We are constantly receiving recent information from massive Pokémon data breach what happened earlier this month and during this stay Few details have emerged about upcoming projects in this mix it mostly consists of design documentation and other information about venerable games we’ve already played. we saw The starter Pokémon that never was, mega evolutions that were not included IN Pokémon AND Yand now we know another monster that never made it out of the ideation phase: the flying evolution of Eevee.
According to the design documentation included in the leaks, an evolution of the flying type Eevee was planned in the seventh generation games of the series, Pokémon Sun AND Moon. From the translated feedback sheet, it appears that the design Game Freak was working on resembled fan mockups too closely, causing the team to shelve the idea. Unfortunately, we don’t have any photos of the flying fox at the moment.
That being said, the way fanatic artists were able to react to this news by immediately creating existing mockups of the hypothetical Eeveelution type suggests that Game Freak’s own ideas were also likely cannibalized by fan artists at the time. Eevee’s whole trick is that it can evolve into one of several Pokémon, each with a different elemental affinity, so fans have been drawing mockups of possible Eevee evolutionary lines for decades, including flying types.
Eevee is one of the most popular Pokémon in the series, becoming the series’ second mascot alongside Pikachu. In 2018, Eevee even got its own game Let’s go, Eevee! on Switch. However, it has been a long time since it underwent a recent evolution, the last being Sylveon, which debuted in 2013 as one of the introductions to fairy writing added in Pokémon AND Y. Whether or not Eevee needs more evolutions remains a topic of much debate among fans, with some content including the eight it already has, while others would like to see Eevee given a form for all 18 elemental types in the series. It seems Game Freak isn’t opposed to the idea as long as they find one that’s completely original, and considering how long people have been creating fan art of fraudulent Pokémon, that sounds like a hard proposition.
