For the Pokemon unfamiliar: that is what happens all the time.
Meta's in the first year of a Pokemon generation tend to have a lot more Pokemon diversity. In games without mons not being in game at all, like Sun and Moon or X and Y, you can only use mons in the game's native Pokedex at the start and thus a lot more mons are run than usual.
For example Sun and Moon had Golduck be a prominent Rain Sweeper because many other Swift Swim Pokemon weren't in the game.
This sort of thing isn't new: Butterfree would be getting that treatment even without Dexit because absent mons wouldn't be tournament legal.
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For the Pokemon unfamiliar: that is what happens all the time.
Meta's in the first year of a Pokemon generation tend to have a lot more Pokemon diversity. In games without mons not being in game at all, like Sun and Moon or X and Y, you can only use mons in the game's native Pokedex at the start and thus a lot more mons are run than usual.
For example Sun and Moon had Golduck be a prominent Rain Sweeper because many other Swift Swim Pokemon weren't in the game.
This sort of thing isn't new: Butterfree would be getting that treatment even without Dexit because absent mons wouldn't be tournament legal.