>>32957764Makes sense, especially in Emerald, where Groudon sleeps in Mt. Chimney instead of underwater.
>It's always seemed like the less popular legend of the duo which seemed odd to me since Ho-Oh just seemed to have more care put into it with the set up to the battle atop the tower and everything versus finding Lugia in some cave and having it scream at you to get out. Lugia was marketed significantly more and has nostalgia backing it from the second movie. Ho-Oh only now got the time to shine. On top of that, if some interviews are to be believed, Lugia was never intended to exist in the games in the first place. It was purely an anime creation that got incorporated into the games and for some reason made into a duo with Ho-Oh, which is why it has so little lore and legend surrounding it. The Phoenix, on the flip side, existed since Gen 1.
These two honestly fascinate me because, since Gen 3 started the trend of tying the legends to the plots and have only expanded from there, Johto's legends remain the only duo that aren't tied to specific concepts. The titles they had, Guardians of Sky and Sea, are shared by at least five other legendaries. Life and Death are taken by another, as are Sun and Moon. It's interesting that even with the remakes forcing you to encounter them, no new lore was added. Lugia and especially Ho-Oh can be tied to a lot of the newer Legendaries like Xerneas and Solgaleo, and maybe with Necrozma, like it seemed was being pushed a few months ago.
Until GF starts making connections, we can't really do more than speculate.
