Very new to this game. I have seen what I think are two (different?) Piebald does and a Legendary Level-9 Black Bear that was guaranteed diamond but I did not trust the shot I had. My question, will they eventually return to the zones I saw them in or do all zones shuffle around?
tl;dr Grind inputs are independent enough from trick list guide that some tricks can be done "incorrectly" but not only look better and land more consistently.
Lots of people are probably already aware of this but I used to play skate 3 and did a lot of nollie heel front feebles (goofy) in that game and eventually started blending the inputs together meaning that I was not actually doing the feeble input correctly but stil executing it.
In short, your inputs and session: skate sim and to a much lesser extent the skate games are not entirely tied to the inputs themselves and so you will be able to alter tricks by inputting them "incorrectly". To put it simply, in both games inputting the front foot stick mostly backwards gives you a very dramatic dip and, in my opinion, a much more consistent lock in. I can get into smith and feebles so consistently only 5-0's can k-grinds really compete.
If you do a rocketed heelflip or kickflip input depending on smith or feeble you can get a much deeper dip and a grind where the board and trucks are perfectly locked in with crazy accuracy. Since skate 3 I have always landed this with 6/10 accuracy on the lowest end.