UPDATE: Official accusation connected Wiglett has been released.

UPDATE 29/9/22: An authoritative video of Wiglett has been shared connected Twitter. The video shows caller footage of Wiglett not shown successful yesterday's stream.

Wiglett is confirmed to beryllium a h2o benignant Pokémon, and is based connected the plot eel (not a worm arsenic I had antecedently guessed) successful existent life.

In the video, Wiglett is concisely shown utilizing Water Pulse connected a Bonsly successful battle.

The authoritative Scarlet and Violet website has besides updated its database of Pokémon to see Wiglett, which is described arsenic "boasting an exceptional consciousness of smell". Other facts see its skittish disposition and the enigma of "what the remainder of its assemblage hidden successful the soil is similar oregon however agelong it mightiness be".

ORIGINAL STORY 28/9/22: Wiglett, a suspiciously akin Pokémon to Diglett, has conscionable been announced for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet.

The uncover was made during a scripted unrecorded league telephone with Pokémon professors from astir the satellite astatine the World Pokémon Ecological Society.

The researchers, yourself included, are shown assorted bits of footage of Pokémon from the Paldea region.

The telephone is somewhat interactive - you tin springiness the tract entree to your camera and microphone if you'd like, and there's surveys you tin "participate" successful to determine which portion of Paldea to survey next.

The footage shown captures galore of the Pokémon of Paldea, including the caller poisonous Wooper unsocial to the region.

Wooper poopers.

The past biome of Paldea visited is the beach, and the researchers instantly spot an unusual Pokémon chilling successful the sand. It looks akin to Diglett but with a antithetic colour scheme, starring them to speculate they've discovered a caller determination variant. That is, until the creatures statesman to emerge.

The Wigletts displaying Diglett-like behaviour.

The Wiglett displaying non-Diglett-like behaviour.

Once the Pokémon rises up retired of the sand, the researchers reason this indispensable beryllium a caller taxon and frankincense pronounce it Wiglett. Like a worm Diglett, I guess?

I pronounce thee Wiglett.

The big of the probe telephone shares immoderate much accusation known astir Wiglett. "Although they appeared to beryllium the Paldean signifier of Diglett, we've learned that they unrecorded and devour otherwise arsenic if they are wholly antithetic Pokémon," her notes seemingly read. According to the probe already conducted connected Paldea, it is "a coincidence that [Diglett and Wiglett] person akin bodies, arsenic they some burrow successful the crushed and the sand".

Reactions to Wiglett astatine Eurogamer person ranged from "Wiglett makes maine truthful unhappy" to "I emotion it". Personally, I deliberation it's great. It reminds maine a spot of a periscope? I eagerly await to spot the fanart that gets shared connected Twitter!

If you marque it to the extremity of the league call, you tin make a certificate to beryllium your participation. It'll usage the sanction you entered astatine the beginning, and you tin upload a photograph to spell connected it. You besides get a rank number, which I accidental means I was the 17,678th idiosyncratic to either beryllium done the full watercourse oregon marque a certificate.