politoed has a really good shiny with those colors

More like poliswag 12:22

4:33 the animation of politoed sliding down the ice like a little water slide added 4 years to my life

Virgo, cares about global warming, talks about glaciers AND geochemistry??? What a TREAT

Great video!

❄️🌨️🏔️ ➡️ ☀️🥵⛰️

I liked the thumbnail. Placing a shiny version of the overworld sprite is cool.

I knew what to look for in the shiny Sudowoodo's nature, and if you look at the screen where it has the stats and ability, Sp. Defense is blue and Speed is red. I believe HGSS started the trend of the decreased stat being blue and the increased stat being red.

just found your channel, really cool!

Watching this while trying to shiny hunt a beldum with the Masuda method. It’s not going so well but this gives me hope.

Ive been doing a badge quest in HGSS for the past couple years on and off and had the same issue but with totodile 😭

This is such a cool and cute video! Keep it up :)

17707 SRs and it's only your second longest unbelievable 😂 congrats!

Finally some commitment from a youtuber

There I am Gary!

First shiny sudowoodo caught by a cute rock guy

Was babylon possible before iran?

Love your videos! so much care and effort and a professional level of polish is unheard of for such a small channel. keep up the great work ❤

Common professor politoed W

Man I know you don’t have many followers and this is probably just a side hustle for you but…. I love your videos and I appreciate your grind. You have at least one big fan out here your content is great.

This is such a fun and niche topic to explore, thank you for sharing your expertise!

Congrats!! What a great shiny!

Shiny bird 🦜

I am so glad I came across this video! I had been wondering about this sort of thing for so long!

Poor Terapagos. Awesome video though!

Lots of interesting things in this video, never thought much about the geology of the games.

Estoy seguro que en Game Freak no se vieron venir éste análisis a la geología del mapa jajaj Buen vídeo

really interesting i just wish I could hear you better :3

Is that a metazoo character

Hype geography + games! My two passions!

Your video isn't bad, but at 30m it's a bit of a slow watch and lost me at times. I would recommend trying to trim the fat per say and cut bits here and there, cut out any dead air in the live video sections, as well as it might be worth while to do a few extra takes where you can go over a subject a bit faster. Remember even an educational television broadcast caps it at about 22m due to commercials, so try to keep your goal "print time" to about 20m so things can stay snappy. One thing I was told in school was "nothing is sacred" so don't be afraid to cut bits you felt really put a lot of effort into if they are detrimental to the video's pace and run time. I do like that you cut to live demonstrations though, as it felt like something that puts your work a part from other Poketubers. Keep up the good work I hope you're able to make a lot of gaming geology videos as it sounds like something you're very passionate about.

Legends Arceus only took place about a century or two before mainland games, significant tectonic and geological change would not occur to a noticeable degree in Sinnoh

This is one of the best most researched video I have seen in a LONG time. Such an interesting concept too and I love how much thought was put into every element and possibility!!

just a small heads up you are REALLY quiet, i had to put you up to 100 volume on my headphones just to be able to hear ya and I usually keep my headphone volume between 20-50

As much as I want that meteor theory to be correct, it probably isn't, unfortunately. (Commenting for the algorithm)

When did Mississippian and Pennsylvanian become a thing? I'm from the U.S. and learned Carboniferous, but that might be bc it was private school.

This is amazing and I love your passion and enthusiasm! More content like this please!

Carbink is one of my favorite Pokemon so I really enjoyed this even though a lot of it went over my head! I love that you're using Pokemon to talk about your passions!

The Terapagos entries pretty much spell that a massive earthquake caused Area Zero (no it was not AZ's weapon the game explicitly says Area Zero is at least 2 million years old) but it's kinda vague that earthquakes alone would make a crater that big. Then comes a frog and explains how the crater could be formed over time after the inital mass earthquake that buried the turtle underground.

BDSP is a reminder that faithful remakes based entirely on nostalgia was a trend that got old extremely quick.

Great video I’m glad that I’m here before you blow up.

this was a great video! you have a really easy to pick up way of explaining things. i always enjoyed watching old episodes of game theory that used video games to explain real world science, so i'm glad i found this channel! also just out of curiosity, do you have any plans for making a video about glimmet and glimmora? they're such interesting pokemon and i'd love to hear if you've got anything interesting to talk about related to them. though, part of me always interpreted the two as polyps from some kind of cnidarian, possibly ones that had opalised? or, more likely, they're just flowers...

Super cool video! It was really neat to have so many Canadian examples used. It genuinely shocked me when BC was the first location you brought up! It's funny how that immediately made me think you must be Canadian, cause I feel like no one outside of Canada ever thinks to use specific names of locations here, every part of the country is just "Canada" 😅

Sinnoh was the region that made me stop playing Pokemon

i like the theory that there are a multitude of caldera lakes present in sinnoh. if i recall correctly, lake verity has a large rocky ridge around it, while lake valour is raised like a metre above the ground around it. in legends arceus, that is. i think lake acuity also has slighty raised terrain around it in certain areas? though most of the edge is level with the terrain on the cliff around it. it is also on a cliff face and losing water, so i have no idea how a lake formed there. is it being supplied with water by melting snow around it? if so, that's a lot of melting snow. if the cobalt coastlands(most of it, anyway) are crescent shaped due to a large caldera lake that eventually mixed with sea water, i must wonder what that volcano would have been like since the lake is *massive*. could it have been a supervolcano, like the one in yellowstone? when it blew its top, i wonder what world shaking effects it had caused. random, completely stupid thought here but what if there was a global cooling period caused by this supervolcano.(assuming it was one anyway) that part's completely expected- ash in the atmosphere does cool things down for a while. but here's a conspiracy theory: what if this cooling period forced pokemon with protosynthesis to either adapt or die? bigger, more sun-reliant pokemon wouldn't have been able to survive as consistently as smaller, less sun-reliant ones. could this potentially explain why pokemon like misdreavus, jigglypuff and others are smaller in the modern day and metamorphose into more powerful forms later in life? also, one other thing. this may sound stupid, but is it possible that the map of hisui is at a different angle to the sinnoh map? i always just assumed that was most of why the shape of hisui is different

This is the type of content I really want to see on youtube. I would love to see a video about deserts in the Pokemon world. Specifically, I always thought the arid region surrounding Route 4 in Unova felt out of place if it was formed due to the climate of the region due to its proximity to two large rivers, lush forests to the north, east, and west, and lack of mountains to create a rain shadow. I'd like to hear your thoughts on my hypothesis that the region was formed by anthropogenic factors such as deforestation, overgrazing by livestock, and depletion of aquifers.

Personally, I don't think the volcano of Firespit island is what became Stark Mountain and the entire island north of Sinnoh, I feel like that island already existed at the time of Hisui a bit further north, instead I'd propose that Firespit Island became the Pokemon League and Victory Road, since it's similarly hard for me to believe that this entire area would've come from a broken off tip of Veilstone Cape. What then instead became of Veilstone Cape would simply be that it shrank into the land, we can see a bit of it also seemingly drifted north on the Sinnoh-map. The route leading from Victory Road to Shaymins Flower Paradise also still looks like it could be the result of volcanic drift, as proposed, and would also give us a reason as to why Heatran moved to Stark Mountain, as the Volcano that was inside Firespit Island moved and thus died, with no new volcano forming on the surface (yet), Heatran instead moved to the next closest and bigger Volcano in Stark Mountain, which simply became dormant but not dead yet. Iron Island on the other hand to me looks way more like a bit of cape that broke off at some point for whatever reason, with the small island we see drifting along Hisuis western coast instead being what later became known as Full Moon and/or New Moon Island. What would actually interest me a lot more rather than the general shape of Hisui to Sinnoh is the topography of the area though, since there are some MASSIVE differences... although I guess most of those would have to be chalked up to humans terraforming the land to be more inhabitable, as of course the land has been developed quite a bit within that time, going from 3 settlements, 2 of which being quite a bit more "primitive", to around 13 from what I recall, and that's just what the game shows us. As for the timeframe in which Legends Arceus takes place though, considering just the premise greatly resembles the Japanese settlement/conquest of Hokkaido, we can assume the games to take place around 150 years before our current time, or roughly 140 before the events of DPPl. So that would make most of the characters in Legends Arceus grandparents (in the case of older people like Rowan) to great (great) grandparents of modern day characters.

A lot of the inconsistencies between Hisui and Sinnoh's maps are more explained by geography - after all, how many coasts were mislabeled by explorers who couldn't spare the time and resources to check if that river they passed was actually a strait, or vice versa? I don't think Firespit Island is Stark Mountain, as its location roughly matches with the location of the Sinnoh Pokémon League - which is shown to be an island with steep cliffs and a mountain cave on top. Stark Mountain is in the Battle Zone, an island which is implied to not be considered part of Sinnoh, with its own folklore about Heatran. Thus, its absence from the map of Hisui makes a lot more sense. Overall though, this video was pretty fun to have on while I work.

This video was pretty good, just one thing to note: Paldea isn't an island. It's shown on the town map to be a peninsula like IRL Iberia is. Nothing is shown beyond the rock wall in the north east for the same reason they don't show off Chugoku and Shikoku in ORAS when soaring around Hoenn. It's just a visual shorthand for 'you can't go there'. In the games, the great crater is stated to have formed over one million years ago, and that Terapagos used to flourish two million years ago, so your assumption that the crater can't have anything to do with AZ is correct.

Hisuian Avalugg make no sense. If anything, they should have been _more_ icy (maybe having a peak instead of a flat top), instead of looking like a lightly frosted rock bug thing. Based on what we see in Legends: Arceus, the frozen fjords and tundras they call home appear to have shrunk, as you'd expect from the effects of global warming, so why is it not adapted to better camouflage itself? It's not like it was an apex predator with no need for such a tactic in the past.