Well if you want to get technical it's 15 years since he caught one with the gag of affectionately hurting him with Cacnea since James caught Carnivine when he was young.
Yeah, it is bad writing, but I still feel like the writers would have given us a little more if they actually wanted us to believe that they were forced to leave them behind, but nothing. It really does seem like they were just left behind cause they wanted to ''do as the Alolans'' and that...
If anything else would have been the case they wouldn't have worded it the way they did. If Giovanni forced them to leave them behind we would have seen it or at least heard about it. Plus there's Wobbuffet. In the end this is the case of what is most logical though, since nothing has been 100%...
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