My Opinions on Every NEW Pokemon in Scarlet and Violet 

Mystic: calls Kilowattrel “the first electric/flying that isn’t legendary” Emolga: “Am I a joke to you?”

The story behind the four Ruin legendaries is covered in the History class. Nothing to do with the Kalos war, since it happened much later.

“The first electric/flying we’ve had that isn’t legendary” Emolga would like a word lol

I like Dudunsparce because it makes me laugh. Decades of speculation and fan arts of a over the top dragon evolution for him and what's Game Freak do but make him slightly bigger that isn't lazy design that is intentional trolling and I love it XD Also dude fills the role Snorlax does in most regions of a bulky normal type so he's good in battle too

Roaring moon is a clear shout out to mega evolution, and the dex suggests this as well

Gholdengo has to be one of my favourites. can't unsee it looking the mascot character on the cheesestrings packaging

Gholdengo is one of my favorite pokemon EVER, the method of evolution being collecting 999 coins to get the 1000th pokemon (made of 1000 coins) is absolutely GENIUS to me, and it looks so goofy with the string cheese mascot look, yet it’s SO broken I love it

I know alot of people may not like Dundunsparce, but i think its hilarious. Im sure they saw fanart and knew what we were expecting, but they just made a slight change and added "Dun" to the front. I found it funny, and its stats arent all bad either. I used one on my team and it was one of the more reliable members

Man I adore Armarouge. It replaced Gardevoir as my second favorite Pokémon of all time which is not a easy thing to do since I hold Swampert and Gardevoir close to my heart. I mean it’s really loyal to you, it’s REALLY good in battle, and it’s practically flaming Gladiator Mega Man with psychic abilities. I really wish Ash catches this thing in the anime.

9:00 Emolga? Fan Rotom? Pom-Pom Style Oricorio? Anyway, just wanted to share that Iron Valiant is definitely my favorite Paradox Form.

For my first playthrough, I went for a monotype Grass theme. Originally, I didn't love Scovillain's design, but it quickly grew on me and became a staple on my team. Especially loved how it subverted my expectations in that it's the green head that uses Flamethrower while the red head uses Bullet Seed. Arboliva meanwhile was great until the Elite Four, when they consistently had the coverage to punch through its defenses and healing. Went from my favorite tank to a glass cannon that healed my opponents 😢

The reason I like Skeledirge isn’t because he’s a breath of fresh air being not bipedal, but because it has so many little details. The fire bird being a reference to the symbiotic relationship of crocodiles and birds, and the skull on its face reminds me of Dia De Los Muertos.

I personally love Bramblin the most. It's literally tumbleweed with eyes.

I love all the Pokémon. The fully evolved Starters are properly powerful and have neat designs and killer signature moves, and while they missed out on the chance to give Lechonk an evolution named "Lechonkier", that evolves again into "Lechonkiest", I still liked the idea. All the new Pokémon are creative and feel unique while keeping a Pokémon vibe. My personal favorites would have to be convergent evolution, because it opens up a whole lot of new possibilities for Pokémon species, other than just a garden eel (Wiglett) that looks like an aquatic Diglett, and a woodear fungus (Toedscool) that's effectively a terrestrial, mushroom version of Tentacool. Here's some ideas I have for convergent evolutions: -Seoink and Scotopig: Water/Ground-type sea pigs that resemble the actual pig Pokémon Spoink and Grumpig, but with a more echinoderm flair. -Spineco and Thorretress: Grass-type pine cones that resemble Pineco and Forretress, the bagworm Pokémon that look like pine cones. -Stolosis, Duoresion, and Rockniclus: Rock-types that resemble Solosis, Duosion, and Reuniclus, but are made of hard stone with glass shells. -Lunaptile and Lunalisk: Fairy/Flying-type birds of paradise that can puff out their necks like the frilled lizard Pokémon Helioptile and Heliolisk. -Krabaux and Kinglaux: Bug/Steel-type false crabs with metal-lined pincers. Based on the real-world process of carcinization, or the tendency to evolve into a crab-like morphology, which is convergent evolution.

Armarouge, Quaquaval, and Great Tusk are easily my favorite Pokémon in Gen 9. I caught the Titan Great Tusk and named it Mastodonphan. It's an absolute tank.

Dachsbun ended up being surprisingly good for me. I had neglected to check it's ability when it evolved until I had to send it out against the Fire-type Team Star leader. The surprise MVP of that encounter stayed with me through the end of the story.

I actually started on developing the story for my own conceptual Pokemon game called "Pokemon Legends: Battle Bond" that tells the story of the Kalosian war and the tragedies that came from the aftermath. In case you were wondering, Greninja in this game was the guardian of Kalos long before it became the starter Pokemon we know. However, the protagonist forms a close friendship with Greninja and they work together to bring an end to the war and shows the first instance of the bond phenomenon. it also tells of the slow descent of AZ and the enemies on both sides of the battlefield the protagonist must face.

Glimmora is my favorite Pokemon this Gen, so I've read basically all there is to it: It's the only Pokemon in Paldea (currently) that is directly linked to the Tera Crystals. It has a lot of mystery around it, but the fact that they decided to make the only Pokemon directly related to Tera Crystals a poison type stands out to me...

Crazy to think that Mega Evolving Salamence just brings it closer to the way it used to be

This gen made me incredibly happy. My second favorite Pokémon of all time is Bisharp, and Primeape was definitely in the top 10 as well. I can’t believe that BOTH of them got an evolution, and that both evolutions are incredible both in design and in battle. They also significantly buffed Samurott, who is my all time favorite, by giving his hisuian form sharpness…This is definitely my favorite gen since gen 5!

I’m definitely planning to get Fuecoco as my starter. Love the look of Skeledirge. Given how people were hoping for Sprigatito’s evolutions to stay on all fours, I think its high time that we have a parody of the humanoid starters. Like I had an idea for three starters * Crocodile/Aligator Pokemon based off Florida Man * Wolf pokemon based off Neanderthals and cavemen * Bear Pokemon based off cartoon dads like Richard Waterson, Petee Griffin, and Homer Simpson

Im always a sucker for Ghost types. I do not watch/read anything about new pkmn games because i want to be surprised and Typhlosion Fire/Ghost typing in Arceus was a good one, love the design aswell. Annihilape is long overdue and man its good. Bramblin is just brilliant knowing what a real life pest tumbleweeds can be and giving them a eerieness. Scovillain just the name alone. Its design is looks a little like the Piranha plant from Mario. A Fire/Grass type is a welcome edition to the Grass typing in general. Baxcalibur looks like the old Godzilla of the 50's what more do i need to say. Tauros getting some love made me happy aswell since its one of my favorites of all time and looks damn good in black

I have no regrets for my choices I made. Like you, I love Sprigatito, one of my favorite Grass Starters and nearly ties with Roserade as my favorite Grass Pokémon

The Violet pokedex entry for Roaring Moon refers to Salamance`s Mega Evolution, with that region it mentions being Kalos.

The Excalibur, Kilowattrel, Tinkaton, and Glimmora lines, and Tatsuguri are my top 5 favorite mons from this Gen. Love their designs

I love Farigaraf, she’s so adorable with the chain chomp space helmet. Girafarig has been a favourite of mine for yeses and it doesn’t disappoint. Also dudunsparce made me laugh my head off, as it’s such a troll from gamefreak.

The ancient king of Paldea is discussed in the History class and also by talking to the history teacher after class.

The story alone is 10/10 man I love everything about this game despite the performance issues

Absolutely adore Meowscarada, Palafin, and Roaring Moon

I love Meowscarada, Tinkaton, Chien-pao and Slither Wing, i love this generation

Meowscarada reminds me alot of one of my favorite videogame characters, Ralsei from Deltarune, so I love it for that alone. The fact they worked with Toby Fox in this game makes me wonder whether that was slightly intentional or not

9:00 “The first Electric/Flying we have that isn’t legendary” Emolga: Thank you. I’ll see myself in the Legendary hall then.

9:08 "First Electric Flying type that is not legendary." Oricorio Pom-pom Form: "Am I a joke to you?"

I do like aniliphape. Fighting ghost is a nice typing.

The thing about Roaring Moon having a connection to a phenomenon from a certain region was referencing Mega Evolution, which makes sense because it looks like Mega Salamence.

Going to the Pokemon academy history class will tell you about the origins of the Ruin Pokemon as well as other lore stuff if you're interested, Mystic. A guy also did a video about it too if you wanna watch that instead.

Kingambit is awesome but I just can’t stop laughing at his walking animation lol

Armarouge is without a shadow of doubt one of my favorites of not just this game but of all the franchise he was one the MVP's of my Scarlet team, looks amazing, and has an incredible stat spread and movepool I'll never not love this Pokemon. Garganacl line suprised the hell outta me as I wasn't expecting to use it but caught a Nacli and quickly fell in love and still have my Garganacl to the very end. Gholdengo took me a long time to farm, but when I got mine he quickly also became a fast favorite and has definitely put in the work for my team and I adore it's design movepool and animations especially when he surfs on literal gold, oh and Good as Gold is a busted ability and that adds to my love. Mystic and I have the exact same feelings on Meowscarada like legit damn near entirely the same, and mine has not only become a quick favorite grass starter but also carried my team on his back EVERY time we got into trouble if my Armarogue didn't pull us through my Meowscarada came out and slapped TF outta whatever was infront of us, my boi never failed to come out and sit down any problem we had. It even got to the point to where I called my Meowscarada the Pokepimp because literally he'd just pimp smack whatever gave us trouble then we just moved on, it was great lol The last new member I used on the team was Baxcaliber whom dare I saw might just be my favorite pseudo? Not sure Garchomps still high up there, but Baxcaliber definitely goes up as one of my favorite pseudos and though I didn't use mine for long it quickly became one of my favorite gen 9 mons and a general favorite Pokemon due to how it looks like Godzilla, and destroys all that's before it. Haven't used the other new mons, but generally I adore all the new Pokemon and the only new evolution/new Pokemon I don't really like is Dudunspare, because it feels lazy. Everything else this gen is absolute 🔥just wish the game had a lil bit more polish but it's still top 3 EZ.

I love how broken skeledirge is with torch song in steel bug grass and ice terra raid

The tinkatin mon actually hunts metal pokemons even in the descriptions tells you the it throws its hammer to bring down corviknights to take its metal so yeah that's why they are not taxis in paldea.

I am assuming you forgot the word Bird in the sentence "The first electric/flying Pokemon that isn't a legendary." Or does Emolga no longer exist?

Wattrel is so cute 🥰. I really like kilowatrel and you cannot see kilowatrel when he is fighting.

I wish they gave krookodile a new form. My mans has been needing some love

Imagine having a team with Cofagrigus, Rabsca, and Lucario for an Egyptian theme.

I like a lot of the Pokemon more than I thought I would. Also. This has been the hardest gen for me to decide between on picking a favorite between the versions. I enjoy the Pokemon between both scarlet and violet in different ways. Leaning more towards scarlet for Pokemon overall but violet as a bike since scarlet's runs weird

Great video! Also just wanted to say that I also named my Kingsgambit Kazumasa, I legit smiled when I saw you also named yours the same! :D

'Flittle evolves into the first ostrich pokemon' Sad Dodrio noises

I love Fidough/Dachsbun, but love dachshunds so that's easy. I just want a smaller puppy pre-evo for it; or variety of Dachsbun in the same manner of smooth or wire-haired versions.

"the first electric/flying we've had that isn't legendary" Rotom-fan, emolga and oricorio pom-pom style: are we a joke to you?

6:35 Bolthund was actually kinda good though, strong jaw, and access to a bit of covers with the bite moves it could learn. It was one my core units in my Sword playthrough. And it's a normal puppy dog, can't say no to that. This pastry dog though, it me uncomfortable, you can't hug it, you'll get frosting on yourself or something.

I liked cetitan before the games came out and almost considered using it on my play through team but even though that wasn’t the case once I found out that it’s shiny is an orca I had to shiny hunt it first and even put it on a snow team I whipped up and cetitan has definitely earned it’s spot as my favourite gen 9 Pokémon

I saw, and kept seeing alot of people complaining about the Gen 9 Pokemon designs. Personally it has some of the best Pokemon designs in a while. My favourite ones are Cetoddle, Ceruledge, Koraidon, Tinkaton, Kingambit, Great Tusk, Cheese string dude, Water and grass starters and Annihilape

Mystic: Espathra is the first ostrich pokemon Dodou and Dodrio: Are we joke to you?

I also love that your kingambit is named kazumasa I have a bisharp with eviolite and I named him Jin

"The first electric / flying pokemon that isn't a legendary" Emolga, Rotom and Oricorio: Allow us to introduce ourselves

"The first electric/flying that isn't a legendary" Emolga be like: :

Mystic: The first Electric Flying type we have that isn't Legendary Me: *looks at Emolga*

Kilowattrel is the 2nd non legendary Electric Flying. The first one is Emolga

The ancient civilization thing from Iron Bundle description is a reference to Bubo from Clash of the Titans.

Iron Bundle being made by an ancient civilization feels like they’re alluding to Atlantis or the Pokémon equivalent of Atlantis.

Tatsugiri, Baxcalibur, great tusk, scream tail, maushold and revavroom are my favorites.

7:49 Shiny annaliape has such a subtle buy great shiny

Tinkaton, Mabosstiff and Skeledirge have been the stars of my Pokémon Violet team so far!

Honestly I wasn't a fan of most pokemon this gen at first but they have grown on me now

I save my bacon jokes for Embor. The bacon cooks itself

Along the lines of Toedscruel, did you notice that each of its types are strong against or even opposites of Tentacruel, like ground is good against poison, and grass is good against water, but also water is good against ground, and poison is good against grass. I know it's typing is double week to ice and doesn't have too many resistances, but I really thought this was clever. I don't usually use grass types, but I ended up using this guy on my playthrough as a speedy special glass cannon, using grass stab, earth power, flash cannon, and sludge bomb, and I found him to be quite useful to keep in the back as a Swiss army knife

Kilowattrel - "The first Electric/Flying pokemon we had that is not a Legendary". I guess Emolga and Rotom Fan do not exist lol.

I was thinking the violet entry for Roaring Moon was referring to Mega Salamence.

I like to think of the future paradoxes as Terminator Pokemon from the future if SkyNet took over 😂

Love the Maple Story reference! So true as well!

Maushold is competitively useful with Friend Guard and support moves. Dachsbun may be useful for raids.

Excuse you mystic that wasn’t a earthworm in SpongeBob it was A ALASKAN BULL WORM

"The first electric/flying that isn't a legendary" Emolga and Oricorio:...

3:47 me who got killed by aqua step+moxie in showdown a lot:

The certain phenomenon that it mentions in the Violet decks is mega evolution and it points out that it looks very similar to mega salamence which also looks like roaring Moon but without the feathers and it looks like it could tuck in itself unlike roaring Moon which doesn't have any of the markings or anything on the stomach patterns like original salamence in fact I've seen a theory pointing out that what if mega evolution and paradox Pokemon are linked in some way like how mega evolution could be Awakening leftover DNA from years past thus creating a paradox

Toadscool line: did you catch how the convergent species are just polar opposite of the "original form?" So Tentacool being water/poison wouldn't be an electric type. Ground/grass is the exact opposite.

Great video but Stats and types on screen would be great next time around

Does anyone see that Johto orchestra music mix he was talking about? I might just be missing it.

This is the first gen in a while that i dropped my starter because of how many gen 9 pokemon i absolutely loved. It was very difficult to narrow down my team to just 6

Ququaval did well for me as my first starter - I had swords dance, aqua step, acrobatics, and I think break break and I swept the entire E4 with SD AS😂

Love the video and keep up the great work

"Iron Moth proves aliens exist" Isn't that exactly what was confirmed in Gen 7 with the Ultra Beasts, Ultra Space, and Ultra Recon Squad?

There were a ton of new Pokemon that it was hard choosing my team I didn't even know some of these pokemon existed until a couple of days ago like bisharp's new evolution, and palafin. I love this game but my one problem is that I think they over did it on the new fighting types like I wanted to use a ton of these pokemon but most of em were fighting type so I didn't use em so I could have better coverage

the link for Roaring Moon is mega evolution, both of those seperated paradox pokemon have something special about them. Roaring Moon is based on Mega Salamence instead of normal Salamence while Iron Valiant is a combination of both Mega Gallade and Mega Gardevour. not much more to dig into, they're acknowledging Mega Evolution which is good, perhaps it'll appear again in a main series game one day, maybe even Scarlet/Violet DLC.

Scarlet and violet are my number 5 in my top 5 with legends being my favorite followed by platinum then hgss then black white and number 6 is emerald then black and white at 7 However they do need to fix the issues which they seem to be doing I’ve experienced performance improvements from the update so I have hope they will fix the remaining bugs at least really bad ones such as the crashing

Kilowattrel isn't the first non legendary electric flying by a long shot. Rotom Fan, Emolga, and Yellow Orocorio pre date it.

I think the only problem with Paldea are the glitches. The rest is actually really good!

orthworm caught me off guard when i first saw it I thought earthworm jim for some reason

Yea, there’s only 3-5 mons that I didn’t care for. But it doesn’t go lower than that, I love the designs overall. I literally had the most difficult time choosing who to keep on my team lol

I was scared of sprigs final evo but using it I frickin love it fave grass type signature is op

"The first Electric/Flying we've had that isn't a legendary. " 🤔 I wasn't aware Emolga was a legendary. But if you say so. Lol

I'm 90% sure the Violet dex entry for Roaring Moon is referring to the Primal energy associated with Mega Evolution

Great vid, I agree with most of your opinions except sprigatito but that's fine. I'm just a fuecoco stan.

“First electric flying we’ve had that isn’t legendary”… Emolga would like a word

Emolga: Am I a legendary to you? :)

Roaring moon is referencing mega salamance and the certain region is kalos

There’s a theory going around that the paradox Pokemon are dreamed up into reality don’t remember the rest of it and great video

If you go to your history class inside of the Academy, it explains to you exactly what these are from and what king it is

Fun fact, starmobile not only have Revaroom but alsi has 4 Varoom (if you pqy attention to the cut scene when the Starmobile gets out of the huts)

I also have a shiny annihilape, first shiny I found in gen 9