>>54920607Regulations prevent distribution of certain pokemon related data. Particularly, habitat locations to keep every idiot trainer with a flying type from swooping in and extincting low population, powerful species overnight, relegating pokedex usage to a small selection of hand-picked field researchers, aka protagonists.
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Normie trainers can just use the internet to look things up if set in the internet era. Pokedexes aren't for distributing knowledge, they're for collecting it. They're specialized research tools that are expensive and used to collect large amounts of data.
