If the player runs from non-legendary Pokemon and then defeats the Pokemon League, do the Pokemon reappear?

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I’m asking about Pokemon that appear as part of “in-game events” instead of random encounters, disappear when the player runs from them, and don’t reappear every week, like BW Foonguss and XY Snorlax. I’m asking about every game from Pt onward. Please don’t question my curiosity.

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In any game prior to Pokémon Platinum, most of these Pokémon are permanently missable. If the player defeats any of them, that Pokémon will not appear again.The exceptions are Spiritomb in Diamond and Pearl and these time-based Pokémon: Lapras appears every Friday on Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal (and their remakes), and Drifloon also appears every Friday, in Diamond and Pearl as well as Platinum.

That takes out a large portion of our Pokemon. However this is only if youdefeatthe Pokemon. If you run from any in game event Pokemon in Gen 1 or 2, than it will disappear forever. In Gen 3 and DP, legendary Pokemon will respawn if you ran away or defeated it, (with the exception of Azelf and Uxie in DP,) however other Pokemon will become unavailable. In Platinum onward all in game event Pokemon will respawn after entering the Hall of Fame if defeated or ran from.

Rotom in Platinum respawns after HoF-(research)Musharna respawns the following Friday (research)I couldn’t find anything on the BW Zoroark but you can’t really get that event anymore unless you still have the Shiny Beast unused in your boxes.Volcarona respawns (experience)Nature Preserve Haxorus immediately respawns if ran from (a lot of research)HA Jellicent, Braviary, and Mandibuzz respawn every week (research)XY snorlax respawns after HoF (experience)ORAS Kecleon respawns immediately after running (experience)Alolan Exeggutor respawns immediatelyUltra Beasts in SM respawn immediately and in USUM have to be found again (experience)Galarian Slowpoke respawns immediately(experience)Non Dynamax Adventures legendaries in SwSh respawn immediately (experience) except the birds which in that case you have to fast travel for them to appear again.SwSh Spiritomb you have to interact with 32 people again. (Research)

Additionally, there are Voltorb, Electrode, Foongus, and Amoonguss disguised as items in some games. They don’t respawn if they are defeated

In Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, all of these Pokémon are permanently missable if the player defeats them, except for Drifloon, which appears every Friday after Mars was defeated for the first time, and Spiritomb, which appears every time the player uses an Odd Keystone and greets 32 players in the Underground. Starting from Platinum, the Pokémon respawn if the player defeats them and then defeats Cynthia, and therefore are not permanently missable anymore.

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