well, it seems to be based on the Peng, which is a mythical chines birds which starts its life as a fish. Obviously altaria does not start as a fish, but I reckon that's where the dragon type comes from? A little like magikarp/gyarados, except gyarados isn't a dragon type...
and true, its mega...
tbf, time-displacement is not an uncommon trope in faerie lore either, nor are visions of the future. It just depends on flavouring, and I agree that Celebi could have been retyped as fairy, but GF probably didn't want to mess with mythicals and legendaries.
Since Galarian Ponyta got a new...
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