11 Obscure Pokemon Facts You DON'T Know! - 10

[@babycubstudios1599]

I found this out when playing a randomizer. If you evolve the starter Professor Rowan gives you before you first go to his lab, he will have an extra line of text when he looks at the starter saying “Wow, you’ve evolved it already?”

[@Zevox144]

This was in one of the previous videos iirc. That or the comments, happens if you have anything but the starters' initial form

[@lisiastar8441]

that's also a nice nod to the og jpn green ver. in which if you evolved the starter before receiving the dex the game would soft lock you of progressing,because it thinks you've cheated and got yourself a mon not obtainable at that point in the game(smth like this,but basically it doesn't let you have the dex)

[@memeteam2016]

Even better: doing this in gen I soft locks your game.

[@WhoMightThis1Be]

I might have actually gotten this, when i first got ruby my starter was level 21 before i got my pokeballs because i grinded for hours and didnt know how to do anything, i wasn't a smart kid.

[@applinbestmon]

Thats also in Kanto remakes

[@funkydude6919]

I just love how much he obviously loves doing this. I've heard youtubers talk about disasters, homicides and near-death experiences with less intensity than this man talks about obscure pokemon facts. These videos are fantastic

[@VaePomegGlitch]

The Fire Fang thing is actually understood. It has something to do with the number of the move in the code being badly programmed, but I forget exactly how.

[@Cuprite1024]

And it makes sense that they never caught that oversight cause Shedinja would be hit by it regardless. Lol.

[@sirtoastytoes884]

Every two turn move has an exception made in the code to not block the first turn, and somehow Fire Fang ended up on that list, but Fire Fang doesn't have a first turn

[@ProfessorRex]

I believe it is because fire fang ended up getting identified in the code as being the first turn of Shadow Force. Two turn moves aren’t supposed to be able to fail so turn 1 of shadow force is supposed to always work. However, somehow in the code the ID that is tied to this first turn of Shadow Force got assigned to Fire Fang

[@KarenPoppins]

@@sirtoastytoes884 idk why i found that so funny

[@mickkelley3776]

@@ProfessorRex The values for the two moves are right next to one another, so it's likely someone scrolled down one line too far and set the wrong move to pass. And because Fire Fang isn't a two-turn move, the game just lets the "first turn" play out, hence why the attack can land.

[@GreatBeanicus]

I actually noticed the difference between the save noises when i was very young, but assumed it changed every time you saved rather than different versions. Cool to hear, thanks!

[@Kahadi]

I also remember noticing the differences, but I don't recall it ever clicking in my head. Like I remember them being different sounds, but it never clicked that "oh right, those were different sounds"

[@oryxthetakenking8275]

I noticed this the other week when saving my Moon game

[@BreezyStreamy]

I always thought it changed as you made it to different towns, sorta like a checkpoint of sorts, but I was a dumb kid lol

[@briandear1401]

​​@@BreezyStreamy if you play Pokemon Yellow on a GBC each town will be a different colour. So it's not hard to mistake a jingle acting like that.

[@thewatermoose]

9:03 Something else I’d like to add as it’s incredible that I found this glitch recently in game, if Ditto is to transform and use the move Rage and then get hit by a move it will also permanently keep that moveset, meaning you can get a Ditto with moves other than Transform! (I found this after ditto transformed into a Clefable, used Metronome and got Rage)

[@Hakik.]

I had this happen to me but instead of Clefable it was a Dunsparce making the ditto completely useless

[@CGut13]

Which game?

[@thewatermoose]

@@CGut13 Heartgold

[@vivimannequin]

I did this with my brother's ditto and then transferred it to black 2 but sadly it can't go beyond that with such a moveset

[@sampIes]

@@Hakik. this made me lol

[@nataliecoronado4206]

Here's a neat little detail I noticed as a kid. In the Gen 3 games when you can occasionally hear Pokémon cries in the overworld, if a Roaming Pokémon happens to be in that route, you can rarely hear that Pokémon's cry. I wonder if that tiny detail was supposed to help players find out if the Roaming Pokémon was there before gaining the ability to track it with the Pokedex.

[@theramendutchman]

Yep, that was intentional and I think about as rare/common enough that Blue would mention it at the start of a video lol

[@SpyderCaliber]

I'm 99.99% sure that's been a myth circulating the internet for years. The normal cries definitely are a thing, but I believe it's been disproven that roaming pokémon cries can also be heard when in the right route/area.

[@Purriah]

Person from the future here, that was debunked on this very channel.

[@DerToasti]

@@SpyderCaliber it does feel like one of those details gamefreak would put in.

[@testerwulf3357]

@@SpyderCaliber This. If it was intended to help find roaming legendaries it is unfortunately useless at that, so potentially a bug/error

[@EmeraldComposer]

The guitar sound effect used in Electivire’s cry is also pretty heavily used in the Gen V games, a good example is the PWT Final Battle theme. I’ve heard the guitar sound so many times by sifting through the MIDIs from those games that I was rather surprised to hear it in their cry and thought that it was kind of cool. I wonder if that was an accident or if they reused that patch knowledgeably? 🤔

[@gabrielerusso326]

That's why he's my favorite

[@thepokemonqueen]

it's common to reuse sound effect samples so I'd say it's on purpose

[@OctoBuddah009]

It's also used in the beginning of the Mode Select music track on Devil may cry 2

[@josephmartinez9988]

my friend as a producer im going to have to ask how u got those midi files

[@grimms-vi1874]

While not a pokemon game, it's also worth mentioning that guitar sample also shows up in one of the songs in the anime OST for Black Lagoon.

[@LackofPants]

I still have a Wondertomb in my Diamond version I hacked in specifically for the battle tower. The AI for the later levels of it are ridiculously adaptive to your strategies. I'd always start with the "invincible" Spiritomb, which worked for maybe five battles before the AI would bring in Toxic stallers and Leech Seeders (both of which would work on a Wondertomb!). Even giving it a Lum Berry was useless in the long run. Anyone wanting a true challenge should try the gen 4 battle tower.

[@Tvboy777]

Why not just cheese it with Lum Berry and Substitute, Rest, Toxic, and Will-o-wisp? Seems like you could beat the entire thing with that move set.

[@rickytheweirdo]

A way to counter it could be teaching Spiritomb taunt while holding a lum berry. First turn use taunt and if the pokemon is faster than you and it uses a status move (like thunder wave) the lum berry will heal you and when you use taunt it cant do it anymore.

[@rastablack5427]

I hacked in BOTH a wondertomb & a wondereye (Sableye with Wonder Guard) and would get about 15 rounds in before everything seemed to carry Toxic/Leech Seed, & an unusually large amount of Fire Fang users.

[@laiir2958]

I mean.... safeguard?

[@fiddlestyxVR]

Hack in a Sableye with the same ability and it would probably actually be unstoppable.

[@knilght5349]

I actually have an experience with another version of the transform glitch. It was in the PAL version of Hearthgold/Soulsilver, me and my cousin were both playing and a wild Ditto he caught never transformed back into a Ditto. It kept the appearance and moveset of Croconaw. Since we were like...10, we never really experimented with it in the end so I still wonder if it would have always acted as a Croconaw and eventually evolved into Feraligatr or not. Some online search implies it might have to do with a bug with the Rage move, which makes sense since Totodile learns it and he quite certainly had it at the moment of the bug.

[@TinchoX]

PAL actually meaning EUR version right?

[@meinanutshell]

The rage transform glitch is possible in every region of every gen 4 game. What’s interesting is that gen 4 is the last generation where metronome can be used to use transformation so if you encountered a wild ditto and had it transform into a Smeargle that knew three other moves with rage, used metronome on another pokemon to transform and rage against that ditto, you could legitimately teach any pokemon that had access to metronome any move in gen 4.

[@kyleswanson6615]

@@meinanutshell I'm confused by what you're saying here. I'll have to look it up, but can I get a quick breakdown?

[@knilght5349]

@@TinchoX Yes, it was a french version to be exact in our case!

[@kyleswanson6615]

@firstbass789 oh that's wild. Thanks for the explanation, I've gotta give this a try.

[@chivesyo]

I've heard there was a belief in medieval times that swallows (the birds tailow is pretty obviously based on) spent their whole lives in the air without ever landing - could be reasoning for it being pure flying type at some point

[@AJadedLizard]

That would also explain why it doesn't seem to have feet in its sprite and some of the Sugimori artwork, especially compared to other birds like Pidgey, Spearow, and Murkrow.

[@kiyote437]

I believe you are referring to the martlet, a creature from medieval bestiaries that was a bird with no feet that spent its entire life in the air. Also featured on the coat of arms of McGill college.

[@flookaraz]

The sharpedo ability thing: If you watch any gen 3 unused content videos, youll find out they left in the blank ability slot in the main games. So its not that it was unused, but in fact it was used for the demo and never removed!

[@mertensiam3384]

I'm pretty sure it was left so if any pokemon were to have no special ability, it wouldn't have crashed the game when looking to their stats Maybe abilities worked different back then and you had to teach them to your pokemon somehow?

[@BackPalSA]

Pretty silly to say that content not used in Ruby and Sapphire isn't unused... It for sure is.

[@lightyagami3492]

@@mertensiam3384 This. The whole reason it was left in the code was purely to be an error handler in the very specific case where a player somehow obtained a pokemon with no ability.

[@sakurabiskuit]

This might be a well-known fact, especially to gen 5 fans, but I'll leave it here. In BW, aside from his very last battle, all the pokemon N uses against you are the strongest pokémon available near the areas where his battles happen. On Accumula Town he uses a lvl 7 Purrloin from Route 2, on Nacrene City he uses lvl 13 Pidove, Timburr and Tympole from outside of Pinwheel Forest, and so on.

[@Carcosahead]

Pfffft tip of the iceberg

[@---oq5kb]

You can also catch his pokemon with memory link in b2w2 with memory link. I wonder if anybody made a run where they just used his pokemon

[@-.bella.-]

i love your pfp

[@kyubeycoobie3568]

Very interesting Thanks rin boi

[@Nigolasy]

@@---oq5kb I remember catching his purrloin on my first run and being so dang confused why I wasn't the OT of that thing LOL

[@kawaiipotetu4047]

Swellow is my favorite Flying type of all time and for some reason that fact about Tailow originally being pure Flying made me love it even more

[@ashwinkarnik115]

You can also use foresight, and then a fighting type move to hit Spiritomb for super-effective damage (and Sableye for that matter).

[@mrcombustiblelemon2902]

Or have the scrappy ability, or give it a ring target

[@ashwinkarnik115]

@@mrcombustiblelemon2902 I don't think ring target existed in gen 4

[@mrcombustiblelemon2902]

@@ashwinkarnik115 I guess, but scrappy did

[@alastorcorvus]

@@mrcombustiblelemon2902 it did, but in DPPt it was only usable on Lopunny. Milktank and Kanghaskan weren't obtainable without Pal Park and ability capsules didn't exist yet. Also, hidden abilities weren't included until Gen V, so it was just Lopunny and it only learned Jump kick naturally (focus punch and Focus blast by TM only).

[@generalzeta7000]

I actually played against a person who hacked a spiritome and sableye with wonder guard. I knew about them a head of time so could prepare. I only remember 3 of my 4 pokemon in that double battle. I used no hacked pokemon, but did cheat to get to level 100, but that all I did. We ended in a tie in a never ending sand storm where nether my dialga or his spiritome could do any damage to one another. Though long enough and spiritome would knock it self out with struggle. As for my other 2 pokemon, Tiranatar brought the sand for indirect damage, and moldbraker rampardose ignored wonder guard.

[@diogeneticist3585]

Bulbapedia actually explains the mechanics of the Fire Fang Wonder Guard glitch, so it isn't a complete unknown: "This happens due to a typo within the switch statement for a function for Wonder Guard in relation to moves with a charging turn and Bide. The function is intended to compare move effect codes to a list in the function to prevent specific moves' charging turn(s) from being affected by Wonder Guard. Shadow Force, which its move effect code is 272, is intended to be a part of the switch statement, but Fire Fang, which is 273, is instead in the statement. Since Fire Fang doesn't have a charging turn, this allows it to always bypass Wonder Guard."

[@BlueBoyPhin]

Thanks for posting this! Glad it was figured out!

[@sierranicholes6712]

that is so interesting!!

[@WillisPtheone]

Not to mention that Hail, Sandstorm, Toxic, and Will O Wisp will also kill it. The Fire Fang thing is a neat fact but it was a bit over blown to say it is completely invincible.

[@dragon-du6ew]

So they wrote it one number wrong

[@Estellux]

That’s crazy! I always assumed it was a stealthy way for Nintendo to put in anti-cheating stuff after the potential of Wonder Guard Sableyes from 3rd gen.

[@BaconNuke]

The thought of getting a pure flying type back in gen 3 is crazy.. and it took until gen 5 for only a single legendary to get it.. and then gen 8 for finally a common mon line to have it for a bit.. I hope we get more pure flying types.. and maybe a final form of a mon that is just for pure curiosity of what they would do

[@Trytinion]

Wonder if we'll get a new form of one in the future, would love to see it get something after all these years

[@maverickREAL]

@@Trytinion You think they could do that? They can't even finish their games.

[@Shayaaaaaa]

i don't know if you already mentioned this thing in one of your videos, but in Pokemon Black and White in the house above the gym in Driftveil City, there's and old lady that will only speak slowly, even if you had changed the text speed to the max. In that house there's even an old man but it doesn't speak slowly like the woman does

[@myheartismadeofstars]

Well I mean, there's N who has a custom text speed. That old lady can talk slowly! Take your time granny!

[@norathemediocre]

9:30 There's a similar glitch in BW2 with a tree to the right of Pokestar Studios. Less permanent depending on your party since it's an overworld area, hence meaning you can fly out of it, but still interesting

[@lightyagami3492]

Yeah but that's not exactly an obscure fact. Plenty of people documented that one.

[@JJLiew]

Here's one I learnt the other day: there's a giant bonfire shaped like the 大 kanji in Kyoto which the move Fire Blast is based off of.

[@The_Meev]

That's not an obscure fact though

[@ellioteel]

The Electivire fact was fantastic, I love audio facts so much, especially relating to origins! While not the same, it reminds me of just how cool foley artists are. Also, that tailow fact, loved the build up! It might be because of the music, but it gave me the same thrill as watching a speedrun documentary, during the big breaks

[@l.j.9031]

This series is the most unique Pokemon facts series on KZbin! I enjoy every single one of them. Keep em coming man!

[@miles6492]

The Festa 2002 recreation actually was not entirely created from memory. The retail builds actually still have map data and text from the Festa demo in the ROM. TCRF has more info, albeit not too much.

[@Yappinator678]

It's Fire Fang because it's right next to Shadow Force in the code and they programmed Shadow Force's charging turn to be able to hit Wonder Guard Pokemon but they accidentally gave that to Fire Fang. However if you use Shadow Force against a Wonder Guard Pokemon it still hits

[@Megatorterra_]

That's probably because shedinja is weak to ghost, so the ability doesn't activate. Or did you mean a random pokemon that was hacked to have wonder guard?

[@Wiimeiser]

@@Megatorterra_ The only way to actually do this would be with Porygon, since it and Ralts, and their evolutions, are the sole users of Trace, and Ralts is already Psychic. I don't think types could be changed mid-battle, either.

[@Yappinator678]

@@Megatorterra_ the second one

[@Megatorterra_]

@@Wiimeiser that's why i said hacked. i meant a pokemon that cannot have that ability but still has it. An example of this can be found in the "pure hackmons" metagame on pokemon showdown

[@Megatorterra_]

@@Yappinator678 Oh i see. That's good to know

[@CommanderWiggins]

The Luvdisk discovery makes me wonder if there's other random bits of cut content hidden deep within the code of the other debug builds, which haven't been picked apart nearly as deeply as the German Ruby debug was due to the fact that they only surfaced a few years ago. (They came from the same hack that gave us the Spaceworld 97 demo.) Gold/Silver/Crystal, Emerald, FireRed/LeafGreen, and Diamond/Pearl all have debugs that are relatively unexplored. Heck, some of them don't even have full documentation on The Cutting Room Floor and a couple of them only have detailed pages because some random dude got bored and decided to document the debug menus. (It's me. I'm the random dude.)

[@alibaba3568]

Thanks, I will check out your channel.

[@theinsaneuchiha]

This series sure is unique. I knew only one fact, that being the Luvdisc with Berry Juice but rest all are still a surprise for me.

[@theinsaneuchiha]

WHY DID KZbin NOT NOTIFY ME ABOUT THE HEART Thanks tho

[@FrumpyGoldsmith]

An idea for a future video would be to talk about how broken the ability Sheer Force is. On paper it just removes the secondary effects of your moves, but it removes a lot of effects that you wouldn't expect. Most people know that Sheer Force will remove the damage taken from a life orb. Sheer Force will also nullify an opponent's eject button or berserk ability. Those are the ones that jump to mind, but I'm sure there's a few others I'm forgetting

[@ciscoortega9789]

(my comment previously contained misinformation so I have edited it out)

[@punkipatchmusic]

@@ciscoortega9789 does it still give the boost?

[@ciscoortega9789]

@@punkipatchmusic Actually, please disregard me, I am fake news. I confused Sheer Force with Magic Guard

[@noobstoise1024]

@@ciscoortega9789 Actually you're not entirely wrong, the move used has to have an existing effect before life orb damage. Sheer force will cancel the life orb recoil while giving the boost. I use that strategy with a Braviary.

[@excalibur493]

I use this all the time with Nidoking. It basically has Hydro Pump when you port one from RBY into Gen 7 knowing Bubblebeam. Is it good? No, but it's fun.

[@DrDrao]

I knew about the firefang glitch because it's an integral part of the gen 4 hackmons metagame.

[@cultreader9751]

I remember it stirred up quite a controversy on this very site back in '07.

[@justsomewheel9379]

If we're talking small design details (My personal favourite ones), Crustle's rock isn't just sitting on top of it like Dwebble, there are holes in the side of it carved out where Crustle's legs come out from Even though Clauncer and Clawitzer are designed as lobsters, they are actually both based off of shrimp Palossand can freely move the sandcastles on either side of it like hands Something which a lot of people probably know (I don't because never cared enough to use it) is that Crabominable's arms are actually crab claws, and only the large part of the paw design on its hands open like crab arms The inside of Golisopod's limbs are coloured purple like its mouth and its excess smaller arms can fold in underneath its head at will The anchor Dhelmise carries actually has a seaweed pattern on it that's supposed to look like jagged teeth. Combined with its eye and the shape of its anchor Dhelmise's entire body is actually just a huge evil grin. Also the chain for its anchor doesn't manifest out of nowhere. It's bundled around its centrepiece nose-thingy as a clump of seaweed and unravels into a chain. You can see that whenever it lowers the anchor in an attack move the wheel centrepiece becomes completely smooth instead of the thick seaweed clump it looks like when idle. It's also #360 in the Galar dex because it's a wheel and 360 degrees in a wheel. That last one isn't actually a fact it's just neat I guess. Man. ... Wait a minute I can't end this comment yet I've still got more useless Dhelmise facts! I've just got to quickfire them now damn... The broken eye may be a nod at a pirate's eyepatch drooping seaweed below the wheel may resemble a pirate's beard The ghost and grass type is because Dhelmise's body is actually the seaweed around the steering wheel that possessed the ship parts Dhelmise is apparently 12ft tall. Since the wheel is the same size as the anchor it's safe to say they're both about 6ft tall. Not all that sure what kind of goated captain sails with a 6ft steering wheel but props to them I guess. Dhelmise, despite being genderless, could learn attract in gen 7. This was then removed from its learnset in gen 8. Yeah that's right everyone always calls Cryogonal the only lonely depressed pokemon yet here we have Dhelmise out here with nobody to love How exactly did Dhelmise get a whole bunch of ship parts? Probably a shipwreck I guess. Well good thing there may be an actual explanation to it hidden in another pokemon's pokedex entry that isn't even from the same generation. A Dhelmise entry states that it protects Skrelp until they're ready to evolve. Clearly there's some sort of mutual bond there because Dragalge, the evolution's dex entry states that ships often go missing in waters its made its habitat in meaning Dhelmise protects Skrelp until they evolve then Dragalge casually sinks an entire ship so Dhelmise can yoink a steering wheel and an anchor. Dhelmise and Dragalge, the first bromance pokemon. So much so that a line in Pokemon Masters states that Acerola is annoyed with her Dhelmise because it keeps making friends with Skrelp and bringing them to her house. Maybe someday the world will know Dhelmise is a chad. Maybe someday.

[@Hiruban]

Your comment is so detailed it's crazy, well done Love the Dhelmise-Skrelp interaction !

[@wowjennawow]

you’re a legend

[@austinhicks166]

Fantastic comment. I recently spent the better part of 2 days SOS'ing Dhelmise and finally got a shiny. An absolute bugger to get, but worth it.

[@arowace498]

i love when people love underappreciated mons like you do. so much thought goes into each one of these little creatures and there's so many of them that its impossible for every one of them to be admired as deserved.

[@PragMagik]

I LOVE that you confirmed that final fact! That’s some dedication to the craft man!

[@ryanvox7812]

The mimic glitch explains something I still couldn’t explain to this day! My sister after catching a ditto in Heart Good was surprised to find the ditto had instead all the moves of a dunsparse instead of transform! I wonder if something like that happened as you described.

[@ShiningJudgment666]

You could get some potentially ridiculous movesets from that.

[@triplebog]

I actually like the potion being less effective than just fresh water thing, even without the whole mt silver lore stuff. Like fresh water would be way harder to market and brand and upsell, so companies kept adding extra vitamins and minerals and electrolytes to what is essentially an energy drink in the pokemon universe, to the point where it dilutes the original effectiveness. And everyone in the pokemon universe is kinda like those people that buy "diet Pepsi" to be health, even though it's still not actually healthy at all.

[@RyanNerdyGamer]

I tend to associate it with a “naturally sourced is better than artificially synthesised” theme, something that the Pokémon franchise touches upon in many other ways. Screw with nature, nature screws with you. Ruby and Sapphire are a prime example of this trope, as the theme of the storyline, and of the Hoenn Region as a whole, is Nature (which complements XY’s theme of Beauty IMO, and of course Zygarde as the embodiment of the Natural Order, leading to a truly cohesive meta-theme of “Natural Beauty” in Gen VI, but I digress). Bottom line: If you were thirsty after wandering through the desert with nothing but an icky Water-type Pokémon for hydration, and met someone who offered you either clean and pure water or a brightly glowing energy drink, which would your body instinctively reach out for and grab?

[@susboi911]

the soul silver thing is not entirely true, there’s a guy who sells fresh water from a waterfall in couriway town in x and y and it heals the same

[@adampozzobon5193]

Well, the thing about Potions is that they're not food, they're topical medications. While it doesn't really make too much sense for your pokemon to take a break to have a snack in the middle of the fight, consider what would make, say, a kid playing basketball who just fell and scraped their knee feel better - a Band-Aid or a water break? Obviously both are good, but I guarantee the kid who gets to sit down and drink something is going to _feel_ better than the kid who gets a Band-Aid and is sent straight back out.

[@kingcoheed1208]

My headcanon as that a Potion is an artificial version of Berry Juice hence the sole 20hp, it's not designed to compare to fresh water.

[@TheGreyShaman]

We buy Diet Coke cuz it’s sweeter not healthier

[@SpankinDaBagel]

I love these videos and the effort put into them. The comments are always really nice too with people adding their knowledge and experiences.

[@noodnood9668]

Taillow really has a lot of unique stuff about it, huh? Who would've guessed from such a plain bird lol

[@RyanNerdyGamer]

Something we didn’t get until Sword and Shield almost two decades later, with Rookidee and Corvisquire. Honestly, the fact there weren’t any official standalone pure Flying-type Pokémon until Tornadus in Gen V still baffles me to this day.

[@unkindled6410]

@@RyanNerdyGamer and we still dont have any fully evolved pure flying pokemon besides tornadus. another weird thing about flying is that, aside from cramorant, corviknight and noibat/noivern, there are no otther PRIMARY flying type pokemon, sure a type being primary or secondary in dual types changes nothing, but its weird to see how flying is handed as an ``extra`` per say.

[@noodnood9668]

@@unkindled6410 funnily enough there is one situation where it matters which type is primary and which is secondary. The move Revelation dance changes the type of its damage output depending on the user's primary type, so if a Pokémon with Flying as their primary type would use Revelation Dance, it'd deal Flying-type damage :P

[@CloudySkies17695]

The Taillow line is really special to me, I would’ve loved if it had the honor of being the first pure-flying type. The Electivire fact feels a little cursed for some reason, haha. I wonder if other pokemon get their cries in a similar way? I would assume Electivire isn’t an outlier.

[@rarruto8905]

I completely forgot about the spiritomb wonderguard one until you mentioned it. I did hack that years ago and got so confused when the opposing charizard landed damage with it.

[@Scarson13345]

6:10 We actually know the reason fire fang hits through wonder guard. Here’s a very messy explanation. It’s because each attack has a value set to it to play an animation and see what the damage done by the move should be and fire fang was coded incorrectly giving it a value 1 more than it should, this value just so happened to correspond to the first turn of a 2 hit move. Because 2 hit moves only calculate damage on the second turn the first “charge turn” isn’t blocked by wonder guard. Since fire fang attacks the same turn it will always hit through wonder guard.

[@FallingSloths]

I love that I thought at first the debug cartridge was like using long file names instead of typical move and item names... But then I realized it was just typical massive German compound words hahaha

[@SilverShinyCharizard]

dksfjg genuinely don't know what you're talking about, Pfund is just as long as Pound, and the berries have roughly the same length as their english counterparts, don't they? or do you have all berry names as two words? that'd be weird

[@FallingSloths]

@@SilverShinyCharizard Actually, the berry names in English ARE two separate words. Like "Cheri Berry" or "Chesto Berry". And while I said moves, upon looking back it was actually the Luvdisc ability I was thinking of (I assume Wassentempo loosely translates to Swift Swim).

[@SilverShinyCharizard]

@@FallingSloths to me as a german native speaker, seeing one single thing referred to in two words is SO weird, honestly like why do you use two words for one thing? it makes no sense it's one berry yeah i looked through the segment again to see which words you were talking about and other than like the pokemon names (which english has long ones of too, even if geckarbor is longer than treecko) and the berry names the words i saw were all normally long? so i wasn't trying to reply in bad faith, i just actually couldn't see any other examples atm and i was actually wondering which compound words you found cause i barely register those cause they're inherent to me xD Wassertempo must've slipped by me cause most ability names have that length in english too, y'all just use several words for that for some reason yeah Wasser is water and Tempo is tempo or speed (not sure if tempo is an english word too or if im mixing it up with another language rn)

[@budgetcoinhunter]

@@SilverShinyCharizard Well, in this case, 'Berry' is considered the object category, and the first word identifies which specific member of the category it is.

[@Buderus69]

@@budgetcoinhunter just like straw berry, blue berry, rasp berry, cran berry and bil berry... ...wait...

[@PokeMaster1025]

My brother and I found out about the Spiritomb wonderguard glitch years ago. That’s cool to see it talked about nowadays hahaha

[@1BlueYoshi]

I knew the Fire Fang thing before, but I didn’t realize we still don’t know why it happens. I thought hackers and such would have figured it out by now (Edit: one of the other comments explained why it happens). And also the Battle Tower really does adapt to you??? I always felt that it did but assumed I was just being unlucky and/or paranoid lol

[@SpankinDaBagel]

Somebody in one of the top comments explained why it happens if you're curious.

[@RevyaAeinsett]

The battletower cheats hard-core, even to the point of reading inputs to counter your moves.

[@ShiningJudgment666]

@ It does make sense though. It makes sense that I was seeing a seemingly large amount of Megahorn users like Heracross and Rhypherior in later rounds to try and blow through my Latias and Registeel offensive, defensive core. I also had a TrickScarf Uxie since it had Memento to get something in for free to set up on.

[@SEMIA123]

Maybe you've mentioned it before in prior videos, but giratinas cry is, if memory serves, originally found in the Windows XP sound effect files. Additionally, in Devil May Cry 4, in the song "Frozen Frog" which is the boss music for Bael, they sampled heatrans cry and it can be clearly heard around a minute in.

[@mjduder9210]

Hey man, I love your videos. Keep up the good work because I haven’t known any facts so far, so you are definitely digging for some hidden facts.

[@nightiingale_]

4:30 “this will probably be fixed by the time hope is released” LOLLL they just gave up and banned spinda

[@ZimVerse]

You're About To Hit 100k And You Deserve It! You're One Of The Only Pokémon Fact Channel That Shows Facts That People Truly Wouldn't Know About

[@xLoadez]

Why did you capitalise the first letter of every word? Interesting Way Of Typing.

[@potatothegreat8464]

Didn't know Jaiden Smith watched pokemon KZbin videos!

[@mkgaca8721]

@@xLoadez they are kanaya from homestuck

[@taakotuesday]

@@mkgaca8721 now that's a name I haven't heard in many moons...

[@mkgaca8721]

@@taakotuesday you cant escape it. one might say . . . . . you cant fight the homestuck.

[@gabriellockwood2780]

Really the 'bug' with Spinda will create a near INFINITE inversion of HOME Spindas, which means there's even less of a chance of having 2 Spindas with the *EXACT SAME PATTERN* Which was already at a nigh near infinite combination already...

[@jasonours6957]

Pokémon home doesn’t exist anymore

[@gabriellockwood2780]

@@jasonours6957 What do you mean?... "HOME doesn't exist anymore"? The application with Cloud storage on the Switch & Mobile devices?...

[@nothingtoseehere9648]

@@gabriellockwood2780 uh... maybe he was thinking of Pokemon Bank for the 3DS

[@lyn4739]

Not really no. With the way he explained it, it was just an inversion. So having 2 identical spindas put into home would still have the exact same patterns, just slightly different from the original

[@animeloveer97]

​@@nothingtoseehere9648that still works too lol

[@sanssmash9183]

The fact that tailor has had a major appearance in 2 videos now is surprising. What a special birb

[@M_Alexander]

RBY: Given unique save sounds for a personal touch BDSP: Literally the same game with a single flag toggled between them

[@cem9783]

I love your videos. I always get some kind of nostalgia when I watch your channel because they are so similar to the old KZbin where people still put work Into their videos. Really entertaining!

[@LegendaryPokemon1221]

Yes, another one! I legitimately look forward to these. As an obsessor of lore and useless information, these videos make my heart happy. Keep up the great content, my dude.

[@melinda7004]

Lol same boi

[@luxxtcg]

i love the “oh… you did? good.” in the intros of these videos

[@tonytang7550]

Here is a fun fact, not sure if it's obscure: The Pixie Plate is the only Plate obtainable in Sword and Shield. It was added because the Fairy type doesn't have any other type enhancement item. On the other hand, the Pixie Plate is the only plate not obtainable in BDSP's overworld, it can only be obtained in the underground. This is because BDSP's map is a 1:1 scale of Diamond and Pearl's

[@ReverieSpirit]

I can't remember if it was in one of those Scholastic books or from this mail service around R/S/E's where you got pokemon merch from the mail every month. But one book I had listed Tailow as a pure flying type

[@hokostudios]

The Official Pokémon Advanced Handbook #4, written by Maria S. Barbo and published by Scholastic. Oddly, Swellow's type is correctly listed as Normal/Flying. Tailow's is hardly the only error in the book. Pelipper is listed as Nomal/Flying. Salamence is listed as Dragon. Nincada is listed as _Psychic._ Sharpedo's Rough Skin is described like an attack that deals residual damage. Wurmple's evolution is claimed to be dependent on the time of day. The guide also says the following for keeping Pokémon who evolve via friendship happy: "Happy Pokémon spend a lot of time with their trainers, eat yummy healthy foods, and get daily workouts in Pokémon battles. And don't forget those regular check-ups at the Pokémon Center!" Mostly sound but Maria may not know that this world's "healthy food" is bitter. :P The grass-cutting functionality of Cut is described, but mistakenly as a way to find wild Pokémon. There might be some other errors present, but I'm not willing to go digging through all the listed classifications and movesets to find them lol. There are a few pretty prominent errors with the graphics prepped for parts of the book, though.

[@hokostudios]

@MVPugsley Cutting wild grass doesn't do that in Ruby and Sapphire; and I'm pretty sure that's never been true for any game.

[@BottleRocket11]

Excellent work as ever, Phin! This series has been so fun to watch grow along with your channel! Keep it up, buddy!

[@malcanater007]

Years ago I bought a pokemon pearl from EB games, and it had every pokemon in order, obviously hacked on to the cart, shiny with wondergaurd

[@Zhyden06]

One pretty interesting Easter egg I realized is that In Pokémon bdsp, south west of the global wonder station on jubilife city, there’s a building and if you go one the second floor, there are 2 characters sitting down named Fi and Wi and if you put them together, you get WiFi since it’s right next to the GWS. Pretty neat how gamefreak/ilca puts such small little details waiting for players to see them!

[@TheZackofSpades]

Me: he has to be out of obscure facts by now… Phin: you underestimate my power

[@thisismyaltaccount4195]

LOVE these videos. I don't know how you do it, but every one of these manages to impress me with obscure bits I didnt already know. Pokémon being a special interest for me, it's pretty hard to find content like this. Great video! Can't wait to see more!

[@Floofward]

Another great video, you totally deserve 100k once you hit it. For some reason of all the facts to know, I knew about the gen 1 save jingle and I have no clue why, I’ve only ever played red

[@T_The_Asogian]

I really appreciate the obscure facts and narration style... You are the kind of KZbinr I can sit back and enjoy. T

[@blankoisagod2083]

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[@Dakoulas_]

Great videos man! Always cool to see new facts about the games we love. I think it’d be cool if you could find the best/oddest examples of symbiotic relationships in the Pokemon universe! They shelder/slowpoke type situation was never really highlighted in Pokemon.

[@grunkleg.2934]

Here's something neat. A couple videos back, you had the bit about Lightning Rod increasing call frequency. But there's another ability that has a substantially more obscure out-of-battle effect. In Pokemon Emerald only, if a Pokemon with the Swarm ability leads the party, the likelihood of hearing wild Pokemon cries in the overworld also increases. Because of course it does

[@WeAllBeBros]

Tower of heaven music at 9:47? I see you Phin

[@SpaceWolf21]

@BlueBoyPhin you should do a video on what in game items are made of. Your knowledge of mount silver and the fresh water helped me find out what super potion and hyper potion are made of. Super potion is silver hydrosol and hyper potion is silver hydrosol with artichoke extract. I also know that revive is basically just a naturally occurring salt crystal that can be mined in game and is made of smelling salts. I think the reason it can only be used once is because you have to break it to use it

[@MaxEditzCoolThings]

While playing Pokémon Let’s Go Eevee I noticed that when my rival used a full restore it said “You used a full restore.”. I named my rival Trace... Edit: Thanks for the likes!

[@oliverdavies5233]

I noticed it too

[@azukatie]

Plot twist: You named him You

[@MaxEditzCoolThings]

@@azukatie I didn’t.

[@16garretta]

I recently learned about how hard it can be to catch a Herracross in Gen 2. The game uses your Trainer ID to overlay a special map over the region and only where certain icons overlap with headbutt trees do you get a "mountain tree". I only found this out because I spent 2 hours in azela town in crystal only to find no herracross because I had no mountain trees.

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

The fact that the Battle Tower can learn to bring Fire Fang to beat Wondertomb makes me think that this wasn't a bug so much as it was an intentional feature to get around cheating. Think about it; A move that already is super effective against its intended target, with a little flag that says it bypasses Wonder Guard, just to help stop cheating.

[@ProfVibes]

Actually, its a coding error! Two turn moves, such as Solar Beam or Phantom Force, always move on their first turn, even if wonder guard is active. The second turn though, they'll fail. Fire Fang was accidently given the ID for Phantom Force, so the first turn (which is just attacking for Fire Fang) goes through wonder guard!

[@Lucifronz]

Yeah, no, even without the explanation (which makes sense), I think you greatly overestimate how hard they went in on cheating. To this day Pokemon has ineffective results against cheating. It's foolish to assume anything like this is intentional, even in the modern Pokemon games. They just don't consider this stuff, and nowadays they just don't give a shit to.

[@ahha6304]

once I used walk through walls cheat on X/Y to avoid talking to mum at the start of the game, your neighbour and Shauna will stand right there like after you beat Pokémon League. But here's the story: Shauna will ask you to trade Pokémon like after you beat League for the first time, even you are just woke up and has no Pokémon yet (after using walk through wall cheat to avoid mum), so I think probably the code already design that scene to appears since the start of the game somehow.

[@caolanochearnaigh9804]

3:20 Ah... So that explains the Guitarist trainer class carrying Electric types, then....

[@dankrishnadasan9295]

Your voice has Summoning Salt vibes, so calming.

[@ultimateracs]

To be honest, I never understand why the early birds in each gen need to be flying normal, 'cause pure flying is much more fitting. It's not like the normal Pokemons are something like a normal animal anyways

[@oodogla]

I hope they continue with what they done in gen 8, make the bird pure flying and possibly get an interesting type for the last stage

[@ceulgai2817]

Do you mind elaborating as to why you think Normal/Flying is much more fitting than monoFlying?

[@ultimateracs]

​@@ceulgai2817 In my opinion, pure flying is the better fit 'cause it's the bird thing was intended to be. Besides Flying was the bird type in early development so a animal be a type would be thing considering tha insect is basicly it BTW I also agree that the final stage should be Flying + another type like Covinight and Taloflame

[@quinnfarris]

If I remember correctly, it had something to do with roost removing the flying type move so all monotype flying pokemon would become typeless. So instead they just made them all normal/flying

[@ceulgai2817]

@@quinnfarris Considering Roost didn't exist in Gen I, I don't think this theory holds much water.

[@mr__music5719]

I found this one out recently, but if you have a Pokemon XD game and transfer the 3 legendary birds, Lugia, and Ho-Oh to home, the game thinks you hacked them since they all know illegal (but legal) moves they can't normally learn.

[@koolkittykat04]

Hey, just wanted to say thank you for this series! But also in your last video in the series, you mentioned there was an error on the map of Mahogany Town in HG/SS. But I’m playing through HG right now and the map looks completely normal in game.

[@kennethkay7226]

When it first came out I used a Shiny Wonder Guard Spiritomb in soul silver and remember getting hit with a few fire fangs. The friend who gave me the hacked pokemon warned me about it, and the AI does seem to know that's the only move that works. Very good video!

[@slotholopolis2314]

The Spinda issue "surely" being fixed by the time Home comes out makes me sad. I have a shiny Spinda in BDSP that appears stuck and Pokemon doesn't appear to have plans to change it

[@MortonMcCastle]

5:58 It's Fire Fang. I've already heard that a long time ago. When I was a kid I thought that it was supposed to be some sort of punishment for hacking your mons, but now that I am an adult, I know... That's not how it works.

[@Xitout]

I really liked how much better the vending machine items were than potions. They were cheaper so you tended to get more bang for your buck (granted, to a certain point). The only trade off was instead of more money you had to spend more time buying them. But then they nerfed them. Now the water only heals 30 and the lemonade only heals 70 instead of 80.

[@dragondiana8]

0:26 "the goal of this video is to surprise even the most seasoned pokemon fan, with things you never heard before" and "this is not your normal fact video", thank you so much for that! 'Cause I saw I don't know what videos about pkmn and its great that you do videos like that! For that and for the other videos I watched from you (the newest about the rumors and the alternative ending) you will get a thump up and a subscription ;)

[@blankoisagod2083]

🤖 🍆 🚴🏼

[@Zarren_Redacted]

I wonder if Wonderguard doesn't just check for a type, but if each MOVE checks for wonderguard, and that fire fang is missing that particular flag. In normal gameplay it wouldn't matter because you'd expect Fire Fang to work on Shedinja anyway. No idea if it hits other wonderguard hax mons or not though.

[@corebear1941]

Supposedly that's kinda accurate. But instead of blacklisting every move individually, the error is apparently because every move fails except certain moves (e.g. part one of Solar Beam (just charging the beam)) and Fire Fang was accidentally whitelisted and allowed to hit. This means it would hit any other pokemon using wonder guard, even if it was like- a Blastoise, it would be not very effective but still hit.

[@fr33.]

I always love the endings of your facts videos, makes me feel so satisfied after watching

[@Gigadenny]

Less a fun fact and more an oddity: Gen 2, Gold and Silver, has Crystal as the third game. The two metal games having the mineral. Gen 4, Diamond and Pearl, has Platinum as the third game. The two mineral games having the metal. Not really mind blowing but odd to think about. Edit: I did a dumb. Gen 3 is Ruby and Sapphire

[@Eusong]

This oddity has infuriated me for years.

[@cursedGalataea]

Pearls are not really minerals though

[@alibaba3568]

It's almost as if the games are connected...

[@Gigadenny]

@@alibaba3568 and it’s almost as if I already knew that and just wanted to point that out :D

[@Gigadenny]

@@cursedGalataea fair, but in this case it’s easier to say mineral as I feel that’s the theme they were going with.

[@Fr0zenNightmare]

Update for anyone interested in the Spinda: No, it didn't get fixed, you simply just can't trade Spinda in that game. And also: all attacks get resetted (from pokemon of the GameBoy/NDS-era)... absolutely great remakes...

[@omegaspanish0404]

In heartgold soulsilver there is a similar bug with Transform, thats how I got a Flare Blitz Flareon xD using the twins for double battle, ditto, charizard and flareon with mimics

[@WilliamSussman]

Dude you absolutely blew my mind with that spiritomb wonder guard fire fang fact

[@gf1006]

11:45 What the fuck just happened with cut??? I’ve been playing pokemon for 16 years and never knew that was a thing!!!

[@BackPalSA]

Always learn something from your obscure info videos, Phin! Thanks for the content these days.

[@Me-jx1mo]

4:29 we wish, they just block poor Spinda

[@Aaron-hv4hr]

My 7 shiny Spinda I got after arduous work with the radar method will forever be neglected 😤 (unless they fix it but tbh I don’t expect them to)

[@Me-jx1mo]

@@Aaron-hv4hr man, that sucks. But, yeah I don't think they'll fix it unfortunately

[@Harmonic14]

Interesting stuff here! Also love the use of Light Velocity from GT3 lol

[@tommyblack6135]

I've seen a couple comments explaining the Fire Fang thing, and in conjunction with the fact that Shedinja would be weak to it anyways, the fact that it bypasses Wonder Guard probably just slipped by play testing.

[@DraptorRonin]

Everyone told me, "No, the Battle Tower doesn't adapt to having AI's teams' that counter your team after a while!" But Lo-and-Behold.

[@Michael29040]

Still can't transfer Spinda to BDSP now that Home connects to BDSP.

[@jimmy_jack-z4s]

The reason that firefang affects the wonder gaurd is because the first turns of dig fly and other two turn moves with the first turn invincibility are coded to still hurt wondergaurd on their first turn but fire fang is directly in front of one these moves so it hits throught spiritombs's wondergaurd

[@SharkyOnYt]

13:24 that's a weird zigzagoon

[@ralphschulenberg6770]

Found this channel about a week ago and im watching every video you post! Almost 100k subs!!! Keep it going!

[@borkoftruth7969]

What Ive learned from all these videos is that, despite being easilly the most forgettable early bird pokemon imo, Taillow is the most complicated one of them all

[@SinisterPixel]

We actually do know why Fire Fang can hit through wonder guard. Multi-tur moves such as dig or fly have a flag set which doesn't check if the move was successful on the first turn and just bypass all failure checks. This is so if you were to try and use the move dig on a Pokémon with levitate for example, the Pokémon would dig down on the first turn instead of the move failing. Because of a programming error, Fire Fang has this flag set to bypass all move failure checks. The bug was overlooked because the only way to get wonder guard on another Pokemon is by copying its ability with Trace or Skill Swap, which isn't a common interaction.

[@venabre]

There is one particular anecdote from my childhood I would love to have someone look into. I was playing Pokemon Pearl shortly after release and was at the point in the game of having to beat the Veilstone City gym. The lucario was kicking my ass so I decided to go to the route south and grind for a while. One of the encounters was a plain looking girafarig, like many I had beaten before, except this one ran away. Which... shouldn't be possible as far as I know. After the encounter I did a couple more fights and it was time to heal up once again and when I got to the pokemon center I was told my pokemon had pokerus. This whole thing has baffled me pretty much all my life. There is a chance I'm missremembering and I was the one who chose to ran away, but it's unlikely, since it was taking me 2-3 hits to beat the girafarigs. Still I think it is worth looking into, if only because pokerus isn't as well understood as it should for the common player (like I had read at the time that you had to catch the pokemon, but I didn't, I beat it, and still my pokemon got infected)

[@oodogla]

You do have to catch the Pokemon to get pokerus though. A Pokemon gets pokerus by being infected by an adjacent party member that has it, so if you didn't catch a mon that had pokerus you can't get it.

[@venabre]

@@oodogla I have gotten pokerus twice. Once in pearl, once in a gen 7 game but I can't say whether it was Moon or Ultra Moon. In neither scenario I caught the pokemon, and instead the pokemon in my party got infected with it after beating a wild pokemon.

[@TheCheMo90]

@@oodogla I've gained Pokerus from grinding before.... I remember exactly. It was a Mightyena that I beat. I healed my Absol before the fight and it didn't have it. After defeating the Mightyena I had to heal and all of a sudden there was a purple PKRS symbol in the corner 🤷‍♂️

[@bobjoe3492]

@@oodogla you don't have to catch it, you only need to battle it

[@ceulgai2817]

Some wild Pokemon are programmed to be able to run away from battle. Phanpy is a good example.

[@neildwivedi1302]

I got one, found this on bulbapedia, that if you trade a Pokémon from Pokémon Colosseum to a Game Boy Advance game and then to this game, it will say the Pokémon was met in a distant land, even though both Colosseum and XD take place in Orre.

[@najxoslamp2963]

And spinda never got fixed, haha

[@blaze0750]

I don't usually just subscribe when I'm just watching random vids but you going the extra mile to check your facts like the taillow one is different from others so keep up the good work

[@25tundra95]

Please more of this. Absoluetly amazing. Love u Phin, have a fantastic day.

[@picamike]

The reason fire fang can hit the wonder guard is due to the number that the move is associated with or something along those lines. It shares the same ID as a move that can bypass WonderGuard or something like that. Heard it a few months back so might be thinking of something else