The Total Mess of Pokeballs... 🪩🔘🏀🔴

[@Gnoggin]

Big Balls and Big thanks to Ridge for sponsoring the channel! Here’s the site if you want to check them out: ridge.com/LOCKSTIN

[@DeeRose54]

It’s a tragedy the balls episode wasn’t sponsored by Manscaped.

[@kitsterling8665]

Heheh... Balls.

[@DefileOdds]

Mewtwos balls may actually have human eyeballs on them, I mean, he used the scientists bones to build the inner workings of his cloning machine.

[@sonicANDtailsfan157k]

​@@DeeRose54they said his balls weren't smooth enough, which is strange because Pokéballs look incredibly smooth.

[@kristopherwillis8075]

​@@DeeRose54facts 😢

[@LeanaAlice]

Disappointed that you didn't mention that the moon ball in gen 2 checked if the pokemon evolved with a burn heal

[@manuelaxolot4945]

yup gen 1 and 2 where held together with duct tape and the hopes and dreams of the devs

[@finderfinder4290]

Or that the love ball checked if the pokemon was the SAME gender

[@AJwx291]

Blaine : "You better have burn heal"

[@TMek42]

Lockstin missed a lot of trivia this time round, like how the great ball and ultra ball isn't just 'increase catch rate' in gen 1 - they have different rate caps, hp thresholds and ball modifiers.

[@NachoMountDewCat]

And that the gen 2 love ball is gay.

[@jimskywaker4345]

Dude is sleeping on the dusk ball. Caught all 4 island tapu's in dusk balls in sun because they're all indoors. It's especially useful in pokemon moon, where the internal time is offset by 12 hours to the 3ds clock, meaning it will most likely be night when you are playing.

[@jimskywaker4345]

also the timer ball is also my other main pokeball used, the catch rate of the quick ball is cool, but for anything very strong, it doesn't tend to work, and so dusk and timer balls allow you to get a significant catch rate while also weakening the pokemon.

[@ShinxBOOM247]

Yeah, I'm not sure why he said it wasn't a staple ball, its literally one of the most consistently strong pokeballs in the series and one of the coolest looking

[@blackJJseventeen]

@@ShinxBOOM247 Especially since many legendaries live in caves

[@PsychoDiesel48]

Right!? My moon playthrough had me stockpiling those things!!

[@thunderbandit1853]

I caught Tapu Bulu in a POKEBALL in Sun.

[@darkcloak100]

Here's a topic. How gym leader's gyms match their themes and how many OSHA violations they have

[@JUST4SHYGUY]

i second this

[@chaoticdusk1316]

I want to see this

[@WRPBullet]

I actually think MandJTV already made a video about how many OSHA violations each gym leader has

[@Irish_Enderman]

​@@WRPBullet I don't think it was OSHA violations specifically but he did do a video about how dangerous each gym would be irl

[@darkcloak100]

@@WRPBullet Interesting, I'll check it out sometime. But to be fair people also made videos about pokeballs as well.

[@thewritingrowlet2980]

In ten years when they remake Sword & Shield, ball guy will take off his mask and reveal he was Lockstin all along.

[@GhostlyTekk]

LOL. 10 years huh

[@CosilHeiir]

Ten years, suuuure (and then people say they want Pokémon to take their time)

[@quentc]

In Masters they revealed him as an arsonist is what I'm hearing

[@sonicANDtailsfan157k]

I think you mean 20 years

[@JTRaptor1]

Ball Guy Is Just The Secret Master Mind This Whole Time >;)

[@Dialny]

It is so weird how Kalos skipped adding any new Pokeballs... The region where we can visit a Pokeball factory is the only one not adding any?

[@lordfreezer5631]

Technically it introduced the Pokémon Magearna in one of the movies, that is kinda the first pokéball ever, but theb again it is a generation 7 pokémon in the pokédex

[@Sweetroll_Wolfie]

I did find that odd.

[@JamesDavy2009]

@@Sweetroll_Wolfie I would dare say ironic.

[@sebashad3326]

it would make sense if they are exporting the pokeballs to all other regions, cause if they are, why bother making new balls when all trainers use pokeballs meaning its more cost effective to put all their efforts on one ball

[@simgreen6116]

"Making it the first and only pokeball made by a pokemon" ...the mewtwo balls

[@bleugreann1678]

Gotta imagine though. Unown are more ancient than mewtwo. It's possible that they could have made them first

[@LeatherKing6688]

Mewtwo bought those of eeveebay

[@shahproductionsuser2965]

I think he means directly, Mewtwo simply manufactured them while unown used its power to manifest them into existence

[@RabblesTheBinx]

​@@shahproductionsuser2965 I'm pretty sure Mewtwo just manifested them out of thin air.

[@Fruz]

@@shahproductionsuser2965 that doesn't make much sense lmao, both of them probably manifested them into existence but that's beside the point, regardless of mewtwo's methods, they're also pokeballs made by a pokemon

[@atemnott7062]

Safari Balls aren't just Poké Balls, they change their catch rate frequently between games but usually they are the same as Great Balls

[@tripled2096]

Theyre ultra balls, not great balls. Its actually worse, bc due to gen 1 catching mechanics, great balls have a better catch rate on full hp pokemon than ultra balls do.

[@sarcasm-aplenty]

I was gonna say that too. (In gen 3 safari balls have the great ball catch rate i think)

[@olafmikoaj3121]

​@@tripled2096They have 1.5 multiplier the same as Great balls. Just look it up

[@atemnott7062]

@@tripled2096 As I said it changes frequently, in RBY they're effectively Ultra Balls, in Sword and Shield I believe they're the same as basic Poké Balls, but usually they are the same as Great Balls

[@demi-femme4821]

In Gen. 1, they're Ultra Balls, which is actually bad because Ultra Balls suck in Gen. 1. If you're playing RBY, Great Balls are better.

[@higgy0789]

In Colosseum/XD, using any Pokeball with the Snag Machine will turn it into a Snag Ball, which will catch an opponent’s Pokémon despite being owned. It was made for a criminal organization to steal Pokémon for evil, but the protagonist steals the Pokémon to rescue them. Snag Ball looks exactly the same as whatever Pokeball used to

[@justadel2]

Honestly I would think he'd know of that one. Some like the ones I listed are far more mysterious

[@jorgegutierrezabdo]

I was waiting for a mention of the snag balls.

[@tonberryking42]

To add to this, Snag Balls can be thrown in a double battle without needing to faint the other pokemon next to it.

[@ulawan5]

the absolute slander of the heal ball, savior of the early game mid-route catch and cutest ball out there, and the seals too!! kids and kids at heart were apparently the only ones to appreciate both

[@cjlite0210]

6:09 Fun fact: the reason this is the case in Gen 2 is because the devs mistakingly programmed the Moon Ball to apply its multiplier to Pokemon that evolve... with a Burn Heal Last time I checked no Pokemon evolves with a Burn Heal 😅

[@IAmMissingnoMaster]

My headcanon is that in Gen 2 specifically, Blaine loves Moon Balls and uses them constantly, and says "Hah! You better evolve via BURN HEAL!" before throwing each one.

[@TheFirstCurse1]

They should make a Pokemon that does as a reference.

[@rjd-kh8et]

It's because the Burn Heal has the item ID used for the Moon Stone in Gen I, but GF forgot to change the Moon Ball's effect after rearranging the item IDs.

[@mikzpwnz_3199]

​@@TheFirstCurse1 a missed opportunity with the Paradox Pokémon.

[@demi-femme4821]

Oh there is one. Blaine's just hiding it from us.

[@digifreak90]

A Fun Fact about the Love Ball: in GSC it was glitched to where you only got the bonus if the pokemon was the same species and the SAME gender as your pokemon, instead of the opposite gender.

[@BookWyrmOnAString]

Love wins

[@DidiGG10]

Happy Pride 🌈

[@Fruz]

happy pride month everyone!

[@mertensiam3384]

Gay love pokeball

[@WackoMcGoose]

Ah yes, an incorrect (in)equality check, one of the simplest typos a programmer can make.

[@4skinShin]

Ah yes my favorite pokemon topic.... Balls.

[@CorynSilver]

Dive Ball isn’t as useless as you think, there’s plenty of aquatic pokemon that aren’t Water or Bug Type, like Tynamo or Clobapus

[@bulborb8756]

exactly, and while the pool is small, there's still a fairly decent number, tynamo and clobbapus as you've said, but there is also hisuian qwilfish, dratini & dragonair, paldean wooper & clodsire, dragalge, bergmite & avalugg

[@Gloomdrake]

Plus it just looks cool

[@TheGodIvy]

​@@bulborb8756 so... just Clobbopus, cuz all those others are in gen 9, and there you can exit a battle and keep throwing quick balls, making basically any other ball worthless unless its a static encounter

[@LeKornorBros]

@@TheGodIvy Not sure if it actually works like that, as data from previous encounters with the same Pokemon is stored, but it's a deadly choice if you're playing in a Union Circle. Union Circle makes the Pokemon you flee from disappear instantly, likely to better accomodate spawning Pokemon between two or more players in different locations.

[@Juju2927]

Funny how the Dusk ball is glossed over when it might be the most prominent ball used for catching most of Legendaries since they're often in a cave, lol.

[@youtube-kit9450]

Yeah, aside from the quick ball for the first turn, repeat ball for shiny hunting, or timer ball for legendaries taking forever, the dusk ball is definitely the ball used the most in the series.

[@misterzygarde6431]

I’m genuinely surprised that there aren’t any more PokeBalls like the Net Ball. I mean it has a better catch rate when used on a certain Pokemon. Why not replicate that but for Pokemon of other types

[@typemasters2871]

Indeed, I can think of a few ideas for pokeballs like the net ball Sandstorm Ball/Cave Ball: Rock, Ground, and Steel types Terrain Ball/Field Ball: Grass, Electric, and Psychic types Spook Ball: Ghost and Dark types

[@GameGodZERO]

Ikr, 18 types but only 2 have balls that are especially effective for them, one of the 2 having 3 different balls Its crazy

[@M0bZ0Mb13]

I always thought that the dusk ball was more effective when catching dark or ghost type pokemon for this reason, I'm surprised that isn't the case and it just has to do with time or location

[@adampelletier7102]

Dusk ball is super useful. If you are playing the game at night it's just a 3x, on literally everything. And if it's in the day there are still a lot of pokemon in caves. It's just better than an Ultraball depending on when you play/set your clock to, and is better than most other of gimmick balls having a higher chance and having way more use cases.

[@RuiTsuki]

Especially in (Ultra)Moon with the 12h offset, making it much more likely to be night when you're playing.

[@JamesDavy2009]

I always make it a point to keep a good supply of them for that very reason.

[@zordonsranger8004]

In gens 4,5,6 the Dusk ball has a 3.5x catch rate

[@silversonic1]

You said the"Crystal Pokeball" is likely the first and only Pokeball made by a Pokemon. After already having talked about Mewtwo's clone balls.

[@babafisi8135]

I have to correct you here: In gen 1, Safari Balls are actually repainted Ultra Balls, not Poke Balls. Ultra Balls and Poke Balls in gen 1 had weird mechanics, making the Great Ball the better option for catching Pokemon, and the code used for the Safari Ball is the same as the Ultra Ball.

[@scorchedshadow]

Most iconic "weapon" pokeball, Agatha's staff ball. That epic Gengar entrance.

[@IAmMissingnoMaster]

Oh, that was friggin' awesome.

[@tundral]

The child in me that stayed up late sneaking my DS under the covers basically every night for years is mad at your bad dusk ball take.

[@torazely]

10:55 the fact that you didn't say "a giant Claydoll in a giant clay ball" will forever disappoint me

[@FoxxyFire-HellFrost]

Wait, first you mention Mewtwo's special Pokéballs that can catch a trainer's Pokémon, even when in their Pokéballs, but then you say the crystal Pokéballs made by the Unown are the first Pokéballs to be made by a Pokémon... MAKE THIS MAKE SENSE! 😂😂😂 Edit: You forgot about those ancient Pokéball items that the giant Pokémon were in in that Gen 1 episode. There was a giant Alakazam, Gengar, and Jigglypuff if I remember correctly?

[@submariNervous]

Glad someone else remembers the Weird Ancient Pokeballs from that Gen 1 episode (and yes, you're right on the money about the three giant Pokemon! I recall they all had some neat markings all over their bodies, too!) As for the Mewtwo and Unown balls, the thing Lockstin said is even more ridiculous when you remember that at least Mewtwo's were REAL, FUNCTIONING, POKEMON-MADE POKEBALLS, whereas the ones the Unown made WEREN'T real! They were ILLUSIONS just like all the other crystal stuff, Entei, AND the version of Molly who was battling using those balls! 🤦‍♀

[@FoxxyFire-HellFrost]

@@submariNervous Yeah. They had dark stripes on their bodies. Yeah. The Pokémon the Unown created were illusions as opposed to Mewtwo's clones and Pokéballs. He even built a cloning machine that extracted DNA from the Pokémon he stole. I guess there's no surprise he was capable of so much with his intellect and power.

[@Zistheone2]

18:31 - 18:50 I feel like Chase Balls would be perfect to use specifically on overworld pokemon like how pokeballs were used in Legends Arceus

[@danielhaycroft1597]

boomerang balls as well since you can throw them and then if they don't catch they just return to your inventory.

[@darkpuppetlordful]

​@@danielhaycroft1597 they'd probably have a chance to break, just so the slimy fat cats at SilphCo can get their money.

[@Sweetroll_Wolfie]

@@danielhaycroft1597 Completely agreed.

[@500werewolf]

I love how the Beast ball is one of those useless except for a few specific Pokemon, but due to its 1/10 catch rate, it makes catching shiny Pokemon more valuable.

[@TheFirstCurse1]

It's actually so loved and desired because it looks so cool. I don't think it's because of the catch rate.

[@budgetcoinhunter]

@@TheFirstCurse1 Try to get a Beldum in a Beast Ball.

[@SeraphCrimson777]

It's funny that Lockstin is giving so much love to Quick Balls when they're almost hated in Pokemon trading circles.

[@TaLeng2023]

Why people hate it?

[@Irish_Enderman]

Alternate title: Lockstin rants about balls for nearly 20 mins

[@Kyumifun]

"hey hey you you i don't like your ...balls"

[@cwynwyn2934]

The best use of pokeball effects is catching the Paradox mons with timer balls, so little clocks fly out when you send them out.

[@Sindragozer]

at 0:13 i was definitely expecting a manscaped ad read lol

[@FunnyMan69-ci9yk]

Would of been perfect for this video

[@mr.stoneface7699]

I was sorta expecting a nod to the OG anime episode "The Ancient Puzzle of Pokémopolis," which featured artifacts theorized to be primitive Pokéballs. Also, there's Sir Aaron's scepter in the Lucario movie.

[@wikiuser92]

They weren't technically shaped like Poké Balls, which is likely why they aren't here.

[@keksidy]

​@@wikiuser92yeah but they serve the same function so they probably should've at least had a shout-out

[@Lupinemancer87]

I really liked that in Sword and Shield Gym Leaders used different Pokeballs many of which fit their type-speciality, it made the world feel more alive, and it's one of the things I've always been disappointed about the Anime, how everyone just uses regular Pokeballs and we don't see any of the others being used.

[@JamesDavy2009]

Ash's Tauros were caught in green Safari Balls, his Totodile was caught in a Lure Ball and Jessie's Mimikyu was caught in a Luxury Ball.

[@daltonwilliams1723]

I noticed Team star used specific pokeballs in scarlet/violet, like Mela uses Quickballs(which is ironic given her signature Pokémon is a Torkoal)

[@Lupinemancer87]

@@JamesDavy2009 Yeah sure. Now when was the Quickball used? Or the Repeatball? Or the Diveball? All these balls that would have been nice to see in action. Tell me when they used them.

[@JamesDavy2009]

@@Lupinemancer87 I do not know off the top of my head as I have stopped watching mid-way through the Gen-V arc.

[@ZayDoesArtKinda]

@@Lupinemancer87 Are you taking about the anime? because in Scarlet/Violet (like daltonwilliams said) Team Star members use those balls, Atticus gets Repeat Balls and Mela uses Quick Balls.

[@jade_0_moon]

The moonball worked on pokemon who evolved by using the burn heal for those who wondered what was the programming error in gen 2

[@KnightsofGaming2016]

Iirc, there was a time when the Love Ball had a more successful chance at catching Pokemon of the same species as your Pokemon with the *SAME* gender. On that note, Happy Pride Month to those celebrating 🎉

[@digifreak90]

Yep, in Gold/Silver/Crystal it was programmed incorrectly. It was meant to affect opposite gender, but actually affected same gender.

[@BioniclesaurKing4t2]

Fact rarely mentioned about the Love Ball: even to this day, it's in-game description has NEVER told players it only works if you battle using the same species as the Pokémon you're trying to catch, only the gender part, meaning most players have probably never managed to get its boosted effect without online research first.

[@pixality7902]

Its extra dumb because it could at least work within egg groups ffs

[@TaLeng2023]

​@@pixality7902yeah egg group would have been reasonable but I doubt they'd bother coding all that

[@SethPhillips-v1k]

The yellow ball that Glacia has is also held by Wikstrom 10:36

[@blackrapier713]

Safari balls were actually Ultra Balls in gen 1, then Great Balls in gen 2-7 (and BDSP), then became pokeballs in gen 8 and 9

[@Magnet_Chaos]

The slander of seals is unforgivable. The difference between a Pokemon Trainer and a Pokemon Master is PRESENTATION!

[@RCJones560]

My favorite part about moon balls is that the error made it so it only affected the catch rates of pokemon that evolve with burn heal. Which at the time of writing this, no pokemon evolve with a burn heal

[@ustinsimmons]

Can't believe the Luxury ball slander! It is the only ball with an effect that persists after being caught. Trade your old mons up to new games and their friendship still goes up at 2x the normal rate!

[@GPismymom]

The Pokeball has such an iconic and clean design that I mostly use those to catch anything, I also almost always have something with false swipe and sleep powder or spore with me. Not very useful against ghosts and grass types but I can manage

[@risel56]

You know what I'm surprised Lockstin hasn't made an "Every X Explained" video on? Natures.

[@LMK-Gaming]

1:17 That Shedinja on screen is in an Ultra Ball...

[@MM-lv7iy]

Gen 3 things.

[@pokemonster6122]

Yeah like he immediately contradicted himself there

[@Gnoggin]

Just gen 3 things...

[@TickedOffPriest]

And there is also a note that it changed in Gen 3.

[@ryudragonuv]

I had a Shedinja in a premier ball--just like th Nincada I caught.

[@jonieljoestarzawarudo8172]

Fun fact, due to a programming error, the LoveBall only increased the catchrate if the wild Pokemon was the same gender as your Pokemon. So it was a very progressive ball.

[@andistansbury4366]

THE POKEBALLS ARE TURNING THE FREAKING POKEMON GAY

[@TheFirstCurse1]

​@@andistansbury4366I DON'T LIKE THE POKEMON LEAGUE PUTTING CHEMICALS IN THE POKEBALLS THAT TURN THE FRICKIN' POKEMON GAY!

[@probablyaurora]

The Gayball

[@shahproductionsuser2965]

I have not seen a hollowed out skeleton of a cicada in a great ball, but I HAVE seen one in an ultra ball. That’s where I keep mine that I found last summer.

[@nosleepjones4551]

Funnily enough ever since they started showing the pokeballs in healing centers I've started catching every pokemon with a normal ball for the sake of uniformity as you can't get your starter in any other ball

[@asterlyons8564]

On the opposite end, I try to catch them in as many different balls as possible for the variety when i use the machine

[@Gloomdrake]

@@asterlyons8564I like to catch my Pokémon in whatever ball is the closest aesthetic or thematic match

[@sunshowers3838]

Ah, the two wolves inside me.

[@DemonicEngineer]

1:17 That Shedinja is in an Ultra Ball

[@FunnyMan69-ci9yk]

Lol

[@madnessarcade7447]

One could argue the symbols on the starter balls in the og anime like the lightning bolt were stickers

[@SesshouFan22]

The Luxury Ball is my absolutely favorite for 2 reason: 1, because of aesthetics, and 2, because its original description said it was cozier than a regular Pokeball and encouraged Pokemon to become friendlier faster and who doesn't want their Pokemon to be cozy?!

[@timwoods2852]

As someone who primarily plays at night, Dusk Balls are my go-to. I was slightly offended by your wright off. Especially since a lot of legendary Pokemon tend to be found in caves. Furthermore, due to their somewhat broken catch rate, Quick Balls are usually frowned upon. Especially in the shiny hunting community for some reason. It's kinda like a cheat tactic or something. 🤷‍♂️

[@flopps1051]

12:40 I'm sorry I can't watch you anymore, customization is the best part of the game.

[@rafal.qwerty]

The funniest thing about Ultra Ball is the fact that in Japanese it was called Hyper Ball, so many generations later a Pokeball designed to catch Ultra Beasts was called Beast Ball instead of Ultra Ball.

[@Gloomdrake]

That’s why it has an H on it

[@ophew]

I find it extra confusing given the fact they essentially switched the names from potions and balls from the japanese version, since there it's called Super Ball (the Great Ball) and the Hyper Ball (the Ultra Ball). I have no idea why they decided to do that.

[@mikeymccann3074]

The heal ball I a bit more useful now since you can switch out your team miles away from a pokemon center but in return the pokemon don't get heald in the pc

[@A11V1R15]

The Nest Ball was the meta for SM/UsUm, since most wild Pokémon would be in its bonus range

[@silversonic1]

The Heal Ball WAS necessary at certain points, like back before it was actually made. In Gen 1, Pokemon weren't healed at all upon capture. But otherwise... Yeah. Just a different color Pokeball most of the time.

[@ElecManEXE]

It's also been made more useful in Gen9 since, because you can now access your PC at any time, Pokemon don't automatically heal when sent to the box.

[@silversonic1]

@@ElecManEXE Forgot about that because I rarely switch freshly caught Pokemon onto my team. Thanks for the reminder.

[@YOM2_UB]

Also was made more useful in Gen 7, when the ability to choose whether to add a caught pokemon directly to your party, even if it's full, was added.

[@shiveshchoudhary]

5:10 You could say that wooper got... _wooed_

[@UwU_69420]

wooer

[@turtleninja16tn66]

I'd love to see the boomerang ball get added, imagine this: Catch-Rate is 1x, but if the catch fails, the boomerang ball comes back to you and loses its wings, becoming a "wingless boomerang ball," which has a 1.75× catchrate. Or it's a ball that grows in catchrate for every failed catch in the battle, having a maximum of 4×

[@raymaikeru]

Not exactly on topic as this is fangame territory, But there was a fangame that existed on ROBLOX known as Pokemon Brick Bronze (considering it was a VERY popular fangame back in the day, I'm sure a quite a handful would know what I'm talking about) In Brick Bronze, there was a special store known as the Poke Ball Emporium. On top of providing special Poke Balls, they also have special types of "Elemental Poke Balls", which has a 3.5x multiplier on Pokemon that has the same typing as the ball. And there's 1 for all 18 types. They shuffle out these kinds of balls every day of the week. Toxic Ball Insect Ball Icicle Ball Sky Ball Zap Ball Fist Ball Flame Ball Draco Ball Spooky Ball Pixie Ball Earth Ball Stone Ball Dread Ball Colorless Ball Splash Ball Mind Ball Meadow Ball and Steel Ball Honestly I wish the official Pokemon games can get something like this. A concept I'm surprised Pokemon never did.

[@novidsjustposts]

honorable mention to the ancient relics containing the giant Alakazam/Gengar/Jigglypuff! though glad the giant stone ball housing claydol made it in!

[@KaiCyreus]

the Heal Ball is not so pointless now! ever since Let's Go, when we could first access our Boxes away from a Pokémon Center, depositing a Pokémon in a box will no longer automatically heal it

[@Swagpion]

That was in Sun and Moon

[@Cap_master29]

The Strange Balls also appear when you have something from PLA go to Home as well as the other way around, I know this because my first ever level 100 Pokemon was a Hisuian Zoroark in Pokemon Scarlet (originally a Hisuian Zorua transferred from PLA), and it was in a Strange Ball.

[@moxiemouse24]

One of my bug aces (Klaire the Kleavor) is in one as well

[@SilverAlex92]

Dusk Ball is best ball! A LOT of legendaries and strong pokemon are indoors in caves and stuff, and for the rest you can just catch them a night. Its for sure the pokeball I've used the most in my life :)

[@Metroid4ever]

I still want a feature that lets us customize or dye our own Pokeballs. With obvious limitations to prevent things like inappropriate self-drawings. Or give us more Pokeballs for various other types, like a Day ball, which is opposite of Dusk's mechanics, something to catch fire or steel types more successfully. And for the love of god bring back the gold and blue park ball from Gen 4!! It would fit so many gold shinies.

[@Niko__01]

The strange ball occurs when you transfer a pokemon (via HOME) from PLA to any other game or any other game to PLA. It's not just in PLA. I have two pokemon in Scarlet right now from PLA that are in a strange ball, and it really makes me wish you could change the balls of your pokemon...

[@Hunter-ze3my]

Yep, It'll probably be the same with Legends Z-A when it comes out too.

[@Nelsito99]

Iirc only pla and sv have strange balls as they didn't exist in swsh or bdsp so they would be in normal pokeballs but would return back to their og ball if put back in home or there game of origin

[@Niko__01]

@@Nelsito99 They exist in BDSP for the same reason as SV, but they don't exist as their own item. In BDSP it is a graphic displayed over any pokeball (namely PLA pokeballs) that has an ID that doesn't match any ID of any ball in the game. And of course they don't exist in swsh... you can't bring "strange" pokeballs in to swsh.

[@JoshArtisticGenius]

In the Pokémon Anime: The Ancient Puzzle of Pokémopolis The episode with a Giant Gengar and Alakazam fighting each other, they came from these spoon like artefacts that where apparently a type of primitive ancient Pokéballs!!

[@lyleabner2475]

Did you know the only pokemon ash has caught in anything other than a pokeball is totodile? I was gonna say Tauros but every time one of them shows up it's in a normal ball

[@JamesDavy2009]

Tauros' Poké Balls were the green Safari Balls.

[@MonkeysxMoo]

A lot of these Pokeballs may be basically useless, but man it sure is nice to have a team with unique Pokeballs. I especially love how Scarlet & Violet allow us to pick the Pokeball we keep certain Pokemon in now. It lets you put Legendary Pokemon into more fitting balls than the Ultra Ball, like Ogrepon in a Friend ball or Blood Moon Ursaluna in a Moon ball.

[@thefinalduane]

love a video where lockstin talks about balls for 20 minutes

[@JoonyTv]

I always kinda wondered what the deal was with dive and netball... like 2 balls for water based pokemon, but moonballs couldve easily been for catching fairy types, dusk balls for catching dark types, heal balls for normal types, heavy balls for rock ground and steel types luxury for steel or dragon types... Im getting off track but you get what i mean....

[@louiepikmin3184]

No way bro just said the dusk ball isn't important 💀💀

[@rickduivenvoorden7383]

In the celebi movie there was a pokeball that you needed to wind up like a music box to make it work en a Dark ball that supposedly makes your pokemon Level 100

[@Wolfbane382]

I love the Dusk, Moon, and Love ball the most. ^^

[@KrazyChibi]

Even though many of the balls are useless I like matching them with the color scheme of whatever Pokémon I’m catching. 😊

[@Volkaroar]

LMAO when Lockstin points out that you need a pokeball to get a Shedinja, at the same time the graphic shown shows the newly received Shedinja in an ULTRA ball. Now that's a hilarious and contradictory edit

[@IowaCoconut]

I like to believe that the friend and luxury balls just have a really great environment inside, which makes the Pokémon happy

[@TickedOffPriest]

7:41 Mewtwo: Am I a joke to you?

[@goodhelmetjunior3399]

2:00 The Safari Ball was basically an Ultra Ball in Gen I, and a Great Ball from Gen 2 until Sword & Shield, where it became a Poke Ball, reverted back to a Great Ball in BDSP, and then a Poke Ball again in Scarlet & Violet.

[@joeshmoe735]

Dusk ball my beloved.

[@megasnowey7177]

The dive ball is actually useful for pokemon like Dratini and tynamo since they are non water types that live in water

[@brendaneichler5244]

9:05 Talking about bad programming, the way Premier balls work nowadays is that any time you buy 10 or more balls, you get a Premier Ball thrown in for every 10 you buy (Get 30 Ultra balls? Have 3 Premier balls on the house!). But originally, it was way worse. You only got them when you bought 10 or more Poke balls (and *only* Poke balls), and only one per purchase. Buy 30 Ultra balls? Nothing extra. Buy 30 Poke balls? Have 1 Premier ball. If you liked the look of the Premier ball and wanted to catch your team in them, you'd have to spend so much time and (in-universe) money buying exactly 10 POkeballs to get them.

[@brendanboomhour7606]

Regarding the Dive Ball and Net Ball, in Gen 9, the Net Ball is useless for Tynamo, Inkay, Hisuian Qwilfish, and any other non water type pokemon on or in water, the Dive Ball on the other hand, does work for the non water type water dwellers

[@ornitopesto7554]

So now we can finnaly talk about *balls.*

[@mastermarkus5307]

... I use the dusk ball a lot. I mean, one reason is for the AESTHETIC, but there are a lot of great late-game Pokémon that end up being in caves.

[@madnessarcade7447]

Bruno’s green pokeball I think is just a miscolor because it never returns

[@JohannaA.5013]

My favourite Pokéballs: 🥇 - Dusk Ball; 🥈 - Moon Ball; 🥉 - Level Ball. And I really don't know why Game Freak has still not created an Ice/Snow/Glacial/Blizzard/Frost/Tundra/Aurora Ball. It would have those rates: *During Blizzard: Ice Type Pokémon 3x. Other type Pokémon 2x; *During Snow/Hail: Ice Types 2.5x. Other Types 1.5x; *During Any other Weather: Ice Types 2x. Other Types 0.25x.

[@EagleScoutBlackBelt586]

Lockstin: Dusk ball only catches Pokémon in caves, it isn’t that useful. Me: Ya it’s not like there large number of legendary Pokémon found in caves or anything.

[@Jstylin2]

aw man i wish you covered how the love ball originally only worked on Pokémon of the same gender and species as yours or the moon ball not working right cause it was checking for pokemon that got evolved by a burn heal and not a moon stone

[@mousetoons22]

2:35 for some reason I remember saving my game in front of Kyogre in alpha sapphire then closing the game and reopening it after my master ball failed and I have no idea if it was some kind of dream or eeal

[@montyeggman3075]

You can also get a Pokemon in a Strange Ball if it's transferred from PLA into any other game through HOME, as well as the other way around.

[@victorlinares4137]

11:25 tf do you mean the dusk ball isn't used much. Its literally the 2nd most used ball on legendary pokemon since alot of them dwell in caves

[@foxpokemonforever4775]

10:50 You’re telling me the anime had an ANNIE AND OAKLEY on TOP of Butch and Cassidy?? How come this is the first time I’m hearing about them????

[@qwertyUriel]

Heal balls had their time to shine in the Sun and Moon demo

[@hypermun52]

Hey Gnoggin, i just kinda had this thought/theory that may be interesting to cover, not just from a lore standpoint, but a design standpoint. I dont think voltorb and electrode were originally supposed to be based on pokeballs, like...at all. Back in gen 1, no one would have known that the pokeball would be so iconic. Rather, I think their original intended origin was based on charged Ions. They have a red and white side, The colors used to represent positive and negative charge on a magnet. Voltorb's eyes are angry, denoting a NEGATIVELY charged ion while it evolves to get a big "happy" smile and reverses its colors, denotating it's reversed in polarity to become a Positively charged Ion. Their habit to explode may be an allusion to how unstable charged ions are and the idea of splitting an atom causes a nuclear explosion. Yet, with the simple thing of them looking like pokeballs, people only note that as their origin and ignore the rest of it. Maybe there's more to such a simple design than one would think? A deep dive into the yokai and scientific inspirations could be neat, even bringing hisuian electrode into the mix and its origins in Houroku-Hiya hand grenades and exploding seeds.

[@alexthegreat5485]

you forgot the gold pokeball that contained the shiny magikarp that James was scammed into buying in the anime.

[@NyüxTheDragon]

"Shedinja is basic" bruhh what that's one of my favorite pokemon

[@danshen3827]

My favorite moment in Pokémon was when Ash caught a Ridge wallet.

[@brianhull2407]

Prior to Gen VIII, as well as in BDSP, the Safari Ball was equivalent to a Great Ball, except in Gen I, where it was equivalent to an Ultra Ball.

[@Nelsito99]

10:28 when the timer ball was introduced it took 40 turn to reach its best catch rate

[@Mrnothing152]

I think I remember the relics from the episode with the big Alakazam, Gengar, and Jigglypuff being some pokéball prototypes, and I think there was another giant one in the gen 3 anime that caught a Claydol

[@nixtypikal]

There are so many cool mechanics that could be added to Pokeballs, both existing and possible new ones. Here are some of my ideas. Heal Ball - could give the caught Pokemon either a flat bonus to health EVs on catch or a modifier to health EVs it gains. Premier Ball - either just give it a slightly higher catch rate than a Pokeball (like 1.2x) or maybe make it more effective on Pokemon you've never encountered before, like the word premiere (since they would be spelled and pronounced the same in Japanese). Love Ball - should be changed to have a 3x catch rate when its regular conditions are met, but have a separate bonus that triples the catch rate when the Pokemon is infatuated (so if your Pokemon is a different species it's 3x and if it's the same species it's 9x). "Counter Ball" - A ball whose catch rate is based on stat modifiers that the target Pokemon has. Each stat decrease increases the catch rate multiplier by 1.5 but every stat increase the Pokemon has reduces it by 1. (e.g if you used growl 2 times and the Pokemon used double team once the multiplier would be 3x) "Trap Ball" - A sort of successor to the original Fast Ball that has a 2.5x catch rate on Pokemon that can flee and removes their ability to flee for 2 turns if it fails. During this these 2 turns the catch rate for any ball is increased by 1.1x. "Expert Ball" - Acts like a Rare Candy, making the Pokemon level up when you catch it. "Endurance Ball" - Has a catch rate that depends on the condition of your active pokemon, increasing to a maximum of 3x depending on health% and status effects your pokemon has.

[@moxiemouse24]

Trap Ball should also work on Pokémon that know teleport

[@layerex3957]

In SwSh and SV, your Pokémon doesn't get healed when sent to the PC, so Heal Balls are not *as* useless