As most of you may know, GF's cross gen evos were all introduced with one common trait: They all needed a new method, not available in the previous games, to be obtained. Gen 2 brang item trade evos, friendship evos, and time of day evos. Gen four brought many new methods, like move learning, new stones, items + time of day level ups, etc.

The point is, you take from this that GF tends to want to keep some sort of continuity, so that it'd make sense not to be able to evolve to a specific evolution previously.

However, gen V introduced this horrid item, the eviolite. It increases the defense of NFE pokemon. This means that if a pokemon from gen V onwards isn't affected by eviolite, then it will nefver be, to keep GF's continuity. You can see this in effect as of now, as no new evos have been introduced since gen IV, or more accurately, since the reveal of this item

In fact it seems a part of the reason megas were introduced was to sort of solve this issue.


What do you think? will we ever see new evos for old pokemons ever again? or are they predestined to a mega as a best case scenario?