If Platinum Legacy is ever made how mcuh would you expand the Sinnoh Regional Dex?
I know there's currently no plans for a Platinum Legacy but since I've seen others talk hypothetical I'd go with a subject I haven't seen much of. While Platinum has a pretty solid regional dex in terms of both size and type distribution, already something I don't see people not is if Platinum legacy stuck to the trend of every Legacy game thus far has made the ENTIRE Pokedex catchable within the Post-Game, which would mean over half of all Pokemon would be stuck to the post-game if this remained making catching everything feel extremly tedious. Obviously, you don't want to bloat a regional dex and make things too imbalanced, but I feel at least half of the species should be obtainable before the credits roll.. As such, I feel adding roughly 40 species to make a dex total of approximitly to the main story would benefit the game greatly, assuming Legacy wants to continue to make Dex Completion possible with a single game. In the end I added 42 species I would add to the Sinnoh Dex, making for 252/493 Pokemon species (or rather 244 species, given Dialga, Palkia, and the unpicked starters will be locked to the postgame).
Every pokemon I listed was for one of four reasons: they were either Pokemon that were in the Hissui dex, meaning they canonically were/are Sinnoh native, they're lesser Gen IV legendaries and mythicals who could be moved up to pre-Hall of Fame without affecting game balance too drastically, they were Pokemon with next to no regional dex distribution after their debut or they are Pokemon that would fit the Sinnoh Region thematically for one reason or another. Let me know if you agree or disagree with any of my picks.
- Growlithe
- Arcanine
- Stantler
- Teddiursa
- Ursaring
- Paras
- Parasect
- Spheal
- Sealeo
- Walrein
- Voltorb
- Electrode
- Qwilfish
- Venonat
- Venomoth
- Chinchou
- Lanturn
- Solrock
- Lunatone
- Beldum
- Metang
- Metagross
- Horsea
- Seadra
- Kingra
- Shroomish
- Breloom
- Clampearl
- Huntail
- Gorbyss
- Gulpin
- Swalot
- Cacnea
- Cacturne
- Delibird
- Ditto
- Regice (It and the other Regis get a book in Snowpoint with each Regi encountered in their chamber)
- Regirock (Its cavern gets moved to Orburgh Mine with perhaps Groudon residing its old location in the Survival Area)
- Registeel
- Regigigas (Snowpoint Temple opens up when you have every Regi)
- Phione (Also gets a journal entry in the Mansion with there being a new side quest for Manaphy Egg, which you can breed for Phione)
- Cresselia (event opens sooner with a lower level, and Cresselia is automatically added at first encounter)