The Pokémon Company has now posted a statement which suggests that the illustrator who was commissioned created the card designs for the game was sent “incorrect reference materials” from the game’s card production team, which were wrongly presented as official art and led to the artist using them as a reference for the card art.

A Chinese artist calls Ditto over his Ho-Oh fan art being copied by The Pokémon Company, but there may be nothing they can do about it