The TCG is ending the SV block early and starting a new Mega block. This is interesting because it has never happened since HGSS, but it also definetly kills any hope of more Tera Pokemon...and we didn't even get all the Tera hats. Granted the TCG has handled Tera exttemely badly, but I'm sure there is prople out there annoyed at this. At least this isn't as bad as when not all Megas got a proper card.
Piplup would have been perfect not just because of the Napoleon connection but because the Sinnoh trio got nothing in their own region's legends game
Using two Johto starter is such a confusion decision that offers no benefit. It's like Game Freak did it solely to subvert expectations but not caring that people had those expectations because those expectations are what should logically happen.
Hate to break it to you, but a single game does not create a pattern or a course of action that should "logically happen". Using that very same logic, ZA should have been also set in the past and follow the LA aesthetic just because it was done that single time. It's a ridiculous limit on creativity that only comes from the fandom's obsession with patterns and trying to predict them.
I would be mad if Cynda didn't get a Mega, but when we don't even know if the ZA starters are getting one, or how they or their regional forms look like and what are the inspirations behind them, saying GF just picked them randomly is a faulty argument on itself because you can literally base it on nothing at all. You were just expecting ZA to be like LA. That doesn't mean anything.
Really, the only thing that is saying is that you would want Legends, which was fun bevause of being a departure from the usual games, to become yet another fixed check by the box thing in the series. Which, as someone who really wanted Legends Unova or anything done with Paradoxes...it's a good thing we are not in charge of the series.
I like the selection of Z-A starters because the Pokémon fandom actually does seem to need constant reminders that no matter how much a given theory or idea “makes sense,” Game Freak will zag when you expect them to zig. Hell, they won’t even do that, because if you try to get out ahead of them by expecting them to zag, then they’ll probably zug instead. I’m including myself in that too, because I was pretty confident in the Chespin/Fennekin/Froakie redemption arc prediction (which, sure, could still happen, but not in the way I thought it would).
It will never work tho. People were still arguing Unova remakes were coming in 2024, they still do it in 2025 (even discounting the, you know, historic teraleak we got which said exactly what games we are getting in the near future). People are now saying the next Legend games is definetly featuring Snivy, Litten and Popplio. Not even not being based on Unova and having two starters from the same gen has done anything to stop these people from seeing patterns everywhere. At this point GF could purpousedly have us choose the three Alolan Meowth from SM, and they would still twist that into a prediction about Gen 10.
There is nothing wrong with theories and speculation, of course. But getting annoyed qhen it turns out they were not true or unhealthy obsessing how they may still work is just pretty dumb. And I say that as someone who believed strongly in the Zodiac theory. This whole "Cyndaquil is being left out" doesn't make any sense
yet. I know this fandom has extremely short term memory, but LA was just two games ago. Cyndaquil was literally the first priority of the trio. Even as my second favourite starter, we don't need it as a starter this soon. I do understand being annoyed at Johto getting this much focus tho.
