What's Up With Ancient Pokemon? 

There weren't any new fossil pokemon in sun and moon because the Hawaiian islands are volcanic islands and didn't exist during the time periods when dinosaurs were alive.

Piloswine, Tangela, and Yanma evolve by learning Ancient Power. This is supposed to be them becoming living fossils too.

Did you know, the Gen 6 and 8 Fossil Pokemon were designed by Hitoshi Ariga. Some of his designs include the Corviknight Line, Mega Bedrill, The Vikavolt Line, and more recently the Garganacl Line, Hisuian Sneasel and Sneasler, Espathra, and Flutter Mane. He is also a big fan of Jurassic Park.

You forgot to mention that the previous fossil Pokémon (with the exception of Cranidos and Shieldon for some reason) do show up in the SwSH DLC in Giant’s Bed, Giant’s Foot, Frigid Sea, Roaring-Sea Caves and Ballimere Lake. Which is something that I’ve always found interesting, maybe the fossil Pokémon were bred heavily and then released into the wild in Galar

If you're wondering why there aren't any Fossil Pokémon introduced in Alola, it's because Alola is geologically speaking, a pretty recent island, popping up a million years ago, give or take. Meaning, no real fossils could live there since most fossils that're like that is minimum, five to ten million years old. Gen 9 makes sense with Paradox Pokémon. But Gen 2 is a mystery...I still don't know why they didn't introduce at least one new fossil line.

I'm still hoping we get Mammalian fossil pokemon at some point.

I wonder if the original Aerodactyl, which looked like mega aerodactyl, could mega evolve. That would be pretty funny to see

I’m personally a big fan of the aquatic invertebrate fossils. My favorites are Anorith, the Lileep line, and Kabutops. Pop culture tends to focus on the dinosaurs and neglect many of the species living before them. Dinosaurs are cool, but the biodiversity of the Paleozoic is an untapped gold mine for design inspiration, in my opinion. I’m just surprised it took six generations to get a T. rex ‘mon in the first place!

IIRC N only uses pokémon that previously had abusive trainers meaning he wasn't the one who revived the fossils.

that thing wen you said gen 6 was 10 year ago really hit me💀

Should've talked about how they are wild envounters in Crown Tundra. Something something Calyrex saving them long ago.

I love how gen 1 stumbled into long term lore. It set up An idea that there’s a whole prehistoric history of Pokémon that can be explored in a myriad of ways. They can literally make a Pokémon game about 1 Pokémon ascending to the top of the food chain if they chose to.

My guess for N is maybe he didn't have the fossils revived himself, and instead rescued them from someone who did? Who knows.

The fact that Dracovish and Great Tusk exist but Archeops is stuck with defeatist makes me cry

You know what would have fixed Aurorus? Ice/fairy typing and moves. “But it’s a fossil!” you say. Ice preserves things too!

I love Aurorus so much, such a cool looking Pokémon. Sadly that typing hinders it greatly. :(

With regards to N, he usually has a team of wild Pokemon available within the area or those confiscated from abusive trainers. He even releases them afterwards, which made some of them catchable in B2W2.

Man I wish the Gen 8 Fossil could be completed properly, I’ve always wanted a Raptor fossilmon but that doomed to be left to dust because of the -zolt fossils being a thing

Ash's Dracovish in the anime was such a powerhouse, and a dirp lol.

Relicanth is based on the coelacanth, a fish that we thought extinct for millions of years before discovering that they're actually pretty common in the South Pacific - they're just disgusting, so they get thrown back.

A prehistoric safari zone would be the coolest thing ever 😮

Hisuian forms and evolutions are not past or ancient forms, they are regular regional forms that just existed in a past climate of Sinnoh. It is confirmed in game and on the Legends Arceus website that some of the hisuian Pokémon came after the original forms. It is never confirmed if they are actually extinct or not since they are retcons into the series so we may have to wait and see. In the SV dlc there are a lot of hints to Hisui in the trailers for Kitakami, so it’s possible that they moved from past Sinnoh and now live in Kitakami.

Surprised you didn't mention, Tangrowth, Mammoswine, a d Yanmega, who are living fossils

Some below have pointed out that Mammoswine, Tangrowth, and Yanmega could've been included in the discussion as "living fossils". I'd also argue that Unown and Natu/Xatu being exclusive to the Ruins of Alph may qualify them for discussion as living fossils at least. They lack the trademark Rock Type that typical fossils share, but more recent entries such as Galar's fossils and the paradoxes prove that those are trends, not hard and fast "rules".

Yes the Gen 8 fossils are a reference to the fossil wars where a lot of their body parts got mismatched because people were desperate to say they were the first to discover x species

I’d say the Sinnoh fossils being level 20 upon revival is the right level. That’s about the same as the wild Pokemon at that point in the game. The issue is that they’re really bad for the upcoming gyms (Maylene = Fighting-types and Crasher Wake = Water-types). Fortunately, they’re really good into Fantina in Platinum since Cranidos gets Dark-type moves and Shieldon resists Ghost-type moves prior to Gen 6.

Fun fact: because the Kanto games lets u do some gyms out of order u can actually get the fossil mons earlier than u think.

JPR trying to sneak in that Tusk Act 4... I'd say Dragapult looks more like Echoes Act 2, although Echoes doesn't shoot anything

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Maybe some ancient Pokémon Parks in an underground way with an aboveground (plus maybe an underwater) section could fit for them, with a Paradox forms area?

As a boy who went through my government mandated paleontology phase, the past is an untapped gold mine of Pokémon inspirations, especially the Cambrian and Precambrian eras.

Hisui’s regional forms/new evolutions a feel are kind of a weird one. I wouldn’t say so much extinct since more then likely they may return in the future if what the trailers for the dlc have shown with Alolan forms seemingly being catchable.

Its been said in the comments that Alola doesn't have fossils because Hawaii wasn't around before the dinosaurs went excinct but I just wanna add that the only "fossils" found in Hawaii were plants and even that's just barely.

would love if they made a game that is mostly unexplored and have more ancient feel to it like mostly fossil pokemon but in their real version instead of everyone being rock type

Hey. Nice video. It got me thinking, with your last statement of "staples to the series" what other things GF is kinda "required" to add to every game? You could do a video of it. For instance. The 3 starters, the early birds and bugs, the fossils, the legendary, and eevolution, a new charizard form haha.

May be unpopular but i love the galar fossil pokemon just the idea behind it and just how nonsensical and hilarious looking they are and there also easily the most creative of fossil pokemon design wise.

I hope they come back. I need me a stegosaurus and triceratops pokemon. And no, I do not accept the idea that Bastiodon is a triceratops

“Gen 7 didn’t do fossils cause volcanos blah blah blah years ago blah blah blah” We are talking about a series where a Pokémon named GROWLithe doesn’t learn growl. Sometimes things that make too much sense are ignored and sometimes things that shouldn’t matter are actually applied. They could of done fossil Pokémon just fine.

I honest always loved the fossils they always felt super cool to me esspically in gen 3 where I just found them in the desert! I felt super accomplished as a kid I truly hope fossils stick around this video makes me templed to do a fossil run of the games

A sabertooth tiger fossil pokemon would be cool I know it's alot closer chronologically but I think it would be a cool idea

Genesect. Also technically the 4 treasures? Maybe? I don't know.

Gen 1 and 3 fossils be like: Lets be available as late as we can so by the time they have a full team they just dont bother trying us.

LOL love the intro spin 😂

I really like the gen 8 fossils.

My first nuzlocke was in Y and that early Aerodactyl was on my team the whole game

Kills me that we still don't have a fossil analogue tovmy favorite dinosaur, Ankylosaurus. Gimmie a rock/grass type that learns Wood Hammer with a big ol' boulder tail!

Pokemon Red made me a pretty damn good reader back when I was 4 years old lmao

The reason why it's fitting for Brock to have them as the Pewter Gym leader is because they are in the museum in said town. I'd honestly have either have given him Kubuto and omonyte, then taken away Onix and buffed it, or given Onix a gen 1 evolution.

You made me realize something. Brock could have been an excellent final gym boss. If Brock switched places with Giovanni, Brock could have used the fossil Pokémon in his gym battle.

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Gen 1 definitely handled fossils quite well. But having to wait until the cinnabar lab to revive them deffo was too late. You should have been able to revive them at the pewter museum (or put the science lab there) so you'd be really rewarded for backtracking. Either put it behind cut so it's put off until later or really, really reward stubborn backtracking trainers by giving them a level 25 pokémon before the second gym if they seriously took the fossil and backtracked all the way to pewter just to revive it. Now what about the amber? Have that be obtained in the pokémon mansion and revived into a Level... dunno 40, Aerodactyl at the museum. Basically, swap the lab and museum or something.

ANCIENT ALIENS

Honestly impressive that it took three batches of fossil pokemon for them to make actual dinosaurs

ITS NEVER MORNING WHEN I WATCH YOUR VIDEOS

fossil pokemon are still cool to me, and personally I think if we ever got a fossil based on Dilophosaurus it would be rock/poison just as a reference to the ones from Jurassic Park

I’m a arctazolt and dracovish defender they are hella cool and love them they are so cool

You forgot to mention Genesect

Could you hypothetically fossilize a dead modern pokemon carcase and revive it in the future?

it would be cool to see past paradox form of fossil pokemon like show how they are suppose to be ie not part rock

I liked Steven Stone having them too

since hisuian arcanine is a rock type i hope brock will find a way to get one.

The hisui forms arent ancient arcues takes place in the 1800's

Tryrunt would have been a lot better if it's shiny was it's default blue makes it look more pokemony and would create a fanon lore of it being the ancestor to the totodiles.

Didn't Fire Red and Leaf Green have the VS Seeker to re-battle trainers?

Dark lord dome for life

Ngl in a way I wonder why we even have the gen 8 fossils, like, if the fossils aren't properly conected, shoud the machine not be able to revive it? Well just a thought

I find it it very weird how a lot of fossil Pokemon if not all are missing from Scarlet and Violet the games focused on the future and the PAST

Arcanine is one of my favorite of all time amazingly gorgeous with a legendary aura, this variant the same; Hisuian Pokemon generally have a good place in my heart peculiar idea. Paradox don't totally convince me, some are still among my favorite, but i find them pretty forced. I dislike Galar Fossils as they're lore is just disturbing they even look in pain, it's horrible they are revived like that. I don't like Mega Aerodactyl visually.

What is the name of that opening song??

Bruh what's the music in his intro?

6:36 Finally someone agrees with me

Cue the revelation that the Galarian fossils are actually just Galarian forms of Archeops (Flying/Electric), Relicanth (Ice/Water), Lapras (Ice/Dragon) and Dragapult (pure Dragon; its 'dex entries explicitly state that they're extinct and appear as ghosts.) Now that I think of it, why can't the other Fossilmons appear as ghosts? Is Gengar actually just Caracosta? Not only that, if its possible to revive fossilised creatures that have been dead for billions of years, why can't we revive a Marowak that was run over by a bunch of gangsters? Also, if this revivication technology is able to preserve memories (as shown in the Tirtouga episode of the anime), why have no potential dictators used it to extend their dominion for all eternity? Clearly the only logical solution is that these fossil revivers run on necromancy. To that I must also wonder why the Pokemon world isn't on the cusp of a zombie apocalypse. Or maybe the gates of PokeHell are torn open one day when some kid wants to get a Kabuto and Lumiose City gets obliterated while Ash Ketchum gets fused with Pikachu and is given the choice of becoming Arceus' tool in spreading lifeless order across the galaxy, teaming up with Giratina to destroy all law and create a chaotic mess, or saying "screw it" and rebooting the Pokemon Multiverse in his image. Indeed, there are many questions that the Pokemon games have yet to answer.

It's funny how scarlet snd violet have neither fossils nor legendaries

You failed to mention gen 4 with the….”fossil evolutions” Tangrowth, Yanmega and MAMMOSWINE in a way Benjamin button their evolutions because they evolve from job prehistoric things into obviously prehistoric things through knowing the move ancient power upon evolution

I'd like to see more ancestor pokemon, I'm thinking something like a more primal Charmander with adaptations to the old world. Fossil Pkmn are cool but dinosaurs are kind of over done. Let's see the creatures which evolved to give us the icons we all love.

Ancient Pokémon are awesome

I still don't get why you had to make a choice between the fossils or at least why picking one fossil would destroy the other one.

Designwise I like the living fossils. Relicanth is kind of underrated and the past Paradox Pokémon look cool, except for Sandy Shocks. That's just weird in my opinion. I appreciate the way Gen 8 take with its fossils Designwise but they could've been a bit less weird

5:37 i think you mean "extremely rare L"

nice

I think it's stupid that they gave us all these prehistoric pokemon but not the original versions of the fossil Pokemon yet. Like why? It's almost like they want to retcon fossil Pokemon as non existent

I still want to know in what order Fossil, Hisuian and Past Paradox would have existed in the Pokémon timeline

Helix Helix Helix . . .

I honestly miss the old fossils. People hate on them for all being rock type even though it makes sense. Here’s to hoping gen 10 brings back fossil pokemon

kabutops litterly preyed on all of the past paradoxes without a doubt

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Dang second

Aerodactyle, kabutops and tyrantrum are peak fossil pokemon designs

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*Hot Take:* As someone who actually likes playing the games and grinding, not just finishing them, the lower the level the better. It feels so impersonal and boring when you catch/get given something at a high level. ...also, the "new" broken/overpowered Exp Share is the worst thing ever to come to the games. It makes everything overleveled with no effort needed. Sure it's to make things easier for their target demographic of kids, but at least give people the option to turn the thing off.

5:37 *common L

Now THAT is using your imagination, JPR! I would LOVE to see a Prehistoric Safari Zone in a future game oneday! 🦴