>>58947459Meltan is gen 7 by sheer virtue of not being available in a main line game until a game released after gen 6 but before gen 8 but it's officially treated as "unknown", instead coming from Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh(/Hisui), Unova, Kalos, Alola, Galar or Paldea it comes from irl Earth.
And Kitakami and BB Academy pokemon are considered paldean pokemon too. 
