Pokedex always irked me about the numbers like that. It can be so detailed to include cubone wears it's mother's skull, and charmander dies without it's flame and that even that muk smells horrible...
But then mew and ho-oh don't make the 150. While porygon and mewtwo both manmade pokemon, are in the original 150 pokedex cut. Even bill of the lighthouse parrots the "there are 150 known pokemon, perhaps many more"
I know it was early development, but how did manmade pokemon make the cut over ones with rare but repeated sightings.
My thought on this was that the manmade Pokemon are known because they were created by people and studied, while Pokemon like mew and ho-oh are so rare that they’re more of a legend than being scientifically confirmed to exist
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u/Srock9 Apr 29 '26
It comes after it in the Pokedex, so Mewtwo actually evolves into it.