The third official trailer for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet It came out yesterday, and The Pokémon Company finally showed off some of Gen 9’s biggest features, like the Terastal phenomenon. Terastalization allows trainers to grant a single Pokémon on their team per battle the ability to change its type to any other type or commit to the same base type it already has, but with more powerful moves.
Terastal Pokémon could be better than Mega Evolutions in the long run thanks to the versatility they bring, and Pokémon Scarlet and Violet they also make interesting additions to the Paldean Pokedex. Among them is Paldean Wooper, the Gen 9 regional variant for the popular axolotl-like insect that will now be a hybrid ground and poison Pokémon, the first since Nidoking and Nidoqueen from Pokémon Red and Blue.
Paldean Wooper’s existence was leaked in advance by someone who had an early copy of the game, and was later confirmed by a trusted leaker named Riddler Khu. All of Khu’s leaks are usually right or slightly wrong, and he now claims that the third trailer featured an image of another hidden Pokémon.
In a recent tweet, Khu posted an image of a vehicle from the game that the third trailer for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet was showing for the first time, with the caption stating that it is the new type Pokémon Poison/Steel of the game. The truck itself is not the Pokemon, and instead the creature is the vehicle’s engine, as has been mentioned in other leaks in recent weeks.
The design of this Pokémon is not entirely visible, but it is appropriate for a hybrid Poison/Steelconsidering that the engine is made of metal and pollutes the environment.
However, what is unlikely to make it to Gen 9 is a new evolution for Eevee, although fans have been asking for a new one ever since Sylveon was announced. In fact, the new merch for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet shows Eevee and its existing evolutions in a single image, making it hard to believe that a new Eeveelution is going to happen.