>>54467807>what is PMD?If anything, that just canonises PMD as part of the pokémon universe. Bill turned himself into a pokémon, remember? In Gen 1 to boot, before we REALLY went into sci-fantasy. Just 'cause we don't see it in front of our eyes, doesn't mean it hadn't happened in-universe. Nor indeed does it mean game mechanics are canon, there's been a separation of they and lore from the outset.
And it doesn't explain how TPC behaves with their presentation. This was posted in like February by the official Twitter, but only the pokédex talked about it killing birbs. Tink didn't get Smack Down until this morning.