>>47951888In the same vein, them and galar are the only ones to have had to supplement their technology with rotoms.
The pokenav has every function the rotomdex does, and more, without needing a rotom.
Mind you there is a time difference we need to take into account for these games.
Gen1 has a paper map and crt tvs, the pc system is new, the pokedex itself is new, fossil resurrection exists, and the famechecker is about the most sophisticated piece of portable equipment we see.
Gen2 and Gen3Hoenn take place at the same time. Pokegear exists and is widespread now, the pokenav has just been created as a competitor, and fossil resurrection has also been reverse engineered by that same competitor.
From here the timeline gets less obvious because there are fewer shared events and characters.
HOWEVER we can know that Gen7 happens significantly Gen1 because of the ages of Red & Blue, AND YET Alola has no gyms, no transport that isn't pokemon, a pokemon-powered dex that's worse than the pokegear many years prior, pretty trivial and mundane desires as people including a proclivity for junk food, no idea how alolan raichu evolves, all the hallmarks of a recently uplifted peoples, and yet somehow both a pokemon center and megamart that are abandoned, implying the effort to "civilize" them has been a long and beleaguered one.
Alola is, objectively, one of the lowest IQ regions going by all evidence.
