I can't really believe the Oct 1st leaker right now.
Here's what he postd, with slight paraphrasing
Post 1: Type:Null evolves, loses its helmet, and gains multitype.
The starter leaks are real.
Post 2: Type:Null evolves, loses its helmet, and gains multitype.
The starter leaks are real.
There are only around 80 new pokemon.
Everything else I know is pointless, lol.
The idea of "predicting" an Arceus-based chimera evolves to achieve its true form isn't that big of a leap to me. It getting an ability similar to but not truly multi-type, again, because of the Arceus inspiration could be as applicable, but more questionable.
The Riddler, iirc, mentioned Lunaala's Pokedex number being something around 830. Please someone correct me if they saved the actual post about this.
And lastly, even though it was "just speculation" and listed Type:Null as a 1 stage pokemon, that... "spread" the Riddler put out a few days ago still... gets to me.
39 Pokemon from the starter trio types.
2 more for the Ice types that have been leaked (/Ghost snowmen), and from the "0-6" on new dark types, I'll pick a 3 just to be about average.
44 at this point assuming the dark types don't overlap with the starter types.
Riddler lists 16 normal pokemon, but given we have Silvada and the two-stage darwin cat left, I stand at 17 here. 61 already.
From flying, we know we can add 3 for Oriorio and the two stages of Minior. Of the 5 missing flying types, I'll play cautious and say they're all from the first 7 types. 64.
Fighting gives another 4 for sure standardly. 2 of the missing 3 are Jagmo-o evos, and the remaining one may be a type already covered, so I'll pass on it as well.
68, as I'll count all of Jagmo-o's line with dragon.
Ground type, +4 for sure, and one again excluding the 4 unaccounted for in cautioun of already covering them. 72.
Rockruff's 2, ignoring 5 unaccounted, 74.
Grubbin's 3, Wimpod's 2, ignoring the 4 unaccounted, 79.
Lunala's the only ghost we KNOW, already hitting 80.
Togdemaru, Solgalo, Magearna, and then the 3 stages of Jagmo-o alone take us to 86, with most of the missing mons still open considering I only counted the ones for the first 6 types in fear of over-representing dual typed mons, barring "leaked" mons.
Speculation from him, yes. But he's been a cryptic but reliable source through most of this and giving a base line for over 80 in this just makes me still believe over 80 non-alolan form new Pokemon.
