Thread:FredCat100/@comment-4166811-20180722120604/@comment-4166811-20180722172659

Iizuka's stance seems to be that Mighty/Ray/Fang/Bean/Bark only exist in the Classic world and don't belong to the Modern world.

His stance on Vector/Charmy/Espio is that the Modern versions are "new characters", who were recreated from the ground up.