Wait is Calyrex the trio master of the doggos?
The dogs I think come from outside of Galar to begin with and probably centuries after Calyrex was ruling Galar so probably unrelated, though it's possible it called out to them when Darkest Day happened I guess.
We won't know until Crowned Tundra is released.
From first impressions it feels like Calyrex and the Twin Heroes are unrelated. Calyrex ruled ancient Galar, before any human kingdoms it seems, while the Twin Heroes happened in more recent history when there were at least a human civilization and they helped two human heroes stop the Darkest Day making those humans kings.
They could connect the two as
R_N described, Calyrex's reign ended due to the first Darkest Day allowing the human kingdom to rise and replace it. Calyrex could very well have sent the humans the Two Heroes foreseeing this to save Galar.
Though would be interesting if they had Calyrex ruling Galar 20k years ago, when Eternatus first landed on the Pokemon World and it having to deal with the aftermath of that (possibly revealing another Darkest Day had happened but lost to history as no one was there to record it). Now they could still connect the Twin Heroes to the story, like they were servants of Calyrex.
Of course this is all speculation, until we have more news it's not worth much thought.
A new trailer for the expansion pass just dropped.
Pretty short. Rillaboom's g-move hit Shedinja and Inteleon's hit Gastrodon, maybe they ignore abilities.
Starters Gigantamax:
Their G-Moves ignore Abilities and have a higher base power than Max Moves (and G-Max Moves
which used the same Power chart).
Alright I guess, though kind of wished they did more than just that. like Cinderace's should at least burn, Inteleon's could increase its Critical Hit Ratio, and Rillaboom, I don't know, decrease the target's Speed stat.
Surprise surprise, Cinderace has the best animation of the three. Intelleon was what you expected though sadly that also means it doesn't have the oomph that Cinderace's had. Rillaboom was disappointing as you would think it would rock out and send out a shockwave, but instead it just sends out a giant tree root to do damage.
Now what is making me worried is that they mentioned in the Isle of Armor video that only your Starters will get to Gigantamax. I hope this is just marketing keeping the focus on the new content and we can give other Pokemon their Gigantamax form. Come on GF, don't be like this, just let us choose whether we want our Pokemon to either Dynamax or Gigantamax (if they have the ability). Heck, also would be nice if you could have Pokemon who could Gigantamax also have the option to just Dynamax.
New Outfits & League Cards:
Is the female outfit where she had curly blonde hair and and red dress from somewhere? I looks kind of familiar but I can't place it.
And while the caution tape frame looks fun... is that all the new League Card stuff? That's not a lot and most of it look bland. Like you could do a lot more fun things with the frames at the very least.
The longer peek at Isle of Armor confirms this is the case.
0:08: Oh, hey, that's a new bike helmet! Are we going to be allowed to customize our biking outfit! Neat! And it looks like you have a trail effect too, is that part of the bike or also something you can customize?
0:13: OOH, the Isle of Armor map! Wow, for how small it is it does look like its packed with a lot of intriguing locations. A few caves, a whole batch of islands, and looks like there's only four buildings (dojo, towers, and the station) but that's alright as this is supposed to feel like a (mostly) untouched island.
0:41: REALLY GF with the copy & paste male students? Like are you trying to make this look cheap?
0:55: Looks like our first meeting with Kubfu doesn't start out on the best of terms.
1:15: Oh, really, evolving Kubfu is just based on what tower you decide to challenge? Why was I expecting anything more from GF...