These seem to somewhat confirm each other (there's at least a base for Centro's claims) and we've speculated a lot on what exactly is different about Protean. Common consensus is that it works similarly to Color Change, meaning that you only switch typing after a move has been used, but we don't know for sure yet. There might be more out there but we're not exactly a sleuthing community and mostly just get updates whenever someone feels like posting about it.
Centro is just paraphrasing Khu so it's the same claims from the same source.
Khu replied
"You are smart" to someone guessing Intrepid Sword, and this
tweet has him saying "So smart" to a 4chan post guessing that it activates once per battle. There's nothing to suggest other abilities have been nerfed the same way yet but it's been a common and enduring myth to attribute the same claim to Intimidate and Regenerator for some reason.
The Protean nerf comes from this
tweet "変 幻 自 在 弱 体 化" where 変幻自在 is Protean and 弱体化 is weaken.
As for bugs, Khu mentioned there being a
bug in the day 1 patch where raid bosses can almost instantly die so that's something.
Personally I'm iffy on the mice actually getting Parental Bond. On one hand he directly
tweeted (
png) its Chinese name which is pretty blatant, but it was as a description which he always just posted 2 related words about each mon so it could just be describing it being a family, but if any mon would get it again this would make sense.
Is there any info on the game structure? The official info pushing the three paths has me concerned since I'm not currently interested in 2/3.
I'm really liking the potential typings that we've seen. Has anyone leaked how the open world nature of the games will work? If it's actually open-world and we can put our teams together relatively quickly, that's going to be a wild experience.
Fuecoco start for sure, but everything else is still up in the air.
Kaka talked a bit about this. I don't remember much being explained about how the three story routes work but the main
endgame is locked behind finishing all three of them.
Kaka mentioned that the stories don't
scale to levels and gave a recommended
gym and
titan order in terms of levels. You can technically fight them in
any order, but for example a late gym is blocked off by either HM/riding progression and/or going through high level wilds.
Apparently you can also take the
champion interview without any badges but you will always fail.
Shoutouts to the pokemon code cracking discord for archiving most kaka tweets as he is pretty flaky and private.
I'm curious how paradox pokemon are going to be named, since they apparently do have new names/their own dex slot. As far as I know, have no clear info on that. All the descriptions have me imagining some cross between regional forms and ultra beasts, which is promising. Volcarona is also my favorite pokemon so I hope I love both of its new forms
At the least Khu and Kaka have noted that the future mons will have tetsu/iron in front of their names in Japanese and Chinese (铁), though in English it might be something more interesting like how we got Wiglett instead of sea Diglett.