Shrink!

If it's not in-game it's not canon. Sorry!

Why do shackles on Primeape shrink if it's only curling up to avoid danger? What about it's held item?

Meowth said that "Talking" is a Pokemon move. But they occupied 3 slots so most Pokemon chose not to learn it. Coco can use Jungle Healing because he was an illiterate. He would lost the power after he learned to "Talk".

>Anime

According to the Gameboy universe.
Don't forget that each version of the Pokémon games are their own universe, connected by a interdimensional device known as a link cable (mainly used for trading and battling monsters).

Humans and Pokemon share a common ancestor from the dawn of creation according to Sinnoh Folk Lore, but very early in life they diverged into completely different paths, humanity forgoing its PokeOrigins to pursue sapience and inventive supremacy.
But those roots still exist, and it's why humans have the capacity to become supernatural by our definition (ESP, supreme physical prowess, literally being talented enough to create a complicated storage device out of a fucking hollowed and dried berry with nothing more than a rock, firebreathing, etc.) and especially unique cases like Koko can tap into their roots to use Pokemon Moves.

You sheeple are overthinking this too much. The simpler theory posits that the first two gens was set in Tajiriverse. Tajiriverse is set on Earth, but with Pokemons as aliens arriving from space several dozen/hundred years before Red was born, living alongside man and animals (Mt. Moon theory), hence, the recent creation of Pokeballs, Pokedex, TM/HM, Silph.Co techs, emergence of Team Rocket, etc, etc. Once Gen 3 rolls in, Tajiriverse ended, and Masudaverse begins. In Masudaverse, Pokemon has existed since primordial chaos and the original lifeform of the universe. It's from Masudaverse that Pokemon lore starts to get convoluted.

Screencap is from Anime movie, yes.

>each version of the Pokémon games are their own universe
do you mean each gen, or each copy of a mainline game in the same gen?

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Both.

Each gan can be connected, while other don't. It so that each Player have their own unique way of playing the game and completing the story. Plus it give them the excuse to bring Pokemon From games where continuity doesn't make sense (like Gen 1 to Gen 6+)

Consistency? In POKEMON? Nah.

>Don't forget that each version of the Pokémon games are their own universe,
As of ORAS, there is two distinct universes.
One where Megas were introduced, and one where they weren't.