"Kanto" Pokemon that AREN'T from Kanto! (in Gen 1) 

Thanks for the information, professor! I will be more mindful in supporting domestic Pokémon from now on! :D I must not be the first to catch it since I'm watching this pretty late, but that Articuno sprite is definitely from the Japanese versions. It only took a minute to find after reading the description. I wonder why they were even changed in the first place, the differences are often only minor, but I definitely remembered Articuno crying with his beak majestically open in the versions I played. For that, I am proud and ashamed. Interesting style of video, and fits well on the channel. I'm happy to see people are watching as well! Keep going! :)

Lapras and Farfetch’d are given canonical reasons as to why they’re not found in the wild. Both were hunted to near extinction in Kanto.

Oh, huh. I never even thought about it but yeah, the safari zone would logically be stocked with non-native pokémon, wouldn't it? Red just went to the zoo, saw essentially an African rhinocerous, and recorded a new "native animal."

Eevee is obtainable in Black 2 and White 2 Edit: Also, beating Snorlax gives the text "Snorlax calmed down. It gave a huge yawn... And returned to the mountains." Since none of the routes have you go over the mountains, only through caves, it's implied that Snorlax live atop the mountain Rock Tunnel cuts through.

if i remember correctly Porygon can technically count as kanto native since the upgrade item was developed directly by Silph, so by logical consequence, Silph may have been behind the creation of Porygon as a whole

Bro saying ‘Kanto’ like he’s sponsored.

even if we ignore the catchability of these pokemon in future remakes, it should be noted that both tauros and mr. mime are referred to as kanto or kantonian form in future games when compared to regional variant. this would signify to me that they are definitely native to kanto

Small correction: Eevee is catchable in Gen V’s Castelia Park in both Black 2 and White 2

Exeggute and exeggutor are definitely originally native to Alola, according to the later pokedexes.

The safari zone is essentially a zoo. And most zoos have a mix of native and exotic animals.

gen 2 is very similar because a lot of johto pokemon can only be caught in the kanto post game of gold and silver.

I always thought of the safari zone as like a nature reserve. The Pokemon there are native to Kanto but are endangered, or maybe they aren't endangered but their habitat is in that area which the Kanto government deemed "protected." That's why you have to use the special balls and you can't fight them like normal wild battles.

farfetch'd is a bird, and like MANY birds, it could simply be that it is a migratory bird that is "out of season" at the moment your adventure happens.

Porygon is also man-made in Kanto, the Pocket Monsters Encyclopedia (a guide for the game which DYKG made a video about), as it says it was developed in Silph Co. Also, Porygon was made catchable in the wild in Let's Go, around Celadon City

The starters are from Pokémon Island (Pokémon Snap). Also, Lapras is also found in the Sevii Islands, so it could be from there- within the Kanto region. A few months back, I actually researched all gift Pokémon in the series and determined where each was most likely to come from. I don't intend to ever make a video on the subject, but I want my knowledge to get out there. Babu, if you see this comment, can I send you my spreadsheet and notes?

Actually, a good portion of the Pokemon in this video can be captured in Lets Go Eevee/Pikachu through the Special Spawns, Porygon can be caught on the routes East and West of Saffron, the Hitmons can be caught in Cerulean Cave, and Eevee can be caught on Cycling Road. In addition, Diamond/Pearl are the first games you can Catch Eevee, as it is one of the possible daily spawns in the Trophy Garden Mr Backlot tells you about, but only in the postgame. And you can also catch wild Porygon in a single island in ORAS, but it can only be reached via Soaring on your Lati in the postgame.

I do want to say. 1. While it was first catchable in the wild in GSC, it's ONLY in Kanto in that game. Mr. Mime is still catchable in Kanto originally then. It's also in Kanto in the Let's Go games. 2. The Manga(which is very very close to the games original vision) describes the Safari Zone as like a preserve with trophy hunting for funding, and this is backed by the anime(albeit the anime splits the game reverse and protection side of things into separate areas). And while you described Safari's as 'foreign', that's a very North American perspective. If you live in Kenya or Tanzania or something, these protected areas(which DO often offer limited hunting permits, either for population control or to eliminate old infertile troublemakers) are still native to the area. 3. Porygon was invented by Silph Co, which is a Kanto based organization, just a few months before the game takes place according to the 1997 Pokedex book. I'd also argue the legendaries are fine.

Oh! Lovely to see another Ontarian in the Pokemon community. That African Lion Safari name drop brought back loads of memories.

(I'd actually argue, given that they only show up in the Whirl Islands weekly seemingly as part of a migratory route, that the first 'native' dwelling of the Lapras we see is the Sevii Islands. But they are still probably native to Kanto and Johto and just extirpated due to the whole, endangered species, thing)

I think Mr. Backlot lets you catch Porygon in Gen 4, but I wouldn't call them native to Sinnoh....

Technically speaking Legends Arceus is a mainline game, you can capture porygon within the timespace distortions which is the only instance I know of where you can capture one in the wild. But Legends Arceus makes things a little weird with its timy whimy/paradoxy insanity.

There are also loads of pokemon introduced later on that are native to Kanto, mainly evolutions & pre evolutions of gen 1. pokemon.

This is pretty interesting. very cool video, I can’t wait to see more!

Eevee has a 5% rate to appear in Gen V's Castelia Park so it was available in the wild before Gen VI but only in one location.

2:45. Eevee can be caught in BW2 in Castelia Park and in all Sinnoh games in the Trophy Garden after the national dex. As for Porygon, you can catch it in Trophy Garden in all gen 4 except Platinum and White in White Forest and Route 7 in Let's Go.

Mew is native to space/everywhere. At the start of life in the Pokémon world, it was nothing but Mew. It then went on to evolve into every Pokémon ever

A nice follow-up would be theories on where these Pokémon are actually from

Just an itty bitty sorta correction depending on how you look at it: Porygon can be caught in the wild in the most recent DLC for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet as well as the Trophy Garden in Diamond and Pearl (remakes have this too). Notably though the implications in all of those is humans released them there to be caught so...

Loved this video and your other one on where they’re from. Subbed your channel. Would like to see more like this. I haven’t seen others making this kind of content and it is really good.

So if Mr Mime was not catchable in Kanto in gen 1 but he WAS catchable in Kanto in gen 2 which is canonically set chronologically a few years after the events of gen 1... does that make Mr Mime an invasive species in Kanto?

One thing to question you about since I am a follow Gen 1'er. Wasn't Porygon the first artificial pokemon to have ever been created through computer programming? Doesn't that mean it was created in Kanto?

Well that was a refreshingly cute modest and sincere little video. Reminds me of the funny oddities that used to be pointed out a lot but this is especially something barely anyone would think about or question. Now how about those johto pokemon who only appear in kanto in gen 2?

Pretty cool video. Hope to possibly see more of these videos on potentially future generations. Maybe even if a Johto video is done, seeing if perhaps some of the Kanto pokemon not found in the wild could have came from there given how the regions aren't too far off and some animal species can travel during certain parts of the year. While Mr.Mime being on vacation is clearly more of a joke it could certainly have been the case.

Wow. This is such an amazing theory. I would never had thought about it like that before. My mind is definitely blown.

I caught a Charmander in a cave in Pokemon let's go eeve. I like to think its popularity as a pokemon plus the documented cases of abandoned charmanders led it to become an invasive species

I literally was just having a conversation with a buddy like last week about Mr. Mime specifically (but some species in general) not actually being native to kanto. Glad I'm not crazy!

Interesting video! As the series has gone on I think Gamefreak has only leaned more and more into the logical conclusion that not all pokemon in a region are necessarily native to that region, especially with Alolan Exeggutor almost being implied to be the true version of them(I swore i heard that it *was* the original version but couldn't find anything that actually outright confirmed it). A follow up either about other regions featuring similar not-truly-regional pokemon or a video speculating where certain mons *did* come from would it interesting! Good luck on your channel!

Love this video concept. If you can you should definitively make this a series.

i've been asking someone to make a video like this for years. thanks

Porygon is man-made but I guess it's possible for them to be feral because you do see "wild" Porygon on Pokemon Island during Pokemon Snap's river level.

Porygon can be found in White forest in White, and Mirage Island/Mirage Mountain in Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire

Porygon has been catchable for years

I find it interesting that the algorithm picked up the second video in this miniseries so much harder than this one (currently it has 5x the views). Hopefully this end up being the launching point of a more lucrative youtube career for you. Good luck!

African Lion Safari! Let's go. It's been 10 years since I was last year. Sweet memories.

Fun series. I hope you do this for the next gens.

3:32 according to the anime professors get the starters from special breeding farms in the region Although not stated I think it’s similar in the games too

It's especially funny with how Pokemon Go will be like "Catch X number of Pokemon originally discovered in the Kanto region" when clearly a good number of them werent actually originally discovered there XD

Let's be honest: you can't find the Kanto starters, Eevee, Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan, Lapras, Mr. Mime, Jynx and Farfetch'd (with some exceptions), and the Pokémon that can only be found in the Kanto Safari Zone in Gens I and III can't normally be caught in the wild by the player gameplay purposes; and besides the starters (and version-exclusive Pokémon), these mechanics have been downplayed or non-existent in recent titles. Despite being an alternate continuity, one could make the case for the Let's Go! games being an honest reflection of how rare the Pokémon are in the wild in modern terms as besides it being possible to capture multiple legendary birds, Pokémon availability reflects more modern trends.

Finally someone saying this. I think what makes a Mon native, they should be caught in the wild. Like Eevee is a gen 1 Mon, but I consider it native to places like Sinnoh or Kalos.

Going by the anime would be even more restrictive- scratching to find twenty pokemon bulbasaur, primeape, Mr Mime, pikachu, caterpie, weedle,dragonair, lickatu n g., dudtrio, pigdgey, spearow.

There are other examples of pokemon not from the region they were introduced in in other games, such as Coprhish ins RSE as well as Cufant in SwSh. I can't think of any others, but would be curious to see if there are more. It's also a little sad to me that things like that haven't been followed up on yet. We could have had a corphish variant by now, or an explanation of where it came from.

This morning, I was literally thinking about Pokemon endemic to regions; like how how you can find Kanto Pokemon in other regions but not vice-versa, and then I find these videos

It's a longshot, but maybe the upcoming Z-A will show us Mew's habitat. Why? Guyana is actually a region in South Ameria that consists of five countries (collectively known as the Guyanas), two of which have "Guyana" in their name. The Cooperative Republic of Guyana (which is usually what people are referring to when they say "Guyana") is a former British colony that achieved independence in 1966. But there's also the other Guyana: FRENCH Guyana. It's an overseas territory of Kalos's real-world counterpart to this day. I could MAYBE see the postgame taking us there.

I find it odd you'd count Porygon as "not native," as it was first created in the lab at Cinnabar Island, but you don't mention Ditto (which, according to some theories, was created in the same lab, as a failed first-attempt at cloning Mew), since it's mostly found in the Cerulean Cave (where Mewtwo escaped to after it broke out of the lab) and the Pokemon Mansion (the lab where Mewtwo was created) in Yellow

Of the Pokémon listed as not native to Kanto, the Exeggcute line would be an invasive species (being from Alola), Porygon, like Mewtwo, is a Kanto native (being an artificial Pokémon), and Mr. Mime could follow the same logic as Exeggcute (having both a cross-region evolution and regional variant). Every other non-legendary and non-fossil Pokémon on the list could be considered endangered species.

Really enjoyed this video! Never really put much thought into it before, but it's cool to think about. With that said, here's my two cents: 1) Dratini is likey from Johto, considering the Dragon's Den and Lance's clan are from Blackthorn City. 2) I'm pretty sure Gen 8 confirmed the bird trio originated from Galar, and that the Glarian forms are their original ones. 3) Porygon was created by Sliph Co, so I consider it Kanto native by default. 4) Munchlax is from Sinnoh/Hisui, so I would say Snorlax originates from there by default. Perhaps mons with other baby forms are from different regions as well? 5) Speaking of Hisui, maybe Voltorb/Electrode originate from there as well 6) I always figured the Safari Zone was more of a natural preserve, rather than a zoo. So trying to protect certain native species rather than having imported mons.

I would argue porygon is native to kanto bc its man made. It was created by silph co. I think the reason the game corner has them for sale is bc the game corner is a front for team rocket and its implied at least one silph scientist was a mole for team rocket. I think he appears in gsc. So maybe he leaked its data or something idk

The existence of the anime shatters this theory into smithereens. I just don’t think Red and Blue covered all of Kanto like Ash did

I think it could be argued that a lot of the pokemon in the safari zone like Lickitung may not be Kantonian. I think these Pokemon could've escaped the safari zone and bred as they settled else where

Maybe the Pokémon like Mr mime and in the safari zone are native they were just going extinct and were preserved to increase the numbers and were catchable when they were at a healthy number

This was very interesting. I'm curious about what the other gens add to this.

Jynx was native to jhoto border due to ice cave next to the victory road i always thought reason jynx was a gift trade in kanto was fact it migrated or use to be ice cave crossed over to kanto

Porygon can be wild caught in let’s go Eevee and Pikachu as well as Legends Arceus!

I think that Pokemon like Scyther or Pinsir could be native to Kanto, or at least to an adjacent Japanese region. Also, I'd assume that anything found in the wild in Johto or another Japanese Region may also be native to Kanto. The Fossils found in the cave are currently in Kanto, but the age of the fossils means that the rock could have moved and that they could be from anywhere. Archeops was likely an import from a European Region. I think that Pokemon like Eevee, Lapras, Snorlax, and assumedly a Tyrogue for the hitmons, are likely native, but their population is so low that they're hard to find. The starters are a toss-up for being imports or very rare native Pokemon. You could also argue that not every Pokemon that can be found in the wild is necessarily native, and could be invasive, like Doduo or Nidoran being from other regions.

My country Guyana got mentioned, also that the most random thing I ever heard, and the fact that it in pokemon.

Loved this

A lot of the safari Pokemon can be traced to other regions nowadays, I also don't think Rhydon is native, The Safari Zone isn't exactly well regulated or guarded so I wouldn't be surprised if some Pokemon escape and thats why you can catch them on nearby routes. Rhydon and Kangaskhans first wild appearances are actually in Kalos, on the same route no less. Exeggutor are said to be originally from Alola and thats why their Alolan Form is Dragon and taller, and again its not hard to believe they'd escape and continue breeding in their lesser more cold adapt form in the surrounding routes in Kanto. Tauros seems to be confirmed from Paldea now, given its more brutish Fighting form found in the wilds of those games. Farfetch'd too, I originally thought it was a Johto Pokemon imported and subsequently set loose in Kanto, but we now know its true form is Galarian and the Kanto/Johto ones are like Exeggutor and adapted forms to the colder region. Similarly but not as direct Mr Mime may also be Galarian, but he may also be Sinnoh because of Mime Jr and the Galar form is a later adaptation. Scyther, Voltorb, Growlithe and maybe even Chansey might be natives from Sinnoh/Hisui, given the new forms/evolutions of the the latter 3 in Legends Arceus and the commonality of Chansey in that game as well. Plus Scyther and Chansey are found on the same routes in the wild in Sinnoh in modern times. Jynx is interesting because if she's in the Japanese Blue she should have been kept in the Worlwide release but was rolled back. Her first full appearance was in the Ice Path in Johto so maybe thats her native home and the Seafoam ones are later additions somehow after the 2 year time change (she's in Seafoam officially in HG/SS) Lapras too might be Johto Native, but its also an endangered species at that point in time. You find 1 in a cave in Johto, in FR/LG you can also find them in an isolated cave on the Sevii Islands. By the time of any 3D game though its confirmed they have been bred back out of endangerment so any wild populations are new and I wouldn't consider strictly "native" Cerulean cave is interesting, Because it doesn't have things like Lickitung until Yellow, which is very Anime inspired and may not truly represent natural Kanto. Yellow releases a lot of exclusive Pokemon into the Wild like Farfetch'd and some Safari Pokemon that weren't originally in the wild. Similar thing happens with Gold/Silver since it canonically takes place 2 years later some Pokemon the player can find in the wild may be invasive versus native. It is crazy how many Pokemon nowadays may not be native Kanto residents and have been imported, migrated, or even invasive.

I would personally not count safari zone in this list, zoos and safaris are not the same thing. You can build a zoo anywhere and bring in animals, both native and non-native, to lock up in there. Safaris are "built" in the wild where the wildlife is already abundant, especially in areas where animals migrate through in great numbers, in order to try preserve the nature and keep poachers away. Yet it is not completely overruled that there could not be a safari out there that has been introduced to non-native animals intentionally by humans. Nonetheless this was an entertaining video, you shall have my follow.

Although, for example, alolan Exeggutor suggests a variety of exeggutor found after the discovery of regular exeggutor. But we don't refer the Kanto version as Kanto Exeggutor so is the Kanto version the original one? Or is it still just an import?

I could have sworn that in Yellow you can catch wild Mr. Mime under pallet town (Route 21) in the grass. I guess I'm mistaken.

Porygon is also manmade and thus probably manmade in Kanto too!

"Don't hit me with anime / manga". That's canon though bro

Technically Mew is from far away island an event location in Pokémon emerald that for some reason isn’t in fire red or leaf green

Aerodactyl's amber is first found in Sinnoh so it should've been native from Sinnoh unless that amber naturally found it's way there, which is next to impossible (trust me, I'm a paleontologist)

Porygon in Scarlet and Violet are seething rn

I always thought the safari zone more of a nature preserve than a zoo so I see all those Pokémon as native. They’re just rare bc their populations dwindled and that was the last stronghold so they built the safari zone

This happens in almost every region. Castform isnt native to Hoenn. Riolu isn't native to Sinnoh. Zorua isn't native to Unova. Outsides of dens there is only one toxel in Galar. Beldum cannot be found in Hoenn. And so on

I wouldn't count MissingNo. Because technically if you count it you must count the other 104 invalid index "entities" like 'M, Q and other glitchy stuff, this also includes glitch trainer so it get's weird pretty quickly lol

I think the concept of nativeness in Pokemon is a bit iffy given that many different parts pf the world share the same pokemon, but even then, I think they were all later retconned to be from Kanto in one way or the other. The only oned that hold water are the hitmons (who could just be imports from the near Jotoh region), some of the safari mons and of course Mew.

Porygon is now on the wild in the Scarlet and Violet DLC :)

I hope u make lore videos about other gens too

Ok, here's a neat concept. What if we remove the third version of Gen 1, Yellow, cause it was made for the anime and followed a similar plot. So we only include Red/Blue. Farfetchd, Lickitung, Jynx (JP Blue doesn't count as well) and Rhyhorn would be different regional pokemon. Farfetchd, Lickitung and Jynx would be Johto mons due to them being found in the wild in Route 38 and 39 (Farfetchd), Route 44 (Lickitung) and Ice Path (Jynx) in Gold/Silver. Rhyhorn is a Kanto pokemon still due to it being in the Victory Road of Gen 2 Kanto. What do you think?

If we were to count the anime as canon then I’d have to count aerodactyl as region native due to the episode where ash falls into that cave that reveals the fossil Pokémon. However that would also open up a can of worms that make weird assumptions for other Pokémon being native that obviously shouldn’t be. Not mention then there’s the controversy of if fossil Pokémon revived actually take on there original forms or not.. I would like to see your take on this subject in accordance to gen two’s wild encounters and how some johto mon are only found in kanto

You said there is no wild porygon in any other games but, Let's go game has a rare chance of wild porygon in route 7 after 11 chain.

3:25 in legends arceus u can catch porygon in time distortions

Porygon is also manmade! Though whos to say it was first made in Kanto or another region and then someone brought the coding over. Also the first time you could catch wild Porygon was in the Trophy Garden in Diamond and Pearl as one of the special pokemon there!

I feel Mew isn't From Guyana, more likely Mew are Nomadic and tend to live in places humans don't go frequently

Evee can be caught "in the wild" in gen 4 trophy garden. But maybe you wouldnt consider it wild since cannonically someone released them into said trophy garden

What’s the logic with a Pokémon like Staryu, which is canonically an alien. Is it considered Kantonian due to that they have found their home in the region and are now abundant? What does it take to be a native?

You forgot about Clefairy. Don't those Pokemon come from outer space? I think the only reason you can find them in Mt. Moon is because that's where they crash landed. But Kanto isn't in outer space, so that would make them non-native. Also, I disagree about Mew being from Guyana not making sense. Pokemon wouldn't be the first work of fiction to combine fiction with the real world: look at Harry Potter, for the most obvious contemporary example. I think the mainline Pokemon games are very clearly regions of a fictional analog to real-world Japan. This becomes readily apparent when you look at the architecture of some of the more unique buildings and structures. Tin Tower, for example, comes to mind. So the scientists who discovered Mew would've gone around the world, to two different hemispheres, to find that Pokemon. We can infer that from Mew being from Guyana, and the mainline games taking place in a clear fictional analog to Japan.

What about the other way around? Would you consider pokemon that evolve from/into native pokemon but introduced in later gens also native? I mean pokemon like Pichu, Steelix, and Lickilicky. Which come to think of it, Steelix is weird. It was the first trade evolution that was also catchable in the wild, but not until the Sinnoh games. Since it also needs an item to evolve, does this imply something special about Sinnoh letting them evolve naturally, or later regions where the same thing happens? Is it possible that Onix migrated away from its native region and lost its ability to evolve naturally, since the dex entries claim it lives deep underground and evolves when Onix lives a long time or consumes a lot of metal?

I would consider better background music, great video though

Porygon is an artificial pokémon created from virtual reality, supposedly so it could be from Kanto look at the silph co reports.

Theres actually Porygon in the wild in D/P/P and B/W / B2/W2 iirc

And thats not even getting into all retcons like eggxecutor!

I would remove porygon, it was made by Silph C.O on Cinnabar Island.

I think this is a matter of taking game mechanics and developer decisions too literally when describing lore. Pokémon lore (Pokédex mostly) notoriously seems to exaggerate things, but that’s not what I’m talking about. Pallet Town has 2 residences and a laboratory. In the real world, that does not describe a literal town at all. The starters, for example, cannot be found as a deliberate scarcity decision by the developers. Same goes with Pokémon that can only be found via trades, etc. Game mechanics and decisions often don’t accurately describe the intended vision of developers. Another example is that the player avatar never needs to eat or drink or sleep, and never ages. Taking this at face value, you could argue that the player avatar is completely immortal. Other people get thirsty (the guards), but you never do. The way I see it, every Pokémon is native to the region they first appear in unless otherwise stated or implied (Corphish).

Love the video but now I am thinking about trade evolution. When we trade in gen 1 we are not trading to "a friend". We are trading to a different version of the exact same person.

So missingno evolves into kangaskhan, does that make it a glitch/import hybrid?

You can catch wild porygon in the indigo disk DLC for pokemon scarlet and violet