To be fair, most Pokemon games take a very short time to beat, so we probably can pin Poppy down as a natural Pokemon user like anyone who plays Pokemon before age 10 can still be.
I think it would've been better if Rika didn't outright confirm she's an Elite Four member. You'd be left wondering "Is she? Is she making that up? _Could_ she be?"
And the big revel when You get to Her and They build It up some more and when We The Player sees Her as one of The Élite Four We all go "WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!"
Everyone shocked how a child is elite four but as Gladion said “It doesn’t matter if you’re a kid or an adult because everyone is equal in Pokémon battles.”
I think people are shocked that Poppy's an E4 because she's like, 4, and gain the title as some of the strongest trainer in the region, when she can barely speak properly
Eh true being a strong trainer is one thing, but being a part of the elite 4, who at least seems to be part of the organization that runs the region, can’t help but wonder how poppy earned her position ^^’ it’s.. very bizarre
@@Charlotte226 This has never been a consistent thing since gen 2 onwards where we got the introduction of "twins" trainer type which are clearly like preschoolers. They only ever said that in the anime because of the age most kids would start playing/watching Pokemon would be around 10, it was a marketing thing.
I find it funny that people are questioning if having poppy in the elite four is considered child labor when we had two children as tag team gym leaders way back in gen 3. Feel free to reply with any other examples if there are any.
@@AvaricioDuesI don’t think there’s even a standard in the games, just the anime. 10-11 is just the recommended age to give a child the ok to become a full fledged trainer, but anyone can train Pokémon. Besides, not even Kanto is consistent with that idea, since the youngsters and bug catchers are clearly younger than Red/Leaf/Chase/Elaine.
Misty and brock are older but still clearly children. Busy is a child Roxanne is a child Maylene,candice are children Iris is a child. I think she might be older when she's champion, though. Korena's a child Allister's a child. Lana mallow and kiawe are children I'm not certain if acerola is a child or a legal loli joke. I wouldn't be surprised if she's straight up a 20 year old ghost
Not widely known but on B2W2, when you become champion and get access to the starting towns in BW, you'll find literal toddlers in those routes, with Lv50+ pokémon on them, not necessarily stronger than E4's, but still.
With how big her team is and how strong her companion-since-babyhood Tinkaton is, she'll mop the floor with the most formidable of Champions in a year, maybe even a few months if she's lucky.
@@SegaMario Plus the Steel type just in general is one of the best defensive types, so chances are good that even if she runs into someone she can't simply steamroll, she may be able to simply outlast them due to how naturally tough Steel types usually are. Plus, remember, most of us at this point are grown adults who can much more easily figure out the "holes" in her team's armor and build our team to be able to exploit those "holes" (Fire types for instance work really well against most of her team, and to that end Ceruledge had been a mainstay on my own team since getting it, it was one of my team's two "aces", the other being my Gardevoir). In-universe however most of her challengers are likely middle or high-school age kids at best, so even if they're older they may not have the same sort of strategic thinking that actual adults would have. And some of those challengers may not even be taking the gym challenge seriously enough that they are giving it everything they have, they may just be doing it to "see how far I can get" rather than legitimately striving to beat Geeta and become a Champion.
Not to mention all good fighting and fire type is kinda hard to find here. We got ceruledge and annihilape but man, without guide they are impossible to evolve into@@gamester512
Poppy's age has been revealed in the new DLC. She's... Nine. Nine years old. It seems that her Pokemon are so strong, she's worried people will be afraid of her. So she uses her small stature to dress and talk like a (younger) child in the hopes of it making people less afraid of her. However, she was still afraid to attend school, so Geeta offered her a position as Elite Four instead.
I see… Kinda like Jasmine, the Steel type Gym leader from Johto. She designed her gym to look cute, beautiful and welcoming, since those aren't common words to describe Steel types, especially pure steel types.
@@willemcook1654 I feel like Larry does that to himself. The way he talks about not wanting to stand out makes me think he was once very well regarded for his skill and he hated the attention. Because we know it's not Geeta. Hassel has no such hindrance, she fosters Nemona's passion, and Rika is apparently the most desirable woman in all Paldea (thought that's...polls from our world)
I mean, in the Pokémon universe anything is possible. It still didn’t lessen the shock I had when the game revealed that Poppy is a member of the Elite Four and the key shaped bag was a giveaway that she uses steel type Pokémon.
Fun fact: I’m pretty sure something similar happened in Spanish history. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty one of the queens of Spain was given her role when she was just a child Another thing that I wanna mention is that age does not equal skill as a Pokémon trainer. One of the biggest factors to being a skilled Pokémon trainer is having a close bond with your Pokémon, and considering how she is the only major trainer (to my knowledge at least) to give her Pokémon Nicknames, she’s gotta have a strong bond with them. Plus, she’s not a preschooler, she’s actually nine years old, and remember that every Mainline protagonist is around 10 years old when they become champion. Oh yeah, and if you still think that her age makes it unbelievable for her to be an Elite Four Member, let me remind you that there are Preschoolers with LEVEL 60 Pokémon is B2W2
having a child inherit the title was a common thing back then if the king died befor his heir came of age. but the actual rule fell to a regent (mostly the remaining parent) untill the child became an adult at 15 after which rule was handed over to the new king.
also, I would say the definition of child prodigy actually goes to tristan from sun and moon, apparently he only started training pokemon after meeting the player at route 1 and was already strong enough to beat all 4 of the elite 4 in alola and challenge the player for the title of champion when we just became the champion, making him a near player level prodigy
SWSH mentions Leon stupendously becoming champion at the "tender" age of ten (same year he began the gym challenge too) so Poppy isn't far behind. Most player characters, with the exception of I think just BW and maybe SV (I dunno, it'd be weird to treat Poppy so differently from us if we're only a year apart...) Tbh I don't think a lot of the protagonists look ten. Especially in these later gens, their models just don't scream "ten" to me (although that could be chalked up to Japan's habit of adultifying girls, bc it's mostly them who look older).
@@dr.altoclef9255 I don't know for that one honestly though, maybe it's funny to her that people think she's 4 or something so she dresses like that to throw them off even further when she reveals she's older than what they thought, I swear I thought she was legit 4 years old when I first saw her. XD
Tate and Liza (Gym Leaders): *10 years old* Acerola (Elite Four): *12 years old* Iris (Champion): *10 years old* Blue (Champion): *11 years old* Pokémon has been giving the bird to Child Labor Laws since day one but only now do people see a problem with it. 🤨
Would be cool if she appears in a later game as some even more dangerous opponent. I mean if she's a tiny kid and already an Elite Four member, how much better will she be in the future?
Who held the title of the strongest npc? I think he was a man in a trench coat in Pokémon Black and White 2-it would be funny if this girl at 10 was the new strongest npc
The fact that she has two pokemon those are enemies by nature, and one of them also has a thing to hunt and scavenge from steel type pokemon in general is enough to show how good she is as a trainer, imo. Not to mention that if we take her words 'haven't done this for a long time' into real meaning, it means that the previous trainers either ended up losing to Rika or her, and that must be quite an achievement.
This had me make a Phineas and Ferb "Aren't you a little too young" reference. Me: No offense, but aren't you a little young to be a member of the Elite Four of Paldea? Poppy: Yes. Yes, I am. Me: Okay.
14:20 Never once did I consider that information. I genuinely don't think Poppy is older than Nemona unless she has cognitive delays, so the alternative is that Poppy never beat the Champion assessment. Perhaps there is an age limit in terms of who is allowed to challenge gyms, so by definition Poppy couldn't pass the interview segment. But maybe Geeta saw her potential, had her battle strong trainers, and when Poppy won or put up a good fight, Geeta "strong armed" her parents into letting poppy be in the elite four, with promises of amazing pay, quality education, insurance, high social and career status guarenteed later in life, a babysitter, etc.
To be fair she’s also a tad bit older then most people expect. Everyone’s thinking she’s like 4 or something, she’s apparently 9 years old. So. Not even that far off from Reds age when he became champion.
She has a level like 60+ ( I havnt played in a while so I don’t remember but IK it’s over level 50) tinka ton. That is a deadly weapon no sh she beat a bunch of “strong trainers” the strong trainers have like level 20 primates :/
Poppy is the "I'm eleven so shut the f@#$ up" vine given Pokémon league form.😅 Also extra Steel Stab on Gigaton Hammer is no joke. Just be glad that Tinkaton's highest Stat is Defense and not Attack which is still a usable base 85.
@@Gamesmarts194 As far as I know. I remember looking it up a while ago, because she does look very young. There's no hard statement that says how old she is. It's a vague assumption, based on the lore of the region. You can't partake in the Trial Challenge until your're 11, so all the Trial Captains have to be to at least 11. And then they have to quite once they are 20. But obviuosly we know she's not older than that, lol
I've always had a headcanon that the Paldea E4 is actually one of the strongest in the world thanks to Terastalization, and can go toe in toe with champions from other regions. Imagine Poppy absolutely destroying Diantha's Mega Gardevoir with Tinkaton.
The strongest region overall is Galar. The Paldea Elite 4 actually canonically loses more than every other Elite 4, since they are a way to graduate into a higher rank, rather than becoming the top trainer. Reminder that Sada and Turo are Hall of Famers and Champions just like Nemona.
@@RoyalWreckingBall Yeah but we never see their actual teams or know anything about what they used or their battle style. Their AIs use mons freshly captured from the machine, and they're separate entities anyway.
I wonder if Poppy is connected to Glitterati. They have the exact same encounter theme. It might explain how she, a 4 year old, became an Elite Four member: Her Pokemon were either trained by them or bought by them, & then they bought a spot in the Elite Four for her, presumably from Geeta.
Indigo Disk reveals the truth. She's nine; schooling age in Paldea. But she didn't want to go to school because she was already so good with Pokemon that she was worried that her classmates would be scared around her. Her position was not bought, she impressed Geeta enough to earn it.
I'm all for a child prodigy and stuff, but she's depicted as so innocent and young, I just feels like she was just handed strong pokemon by someone else to have fun with
That was my thought exactly. It's like someone gave her a rental team they had - rika most likely - and she told the pokemon to humor her no matter how silly or unwise she was being. She's the rich kid given too much power too young. Now that I think about it, I'd be cool if she and ortega (team star fairy boss) were related. Family troubles on top of the bullying? Being showed up so soundly by the little toddler the parents clearly favored over their firstborn would leave anybody with some issues
Honestly what would’ve made this extra hillarious is if she was at the same level as difficult as other infamous opponents like Whitney, Valerie or even Ghetsis
Child: -exists- Some people apparently: "I don't understand the loli thing man. Japan's weird." It's... it's just a young character... not to mention that dude is playing as a female trainer... which would also be a child...
When I discovered Poppy was one of the E4 I immediately assumed she was a ghost trainer who died young and refused to pass on. Only a year after release do I realize that I swept her steel types so fast that I never internalized she was, in fact, a regular child.
I love how even in the wildly low adult age of 11/10 in the Pokemon world, that Poppy is still child labor. God help whoever tries to exploit her when she's this young, because once she realizes that she was, like a lot of child Hollywood stars, musical savants, and RUclipsrs, "'Rajah, smush 'em" is going to be a lot less "friendly competition" and more "deadly comeuppance."
apparently she´s too strong so she dresses cute so people aren´t scared of her, Geeta gave her a spot on the elite four because she was afraid of going to school
The fact that her name is Poppy and her signature Pokemon is a tiny gremlin with a giant hammer. Now every time I see her, I think of Poppy from League of Legends as a Pokemon trainer and it makes me chuckle.
14:29 They didn't properly read what people say, Nemona is the youngest champion level trainer so she was the youngest trainer to beat the elite four, Poppy isn't a champion level trainer because she's in the elite four which is just below champion
“Wow that’s super strong for a small child.” Well now you know how all the champions of previous games felt when a 10 year old walks in and beats their whole team.
For a 9 year old she is so strong that Geeta and the Pokémon League wanted to nurture her growth and knowledge of battling and Pokémon that they would give her a position in the Elite Four.
The fact a 4 year old is better than like 99% of the trainers in the region, could be considered embarrassing for those older than her, imagine losing to a 4 year old your ego would be smashed to bits
Was anyone else not surprised? I mean Scarlet and Violet embraced more anime cliches than any of the other games, maybe I was momentarily surprised in my head for a second until I thought, “Yeah that tracks.”
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So, a fun thing, Poppy's little "key" it's a bag that she uses to hold candy in it.
I NEED SOMETHING LIKE THIS...
That’s an interesting fun fact.
That’s a toddler I’m gonna punt it
@@a-posingroach WHAT
@@endy7630 if we can have Rika's Gloves and Penny's Eevee Bag then maybe we could ask for Poppy's little key purse thing
Don't underestimate her she's been training half her life for this (2 years)
Like top smash prodigies who went from 0-2ers to picking up Minecraft Steve and winning tournaments over longtime pros
Mmwell, depending on ingame time, we might be older than her, but technically we took less than her to go from a newbie to a Champion level 😂
To be fair, most Pokemon games take a very short time to beat, so we probably can pin Poppy down as a natural Pokemon user like anyone who plays Pokemon before age 10 can still be.
In a year, maybe even a few months, she'll be using Cynthia as her throne with how powerful she'll be then.
Actually it's confirmed she's 9 years in indigo disk during a conversation.@@SegaMario
I think it would've been better if Rika didn't outright confirm she's an Elite Four member. You'd be left wondering "Is she? Is she making that up? _Could_ she be?"
And the big revel when You get to Her and They build It up some more and when We The Player sees Her as one of The Élite Four We all go "WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!"
Alpharad was unconvinced until she popped up again in the Elite Four, so that was something at least.
And since Nemona is the youngest champion at like 13, it means Poppy isn't even a special trainer or anything.
Thats the mystery and shock that i wanted to experience. Reminiscent of older pokemon games. It was too early to reveal that part of her 😭
Everyone shocked how a child is elite four but as Gladion said “It doesn’t matter if you’re a kid or an adult because everyone is equal in Pokémon battles.”
I think people are shocked that Poppy's an E4 because she's like, 4, and gain the title as some of the strongest trainer in the region, when she can barely speak properly
Eh true being a strong trainer is one thing, but being a part of the elite 4, who at least seems to be part of the organization that runs the region, can’t help but wonder how poppy earned her position ^^’ it’s.. very bizarre
@@supermegaman88 not to mention the rules in Pokémon where you have to be around 10 or 11 to embark on your journey.
@@Charlotte226 This has never been a consistent thing since gen 2 onwards where we got the introduction of "twins" trainer type which are clearly like preschoolers.
They only ever said that in the anime because of the age most kids would start playing/watching Pokemon would be around 10, it was a marketing thing.
"It doesn't matter if you're a kid or an adult because everyone is equal in Pokemon battles." -an edgy child.
Poppy: The final boss of the Preschooler trainer class.
She's 9 years old though, so she's just smol for her age. XD She said her age in the indigo dlc.
Who’s This Lost Child😑👉👧
@@JTRaptor1Poppy: my Tinkaton will turn your corpse to dust
@@freddiefishton Ha Me With My Fire Type Charizard Lol ;)
@@JTRaptor1mfw tinkaton gets stealth rock
I find it funny that people are questioning if having poppy in the elite four is considered child labor when we had two children as tag team gym leaders way back in gen 3.
Feel free to reply with any other examples if there are any.
Tate and Liz were older than Poppy, and the legal age for being a trainer, Age 10 if Kanto is the standard
@@AvaricioDuesI don’t think there’s even a standard in the games, just the anime. 10-11 is just the recommended age to give a child the ok to become a full fledged trainer, but anyone can train Pokémon. Besides, not even Kanto is consistent with that idea, since the youngsters and bug catchers are clearly younger than Red/Leaf/Chase/Elaine.
Misty and brock are older but still clearly children.
Busy is a child
Roxanne is a child
Maylene,candice are children
Iris is a child. I think she might be older when she's champion, though.
Korena's a child
Allister's a child.
Lana mallow and kiawe are children
I'm not certain if acerola is a child or a legal loli joke. I wouldn't be surprised if she's straight up a 20 year old ghost
@@KINGD353 I meant straight up kids, not teens that are capable of being legally employed as workers
Not widely known but on B2W2, when you become champion and get access to the starting towns in BW, you'll find literal toddlers in those routes, with Lv50+ pokémon on them, not necessarily stronger than E4's, but still.
Theres a big implication when Poppy says she hasn't had to call in the next elite four
it pretty much means that nobody can get passed her
With how big her team is and how strong her companion-since-babyhood Tinkaton is, she'll mop the floor with the most formidable of Champions in a year, maybe even a few months if she's lucky.
@@SegaMario Plus the Steel type just in general is one of the best defensive types, so chances are good that even if she runs into someone she can't simply steamroll, she may be able to simply outlast them due to how naturally tough Steel types usually are.
Plus, remember, most of us at this point are grown adults who can much more easily figure out the "holes" in her team's armor and build our team to be able to exploit those "holes" (Fire types for instance work really well against most of her team, and to that end Ceruledge had been a mainstay on my own team since getting it, it was one of my team's two "aces", the other being my Gardevoir). In-universe however most of her challengers are likely middle or high-school age kids at best, so even if they're older they may not have the same sort of strategic thinking that actual adults would have. And some of those challengers may not even be taking the gym challenge seriously enough that they are giving it everything they have, they may just be doing it to "see how far I can get" rather than legitimately striving to beat Geeta and become a Champion.
Not to mention all good fighting and fire type is kinda hard to find here. We got ceruledge and annihilape but man, without guide they are impossible to evolve into@@gamester512
She doesnt say she hasnt had to call on the next member, she says its been a long time since shes had to
And this was probably when nemona challanged the Elite four
Poppy's age has been revealed in the new DLC.
She's... Nine. Nine years old.
It seems that her Pokemon are so strong, she's worried people will be afraid of her. So she uses her small stature to dress and talk like a (younger) child in the hopes of it making people less afraid of her.
However, she was still afraid to attend school, so Geeta offered her a position as Elite Four instead.
I see… Kinda like Jasmine, the Steel type Gym leader from Johto. She designed her gym to look cute, beautiful and welcoming, since those aren't common words to describe Steel types, especially pure steel types.
So, Geeta encourages her arrested development instead of encouraging her to show her full strength without shame?
@@BJGvideos sounds about right. Look at Larry…
@@willemcook1654 I feel like Larry does that to himself. The way he talks about not wanting to stand out makes me think he was once very well regarded for his skill and he hated the attention.
Because we know it's not Geeta. Hassel has no such hindrance, she fosters Nemona's passion, and Rika is apparently the most desirable woman in all Paldea (thought that's...polls from our world)
@@BJGvideos perhaps, but she really doesn't pay him enough.
I mean, in the Pokémon universe anything is possible. It still didn’t lessen the shock I had when the game revealed that Poppy is a member of the Elite Four and the key shaped bag was a giveaway that she uses steel type Pokémon.
Fun fact: I’m pretty sure something similar happened in Spanish history. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty one of the queens of Spain was given her role when she was just a child
Another thing that I wanna mention is that age does not equal skill as a Pokémon trainer. One of the biggest factors to being a skilled Pokémon trainer is having a close bond with your Pokémon, and considering how she is the only major trainer (to my knowledge at least) to give her Pokémon Nicknames, she’s gotta have a strong bond with them. Plus, she’s not a preschooler, she’s actually nine years old, and remember that every Mainline protagonist is around 10 years old when they become champion.
Oh yeah, and if you still think that her age makes it unbelievable for her to be an Elite Four Member, let me remind you that there are Preschoolers with LEVEL 60 Pokémon is B2W2
La Infanta, wasn't she called?
Just a child really isn’t saying much seeing how many child rulers there were.
Yeah, toddlers were made into kings and queens all the time its not really that weird.
having a child inherit the title was a common thing back then if the king died befor his heir came of age.
but the actual rule fell to a regent (mostly the remaining parent) untill the child became an adult at 15 after which rule was handed over to the new king.
Being a ruler by heritage is completely, astronomically different from being an elite by merit.
Poppy is the definition of child prodigy in Pokémon
before this, we thought acerola is a prodigy already
also, I would say the definition of child prodigy actually goes to tristan from sun and moon, apparently he only started training pokemon after meeting the player at route 1 and was already strong enough to beat all 4 of the elite 4 in alola and challenge the player for the title of champion when we just became the champion, making him a near player level prodigy
I wonder how Ash would've reacted.
SWSH mentions Leon stupendously becoming champion at the "tender" age of ten (same year he began the gym challenge too) so Poppy isn't far behind.
Most player characters, with the exception of I think just BW and maybe SV (I dunno, it'd be weird to treat Poppy so differently from us if we're only a year apart...)
Tbh I don't think a lot of the protagonists look ten. Especially in these later gens, their models just don't scream "ten" to me (although that could be chalked up to Japan's habit of adultifying girls, bc it's mostly them who look older).
No, she's an example, not the definition.
I kind of like the idea of a little kid being an elite 4 member, considering I started playing pokemon and beat my first game at the age of 6.
Probably around how old she is.
She confirmed in the indigo ddlc that she's 9 years old, so she's just short for her age.
@@Karomix3And evidently she dresses younger because she thinks she’ll look less intimidating.
@@dr.altoclef9255 I don't know for that one honestly though, maybe it's funny to her that people think she's 4 or something so she dresses like that to throw them off even further when she reveals she's older than what they thought, I swear I thought she was legit 4 years old when I first saw her. XD
I love how a lot clips end with the Larry reveal like some kind of "To Be Continued" gag XD
We can only wait for the day they can afford to show Larry for longer
Tate and Liza (Gym Leaders): *10 years old*
Acerola (Elite Four): *12 years old*
Iris (Champion): *10 years old*
Blue (Champion): *11 years old*
Pokémon has been giving the bird to Child Labor Laws since day one but only now do people see a problem with it. 🤨
Not to mention the Protagonist in every game who is in the age range of 10 and 12 years old and always ends up the champion.
@@TyphoonTYUIOPIt is closer to 13-17
Yeah but poppy’s 3
@@marshadowplayz2509she's 9
Iris is only 10 in the anime
She's supposed to be around with the player's age in the games
Hope she returns in future gen as a super hard boss fight
BDSP Cynthia level of difficulty....
Something like Caitlyn between Gen 4 & Gen 5.
BDSP was rigged.🙄 Instead of just the normal fight with higher levels they gave her BS 6IV trained pokemon.
*PLEASE, I NEED THIS.*
Get Cynthia out of here. Poppy would mop the floor with her if she had one or two more years of training.
@@SegaMario she's tougher now in the dlc
@@astergrimm I'm aware.
Pokémon anime:
" You can only be a trainer when you have a least 10 years"
Pokémon games:
Tbf she's only 1 year under the anime age lol
And each region plays by their own rules.
I just assumed that regulation was only in place for Kanto.
I love the double shock. "What, Poppy's an Elite Four?" Then after you beat her, "What? LARRY?"
Kinda wish they didn't spoil her being part of the elite 4 early on, it would have made way more of an impact finding her on the elite 4 fight.
Would be cool if she appears in a later game as some even more dangerous opponent. I mean if she's a tiny kid and already an Elite Four member, how much better will she be in the future?
Who held the title of the strongest npc? I think he was a man in a trench coat in Pokémon Black and White 2-it would be funny if this girl at 10 was the new strongest npc
*PLEASE* this.
She's so cute and I want to see her travel to other regions with a stronger team.
@purpleemerald5299 Please no Cynthia stuff.
@purpleemerald5299 No threat.
I'm just tired of Cynthia always being brought up when it comes to feared Champions or overly-simped characters.
@purpleemerald5299 Dumb as that is, it's better than Cynthia.
The fact that she has two pokemon those are enemies by nature, and one of them also has a thing to hunt and scavenge from steel type pokemon in general is enough to show how good she is as a trainer, imo. Not to mention that if we take her words 'haven't done this for a long time' into real meaning, it means that the previous trainers either ended up losing to Rika or her, and that must be quite an achievement.
I think Nomona is the last opponent who defeat her before us
poppy's gonna be a menace when she gets older if she's already in the elite 4
what's crazy is how Poppy in the Indigo Disk DLC literally confirms she is 9 years old
😮
Ninomae’s Poppy voice has to be the cutest Poppy voice I’ve ever heard!
Fauna's voice is also cute
When isn't Ina cute?
Oh, my heart!❤️
3:39 "what the freak? that thing can speak?" 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀 c'mon TTar
So, here was my initial reaction to Poppy:
(COLLAPSES) Cuteness...too much...
She is really cute.
Same
This had me make a Phineas and Ferb "Aren't you a little too young" reference.
Me: No offense, but aren't you a little young to be a member of the Elite Four of Paldea?
Poppy: Yes. Yes, I am.
Me: Okay.
Y’know, Poppy reminds me of Drasna and Bertha.
Innocent on the outside, yet powerful and scary in the inside
She's gets brownie points for nicknaming her pokemon plus she's ADORABLE
for me I was like "who's sassy child is this?"
Saitama: "What's with this sassy lost child?"
I just now realized that what I thought was Poppy's hat... is actually a bonnet. 😖
Why the face?
@@SegaMario That basically confirms she's somewhere between the ages of 3 & 6.
Sooooo how & why is she an Elite Four member???
she's 9
Anyone can wear a bonnet.
If playing chess has taught me anything it's not to underestimate the child who walks in with confidence and talks to the adults like peers.
14:20 Never once did I consider that information. I genuinely don't think Poppy is older than Nemona unless she has cognitive delays, so the alternative is that Poppy never beat the Champion assessment. Perhaps there is an age limit in terms of who is allowed to challenge gyms, so by definition Poppy couldn't pass the interview segment. But maybe Geeta saw her potential, had her battle strong trainers, and when Poppy won or put up a good fight, Geeta "strong armed" her parents into letting poppy be in the elite four, with promises of amazing pay, quality education, insurance, high social and career status guarenteed later in life, a babysitter, etc.
To be fair she’s also a tad bit older then most people expect. Everyone’s thinking she’s like 4 or something, she’s apparently 9 years old. So. Not even that far off from Reds age when he became champion.
She has a level like 60+ ( I havnt played in a while so I don’t remember but IK it’s over level 50) tinka ton. That is a deadly weapon no sh she beat a bunch of “strong trainers” the strong trainers have like level 20 primates :/
Poppy is the "I'm eleven so shut the f@#$ up" vine given Pokémon league form.😅 Also extra Steel Stab on Gigaton Hammer is no joke. Just be glad that Tinkaton's highest Stat is Defense and not Attack which is still a usable base 85.
Players: THIS little girl is an E4 member? WHAT?!
Me: *laughs in Acerola
Acerola is the same age as the player, if not a bit older. That's quite a bit different than being a literal toddler
@@LuckyOwI777 Wait she is? That's kinda surprising.
@@Gamesmarts194 As far as I know. I remember looking it up a while ago, because she does look very young. There's no hard statement that says how old she is.
It's a vague assumption, based on the lore of the region. You can't partake in the Trial Challenge until your're 11, so all the Trial Captains have to be to at least 11.
And then they have to quite once they are 20. But obviuosly we know she's not older than that, lol
poppy is 9 and i think that acerola is around 12 years old so poppy is the youngest elite four by three years
Acerola is older, though.
One of two reactions
1. Aww she's so adowable
2. Isn't there child labor laws or something?
I mean she is strong if she has both Corviknight and Tinkaton on the same team-
She won't tolerate them fighting amongst each other.
They have tea parties together
Talk about child prodigy...
When i saw her i was like: PROTECT HER AT ALL COSTS PLEASE
The thumbnail definitely looks like the perfect 3v3 in more ways than one.
I've always had a headcanon that the Paldea E4 is actually one of the strongest in the world thanks to Terastalization, and can go toe in toe with champions from other regions.
Imagine Poppy absolutely destroying Diantha's Mega Gardevoir with Tinkaton.
It would have to take place in Paldea for that to happen though
The strongest region overall is Galar.
The Paldea Elite 4 actually canonically loses more than every other Elite 4, since they are a way to graduate into a higher rank, rather than becoming the top trainer.
Reminder that Sada and Turo are Hall of Famers and Champions just like Nemona.
@@RoyalWreckingBall Yeah but we never see their actual teams or know anything about what they used or their battle style. Their AIs use mons freshly captured from the machine, and they're separate entities anyway.
I wonder if Poppy is connected to Glitterati. They have the exact same encounter theme.
It might explain how she, a 4 year old, became an Elite Four member: Her Pokemon were either trained by them or bought by them, & then they bought a spot in the Elite Four for her, presumably from Geeta.
The lovey dovey couple also has her theme when you talk to them in Kitaksmi.
Indigo Disk reveals the truth. She's nine; schooling age in Paldea. But she didn't want to go to school because she was already so good with Pokemon that she was worried that her classmates would be scared around her. Her position was not bought, she impressed Geeta enough to earn it.
I'm all for a child prodigy and stuff, but she's depicted as so innocent and young, I just feels like she was just handed strong pokemon by someone else to have fun with
Literally she hasn’t existed long enough to train Pokémon up like that lol
@@razrv3lc In the game you can grind pokemon up to level 100 in a week.
That was my thought exactly. It's like someone gave her a rental team they had - rika most likely - and she told the pokemon to humor her no matter how silly or unwise she was being. She's the rich kid given too much power too young. Now that I think about it, I'd be cool if she and ortega (team star fairy boss) were related. Family troubles on top of the bullying? Being showed up so soundly by the little toddler the parents clearly favored over their firstborn would leave anybody with some issues
@@ShadowSkyX that's an interesting theory, now I kinda want to see them interact
Well, she's getting her own event in Pokémon Masters EX where she has Tinkaton, so hopefully we get more of an explanation there.
Crushes your heart and soul...
...without letting go of her sippy cup.
“Elite Four?! But she’s only four!!”
Not true. According to ‘The Indigo Disk’, she’s 9.
@@bluecrossovers it was a joke.
@@bluecrossovers i thought the dlc takes place a year or two after the main game’s story?
@@Yzzami Nope.
Honestly what would’ve made this extra hillarious is if she was at the same level as difficult as other infamous opponents like Whitney, Valerie or even Ghetsis
Valerie is infamous?
1:07 bro turned into Kermit
"Oh, jesus christ is that a fucking gremlin!?"
"No, im an elite four member!"
"Whatever. just nobody feed that fucking thing after midnight."
Love the Deandra quote lol
@@DannyRivera420 its been so long since someones understood my mpgis references...
@@gthegadgetguy9703 I get it, no one gets it in my friend circle either
Poppy: The Elite 4 year old
Poppy and Larry:The unexpected 2
I could see them doing like a sequel game and instead of Larry, the Math Teacher Tyme, would be an Elite Four member.
Yea, cause Larry will be the new Champion 👑
I wonder if Mr fruit knows ríka is a woman 😂
Pretty sure like 95% of people thought that at first I know I did until the only 1 point in the story where it tells you she's female
@@atomic_hok Doesn’t she straight up say it the first time you meet her?
@@Void_Out I don't think so but I can't remember for sure
@@Void_OutHassel said it
Rika: but would you lose?
Poppy: Nah, I'd win.
According to Indigo Disk, she's nine.
In america, you play against poppy.
In soviet playtime co. Poppy plays with you
I want poppy to meet Anya forger so bad
Child: -exists-
Some people apparently: "I don't understand the loli thing man. Japan's weird."
It's... it's just a young character... not to mention that dude is playing as a female trainer... which would also be a child...
When I discovered Poppy was one of the E4 I immediately assumed she was a ghost trainer who died young and refused to pass on.
Only a year after release do I realize that I swept her steel types so fast that I never internalized she was, in fact, a regular child.
She's only 9 years old.
Let that sink in.
9 years old and already an elite four member, it makes me wonder how powerful Poppy will become when she grows up
I love how even in the wildly low adult age of 11/10 in the Pokemon world, that Poppy is still child labor. God help whoever tries to exploit her when she's this young, because once she realizes that she was, like a lot of child Hollywood stars, musical savants, and RUclipsrs, "'Rajah, smush 'em" is going to be a lot less "friendly competition" and more "deadly comeuppance."
Ngl, I'd wanna actually see that happen.
Its weird that they dont even explain how shes part of the elite 4. Everyone else treats it like a literal job that theyre paid for
apparently she´s too strong so she dresses cute so people aren´t scared of her, Geeta gave her a spot on the elite four because she was afraid of going to school
"Go on, Rajah! Smush 'em!"
The hell is Cocomelon doing to kids these days
Well kids have always have violent tendencies 🤣🤣🤣
i find the results disappointing, i was hoping there'd be more people being surprised by the reveal
To be fair, she kinda outed herself as an E4 before the E4 so it kinda has less impact when you actually fight her.
Yeah, almost all of them are more surprised Larry is one of the elite four than Poppy being one of the elite four lmao
Poppy, putting the 4 in "Elite 4"
Even though she's 9
I'm sorry the "huh?... The toddler?" was the sweetest most confused reaction I've seen to Poppy!
She has potential.
If a child can catch literal Gods in other Pokemon games, of course one could be an Elite Four member.
Dude. Bae's voice really fits Poppy
Never had I been so distinctly mad that a BABY got into the Elite Four before we all did
Who gave the kindergartener the giant metal elephant bruh 💀
The fact that her name is Poppy and her signature Pokemon is a tiny gremlin with a giant hammer.
Now every time I see her, I think of Poppy from League of Legends as a Pokemon trainer and it makes me chuckle.
The Poppy slander shouldn't be tolerated
14:29 They didn't properly read what people say, Nemona is the youngest champion level trainer so she was the youngest trainer to beat the elite four, Poppy isn't a champion level trainer because she's in the elite four which is just below champion
The moment I saw her I was “that’s an entire gremlin, I am gonna punt her team to oblivion” LMAO
“Wow that’s super strong for a small child.” Well now you know how all the champions of previous games felt when a 10 year old walks in and beats their whole team.
They let anyone become Elite Four members these days, smh
Next you know it'll be Mewtwo and its last Pokémon is itself
10:27 if you see a little girl and it weirds you out then I think you´re the one with a problem here
I love the larry cut off reactions
What if Poppy was a steel type specialist as a reference to the common use of child labor during the industrial revolution?
Its funny, i thought she would use fairy types to, really threw me off when Copperajah came out
The Three Reactions
Unfazed;
I KNEW IT!!; and
I'm one the Eli- Excuse Me?!
i'm was less surprised that she was one of the elite 4 and more surprised that she is just 1 year younger than ash
Well Ash can probably age now that he's not the main protagonist of the anime
It's your turn MR LARRY??? 😂
If she Said its Been a “long time” Since she has called Mr Larry, it either means people usually Only got to Rika or Poppy is just that strong
Can't imagine how lobg it took you to make this, this is brilliant 🎉
Aww!☺ How could Poppy have risen to the rank of Elite Four? You got to be kidding. Literally.
For a 9 year old she is so strong that Geeta and the Pokémon League wanted to nurture her growth and knowledge of battling and Pokémon that they would give her a position in the Elite Four.
Wouldve been so much better for Rika to not have confirmed it in the first conversation. Just make you wonder whether this child was joking or not.
I like how some of the reactions are with the fixed version of the E4 battle theme, and some are with the bugged 5-second loop lol
I love how more people are more surprised to see Larry over hearing about Poppy.
The fact that only one of them read it as "Cooming"
0:43 I could practically see that double take, damn
The new Cynthia in the making right here .
This is the equivalent of the Phoenix Wright lawyers who don't even look old enough to attend law school, but have already somehow become a lawyer
If one streamer said terastillization would knock her on her butt, I would how poppy would do with dynamax
... Poppy is 9 years old.
So who do you think Poppy's related to? Darach? Wikstrom?
Imagine how much of a monster she is when she's grown up and full of battle experience, she might be even become canonically stronger then Cynthia
The fact a 4 year old is better than like 99% of the trainers in the region, could be considered embarrassing for those older than her, imagine losing to a 4 year old your ego would be smashed to bits
Was anyone else not surprised? I mean Scarlet and Violet embraced more anime cliches than any of the other games, maybe I was momentarily surprised in my head for a second until I thought, “Yeah that tracks.”
3:50 Yeah, about that...
Did we all forget about Acerola and Alaster?