>>12554993I'm not talking about their native regions story-wise, but the generation they debuted, which is the point of your argument, since this is what dictates the design style.
Let's pick cross generation evolutions as an example; Ambipom is the evolution of Aipom, a gen 2 pokémon. This makes Ambipom a gen 2 pokémon? No. It's from gen 4. You can say that Ambipom is a Johto pokémon, what is an entirely different thing. But It's gen 4, this isn't even in question.
