Why doesn't ZA have regionals? Inb4>muh megasSo what? A game can't have different versions of alternate forms? Regional forms, Regional evolutions, Megas and other temporary battle forms, convergents, etc are all part of the Pokemon ecology>there were no regionals in the original Kalos so there are none nowThat's retarded. It's been 10 years since XY. Pokemon evolution works really fast. Remember that Hisuian starters acquired Hisuian forms IN REAL TIME, as in, they were imported by the player and adapted to a new environment with a new evolution. They weren't native species that had forms that went extinct, like the other Hisuian regionals. Therefore, we can easily discover new Kalosian forms in real time now as well if they want to keep the autistic lore, especially since the game is all about transforming the city landscape.
Megas are just cooler than regionals
>>58241924You posted why. Regionals flopped so hard game freak stopped doing them. This trio is somehow flopped even harder than thier original counterparts.
>>58241924regional don’t sell unlike mega. notice how unpopular every regional from plass are compared to all of ZA new mega so far. people want to see their bro turn super saiyan, not be replaced with a dei redesign
>>58241924What more do you want? It's the Mega region. Why go for regional forms?
>>58241924Megas>regionals
>>58241972Because regional evos are new Pokemon and megas arent.
>>58241924>Goodra wearing a shitty diaper and trans pink landorus suddenly exist in this region but le went extinct in less than 200 years no thanks, plass is shit
>>58241924Regionals were a priority at the time. Now its Megas. I wish we got Kalos regionals too but its clear what the focus is on. No use complaining.
>>58241924>they were imported by the player and adapted to a new environment with a new evolutionwait what
>>58241924Because the focus of the game is new Mega Evolutions.You'll get your regionals in Gen 10 as per Pokemon's 30th anniversary, and it'll round out Kanto's missing cases of special treatment that are viable to receive it.
>>58242340Animals can go extinct in less than a year though. The only ones that went legitimately extinct were Kleavor (extinct in the wild since Augurite is no longer regularly found there) and Wyrdeer (legitimately completely extinct for inexplicable reasons). Everything else simply stopped evolving into their region forms outside of specialized environmental conditions, they didn't go extinct. If you stole Steven's augurite it presumably would still trigger a Kleavor evolution.
>>58242340Hisui's change into Sinnoh was a drastic one thanks to humanity's colonization of the region at large, never mind the spacetime distortions that completely disrupted the ecosystem by introducing mons like Johtonian Sneasel to the region, who very quickly adapted and became superior to its Hisuian kin, winning out the rat race to survival in the modern day because Johtonian was technically already thriving to begin with.Enamorus didn't go extinct, it just fucked off to wander the rest of the world, and it conveniently just so happens that its travels didn't involve Unova, unlike the others of its quartet.
It didn't bother me because I assumed the Megas are what we are getting instead. Then I learned they aren't part of the main game and ate part of battlepass shit that won't start until months after Ive played the game to death.So yeah, it just seems like a complete downgrade.
typedo cope thread
>>58241924because designing a regional with the intent of it getting a Mega is just recipe for the regionals feeling like incomplete designs if megas get cut again
>>58241946True mega fagonite is cooler than samurott
>why doesn't [HEADCANON]Wait for the damn game, nusoi.
>>58241956>Regionals flopped so hard game freak stopped doing them.I wonder why?
>>58243594>>58243594I think OP is suggesting that ZA could give some Pokémon regionals while other get megas>>58243598I mean, mega “fagonite” can do super saiyan and is guaranteed to be a VGC staple and or at least get plenty of shilling in other parts of the franchise while samurott just got an edgy cousin
>>58243654>can do super saiyan imagine comparing that shit with the super saiyan
>>58241924Because Regionals are a lot of work in a post-dex cut Pokemon landscape. If they bring back a Pokemon, they have to bring back all of its regional variants. As returners tend to skew towards Gen 1, and regional variants the same, it means Game Freak was setting itself up to have to copy and paste multiple existing assets into games instead of just one.
>>58243668>Regionals are a lot of work in a post-dex cut Pokemon landscape. If they bring back a Pokemon, they have to bring back all of its regional variants.I don't understand why this is true. If they're willing to cut pokemon from the dex, surely they're willing to cut forms from a game, also? That's what Home is for after all.
>>58243653>Dude it looks like an industry tycoon but his top hat is a smokestack except... It PURIFIES the air!Is this the most corporate cucked idea ever? Why was SwSh like this?
>>58241924Why would there be regionals if the game only takes place in a single city?
>>58243668basically all regional forms use the same framework of the pokemon they're based on. the only difference is if they have a new evolution, like farfetchd or mr mime
>>58243668>painting Ziggzagoon Black is TOO MUCH WORK>modeling a diaper for Goodra is LE HARDlmfao
>>58243678cities are large enough to house distinct variations of existing, real-life species as-is. That would be an even easier thing to justify in Pokemon. Saying something quick and easy like "over the last few years, Lumios City has had several Pokemon species become highly adapted to its local climate and environment, becoming locals themselves" or something stupid like that as they cut to a couple examples for a trailer... would be trivial. Bonus: Call them "Lumiosian" forms instead of "Kalosian" to make it even easier to distinguish.
>>58243692they don't even have to remake models, they literally just have to use their existing assets they've had for years.
>>58241924“Kalos but 10 years later” isn’t a “new environment” dumbfuck
>Expecting regional forms in a modern era revisit to a region we've already seen in the modern eraOnly Pokemon with regionals should be Alola/Galar/Paldeamons and there aren't enough of those to justify new forms. We've already seen what every Pokemon looks like in Kalos because it had EVERY fuckin Pokemon available to begin with. Regionals didn't start happening until the NatDex was removed from the games, so it would be utterly pointless to repaint the mons. Especially when the game's gimmick is going to focus on Megas again anywayIt would be interesting to see Regionals for past game remakes like Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh and Unova but that's not happening because BDSP set a shit ass precedent for remakes going forward while Game Freak clearly want to try experimenting with the Legends games>>58243697They're doing so anyway because people complained despite the fact the actual problem with the models isn't the model fidelity (even if it does hurt some mons like Nidoking), it's the posing/textures
>>58243668it seems like every new gimmick they do tends to prioritize bringing back every single pokemon who uses that gimmick, with the only real exception being megas in pokemon let's go.
