The Regis Are WEIRD! (Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire) 

Gamefreak: removes the azure flute for the arceus event in dppl cause jt was 'too complicated' Also gamefreak:

Ah, the days when legendary catching felt like you won the Super bowl

Relicanth is based on the coelacanth which is a prehistoric fish that still exists today. A coelacanth fun fact is that despite being a living fossil that needs such a harsh climate to survive, the music creator Deadmaus has 1 as a pet.

I love how weird it is to get the Regis, as the official guide for Ruby and Sapphire didn't actually tell you how to catch them, but instead gave you a braille translator, so it made you feel like am archaeologist.

Wailord big heavy, Regigigas big heavy. Relicanth big old

when game freak thought the azure flute would be too complicated for kids yet they were perfectly fine with keeping this cryptic BS

The Regis are weird, but they are awesome!!!...

That's why the Regis are such good legendary Pokemon. They really are only stuff of legends because they are so mysterious.

The learning braille is not common, at least near me. No schools around my area have brain or sign language taught unless you were one of the kids who needed it, then there was a specific helper lady that taught that kid it and would go to their classes

Figuring all this out as a young kid was one of the most exiting things ever in a Pokémon game for me... definitely part of why Gen. 3 is my favorite!

I LOVE the use of braille in r/s/e. I’m actually visually impaired and when these games were out I was at a school for the blind. All my friends either had some sight or no sight at all but we all played Pokémon. They would memorize Pokémon cries and moves sounds. We could actually read braille and we knew exactly what to do. It made me sooo happy as a kid and I still love it. There’s something funny in the 2003 TMNT, in one of the episodes they put a braille message on the screen that said “I’m a sexy cartoon baby oh yeah” legit I’ve been trying to find that episode forever XD

Dude pokehoaxes are an integral part of my childhood pokemon experience.

I remember buying the Emerald Strategy guide at gamestop when I was 9 years old and I was the coolest kid at school henceforth. I told my pokemon friends all about the regis and being able to share the obscure, wondrous secrets of the Hoenn region easily makes this my favorite generation. So many secrets and fun to be had. Not to mention some of the best pokemon designs ever.

I was about 10 when I found out. Pokémon wasn’t still super big in my friend group so I had no idea about them at all. I remember playing a ton of ruby and emerald tho, and remember stumbling into the Braille on accident and recognizing it right away. I remember it taking a long time to translate it and write it all down, but I DID end up finding the Regis without any other outside help

Something I find really interesting is the braille puzzles were changed for Emerald and changed again for ORAS. I know a lot of people complain about the Regis, but I think this really adds to their mystique.

I actually found the Regis back then, because I explored every corner of Hoenn. At some point I found the sealed chamber and used my guidebook to decipher the braille. Later I found the desert ruins open and remebered the two other places looking exactly like them, because I knew hoenn so well. But I had to ask friend for help for two puzzles in the ruins. Actually many did not believe me, when I told them about how to find the Regis The Regis show how legendary Pokemon should be integrated in alle games: Exploring, following hints and solve puzzles. Ans not just walking into any random cave. Maybe the Regis were too reddiculous, but the idea is great. Maybe Regigigas created Regis for every Region and not just Hoenn and Galar got some additional ones. Also its cool, that the Regis lore expands three Regions now.

The convoluted methods to get the Regis back in the day and in ORAS is why I love Sirfetch'd and Runerigus's evolution methods. I just love convoluted playground rumors!

That thing about "well maybe the Regis loved Wailord" thing makes no sense. The Regis didn't create their own seal. They were locked away by humans who feared their power. Humans were the ones who made the seal. The probably attuned the seal to the life force of Relicanth and Wailord with the intention that having those two Pokemon together in that chamber just wouldn't be possible in their time.

I think I've read somewhere before the requirement of having wailord and relicanth doesn't exactly relate to the regis, but the theme of the game itself. R/S theme is the relation between land and sea i.e. the game mascots and each version's corresponding villains and them favoring one over the other (land over sea and vice versa). Relicanth is based of a coelacanth, a "living fossil" long believed to be extinct. Coelecanths were thought to be the ancestor of tetrapods or four-legged, land dwelling animals and was a vital piece in understanding the transition from water to land. On the other hand, whales were once land-dwelling mammals that transitioned into marine life. But again, this theory is not mine and this is not even how it was exactly worded but just basing on how I remember it. There's more to it but this is just the piece I found most interesting.

Back when I tried getting the regi trio in ruby for the first time, I didn't need to ask for help since my favorite thing to do after school was write random stuff on a braille typewriter. 1 of my few hardcore pokemon flexes.

I was one of the only people in my school with a guide book, i remember staying up late writing out step by step instructions for my friends to bring to school xD

I remember my copy of the game included a Braille conversion chart and I was able to pretty much figure it all out on my own from just playing the game too much, took me hours to write it all down and then get a wailord but the feeling when I had all three sitting in my pc. Take me back.

Considering that Regigigas is 12ft 2in (3.708 meters) in height, it is unlikely that Regigigas wouldn't be submerged while moving the regions into place. Due to how large Wailord is (47ft 6in/14.5 meters in height) it is possible that Regigigas walked across or rode Wailord across the sea.

1:27 It is Regi-Ice (re-ji-ice) In Japanese, all the legendary Pokemon carry the same names. レジアイス (rejiaisu). Problem solved for you. 😉

As a 10 years old I used the actual game manual that has the braille alphabet to decipher all the steps i needed to do in order to catch the regis... It was awesome!!

I can always remember having to buy guide books

one of the most underrated poketubers

Man. I remember like it was yesterday. My friend came over and told me about these weird Pokémon and the ruins on the water current route near Pacificlodge. Thought he was making it up so I decided to go and find it myself. Took about an hour but was able to find it. He mentioned that I needed to know Braille, but at the time, I wasn’t allowed on the internet by myself… plus I didn’t know how to use it cause I was only 7 😂 I ended up using an encyclopedia (yes, an encyclopedia) and luckily, it had a chart that had the entire Braille alphabet. I felt like I was a legit archaeologist cause I was writing and deciphering the Braille text from the game. Long story short, I ended up catching all 3 after spending a whole day deciphering Braille. Honestly, in hindsight, GameFreak did a great job with the Regis. The difficulty and obscurity surrounding these Pokémon really added to their mystery and it felt rewarding after going through all of that.

The first part where you tell us how to reach the cave with dive, you explain it faster than the clip can show us.

This was great, I had this braille guide and I went figuring out every single piece of it so I could understand how to unlock those Regi's. Unlocking these legendaries was probably one of the most challenging and fun things to do in the Pokémon games.

Back in these days I figured it out by myself. I explored the whole region with my friend and he found this spot on Route 132. The Manual of Pokemon Emerald have this braille on the last site. As I remembered this, we got a pencil and paper to write it down on our own. That was insane!

A very plausible theory is that each regi reflects an age of the earth. Regice is the ice age, regirock is the stone age, registeel is the ronze age, regidrago is the dark ages and regielec being the modern age.

I've always loved the Regis, especially my favorite, Regirock. They're just such neat and strange beings, surrounded by lore and a convoluted way to track them down. To be honest, without the Internet I NEVER would have known how to find these guys back in the day. 😅 I LOVE how they did their ruins in the Crown Tundra where you have to step on the floor to form the pattern corresponding Regi's facial dot pattern. And yes Papa, their RSE overworld sprites DO look like Thanos' head! 😲

The regis are some of my favourite legends they are so simple yet so cool

I'ts so weird how I used to have to find Pokemon locations with information in this huge strategy guides I would take out of the library

The purpose for Relicanth and Wailord ties into the overall themeing of Ruby and Sapphire with the whole Land vs. Sea thing. Relicanth is based on a coelacanth which is/was believed to be the closest living relative to the first animal that emerged from the sea onto land. Meanwhile, Wailord, being a whale, is quite the opposite. Whales are believed to have evolved from land-adapted mammals that returned to the sea. As for the trickiness of catching the Regis, I honestly think it's really cool and not really as ridiculous as it seems on paper. It's like a fun scavenger hunt. A lot of people don't seem to know this, but the instruction booklet for FireRed and LeafGreen came with a reference on visual braille and Emerald did as well. While you did have to use real-world knowledge to read the braille in Ruby and Sapphire, I think this is also a clever way to retroactively introduce players of FireRed and LeafGreen to new content in Ruby and Sapphire they'd never seen before as well as rewarding players of Ruby and Sapphire in the days before FRLG for their resourcefulness in being able to interpret the braille. As long as you have the means to decipher the braille, the trickiest part to catching the regis is just finding the location of the Sealed Chamber. Anyone who was trying to thoroughly explore the world likely would have come across this location on their own while exploring the route with all the currents. You'd notice the mysterious dive spot in a really difficult to reach location and immediately be drawn to finding out whatever was down there. Catching the legendary golems was like hunting a rare treasure, and it was awesome! It really saddens me that modern pokemon is so focused on instant gratification now. I feel like we're missing the sense of discovery today that we had back then! Everything rare just gets handed to you now for connecting to Wi-Fi during the right period of time.

I'm not regretting subbing since the fire red guidebook video, gen 3 is actually the best gen hands down

I remember it being the middle of summer break and playing with some neighbor kids; we'd broken into a construction yard and made forts out of the stuff there, and one of them shouted he'd found a hidden cave. It was the one west of Pacifldog, and we spent hours figuring out what it was, what it said, where the other tombs were. It was a blast.

No braille in my schools. I had to do it the old fashion way and ask the local pokemon expert.

I remember doing this as a kid. I had a spy book that had a braille alphabet that helped me figure this out. I remember going through the water sequence over and over to get to the right spot. Very cool to see this video and hit that memory. Thanks man good video

You don't need to beat your game to get them. dive,dig,surf,wailord,relichanth is all available before beating the game

I remember learning a bit of Braille too from the cheat sheet in the instructions guide that came with the game! (Emerald in my case)

I caught them!! I had the emerald guide and I figured the dig puzzle all by myself

Honestly I too found these on my own. I was obsessed with finding everything in the game and I spent several nights under the covers with a flashlight navigating the rapids trying to reach that one area. The braille was easy, as my sister has a strategy guide for FireRed and leafgreen with a braille guide on the back. The instructions were pretty clear from there

The Regis are weird? That title got my attention. Good on you mate

I remember I ran down to my nearby book store to look for a guide just for them to be sold out, so I had to get a ride to a Walmart just to get one. And finally after all that work I wanted to understand the braille so I started looking online to learn it , ive since forgetting that knowledge regrettably but it was a great journey and I wish pokemon would return to such interesting puzzles

Thx man after all this years 😂 now I can finally complete my pokedex, I was not able to complete the dex a as a kid, and now I can

Liked before even saw the vid! I only once tried to obtain them and honestly i really prefer the hoopa rings xd just becsuse its tooo convoluted...

Same pokemon journey as you, I was the kid who figured it out for the rest of the playground by borrowing the book on braille from the school library XD

My friend and I spent a whole day trying to translate the braille and figure out what "six dots" meant. From there we did the rest on our own

Can you imagine doing this by accident? You would have no idea how you even did it.

I did by reading the little guide that came inside the game's box. It has all the braille etc

The method of catching these pokemon reminds me of the Mew glitch or Misingno glitch from Gen 1 XD

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After trying to find out how to get them back then I spent 4 hours a gave up

Nice hitting 20,000 subs

I had Sapphire and I caught Regirock with a PokeBall, Regice with a Premiere Ball and Registeel with a Ultra Ball.

I was quite young when sapphire came out and I figured it out because my sapphire version came with a Braille chart to decode it with

As a kid I only knew 1 person with the regis, and when I finally caught them on my most recent playthrough I needed full internet instructions

Relicanth is based on a fossil fish from ancient times and Waillord (whales) are still around from the beginning of the passage of time up to the modern day. The Regi's are resemblent of the era based on their typing (I.e. the ice age, the stone age, and the iron age.) Both Relicanth and Waillord have been around long enough to see those ages come and go, and are the keys to rediscovering those lost ages.

Never forget the azure flute 😂

I remember doing this puzzle but I'm certain i didn't figure it out myself!

I remember the first time i got these guys i had a strategy guide pencil n paper writing down the brail codes to figure it out took me a min or two

No matter if it iis nostalgia or not (played sapphire as my 2nd game ever, at age 3-4, completed up until 7th league without ability to read anything) but i still love RSE a lot. especially the crazy good music they got. overall gameplay wise I rate HG/SS as my number one. I had so many great memories. RSE comes next. then maybe BW and DPP sharing third place.

Reduces the health of the Regis to 1 hp *Uses a master ball*

Figuring this out on my own in 3rd grade because one of my random textbooks at school had the braille alphabet in it and i thought it looked familiar so i brought it home to translate it was probably the peak of my life.

Relacanth is based on the coelocanth, which was a fish thought to be extinct for about 247 million years. Rumors about it still existing started appearing with the advent of worldwide travel, and was eventually discovered through translating local myths and legends. Also, language barriers played a huge role in it. That's the only reason to include Relocanth, is because of the "legends do exist, even through convoluted ways of proving them" storyline of it. Same with the blue whale analog, Wailord. People didn't believe such massive creatures could still exist.

Gen3 is so awesome. The only thing that I missed where Gen2 Pokemon (missed Lugia and Entei so much).

I remember first seeing them in a poster for Nintendo power, so I went to the internet to find out where they were in 2003 or 2004 lol. I was in high school at that time, and the internet was indeed around.

I remember straight up researching braille in my middle-school library. Teachers were like wtf are you doing and I'm all like shhhh it's for pokemon

I just happened to be learning Braille at the time too lol

The only way me and my brother figured this out is that we had a guide, and conveniently this was on one of the last pages of the guide, and we just wrote the answers into the guide as we figured it out. What's really funny is that the puzzles are different in Emerald version, so we had to re-translate when one of us got that.

I lost to an aron in pokemon tough contest with my regirock!! Yeah makes perfect sense

When I was a kid, I managed to find and solve Regirock's and Registeel's puzzles, but I never figured out Regice's puzzle.

That blue pokeball background is a magic eye puzzle I accidentally just realized.

6:55 relicanth is the one based on the coelacanth, warlord is just a whale

I remember figure into this out as a kid, I was so proud because my older brother never figured out what whailord first and relicanth last ment (or whichever way it was). the only way I figured this out though is because I had the guide which told me what each letter was so that I could translate it. In the first room, it shows the entire alphabet, but it would be hard to figure that out, especially since I never learned anything about Braille in school or anywhere besides that it’s how blind people read. In fact, I actually thought that it was fake Braille at the time, just dots that they made up that just happened to resemble Braille.

Funny enough, I think I had a braille translation table in the back of a pocket bible that some rando gave me. Came in pretty handy.

Back when diamond and pearl came out, the ONLY way to obtain regigigas was to own a hoenn game and catch all three of the titans, send them to your brand new diamond game and then bring them to regigigas and then get lucky enough to catch it since it was level 70. Even in platinum, if you missed the regi trio event, you’d have to do all these same steps

The game packet thing that comes in the case with every game taught you the brail needed to catch the Regis and do the post game for fire red and leaf green but I don’t think anyone knew because no one ever reads those

Oh gosh the Regis. I only knew how to catch them because I had an issue of Nintendo power magazine that had a mini walkthrough for it.

I like these robots!

I remember the adventure to getting these as a kid amd for some reason I have memories of figuring it out because the pokemon emerald handbook (the paper booklet that comes woth the old games) had a braille alphabet guide inside it but I lost the thing years ago amd now I'm not sure I can trust that memory :(

one of the main ways they had for people to figure out what to do was the room with the Dig wall, the other braille wrighting on the lower walls are in alphabetical order, so that was kinda your key if you didn't know how to read braille. at least that was how i managed it... though i was 12 and late to the party by that time. funny thing though is when it came to Regice i was slowly translating the braille an the door just appeared, i ignored it, finished translating and was just "huh, so that's why"

I'm not sure if anyone remembers websites like super cheats in the early 2000s, but I had printed out a 15 page list of hints and tricks back in 2003 for Pokemon Sapphire. That summer we had the nationwide blackout and I was so bored I started reading through the pages and it had the methods needed to catch the Regis AND explained how we can catch Latias (Latios was Ruby I believe). I spent the entire two days working out how to get the Regis and finding Latias. It was a pretty good time for 9 year old me.

Ahhhh yes my 3 favorite pokemon

I man, for there being multiple Regis, the simple explanation is that regigigas made more than one of each. Though I suppose that doesn't explain how regigigas itself ends up in different regions...

I've only been able to get the Regi's on my team in Mystery Dungeon Red

Relicanth is based on the prehistoric fish that would later gain the ability to walk on land, and eventually evolve into humans and stuff. Wailord is a whale, and prehistoric whales (Ambulocetus) had legs and lived on land. These 2 pokemon represent the interconnectedness of land and sea through evolution, and the Hoenn region's land/water duality theme.

What did the braille say though? It sounds very convoluted but does the braille actually give very clear directions on how to get them?

Its funny how I was able to read the braille like it was nothing back in the day

I wonder if you need Waillord since Wailmer evolves into it at level 40 which is the same level all the Regis are at in Ruby & Sapphire.

I remembered catching them in ruby but never remembered doing all these steps.

I loved catching the regi’s the EXACT MOMENT I GOT DIVE BECAUSE THAT WAS THE ONLY REQUIREMENT PREVENTING YOU FROM GETTING IT!!!

I think the reason you can find them in other games was more for gameplay purpose than anything. Like the sealed Regi in Galar are just so Drago and Eleki would be easier to get in game.

This was actually my first game o played, ruby amd sapphire. I actually was able to figure out most of it from talkin to everyone in the game. It was on my second or third play through. Granted I need help with the brail translations lol. I always did like this little puzzle as kid.

I played the game and finished it i got all the pokemon

The only reason I solved this puzzle as a kid was because my school gave everyone a pocket dictionary, and it just so happened to have the Braille alphabet in the last page.

I found everything out by myself except for the part with putting Relicanth and Wailord in your team. For this part I called the Nintendo hotline for getting help.

If I ever caught them, I would have named Regice Ymir, Regirock Emmet, Registeel Talos, and Regigigas Atlas.