The Wandering Worldshaker, Mt. Blue Skies

Hypothesis: Does a Sneaslest need to be Poison/Fighting typed, or does any etiological ancestor or teleiological descendant categorized as Sneasel count for a hypothetical Sneaslest to exist?

Related: does this make Chien-Pao a candidate for Sneaslest?

It's a weird route I took, but:

• Imported a shiny Scyther and Oshawott from Go aaaages back
• ...REMEMBERS
• Tosses them into L:A and evolves them into their Hisuian forms
• chucks them BACK into Home for eventual migration into Scarlet, in forms that never existed when I first got em

And I feel kinda like i pulled off a little caper, like. "you never even knew you were capable of becoming this, and here you stand, a changed 'mon".

TPC played their big card (that is, developing a literal GodMon) way too early in Arceus, and I feel like that design decision has hamstrung their efforts to keep the series fresh ever since.

In this essay i w—