>>56912625The same reason every region has to have eight gym leaders, an elite four, a professor, a rival, a pikaclone, a regional rodent, a regional bird, a psuedolegendary 3 stage dragon, a pair of cover legendaries and your single mom. Pokemon is a slave to formula
Some wiseass faggot is going to reply smugly to this post about how one gen or another didn't have one of these elements one time, but no gen drops them all and actually does something purely new
