>>48133828Not likely though, when the rest of the franchise (including the telly show, which is directly pitched at kids) treats it as a female species (three separate appearances, two confirmed female, one assumed, due to the anime's habit of making rando characters' pokémon match their gender).
100% hit rate for a 12.5% encounter chance each time is either fucking over the laws of chance rapidly, or more likely, an indicator the franchise doesn't really care about %chance of encountering things as set within Game Freak's RPG's when promoting the creatures themselves and pushing them at the target markets they decided upon internally.