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PokéSpirit February 27th, 2019 9:06 AM

Mascots legendary?
 
What will it be mascot legendary pokemon(s) for gen 8? it appears that it's just one pokemon taking the form of sword or shield.

Flowerchild February 27th, 2019 9:35 AM

another pokemon taking the form of sword or shield??

JP February 27th, 2019 9:40 AM

Really curious to see what they are. Based off the title logos, it seems both are based off wolves or some form of canine. Both look like coat of arms, so that makes me feel like it's some sort of medieval theme. I can't wait to see what these look like. Guessing at least one is going to be a werewolf-like monster.

PokéSpirit February 27th, 2019 9:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Rainbow (Post 9985304)
another pokemon taking the form of sword or shield??

Yeah, it's kinda stupid, but I would assume probably another steel type legendary.

CodeHelmet February 27th, 2019 9:56 AM

Thinking another Solgaleo or Pyroar copycat to go with say a Dragon or Chimera themed one?

Benermerut February 27th, 2019 10:08 AM

Black Dog folklore is pretty common across the UK and those snarling heads on the logos are certainly canine...

colours February 27th, 2019 12:29 PM

I really don't mind if we get different Canine-esque cover legends. Would be super interesting, at the very least. I do wonder how those canines would revolve around sword and shield though... forgive me, as I'm not all too familiar with what's going on in UK folklore/legend and whatnot.

Pepperton February 27th, 2019 12:34 PM

With such unorthodox game names, I'm completely at a loss for what the legendaries could look like and how swords and shields will relate to their design. However, I'm excited to find out. I was a big fan of the S/M legends so I have high hopes.

booghetti February 27th, 2019 8:58 PM

we're totally getting a sword wolf and a shield wolf...i'm kinda excited for it

Yue Han February 27th, 2019 10:20 PM

Ice type sword wolf for Pokémon Sword? Purely basing that on the logo for Sword being blue and that Ice type is all offence and basically no defence.

ShyRayq February 27th, 2019 10:55 PM

I'm thinking its just 2 wolves, or wolf-like creatures. For sword, a bipedal wolf with like swords for hands or something. For shield, maybe a quadrupedal wolf that's a bit bulkier, maybe armor-plated. Basically a Bastiodon but a dog.

Then the third one has a gun. Just a dog with a gun.

thedestinedblade February 28th, 2019 12:48 AM

Give some Arthurian inspired legendary pokemon plz, lol.

LatchoDives23 March 1st, 2019 7:47 AM

Maybe Aegislash gets forms that count as legendaries?

Nah, Aegislash is OP as it is.

Fairy March 1st, 2019 7:56 AM

There’s definitely some kind of wolffish Pokémon taking up the legendary role here. Whether or not it’s a rehash of any existing Wolf-esque Pokémon (something like a Mightyena mega, or more Lycanrock forms come to mind) is up for debate. I’ll be honest though, my first thought was this:

Ulisses March 1st, 2019 8:04 AM

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Originally Posted by LatchoDives23 (Post 9986585)
Maybe Aegislash gets forms that count as legendaries?

Nah, Aegislash is OP as it is.

Mega Aegislash Shield

Mega Aegislash Sword

Even more OP because LUL

JoyStar March 1st, 2019 3:05 PM

I'm guessing two wolf-based legendaries, each one based either on a character/being from Arthurian legend, or the legend of Romulus and Remus. Probably the former given the region is based on England.

Blue_Pigeon March 1st, 2019 6:43 PM

You can actually see a statue of a wolf's head on the Galar map - it is prominently featured on the centre of the wall surrounding the castle in the middle of the region. This combined with the wolf heads on the logo leads me to believe that the 'mascot legendaries' of this generation will be wolf based.
Therefore, I think either there will only be one legendary (which will be a wolf) which appears in both games or two similar looking wolf legendary pokemon which vary between SnS. This would mean that the statue of the wolf head can represent either one with little change. In this scenario, these would be the mascot legendaries with the Sword legendary being attack focused and the Shield legendary being more defence focused (or it could be the other way round, so that you become the sword to break the shield legendary or the shield to stop the sword legendary).
Either way, I can say with almost complete certainty that the prominent legendary in the story will be a wolf of some type.

Iceshadow3317 March 1st, 2019 7:15 PM

I doubt there will only be 1 legendary mascot. I think they will both be wolves and I think they will be based on Hati and Skoll.

If not those two, then there are about 6 or 7 named Black Wolves in UK Folklore. That the can be, but I think it is safe to say there isn't just 1.

Rivvon March 2nd, 2019 10:13 AM

I'm hyped for the special Aegislash formes

We honestly should have seen this coming, since Aegislash is one of, if not the only, non-legendary to use the spelling "forme" instead of "form." Maybe now it won't even be a non-legendary...

Iceshadow3317 March 2nd, 2019 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by JoyStar (Post 9986803)
I'm guessing two wolf-based legendaries, each one based either on a character/being from Arthurian legend, or the legend of Romulus and Remus. Probably the former given the region is based on England.

I don't know if it would be Romulus and Remus as that is what Black and White Legend was based on with the two brothers. They are basically have the same story in both legends. So I think we can mark out that Legend at least.

However it is possible that Kalos, Unova and Galar's history may be interwined along with Meltan.

Nah March 3rd, 2019 5:09 AM

The Unova legendaries weren't really a Romulus and Remus story, but regardless, it'd be strange for the legendaries of a UK-based region to be based off of a story of some other region. If they made a region based on Italy, then it'd make more sense.

Yue Han March 3rd, 2019 5:31 AM

Kalos's legendaries were based off of Nordic mythology and Hoenn's main trio were based off of Hebrew mythology so I think just because the region itself is based off of Britain it doesn't necessarily mean we're bound to British mythology too.

Nah March 3rd, 2019 5:35 AM

oh right, I had forgotten about that lol

clbgolden March 3rd, 2019 5:55 PM

Here’s an interesting theory I just saw: what if the Shield legendary has a rose theme? The reason for this being is that the Shield logo looks like it has thorns coming out of it, and that flower mural on the map looks like it has a shield on it.

Iceshadow3317 March 3rd, 2019 7:31 PM

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Originally Posted by clbgolden (Post 9987920)
Here’s an interesting theory I just saw: what if the Shield legendary has a rose theme? The reason for this being is that the Shield logo looks like it has thorns coming out of it, and that flower mural on the map looks like it has a shield on it.

It is possible, not to mention roses use thorns as a shield. It is possible that both pokemon may be roses. Especaily if they go about following War of the Roses as well as other things mixed together.

Someone pointed out, that there are a number of rose like things around the map, one building looking like a rose in the final city. I'd have to rewatch the video that spoke about it, but it is possible.


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