>>16236325But wouldn't they now BE Pokemon, rather than having been replaced by Pokemon?
Like, I'd have grown up with bro as fuck Lilipups, a glameow, two dedennes and a buneary until my teen years when my mum had a midife crisis and spent like a grand on pedigree Meowths. Only one of them evolved into Persian.
Now I'm living in my own place with my number one Pokébro, a Chatot called Chuffy.