>>42086310>Why didn't they with Lunala or Xerneas? Because nothing about them is explicitly female, unlike Zacian's dex entry.
>Because like the 7:1 starter/giftmon m/f ratio, they keep the box legends gender unknown in the code as tradition.The gender ratio of those has nothing to do with tradition and everything to do with making them more rare. Less females means there are less pokemon that can breed for a baby of the species. The fact that ditto exists makes that obsolete, but that's the reason, not "tradition."