The reason why Galarian Yamask needs to be weakened in order to evolve is because when it's weakened, the curse in its stone slab can take it over and turn it into Runerigus.
Yup. Exactly why he couldn't defeat Team Rocket, because they didn't start doing big things until afterwards. Also, the Pokémon League worked differently back then, with the Champion not yet being part of the challenge.
The Let's Go games, while core series games, take place in a different timeline than the Mega Evolution games or the original timeline games. That's because Red canonically defeated Team Rocket both of the first two timelines, which doesn't happen in the Let's Go games.
The reason why you can't register Pokémon you see in battle facilities in your Pokédex is because you're forced to close your Pokédex while inside them, perhaps to not interfere with the facility's sensitive equipment.
While the Battle Frontier facilities can be challenged in any order, my personal headcanon is that, in Generation III at least, the Battle Factory is the first one (it was the first facility challenged in the anime and the Adventures manga, and it's the one I've always challenged first) and the...
This may have been said here already, but I think the white rock in Mossdeep City is actually a sleeping Jirachi, and is potentially tied into a Jirachi event that was planned but scrapped.
In-universe, Mega Evolution requires a strong bond between the Trainer and their Pokémon. So I see that the reason why Giovanni is able to Mega Evolve Mewtwo in Episode RR is because he didn't just capture it by force, but convinced it to join his cause of conquest and seeking of power.
That's actually similar to a headcanon of mine why the Legendary birds and Mewtwo are present in HG/SS. Red released them back into the wild because he had already gotten their Pokédex data, and wanted to battle using the Pokémon he had bonded with the most.
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