This is incredibly bad holy crap. Not only does it put people's collections in flux, but it also severely limits the scope of competitive battling for Gen 8.
Can't say.
Pokemon and DLC lol. You mean they'll be in another game that you'll have to buy. The 4th gen remakes most likely.
This is 100% a misstranslation/ missunderstanding.
They may block non Regional for a while, just like they did in the past 2 gens with the pokebank.
There's no way they'll be blocking mythic pokemon from SM.
So, if this turns out to be a "National Pokedex is needed before you can transfer", will those who were misinformed realize this or will the rush to give bad news win over?
Spoiler: It's the later.
Doesn't it seem weird that they have 800+ Pokemon and they still can't put them all in a game in 2019?
their reasoning was battle balanceSo I'm assuming what they mean is that they haven't had enough time to develop all pokemon models, and hence some pokemon will have to wait for the next game.