>>28343324He says it RIGHT FUCKING THERE, RIGHT before it happens.
"The original purpose of this device was to bring a Pokémon back to life. But the ancient king transformed it into this ultimate weapon... Hmm. When the Legendary Pokémon awakened, it took back much of its energy--its power--that had been sent to the ultimate weapon. There's not much power left... But there IS enough to use it once..."
"<player>, Sycamore's pupils... Let us live forever... That's right! I shall grant you eternal life! I'll give you the pain of endlessly waiting for a beautiful world to finally be built!X/The ultimate weapon is a flower that bloomed to no avail... Just like me... But this ends here! I will show what its remaining power can do!Y"
Presumably he doesn't just kill himself out of spite. Have you seriously never seen the "I'm going down but I'm taking you with me" move?
>>28343305>Lysandre's reason to use the "Metroid" Gun to give himself immortality while killing off everyone else, is because he wanted to hoard all of the world resources to himself.It's posts like this that just confirm the huge, massive bias unless this was like a bait post or something in which case considered the bait taken. This isn't even fucking close to his motivations or goals.