@buru5 @rootcompute I don't know if it is, but honestly my entire life I played Pokemon on *alternative means* without any chance for pokemon transfer, trading or any sort of multiplayer, until I bought a 3DS for Alpha Sapphire. I'm used to being uh, isolated, when I play those games. Hell, last time I got an itch to do so, I found ROMhacks that allow tradeless evolutions because I was tired of being locked out of those specific forms.
That's just uh, normal Pokemon for me, that's what I wanted to say.