Bug Pokémon of the Day bug?

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Today's Pokémon of the Day is showing a negative Pokédex number:

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Also there's no description but I thought the number was weirder, haha
 
The Pokedex data is fetched from Pokemon Showdown's public API, I'm not sure why some of the pokemon have negative numbers like that but if you take a look in the Pokedex there are a good few of them -> Pokedex

I just figured that's how they are in the actual games, never really verified it myself. If I can find out their correct numbers I can modify our fetcher script to submit the correct values, but it does make me wonder why Showdown would have incorrect values like that.

As for the descriptions, blame @CommonTravelGuy >_>
 
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Oh that's interesting. Silly Pokémon Showdown ?
 
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apathy
apathy's icon apathy apathy commented
A bit of investigation and I've discovered the current PoTD is actually a made up pokemon by Smogon (who develop Showdown).
I don't think I'll outright remove these made up pokemon from our Dex, as I plan down the road for it to be a useful resource for Showdown tournaments, but I think it is a good idea to stop them from appearing as the PoTD.
 
Dizzle
Dizzle's iconDizzle commented
Oh gotcha! There's so many Pokémon that I'm less familiar with that I definitely didn't notice it's a made up one, haha! That makes sense though.
 
apathy
apathy's icon apathy apathy commented
Same, the last gen I've played was Black/White so I assumed this was just a weird thing they decided to do for one of the later gens, lol.
 
Dizzle
Dizzle's iconDizzle commented
I've actually played every gen, but there's just too many too keep track of regardless XD
 
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