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fierykitten2 · 3 days ago

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For the sake of this post, I’m gonna count Wake and Leaves as Mythical, making Zeraora my third-favourite Mythical (I tend to count it as my favourite just because Wake and Leaves aren’t officially Mythical. Well, they’re counted under “special Pokémon” in HOME and given that the rest of their trios (who have the same base stat totals as them) aren’t, I think HOME probably meant they count under the Mythical category for being event-exclusive rather than counting under the Special Legendary category for being super strong Legendaries) because apparently calling Wake and Leaves my top two favourite Pokémon wasn’t good enough. Anyway, official sources kinda suggest that my favourite Mythical Iron Leaves is probably at odds in some way with both my second-favourite Mythical Walking Wake (the two of them being the only featured Pokémon in the Paradox Clash tins plus the Temporal Forces release trailer featuring the two of them walking up to each other and starting a fight) and my third-favourite Mythical Zeraora (out of a pair of an Electric-type cat and a Grass/Psychic-type deer related to one of the Swords of Justice, one of them is basically the Swords of Justice but humanoid and not-Fighting (there are a few other differences. I was gonna list another and then realised I’d already implied which that was by listing their animal inspirations) and the other one uses Electric Terrain to gain a boost to its highest stat (usually physical Attack) on top of boosting its signature move. Take a wild guess which is which)

#iron leaves #walking wake #zeraora #Pokémon #someone needs to meme the connection between Iron Leaves’s Grass type and Zeraora’s Electric type and that someone may have to be me #mainly because I’m probably the only person who can say they’re both my favourite Mythical #it just depends how strict you are with the definition of Mythical #when I said that I was thinking stricter meant Wake and Leaves don’t count #but thinking about it the closest thing we have to a definition is “event-exclusive” which Wake and Leaves literally fall under #so in a way by being stricter with the definition we actually include them as Mythicals #the two main arguments against a Pokémon that originated as an event-exclusive being Mythical are basically #a) can it breed? and b) is it widely-available later on #a) Wake and Leaves can’t breed. There is no reason they should breed #the fact that that is such a big question that I have seen a page just answering that question #when Suicune and Virizion can’t breed and none of the Paradox Pokémon can breed #is honestly baffling #b) I see very little possibility of any Paldean Pokémon being in Z-A (I’m just interested for Mega Zeraora)#even if they were in I don’t see why the Paradox Pokémon would be in #and even if the Paradox Pokémon were in there’s no chance of the Proto Beasts or Neo Swords being in #furthermore when they inevitably appear in future games there is no reason why they should be widely-available #they are Paradox counterparts of Legendary Pokémon (yes I know it’s implied there are multiple Entei and Cobalion)#chances are only one of each species actually made it to the present day/main timeline #thinking about it it’s amazing the entire trios got isekai’d #I’m guessing they just happened to be chilling together when the portal or whatever opened up #the Proto Beasts anyway #the Neo Swords are all part Psychic chances are only one of them got sucked through and the rest just decided to follow #(Leaves and Boulder got FOMO. Crown just wanted to make sure no one did anything stupid)

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