>>47411704Plusle and Minun are counterparts unlike Togedemaru and Mimikyu that are completely separate ideas.
>>47411708We are talking about different patterns since you just failed to acknowledge that there could be a pattern by the 2nd gen that differed from the path reached by the 8th gen. By the same token, there was a pattern that all Fire starter final forms would have the same base stat structure established in Gen 2 that becomes a trivial non-pattern by Gen 8.
