THOSE BIRDS <333 I loveee themjhg. I think the red one is my favorite but they're all so good.
Also. In case anyone hasn't seen it and wants to, there's been a lot of leaked information. If you don't like spoilers, don't reeead!
For one thing, we essentially know the final evolutions of the starters--except there's a catch.
Apparently, each starter (and Rockruff's evolution, and potentially others?) will have four branch evolutions that differ depending on something to do with one of the four islands in Alola! And type varies, too. For example, Rowlet's evolution Robinroot will be, Grass/Flying, pure Grass, Grass/Electric, and Grass/Ground. I'm most excited for that grass/electric combo, like holy heck. Robinroot is my favorite of the 3 final starters, but Beltigre (thank god for no fire/fighting) and Sirene are awesome, too!
Also Beltigre's branch types are Fire/Dark, Fire, Fire/Ghost, Fire/Poison.
and Sirene's branch types are Water/Fairy, Water, Water/Fighting, or Water/Psychic.Even the names are great ugh I just love them.
Robinroot = robin hood + root, Beltigre = belt + el tigre (a wrestling icon + spanish word for "the tiger," which could also be a reference to wrestling), and Sirene = siren + serene. Whoever names Pokemon must have had fun. xDAs talked about above, here is a
link to the final evolutions of the starters. We're treating these as canon mostly because they not only have "CONFIDENTIAL" written on them, which the papers of pokemon concepts in the first teaser trailer for Sun and Moon had, but there's also a
girl with a flower in her hair in the final evo of Litten's picture near the bottom, who was then revealed in the most recent non-leak release of Pokemon--and the two look exactly the same, which implies that these are the real deal. It's explained
here.
Secondly, and this is the big one, the same person who leaked all this information (as well as some other stuff I haven't mentioned) has leaked what looks to be the entire Pokedex. However, we only have names and no pictures--but a friend and I recently went through all of them and were able to discern what a lot of them must be just by their punny names (bless you, Pokemon). We're both a big fan of nomenclature. xD
This was released on 4chan, just as all the other leaks were, so tread with caution! Full Pokedex is
here; again, if you don't want spoilers, even if these might be fake, don't look! Of the ones I'm most excited about there are
a dark/electric space dinosaur line (815-817), what I can only assume is a yeti/bigfoot creature (809), a gargoyle line with a branch evolution (811-814), the baby version of Drampa (784), an opossum line that may or may not be based off mimes (745-746), the third legendary that seems to be based on eclipses (Malshadow, which is a confirmed copyrighted name by Nintendo) (824), and Rockruff's werewolf evolution that does the 4 split just like the starters do (740)! Whew, it's just so much information.
I'll forever be sad that they didn't name Rowlet's final evolution Robinhoot but that's just me. I do have to say I think that Rowlet's final evolution
(at least the default grass/flying one--no telling whether or not it'll change appearance with its different typing) is one of the absolute coolest final evolutions ever created. On my team forever. <3 If you'd like to know my friend and I's theories on any of these other Pokemon names, just ask and I'll give em!