>>27760578Brief tangent here, but whatever. Ever since I was a child, I thought the pokédex was retarded. Like, catching a Pokémon revealed an entry, so that means it already had information before. You don't just learn everything about a pokémon by catching it.
Also, the pokédex had a fixed number of slots and Professor Oak was able to determine your progress. This points to the idea that researchers are already all familiar with every pokémon out there. Plus, how could they not know? The world is full of scientists, but some kid is gonna catch them all and establish a definitive encyclopedia? I just hated being told to go catch pokémon on the pretense that it was helping Oak somehow.
I feel like instead it's just adults lying to kids to get them to go away.
