668 - The Evolution Oddity of Espeon and Umbreon in Gen III (I shiny hunted them, too)

horse

[@saxor96]

There's also that both Espeon and Umbreon are forcefully male in Colosseum, and with Ditto being completely unaccessible until FRLG, it made it impossible to get an Eevee by breeding. The whole eevee line is wack in gen 3.

[@AbsolBlogsPokemon]

I debated talking about this, too!! It was a dark time for 8 year old me trying to figure out how to get Jolteon, Vaporeon, and Flareon in Ruby from my Colo Espeon/Umbreon before FR/LG dropped

[@Shapio]

​@@AbsolBlogsPokemonthere's a lot that generation did to try to curb people from renting the game and just getting whoever they wanted early. that whole gem side quest in the post game is probably the worst of it

[@103SuperDog]

Wild that ditto wasn’t in Ruby/Sapphire or Colosseum/XD they really wanted to make sure people had a reason to buy FR/LG other than nostalgia.

[@nellewoodruff6337]

​@@Shapio I love Sevii but darn that quest. I just wanna use Crobat in non-postgame Kanto darn it 😢

[@lucyandmudkip]

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[@Loch32]

It's insane how pivotal horses are to the absolblogspokemon lore now. Congrats on the shiny horses!

[@chaoscasserole5990]

The horse lore was introduced on my birthday too lmao maybe I should catch the streams sometime

[@polishedrelish]

Don't forget the one from the XY movie

[@Loch32]

@@polishedrelish oh hey what's up lmao

[@polishedrelish]

@@Loch32 Nothing much, you?

[@Loch32]

@@polishedrelish bit of this, bit of that, horse

[@snowscapeddreams6300]

Matt, you gotta add a horse jumpscare warning! I was NOT prepared at all, and I ended up tripping and falling down a flight of fifty stairs, where the horse was waiting for me... I lost my dignity, and my venonat wallet. The horse took both, and has since fled. Edit: after I posted this comment, I went into temporal tower on my PMD:EOS save and the room I spawned into was a monster house, I blame the horse. Congrats on the shiny eevees, btw!

[@amateur-disco]

Spawned in front of a Monster Horse

[@ThedomiNATION]

I’m obsessed with how you reset your gba games with one hand! Also congrats on the eevee!

[@AbsolBlogsPokemon]

The claw!!!

[@Crush_The_Cranium]

hes built different

[@FullMetalLuffy]

This has brought back the horrific sinking moment after setting the clock in saphirre for the first time, getting to night... and nothing happening. That small betrayal haunts still..

[@lugiae]

"[Eevee evolves in Gen 3 Hoenn] in a kind of backwards way, where, if it was in the A.M, it would evolve into Umbreon, and in the P.M, it would evolve into Espeon[...]" Whaaat? There's no way that's right. (looks at Bulbapedia) ...That's right?! But like. Why, tho?

[@excalibur493]

See, I didn't know this. I remember as a kid staying up all night, fighting the news duo over and over again, trying to get an umbreon. I got a damn espeon instead. Good thing I got away with it!

[@mrSatern100]

My guess is is that it's because most of AM is at night while most of PM is in the day (though that theory is heavily based on where you live in the world tbf)

[@AllanGuiHaya70]

​​@@mrSatern100Both are 6 hours "day" and 6 hours "night"

[@the7569]

For several years I have had an inside joke with pretty much everyone I know where I say the word horse. The fact that it is now completely unrelated a part of your lore is one of the funniest coincidences ever lol. Great video as always, keep it up. I need to start actually watching the twitch streams again, I haven't used twitch in almost like a year

[@JermTheWerm123]

Espeon’s shiny is underrated! Congratulations on getting these shinies!✨

[@QuasarVeeTheVivianAndFranLover]

Howard the alien

[@woofexe4050]

That Eevee on the thumbnail is one of the best, derpiest drawings of an Eevee I've ever seen and I freaking love it 💙

[@thomasvlekke5365]

"Who would fall for that?" "Me" Same dude, same

[@JimotheyBimothey]

Horse

[@stevenhumenny816]

juan?

[@maybe_maybenot2854]

Pig?

[@Rapsciddy31]

Man

[@Vivid_Astronomy]

So true

[@mysticaria4029]

Hose

[@shinycollector7]

That’s bizarre about them evolving at the opposite times in R/S/E. Also, I’m impressed by the 6x SP setup! And congrats on the shiny Eevee! Really cool to see it in Emerald too

[@bigredradish]

babe wake up eeve guy uploaded

[@thisismyaltaccount4195]

Well done! Loved seeing the Lenin LSD dream emulator rock! Theres actually a special rock at the ol' PNT on Sunday afternoons ;D In regards to ur emerald's clock, while swapping the battery does "restart" the clock, in order to get things moving like berries growing, you'd unfortunately need to either edit the internal clock with an external device of some kind, or restart the save file to begin the clock naturally. I actually spent a couple of weeks figuring out how to properly reset the clock post-battery-swap AND be able to keep my save file! It uses a 3DS R4 cart with PKMN chest on an original DS, but it works! Berries can grow and I can keep things original! I wont be doing it to all of my games, since I do kinda like the dry battery for mirage island hunts and potential ring manips, but it's great to have the option! But do stay away from battery holders for GBA cartridges! We ended up shattering one of my copies of Sapphire from the holder sticker out too far off of the board. :( ended up ordering a bootleg cart shell and dremelling out a hole in the face of it for the battery to stick out. Not very graceful, but it runs XD Also loved seeing pokemon box and the gamecube gear! Can't wait to see more!

[@d00r9]

I guess this video the first time yt exclusive viewers were introduced to the horse. Wild.

[@sweethistortea]

Out of the two, I always thought Espeon looked very regal.

[@yannikbuhler4980]

I recently hunted shiny Umbreon in the Emerald Battle Pyramid! It’s such a phenomenal shiny, probably my favourite shiny of all time

[@MattDustyParker]

How do you do that?😮

[@yannikbuhler4980]

@@MattDustyParker I’m just gonna link the video I learned it from. It’s from a dedicated shiny hunter named Olig and iirc it explains a lot of stuff. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXOUo4SejJl5apYsi=jSLqLDsQS7Xz5v1I

[@mr.scarfy6851]

Man youve really mastered playing on multiple gameboys at once lol

[@YYangles]

Great to see a new addition to absolblogs cinematic universe, congrats on the shiny eeve

[@silentsteel009]

A shiny eevee video on the weekend of eevee? It cant be a coincidence!

[@a.m.theshinyjohtohunter4287]

Wish me luck as I'm soft resetting for shiny Ho-Oh in heart gold for my Dream Team Dice quest. So far my team of shinies is Typhlosin, meganium, miltank, kingdra girafarig and Murkrow. (Haven't been able to roll the dice yet for a shiny totodile 😅) These were all shinies either freshly radar hunted, masuda method bred or random encountered like the girafarig and Murkrow. HM slaves don't count for this play through but I still love my shiny Furret and the red gyarados makes a great water slave.

[@Immacksgdoesntpostonthisone]

What’s up with that Japanese Sapphire cartridge with the art of Kyogre, Brendan and the aqua grunts on it? I got one of those cartridges a few years ago but I always just assumed it was a funky bootleg. I didn’t even know more existed!

[@AbsolBlogsPokemon]

It was a special sticker people could apply to their cartridges that I believe was given out in CoroCoro way back in the day!

[@Immacksgdoesntpostonthisone]

@@AbsolBlogsPokemon oh yo that’s pretty cool! I wonder if there are matching stickers for Ruby and Emerald?

[@serene_togepi]

i havent had time to watch your streams for a few months, but i loved seeing the stream lore with the horse!! always love your videos absol!

[@Milady_M]

I love the effect you did with the star across multiple GBA SPs. Shiny Espeon always weirds me out because it looks like an alien version of itself or something lol I love Espeon otherwise. Especially when they have their hidden ability Magic Bounce. The blue glow of shiny Umbreon is really cool and is definitely my favorite shiny change for the Eevee evolutions. Happy Thanksgiving!

[@TheTangledOne]

I can proudly say that this is truly a 668 - The Evolution Oddity of Espeon and Umbreon in Gen III (I shiny hunted them, too) moment! Ironically I was also hunting eevee (Eevee Everywhere event) when this came out, so it's like the moon and the sun and the earth aligned and combined!

[@BroseidonLive]

3rd Gen Eeveelutions look so good, congrats! Man, everyone is in for a treat with all the places you went in Japan and the footage you got!

[@dinis0r]

Have been watching stream vods the past days, happy to see the video for the eevee during the eevee eevent weekend in SV!

[@polishedrelish]

I've known about this for a while, it's always stuck out to me. I wouldn't be surprised if this was a part of the reason you started with Espeon/Umbreon in Colo

[@Sean081799]

Throwback Thursday to the origin of the horse.

[@eeveeblazelol]

an absol upload AND he’s hunting one of the best shiny eeveelutions? immediate like

[@MrMelonGuy42]

all absol uploads are auto likes

[@fungi265]

Agreed, shiny espeon is indeed a masterpiece

[@woofexe4050]

That normal Umbreon at the end is stone cold it's just that cool

[@AnimalXing]

6:25 that orange pocket is so clean

[@FranXiT]

Man, every Forsen viewer got PTSD from you saying the words "it wasn't a png, it was a gif which flashed an image of a horse". Be glad you have nice viewers and it was completely innocent 😅

[@BK_Silvally]

2:58 wow I can’t believe Absol was a horse this entire time! 😮 Face reveal was definitely worth the wait!

[@xeno1998]

Oh yeah, seeing a new absol video makes my damn day. Let's get into it. 😝

[@thatcloveplant]

looking at that rack of games reminds me of how superstar saga is my favourite pokemon game

[@MrJoeyWheeler]

It just gets worse when you remember the internal batteries of RSE run dry and stop time forever, therefore meaning that in those games, unless you start a new save file and dictate a desired time, you will only be able to get an Espeon OR Umbreon, depending on what the time was.

[@niightluvr]

I honestly don’t get why gen 3 is the only gen to not have day and night system. At least not visibly. It’s my favorite gen (RSE specifically) but I just wish it had that bc day/night system is one of the things I love most about Pokemon games. Just adds to the vibe imo 🤷🏻‍♀️ P.S I’ve been following your Japan posts on insta and I can’t wait for a vlog to come out about it :) hope you had an amazing time Matt! *Edit: I also totally have to visit someday and take a picture infront of that absol manhole cover lmfao

[@hhhhhhhhhhh4861]

It was probably because of the original GBAs lack of a back light. Most GBA games had to use very bright color pallets so that you could actually see whats going on, having a night time with a darker color pallet would make things much less visible.

[@niightluvr]

Hm, makes sense when you look at it that way. But I guess we’ll never know for sure

[@Pixtrix_]

horse

[@kilwilliam8613]

Horse that's it, horse

[@iReznik]

Welcome back Horse

[@saintlarfleeze3551]

I love Matt having the aniwave anime pirate site in the background at one point

[@AbsolBlogsPokemon]

gotta watch the new season of Pokémon somewhere!

[@smellyfishstiks]

Espeon is my favorite pokemon, Congrats on the shiny! In gen3 or at least from your recording it almost likes like lime color really nice. In the newer games it's more of a nuclear-puke green and I don't like it as much despite being my favorite pokemon :/ Thanks for the vids as always!

[@rinchanlife]

hey matt(absol) i really love your content and i wanna make videos in a similar vlog style(currently working on a leafgreen professor oak challenge and considering some shiny hunting stuff), any tips on getting good/ interesting footage or editing tricks?

[@SocialBubblia]

WAHOO! I WAS JUST WATCHING THE LAST VIDEO TODAY WONDERING WHEN YOU WOULD POST AGAIN!

[@Asellph]

Was there when you got the eevee, glad to finally see this video

[@thirdiprodigy3579]

Damn absol gave us the penguinzero salut that's kinda baller

[@onthehunt2297]

Great job Absol and I really like the gen 3 games and I’m happy to know that you can hunt eevee in FRLG and keep up the Amazing work

[@doorframe2315]

As soon as he found the shiny eevee I found a shiny growlithe what the hell

[@lego6192]

Thats the most normal Umbreon I have ever seen

[@flowerfloofs]

Shiny espeon is my favorite pokemon of all time. Espeon was the first pokemon i ever ev trained, and that thing was a beast. I lost her, but i always evolve one eevee into espeon and name it ESPurr in his honour!!!

[@QuasarVeeTheVivianAndFranLover]

Your Green Espeon is quite rare

[@dominicsacoolguy]

4:52 The first of my many scouts...

[@SpiderRiderKya]

Probably something you don't care about BUT, if you did (and on the off chance anyone else does) uh, if you ever wanted to try and name something in Japanese 1) the Japanese names for pokemon are on bulbapedia, so you have a fast reference to what characters to use right there (so for Nyarth u just go to Meowth's page and, boom ニャース is right there at the top of the page). Alternatively 2) Wikipedia has a chart for all the katakana characters (which is what's used for the names, they also have one for hiragana, but katakana is the one u want for names) so u can just, look them up there one by one. Either of these methods will make going through the Japanese characters a lot less time consuming.

[@superdejan64]

1:44 nice to know at least someone is aware of the best pokemon game, mario and luigi superstar saga, so underrated

[@CorVids1031]

I feel like you should know that after the video ended I got a perfume ad featuring a horse galloping on a beach.

[@jks7556]

NICE ANALOGUE POCKET, SON!

[@Delibirdsandwhich]

Great video! Keep up the great content.

[@texeoghea]

i wonder if that hareyama named Kin in the used file is a reference to kamen rider den-o. they would have been out at around the same time...

[@thatguysagittar]

Congrats on the shiny horse!

[@demonkid8284]

I hope you finally got your drinks and snacks after that lemonade kid finally left.

[@P3ngw1n_]

lemonade lemonade lemonade lemonade lemonade

[@Seth_rs]

Espeon has always been a favorite specially in gen 3, thats the gen where the npc had a shiny espeon which I always wanted to snag machine that mon 😢

[@Plus1extra]

matt looks like a katamari character with his mtndew crown

[@techanubis6784]

1:33 LSD Dream Eeveelator

[@sidekickk1]

I believe in Zoo the swampert supremacy

[@jimbob9335]

Hey matt, Idea for a full odds unusual shiny hunt - the trash can pokemon you can find in Pokemon X&Y. I think there are 3 different mons in the lost hotel and 3 in the pokemon village

[@AbsolBlogsPokemon]

I've always wanted to go for one of the Rotom formes that way!

[@ThinkWithGames]

Welcome back!

[@jonnevitu4979]

Man, I love when you upload

[@GrandpaMaxGaming]

Yoooo new matt video

[@itsthec0rn]

NEW VIDEO!! love your vids keep it up!

[@Seth_rs]

FrLg should be like eevee evolves with friendship alone, FR gets espeon, LF umbreon. Kinda like a deoxys exclusive type of deal

[@anjrootrollface]

dang and ronpa

[@creatingvideostobreakmyspe6049]

THE HORSE IS IN THE HOUSE

[@Bluebladebeetle]

how close are you into the silver oak challenge congrats on the shiny by the way

[@AbsolBlogsPokemon]

almost 2 badges

[@Bluebladebeetle]

@@AbsolBlogsPokemon awesome keep the grind up im curious to see what pokemon you use

[@Pakrawr]

Matt is my favorite poketuber

[@terrariaskeletonpre1.0.39]

Hey Matt, i had an AWFUL video idea! any shiny pokemon you want to hunt for in any game (below gen 5 if you're really looking for some torture), but the catch you can only do one encounter for every shiny you find, for example, if you were hunting shinx in pokemon diamond, you would have to play a different game, shiny hunt there, and once you find the shiny, you are allowed to do the encounter this would probably take months, years even, but it would be the ultimate rare shiny pokemon

[@dizzy_eevee]

certified eevee girl coming to congratulate you (certified eevee man) on your eevee luck

[@envyllawliet]

🐎

[@dylanmcpeake7006]

1:47 Where did you get that game stand from?

[@PandaPlayzPokemon]

horse.

[@blueberrymagick]

I SAW YOU GOT THE TRANSPARENT ORANGE ANALOGUE POCKET 😭

[@Coyoteari]

Funny enough I just finished getting all the shiny eeveelutions in scarlet with the outbreak event!

[@masteraj1024]

Ah yes, my favorite Pokemon game, Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga

[@partyarlie]

pokemonhummus2023realleak you are a real one wherever you are!!!!

[@sweeperton]

thanks

[@brucelau2023]

AbsolBlogsPokemon great video my dude and hope you had an amazing time in Japan my guy !!! this is such a very and interesting amazing video especially for gen 3 evolving eevee to umbreon and Espeon

[@Beleth420]

Shiney umbreon will always be my favourite eveelution.

[@TKnHappyNess]

The clock battery in RSE will eventually run out unless you're willing to replace it, otherwise you have to set one to AM and one to PM

[@mr.niceguy978]

Finally he hunts my 3 favorites tis a good day

[@regal-27]

I FORGOT ABOUT THE HORSE LOL

[@mo55m00n]

Horse!

[@Pepeutra]

The 68th comment on the 668 video, the funny number edger is in inner peace

[@Primaphy]

It do be like that

[@partyhatkid9940]

I was so confused on how to get Espeon and Umbreon as a kid - what a trip down memory lane! By the way, how are you enjoying the Pocket? How does it stack up to the SP?

[@AbsolBlogsPokemon]

It's awesome!!! I still love how an SP feels, thougg!!!

[@I-like-Turtwig]

This do be a banger

[@Type_One___]

horse!

[@Sailor-Khione]

I know this isn't about pokemon nicknames but, I wanted to put this on the current video so you may have a better chance of seeing this. So I have multiple pokemon that have full nicknames and then a symbol next to their names. Some of these aren't available on the switch anymore and I wanted to know if the game would just erase their nickname like it did with dundunsparce or, would they just remove the symbol? And if they did remove their nickname, can I just rename them?

[@systemrestart120]

Straight up did not know they could evolve in the GBA games At All, I thought the literal ONLY way to get them was to trade from Coloseum or evolve your starter Eevee in XD. Huh Congrats on the sucessful hunt(s)!!

[@ka-sunny]

horse indeed

[@Twinklethefox9022]

Im doing this kinda but in violet with the outbreaks

[@rayflyers]

Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga is the best GBA Pokemon game! ...or at least the one with the best 3DS remake.