25 INSANE Pokémon SECRETS You May Not Know About! - Hoenn

Pokemon games are filled with secrets and cool details that can very easily go unnoticed, but in today's video, I'm going to be putting some of these secrets in the spotlight! I'm going to be highlighting 25 cool secrets from the Hoenn based Pokemon games that you may not know about, but definitely need to know! I hope you enjoy!
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[@HoopsandHipHop]

Hope you guys enjoy this one! What's your favorite part about the Hoenn games?

[@Draculer666]

The music for sure

[@the-angel-of-light-gardevoir8]

Gardevoir… easily one of the most iconic and beloved Pokémon from this generation….

[@micheli5772]

My favorite part is Jirachi no contest

[@ThirtyDimensionedMissile]

The fact that they made wailord. The cute whale boy.

[@katiesheerin]

i love that it is the first pokemon i played and then i grew to love pokemon

[@mackenzieshoemaker4541]

“The adventure should be about walking, not running” *adds a bike in every single game*

[@ghostfox13]

Adds water all over the region “Nothing personal, kid.”

[@Ajzan1]

That bit about Tram Aqua and Magma being originally just one team instantly reminded me of that one infamous line from ORAS where one of their Grunts tells the player that Archie and Maxie in the past were in the same team.

[@ijustbelieve9357]

Imagine that it was, like, named Team Sky, or Team Space, and their objective was to use Rayquaza to control Groudon and Kyogre for their will, but then, due to inside conflict, which we can guess what it is, they divided in two different teams. Could be

[@p3pable]

Beach enthusiast

[@paragonoftorna2548]

​@@ijustbelieve9357Team Ozone

[@ijustbelieve9357]

@@paragonoftorna2548 Perfect

[@JustARandomHuman-py4oj]

​@@ijustbelieve9357team sky, heh. Mikey the overlord of archie and maxie

[@the-angel-of-light-gardevoir8]

Interestingly the reason Gardevoir is 50% male is because the Japanese name is Sirkknight implying that due to cultural differences didn’t realize that the Pokémon was considered feminine in many parts of the world…. This is likely why Gallade was introduced in Gen 4… to introduce what was probably something similar to their orinigal intention for the line

[@Hip-Gnosis1134]

That honestly makes their newest paradox counterpart make even more sense now too

[@bananapee86]

@@Hip-Gnosis1134 FARTS TO THE MAX

[@turtlebuttmudd]

The Blaziken thing makes perfect sense when you consider the Blaziken+Latias design fusion

[@reesejackson5935]

Loved having 2 evil teams in hoenn. 2 teams with different pokemon makes both games worth playing thorough.

[@HateSonneillon]

Yeah Sugimori's take on the running shoes shows that he was thinking of the game as a linear experience. But since its a large interconnected map that you explore and backtrack in, the running shoes are a priceless addition.

[@barracuda4526]

For that they originally implemented the bike

[@Seattletyy93]

Not to mention multiple playthroughs. Drives a person wild when you have to slog through something slowly you've already done many times.

[@Eric-gp3hi]

I learned that Team Magma and Team Aqua were originally meant to be one team. My favorite part about the Hoenn games were that we had two teams in Team Magma and Team Aqua in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire it added more variety to version exclusives in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire.

[@catriamflockentanz]

Another fact: The Pokémon Anime had a very late design influence in Hoenn. Notable characters that used regular Overworld Sprites in the base games had their new models for ORAS build based on their Anime Appearence. Devon President Stone and Lanette are examples I realized myself there are probably more.

[@brockschannel3927]

1 fact about Hoenn, they need to let us transfer cosplay Pikachu.

[@GhostieToasterStrudel]

Facts. The fact they gave us cap pikachu that can in the main games but not the cosplay ones is a real shame

[@BassGosple]

Meanwhile Spiky Eared Pichu sits forever with Ethan/Lyra in HGSS

[@brockschannel3927]

@@BassGosple they just need to redistribute him.

[@runeking6242]

That’s not really a fact, but I do agree.

[@djdrizzy9139]

​@@brockschannel3927*Her. The pichu is female.

[@jasminejohnston6393]

Here’s a fact: In the anime, Maxie and the Unova Pokédex both had the same English voice actor!

[@voidtectonic]

Maxie just wanted to turn his life around

[@samuelmelendez7566]

As someone whos currently playing ORAS, I love this video even more

[@shawn3126]

Cool I'm gonna replay OR soon

[@samuelmelendez7566]

@@shawn3126 that's funny because I chose Alpha Sapphire

[@MrMitchbow]

@@shawn3126you guys should trade

[@ZeldaboyOG]

In Emerald your rival does have a younger brother with glasses.

[@Shadowluigi-pj9nq]

Gen 3 is definitely my favorite 🤩. The story is great and the music is amazing

[@katiesheerin]

DEFINETELY

[@itsturniptime3699]

Here’s some Swalot enlightenment While Gulpin is shaped like a human stomach, Swalot specifically is supposed to be some kind of sack. His little moustache is meant to be two ropes and the kissy lips are the part of a tied bag where the knot is tightened. He’s not just a stomach, he’s literally a poison filled bag.

[@katiesheerin]

EWW

[@jonathanrolle2046]

Funny thing I just finished my omega Ruby Pokedex a couple days ago!

[@k1ngofheartz]

Gen 3 the Hoenn region is my favorite pokemon games of all time it's also where I started my pokemon journey. I have owned every main series pokemon games since

[@adamoswaldplayz9416]

Did anyone else think of the Blazikin and Latios/Latias mixed concept art when the Blazikin part was mentioned?

[@rutagebremichael6481]

Yes

[@turtlebuttmudd]

Yes, commented something about it too. I'm actually very surprised he didn't bring it up

[@aaronjames3228]

If you're a pokemon fan and you've been on the internet for the past few years... well yeah

[@enoyna1001]

​@@turtlebuttmuddbecause it's old news

[@fridaypurples2441]

Nah, almost every Pokémon fan knows about it, it's common knowledge.

[@pharodos7155]

2:36 team sky of course

[@ErikLambShank]

Ken Sugimori and his art are integral to what pokemon was and is now. But I have to vehemently disagree with him on the running shoes. An adventure is fast, exciting, filled with thrills, chills, fun and friends. A walk can be fun but is more like sight seeing than an adventure. You walk to the start of the adventure, not through it.

[@realzachfluke1]

That's a really great take, friend. Loved it.

[@ninjanug5233]

(14:30) If Masters EX is cannon then... "A long time ago, my friend Briney and I were trying to become the greatest sailors in the world." "We dreamed of mastering every sea route there is." "But then, one day, when I was out to sea, my ship got caught in a storm." "Somehow, I avoided sinking, but I was adrift for days after that." "I had used up the last of my food and water, so I thought I was done for, but then a Dragonite appeared in the sky." "That Dragonite led me all the way back to shore." He makes other references to this in EX, but there is nothing in the mainline games

[@CakeofRage]

it feels a lot like Masters has all the lore that could never fit in any of the mainline games and i love it for that

[@OlyChickenGuy]

I feel like this must be more well known than I think it is, but I had never heard of it and had no idea it happened. So, I've been playing through the core series games recently because I've only played through Yellow fully, most of White, and some of Y and Silver. I'm currently on Emerald and though I really don't utilise berries, I just love planting and harvesting various berries at the Berry Master's house. A few days ago I was tending to my berries when they all suddenly glittered and grew into their next stages of maturation! I was floored, and just thought that was a super cool, little effect that was programmed into the games. Before this, I was 100% convinced (for no real reason) that berries would only mature upon exiting and re-entering a route, like potential for battle rematches.

[@NintendoSegaGuys]

I know what you mean, blew my mind when I was playing X.

[@bananapee86]

@@NintendoSegaGuys Licky pee farts

[@Oskarvis]

Fun fact about Hoeen *Theres too much Water*

[@No__direction__]

Sometimes I wonder how these little differences would have effected my love for Pokémon. I never outgrew the franchise but I temporarily lost interest with newer titles being too hand-holdy. But I continued collecting the Pokémon card because they make me happy. I never sell my cards.

[@thefalseprophett8807]

If you have not yet and have the means to, I highly recommend Legends Arceus. Truly unmatched to recent titles in my opinion.

[@bennettholmes1107]

Is that why Manectric’s hidden ability is minus then that is extremely awesome

[@jasminejohnston6393]

Norman being Brendan/May’s dad reminds me of something: Many Disney characters don’t have moms because Walt Disney lost his own mother due to an issue that came up in the house she was living in…that Walt bought for her. He felt so bad for this that he decided to make characters in Disney movies either orphans or motherless characters, like how Cinderella is an orphan or how Bambi’s mom gets shot

[@vegetarianvamp101]

I thought about the Disney moms as well, though my mind went down the odd route of what if Disney dads got together with Pokemon moms.

[@kuroginava8498]

Ruby, saphire and emerald are still my favorite pkmn games i am a big fan of high quality grafic but i feel like the pixel grafic suits pkmn way more than the 3d.

[@TomAmit42]

19:39, 21:02 - From the very first moment I ever saw Grovyle (about 20 years ago), I knew it was (at least partially) based some feathered dinosaur (velociraptor, archaeopteryx, etc). The design makes it very apparent.

[@aninass]

Emerald is my favorite Pokemon game of all time. I hope they give it a remake in the future.

[@sleepyslowhyrax]

6:31 now they just need to make Makuhita give more xp

[@blaketaylor6227]

DUDE! WHERE DID YOU GET THAT LONG VERSION OF THE 'RAYQUAZA DESCENDS' SCENE?!?! IT'S ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING AND YET SO PITIFULLY SHORT BITS OF MUSIC THAT DESERVES ALL THE LOVE!

[@ladyarcanine1432]

I will always love these games. I be a Gen 3 baby and I'm proud of it. Yet even so, I didn't know some of these facts. So great work on this.

[@robinthedragonhunter64]

Archeops looks similar stance wise to Grovyle in their art

[@TheOneTrueGesta]

I still think it's neat that my favorite Pokemon has an alternative beta fusion with Latias

[@Zachx]

I definitely get frustrated whenever I can't move quicker so L for his opinion on that, but I'm glad we got the running shoes!!

[@TheAllay7]

2:09 team sky is the best one though ☁️☁️☁️

[@pharodos7155]

Oh darn I had the same thought but you got it first 🤩👍👍

[@Aaron.Seabolt]

Team Magma and Team Aqua were meant to be one team originally huh? So Team Sky was a real thing and the group was so split they abandoned it completely forming the other two teams. MandJTV is onto something!

[@CakeofRage]

go team sky!!

[@o2cool264]

GO TEAM SKY!!!!

[@Mr.Feather130]

I can't believe team sky is almost canon in the Pokemon series!

[@stevenbahena5956]

2:58 I think it was a Grunt that said Maxie and Archie used to work together, but then they split up because of their different visions.

[@devonteedwards2093]

There's so many secrets we would need to know

[@TezlaGrey]

Makuhita may also be designed off an old Makiwara bag which was and still is used by martial artists to strengthen the knuckles

[@FairyPhantasia]

Matsuda thinking Ruby and Sapphire would be total failures and going to the hospital over it is the most ridiculous sounding thing to child me 😂😂😂😂 Those games raised me. Quite literally because I had a wild childhood and I'd say that's the most interaction I had with 'people' 😅😅

[@alicevioleta3184]

well, Masuda is a very silly person.

[@muticere]

Gen3 is still probably my favorite Gen. I started at the beginning with Gen1 but I guess I always felt like the limitations of the game boy held the games back. I loved the concept but was always less enthusiastic about the execution. Then when the Gen3 games came out, after over a year of being unsure if I wanted to come back to Pokémon, I fell completely in love with Sapphire. It was everything I wanted from a Pokémon game and felt that RBGS didn’t quite provide. And the remakes were such a massive upgrade on what was already great.

[@idk-hd7yc]

They had all that time to plan diamond and pearl and still failed the pokedex 💀

[@RoyArkon]

That wasn't a failure, that was part of the design, they wanted to expend the Pokedex mid Gen between stages of games.

[@idk-hd7yc]

@@RoyArkon I'm talking abt the availability and how certain gym leaders and e4 don't even have full teams of their specialty.

[@RoyArkon]

@@idk-hd7yc That's what I'm talkin about also. That's why they did it. Yeah it looked weird for Flint to not have a full team of Fire Types, but let's be honest, Gen 1 and 2 also had a ton of trainers without teams that fully represented their Types, even after Pokemon Yellow and Crystal. I'm not saying that this thing is ideal, far from it, but compared to these games, D/P is much more preferable.

[@WarmLillie]

Swalot being a purse… I feel bad for Nebby being in the bag right now Also I’m happy to have Running Shoes. I love the Mawile city glow up Learn more about Drake The missing connection of grass and flying

[@realzachfluke1]

Lol, _Nebby._ Such a silly little guy.

[@Mr.Feather130]

Yeah running shoes can quick up the pace for the journey

[@alitain8135]

It's definitely interesting learning these behind-the-scenes facts and connections between different aspects of the game. I always enjoy watching these videos. Hey, random thought of late. With all your videos of new starters, or various alt-evolutions and whatnot. Maybe consider a series of videos where you swap the types of the starters around. And then what theoretically that would entail for their design throughout their three stages. Might be neat, and your fakemon videos are always interesting too, seeing what you come up with. Just a thought.

[@giboit.]

Blaziken´s original design was a mix of its current design and Latias design. There´s even artwork of it. That´s why the pókedex entry for blaziken mentions wings.

[@aaronjames3228]

That's practically common knowledge now

[@giboit.]

@@aaronjames3228 Apparently not, because he said "we´ll never know how Blaziken was originally supposed to look like".

[@Jake2Flashyy]

thumbnail got me ()_()

[@Mr.Feather130]

Shelly definitely made us acting rather heat up

[@Niall_Sene]

It was really cool to find out a few interesting things about my favourite Pokemon Region, it all just adds to the charm!

[@CakeofRage]

I'm glad they went the way they did with the evil teams, because it would've been like having the Danganronpa mastermind be the same person three times in a row

[@alicevioleta3184]

i mean, technically...

[@Mr.Feather130]

Well Tsumugi might secretly be related to Junko by that description XD

[@AidanRatnage]

1:17 yet every Pokémon game before then had a bike.

[@5Porygon]

Thank you so much for all videos you made. You are one of my absolutely best youtubers ever. :) Jsi borec. Mám moc rád tvoji tvorbu.

[@julioflores5946]

I think the Gulpin and Swalot fact doesn’t mean purse purse. I think it means coin purse. Their mouths look like the little clips that seal them shut.

[@jesserivera2043]

Your entry related to team rocket makes me think about how this game series should have had one recurring team between all the entries, but have their method and plans change and grow; maybe in some entries have past trainers reappear. This would help create a timeline, as well as more character depth. If you've ever played the Legend of Heroes Trail games you can see for yourself how awesome this concept can get

[@wolfiemuse]

Gotta get that provocative female character fanart in the thumbnail, hoops is clearly a man of culture

[@highadmiraljt5853]

He’s a business man, doing business

[@Daniel_Coffman]

Perhaps the direction that Ruby and Sapphire were going to take as originally being soft-reboots may have directly inspired the direction that Black and White took to be so?

[@bakuiel1901]

Pretty sure that the big feather hairdo om Blaziken was meant to be wings and that's where the Dex entry came from, until they realized they didn't work as wings

[@Th1rt3en-K]

I never realized Brendan and May weren't even default names

[@paragonoftorna2548]

I absolutely love this series and can't wait until the Alola video since it's my favorite region

[@GhostieToasterStrudel]

Personally even though he thought they’d be a failure they still to this day are my fav from the Japan based regions (not including legends since technically not a main line one)

[@JURASSTIK]

“You would never guess in a million years that these two Pokémon are connected.” Both are types of prehistoric raptor with archeops being archaeopteryx while grovyle is a pretty basic raptor If anything I’m more surprised we HADNT realized they where connected sooner

[@anavictorianormie]

Ken was against the running shoes. Little does he know I play the games on emulators at 600% throttle.

[@GtcoUC]

Fun fact. I clicked on this video solely because of the thumbnail

[@emomc9557]

Loved the vid bro 💪🏼💪🏼 my fav Gen

[@adawnicusautocon]

I thank Masuda for creating Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald. While I didn't play these games when I was only about 6 or 7 I remember loving the Pokemon that was made in that region, so it holds a very special place in my heart

[@itsmeSh1k1]

9:12 this purpleRodri's emerald team nice

[@Masteruchiha94]

The Hoenn games were always my favorite

[@jeremypierreakajproject6750]

Thank you mr suda 🙏💯

[@_Banjo_]

I assumed the "Purse" was to do with his pursed lips - as in his pout

[@SonicBahasa]

I actually like the fast in world transformations like we see with crashhopper and spider monkey in this episode. I feel like it gives us more of a connection with the rest of the cast, like we’re seeing Ben transform the way the other characters do

[@hondaaccord1399]

Did you take too long to make a comment and KZbin auto-played to the next video? 😅

[@jaycomplexkidrandle1889]

18:55 must be referring to that design where it looks like a fusion with Latias

[@RoyArkon]

Amazing video once again dude. Also one question: How and why people thought back before Gen 3 came out the Pokemon series was dead? Is it because they thought that it can't go any further than 251 Pokemon and also no other regions beyond Johto and Kanto?

[@mrmxypltk]

Most of the OG fans had out-grown the games at that point. I remember being made fun of for "still playing that baby game" when I was playing Gen3 on lunch breaks at school. It wasn't known if Pokémon would be able to capture a new audience, and with its original audience starting to leave, sales were down and some feared the franchise was done for.

[@RoyArkon]

@@mrmxypltk Well they were clearly wrong, not only for bullying people like you had to go through but also about the series. It got new audiences and now it is stronger than it ever was.

[@alicevioleta3184]

​@@mrmxypltki was in third grade playing Crystal and Yellow and got bullied for it. like, come on, we're kids. let me do kid stuff.

[@Eldrick_]

As a kid i always thought Tropius was a legendary for some reason.

[@BlufireTheifprince]

One thing I noticed was that Blaziken's concept quite literally had inspirations from fighting games, Blaziken's English name and former signature move Blaze kick could be a reference to Ken Masters who is also known for his flaming footwork and even learned the move Sky Uppercut could be a reference to the Shoryuken, a rising Uppercut attack Ken and Ryu both use. And my last note is the Ken in Japanese translates to fist or punch. So Blazi-ken can mean Blazing fist

[@protosoul14]

Ah yes, the mighty team magqua

[@fantasticmr.dungeonmaster742]

I always had a feeling E4 Drake was related or had some connection to Ingo & Emmit

[@theserpent8667]

Why are the female admins such excellent thumbnail material?

[@relicking9207]

I didn't know that Manetric was based on crocodile clips, makes me wish the line was croc based instead of canine.

[@AN5137]

Thanks for the video. I am playing Pokémon emerald.

[@MrMitchbow]

Maybe he literally meant Magma and Aqua used to be one team but splintered in two after the two cocaptains devised a plan to control groudon and kyogre to shape the world but couldn’t agree on what way

[@jamesmontana6999]

Please make one for Gen 4, my favorite gen!

[@Xibyth]

Ruby and saphire are still my favorites

[@Pancakelover09]

In my headcanon Victini saw the weather in verdant turf and said nah give me something else

[@White_Fox_5.0]

An adventure is about having freedom to choose. If you wanna run you run. If you wanna walk you walk

[@mailowmailow5207]

You know you kinda destroy the fun trivia aspect of this with including some theories that are not confirmed

[@divulgedspirit]

Then don't watch? Child😂

[@minemaster5550ro]

Man got hospitalized making in my opinion the best game in the series

[@Rose-yx6jq]

If there was just one evil team and Ruby and Sapphire I think that they would be focused on controlling the airways. Maybe at the start they're talking about expanding the sky but realizing that doesn't really make sense around halfway through the story they decide they just want to control it. They get control of Kyogre and Groudon for some leverage, but their goal is to gain control of Rayquaza. I don't know what their team name would be but it would probably be somewhere along the lines of Team Ozone, Team Aerial, or just simply Team Sky. I don't know how that would work tho.

[@jamesworkshop9181]

had no idea you could look outside the ferry window

[@Wailerman]

My name is, of course, Landon. Therefore, I feel honored to have been mentioned in a Pokemon game several years before I was even born.

[@Wailerman]

Also, I feel like Tropius could've been Grass-Dragon, rather than Grass-Flying

[@lukekas66]

Hoenn games no doubt best pokemon games

[@CyberFruits3316]

you are awsome

[@nerfman6s2ndacc]

I feel like we could have done without the running shoes if the walking speed was just a bit faster. I could be wrong but it feels like it takes much longer to walk across a town in fire red vs red version

[@ClusterOfAtoms77]

PLEASE do gen 5 next

[@ChicagoMel23]

He cant skip gen 4.

[@ClusterOfAtoms77]

@@ChicagoMel23 good point

[@bananapee86]

@@ClusterOfAtoms77 farts to the max

[@airoe_games8743]

There is a picture of blazakin and latias fused. Which is the original picture, they split the design into 2.

[@DimpleMagician]

Feel like Makuhita’s head is meant to look like a dumpling

[@Darien2016]

Archeops is paradox grovile lol

[@abrasive2243]

Bruh, emerald is my favorite Pokémon game ever! ❤

[@fist_man]

Gilpin this nuts

[@GurparsadT]

I love hoenn around

[@mailowmailow5207]

I cannot believe you just called ken sugimori "sugumori"

[@Official_Patman]

Ken Sugimori: main story Game freak: post game