>>22589434Not to mention that Blue wouldn't train a cutsey heart-pokemon like that and would definitely go for the more intimidating Gyarados.
It's just that a lot of people don't think Blue has the patience to raise a Magikarp. Maybe he just caught it as a Gyarados, arguably, but he HAS completed the pokedex and it's kinda odd that he would catch them separately... kinda defeating the point of the pokemon.