>>55039397They were revived when the towers burned down, you idiot. What was up for interpretation was the true form of the beasts we saw roaming around Johto and that were able to be caught, if they were other species of pokemon before dying or not.
Now with the Paradox pokemon, it doesn't matter if they were still the same beasts before being revived or not because it becomes obvious that their current powers did not come from their restoration and the magical circumstances around their rebirth, which is one of the most flagrant themes of Gen II, so now not even previous games are safe from being muddled by current shitty worldbuilding.