Eternatus is the one they have to watch now since it is explicitly what provides Dynamax Energy to Galar by appearing and existing. At the same time Eternatus is extra-terrestrial apparently, which will beg the question of if they keep it a one-off species (since it being captured is canon) or explain it as another one landing (yet not causing another Dynamax phenomenon).
1. No Dynamax Band.
2. No Power Spots (which were areas of Galar that got dosed with Etenatus's energy during the first Darkest Day).
3. No Wishing Stars (which, like Z-Crystals shattered off Necrozma thus existence is an accident, were an after result of Eternatus's defeat after the first Darkest Day. Seemingly Eternatus let out a massive amount of energy that those particles of energy still lingered in Galar's atmosphere even thousands of years later. Though, to go with Galar's energy crisis subplot, Wishing Stars are finite though thanks to Rose creating a second Darkest Day probably not something which needs to be concerned with for a few extra hundreds of years)
Still, all-in-all, Dynamax & Gigantamax are very much things stuck in Galar. Now, obviously, with in-lore Eternatus caught and out-of-game probably studied along with the Wishing Stars, they could handwave in another region that they've created a way to replicate the Dynamax phenomenon and can artificially create a Power Spot; but that's all up to GF (so likely not, at least not until a gen where a Galar remake is possible).
If anything it's Mega Evolution and Z-Moves which should be questioned not appearing elsewhere as you only need the the magic stones and way to harness them, no magical field of energy. Sure, you can just say "well those stones aren't found in that region", which is fine for Galar's adventure as you were part of a League tournament which was heavily focused on Dynamax (Rose wouldn't want to distract people from that with Megas and Z-Moves). But in Scarlet & Violet we're part of a world famous prestigious Pokemon Academy, one which has a focus on battling and scientific research of Pokemon, so it seems odd they would not have exported some Mega Stones and Z-Crystals. As for Terastal in future games, while it seems like the only think you need is a charged Tera Orb, once you use the Tera Orb to Terastallize once is where the problem likely will be. Tera Orbs probably only can naturally recharge in Paldea, so unless you have a way to replicate the Terastal Phenomenon it's stuck in Paldea.
Hard turning to the topic of additional Eternatus appearing, pfft, talk to all the other god-like Legendaries which have other versions of themselves appear in "Legendary Hunts" throughout the gens. If the Indigo Disc were to do it's own "Legendary Hunt" it'll just be handwaved away as something being caused by the Terastal Phenomenon's reality bending power (or somehow the Time Machine had been repurposed into summoning Legendary Pokemon).
Honestly even then, I'd love if they do a very small lore reference like they've done for Dynamax dens.
Peony makes some very funny remarks about some of the legendaryes you can catch, and you actually have a small dialogue for the gift Cosmog that implies it came from a ultrarift somewhere (as well that implying ultra rifts may be the cause of the legendaries appearing in first place).
Well, we do have a Pokemon Academy full of Instructors of various interests who have nothing to do once you done all their courses aside post game battling, so would be nice to throw them a bone. At the very least Jacq and Raifort would probably be interested in Legendary Pokemon. Heck, Nemoma, Arven, and Penny are now visitable in their dorm rooms; Nemona surely would be interested, I could even see her giving Peony like responses but more battle-focused than questioning their everyday practicality.
This has always been the case, in major and minor ways.
- Necrozma's Burst Form is just straight-up gone now; they could have made an alternative way to get it, but they didn't
- Diantha says "Xerneas and Yveltal are found only here in Kalos!" which I snorted with laughter at the first time I played XY as it seemed dead certain to be proven wrong
- Mega Evolutions in general. It literally took GF one game to break their own design rule for megas (you have to hold a stone to mega evolve), thus making Mega Rayquaza incredibly broken
- We're told, very clearly, that there are only three Type:Null in existence; it took literally one game for them to disregard this and go "yeah, nah, someone made more!"
- Similarly we're told - multiple times - that only one Mewtwo was made, causing understandable confusion when others appear in the games and anime
Ultra Necrozma is pretty much in the same boat as Mega Rayquaza, hard connected to a gimmick even then technically they're something a little different. At the very least they could have them do what Eternatus do, temporarily transform when doing their Signature Move but due to lack of additional power transform back.
Well Diantha isn't wrong, all other instances of Xerneas and Yveltal have been extradimensional in nature. Same with the Guardians Tapu, Unova's Dragons, & Sinnoh's Dragons.
Is it breaking the rules when purposely down? It's not like they did it for a normal Pokemon, they did it for a Legendary with a center role in the post game story. Now, questioning whether it was a wise idea to make an OP Pokemon like Mega Rayquaza is up for debate (the issue with Mega Rayquaza isn't just it can hold any item, but also it's new Signature Move (a Flying-type Close Combat which Rayquaza would want even if it couldn't Mega Evolve with it) and it's Ability creating a special weather affect removing its Flying-type weaknesses).
I don't have an issue with more Type: Null being made, but in the case of how they presented it in SwSh it was dumb. I can believe once Aether Paradise got its act together a less-than-well-meaning scientist (likely one working under Faba) would sneak away with a copy of the Type: Full blueprints and sell them on the black market (and, surprise, Macro Cosmos has no problem with doing business there). But the scene of how you got it was so stupid, apparently they got blueprints for an artificial Pokemon CLEARLY made JUST for battling... and upset it couldn't be used for other applicable services like saving money on their electric bill (oh, yeah, because you need to evolve it so it could change Type, that was TOTALLY the problem...).
Like, if I were to rewrite the scene: It would be a batch of Macro Cosmos employees trying to get a Type: Null to obey them but it refuses. the Type: Null then noticing the player and runs over to them. The employee sees the Type: Null acting calmly in front us, realizes we're the Champion, and decide to give us the Type: Null both because it listens to us and in exchange for keeping quiet about it. They'll reveal that Type: Null is an artificial Pokemon created by Aether Paradise in Alola to battle Ultra Beasts, but the project initially failed and only a handful were ever made. However it was then discovered it wasn't a failure and you have to evolve them for them to "work" (obviously they don't have the full story). Thinking a Pokemon like that could be useful against Eternatus, they "acquired" the blueprints and made their own. Unfortunately, it didn't listen to them, so was locked away. Until now, with Macro Cosmos now under heavy investigation they tried to move it to a hidden location as not to get the company further in trouble but it broke loose (it refuses to stay in its Poke Ball). They then give us the Memories explaining when it evolves it can use them to change Types, wish us luck, and leave. If this sounds a bit too serious, they can throw in joke dialogue like having some suggest silly things to calm it down and exaggerate how oblivious they are about Type: Null's history.
I guess the same could go for Mewtwo. Like, I wouldn't mind if the next time there's a non-extradimensional Mewtwo in the game we get to see both the scientists and lab which it was made in (and we get told how come extra Mewtwo appear now and again as I imagine getting a Mewtwo blueprint would be harder). While in Gen I we did meet Mr. Fuji, they never directly connected him to Mewtwo so you never talk to him about it.
and yes, we're still all waiting for the 0IV caps
Hopefully we do get a 0 IV Bottle Cap (Rusted Bottle Cap?)
Or, when we use a Cap for the Attack and Speed stat, give us the option to make them 0.
vote dragon type Meowth 2025
I mean, Meowth do love to hoard treasure... and I found
this interesting TV Tropes page. Another Europe region (one which the Alps are a part of specifically) could give us one based on a Tarasque or Tatzelwurm.
Side track, but I'll always been annoyed that it took until Gen 8 for Entei to learn Flare Blitz outside of events. It got Sacred Fire of all things by level-up two generations prior, even though it had never even been an event move.
Well it makes sense if you believe in the theory its a resurrected Flareon.
Reminder, Legends Arceus introduced a Fire-type Thrash, Raging Fury. Right now it's only learnable by Infernape and Arcanine (it can be breeded onto a normal Growlithe in SV). So let's take bets now on how long it'll be before Flareon and Entei learn it.
(Cautious on putting my two cents on the Genning & Open World/Level Removal discussions)
