>>46622595You reading comprehension is poor. Allow me to elucidate you:
>This ancient bug Pokémon was altered by Team Plasma.>They upgraded the cannon on its back.These are two separate sentences.
The first sentence tells us that Genesect is an ancient bug Pokémon, and that it was later altered by Team Plasma - whether holistically, a single member or just in concept.
The second sentence then tells us that the cannon on Genesect's back was upgraded at some point.
1. The fact that it says "ancient bug Pokémon" could be taken as proof that Genesect was not a Kabutops because Kabutops is not Bug-type. However, it uses a non-capitalized "bug" instead of "Bug" which could be interpreted as evidence of a descriptor instead of a category, so it COULD be taken as evidence pro-Kabutops as well.
2. The cannon they are referring to is the modern Genesect's cannon. At some point after they added the cannon, they then upgraded it further - probably so that it could utilize the elemental drives.
3. The background in OP's image is pretty strong evidence for at least the intention of suggesting Genesect is at least indirectly related to Kabutops if not directly. It could also just be a lack of creativty - if the illustrators had been the same, this would not be the case.
