There's A Very Real Possibility That Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Leaks Come From Unite
Pokemon Scarlet & Violet ‘leaks’ have been all over Twitter and Instagram this month, from sources that can be described as dubious at best. While players clamor for any details about the next mainline Pokemon games, industrious artists and clever trolls have capitalized on the excitement for clicks and clout. While we don’t yet know which leaks are real, if any, it seems likely that some amount of accurate info about Scarlet & Violet will eventually leak - at least if history is any indication. One possible, and very likely, source of leaks is actually another Pokemon game. Mobile and Switch MOBA Pokemon Unite is a notoriously leaky game, and if there are any details about Scarlet & Violet Pokemon to be found, you can rest assured the dataminers will find them.
If you follow Pokemon Unite, you’ve probably noticed how hard it is for developer TiMi Studio Group to keep any secrets about the game. Every time the game receives an update, dataminers quickly get to work digging through the files to find hints about unreleased content and upcoming Pokemon. More often than not, they manage to find a lot. Over the last few months, both Aegislash and Azumarill were discovered in completely playable states weeks before they were officially added to the game. Aegislash was discovered the same day Trevenant released and was fully playable before most people even got their hands on Trevenant for a single game.
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Other times, dataminers will find lists of Pokemon names in the files that indicate their either coming soon as playable fighters, may appear as wild Pokemon during events, or are in a stage of development and may or may not show
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