I was thinking more about Blacksteam being the only instance in the game where someone commands their Pokemon to use a 'move' on a human (right?) (Dragon Rush on the player character and Superpower on Amaria). Cuz like if that's possible, a lot of events could happen very differently.
To be clear, I don't actually care about this stuff (making the game more 'logical'), the game makes enough sense to me already.
Of course, we have to make our own interpretations of a lot of stuff in fantasy works. For example, when Gardevoir creates a 'black hole', I think of it is as some advanced Shadow Ball that can send people into the 'shadow realm'.
Anyway, in the latest devblog post, since people are actually taking the 807 number to heart:
- First of all, 807 is the number of mons in the dex upto Zeraora. That doesn't include Megas, Alolan variants or Formes (e.g., Cherrim has 2 Formes, Lycanroc has 3, Furfrou has 10). The number goes up to 984 including these.
- Second, all of the above actually have 2 icons instead of 1, which they alternate between on the party screen. Most of them might just go up and down in position, but there are also some like Crobat:
Also the number of eggs for these mons is 364, so that's 364 egg icons, then 364 shiny egg sprites, and then 364 shiny egg icons; even then there are those that have been redone.
So what I'm saying is, Smeargletail actually scores an 11 out of 10 on the madlad scale