>>30169875I always consider legendary captures to be noncanon if they're not mandatory.
Plus assuming you don't want to just ignore any challengers and fuck about the region doing whatever like most champions, you could always just hand champion duty to someone else for a while like Steven did. Worst case scenario, they get beat and you get to fight for your title back, if you even still want it.
But yeah, the whole UB mission has a pretty dark implication in that Lillie and Lusamine are both Fallers now and neither have any real means of protecting themselves all the way in Kanto
