What If Australia Was A Pokemon Region? 

To be perfectly honest, as an Australian, I believe if we had an Evil Pokemon team, their base would probably just be bunch of tin roofed sheds linked together with tarps.

Considering Emus are the only animal that not only went to war with a country but won... twice... I think they deserve to be a legendary

"when you have arceus that could cough and destroy an entire continent", That is groudon my man Arceus coughs and entire multiverse is born

As an Australian aboriginal it's really nice to see the recognition in this video (:

"Emus aren't dangerous" That's what the human soldiers in the Emu War thought, and look what happened

A professor based off Steve Irwin would automatically become my all time favorite.

As an Aussie, this is my life and I love it. You did amazing with making my country proud, it's not often you see someone talk about all the parts of Australia that aren't dangerous. Also, just a bit of help: Melbourne: Pronounced "Melben", and Brisbane: Pronounced "Brizben"

Two things: Emus are mean Kangaroos have more powerful fists..

Well since Canberra is the Pokemon League, that can only mean one thing... Victory road is full of roundabouts.

Acacia: "Look over there! Right there, that's an Arbok, one of the most venomous snakes on all the planet. One bite and I'm gone! ...I'm gonna pick it up." *Hisses* "HE'S ANGRY"

Thank you for being the first American to notice there isn’t dangerous animals roaming around everywhere. But we do have a lot!!!! Of them

The elite four would be Scomo, Albanese, Petter Dutton and Pauline Hanson Champion could be Robert Irwin or his family

I wish you made the Tasmanian tiger as a fossil Pokémon

Perhaps for a second fossil-based Pokemon, it could be based on the Tasmanian Tiger or the Marsupial Lion from ancient Australia?

I think a cassowary would be good to include, either as a mono-steel version of Skarmory or its own new pokemon.

Australia would be a great region, so much diversity to work with. - Love the big desert area - Be cool if you could actually dive around the Great barrier reef - There so many cool new pokemon you could create just to do with the regions animals alone - Professor Irwin is also a must

For the starters a water/poison platypus. A grass/fighting kangaroo. And a fire/dark dingo

The evil team should just be a bunch of emu's you gotta go to war with

As an Australian, I have to say, you definitely do your research! I am from West Australia, so seeing a lot of the small details you included for the starting few routes and towns was very nice.

i love that the dropbear is referred to as ‘folklore’

Game Freak NEEDS to hire this man.

GAME FREAK GIVE THIS MAN A JOB ALREADY

The Australian region could also have the middle be a new wild area.

As an Australia, may I ask why there is no Pokémon based on beer

I think the Legendary Pokémon would be Ghost-type due to spiritual lands such as Uluru, and/or the rainbow snake from the dreamtime stories.

For all non-Australians... Melbourne is pronounced Mel-Ben, Canberra is pronounced can-bra and Brisbane is pronounced bris-Ben. (Also cairns is pronounced cans)

Please make MEXICO, one of the most amazing and biodiverse countries in the world, full of culture, drastic change of landscapes, mythology, story, references understood around the world. You can also connect it to your US regions!

Australian form of Octillery could be a blue ringed octopus make it a water/poison type

This wil be the first pokemon game to contain vulgar language

For one of the fossils you could have a Tasmanian tiger

As an Aussie I just want to say thanks for this. We don't get much love. I really enjoyed this video.

Maybe the evil team may have travelled their from Galar as it is based on the UK

As som1 that lives in Australia thank you the fact that it’s not just desert EDIT: WOW 75+ likes thanks so much EDIT: 200 likes :P

Team Noble actually makes much more sense as an evil team when you consider that Australia was used as a prison continent they sent exiles to, and even after these men were free, they still got suffocated by the land-cheating high society. But then, I'm just rambling half-asleep what I remember hearing on the Ned Kelly series on Extra History, so what do I know?

Steve Irwin makes a great professor.

Say hello go the galar region. Everyone says “mate” over there.

Galar seems cool and all but with each passing day I find myself feeling more and more sad knowing I might never see an official Australia pokemon region

As an aussie I'm really happy you acknowledged the fact that we don't just have deserts. But I feel like you could've added more...like The Great Dividing Range(its a huge mountain range the stretches from Victoria to Queensland.) and maybe you could've added some more towns in Victoria such as Sale.(its not that big though) its the first city of Gippsland which is a big area in Victoria. Those were just suggestions but I really liked your ideas. Good job mate! :)

Am i the only one amused by what the evil teams reaction would be to Yveltal the literal pokemon of Destruction?

I love how in depth this is! Gives me a lot of inspiration for my own region based off a country I’m working on. Lots of cool ideas and fun ways of looking at the real world!

The evil team should’ve been our politicians 😂😂 I’m sure other Australians would get that

Here are some more regional forms: Australian Swanna: Dark-Water(Black Swan) Australian Pikachu: Ground (Bilby) Australian Seviper: Ghost-Ground (Rainbow Snake/Serpent) Australian Starmie: Poison-Water (Crown of Thorns)/Australian Corsola: Fire-Water(Coral)[Thes two represent the bleaching/death of coral] Just a thaught.

Okay, I’ve got an idea: two different dlc regions based on Christmas Island and New Caledonia/Vanuatu. Christmas Island would be very much like the isle of armour, taking a few new Pokémon that could actually be based on Indonesian culture. Speaking of the isle of armour, I feel like the normal region could have the National Park Jungle you mentioned be the wild area. New Caledonia and Vanuatu could have two cities based on their capitals, and have most, if not all, of the area be ocean. Perhaps having underground glass enclosures for traveling and scuba diving to enter the wild area. This would also mean that you might encounter Kalosian people on vacation on New Caledonia.

Me: Oh cool my town is up next! Narrator: brisBAYNE Me: 👁 👄 👁 Update: KARENS 15:48

Im glad you included the rainbow serpent, that's such a cool mythical being.

Another fossil Pokémon you could’ve done for this region could’ve been one to represent the thylacine (aka the Tasmanian tiger) as it is actually extinct today as well, so it would be cool to see it again but as a strong and rare Pokémon. *edit- omg I've never had this many likes before thx so much!!! ;3*

I really, *REALLY* want an Australia-inspired region. It would make me feel more at home than Johto, which was my first experience with Pokémon via Silver. And you making a Professor based off the great late Steve Irwin is just amazing. Knowing GAME FREAK, they won't do that if they do make an Australia-inspired region, but I won't be mad if the Professor isn't based off him.

Pretty awesome concept. Interesting location choices, brilliant region layout, love the character and location designs. Would be great to have seen more. Although honestly, Team Noble is a little off for the region for a couple of reasons. It can get bloody hot here in Australia, especially in the summer months so those grunts in their medieval armour would be dying of heat stroke before they accomplished anything in the desert areas. A duke and duchess theme for the villains would mesh with the colonial history Australia has rather than a royalty theme, which screams England. The king (and queen) being the Professor's parents rather than a brother makes a little more sense given the age difference between them. A parent's love and grief for their child tragically taken away can be a powerful motivator. Last nitpick - Emu is pronounced eem-you

I love how much time and effort was put into the video. The quality really shows and I love how much you looked into Australia, as I'm Australian

Ah man, i was hoping for a Tasmanian devil inspired pokemon.

This is one of the most awesome pokemon videos I have seen in a whiiile man, you did an absolutely spectacular job and I would literally melt with excitement if this concept ever became a real game!!! Ultimate props to you dude this is amazing ❤❤❤

The regional bird should be a magpie and you see it in trees and it randomly comes and swoops at you

I’m Australian and i didn’t even know we had castles 🏰

I’m actually surprised that people are complaining about his pronunciation. He apologized for it and that should be it. No one is perfect and it’s his version of a speculative region based on Australia. Of course he is going to choose specific areas that stood out to him.

As an Australian this really makes me very happy I’d love to see this happen

Since you're starting in the southwest, anyway, I feel like you might as well make the friendly, early route rodent a Quokka. Then again, a Wombat still fits really well, since Wikipedia says that it's depicted in aboriginal Dreamtime as an animal of little worth.

If this was an actual Pokémon game I’d buy it, and I haven’t event gotten a Nintendo product in years tbh.

Since No one else did... Locations/ Towns: 4:45 Story and Characters: 18:25 New Pokémon: 35:40

ALSO! Did you know that the Queen Victoria Market and it's parking lot, is a giant graveyard? It was Melbourne's first official cemetery and housed the remains of an estimated 10,000 early settlers. It would be a great place for ghost pokemon.

An Australian Pokémon region would be DOPE. Game Freak, make it happen!

I noticed that the professor and king have some similarities to the legendaries. Their views on the safety of pokemon- The professor looked at what happened LOGICALLY, and the King reacted Emotionally (as one would do IF A POKEMON KILLED THEIR SISTER) and decided that all strong pokemon are dangerous

Hearing you say Brisbane gave me a seizure. Good video though.

I love what you've done with the region, and I have my own suggestions for it as well! 34:15 Given how you said the Legendary pokemon as well as the queen's full team, I'd assume that's 7 pokemon. Perhaps you could take a leaf out of Greevil's book from Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness? 38:21 Since Golem already has a regional variant in Alolan Golem, perhaps it could be a Ryperior regional variant with crystals for horns instead, or a Gigalith regional form since it already has crystals integrated with its design. Either way, I love the concept of a crystal pokemon! 40:41 I like the idea of an ability that enhances kicking moves, but an accuracy bonus is not only a bit underwhelming but negates the risk-reward element of moves like High Jump Kick. Instead of that, maybe you could have an ability along the lines of Strong Jaw that enhances the damage of kicking moves?

This is probably one of my favorites of the series, also I'm jamming out to the relic castle in the background

As an Australian myself, I have a few things to add, Mainly two larger cities which are also rather important, or more important than some areas you mentioned. The first city I want to mention is Newcastle is just north of Sydney and is famous for its coal industry, in fact it exports the most coal out of any port in the world. This coal is mainly harvested in the Hunter Region near the Hunter River. From this city, you could have gone through one of the mines and travel through the cave system, from it. Between Newcastle and Sydney could be a more plain open field style of route as it is neither a mountainous area, rain forest like area or a dry desert. The second city I want to mention is the Gold Coast, it is mainly famous as a major tourist attraction area, it could have been easily been at the exit/entrance to the cave once you leave as close by the city is the hinterland which has many caves and rock formations, the area is also very similar to a rain-forest and could act as a major contrast from where you go into the cave/mine in rolling hills and leave the cave in a place which is lush jungle. This lush jungle like area would be rather short and will give way to the city, becoming less dense as you come closer to it. The city itself is mainly built around its tourism industry and its extremely scenic coast and beaches. It would fit the whole casino, nightlife and hotel them much better than Cairns, as unlike Cairns it actually has these things in real life. further more, there could be a location just south of the city or just in the southern area of the city, could be an area based on the areas like Coolangatta, Kirra and Burleigh, which are mainly known for their surfing culture and the world renown surf break in the area. This area could be a kind of pokemon reserve to catch certain pokemon like Alolan Raichu, Wingull and Buizel which could fit in the whole surf culture of this area. As for the route to go from the Gold Coast to Brisbane, you could go north and take a partial water route based on the North and South Stradbroke islands and Morton island, you would enter the route from surfing over the broad-water which separates the islands and the mainland and then landing on the shore of the isles, there would be three isles with small amounts of water separating them, the final island which will be based on Morton island, will be very close to Brisbane and it would be possible to take a short surf from the island to the mouth of the Brisbane river. In regards to Tasmania, it would make much more sense for it to be accessed via Melbourne, rather than Adelaide as Melbourne is where the ferry which connects Tasmania to the main land is located.

As an Australian, I'm impressed with the amount of research you've done. good job, but your pronounciation could use some improvement....

Imagine all the towns for the story go all around the edges and an open wild area that connects them all in the middle. That would be so awesome! Since it semi works for the Galar region, ot would be really cool to see it implemented to a full capacity

I really love this... having your home country inspire a Pokémon region is one of the best honours ever.

Sorry its been so long since the last upload! For the past couple months I put all my effort into this video, so hopefully it all paid off :D Also, I may re-upload this a little later because the Audio is sounding a little weird and distorted ;~; Also, Also, let me know if you guys like this length for a regional video! Lots of people wanted longer ones, so hopefully this is alright! (Also forgive me for the pronunciation on this one ;~;)

don't tell emus aren't dangerous, Australia lost a war to them.

I feel like Womborable and Wooloo would be the best of friends....

Looking back on this now, the giant desert could definitely be like the Wild Area in Galar.

Sadly, professor Acacia was killed by a mantine, Rest In Peace.

I love the story you came up with! My ideas: -a fossil pokemon based on the thylacine -an evolution for the wombat pokemon that looks like the extinct giant wombat -an hp stealing move that looks like a boomerang being thrown -a super rare pokemon based on a panther. (There have been a bunch of sightings of them in real life) -a dark type magpie pokemon (or maybe a regional variant) that swoops you from above -A poison/grass type pokemon based on the gimpy gimpy tree -when you visit the melbourne based city, the weather changes super quickly

I think the water gym leader should also have a mantine that he actually surf's on, and he/she could actually be the inspiration for mantine surfing (in-game of course), also it'd be cool if there were certain tree-lined routes like in sun andoon were there would be 60 to 70 percent of finding the normal komala and 30 to 40 percent of finding the dark type variant

Some of my friends and I are developing a fan made Pokemon region based on Australia, and I’m one of the concept artists for some of the Pokemon we’re making, as well as helping out with the geography for this region. Some of the Pokemon we thought of included: Electric/Fighting kangaroo Ground/Fairy bilby Fighting/Ground cassowary Ice/Poison goanna lizard Dragon/Psychic pseudo legendary based on the Rainbow Serpent Dark type Tasmanian devil Dark/Water bunyip Komala evo based on a drop bear These are just a few we thought of, but yeah. Really enjoy these videos btw

I feel like you missed a great opportunity to have a tasmanian devil pokemon and a mythical tasmanian tiger pokemon that are only available on Tasmania. It would make a great motivation for people to go there. There are also plenty of old castles there, it would be interesting if perhaps it was revealed that the tasmanian tiger going extinct had something to do with Team Noble, and maybe you free the last remaining one from their lair. Just a thought. Great video.

If Australia was a Pokemon region, I would absolutely choose the fire type starter. Many things in Australia need to be killed with fire...

Bro, Steve Irwin would TOATALLY be a pokemon professor! You brought back so much of my childhood with that! Spectacular!

I live in Australia so I’m really excited about this and hope pokemon take your ideas

This was great. Using Steve Irwin as the basis for the professor was both heartwarming, and hilarious, even for someone like me who only saw him a little bit. Not only that, but it fits into your chosen overall theme perfectly. And with the nature of Australia, well, stars just aligned, didn't they? I love it when that happens, don't you? As far as Team Noble, you didn't mention it, but you probably already know this from research, but Australia was initially used as a penal (prison) colony. That fact actually fits perfectly into the chosen these with Team Noble restraining/imprisoning dangerous Pokemon. Just wanted to mention that since it didn't come up, and it could be part of the region's history, somehow. I don't know. Oh, and a slight critique on the artist. Great designs from your artist, though I think the Princess needs adjustment. The crown blends in with her hair a bit too much IMO. For a second, I wasn't sure what the crown was. Since the Prince's crown is the same color, either both crowns probably should have been a different color, or the Princess's hair needed to be a different color. About Regional Komala. I like the idea (even if it freaks me out), but I think you hit a snag here. You wanted regular Komala to be a staple here, right? That's all well and good, but it presents a problem having both regular _and_ the Pokestralia variant there, as the regular ones, if they're native, should have adapted into the regional form, should they not? So what gives? There are a few solutions: Either have the regional Komala only live in a very isolated area where their population could develop differently (fitting the real science behind regional variations), or let the regular Komala be a recent import (thus not adapted). As an extension of the second, you could make the Alolan Komala the one that varied. As in, the Dark type Komala was the original one, it got imported to Alola, and adapted into the Alolan form for whatever reason. If you're going for black widows for a Joltik variant, personally, I would have preferred a black widow design featuring their iconic red hourglass (on the females anyway). Also, considering how black widows are, their balanced gender ratio would need to be tilted heavily toward the females. I guess I'm not entirely sold on making a regional variant of Joltik be a black widow vs an original Pokemon. Other than that, I loved the other Pokemon designs. Had no idea of the prehistoric platypus (though you should have also taken into account that platypi have poisonous barbs, not saying they need to be poison type, but that should probably be in there too). Singer is a very smart new ability, and I liked that you used the Rainbow Serpent. But if I may offer some ideas? I was a little disappointed that you included Tasmania but didn't make a Tasmanian Devil Pokemon. Seemed like a missed opportunity there. You could also use a living boomerang Pokemon. XD Maybe cliche, but hey, it's unique to Australia and it could be interesting to work out, maybe getting a steel edge as it evolves? Another possible source for a very scary Pokemon is the Australia cryptid the bunyip, a very scary, man-eating, water monster of various descriptions. I can't really explain it here, but if you're interested in a good source to learn, try "Tales from Australia: The Bunyip [Creepypasta Reading]" by Scribbler Productions here on YT. She did her research and she does a really good reading too. Sorry for the rambling long thoughts, but that's all I have to say.

Awesome video Mr Buddy! Thanks for commissioning me for the drawings. The other artists work looked awesome too. Well done! :D

I'm making one based off of Italy! I have 151 pokemon, gym leaders, e4 members, and evil team members!

I could totally see the professor being saved by a pokemon as a kid being his inspiration to become a professor

Professor Acacia, please stay away from mantine.

This may not be part of the subject, I'm an Australian Indigenous and my Nana has told me that when people take a piece of Ularu they'll get bad luck when they bring it to their home country and that could be in the game that Spiritomb should be

As an Australian, I’m glad to see something like this! I really hope game freak takes some of these ideas to heart as an Australian based Pokémon game would pretty awesome. I also live in cairns and I’m glad you added that in too.

The Swan River where Swanna lives could have a regional variant where it could be Water or Flying paired with a dark or ghost type. This is because black swans are more common in Australia. The cassowary can be a fighting/ground type as well.

This video is soo good! well done dude, I'm Australian and i totally approve! You put a lot of thought and consideration into everything and did your research. I want an Australian region so bad now :)

i would've gave the evil teams design look like poachers instead of knights

I live in Australia and I definitely think that komala would be in there but kangaroos kicks and pushed really hurt. I think it's nice to have someone talk about the non dangerous places in Australia and also we call the desert the outback.

Love the idea,and I love how you added the Drop Bear and Rainbow serpent...but why not add Burrunjor or Tasmanian Tiger as a fossil instead of a platypus?

potions should be free since we have medicare

An idea for another Fossil Pokemon is a Tasmanian Tiger. They're really cool. If you don't know what those are, you should check it out!

4:45:Locations/Towns 18:35:Story & Characters 35:40:New Pokemon

Please don’t feel like your story isn’t interesting!! It’s my favorite part and I love hearing your ideas! I WANT to get that fanfictiony aspect and I WANT to hear all thoes details you wrote down! So much love to your series, you clearly put so much work into these. ❤️

R.I.P. Steve Irwin :( Poor Grunts :o wearing Armor in a Dessert or Rainforest....sounds like torture to me

I know you're getting a lot of these, but this really tickled my home-grown Australian side. I see a lot of this beautiful country I call home, so I really reckon you nailed it on the head with a lot of stuff, and clearly there's more to be added that you couldn't quite talk about, I had a few ideas that I've also compiled with the comments. If I remember more, I might keep adding them: 1. I feel like we need a lot more Aboriginal rich things, like an Aboriginal gym leader, and their myths and legends and references to Dreamwalking because it's as big of what this country is and how it was formed. A lot of our naturally formed rocks and landscapes all have some legend tied so them, so I reckon that would be interesting to incorporate in too 2. Being inspired by the European settlers for the enemy team was a really cool idea, and one I enjoy, but if I'm being honest, the real war that's happening is between the burbians (suburban dwellers) and bush-wackers (bogans) 3. Like I said with point 1, we need just that little bit more in touch with our country's history because it's so harsh and awesome. Ned Kelly needs at least a reference, like a worn statue of a man in a tin outfit in Melbourne, and even a section along the Rabbit-Proof Fence needs to have nothing but rabbit-themed pokemon like Buneary and Lobunny. 4. In terms of Pokemon that are region-native, it's really cool what you've gathered thus far. I suggest building others from Bilbies, Kookaburras, Pink Galas, Wedgie-eagle (could be a rare one, as they're becoming endangered I believe), Blue-tongued lizards, Possums, Yabbies, and, believe it or not, camels. We have camels living in the desert. I do appreciate the Lyrebird and the Rainbow Serpent as Legendaries 5. In terms of explorable lands, you've not only got thick rain-forest like landscapes, like along the Great Dividing Range, but between the cities and the deserts there's a lot of bushland, dams, clay pans, abandoned or old flood channels that never get used, rice or general food fields and the like. I reckon they would be cool to explore. 6. I really hope they start dropping names of routes like "Route 1" or "Route 7" because I reckon for an Australian-themed region you can name certain roads after actual awesome tracks. You got off-road ones like "Googs Track" and then in the mountains you've got the "High Country", then all the highways being "Sturt Hwy", "Calder Fwy", "Great Ocean Road" etc. I'm mostly limited to what I know in the East, however

This is sick, have a ripper mate!

For the library you mentioned in melbourne it could be used as a massive info grab about the legendary and could be where the professor spends most of their time