>>50112830>but I felt the Johto form was the perfect candidate for mega evolution, going further with the volcano idea,The reason why I initially didn't want regional forms for the legends starters, because regionals don't help the originals in any meaningful way. J. Typhlosion is the one that needed something new, it was that needed needed a moves after being robbed of Thunderpunch and given nothing in the Phys/Spec split, it was the one that was shadow-banned from the anime for almost 20years for no reason, its the one that has almost no Pokemon cards .its the one the got shit on for "copy-pasting Charizard s stats" as if its the funniest thing in the world when it's a slightly amusing bit of trivia at best (also I don't remember Charizard having 109 SpA in Gen 1 so Typhlosion clearly didn't get that from Charizard but zoomer humor doesn't have to make sense or even be funny)
>but instead it doesn't seem likely it'll receive such treatment now...Yes, bit it has nothing to do with getting a regional, Slowbro proved that a pokemon can get a mega and a regional This issue is that Game Freak doesn't value Typhlosion or Johto very much. It's not even like they "hate" Johto or are conspiring against it like some anons claim. Its just that they don't consider Johto a "shill" region so like they do with KANTOOO, Hoeen or Sinnoh.
