>>57898812Stunning that, a game set in a previously-featured region, some years after the initial presentation of the games featuring said region do not contain pokémon who only exist when they're subjected to evolutionary pressures over many, many years to adapt to their new environments.
It's almost as if they explained it in-game, by featuring pokémon taken out of their traditional habitats adapting to the new areas they ended up in (kinda like how real-world evolution works, same species' can adapt to fit varying roles, depending on what niches need filled).