>>29824911Phione and Manaphy are a class of their own too, they're not properly a evolution line in the usual way since Phione can't evolve into Manaphy.
If anything Phione could get retconned as a warm sea Manaphy variant the same way Alolan forms are a thing.
>>29824986How is that ''hinted''? All I'm getting from the game story/datamines are things I read around the threads