Legends Arceus players: Challenge accepted. Edit: Ironically since I got Pokémon Violet, I’ve been taking advantage of the weekly link-trade giveaways Blaines has been doing, and I just got a SHINY arceus. So although I technically didn’t catch him, considering how busy that giveaway was I’m still considering it an achievement that I at least managed to RECEIVE God in a ball, especially since he’s SHINY.
@@Zach-804 I mean I know it's one of the most known jokes about the Pokémon series but I actually don't really care about his age The Simpsons don't age for example, and nobody cares about that much
I mean that’s why X, Y, and Z are my favorite seasons of the anime, because ash acts older, like he’s grown and is more mature, at least compared the the simple-minded egocentric kid he was in the older seasons.
@@MouseGoat Actually, I think having him retire as a legend of sorts might not be a terrible route. YGO kind of did it once the original show ended and Yugi/The Pharaoh was known in future shows as the King of Games.
@@lancetheking7524beyblade beyblade let it rip and if there’s any other characters retiring ash will be considered the greatest of the greatest, kinda like red in the games
The evolution of Brock from an overexcited and extremely knowledgeable guide to a sort of cult-like prophecy writer to a maniacal capitalist was without a doubt the most incredible character arc ever.
The funny part about the "catch God" part is that Arceus explains in Legends that the Arceus you get after the end of the final boss is only a relatively weak manifestation of him, or a tiny part of his power as he explains it. Also, given real world history, the Pokemon version of Christmas is probably dedicated to a different legendary, probably Xerneas.
Yeah in the canon ,there are Avatar of Arceus in the world ,one for each type (But they can still change type at will) . Also : How can the Pokedex know that Arceus have a thousands arms ,if it never seen the real deal.
@@plumebrise4801 legend cant be told if it weren't even heard or seen, someone might have acidentally walk in to arceus dementional crack and saw it real form, it might be human or pokemon. But of course it can also be false rumor that people made up through there imagination😅😅😅
With real world history, lots of cultures had a celebration during the winter solstice. Christianity just coopted it to make it easier for non-christians to adopt their religion. Many of us in the Northern hemisphere would be celebrating something akin to Christmas at the winter solstice if Christianity never existed.
I think the true Arceus is the literal videogame itself. Afterall, a true god would be a bunch of 0s and 1s compressed into digital code that the average player doesn't understand. And on top of that, most fans know more lore than the creator themselves. So what even is Arceus? It is us. We are Arceus.
I think it was because mew was more mythological than anything, and mewtwo was created by the dna left in fossil remnants of mew, rather than a living mew. But Mew Appeared after mewtwo did, so it's labeled that way, because that's it's formal discovery time? I guess? lol
@@ardin543210 But, by that logic they discovered Bulbasaur first... Despite Bulbasaur being rare and rattatta's and pidgey's being everywhere... Yeah, it just makes no sense once you put some thought into it.
I love how Ash is basically a representation of the fandom constantly asking new questions and questioning every decision GameFreak makes with each new generation, like the fact that Paldea can just come into existence out of nowhere and no one in the Pokémon universe questions it is amazing.
That's what I want from Game Freak. A canonically accurate globe showing how much of the planet has been allocated via regions. Because from the very beginning, it being confirmed in gen 1 which has real world references like "South America", "China", "Mt. Everest", Pokemon takes place on earth. It's difficult to picture it proportionally. For example I read somewhere that Unova is essentially the size of New York state buuut, I also read Galar is supposed to represent the entirety of the British Isles.
Or alternatively they were a region on the other side of the great war hundreds of years ago and nobody talks about it because they are still in an almost "Cold War state"
I think every Pokémon region we’ve yet to see already exists in universe, they’re just not mentioned cause gamefreak hasn’t gotten there yet, so they don’t really suddenly pop into existence, so it’s just a meta “don’t worry about it”. Plus sometimes not yet to be named regions are mentioned, SV mentions quaxly is from another region, we don’t know what region but we know he’s from somewhere, same with Eiscue.
"God is nothing but an animal, Ash. Reality as we know it was conceived by thoughtless instinct. You must usurp heaven, Ash. There can be no higher power then you."
1:00 (Discovers there's a minimum of 100 new unique pokemon per region) (Discovers there's roughly 9 regions) *Proceeds to ask if there's 400 pokemon to catch* This aspiring pokemon master is most certainly a drop out
According to Ash in the series finale, being a Pokemon Master means being friends with every Pokemon in the world, which is arguably an even more sisyphean effort than just catching em
That's just a cop out because Ash never really completed the actual goals of a Pokemon Master - catching all the Pokemon and winning each Pokemon League. (Alola counts about as much as The Orange Islands imo). Ash should have just won the Kalos league and been done with it. It's been said to death but that would have been a much better wrap up than what people got.
My theory is that Ash is locked in an Eternal Stasis where everyone around him (including himself) can never age. I think it all started after Ash’s Vow since that was the last we heard of him having a birthday party, he can’t ever complete his mission and never die happily.
MULTIPLE gods, if you count legendarys, lord helix, snom, every single version of quagsire and wooper, furret, and whatever else is currently meme-relevant
I'm always flabbergasted by the "new pokemon designs are lazy" tbh because gen 1 had "Pokeball with eyes" and "Pokeball but flipped with eyes and mouth" or "pile of purple goop" or "bigger pile of goop" or "actual goldfish with a horn" but also that's just an actual fucking flamingo
@@youtubeneedstochange4414true but the amount of Pokemon with bad designs might accelerate due to the devs just... Running out of ideas, I Mean it was bound to happen when the devs needed to resort to making regional fakes. Which are like regional forms but... "Different"
Kinda tired of people saying this and using the Voltorb and Muk lines as punching bags (actual unoriginal ones are shit like Pidgey and Seel). Slimes are like an Rpg/fantasy staple and they’re cool, and Voltorb is like the Pokemon version of a mimic which is also cool.
@@Hollow_Tim i get that, and i do find them less egregious than 'bird' and 'goldfish' but i didn't want to give an actual response to the video cause like. it's a joke who really cares
They gotta move on from Ash. First, Ash has had enough of a harem already. Second, I think it's just time. Even YGO would change protagonists every time the series got rebooted. I don't see why Pokemon can't do something similar and Ash is just "King of Monsters" in the future shows or some shit.
@@SufferingSuccotash you'd think the designs would get better, but no, every gen has at least 3 different "that's just a (insert thing in the real world here)"
@@SufferingSuccotash you'd think designs would get better than the first region where they started to test the waters you know, where they didn't really know what was a pokemon and what wasn't, the experimental region that was obligated to fit 150 pokemon in a brick
I guess once youve already came up with thousands of designs it helps to just simply take a normal animal or object and turn it into a pokemon so your over worked brain will hurt less
The real Canon is that his mom just wanted him out of the house for a few hours so she could get railed. She thought he'd get bored and give up by dinner time.
Even if the other regions didn't exist. Ash misses out on catching so many Pokémon throughout the series, he can't even be bothered to walk back into a cave and catch a Zubat.
@@adissentingopinion848 Woman, girl and boy voices apparently. All are typically voiced by women, men who can pull off the falsetto range (or get close enough in tenor) or actual boys. And then there's the DuckTales reboot...
I love how Ash learns that there are 9 regions with at least 100 unique pokemon in each region and yet his first answer to how many pokemon there are is 300-400
While new Pokemon ideas are dumb, we can't act like "pile of magnets", "snake backwards", "pile of sludge", "BIGGER pile of sludge", "not a Pokeball", "not an upside-down Pokeball", "not a pigeon", "not a sparrow", "not a bat", and "some dude's pet rock" are really the peak of creativity. Pokemon designs have always been bad, they haven't gotten worse over time, they just lack the nostalgia factor.
I'm saying this more as an a former artist Abe not as a pokemon fan my freind. I agree with your main point tho I'd argue that it's not that they were always bad but not every design is going to be iconic when you got to make hundreds of pokemon
@@somedorkydude6483 I also would like to say that in general, they started being very weird in coloring since like Alola. But not just the colours itselves, but also the design, which makes it out of place to put very colorful pokemon alongside simpler designs of Kanto and Johto, which were made to just have 2-3 colors (+black and white). Dude just compare Lopunny and Diggserby to Cinderace, the entire Scoorbunny line looks like some knockoff (which looks good) that doesnt know if it wants to be like pokemon, digimon, or whatever Also, Sprigatito is the worst looking starter, sorry but that yucky green coloring is usually just for ugly shinies. At least Grookey has some brown.
Honestly I think only gen 1 has done some repeated pokemon evolutions (Magneton and Dugtrio. Dodrio at least has the heads with a different design and a tail), apart from Deino getting an extra head first Also nonsensical evolutions (Golem looks completely different from Graveler, same could be said for Dragonite, and maybe for Fearow and Hypno. Venomoth and Butterfree appear to be swapped)
I can tell this was made from the heart. I bet every single word spoken was a part of some massive pent up anger over the years. I applaud in almost disturbed respect.
0:38 the reason for this, I assume, is because hisui is in the past, and therefore ash would need arceus, dialga, or celebi to help him get there, but still has its own unique Pokémon so that’s why he said ash needs to go to 9 other regions, but he only names 8.
I thought you just became one by beating the region's champion..... ...And seriously where do Frontier Brains fall on the skill scale. I remember reading Frontier Brains were more difficult than even the Elite Four...... Which would mean Frontier Brains are VERY close to Champion trainer level.
@@DrawciaGleam02 I personally Headcanon Frontier brain to be like, the best of the best. Like they probably could handle the evil teams if they wanted to.
well... There's always the option to stop purchasing the new games, forcing bankruptcy in the games division of GameFreak and well... Now you can be a Pokemon master for real.
@@a.dennis4835 they announced that ash journey is ending soon, hell have his final journey and then theyre changing the main character for the next series
Honestly, it sounds like some sort of metaphor for finding enlightenment. Maybe masterhood is something like being a cross between Buddha-hood, Aquaman, and a Disney princess, every Pokémon just immediately bows at your passing and obeys your every command.
@@shinken6636 I really didn't mean to call him out or insult him. I just wanted to point out that there have always been at least some lazy pokemon designs like that.
I think we have to appreciate how every Pokemon video on this channel starts lighthearted, then there are some minor allusions to the inconsistencies in the world, then in one line everything immediately spirals out of control into philosophical commentary and existential crises.
Even as a kid I knew that ash was never going to catch every Pokemon because he kept letting them go for sentimental reasons and would never take easy opportunities to catch pokemon. There was one time I recall in an early episode where Pikachu knocked out a dozen or so zubats and even Brock caught one but Ash just didn't even think about it.
@@lykos2738 Maybe not all the movies? The pokemon black and white movies where Ash could be either the hero of ideas or the hero of truth(and the title that he didn't get goes to a different guy) are two different paths. So.......different timelines. Also, it does bring some issues when later in the Unova series, ash meets N, who is the hero of truth. Either way, we could say that the movies and the anime follow their own separate timelines.
@@lykos2738 Eh, Ash not catching legendaries is super understandable. They are all depicted as being significant to either the entire world, or just a specific part of it. Like, in that one movie with Latios and Latias? He could have easily caught one of them, but they were the guardians of an entire city or something so he didn't. If trainers in the pokemon anime went around catching every legendary they saw, their world would collapse in like a week. That's why Tobias was so sus. Which city's guardian did he steal when he captured Latios? We don't know because he was just a hilariously shitty plot device to make sure Ash doesn't even get to Cynthia for some reason.
Even as a kid I found it funny how at the Kanto show they treat the new pokemon as brand new discovered ones (Togepi) which have just been lurking in known regions for centuries that no traveler or tourist ever thought of bringing
@@detleffleischer9418 yep, and every time you see Prof Elm call Prof Oak for any reason, no matter how important, just remember that they're a swim and a jog apart.
@@theapexsurvivor9538 not exactly, the regions are based on actual maps with the journey supposed to represent a large area. While it's a short trek in game, there are tons of dangerous things even in game, let alone in what would be the actual world
@@SkiggsMoDiggs I think if its in atmo, it can reasonably count as "Earth" based; and we haven't sent anything beyond the atmosphere that died... came close with Apollo 13, but that was it (so far)
The fact they he just kept putting the memes together on a meta rant is true commitment to even the dumbest jokes. *And that is why I watch every single video this mastermind creates.*
I don't really get it. First people say pokemon designs are too weird or overdesigned and we no longer have anything simple. Now they say pokemon sucks because it is too simple. It's the flamingo that broke the last straw. It's not like we didn't have stuff like literally just a brown bear or literally just a pigeon. People just have no idea what they actually want.
@@Foxfiend Literally never heard anything about "Overdesigns". Definitely obvious creativity went back to Kindergarten tho, going to have a paperclip pokemon at some point lmao
@@Foxfiend Some fans are just weird like that. You can't please everyone, but yeah, not lot of consistency with the fans. They'll dislike one thing and completely forget there is something similar to it that existed before and they are totally fine with it. I don't get it either. xD
@@fatty1040 a paperclip pokemon would have some amazing animation potential though, able to bend and move its body like a snake and make shapes. Maybe it's a grass/steel type that likes to gather leaves for camoflage?
Well, not quite. He won the Pokemon league, so he's the Pokemon Champion, but to be a Pokemon Master most agree that alongside with winning the league one has to capture all pokemon. At the very least he can stick to Kanto and 151 pokemon, but Mew's a bitch though.
Nope, ash himself said that becoming the champion is only part of becoming the pokemon master. And he himself has no eefing ideia on how to "end" his own objective of becoming a pokemon master because that is a made up title that he made up himself.
@@clyax113 You may be thinking of when he won the Alola league, but no, that made him a champion but not a Master. A couple weeks ago he just became a true Pokemon Master by becoming the champion of the world, which took 25 years from the start of the pokemon anime in Japan in 1997. And @Hetares Gaming almost no one agrees on that anymore, in fact, the tagline was dropped in gen 3 and Game Freak completely abandoned any pretense of that as of gen 8 when you literally can't catch every pokemon in 1 game anymore.
I like how Brock says there are 9 more regions, each with about 100 unique pokémons and then Ash proceeds to ask if there are only 300 or 400 pokémon left for him to catch.
Honestly i kinda love flamigo just for the fact that it really is just a flamingo, like they looked a lt a flamingo and decided that that creature was weird enough it already fits our standards for a pokemon.
Well, Seel is just an example, Gen 1 has a ton more pokemon with lazy designs (Ekans and Arbok are just snakes, Krabby and Kingler are just crabs, Horsea is just a seahorse) and there is a bunch of evolutions that are "the pokemon but more" (Pidgeot barely changes from Pidgeotto, Dugtrio is just 3 Digletts, Magneton just 3 Magnemite, Dewdong is a prettier Seel, Electrode is just Voltorb upside down, etc) I do think Flamigo is on the lazier side of designs but that has always been a thing with pokemon
I remember how mind blown I was finding out Ekans was snake backwards lol. Such a simple fix to lazy naming. I mean, it actually sounds like a cool name backwards. Sort of a Alucard/Dracula kind of thing. And Arbok = Cobra (but with a “K”).
I love how unhinged this video slowly becomes. It goes from a bit to the actual creator becoming self aware regarding his product and getting slowly more confused as to what the message of his own video is supposed to be
0:26 johto, sinnoh, hoen, unova, kaloes, alola, and seven episodes in galar is where your journey ends. Ash will retire after 25- i mean less than one year, travelling to many places around the world but was stopped by border control near spain and portugal
I will die on the hill that Klefki is actually a good design. Its a *fairy* inhabiting keys and is the reason you *can't find your keys*. Thats fucking brilliant.
I talked made shit about Gen 5 but honestly. Gen 1 had a literally ball as pokemon. There's a pokemon named Muk which is just amorphous sludge. Krabby, Kingler, Dewgong, and Goldeen are literal crabs, seels, and goldfish respectively. The fact is inspite of some stinkers Pokemon designs have gotten better
@@Monty2289 Whenever anyone says they don't like new pokemon designs I just remind them of Seel and fucking Eggsecute. Just a bunch of eggs invokes enough nostalgia for people
@@Monty2289 WAIT HOLD ON the literal ball is actually a good design imo because it's the pokemon equivalent of a mimic and that was the intention. Otherwise yes you are 100% correct
I've never actually thought about how weird it is that Mewtwo is 151, when canonically there existed other Pokémon from the regions other than Kanto before he was made in the lab. Like, yeah, those Pokémon were actually made after the fact from our perspective, but in the fictional world, there are over a thousand that are just... there. edit: Yes, someone before you has mentioned that Mewtwo is 150 and that Mew is 151. You can stop mentioning it now.
In their defense, the Pokedex seems to have been popularized by Oak, so the global system ends up following the order of Pokedex introductions (like how Oak gives the Pokedex to Gold/Ethan three years later in Johto). Even in Paldea the director mentions how he used to do pokemon research by paper before developing the Pokedex app much later. Also, Ash should not be surprised at all about Pokemon being created when Porygon exists.
@@Nerdnumberone it makes sense (in the perspective of R/B/Y at least) if numbering is order of discovery; mew gets 151 because it was the most recent to be discovered; mewtwo got 150 for being created very shortly before the start of the game; the dratini line gets 147-149 because (according to the pokedex entry for dratini) they were also just discovered recently; then before that is the legendary birds, snorlax, the fossil pokemon, and porygon, which all either were canonically or can very easily be assumed to have been found/created in the last decade or so it really seems like the original intent was that pokemon were numbered as they were discovered or created, and that was just kinda abandoned with G/S and onwards
@@Idran Wait, I thought Mewtwo was created in an attempt to clone a Mew? Just the fact that they NAMED IT MEWTWO suggests they were already aware of a Mew...
"Are you telling me they're making new pokémon" You already know they make Porygon, of course they're making more advanced artificial pokémon. Or did Ash forget he met Porygon because he had a seizure?
@@valk9519 they are talking about people who had to deliver the game in such a short time because of the people in charge. Do the pokemon fans thing the developer team have full freedom over their schedule?
@@valk9519 a lot of the issues you just mentioned are mostly due to massive crunch and not the developers being lazy or whatever. I say the employees should unionize if anything
“Your telling me there are other regions with their own Pokémon? And their not just being discovered now, they’ve already existed and we’ve known about it? And your just telling me NOW?” Me conveniently finding the decent, healthy answers to my life problems RIGHT AFTER I’ve already haphazardly constructed self destructive coping mechanisms just to get by
So do you think that they will replace Ash in the next 25 years or do you think that he will constantly be a kid catching Pokémon in an infinite amount of regions for an eternity? His life just sounds like either a personalized version of heaven or hell, I honestly can't tell which.
I'm guessing at some point they're going to give up on Ash and replace him with a new generation. That seems to be what they're doing to a lot of long running characters.
They might replace him next season actually. He just kinda… won, in the current one. He’s the very best now. I can’t imagine theres many more places to take him
@@EyeOfArgus Well there’s Paldea, for one. And what being Pokémon master means is still extremely vague, so they’ll probably just go “oh, being a Pokémon master isn’t just about being the strongest” and keep using Ash. I think that’s what they did when he became Alola champion. I really wish they just dropped Ash when they got to Johto, and made a new protagonist based on Gold/Ethan, like how they do it in Adventures. Though it’s probably way too late for that now.
And Pokemons. Like how the heck did they all recover from almost dying and not thinking hey. Why don't we call a slightly longer truth since we all basically were at the brink of death?!
I mean there was that one ridiculous localisation of that riceball being replaced by a sub as it rolls down a hill... and the sub was rolling down the hill not on its side, but long ways.
Anyone who complains about a flamingo clearly doesn't remember where we had a bird, another bird, a rat, and a cat, and those are just the normal types.
When Scarlet and Violet first came out a couple days ago, I misread the name of the pokemon and for a couple days I thought it was genuinely called "flamingo" rather than "flamigo"
I’m going to make it my mission to catch a Flamigo now just because this video made me like them ironically for how bad their design is! Might even shiny hunt them lol! 😂 Edit: Ok the shiny’s pretty bad too lol!
@@weeb_dweeb I love how the only rational response to the fact these recent pokémon games are garbage is to say "well they've always been garbage there's not how to get that much worse"
@@blipboigilgamesh7865 yeah, i have a bit of a stockholm sydrome with pokemon, i dislike most of the games, but pokemon is the only series to actually nail that feeling of traveling around with your pets, most other games that try this are well... Trash?
@@shinken6636 Cringe, yall try to pint it on nostalgia all the time, but that thing is just a flamingo. A lot of new designs look trash, yall just cope by deflecting.
I like how brock said that each of the 9 regions had about 100 unique pokemon, and ash still asks however more pokemon exist starting with the guess if 300.
