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calling what happened in gen 3 a 'dex cut' is disingenuous because what happened in gen 3 is not the same was what happened in sw/sh
all 364 pokemon existed in r/s' code, you could hack them in and they would have proper stats and movesets, they were just unobtainable by normal means
in sw/sh pokemon were just not existent, you could not get them by any means as there was no data for them existing in the game
am i defending them being unobtanable? no, trying to complete the dex in gen 3 is horseshit, everything not available in r/s should've been in fr/lg without events or spinoffs, but even with how cancer it is to try and get everything at least it's still possible, technically