14 MORE Obscure Pokemon Facts You DON'T know! - 7

[@BlueBoyPhin]

Just wanted to say a couple things here! FIRST I know I misred the archeops fact! more below. I made this fact video as a spiritual successor to the first Pokémon fact video I made back in august! (similar thumbnail and ending subject matter and tones through out) To really cement this series to this channel! if you missed my community post, Ive now committed to WEEKLY uploads! This is a big step for my work ethic and this channel as a whole, and I appreciate every so much for being on this journey with me! Here's to 100K and beyond this year! P.S I know I messed up with the archeops base stat total fact I literally have no idea how that slid through i proof watched this vid so many times lmao i always miss something sorry about that everyone!

[@thijsgaming01]

I have a keldeo plush is it rare i think it said that it was from a anniversary or something like that

[@Hopey6371]

Let's get to 100k!!

[@Mojavekight17]

Interesting stuff ginger Jack black

[@TheTouristGuide]

I enjoy the shiny hunting content but your facts videos and lists were definitely what first had me totally roped on the channel. Would love to see more:)

[@sorrysucker1222]

Really cool stuff bro.

[@circusyeet4118]

3:56 That is actually 567, not 576, but the fact is still correct as Archeops is in fact number 567 in the Pokédex! I make mistakes with numbers all the time so don’t worry

[@DerRevoIuzzer]

As a german I was kinda confused because I first looked at 576 which we speak in german 500 6 70 when he came to 567 my english kicked in and I was really confused too

[@circusyeet4118]

@@DerRevoIuzzer numbers, man! Why are they like this lmao

[@washkidable]

Glad I wasn't the only one who saw that

[@Aka60thChip]

Lol literally did the math cause I’m like uh am I seeing things?

[@circusyeet4118]

@@gracelaih2082 turns out at least two other people already said it before I did, so we were both late 🐡

[@justinevans2003]

Funny enough, I was actually the little kid on the Battle Dome play set way back in the day and can confirm that the shiny Kingdra was apart of the original concept. The battle dome you showed was very similar to the one I used when shooting the pictures but they took off some of the parts for different photos. To be honest (as a HUGE Pokemon fan growing up) I did notice the “discolored” Kingdra but most of the toys/props they used were cheaply made as they were cropping most of them out or photo editing something else in (an example being that the cannon I am “holding” on the box was actually not there I had to pretend I was holding it for hours hahaha). They just used the toys as references so I am guessing that they just did not care if they were accurate or not. Still cool to see that a toy I modeled for is in your video hahaha

[@diegob798]

Replying so the comment gets more attention

[@huffypuff6707]

Replying so more people see this oml

[@sammcbreeze5874]

Yeah this is REALLY cool

[@arial012]

@@Rafael_Oiticica no you dont

[@danksoulsv1107]

Its true i was the battle dome

[@pi_xi]

7:50 The Level 50 Magikarp is a reference to Team Rocketʼs radio waves which causes some Magikarp to grow much faster (this is also the reason why the red Gyarados exists).

[@Ever_Curious]

I found one that was level 75

[@mr.x3135]

@@Ever_Curious do you have a picture of that ?

[@Ever_Curious]

@@mr.x3135 no. I found it quite a few years back.

[@Metaknight180]

I was just thinking that it was a play on the typical 'Lord of the Lake' or 'The Big Fish' legends that popular fishing places have.

[@GamingCatMaxi]

@@Ever_Curious You can't find a Magikarp level 75 there only in Platinum in the Resort but there you can also find a level 100 one

[@Patterrz]

I found that Mr Briney encounter randomly on a stream and was really impressed they accounted for a situation like that

[@DrDunsparce]

They really thought of everything

[@ESSARGEE]

i did not :)

[@TheBulbasaurKid]

I found it as a kid and thought it was normal. I used teleport to fast travel to petalburg

[@Bluequaz]

I remember running into that when playing one time. Only seen it once and didn't exactly know why

[@jimimcmahon4522]

Hey you're that clickbaiter youtuber

[@quintessences]

I’ve always secretly hoped that the Pokémon plushies would have a random chance of being shiny like the games. I figured that from a production standpoint that’d be easier said than done but it has always felt like a missed opportunity

[@Ipetam]

I would love that! Maybe, it's sort of like a mystery box. They could even do it with Keychains. I also know nothing about producing things like this tho!

[@masync183]

They should really get on that, that would make so much money jesus

[@ItIsYeCat]

Someone brought the fact that scalpers would eat up the items even more.

[@zeroattentiongaming820]

@@ItIsYeCat Ya but scalpers are gonna scalp no matter what, can't let that deter the creation of products or eventually there will be nothing left because of an attempt to curtail the scalpers.

[@idontwantahandlethough]

@@zeroattentiongaming820 This is... a terrible way of looking at things. Unless you're of the nutjob libertarian variety (in which case you don't live in reality anyway), it's perfectly achievable to either deter or maybe even completely ban scalping through policy. This is not the sort of life problem one "just has to deal with"... it's an entirely preventable artificial problem caused by greedy wieners being greedy.

[@scrawny3119]

3:23 If you take the average accuracy of all the possible moves nature power can take on (take Swift as 100%) then it comes to 93.33 ish. So rounded to the nearest 5 it would be 95 accuracy.

[@alexanderelderhorst2107]

ooooooohhh fair

[@jnickelberry74]

I thought the 95 accuracy meant that the move had a small chance of missing completely before becoming the move based on the environment you're in

[@darkness5101]

Pretty sure that’s right

[@rurazar1686]

I like to think of it as a conjurer whose in the middle of transforming themselves to mirror the environments they are in. If their concentration is slightly off, there is still a chance of them missing completely and therefore, not being able to fully complete their transformation. In that sense, I like to think of the initial phase surrounding the move nature power as the "setting up" phase prior to the transformation variable taking full effect.

[@Lvxurie]

This is likely the answer for why kings rock can make a sleeping or frozen pokemon flinch. The item might activate later in the damage equations and miss the can't be flinched check. I'm not sure of the specifics of how it's all calculated but I'd assume it's along those lines.

[@Jabbahabba]

As a very wise man once said “If it’s not 100% accurate it’s 50% accurate”

[@NathanSimonGottemer]

@@Jabbahabba but that’s wrong though. It’s either 100% or 0% …seriously I can’t even count the number of times I missed all 5 of my hydro pumps in a row…it’s pain

[@Kh3micalX8]

I actually triggered the Arceus event when I was a kid completely unknowingly. I had an action replay at the time, and had used it to do the Arceus event in Pearl cause I saw people on KZbin do it, and wanted to experience it myself. I eventually transferred this Arceus to my first Soul Silver playthrough. I came across it by accident having not seen anything about it. I remember being really weirded out by the whole thing and not really knowing what to think. I was hyped when I got the egg though lol.

[@AbsolXGuardian]

Yeah the Arceus doesn't have to be legit, if there is a cheat detector mechanism it simply needs to be an Arceus that *could* be legit and created with a competent hacking program. I was able to successfully trigger it with an Arceus obtained by the mystery gift proxy server

[@featherrwbyrnjr]

Man, you reminded me that I owned one of those too and now I'm doubting my memory if I actually got the official event Pokemon or if I used an action replay 😂

[@mjdxp5688]

You can probably also activate the Mr. Briney's house rival encounter by catching a Ralts and raising it until it learns Teleport if you don't want to black out. There's also another interesting trick you can do involving Teleport in the early game. If you bring something with Teleport with you to the Rustburo gym battle, you can Teleport as soon as you win the battle and exit the gym. This skips the trigger which starts the Team Aqua event at Rusturf Tunnel, so it doesn't activate until you walk into the zone it'd normally trigger.

[@GoldenSunAlex]

Fun fact about the SInjoh Ruins - the symbol that you see on the ground where Arceus can cry at the sky is also the same one on the floor in the Arceus boss fight in Legends Arceus. I don't believe this appears anywhere else in the series.

[@SharpingtonTheGreat]

Charizard being weak to ice actually lead to me believing for YEARS that fire and ice were both super effective against each other. Eventually I believed that his was either specific to gen 1 or something I made up entirely as a dumb kid. Thinking about it a few months back I finally pieced together that I misattributed the weakness to fire as a whole because Charizard would be my sole fire type, and I often forgot he was part flying. It absolutely blew my mind.

[@montgomeryfortenberry]

I thought the same for years as well

[@SharpingtonTheGreat]

@@montgomeryfortenberry It's a relief to know I wasn't the only one!

[@orbita2k2]

I thought Ice type wasn't a thing yet in Gen 1?

[@Strummie]

@@orbita2k2 Lorelei has left the chat.

[@TheFirstCurse1]

@@orbita2k2 I thought that too at first while watching this video but it was indeed a Type in Gen 1. The 2 Types added in Gen 2 were Dark and Steel. Ice Types in Gen 1 include: -Jynx -Articuno -Dewgong -Cloyster -Lapras

[@KeoN710]

I actually got that special encounter with May in my first playthrough as a kid! I thought it was totally normal, and my second playthrough really threw me for a loop!

[@teapups9497]

yeah i actually always got the special encounter as a kid, i actually never knew she was supposed to stop you right outside the city

[@dakotaachord5626]

The 2000s Pokemon combat figures. You just unlocked a memory I completely lost till now. My mom got me the Metagross that shoots a disc out it's mouth, the flamethrower Charizard, combusken, I can't believe it. I miss her so much, lost her 2 years ago.

[@sproutinglove2155]

I'm sorry about your lose, as a child I rode alot of trains and my mom always set me up with the new pokemon game. Still miss that lady every day.

[@Iboredlol]

That’s so sad ( the end) I am sorry for your lost

[@mariothane8754]

I still have most of those. My favorites were my crogunk and Buizel. Before that, I’d go to these coin machines and get Pokémon keychains that I’d unscrew the keychain part from to play with.

[@Quayworld2]

Sorry to hear that man. She sounded like a good mom

[@joeyy2baked669]

Feel your pain. Lost my mom 2 years ago aswell

[@lazylink1723]

3:59 Archeops' dex number is actually a reference to the Dewey decimal section on feathered dinosaurs in libraries.

[@BamBam_TYM]

The stat total was 567?

[@rommerjohndeguzman465]

@@BamBam_TYM yeah, I added it and it was 567 not 576 😅

[@TheNo1pencil]

That's a super fun fact!

[@mr.sniffly5297]

@@BamBam_TYMarcheops’ pokedex number is also 567, so it still works out

[@Ktjnn]

I pre-ordered the Japanese version of Soul Silver, and had negotiated a trade with a random KZbinr who had 8 legitimate Movie Arceus he obtained from trading on a JP forum with Google Translate, which I gave some shiny stuff for 2 of them, as well as the Shiny Movie Pichu that unlocked the spiky ear Pichu, and got to do both those in game events. The awesome thing is, the JP Pokemon unlock the events in other region's copies of the game, so I got to trade them around to my friends when the English version came out and let them do the events.

[@differentlyabledmuslimjewi4475]

yup. DS stuff was still region free. That is why the 3DS was heavily criticized. Thankfully you can hack away region locks now. But DS compatibility is why DS game collecting is so simple. compatibility is a breeze.

[@AkamexAris1023]

Action Replay allowed me and my homies to do these events. Even got to do the Sinjoh Ruins event twice bc the event Arceus and the Azure Flute Arceus counted as separate event mons.

[@LuvSZN_]

you can still access all of the old event pokemon thru mystery gift. all of the old events for gen 4 and 5 are hosted on a private server and it’s the only way you can access the old events now.

[@hpswagcraft]

King shit

[@Carnidoom]

​@@differentlyabledmuslimjewi4475 region lock was so stupid

[@anomalymon]

I have a shiny Tyrogue figure! I had no idea it was shiny, I thought it was just weirdly colored since some early Pokemon merch is sometimes just weird and never thought to look it up that's wild

[@justchill1617]

You should film it man, that would be a good reference material for the official shiny merch

[@codyputnam5872]

Huh? 576….it says 567?!

[@roobeedooo]

archeops is actually pokemon 567

[@vrahnkeneisenbach9148]

I love how shiny pokemon are rarely officially acknowledged. Probably done to keep them feeling more mythical and mysterious.

[@enbypolyshostan]

i love these videos they’re the only “weird facts about pokemon” vids where i’m actually surprised every time

[@jewishbaker]

You came here to say exactly what I thought 🤣 completly agree 👏👏👏

[@BlazedKiller308]

same

[@Jdudec367]

@Pantsmonster v6 seems like a completely normal name and pfp to me.

[@Jdudec367]

@Pantsmonster v6 I'm no groomer though, what does being bi have to do with degeneracy?

[@Jdudec367]

@Pantsmonster v6 Also looking at your pfp...you don't have the right to talk about groomers and degeneracy lmao.

[@CelluloidPsychosis]

Your Bonsly and Rayquaza pronunciation killed me 😂

[@_DewGaming]

I know he already acknowledged it, but the irony of him going on a huge tangent about Rayquaza being spelled wrong, wondering how they missed it, and then the Archeops fact having him say the wrong thing and not noticing it.

[@LilyCelebiFlipnote]

Was looking for a comment about the Archeops error so I didn't say something someone else already said! Thank ya! (For any readers: If you wonder... dyslexia. 576 does not equal 567.)

[@prayagsuthar9856]

Also he mispronounced Rayquaza. Actually, nobody says Rayquaza right except for that one special episode of the anime in Pokémon X and Y. Rayquaza's name is based on the word "quasar", and if you check Oxford Dictionary, the pronunciation is /ˈKWĀˌzär/, not /ˈKWÄˌzär/. It's one of those things everybody gets wrong that's really annoying, like people struggling to pronounce "Zacian" when Bulbapedia says the name is based on the word "cyan", so it's not "zah-shee-an" or something, it's "za-SY-AN" like CYAN, just like "zaMAZENTA" is MAGENTA. I could rant about this over and over and over.

[@LilyCelebiFlipnote]

@@prayagsuthar9856 So, it's "zay-SAI-AN" for Zacian and "ray-QUAY-ZAH" for Rayquaza? Did I get that right? I try my best to adhere to official pronunciations, plus it's just interesting to hear about.

[@LilyCelebiFlipnote]

@Omi.FiveEleven I pronounce Zacian "ZAY-see-in." It's not cyan in my pronunciation, but it's also not sheean, lol :,)

[@SquishyOfCinder]

The ironic thing is that he’s pronouncing Rayquaza wrong and that typo is how you pronounce it.

[@sunjour]

2:25 It's been awhile since I had Pokemon Ranch so I could be wrong but I used to use it all the time, trying to trigger events and get Hayley's special Pokemon (especially that nifty Mew 👀). One event I remember is if you transfered a certain number of Water type Pokemon you could make them all ride a giant wave across the ranch. Another one that can be unlocked happens when you transfered a certain amount of Flying types you could make them fly in a huge V-shape! There's others I can't recall enough to describe though, I'm 80% certain there's a stampede one with Tauros and Miltanks (Maybe Normal types?) and a Psychic type one akin to the ones above where they all float. As well as a lot of Pokemon specific ones, there's Gardevoir one I think? Anyway! Pretty neat! I feel special knowing I've seen them haha!

[@RobertGordon811]

I actually had the battle dome as a kid. It's in storage right now at my grandmother's but man seeing that unlocked some memories. It had little trap doors on each level and I even had a couple of the attachable tiles that snapped to the bottom legs. It was super low quality though. Even brand new It wobbled constantly. Still a cool set though

[@Celia_Dawn]

6:42 "This is a licensed Pokemon game with a misspelled Pokemon name!" "Mawhile's" gen 3 Pokedex entry: Am I a joke to you?

[@Laqqy]

When I was little, I had a pokemon battle dome playset. They were extremely flimsy and broke apart easily. While it didn't come with a shiny kingra, mine did come with a shiny piplup. (Or at least it was off-colored enough to look shiny_

[@manning0]

You mean it was left in the sun for too long and turned a paler shade of blue?

[@Laqqy]

@@manning0 Out of the box, but I think it was just a manufacture error

[@piplup2884]

The true rarest shiny is tan piplup

[@vaporwavejuice5874]

@@piplup2884 is there really such thing as a tan piplup? I am intrigued.

[@piplup2884]

@@vaporwavejuice5874 yes of we stay under the sun for too long we become pale

[@stardust2360]

You always end your videos in such an amazing way. It's insane. You deserve much more recognition.

[@A.Beowulf]

9:15 [Spoilers] I think this fact becomes a lot more interesting from a piece of lore we get in Legends Arceus. The Arceus that trainers can receive are not actually the "true Arcues" but a fragment of Arceus they gift to the player, which also explains why a 10 year old can catch what is literally the god of their world.

[@coatimundi69]

honestly this is so cute. its literally like "aw look at this kiddo. i think ill give them the chance to feel like they can beat god. a treat"

[@moonfusion9964]

@@coatimundi69 Based Arceus.

[@ShaoShaoMienshao]

Didn't read the comment but have a like for marking it as Spoilers for PLA

[@CapronFunk]

The video quality is out of this world. Thanks for teaching me all these cool OBSCURE facts

[@azzamramadhanusmira6226]

True

[@Illuminex_XD]

3:50 You might wanna check that out

[@tobikohan]

i am living in your walls

[@Illuminex_XD]

@@tobikohan oh... ok

[@CLOYO]

2:47 Illumsie? You sure?

[@darthblastoise0098]

I had the shiny heracross figure!! And I remember seeing the shiny Spinarak one in the package on the shelf at toys r us.

[@elaralara1254]

fun fact! despite the event absolutely never being released to anyone, and masuda himself confirming they didn't because it'd be "too confusing", the hall of origin level 80 arceus in DPP ALSO works for the alph ruins event, as well as the movie event one, ofc only obtainable if u cheat in the flute with an external device, but I've always thought it's quite interesting that a genuinely never legitimately obtainable Pokémon still triggers an official event, for a second time if u already did it w the movie one too

[@Celia_Dawn]

"Archeops's base stat total is 576" On screen: "Total: 567"

[@BlueBoyPhin]

NO don’t tell me!! I proof-watched this video so many times are you serious😭😭

[@Docmain3]

This comment is correct.

[@BlueBoyPhin]

@ジョンマックス at least my mess ups are getting smaller

[@DarthSangheili]

Came here to see if it was caught lol

[@TheCakeChan1]

Thank god I wasn't the only one who noticed

[@Chowderchef]

I actually unlocked that sinjoh ruins event back in the day!!! I remember the real world photos threw me off so hard but it was incredibly cool. I picked girantina, i gave it a rare candy ive kept it as level 2 to this day

[@Zepimo123]

An alternative answer to the shiny Kingdra figure is that the mold coloring was not complete. This is very common in test samples and prototypes of action figures. This would explain it's Red body as well. Granted it still existed, and was used in a promotional image for the playset, lots of sample products are either destroyed or stolen/sold off by the factory workers.

[@Zepimo123]

Also, forgot to mention. The fact that it's a test image of the set also explains the odd display choices. The Pikachu figures, bonsly and mudkips are all from other figure packs(I actually have both of the Pikachu figures, they were released in a pack of 3 Pokemon iirc) This also explains the armless and off color Geodudes, they are most likely incomplete molds of the final Geodude figure, in fact you can tell that they are in an even earlier state of production because of the lack of polishing and sharp edges.

[@PansyPops]

10:52 this is my favourite bit of Pokémon shiny hunting. Every RPG acknowledge secret collectibles and rare items, so they’re completely public and no longer secret. Shinies, in the other hand, are almost completely secret. The average player won’t find out about them without outside help, and are an amazing collectible that’s somewhat acknowledged in recent games, but still seemingly ignored and practically forgotten about by Nintendo. True game design at its peak (and that’s serious).

[@ENCHANTMEN_]

I've played Pokemon since I was a kid and have yet to encounter a random shiny Pokemon in the wild...

[@BenJover]

@@ENCHANTMEN_ Me either until I played pokemon legends

[@AgateRF]

@@BenJover *Says nothing with 2 boxes full of shinies in PLA.*

[@Dyneamaeus]

NO joke. When I first played Original Ruby the third pokemon I caught was a shiny Zigzagoon, and I didn't even notice it _was_ shiny until it evolved. Such a cool moment growing up.

[@nappa3550]

@@ENCHANTMEN_ I found a shiny Pelipper in ORAS

[@markmeyer4532]

I love the roll back on the misspelled Raequaza. ^^

[@lilycreeper5246]

3:55 nope, his number is 576, but you even showed that his base stat total is 567

[@grizzgo]

Phin used Confusion

[@cespen9999]

lol i came to say the same thing

[@sdj0914]

I saw that too

[@LuckyOwI777]

he misspoke in the video, so the editor typed what he said. Both the dex number and stat total are 567

[@MrGrombie]

3:48 You got this wrong. The base is switched around.

[@_ness_tea_]

Ok but I didn't know Azurill could change gender when evolving! I'd love to also hear less obscure Pokemon facts from you as a relatively new Pokemon fact finder :)

[@Gothicrift]

That excitement I felt when my shiny spinarak toy was on the screen for a sec- 💕💕 I LOVE this series and it’s so cool to see how far Pokémon has come and that… I own the first shiny merch! XD

[@lemonisthere]

My first and only shiny was a Baltoy! (Pokémon Emerald)

[@oPredicts_]

@@lemonisthere he owns the shiny spinarak toy that the guys showed on screen

[@MirrorHall_Clay]

1:46 - they also use a completely different sprite there! The color is one thing (the GBC can have more palettes on screen than you'd think, so it's still definitely an oversight), but the sprite being different is pretty odd. Probably ram limitations forcing them to just use the sprites used elsewhere in the area, since G/S _can_ run on the original GB as well...

[@davidlake7963]

nah man kid just changed his shirt when he got home

[@obi-wankenobi1514]

@Mr. Sem Nome It's the wifi menu theme from Mario Kart Wii

[@FueledByPepsiMax]

I thought these titles were clickbait, I was wrong. You delivered, my friend 💪

[@phoebe5114]

That ending was so unbelievably raw, like you went so hard and I love it. Such a huge impact right at the end of the video.

[@PeacepiperF20]

Your pokemon videos are a breath of fresh air. No fake hype or overly childish acting like literally all the other ones.

[@jordanhow123punch]

"The " i " is actually a lower case " L " and i find that absolutely hilarious" he says with the most monotone voice. Sure man

[@BierBart12]

@@jordanhow123punch Nobody loudly laughs at every single thing they find funny, apart from perhaps the Joker

[@ursaminor55]

you got a time stamp for that "only 1" kingdra?

[@MultiPKMon]

@@jordanhow123punch Why would he laugh to something he already knew it was there?

[@lukemorgan6166]

Lol 😂 Have you seen how much he over reacts on stream It's cringe worthy

[@camilogonzalez1077]

You are REALLY good at storytelling dude. Keep it up!

[@fierce1117]

I had that event Arceus back in the day and the Sinjoh Ruins blew my freakin mind as a kid. Breaks my heart a little that shit like that isn't possible on legit copies of the game any more.

[@jasminejohnston6393]

Despite being named after a mudskipper, a fish that can walk on land, Mudkip is actually design wise based on an axolotl, an amphibian with the amazing ability to regrow not just limbs, but also organs- it can even regrow its brain!

[@WingedEspeon]

And mudkip still can't learn recover.

[@animeloveer97]

Kinda weird since wooper already existed lol

[@MsTerkup]

​@@animeloveer97 Considering wooper evolving into quagsire/clodsire naturally, I would say Wooper isn't even an axolotl, but a giant salamander tadpole while Mudkip, which keeps the juvenile traits into adulthood is an actual axolotl! The phenomena of salamanders keeping their tadpole traits is called neoteny, with axolotls being an obligate neotene (but can be artificially caused to lose them) Would be cool to get a regional mudkip that isn't a neotene and becomes a land-dwelling salamander! Also multiple Pokémon can be based on the same thing. Regis and Golurk are both golems, Moltres and Ho-oH are both phoenixes, Venusaur and Vileplume are both rafflesias, Musharna and Drowzee are both baku/tapirs, not to mention how many butterflies, cats, dogs and other more common anmals we have.

[@TSEEMOD_618]

I know it's hard to believe but in 2002 I had a Shiny Kingdra on my Pokemon Crystal Italian Cartridge. Captured after having catched Lugia in the Cave where he was. And it was a Red Horsea, which I made evolve in Seadra and Kingdra later. I guess through Pokemon Silver If I do remember correctly, I "cloned" it to have also a shiny Horsea and a shiny Seadra So in the end I had - with complicity of my friends who wanted it so much - around 10 shiny Horsea/Seadra/Kingdras, making 30 of those

[@Spufflez]

Thank you so much for bringing up the Pokemon Combat Figures. I've held onto my figures over the years, but I've never been able to search for more since I'd forgotten what they were called. I currently have a Nidorino, Graveler, Blastoise, Venasaur, and Charizard (albeit with a missing wing), and used to have an Articuno figure before I gave it away. I've always loved those figures since they were so much bigger than the Tomy figures I had in my collection. Maybe one of these days I'll see how much they go for so I could purchase a few more of them. I also still have My Pokemon Ranch on my Wii, and it still works, so maybe one of these days I'll see if I can get some footage of some of the other in-game events that no one else shared online. Thank you for sharing this video, I really enjoyed seeing all of the old footage and learning all of these cool facts. I also really wish I went to the Pokemon Center in NYC before it changed into Nintendo World. I first went to Nintendo World during my high school years, which was shortly after the Pokemon Center's final year. I live pretty close to New York too, but back then middle school aged me didn't know where exactly the Pokemon Center was and how to convince my parents to take me, lol.

[@theblacksakura8732]

Charizard being weak to ice actually makes sense since lizards are cold blooded so freezing them would be bad

[@jaymthesn5981]

A fire Lizard would be able to rise his Blood temperature... His fire would work like the Sun.😂

[@N1GHTW4TCH]

This explained a lot to me because I totally remember Charizard being weak to ice attacks and later on in the series got hit with confusion because it suddenly wasn't anymore. To this day, I thought my mind was playing tricks on me - now I know it wasn't 😂

[@SuidicalRaccoon]

3:40 it has a 95 percent chance to work. If it works, only then it takes that random move. If it didnt work it just doesnt use the random move to begin with.

[@alexbrewster3778]

The fact that Rayquaza is actually pronounced like Ray-quay-za as in "quasar", you can understand how they might have misspelled it.

[@atomicmays]

I was looking for someone to comment this

[@Azteceagle2592]

Thank you, that is the way Rayquaza is suppose to be pronounced

[@Just.A.T-Rex]

Except quay should be pronounced as key/kay

[@alexbrewster3778]

If it was written in australia, quay could be pronounced as "key" but other english dialects pronounce as "kwā"

[@aislynns4258]

I remember when I was a kid playing Heartgold and found the level 50 Magikarp, caught it and used a rare candy and blew through most of the game with the overpowered Gyrados (I say most because I got to the Elite 4 and..lost the game cartridge). The Magikarp also took multiple balls to catch and I ended up not having enough and couldn’t catch the Red Gyrados because of it lol

[@amyx231]

2:00 he went home and changed his clothing? I mean, looking for his birdie out in the woods couldn’t have been a clean endeavor.

[@brynnachilles7484]

OMG! I encontered the fact at 7:50 when I was young and I was so confused. None of my friends believed me that i found a lvl 50 magikarp there and I was always confused by it. Thank you so much for finding this out, younger me would've loved to know this so i could tell all my friends that i wasn't lying.

[@RogueT-Rex8468]

Imagine one of them bumbles into this vid and sits there like- WELP

[@nickmanz6987]

I had a random Arceus about 6 years ago and went to sinjoh ruins with it in hopes it would proc the event and it was absolutely breathtaking. Still have my baby lvl 1 giratina as well

[@0verjoyed_ac]

7:27 The world's strongest Magikarp is actually in the Resort Area in Platinum where you can indeed encounter a level 100 Magikarp. One of the NPCs mentions it to you as a "monster" in the area. I've personally spent HOURS trying to catch one. The highest level I've gotten so far is in the 80s, if I remember correctly. Read up on Bulbapedia about it; I'm probably doing a shit job at explaining it! (You can also apparently find one in B2W2 but I never played those games.)

[@manning0]

I actually felt sad when I realised we may never know where the shiny kingdra is.

[@ElysiaWhitemoonOmega]

time for a new indiana jones and tomb raider colab movie: Lara and Indiana and the Secrets of the Shiny Kingdra

[@Hannahmypet]

I tell you, when you started with "one of the rarest things in existence" and then brought up the Pokemon Battle Dome, I was ready to book it to my closet to check if I had whatever made it unique! Too bad it's a beta element. Didn't realize they were so rare, though. Come to think of it, mine is in pretty good condition IIRC... 🤔 Anyways, thanks for the videos, I always feel both pleasantly surprised (because there are facts I don't know) and ego-boosted (because there's usually at least one I do). Keep it up!

[@matthewsullivan3804]

lol he said "book it" commander kamado is that you?

[@professor_plague]

Just checked Nature Power's accuracy in a Showdown custom game using Building Terrain (Swift), and there is actually a 5% chance the move will fail before determining the environmental move. Rather than saying the move failed, the game will say that the Pokemon that used Nature Power had avoided the attack. This means that this accuracy check is self inflicted, and takes the user's accuracy and evasion modifiers into consideration; I boosted the user's evasion and lowered its accuracy to their limits, and the move almost never connected with the user.

[@lindseylindsey9200]

I wonder if that’s just the result of the programmers on Showdown seeing the 95% accuracy description and coding it in without checking too much how it actually works on a real game

[@mitkru16]

@@lindseylindsey9200 The Showdown devs created the battle simulator to be an exact clone of each of Pokémon’s battle systems, sometimes even saying “this is how it works in game” when an interaction is suspect. Other sources point to this interaction being the case (such as Bulbapedia saying the move targets the user pre-Gen VI). I’m sure you could try it in-game and get the same results as Showdown.

[@lindseylindsey9200]

@@mitkru16 Guess I didn’t consider that, and I can contest that even in XY it targets the user, so huh, maybe the chance is real

[@AverageGamerGuyPlays]

I discovered that Charizard was weak to Ice in Gen 1 pretty recently actually. My Charizard got OHKO’d by Lorelei’s Jynx because of it. I was like ‘wtf just happened’.

[@finalcountdown3210]

Yeah, this happened to me in Pokemon Stadium and I was so confused

[@jmv333]

If it's interesting for anyone there are some more Stat to National Pokedex no. links: Mega Beedrill has Special Attack and Pokedex no. of 15 Clefairy has Speed and Pokedex no. of 35 Mega Alakazam has Defense and Pokedex no. of 65 Slowbro & Mega Slowbro have Special Defense and Pokedex no. of 80 Voltorb & Hisuian Voltorb have Speed and Pokedex no. of 100 Mega Gyarados has Special Defense and Pokedex no. of 130 Mega Mewtwo Y has Attack and Pokedex no. of 150 From this we can conclude a few interesting things: Only Generation 1 Pokemon & their alternate forms share a Pokedex no. with a stat Discounting alternate forms, just 3 Pokemon share a Pokedex no. with a stat, Clefairy, Slowbro & Voltorb There are 48 Mega forms meaning 10.42% of all Mega-Pokemon share a Pokedex no. with a stat There are 898 standard form Pokemon meaning just 0.33% share Pokedex no. with a stat No Pokemon shares its Pokedex no. with 2 or more of its stats No Pokemon shares its Pokedex no. with its HP stat, but there is at least one case of sharing for all other stats Hisuian Voltorb is the only regional form to share a Pokedex no. & base stat, it inherits this from its standard form Mega Slowbro is the only Mega form to have inherited its shared Pokedex no. & base stat from its standard form Slowbro has a regional form in Galarian Slowbro that does not inherit the shared Pokedex no. & base stat, it is the only alternate form for which this is true Clefairy is the only standard form Pokemon that shares a Pokedex no. & base stat to not have passed this trait on to exactly 1 alternate form Clefairy & Hisuian Voltorb are the only Pokemon of these available in Legends : Arceus Clefairy is the only Pokemon of these available in Sword or Shield (and so the only one available in every main series game) Hope you enjoyed reading lol I will probably do a bunch more arbitrary stat analysis in future, let me know if you are interested

[@Planiite]

Actually, the reason archeops has 567 has both of those things is because in libraries they use a type of numbering system for books, and guess what? 567 is where you can find fossil and dinosaur stuff just like archeops :)

[@SvtCobraKid1]

That second encounter with May in hoenn is really something ive never seen

[@marmalade5341]

I will say, the Pokemon dome prototype must have been a concept cause I remember having both that mudkip and bonsly action figure as a kid but purchased them solely as action figures. I never bought the battle dome

[@blastfire21]

I knew the Charizard ice weakness because it's relevant to competitive. It really hurts Moltres and Charizard in gen 1 showdown

[@BierBart12]

It's insane that even stuff like that is being kept alive by competitive

[@vortexpgo5753]

In gen 3, because catch tutorials were scripted to always perform the same tasks, its possible for wally to kill ralts instead of catching it. If ralts' defense is low enough and zigzagoons attack is high enough, the 2 scripted tackles will kill ralts.

[@bird_obsession]

That is a cool fact, but I feel like it’s far too well-known to be included in one of these videos.

[@charlesw7397]

Man I loved Gen 4 of Pokémon so much because of all the weird things you could do with your pokemon. DSP were awesome, bringing your team to Battle Revolution was super cool, transferring Pokémon to Ranch was so fun and satisfying to see your Ranch grow, getting special pokemon from games like Pokémon Ranger, etc. Such a cool, interconnected generation

[@EksaStelmere]

I knew the Charizard one by experience. This makes two facts I knew about so far, the other being the enigma berry, being an avid player of Japanese Pokémon games and an insane "trade my faves up the generations" nutcase.

[@frickinfrick8488]

I love these videos! As someone who’s consumed an ungodly amount of Pokémon content in the past decade it’s great how many of these facts are things I’ve never heard of. The only one I’ve heard of before is fire not resisting ice in gen 1

[@FlaminSnowCones]

pretty cool facts, only one i knew about already was charizard being weak to ice in gen 1. I've seen those old shiny pokemon action figures before somewhere but i didnt know they were the oldest of their kind, wild.

[@MerkhVision]

You have such good taste in background music choices, I wish you’d list the names of the tracks u used along with maybe their starting times somewhere!

[@MerkhVision]

That link in the description only leads to a list with just 2 song titles :/

[@hhuhuhuh]

I was thinking the same, I used a song finding extension for the song at 11:00 and surprisingly found its called GTA III Theme Song (Piano Version) by Grim Cat Piano

[@kitsaitogames]

I remember Jontron talking about Jakks pacific creating the first plug n play consoles, interesting to know they also produced the rarest shiny Pokémon in the world 😳

[@maximumbeans9310]

The synchronised shiny effect at 9:32 is so satisfying.

[@ThunderToast97]

I'm surprised that I haven't heard many comments about this but, the Fire not resisting Ice in Gen 1 was common knowledge to people familiar with Gen 1 mechanics, like how Psychic was actually immune to Ghost. One of the more obscure facts about typing is how Bug used to be Super effective on Poison but also weak to it and Poison being the same. Nowadays, it's Bug is not Very effective against Poison, but Poison is only neutral against Bug! Also, I feel like you already talked about the Dui-decimal thing with Archeops so I'll let it slide...

[@hugocrick-furman4304]

I had that shiny spinarak!!! I thought I'd imagined it, honestly, or that it was a painting error. So cool to see it here

[@raydonahue8304]

I'm going out on a limb here but I'm very certain I'm going to learn 14 new things about pokemon here

[@cray-zelord]

Did you?

[@jordan_dc4268]

I had that shiny Tyrogue and Spinarak as a kid! Always wondered why they were weird colors bc I didn't know what shinies were back then lol

[@PS3productionz]

The Kingdra, as much as I would love to think it was manufactured as a shiny variant, is likely just a prototype cast of the figuring that coincidently matched the colour palette of the shiny hairnet. As you say, the planet photographed in the advertising material was an early pre-production version, further supporting the fact that the figurines used were likely prototypes. An interesting story, nonetheless!

[@purifiedguy4666]

567 total stats

[@kode-man23]

Then there's me, convinced that ice still hits fire for neutral damage after almost 25 years lol.

[@aaa-js5dj]

happens to the best of us

[@bryceaustin4995]

Woohoo the battledome! That's a blast of nostalgia right there. Pretty sure I've still got mine in a box somewhere.

[@voodooking9254]

The magicarp pool could be a Easter egg hinting to the old adage “the biggest fish in the small pond” and because their loosely based on koi it could be a reflection of their real life behaviour

[@IAmJustGarbage]

"Whoops skip this one" lmao I had to rewatch to make sure my eyes weren't playing tricks on me, and I'm glad I did

[@dakotaachord5626]

Why was Ed Sheeran shiny hunting a Toxicroak @ 9:45?

[@preeeee696]

😂😂😂😂

[@itsbunic3856]

I look forward to these every time I love anything to do with obscure facts about media and games and especially when it’s stuff I love, keep the great work up

[@BierBart12]

I am absolutely sure I actually got that alternate may encounter at one point as a kid. I thought I just dreamed about her coming out of that door until now, but it really happened!

[@tenpers]

Amazing video. Keep going the good work. I didn't know any of these.

[@Purple_Valiant_119]

Holy crap I genuinely remember seeing the Shining Charizard battle toy on eBay once- it was like $324 or something! And those commercials in the background of the ending brought me back so many years... This was a nostalgia trip I didn't know I needed.

[@raymondpleasant]

The lvl 50 magikarp makes sense lore wise and it also ties into a a theory I have why lance has 3 dragonites under there evolution level which is the radio waves team rockets used forced the Pokémon to either evolve or level up And that lance was using that machine to evolve his Pokémon as well

[@iSPiNDiZZi]

Just want to say your music choice for these videos is exquisite. I enjoy watching these so much, keep up the great work!

[@lilycreeper5246]

3:44 or maybe that's the average accuracy of all the moves it can pull from

[@Fabboi_unl]

Great videos man, love them. Some of the facts, like the first one with the "Plan B" May encounter are just so mindblowing to me

[@animeloveer97]

It was probably done to prevent breaking the scripts

[@BlueLoveYT]

Oh snap I used to own that Battle Dome playset. I never expected to see it again in my life in video format. Pretty cool to find out there's more to the story behind the toy. Hopefully someday that shiny Kingdra comes to the surface

[@mjdxp5688]

Wow, I can't believe someone actually brought up the Nintendo World (now Nintendo NY) door handles. I thought I was the only one who noticed that when I went there. I've been there several times, it's really cool and definitely worth checking out if you're in New York.

[@shrill_pkm]

8:00 Thank you for including this!!! I always wondered what was in that room.

[@griffintgm9467]

I was a madman and actually cleared the national dex in HGSS and spotted this error 😂

[@Silphwave]

I'm nicknaming all my Rayquaza "Rayquayza" from now on.

[@BlueBoyPhin]

valusoft would be proud

[@Jchmcom]

The audacity of this dude mocking the people for misspelling Raykwoza and he doesn't even know 576 does not equal 567.

[@messecshinies9037]

Phin, these videos and facts are so fun!! Keep up the great work, man!