WHERE are the non-Kanto Gen 1 Pokemon FROM? 

Great video! I always love pokemon theory and lore content like this. One small thing though, Eevee can't be native to Unova. It's stated multiple times by Juniper and Bianca that all the old Pokemon now availiable in BW2 have only recently entered the region from migration within the past 2 years. So you were right about the Kalos thing, because that's the first region where Eevee can be caught in the wild and it isn't specified as a recent introduction to the region.

Scyther in Sinnoh was only present in Platinum but Kleavor's existence in Hisui makes their nativeness more evident.

2:16 Well to be fair, Legends Arceus takes place at most 200 years in the past, while Aerodactyl is said to be millions of years old

I really like the idea that Snorlax is native to Sinnoh, given that they would have developed that thick fat to keep warm in the northern cold of Pokemon's Hokkaido.

Regarding Exeggcute, "What pokemon would carry an egg/seed that far on purpose?" Chansey. Chansey would.

Some things to consider: PLA has all the sinnoh starters be native to Sinnoh, so I think starters are intended to be native to their debut region and just happen to be rare

So you are aware coconuts and palm fruit float on the tides. That's how they spread across so much of the world.

On Aerodactyl, remember that legends Arceus isn’t as far away from the mainline games as it would be for the likely time periods that Aerodactyl and the other fossil Pokémon to have lived, so, it’s likely Aerodactyl existed in the region even further back, but by legends it’s extinct and ambers are deep in the ground.

I think the reason why most people said Exeggcute may be native to Alola is based on Exeggutor's Hoenn dex entry, which states that "originally came from the tropics". Arguably, Hoenn can be considered the next most tropical region to Alola, but they are not catchable in the region and the wording is clearly meant to imply that Exeggutor is from another place thats not Hoenn (after checking, its worth noting that the Hoenn games are the only pokedexes to state this). This alongside the fact that the Alolan dexes talks about how Alola "is considered the best environment" for (Alolan) Exeggutor and that its carved into historical buildings and murals seem to have contributed to the idea that Alolan Exeggutor can be considered the "original" Exeggutor that spread to other regions and became shorter over time. You could say that Exeggutor has just been on Alola for a very long time and started in an another region, but at that point that could also apply to any other pokemon that are catchable in multiple regions (although I agree that you could argue that because its not like they planned for Alola and other regions 20 years in advance, Exeggcute being originally Johto still makes sense) To me it makes sense if Gamefreak's intention was to imply that the palm tree pokemon was originally native to where normal palm trees also grow, especially considering they probably wanted to give some of the original 151 special attention and extra lore because it was the 20th anniversary.

For references to the real world, I do take them as sort of placeholder names that the Pokemon team just didn't want to make a Pokemon equivalent for at the time. Then when they _do_ make a Pokemon equivalent of the name, they just retcon it to have always been the case. Look at Raichu's dex entries, for an example. Up until as recently as Pokemon Sun, its dex entries mention Indian Elephants, making both India and Elephants placeholder terms that "exist" in the Pokemon world. But in Gen 8, specifically Legends Arceus, it is then retconned to actually have been refering to Copperajah the whole time, whose native region is yet to be named (dex entries from both Galar and Paldea state that it is non-native to those regions; probably once an India region is made we'll see some native Copperajahs). So Mew is from "Guyana" until a South America region is made. Then, boom, it was actually from that region the whole time!

Lapras can still be native to kanto some dex entries say that it was going extinct so giving one to the player was likely a conservation effort

Personally I'd argue Eevee is native to Kalos not Unova considering how unnatural it's location is, it's in a blocked off city park, it makes more sense to me that those Eeve were imported as exotic pets(as American is prone to do)that were either released or escaped/being the descendents of those that did, it makes more sense that it would naturally be in a route not a city It also makes more sense lore wise being the first region where all of it's evolutions are available

Lapras is kind of an odd situation. It's pokedex entry for RB says "A Pokémon that has been overhunted almost to extinction. It can ferry people across the water." If it's been hunted to near-extinction, you would be unlikely to find it. That it appears in a cave in Johto almost seems happenstance; it's a safe place for it to be an unlikely be found. There could have been like 10 left in the wild for all we know, in which case--game mechanics-wise--you would never find it in the wild. It may still be a Kanto native. Heck, if it's a sea-faring pokemon, it may not be able to call any region native; it would likely call the ocean and many, many shores as being native. The same way we don't say that the blue whale is native to any one country, but that it has a specific habitat.

I think Eevee being native to Kalos is a better bet than Unova simply due to how Castelia Park is as a location, being a small patch of perfectly designed grass in the middle of a massive city, its absolutely not a natural location that any pokemon would be native to. Proven by its other encounters being Petilil & Cottonee (plants in a park who wouldve guessed), Rattata & Pidove (generic NYC animals being rats & pigeons), and then the 3 extremely out-of-place encounters being Buneary, Skitty, & Eevee. 3 pokemon with correlation to common pet types (Rabbit, Cat, Canine-like). I wouldnt call rats native to cities despite being so common there- same case with Eevee (and it being even less common).

Something worth noting is that Pokémon can just be native to more than one region. The first four main regions, Sevii, and Kitakami are all based on Japan, so naturally they're going to see heavy overlap in species distribution. For example, Lapras and Snorlax. Lapras can be found wild in Union Cave and in Four Island Cave. Snorlax is likely native to both Kanto and Sinnoh. Kitakami is between the two, and it can be found there as well. Given that Snorlax is said to return to the mountains, and we only ever explore the mountain caves, it seems likely to me that Snorlax lives on top of the mountains, where we aren't allowed to go. On Porygon, I don't think it needs to be found in the wild to considered native. It would be more appropriate to say it was invented in Kanto, given that it is entirely artificial. Following from Snorlax's logic, I think it's safe to say that there's a lit of Pokémon we can visit the natural habitat for because of game limitations. Emerald's dex confirms Kabuto isn't even actually extinct - some very rare living examples can be found. Just not by us.

Lorewise, the Kanto starters are CLEARLY meant to be from Kanto, just so rare that you don't manage to find any. That's why so many different Kanto trainers have them and are able to give them out as gifts. Let's Go was being completely consistent with the established lore, there. EDIT: Also, Snorlax is specifically stated to return to the mountains if you defeat it. Presumably those are the mountains visible near Kanto on the map that you never actually visit.

Giovanni visited Kalos and was fed up with M-Kahn destroying his team and decided to take it out on the Kantonian Kahns lol

Snorlax is said to be from "the mountains," so technically you could say it's from Sinnoh because it's the only region with a fully explorable mountain range with wild Munchlax galore.

To me, just because a Pokémon appears in the wild in a game first, doesn't mean they're from there. For example, it makes much more sense for Eevee to be native to Kalos as all of its evolutions are present there, and there is an abundance of them compared to in Castelia City, where you have to go undergroud in a sewer to get to an alleyway just to get an Eevee which is a rare encounter in the few patches of grass there. I doubt that everyone whos gifts an Eevee went to the sewers in Unova to get Eevees. Fun video though! I really like this!

Using a nearly extinct pokemon because you were the sole cause of their extermination is 100% a Giovanni top tier move.

Coconuts can float really far and i don't think alola and Kanto are that far apart

I think the starters are kinda native to their respective region but are specifically bred to be "beginner friendly", kinda like dog breeds? Although your explanation makes sense too xD

Almost all the safari zone Pokémon are also found in Poni plains, leaving me to believe that where they where all imported from

Makes sense for Tyrogue to be wild in Galar since SwSh and its evos have themes related to Attack and Defense. Gym Leader Bea using a Hitmontop makes this more solid, it's a nice compromise and balance of both styles. Meanwhile, Eevee in Unova explains why there was a League Trainer in the anime who had a team of them.

Lapras did have Dex entries pointing out how it’s hunted to near extinction, so it could easily have been Kanto native prior to that Although it definitely seems more native to the open seas and it merely ends up on various regions’ coastlines It spawns in LGPE, but so do all Kanto Pokemon except for the fossils, Mewtwo and Mew

I think Mew is a difficult specimen because in my opinion Gen I implicitly takes place in our world with Pokemon added in, as opposed to every other Gen which takes place in the Pokemon world (and Gen II then retcons Gen I in that sense). I would argue Mr. Mime is a Sinnoh Pokemon though. Gen II takes place 3 years after Gen I; enough time for the Sinnohian(?) Mr. Mime to migrate over to Kanto (which explains why Mime Jr. isn't around). Kangaskhan I think belongs to Kalos, personally. That's where you can catch them in a normal wild area for the first time.

I have a pet theory that Houndour and Houndoom are rare Kanto Natives that Team Rocket tried to cut down on the population of, so that nobody could counter their Mewtwo once Giovanni got that master ball. Once it was taken by the player, and the team was disbanded, the population began to recover over three years. Team Rocket never had a reason to cull them without a master ball, and Giovanni was the only one that knew about Mewtwo anyway, so even if they got one, they'd probably waste it on something else, like one of the Bird Trio, or one of the Beast Trio.

Further, adding to that Sinnoh theory for Snorlax, if you defeat it in battle, it says it headed back for the mountains, where else other than Mount Coronet and Sinnoh is said to be north of Kanto

14:13 Your theory isn't much of a theory anymore because of the Beta Green leak. Marowak used to have an evolution, Guardia, that carries a child that looks alot like baby Kangaskhan. Most likely, this 3rd stage evolution was redesigned as Kangaskhan. Also, in the Alola games, Cubone has a chance to call Kangaskhan for backup in SOS Battles.

I don't think Eevee is necessarily native to Unova, at least not in the location you'd suggested. In Black and White, non-Unovan Pokémon were only found in the eastern portion of the region. In the sequels that take place a few years after the events of the previous titles, Pokémon from eastern Unova are said to have migrated to new habitats in the rest of the region. Eevee being found in Castelia City's park is likely a result of migration from other places or Importation.

Wait a pokemon theory youtuber who uses valid logic, shows alternate hypothesis and isnt annoying?! which seal of hell is this.

The Charizard line I'd actually put in galar like the hitmon line. Charmander and it's evos are found exclusively in raid dens in sword/shield's hammerlock hills/lake of outrage (i find it funny the "dragon" is only found in it's den). The funny thing is that even post DLC the other two starters ARNT available normally in the wild. They were only ever available through events, gifts, and the "wild area news" which functions more like swarms than anything else (also now they aren't found in the wild AT ALL in those games as the news is stuck on the same thing until the servers go down). so that means these starters at least are basically confirmed to be from entirely different regions from each other. The closest things otherwise would be the hisui starters but they are only found in either mass outbreaks (basically swarms again) or distortions, they could even be invasive mons that adapted to the region (especially considering they only are regional on their final evo). (also obligatory "if I had a nickel for every gen 1 line originally native to galar, I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice")

Regarding Aerodactly and Hisui - they could have gone extict before the Hisui games take place, like most prehistoric animals irl went extinct way before we started mastering written language to a degree they do in Hisui. That is to say, it not being in Hisui isn't a problem for it being native to there

Personally I'd probably put Eevee as being a Sinnoh native based on the fact that you can catch them in the wild in Legends Arceus. At some point in history a group decided to catch all the wild ones in Sinnoh because profit, and the wild Eevee populations in other regions were founded by escaped or abandoned (IV breeding strikes again) domesticated good bois

Your videos are awesome dude. I love how in depth you can talk about this stuff! Cant wait for more!

I would love to see you do these with the later generations. While I don't fully agree with every choice I like how you kept it open ended. Also I feel like some could be native to an "unseen region" as they sometimes imply in the series (gen 9 legendaries as an example). For those I'd say you could guess a real life equivalent using the animal inspiration or pokedex as a reference.

Your rules are so inconsistent. You consider lore to discount some games appearances while ignoring it for others for no reason because we have to go with the first gen it shows up in no matter what. Mr Mime is a Mime. Mimes are from France. Kalos is France and it has Mr Mime and Mime Jr in it. It had an entire natural psychic mirror cave habitate they live in. It's really really stupid not prioritizing Kalos as it's native region if the whole point of this is to identify where the non native pokemon were likely originally from. Also your not considering ALL the games that can provide valid answers, like Pokémon Snaps Pokémon Island or Pokémon Colleseums Orre region. Professor Oak looks over an island in Pokémon Snap chock full of Charmander and Squirtle and Bulbasaur and their evolutions, he probably caught a few there.

Great video! I'd love to see more of these about other regions!

Wow this seems really different from most of your other content and I hope you do more! This idea for every region would be woooonderful

I love your channel, your video essays are top tier!

About Eevee, its actually NOT native to Unova at all, its explocitly stated that the changes in the encounters in Unova in B2W2 were actually due to the activities of Team Plasma in the first game + pokemon fleeing from the transfer lab ( which is why the post game routes 12-15 were infested with non Unova pokemon in BW despite the main region not having them, the idea is that those pokemon have fled the transfer lab which is located around route 14, and during the 2 year timespan those invasive pokemon spread out throughout the region ) , this means that Eevee ( along with the other B2W2 additions ) are actually INVASIVE species to Unova and not native

I bet the exeggcute migrated from alola, like IRL coconuts migrated, by floating across the ocean

Such a cool concept for a series 👀 definitely going to be keeping my eye on your channel this video and the one before are great!

Another great educational video! A lot of this goes beyond my Poké knowledge, so I can't contribute, but luckily many people are doing just that. I'm excited to see where things are heading for your channel! Good job! :D

Isn't the Old Amber with the mosquito just a Jurrasic Park reference?

That is some deep and frightening Kangaskhan lore...

I love these ideas. They open up a new aspect of pokemon I've never thought about before. Having certain pokemon not be native to the region they first appear in also makes the world seem so much more connected.

Thank you so much. Ive been thinking about this for literal year.

Great video. Would love to see more of this type of content.

Great video! You should do this with every region

Wow, you just uploaded this and its already your most viewed video by almost 2x! Thats awesome. Welcome back, btw; cant wait to see more from you, and Safia when shes out from school!

You have such a nice and soothing voice. Thank you for the great video!!

Mr mime can be native to Kalos as it makes more sense. Mimes are commonly associated with France and they are natively found in the reflection cave along with mime jr (i think)

Both Mew and Lugia were planned to be lore only pokemon. The story was supposed that we never knew where Mewtwo came from. His design also got made first before Mew. Lugia was supposed to be Pokémon X, the female guardian of the seas (or nature?) exclusive to the second movie. Bonus: I’d say Pokérus is a Johto pokemon :p Missingno. is originally Kanto in my book as well. Last note: I do believe there are some pokemon that originated from the Sevii Isles. My strongest case is Lapras, being a low encounter on Four Island. It just likes to travel to Johto once a week for… reasons =.=

Congratulations on this video exploding!! Love it when that happens to smaller channels! Defo need to continue this series

Awesome video, never questioned this kind of thing!

Somewhere in the games it says the snorlax come from the mountains. Maybe it's like after you run from the fight it says they return to the mountains? Or maybe just defeat them without catching. Anyway, the snorlax live in the mountains near Kanto that are too difficult for you to reach. But since they aren't in Mount Silver, they must be to the North. So I would say snorlax's range includes Kanto, but is focused more on the Northern part of Japan that has not seen a game yet, but goes towards Sinnoh. Which they are also present in. I read more comments here and found that scarlet/violet has Kitakami which is northern Japan and there is snorlax there. So this is just a repeat comment!

The kanto starters are all catchable in Galar, charmander is in the wild area and the others are in raids in the isle of armor

omg I love this video soooo much! Please make more like this!

on the note of exeggcutor not being able to travel, irl coconuts, which presumably the exeggcute seeds are based on, can travel for several thousand miles by floating on the waves. My theory is that exeggcutes are native to the region around alola, in the way the common coconut is native to the pacific ocean, but not specifically *just* alola. Its entirely possible that johto borders this hypothetical oceanic range, and thats why its found in the wild there

Porygon and mewtwo should be in a man-made Pokemon category

The ancient times that fossil Pokémon would be from would still likely be over 2K years before the events of Legends Arceus, seeing as Rampardos and Bastiodon are fossil Easter eggs in it.

Personally, I disagree with the "Cubone is Baby Kangaskhan" theory, for two reasons. Baby Kangaskhan are pale, whereas Cubone and Marowak are brown, and also, I'd argue that we know what a grown-up Cubone's head looks like, and it looks like Marowak. There's my hot take for the week: Marowak does not wear a skull. It just naturally has a smooth, hard, and white head. This is most clear in the shaping of the eyes and nostrils. Marowak's eyesockets are form fitting around the eyes, as opposed to Cubone's visible brown skin behind the open sockets of the skull. Same thing with the nostrils. Cubone has large, hollow nostrils on its skull, while Marowak has tiny holes, likely due to the flexible skin being able to shrink or expand the holes depending on how much air intake is needed. Furthermore, different angles of Marowak's head shows that its lower jaw is connected to the rest of the head, rather than a seperate bone, which means that the joint between skull and jaw is covered in muscle and skin. My personal theory is that baby Cubones have soft heads, like a human baby, so they wear their mother's skull as protection until their heads harden. Once the hardening happens, it is accompanied by the Cubone going bald, revealing the white skin beneath. As they grow, Marowaks may pass down their mother's skull to their babies, allowing as much as three skull wearing cubones to a litter, if ideal conditions are met. The mother's skull, and two grandmother skulls, passed down from mom and dad's childhood.

Great video! One thing I would disagree with though is the idea that Scyther and Pinsir are placed in the bug catching competition by staff. Namely because this means that the staff would be finding and removing every single one them at the end of each contest. Due to the random nature of finding these bugs, there is no way to guaruntee that you will recapture all of them after each contest, especially since it is an open air park and the pokemon could presumably just leave if they felt like it. Contrary to what you said, I think it's entirely possible that these pokemon do actually live nearby and come out in response to the bug catching contest, in the same way that raccoons respond to trash bins being put out on garbage day. Scyther and Pinsir might show up specifically because a bunch of humans are chasing bugs out of their hiding spots in the tall grass, kind of like a dog chasing birds out of the brush so a hunter can see them (or maybe they just grab people's lunches that they've left out, like a bear at a campsite).

Isn't the bug catching contest inspired by beetle fighting hobby many Japanese kids in IRL Kyoto take up during the summer(hence Heracross being a thing). That might point to the day specificity for bug catching contest being a game-play abstraction of seasons which aren't a thing in Gen 2.

I love how there are two Snorlax in Gen 2 with one being catchable and Red having the other.

Just stumbled across this series! It’s very cool to think about the regional dexes in this way, would love to see you explore the other gens and place Pokémon like Houndour. Since it appears only in Kanto but only in gen 2, as you mentioned, does that make it a Kanto Pokémon a la Mr Mime? So many questions

Every since I was a kid, I imagined starter pokemon as almost special breeds that essentially are created by the government or some sort of agency tasked with establishing a rubric or formula for kids interested in becoming trainers. With Legend's Arceus, it almost proved my theory for me. Like basically they found these actual wild Pokemon that follow a consistent path (3 evolution stages) and then they bred them to balanced with each other.

Quick note on Exeggutor, its pokedex entries for its Alolan form in gens 8 and 9 state that it outgrew its psychic abilities and awakened its dragon typing, meaning that you're right, it is not native to Alola like many think, that region is just the best environment for it

It's very possible that Exeggcute was imported to Alola from Kanto & Johto, given it's a very popular vacation spot. The invasive kanto pokemon within the region also could be evidence for this. Though, they could just be from Exeggutor Island in a sort of Galapagos thing, being isolated from the rest of the world.

For Eevee, we have to remember that Black and White 2 are after the great emigration of Pokémon. The first Black and White had only Unova Pokémon until the post-game, but the sequels opened the door to have a lot more past-Gen Pokémon available. So Eevee’s origin might actually be traced to Hisui, where it can be caught in the wild.

In fire red and leaf green, if you fail to catch a snorlax, after the battle ends, it says that it “gives a huge yawn and returns to the mountains”. Given that the only mountainous areas in Kanto are in the north (mt moon, victory road, rock tunnel, and technically mt silver) and Sinnoh is canonically at least northwest of Kanto via the sinjoh ruins map, it would make sense that it originated from there

About the starters, can’t they be found in galar’s dlc? Also, they are found in yellow, which is canon, especially since you counted farfetch’d from yellow.

legends arceus was set like 200 yrs ago why would there be prehistoric pokemon just walking around ig you might be referring to the space time rifts but even then not rlly solid proof

Kangaskhan is strange indeed. A pokemon that carries the baby version of itself in its pouch - it hatches from the egg like that when you breed one.

Gen 2 introduced baby Pokémon. So if the idea was for Cubone to be a baby Kangaskhan, they probably would have introduced it then. Additionally, Kangaskhan is normal type, while Cubone and Marrowak are ground types. That, along with all the Pikachu clones we’ve seen, and convergent evolution species from Paldea lead me to believe that they aren’t related. My headcannon for Cubone’s skull helmet has been that it’s a naturally occurring horn that covers the head. It’s a part of their biology, hence why they all have it, even while both parents still live. Especially since the skull helmet changes shape and size when evolving, as well as allowing Cubone’s own skull to fit inside it. The bone is likely just a random bone gifted to the child so they can protect themselves, as many reptiles have a very hands off approach to parenting. It could also be why the helmet-horn would be mistaken for a separate skull.

I always find it strange that fans find that Earth and "Pokémon World" must be mutually exclusive. There's nothing stopping the "regions" being a term used to describe a tournament region or a geographical region as opposed to a country name. We know the first 4 regions are parts of Japan, and almost every area in both mainline and spin offs are based off of real places. Has it been retconned? Maybe. But it stands to reason the geography at the very least is identical to the real world with proportions being changed for the sake of gameplay. Sizes of cities being smaller and population too makes sense considering it's an alternative reality where pokemon exist, and pokemon are going to make it much harder for humans to expand.

Dismissing the Let's Go games makes this video dumb.

One thing that's worth noting is that there are at least 4 distinct canons in the main series games(The Original Timeline, The Advanced Timeline, The Mega Timeline, and The Go Timeline) Citing info from across timelines is bound to cause problems as the very rules of how the world worked change dramatically. Notably, The Original Timeline(sometimes called the Tajiri Canon) takes place in the (mostly) real world, places like France and Guyana and China exist. Real animals also exist and share ancestors with Pokemon. Also Legendaries are just really powerful Pokemon with a lot of Myth around them. Meanwhile, starting in the Advanced Timeline(Or the Masuda Canon, as he took over in RS and retconned a lot of stuff), the Pokemon world is distinct from our own, real world locations were gradually purged from mention, real animals don't exist, and Legendaries are just straight up gods now. So if you're taking a 'Gen 1 first' approach from this video, they literally CAN'T be native to places like Hoenn or Galar. Those don't exist in Tajiri Canon. It would be Kyushu or England. If you ever do a third video I'd suggest diving into the Gen 1 Pokedex book.

Oh I hope you go on to do this with other regions, I love this concept like with Corphish and Quaxly being from other regions we dont know yet

One thing I've always wondered is 'where does Togepi come from?' Aside from Hisui, has it ever made a regular wild appearance excluding things like radar or being stuffed into raid battles? Usually you get them from gift eggs, which means the species could exist entirely in domestication. Only problem with that is hatching that Togepi egg in gen 2 was what established they were breedable to begin with.

Wow, i appreciate that you're responding so well to all of the comments on the video! There's a lot of great discussion happening down here. With the points people are making about Eevee - I think i would actually put it down not as "native to a region", but instead a "domesticated pokemon" that people carry around with them from region to region. Whenever we see eevee in the wild, it seems as though they're feral creatures that have escaped, and there's someone nearby who's breeding them: ie. in Legends: Arceus, we see eevee being taken care of by both the Diamand and Pearl clans, as both Adaman and Irida use them. The Eevee from the gen 1 games specifically is pretty clearly descended from Johtonian eevee though, brought over by Bill with his Kimono Girl family connections!

Ooh, this is fun to think about. My personal theory for Aerodactyl is that it may have actually been native to ancient Kalos, for a couple reasons! It's the only region except Johto where you can find Old Amber naturally. You find it in Glittering Cave, where researchers from Ambrette Town's fossil lab dig for fossils. The other big one is that the Pokedex implies that Mega Aerodactyl is actually much closer, if not identical, to Aerodactyl's original living form, pre-fossilization. That's interesting to me. Because Mega Evolution is so closely tied to Kalos, and the amber is easier to find in the natural environment here than anywhere else, I think this area was its home. In HGSS, you can actually find Old Amber in the Ruins of Alph, where there are also slide puzzles featuring the Kanto fossils. It might be possible that the amber was brought there by whoever built the ruins, but there could've been a small population of Aerodactyl around ancient Johto, or maybe they just migrated sometimes. The fact that it only becomes available in Sinnoh during the postgame actually makes me think Dialga + Palkia did some timespace shenanigans or something :p

I've always had the impression that starters are extinct in the wild - they only exist in captivity. So the starters are probably originally from that region, they just can't be found in the wild anymore.

On the fossil pokemon, Crown Tundra's pokedex entry for omanyte is: "Because some Omanyte manage to escape after being restored or are released into the wild by people, this species is becoming a problem." So it can be assumed that the reason for their appearance is just because people are reviving them and they're escaping into the wild, where they can breed naturally.

I do love this idea of determining the true origin of pokemon that show up in each generation that are not actually catchable in the wild. I kinda played around with the idea of doing it myself but never really sat down to actually do it.

I love this topic and it’s something I’ve done a bit of looking into myself. The newer games such as Galar and Paldea certainly make it more challenging, with the open design of those regions the spawns feel like everything but the kitchen sink. Starters are native to their respective regions, in captive breeding for the purpose of being a starter. I personally consider LGPE cannon, and Bulbasaur would naturally be found in areas such as Viridian Forest, just were not in the spawn tables in Gen 1 to make the starters feel special. I think they would work as a rare spawn. Farfetch’d I’d argue for Johto. It is catchable in Kanto in Yellow but like LGPE, the canonicity is up to debate. Yellow is based on the anime with Pikachu being the starter and cameos of Jesse and James, not quite the same Kanto we explore during R/B/G. Given the proximity of Kanto and Johto, I could see them being available in Kanto before and going extinct or endangered by the time of the games but I’m still going with Johto. I agree with Exeggcutor. Johto being the native region thus far and just so happens to do better in a climate like Alola, we know Johtoians have established routes and settlements with the Alola region. I don’t disagree with them being able to act like real life Coconuts and float/raft between regions but if that’s the case then why don’t we see them in other regions like Kanto, Hoenn and the Sevii islands? Tyrogue & Co. I can see Galar but I don’t dismiss the PokeRadar. It’s a tool to help find Pokemon, they could be rare but still be native. I could go either way, even both regions on this one. I think due to their origin, an Asian region makes more sense and like I mentioned I have problems with Galars spawns. Rhyhorn like Farfetch’d I’m not counting yellow. Which would put it in Sinnoh going by first appearances in games. Kangaskhan I don’t believe are Kanto Pokemon. I believe the population in Rock Tunnel is from the Safari Zone after it’s closure and Rock Tunnel was the most habitable place for them in Kanto. Their appearance in Unova were escapes from the PokeTransfer. Kalos would be the next one, they feel a bit weird there only being found in that cave and not found in surrounding routes or regions (Paldea). Alola feels more like a home at-least from what we’ve seen so far. Mr. Mime I believe is.. Going by the game spawns Sinnoh. I believe the population on Route 21 is from Team Rocket importing them to the Game Corner in Celadon and a ship being shipwrecked causing some of the pokemon to be found there. It would’ve been awesome to have an explorable shipwreck and show Team Rocket was importing those pokemon but that's just my head cannon at this point. The argument can be made for Kalos with the french inspiration and reflection cave but say they are imported, Sinnoh is much closer then Kalos. I feel like Scyther and Pinsir fit better in Alola but I can get behind Sinnoh. If not both, the first appearance is Sinnoh but pokemon can be native to multiple regions. Jynx is Kanto and Johto at-least. But if you want to go by first appearance then Kanto. Agreed with Tauros and Johto. See in the comments you agreed to Lapras just being a worldwide sea pokemon and I agree. Eevee is Kalos as I’ve seen you agree in the comments, but also in the route you can find it you can also find all the evolution stones iirc so it makes it a perfect place. Agree with Aerodactyl though possibly its range was also in Kanto and Johto. Same with Snorlax, especially since it’s also found in Kitakami which, based on the real life geography, would be between Kanto/Johto and Sinnoh. Yes to Dratini in Johto. Mew though I would say Lapras is a worldwide pokemon. Faraway island (Guyana-adjacent?) is it’s “home” that we’ve seen so far in games though. Awaiting your Johto upload now to compare notes.

When BW came out I noticed that Riolu can be caught in Unova, but you only get one as a gift in Sinnoh. Kanto isn't the only region that has non-native Pokemon.

I've been waiting for this all year

very nice video! please make more essays like this

On the note of scyther and pinsir appearing only during the bug-catching contest, Canalave Library has an ancient Sinnoh myth that has a corresponding myth in Legends Arceus called "Sinnoh Region's Mythology", which offers an explanation that pokemon appear in tall grass because they want to help humans. In the anime (which is a different canon, but can be used to make inferences at times), this is supported, with them stating at one point that wild pokemon appear before trainers because they want to be caught or are jealous of trainer's pokemon, and the catching process is a test to see if the trainer is worthy of it. I think this can offer a good explanation of why scyther and pinsir only appear during a bug-catching contest - they *do* actually notice all of the trainers out and about catching bug pokemon all at once, and leap out to try to be caught by ones that can prove that they're worth being able to train them.

@Babu's Game Room You can actually catch wild porygon on Route 7 in Pokemon Let's Go! Pikachu and Eevee. I know this since I managed to acquire a shiny through hunting for it, so it is indeed possible to find porygon wild in Kanto, but just like Farfetch'd even if it only appears in one area it should still be deemed as from the Kanto region. Looks like you may need to make a third video explaining this or potentially add it in a future video, I hope this helps at some point! I'd be interested in seeing this kind of discussion for other pokemon from the other generations. Great videos, I enjoyed watching and listening to them, you've found another subscriber, keep up the good work!

absolutely need you to do this for every Region!

I do want to point out that mosquitos don’t exactly have a large range of flight. Like, the largest range that a single mosquito can travel in its lifetime is around 50 miles maximum, and if there was enough genetic material left in the mosquito for a full revival that means that it wasn’t digested, which means the mosquito got caught in resin relatively soon after feeding on Aerodactyl. That means that wherever the amber is found would have been within the range of Aerodactyl’s habitat.

The lore on Mega Aerodactyl as well as the fossil-rich environment of Kalos leads me to believe that he may actually be a Kalos native, perhaps Legends Z-A will shed some light on that, it’s certainly one of the more curious megas

For Exeggcute, you forget that Humans could have easily taken Exeggcute from Alola to Kanto, and after the Safari Zone shut down, a rogue population made it's way over to Johto where they managed to take hold in the wild.

From what I remember the Crown Tundra DLC for Sword and Shield implied that the new forms of Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres are actually their original forms, and the Kanto ones are forms that were result of adaptation after migrating

One thing to remember, the island of japan did not exist during the time of Aerodactyl so the fossil would have definitely come from another region. This is supported by kabuto and omminite being early sea life that would have lived on the bottom of the ocean at the time. Other than that, great video! 👍

Here is an idea for Mr. Mime: It's native to Kanto, but like real-life-birds migrates during certain seasons. During Gen 1, it's a season where it's gone, during Gen 2, it's a season where it's there. UNLESS you want to claim it migrates to Sinnoh to breed (explaining why its pre-evolutions are there, but not in Kanto during Gen 2), making it technically a native to both, or to only Sinnoh. Depending how you want to see "native".

On the topic of Exeggutor, coconuts have actually been known to migrate by simply drifting off into the ocean and washing up on foreign shores.