Rot8er_ConeX
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So I recently remembered the Pokemon Zodiac, one of the two things that led me originally to this site (the other being the ball calculation formula). And I noticed that the Gen VI Zodiac is the most perfect one since the original, maybe even more so since the number of legendaries equaled the number of weeks in the year.
Sadly, Game Freak did not see fit to end the series on such perfection, and released a seventh generation. Not that I'm actually complaining. Gen VII brought with it what are now two of my four favorite Pokemon. And with it, they brought out a whole slew of problems for the zodiac, most notably: There are now more Pokemon families than there are days in the year, and Pokemon can't really be grouped any tighter.
I have thought of a few solutions, but of course the final say goes to Butterfree or whoever controls the Zodiac.
1.) Legendaries have groups of days, do they need an actual day as well? Removing legendaries brings Gen VI's numbers to 365-53=312. Adding in Gen VII's 34 non-legendary families, we are brought to 346 days. From here, the ideas branch:
Scenario A
2.) Ultra Beasts are not technically legendaries. Throwing in the seven Ultra Beasts brings us to 353 days.
3.) Alolan Forms are basically a new Pokemon. Adding in the 7 Alolan Form families (Alolan Raichu, Exeggutor, and Marowak don't count as they are just a branched evolution) brings us to 360 days.
4.) We are now left with five days. Traditionally, there are five elements - Earth, Water, Fire, Wind/Air, and Void/Spirit. That last one is not part of the Zodiac as far as I know, but there's a first time for everything.
5.) Now we have 53+12=65 legendaries. 365/65 is somewhere between 5 and 6. If we give each Legendary 6 days and each Mythical 5 days, that brings the total number of days to 372 - 7 more than we need. However, Cosmog and Cosmoem are pre-evolutions of legendaries and therefore should get fewer days. Decreasing each of their reigns to 3 days brings us to 366 days - the number of days in a Leap Year. For non Leap Years, make one day jointly owned by Solgaleo and Lunala, as they are evolutions of the same thing.
Scenario A summary:
- Non-legendary families each get a day of the year.
- Ultra Beasts each get a day of the year
- Alolan Forms families each get a day of the year
- The remaining five days of the year each go to an element, and would start off a season
-- Each Mythical Pokemon would get a reign of 5 days
-- Cosmog and Cosmoem would each get a reign of 3 days
-- On Leap Years, Solgaleo and Lunala would each have a reign of 6 days. On other years, they'd each have a reign of 5.5 days.
-- All other Legendaries would get a reign of 6 days.
Scenario B
2.) There are, at this time, 17 Mythical Pokemon. Prior to this point, the Zodiac has considered Mythicals and Legendaries the same thing, but *shrug*. Demoting the Mythicals to non-legendary status and giving them each back a day would bring our total to 363 days.
3.) Adding in Cosmog and Cosmoem brings the total to the coveted 365 days exactly. Type: Null can be added to the list for Leap Years.
4.) 38 (non-Mythical Legendaries prior to Gen VII) + 7 (Tapus and Box legends) = 45 true Legendaries. 8*45=360, five days short of a full year. Give these five days to the Reign of Man, and fill them with the Pokemon created by man: the Porygon family, Genesect, Magearna, Mewtwo, and then the Skiddo family as it was the first Pokemon to befriend humans.
5.) This leaves out the seven Ultra Beasts. But...there's seven days of the week. Name each day of the week after an Ultra Beast - UBs don't come from standard reality, and the concept of a week is a seemingly-arbitrary concept.
Summary of Scenario B
- Non-legendary families each get a day of the year
- Mythical Pokemon each get a day of the year
- Cosmog and Cosmoem each get a day of the year
-- Each remaining Legendary gets a reign of 8 days
-- Man gets a reign of 5 days
--- Each Ultra Beast gets a day of the week
Scenario C
2.) There are, at this time, 17 Mythical Pokemon. Prior to this point, the Zodiac has considered Mythicals and Legendaries the same thing, but *shrug*. Demoting the Mythicals to non-legendary status and giving them each back a day would bring our total to 363 days.
3.) Adding in Cosmog and Cosmoem brings the total to the coveted 365 days exactly. Type: Null can be added to the list for Leap Years.
4.) 38 (non-Mythical Legendaries prior to Gen VII) + 7 (Tapus and Box legends) = 45 true Legendaries. Add in the seven Ultra Beasts, and you get the number 53, same as the number of legendaries there were before in Gen VI.
Summary of Scenario C
- Non-legendary families each get a day of the year
- Mythical Pokemon each get a day of the year
- Cosmog and Cosmoem each get a day of the year
-- Each remaining Legendary gets a reign of one week
-- Each Ultra Beast gets a reign of one week
Sadly, Game Freak did not see fit to end the series on such perfection, and released a seventh generation. Not that I'm actually complaining. Gen VII brought with it what are now two of my four favorite Pokemon. And with it, they brought out a whole slew of problems for the zodiac, most notably: There are now more Pokemon families than there are days in the year, and Pokemon can't really be grouped any tighter.
I have thought of a few solutions, but of course the final say goes to Butterfree or whoever controls the Zodiac.
1.) Legendaries have groups of days, do they need an actual day as well? Removing legendaries brings Gen VI's numbers to 365-53=312. Adding in Gen VII's 34 non-legendary families, we are brought to 346 days. From here, the ideas branch:
Scenario A
2.) Ultra Beasts are not technically legendaries. Throwing in the seven Ultra Beasts brings us to 353 days.
3.) Alolan Forms are basically a new Pokemon. Adding in the 7 Alolan Form families (Alolan Raichu, Exeggutor, and Marowak don't count as they are just a branched evolution) brings us to 360 days.
4.) We are now left with five days. Traditionally, there are five elements - Earth, Water, Fire, Wind/Air, and Void/Spirit. That last one is not part of the Zodiac as far as I know, but there's a first time for everything.
5.) Now we have 53+12=65 legendaries. 365/65 is somewhere between 5 and 6. If we give each Legendary 6 days and each Mythical 5 days, that brings the total number of days to 372 - 7 more than we need. However, Cosmog and Cosmoem are pre-evolutions of legendaries and therefore should get fewer days. Decreasing each of their reigns to 3 days brings us to 366 days - the number of days in a Leap Year. For non Leap Years, make one day jointly owned by Solgaleo and Lunala, as they are evolutions of the same thing.
Scenario A summary:
- Non-legendary families each get a day of the year.
- Ultra Beasts each get a day of the year
- Alolan Forms families each get a day of the year
- The remaining five days of the year each go to an element, and would start off a season
-- Each Mythical Pokemon would get a reign of 5 days
-- Cosmog and Cosmoem would each get a reign of 3 days
-- On Leap Years, Solgaleo and Lunala would each have a reign of 6 days. On other years, they'd each have a reign of 5.5 days.
-- All other Legendaries would get a reign of 6 days.
Scenario B
2.) There are, at this time, 17 Mythical Pokemon. Prior to this point, the Zodiac has considered Mythicals and Legendaries the same thing, but *shrug*. Demoting the Mythicals to non-legendary status and giving them each back a day would bring our total to 363 days.
3.) Adding in Cosmog and Cosmoem brings the total to the coveted 365 days exactly. Type: Null can be added to the list for Leap Years.
4.) 38 (non-Mythical Legendaries prior to Gen VII) + 7 (Tapus and Box legends) = 45 true Legendaries. 8*45=360, five days short of a full year. Give these five days to the Reign of Man, and fill them with the Pokemon created by man: the Porygon family, Genesect, Magearna, Mewtwo, and then the Skiddo family as it was the first Pokemon to befriend humans.
5.) This leaves out the seven Ultra Beasts. But...there's seven days of the week. Name each day of the week after an Ultra Beast - UBs don't come from standard reality, and the concept of a week is a seemingly-arbitrary concept.
Summary of Scenario B
- Non-legendary families each get a day of the year
- Mythical Pokemon each get a day of the year
- Cosmog and Cosmoem each get a day of the year
-- Each remaining Legendary gets a reign of 8 days
-- Man gets a reign of 5 days
--- Each Ultra Beast gets a day of the week
Scenario C
2.) There are, at this time, 17 Mythical Pokemon. Prior to this point, the Zodiac has considered Mythicals and Legendaries the same thing, but *shrug*. Demoting the Mythicals to non-legendary status and giving them each back a day would bring our total to 363 days.
3.) Adding in Cosmog and Cosmoem brings the total to the coveted 365 days exactly. Type: Null can be added to the list for Leap Years.
4.) 38 (non-Mythical Legendaries prior to Gen VII) + 7 (Tapus and Box legends) = 45 true Legendaries. Add in the seven Ultra Beasts, and you get the number 53, same as the number of legendaries there were before in Gen VI.
Summary of Scenario C
- Non-legendary families each get a day of the year
- Mythical Pokemon each get a day of the year
- Cosmog and Cosmoem each get a day of the year
-- Each remaining Legendary gets a reign of one week
-- Each Ultra Beast gets a reign of one week
