Has the entire Pokemon Sword and Shield Pokedex been leaked?

July 2022 · 7 minute read

Pokemon trainers are eagerly anticipating more Pokemon Sword and Shield news at Pokemon Direct – has the entire Pokedex been leaked already though?

Update: This leak was eventually confirmed as false in the June 5 Pokemon Direct stream.

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Pokemon Sword and Shield Pokedex

Let’s jump straight into it, here is the leaked Pokedex for Pokemon Sword and Shield.

The list contains 131 new Pokemon – more than was expected for the new Nintendo Switch game.

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Takeaways from the leak

The general expectation from the Gen 8 Pokedex was that around 100 Pokemon would be added. This list adds 131 Pokemon, not including Meltan and Melmetal.

One of the many concept designs for the final evolutions of Grookey, Scorbunny and Sobble…

Starter evolutions

Much speculation has surrounded the evolutions of Grookey, Scorbunny and Sobble. Officially, they have been the only Pokemon confirmed the 2019 game.

The list suggests Grookey will evolve into a pure grass-type, Scorbunny a dual fire and steel and Sobble water and ghost. Respectively their final evolutions are called Chimpongo, Moltare and Fearliz.

Eevee evolutions

Much has been made about the potential new Eevee evolutions or as they’re often referred to as “eeveelutions”. Pokemon trainers will be excited to see the list includes two new ones – a ground and steel-type. The ground-type is called Quakeon and the steel-type Titaneon.

Galarian forms

Much like Alolan forms where Pokemon already in existence adapt to the Alola region, there are 17 Galarian forms which adapt to Galar.

More dubious Pokemon trainers are questioning the list saying that some of the names seem too simplistic – suggesting the list is fake. One example of this is Fearliz which is a play on Sobble’s clear placidity. Others look to the overly simplistic Eevee evolution names of Quakeon and Titaneon.

One Twitter user noted that the names of the Pokemon are in English from a Japanese source – which certainly questions the legitimacy of the leak.

And I checked the source, it’s 95% fake since it’s says DEX ENTRIES without a description, and the names are in ENGLISH on a JP source

— BreadyFlower(Animal-Trio For Smash!) (@BreadedFlour) June 2, 2019

We may find out whether the list is true, or somewhat true, at this week’s Pokemon Direct (June 5).

While the whole Pokedex probably won’t be revealed, we will likely get confirmation of some of these Pokemon.

Last updated 11:06 ET, June 5, 2019

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