Is Sableye Even Really a Ghost? 

“Starnge World” Minor spelling errors win again 💀

Sableye feels more like a gremlin than a ghost

If he was revealed in Gen 6 or 7 I feel like he'd be the first Dark-Fairy

Sableye is the proof that we can still enjoy a Pokemon even if it's not the strongest in battle. But even then, thanks to Prankster, Sableye can be a deadly lead in battles. Plus, with the unique typing, this little boy will always be a favorite of mine.

Sableye appears to be in the same group as Decidueye or Hisuian Typhlosion. They have some kind of connection to spirits, have spooky abilities like extreme perception skills, but aren’t actually dead. Them being a ghost type is merely coincidental.

Sableye is the definition of the prankster ability, I couldn’t think of a better recipient. The cheek that it has and the troll-style smile that it gives you while it switches your weakness policy for an eject button is unmatched.

I adore how much you have shined the light on Sableye's personality. I must admit, this video has definitely made me like Sableye more than I have ever have! The way it plays in the cards, how it is associated a lot with gems, and how fascinating overall the creation and story behind it is! I'm going to replay some old Pokemon games in anticipation for Scarlet and Violet, and when I play the games you can find Sableye, I think I'll add it to my team for sure this time! Such a funny little gremlin-like Pokemon!

I genuinely really like Sableye. It has such a good design, and it's just a little gremlin. I love him. Lol.

Gabite doesn't really eat carbink, in reality Gabite just has the trait usually associated with dragons and it's that they horde treasure, so with Carbink being a floating gemstone, it makes sense why Gabite would grab them and carry them back to it's nest cause it loves shiny objects

I loved Sableye ever since i played through Emerald for the first time as a kid, i was stuck in Brawly's gym and couldn't progress further, then i found out i needed a ghost type and coincidentally there was a cave where i could catch one, so i caught a Sableye and i didn't level that little guy pretty much because i was "giving it a try, i guess" and literally sweeped Brawly's entire team. Ever since that point it became one of my favorite Pokemon. Later when i grew up and played through the new pokemon games i realized it's pretty weak but i didn't mind, i still loved it!

its based on the hopkinsville goblin because its goblin up all the gems

I will always have a soft spot for Sableye. In Sapphire and Emerald, this guy is the PERFECT counter to Brawly, thanks to it's Ghost typing. And if you decide to deliver Steven's letter before the gym and get the Thief TM in Slateport, you can get a free early Sitrus Berry in Emerald.

japan LOVES hopskinville goblins for some reason! they get mentionned in a lot of stuff and inspire a lot of things there. like, more than you’d expect this kind of more underground cryptid to 😂

Sableye is my companion pokemon akin to Pikachu for Ash. I named him Ickis like from Ahh! Real Monsters. I love the personality, still wish sableye didnt get a mega and had a true evolution though

If there’s anything of personal belief on why Sableye is a ghost type is likely cuz of how some typings are general labels for different reasonings to fit. Much like how not all dark types are actually evil when they’re either just intimidating in looks or a trickster type, and like how psychic is usually the typing that covers for general space related Pokémon when on the surface you wouldn’t know if they truly should have psychic powers but the least seem “psychedelic.” In the case of Sableye, it’s probably ghost in the sense that ghost may just generally cover anything deemed “spooky” in behaviors and such and not just by any random action that can be conducted cuz otherwise more Pokémon can be deemed spooky in that regard (e.g. gorebyss hunting and eating method is disturbing but that’s just their biology rather than it intentionally being scary)

that lil trot and smile in pokemon camp is so cute i didnt know about the hopkinsville goblin story, very cool!

Sableye's smile and its Junk Hunt TCG card will always have a place in my heart!

Out of all the Ghost Types, i think the only ones that aren't a spirit are: Decidueye, A. Marowak, Sableye,Jellicent and Spectrier

Sableye is my favorite ghost type for multiple reasons. First of all it’s the perfect example of my all time favorite way to portray and write a ghost character; a spooky, creepy little prankster who just wants to play and fool around with people for a laugh and good fun time, not a malevolent villain. Also the episode that featured it inspired me to create a Pokémon fan character who was basically a goth girl trainer who specialized in using Pokémon that most people thought of as “scary” but her goal was to show people that just because they look scary, that doesn’t mean that they’re mean or evil. And her main partner Pokémon was a Sableye. This character even eventually grew into being a fully original character that I took out of “Pokémon fan fiction land” and created her own original story for where she kind of a ghost-themed action hero, and writing it has been really fun! And all this creativity and fulfilling part of my life all started because of Sableye, so that gem eating goblin will always have a super special place in my heart. Although when I tried to have it on my team in the game and found out it can’t learn Metal Claw, I had to call bullsh*t on that, I mean how many times does it’s dex entry mention how it breaks rocks with its claws!?? The actual heck!??

Sableye’s been one of my favorites, especially since their appearance in the Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of X games. In those games, they’re cowardly yet savage due to the future of darkness. They act as Dusknoir’s lackeys and as long as he’s with them, they’re courageous. As soon as he goes down, however, they panic and flee. They served as the inspiration for how I run Kobolds in role-playing games, actually.

Ah yes, one of my favorite Hoenn Pokémon and one that I always have fun using thanks to Prankster!

for how they digest gems is likely because they are lacking of a true digestive system, this make sense for an actual undead, and the Ghost-types that are actual undeads often need to feed on something to remain on the living world, like negative emotions, souls or life energy. Sableye's diet is the most physical one and would allow them to get a more physical body, for this from all the Ghost-type Sableye is one of the most "physical" in appearence.

sabeleye's gem journey was my absolute favourite of the official pokemon flash games, I'm still sad it disappeared with flash 😭

Forgot to talk about the Sableye from Explorers. Those guys were definitely evil.

Pretty sure I was thinking of putting Sableye on an Alpha Sapphire team, the Mega seems pretty cool so I might just do so.

First the Gorgiest video make me like that line more and now this is making me like Sableye more. I think I’m starting to figure out what my favorite type is.

3:42 51 Elgyems battled, nice touch

This is one of my favorite Ghost pokemon, when I was young I thought it was a ghost-rock type principally the mega because of the crystal and gems connections I would love to see a regional form of this mon

I've always thought of Sableye as a wendigo! I love it! ❤️ Also, I have to say that your videos are real gems! I mean there are some great poketubers with great content and I'm totally sure they put so much effort on their videos but yours are so special and your ideas are innovative and complete!

in the violet pokedex entry, it mentions that all of them have different patterns because of the different stones they eat! so ive decided to make it 'canon' that my own team's sableye has a taste for amethyst

cant believe that family grabbed the choppa before the poke balls

was it always starnge world as a joke or was that an actual typo

Sableye is one of my favorites! It’s based off of the cryptid ‘Hopkinsville Goblins’ although I think that carbink looks like a baby Sableye though.

Is Sableye even really a ghost? As someone that watched Germlings and some episodes that featured Sableye, that's a germling. This one just likes to troll around but when the viewers aren't watching, ...you wouldn't want to know its full potential...

Sableye is my favorite Pokemon :)

I love the little goblin

It is stated that Kentucky has a lot of mines where the goblins came from.

So… funny little reptile Pokémon are the perfect overlap? That explains your channel mascot. (My first ever Johto starter was a female Totodile, by the way. I spammed Rage so much that the *TING* *_WOOSH_* sound effect is forever imprinted on my mind! 😂)

5:11 I do indeed like hoenn 🐱

To me Sableye is just the mischievous creepy Stitch

the best Pokémon has the best backstory

Incoming tangent of a theory(?) lol Random angle on this, (my context is largely just the games,) but I always got the impression from its 3D movements that Sableye has a sort of possessed vibe to it, with things like the "floaty" animation of the arms contrasted with things like it's more twitchy animations, along with this almost mindless compulsion to devour so many gems they start growing straight out of its body and still, it continues in its gluttony. 🤔 Might just be me running along with specific details too much in my speculations, but it's fun to think about. K mean, for all I hear about it not being a ghost and just rumored to be so in the canon only to wind up being pretty much left at that, I feel like I don't hear enough about the potential of it being possessed instead, so to speak. Not to say it's literally possessed by a ghost, but rather possessed in the psychological sense, like it has this horrific, greedy obsession and won't stop for anything, sort of transforming into this dark-ghost hybrid that's "not all there" in a different sense than other ghost types. Not "dead," per se, but at least somewhat "gone." I don't know if I'm making the most sense here, because it's not even that I'm trying to argue it's a ghost or even being possessed by some other tangible force so much as by obsession itself? I dunno. Feels like the dual typing really meshes well when I kinda settled into my own theory on it here. (Just speculation though, of course, I love theorizing about pokémon as much as the next guy, so I 100% get having other ideas on any number of pokémon out there. I just like thinking about this stuff. ^^)

Is not like there were a lot of ghost types in Rubi anyways.

I think the ghost typing for Sableye is more metaphorical than literal. It is a metaphorical phantom because it is based on cryptids.

I love this gremlin, I vibe with it sooo much as I too want to bite & eat on gems 🤣🤣 & I literally love to jump out & scare people, & be a lil gremlin myself, this is why I love these lil guys~💖

There was a minecart platformer in the dreamworld? I was spending all my time stacking ice cream and planting berries

Sableye makes me think of Stitch, from Lilo and Stitch.

The hopkinsville aliens were totally just owls.

So… funny little reptile Pokémon are the perfect overlap? That explains your channel mascot, then. 👍🏻 (My first ever Johto starter was a female Totodile, by the way. I spammed Rage so much that the *TING* *_WOOSH_* sound effect is forever imprinted on my mind! 😂)

Sableye may be my favourite Pokémon if not at least top 10 just being a lil goblin that eats gems

My favorite little prankster 😁

Sableye is more of a tommyknocker given it lives in caves and causes trouble for those that enter mines

Sableye appears a ton in Kentucky, I have wayy to many.

sableye is my favorite Pokemon and I had no idea it was coming to unite! I might also have to pick the game up after all this time

I loved it in Sapphire. I caught it in Dewford and it got be through that with Flash LOL.

Sableye looks like Max from Sam and max

Sableye will always be one of my favorite pokemons

Sableye is literally my favorite dog Pokémon

Ok, but what is it's relation with mawile, since in every game they're in, they are version exclusive

Definitely my num1 favorite

Sableye provavelmente está no meu top 3 Pokémon favoritos

I actually love it, it my top 1 ghost pokemon

Ah yes, one of my favorite Ghost Types

Love this little dude. Dumb but he was my imaginary pika. Was the only dark ghost, looked cool and edge. Came back for his mega and now am back for him in unite lol Sableye for smash!!!

My fav mon ✨

I'm always going to lean toward Sableye being a loot imp. A gold-digger, but for diamonds! It even has prankster as an ability. xD

Spooky, gets a kick out of scaring people, what about that doesn't sound like a ghost type?

Sableye is a gem stealing yokai, not inspiried by Hopkinsville Goblin.

I think it would be cool if he could dematerialize his body and leave behind a pile of the gems he wears and haunts them.

rip carbink

He's Smeagle.

I ♥️ SABLEYE

Sableye is top 5

Sableye is ishowspeed as a pokemon bruh

Personally, I always assumed Tommyknockers were the inspiration for Sableye, as they are explicitly *subterranean* goblins

It’s my favorite Pokémon of all time :)

Will you make another "Leave (insert Pokemon) alone" video?

mega lopunny kicked mega sableye in the anime...

Nice

Wait so is it a ghost or an alien thing?

Sableye makes me think moreso of the Heartless from Kingdom Hearts tbh, Sableye is more like a shadow entity which makes more sense imo.

If someone plays Hoenn without including Sableye in his team, die he really played Hoenn?

Fun fact sableye lost mine is currently breaking the meta in the tcg

Pseudo Grimsnarl 😀

Goblin

Am I the only one who thinks that Sableye looks like stitch?

Gator ex: dark/ghost has no weakness before gen 6! Bug type: am I a joke to you?

Sableye and Spiritomb should be rock types Like They are made of rocks and minerals how are they dark

Sableye doesn't seem to have many ghostly attributes. I think it was merely created for Gamefreak to try out the weakness-free type combo at the time. I do wish Gamefreak would justify the Pokemon's typing in its lore, but part of me think that we ought to just accept Pokémon for what they are.

Nah man we’re finnnne

spooooky

Sorry to be that guy but you misspelled "strange" as "starnge" in the spoopy green text in the intro, in case nobody pointed that out yet :P