NEW Ultra Beast Starter Pokemon!

[@Gnoggin]

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[@dejaypage1575]

So these gonna appear in Neo Ghetsis?

[@DrakeDragonton]

You referenced Jorgumngander (I know I’m spelling it wrong) when talking about Destrotr but I think another name that might be easier pronounced and spelled could be Bormungot (Bore, Jormungander, Humungous, Maggot and Ot (Mongolian worm word). I love the designs of all of them though, Vergo and Giodude destroyed the artwork and the concepts were fascinating. I never would’ve thought of bacteria for an Ultra Beast, so it’s cool to see microbiology referenced when it’s often overloooked by fakemon designers

[@caf3755]

There's only one problem with Starters Trios, Austin. {'=/

[@DrakeDragonton]

@@caf3755 And that is…?

[@justsomerandomdudeontheint9859]

Destrotr gives Devourer Of Gods vibes. Very cool!

[@StickMaster500]

Having a Legends-style Alola game set in Ultra Megalopolis as you travel across Ultra Space to different realities would be a dream Pokemon game to have!

[@JackDout]

I think I've seen some concept that before

[@noahberan6498]

I'd definitely want some focus to be on old Alola too though, there's so much you could do there

[@arthurmorganhere]

I want that desperately, I also want a cowboy/wild west Pokemon game too.

[@alexfischer7876]

And the design possibilities / creative ideas potential is gonna be... *truly limitless.* _We clearly don't have enough official Ultra Beasts for that to happen._

[@leandersearle5094]

@@noahberan6498 Straight rip the name of King Kamehameha.

[@Gnoggin]

Lemme tell ya, I spent like 2 hours, working with 3 others, figuring out what types would be fun and still work for the whole 'no type relation' idea, and within 100 seconds of this video going live... "doesnt ghost resist poison?" . . . . uh... Oops? 🙃forgot that, even though we had the type charts all in front of us... While designing it I was debating making it Ghost/Dark or just Dark, so lets just go with mono-dark in our hearts.

[@YoelSchwarz]

Ah, its fine, basically no starter trios are 100% balanced.

[@TheShadowDragon26]

Yeah, with poison/dragon, you only had normal, flying, and dark being types that don't interact with either side, including the aforementioned dragon/poison, no type advantage or disadvantage. Whoopsies!

[@dkznikolaj7013]

I thought the monkey could have been flying/electric because electric didn't seem to interact with anything either, but ofc dragon resists it cause dragons just resist anything impressive.

[@emperortoho]

heehee

[@linusprzewloka5814]

i also thought Flying/Rock would work until i remembered that Rock resists Poison

[@JunkJester6131]

17:48 "I also like it's teeny, tiny little arms. What can it even grab with those?" My heart. It grabbed my heart because Destrotr is my friend now and I will forever cry that it isn't an official Pokémon that I can't use in any games.

[@floweytheflower5261]

same

[@mitwhitgaming7722]

I love it when franchises break their norms on purpose. It keeps things fresh and interesting.

[@TheSpektrum1989]

y'know what? let's get a game where we're someone from Ultra Megalopolis and we get to act like normal Pokémon universe is the "strange one."

[@kingmagikarp97]

That would be so amazing

[@AarizHaque-l3z]

@@kingmagikarp97ikr

[@datosaladze6129]

That'd probably be "pokemon: legends nekrozma"

[@kwestionablplus]

pikachu would stillbe in it somehow

[@Salmonsoup33]

150 more Pokémon for the dex

[@Iron_Blood_Enjoyer1933]

4:45 Well consider Guhvine my favorite, it looks like a little grass fox in a spacesuit.

[@MusicWolfGX]

It kind of looks like an extraterrestrial Eeveelution, which I think is pretty cool.

[@alexfischer7876]

Mine's *Destrotr.* It's just plain cool - a worm with skeletal dragon armor. _(Take that, Steelix!)_

[@caf3755]

Wouldn't that make it based on a Dusicyon avus?

[@HauntedMushroom96]

Imagine your whole town has seen a sudden increase in plant growth since the meteor shower last week and now the buildings are almost completely blanketed in vines. In the undergrowth you find a glowing spiky ball, your growlith wont stop barking at it like he's ready to rip it apart. The fluid in the orb is too foggy to see through but you take it to your local professor. That night you get a call. THERES AN EMBRYO. You hop on your bike to prof's house but as you pass an open field of tall grass your caught by all the glowing orbs in it. A giant feline ultra beast descends. Its swirls in the air, leaping on nothing. The orbs from the ground slowly roll to it. Soon followed by floating orbs pulled from the trees behind you. The ultra beast canters in circles with the orbs in the air. Finally it leaps up and up into the sky with the orbs trailing behind its tail. The night is finally dark with remains of a crop circle in the field. You race over to the prof's house but its locked. The next morning, you wake up to find that the plants are back to normal. The sun hasn't shined like this in days. You go back to the prof's house, only to find that its covered in vines with branches piercing out of the roof and concrete. The door is still locked.

[@grodygrungus8543]

The Multi-Type Advantage / Draconic starters are probably the most fitting, thematically-wise (especially when considering the concept of Infinity Energy)

[@fireradfieritis8953]

Yes, I do prefer that one over the no advantage triangle, but I still think both are creative.

[@grodygrungus8543]

@@fireradfieritis8953 Oh, absolutely. Same.

[@vergolophus]

Not me sneaking in my two favorite humans into this one. LOVE the names you gave them! AND Codenames!! AH so good! A little fact to add here to, but I also thought of Naganadel, Guhvine, and Destrotr as different corps. of a sci-fi space mission- Medical, Agriculture, and Construction. So while they can help catch Ultra Beasts, they are also important in the Ultra Megalopolis home universe where the sun has gone completely dark, and the planet's residents must survive without the light and heat of a centralized star. ALSO DID YOU KNOW THE THE UB CODENAMES LIKE SYMBIONT AND EXPANSION ARE BECAUSE OF THE INTERNATIONAL POLI--

[@clanso7887]

Politoad?

[@thedragonwarrior5861]

I really liked your designs, they're definitely my favorite

[@hellofellowbotsss]

Politoad

[@fireradfieritis8953]

Yeah, my thought when watching this was trying to see how such beings would fit in the setting of Ultra Megalopolis. I have specific theories on how a world like that would thrive even thousands of years after the disappearance of all stars. Both Guhvine and Destrotr fit my ideas of some bioluminescent plants surviving and geothermal and mining for energetic materials being the primary power source for a city like Ultra Megalopolis. The Megalo Tower running on geothermal is really the only thing that makes sense outside of some sort of super material we don't know of yet (or something like Fusion).

[@brandonprater4613]

Love your work! 😍👍

[@TheFunnySkeletonMan]

16:28 broooo this is gonna be a contender for fakemon of the year, my jaw dropped bro. I LOVE GROUND TYPES WITH SKELETON/BONE DESIGN ELEMENTS RAAAAGGGHHH

[@D3viant517]

Not to mention it’s also a basking shark, the shark pog itself

[@Dustifer]

@D3viant517 You are here for the bones I am here for the sharks We are not the same​

[@quidlad2050]

RAAAAAAAAH

[@honeykuma226]

Does this make Stitch an Ultra-Beast?

[@Gnoggin]

Absolutely

[@dynojackal1911]

Tookie Ba Wa Bah!

[@mrrunodan8119]

​​@@Gnoggin22:11 Gnoggin you sneaky bastard! You just made a Gurren Lagann-inspired Pokemon! And a space-themed one for that! I mean not only does he look like Simon or Kamina and can spin to slap you, but the monkey inspiration is directly taken from Lordgenome's warning when he is defeated: "When the land overflows with a million apes, the moon shall become Hell's messenger and completely destroy the world of the spiral."

[@MauZangetsu]

*MEEGA NALA QUESTA*

[@Mephiles-1]

​@@MauZangetsu What foul language

[@guzzlord2966]

The Ultra Beasts are SO COOL! I REALLY hope we get to see more of them in future games. Maybe a Let’s Go Poipole or Legends Necrozma that takes place in Ultra Space. I’d buy that in a heartbeat

[@goshi013]

OK BUT IMAGINE We are recuits from Ultra Megalopolis task to adventure into an unknown dimension because of the ultrabeast started appearing there, so we get an ultrabeast starter and adventure into Alola, catching the ultrabeast and seeing the pokemon from there from a different pov

[@tedscheett9420]

Expanding on that, imagine that in order to evolve your starter (which I will be referring to Vergo's group, because Gio's seems like "early route" Pokemon to me, but are still pretty cool), you must undergo trials to prove you are worthy of harnessing the dragon within and receiving the blessing of The Blinding One. To evolve, Poipole must learn Dragon Pulse, so the others must learn a Dragon move as well. Kuzeed evolves into Guhvine by being taught Dragon Claw and Minorm evolves into Destrotr by being taught Dragon Rush.

[@dragonsswarm1987]

Between N0Rtist's Ultra starter designs and these designs, there's a lot of cool stuff!

[@misterzygarde6431]

I just love both ideas. I can’t help but imagine both sets of starters being version exclusive counterparts

[@theshadygentleman7575]

Not sure if this was intentional, but Guhvine's kudzu inspiration kind of reminds me of the red weeds from War of the Worlds: a rapidly growing alien plant that cut swathes across the country

[@MarshtompGames]

2:31 The body inside. It looks very familiar... But, I can't seem to put my finger on it.

[@Azrimohr]

reminds me of Mew.

[@MarshtompGames]

​@@AzrimohrI was thinking of a certain Fakemon from one of Lockstins series's.

[@Williamforeman7129]

Are you thinking of Reuniclus?

[@Guy_Who]

huh yeah it does look like doppv doesnt it

[@peteynutt4104]

I was thinking the Bad guy alien thing from Mother/Earthbound

[@mintytheslime]

Ultra Beasts are my favorite category or Pokémon, so this video makes me VERY happy. I want more UB’s so badly this perfectly scratches that itch for the time being.

[@guzzlord2966]

Kuzeed kinda reminds me of Dark Matter from Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon, both covered in a spiky tumbleweed-like structure, with a core in the middle

[@MurphyTheLaw]

I like to imagine that while the main pokemon universes starters are just "animal + something" and ultramegaloplis is just "alien trope + something"

[@owen_the_oddball8907]

Alien trope + invasive species

[@tedscheett9420]

I love Destrotr. This is giant, ground shaking bore worm/wyrm, but he's just a big softy. The visor he's got is especially cool. If I was a denizen of Ultra Megalopolis, I'd have a tough time picking between Destrotr and Naganadel.

[@enoraltheoutcast]

Ooh ANd About Destrotr. It's probably not intended, but i hear "rotor' in its name. Which.. Kinda works? Minorm is UB Drill, and that kinda continues it..

[@kotlolish]

Irionically I was thinking the same for an "ultra-megalopsis" alternate timeline series. Where these kinda pokemon were the starters. Though I went with something like Poison, psychic, fighting... Wich doesn't work as well XD Though here I designed the idea for "pre-evo's" of Necrozma as in this version Necrozma is the guardian of this city and power source. With a new form namely: "Rainbow Necrozma" Wich is basically "It can be any element type of mechanic" Prevo of Necrozma is a lil prism with 2 black triangles at the end with two lil hands called Prizma. Anyway... thats my silly idea. Love these designs Lockstin 10/10.

[@enlongjones2394]

Seeing UB names makes me think of the paradox mons from scarlet/violet. I think an interesting thought experiment would be: if the paradox Pokémon had standard Pokémon names to go along with their paradox titles, what would they be? I once heard of Roaring Moon having the name “Salmenace” as a contrast with Salamance, for instance.

[@matthewdennis2911]

Iron Tread could be Dontread

[@HOLDENPOPE]

Cybalion Cydreigon Cyranitar Deliborg

[@nuclear_bonsai]

I really like Guhvine. It looks like it has some feline characteristics and that would make sense cause cats are also an invasive species. Combining two invasive species together.

[@tijanamilenkovic3425]

Kinda looks more like a weasel or mongoose, you know weasels and mongooses are also invasive 🦡🐀🐹

[@chasemiller3712]

*me in a public place* “Greetings human. I am Kuzeed.” *can’t contain myself* “FORMERLY CHUCK’S!!!” everyone’s looking at me now…

[@sigma1328]

UB growth looking like it's mimicking Mew's form is also interesting, reminds me of aliens taking others bodies or form like old school alien movies like Body Snatchers or Pod People.

[@dianthaf]

"No green ghosts" Trevenant: am i a joke to you

[@NightFuryLover31]

THat’s what I love about your fan Pokemon ideas! You put so much thought and logic into their designs. And how dare these first stages be so adorable! Huh, I’ll never look at the kudzu in the Sonic comics the same way.

[@GoldenKernel]

These are all amazing! Big props to everyone who worked on this! I absolutely adore the Hambiri line 🐵🌌

[@sapientbirb7350]

19:27 Fun fact: While a good number of people usually correct others for saying that humans or chimpanzees are apes instead of monkeys, neither is actually wrong. Apes actually do qualify as monkeys. More specifically, Old World Monkeys.

[@lonelytac0]

I find fun how the grass one looks like a cat, when house cats are invasive. Like in Australia where people brought them because they want pets. Then the cats started hunting the varied fauna from there

[@alexfischer7876]

_Mr. Lockwood..._ *Thank you for conceptualizing more Ultra Beasts.* Seems like a truly under-appreciated category of Pokemon. And your creative Noggin' came up with really cool lore about them!

[@ultimateninjaboi]

Space Monkey named Quarantang... but not listing "Tang," as a name component is a missed opportunity. The space orange juice must flow

[@ephramnelson5567]

I LOVE all of these designs but the dragon type ones are absolutely AWESOME, please i need to get those guys in my game

[@thomeaus6343]

I like the idea that there's a universe out there where everyone has a poipole. He's a cute little guy.

[@Qorvid20]

These are incredible! I think if Alola gets a Legends game, playing from the perspective of someone from Ultra Space would be so cool!

[@kingsilvergrass8751]

ah, the good o' what if's in Pokemon evolutions, Never get tired of this. No for reals, this is something that's been much of a head scratcher for me since X and Y. Especially the Mega Evol's as well.

[@insanityworks4ussu4skrowyt34]

Much as I like all of these Pokémom - and I do, at least the concepts - I have to mention that Ghost is resistant to Poison. Definitely a very good set of new Ultra Beasts, but it does mean the "no type interaction" trio has an interaction, though it's one I feel is fairly minor overall.

[@strawzulusansundertalehorr7624]

23:44 Ghost resists poison.

[@Nickle_King]

I want to add another idea, just because I think it'd be fun. If a hive of Poipole and Naganadel dies to the toxins of Laatophase, there is a chance the spirits will congeal into the hive, unwilling to leave, to create a Dragon Bug ultrabeast kinda like Spiritomb. Maybe named Dedot, from the term "Dead-Out" referring to a bee colony that died off.

[@peteynutt4104]

I am reminded of the Phantoms from that Final Fantasy movie Spirits Revealed

[@Nickle_King]

@@peteynutt4104 Ya. Kinda like that. The ending spirit amalgam that formed, but angry, sticky bees.

[@3dchomper]

20:35 technically the chimps we sent to space are invasive to space itself, i thought that was the connection

[@Dustifer]

"Space has been invaded by apes that put trash everywhere"

[@anoradraws]

The dragon starters have totally won my heart; being a dragon enthusiast and a dragon Pokémon admirer, I love the designs, especially Destrotr's design.

[@timwoods2852]

I love that each of thees keep the theme of being something organic with a slight incorporation of inanimate objects.

[@TheUnwillingPest]

Lockstin does enjoy his soul absorbing ghosts doesn't he?

[@kratangg-arang]

I adore how much thought goes into everything. Been trying to make fakemon recently and it’s daunting as hell

[@Nickle_King]

"A lot of eldritch horror ghosts are just aliens from other dimensions" I feel like someone's been reading Scientology pamphlets.

[@dracotias]

I mean this is technically just what the cthulu mythos is also quite a few Ghostly enemies in DnD are just astral projections from some powerful void creature

[@peteynutt4104]

Or doctor Who

[@novasaber5954]

These ideas are just amazing. Now I’m kinda curious as to what an ultra beast based on a wolf will look like

[@arturocampomanes8315]

I love so much this concept! These invasive species concept makes so much richer the design, thanks for y'all effort

[@1313puredragon]

Laatophaze also sounds like "late phase" like the late or final stage of illnesses like stage 3/4 cancer or tertiary syphilis

[@prof.thiagoalmeida1226]

9:27 "And a lot of eldritch horros ghosts are really just extra-dimensional aliens partially projecting themselves into our dimensions" This is an excellent way to sum up the premise of Digimon Ghost Game

[@quinnbuffet3825]

My major problem with most of these is that they shouldn't excessively have familiar looking faces and expressions. Poipole is the singular exception and even they lose that when they evolve.

[@Cinder_the_Art_Gal8144]

seeing the Guhvine concept art with it's bulb being flared out, it reminds me heavily of the Mizustune from monster hunter

[@supecit36910]

I like how your videos actually make me think and use my noggin for once. Y'know we absolutely NEED an Alola legends game that includes all Ultra Megalopolis starters.

[@golisobro5296]

22:27 - 22:40 close up of insect and spiders for the people are afraid of those

[@valravyngames]

I love Destrotr. They seem like a Gentle giant which is my favorite trope and the pre-evolution is adorable! Great work from both artists!

[@pocketmonster1088]

I see the Stray Cat influence on the grass type starter, and I love it!

[@pikagammerpluspizza7478]

I think a third evolution of Naganadel (& the other hypothetical starters of this video) can be explained by the Ultra Recon Squad finding or making new z-crystals that allow their starter to Ultraburst into a new 3rd form.

[@stelnatwietjap]

I love vergolophus designs, they really fit well with naganadels design and are just cool in general

[@tikimillie]

I feel like the dragon ones look more like ultra beasts to me than no interaction

[@gamegod6859]

18:42 oh god no

[@nicobruno9062]

Destrotr is super cute with that tiny arms ;-; I LOVE IT. I think that all ultra beast have "beast boost" because it not their dimension, so their abilities are change or deforme into a boosting ability to adapt the enviroment and their danger. So in ultra space, they have normal abilities and they dont have their abilities on earth because is a mecanims of adapt.

[@filteredtea3010]

Laatophaze is my favorite design of all of these because I feel it best encapsulates the truly alien feeling design that a lot of my favorites have. Blacephalon, Stakataka, Nihiligo, Xurkitree, so on and so forth. Also I'm a sucker for ghost types.

[@djimonmcdonald9085]

11:35 skip the sponsor

[@J.Blazer]

My favorite pokemon concept is definitely Destrotr. Giant destroyer that's actually shy and needs comforting? Yes please. sidenote: didn't know worms freaked me out so much until now. But I still want Destrotr.

[@4restFinders]

I knew as soon as I saw Minorm it was gonna be my favorite. Wish that line was real. Props to all the artists; they always kill it.

[@MumboJ]

Ectoplasmic slime feels like a much better concept for a ghost/poison type than gengar ever was. I love gengar, but shadows are not poisonous. It's a shame he predates the dark type or he probably would've gotten that instead. Gastly does the little poison cloud, but haunter and gengar seem to lose it for some reason.

[@pauloltman4960]

25:04 THATS IT, THATS THE GHOST TRICK!!!!

[@Tanystropheus10]

i LOVE the special trio it fits PERFECTLY into the theme

[@Craftomon360]

19:30 "If it doesn't have a tail it's not a monkey, if it doesn't have a tail it's not a monkey it's an APE!" - Larry the Cucumber

[@עומרשרייבר-ל4ר]

Now I want a spin off game where you use ultra beasts instead of pokemon.

[@PorygonBugado]

The Grass Dragon one having both a Bulb and Synthethis theme is touch my ethereal workshop brain rn

[@MarvelMPH]

Vergolophus's set is so cool!

[@draconis17]

If we ever got a game set in Ultra Megalopolis, I'd hope that the ultra beasts, even the ones we already know, could get different abilities. Maybe Beast Boost could be a universally shared hidden ability or something instead.

[@ma_cherri]

I really like the dragon starters they feel so cool

[@outrageouslamp4539]

These are both cool but I like the type interacting trio way more, like I wish the grass one was in game.

[@PkmnTrainerKatie]

Honestly, this is just making me want a Legends Alola game where we can actually go to/start from an alternate universe with UBs in it. Very cool concepts and art!! This is the first I've ever seen of Giodude's but I'm a huge fan of Vergo's, and both did incredible work!!

[@thousandyeargems4360]

Ultra beasts feel like a demented, bad dream version of pokemon. Love it!

[@AnonEcho98]

I vastly prefer the all-dragon trio's designs.

[@Monochrome_Gold]

Anyone else think Xuzeed looks like Mew inside that pod? I can’t be the only one to think it right??

[@johnroberts524]

Yes he probably used new as an inspo but it could also be coincidence as mew doesn’t have a very unique shape

[@peteynutt4104]

Look up the Bad guy Alien from Earthbound

[@SmudgedSketch]

I LOVE HAMBIRI HES SO CUTE

[@powersurge_beast]

Literally last night worked on my own ultra beasts and explained them to a friend, and linked your channel to them. INSANE coincidence.

[@powersurge_beast]

Damn kudzu was a scrapped idea I had

[@Getocat302]

I’d love a Cowboys Versus Aliens like Legends game where you’re playing as a native of the Alolan Islands obtaining technology from the visitors from the other world and eventually traversing the various biomes across Ultra Space, able to choose one of the three UB starters. Same “isekai” concept only you’re not a time traveller you’re a space traveller.

[@crimsonpresents]

I love Vergo! Her designs are awesome!!

[@KazoooGod]

I like guhvine, I feel like grass doesn’t get a lot of evil/malicious Pokémon

[@phacey4444]

Kuzeed and kuhvine are honestly quite cute, I'd pick them as my starter even knowing the difficulties

[@GatcherGuy]

Same.

[@radleytadong]

"GUH" the sound of Chinese residents when they see their houses overgrown by the plant of the same name.😂😂😂

[@Xenoformer268]

Ah yes, Fauxmite, the invasive virus species that sucks souls out of bodies when they evolve that you commonly give to your 10 year old as their first pokemon, what's the worst that could happen?

[@carlossantana9645]

I mean, when one of the options in every game is a walking fire hazard, is not like the pokemon world was very concerned with handing out dangerous wild life to kids to begin with.

[@Xenoformer268]

@@carlossantana9645 Fair enough

[@Wolfbane382]

Braking the normals by using Ultra Beasts? Yes, please!

[@caraprism9074]

I am absolutely in love with the multi-type advantage ones

[@emperortoho]

doesn’t ghost resist poison?

[@Autumn_009]

I honestly always forget this😭

[@macaemeia146]

Oh well

[@susear5939]

Neutral to dragon so it works out.

[@RedRaikou]

As someone who is terrified of aliens, thanks for the nightmares.

[@FreedomAnderson]

Grass/Dragon is my favourite type combo but I’m not a huge fan of any Pokémon representing that combo. I love the design of Guhvine.

[@thecodedperk2829]

I hope these guys could be like tradable into the swirling seasons games

[@mayankmandloi8029]

Wow those designs are just so awesome they fit in with the old pokemons so perfectly I love the designs and also Thanks to all the artists❤❤

[@dragon091327]

When I was in high school I loved working on my ultra beast designs. I got to find my note books with them in it

[@hankmrlakadefender7761]

Minorm looks VERY HUGGABLE

[@Audentior_Ito]

I *adore* the dragon-trio! Absolutely brilliant designs & incredible art.

[@Eisenwulf666]

I love all the designs! The only one i'm not 100% in love with is Quarantang. The whole chimp in a suit thing seems not very pokemon at all. That's just a guy, not a beast or an animal.UB have more insectlike characteristics or look like objects. Lovely design though.

[@Wyvernatus]

Yeah, I like the concept, but it could’ve been a bit more alien-like

[@ariart23]

Giving the dragons to vergo is just perfect ❤❤