>>31522662It's about self-consistency.
It's pretty embarrassing when you can be proven that you don't understand your own game as well as your fans.
Any other entertainment medium and they could hand-wave it away as necessacary for plot.
Having your own code used against you is definitive proof.
Since it was a change from Atk to Def to determine it could even be a simple mistake but to change it now would be bad press.
The only thing to do now is own it and jokingly add that it adds some "extra uniqueness" to the Pokemon since it differed from if it took place on cart games.
