>>56806868Moomer here. Probably because there was no other №000 Pokémon until Victini and Meltan line? See, even Polish Wikipaedia had it in such a fashion before their Dexit.
That or (unlike other less notable glitches) it having its own uncorrupted name and sprite (the other three forms + Stadium doll), and being the Pokémon of the original Red/Green to not crash your game (Japan gave more shit about other ones though).
In the end, Dark Lugia mogged MissingNO. hard, as Nintendo’s site referred to it.
Pic rel, one of the rarer Japanese recognitions by an official TCG artist from his Twitter.
