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that's always possible. i guess we'll have to wait and see what GameFreak says. for now, i'm probably going to keep it in the sort of Steel/Dark/Fairy retcons where they're heavily explained in their debut, but then aren't mentioned as much. or hell, even the Special split, which, off the top of my head, was not explained through lore at all?I am extremely hesitant to drag up this issue again, but a thought that occurred to me recently was, maybe he meant historical examples of Mega Evolution, and it was just badly translated? Like pseudo-mythic legends about Great-great-Gurkinn and Lucario. Even in XY, I thought it was absurd to expect that nobody had ever come to Kalos and just, you know, took a Mega Stone and a Key Stone and left (in fact, ORAS says that Steven did exactly that), especially in the hundreds of years since it was discovered. Perhaps the other regions just don't have any stories of Mega Evolution being happened upon in nature like that within their boundaries? The story about Rayquaza was a bit different from the Mega Evolution that people know (and it was kept secret by the Draconids), and Zinnia says stuff like, "That sure sounds kinda like Mega Evolution, huh?", and the burst of energy from the Cave of Origin is fairly recent and well-documented history. So under that logic, Kalos could still be the only region with traditional examples of Mega Evolution being dug up in the distant past as if the materials necessary had always been there without a known cause (which turns out to have been the Ultimate Weapon).