INSANE Pokémon Facts You Would NEVER BELIEVE That Are Actually TRUE!

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There are a lot of cool Pokemon facts out there, but some of them are so crazy that you would never believe them, even though they're actually true! In this video, I'll be going over a bunch of Pokemon facts just like this, that you would never believe, but are actually TRUE!
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Pokemon Facts You Would Never Believe That Are Actually True!
0:31 - Sponsor
2:08 - Ledyba, Ledian, Turtonator
5:23 - Lickitung, Charizard, Nidoking and Nidoqueen
8:20 - Berries, Mewtwo, Slowking, Krabby
14:22 - Outro
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[@HoopsandHipHop]

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[@kamensentai9286]

I'd love to see another video like this

[@jakeriese4862]

Where did u get the Paldiean Footage at start, with Arven and Meowscarada

[@jakeriese4862]

Is the manga Canon, and where did u get the Cynthia Lance Blue vs Giovanni footage and the Mewtwo vs Mew?

[@cairneoleander8130]

Dragons breathing fire is exclusively a Western dragons trait. Most dragons of Asia are water or air associated. And when it comes to dragons or draconic creatures of elsewhere it varies as well

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

And even then it's more of a modern thing, old stories of dragons from medieval and ancient Europe often had dragons breathe poison as either a liquid or gas. Beowulf was the first instance of a fire breathing dragon and it still didn't catch on for a long time after.

[@SapphirePlains]

That might Explain wht despite being based on Sieryu/Qinglong which is one of the four gods of China in certain mythologies Tyson's Dragoon from Beyblade is a Wind serpentine Dragon and not a water serpentine dragon.

[@matthewrowlett1564]

A fire breathing dragon. Originally a Welsh concept, actually. Ever heard of the Welsh-Dragon? (Heck, Highschool DXD even referenced it, and that show is Borderline pornography. Still hilarious though). Chinese Dragons were mostly Air, water, and darkness, though A few Dragons were born of fire, smoke, and ash(mostly the supposedly evil ones)... this is reflected in pokemon. I mean, One Dragon Starts out Serpentine, then become a large European dragon, one starts as a Carp, then becomes a wingless Serpent of air and water, and one, fitting the Welsh description of "a great, winged, fire-breathing lizard" is just a Winged, fire-breathing Lizard. Heck, Welshdragons were actually fat, and therefore couldn't fly despite having wings, so gen1 charizard makes sense... still a stupid idea, but hey.

[@bigjalapeno7061]

Interesting

[@SwaggyKitty101]

Realizing that Delibird's bag is actually a tail gives that same feeling of realizing that Brendan's hair was actually a hat-

[@SinCityYetiArt]

You totally unlocked an old memory! 😂 I remember rumors at my TCG league about the Gen 3 games. It was said that if you saw the berries sparkle it would double the amount of berries you got.

[@agm5424]

New video idea: New pokemon lines of specific types for regions where they are lacking in numbers. An example is more new ghost pokemon for Kanto since they only have the three members of the Gengar line as representatives of the type.

[@AznYunHou]

Strictly in terms of Native Pokemon. Steel Type for Kanto (1 less than Ghost rep from Magnemite line) (or dark type) Dragon Type for Johto (ghost or fighting could work too) Electric Types for Hoenn (poison is a second option) Fire Types for Sinnoh Fairy Types for Unova Ground Types for Kalos Dark Types for Alola (excluding regional forms) Poison Types for Galar (excluding regional forms)

[@mathswatch1976]

​@@AznYunHouwhat about dragon in kanto as a third option as I can use 3 lines to name every kanto dragon with one line each including evolutions on their own

[@AznYunHou]

@@mathswatch1976 well yeah, but it's tied with Ghost so I didn't want to just repeat the typing cause I already used Johto's one dragon as the region that needs more dragons

[@MoostachedSaiyanPrince]

The not-so-fun facts about the Ledyba line's sizes are even worse when you consider the fact that real life ladybugs are a species of beetle.

[@jeremyetremblay6663]

And yet this pokemon line totally sucks

[@shurikenstormX]

Ghost Napa: "Vegeta.... Vegeeeeeeeetaaa.... I'm haunting you!"

[@sea_triscuit7980]

​@@jeremyetremblay6663for battling yeah, I honestly like the aesthetic though and wouldn't mind hanging out with one haha

[@garg4531]

…How does that make it worse?

[@bigjalapeno7061]

They're not scary beetles though

[@DestinyHeroShademan]

A physical attacker with very little else has higher attack than special attackers with higher everything else, whoop mind blown

[@keturahwilson3366]

I've actually known about the Berry tree animation for quite some time now, but I found out about it by accident. Saw it happen in the corner of my eye, and was like: 😳😲

[@bigjalapeno7061]

Damn

[@RoyArkon]

Here's another crazy part regarding the Mewtwo-human-hybrid fact (and I only learned it just now after watching this vid), is that when Blaine took some of his own cells so he can add them to Mewtwo, he also put some of Mewtwo's cells in his own body as well, so his arm became distorted due to the cells of Mewtwo in his body, which also slowly took over his body and his life. That's some really dark stuff. Excellent video once again dude, and yes I would love to see more of these, this video was wild!

[@corvette334]

Wait... if Delibird's "bag" is its tail... then what are we picking up and getting in Scarlet and Violet when we get the item "Delibird Parcel"???

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

"Parcel" just means package, it's one of the items that is produced by Delibird's tail.

[@user-cr5pk6ic3k]

That is technically it’s poop@@OtakuUnitedStudio

[@MC_Viewing]

That last fact is even more surprising to me because I know people who live there (I have family that does) and it's very close to me-

[@RaithGyaron]

It's crazy that a ladybug Pokemon (4' 7") is almost as tall as the mantis Pokemon (4' 11").

[@cossakrose]

The reason why Nidoking/queen are unable to breed has been known for quite a while. There's no mystery or confusion. The two are based heavily on rhinoceros, a species which is notably very difficult to breed in captivity.

[@BingBongFairy]

They should have perpetuated that with pangoro

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

That's only speculation. The actual reason is because the original internal Pokédex used for designing the Gen 1 games spelled out that Nidorina gives up its ability to breed in order to evolve, which carries over into its Nidoqueen stage. DYKG had the entire document translated at great cost.

[@Air-ts7cu]

5:54 - Did you just use a masterball on a Lickitung?

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

Why not? He also has a Mew, meaning he's using glitches, and therefore likely has 255 Master Balls most of the time.

[@snappps]

Fun fact, most poop can be used in explosives with proper conditioning

[@gustavju4686]

Turtenator adds a different meaning to explosive poop😅

[@Daniphantom31]

I've always known dilibird bag was a tail

[@purehyper124]

All of those legendaries have mostly special power not physical and can easily destroy any krabby.

[@M_Alexander]

Nidorina and Nidoqueen being unable to breed is explained in the "Lost Pokedex" book translated and presented on DYKG

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

Yep! A lot of people thought it was a glitch that never got fixed, or was grandfathered it, even though that makes no sense really. It's just because the original internal bestiary basically said that they stop ovulating as they evolve.

[@udadox]

The objective of the line is to explain the phenomenon of evolution and how it affects species, in this case the search for power makes them lose the ability to reproduce.

[@Lucky-Nick123]

Who knew a little crab 🦀 can be so powerful and fearsome. Yep, it deserves the title of an legendary. If Goku existed in the pokemon world he would love to fight this crab and make a good meal out of it

[@WinterFrostDragon1347]

Okay, so Turtonator's dung is used in explosives. Is that really safe or is the threat of E. Coli a non-issue due to heat?

[@chrisd1982]

To be fair they do say hippos are among the deadliest animals alive, so give one psychic powers as well and that's a recipe for disaster

[@onetallpheeesh]

During X and Y days, I used to use Kingler as my Mega Kangaskhan counter of choice. Banded Super Power OHKO'd and it could take a hit before it started firing Power Up Punches lol

[@emerfirek]

Wait, that doesn't seem likely to me. If it was Band, it wouldn't really be able to Protect itself from a Fake Out (which could put it in range of w/e bigger attack), and even before mega, Kang naturally outspeeds. You did make me recheck to see if Kingler had an ability like Inner Focus to ignore those Flinches, though, I'll give you that, lol.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

Nidorina and Nidoqueen not being able to breed is because it was part of the big ecology design document used during production of the games. Pokedex entries for Red and Green were copied from the information written on all of the original 150. But not everything was included, like how Nidorina loses the ability to reproduce after evolving because it has become more of a protector of its younger relatives. Yes, they wrote _menopause_ into a Pokemon's biology section.

[@pattymelt5825]

I agree that there not being a lot of dragon/fire types being crazy, but then I look at all the other dragon types and think that the fire typing doesn't really fit any of them, except for maybe Koraidon. Also note that fire dragons are more of a western thing, while eastern dragons are more associated with water

[@Warhawk9012]

4:19 that's not *too* surprising since in the Dragon Quest series, which Tajiri is fan of, some turtle-based monsters belong to the Dragon family. 5:29 it's insane that the *"Licking* Pokémon" couldn't learn *Lick* until Gen II (but at least you could trade one from GSC to RBY that knows Lick.) 6:34 there was a Japan-exclusive Pokédex book, that was recently translated to English, that outright says Nidorina, and by extent, Nidoqueen lose the ability to breed upon evolving from Nidoran (I always assumed it was a bug that was never fixed.) Given how *insanely* popular Pokémon was in those days, it's amazing that book was never released outside Japan.

[@tytoalba605]

Charazard feels like a regional fake to me like i could see a true charizard in another region as in a dragon type that looks very similar As its the false dragon pokemon. So a pure dragon type varient would make sense being the real true charazard. Maybe as a past pokemon.

[@jamesoursso2710]

Being someone from Jefferson county Alabama I can attest the fact that even the cops do that kinda thing in Alabama it's no surprise to me lmao

[@circledude2362]

Entry 3 to part 2: The Move Nightmare originated as a TCG Attack.

[@flareinc7413]

Technically Turtinator has a reason to be dragon since Dragon Turtles are a thing. No idea if the game designers planned this reference though. Excellent video as always ^^

[@SesshouFan22]

Turtonator's dung being an explosive isn't actually surprising. Fertilize IRL, which is just animal poop, can very easily be turned into explosives and it's one of the most common main ingredients for home made explosives iirc.

[@M_Alexander]

Never assume a bug pokemon is smaller than a child

[@mathswatch1976]

4:03 ah but fire breathing dragons imply they don't all breath fire

[@M_Alexander]

It's kinda silly comparing unevolved Pokémon stats with things like Mew and Celebi considering several have a stat or two at or above 100. Like, Abra and Trapinch have base 100 stats

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

That, and the fact that "cute" Mythical Pokémon almost always have 100 across the board.

[@jamesheatherly4209]

Oh so that explains why Howard was able to merge his mind with Mewtwo’s in the live action Pokémon Detective Pikachu movie.

[@amesstarline5482]

3:38 And now I womder about "Miraculous Ledian".

[@BingBongFairy]

So... you're saying that fireworks in the Pokémon universe, if not created hy Pokémon moves, are made of.. oh no.

[@Daniel_Coffman]

That's one crabtivating Attack stat.

[@jmhguy]

Dog s*it Sp.Def and hp

[@flareinc7413]

More of these please! This sort of stuff is very intriguing. ^^

[@dinolover]

Bro ppl have known that Delibird's bag is its a tail for years now...

[@ForestAbruzzo]

These are INSANE and I would NEVER believe they’re TRUE (I’ve heard all of these facts 500 times)

[@SapphirePlains]

I always thought another reason certain pokemon can't lean fly despite having wings is because they're body or muscles aren't strong enough to carry a pokemon trainer on their back in the air or sky whether the pokemon trainer is a child or an adult. Looking at you Beedrill, Butterfree, Scyther line, Yanma line, Ladyba line etc..

[@HeraclesN-fp1bw]

Of course Krabby is powerful because in Japanese crab is Kani which is 1 letter off to God which in Japanese is Kami

[@brandibastian4193]

I feel like that situation with a slow bro. It's the additional height of that quote" shelter on its head so it's basically hat height that is making it that tall. I am barely 5 ft tall. I had put a kind oddly shaped hat on the other day for s**** and giggles and I hit it on the top of my dad's car door when I was getting in. I was like oh my God

[@user-tl3es4wc9p]

Who knew you could see berry trees growing

[@karlline445]

Loved the episode, mainly due to the size stats and attack stats, because I normally don't pay attention to those when I play the games.

[@InkyBerries]

Ledyba is big because that's better for hugging. 😌

[@caitlinbrock357]

wow i learned a lot. I thought darumaka was the only poop related pokemon up until this point. turtanator poop related Pokedex entry makes a ton of sense after you realize it's poop has methane in it. so light em up and throw

[@bewearstar9462]

Chimchar and diglett also uses poop for resources

[@Chaos0f7ife]

Wow, that thing about berries... It really blew my mind.

[@Gigadander]

I thought the Nido lines can't breed due to them being poison types. Something to do with poison in their bodies after they evolve. Not sure if that's something official or if it's a fan theory.

[@IAmMissingnoMaster]

If that was true, no Poison-types could ever breed. There's actually an old Pokédex book only ever released in Japan, and this was early Gen 1, that states that Nidorina loses the ability to have children upon evolving from Nidoran. So this was an intentional detail from the very, _very_ beginning.

[@spectrum-5]

@@IAmMissingnoMastertrue

[@Gigadander]

@@IAmMissingnoMaster Not all poison works the same way. A Muk's poison would be different than Seviper's poison and both would be different than a Gloom's. So who knows how the Nido's get their poison. But yea that book is probably what I'm thinking of.

[@bigjalapeno7061]

I wouldn't be too scared of Slowking's height. I'm 6'4 and I also imagine that a lot of that height comes from the Shelder on its head

[@ruffarmy3564]

Damn. Slowking is smart enough to be ballin

[@matthewrowlett1564]

Hi. I'm the guy who already knew all this, except the Card stealing cop thing... And the Krabby thing? Yeah, there's a reason for that. Krabby evolves into Kingler, which is based on the Fiddler Crab... a creature who can, using the big claw, snap a 2mm thick steel wire... not a huge amount of steel, but it's STILL Steel. Now, imagine that the size of Kingler instead of a tiny crab... no steel beam of human leg is safe... Also, it's frickin killer in gen 1&2... one of the few pokemon to learn Guillotine and Vicegrip, with its massive attack...

[@ChampionBlaze]

Krabby now commands respect!

[@IcarusFallz]

Cookie cookie

[@jmhguy]

Dialga Origin Form blasts it to last couple centuries.

[@Yoshigamingchannel]

Slowking is 4 inches taller than my brother, that’s ridiculous

[@jmhguy]

Douglas "Doug" Dimmadome, owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome has Slowking beat.

[@RaptorofRex07]

4:51 Talk about a blow out lol

[@tomashulett2388]

So if delibirds bag is it tail and you tell it to use present and it explodes on a pokemon it tossing its poop at you also when it heals a pokemon is it cause it ate a bunch of oran berries

[@garg4531]

People complain about charizard being flying instead of dragon but making things worse is how in Red and Blue they couldn’t learn ANY flying type moves…not even by tm! And nidorina and nidoqueen can’t breed but the dex is FULL of entries about them raising their young (And try not to think too much of the fact Nidoking can breed with little nidoran… something that isn’t brought up nearly as often as the “can’t breed with nidoqueen” controversy)

[@fishandjam5383]

Does Slowking's height include the crown? I think more than a few people will have already had an idea of how tall it is, though, as wasn't the one in Pokémon 2000 taller than Ash?

[@SuperheroFan337]

Something tells me that some of these heights and stats are wrong. Because they don't make sense like Krabby being stronger than a legendary doesn't seem right to me.

[@enzovieira1508]

why are these ladybugs so big they eat yeast to be so big also that guy was a team rocket in real life really the lecel was team rocket

[@booshbear]

i mean, ledyba isnt vertically oriented, its 3ft long

[@booshbear]

also salamences height is foot to shoulder, the genies are just the body, and like 2 feet of slowking is just the shell

[@SwampTiGaH]

That Krabby fact is why he won in its first and I think only battle in the anime

[@jaxjaxattaxx]

Lmfaooooooo that last one sounds like an Onion article, my jaw was on the ground 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@theknightwithabadpictotall7639]

Did this man just call Slowking a hippo

[@bet0v966]

Wait Rhyhorn is only 3ft tall?!?Then why is its 3D model in older games and appearances in the anime made to be bigger? Did the sizes change for it and other mons ?

[@dragontamerpennie3273]

The first time I seen the berry sparkles, I was so confused. Lol

[@Pancakelover09]

I think the reason there are so few Fire/Dragon type is because in east Asia were Gamefreak is from Dragons are associated more with water not fire

[@geonunes10]

Not to be that guy, but the fact of dragon type dragons is lacking some information. I recommend the video "trope talks: dragons" by OSP. But it boils down to dragons have an extensive lore and fire breathing dragons are more European centric. Considering pokemon is a Japanese franchise, It makes sense that most dragons aren't fire type as well. And even not considering this extra context, most dragon Pokemon can learn a fire type move

[@joaopedroveras1044]

Dr Lava has a video explaining why nidoqueen can't breed and yes, it was intentional

[@duobird4707]

Pokémon heights are so weird

[@FelixHedges]

nah crabby a physical attacker with decent attack and shit everything else has more attack than a bunch of strong special attackers thats crazy

[@thedragonofdalzell]

Krabby is the Mr PoPo of the Pokemon world

[@stevieroberti5258]

Was anyone else surprised to see tofrug make an appearance in the add background

[@dklk734]

its cause rhinos cant breed in captivity

[@OliverurFace]

Nidoking doesn't breed with Nidoqueen because she hit the wall. Why have hey when he can have a much younger less experienced Nidorina who's always on all for, ready for the position.

[@nonstoppkFred]

Turtonator must have the absolute worst cricked neck.

[@gustavju4686]

I got to see the animation several times (watering them more than once).

[@dylanmorgan2023]

All hail the mighty lord krabby

[@superkamehameha1744]

Series idea. IRL crimes because of Pokémon like that policeman

[@saintzeroinfinity]

Could mewtwo learn NEN the power system from hunter x hunter? Lol

[@sailorPinata]

I thought Mewtwo was a mix between Mew and the Dr's deceased daughter ?

[@jmhguy]

That's the main Anime/Movie's cannon.

[@alexdehatter2151]

*Who hits harder?* Powerful gods and extraterrestrial beings OR one crabby boi

[@saintzeroinfinity]

One pinch crab!

[@keata1315]

That last one didn't shock me at all😂

[@jmhguy]

Stupidity is to be expected.

[@gamerfellow]

I think it'd be more appropriate to find fire breathing dragons by the number of dragon-type pokemon that could learn some kind of move that throws fire, maybe some kind of flame thrower. Also say it with me now: "The pokemon adventures manga is not in any way associated or canon to anything in the games or lore" Good cause you can cherry pick anything from the manga and use it to justify whatever you want to say. Pryce is actually a genius inventor who created a robot pokemon to capture celebi so he could go back in time and rescue his dead swinub. It's nowhere in the games but that's the plot of the gold and silver adventures manga so now it's definitive canon according to your logic ^^;

[@purehyper124]

The manga is separate from the anima and games.

[@dannispann9077]

I haven't laughed that hard in a minute, wow he tried to steal in uniform? How does anyone that stupid get employed by the government?

[@justxaine.3544]

Squirtle : i blow bubbles Pikachu : i summon lightning Tortunator: i shit napalm 😂😂

[@All-Fur-Coat_No-Trousers]

I, too, have explosive poops. I'm a Turtinator

[@StateBlaze1989]

Take a shot every time he says the word "literally".

[@cloudstrife532220]

Slowing is taller than me

[@maxstrike3022]

I was today years old when i realized nidoqueen cant breed because of menopause.

[@RidgeWalletYT]

Cool rings 😎

[@GrilledCheese2theMAX]

Remember the special olympics family guy episode where the ladybug took steriods. Mommy look at the ladybuahhhhhhh!!

[@kamek145]

Krabby beats Goku

[@KingNidoYT]

All bow down to King Krabby!

[@spacealien3073]

Honestly the last one is not that surprising in the sense of, despite the seeming hypocrisy of it, police are just as likely to commit crimes and regular citizens and more surprising that the dude was willing to ruin his reputation over packs of cardboard with Japanese cartoon monsters printed on them lmao. Like Pokemon cards are cool and all but absolutely aren't worth stealing (at least not the blind packs you'd get at a Walmart. Rare collector type promo cards I would sorta understand though).

[@Mittybeef]

dont talk shit about my boy Krabby. Goated

[@AlwayzGeekedUp]

Seems that ot all dragons species are fire breathing tho

[@eeveefennecfox]

a police officer was trying to steal pokemon cards? A POLICE OFFICER?! DUDE YOUR A POLICE OFFICER,WHAT THE HELL?! talk about embarrassing