>>42994308>"hey this is my torterra, he grew up in a desert so he has cacti on his back instead of an oak tree">tfw regional variants have just been soulless garbage instead of fun shit like Torterra, Crystal Onix, or the various Delta Species in the TCGgod damn it now I'm mad at gamefreak again
hopefully the next PMD game has some fun interactions with them though like a side character meeting their galar/alola form and losing their shit or something