fun fact: Shellos and Gastrodon were originally designed for Ruby and Sapphire! according to Masuda, they had to shelve the designs and was only able to add them later into Diamond and Pearl (Nintendo Power Issue 215, May 2007, p. 37).
Even more fun fact: prototype versions of Shellos and Gastrodon still exist in the code of Diamond and Pearl. Only their back sprites are still around, but they show that, early in development, there was probably only one type. Shellos in particular, while mostly the same to west sea form, has east sea's wing flaps on its back, implying that this one design was split into two later in devlopment. I just hink that's neat.
According to the detective Pikachu game the different forms depend on the quality of the water. One variant lives in clean water and the other one in dirty water. In the game you explore some ruins. You have to solve a riddle and find a way guarded by a pink Pokémon. However all the Shellos there are blue. You then find out that the water there used to be of much better quality and therefore in the past, when the ruins were build, all the Shellos there were actually pink (the colors might have been the other way around, haven't played the game since it came out).
On the topic of Shellos and Gastrodon, these Pokemon alone actually tells us where each region is in the Pokemon World if it’s either West or East of Sinnoh since Sinnoh is the only region where you can find both forms of Shellos and Gastrodon assuming that Sinnoh is in the centre of the Pokemon World that divides West from East through Mt. Coronet. And also, they both also confirm that the Pokemon World isn’t Earth (in terms of real world locations) such as in Galar where you can find East Form Gastrodon but if we put Japan in the centre of the map, then we can see the UK actually West from Japan not East.
i mean... its globe, technically concepts of east and west are entirely man made. in reality you go far enough east youre west and you go far enough west youre east. but all of that aside: if you have a map thats focused on japan as its center, the the UK would indeed be west of japan, because the americas would be to the east of japan, as you said. the really interesting bit is that because of the anime and the manga we actually already knew what the pokemon world looks like and that it doesnt look like earth.
Indeed! though another possibility is that the form of shellos found in an area has to do with the temperature of the sea in the area, seeing as Galar/UK have cold oceans. Since that was the factor that evolutionarily changed them. The names of the forms being 'east' and 'west' then would be because of where they were first 'discovered,' the east and west of Coronet.
The Pokédex in “Ultra Moon” also mentions that Gastrodon (and Shellos by extension) are related to Shellder and Cloyster. I love it when Pokédex entries acknowledge Darwin and Wallace’s theory of evolution.
but it DID confirm the little three circles of white and black on its face are NOT eyes cause nothing glows yellow like normal when they evolve. Soooo. Creep factor x10.
You know, seeing the multiple Snugooi plushies reminded me of something - have you ever thought of the shiny colors for your Lockemon? It would've been so cool to have a shiny Snugooi plushie somewhere hidden in the bunch and I really want to see you create shiny colors for the Kascade and Neo Kanto region!
This guy carried me through all of pokemon Arceus and killed a shadow realm monster, a time warping dragon and a steel space bending lizard. Gastrodon's just great, man
Snugooi really is adorable When you showed the riding Gastrodon part, it reminded me that in his journal, Darwin wrote that he tried riding a tortoise. If I remember correctly, he said it wasn't comfortable and clumsy.
I think the point is that myth said Arceus did all that FROM THE SPEAR PILLAR, but the mountain that is the Spear Pillar split the original Shellos family into two, meaning it formed after the Pokémon already existed. Personally, in real life, I believe that whatever God may exist created everything VIA evolution, I don't see why it has to be "there is a God" OR "evolution is a thing"; but the point about the mountain is the one that applies here. I think.
@@Wandergirl108 Arceus to Mew: You are the first pokemon. Mew: What's that over there? *points to Gastrodon* Arceus: IDK, they were here when I got here.
@@Wandergirl108 I've always thought it odd that everyone is adamant that it's either/or, it makes so much more sense that something was CREATED and THEN it could evolve from there, and maybe even some similar species breeding together and those going in to become something new.
I know next to nothing about the PKMN creation theory, so this may have been mentioned somewhere, but technically, couldn't the "top of Mt Coronet" be also at ground level? Could the top of the mountain just be where the mountain would eventually be? I don't know, I'm spitballing.
The anime version of Spear Pillar is also a higher plain or space that is outside conventional reality requiring a special key to a special door to access. So the mountain range growing wouldn't really change much. If Arceus's creation was to remain static then legendarys like Groudon, Kyogre, Heatran, Entei, and Regigigas just wouldn't exist.
Considering that the dex mentions that Gastrodon used to have shells in the ancient past I am surprised that they opted to give Sliggoo and Goodra shells instead of them in Legends. Of course I guess they didnt want to change any of the sinnoh mons so that the first sinnoh dex would still be correct but I guess it still leaves that open for a future game that may have just one shellos and gastrodon that have shells, kinda how they introduced one Basculin in the past where today there are two.
I came from the future SPECIFICALLY to hear the deep lore about how Shellos breaks Arceus Creation. YOU, in your Pineco ep linked THIS video to hear this lore! I have been fibbed to!
Now that you mention that "torito" connection to bulls, I'm going to one-up that by bringing up the Chomodoris lochi. It's a species of nudibranch, very blue in colour with some coloured grooves like East Sea Gastrodon. And the best part: its Japanese name is "umi ushi", a.k.a. "sea cow"! ;o
Something interesting about the Shellos line is that in Detective Pikachu (the game), there's a place where they changed form over the generations because the water in their habitat changed.
About the naming of Shellos, actually in German, "los" is something you hang onto another word to show it has lost it. So I always think that the name actually comes from German, but it probably isn't xD Also, in German Gastrodon is also named Gastrodon, cause the family of snails has the same name in both languages. I really like the name of Shellos in both languages (In German it's Schalellos), it sounds like a strange name, but you also understand what the words mean.
You know, I learned something like this today. Sunfish that live in the Midwest are the same or incredibly similar to those that live in Northern Brazil and are actually compatible enough to breed.
So the title went from “Pokémon Ripped Us Off! Joking that they based Shellos off of Snugooi… And now Shellos is a tiny adorable heretic and I love it even more
Shellos has always stood out to me as one of Pokemon's bigger flavor fails- it's Pokedex Entry in Diamond mentions that "its colors and shapes differ from region to region", and yet every time it's returned in a Regional 'Dex, they just reused one of the OG ones. The fact that this happened at the time that GameFreak stopped making new patterns for Arbok is not lost on me.
My guess is spear pillar rose from the sea as Mt. Coronet formed. I have no clues to why this might be a thing. Nothing that hints that maybe this could be true. But, I mean, there's nothing in lore to say anything against it either. (But I mean considering all life started from the sea maybe that could be an excuse.)
@@silvertotodile6958 that also sounds very plausible considering Arceus threw a child into a world where pokemon can and will kill them and just didn't give them a way home
7:57 to 8:03 Is no one going to mention the fact that plankton running way from gastrodon is a funny scenario, because now he not only has to worry about wailord and cetitan eating him but both forms of gastrodon as well.😱🐌
Love Gastrodon! Had an east sea variant on my sand team named Mr. Sushii acting as a water counter/toxic staller. Great design all around. Great video!
I wonder why Gastrodon wasn’t a contender to survive the Pokémon Battle Royale if it’s so regenerative. Maybe the Magcargo explosion would disintegrate all of it so it wouldn’t reform?
East-Sea Gastrodon is one of my favorite Pokémon of all time. I was pleasantly surprised to see this video, and I was actually surprised you hadn't done one on them before. Thanks for using your Gnoggin!
I've cracked the code!! You just shared the data needed to try and understand this. Arceus really did indeed create the world starting from mt coronet! And back then, as the pokedex implies, both shellos and Gastrodon HAD a shell. Then they adapted to different environments and they eventually lost them and look different :D
Honestly, Arceus and the Creation Trio could've made the world and its Pokemon, but still leave work to do over the centuries so they aren't stagnant for eternity... I mean Regigigas and Tyranitar move and eat continents and mountains
I wonder if West Shell Gastrodon will only be available in SV due to Paldea’s warmer climate since East Shells were only available in SWSH (most likely due to Galar’s cold climate)
hm. I they were different because of East and West, but I always assumed the pink one was more of a freshwater slug and blue was more saltwater considering I usual found pink along rivers and lakes and the blue more so by the sea. with weird exceptions like Route 221/224 because of post-game oversight.
I think what nurse joy meant is that once the world formed and when mount corrent properly formed (probably way farther into the past before hisui) is when the shellos split into the two forms
There's a dex entry from USUM that states that Gastrodon is related to Cloyster and Shellder. Perhaps the name Shellos actually comes from that fact that its shell split off from it and became a separate Pokémon species. Makes me wonder what would happen if one were to put them together.
@ImHashtagAlive slugs have something called a radula, which is like a tongue covered with teeth. That would explain why Shellder sticks its tongue out a lot.
My favorite thought about pokemon creation is that the artists that designed those pokemon were probably halfway through and in their head the one, single thought they had was "heehoo creature :)" XD
Pretty sure the lore around Spear Pillar is wrong then. Probably it wasn't where Arceus created the world (I mean, why would it be? If you're going to create a whole world out of nothing, why would you create a square plate of carved rock first, with some pillars sticking out of it?) No, I think Spear Pillar was probably created much later. Possibly when Giratina was sent off to the mirror world?
Simply put because the anime's version doesn't look like that. It is a separate space whose entrance is located on Mt. Coronet. It wasn't until the Legends Arceus specials were the iconic roman style was depicted being equally as important and connected but not quite the same.
Well it's clearly a reference to Japan myth so that's reason enough. But from a 3D modeller, It's easier to start with one object, then build from there. Maybe you add several objects and stitch them together but starting from one defined base helps more than starting from nothing
a lot of lore's of the world are never 100% accurate. Their is always embellishment, with the most outrageous and mysterious, actually being easily explained with a little thought, assuming it wasn't out right made up.
Just came across this video today. I was never really a big fan of Gastrodon, but I trained one up in preparation for the Greninja raid in Scarlet/Violet, and honestly, it's easily one of my top 20 Pokemon now, design wise. One of those things where I just never really gave it a chance, and I kinda regret that now.
Now I am curious how the 'original Shellos /Gastrodon' looked like. Edit to add in a FUN FACT! The Nudibranch in The Netherlands is called a "Zeeschaap" which translates to "Sea sheep"
Sooooo, I couldn't watch most of this episode. I have a terrible phobia of slugs and snails. Their wrinkly, slimy skin, how they melt in literal salt, their several feet under their body, their nasty eye stalks... Gives me shivers. I've been afraid of them for ages but realised it was a phobia when I was playing Elden Ring in the sewers under Leyndell and there were slugs on the walls, floors and ceiling just dropping on me. It was a living nightmare.
Please can you do a video explaining Bisharp? I am trying to make fakemon off of it but don't have a trustable source on it's design and concept. P.S. I don't know if this will affect your answer, but I pre ordered the Snugooi plush.
Don't see what value a video will have over the sources already available online since the video is probably going to be based on those same sources. A simple search will show that the Pawniard line is based on samurais.
"the order we recieved was to design a pokemon that dwells in urban cities and is steel dark type so i thought it should be something artificial. i told the designer to make a pokemon that is covered with sharp objects and hunts anybody who gets close and he came up with this samurai-like pokemon. some concept art shows bisharp ordering a bunch of pawniard to jump onto a enemy stabbing it in the process which explains the sharp blades on pawniard's stomach. even though they look humanoid, their design is a bit insect like as well" - Ken Sugimori
Honestly, I love to see other forms of these Pokémon, a North and South Sea forms as well as a form that has a shell on its back, also have colours from both if not all forms that exists, the same goes for the Shinies, so yeah
West coast shellos was the very 1st shiny I ever encountered. Years later I would randomly find an east coast shiny shellos. Now I have an adorable pair of full odds shiny pink and blue gastrodon.
Also, gastropods are mollusks, and as such are related to cephalopods like octopus, squid, and cuttlefish. One thing of note with some cephalopods is that they have an internal shell, sort of like a big, bony plate protecting their internals, similar to Gastrodon’s vestigial shell described in the pokedex. I don’t know if any sea slugs have anything like that, but I wouldn’t think it too big of a stretch to think that such an ancient Pokémon would pull inspiration from the close relatives of its real-world counterpart.
Shellos is one of my favorite cuties ever. I made it my walking buddy in pokemon go - the blue version. Named it Nobuharu after the Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger blue ranger because he's one of the most fun and interesting characters ever on sentai.
Shellos and Gastrodon are a couple of those Pokemon I always kinda forget exists until I see a video about them or I run into one in a game. They're just kinda...there.
Could you do Altaria next? I have NO idea why it was a dragon type, except for the fact that there are no "mystical" types that would fit it back then..
I feel like nurs joy number trillion wouldn't know of the actual existence of arcues and stuff, and so would use her understanding of the mountain and stuff to explain how shellos are different.
Gastrodon was one of the few gen4 Pokemon (that aren't related to a pre-gen4 line) that I liked back in gen4. Ironic as I loved so many gen3 Pokemon, and its beta was almost a gen3 Pokemon.
fun fact: Shellos and Gastrodon were originally designed for Ruby and Sapphire! according to Masuda, they had to shelve the designs and was only able to add them later into Diamond and Pearl (Nintendo Power Issue 215, May 2007, p. 37).
Even more fun fact: prototype versions of Shellos and Gastrodon still exist in the code of Diamond and Pearl. Only their back sprites are still around, but they show that, early in development, there was probably only one type. Shellos in particular, while mostly the same to west sea form, has east sea's wing flaps on its back, implying that this one design was split into two later in devlopment. I just hink that's neat.
First time I'm seeing someone list a source when giving a fun fact
This makes complete sense to me. I’ve always thought they felt a little odd in Sinnoh for some reason.
Did he change thumbnail
Smart of them to include them in the remakes for the post-game.
According to the detective Pikachu game the different forms depend on the quality of the water. One variant lives in clean water and the other one in dirty water. In the game you explore some ruins. You have to solve a riddle and find a way guarded by a pink Pokémon. However all the Shellos there are blue. You then find out that the water there used to be of much better quality and therefore in the past, when the ruins were build, all the Shellos there were actually pink (the colors might have been the other way around, haven't played the game since it came out).
On the topic of Shellos and Gastrodon, these Pokemon alone actually tells us where each region is in the Pokemon World if it’s either West or East of Sinnoh since Sinnoh is the only region where you can find both forms of Shellos and Gastrodon assuming that Sinnoh is in the centre of the Pokemon World that divides West from East through Mt. Coronet.
And also, they both also confirm that the Pokemon World isn’t Earth (in terms of real world locations) such as in Galar where you can find East Form Gastrodon but if we put Japan in the centre of the map, then we can see the UK actually West from Japan not East.
i mean... its globe, technically concepts of east and west are entirely man made. in reality you go far enough east youre west and you go far enough west youre east. but all of that aside: if you have a map thats focused on japan as its center, the the UK would indeed be west of japan, because the americas would be to the east of japan, as you said. the really interesting bit is that because of the anime and the manga we actually already knew what the pokemon world looks like and that it doesnt look like earth.
Indeed! though another possibility is that the form of shellos found in an area has to do with the temperature of the sea in the area, seeing as Galar/UK have cold oceans. Since that was the factor that evolutionarily changed them. The names of the forms being 'east' and 'west' then would be because of where they were first 'discovered,' the east and west of Coronet.
@@Gnoggin indeed is a must-have when talking about Galar.
ORAS Hoenn kinda complicates this though since the two forms are version exclusives that become available after you catch Groudon/Kyogre
But if you go west enough you end up east
The Pokédex in “Ultra Moon” also mentions that Gastrodon (and Shellos by extension) are related to Shellder and Cloyster. I love it when Pokédex entries acknowledge Darwin and Wallace’s theory of evolution.
That's true! This is because they are all mollusks! Shellos and Gadtrodon are gastropods while shellder and cloyster are bivalves
Legends arceus was a missed opportunity on giving us the North and South versions or even the original version with them having a shell :0
but it DID confirm the little three circles of white and black on its face are NOT eyes cause nothing glows yellow like normal when they evolve. Soooo.
Creep factor x10.
it would be cool if the colors were yellow and red. (red for north)
I would love to like both of your replies, but for some strange reason youtube decided to make replies invisible now -_- wtf RUclips
Sea slugs dont need shells
That would've been pretty awesome.
You know, seeing the multiple Snugooi plushies reminded me of something - have you ever thought of the shiny colors for your Lockemon?
It would've been so cool to have a shiny Snugooi plushie somewhere hidden in the bunch and I really want to see you create shiny colors for the Kascade and Neo Kanto region!
I'm pretty sure developers of Swirling Seasons game already made shiny colorations for some lockemon
So for Torito you have to put a bit more emphasis on the -ri.
This guy carried me through all of pokemon Arceus and killed a shadow realm monster, a time warping dragon and a steel space bending lizard. Gastrodon's just great, man
everybody loves Gastrodon man
@@killerquinn64 guess I'm the odd man out, cause Gastrodon creeps me the hell out
@@crimsonemperor2219 but slug
Gastrodon's inclusion in the year of the bull art surprised me as much as trubbish being included in art of all the cat pokemon together
I ordered a Snugooie plush and I got a bonus Tofrug plush with it so now I can add them to the Tofrug plush that I preordered last time
Tower of Tofrug!
Snugooi really is adorable
When you showed the riding Gastrodon part, it reminded me that in his journal, Darwin wrote that he tried riding a tortoise. If I remember correctly, he said it wasn't comfortable and clumsy.
I think Arceus made the world,the legendaries, the mythicals, and mew was designed to evolve into the other species over time, with it's flexible DNA.
I think the point is that myth said Arceus did all that FROM THE SPEAR PILLAR, but the mountain that is the Spear Pillar split the original Shellos family into two, meaning it formed after the Pokémon already existed. Personally, in real life, I believe that whatever God may exist created everything VIA evolution, I don't see why it has to be "there is a God" OR "evolution is a thing"; but the point about the mountain is the one that applies here. I think.
@@Wandergirl108 Arceus to Mew: You are the first pokemon.
Mew: What's that over there? *points to Gastrodon*
Arceus: IDK, they were here when I got here.
@@Wandergirl108 I've always thought it odd that everyone is adamant that it's either/or, it makes so much more sense that something was CREATED and THEN it could evolve from there, and maybe even some similar species breeding together and those going in to become something new.
@@leandersearle5094 This is actually hilarious to imagine
@@PinkyTheInky It aught to be, it was riffing on a Queen Elizabeth meme.
I know next to nothing about the PKMN creation theory, so this may have been mentioned somewhere, but technically, couldn't the "top of Mt Coronet" be also at ground level? Could the top of the mountain just be where the mountain would eventually be? I don't know, I'm spitballing.
The anime version of Spear Pillar is also a higher plain or space that is outside conventional reality requiring a special key to a special door to access. So the mountain range growing wouldn't really change much. If Arceus's creation was to remain static then legendarys like Groudon, Kyogre, Heatran, Entei, and Regigigas just wouldn't exist.
You're correct
@@andresmarrero8666 I think that holds true in the games too, since Arceus appears atop a golden, ethereal staircase.
Missed opportunity to collab with Jaiden Animations since she will gas up Gastrodon any day of the week lol.
Anyone else now questioning why Gastrodon didn't get the shell treatment in PLA like Goodra
I've been questioning that since the game release
Considering that the dex mentions that Gastrodon used to have shells in the ancient past I am surprised that they opted to give Sliggoo and Goodra shells instead of them in Legends. Of course I guess they didnt want to change any of the sinnoh mons so that the first sinnoh dex would still be correct but I guess it still leaves that open for a future game that may have just one shellos and gastrodon that have shells, kinda how they introduced one Basculin in the past where today there are two.
I came from the future SPECIFICALLY to hear the deep lore about how Shellos breaks Arceus Creation.
YOU, in your Pineco ep linked THIS video to hear this lore!
I have been fibbed to!
Now that you mention that "torito" connection to bulls, I'm going to one-up that by bringing up the Chomodoris lochi. It's a species of nudibranch, very blue in colour with some coloured grooves like East Sea Gastrodon. And the best part: its Japanese name is "umi ushi", a.k.a. "sea cow"! ;o
Something interesting about the Shellos line is that in Detective Pikachu (the game), there's a place where they changed form over the generations because the water in their habitat changed.
About the naming of Shellos, actually in German, "los" is something you hang onto another word to show it has lost it. So I always think that the name actually comes from German, but it probably isn't xD
Also, in German Gastrodon is also named Gastrodon, cause the family of snails has the same name in both languages. I really like the name of Shellos in both languages (In German it's Schalellos), it sounds like a strange name, but you also understand what the words mean.
You know, I learned something like this today. Sunfish that live in the Midwest are the same or incredibly similar to those that live in Northern Brazil and are actually compatible enough to breed.
I absolutely love the Shellos line. Adorable sea slugs that can also be found relatively early in Platinum.
Yeah I'm not surprised at the thumbnail and title change, I saw the original and was like "Dude, you're asking for trouble." XD
What was it before?
Bruh, I will never forgive Gamefreak for not giving Gastrodon any proper expressions
Shellos disproving the pokemon theory of creation really is something
So the title went from “Pokémon Ripped Us Off! Joking that they based Shellos off of Snugooi…
And now Shellos is a tiny adorable heretic and I love it even more
Shellos has always stood out to me as one of Pokemon's bigger flavor fails- it's Pokedex Entry in Diamond mentions that "its colors and shapes differ from region to region", and yet every time it's returned in a Regional 'Dex, they just reused one of the OG ones. The fact that this happened at the time that GameFreak stopped making new patterns for Arbok is not lost on me.
My guess is spear pillar rose from the sea as Mt. Coronet formed. I have no clues to why this might be a thing. Nothing that hints that maybe this could be true. But, I mean, there's nothing in lore to say anything against it either.
(But I mean considering all life started from the sea maybe that could be an excuse.)
My bet is that Coronet and Sinnoh as a whole formed around Spear Pillar and the people of Sinnoh don’t remember a time where Hisui/Sinnoh was there.
That or it’s a case of Last Wensdayism and Arceus placed Spear Pillar after the world formed.
@@silvertotodile6958 that also sounds very plausible considering Arceus threw a child into a world where pokemon can and will kill them and just didn't give them a way home
Didnt Legends lore basically explain that spear pillar basically consists if temple remains?
7:57 to 8:03 Is no one going to mention the fact that plankton running way from gastrodon is a funny scenario, because now he not only has to worry about wailord and cetitan eating him but both forms of gastrodon as well.😱🐌
Lockstin : god gamefreak loves pikachu so much its crazy i mean look at all the merch and stuff
Also lockstin with snugooi :
I would have loved a Hisuian Gastrodon with shell because it was „a long time ago“. But maby a bit longer ago…
Love Gastrodon! Had an east sea variant on my sand team named Mr. Sushii acting as a water counter/toxic staller. Great design all around. Great video!
I wonder why Gastrodon wasn’t a contender to survive the Pokémon Battle Royale if it’s so regenerative. Maybe the Magcargo explosion would disintegrate all of it so it wouldn’t reform?
Even if it could survive it, it isn't heavy enough to stay on the island and would get disqualified just like Cloyster
East-Sea Gastrodon is one of my favorite Pokémon of all time. I was pleasantly surprised to see this video, and I was actually surprised you hadn't done one on them before. Thanks for using your Gnoggin!
I preordered mine as an early birthday gift for myself, it even showed up 2 days before it! And I love the little guy!
☝️Thanks for watching
Expect more videos soon
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I've cracked the code!! You just shared the data needed to try and understand this. Arceus really did indeed create the world starting from mt coronet!
And back then, as the pokedex implies, both shellos and Gastrodon HAD a shell. Then they adapted to different environments and they eventually lost them and look different :D
Another phenomenal video, the amount of interesting facts you can fit in such a short time is incredible!!
Honestly, Arceus and the Creation Trio could've made the world and its Pokemon, but still leave work to do over the centuries so they aren't stagnant for eternity... I mean Regigigas and Tyranitar move and eat continents and mountains
I wonder if West Shell Gastrodon will only be available in SV due to Paldea’s warmer climate since East Shells were only available in SWSH (most likely due to Galar’s cold climate)
I just love how Gastrodon has a “meh” expression to everything that happens around it.
Ngl I love East Sea Gastrodon. Had one of the blue fellas in my first PLA run and aside from the grass weakness, very powerful mon
Would love to see the concept art behind these two for when they were made for Ruby and Sapphire
Just got my plushie today! He rests on my tofrug at my desk. They're best friends.
gastrodon being partially based on bulls as well may also explain their third eye.
Only 90s kids remember when this was clickbait about pokemon stealing snugoi.
I got mine yesterday
Me too. Placed it right next to my Chespin plush
Same Mine now sits beside Arceus
Same!😁
Very squishy.
Same
The Gastrodon or the plushy?
hm. I they were different because of East and West, but I always assumed the pink one was more of a freshwater slug and blue was more saltwater considering I usual found pink along rivers and lakes and the blue more so by the sea. with weird exceptions like Route 221/224 because of post-game oversight.
I think what nurse joy meant is that once the world formed and when mount corrent properly formed (probably way farther into the past before hisui) is when the shellos split into the two forms
So Shellos and Gastrodon have different appearances based on where they're found?
Shellos was the first Regional Form!
There's a dex entry from USUM that states that Gastrodon is related to Cloyster and Shellder. Perhaps the name Shellos actually comes from that fact that its shell split off from it and became a separate Pokémon species. Makes me wonder what would happen if one were to put them together.
@ImHashtagAlive slugs have something called a radula, which is like a tongue covered with teeth. That would explain why Shellder sticks its tongue out a lot.
My favorite thought about pokemon creation is that the artists that designed those pokemon were probably halfway through and in their head the one, single thought they had was "heehoo creature :)" XD
Don't click the bots.
I love my Snugooi, their face isn't as pudgy as the official pictures but that's just the kind of diet inspiration I need
Pretty sure the lore around Spear Pillar is wrong then.
Probably it wasn't where Arceus created the world (I mean, why would it be? If you're going to create a whole world out of nothing, why would you create a square plate of carved rock first, with some pillars sticking out of it?) No, I think Spear Pillar was probably created much later. Possibly when Giratina was sent off to the mirror world?
Simply put because the anime's version doesn't look like that. It is a separate space whose entrance is located on Mt. Coronet. It wasn't until the Legends Arceus specials were the iconic roman style was depicted being equally as important and connected but not quite the same.
Well it's clearly a reference to Japan myth so that's reason enough.
But from a 3D modeller,
It's easier to start with one object, then build from there. Maybe you add several objects and stitch them together but starting from one defined base helps more than starting from nothing
a lot of lore's of the world are never 100% accurate. Their is always embellishment, with the most outrageous and mysterious, actually being easily explained with a little thought, assuming it wasn't out right made up.
With all the Tofrugs and Snugoois in the world, gotta wonder if Lockstin would make his own monster catcher?
Just came across this video today. I was never really a big fan of Gastrodon, but I trained one up in preparation for the Greninja raid in Scarlet/Violet, and honestly, it's easily one of my top 20 Pokemon now, design wise. One of those things where I just never really gave it a chance, and I kinda regret that now.
The bull part made me remember the cat merch video from last year with Trubbish in it, would love to know the reason for that.
Thanks for covering Shellos and gastrodon they’re some of my favorite Pokémon
I'm sorry the clip of someone violently shaking a seahare while it desperately squeezes out ink hoping they'll go away is so funny
Now I am curious how the 'original Shellos /Gastrodon' looked like.
Edit to add in a FUN FACT! The Nudibranch in The Netherlands is called a "Zeeschaap" which translates to "Sea sheep"
BRO SHELLOS IS MY FAVORITE MON HELL YEAH
Gastrodon is a rare case of a final stage evo being cuter than the first stage IMO
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No mention of Tritodon's 3d eye ? It always puzzled me, there gotta be some sense of putting it there !
You know who else has multiple forms? Oricorio! A video is very much needed please
the editing on your videos is so vibey and perfect it’s like i’m jammin out and chillin with u while u spit some pokémon knowledge 😭🤝💯
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Got my Snugooi today, really like it!
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Nice quick title change Lockstin! XD I'll get mine soon!
Sooooo, I couldn't watch most of this episode. I have a terrible phobia of slugs and snails. Their wrinkly, slimy skin, how they melt in literal salt, their several feet under their body, their nasty eye stalks... Gives me shivers. I've been afraid of them for ages but realised it was a phobia when I was playing Elden Ring in the sewers under Leyndell and there were slugs on the walls, floors and ceiling just dropping on me. It was a living nightmare.
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7:37 “kind of like West sea Shellos.”
Camera zooms on on East sea Gastrodon
I got mine a couple weeks ago, I pre-ordered mine when you first announced it.
Please can you do a video explaining Bisharp? I am trying to make fakemon off of it but don't have a trustable source on it's design and concept.
P.S. I don't know if this will affect your answer, but I pre ordered the Snugooi plush.
Don't see what value a video will have over the sources already available online since the video is probably going to be based on those same sources.
A simple search will show that the Pawniard line is based on samurais.
"the order we recieved was to design a pokemon that dwells in urban cities and is steel dark type so i thought it should be something artificial. i told the designer to make a pokemon that is covered with sharp objects and hunts anybody who gets close and he came up with this samurai-like pokemon. some concept art shows bisharp ordering a bunch of pawniard to jump onto a enemy stabbing it in the process which explains the sharp blades on pawniard's stomach. even though they look humanoid, their design is a bit insect like as well" - Ken Sugimori
Mine will hopefully be here tomorrow! I'm super excited!
I'm fairly certain it's Pronounced New-Dih-Bronk. An Educational PC Game about Sea Life I owned said so.
Great video! I was hoping to learn more about their eyes though, since it's a curious part of their anatomy. ^^
Gastrodon is one of my favorite ground types! Love the video!
Gastrodon is one of the few non ghost pokemon that i love.
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Thank you for covering my favorite water type.
Appearently sea slugs are called sea cows in Japanese. That's probably why the sea slug-boss in Pikmin 2 goes "moo", I think.
Hey lockstin! great snugooi plush and also great timing as well bc my b day is in 8 days and can't wait get get it after my b day looks so comfy!!!
"And that's how the nudibranch do."
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Shellos used to have shells?, Missed opportunity in Legends Arceus, they preferred giving shells to the Gudra line
I love sea slugs! Thank you for doing a video on them!
Honestly, I love to see other forms of these Pokémon, a North and South Sea forms as well as a form that has a shell on its back, also have colours from both if not all forms that exists, the same goes for the Shinies, so yeah
West coast shellos was the very 1st shiny I ever encountered. Years later I would randomly find an east coast shiny shellos. Now I have an adorable pair of full odds shiny pink and blue gastrodon.
0:06 lokstin is a half asleep Chris fan
Gastrodon is my favourite Pokémon I’m so happy that you made a video about them 😊
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Snugooi and the Shellos line regardless look great!
I love the title change upon realising just how much of a self report the title was.
Got my Snugooi yesterday, absolutely love it!
Ah, Shellos...the descendants of the slugs that rose from primordial mud, that existed before space and time.
Also, gastropods are mollusks, and as such are related to cephalopods like octopus, squid, and cuttlefish. One thing of note with some cephalopods is that they have an internal shell, sort of like a big, bony plate protecting their internals, similar to Gastrodon’s vestigial shell described in the pokedex. I don’t know if any sea slugs have anything like that, but I wouldn’t think it too big of a stretch to think that such an ancient Pokémon would pull inspiration from the close relatives of its real-world counterpart.
Damn, Gastrodon is my favorite Pokémon, happy he got a video for himself
Shellos is one of my favorite cuties ever. I made it my walking buddy in pokemon go - the blue version. Named it Nobuharu after the Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger blue ranger because he's one of the most fun and interesting characters ever on sentai.
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The fact that it used to have a shell sounds a lot like goodra. Weird that goodra got the variant then.
Sea slugs are called umiushi (sea cow) in Japanese.
Shellos and Gastrodon are a couple of those Pokemon I always kinda forget exists until I see a video about them or I run into one in a game. They're just kinda...there.
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Could you do Altaria next? I have NO idea why it was a dragon type, except for the fact that there are no "mystical" types that would fit it back then..
The thumbnail changed while I was watching, that was fun
I feel like nurs joy number trillion wouldn't know of the actual existence of arcues and stuff, and so would use her understanding of the mountain and stuff to explain how shellos are different.
7:40 Love seeing Mark Ferrari's pixel art.
Gastrodon was one of the few gen4 Pokemon (that aren't related to a pre-gen4 line) that I liked back in gen4. Ironic as I loved so many gen3 Pokemon, and its beta was almost a gen3 Pokemon.