>>40423814>Final evolution had a MegaNot a sign of popularity if Glalie, Abomasnow, or Audino are anything to go by. Plus Megas are fucking dead.
>appeared in Super Mystery Dungeon as a relatively important NPCOh wow a dead spinoff series had one as """relatively""" important. Ampharos fans can rest easy now.
>Game Freak's focus is on popular and underrepresented Pokemon.Garbodor is neither popular nor underrepresented (having been in both the Kalos and Alola Dexes) yet is in Galar. There does not seem to be any logic as to what gets in Sword & Shield. Odds are it's just a case of "Pokemon whose textures and animations we finished updating before realizing we were going to run out of time."
