I first imagined a Night/Dusk and Dawn/Day theme for the Legendaries of Gen 9, given how the colors of the titles alone seem to hint to it, for me personally anyways, but if this rumor is true, and the legendaries are part Electric and Fighting, maybe they are leaning into the concepts of "Strength" and "Speed".
They've gone to the trends of small numbers of new Pokemon each gen since 6, and I don't expect it to change.
I like your way of thinkingFrom that long ago? Wow, that is a pretty long time. But yeah, seeing the titles of the games, I vastly prefer the Day/Dawn and Dusk/Night theme for the Legendaries. After all, we already had sun, moon, sea, earth, and sky-themed Legendaries, so concepts such as Daytime/Dawn and Night/Dusk could work. That and Violet's title design seems to invoke a night sky theme, whereas Scarlet's color looks to be aiming at a rising dawn theme. Perhaps though, if that rumor were to be real, and they are indeed part Electric and part Fighting they could still associate with the above idea I had. I just personally had different ideas regarding typing:
Maybe they have a twilight theme going on? Like Dawn/Day (Scarlet) or Dusk/Night (Violet).
Dawn/Day Legendary = combination of Fire, Psychic, and/or Fairy type
Dusk/Night Legendary = combination of Ice, Dark, and/or Ghost type
Granted, like most theories I have put out, I'm very likely to be wrong, as usual, haha.
Actually it’s already changed as by the end of their respective generations gen 7 introduced more new Pokémon then gen 6 and gen 8 introduced more new Pokémon then gens 6 & 7.
This leak already claims that we're getting RB, RS, and BW levels of new Pokemon right out of the gate, which I don't think will happen.
If the new mechanic isn’t something that introduced new forms then it’s entirely possible that we could get a amount of new Pokémon similar to gens 1, 3 & 5.
Except that happened with Gen 7 and there SM only had 81 in total, and seven more were added in USUM and LGPE for a total of 88. I only expect that if this gen is going to be another Gen 5 and players will be forced to only use the new Pokemon until after they've beaten the game.
I would gladly accept the removal of the National Dex if it meant a large(r) number of Pokemon again. But I'm not believing it until I see it.
That would be good too....
I'm not even expecting that much unless they straight up not even add any alternate forms. No regional variants, no form change gimmicks, and no alternate forms for legendaries.
I agree with that observation, I've noticed it myself, but for now I'd rather stay sceptical and get pleasantly surprised when its 100+ new Pokemon, than allow my hopes to get up and then be dissappointed when it's (let's say) just 80
I'd be fully satisfied with 100 new Pokemon + 15(or so) regional forms.
A waste? With the forms being integrated into Home they are least stick around. The mega evolution forms are being used in Pokémon Go so there’s that at least. Spiky-eared Pichu, Eternal Flower Floette and Cosplay Pikachu are wasted forms since they all exist only in their respective game (or just in the 3DS games for Floette).
And not only that, EFF hasn't ever been made legitimately available (which could have been a sign that a Kalos third version was planned but scrapped due to the 20th anniversary).
I can understand gimmicks I would think there would be a limit or a point in time where it just becomes easier to use existing gimmicks and add to them rather then creating new gimmicks.