I also think that Giovanni’s badge looking like a feather is a holdover from when Giovanni wasn’t meant to be Viridian City’s gym leader. Viridian was originally meant to be the first gym, and the leader was a boy about the age of a youngster and he would have been a flying type specialist.
@@UserNameHere-yb5fu Yeah, I guess so. Wouldn’t surprise me if that scrapped idea is what led them to making the first gym in the next games flying type.
A cool fact about the iceberg Badge. The lower part of the batch that is blue surrounding what looks like an icy mountain is it actually water and you can see it moving if you look closely at the Badge in game. So it’s really an iceberg floating in water I always thought this was really cool and it’s probably my favourite badge because of this
The badge fall-off really started with Kalos for me. There are so many creative ways to reference a type other than simply using its name. I hope we get a proper Dark type gym bade with a worthy name in the future - I always imagined the Silhouette Badge.
The names of the kalos badges are notoriously bad. you’re telling me the first fairy badge is jsut called the fairy badge? I will say the designs are amazing, aside from the fairy badge being way too long
After those years i see Unova bagdes as the best ones. All fitting one idea with beeeing slim and long. Like someone in Pokemon League gave all the Gym Leaders specific shape to follow.
I think the implication of Arven and the Team Star badges is that they're using designs from official league badges that aren't in use, that's why they're so similar.
I Remember I was so dissapointed by the Galar Gym Badges just using the Type names in Galar I renamed them all Here were the names I came up with and my reasons for them Grass Badge: Meadow Badge (Herding Wooloo in a grassy meadow area for the gym challange) Water Badge: Seaspray Badge (Hulbury is by the sea and badge looked like water droplets to me) Fire Badge: Ignition Badge (I admit this one had no real reason, I just thought it sounded cool) Fighting Badge: Body Badge / Ghost Badge: Spirit Badge (Names connect the gyms chosen types as opposites) Fairy Badge: Folktale Badge (Balloonlea feels like a town out of a fairytale or Folklore) Rock Badge: Quarry Badge / Ice Badge: Flurry Badge (Matching "rr" connect the 2 gyms run by mother and son while having unique names ) Dark Badge: Punk Badge (Piers... Team Yell) Dragon Badge: Scale Badge (dragons have scale but also Pokemon in Galar "scale" up via Dynamax/Giagantamax)
The Galar gym badges are actually pretty cool. The gym badges may have simple designs but the way they assemble together has a meaning. And that meaning is that the british coins form a coat of arms when arranged together. Which is what the gym badges from Galar are making reference (but instead of a coat of arms they use the symbol of the galar gym challenge).
I always thought Paldea's badges were unnamed because the characters that hand them to you just refer to them as "a badge" or "the badge", they go like: "Alright, here's your badge" or "I'll give you this badge to commemorate your victory" or something like that.
My favorite set of badges will always be the platinum badges, I so badly want to hold the badge case and just play with the badges. My favorite badge ever is the forest badge.
As people have already pointed out the Galar badges fitting together is to me a really nice touch. But it's not the only thing worth noting, since if you want more interesting designs, the Galar gyms all have their own icons (which look great) too.
I disagree with what you think about the Hoenn badges. I think they're better than the other badges- not "boring". They kinda had to be reminiscent of the other badges, considering that they kinda had to reuse types since- counting Kanto- they had a gym for every type in Gen 2. (excluding Dark because racism ig). Even if they had a Dark type gym in gen 3- that's only one new badge. The Stone badge as you said is more elaborate- but by the looks of it it seems to be a stone cut in half. What are you gonna make a Fighting type gym? Best you can do is like, a punching bag or something. I think the Heat Badge looks better than the Volcano Badge- though that can be attributed to all of the gen 1 badges being symmetrical and very- how do I put this... Plump? Like they all look like they could fit in a circle very well (minus the Earth badge). The best they could do is maybe a wind gust or something for Winona, and a stormcloud for Wallace/Juan (which doesn't fit their elegance imo). I HEAVILY disagree with the "three cascade badges stuck together" thing- because it isn't? Two of them are not filled in, and I think represents how rain showers can be on and off.
One more thing; No clue what you're on at 9:03. There are VERY VERY clear differences between the three sets of badges. The official ones are the base, the Team Star badges have their logo plastered all over it, and Arven's badges are the same as Gym Badges but without the gold/brass/whatever on the real ones- showing how they aren't legit. And if you want to explain why they look similar to the Gym badges to begin with- 1: game design consistency, and 2: Lore-wise- Well I got nothing except for a crackhead theory; In case you didn't read the dialogue (which Pokemon fans HATE reading for some reason), there's a Galar Minor Gym league. We know this because of Klara/Avery in the SwSh DLC. Who's to say Paldea doesn't also have a minor gym league- and that's where these other badge designs come from? These could be reproductions of those, and it just so happens that the Titans/Team Star badges don't share types with the main gyms.
Maaaaan, the fact that the newest badges are so basic and soulless is really disappointing. The badge-polishing minigame from gen 4 was so cool as a kid, I would open the badge container all the time just to make sure they were all shiny. Need more stuff like that, not a nondescript "water badge" or whatever. My favorite has always been the Thunder Badge from Lt. Surge. The design isn't crazy or anything, but It's just really pretty. Also, a "Zephyr" is a word for a small breeze in addition to a Greek God. just a fun fact, I think the former definition is used much more widely.
2:15 Wow, it's so pretty! :o Worth noting that Viridian Gym's badge being called the Green Badge in Japanese matches Blue (the Gen 1 rival)'s Japanese name. Makes sense, since he takes over the gym in Gen 2.
Wait a tick, I thought the jet badge is a bird (the bottom angular parts) flying w/ a streak of cloud being left behind it (not a feather, which I did initially think it was).
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I appreciate the "puzzle" aspect for the badges of Galar, but the badges themselves are quite ugly and have very uninspiring names, and don't incorporate the higher ranks as emblems.
Wasn't the Rainbow Badge the first badge to have the same name in English and Japanese, and not the Rising Badge? Pretty sure you even practically say so yourself when you talk about the Rainbow Badge in the video.
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fun fact the forest badge is based on the kanji for forest which makes since the tree kanji look like a tree and forest kanji is made of 3 tree kanji
I also think that Giovanni’s badge looking like a feather is a holdover from when Giovanni wasn’t meant to be Viridian City’s gym leader. Viridian was originally meant to be the first gym, and the leader was a boy about the age of a youngster and he would have been a flying type specialist.
^^^ 100%
im glad they went with giovanni though because it's AWESOME looping back around back to Pallet and later Viridian to geet to the last gym
So a beta version of Falkner??
@@UserNameHere-yb5fu Yeah, I guess so. Wouldn’t surprise me if that scrapped idea is what led them to making the first gym in the next games flying type.
Funny, that badge looks like a leaf, to me...
A cool fact about the iceberg Badge. The lower part of the batch that is blue surrounding what looks like an icy mountain is it actually water and you can see it moving if you look closely at the Badge in game.
So it’s really an iceberg floating in water I always thought this was really cool and it’s probably my favourite badge because of this
The badge fall-off really started with Kalos for me. There are so many creative ways to reference a type other than simply using its name. I hope we get a proper Dark type gym bade with a worthy name in the future - I always imagined the Silhouette Badge.
The names of the kalos badges are notoriously bad. you’re telling me the first fairy badge is jsut called the fairy badge? I will say the designs are amazing, aside from the fairy badge being way too long
We got a dark-type badge, but that name didn’t go.
After those years i see Unova bagdes as the best ones. All fitting one idea with beeeing slim and long. Like someone in Pokemon League gave all the Gym Leaders specific shape to follow.
I think the implication of Arven and the Team Star badges is that they're using designs from official league badges that aren't in use, that's why they're so similar.
Either that, or ALL those badges don't exist in-universe.
I Remember I was so dissapointed by the Galar Gym Badges just using the Type names in Galar I renamed them all
Here were the names I came up with and my reasons for them
Grass Badge: Meadow Badge
(Herding Wooloo in a grassy meadow area for the gym challange)
Water Badge: Seaspray Badge
(Hulbury is by the sea and badge looked like water droplets to me)
Fire Badge: Ignition Badge
(I admit this one had no real reason, I just thought it sounded cool)
Fighting Badge: Body Badge / Ghost Badge: Spirit Badge
(Names connect the gyms chosen types as opposites)
Fairy Badge: Folktale Badge
(Balloonlea feels like a town out of a fairytale or Folklore)
Rock Badge: Quarry Badge / Ice Badge: Flurry Badge
(Matching "rr" connect the 2 gyms run by mother and son while having unique names )
Dark Badge: Punk Badge
(Piers... Team Yell)
Dragon Badge: Scale Badge
(dragons have scale but also Pokemon in Galar "scale" up via Dynamax/Giagantamax)
I love this
the matching ones for the different versions are so cool. i love these choices!!
The Galar gym badges are actually pretty cool. The gym badges may have simple designs but the way they assemble together has a meaning. And that meaning is that the british coins form a coat of arms when arranged together.
Which is what the gym badges from Galar are making reference (but instead of a coat of arms they use the symbol of the galar gym challenge).
I agree
I always thought Paldea's badges were unnamed because the characters that hand them to you just refer to them as "a badge" or "the badge", they go like: "Alright, here's your badge" or "I'll give you this badge to commemorate your victory" or something like that.
personally i think gen 5's badges are the best. love how harmonious they are.
Forgot the Black2 white 2 badges
My favorite set of badges will always be the platinum badges, I so badly want to hold the badge case and just play with the badges. My favorite badge ever is the forest badge.
As people have already pointed out the Galar badges fitting together is to me a really nice touch. But it's not the only thing worth noting, since if you want more interesting designs, the Galar gyms all have their own icons (which look great) too.
Alola did have the Surge Badge, but that was just a Thunder Badge.
I disagree with what you think about the Hoenn badges. I think they're better than the other badges- not "boring". They kinda had to be reminiscent of the other badges, considering that they kinda had to reuse types since- counting Kanto- they had a gym for every type in Gen 2. (excluding Dark because racism ig). Even if they had a Dark type gym in gen 3- that's only one new badge. The Stone badge as you said is more elaborate- but by the looks of it it seems to be a stone cut in half. What are you gonna make a Fighting type gym? Best you can do is like, a punching bag or something. I think the Heat Badge looks better than the Volcano Badge- though that can be attributed to all of the gen 1 badges being symmetrical and very- how do I put this... Plump? Like they all look like they could fit in a circle very well (minus the Earth badge). The best they could do is maybe a wind gust or something for Winona, and a stormcloud for Wallace/Juan (which doesn't fit their elegance imo). I HEAVILY disagree with the "three cascade badges stuck together" thing- because it isn't? Two of them are not filled in, and I think represents how rain showers can be on and off.
Also, IMO pretty much ALL of the Gen 4 gyms are boring and unmemorable. It's just this generation of kids' bias towards Gen 4.
One more thing; No clue what you're on at 9:03. There are VERY VERY clear differences between the three sets of badges. The official ones are the base, the Team Star badges have their logo plastered all over it, and Arven's badges are the same as Gym Badges but without the gold/brass/whatever on the real ones- showing how they aren't legit.
And if you want to explain why they look similar to the Gym badges to begin with- 1: game design consistency, and 2: Lore-wise- Well I got nothing except for a crackhead theory; In case you didn't read the dialogue (which Pokemon fans HATE reading for some reason), there's a Galar Minor Gym league. We know this because of Klara/Avery in the SwSh DLC. Who's to say Paldea doesn't also have a minor gym league- and that's where these other badge designs come from? These could be reproductions of those, and it just so happens that the Titans/Team Star badges don't share types with the main gyms.
Maaaaan, the fact that the newest badges are so basic and soulless is really disappointing. The badge-polishing minigame from gen 4 was so cool as a kid, I would open the badge container all the time just to make sure they were all shiny. Need more stuff like that, not a nondescript "water badge" or whatever.
My favorite has always been the Thunder Badge from Lt. Surge. The design isn't crazy or anything, but It's just really pretty.
Also, a "Zephyr" is a word for a small breeze in addition to a Greek God. just a fun fact, I think the former definition is used much more widely.
2:15 Wow, it's so pretty! :o
Worth noting that Viridian Gym's badge being called the Green Badge in Japanese matches Blue (the Gen 1 rival)'s Japanese name. Makes sense, since he takes over the gym in Gen 2.
I think Koga's badge is meant to be a Sakura petal. Which fits with his whole Ninja theme.
Wait a tick, I thought the jet badge is a bird (the bottom angular parts) flying w/ a streak of cloud being left behind it (not a feather, which I did initially think it was).
Is no one gonna talk about how a Victreebell took out well over half of a level 45 Ryhorn’s health despite being 14 levels lower?
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I thought Giovanni's badge was wheat or something. You know, because it grows on the ground.
Paldea's Badge are based on Mario Kart 8's Cups Badges.
Just for fun, I’ve decided to come up with custom Badge names for each Type;
Normal - Mundane Badge
Fighting - Pummel Badge
Flying - Altitude Badge
Poison - Acid Badge
Ground - Tectonic Badge
Rock - Diamond Badge
Bug - Cocoon Badge
Ghost - Phantom Badge
Steel - Metallic Badge
Fire - Wildfire Badge
Water - Tsunami Badge
Grass - Vegetation Badge
Electric - Battery Badge
Psychic - Alchemy Badge
Ice - Sub-Zero Badge
Dragon - Wyvern Badge
Dark - Blackout Badge
Fairy - Fey Badge
7:00 I though that was a bullet, cuz he's a cowboy or somethin'
I am so sad that this isn’t a four-long video
It really irks me how all these are called badges, but I don't see any pins behind the badges
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For the ice badges, I bet that they were doing it intentionally after the first one.
I appreciate the "puzzle" aspect for the badges of Galar, but the badges themselves are quite ugly and have very uninspiring names, and don't incorporate the higher ranks as emblems.
The logos for the badges are so much better looking than the Champion Medal's badge pieces.
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Wasn't the Rainbow Badge the first badge to have the same name in English and Japanese, and not the Rising Badge? Pretty sure you even practically say so yourself when you talk about the Rainbow Badge in the video.
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