>>17461889Well, the technology to make the device would've still had to exist, so I count it as only the first kind of pokeball before they became mass produced.
I've seen many ideas of this kind of persuasion, only amplified by things like Conquest, which pretty much is the pokeworld as it was in ancient times. I once proposed an ancient form of Johto where the Daimyo (warlords) are sort of the precursor to the gym leaders, only they are the actual heads of each of the major cities and towns, and are far more powerful than the gym leaders, save for the World Tournament. This drew on Johto's lore and so I made the daimyo of Violet City have a Victreebel for the Sprout Tower, and the one for Azalea is associated to Slowpoke making it rain. I've actually proposed an origin like this for Kalos, too. I can totally see a Knight of the Round Table sort of thing where each one of them has a Mega pokemon. Sadly, no, I know of no one that has actually fully realized such an idea. I haven't done it because it would be little more than a trainer story in disguise. I am for more natural depictions of the pokeworld, though. You won't find them here, though, because the game is gospel to these people. The only way to do it is to reject the game's mechanics.
