>>55507148>>55507828>>55508601Lets look at the possibilities, to me, Draven looks about 80:
1) Pokeballs had not made their way from Japan to New York yet. This could obviously be for various reasons.
2) He was being hyperbolic, Pokeballs [in their current state] didnt exist yet
3) Some retarded retard shit like split timelines
4) The lore master forgot/it got retconned
My take:
Sometime around Gen 8 they retconned the whole series and the dates of things, look at LGPE when Blue says Pokedex didnt exist yet.
OR
It will be ignored for the sake of a more generalized idea of what the lore is, it doesn't matter that much, and information is left intentionally vague for the player and communities imagination.
OR
It's just 1 or 2 or something like it with a hint of what I just said.
