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He subverts genwarring, by being everything genwar-baiters hate - new evolution to old Gen (ancient and from a different era and mindset entirely, in this case) pokémon, adhering to the framework of its earlier-created family members while clearly being a product of the newer style of generation and finally giving its line the power and capability it should have had from the get-go.
And would never have come about if the "muh gen is am best" mentality infested Game Freak because they would have sacred cowed Gen 1 to the point no alterations or edits would be allowed, much like smooth brains here try to arbitrarily gatekeep the series to exactly the era when they were the target demographic as being the objective best era, because that's when the franchise utterly gave a fuck only for them. Instead, we got the best cross-gen evo in the series, possibly.
