>>47495233>Know what?Ho-Oh and Lugia weren't developed in relation to each other. Ho-oH was the only one in(what eventually became) Gen2 and was made in-house by GF(hence it being the one that showed up in anime ep 1). Lugia was later made to push a movie and had to be forced in the games. They weren't trying to "make sense" in lore, it just so happened the 2 weren't related at all.
>Give me the definitions then if you know so much."canon" has varying definitions but what matters here is that it refers to the products that reflect the "true" idea of the franchise and how it works. Its entirely unrelated to how many/which universes are there, if any. So its irrelevant whether a pair of games in inconsistent. 99,999999% of the time people use it they actually mean "continuity".
Universe is the space-time continuum in which the events portrayed in the product(which can depict more than one universe) take place in. It has nothing to do with canon and pokemon does have a confirmed multiverse so even then its entirely possible for both versions to count.
