>>40135511>Mythical is a sub-group of legendariesNo it isn't. This was a mistake made by the western marketing team during Gen I who didn't realize Mew had a separate designation from legendaries in Japan and just lumped it in with them. That continued until Gen V, where this separate designation was given the official English name "Mythical" and mythicals were never again conflated with legendaries in official non-Japanese media. It wasn't even a "retcon" because the conflation was a mistake to begin with, but even if it were, it's official now, so the old terminology is null and void regardless.
>b-but muh game codeI'd congratulate you on actually making a correct statement about what the game code actually says for once, but somehow I get the feeling that if I asked you which Pokemon were legendary according to this code, you'd include the sub-legendaries. Maybe English isn't your first language, so allow me to explain: "Sub"-legendary means separate from and inferior to legendaries. So that same code also "confirms" that Articuno and Raikou aren't legendaries anymore, which I'm sure you wouldn't agree to.
But maybe you meant the other game code? The button on the GTS that hides requests for legendary Pokemon and includes the sub-legendaries as well? You got me, I guess they're all legendaries after all/ OH WAIT, it says "Legendary and Mythical". So they ARE two different things. Which is it, codefags? If only an official source external to the games confirmed that neither of these contradictory coding schemes were accurate and explicitly laid out which Pokemon where legendary and which weren't. Wouldn't that be great?
