Far from it. The locals should be ready for an invasion of exploding snowflakes by now, or at least for a few level five Combees, but we still had to take care of most of those as recently as this month.

[Which... doesn't quite makes sense, if he thinks too much about it. Where are their high-levelled trainers? The ones that obtained their badges years before any foreigner, the ones that should have boxes full of level 100 Pokémon by now?]