>XY Backpacker talks about Alola's champion
>XY must take place after SM
>Sina and Dexio's presence in Alola says otherwise
What if the Masked Heroes are faller versions of Dexio and Sina?
>>30201470
Boy protag in S/M is XY male protag
>>30201470
>XY Backpacker talks about Alola's champion
Huh?
>>30201470
>XY Backpacker talks about Alola's champion
Island Challenge Champion isn't necessarily the same as League Champion
>>30201488
If that's the case, how come he has a different mom in XY?
>>30201590he has two moms
>>30201590
She actually wasn't brown. It was just a tan.
>>30201470
>XY Backpacker talks about Alola's champion
when was this?
SM does take place before XY
Sina and Dexio just took a vacation before XY started. Sycamore is a cunt and just never mentioned that he built a Zygard-building machine because you never asked him. Simple.
>>30201649
Sidequest post-game to obtain Strange Souvenir iirc
SM protagonist is the champion that the XY hiker was talking about.
i really hope that the next game reveals that all these masked counterparts are actually Fallers from alternate universe and have just coincidentally never been in the same room before.
>>30201516
>>30201517
>>30201649
>./vp/ didn't play XY
>Just shitposted about it
>>30201655
Could be that XY protag character never canonically meets the Hiker, or that Dexio and Sina leave immediatly following their last appearance in XY and Hiker doesn't come to Kalos until SM's main story is complete
Sina and Dexio mention the protags from XY though, I remember they said something about five kids/trainers. At the very least, they happen at the same time.
It's also possible that the backpacker is NOT from Alola
>>30201813
He's talking about the Island Challenge champ (Kahili). Hence, really something else. Because Alola doesn't have a league.
>>30201906
The Strange Souvenir is from his region, and SM confirms it to be a generic representation of the Tapu. He's from Alola.
>hiker talks about a really special champion in Alola
>there's a really special champion in Alola, the island challenge champion Kahili
that's all
easy, they didn't tought about the building league part when xy came out
>>30201994
Yeah, this is what I think too.
But looking at the random empty lots on Alola, and the Stars rumor, it's also possible that he was talking about that Alola, and GF just held back the gyms for that version. It's still only a reference though, people shouldn't try to fit him on a timeline, it's just a tease. There's always stuff like this in the games, there's even a kid on a PK Center that says he got a Mewtwo from Wonder Trade. It's not canon, they're breaking the 4th wall
>>30202163
There is a pod amount of these empty land spaces. There's even one in the middle of no where on route 15 where you meet grimsley.