So my theory is:
unlike most video game franchises, who polish and refine their games before launch, Pokémon is constantly working towards the “next best thing” possible on Nintendo hardware. Creating a consistent stream of “new”in order to sustain consumer interest.

Since generation 6 they have been cranking out a half baked game to play on the latest hardware. Gen 6 and 7.1 were prototypes for USUM the best they could produce for the 3DS. Gen 8 & 9 were them polishing and perfecting Gen 10. The switch launch, while very successful because of the pandemic, was also just the beta version of Switch 2.

Since they “peaked”with their third versions for GB, GBA and DS, we haven’t gotten third versions ever again. DS’s life cycle complicates my theory because it lasted so long they just kept improving on the Pokémon Platinum build, we can agree B2W2 are really fantastic, “peak” Pokémon games.
3DS had sequels, SM was a spiritual sequel to XY and perfected in USUM, utilizing the entire capabilities of the 3DS over the course of its lifetime.
With the switch we no longer got “third versions” we got DLC. With each DLC we can see them polishing and perfecting the original formula of the games.

Raids in SwSh were polished and tweaked for Tera Raids in SV. I could bet $10 (I’m incredibly broke) that in W&W we will get another iteration of co-op Raid battles and they will be polished and perfected.

The Pokémon Legends Arceus game was a soft launch of sorts. Pitching the idea of how they wanted battles to work in this hypothetical “perfect” switch game. In Legends 2 they improved on the battle system now including Abilities and held items staples of the Pokémon franchise for years. Easing us into their vision of what Gen 10 is going to be.

Proof:
• Breath of the Wild was made for Wii U. Switch launched so that the ultimate Zelda game (at the time) would run smoothly and be enjoyed more. Zelda devs are more serious about creating the best games but aren’t afraid to wait.
• Since the first generation Nintendo higher-ups have directly influenced the production of games.

Pokémon has a hold on our brains by constantly introducing more and more and creating a consistent stream of new content. For thirty years my brain has been needing to catch them all, an impossible task.

To contextualize, humans cannot understand Pokemon and can only hear their names being repeated over and over. However, this is untrue when Pokemon communicate with each other as it seems they perfectly understand interpersonal communication amongst eachother.

Human culture is designed with them being the superior beings that shape and dominate world because of “superior intellengnce, proficiency with tools, and skill in selfishness and opportunity and adaptability”. When in Pokemon reality, humans and Pokemon evolved together. But humans with their superior skill, put Pokemon below them and use them as pets, livestock, or as a lesser being.

I believe this mental block that humans are naturally given, is a curse by arceus that prevents them from communicating with Pokemon. Because communicating with other species is a symbol of bond, strength in others, and unity with all creatures with the same superiority.

My solution? If people changed their ethics to compare Pokemon not as a lease being than humans, but on par and sometimes superior to humans in some fields, they can lift this mental barrier that allows them to unlock interpersonal and philosophical enlightenment, and allow themselves to understand Pokemon perfectly as a symbol of this recognition of strong life.

Pokemon can understand human language, they can do thing humans can too, and some Pokemon have the intelligence farther than humans have. But humans have made them a lesser being by using them as pets, battles, and more that put them in a lower bar compared to humans.

While I'm not saying that Pokemon should dominate humans, I believe humans should redefine living with Pokemon.

There's living with Pokemon, and there's living WITH Pokemon.

Only then can humans lift their mental block and change their culture which can allow their brains to adapt and fully communicate with Pokemon just like Pokemon did to each other by comparing each other to themselves.

I'm not the best with explaining this, but I was rewatching the series for the umpteenth time, including the final special series sending Ash off.

And that final episode where Ash goes to see his dad but misses him, I heard Delia saying his father had an 'emergency' and had to leave right away and quite far. It can't be Giovanni then, TR headquarters AND his league work for his gym both are stationed in Kanto. His work isn't far at all. So that kinda ticks off Giovanni, as much as that is a beloved theory.

But then I noticed and remembered something. ALL of Masters 8 and Journeys in general were calling Lance the NEW Kanto and Johto champion.

I mean, it's just a conspiracy theory, and if you have any other reasons to go against this OR back this theory I'd love to hear it. I had to send my thoughts on this as soon as I had them, if I didn't I'd forget as I have diagnosed ADHD and forget easily.

Oh, but this does kinda support the Red as his dad theory since I think the lore is Red defeated Lance briefly but left to go to Mt. Silver? I mean, it has plot holes, I know that, I kinda rushed to make this in hopes others might help me cause this was a sudden kinda thought, but in the games Red defeats Blue, becomes champion, but then passes it on to Lance. But I think in the anime Lance was an Elite Four member but then again it again would still fit. Just saying.

Sorry this is kinda more of a rambled theory...sorry if you waste time reading it.

Okay for starters how i had this idea? simple! I started to notice the weird connection between Unova and Galar just thinking to myself: "okay that makes sense England colonized United States in real life,so i guess it makes their pokemon contraparts tombe the same"

Until i found out that Reshiram,Zekrom and Kyurem have different and unique pokedex entries in Sword and Shield for some reason:

Reshiram

Sword: Flames spew from its tail as it flies through the sky like a jet airplane. It's said that

this Pokémon will scorch the world.

Shield: According to myth, if people ignore truth and let themselves become consumed by

greed, Reshiram will arrive to burn their kingdoms down.

Zekrom

Sword:When the interior part of its tail spins like a motor, Zekrom can generate many

bolts of lightning to blast its surroundings.

Shield: Mythology tells us that if people lose the righteousness in their hearts, their

kingdoms will be razed by Zekrom's lightning.

Before showing Kyurem entry in SwSh,let's give a closer look to their entries.

They are strangely specific,it would be only thing if it was only "if people ignore the truth" but is the consumed by greed part that takes me,there is many things that makes people ignore the truth,why greed in specific?

And then there is Zekrom that has almost nothing to do with ideals it's just if people lose righteousness.

(An ideal can be good or evil,a person can lose their righteousness and still have their evil ideals intact)

Another thing is that while the previous entries is said that they can scorch the world it isn't said that they will in certain circumstances,especially when this entries mostly just mentions the word kingdoms.

It's also worth noticing how it's said "Reshiram will arrive" as if it wasn't already there,so this certainly dosen't refer to any past event in Inova when Reshiram burned it or anything like that.I mean in both black/black 2 and white/white 2 there is no entry that mentions this myth both for Reshiram and Zekrom.

I would also like to mention how this more mysterious entries are in Shield and not Sword, but i will go back on this later.

Now let's look at Kyurem:

Sword:Dwelling within it is a power even greater than that of Reshiram or Zekrom, but the

extreme cold keeps that power bound.

Shield: it appears that this Pokémon uses its powers over ice to freeze its own body in

order to stabilize its cellular structure.

White Kyurem

Sword: the sameness of Reshiram's and Kyurem's genes allowed Kyurem to absorb

Reshiram. Kyurem can now use the power of both fire and ice.

Shield: It has foreseen that a world of truth will arrive for people and Pokémon. It strives

to protect that future.

Black Kyurem

Sword: It's said that this Pokémon battles in order to protect the ideal world that will exist

in the future for people and Pokémon.

Shield:the sameness of Zekrom's and Kyurem's genes allowed Kyurem to absorb

Zekrom. Kyurem can now use the power of both electricity and ice.

Interesting there is NO mention of this myth,not mention of specific conditions that may make Kyurem destroy a kingdom,only that it has foreseem a world of truth/an ideal world and that it strives and battles to protect this future.

So whatever happened Kyurem wasn't involved.

You probably are seeing where i'm going,after all you read the title.

The Galarian-Unovian war

It's not unusual to pokemon to take inspiration in real life history for their regions,key word:inspiration,it dosen't mean they write something similar to it at all,after all Unova(the pkmn equivalent of USA) has a medieval history.

Now it's an fact that Galar has LOTS of references to Unova,many Unovian pokemon are there,the unique pokedex entries,the Swords of justice in the DLC.

Now that means that Galar colonized Unova? I honestly don't believe.

Unova is at the very least 3000 years old and while Unova name means from latin "new 1".It's japanese name means "one variety" in reference to it's diversity and if we remember that Unova had a civil war among the sons of the Twin heros,it makes sense that they had a "new union" after that,this is not a Hissui situation.

Source: Bulpapedia page about Unova in the Etymology section.

But i do believe they had a war in the past,one that Galar started out of greed,probably having the same plans for Unova that the english did in real life,however this is where the nuclear weapon theory begins.

Let me tell you a story:

The two dragons seeing the destruction that Galar brought to their region,the region that they united as the original dragon made,decided to take matters into their own hands and fly towards the region of their invader.

Reshiram burned Galar(similar to the great fire of London in 1666),since in it's judgement Galar's people were consumed by greed and ignored the truth.(what truth it is,its unknown)

Zekrom razed Galar with it's lightning,maybe even striking ships with thunder,since in it's judgment Galar's people had lost their righteousness.

And after such an attack the ended the lifes of many people and pokemon,they ended the war once for all,Galar surrenders and stops their evil doings in Unova.

Now if this sounds familiar,let me rewrite this in a more vague way:

In the past a island nation invaded another nation,in retaliation the invaded nation sends fire from hell and lightning that made that caused destruction as never seem before

The island nation in pure fear of them seending an third strike,they surrender and the war is over.

I guess now it's more obvious,while the context is drastically different,it can be basically descrived the same way.

(Remembered when i said it was curious that the entries were in Shield, well what shields were made to do? To defend!)

And it's not just that:

Zekrom has eletric type and destroys using lightning,one of the primary forces of nuclear explosions,is the shock waves and in a way you could say that a bomb is similar to lighting,it comes from the sky and it vaporizes it's target without any mercy.

Reshiram has fire type,one of the primary forces unleashed in a nuclear explosion, second only in intensity to the crushing overpressure of the blast but causing far more damage over a much larger radius, is fire.

And then there is Kyurem that while dispite probably not being envolved in this attack considering it's galarian pokedex entry,is part of the Tao trio.

In real life after bombing Japan twice United States was thinking in make a third attack,but at the end they never went ahead with the plan.

Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third\_Shot

Plus Kyurem has an ice type,one of theorized collateral effects of nuclear bombs being used in excess is "Nuclear winter" and in a way Kyurem is the collateral effect of the original dragon separation into Zekrom and Reshiram.

Zekrom and Reshiram are also one of the strongest legendaries and they were for an part of Unova history,owned by their kings and princes

But wait there is more,Yamask is an pokemon that is found in Unova that has an Galarian varient

pokemon who's pokedex says that it was once human.

(plus the galarian Yamask is basically just an regular Yamask but in a clay slab)

Unovian Yamask

Sword:It wanders through ruins by night, carrying a mask that's said to have been the

face it had when it was still human.

Shield:The spirit of a person from a bygone age became this Pokémon. It rambles through ruins, searching for someone who knows its face.

Galarian Yamask

Sword: clay slab with cursed engravings took possession of a Yamask.The slab is said to be absorbing the Yamask's dark power.

Shield:It's said that this Pokémon was formed when an ancient clay tablet was drawn to a vengeful spirit.

There is also the relation that Kalos has to Unova,that shows that both regions were historically close partners, i mean 300 years ago Kalos made an palace with Reshiram and Zekrom,why would someone put the statues of legendaries that have nothing to do with your region in your great palace of not out of respect.

This is likely an reference of the alliance of France and USA that was made during the independecy and war against England.

Unova and kalos could have become partners during the Galarian-Unovian war,who knows.

And again this castle was build only 300 years ago and the whole Az shit was 3000 years ago when the original dragon was being divided between the twin heros in Unova.

And before anyone says that my theory is too dark to be true,remember that Az's backstory and war crimes exist and that they weren't that much different from what i think was the Galarian-Unovian war.

But that's it,that's my dumb theory,it may gain more evidence in Legends galar or be completely destroyed,who knows.

But hey this is just a theory, A pokemon theory.

Hydragon is based off a the hydra which if you cut off its head 2 more grow back

Ghestis cut off the head of a zwellios which made it evolve early and hate him boosting frustrations attack power