Pokémon leaks reveal an Eevee evolution we never had

We are still receiving new information from the solid Pokémon Data breach This happened earlier this month and during There were some details about upcoming projects This is mostly design documents and other information about old games we've played. We have seen Starter Pokémon that never existed, Mega evolutions that were not included In Pokémon X And Yand now we know another monster that never made it out of the ideation phase: a flying Eevee evolution.

According to a design document in the leaks, a further development of the flying Eevee was planned for the seventh generation games in the series. Pokémon Sun And moon. A translated feedback sheet stated that the design Game Freak had in the works resembled fan models too closely, causing the team to shelve the idea. Unfortunately we don't have any pictures of the Flying Fox at the moment.

That being said, the way fan artists were able to respond to the news by immediately pulling out their existing models of the hypothetical Eeveelution suggests that Game Freak's own ideas were likely being exploited by fan artists at the time as well. 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 models of possible Eevee evolutionary lines for decades, including Flying-types.

Eevee is one of the most popular Pokémon in the franchise and a secondary mascot of the series alongside Pikachu. Eevee even got its own game in 2018 Let's go, Eevee! on the switch. However, it has been a long time since there has been a new development, most recently Sylveon, which debuted in 2013 as one of the introductions to the added Fae spelling Pokémon X And Y. Whether or not Eevee needs further evolutions remains the subject of much debate among fans, with some happy with the eight evolutions already present, while others would like to see Eevee get a form for all 18 elemental types in the series. It sounds like Game Freak isn't against the idea as long as it finds something that feels completely original, and considering how long people have been making fan art out of fake Pokemon, that sounds like a difficult one undertaking.