A brand new Pokmon may have been accidentally revealed, fans think, after a bizarre creature design just appeared in behind-the-scenes Pokmon Go data.
The design in question looks like a Ditto – the gelatinous shape-shifting creature from the series’ original 151 designs – with a metal nut on its head.
Ditto Cog, InCognito, or whatever you want to call it, popped up last night in files found by serial Pokmon Go leaker Chrales. It looks like the design was added while developer Niantic was uploading data for Kecleon – one of the few remaining unreleased Pokmon from Gen 3.
How could a new Pokmon suddenly appear? Well, this year’s Pokmon Let’s Go: Eevee and Pikachu will include one brand new Pokmon species. Let’s Go and Go will link up to enable the transfer of Kanto Pokmon, and with the game’s release now less than two months away, it would be fair to assume Niantic has been working with Let’s Go code to enable this to occur.
The other school of thought is this design is just some kind of elaborate placeholder – although this would be unprecedented. Pokmon Go already has a placeholder icon for unfinished Pokmon. Additionally, this design has been crafted in 3D with both regular and Shiny versions – adding to the feeling this is a final design.
Here it is:
new kecleon icons pic.twitter.com/fdI2znMJRB
— Chrales (@Chrales) September 21, 2018
Despite being labelled as Kecleon, this design holds the number 891 – well ahead of the current tally of Pokmon up to the end of Sun and Moon’s Gen 7.
We’ve contacted Niantic for comment.
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