If Pokemon were a newly discovered species in the first gen then why are there fossils of Pokemon from millions of yeara ago.
If Pokemon were a newly discovered species in the first gen then why are there fossils of Pokemon from millions of yeara ago.
All pokemon weren't newly discovered. Only mewtwo was newly created. Gen 2 is where they were saying the new pokemon were newly discovered and were rare before.
Oh yeah and porygon was created but it doesn't say if it was recent
Also, gen 1 is where they were saying they never documented all the pokemon because the pokedex was new. Oak saw a lot of pokemon himself but your goal with the dex is to go around documenting every pokemon you can find until it's full. In Gen 2 they explained some gen 2 pokemon as being in kanto now because it's 3 years later and they became more common or recently began showing up there.
They were newly discovered just like dinosaurs. Are you moronic?
The fossils were put there by Big Research to fund their genetics experimens.
>Things only begin existing after human discovery
Lack of object permanence is a sign of low IQ anon. Not to mention discovering species for the first time THROUGH their fossils is incredibly common.
Learn to read.
I read the OP's post just fine moron.
He's confused about how fossils of something newly discovered can exist, which implies he thinks being newly discovered and having existed millions of years ago are contradictory
The devil put the fossils there to trick you, this is first grade stuff OP
Doesn't pokemon operate on a sliding timeline where there's really no such thing as newly discovered pokemon because every pokemon just kinda exists all over the world in its respective region?
It's like going to the Australia region and freaking out over the new wallaby pokemon when the human natives probably had a culture built around its existence for centuries.
It doesn't add up.
That's not what a sliding timeline is at all.
But yeah, the bulk of pokemon are already discovered and familiar, though there are exceptions. Notably, through the Gen 7 events is Silvally discovered and named by Gladion.
The frick are you talking about, anon? Oak spells it out to you when you start the game. Pokemon exist in the world, and he studies them. The scientific study of Pokemon is clearly not that storied a subject, seeing as he, a singular guy, is the inarguable foremost authority on it. Pokemon themselves have been there for who fricking knows how long.
Silvally is a really fun case, given that Type:Null's "evolution" hardly qualifies as such as it's just discarding a manmade restraining helmet and assuming mastery of the powers it was designed to have as a lab chimera. It's still just the same mon, and the change in name is more symbolic. Type:Full, Type:Null, Silvally.
What evolution is varies, Slowbro can de-evolve in universe. Like pokemon classification itself, the idea of what is an evolution is also discussed in-universe anyways.
AS for OP, he bought into the tajirigay narrative about the early gens, he probably also thinks its supposed to be a post-apocalyptic setting.
It's also stated in the Pokedex that "Silvally" is a a name Gladion gave it, and the anime went further with this by having him call it Silvally even while it was still "Type: Null".
they started doing the region thing after gen 2. gen 2 actually was saying they were discovering new pokemon. then i guess it didn't make sense to keep discovering new pokemon so in gen 3 they were just saying it's a different region so that's why it has different pokemon. I also think gen 3 is supposed to be happening at the same time as gen 1? but it's been a while since I've seen that mentioned. and there was also something like gen 2 and 4 are happening at the same time.
Because they weren't really as coherent with that vision as tajirigays here claim.
How new is "new" to you? Professor Oak spent most of his life researching Pokemon, and he's probably around as old as that old guy who watched the moon landing in Pewter's museum. I guess that's pretty new, but I assume the "legendary" Pokemon have legends about them, notably Arcanine. This is also ignoring the guidebook released shortly after the game that includes information about Count Tajirin identifying 30 Pokemon in the 18th century, which could be seen as a parallel to how we can more correctly identify what species is what in the modern day (shit like Pidgey and Ratatta don't seem like Pokemon in comparison to some of the absolute fricking weirdos out there) In real life there's also the fact we keep discovering new fricking beetles every day, I could believe that there's some Pokemon we don't really know about in a fairly modernized world with fairly poor infrastructure (some "routes" don't even have a dirt road).
Oak is funded by the Kanto military, after the war ended the government decided that understand what pokemon actually were was extremely important.
They could no longer just think of them as wild animals and needed to know how to better use them incase the shitheads from Kalos tried to invade glorious Kanto again.
hmmm they should make a game where the kanto elite 4 fights in an ebic war
Pokemon being "newly discovered" is easily debunked by Oak having been a trainer in his youth. Him and Agatha have both been doing this since they were young.