Red YoshiBro Either that, or she has absolutely no clue what she’s doing, which isn’t much better. Someone give Cara Liss the Careless a restraining order.
The guy from sun and moon who has a revives fossils from a van is better than cara liss the guy actually seems pationate and actually cares about the fossils
Ok I just have to say it. You keep showing the fossil pokemon from the start for over a minute, and then say "if you haven't seen them for yourself yet, spoiler, you've been warned" lol what? hahahah! :D
Cara Liss is a monster. Every other scientist, in every other region, has been able to revive ancient Pokemon using only a fragment of said Pokemon for decades. She purposely wanted to experiment on Pokemon, no matter how much that Pokemon suffered because of it. And the player is partially responsible for crimes against Pokemon. And I find it odd that the Pokedex entries for these creations, throw random hypotheses of why they died out and never questioned their source or how these Pokemon came into being in the first place. There seems to be corruption in the Galar scientific community that the government is overlooking.
Okay so the fossil pokemon are cool... but... Are they okay? They look like they popped out of Fullmetal Alchemist..even the most normal looking one has its goddamn head on backwards
Older fossil pokemon: it feels great to be alive again Genesect and these guys: put me back in the ground please. Make sure I’m in different pieces and in the depth of the mesozoic era. Much appreciated
My personal headcanon is scientists made habitats for the fossil pokemon and observed how they behave when left to their own devices, then based the dex entries on that
It explains how they formed the specific theories but it doesn't make them any less bogus since these Pokemon clearly never existed without human tinkering.
My headcanon is that all Pokedex entries are written by the player character, thus accounting for the inconsistencies, exaggerations, and contradictions found within the pokedexes.
Potential “correct” fossils: Dracodon - Dragon Aerozolt - Electric/Flying Arctozaur - Ice Hydravish - Water I think that they would have higher BST, being the “real” Pokémon. This would make up for not having the dual-types.
Makes all sorts of interesting ideas for other combinations, what with the other halves of the fossils found. We've only accounted for half, after all. Who even knows what Aerodon, Aerozaur, Hydradon, Hydrazaur, Aerovish, Hydrazolt, Dracozaur, and Arctodon could be like?
its funny the idea to puzzle fossils into a new dinosaur skeleton, but seeing them alive, its really awful for me, like, they are constantly in pain just for existing, id loved if gamefreak added either one of these idea: you can use a certain item/fossil to transform them into the full version of themselves or add them an evolution, where they adapt to their new anatomy and current galar times, and you actually see these living creatures enjoying life just my thoughs :c
I agree. It’s a cool idea but I feel really grossed out looking at them. It’s pure body horror for these poor things you forced into existence, and all of them seem to suffer in some way for their deformity. Maybe I’m taking it too seriously. I just feel bad for them.
Honestly I think feeling bad for them is almost the point. Having an evolution where they adapt would be really cool though. It could even make the next game's pokedex change their entries to note how they were miscatogorized as real fossil pokemon, like how after a while we figured out that they were mismatched.
get the other halves... so would we also get the 8 other combinations as well there are currently 2 heads and 2 bodies getting the other half of what we currently have would up that to 4 heads and 4 bodies totaling 16 possible combinations
@@supercat765 you would have 4 lower halfs and 4 uper halfs, so no you would not have 8 combinations but 16 (every lower half would have a combination with every uper half so 4*4 not 4+4)... I would like to have the 4 real one and maybe the dex would tell you that the 4 old one are records of the time were they mixed them up.
I think we will need a third set of fossils for that. Which would be awesome. The Dragon halves of two of them are clearly not from the Electric pokemon. So it would mean a ice/??? (new dragon top, water bottom), a ???/??? (new dragon top, new electric bottom), a ???/water (water top, new electric bottom), dragon/??? (new dragon top, dragon bottom), and a ???/electric (electric top, new electric bottom) The new Fishious Rend would be the type of the new top. The types, and to a lesser extent the abilities, seem to be connected to each half, so its a neat way to make your own monstrosity.
@@1313puredragon the other half is more of a ichthyosaur, a aquatic reptile because of its hind legs and visible tail fluke. Other half is Dunkleostus, an extinct fish. So its not a fish fish but a reptile fish
My theory is that they'll actually either befriend these poor creatures, or actually fix them and catch the actual versions of these fossil Pokemon and then a game dlc ties it in.
@@TheHortoman First of all, this is written and so it would be libel. Second, I did not attack you. Third, (and this last one is the kicker) I said "sometimes".
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because they compare it to other fossil specimens which are more complete once they note a similarity in one compared to the other....you can get off your fucking high horse.
I think it's because everyone's still just taking what they're given without question, which is what people can come up with from simply observing the Pokemon these days just assuming that these Pokemon are exactly those who walked the earth back in the past.
It’s kinda similar to how some legendary Pokemon dex entries are just “legends says that.....” or “it’s rumoured that.....” it’s not straight up facts it’s just speculation
@asaeampan no need to be a dick. The original comment was just saying that since Hoops gave the warning he shouldn't have put the spoiler in the video before the warning, which makes sense, It's like being told to beware the dog after you already got bit. Also RU-vid has autoplay, so there is no guarantee that every person who is on this video clicked on it.
I'd say thats the exact point of their existence, they aren't supposed to look graceful or elegant like an actual imposing dinosaur would, ffs Arctovish has it's *FUCKING HEAD BACKWARDS AND POINTING UPWARDS* - they're supposed to look like this - I absolutely love the concept behind them and how they turned out - they are basically real Life equivelants of what you'd get from using the Pokemon Fusion generator
@@FalcnPWNCH oh lol!! so that's why archtrovish head look sooo big!! i thought that deep blue color is his big mouth and he always open his mouth 😂 turn out, his mouth is upward.. omg that's getting weirder and ever... so like, his head just stuck in weird position. and he always need to look "up" to walk to the "front". damn that's messed up haha
Uh.. the fossil pieces themselves aren't and can't be shiny. The game only determines if it's shiny after both fossil parts have been put together and the pokemon revived. So no, there's no "half shinies".
@@danphantom2583 I don't know if this makes it better, but the Dex says that Arctozolt shivers to generate electricity, so maybe it isn't cold. Sure, it has a runny nose, but so does Cubchoo, who's quite happy with life.
I think Dracovish has it harder, since it can only breath underwater but walk on land, it has a clear cut opening right through its body (Thank the game rating that thing isn't bleeding all the time) and it has its head upside down and on the tail, which probably means its digestive system is separated into two halves that aren't connected.
Would've been nice to highlight Omanyte in Sword and Shield since for hundreds of years, the locals that found ammonite fossils were thought to be petrified snakes, snakestones.
me: you sit on the saddles of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as possible, and before you even knew what you had, you packed it you packaged it you slapped it on a plastic lunchbox and now, (slap) you’re selling it, (slap) you’re selling it well. Cara less: but these fossil Pokémon give us amazing science rewards Me: yeah but you were too Busy thinking you could, you never bothered to think if you should
@Calebe Souza explain i get that pokemon is stereotypical and sometimes raw garbage but undertale? i get that its fandom is just frans soriel porn but the game is actually unique and not really about grinding or this is a joke my undeveloped brain is missing?
Glad other people agree with my take that these Pokémon didn’t actually exist in the past and are instead the work of a mad scientist. For the Pokédex entries- I remember an episode of the anime where Ash met the “professor” who was responsible for writing the Pokédex entries but he admitted he just made them up. So the same can be said here-Cara Liss just made them up
Dracozolt looks happy until you make it run, which its legs can't be supplied with oxygen due to Dracozolt having very tiny, tiny lungs. Imagine that tiny heart and lungs 24/7 pumping blood as much as it can just so it can at least walk
Well I think all the random crap the Pokémon says is usually just rumors or mythology surrounding the Pokémon in question. The Pokédex is an encyclopedia not some all knowing entity and even if it was that still wouldn’t stop it from throwing in some mythology and folklore in. For example let’s look at duskulls entertaining in sword. “If it finds bad children who won’t listen to their parents, it will spirit them away-or so it’s said.” this Pokédex entry may seem like proof that it kidnaps children at first glance but the “so it’s said” points to the idea that such an idea is just an old wives tale used to get children to behave. Kind of like Krampus or Santa Klaus in the real world. If you want an example of real encyclopedias doing that what better place to check then the number one online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Let’s go with elephants which if you scroll down far enough has a section that states “Elephants have been the subject of religious beliefs. The Mbuti people of central Africa believe that the souls of their dead ancestors resided in elephants.” However, most people would agree that the souls of people don’t reside in elephants and that Wikipedia in this instance is just talking about how elephants impacted various human cultures, because at the end of the day how creatures like Pokémon and animals affect humans and society is an important thing to note. Also I imagine the urban legends in Pokémon would be way more crazy then the ones in our world since the Pokémon world has actual ghost, psychics and time traveling entities.
As a lifelong dinosaur enthusiast, I think you hit the nail on the head here. I can’t say I particularly like the look of any of these fossils, but Dracozolt is the easiest one on my eyes, and they all have interesting type combinations and signature moves.
@@JGirDesu agree, arctozolt is too funny! xD if only his speed is 70-75, i will use him in competitive 😐 but he is too slow and looks like it only for trick room team
Spoiler: he can’t. The Dex entries talk about how they are all suffering in some way because of how irresponsibly put together they were. This one in particular can’t eat properly because it’s head is upside down and can’t survive on land for very long because it can’t breath but also can’t swim thanks to its giant legs and no fins
I always knew that the Pokemon were just mashed together and not true fossil Pokemon; meaning that they aren't the same Pokemon that actually walked the earth. I just didn't know that it was actually based on what archaeologists used to do in England. I think that the reason why the Pokedex talks as if these Pokemon did exist in the past is because it's made by people who are just taking these Pokemon like they are those from the past without question because Cara Liss says so. May be something of a social commentary on those who do that in real life; just swallow what they're given without question.
Now we just need the second halves of those fossil Pokemon to show what they actually looked like before they become extinct and revived only to mismatched
“And see if I could find a reason for why they’re so weird.” Well, it might be because the scientist putting them together only lets you use fossils from different species. It ain’t rocket science, bro. It’s mad science.
@@JGirDesu an electric raptor, a frozen amphibian, a colossal fish and a traditional dinosaur (maybe an igoanodon inspired one, seeing the hip bone in the green legs)
I thought they were a neat concept with predictable results when I saw them, but I appreciated them a lot more afterwards. Especially since they're the first non-rock type fossil pokemon
Dracozolt is the best because he’s adorable and I love him he’s in the least amount of pain. Dracovish can’t breathe on land or swim. Arctozolt is in constant pain. Arctovish is literally unable to eat because his head is upside down.
You can get type null in SwSh, it seem that aether foundation sell it's blue print to galar. So type: null and silvally is the first mass produced Legendary pokemon.
As much as I love the concept and appreciate the ideas behind the fossils, it's not enough to make me like them. If I've learned something from paleontology art it's that you can create an incorrect design which is still pleasant to the eyes and doesn't look like its life is constant suffering(which is probably the main reason people don't like these new fossils).
I think they were trying to build the “perfect” dinos Example: Dracovish Can run 40mph and has incredible Jaw Strength But they didn’t consider the downsides: This Pokemon can not breathe unless underwater
I like the idea of them haha and I like Arctovish's design a bit minus it's upside down head it feels like a normal derpy fossil fish... glad to see there's some folks to give the other 3 some love though
Cara Liss didn't just frankenstein those fossils together, she also put the pieces incorrectly. Dracovish's head is coming out of the dinosaur leg's tail and Arctovish's head is upside down.
U guys remember the short British parody seireis Dorkly was doing in the run up to sword and shield body builders? I think game freak watches to much memes 😒
Maybe in the next games they'll make the missing halves all four fossils. Think of the bizarre combinations with all 8 pieces Like a mermaid stegosaurus dragging itself on the ground (Dragon - Water) or a chicken-legged plesiosaur troubling to balance itself (Ice - Electric) or vice versa or just make all of them whole again
Have you seen the Shield dex entry for Dracovish though? It literally says that it can run at speeds over 40mph but it can't breathe unless it's underwater.
Theory on Allister Ghost Type Gym Leader: My theory is that Allister is a shy guy, but gains confidence when he puts on the mask BECAUSE he is actually getting possessed by some ghost that is haunted by the mask. It could be that he is acting as a conduit for a friend that wanted to become a strong Pokemon trainer, but something unfortunate happened. However , the friend was able to haunt the mask and stay in the world and able to live its dream through Allister. (Basically think of Yu-Gi-Oh and the Millennium Puzzle type of situation)
I wonder if they fact that theyre genderless is related to them being, in essence, hybrids, which famously cant breed (i know theres ditto, but close enough 😅)
They could be genderless because they, by all accounts, are bizarre amalgamations of entirely different prehistoric creatures that for all we know didn't even exist in the same time period and as such, must've had very different breeding methods. Hell, their different parts could've had different genders before being haphazardly mixed together for all we know
Very good and insightful video! I had wondered if the mismatched fossils were perhaps a nod to the Piltdown Man hoax (in which someone put an orang-utan jaw on a human skull and tried to pass it off as a new species). Somewhere around here I have four issues of a five-part limited series on dinosaurs. One issue talked about one paleontologist who hated another. Why? The first guy had put a dinosaur's skull on its tail instead of its neck, the second guy called him out on it, and the first guy decided to bear ill will against the second guy and try to one-up him even though it was his own dang fault for not bothering to check to see which end was which. Unfortunately the story was a two-parter and my Dad never found the issue with the second part, so I never learned how that story of rival dinosaur experts turned out.
I’m a big dinosaur enthusiast and love the idea behind this but hate the execution of it. They all look miserable and their Pokédex entries don’t help me feel better about them at all. I do like that they’re not rock type Pokémon
That actually connects with the theme of Pokemon Sword and Shield. I mean its theme is taken from the metrical romance of the knights; or calvary. Not to mention that the Corviknights were used to travel, old taxi style, and the castles and myths in the story connect with the modernity of how those fossil pokemons come to be. Awesome video!
What's funny, Cara Liss is literally creating a decent size population of these monsters to the point of having their own Pokedex entry. It makes sense though. Some actual dinosaur fossils had features that seemed ass backwards. For example. A raptor with feathers that can't fly. A 10 foot bear sized ant eater. A shark with a spiral lower jaw.
Another theory , that I also agree , for this pokemon's desing is that back in the early days of paleotology there was in the UK called the Cristal Palace and inside that palace there was a park with statues of dinosaurs made of concret . This statues were made by a famous scupltor and with the help of a paleotologist at the time , but due to the lack of bones the statues were inaccurate and had various mistakes that were proven by further investigation in the following years . Even thought the park was open to public , but after some years due to the already refered inaccuracy of the statues and more invesgation , it was shut down and abandone after . In 2012 the park was rebuild and reopen to public .
I'm so glad someone took the time to explain this to folks who might not have any background in paleontology. I, unfortunately, both have a background in paleontology and have a mentality that is at unrest when things don't match up or are asymmetrical, so these creatures drive me CRAZY. I spent about half an hour in-game trying to figure out why I couldn't just get fossils of the same kind together instead of mixing and matching and was in dismay when I came to the conclusion that it wasn't possible in the game.
Good video, Hoops! I knew a good bit about the early history of paleontology, but for some reason I didn't make that connection. In-universe, though, I bet the Pokedex entries are just based on what Cara Liss said (she probably "discovered" all these Pokemon). A lot of people probably take her word at face value because, well, she's a scientist, right? Surely she knows what she's talking about. It does make the people of Galar seem a bit dim, though, especially considering that other regions seem to be wayyy better at paleontology.
They were also fine with being used as batteries, Rose was concerned about an energy crisis a thousand years in the future dispite that it is literally impossible to have an energy crisis in the pokemon world, and never thought to dig behind the gaint rock with doodles on it. I would say that they are moronic.
I'd like to point out that all pokedex enteries are written by people and are fallible as they are based on first observations, myths, and incomplete data but tries to best describe their current understanding. this is why entries change over the series and why pokemon would sometimes have unrealistic abilities like tyrannitar smashing mountains.
I like how they are no longer rock types because they are fossil pokemon. I just wish they looked cool though instead of disgusting me. Like giving them their full bodies and making them proportionate. Imagine Dracovish with a full T-Rex body with a fish head in the front instead of on the tail.
The Pokédex isn’t technically wrong. If they believed that this is how these fossils Pokémon looked, then they would describe them as they believed they were. From their perspective this is how this fossil Pokémon look.
[ Before video starts ] The truth about the Galer fossil Pokémon is they are are reference / joke about early British scientists horribly mismatching fossils and misinterpreting them really badly .
I mean it makes sense considering Tyrannosaur Rex is "Tyrant Lizard King" when they weren't the biggest, the most powerful, or even that bad with new evidence showing they might have been more family oriented.
