Pokemon Sword and Shield - Mysterious New Pokémon Teased

Who’s That Pokemon?!

UPDATE: This mysterious Pokemon is confirmed to be Sirfetch’d. Click here to see its Pokedex Data.

A new Pokemon was teased in one of the Pokemon Twitter page’s tweets on September 12th, 2019. By clicking the link provided in the tweet, people are redirected to the top page of the Sword and Shield website.

However, those who clicked the link noticed that a glitched image appeared in the right corner of the website. This image may float around the website if you chase it with your mouse, but once you click on it, the page redirects to a pokedex entry full of glitches.

Source: Pokemon Sword and Shield Official Website

As seen in the screenshot above, this mysterious Pokemon is a Fighting-type with the Steadfast ability. Some fans speculate that this may be the rumored evolution of Farfetch’d called Sirfetch’d.

To gett to that conclusion, the fans have said that you first need to rotate the image to the right as shown below.

Source: Pokemon Sword and Shield Official Website

Even though it is blurry, you can see a white bird-like Pokemon wielding a green shield and a stalk with has colors similar to the one Farfetch’d is holding. Its category is rumored to be “Knight Pokemon,” not only because it wields a sword and shield, but also because it has “sir” in its name. Sir which is a honorific address used for knights in England.

In addition, we tried to fill the redaction in its Pokedex entry:

“Only Farfetch’d that have survived many battles can attain this evolution. When this Pokemon’s stalk withers, it will retire from combat.”

Pokemon Sword and Shield releases on November 15th, 2019 for the Nintendo Switch.

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