The Insanity of My Blind Pokedex Challenge 

Bloody figuring out a pokemon for each chess piece was just amazing

Getting Palafin last is weirdly fitting. Cause you know, Fin. I love how creative the evolutions have become. Malamar blew my mind since back in XY.

just a few minutes in and this shows how genuinely genius the X-transceiver in gen 5 was (at least in b2w2) for letting you call juniper to learn the evolution method for a pokemon. That is unironically a NECESSARY feature at this point and it ABSOLUTELY needs to be implemented with how many pokemon have stupidly complicated/obscure methods of evolution

The fact that you figured them all out by yourself is incredibly impressive. All of your solutions were really creative and smart even if they didn't end up working. Great video as always and also: dolphins

I literally don't expect how Gamefreak expects all of their fans to rationally do this. Thank you Bloody for giving us a unique experience we would never get with technology.

Watching your rapid descent into Poke-madness was an absolute joy.

In regards to your Farigiraf experience, there is one rule that all games follow: new evolutions to old Pokemon must not involve a method that was theoretically possible in older games. That means that the Pokemon must use a new item, a new move, or a new mechanic. Girafarig could not evolve by using Headbutt or Zen Headbutt because those moves existed and could be learned by Girafarig before this game. Thus, it would create a logical inconsistency when you ask the question of why Girafarig couldn't evolve in previous games.

17:05 "Bring me to your family, I will not murder them" Such reassuring words

I spent like half an hour looking for the sunflora to unlock the grass gym before I realized I had to talk to the NPC outside for them to spawn

I love seeing people reacting to Palafin “IT’S THE SAME THING! It just got a heart on its chest! Talk about lazy desi… What the hell was that in the dex?”

Oh my god the "BloobySmart, I figured it out" at "I know, I'll give it a concussion!" 🤣

I’m just impressed as a RU-vidr you were able to avoid all the potential spoilers when it came to these Pokémon’s evolutions.

thanks so much for watching!! I worked so hard on this so pls sub if you enjoyed

I find it funny that for the chess set strategy you went with Pallosand and Mudsdale instead of, ya know, Rookidee and Corviknight

Haven’t seen the video yet but I imagine evolving Goldengo is gonna be hell Edit: Nevermind

I hope you got to see Palafin’s hero form (and how broken it is) once this dolphin journey was complete, since that is absolutely a worthwhile reward for all this effort. Also I love how you figured out how to evolve it by seeing “pal” in its name, despite the fact that it is (probably, I could be wrong about this) a pun on the word “Paladin”, so the pal connection was a coincidence

I'm going into this incredibly excited to see the dolphin saga again... catching it live was one of the most entertaining things from the past year

Fun fact: a gambit is a opening in chess where you sacrifice one or more pawns to get a better position on the board

please bloody i need you to know that the continual ominous whispering of "dolphins" just means the world to me and i couldnt stop devolving into a fit of giggles every time to the point where my best friend/roommate got slightly concerned over which poketuber has me going insane today

This is such an awesome idea for how to make filling out the Pokedex in new games a bit more challenging. And your evolution ideas were so smart and creative, especially for Kingambit!

This video was filled with production gold. A lot of love was put into this video and by hell it shows. I haven’t laughed so much during a Pokémon video in so long. It’s made my Friday. And you’ve created a new form of nuzlocking …. Chesslocke

It's adorable that you got so into the chess allegory to evolve Bisharp 😁 I never would've thought of it, so that was awesome!

Fun fact, a few months ago I actually discovered that the game does tell you how to evolve Pawmo. There is a trainer, a Singer or Muscian I believe, she is outside of Medalli and she talks about Pawmo so when you talk to her after you battle her she basically gives you the clue of how to do the evolution. But you know, not everyone is going to scour every single trainer battle for hints, but just know that for that one evolution they did have someone in the game to tell the player about it.

Honestly, being able to dodge enough spoilers and commit to making this kind of video is commendable

Love Bloody thought process, so many of them seem like fun, especially the chest piece for Kingambit

The violent LAUGH that arose from -41 hours remaining- at 6:12... omg. thank you

I remember seeing the Leak community going crazy over this dolphin. I have screenshot of everything they tried and they quite literally looked like conspiracy theorists. It drove everyone mad.

this was so cool to watch!! i am so impressed by your ability to figure out these more complicated evo methods. probably my favorite video of yours so far!! ❤

This is an incredibly good idea and way to approach the game (though frustrating at times) ! The exploration and sort of sciency aspect of Legends of Arceus was one of the best aspect of the game imo, this feeling of being a sorta biologist trying to explore and understand Pokemons... Earlier generations didn't emphasize on this too much, but back then you didn't really have full on online pokedexes to answer every question, so you were always going to need to try and test stuff.. Great video !!

Rookidee and Corviknight: (exist) Bloody: "It's clearly the sandcastle and Clydesdale horse!"

this video popped up in my recommended out of nowhere and omg am i glad it did, you’re such an absolute blast to watch 😭

Very glad I was recommended one of your races recently, love all your videos and the effort you put into them :)

this is the first video ive watched by you and your energy is just incredible i stg you spoke like 5 words and i instantly felt happier you're such a ray of sunshine

I get a sick enjoyment out of watching your descent into madness.

Just found your channel and I'm already a HUGE fan!! Can't wait to watch more!! I was excited to see your opinions on the Golden Greamer once you got all 999 coins

just got recommended this video and I subscribed so quickly!!! your editing is fantastic and you're hilarious! I can't wait to watch all your videos

Honestly I love that Bisharp evolution method you thought of where you need to kill 8 Pawniard (there's 8 pawns per side in chess) and 2 Bisharp to evolve it, but in the end it's simply 3 pack leader Bisharp while holding that damn sword lol.

I had a similar experience with this stupid Dolphin. I tried looking for anything. Maybe it's a Vespiquen situation, maybe multiple need to play together, maybe I need a Water Stone. Then in the middle of my 2 hour search for an answer, my totally finished at launch game Pokemon Violet crashed. Hitting an anger point, I caved and looked it up. Turns out I need friends to play with me, something that wouldn't go through my mind due my friends either not being Pokemon fans, not having the online subscription, or not having a Switch at all. So yeah, any room in the asylum of dolphins.

This is a great challenge! I ended up doing this for most of my playthrough except for the final stale locations, most of which I had just missed out on. Great video!

Omg incredible video! Keep making more content and I’ll keep watching, this is the first video of yours that I’ve seen pop up and I’m excited to watch more❤

I LOST IT at “lives in the sea” HAHAHA

This has single-handedly convinced me never to look up the new games before I have finished them again. (managed to avoid spoilers this time, but the games took me so long to complete (adulting...(and yes, part of being an adult is that you are allowed to have as many nested parentheses as you want)) that I couldn't resist looking at videos from the games) That trial-and-error gameplay thing from 90's kids' games had such a huge sense of effort and reward it that just never happens in newer games. The nostalgia I got from this video, man. Mwah *chef's kiss*

Fun detail: there is a poster of a palafin in Nemona’s room at the academy, so you can find out the name without finding it

Just stumbled upon this and I love your narration! Also hadn't noticed the Pawniard/Bisharp pun

Poketubing is at an all time peak and you're the new queen of it.

I love the energy you put into your videos, keep it up :) Liked and subscribed

Oh my! I remember you! I watched a bunch of your Storybook Brawl videos when the game first came out but then I lost interest in the game. I clicked on this because it's a great idea and I broke into such a large smile when I realized I had watched you before and you're so entertaining! I played through almost the same except I didn't torture myself with evolutions. Once I caught a pokemon I allowed myself to look up the evolution method.

I am so glad that the sound I mentioned in discord was one of the main features of the video. You and your editor made your own suffering incredibly funny.

This was fantastic! Games are so much more fun this way, and it was so entertaining watching you work it out.

I have so much respect for you trying to figure out all of this on your own. I do not have that kind of patience 😂

Actually, I was in the datamine scene when the game was leaked. The game was datamined 10 days before release, and dataminers couldn't figure out how to evolve Finizen even after the game code was dumped. They only knew it had to be at least Lv38, that's what the code dump says. What other condition is needed is totally unknown. It took a whopping 48 hours for dataminers to test how to evolve this dang dolphin before someone came up with the big-brain idea of trying out the f-ing multiplayer option. I even saw a dang list of what they tried out to evolve the dolphin, as you could guess the list was quite long. Which btw at that time you can't legally link the game online so whoever figured this out had 2 hacked switches and put the leaked game rom in both of them to do this.

Love the concept for this, your videos are great fun Bloody! 🧡

omfg the pawniard/ younglings edits made me laugh so hard. too good

Bloody I think you should become a dolphin vtuber now. You know, cause you love dolphins so much haha. Seriously though, fantastic video! I'm happy to have been live for at least part of it ✨

This video was a delight! Subscribed and looking forward to more 😊

I just stubbled up on this video and I don't think I've ever been invested more.Great story telling,lovely charisma immediate sub.gonna go watch other videos now❤

Gotta say, your evolution method for Kingambit was genius and I wish it actually worked like that in the game 🤯

Starting to feel like my painless experience evolving Finizen by accident is a very rare occurrence

GOD I love your content so much, this is such a crazy watch ( complimentary!! ) I loved the thought process!! could not be me... I'm so baby brain about new pokemon evolutions!! You showed me there is some method to the madness that is new evolutions in the way you figured them out!

That was an amazing Rollercoaster. Great editing :)

She unga bungaed her way through the game perfect and that is freaking amazing.

The dedication, the commitment, the genius and the sheer lols of it all. We have no choice but to Stan ❤

That's exactly what I do for every new Pokémon that comes out and this is so much fun ! To this day, the 3 only Pokémon that beat me and that I had to watch online how to evolve are Malamar, Runerigus and... that freaking dolphin.

This may be my new favorite video of the year! Amazing work on the script, you are killing the game!

thank you for blessing us with this amazing, maddening content

When setting up your pokemon in a chess formation I was thinking Rookidee and Corviknight instead of Palosand and Mudsdale, so you would have: Pawniard, Rookidee, Corviknight, Bisharp, Vespiquen and King Gambit

This is the first time I've ever seen one of your videos, but the editing and the quality of this is fucking phenomenal, subbed and looking forward to more!

This video was absolutely hilarious, you got my sub!

for the dolphin it makes some sense, the term wingman comes from dolphins, so you need a wingman to help you evolve it.

this is a crazy challenge LOL love the video

You are so much more patient and smart than I could ever be 😂❤ Amazing video

"How any of these new pokemon evolves" Polteageist: I'm definitely a new gen 9 pokemon!

I like how they used in actual evolution technique the giraffe

I love that you used chess to evolve bisharp you have the best reasoning for evolutions I would have never thought of that

Random recommendation from RU-vid for this video and now I am going to subscribe really liked your thinking. Especially with bisharp to king gambit I wish the chess pieces method worked. Also I would have given up with palafin loved your determination in solving the evo method

"Everyone pull out your dolphins " That's what I'm calling it now.

Oh goodness, you're braver than any US marine. o7 Finizen is a nightmare to figure out on one's own; I would have probably eventually figured out that it required connecting with another player, but I think I would have gotten stuck thinking it was a super specific trade requirement. If I can say one thing in its defense, though, it's that it's no Galarian Yamask. I refuse to believe _ANYONE_ could have ever figured out how to evolve Galarian Yamask on their own. EDIT: Honestly, the Headbutt theory for Girafarig was really smart, IMO. It could have doubled as a reference to how trees were headbuttable in Johto.

Odd thing to say but, seeing bloody's reactions to success is absolutely adorable xD

Thanks for having the patience to be able to do something like this. It’s very fun to watch 👍🏾

amazing vid! so glad the algorithm recommended your channel to me

Gamefreak really needs to take notes on how to evolve Pokémon. Especially with the king gambit idea that bloody had.

Palafin, the most obscure evolution next to Runerigus.

I somehow missed this video when it dropped but learned about it from watching your Infinite Fusion VOD 😅

this video is so well made and edited you deserve way more views wow!

So long, and thanks for all the fish! We’re sorry it had to come to this. We tried to warn you time, again. -hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy.

My finizen story : It all started with my lv 35 finizen, i noticed it stats were pretty low And it should have evolved, i thought to myself maybe i need a water stone, it didnt Work, then i trained it UP to lv 42, nothing happened i was like:"well maybe its like pawmot but in the sea" After going through the south paldea sea 20 Times And lv it UP, nothing. I Said to myself well gonna need to figure that later 2DAYS LATER I connected to thé union circle to play with my Friend And continue completing the pokédex by leveling UP the pokémons, so i took finizen my highest water type And took it to thé place with orthworm because thé next important thing was near After grinding UP 10min my finizen evolved i was like : "WTF what did i do that i didnt before ?!" Then i Said screw doing it BLIND i am looking on Google why it evolved

Why is this the first video I've seen from you!? Regardless, I'm glad I found you! Adored you immediately ❤️ Also, I need that Gengar sweater...

Truly a comedy gold masterpiece of a video! Is there anyway to watch more of your blind reactions to pokemon in scarlet/violet? I tried your twitch but I couldn't seem to find them?

I read them as fin-Citizen and Paladin-fin like the paladin has to protect the citizen with his superhero form. It wasn’t until watching your video that I realized you need a PAL to evolve it 🤦🏼‍♀️

the bit with the inflatable killed me

The dedication is insane earned my sub

Kinggambit messed with me so much that I learned how to become superior at raids to get one that way lmfao, just subscribed!!

Not gonna lie that whole bisharp thing was amazing

At least it was just Palafin that got her. Imagine if she had to try and evolve Galarian Yamask without hints…

Love the video, specially the chess part, also Bloody's reaction upon seeing Maushold. Special mention the the concussion protocol for farigiraf.

As someone who also went into this game completely blind, I had the same reaction as you when seeing kingambit, although I just looked up how to evolve it.

I'll bet there is definitely going to be a continuation to this once both DLC comes out lol

I tried doing the same thing during my playthrough. Gave away at the Finizen and the 1000 steps.

"Master Skywalker. What ever are we going to do?" Me: Ohshitohshitohshitohshit. RUNNNNN.

Bloody finding out how Finizen evolves is the absolute greatest piece in cinematic history, I will watch it over and over and over and over and over again.