The Pokémon Timeline Explained - Tamashii Hiroka 

Saw the backpacker too

That's what I figured at first. It makes sense that an island gets destroyed by a volcanic eruption even though a volcano wasn't seen.

The anime is dumb.

Brock once said fire type moves were strong against Ash's Kingler. Ash's Kingler did end up fainting because of a fire type move. Whatever Brock says is true now, because Brock is love, Brock is life...

Jarrod Kopczynski It hurts so much... but I do it for Brock...

jhutchyboy1 Brock whispered in my ear "You're taking damage from Bind"

Jarrod Kopczynski Time to use Harden

***** *Uses the Wii U my bro got for x-mas* It doesn't feel like it'd be in the time period for Pokemon X'n'Y... It'd be old by then...

X and Y could take their spot when Black 2 and White 2 do. Additionally, I think the Pokemon Ranger games fit into the timeline. The original one, in Fiore, goes where Pokemon Colosseum fits in. The second and third can be placed about where XD Gale of Darkness fits in. Finally, Pokemon Battle Revolution could technically be placed anywhere from the Gen II and IV games to Black and White.

RylEVTranr The Pokemon Ranger games probably do fit into the timeline, as in DPP you can get a Manaphy from the ranger game and it will say it was given to you by a ranger, so that means that rangers definitely exist in the Pokemon timeline.

And because there are former Team Aqua and Team Magma members.

In FR/LG there's an NES. Also, the consoles in the rooms are just little jokes.

The volcano erupts in Gold/Silver so that would be after RSE according to Tamashii, but unless you think her timeline is different then ok.

Warren Holden technically it erupts between gens 1 & 2 so gen 3 could have started slightly after gen 1 did

Ike Birchum many underwater volcanoes seem like islands that are nothing special, maybe the land is slightly more fertile than the surrounding area.

Israpheal sixseveneight Ruby and Sapphire most likely start when Red travels to the Sevii Islands to trade with Hoenn.

And?

@@AeroAnimationsInc wot about the lady referencing blue?

@@abumonke118 Blue could have visited Kalos at some point.

I was thinking this is kind of right. They are certainly after considering Looker is pressent in the game. Im also hearing there is mention of Genesect in the fossil lab and DNA splicers from BW2 available once pokebank is up

well its after diamond and pearl because someone says theres a waterfall that flows backwards some where in the world (cough distortion world cough) and the stretch from red and blue cant be that long since in the movie red`s charisard mega evolves and in that case scientist would know more about mega evolution so im guesing that it takes place in between bw and b2w2

Easier than Mario lol

Easier than Pong's backstory

until you try to include some of the side titles that also have more than one game, like mystery dungeon

That is not far off, it could be compared to Iceland and Hawaii. Also Yellowstone park is basically one giant volcano waiting to go boom (super volcano) and volcanoes can be like what you said. It could have been a volcano that blew it's self to oblivion, then became active again. A volcano formed in a farmer's field in Mexico out of nowhere. I believe it is called Paricutin, correct me if I'm wrong.

Alex Trex yah...what you said!

what the heck are u saying?!!?

Jen Brandt i'm saying cinnabars like yellowstone!

Jen Brandt read my reply that I made previously, it should help you understand what the whole thing is about. Also this was not intended to be rude, just didn't know any other way to say it

Yes, but Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire has Mega Evolution, which hasn't been invented until X and Y. So X/Y Happened either before or at the same time as OR/AS.

That's... stupid. The Mega Evolution element was introduced in X/Y and is a special thing in Kalos, but that doesn't mean it can't happen for other regions, too. Like, if we got Diamond and Pearl remakes, they would still involve the Mega Evolution feature.

***** In the anime and the game, it says that it only works in kalos. That means if it's in Hoenn now, it has to be in the future. There's a new mechanic in X/Y That's being repeated, so it's in the future. (Prediction time) There's probably going to be some evidence sort of proving so. Also the gym leaders and such got big re-designs, which does sort of imply it's at least slightly in the future. Also don't call people or their theories/ideas stupid. It's mean. :(

SuperPig8 They don't. Look at Pokemon Origins - Red Mega Evolved his Charizard in Kanto. KANTO. Not that other region that starts with K. ORAS's story is the exact same as Ruby and Sapphire's, just expanded upon, also including the Mega Evolution gimmick. It's funny how people thought at first when ORAS was announced, they thought it was a sequel or a different game altogether. Iwata stated they were remakes, which was so obvious that it's an obvious bottom line you don't say moment. Whenever a Pokemon game is remade, the MAJORITY of characters get redesigns. Even if Team Magma and Aqua look the most different, they still act and talk the same as they did in the original games. I call things what I want. Because thinking this game takes place in the future is stupid.

this is based from the games. the anime origin was a quick lead up for X and Y Showing the Older Fans What Could have been. and to try get them back into pokemon for x and y

this is impossible, because an incredible amount of things from the other gens are mentioned. The most notable one being someone next to the geosenge stones, who mentions colress visited A FEW YEARS BACK and told him they had special properties. If you want to tie the anime and games together, it's completely possible fuji visited kalos, as the region didn't just not exist during R/B/Y. Also, the shorts thing is a reference, as the trainer isn't called the same as the one from past games. this is most likely nintendo fitting ANOTHER internet reference into the games, as there are so many, some amonst these being over 9000, my body, is ready, and yes, the shorts thing.

You know, I have a theory that X and Y existed about quite in the distant future. Why? Because AZ's Pokemon took part in a war against neighbouring *REGIONS* in the past. Notice how the word regions? Lt. Surge in Pokemon Red/Blue said that his Pokemon helped him in the war. Hold on. What war? The war between Kalos, that's what! Kanto could be near Kalos and that could be the same war and they never said how the war ended in Kanto, did they? The comfy shorts guy could just be a refrence and nothing big. This timeline includes games only and not Manga nor Anime. However, this is a theory. There could be some errors. :P

mb4434 The only thing I have doubts about is Professor Sycamore's history. If you talk to one of his assistants in the lab, he'll tell you that Professor Sycamore learned a lot from Professor Rowan when he was younger. If the timeline Tamashii talks about is accurate, this would keep it much closer to the other games in the series.

Semolika I did say it was just a theory! >.

Yes that is how business works. truthfully the creators of Pokemon do put thought into their product but that often gets screwed over in the international releases.

you know.... the manga explains every single detail of what really happens in the pokemon world, from red to emerald (idk about the next gen) and their relation.... *facepalms at the whole video*

Chessy Day Non video game sources are usually unreliable and widely considered non cannon

Jonarrthan The creator of Pokemon went on record to say that the Pokemon manga (I assume he means Pokemon Adventures/Pokemon Special, the most popular of the mangas) is the most accurate representation of what the Pokemon world would be. You should check it out, Hidenori Kusaka really does his research

Chessy Day But the Manga and Games are two separate entities and canons... *facepalms at your comment*.

And underwater volcanoes can form land

She did say "I'm no geologist". Some people simply don't know possible facts anytime.

***** But this everyone learns at school dude, not geologists only.

Stoogie Loko i'm guessing you didn't learn English at school

Joe Batchelor Because i'm from Argentina.

Gave birth can refer to cloning.

Mother of God........literally

GO Watch Pokemon the First Movie MewTwo Strikes Back They Clearly tell you he is genetically made in the lab, not given birth by mew. Also Watch Pokemon Genesect extreme speed. The X and Y Movie. Mewtwo Y Tell of her creation in the lab as the enemy were also brought back to life from fossils

flank tank It was a joke....dayum girl you better calm down.(that was a joke too)

flank tank Yeah... i was one of the first people to watch that movie twenty times he day it was released. anime and pokemon games can be split as AU's. Hence why i said the prior. they are talking about the GAMES... NOT the ANIME

FINALLY SOMEONE WHO REMEMBERED 3RD GRADE SCIENCE CLASS!

Cynthia WAS talking about the player character because she mentions that he battled Giratina as well. You battle and catch Giratina in Platinum(which overwrote the canons of D/P therefore D/P are no longer canon).

IKR

***** so that means that Sootopolis city in Hoenn region is a caldera too then and in theory if there is one volcano underwater there is likely to be many surrounding it and heat vents but the flat island is entirely possible it could just be a cap to the underwater volcano.

There were several different ways the megastones were formed. Some fell from within meteorites, others are buried under the earth and brought back up from the ancient cannon. Maybe the Kalos stones were uncovered after the cannon fire, but the ORAS ones fell from the sky from meteorites.

It might help to think that the remakes were alternate timelines of the original, as in ORAS fairy types are known types whilst in the original, they weren't.

TheAdampr That'll work.

I've just finished the Delta Episode and have just realised that what I said fits exactly in with what my previous hypothesis was such as "alternate worlds where the cannon wasn't fired" etc.

TheAdampr I just realized, that means that it's kinda like Legend of Zelda then...

my guess is right before or after both black/white games due to "looker" appearing in X and Y. going to say after tho

64cody most people think they take place in between black and white and black and white 2 =)

64cody I think it is after everything due to Mega Evolution just being descovered and noone having any idea it exists in any other games

64cody looker was in platinum though

mike mabab it could be but in pokemon origin red can megaevolve his charizard and thats gen1 so im not sure where to place it

that makes since, an UNDERWATER volcano erupted and caused the volcanic eruption on the island

angel absol the island was created from the volcano and then the volcano was by something blocked and then when it erupted noone knew it cud ever erupt

did u mean blocked after was cuz saying the volcano was by something confused me did u mean the volcano was blocked by something?

procrafter i think its that the volcano broke through cinnabar's ground and it then erupted and then you probably know the rest...

Proffessor oak is mentioned in X and Y and so is Gary

There can be more than one war. Also characters from other games such as Oak, Blue and Looker are in it so...it wouldn't make sense.

professor oak: worlds oldest man.

Tomathion oh yeah... i forgot about that. thank you for reminding me so that i can rid that theory or edit it to make sense.

i used to do that all the time in R/S/E^^

You can do it the first three gens

isaiah valdez I know. I had Blue but didn't find out until Fire Red on my iPhone.

didn't know it was possible in gen1 and 2, though. sadly, it doesn't work in xy, it's kinda fun^^

pizzasisterx once again only possible for first three gens :p sorry... I love you. Don't be mad.

"they accidently bike through the temple of time and sing zelda's lullaby" So when do Mario and Luigi come in?

That's a completely different series, though you'll see references in the earlier games, like Shigeru versus Satoshi. The split timeline theory I presented here is completely legit, though - inklings of it came about even before pokemoninformer.com split from pokemonuniverse.net in the great Team Bombers revolution of '06.

tovarischkrasnyjeshi Has this Zelda theory ever been mentioned by any official figure? Or is it just fan speculation? I've never heard of it before so I'm honestly intrigued.

Short answer: yes. Long answer, and explanation of my dumb jokes: Following the release of 2003's the Wind Waker the community noticed some of the game to game inconsistencies and started making timeline theories, which sparked a time honoured tradition of zelda fans reading too much into things (eg www.zeldauniverse.net/2011/09/13/the-message-of-majoras-mask/ ). For the next 3d game we were promised a sequel to the Wind Waker, which eventually changed graphical style and took place in a normal, not flooded world. Fans thought this was the world was the (rather grim) backstory to WW, before it's flood, but it eventually became 2006's Twilight Princess, with a plot that completely contradicted the Wind Waker's backstory and was inconsistent with WW's end (we later got a real ww sequel in phantom hourglass). That led to the "timeline theorists", as the people trying to figure out the zelda series order were known, to propose a "split timeline". Ocarina of Time, one of the more important games of the franchise and one both TWW and TP are sequels to, told a story involving time travel that ended in a way that made a split timeline believable, in as much as that stuff's believable. There was only one ending, but that ending had the characters foil the big bad's plans before the events of the second half of the game could happen, leaving us with "two" timelines; one where the villain was caught, and one where the second half of the game canonically took place. Eiji Aonuma, one of the producers of the series brought in around OoT's creation (and now basically the main guy in it as Shigeru Miyamoto's getting on), ended up confirming that yes, there's a split timeline, because of the ending of OoT, and TP and WW were in opposite branches of it. He's contradicted himself a whole lot though, so the Arguments on the Internet still waged and flamewars were sparked. Enough that some people involved with zelda universe ended up throwing this big (half serious) "revolution" that created zelda informer, "a safe haven for theorists" before the site was retooled into a very broadly focused video game news site with a special focus on zelda and nintendo. Flash forward to like two years ago. Nintendo decided release a bunch of concept sketches and other fan goodies in hard cover book with the release of Skyward Sword. This was Hyrule Historia. They decided to publish an official timeline in it - and everyone eagerly awaited finding out what games went where so they could rub it in each other's faces. But nintendo succeeded in pissing *everyone* off - by splitting the timeline into 3; one where the villain is caught, one where the second half of the game happens, and one where you the player are so bad you game over. And it's official, in Hyrule Historia. So we can't even argue about it, even though some of the games even are based on each other's backstories but take place in different timelines. The Miyamoto method is to make midgame, refine things, post game, refine things, early game, and then worry about things like story, graphics, music, etc. We should have seen it coming. But we didn't. Anyways, now you know about 10K times more than you ever wanted to know about zelda timelines.

Oh wtf I thought you were joking...

Ditto in the wild XD

Well there has been a theory that every real mew clone they made faild (the dittos) but they found the fur of mewtwo and cloned it thinking it was mew. Now I know you are thinking this is BS but in the anime there are ancient artifacts with the picture of MEWTWO, not mew MEWTWO.

In conquest? Not the same universe, and I don't know, Mew and Ditto?

Chance Loving Conquest is a spinoff so cant really count it. Pokemon X and Y on the other hand....

We'll , wasn't he genetically made, a failed attempt at new? Wouldn't that mean more new twos could be made genetically