Rosalia R
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In that case, I'm expecting it to be a Mythical introduced in USUM.
We should have an idea whenever the game gets datamined at least. If nothing seems to be a Mythical, then that'd point to Gen 8.
Yeah, I've always been quite confident we'd get a Mythical by early 2018 at the latest even before this came out, since they've had a mythical distribution with every movie since the thirteenth. (Of course, the possibility of the Lucario/Zoroark of Gen 8 is there as well, especially since the movie will come out when Gen 7 is effectively finished in terms of new content.)
I definitely agree that a new mythical in USM is the most likely possibility. We haven't seen this few mythicals introduced in a generation since Gen 3 when the trends with movies and corresponding events were still getting established (and even then neither of those mythicals was promoted in a movie of the previous generation like Magearna was).
My theory until proven otherwise is that GameFreak wasn't too happy with Diancie/Hoopa/Volcanion getting datamined in XY, and decided to only code the mythicals relevant to 2016/17 into SM, knowing that they'd be adding more UBs in USM and thus could also add one or maybe two more mythicals for 2018 and possibly 2019 depending on how the run-up to the Switch game goes. I believe the Riddler said a while back that they'd come up with UB Burst back when SM was still in development, so that would support them planning far in advance to not only add new UBs but also save some mythicals to preserve the element of surprise just a little longer (though obviously we'll find out about them as soon as USM comes out).
Also, this has surfaced as well:
View: https://twitter.com/PokeshopperVGC/status/924703644225859586