Core series/Timeline

Several pieces of content in the core series Pokémon games depend on the games having a timeline, but a complete timeline cannot be drawn from the games themselves. On May 7, 2014, Game Freak employee Toshinobu Matsumiya's Twitter account posted a timeline of the core series Pokémon games; the account would later delete the tweet.

The plot of and  are contemporaneous. They are then followed by the equally contemporaneous plot of and, which are set three years later. are set an unspecified amount of time after those games. Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 are set two years after those games, and are contemporaneous with. and take place two years after the events of Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 and at least 10 years after the events of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire.

It is unknown if the aforementioned timeline also applies to all solitary versions and remakes. Furthermore, Zinnia suggests that there are.