(peppy music)
- Hey Pokemon masters.
Bird keeper Toby here.
The new startup Pokemon
for Pokemon Sun and Moon
should be announced any day now.
It should literally be
right around the corner.
But you know what that means?
It mean's we're not gonna get
anymore starter Pokemon leaks.
And by leaks I mean fakes
because all over the
internet people are posting
what they think the Pokemon
Sun and Moon starters
are going to look like
or trying to convince
people that they're pictures
are the real ones.
This happens with the announcement
of every single generation.
But we've had some really
great one this year
so I thought we'd look
back at some of the best
and some of the worst.
The top five best and top five
worst Pokemon starter fakes.
Of course remember this is all my opinion.
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With that said lets get on to number 10.
- [Voice Over] Number 10.
- This one is one of the
"Ehh that could have been better" ones.
Number 10 is the first of the worst.
It's these two fire and water
starters that were shown
just a few months ago.
These guys were almost
immediately panned for being fake.
Aside from the fact that there's
no grass starter with them,
along with that the only
connection they even had
to Pokemon Sun and Moon was the logo's.
Other than that these
could have been images
of pretty much anything.
As designs go they're quite inventive
but I'm not a fan and again
that's just my personal opinion.
You might really like them.
What I find so ridiculous is
the back story behind them.
They were posted to 4Chan to being with,
which is not the best place
to get Pokemon starter leaks.
And apparently they were
photos taken by a journalist
in the GameFreak offices.
Yeah, cause that seems likely.
- [Voiceover] Number nine.
- Okay so number nine is one I like.
It's actually one that I love.
I think this would be an
awesome grass starter Pokemon.
That is the grass lemma which
I can't find a source for,
but it didn't come alone.
It came with some leaks
for legendary Pokemon
and a weird Aegislash meets the Unknown
and a rainbow kind of Pokemon.
I don't know I actually thought
all the designs were cool
but the grass Pokemon in particular,
this grass lemma wow it's awesome.
There actually hasn't been a
Pokemon based off a lemma yet
so its a cool concept
straight from the off
but not only that it just looks adorable.
If this was a real Pokemon,
and I'm sad that it's not,
I would so love to have it on my team.
What a cute little guy.
- [Voiceover] Number eight.
- So back to the not
so hot end of the list.
We have this grass owl,
and fire, and water thing.
So for some reason these fakes
have been blowing up recently
and I don't really understand why.
The grass owl is kind of okay
and it makes sense as well
because of a recent leak
to do so with the starter Pokemon name.
It suggests that the grass
starter might be based
off of an owl, if that leak is true.
So I guess that's why
it's been getting traction
but the other two make no sense.
I look at them and have no idea.
What are they?
What are these?
Somebody tell me what they are.
One of the big things
about starter Pokemon
is having them recognizable.
Froakie is a frog,
Totodile is a crocodile,
Charmander is a lizard.
The general gist of them is that they have
to be at least somewhat recognizable.
These guys I got no clue
and that's why sadly they
were probably never gonna be believed.
- [Voiceover] Number seven.
- See now personally I
prefer this grass owl.
In fact I like the art work of
all of these three starters.
Again they were posted on 4chan
so nine out of 10 times it's gonna be fake
but the artwork is actually
relatively convincing.
I definitely like to
know which of these three
you'd pick on your team.
I'm not even sure what the fire one is.
A dog maybe?
Of course this owl design is
much better than the last one
and the next one.
- [Voiceover] Number six.
- Sorry to say this is
another stand alone one
and it's a grass owl.
Yeah you've seen that concept
three times this video.
The reason this is on my not so great list
is despite the fact its
Ken Sugimori art style
there's something if I look close,
oh yeah it's a Maractus.
They just shared too many design elements.
It almost makes me feel
like its a cactus owl
which doesn't make any sense.
Sadly this Pokemon doesn't make it
onto the believability scale
because it looks like aspects
of it have been stolen
from other Pokemon like
Maractus and Cacnea,
Which is just a really
odd concept for a bird.
I mean I'm down with it
if GameFreak does it,
just not in this way.
Sorry grass owl.
- [Voiceover] Number five.
- Okay another bird one but not an owl,
and this is on my good list.
See this one actually got a
lot of traction on YouTube
because it came out so
soon after the announcement
of the games themselves.
This was sort of the first one.
Everyone was excited about this blue bird,
is it really, isn't it?
People were 50, 50 about it.
Heck I'm still kind of 50, 50 about it.
Maybe not 50, 50 maybe like
70, 30 that it's not real.
But I actually kind of really like it,
and I would love it to be real.
The leak was made more
believable by the Hawaiian flower
that came attached to it and
the theory that the new region
is based off Hawaii.
The problem sadly comes is
that we already have Piplup
which kind of looks like it
in a similar water bird kinda way.
But generally speaking
that's the only factor
really pointing to the
possibility of it not being real.
Still I think at this point
it's been generally accepted
this is a fake but I love it.
- [Voiceover] Number four.
- Okay so at number four are a mixed bunch
between best and worst
but I'm making them one of my worst ones
because two out of three
of them are kind of ehh.
A fire cat, a seal, and a grass peacock.
Guess which one I like?
Three, two, one.
It's the grass peacock and
I hope you picked the same
because I'm sorry I'm not
a fan of the other two.
The seal just looks a
little bit plain and generic
but the fire cat is
what sets it off for me.
Starter Pokemon are supposed
to be accessible to everyone,
so cute and cool is the
general rule of thumb.
The cat doesn't really
have the cute factor.
Kind of putting me off it.
It kind of makes me think
that it's a ghost fire type,
and it's the kind of
Pokemon you'd encounter
later on in the game to
optionally have on your team.
So yes if given the option
personally I'd choose
the grass peacock, I actually
think it looks really cool.
There's a lot of cool bird
Pokemon coming around this time.
But the other two sorry, definitely fake.
- [Voiceover] Number three.
- Okay so what you
clicked the thumbnail for
this awesome grass bird thing
and it's not alone it has a fire
and water starter to accompany it
and they have evolution's.
And they're proper Ken
Sugimori style art work.
They look incredible, so who made these?
Well it was a deviant artist.
A Pokemon fan known as PokeLuca
and this guy is pretty awesome.
His artwork is absolutely phenomenal
but he wasn't making
Sun and Moon starters.
He was making starters for
his own region of FakeMon,
which all look fantastic
you should check him out.
And I have all the links to
everything in the description
along with whole bunch of mega evolution's
you've likely seen in
thumbnails here and there.
But the reason it surfaced
as Sun and Moon starters
is that people were using his Pokemon,
like me, in the thumbnails
and people just assumed that
"Oh they're the Sun and
Moon link starters."
In fact they're just
cool bits of fan artwork.
Dude keep it up.
- [Voiceover] Number two.
- Okay so number two is on
the bad side of the list
but it's not actually really that bad.
It's only bad because I like
one out of the three Pokemon
but really the artwork
itself is fantastic.
Oh and actually I just looked it up
it turns out he also made
number seven on this list.
A fantastic deviant artist,
I just personally don't
like these starters.
I love the snail but I'm just not sure
what the fire and grass ones
are kind of meant to be.
That said they do look adorable
so I would definitely have
any of them on my team.
I'm not just sure about as starters.
Oh and also just like the
last guy check this out,
he also makes fake mega evolution's
like this MegaJynx which I'm
sure you've seen in thumbnails.
Again a very respected guy.
Seriously dude, good work.
- [Voiceover] Number one.
- But here we go, this years number one,
best and worst at the same time,
starter fake leaks.
And that is the grass goat,
the water crocodile, and the fire bear.
Okay lets start off with the cool points
like fire bear as number one.
I want this to be a Pokemon,
I want this to be a Pokemon,
I want this to be a Pokemon so bad
but also the genius behind this leak
is that they announced it just
before Corocoro was supposed to come out
so people genuinely believed
that this was the Corocoro scans.
It was very well crafted.
The whole scan they put
a lot of time into it,
so how do we know it's fake?
Well sadly there were a few issues.
One is that the water
crocodile looked too much
like a combination of Treecko and Totodile
and the grass goat we already have Gogoat.
There were a few issues with the text
but the main problem for me
is that it was also leaked
with some box arts of some
Pokemon Sun and Moon Legendary.
So they look cool but
they were silhouette's
and when you're GameFreak
marketing your new game
you don't market silhouette's
you market the creature
that you're trying to market.
So sadly it didn't fully convince people.
Still though I think it was awesome
and incredibly well done.
And if I had to personally
choose from this video
my three favorite starter leaks overall
are the fire bear, the water bird,
and the grass raptor thing.
I think the three of those would make
for an awesome starter set.
I wanna pick them all.
Be sure to let me know
your favorite fake ones
in the comments and stay
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So hi.
- [Voiceover] This is Ash Ketchum.
You just watched a video
by bird keeper Toby
that makes you a Pokemon master.
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