MissingNo. 1
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So a little background that is, by this point, pretty well-known but should probably be stated as a reminder to get the thread going. If you haven't completed the ORAS Delta Episode yet and you mind spoilers, do not click the spoiler tag:
So it seems pretty safe to assume that the events in the Megaverse are contemporary with the events in the non-Megaverse, just with Mega Evolution added into the Megaverse that enhanced the plot (or in Kalos's case, made the difference of whether the events actually occurred at all). So in other words, ORAS (Hoenn in the Megaverse) occurred several years before XY. However, I've done some thinking into this and realized that there are evidence that suggest this may not be the case (and of course, evidence that suggest otherwise as well). It seems that there are elements in ORAS that suggests that Hoenn in the Megaverse is contemporary with Kalos somehow, despite that it makes no sense in terms of time/event progression. I'll list out the evidence that suggests this may be the case and then list out the ones that doesn't indicate this is true.
XY/ORAS are contemporary
XY/ORAS aren't contemporary
I apologize if I missed any other evidence. If I did (and I probably did), please add them to this thread. I wanted to know what other people thought about this. Most people currently seem to think that ORAS occurred several years before XY but there seems to be hints in the games that this may not be the case. I wanted to bring these hints to everyone's attention so that they can be either brought into the light or debunked due to flaws in my arguments.
There are at least two universes in the Pokemon world: one where the Kalos war occurred and thus created Mega Evolutions (XY/ORAS) and one where the Kalos war did not occur and thus Mega Evolutions don't exist (Generations III-V). The timeline for the non-Mega Evolution universe has been confirmed as: RSE/FRLG --> DPPt/HGSS --> BW --> B2W2. There is a three-year lapse within the first arrow, an unknown length of time lapsing within the second arrow, and a two-year lapse within the third arrow. Also with the confirmation, we got that XY occurred at the same time as B2W2 (or at least the Unova region in the Megaverse). So people have concluded that with the current knowledge about the Megaverse that we currently have, the timeline for the Megaverse is ORAS --> XY, with the time lapse being the same amount of time that lapsed between RSE and B2W2 in the non-Megaverse.
So it seems pretty safe to assume that the events in the Megaverse are contemporary with the events in the non-Megaverse, just with Mega Evolution added into the Megaverse that enhanced the plot (or in Kalos's case, made the difference of whether the events actually occurred at all). So in other words, ORAS (Hoenn in the Megaverse) occurred several years before XY. However, I've done some thinking into this and realized that there are evidence that suggest this may not be the case (and of course, evidence that suggest otherwise as well). It seems that there are elements in ORAS that suggests that Hoenn in the Megaverse is contemporary with Kalos somehow, despite that it makes no sense in terms of time/event progression. I'll list out the evidence that suggests this may be the case and then list out the ones that doesn't indicate this is true.
XY/ORAS are contemporary
- Someone in the ORAS Pokemon Center stated that there used to be second floors in the centers that were used for link battles and trades (I think she said it was a decade ago?). This is a throwback to RSE, obviously, but keeping in mind the Pokemon timeline canon, it seems to indicate that ORAS is not happening contemporaneously as RSE.
- You can battle and trade between ORAS and XY without any implication that there is a warp in time (due to battling and trading between games that occur in different points in time). The fact that you were able to trade between RSE/FRLG and DPPt/HGSS was the sole implication that Hoenn/Kanto and Sinnoh/Johto happened contemporaneously before the timeline was confirmed. This may be implication that XY and ORAS happened contemporaneously.
- The Battle Maison's Battle Chatelaines look exactly the same in XY and ORAS, indicating they haven't aged between the two events. And we did have an instance where two of the same facilities existed in two different locations at the same time (the Johto/Sinnoh Battle Frontier) so apparently existing in two different places at once is possible in the Pokemon universe (so it's not an argument that XY and ORAS couldn't have happened at the same time).
XY/ORAS aren't contemporary
- Looker appeared in both ORAS and XY under completely different circumstances (he suffered from amnesia in ORAS while he was fully functional and able to do his job in XY, indicating that XY and ORAS do not happen simultaneously and quite some time passed between the two events). We know that Looker cannot exist in two places at once seeing as how he didn't appear in B2W2 since he was in Kalos at the time (B2W2 and XY happened at the same time, albeit in different universes).
- (Referencing the second bullet in the above category) However, you also have to remember that BW and B2W2 are compatible with each other, which indicates being compatible does not mean they occurred at the same time. So the compatibility between XY and ORAS could be evidence that the two events are contemporary but BW/B2W2 showed that two games being compatible does not necessarily mean that they occur simultaneously.
- I don't remember where but ORAS did mention that the Royal Unova was under construction at the time. The Royal Unova is complete by the time of XY (since XY is contemporary with B2W2 where the Royal Unova is completed).
- It's just common sense! Just with the exception of Mega Evolution, Primal Reversion and the Delta Episode, RSE and ORAS are almost mirror images of each other. How could the difference of whether an ancient war occurred, an ultimate weapon was built and a battle mechanism was in existence perfectly shift the birth of characters, regional events and plans set forward by villainous teams towards the future with the same amount of time having lapsed? What I mean is that Brendan and May are the same age in RSE and ORAS (alongside pretty much every other characters), Team Magma/Aqua set forth their plans during Brendan/May's adventures and just with a couple exceptions such as Mauville City and Hoenn Pokemon Centers, every location in Hoenn seem to appear the same for the most part and have been in existence for the same amount of time between RSE and ORAS. It seems unlikely that the existence of Mega Evolution caused the events of Hoenn to occur a decade (or however amount of years) after it would have occurred if Mega Evolution didn't exist.
I apologize if I missed any other evidence. If I did (and I probably did), please add them to this thread. I wanted to know what other people thought about this. Most people currently seem to think that ORAS occurred several years before XY but there seems to be hints in the games that this may not be the case. I wanted to bring these hints to everyone's attention so that they can be either brought into the light or debunked due to flaws in my arguments.