https://nintendoeverything.com/new-pokemon-gen-2-leak-surfaces-shows-beta-designs-for-pichu-celebi-more/https://nintendoeverything.com/pokemon-leaks-continue-another-round-of-early-sprites-shared-and-more/https://nintendoeverything.com/wp-content/uploads/pokemon-sprite-leaks-early-full.jpg- the xatu line was originally a 3-stage!
- what's this little black guy supposed to be? living cave painting? (update : kokopelli, bit of a bizarre subject to have a pokemon of - this thing would've fitted in well with other "tribal/ancient" themed pokemon like xatu and sigilyph)
- snake with eyebrows
- another fox lost to the cutting room? or progenitor to fennekin/thievul?
- this looks like a 4-stage line, or branch evo line of a scrapped grass-type - they might've been playing with the idea of 4-stage lines here
[update : good lord! the 2nd sprite here might actually be a surviving sprite of pikachu's earliest progenitor ; a daifuku with ears!]
- a scrapped elephant, copperajah progenitor or a revival of that scrapped gen I elephant?
- a kiwi, we don't have one of those yet (doduo comes close, but still)
- scorpion, proto-gligar? some say it's a homage to a facehugger
- quail?
- another bird? fancy-ish design
- looks like a variant of the scrapped qwilfish evo
- a thing with antlers and tusks...a wild boar? supposedly might've inspired swinub/piloswine later
- this little dog guy was probably a smeargle prevo
- typical japanese ghost design
- there's kotora again
- seems stantler was a fresh concept in this build
- elebaby and elekid together? seems the electabuzz line was going to be 3-staged
- here's a new one...bootleg lapras? some say it could've been a viking ship-based proto-lugia, whom would be ho-oh's counterpart of the sea
- this wolf-thing looked like it'd pass as a side legendary
- what is this grinning freak
- snake, proto-dunsparce?
- some flower-bird?
- this monster was probably a good jumper
- turns out they planned to rip the sunfish out of the ankorage->grotesk evo line and give it a 3-stage sunfish line of its own
- what is this thing and why does it have a messenger bag? actually some suggest its a ninja sugar glider and the "bag" is a katana in sheath
- proto-cyndaquil before they made it the fire starter - it looked more like a hedgehog here
- this looks like the prevo of the scrapped fox early on, or a proto-furret
- a fucking stork!? we could've had a stork pokemon!?
- drill squid, maybe this was a short-lived rebirth of a scrapped gen I squid pokemon?
- this looks like proto-burmy and mothim
- komala's progenitor! they wanted a damn koala since gen II!
- tanuki!? and we still don't have one yet! this one appears to be based on kachi-kachi yama, a japanese folktale that involved a rabbit setting a tanuki's backload of kindling on fire
- nootnoot bird
- fireball seal at least got a redrawn sprite before getting cut
- this frog thing
- this freak with weird hair and half-black body
- skeleton beast
- pols voice, the pokemon that never was
- some fly
- one eyed plant thing
- another bug
- this thing looks like a calyrex progenitor or was going to be some kind of grass type
[update : some suggest this might've been the "dolly the clone sheep" design]
- ugly sunshine cherrim progenitor or a pathetic attempt as a cherry blossom pokemon they couldn't get right
- tsuchinoko, likely proto-dunsparce and/or the evo of the snake early on in the sheet
- an armored water-type with a clubbed tail that probably scrapped with lapras
- a literal flying fish-bird?
- an alternate ampharos sprite
- gloom was going to be depicted as just having itself a shit in battle!?