Leaker said:
Your rival is named Hop, but you will face against Bede and Marnie
Bede's name comes from
Bede the English Benedictine Monk, which means he is probably our secondary rival. Marnie is most likely our antagonistic rival, more analogous to Gladion.
Leaker said:
Team Yell is the gang in this game, who are well meaning fans causing trouble
The use of the word "gang" makes me believe this person is either a translator or someone pretending to be the translator, as gang is the term used in Japanese for evil teams. The leaker's description means they are just decoy villains like Team Skull, and the real evil team some other group.
Leaker said:
To become part of the gym challenge, you will have to get an endorsement. Bede gets an endorsement from Chairman Rose and his secretary Olema
I presume this Chairman Rose is the Budew guy from the direct, or his boss. A weird gimmick, but since most of the British references in Galar seem to be removed in favour more general Anglophone/Commonwealth themes, particularly Indian ones due to Leon, it makes sense for them to put through the pain of professional football.
Leaker said:
Eternatus is the evil legendary. The other legendary will be a wolf, who will either have a shield mane or hold a sword like Great Wolf Sif. Don't recall its name
We know the legendaries are actually two different species that look similar. But still okay. Eternatus' name literally means eternal birth or eternal son, which is probably a reference to Mordred or Morgan le Fay, and of course Ouroboros, which is a recurring figure in Celtic and Anglo-saxon iconography despite originating in Egypt. I guess it will be yellow and black like Final Fantasy's recurring boss Shinryu, because of CYMK. And of course it will be another Dragon.
Leaker said:
Dynamaxing and Gigantamaxing are dynamics that will supersize pokemon in specific areas. Gigantamaxing is different from dynamax as it changes what pokemon looks like. Meowth looks like long cat, Lapras gets layers like musical bars to its shell and musical notes. Pikachu looks like retro fat pikachu
Okay. This seems to be most fakey of all the parts, purely because of the retro Pikachu reference. GF will never bring that back.
More seriously, Gigantamaxing seems like a mixture of Z-moves and Mega Evolutions, but it is on a timer and you are presumably locked into that Pokémon. Interesting gimmick, as it works on NFEs as well.
Leaker said:
Sonia is Leon's former rival who is researching the dynamax phenomenon at the behest of her grandmother and the professor of the game
Okay. I guess we will see Sonia instead of Magnolia for most of the game, and we will probably either battle her(possibly as part of the Champion defense) or she will become the professor at the post-game.
Leaker said:
Some pokemon like Farfechtd, will get regional evolutions, like Sirfetchtd. Meowth looks like a ball of spiky grey fur
Since Meowth is supposed to get a Gigantamax form, I presume this is his second Regional Form. Regional Evolution is an interesting concept, I guess this is how they will avoid changing Extreme Evoboost's animation and change Eviolite's interactions for the time being. It would be better if they just went to traditional cross-gen evolutions instead of locking them to one region and post-game for future generations, but ehh. Vast majority of Regional Evolutions will likely be side evolutions and evolutions of Regional Forms instead of cross-gen evolutions of standalone species.
Leaker said:
Skwovet and Greedunt iirc are chipmunk pokemon who will hide in berry trees and attack randomly if you shake too many berries. If they attack, you will lose half the berries that dropped
I presume this is a generic effect for all the tree encounters, not just these two. If that is the case, then these guys are not our regional rodents, but just a gimmicky uncommon Normal like Kecleon, Minccino-line, Aipom-line etc. Probably will have 470 BST as well, to match those and Crabominable.
Leaker said:
The fourth gym is the first Fairy type gym, lead by an actress like Opal. Milo, Nessa and Kabu are the first ones.
Well this is just partially wrong, Valerie exists. But anyway, we know Milo, Nessa is probably Water, and Kabu is probably Bug or less likely Fighting.
Leaker said:
Before fighting the gym leaders, you have to complete the gym challanges.
-Milo has you herding sheep pokemon named Wooloo, but Pamper, electric corgi Pokemon, will startle them and send them rolling elsewhere.
Wooloo has Sheep Pokémon as its Species name, so I presume Pamper's species name is Electric Corgi Pokémon. Most likely he is the pre-evolution of the electric dog we saw in the logo in the stadiums in the first trailer, which means he is also our regional early Electric and regional dog.
Leaker said:
-Nessa has you running through a maze where water blocks the way
-Kabu requires you to catch pokemon and get 5 points, but you have to be in a party battle with another that's trying to catch it
So you need to catch a specific Pokémon that will give you 5 points in what seems to be a Bug Catching Contest. Cool. I guess these trials mean Gym Trainers are now abolished in favor of what are essentially Trial Challanges.
Leaker said:
While there is a transit system, you will have to go through Wild Area at times, an open world biome that has a weather system and little pockets where wild pokemon dynamax and have to be beatan in a for person raid. You will randomly see nearby players and interact with them to get their league cards and items
So this is like a MMORPG raid area, weird. I guess there is one singular Wild Area that extends throughout most of the region, not many small Wild Areas like Pokéspots in XD.
Leaker said:
Camping is how you play with your Pokemon now. You'll get two toys, a feather toy and a toy pokeball, which can raise friendship. You can make curry which will raise stats and friendliness
Friendship here is probably NOT the friendship stat for happiness evolution, but friendship stat in Pokémon Amie and Pokémon Refresh, except for potentially curry, which seems to work like Pokéblocks and Poffins. This is most the credible part of leak, since there is a picture of Grookey in the overworld in the Japanese website, but it might just the starting interaction.
Leaker said:
Pokemon will not walk beside you in the overworld map
This isn't new information, we knew this from the first trailer.
Leaker]Scorbunny will have fighting moves said:
Sobble becomes Sizzile, then Intellion, a chameleon with a spy theme
This doesn't help much, actually. Intellion can be part Ghost, Poison, Psychic or even Electric.
Leaker said:
Grookey will end up as a giant gorrila that beats a wood drum to attack
That's boring. I guess it will be part Dark-type, since they get a few Sound moves.
Leaker said:
The best Pokemon so far is the blue seagull who when it dives, either gets a barracuda in its mouth or a pikachu, which it launches to an enemy
Barracuda is probably our regional Fish, which will probably another standalone 470-475 BST guy. Seagull's signature attack implies:
*It has something that grants it immunity or resistance to Electric, like Lightning Rod, or Volt Absorb, or it is actually part-Electric, who knows.
*Its signature attack might have variable damage depending on what it picks. The attack seems to be inspired by both Pelipper and Rhyperior's Pokédex entries.