>>44770941Not him, but I kinda get what he means.
I have vague memories of media making the distinction that the 100 new Pokémon were newly discovered, and if I recall correctly even the Spaceworld '97 demo's dialogue pointed out that the new 'mons were just found.The final games even treated breeding as a new thing if I remember correctly, going by the Togepi egg stuff.
I'm unfortunately feeling too lazy to look into Gen. II media to confirm, but it shouldn't be that hard to look into the Spaceworld text and stuff.
All this said, I don't think this logic really makes too much sense if you think about it; there's only so much time taking place between the two games, where were all these new Pokémon hiding?
And it'd only get weirder as the series went on; there were only 150 species discovered before the start of the games, but 700+ in what, just a little over two decades?
I feel like it makes more sense to fluff a generation's new Pokémon as being (with few exceptions) regional species that just aren't around in other places rather than being newly discovered critters for those reasons.
