I just tried to trade a Gengar to someone who hasn't started Johto yet. It didn't work, it said they cannot accept pokes "from another region." I know you can't trade Johto pokes, and that's fine, but Gengar is a gen 1, KANTO pokemon. I got it in Johto, but why should that matter?

 

Is this something that just hasn't been worked out yet or are you really not supposed to be able to trade any gen 1 pokes to people who haven't started Johto, if you found them in Johto?

Well, If u catch a poke from jhoto region then u cant trade it in kanto (doesn't depend upon gen's)

Okay, that seems pretty ridiculous. How can I remember where I got which pokes? If it's a gen2 or later it's obvious, but what if I travel way across the map to trade with someone thinking the gen 1 poke I got came from Kanto- but oops, it didn't?

 

Can someone explain to me why this is necessary? Maybe there's a good reason, I just can't think of any.

 

If it really must be this way, then stamping the region each poke is obtained from in the summary would be helpful.