Also: "Fat Jumping Pig", whose signature move is "Giant Jumping Genie". I just imagine him summoning a big, bouncing Robin Williams. I am dying of laughter.
I screwed up on the Pangolin thing. The name of those animals wasn't in my head when I shot this so I thought it was more random nonsense from these cards.
Muscle Man Devil : I want to watch the world burn ... //Evolves// Wrestling Devil : //throws a vase on the ground// I can't tell what I love more. The names or the skills XD Either way, great find!
Oh god.....that instruction manual is horrendous, but not as horrendous as those names. Except Rain Spider and Artificial Shelled Snail....those are kinda cute.
"Sky dog beast" for Shiftry makes sense because the Pokémon is based on the Tengu, a Japanese mythical creature whose name literally means "sky/heaven dog" (even though they're not dog-like)
Man, of all those names, Sandshrew is the closest to what it actually is. A pangolin is a type of anteater, though unlike other species, they have scales, and look like armadillos. In fact, if you look up pangolin, you'll see it pretty much looks like a real life Sandshrew. The tail is a little longer, but other than that... yeah. Still, the names were awful.
This game seems a lot like the card game, Top Trumps. Though not explained in the instructions, you typically pick a card from your hand and place it FACE DOWN, say what Stat you are attacking with (one of your high stats obv), Then your opponent puts a card face down trying to counter it, you both flip and whoever has the bigger stat wins (though you could also bait out your opponents good cards by playing a bad card and bluffing a big stat). The winning card (highest stats) is discarded (I think?) And the "battles" winner claims the losers card and puts it into their hand. First person to lose all the cards in their hand loses the game. So would be like, highest height, heaviest weight, largest HP, biggest attack, fastest speed, highest... POW...? etc. (Seriously wtf are these haha). So... I'm guessing weakness doubles your stat against the opponent (so always win basically), and resistance makes your opponents skill -40 or -60 or stuff? (so again, always win basically). Fuck, the more I try and explain this, the worse it gets.
Resistance was the negative of any card's HP total (so an HP 45 card would have -45 resistance.) But HP only matters if you pick HP as the battle stat. There was no mention in the two pages shown of resistance or weakness actually mattering (just as there was no use for skills), and several of the cards had the same element for both their resistance and weakness anyway. The rules even mention the ability to pick stars as the battle stat, which means you could win a fight because your card has the higher retreat cost. Otherwise, your Top Trumps description sounds close, except the rules here never say anything about picking the attack stat before cards are revealed. It just says everyone throws out a card, then you pick the combat stat, then the person with the highest value for that stat takes all the cards. And the winner of the game is the player with the most cards after the loser loses all of his cards... Maybe? Or is the winner the one with the most cards in their score pile when they run out of cards? The translation is an incoherent, and sometimes contradictory, mess...
I think this what they were going for. However, this creates an issue: the attributes / elements. Presumably, it is supposed to work on an elemental rock paper scissor system. Except, what happens if you are comparing two attributes that no interaction such as Dragon and Ghost?
I'm a Sandstone supporter, too! What a shame Hillstone became candidate instead, now Amerocka is gonna be ruled by that incompetent Trumboulder for the next four years...
Here is a fun thing: the stats presented in the cards are the pokemon's actual base stats. Clearly someone spent a whole lot of time on bulbapedia/serebii for that.
Just for the sake of giving a crumb of credit to the translators, "Drupe" is a word. It's the name for stone fruits like cherries, plums, peaches, apricots and such. They probably wanted a plant name and could easily have used carp for extra confusion (as in the endocarp, mesocarp and pericarp of pomacious fruits like apples.)
Oh God, I just realised: The values these cards have are their *Base Stats* from the games: bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_Pok%C3%A9mon_by_base_stats_(Generation_VII-present) Guess the people who made these did some research after all.
I'm starting to think those "skills" are just a single move that the Pokemon can use - Slaking's "Deceptive Show of Power" sounds an awful lot like it was meant to be Facade, Abra's "Moving in a Twinkle" is definitely Teleport, Hariyama has "Broken Pottery" which... Brick Break maybe?
And ray of suds and foams is Bubble Beam Fierce blood sucker might be Leech Seed Knife of tree branches is Leaf Blade Hypertension pump might be Hydro Pump Kick of blazing fire- Blaze Kick Falling of earth might be Earthquake Praying for rain is Rain Dance
And ray of suds and foams is Bubble Beam Fierce blood sucker might be Leech Seed Knife of tree branches is Leaf Blade Hypertension pump might be Hydro Pump Kick of blazing fire- Blaze Kick Falling of earth might be Earthquake Praying for rain is Rain Dance
2:18 "Alakazam" is looking more like "Alak-ACHOO!" 11:18 LaDOS: "The Richment Enter eminds you that the Eighted Ompanion Ube will ever reaten to tab you and, in act, annot peak.
I actually came across my old box of Pokemon Pocket Monster Pedigree Cards, but they're a little different to the ones you have. In addition to the title, they were in a double-sized box, it also has "2010 Hidden Legends EX" It also has the infamous bad named pokemon, like "Ultra Dream", "Firery Fox and "Duck"
@@phelous I did make a photocopy of them years ago when I first got them. I tried loading the original picture to Pinterest, but it wasn't having it. Box Art: www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/548383692134772751/ Card backs: Warning: They are the stuff of Nightmares: www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/548383692134772759/ Photocopy of cards: www.deviantart.com/alondra-chui/art/Fake-Spanish-Pokemon-cards-100611307
The gameplay of this bootleg is actually similar to Top Trumps, a card game where you compare stats and whoever has the highest stat takes both cards; whoever takes all the cards wins
Achamo is Torchic's Japanese name Bursyamo is Blaziken's Japanese name Sarnaiter is a bad transliteration of "Sirknight", which is Gardevoir's Japanese name Similarly "Kaicy" is "Casey" Broken pottery is probably "Brick Break"
If this was a parody, with all those pathetic names and useless attacks being intentional, this would actually be brilliant. Someone needs to make a parody card duel game with this premise.
I think the skills were all moves taken from the pokemon's actual move list at random then google translated from another language into english. "Ray of broken plates" is probably Hyper Beam. Most fully evolved pokemon can learn it, so that's why it keeps showing up.
Ray of suds and foams is Bubble Beam Fierce blood sucker might be Leech Seed Knife of tree branches is Leaf Blade Hypertension pump might be Hydro Pump Kick of blazing fire- Blaze Kick Falling of earth might be Earthquake Praying for rain is Rain Dance
I noticed that Phelous talked about the Penguins on the packets - I have a feeling that it's a printing test image to test contrast, brightness and colour. They just got so lazy they didn't remove it.
Huh.... That's actually kind of interesting. The Bootleggers didn't just grab those stats out of nowhere. Those are the base stats from the games. Like, look at Blaziken's card, and look at these stats. HP: 80 Attack: 120 Defense: 70 Sp. Atk: 110 Sp. Def: 70 Speed: 80 Those are the EXACT stats on the card. So... kudos to the bootleggers for at least researching what they were ripping off to at least SOME degree. Though that obviously doesn't excuse the lack of research on the type chart....
It seems the pattern with Jigglypuff is that it's name is translated to Fat in Chinese. I know in the Mandarin version it's name translates to 'Fat Puff' and Wigglytuff is 'Fat Pudding'. I think in Cantonese it is translated (for Jiggly) as 'Fat Ball' so in whatever Chinese version you have, Jiggly and Wiggly will always be 'FAT'.
Pffftt... I SERIOUSLY had to restrain myself from laughing hard at the Jigglypuff card. Mainly cause it's 4am and I don't want to wake everyone up with loud laughter XD
i love trying to figure out what move from the pokemon game the "skill" is suppose to be. Like, i'm pretty sure turn around and fall is suppose to be rollout.
Kimi FW no Madeline: Lost In Paris is a children's movie based of a children's cartoon and books it's not a horror movie or a ripoff of anything it's a kids cartoon and book based movie on a children's book icon Madeline.
It looks like this is how you play the game: You attack with the base PH and one of the other stats added together. The opponent counters with their card. The attacker subtracts the defending cards PH from it's PH and that's the attack number. The POW is reduced by that attack amount. When the card's POW reached zero, then it is removed from the game. Because the defending card isn't revealed until after the attack is added up, you don't know which attack is best. My guess is that there was supposed to be a way to make certain attacks nullified or reduced. And I'm guessing this borrows a lot from Yugioh.
I laughed so hard at these stupid names. They shouldn't make fun of Jigglypuff's weight problem though. I'd like to see an anime of these characters with their trainer; Boy with hat.lol
6:14 Apparently the Bootleggers had the bright idea to rip the pokemon's base stats right off of Serebii. 10:40 Oh, come on! China and Japan are really close to each other! How would they not know what a TENGU is? (Note, while the name origin is a Chinese term for "heavenly dog," Tengu are depicted as birdlike creatures) 15:01 Come on! China and Japan did trade with Japan for centuries! How would they not know about Japanese culture, let alone sumo wrestlers?
Also, I could actually kind of make out what most of the move names were actually supposed to be, though I'm not sure if I could figure out "ray of broken plates", unless it was Psybeam or Hyper Beam or something...
I'll admit, some of the bootleggy names they gave the Pokemon are pretty badass. "Dark Devil Wolf," "Ghost Killer Kitten" (even though Zangoose is a mongoose), "Steel Dragon King," and "Volcano Ox" are some of my favorites. And then you have "Fat Boy."
“Incessant killing” is probably the best skill a Pokémon can have, really.
No
Ray of broken plates
Silly Phelous, when battling, it's always important to know whether your opponent is acidic, basic, or neutral!
Clearly, a PH value equal to dihydrogen oxide makes it the best.
Do acidic, basic and neutral form a rock paper scissor system? For example, Basic -> Neutral -> Acidic -> Basic
Also: "Fat Jumping Pig", whose signature move is "Giant Jumping Genie". I just imagine him summoning a big, bouncing Robin Williams.
I am dying of laughter.
I think that the Fatboy should evolve into Fatboy Slim and not Boy Fat Co since Wigglytuff is slimmer than Jigglypuff. Real missed opportunity there
SKILL: DJ-ing
I screwed up on the Pangolin thing. The name of those animals wasn't in my head when I shot this so I thought it was more random nonsense from these cards.
don't worry its fine it makes it more funny
Name would have made more sense for Sandslah, since it is actually based on pangolins. But that would have required actual thought in their part.
I heard you like Pond Dragons?
I can't believe that he missed that the psychic card were all labeled Superman. Even though the manual stated they were Supernatural.
"Incessant Killing" had me rolling.
Muscle Man Devil : I want to watch the world burn ...
//Evolves//
Wrestling Devil : //throws a vase on the ground//
I can't tell what I love more. The names or the skills XD Either way, great find!
This episode has the best joke in ANY bootleg zones episode: "Think of the Quality!"
Oh god.....that instruction manual is horrendous, but not as horrendous as those names. Except Rain Spider and Artificial Shelled Snail....those are kinda cute.
I love how Ghost Killer Kitten wasn't strong against Ghost. That's just special. lol
I'm nicknaming my Pokémon these fake names, they're great.
"Sky dog beast" for Shiftry makes sense because the Pokémon is based on the Tengu, a Japanese mythical creature whose name literally means "sky/heaven dog" (even though they're not dog-like)
ABARENBOU TENGU.
That's all I've got.
Their names seem to be borrowed from the Chinese Tiangou, which is a dog-like beast.
They actually did get Sandshrew's inspiration from a Pangolin right at least.
25:27 Some yokai are born when an object turns a certain age, I'm guessing that's where that name came from.
I lost it at mushroom. they really gave no shits
Man, of all those names, Sandshrew is the closest to what it actually is.
A pangolin is a type of anteater, though unlike other species, they have scales, and look like armadillos. In fact, if you look up pangolin, you'll see it pretty much looks like a real life Sandshrew. The tail is a little longer, but other than that... yeah.
Still, the names were awful.
This game seems a lot like the card game, Top Trumps. Though not explained in the instructions, you typically pick a card from your hand and place it FACE DOWN, say what Stat you are attacking with (one of your high stats obv), Then your opponent puts a card face down trying to counter it, you both flip and whoever has the bigger stat wins (though you could also bait out your opponents good cards by playing a bad card and bluffing a big stat). The winning card (highest stats) is discarded (I think?) And the "battles" winner claims the losers card and puts it into their hand. First person to lose all the cards in their hand loses the game.
So would be like, highest height, heaviest weight, largest HP, biggest attack, fastest speed, highest... POW...? etc. (Seriously wtf are these haha).
So... I'm guessing weakness doubles your stat against the opponent (so always win basically), and resistance makes your opponents skill -40 or -60 or stuff? (so again, always win basically). Fuck, the more I try and explain this, the worse it gets.
Resistance was the negative of any card's HP total (so an HP 45 card would have -45 resistance.) But HP only matters if you pick HP as the battle stat. There was no mention in the two pages shown of resistance or weakness actually mattering (just as there was no use for skills), and several of the cards had the same element for both their resistance and weakness anyway. The rules even mention the ability to pick stars as the battle stat, which means you could win a fight because your card has the higher retreat cost.
Otherwise, your Top Trumps description sounds close, except the rules here never say anything about picking the attack stat before cards are revealed. It just says everyone throws out a card, then you pick the combat stat, then the person with the highest value for that stat takes all the cards. And the winner of the game is the player with the most cards after the loser loses all of his cards... Maybe? Or is the winner the one with the most cards in their score pile when they run out of cards? The translation is an incoherent, and sometimes contradictory, mess...
I think this what they were going for. However, this creates an issue: the attributes / elements. Presumably, it is supposed to work on an elemental rock paper scissor system. Except, what happens if you are comparing two attributes that no interaction such as Dragon and Ghost?
Keeping track of the Ph of Pocket Monsters is no joke. You don't want to destroy your hands with an overly acidic card now do you?
I love how they just ripped the base stat totals from the game.
JP Whoa, really? But that would take... **gasp** effort!!
Probably copied it from an online FAQ or something.
Okay, for real... Hedgehog Bear is my new favorite Pokemon. That name is literal magic.
Busting makes Ghost Killer Kitten feel good.
Pikablu the Wafting Mouse prays for rain. To wash away the wafting I guess. As you do.
He prays for rain down in Aaaafricaaaaaa...
So I heard u liek Pond Dragons
I'm a Sandstone supporter, too!
What a shame Hillstone became candidate instead, now Amerocka is gonna be ruled by that incompetent Trumboulder for the next four years...
Nice profile pic.
CarozQH I love you.
So your're a Mountain penetrating king too?
Bobby Nick Isn't that obvious?
Make Amerocka Rock Again.
Here is a fun thing: the stats presented in the cards are the pokemon's actual base stats. Clearly someone spent a whole lot of time on bulbapedia/serebii for that.
Maybe Shedinja's *Ill-Will* skill was used on Alakazam's *Will* skill and willed Alakazam ill
Why am I thinking about this so hard
You've got to love how much detail Phelous goes into when he does these.
Fat Boy Co sounds like the name of an evil corporation in a kid's show.
It's actually Boy Fat Co if you look at the card closely.
& how the names bring out the dyslexia in us all.
Phelous, heard you like Pond Dragon.
Steven Seagal strikes again as a black belt Martial Artist who's developed the ultimate technique...
_Pond Dragon_
I heard you liek a -̶M̶u̶d̶k̶i̶p̶ Pond Dragon.
Just for the sake of giving a crumb of credit to the translators, "Drupe" is a word. It's the name for stone fruits like cherries, plums, peaches, apricots and such. They probably wanted a plant name and could easily have used carp for extra confusion (as in the endocarp, mesocarp and pericarp of pomacious fruits like apples.)
Penguins make everything better, Phelan.
"When you were young you were the king of desert flower..."
Oh God, I just realised: The values these cards have are their *Base Stats* from the games: bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_Pok%C3%A9mon_by_base_stats_(Generation_VII-present)
Guess the people who made these did some research after all.
I'm starting to think those "skills" are just a single move that the Pokemon can use - Slaking's "Deceptive Show of Power" sounds an awful lot like it was meant to be Facade, Abra's "Moving in a Twinkle" is definitely Teleport, Hariyama has "Broken Pottery" which... Brick Break maybe?
And ray of suds and foams is Bubble Beam
Fierce blood sucker might be Leech Seed
Knife of tree branches is Leaf Blade
Hypertension pump might be Hydro Pump
Kick of blazing fire- Blaze Kick
Falling of earth might be Earthquake
Praying for rain is Rain Dance
I guess Hariyama's skill Broken Pottery was actually a bad translation of Brick Break?
And ray of suds and foams is Bubble Beam
Fierce blood sucker might be Leech Seed
Knife of tree branches is Leaf Blade
Hypertension pump might be Hydro Pump
Kick of blazing fire- Blaze Kick
Falling of earth might be Earthquake
Praying for rain is Rain Dance
The what’s ray of broken plates
FATAL STROKE!
Would you ever look at some bootleg magic or yugioh cards?
2:33
Phelous, you casual trainer. Don't you know that M was a Gen I glitch Pokemon?
Caz I'm also betting that he doesn't know about the Heal Ball, the only Poké Ball that isn't on the bootleg Pokémon Cards that play like Top Trumps.
Caz
technically it was 'm ;)
Luckily, nobody who has a life gives a shit
deskish oooh edgy
This is legit one of my favorite bootleg zone episodes, never fails to bring a smile to my face every time I watch it.
2:18 "Alakazam" is looking more like "Alak-ACHOO!"
11:18 LaDOS: "The Richment Enter eminds you that the Eighted Ompanion Ube will ever reaten to tab you and, in act, annot peak.
I actually came across my old box of Pokemon Pocket Monster Pedigree Cards, but they're a little different to the ones you have. In addition to the title, they were in a double-sized box, it also has "2010 Hidden Legends EX"
It also has the infamous bad named pokemon, like "Ultra Dream", "Firery Fox and "Duck"
Oh nice, I don't think I've seen other versions of these before.
@@phelous I did make a photocopy of them years ago when I first got them. I tried loading the original picture to Pinterest, but it wasn't having it.
Box Art: www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/548383692134772751/
Card backs: Warning: They are the stuff of Nightmares: www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/548383692134772759/
Photocopy of cards: www.deviantart.com/alondra-chui/art/Fake-Spanish-Pokemon-cards-100611307
The gameplay of this bootleg is actually similar to Top Trumps, a card game where you compare stats and whoever has the highest stat takes both cards; whoever takes all the cards wins
Achamo is Torchic's Japanese name
Bursyamo is Blaziken's Japanese name
Sarnaiter is a bad transliteration of "Sirknight", which is Gardevoir's Japanese name
Similarly "Kaicy" is "Casey"
Broken pottery is probably "Brick Break"
+Scott Sandler
What about “Giant Jumping Genie”?
If this was a parody, with all those pathetic names and useless attacks being intentional, this would actually be brilliant.
Someone needs to make a parody card duel game with this premise.
Man, I really want a Ghost Killer Kitten now. These cards are amazing.
Pangolin is a real animal that does kind of look like a sandshrew.
22:08 Wow. Poupi Pig. You know, my little sister loves that show. Didn't know they were pokemons the whole time though.
I don't care about Pokemon card, but I can spend hours looking at and talking about fake Pokemon cards.
@8:57
"Warshia" sounds like if my older sister, Annashia had an evil clone of her that's like Wario and Waluigi!
Am I the only one who thinks "Ghost Hunter Kitten" would be a great anime name?
I would watch the heck out of that show. :D
Solrock literally translates into "sun stone" in many languages.
It's extra hilarious that wild Solrocks actually spawn with Sun Stone(item)
Sounds like someone dared their parents to name each of the Pokemon and whatever they guessed ended up getting printed on the cards.
11:03 "Swallow back to killing"
Oh that damn big red swallow, always going around killing!
Say what you want, but "Steel Dragon King" is totally a great name for Aggron.
I think Pangolin is the name of the animal that Sandshrew is based off of
And you'd be right.
LuigiGodzillaGirl I don't know what a Pangolin is... But now I know what animal Sandshrew is based off of!
Was gonna say the same thing. Sandshrew/slash are based off a pangolin.
They get that right but called Sharpedo a sun fish...WHAT (i guess cuz where the bootlegs are from but come on!)
AkumetsuLord
Well to be fair, it does look like a Mola Mola.
I think the skills were all moves taken from the pokemon's actual move list at random then google translated from another language into english. "Ray of broken plates" is probably Hyper Beam. Most fully evolved pokemon can learn it, so that's why it keeps showing up.
Skill: Sleeping
Same
Skill: Cries
Same
Mood.
Their names sound like legit Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. :p
I think the best part of the weird names and skills is figuring out what they're actually supposed to be.
Ray of suds and foams is Bubble Beam
Fierce blood sucker might be Leech Seed
Knife of tree branches is Leaf Blade
Hypertension pump might be Hydro Pump
Kick of blazing fire- Blaze Kick
Falling of earth might be Earthquake
Praying for rain is Rain Dance
I noticed that Phelous talked about the Penguins on the packets - I have a feeling that it's a printing test image to test contrast, brightness and colour. They just got so lazy they didn't remove it.
Maybe
Sooo...Blaziken's weakness is now the Grass type, while it's resistant to the Water type.
Makes sense?
For Blaziken, no, but for Bird Barhsia, yes!
SIlly bootleggers, Blaziken's REAL weakness is snobs who want to tell you how to play videogames!
Imagine actually trying to play the game using these rules. I guess Anorith just... wins... because its skill is "Incessant killing."
10:27 drupe: a fleshy fruit with thin skin and a central stone containing the seed, e.g., a plum, cherry, almond, or olive.
F A T B O Y. Lol.
I always wondered where the 'you stink' clip you used to use came from. What review was that first in?
ruclips.net/video/xpp2AmlftrI/видео.html
@@phelous Well now I feel like an idiot lol. I watched that one years ago. Thanks for the heads up.Phelous! :D
Huh.... That's actually kind of interesting. The Bootleggers didn't just grab those stats out of nowhere. Those are the base stats from the games. Like, look at Blaziken's card, and look at these stats.
HP: 80
Attack: 120
Defense: 70
Sp. Atk: 110
Sp. Def: 70
Speed: 80
Those are the EXACT stats on the card. So... kudos to the bootleggers for at least researching what they were ripping off to at least SOME degree. Though that obviously doesn't excuse the lack of research on the type chart....
So, they turned "Special Attack" to "Commandoes"?
It seems the pattern with Jigglypuff is that it's name is translated to Fat in Chinese. I know in the Mandarin version it's name translates to 'Fat Puff' and Wigglytuff is 'Fat Pudding'. I think in Cantonese it is translated (for Jiggly) as 'Fat Ball' so in whatever Chinese version you have, Jiggly and Wiggly will always be 'FAT'.
Sky Dog Beast makes some sense since Shiftry is based on a tengu, and tengu is written with the characters for sky and dog
Pffftt... I SERIOUSLY had to restrain myself from laughing hard at the Jigglypuff card. Mainly cause it's 4am and I don't want to wake everyone up with loud laughter XD
Shiftry is called Sky Dog Beast, because it's based on the Tengu, which translates as "Heavenly Dog". Not excusing, just explaining.
i love trying to figure out what move from the pokemon game the "skill" is suppose to be. Like, i'm pretty sure turn around and fall is suppose to be rollout.
I thought it was body slam
Those stats on the cards are the actual base stats of the Pokemon on the games. Not sure if anyone else noticed that.
The part at the end when he says "I'm gonna play Fat Boy" reminds me a lot of Civvie 11.
Phelous can you review Madeline: Lost In Paris.
Why? Is it a rip-off of something or horror-themed or in just really bad quality?
Kimi FW no Madeline: Lost In Paris is a children's movie based of a children's cartoon and books it's not a horror movie or a ripoff of anything it's a kids cartoon and book based movie on a children's book icon Madeline.
and what's bad about it?
glitchhunter09 nothing I just want him to review and hope that he likes it.
Dude, everything is better with penguins. I think every box should have penguins on it rather it is relevant to the product or not.
A pangolin is a real animal. It's an armadillo relative covered in scale-like armor, and is the inspiration for sandslash, so they weren't far off.
It looks like this is how you play the game: You attack with the base PH and one of the other stats added together. The opponent counters with their card. The attacker subtracts the defending cards PH from it's PH and that's the attack number. The POW is reduced by that attack amount. When the card's POW reached zero, then it is removed from the game. Because the defending card isn't revealed until after the attack is added up, you don't know which attack is best. My guess is that there was supposed to be a way to make certain attacks nullified or reduced. And I'm guessing this borrows a lot from Yugioh.
I love that the cards stats are the same in the 3 gen pokemon games.
24:58 Trapinch is based off a bug called an ant-lion which eats ants, so there's at least SOME method to this madness.
8:28
"Leaf dragon"
Bootleggers successfully predicted Mega Sceptile.
9:39
"Hedgehog bear"
Ultimate kawaii
Funny thing is that many of the Pokemon names sound more like Yu-Gi-Oh names!
jigglypuff name is now FAT BOY
Anthony Barratt Then I guess Kirby is Fat Girl.
I found it odd that its weak to fighting but also resists fighting
I think I'm gonna name my Wigglytuff Boy Fat Co ingame now. lol.
We have to praise it like we should.
You can tell he really loves Ghost Killer Kitten. XD
I laughed so hard at these stupid names. They shouldn't make fun of Jigglypuff's weight problem though. I'd like to see an anime of these characters with their trainer; Boy with hat.lol
6:14 Apparently the Bootleggers had the bright idea to rip the pokemon's base stats right off of Serebii.
10:40 Oh, come on! China and Japan are really close to each other! How would they not know what a TENGU is? (Note, while the name origin is a Chinese term for "heavenly dog," Tengu are depicted as birdlike creatures)
15:01 Come on! China and Japan did trade with Japan for centuries! How would they not know about Japanese culture, let alone sumo wrestlers?
Also, I could actually kind of make out what most of the move names were actually supposed to be, though I'm not sure if I could figure out "ray of broken plates", unless it was Psybeam or Hyper Beam or something...
Brick break?
What's your favorite soil type pokemon? I personally like 'soil'galeo
Plus those instructions say the winner can "confiscate" the cards of the loser... That's stealing
Considering Solrock's type, it resisting and being weak to fighting makes a strange amount of sense.
Jigglypuff Slim, the new musician.
20:10 Chialaimou, related to Shia La Beouf?
Also I am naming a fuckton of Pokémon their names on these cards and putting them all in Wonder Trade.
So, it is basically Top Trumps?
You sure the names weren't modeled after Yugioh card monsters?
Phelous, the evolution of Fruiter Beast was called a dog because it's based on a tengu, the Chinese equivalent being a dog on a cloud.
Broken pottery must be bone button's special move.
I'll admit, some of the bootleggy names they gave the Pokemon are pretty badass. "Dark Devil Wolf," "Ghost Killer Kitten" (even though Zangoose is a mongoose), "Steel Dragon King," and "Volcano Ox" are some of my favorites.
And then you have "Fat Boy."
"Shady handballs" Wow, what a skill. Sounds like the kind of person you meet behind the Arby's dumpster.
I lost it at Ghost Killer Kitten.
Sarnaiter - pretty sure that's a very bad mispelling/corruption of Sirknight, Gardevoir's Japanese name.
If your Pokemon has low pH they can learn the special attack "Acid Erosion"
Scary thing is, almost all of (if not literally all of) the stats on these cards are near-exact to the Pokemon's base stats in the Gen.3 games.