Quote Originally Posted by Kareeah_Indaga View Post
Spreading seeds would be harder - actually I’ve been meaning to ask, have Pokémon existed previously and they just vanished long enough for people to forget about them, or are they a completely new thing? With the various Legendary religions I’ve been assuming the former; that would make it easier to justify the existence of things that spread their seeds via fruit, or similar methods where they would usually rely on critters eating something they produce to spread.
Your assumption matches the facts. Most plants that rely on animals for reproduction are endangered or extinct without humans cultivating them. There's a school of thought positing that ancient humans cultivated them from scratch over thousands of years, but there's no pre-poké-religious tradition nor any archaeological record to back that up.