>>26716640>You are even trying to bring in leaf from gen 1 for no fucking reason except just to try to make your case bapetter but you are literally being retarded by not understanding the anime ignored something that didn't make it to the games.Seriously, everything but the games were promoting Leaf. All the old art has your Leaf with Squirtle. Same with adventures and even your remakes add her in. The game's limitations is what kept Leaf out in the games but she was planned to be there from the get-go. Same shit that they wanted Kris in the games but it wasn't until they were developing Crystal that they figured out how to put gender options. Before you go with "anime doesn't add what doesn't make it into the games" you had Pokemon that didn't make it into the initial games added.
Summing it up, there's no odds of who or what is taking up the place.
