I wonder if maybe Deoxys will squeak in as a bonus Mythical. Of the Mythical Pokémon that aren’t currently in SV (Celebi, Deoxys, Victini, Genesect, and all of Gen 7’s Mythicals), it’s the only one that didn’t appear in SwSh, and it’s also the only* Pokémon left whose form change mechanic relies on a bespoke environmental interaction (finding a meteorite somewhere in the overworld and using that to change between forms). They’ve been pretty consistent in the last two gens about removing location-based factors like that, what with Pokémon like Magneton, Nosepass, and Crabrawler now evolving with evolution stones, and Rotom’s appliances being replaced with the Rotom Catalog key item. Surely Deoxys’s forms could just be reassigned to the old Meteorite key item or something.
(Granted, Galarian Yamask’s evolution method was still a thing, but it was a newly-introduced Pokémon so maybe they were a little more willing to let it have a location-based gimmick for its debut region.)
* Other than Furfrou, but Furfrou’s forms are purely cosmetic and we know it’s not coming back in the DLC anyway.
(Granted, Galarian Yamask’s evolution method was still a thing, but it was a newly-introduced Pokémon so maybe they were a little more willing to let it have a location-based gimmick for its debut region.)
* Other than Furfrou, but Furfrou’s forms are purely cosmetic and we know it’s not coming back in the DLC anyway.
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