>>44111154Yes, because if Leon fully succeeded and caught it then there'd be no Eternatus for the protagonist to catch. Leon already defeated it and just had to have it stay in the ball, which it didn't because, look at that, it's a guaranteed capture for the protag. I bet you didn't know that the game prohibits you from accessing every single PC box pre-Eternatus because it's coded so that filling every single slot wouldn't stop you from being able to catch it. And Leon was bracing from an explosion after heroically sending his Charizard to guard children instead of himself.
