>>54967907>robot pokemon like Magnemite and Porygon are still aroundThey only spawn in space-time distortions, that whole thing that the plot of PLA hinges on. The only point you have is Magnezone, who natively flies above the Coronet Highlands, which I took to be a sign that it's an extraterrestrial being who descended on Mt Coronet since it's the closest point to outer space in Hisui. Would definitely not be the first time we've had Pokemon from space.
>Arceus smartphoneThe space/time-transcending god gives it to you after isekai-ing you back in time. As god, he could have made it whatever he wanted, so surely he designed it in the shape of a smartphone to make it easier for the zoomer to interface with.
>pokeballs function pretty the same way as they do in the other games, even though Drayden talked about how people in the past had to befriend pokemon to fight alongside them because pokeballs weren't a thingIf you compare it to real world Japan, the exposure to foreign cultures plus the emergence of early forms of modern technology could pin it as being anywhere between 100 to 300 years in the past. That easily leaves room for the pre-Pokeball era of history before the time of PLA that Drayden spoke of. You're basically implying that the industrial revolution is the only "past" that exists and nothing could have come before it.
You're an idiot.