Reacting to YOUR Science Pokemon

I wrap up the 2023 Science Pokemon Challenge by going over some of the amazing submissions that were sent in this year.
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Black Holes: • Black Holes Explained ...
White Dwarfs: • The Last Light Before ...
Quasars: • The Black Hole That Ki...
Magnetite: • Identifying Magnetite
Alternators: • How does an Alternator...
Superconductor: • 70046 Superconductor M...
Noble Gas Lights: • The Chemistry of Light...
Laminar Flow: • Why Laminar Flow is AW...
Turbulent Flow: • Turbulent Flow is MORE...
Immortal Jellyfish: • The Incredible Way Thi...
Deep Sea: • Mariana Trench | In Pu...
Leidenfrost Effect: • The Leidenfrost Effect
Aluminum Amalgam: • Aluminum and Mercury
Fermentation: • The Guide to Lacto-Fer...
Tree of Many Fruits: • This Crazy Tree Grows ...
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[@saucepesto7663]

It was super fun to participate in this challenge, and I'm glad you liked my convergent Applin line !

[@phoenixyoung47]

I loved your design, keep it up!

[@saucepesto7663]

@@phoenixyoung47 Thanks !

[@yngbro]

YOUR LINE WAS SOOO EPIC

[@Zero-SPACE-BOI]

Apple juice dini saur

[@user-in7dx9yy6s]

Yes I love it. Edit: now there's gonna be something in the scarlet and violet dlc. Ok

[@tkfarms7882]

I don't know what's better -- Mercury Milcery, or a Smoliv final stage that's a bunch of different plants grafted together.

[@marcusmendesmontano7167]

Drapitation's line and their concept is awesome, if that lil guy had an episode in the anime just explaining the water cycle on the side i think the world would be a better place

[@LonerEevee]

THIS CONTEST WAS SO FUN!!! Seeing my Mercery line make it in was an absolute JUMPSCARE but i'm so happy I made it!!! So glad you liked my funny Mercury beast, and congrats to everyone else who made it in!

[@georgemathew4383]

Your design was cool!

[@mikisek0077]

One of my favorite featured designs. But without NileRed I wouldn’t be able to understand it

[@gabrielox5110]

the best one on this video, in my opinion

[@BirdThatEatsPrometheussLiver]

It was such a good idea, good job making it in.

[@StickgeneralArmy]

YOUR DESIGN IS THE COOLEST I LOVE SWITCHING THE CANDIES FOR DIFFERENT AMALGAM MATERIALS

[@logangarfield7044]

A couple ideas I thought of watching this: I'm sure you already planned this, but it would be cool as the further in the game you progress, the more complex topics for the creatures get. Like how you can have one for the basic states of matter, then another far later introducing other states I also have a suggestion for a specific creature! One that starts as a fruit, then ferments to alcohol. The alcoholic creature can then ferment again into vinegar

[@techknight3753]

That Arboliva varient should have a signiture ability that acts like a combo of Harvest and Forewarn. At the end of each turn there would be a 50% chance (100% in sun) to create a relevent super effective resist berry, or a copy of it's original berry if none apply.

[@temmssmdisnas]

I love amalgremie's concept (especially its gigantimax), mercury is a fascinating element. Now i want to see something related to gallium, maybe a signature ability or move that removes some of steel's resistances?

[@GalactaKiller]

Congrats to everyone participating in the event. Even if I wasn't showcased this time (which would've been a bit redundant as I was last time lmao), I had a blast doing my part Especially happy to see SaucePesto being on the video, as we (as a group of three friends) brainstormed all together for designs, names ect

[@beanslinger2]

the goat

[@Shimormaster]

Link your submission to this contest, I'd love to see it

[@lilfitzy8]

The convergent dreepy and milcery lines are so amazing I love them

[@mauroperez2848]

Everyone did a fantastic job here. My favorites has to be Novatone, the white dwarf Gastly line, Chronova, Diplin, and Amalgramie.

[@mikisek0077]

Super fun challenge! I run the Radon region account and I’m glad you liked our design! Shoutout to all the awesome submissions

[@ajeeeyms]

aww you even did the extra mile to redraw everyone's awesome submissions into your own style. nice!

[@HighlandHellboy]

I’d love to see this becoming a monthly to bi-monthly competition, seeing so many people come together to think about and talk about science is amazing, let alone the super creative designs that end up being made

[@themilkwalker4177]

Wow, having my design appear first really caught me off guard. This design challenge was really fun to do and congrats to everyone with their amazing designs!

[@di5963]

i love the amalgramie, learning about mercury amalgams is what got me to be interested in chemistry for a while so seeing it personified as a pokemon is so cool

[@Random_Idiot_on_Internet]

THIS GUY NEVER CEASES TO SURPRISE ME WITH HIS IMAGINATION

[@amesstarline5482]

3:34 It's almost like if Mantine was introduced in Gen 4, while Remoraid was Gen 2- so it helps with the evolution from Tyke to Tine.

[@CamerTheDragon]

This was a fun challenge to take part in, not used to doing general character design based off an idea like this so it was fun to do and also good practice, lots of cool designs in the video! I like the mix of science and design in challenge and more generally this series 😎

[@Tylerr_Creative]

This was very inspiring to see, so many amazing ideas! I remember trying to make a fakemon around a waterbear where it would have a form to exist as every type, might try to work on that again

[@mathcookie8224]

Imagine if that immortal jellyfish Pokémon, after reaching its final evolution, evolved back into its first form, and repeat from there. Perhaps, rather than each evolution being a strict improvement, each one has a different stat spread but the same BST, making them act more like form changes - but they still switch via cyclic evolution. To encourage you to go through the cycle, its move learnsets probably contain some unique (i.e. not learned by the other stages) moves at very high levels for all three stages, so if you want maximum options, you’ll want to have it spend some time in all three evolutions.

[@drbiohazmat]

Damn, if only I knew about this challenge lol. I would have loved to share my Alcremie convergent Pokémon based on nuclear energy.

[@Eterna_B0i]

For the long lasting lightbulb monster thing, maybe it could swap between different types of lightbulbs or sources of light?

[@BirdThatEatsPrometheussLiver]

The Mercery line was such a fire idea omg

[@Artesfol]

Mine sadly didn't apper, but that's what I get for sending in the LITERAL LAST DAY LOL

[@xeeble.fakemon]

This was a great challenge to participate in! I hope everyone had fun! :D

[@Artesfol]

Hello, I'm trying to become a fakemon artist, but I'm having trouble coping the sugimori stile any advice? Like a specific app to use?

[@xeeble.fakemon]

@@Artesfol It's not what kind of app you use, it's how you use it! I just use the pen, eraser, and blur tools to draw my Fakemon. You can find those in most kinds of digital art software nowadays. My advice would be to study the shape of designs that Pokemon have, and how they're used. A lot of modern designs tend to have an art style similar to old cartoons, and are built to be simple to render and move around in a 3D environment.

[@Artesfol]

Well I'm having trouble more specially in the blur on the shadows

[@xeeble.fakemon]

@@Artesfol I don't mimic the official shading Pokemon uses, I just... kinda do my own thing. Sorry!

[@Artesfol]

Well I guess I can do my own thing too lol

[@melindamuller4466]

Diplins line is just IMMACULATE.

[@bastienfelix4605]

My first thought when you talked about noble gases inspiring a new ability: Stability: this creature is always affected by attacks as if it had no weakness or resistance to them. It seems a bit unbalanced, but it still reminds me of the “not reacting with other elements” part of noble gases. Maybe making it have no resistance is too big of a nerf? I think it would be a bit too strong if it had no weaknesses and some resistances. Maybe it should reduce the effect of its weaknesses? I don’t know.

[@Simon-oj3bf]

6:25 oh crap now we have an applin evo called dipplin

[@alfieho-br1cw]

Amalgams are SO underrated for their strange behavior. Guess that’s because of mercury being poisonous, but still, if safety precautions are taken, you can see some cool stuff.

[@gabrielox5110]

I love the mercery and amalgramie concept, ¿a milcery made out of mercury, with the steel-poison types (being basicly the opposite to milcery's fairy type), and an alcremie with all the amalgams of the metal? THAT'S WONDERFUL I want to also give some credit to the Lendyke line for creating a fire-water type.

[@fissilereptile4782]

I have a whole unique fakemon line in mind thats a glowing radioactive worm that evolves into a pupa shaped like a pop culture depiction of a nuclear waste barrel. And then it emerges as this insect looking atomic dragon, possibly completely changing type from it's original form.

[@Iggy_Dogg]

Oh boy I get to help with the science portion of this video! I'd like to talk about the Gengar line by shanhasacrayon. I have bachelors of science in physics and astronomy so I want to be thorough, but if you only care about the Pokemon stuff skip to the last paragraph. So basically, when stars run out of hydrogen to fuse into helium at their core, the massive energy output obviously decreases a lot and the massive pressure coming from the outside of the core in (gravity) takes over. This breaks what we call "Hydrostatic Equilibrium," which basically means the nuclear fusion taking place in the core is enough that the star doesn't collapse on itself from its own gravity. Anyway, after that happens, the star briefly contracts which allows a high enough temperature/pressure to begin fusing hydrogen in an outer shell. This causes the star to balloon up to massive size with a lower temperature, so smaller less luminous main sequence stars like our own and the ones that are less massive will become white dwarfs. Eventually that hydrogen will run out too and the star contracts again before releasing a huge amount of matter, creating the white dwarf (basically the remnant of the core, very small in comparison to what was there before) while expelling the outside layers creating the incorrectly named planetary nebula. This is the fate of the vast majority of stars, as most in the universe are not all that luminous or special. But the luminous ones are easier to observe so we know a lot about those too. Not gonna go completely into the different types of supernovae, but the important thing here to know is that mass affects everything. Stars that are far more massive than our own (about 8x) but not among the largest of all will experience a type II supernova. Basically what happens is these massive stars are so large that the process of the hydrogen producing zone moving to an outer shell continues, and the core begins to fuse helium into heavier elements. This begins something called the CNO cycles, where Carbon, Nitrogen, and Oxygen are continuously fused creating huge amounts of energy. Eventually that runs out too, and the core is left with just iron. Although there is still enough energy there due to the massive temperature and pressure, the fusion of iron is energy-negative, leading to another collapse. However with these massive stars, the collapse is so violent is becomes hyper-luminous. This is the supernova. Smaller stars in this spectrum will end up as ultra-dense Neutron stars, but larger ones WILL become black holes. We know these supernovae are type II because they still have large amounts of hydrogen and helium in their spectra because of the outer shells. Stars that are FAR more massive than that (about 25x the mass of our own) experience type Ib supernovae, which show far less hydrogen and helium due to the star losing its outer gases due to just how large it is. These stars will almost always result in black holes. There's also type Ic supernovae, which are basically the same but even more stripped down thus showing even less hydrogen in their spectra. But guess what? None of that is actually relevant to that black hole Gengar design! Yes, white dwarfs CAN form supernovae. This type of supernova, called Type Ia, is atypical compared to the others as it does not result from a massive star collapsing but probably occurs in binary systems with a white dwarf. Basically, white dwarfs are dense and in a system with multiple stars can accrete material from nearby stars and reach a larger mass. White dwarfs can only be so heavy before they reach something called the Chandrasekhar mass. The Chandrasekhar limit describes how heavy white dwarfs can be while still being stable (about 1.4x the mass of our sun). White dwarfs that end up heavier than that collapse (once again due to gravity) which ends up as a neutron star or black hole. So yeah that pretty much only happens in a system with more than one star where accretion takes place or the two stars become one. Stars that WOULD'VE produced white dwarfs that massive just skip that stage and do their own supernovae. So now on to the Pokemon itself. I think this concept is really neat! What I would do evolution wise is maybe have another Pokemon based on a star required in the party to evolve, kinda like Mantyke into Mantine with Remoraid. Maybe it could just be Solrock. That would make it more scientifically accurate, as a lone white dwarf isn't suddenly going to gain a bunch of mass and go supernova on its on, even if it DOES reach level 25. Other than that though I think it's a fantastic idea and really I'm just nitpicking because I love astronomy so much.

[@hircenedaelen]

2:06 the graphic here is correct. A black Dwarf is what happens when a white Dwarf cools down

[@Luigicat11]

5:45 Ayo they predicted Dipplin. Well, in name anyway.

[@pyro143]

although i didnt make it into the video, i had a fun time watching the submissions and making my own! thank you for the challenge, n0rtist!

[@someoneawesome8717]

I did not know about the Tree of Many Fruits, and tbh it sounds like something that would be in mythology or a children's story and I LOVE IT SO MUCH!

[@BrendanGeormer]

Funny timing, I just watched the science videos yesterday, finishing up going through your back catalog after finding the channel recently!

[@quantumtwinspark283]

Mercery and Amalgramie are absolute genius designs

[@LowEffortDoodles]

This project of yours is super hype tbh. Wonder what you'll do in regards to Story plot. ---------- Seeing the success of this event, if you opt for Kickstarter to fund this - then a perk where (if within a certain criteria) people get to submit and have a chance to get their mon in the game would be neat.

[@AphidKirby]

Woaaaaaaah SOOOOOO many incredible and inspired designs here!!! Chronova is some third-eye opening stuff WOW, really fun to have participated on this, hope it becomes an annual thing!

[@fluffydragonart1515]

Mantine concept is so cool, this water/fire typing is realy was mindblowing for me. Maybe because I'm a dummy and bad at science, but i think this was my favourite one along with Applin

[@stoneman7220]

All of those Fusions looks awesome

[@Shamazya]

I'd support a sequel video covering more entries. I get why that might not be feasible, which is fine, but I'd enjoy it!

[@schmidtslots]

Ahhh I love the arboliva so much!! Plant Pokémon have always had a place in my heart and seeing grafting incorporated into one of my already favorites?? It’s so amazing ❤

[@thequagiestsire]

Obviously I know I’m late to the party, and I still need to draw it, but I had a fun idea for a convergent Orthworm based on the bobbit worm and abyssal gigantism. Basically it’d be a Water/Dark relative of Orthworm found in the deepest and darkest parts of the ocean that has grown to a massive size (about as long as Rayquaza even, although at least 2/3 of it are buried at all times unless they’re actively attacking) due to water pressure, and have evolved to be able to lunge at sonic speeds and attack prey with sharp mandibles, like actual bobbit worms. (I know bobbit worms are a purely epipelagic species but a lot of media with them shows them as deep-sea creatures and that makes for a more interesting Pokémon anyways)

[@welkin7321]

aaaah so excited for everyone who got their work discussed in the video!!! all the designs were so cute 🫶

[@Zam47]

Ok im watching this after the pokemon presents when we get the new applin evolution Dipplin and there is also a Dippilin in this video the water on based off pipes etc, Thats sick to even be able to accidentally guess a NEW evolutions name

[@mrclownyclown_]

LETS GO SCRATCH REPRESENT

[@chezandcracker]

I LOVE DIPLIN AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@chezandcracker]

PIPLETUN IS AMAZING TOO AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@chezandcracker]

flowple is kinda mid tho

[@senorpicante7563]

this is a really cool way to learn thanks for the videos. Very entertaining.

[@ESw0rdsman]

Something to think about - plasma is more like the parallel of Liquids, in Energy/Plasma/Matter trio.

[@jadedinfinite]

Awww mercery just really needs a hug

[@thebroccodile7099]

It was so cool to see al these uniqe designs, honestly I'm shocked of myself, from not even thinking about making a star themed design while being such a space fanatic. It's still sa that I didn't have the time to start on a design myself. Woulu think of doing this again some time in the future? maybe not in one and a half years would be perfect hehe, where my next exam would happen. I must also say, It's really smart to inspire and intrest others more in science by making a pokemon/creature collector themed game about science. I always used to be interested but in the last few years I kinda fell outa the loop and started being more lazy and researching less and less, this kinda brought me back into learning a bit more. I must really say, thank you for having this amazing idea and sharing it step by step.

[@victorgordonez8727]

Bro literalmente llegue a tu canal buscando fakemon y terminó aprendiendo temas de matemáticas biología física química y geometría, y sólo tengo 14 años!

[@HaraceHavoc]

this entire video was so wholesome.

[@OscarStone-pj2vx]

I had no idea this was going on I hope this has a chance of be comeing a yearly sorta thing

[@cvdusey]

While I’m a bit sad my design wasn’t featured, but still happy to see these other designs.

[@millerk7456]

i wish i had heard of this challenge earlier, because i just had a great idea. a regi pokemon based on blueprints & architectural drawings. could be called regiprint or regitecht

[@FullOedipus]

If statizone worked alongside magnizone the similar to tastigiri and dondozo then I can see them doing very well. With statizone buffffing magnezone's stats and acting as a damage buffer persevering magnezone's health. It would be really cool for older pokemon to get treatments like this in place of form changes/variants. Closing the gap in power, and adding interactions never seen before.

[@FANGED-FREAK]

greatest title pun ive ever seen

[@gxnitrotype]

the dragapult line looked amazing!

[@coos8730]

I love this fusion of Pokemon and science so much

[@tilterized09]

Incredible job to everyone! I do wonder, when will the next challenge happen?

[@eeveeofalltrades4780]

I'd like a Ditto that instead of turning into other Pokemon it can change its type by changing its composition (obviously it should learn more than just one move)

[@garrett2435]

This Video Inspired me to add a science Pokemon to my Own Pokemon region based on South East Asia

[@lavaguava2648]

makes me wish i could draw so i could make cool fakemon like these cuz man these designs were great

[@beanslinger2]

I wish I could have participated, I had an Idea but i couldn't figure out how to flesh it out +I can't draw. My idea was a Water/Steel variant of Varoom/Revavroom demonstrating fluid dynamics with pumps and such. sucks that I couldnt really get to to finish

[@michaelbumbury464]

I wonder if there's going to be another one, because it looked really fun, and I'm wanting to create one of my own.

[@spencerhoadley5723]

Not as fancy as 40 fruits, but I have a tree in my yard that the place o got it from called a fruit salad tree. It has peaches, plums, and nectarines

[@KilaKaKa]

Wow thats super sick

[@LarryTheFurry]

2:38 that is what arceus got stuck in

[@dannykazari]

You've quickly become one of my fav Poketubers

[@froyodoesthings5186]

Participating in this challenge eventually got me making pokemon for a fakemon region of my own, so even though I didn't make it into the video I'd still say it was worth it!

[@clicktuck]

9:16 thats the Undertale font

[@Furretingmareep]

When Diplin exists... ...but still an apple

[@eryscalamitas1611]

That Arboliva alternate evolution looks like one of those dried bouquets you can get and have them live basically forever, one of my teachers has one of those in her lab

[@elmsigreen]

I wish I had sent in a submission. I made a Poison/Bug type version of Ekans and Arbok a long time ago based on batesian mimicry, but technically, in reverse. Ekans looks like Caterpie to be able to attract Pokemon that might prey on Caterpie and ambush them. My Arbok then looks like Butterfree. It's hood looking like Butterfree's wings to be able to slither up to Butterfrees and catch them off guard.

[@piotrbijak3545]

Ok I didn't actually know there was a contest, I don't watch like every video you put out, but I had this idea I wanted to share, what if there was a creature based on hydrolisis, where it would be a water/steel type (something with two electrodes inside) and when hit by an electric attack or something similar it would evolve/change form to a fire/flying type to show the separation of hydrogen and oxygen in water with electricity. If it was to be a convergent evolution it could be based of corsola/cursola with a water type evolving into something that looks like an escaping gas cloud

[@the_blue_jay_raptor]

8:04 I want these guy as actual pokemon

[@thedemonicstaff7417]

A nuetron star with magnetic attacks would be cool

[@neonmimikyu3908]

This is amazing

[@joe_the_zombie]

The mantyke/mantine one was amazing

[@adraxer1365]

LOVE IT! I Just... Just love it.

[@Kayoshiro-]

Woah, chronova is SO COOL!!

[@royaldonut9064]

I regret not participating SO much!

[@totally.not.a.time.travellr]

2:10 neutron stars form from collapsing stars with 1-3 solar masses (the mass of the sun), the newly formed neutrons in the collapsing star stop gravity from fully crushing the star, but if the mass is any higher, gravity wins. black holes form from anything with more mass. A neutron star can become a black hole if it gains enough mass and the balance is broken.

[@totally.not.a.time.travellr]

Hope this helps (:

[@alfieho-br1cw]

It’s more like 8-30 solar masses acktchually.

[@reehan5924]

Bit late to the party, but the White Dwarf Gastly line is based off a type 1a supernova - sure you’ve already got this comment before though

[@reehan5924]

All the designs were super cool as well!

[@hmmmmmmmmmm..]

I… completely forgot about this lol. Was gonna make a mantis shrimp fire type clauncher evo based on light spectrum stuff, uv and lasers and whatnot.

[@darksentinel082]

im sad I only found out about the challenge after the submission due date. im still gonna try though! wanna try to make some music-focused science pokemon

[@hydrathermal9030]

Oh man, I really wish I participated! I have this really cool concept for a rock/ghost skeletal Lileep line based off limestone, as if the skeletal structure of the limestone, which is made up of fossilized animals, was revived into a Pokémon!

[@Galarticuno]

Fun fact, Serene Grace basically has the same effects as the rainbow terrain/weather/pledge

[@Rockslimit]

this was great

[@lorenzobenini7031]

after seeing this i drew a meowth based on shrodinger's cat, but you don't get to see it! it would ruin the experiment!

[@nivedssajith8880]

Statozone is like Mantyke. Statozone has magnezone with it and mantyke have Remoraid with it

[@Techy404]

oh crumbs, if i knew about it i would probably do something

[@Ryu_D]

Thank you for the video.

[@athulas10c32]

I really wanted to participate in this but the design I came up with needed a re design. And my classes started I was short on time. It's a really cool concept that non have come up with. So what should I do😮

[@enderborn6860]

oooh yeah supe cld super conductors is such a dope thing if we invest in that we can have hovering trains

[@jakubtrapp3509]

i really like how you use monster hunter like drawings of pokemon this 2 franchises are my 2 favorite games that i could get on switch o and i would create a pokemon based on multiverse that he changes abilitys based on your accions like when you use an item to heal it it gets an ability to heal itself or if it uses fire move it turns into fire type if you switch it out it turns into a new pokemon when you bring it back to battle

[@aspiringwayfarer]

A n0trist video dropped on my birthday? Nice!

[@stoneman7220]

Magnazone is my favourite electric type