>>54846127>The entire franchise is a wibbly-wobbly blob, with Sun and Moon explicitly being different timelines from eachother (by slight implication where humans are nocturnal for whatever reason)The lead Gen pairs are all considered part of the prime timeline - the one that started with the events of Kanto/Hoenn then followed by Johto/Sinnoh before the Unovan incident, the Kalos kerfuffle, the Galarian crisis and then finally to date the Paldean paradox. SM is set ten years after RGB with Red and Green/Blue/the boy as young adults in the battle tree, the timeframe between it, SS and SV are unknown as of yet. Because the lead gen pairs are the only ones the bulk of the original and first-hire staff, who made everything from RG through to Platinum, before they hired a bunch of college grads to make HGSS, while the oldfags expanded and started work on BW. Meanwhile, events of the rehashes routinely get ignored when the new gen games call back to past tiles, because they're not actually canon to the timeline. And due to the hot, intelligent history teacher having old photos and designs for early pokéballs on her board, we know Legends is similarly part of the prime timeline canon (as if it being both a sequel and prequel to a canon lead gen pair wasn't enough to legitimise it to people).
