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But again, if what we want is variation- which I agree is a good thing- why do we need to keep some elements static? Why does it have to be one notable Pokemon, and not something else like a location or person?
Location might be feasible, if it's something like a location strengthening the Pokemon.
Totem Pokemon and Nobles both have outside influences powering them up. There’s a strongest creature in any ecosystem, but whether that strength is enough to be interesting enough for people to journey out to it is a separate thing. There’s a queen ant in every anthill, after all.
It might not matter to certain people if they're the type of person who wants to test their strength against everything.
But not all cultures think of Pokemon the same way. The trailers have discussed how some people are afraid of Pokemon, and there’s people who don’t value Pokemon beyond practical use. (the legend about a man who went around killing Pokemon, people like Team Rocket) Wouldn’t they have a different approach?
No, that's all the more reason to have someone like a Captain or Warden. If people are afraid of Pokemon, that still creates a need for someone to protect humans from them. As for people that don't value Pokemon, they'd still need a way of fighting them regardless if one came attacking.
Seems strange that gyms today have no trace of these Pokemon remaining, to the point of even switching types or having no type specialty. If these Pokemon are culturally significant enough to have this system built around them,
Those Pokemon might have been too dangerous or the outside forces too uncontrollable to be integrated into the gym system. Does Arceus really care enough to lend out its strength to gym Pokemon? I doubt it, Arceus doesn't seem to care much about testing trainers' strength, just rendering judgment when humans do something it doesn't like. But we have seen one region where there's still traces of that and that's Galar, where the gyms are designed around Dynamax. This makes a little more sense because the Power Spots are stationary and therefore they can build the giant stadium gyms around them so that challengers can consistently use Dynamax in gym battles every time (and presumably because they're stationary, they can design them to be safe to use by making the arenas sufficiently large enough to reduce the chances of stray attacks hitting spectators, and presumably other countermeasures that we can't see). We haven't seen how Alola would adapt to the Gym Challenge (I really wish we would've gotten SM2 instead of USUM to address this), but presumably because Ultra Wormholes seem to be located to certain spots of Alola and they seem to have a lot of knowledge on how to control Ultra Wormholes, they might be able to create Gym Challenges that function similarly to the Trials. The older regions probably didn't have some kind of power boosting phenomenon that could safely and reliably be adapted like Dynamax in Galar.