>>52866938I reckon the numbers are done by the same interns who do the Pokédex info. At the end of the day the anime is the be all and end all of presentation, and they don’t give a single fuck about what’s in the games if it doesn’t fit their vision.
The original designers probably had one idea of what a Lucario was and then the movie did it’s own thing and was wildly more popular and desu, better.
