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This builds both on the SwSh games, and the recent leaks for them!
Toxtricity strikes me as a curious Pokemon. It has two Gigantamax forms, which already is an impressive one more than Charizard. Or any other Pokemon for that matter. Toxel, its pre-evolution, is the token Gift Egg Pokemon for the generation, despite also appearing in the wild. And it has a statue by the lighthouse. And-that's it?
Well, there's more to be made of it - there's a decent argument to be made that the pattern inscribed on the hill by Turffield is G-max Toxtricity, and the statue along with that clearly indicates it should have more lore importance. And there's evidence hence that Gmax Toxtricity had to do with the Darkest Day... which is also something that we really do not learn much about in SwSh, a game with clearly some corners cut and rushed events in the latter half, particularly between gyms 6-8.
And then the leaks happened. And look at this:
![[PokeCommunity.com] Toxtricity's missing lore](https://daily.pokecommunity.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/betastatues.jpeg "[PokeCommunity.com] Toxtricity's missing lore")
At the point where the camera suspicious pans at a boring old cliff, which you pass when you hear about Pokemon randomly dynamaxing before you just find out Leon saved the day off-screen, was supposed to be a very large Toxtricity. Evidently, its Gigantamax form was to be revealed here, not in a post-launch raid event.
Shoutout to this reddit thread too which evidenty did a very good prediction job (well before the recent leaks!): https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/ef6jy3/we_were_supposed_to_battle_gigantamax_toxtricity/
So basically - an article on all of the above but with more words and better structuring, putting forth that Toxtricity has missing involvement in the story, and perhaps had plans to be hyped up more (think it being Galar's version of Lucario or Zoroark, a popular mascot humonoid-shaped Pokemon).
Thoughts, input, etc?
Toxtricity strikes me as a curious Pokemon. It has two Gigantamax forms, which already is an impressive one more than Charizard. Or any other Pokemon for that matter. Toxel, its pre-evolution, is the token Gift Egg Pokemon for the generation, despite also appearing in the wild. And it has a statue by the lighthouse. And-that's it?
Well, there's more to be made of it - there's a decent argument to be made that the pattern inscribed on the hill by Turffield is G-max Toxtricity, and the statue along with that clearly indicates it should have more lore importance. And there's evidence hence that Gmax Toxtricity had to do with the Darkest Day... which is also something that we really do not learn much about in SwSh, a game with clearly some corners cut and rushed events in the latter half, particularly between gyms 6-8.
And then the leaks happened. And look at this:
At the point where the camera suspicious pans at a boring old cliff, which you pass when you hear about Pokemon randomly dynamaxing before you just find out Leon saved the day off-screen, was supposed to be a very large Toxtricity. Evidently, its Gigantamax form was to be revealed here, not in a post-launch raid event.
Shoutout to this reddit thread too which evidenty did a very good prediction job (well before the recent leaks!): https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/ef6jy3/we_were_supposed_to_battle_gigantamax_toxtricity/
So basically - an article on all of the above but with more words and better structuring, putting forth that Toxtricity has missing involvement in the story, and perhaps had plans to be hyped up more (think it being Galar's version of Lucario or Zoroark, a popular mascot humonoid-shaped Pokemon).
Thoughts, input, etc?
![[PokeCommunity.com] Toxtricity's missing lore](https://images-ext-2.discordapp.net/external/KaRUARwkPWWRMRHoMyAKzu14SNKLqNb5gxoOnzzWtPQ/https/i.imgflip.com/4o6o1l.jpg "[PokeCommunity.com] Toxtricity's missing lore")
