Pokemon Scarlet & Violet's Latest Pokemon Might Be An Electric Slugma

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Pokemon Scarlet & Violet's latest gym leader has been revealed, and she's a streamer named Iono. She's an Electric-type gym leader, which feels a little redundant when Elesa is the closest to Iono in aesthetics and is also Electric. Both characters wear large yellow overcoats and have a cutesy vibe undercut by a fierce sense for fashion. Iono's large hair clips and dyed hair also seem more fitting of the fanciful Fairy or Poison aesthetic than they do the much spikier Electric look; although the clips are big, plastic Magnemites, so that's something of a giveaway to her preference for Electric 'mons. Most interesting though is the game Iono puts forward - guessing who her partner Pokemon is. All signs point to it being a brand new Pokemon for Paldea.

We get a few clues, but there doesn't appear to be any current Pokemon who matches them. We know it is Electric, that it feels squishy, and that it's slow. Not much to go on, but given most Electric types are speedy, that knocks quite a few out already. The most telling clue is that it has "two big old bumps on the noggin that people mistake for eyes". This is a very distinctive design feature, and there are no Pokemon who fit the bill. It's brand new then, but that doesn't mean we still can't guess.

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First off, we have to think of the game within the game. It's unlikely Pokemon would tease a partner Pokemon reveal for a gym leader only to turn around and have it be Lanturn or some other B-tier Pokemon. The fact that it's goading us to guess without offering a silhouette or any other visual clue also makes it unlikely that it's an entirely new Pokemon. It's no fun to make us put together theories and