ok yeah tbh when u describe it that it makes more sense. less like random chance and more like trial and error and testing out hypotheses?
like for example, maybe certain stone evolutions were seen in the wild because those stones were common in that area, but ppl who owned the earlier forms of those pokemon could never get theirs to evolve, so they started trying to expose the owned pokemon to the stones and boom! evolution!
honestly idk who called this stuff evolution because it makes my brain spin a bit, evolution is smth that happens over thousands of years not over the course of the day with a stone or some training; but idk what i'd call it instead so i guess it works i just gotta keep getting used to it
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like for example, maybe certain stone evolutions were seen in the wild because those stones were common in that area, but ppl who owned the earlier forms of those pokemon could never get theirs to evolve, so they started trying to expose the owned pokemon to the stones and boom! evolution!
honestly idk who called this stuff evolution because it makes my brain spin a bit, evolution is smth that happens over thousands of years not over the course of the day with a stone or some training; but idk what i'd call it instead so i guess it works i just gotta keep getting used to it