This may be a gen 2 pokemon but it's not a Johto pokemon as its not native to Johto, it is native to Kanto and Hoenn however, it was only recently discovered during gen 2 but could only be found in Kanto and it is found quite commonly in Hoenn as your rival Brendan or May uses one if they didn't pick the fire starter and Flannery uses two Slugmas in her gym battle.
Also for example, this would mean Pidgeotto is a Johto and Kanto pokemon and Noctowl is a Sinnoh and Johto pokemon.
It’s also native to Sinnoh near the volcano
I thought Stark Mountain is on that island thats near Sinnoh but its not apart of Sinnoh.
It’s still Sinnoh. What region do you think it is?
its pokerussia not sinnoh
It's an overseas territory.
What you said is like saying the Falkland islands are apart of the British isles.
ok but it was introduced in the johto games so for the purpose of discussing the series within the context of our real world it's a johto pokemon
But it cannot be found in Johto.
Poketubers making half an hour video about how X mon is native to X region despite being introduced in X gen
farfetch'd and tauros are also johto pokemon
These and Dratini too
johto is just a suburb in kanto
>This may be a gen 2 pokemon but [schizo headcanon]
With things like this pokémon is super inconsistent so who cares anyways
The idea of new Pokemon "discovered" was retconned in Gen 3 because it's fucking stupid
These creatures have existed on the planet for all of human history and are everywhere, so they've always known about them
This. It's stupid as fuck and limits a lot of things. Even as a kid, I remember watching the Gligarman episode and wondering how that shit even existed if Gligar was a new species. I think that works good for legendaries, but dumb for normal mons.
we discover new species of animals every day
It's a Johto pokemon because it was introduced in the generation that introduced the Johto region.
>but it can't be caught in Johto
That doesn't matter. Pokemon are lumped in with the region they're introduced with, not where they live. Magcargo is a Johto mon, Yungoose is an Alola mon, and Ogerpon is a Paldea mon.
It’s officially recognized as a Johtomon so it’s a Johtomon.
Thread’s retarded. It’s a Gen 2 mon and nothing more. The idea at the time was that new species were being discovered, and the eruption of Cinnabar was implied to have introduced Slugma into (relatively) nearby areas of Kanto (by launching them, I guess…pour one out for the Slugma we lost at sea).
Is the entire catalog just discord threads now?
Gen 2 calls them "newly discovered"
Slugma/Magcargo, Natu/Xatu and Skarmory are Hoenn mons
>this retarded thread again
Why do you people do this?
sharty shitpost campaign