if you can't find it in johto but can find it in kanto, shouldn't it be classified as a kanto mon and not a johto mon?
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if you can't find it in johto but can find it in kanto, shouldn't it be classified as a kanto mon and not a johto mon?
Tauros, Scyther, and Dratini are also Johto mons
What’s Kangaskhan native to? Kalos? First game where you can capture it in a non safari zone iirc.
You catch it in Kanto in GSC, which begs the question of why it had to be stocked in a safari
Nidoran is also stocked in the Safari Zone even though you can catch it elsewhere, not every single thing in the Safari is supposed to be from Johto
>which begs the question of why it had to be stocked in a safari
It's a protected species
When the Safari Zone went out of business, some of the Pokemon might've escaped to the wild.
Kangaskhan and Chansey are in the nearby areas
So the mons themselves aren't really native then.
>Dratini
Nope. The colony of Dratini already existed in the lake the Safari Zone was built around. The lore is that they were considered a myth prior to someone fished one up there. They weren’t imported like Tauros or Chansey- they were literally always living there in Kanto.
Scyther's only in the bug catching contest. Its actual native region is Sinnoh.
Wrong. Dratini was discovered in Kanto
Native to Kanto but a gen 2 pokemon.
OP Thank you, i can finally feel validated about Eevee being a unova mon.
Gen2 didn’t have a “Johto” dex. It’s regional dex is just every Pokémon that existed at the time but rearranged. So in universe Slugma probably was a “Kanto” mon
If you can't find it in Kanto but can find it in Johto, shouldn't it be classified as a Johto mon and not a Kanto mon?
Yes.
You could catch it in the wild in Yellow, zoomie
you can find wild farfetchd in yellow
trashnime game is not canon
Red in GSC proves otherwise
A lot of Pokemon are explicitly not native to their introductory region.
Between that, the Nidorans having separate entries, the crossgen evos being listed hundreds of entries apart, regular mons in PLA/SV DLC being listed between legendaries and starters, the national dex order is a mess and should be reworked
yes, and this is why people should stop referring to pokemon as "kantomons" when they actually mean "generation 1 pokemon", etc.
There is no such thing as a "Johto mon." If you had actually played Gen 2, you'd know that the Gen 2 additions are "newly discovered Pokemon"
there is no such thing as a "Hoennmon" or "Sinnohmon" or so on either. they dont have passports
Johto is just Kanto's backyard
Pokémon are analogous to animals.
Slugma isn’t native to just one region, it appears anywhere you see one, invasive or not.
There's no such thing as "Kanto mon" and "Johto mon". These are nugen terms introduced for consistency sake.
You have original 150+1 and then additional 100 Pokemon that in-lore were discovered during 3 years time gap between RBGY and GSC.
I like to think that the safari zone in gen 1 was more nature preserve than anything given we didn't have other regions. With the introduction of more regions it should be half pokemon from other regions and half a preserve for local rare or vulnerable pokemon. Given that Kanto and Johto should really be thought of as the superpower that is Indigo, we should be thinking of gen 1 and 2 pokemon and their dex as one unit.
I do wonder why Murkrow was only found in Route 7 and 16 in Kanto in gen 2. It's such an odd thing to do and kinda a strange route for them as well. You'd figure they'd put it in Route 8 or 10 so it was near Lavender town to fit with the dark theme of Agatha and Karen.
The distribution in gen 2 is absolutely cracked.
team rocket's pokemon, murkrow and houndour, also come from the big cities
No it's just poor game design, if they ever make a let's go johto they'll improve the distribution just like they did with LGPE
Slugma balls