>>39996882One of these days they're going to implement a mechanic to tell how "old" a Pokemon is, and when they reach a certain year count, they'll suddenly "retire" and be required to move to a box, wherein you're told they need to go to Home/whatever the current storage app is in order to finally take it easy after a long career of battling, contesting, and other such fun, and they can never be used again even if that Pokemon appears in a region's dex.
And anything with data that shows it was from a game that was released at least ten years ago, Virtual Console re-releases going by the re-release date, is automatically "retired" upon moving up to the latest storage app.
