simon thing, please.
No thanks. I'm not going to waste my time digging for stuff I've seen sporadically in the past couple years (and may not even be accessible anymore) just to win an argument with you over something this stupid. You believe a leaker. I don't. Why can't that just be enough?
Because spreading false information makes us, as the Decidueye fanbase, look like desperate conspiracy theorists.