Every CRAZY Pokedex Entry in Scarlet & Violet's DLC
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- Опубликовано: 19 дек 2023
- Every Pokedex entry in the Teal Mask and Indigo Disk that I thought was interesting/crazy/funny/etc
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the opposite of a symbiotic relationship is just a parasite or parasitic relationship i would think
My guess for the Ariados entries contradicting is that it implies it makes multiple nests but never makes said any of those nests a permanent home, meaning it kinda leaves behind its threads everywhere
For me it was the thought that maybe ariodos isn't picky to where it makes its nest say in a tree or cave maybe even on a rock face it'll just make a nest anywhere
or maybe pokedex entries aren't meant to be taken seriously?
@@theamazingspooderman2697 Nah
@@theamazingspooderman2697possible but boring
I thought it was because they always imply the different versions are very similar parallel universes (ie two whole different fruit themed schools exist in the "same" region) so logically some of the mons, no matter how similar, would act bit differently.. like the Paradox mons? In their "home" game we have actual info and confirmed sightings while in the opposing version it is more like "these are made up things that somehow exist" without much more info
23:14 I think the actual combination that forms "Syrpent" is Syrup + Serpent, seeing one of its abilities is called Supersweet Syrup, i think that would make more sense then Serpent + Wyrm, although, it could be Serpent + Wyrm + Syrup.
yeah, plus Hydrapple having regenerator for an ability makes sense because of the mythical creature it's based on being the Hydra
@@bulborb8756oh, that explains why it has regenerator
Probably. Its German entry calls them "Schlangel", with "Schlange" meaning "snake", and the "-l" at the end probably coming from "Apfel", the German word for apple, since that word is also part of all the Applin-lines' names, so the "Syr" coming from syrup is probably more likely than the y from wyrm.
Also, its Japanese name "Kamitsu-Orochi" comes from the Japanese word for flower-nectar, so the syrup-aspect is clearly important to it.
@@The76532 yup because the Hydra has extraordinary regenerative abilities where when 1 head it cut off, 2 more grow back in its place
Where did he see wyrm
For Tentacruel... I assume that each of those "eight" tentacles is, in fact, ten smaller tentacles all coiled together so they look like one, and when it goes to catch something, it uncoils them to catch things.
Or, the reason why Tentacruel has a dark face, is because it's hiding it's other tentacles cause using all of them would be a hassle
@@Macros9723a tangrowth before tangrowth
maybe they're simply translucid, so we won't see them despite being there
@@leonardolonghi3472 You mean translucent? You can still see translucent things, though. They are just harder to see. Transparent is probably what you actially meant... but biologically, that wouldn't make sense.
No, the coiled tentacles or having them all up in tentacruel's bell makes the most sense.
@@RenAsterion yeah, that one, I misspelled
translucent or transparent, the point stays the same, the artists only draw that many details, so I can see them saying "you see the 8 big ones, the other 72 can be barely seen unless you're face-to-face".
they're basically water bubbles, can't be easy to see water lines in more water
I love the hitmontop dex entry about its horn constantly growing, cuz it implies that the growing prevents the horn from being permanently ruined by hitmontop spinning on it. Like the teeth of a beaver
Also “syrpent” is a pun on syrup, cuz its apple is made of syrup
This also means that a hitmontop that doesn’t or can’t spin for some reason will have a comically large horn, as he notes, also similar to animals with continuously growing teeth/horns that can’t reduce their size through use
Yo that double entendre for Hydrapple is so creative hahah
I feel like syrpent could also be a combination of syrup and serpent. It works on so many levels!
NO but also yes.
Me too
Where is the BB Academy? Unova
What is Unova based on? New York
What is a nickname for the city of New york?
*The Big Apple!!*
And this connection to Unova stretches back to Dipplin!
Candy Apples are an American delicacy, invented by an american.
its appearance in Kitikami is because fall festivals sell them a lot.
Their Shinies look like Caramel Apples
@@TheHammerGuy94 ... How do we know it's in unova?
@@agentfelixscpitBriar litteraly tells us that BB is in here
Saw it mentioned elsewhere that Terapagos’ stellar form is a reference to the term “Turtles all the way down”, which is referencing the fact some ancient civilizations thought the world was on the back of a giant turtle- Which was supported on the back of another turtle, and that one was on the back of another turtle, and so on.
It’s a neat idea, not sure if its true, but it makes some sense with its pokedex entry with that knowledge.
It is, specifically, it is based on the "World Turtle".
It was actually that our world was carried by several elephants and THOSE were carried by a giant turtle.
Also it’s stellar form is the mysterious illustration from the books from Scarlet/Violet at the academy.
I believe you’re half-right. Certain civilizations did believe that the world was supported by a turtle in some way (it varies between cultures). The phrase “turtles all the way down” (which I’m pretty sure is exactly what stellar form Terapagos is referencing) is an expression of an infinite regress problem. Basically, if one were to ask why the world isn’t in free fall, another could posit that the world is on the back of a turtle, but to explain why that turtle isn’t also in free fall, one could use the same argument and say there’s another even larger turtle supporting the smaller one, and this could go on infinitely. The problem with infinite regress arguments is that they can end up being unhelpful and explaining nothing (or at least fail to provide a global explanation that explains everything cleanly), which can result in conclusions that are self-contradictory or logically unacceptable, which is akin to the definition of a paradox. Perhaps that’s why Terapagos’ time shenanigans of bringing the professor to Kitakami from the past leads to the discovery of Paradox Pokemon. Both paradoxes and infinite regress arguments can be forms of incoherent logic, tying Terapagos into the whole Paradox Pokémon plot line.
The myth of the world turtle is of Hindu origin. Certain Amerindian tribes also believed in a world turtle, without elephants of course.
18:19 Fun fact on symbiosis: Shellder and Slowbro counts as parasitism.
Mike was only focusing on mutual symbiosis.
Symbiosis is when two organisms closely interact with each other, but that doesn't necessarily mean they both have to benefit.
I mean they do both benefit slowking and bro get psychic powers and shelter gets protection from predators and seemingly no longer has to eat
There's a word for when one benefits and is neutral to the other. I'm blanking on it, but an example is remora and sharks
@@brunette3cookieIt’s commensalism or something like that
@@Puppste you're right, it's commensalism.
A fun detail with Minior is that if it breaks out of its shell in battle, and then you run away, the Minior does literally just disappear
Dont all pokemon vanish if you flee
@@hero-bo7qc no - they stay in the area, if they are overworld encounter.
@@mjm3091 i remember most pokemon just fading away after fleeing, unless that just happens because they're close to me and can't be encountered, like in the menu
@@hero-bo7qc that's usually how you save your Shinies. After running into them, you run, then you save, then you go back. Especially if it has Self-Destruct.
@@hero-bo7qc I think all wild Pokemon flee if you're in a union circle. But if you're offline, they stay there.
I always thought that tentacruel having 80 tentacles would work if each visible tentacle was made out of ten tentacles each, and they’ve basically been so clumped together for dexterity’s sake that eventually they just fuse together.
Like humans’ bones
Except if we referred to number of bones as how many babies have and not an adults 206
This might be the case
Because I swear I've seen Artwork of an 80 armed Tentacruel whose Tentacles were oddly thin
they're TEN tacles
I like to imagine they're like cat claws, concealed in the main body until it goes on the attack
One dex entry I loved was Smeargle's. It says that when it reaches adulthood, others of it's kind would leave paw prints on it's back. It is just so cute.
In mystery dungeon rescue team there is a small scene/quest with smeargles.... one of them runs away from the pack because it did not want paw prints everywhere
@@viewer6152huh, neat! I guess they reused that idea for Spinda’s spot patterns.
Part of me wonders what is considered "paranormal" or "dubious" in the Pokemon world. Like, in a world where ghosts as well as people who can see them, psychics (both Pokemon and people), fairies and effectively magic, time travel, teleportation, aliens and interdimensional beings, interdimensional travel, bringing fossils back to life (which is effectively both cloning and bringing the dead back to life), the gods being real, and artificial intelligence are all as common as dirt and knowledge of them is pretty openly shared, like where is the line drawn?
If it can't go into a ball it's supernatural.
@@FubukiTheIcyKing all Pokemon trainers are supernatural confirmed
Not an answer but I feel like someone from the past would say the same thing looking at technology today
Animals are supernatural
Everybody gangsta till Meowth starts Talking...
For Minior, I think the Violet entry is kinda explainable via its Moon entry: "If its core stays exposed, it will soon die off. It's possible that it may survive if it's put into a Poké Ball quickly enough." (Source: Bulbapedia)
The shiftry entry is even more fun because Shiftry is based on a Tengu, a type of youkai who commonly look like bird people!
Yes I remember yo Kai watch had one of those
Only some though cause some look way more humanoid cause the big ol nose
Maybe in an acient Hoenn, Shiftry looked like a bird lol
On top of the fact that Seedot (whose Dex entries claim it to be carried by bird or birdlike Pokémon) are literally its offspring!
I'm guessing to combat the endless growth, Hitmontop likely also spins on its horn to whittle it down to keep it from getting too long
Yeah. I believe that, since a Hitmontop sees its own horn as a vital part of its body, then it must sand it out often, like how Rattata has to gnaw at things to keep their teeth short.
That is what I figured when I heard that dex entry
Basically like trimming your fingernails
For Terrakion, it could be a future form of Plazma, considering they are known for modifying pokemon with Genesect
Also, it states that it resembles a modified terrakion, not that it is one
@@radosx1418since the dex entries of paradox pokemon on the game they came from also just say they resemble creatures/objects previously given the same name in that version’s expedition journal (the Scarlet/Violet book) (though perhaps notably, the paradox legendary trips have dex entries that don’t follow this trend 0_0), it’s easier to assume that it’s correct identification because of the similar wording that calls out only a resemblance.
23:14 "syrpent" also sounds like syrup + serpent, which makes sense because hydrapple and dipplin are themed around syrupy candy apples etc
Polchageist is formed from a teamaker's regret, similarly to the ruinic legendaries. Polchageist is regret, Chi Yu is envy, Chien Pao is hatred, Wo Chien is grudge, and Ting Lu is fear. They are also all linked to and object; Polchageist is a cup, Chien Pao is a sword, Wo Chien is a tablet, Ting Lu is a vessel, and Chi Yu is some beads.
Beady lava fish go brrrrrr
Also Gimmighoul is born out of passion, stated specifically by it's Roaming Form's Scarlet entry.
@@ExcalibeonSwordofEeveelutions And it's linked with an object, being a coin!
Ok
Surprised you didn’t include Charcadet’s evolutions, mostly Ceruledge. It’s implied to have most likely formed from classic ghost unfinished business, though I personally find it more interesting to interpret it as specifically a lingering sense of failure on part of the person who died before completing their mission. Pairing that idea with the grudge it holds toward the living(which js mentioned in Bitter Blade’s move description) also makes it even more of a foil to Armarouge; both carry armor from people who have long since passed on, yet while Armarouge is known for its loyalty and capabilities, Ceruledge is defined more by the failure and early death of someone else than its own attributes. Can’t imagine anyone would be happy in that situation.
I suppose in the format of your comment, Ceruledge could be seen as representing unfulfillment and bitterness, and is bound to a suit of armor. Armarouge, in turn, could represent contentedness, or even inner peace, also bound to a suit of armor, or possibly a funeral urn, as the armor resembles one in some of its animations.
Personally I just think the duality of their dex entries and signature move descriptions is kinda funny. “This is a certified Friend and they can use their psychic powers to use their armor like a cannon, isn’t that fucking sick?” “This armor belonged to someone who died before completing their mission, and is steeped in grudges as a result. Huh? What about the Pokémon? Uhhh… Well, it’s got sword arms, and uh… Oh, and it’s really bitter toward the living. No idea why that could be though we’ve mostly just researched the owner of the armor and what they didn’t accomplish”
Small correction. Wyrm is the word for a legless dragon, not just an old word for a dragon. That's why Applin and Dipplin are dragon types, as they are wyrms, legless dragons, which look like worms, hence they are inside of an apple
I mean he’s not wrong it is an old word for dragon. But yes the modern term is used for legless dragons and thus the funny worm in apple becomes wyrm in apple
wyrm does also refer to really old dragons though
Oh that’s cool
The practice of categorizing dragons into different types based on morphology with specific names for each one has zero historical basis. It's just a thing made up by super nerds pretending to be smart. Wyrm is just an old word for dragon.
@@Celestia282 Yeah, I mean Tolkien uses wyrm to describe Smaug (a dragon with 4 legs and 2 wings), and he's a giant language nerd.
1:05 I think entries that just have an extra comment at the end are so much better. Another example that comes to mind would be 'It dislikes heavy children'
11:58, ah, the genders of basculegion, anger and depression.
For the Hitmontop one, I think they wear down the horn on their heads by doing their regular spinning motion. This serves as a method of battling as well as to wear down the horns so they would not overgrow, much like how cats scratch things with their claws to sharpen/wear them down or with most rodents with their big incisors.
Just like the Dex entry for Rattata as well
I love how they basically say “Yeah Cramorant is a dumb bird but as soon as gets into battle it’s IQ is higher than Alakazam”, that actually makes sense as to why the Gulping Dex says it can’t swallow Pikachu and won’t let go but in battle it dives to grab a Pikachu and spits it out as a projectile.
DBS Goku level intelligence
the bird connection with Shiftry is because he's based off a tengu which are humanoid bird yokai that live in mountains their especially characterized by their long noses sometimes in the form of a bird's beak and holding fans
The minior dex entries remind me of the Sun and Moon anime, where we watch as the gang befriend a minior, ...only to watch it and the others nearby fade away into stardust.
Sun and Moon is very lighthearted most of the time, letting stuff like that gut-punch you out of nowhere.
I think I finally understand the speed stat, it’s a combination of the pokemons speed and reaction time, vikavolt has a poor reaction time so the fast pokemon has a lower speed stat, dodrio is slower but a third brain lets it react faster
Now im imagining somebody saying Boo! To a Vikavolt and it just floating there for a solid three seconds before going AHHH!😱
This is really cool. I never thought about the speed stat like this
Or maybe its the speed of them performing the attack for example: ones like vikavolt need to prepare more before attacking while other like infernape need less time preparing an attack.
Also regi-elecki attacks immediately without question tbh.
Fun fact! The dex entry for Lombre is meant to mirror the Japanese story of the Kappa or “river child” it’s a old story warning children not to wonder near rivers or ponds in fear of being drowned
Similarly, the Shiftry entry references Tengu. They're both nods towards the mythological Japanese creatures that inspired these evolution lines.
@@gengarzilla1685 always neat so see or hear about the earlier gens history or reasons for their designs, unfortunately these newer mon designs have kinda shifted but some of them are still pretty neat
Cool
I also likes that it says a michevious child since Kappa are depicted as devious little prankster
(Ps, idk what devious means it just felt right to put it there)
14:45 have you guys seen that new reality show "zebstrika storm chasers"?
Watching Mikey and Grunty Boi getting along and be so friendly is so wholesome. They’ve come such a far way in their friendship.
I believe the word 'Syrpent' in Hydrapple's dex entry is definitely referencing 'Serpent + Wyrm', but also 'Syrup' because of the whole candy apple theme.
So older Tentacruel have thinner tentacles?
Fun fact: Hydrapple's spanish Dex entry (at least Violet's) tells us the name of the wyrms inside the apple. They are called Viborappli. A mix between Vibora, which is a way to say snake in spanish and you can probably figure out what the appli is for
Nah whats it for
That's cool! :O Plus, it makes sense.
Shiftry is based on a Tengu, they have wings, the idea of it originally being bird like could be connected to the kotengu, a lesser bird like version of the tengu, it would also put a twist on the legend, as it actually became better and no longer resembled it's "lesser" version, so the people theorizing misconstrued it's development.
13:30 so basically rhyperior is just a bigger cramorant
Corphish seems to be based on the Signal Crayfish, a species native to the Pacific Northwest region in North America. They have been introduced across the world as a food species, where they have become quite invasive and kill off native species (including other native crayfish). The invasions are particularly bad in Japan and western Europe, but Ontario and southern California have them as well.
I thought it was based on the red swamp crayfish.
My guess for the "Ariados contradiction" is that Ariados only makes temporary nests so it uses that "special thread" to find it's way back because it makes soo many nests it can't memorise every location.
Fun Fact: It's Scarlet entry is a reference to Ariadne's thread from the Greek myth of the Minotaur, she was the daughter of King Minos and gave Theseus a spool of thread so he could leave a trail to escape from the labyrinth after slaying the Minotaur, Ariados is also partially named after Ariadne.
Also I'm pretty sure Syrpent is a combination of syrup and serpent not serpent and wyrm.
wait, two dex entrys connecting to greek myths. that is awsome
It also doesn't seem very practical to have an endless string leading to a permanent nest. Those strings would be everywhere
@@turdy_water7646yeah tho isn’t ariados sometimes shown as having webbed up a whole forest so it would make sense that it just spreads its web so wide
Why can’t syrpent be a combination of all three? It’s a serpentine wyrm that lives in a syrup covered apple
Honestly I like that Leavanny’s entry was kinda brutal. It’s meant to be a nurturing and mothering Pokemon, right? And have you noticed what can happen to even the gentlest mother when her children are in danger? 😳 (I think it would be cool if Game Freak made a literal “mama bear” Pokemon but this is close enough.)
People say there is nothing more dangerous than an injured animal - I tend to disagree.
Going near a mother and her young can be the last thing you ever do.
Even the most peacefull species will go to lenghts to protect their offspring.
3:20 I think a "country" would be a group/confederation of regions. But because regions are so distinct they're practically sovereign states
E.g. Regions of the "Japanese" country: Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, the region Kitakami is in
But in some cases I guess a single region can be its own country? Like Kalos, Galar and Paldea. Or maybe "country" is a historical term and "region" is more modern
I just wanna say “Okidogi” is one of the best and most hilarious name for a pokemon, imagine Super Mario saying that when trying to say “Okie Dokie”
It's Japanese name is イイネイヌ (iineinu). いいね (iine) means "it's good, isn't it?" and 犬 (inu) means dog
The mucus for water shuriken may be used to keep the stars in form like the balloons of Drizzile. Sure, the water may be compressed, but have you tried to hold water?
I never thought of that
Smart idea
These were either absolutely horrifying or insanely cute
Actually I think the phantump’s scarlet entry is like the story of Buddha when a woman whose child had died went to him and asked if he could revive her son but he said he needed seeds from a household were no one had died which was basically impossible as all the families had a least 1 person who had died. It’s a nice story in detail you can read it on google.
The reason Dodrio is stated to be slower than Doduo is because previous entries for the two had put Doduo’s top running speed at 50 mph, but Dodrio’s at 40 mph.
I'm still baffled that we now know that Dodrio has 3 hearts and 3 sets of lungs, one per head.
Even if the Dodrio line are basically mutated to have multiple heads, how the crap does 3 hearts and 3 sets of lungs in one body work!?
It's never been confirmed, but it's pretty clear that the speed stat refers to effective combat speed, not top movement speed. The Pokemon world is weird, but I don't think that anything with a speed stat over 100 is running around at mach speeds.
@@Celestia282 or how Vikavolt's entries say it flies at the fast pace yet has a lower speed stat than Grubbin, it own pre evolution
@@peternguyen7530One body can accomodate multiple hearts and lungs, if it has the space, and for conjoint twins/triplets(in this case), with some malformation it is posible and likely that they will have multiple of the most vital organs, and because of that sometimes one of the conjoint twins can die before the others and it's posible to sergically remove the pre dominant twins at an early age, but if the dominant twin were to die for some reason, the others will die also.
Atleast that's what I know about conjoint twins, but do take this with a grain of salt from a physics major.
As far as dodrio goes, I think it does have the space for the specified organs.
Also there was a irl case where a conjoint twin had two sets of everything except a body (that is head, hands, legs, hearts, not lungs), but they didn't survive for long.
Try not to think about any weird imagery, and have a good day.
@@Celestia282reaction time not running. Speed
Oshawott and Dewott are literally the definition of “🎵you’ll teach me and I’ll teach you🎵”
you mean Dewott
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20:20 No I think it would be so experienced that it would absolutely nail balancing on it and be flying around like one of the tornado series beyblades and that’s really cool to me
25:52 lots of semi-acuatic life-forms secrete hydrophobic mucus like ducks and some spiders to keep water out, dewpider evolution line shows that in the pokemon universe sometimes does things backwards, so both the x entry and this one can still work, greninja compresses the water then surrounds it with the mucus on its thighs to form the shuriken shape.
The Ariados entry talking about the thread leading back to its nest is actually a reference to Ariadne of Greek mythology. Notably, before Theseus entered the Labyrinth to kill the Minotaur, she gave him some thread so that he may trail it behind him and then use it to find his way back to her. Likewise, following the thread of an Ariados leads directly back to its nest, somewhere safe. Even looking at Ariados's name, very clear Ariadne connection
Nice
Cool
Man, and here I thought Minior's entry in Violet for the core form was kinda cute and informative. "It feeds on dust in the atmosphere. The color of its core is said to be determined by the composition of the dust it eats." Which is not only a fun fact, but actually true to the game since different color cores can be found in different locations on the map. ❤🧡💛💚💙 💜🖤
beeg Minior fan here, but I def caught 6\7 forms just in the chargestone cave. And saw my Pokedex update while auto battling them looking for a shiny (indicating the last form). My last one was the Blue, but I found much, much more orange and yellow in the cave and not as much blue/indigo\green as I'd think.
I can agree the colours may be favoured in certain areas, but I'm sure all of them are available everywhere with certain preference.
I loved toucannon at first because of it's design, then it's dex entries just make it adorable.
4:05 Sirfetch'd's Dex entries in Sword in Sheild, one says it will retire if it's leak withers, while another says it sometimes nibbles on it, which would make it wither faster
18:15 This would be "accidental dual parasitism." Shelder is a visible parasite. But Shelder also accidentally harming itself on slowbro's spice.
Himnotop’s horn growing continuously makes sense, given it must be wearing down its horn by spinning quite often. Its similar to a rodent’s teeth, which continue to grow so rodents are able to chew through things without their teeth being worn down.
MandJTV really forgot how Duskull literally chases kids who are bad and disobey their parents until the sunrise
Syrpent COULD be a combination of serpent and wyrm, but I think it's more likely a pun on serpent and SYRUP, given that the pre-evo is all about being a candy apple and using syrup to debuff enemies
My personal theory for Tentacruel's 80 Tentacles is that when he attacks and the Tentacles extend towards their opponent the ends continuously split into 2 ends until it reaches 80 Tentacles, kind of like how a hydra grows heads.
I kinda assumed each tentacle we see is actually a tube filled with ten thin tentacles each.
Yeah either this or it just has a bunch more tentacles stored up and it's center mass that we don't get to see
I thought the tentacles hide somewhere in its body. So that whenever a Tentacruel’s tentacle gets chopped off one of the tentacles would grow back in its place. Like how a hydra would regrow its heads. The tentacles could be stored in the center mass like the above comment said. ⬆️
@@creativeprovocateur001my thought is that maybe translations are a bit off and it doesn't mean tentacles persay rather stingers(yes jellyfish have thousands) so much like tentacles can grab things so can stingers with jellyfish and the purpose in translation is just a bit weird
My tentacruel tentacle theory is that the other 72 tentacles are just hidden
"maybe it was a male unfeazant that looked like a female and felt bad" Fezandipiti transmasc icon lmao
10:30 Phantump has the Ability Natural Cure, which cures the non-volatile status condition (such as Poison, Burn or Paralysis) when it switches out. I believe that the dex entry here is directly alluding to such an Ability.
22:53 well, you see, when a fore Dipplin loves a core Dipplin very much . . .
I like both of Poochyena dex entries
Scarlet bares its large fangs and barks vigorously to try to intimidate opponents, but this is actually a manifestation of its cowardly nature.
Violet Poochyena pursue their prey in packs. Once the prey is exhausted, the pack finishes it off. But sometimes the prey retaliates, and the pack flees.
I really like Cinderace’s Scarlet Entry, mainly because it shows some personality to one of my favorites.
“Although Cinderace loses its cool easily, it will battle flawlessly for a Trainer it trusts.”
It also shows Cinderace has a short fuse.
I love its Scarlet entry, too, mainly because I kind of predicted it.
I have a Cinderace OC named Pyrostrike, who is *exactly* like Cinderace's Scarlet entry. He got that short fuse, yet he battles valiantly for the trainer he trusts, Clare, who always promises to make him stronger as their life together goes by. This dex entry just adds that extra charm to my favourite Pokemon and I love it even more.
As a Pokemon Unite player, i can confirm that Cinderace players have very short fuses. One death and they're afk
@@yaboipktendo Okay, never thought I'd see a Unite reference here. However, as a Cinderace main myself I can confirm that while I might have a short fuse at times, though I don't have the nerve to completely throw the game. Instead, anger only feeds my lust for blood as a Cinderace main. I mean this in the sense that I would most certainly be happy knocking out the opponents' Pokemon and scoring all their hard-earned points in their face as an act of vengeance and in an act of winning the game. I do not only play Cinderace, however, as I have found recent enjoyment in slapping for crits as Azumarill and playing my second favourite starter, Meowscarada. Most may play to score more points than their enemies, but I play to rip and tear the opposition apart so that they can't score back. Welcome to My Life As A Fire Rabbit.
Please laugh at my comment.
@@ToadetteTails6969 Finally, a Cinderace player who has understandable goals, a true Master of the Rabbit
@@yaboipktendo the pain of a new ranked season... all the cinderace/mewtwo/zacian players going afk and spam pinging after ONE death x -x
The really cool thing about the shiftry entry is that shiftry is based off of the Tengu from shinto lore. This is commonly known, however some shinto stories state that Tengu were descended from bird people that flew to Japan and then lost their wings and then proceeded to become ninja, which explains not only the bird entry but the shoe design on shiftry's feet. ALSO it explains the weird leaf-hands that shiftry have, which is based off of a mythical weapon in shinto lore that was related to- you guessed it- the ninja. Dang gamefreak is good at their jobs
13:20 now i just imagined a rhydon skyrim horsing its way up a sheer mountain!
I'm under the impression Ariados'es dex entry is essentially saying it has no specific preference of nesting area (ie. Prefers up in Tree's or in burrows) but once it decides on a nest it never loses track of it with a thread leading it back .
Actually the minior core entry is explained by an episode of the anime. Basically, when their core form is exposed, minior have a very short lifespan and just completely disappear after I think a few hours or so. Was a very sad episode of Sun and moon 😢
And then rayquaza swoops in and eats them like fruit loops.
Kinda neat they made Rayquaza Minior's natural predator, makes sense
@@pocketfan2524 I mean, to him they’re basically konpetio (the thing starbits from Mario galaxy are based on) lol 😂
cultural note: despite the localized name, lombre is actually inspired by the kappa, a yokai that lives on rivers they're also called "river children" hence dex entries saying it looks like a child or that it was a child.
Clarification for Ariados: Says thread connects back to its nest, but the alternate entry states that it "doesn't nest in a specific place" but doesn't technically say that it doesn't nest at all. Given that the entry portrays it as an active hunter, it makes sense that it could have multiple nests, create them at random, or even more unsettling to consider: Ariados could be a trapdoor spider...
Those Dex entries for Minior made me remember the Sun and Moon episode with the Minior fading away in front of everyone. It was so sad 😢
18:45 Something neat to mention, is that this effect is explored in the Pokémon TCG, where it has an ability to either heal or damage one of your Pokémon, depending on the result of a coin flip!
Damn
Something to note about Poltchageist is that we learn about its origins in its reveal teaser.
21:46 also, its spikes being thicker and shorter would actually be a useful adaptation in real life! Smaller spikes means less surface area for heat to escape from, allowing it to deal with its cold environment better. Birds living in cold environments have smaller breaks for the same reason, and scientists have actually noticed these birds' beaks increasing in size as the climate continues to warm up.
It makes me so happy to see the yokai-based Mons like Lombre and Shiftry getting attention!! Shiftry is based off one of my absolute favorite yokai, and it's so freaking cool to me that they incorporated that into these dex entries. Thank you so much for the great content!!
One of Rhydon's entries talks about it gaining significant intelligence from standing in two legs.
Rhyperior's therefore means it saw the horrors of self-awareness and answered appropiatedly.
And yeah, you could say G-Slowbro and Shellder relationship is toxic. Hence the type.
I love Galarian Slowking's entries together. He's the drug maker AND the dealer; yet not even he knows what the f*** he's making or doing. In short: Despite his Psychic-Type, he's an idiot.
@@ToadetteTails6969 The Slowking in Glarian Slowking is a zombie, so it makes sense how not even it knows what it's drugs can do.
For the rhypherior thing, I think it’s intelligence is between rhydon and rhyhorn. It is smart enough to know its territory unlike rhyhorn, partially because it can’t run around like rhyhorn can, and it is less intelligent than rhydon because of that immobility. It is not sessile but moves as it needs to such as to eat or fight.
I think Corphish is from Kalos. It's a nice middle-point between Clauncher and Skrelp in the ecology department.
Besides, Tierno has one for his Starter and it's the only one he uses in the Adventures manga. Learns GUILLOTINE.
As far as the seedot, I can’t say I’m surprised that instead of a sentient plant some grass types are just pseudo plants or plant mimics
The two ariados entries don't necessarily contradict eachother. The thread likely leads back to the nest it was born in, and it attempts to leave the nest and never follows it's thread. If the thread leads back to it's birthplace, than it could still never nest in one spot, making the entries go hand-in-hand.
Why would it leave a thread and never follow it?
@@RennHans It may not be a choice. It could just be a thread that is always being excreted and sticks to the nest, and thanks to Ariados' sun entry, we know that the string might be strong enough to stay up forever. A baby spinerak might imidietly run away when born, as the line is based off of the joro spider, and female joro spiders often eat there mates and children, and do to the lazy nature of the pokemon, the mother might not follow the strand.
Hm
Guessing on behaf of tentacruel, I think the tenticals are bundled in groups of 10 to give the appearance of 8, bulking them up for combat instead of a bunch of smaller flimsy ones.
Mikey. . . Syrpent is syrup and serpent. You get dipplin from a syrupy apple, so it was a pun from that.
I love how Terapagos's Stellar form is a turtle on top of a turtle on top of a turtle.
It's turtles all the way down! As the ancients saw the world.
ancient people believed that the Earth is flat and lies on Elefants that stand on a shell of a giant turtle in space
17:48 One of the types of symbiotic relationships is parasitism, which is where one animal is benefited from it and the other is harmed from, in slowbro's dex entry the shellder would be the one being benefited from it and the slowpoke would be harmed from it so it would just be a symbiotic relationship
Well is the shellder fainting still counts as it being benefited?
I guess you can say it’s a toxic relationship.
For the Ariados entries, it makes sense that they need to keep track of their nest every time they relocate, that's why they use their threads to find it more easily
Lol Syrpent is also likely a combination of not just wyrm and serpent, but also syrup. I was so surprised Mikey didn't catch that when I first watched the video.
I just realised - Terapagos' ability to go into a protective stone form is basically the Black Stone/White Stone from BW. Could be relevant for the upcoming inevitable Legends Kyurem/BW Remake
Shiftry are based on the Japanese yokai Tengu which is said to be based on birds and monkeys in varying combinations. I think that is a cool nod to the bird traits of tengu.
24:17 I think it should be noted that Swampert is just the English name. In Japanese it’s “Laglarge”, a combination of large, lag, lug, and lagoon so the beach habitat part might be justified here
I did not know that haha. Swampert is my fav starter but I also love the name Laglarge and feel it could work so well
When mikey was confused that seedot wasn't a seed my mind said, " well sudoowoodoo(I'm butchering that)isn't a tree and you didn't question (I think) about that "
21:26 watch the sun moon anime dude…
The thumbnail 💀
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To be clear, green/yellow mucus happens when you're fighting some sort of infection. Healthy mucus is much more transparent / clear
Yummy 🤤
Agreed
The swampert thing building nests on beaches might reference estuaries; which is where streams enter oceans. Generally, they tend to be fairly muddy/swampy until they reach the beach/sandy areas.
Source: marine biology class
What’s cool with Ariados is that it’s dex entries contradicting each other is a paradox, which are the special Pokémon in area zero so that’s a cool detail I noticed
30:00 An explanation that would make sense for this dex entry would be how some ancient Chinese and Hindu mythologies talked about the World Turtle; a turtle that was described as carrying the world on its back (some depictions also show elephants helping it).
Which would also be the origin for Terry Pratchett’s Discworld setting - the world, four elephants, and one gigantic turtle.
Discworld setting.
Hmmm. I see what you did there Game Freak.
The Terapagos entry talking about it being "the world as the ancients saw it" is also a refrence to the phrase "Turtles all the way down"
These type of videos are my absolute favorite, it’s so simple cause it’s just dex entries but I LOVE knowing more about the Pokémon we use on a daily basis
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Tbh, being a grass/ghost is a perfect excuse for sucking life force.
The Ariados first entry about the string that leads home is a direct reference to its name sake. In Greek mythology, Ariadnye gave Thesus an endless silk string so he could find he way back out of the labyrinth after he was done slaying the minotaur that was hiding in it.
The thing about shiftry is that is based on a Tengu (an yokai). And tengus are bird people, so I guess people have been wondering since gen 3 why he is not a bird. We finally have an answer.
I legitimately don’t understand how there has never been a story aspect in Pokémon about all the creepy stuff that ghost Pokémon do and trying to stop it, it would be a really good plot for a evil team/ box art legendary backstory.
15:29 - This also can be seen in SNAP and you can see how Momma flygon delivers fruit for the baby Trapinch!
Aww cute
I really hope more and more Pokédex entries start to tell us what Pokémon looked like or acted like in the past and then we (hopefully) get to see that in future legends games
23:16 im pretty sure its a combination of syrup and serpent
That is what I was thinking
I also assumed the 'syrpent' was a pun on syrup as well as serpent and wyrm. Since it's in an apple and references syrup with other dex entries for other members of this line
And likely also spelled the way it is because Syrupent is already the name of a Viva Piñata creature and therefore probably trademarked
On the Rillaboom one, “discord” is also a play on words because that’s the opposite of harmony when referring to sound. So basically really bad music but can also be used in general to describe riling up trouble or chaos.