PSA: Pokemon Sword and Shield information is leaking; be wary!

Question

Once again, the upcoming Pokemon games have leaked in the lead-up to their release. For the past 24 hours, leakers have been sharing pictures of the games, and posting photos of pages from the Sword and Shield guidebook. Obviously, neither the games nor their guidebook are supposed to be public yet.

As the leakers share more stuff, and more stores break the street date, you can expect the internet to be filled with Pokemon spoilers for the next couple weeks. This post is intended to forewarn you, and also state that we won't be removing posts that contain leaked info. However, we'll do our utmost to ensure everything that could spoil people has the sword-shield tag on it.

As Nintendo have lifted their game protecting against ROM leakers, we might not get a pre-release datamine this time around. However, if you want to see new stuff, here's what we've got so far on Smogon and here it is on Reddit. It includes a range of new Pokemon and Dynamax/Gigantamax forms.

Thanks for reading!

Comments

The Pokedex has been leaked comprehensively now. Things might start slowing down.

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Thank you for informing us!

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Hey Fizz, UPDATE:
It seems that on most websites, images from the guidebook and screenshots of the game have been removed because Nintendo sent a cease and desist. However, some of the images and the images of the Pokedex are mostly still out there.

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No problem! Nintendo issued C&Ds the last time this happened, so I'm not surprised at all. Unfortunately for them, it's impossible to delete knowledge!
I might as well mention here that Kaphotics did get his hands on an encryption key, and has now leaked data for the entire game. If you want to see base stats, movepools, encounter locations, etc. then you can check his Twitter.

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Wow, he really did. He even posted some of the shines it seems. I wonder if Nintendo will get to him.