It's too good to be true for it to ever be them. In several cases, an account would surface claiming to belong to Vergeben, which he would then have to shoot down. In the same post, Vergeben noted the confusion over his source's uncertainty about it being KOS-MOS from Xenosaga, since they had denied that the character was owned by Bandai Namco: he said this was likely because his source had mistaken KOS-MOS for a Monolith Soft character. Aside from Luminary, Japanese fans commonly ship him with Veronica. It will probably be a while before we even get to see what 12 would even look like. Although most agree that Vergeben must have had at least some legitimate insider information, some deniers continue to insist that Vergeben stole all of his information from other leaks or point to Vergeben's only one complete falsehoods (a Square Enix rep being the first DLC character) as evidence for his claims being fake or even lucky guesses. This became common enough that Vergeben began listing all of his accounts in his signature on GameFAQs with the note that "if you see [him] elsewhere (example: 4chan or Twitter) it's not [him]."

Additionally, Isabelle was revealed as a newcomer at the end of the September 13 Nintendo Direct, confirming his claims that she would be playable.

Is this the game that will feature Erik and his sister as kids? Cookies help us deliver our Services. Ultimate. Though the veracity of his claims is still debated by some, almost all of them have come to be true, with his only fault so far being that a Square Enix character would be the first one revealed as downloadable content. It's the other way around.

Ultimate, Vergeben posted a thread on GameFAQs, claiming that Ridley would be a newcomer and that the new Smash game would be an entirely new game instead of a port of an existing one. Similar to the Gematsu leaks for Smash 4 during E3 2013, the confirmation during E3 2018 of several of Vergeben's major claims sparked a large amount of discussion surrounding them and their authenticity. He later asserted on April 25, 2019 that Erdrick was definitely in the Fighters Pass. In the debate surrounding the Grinch leak, Vergeben made a post on October 31, suggesting that the Grinch Leak was fake as his information had Isaac as an Assist Trophy rather than a playable character. But that make me really excited to see what they do with that. It is kind of funny to think about though how DQVI was literally about dreams and a dream world.... so maybe it will kind of be like Horii's way of approaching that "Dream" theme in a totally different way. Vergeben's claims leading up to the reveal of the final Fighters Pass Volume 1 character drew large amounts of skepticism and criticism, as he shot down a vast majority of popularly speculated characters without outright stating the character's identity. A day later, he made a thread with a gif of Terry Bogard from Fatal Fury and later claimed that Terry would be a DLC character. On November 21, Hitagi again stated that Steve was definitely coming, but also announced that she had given up on trying to find out about the rest of the characters, as the ones she heard about were starting to look like red herrings, including any Square Enix fighters, thus bringing Vergeben's claims into doubt as well.[2].

His claim that the first DLC character was a Square Enix rep, the first claim of his to have been proven incorrect, provoked skepticism about his information.

Banjo & Kazooie were confirmed in the E3 2019 Direct along with Erdrick, albeit as a skin for Hero, something Vergeben stated he took great joy in as he was not informed of multiple Dragon Quest skins, and that this also explained why he kept hearing Luminary along with Erdrick.

Those are also color coded based on the color of the orbs too. At present, the following are the claims made by Vergeben that have been proven wrong: From SmashWiki, the Super Smash Bros. wiki, fourth GameFAQs thread he posted on August 3, webpage that first triggered speculation about an SNK fighter, If Vergetbean is right, who's it going to be? 2, aligning with Vergeben's longstanding claim of Minecraft content. On December 16th, Vergeben claimed that the final Fighters Pass character was not Reiji Arisu and Xiaomu from Namco x Capcom and the Project x Zone series or Morrigan from Darkstalkers. He also reiterated that Minecraft content of some kind was being added to the game, but that it did not necessarily mean that Steve would be playable. Apparently they do that because of Japanese version dialogue that insinuates he really cares for her and wanted to tell her something (I recall vague aspects of this being left in the localized version.

Dragon Quest XI came out in Japan along with that PS4 theme that includes that picture before Black Clover referenced it. Yuji Horii has said that Dragon Quest XII's theme will be "Dreams" / "Making your dreams come true" so we have that to look forward to! Ultimately, Vergeben has cemented himself as a generally reliable source of information, but he is still prone to mistakes in the event he believes an unreliable source, misunderstands a report, or his sources fall for false information. On September 16, 2018, Vergeben claimed the game would have post-launch content, allowing for his claim of a Square Enix newcomer to still be true in the event that Box Theory was proven correct, which it eventually was by the November 1 Direct. The comparison may be coming full circle. So the general idea made it in for her, but in a different way. In regards to how it came over two years after his initial claim which was long before the second Fighters Pass was even conceived, Vergeben theorized that Steve may have been in the works for as long as three years and repeatedly scrapped and revitalized due to the fighter’s complexity (as Sakurai mentioned during the character's initial announcement).

He also once again reaffirmed his claim that Minecraft would be represented through DLC, though he was still unsure if Steve would be playable. That sucks. Shortly before the presentation that revealed Byleth on January 16, 2020, Vergeben claimed that the final character was not KOS-MOS and reiterated his claims that it was not Dante, Phoenix Wright, Amaterasu, Monster Hunter, Sir Arthur, Morrigan, or Leon Kennedy from Resident Evil. Following the reveal and release of Terry, Vergeben dismissed several rumors about the identity of the last character in the Fighters Pass: On December 7th, Vergeben stated that he would try to check if the final Fighters Pass Vol. There are still things to be revealed before release”, suggesting that Simon would be revealed at a later date. This page was last edited on October 1, 2020, at 20:31. Vergeben's claim that Joker had been moved up the schedule at the last minute was largely accepted, in particular due to confirmation that Masahiro Sakurai had been requested by Nintendo last minute to prepare a trailer for Joker's reveal, leaving him unable to demonstrate any gameplay. This correlated with a separate alleged leak originating from 5channel, claiming that Erdrick was the Square Enix rep, and would feature the Luminary as an alternate costume, while the Slime would appear on a Dragon Quest stage.