>>54299641>They correctly realized that Pokemon was overly-inundated with new legendaries each gen so they only added ones that were actually necessary this time instead of a bunch of filler >If I recall, gen 7 and 8 (base game) were also pretty reserved with legends.Well I don't know if you can say Generation 7 held back on legendaries because they focused heavily on the UBs. It depends on how you want to classify things like that. Generation 9 pre-DLC is also very light on legendaries considering it only has the two box legends and the four treasures, but then they have a ton of paradox mons. I think what's really going on is they just kept adding more and more legendaries, with the pattern of an upward trend going through generations 1 to 5. They got to six and hit a wall, maybe because they didn't have ideas or they ran out of time, but remember that 6 introduced its own three mythicals plus more Megas/special forms in ORAS. And they just kept going in that direction instead, with Generation 7 curbing the amount of legendaries but adding a lot of some new special forms (like Megas as the focus before). Then Generation 8 kind of did that again with a few in-game legends, a lot of special forms, and then new stuff added in DLC. Generation 9 seems to be following that pattern as well so this might just be the new norm, though they did add in another legendary trio / quartet for Generation 9 so there's that.
