It has been widely theorized that Many older mon, especially ones found in the Safari Zone were native Alolan Pokemon, who were brought to Kanto and other regions and adapted to the sub-tropical environments there.

I desperately hope that means we get a "do-over" for my original favorite: Scyther. His design is clunky, with the round ball joints, but more than that I fucking hate Scizor.

This robot lobster is not the green, fast, bladed MANTIS, which is what I loved about Scythers aesthetics. Hopefully since Scyther has to evolve with the aid of an outside item, that means that his TRUE evolution was blocked since he was outside of his natural environment and we will get a real evolution and Scizor can fuck off to the kiddie pool and Smogon where he thrives.