Starter Pokémon Final Types?!

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I still can't get over how adorable they all are - yes, even Popplio is beginning to grow on me.​

Hey guys, [member='Aura'] here with some exciting Pokémon Sun and Moon news!

I just finished watching (or rather listening and following along, damn you school internet) a YouTube video on a channel called TyranitarTube, which often covers possible leaks and announcements for Pokémon, and today something very interesting was covered in the video released about an hour ago.

So, if you head to Pokémon's official Japanese website, you'll be able to see that they've added a large image right at the top that links to Pokémon Sun and Moon's Japanese website. The only information that's posted on there so far is the Japanese live-action trailer and the profiles for the Starter Pokémon. Clicking on each of these will take you to their respective page, which ha he official artwork, extra artwork and details on the Pokémon, just like the English website. However, the types given for the Pokémon are actually images, and clicking on them reveals that there's more to them than meets the eye.

To start off on Rowlet's page, it has two types listed - くさ [Kusa, Grass] and ひこう [Hikou, Flying], and right-clicking the images to open them in a new tab reveals that they are listed as icon01 and icon02 respectively. Now if we head over to Litten's page, it has one type listed - ほのう [Honō, Fire], and right-clicking the image to open it in a new tab reveals that it is listed as icon04. Heading over to Popplio's page and opening it's type, みず [Mizu, Water], as an image in a new tab reveals that it is listed as icon05. This obviously brings up the question of "where is icon03?". Well, it's there. Just not on the page.

If you open any of the aforementioned type images and change the links to include icon03 or icon06, which I have linked here for your convenience, you'll see that images actually appear. The website just redirects if you go any further than icon06, so don't bother trying. Anyway, these two types are じめん [Jimen, Ground] and かくとう [Kakutō, Fighting], which seems to imply that the starters will evolve to become Grass/Flying, Fire/Ground and WAter/Fighting types respectively. Unless these icons are there for another reason, which is highly unlikely, then those are the combinations for the starters.

So, what are your thoughts on this discovery? Are you excited or upset at these type combinations. Remember - this could turn out to be false, but the fact that these specific types are there, and I don't see the Sun or Moon legends being Ground or Fighting types, means that they must be leaked to the starters in some way. So put your speculation in the comments below!

As always, this is [member='Aura'], signing out until the net news scoop!

EDIT: Another theory is going around that, because the Ground icon is listed as icon03, meaning it comes before the Fire icon, icon04, that Rowlet will lose it's Flying type and gain the Ground type, while Litten will stay pure Fire type.

 

It could be that Litten gains the Fighting type and Popplio gains the Ground type, but if that happens the Pokémon fandom would riot, so I didn't bother listing it as a possibility.