Things about Pokémon you STILL get Wrong

[@EzRida04]

You should do another "Moves that Pokémon should/shouldn't learn. It's been 6 years and there are a lot of new outrageous examples.

[@dylanrivera2550]

I agree with you Saul Goodman

[@megarayquaza2240]

Great suggestion, Saul Goodman from hit shows Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.

[@ChariGirl13]

I agree! I loved that series!

[@PrasoonDwivedi08]

Yeah that series was fantastic. Alex loosing his mind on some of the Pokemon's move was hilarious.

[@dylanmanf6427]

Yes I loved that series!!

[@PragMagik]

THANK you. Mimikyu is NOT a Pikaclone. So many people have tried to tell me that and it is just not.

[@PansyPops]

I’d like to see where people stand on Pichu. A lot of people seem to think it’s not a Pika clone because it’s a pre-evolution, but the majority of people seem to label it as a Pika clone.

[@robbieq7814]

True, though marril is not one two!!!! The only thing linking it to pikachu is it’s name when it was a Pokégod in gen one! It’s name was pikablue!

[@zeroattentiongaming820]

It's a (relatively) dark parody of a pikaclone if anything, right down to imitating Pikachu in an attempt to be popular. Functionally though it's certainly not a pikaclone

[@bulborb8756]

@@PansyPops i for one don't count Pichu as one, if anything, I find that Pikachu clones started in gen 3 and has continued since then

[@sylv3053]

Hey, if Mimikyu wants to be part of the Pikachu family, let it be part of the Pikachu family, even if it's that one weird adopted sibling.

[@unwitnessedspaghetti6683]

With the Koraidon wheels thing, it could also be based on a Flintstones car, which I've not seen anybody mention before

[@michaelnelson1127]

I’ve seen a few people mention it, and a picture showing a side-by-side comparison.

[@IgnitedQuils]

Something many people fail to see, as they assume it’s supposed to have the “wheels” move like its future counterpart when it’s supposed to represent the past.

[@meepmeep2706]

it's been said like a thousand times by now.

[@7swordquanta459]

I have already seen the Flintstones argument in other social media. Not to mention, I've also thought about Koraidon oozing with Flintstones influence since it came out. And Im pretty sure there are others who thought about it as well even before me.

[@AStrangeTrap]

@@IgnitedQuils not like the wheel was invented a really long time ago or anything. And everyone knows that it's a neck sac and that it makes sense logically. It's just disappointing because it looks goofy, I'm still picking it because I like the design, but moving wheels are better

[@orizin8102]

If Koraidon's wheels were able to rotate, he would probably die of blood loss

[@rjs4176]

Yeah, I feel like the fact that there's no organic pokémon that to date have physical, rotating wheels is an intentional choice. Some rotating parts? Sure. But wheels seem to be crossing a line. Those seem to be reserved for pokémon like Rolycoly and Carkol who are made of coal, Rotom Mow who is a lawnmower and of coarse Miraidon who is a robot. All very obvious things and materials that can have wheels with no further complications.

[@YVH636]

Because fire breathing lizards, electric mice, and turtles that can spew near infinite amounts of water make so much more sense.

[@orizin8102]

@@YVH636 yes, it does Koraidon is a living creature, not a machine. It wouldn't make any sense to have half of a spiky wheel enter your chest and come out of it without anything extreme happening to it

[@YVH636]

@@orizin8102 as if “living machines” are any more sensible. If you can suspend your disbelief for all the other absurdities in this series, I fail to see how this is such a leap.

[@ELaster1]

Pikachu's black tail is based on MANY knock-off toys that were sold everywhere. Some of us did have a Pikachu toy with a black tail, maybe even playing cards, plushies, etc.

[@spiritsong4026]

I just hate it when people say that pikachu had a black tail when he first appeared and then they changed it. Or "he always had black I use to draw him with a black tail" Like seriously did you guys not watch/play the original pokemon games!? Also your childhood drawing is noncanon!!!!!! This Mandela affect makes me just want to slap all of them for not learning that they just remembered something wrong.

[@ELaster1]

​@@spiritsong4026 It's not Mandela effect though, I have here on my shelf a black-tailed knock-off Pikachu figure

[@spiritsong4026]

@@ELaster1 yeah I know. I also had a pikachu card that had a black tail. I know it's a fake cause me and my siblings are hardcore pokemon fans (that sadly got some fake cards because we were too dumb to notice).

[@leftchaotix]

the cosplay pikachu from ORAS has a black heart tip on it's tail, it's possible some people remember this and get it confused

[@spiritsong4026]

@@leftchaotix people were saying this even before ORAS came out. I understand if they got their info/memory wrong because of cosplay pikachu, but tons of other people (who aren't pokemon fans) still say the original had black.

[@mdeverhart]

For the longest time, I thought Rotom was a legendary. It wasn't until 2019 where I found out that's not the case. It's just a very rare Pokemon. But could you blame me for thinking Rotom was legendary? In the original Sinnoh games, it could a obtained in a specific place and the legendary Pokemon battle music would play.

[@IgnitedQuils]

It did have the legendary music theme and is placed right next to the legendaries in the National dex, which is reasonable.

[@velvetbutterfly]

Are there any similar "very rare" pokemon that are static encounters with the Legendary Battle music?

[@iamnotinvolved1309]

Surprising. I thought it would at least be a mythical.

[@spectralumbra1568]

@@iamnotinvolved1309 Mythical pokemon are types of legendary pokemon that you can only get (legitimately) through events at the time they're first introduced. So Mew, Celebi, Darkrai and even Arceus would be considered mythical pokemon. Rotom wouldn't qualify since you can find it pretty easily in the games as long as you know where to go.

[@spectralumbra1568]

I remember debating this with a group I was in a tournament with shortly after gen 6 came out. That battle music was something that tripped up a lot of people. We eventually decided that since Rotom can breed, it doesn't count as a legendary.

[@bulborb8756]

I still find it a stretch to call Pichu a "Pikachu clone" given it's related to the yellow rat and that it's Pikachu's pre-evolution, the rest however (Plusle, Minun, Pachirisu, Emolga, Dedenne, Togedemaru, Morpeko and Pawmi) i do count as Pikachu clones

[@cynicalradicand]

Imagine calling your child a clone lol

[@irgyn]

@@cynicalradicand depends on how you reproduced

[@justinsmolik2834]

HOW DARE YOU CALL PIKACHU A RAT!

[@trumpeterjen]

@@cynicalradicand People call me a clone of my mom all the time because we look so similar. It's not as uncommon as you'd hope.

[@majorhoolahan]

It might not be a "proper" clone, but the role they created for it to fill is effectively the same as all the "actual" clones.

[@Gavman2105]

I really don't think that Koraidon is just gonna become Miraidon. I feel that Miraidon is the human recreation of Koraidon, which would be why it has wheels and jets, as those are human inventions. I personally think that in Violet, Koraidon went extinct due to human behavior, and the humans needed to make a replacement to take its place so that the ecosystem doesn't collapse, or whatever importance Koraidon, being a legendary pokemon, had to the balance of the world wasn't lost.

[@aquetzalcoatl4663]

Yes because nature will die without a motorcycle that doesn't use its wheels /j (Also before people @ me, I'm still getting Scarlet)

[@oneish7454]

Interestingly enough, 'mirai' means future in Japanese

[@I-am-on-fire]

If without Koraidon the ecosystem will collapse and all that, how does a ten year old kid catch Tapu Koko, Tapu Lele, Tapu Bulu and Tapu Fini and the islands don’t collapse, because FYI they protect the island and stop it from collapsing.

[@nathanfortun5768]

I’m sure it’s gonna be more based off of the fact that regardless koraidon went extinct in both games. In scarlet you revive the original Koriadon, and in violet you revive him with extra tech.

[@ZeldaboyOG]

Cyclizar is the present day version of Koraidon (past) and Miraidon (future). Plus korai means ancient and mirai means future. That and I am willing to bet money that this game is going to have time-based version exclusive regional forms. This will be how they can bring back the Hisuian forms to the present day. So I would expect other future forms of Pokemon.

[@blakdeth]

Even though the gen 7 box art legendaries aren't coded as ultra beasts, they are still from ultra space. They just probably couldn't program them to be ultra beasts and legendary at the same time.

[@MunchVGC]

Thank you. And also, Solgaleo and Lunala were already known to the region, so a codename nor keeping them secretive to the Aether Foundation would've been necessary.

[@Nosretep]

@@MunchVGC Also their cries and prime numbers stats and level up Movepool.

[@UltraAryan10]

@@MunchVGC In the anime, Necrozma has codename UB Black so your theory may be correct. Though what makes Beast Ball not work on Necrozma is intresting lorewise.

[@AlfyDC]

Don’t forget they have the UB sound in their cries like all the UB’s too

[@SquareMahogany]

I think technically Naganadel is part UB and Legendary

[@ZilRockbottom]

Here's another thing (about the anime in this case) that I see almost everyone get wrong all the time. It's the reason why Brock was temporarily replaced by Tracy. Most people think it was because the anime's creators were afraid international viewers would see Brock as a racist stereotype because of his design. But according to the blog of the series director at the time, Takeshi Shudo, the truth is... pretty much the opposite. Around the time the franchise was preparing for its American debut, some of the higher-ups became concerned that a show with a character that looks like Brock (a design closer to how Americans tend to draw Asian characters) as a main character wouldn't do well in the U.S. It's a concern that sort of makes sense if you know anything about the state of Asian representation in American media at the time. However, their decision was... apparently to have viewers just absolutely hate a character that appears in every episode for a year and a half? Yeah, valid concerns or not, their solution was pretty ridiculous, and thankfully Americans loved Brock and didn't want to see him go, so he was eventually brought back and stuck around for over a decade. Regardless of your opinion on the situation, the unfortunate truth is that Tracy replaced Brock in an attempt to appeal to white people, not to prevent people getting offended from a racist stereotype (which Brock obviously isn't).

[@BJGvideos]

That may not have been what Shudo said but that's what some other people who work on the show said.

[@resaldom]

Alex's tone of voice every video is just perfect.

[@bee-zeesoul1018]

It took me many years to realize that Magnezone’s middle eye was actually an eye. I think it’s because the white color of its eye is very similar to the silver color of its body, and that’s why the red eye looks like a red nose to me. I still can’t unsee it.

[@ForceGhostLeia]

I actually ended up finding out about the eyes on the sides this year on the other side of this coin, and now I can’t unsee what I guess I thought were shoulder pads! It looks so derpy 😭

[@Mega11683]

You're implying magnezone has other eyes

[@bee-zeesoul1018]

@@Mega11683 You can’t be serious. Look at its shoulders bro.

[@UltraAryan10]

@@bee-zeesoul1018 I always noticed the middle eye first so I kind of forgot he has three lol

[@robertlupa8273]

I'm surprised how many people made this mistake. I thought it was obvious that it was an eye?

[@mastermarkus5307]

I think that Koraidon's wheels should probably be smaller if they aren't functional as wheels. Maybe it get some sort of power-up during the game where they DO become functional? I don't know. Otherwise they're a little distractingly big on the design.

[@IgnitedQuils]

I can agree with that but I can see why they chose to make the “wheels” distracting due to it supposed to look like a motorcycle hence the pun on its name.

[@red_reaper1729]

@@IgnitedQuils it's a pun? what exactly is referencing besides a motorcycle?

[@meepmeep2706]

or koraidon's look, inspired humans to built bicycles and motorscycles. Like how duck feets inspired the feet swimming gear.

[@IgnitedQuils]

@@red_reaper1729Their names have “raidon” which sounds like “ride on” as they resemble motorcycles.

[@red_reaper1729]

@@IgnitedQuils ohh yeah that makes sense even tho I had no idea how to pronounce it :/

[@M_Alexander]

Normal Pokéballs don't work on Ultra Beasts because they're heavily infused with the wormhole energy/Necrozma's light. Necrozma is drained of its energy when you meet it, having been in this world for a long time in SM. Nebby was similarly here for at least a few years and had been experimented on to drain and use up its energy. However both Pokémon originate from Ultra Space which is how Ultra Beasts are classified

[@HoopsandHipHop]

I like how the first fact was about how to pronounce zacian’s name and immediately afterwards in the next fact about it Alex mispronounced Zacian’s name lol

[@TheAuraGuardian]

Definitely done intentionally 😂🥲

[@wubbers662]

What about the starter video man?

[@magmangle]

the best part about a new aura guardian video is always never knowing whether the video is gonna be entirely a joke or actually legit

[@aidenlandrum3302]

I feel like with koraidon, since it’s to represent the past, it rather runs to show how transportation was in ancient times. And miraidon being a bike is to show how transportation works in the present/future

[@EpiclyEpicGamer]

To be a pseudo legendary your bst doesn't just have to be 600 but you also must be a part of a 3 stage evolution line in the very slow exp gain group

[@soulofsomething6651]

Slaking has 3 stage evolution line and slow exp gain Going by your logic Stalking it's a pseudo but in reality is not one because the 600BST requirement it's NECESSARY

[@EpiclyEpicGamer]

@@soulofsomething6651 i never said the 600 bst wasnt a requirement, i just said it wasnt the only one

[@soulofsomething6651]

@@EpiclyEpicGamer I'm dumb, I misunderstood your comment completely

[@ikorraks]

600 bst is the only requirement. In Japan they aren't even known as Psuedo Legendaries. They're just part of what they call "club 600". It's a made up fan thing anyway, the pokemon company has never officially acknowledged it so you can call or define pseudo legendaries however you please.

[@EpiclyEpicGamer]

@@ikorraks this is the first thing it says about pseudo lengendarys on bulbapedia: "Pseudo-legendary Pokémon (Japanese: 600族 600 club) is a fan term commonly used to refer to any Pokémon that has a three-stage evolution line, 1,250,000 experience at level 100, and a base stat total of exactly 600 (before Mega Evolving)."

[@TheRedSmarty]

So I got Aegislash and Gastrodon wrong, and didn't know about the Alola & GO Protagonists, Fletchling, or Mew/Mewtwo. Also, while Mimikyu is the odd one out there, Pichu doesn't really count either, since it's an addition to the existing Pikachu line.

[@reidsewing6436]

Don't Listen To Him!

[@TheRedSmarty]

@@reidsewing6436 The telegram nonsense? Yeah, I don't pay attention to those.

[@blueberrypie6993]

I consider mimikyu as a pikaclone taken literally

[@bulborb8756]

I can see why as you could take Mimikyu as a take on the good old thing we usually expect in RPG's, that being mimic's

[@gaspardsavoureux8680]

@@bulborb8756 Voltorb also fulfills that purpose, hiding as an item

[@bulborb8756]

@@gaspardsavoureux8680 well so does foongus, amoonguss and galarian stunfisk

[@gaspardsavoureux8680]

@@bulborb8756 True

[@matthewkuscienko4616]

@@bulborb8756...............Except that doesn't really make sense. Just because Mimikyu is mimicking Pikachu doesn't make it a mimic in the way that the rpg enemies are, as they are used as enemies that are disguised as objects, most commonly treasure chests and doors and the like

[@carljameson3082]

I'm glad someone finally brought up the age thing. I thought it was pretty clear by the designs that the protagonists were progressively getting older for a while. The Unova protagonists look like they're around 17 or 18 to me. But for some reason everyone I see just assumes they're all 10

[@billiezeiszler608]

Actually, in the first black and white games, the protagonists are supposed to be 14 years old.

[@hawkfeather6802]

The kalos avatars look like teenagers too.

[@BJGvideos]

@@billiezeiszler608 They sure don't look like it!

[@velvetbutterfly]

@@billiezeiszler608 they were designed to be 15-16 but was retconed after release

[@Hamantha]

I blame the anime

[@Swegmen_P]

Aura Guardian uploads every once in a blue moon, but it’s amazing and you know it when he uploads

[@luckyloke5971]

So... Necrozma TECHNICALLY has an ultra beast code name, ub-black. This code name is, however, only said in the anime which might disqualify it from being an ultra beast HOWEVER, it is stated that Necrozma came from another world and brought Solgaleo and Lunala with it. This other word is ultra space, and by definition, an ultra beast is just a Pokémon from ultra space, thus meaning that the light trio ARE ultra beasts.

[@AP4pro]

Although Cosmog, Cosmoem, Solgaleo, Lunala, and Necrozma are not Ultra Beasts, they have a strong connection to Ultra Space (including the ability to create Ultra Wormholes) and as a result are often claimed to be or likened to the Ultra Beasts in various media The game tells you it's not an ultra beast

[@luckyloke5971]

@@AP4pro I may have realized that when I read the dex entry and was to lazy to change that. And I have never actually played through either sun or ultra sun or moon or ultra moon, my knowledge was COMPLETELY from the anime.

[@Slimeonian]

No that code name for Necrozma is not only said in the anime. It’s mentioned in Sun and Moon by Looker and Anabel before you can catch Necrozma. However the code name is never mentioned in Ultra Sun or Ultra Moon

[@AP4pro]

@@Slimeonian yea but if you lose closely In sun and moon When you catch All ultra Beasts He says we caught all UBs But when they find necrozma it doesn't identify as a UBs as they thing they used to track them doesn't identify necrozma as one

[@Dexuz]

@@AP4pro They have that connection because they originally came from there; so many years in this world changed them, and thus Beast Balls do not recognize them as Ultra Beasts.

[@digishade7583]

I’m pretty sure the main problem people have with Koraidon’s neck flap and tire tail isn’t that they’re there so much as the fact he has them out while running and flying when there is no need for it

[@Nosretep]

Cosmog line and Necrozma are probably not effected by Beast Balls is most likely is that they appear regularly for Poke Balls to recognize and they don't need codenames since people actually know what they are. Ultra Beasts however aren't common. Also they're cries has the same ringing as the UBs and they're stats and movepools are heavily focused on Prime Numbers. They're definitely UBs.

[@rjs4176]

Another way that Koraidon's curled up tail and inflated dewlap makes sense is that it further highlights and accentuates its relationship with Miraidon. What people perceive as an inefficient and ineffective mode of travel was overtime modified and streamlined into something far more convenient, Koraidon is the beginning of that process. It is, quite literally from a biological perspective, stuck in the past. Oh yeah and it's also an organic creature. Flesh and wheels do not mix.

[@IgnitedQuils]

People fail to see this for that reason and it does confuse me. As it’s obvious it represents the ancient times.

[@Dexuz]

There has been a lot of talk about why animals cannot develop wheels, however there's actually a way for an animal to get wheels. First you get an animal, this animal has modified hooves that lost all keratin (it must be a small animal, otherwise it would hurt to live, a lot) then, through selective adaptation, this species got an evolutionary niche in which a part of the feet's bone slowly degrades after reaching adulthood, it then falls apart leaving exactly an independent piece of bone separated from the rest of the leg, wheel-shaped, with a bony axle going through it, the axle being part of the leg. Now forget anything I said about a "niche", this is stupid, but biologically plausible. (Also the animal would look like a shopping cart)

[@dededeletethis9940]

Yeah, people just ignore what Koraidon’s “wheels“ actually are. The front wheel is an air sac or something similar, while the back wheel is its curled up tail. The wheels don’t move because they aren’t wheels, they just look like wheels

[@TheJH1015]

I mean, I would say that the Cosmog line and Necrozma have their *origins* in Ultra Space, but they are indeed not Ultra Beasts. Or at least not anymore. Their cries do have the same echoey ending as the Ultra Beasts though so there *is* something there.

[@GoinGreninja]

Yes, they were once Ultra Beasts but since they've lived in this world for a long time, their Ultra Beast DNA has fused with Earth's DNA, creating a being that's halfway between a normal Pokémon and an Ultra Beast. So it's technically not wrong to say that they're Ultra Beasts like how it's not technically wrong to say they're just Legendary Pokémon.

[@michaelgum97]

I really don't think that Pikachu's baby form should count as a Pikachu clone.

[@bulborb8756]

i agree with your statement cause I too don't consider Pichu to be one either, in my opinion, Pikachu clones didn't start until gen 3 with plusle & minun, and since then every generation has added in at least 1 electric rodent

[@blueflare3848]

I agree. It's literally the pre-evolution, of course it's going to look similar.

[@aitanachiu2922]

I just wanna appreciate the work Alex does finding facts like this to make know about pokemon more. He is the reason we are pokemon masters.

[@RyuzakiTaiyou]

The funny thing about Rotoms apparant legendary status is that even the games got it wrong. When you play a randomizer with the setting "change legendary to legendary" there is a chance that a legendary will be replaced by Rotom. (not sure if that only happens in the older games or if that is still a thing)

[@BJGvideos]

But randomizers aren't canon.

[@sifu_hotmannn464]

@@BJGvideos randomizers usually use code from the game though, so that means the games mark rotom as a legendary, which is also why it has the legendary batt;e music in gen 4

[@mrboost4186]

@@sifu_hotmannn464 Legendary is an in-game thing that's actually coded in the game? This is the first time I have ever heard this. Where is your source?

[@sifu_hotmannn464]

@@mrboost4186 my dad works for nintendo you can ask him👍👍👍

[@mrboost4186]

@@sifu_hotmannn464 lol so its just bullshit then

[@Forever-GM-Dusty]

I love that he did the first segment on how to pronounce Zacian correctly and then proceeded to not pronounce it that way multiple times later in the video

[@FTChomp9980]

Koraidon "Wheel" is a inflatable sack for the water that's why it runs so majestically! Again it's not a wheel. Yabba Dabba Doo!

[@harold5337]

Bidoof is not a pseudo legendary. It’s a legendary. Who do you think taught Dialga roar of time.

[@baileyayalin6177]

i audibly screamed when i saw auraguardian in my recommended its nice to see a new video

[@thenoicesoldier4817]

I disagree with galar not being the uk upside down. Cause it largely is. Not entirely mind; their ain’t no tundra or sandy desert in the uk as is. But it is close enough in a broad sense

[@JosephRouen]

you know what's more stupid to think that Mimikyu is a Pikachu clone? :to think that Pichu is a pikachu clone

[@bulborb8756]

i personally DO NOT consider Pichu to be a Pikachu clone cause it's the yellow rat's pre-evolution and thus is directly related to it

[@human5435]

so people be calling their offsprings a clone now? I swear the world is getting dumber each time.

[@blueflare3848]

I was thinking that too. Of course Pichu is going to look similar to Pikachu. It's literally the pre-evolution.

[@AznYunHou]

@@human5435 well Mew's offspring Mewtwo is a clone

[@red_reaper1729]

@@AznYunHou 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@tocksapill3030]

I never thought volcarona was a pseudo-legendary... I thought it was a legendary

[@guranshsinghofficial2515]

4:10 bruh my life was a lie 💀

[@TheDeathmail]

I think the beast ball not working is game mechanic... They are Pokemon from other dimensions... as such, they are Ultra Beasts by canon... maybe not by mechanic...

[@NilsjePilsje267]

Im glad watching great content again on this channel after more than a month.

[@BASEJOCK11]

I always thought Delibird carried an actual sack. Then I found it it’s actually it’s tail. So it makes presents internally and then shoots them out it’s tail lol

[@skyslasher2297]

3:29 I’m the opposite Remoraid and Octillary doesn’t make sense to me but Koridon not having wheels is fine.

[@Keizer0724]

Necrozma’s code name was UB-black. But I think that’s just an anime thing.

[@bulborb8756]

yea cause i think the Aether Foundation in the anime thought that Necrozma was an Ultra Beast and not a legendary, thus erroneously gave him the code name of "UB-Black"

[@maganhassan2627]

Ultra beasts are technically legendaries apparently

[@bulborb8756]

@@maganhassan2627 i think that's usually an argument among fans that no one can agree on

[@GreatDG]

The old Auraguardian is back Love these vids

[@TunaBear64]

2:25 What makes no sense is thinking an organic being has working wheels on the body.

[@SealFormulaMaster]

The Cosmog family and Necrozma are Ultra Beasts. Ultra Beasts are creatures that appeared from another world through an Ultra Wormhole, which Necrozma has done several times throughout official canon. Same for Nebby. Games, anime, manga, you name it. But barring all of that, Necrozma has been referred to as an Ultra Beast in official canon. If you don't believe me, look up Dusk Mane Necrozma-GX from the Ultra Prism set. Base Necrozma isn't labeled as Ultra Beast, so it is implied that either Lunala/Solgaleo are Ultra Beasts and Necrozma takes on the properties once it absorbs them, or that they are the same creature and fully become an Ultra Beast once fused. Considering Necrozma needs "the light" to obtain it's full form, I'd say the latter. Either way, they clearly have enough properties of an Ultra Beast to be classified as such. The strongest Pokemon ever created is X ゥ- xゥ, which would have a BST of 827 when converted to modern games with no stat with a total less than 128... Okay, so technically not a real Pokemon since it's a glitch. Either way, Zacian is no where near the strongest Pokemon ever, nether in terms of stats or physical nature. As for competitiveness, yeah, it's likely the strongest Pokemon ever created.

[@SantaClawsYT]

I love how the first entry is about how to pronounce Zacian, then in a later entry he still pronounces it wrong. The irony. I'm not trying to be rude, you can pronounce it the way you want it's your choice lol .

[@pikasheep]

I think he did that on purpose to be funny lol

[@whiteeeveeangel]

Yeah, I had to shake my head and chuckle-cringe at that myself.

[@Vania1669]

7:18 FINALLY! Finally someone else brings attention to the fact that *MOST* Pokemon Protagonists aren't 10, but instead older. Thank you, i really needed to hear that after so so *so* many people always assuming this wrong

[@M_Alexander]

The modern Pokémon seems to be Cyclizar with its rolling wheels. In the past it was Kuraidon with its unevolved wheels and in the future it's Miraidon with its high tech hover ability

[@JEMZE-LION4444]

Cyclizar's "wheels" don't rotate. They run the same way Koraidon do.

[@M_Alexander]

@@JEMZE-LION4444 I could swear I saw a clip of NPCs riding Cyclizar in motion but now I feel like I'm going crazy trying to find it

[@UltraBall23]

@@M_Alexander Mandela effect

[@M_Alexander]

@@UltraBall23 well today I drove by the hibachi place I haven't been able to find for a year so maybe I slipped dimensions again

[@themayhemcalling4099]

I think some of the type confusion comes from the trading card game, where certain Pokémon can have cards of a type they aren’t (I think, I’m not a huge collectors so I don’t remember as well as I should)

[@SaddieMoon]

I think the Cosmog family and Necrozma should be considered Ultra-Beasts.

[@GustavoJua15]

In some other media they are. And in the anime Necrozma gets the codename UB-Black

[@JebidiahJo]

I tried looking for this Channel for an hour again after not watching videos for some time and now I no longer see TheAuraGuardian in my reccomended. That's sad given how great of a KZbin channel this is. Keep up the good work bro!

[@vik.o1598]

7:33 galar IS the uk flipped upside down since scottland (crown thundra) is at the bottom and ireland (armor island) is at east, but more than being upside down is more like the map its upside down and galar is still like the uk in shape and orienation (ireland at west and scottland at north)

[@TunaBear64]

Armor Island is based on Isle of Man, but still accurately located

[@maganhassan2627]

Some of the locations of galar don't accurately reflect uk geography

[@Tortue2006]

Necrozma is said to be an ancient ultra beast that was on earth for so long it isn’t an ultra-beast anymore

[@ThisAintGood.]

Miminkyu isn’t technically a pikachu clone, but by definition it is one(or I guess it’s trying to be)

[@amoghkhanapurkar9626]

Kiriadon is a lizard trying to be a motorbike but miriadon is a motorbike trying to be a lizard...

[@Irish_Enderman]

I've been pronouncing zacian's name correctly without even knowing it was said in a trailer lol

[@MarbleSodaPop]

Same

[@IslarfPokemon]

Mimikyu is not a pika clone! I keep saying this

[@earthbit.]

In regards to Aegislash, the pronunciation that sounds better probably depends on your expectations. I had already know for years that the “ae” in “aegis” is supposed to be pronounced like an E, so that way sounds more natural to me. If I hadn’t known that, I might have pronounced it as A, and that would have sounded better. And for what it’s worth, it’s the same deal with Aether. It’s supposed to be an E sound, since the beginning vowel comes from the same source as Aegis.

[@byeguyssry]

Not always. For example, in aesthetic, which does have an e sound but slightly different. (no I definitely did not have to check merriam webster) In fact, according to Merriam Webster, "aegis" can be pronounced both as a long "a" or "e", though other sources say otherwise

[@earthbit.]

@@byeguyssry Yeah English is a jacked up, drunk-as-hell language that does whatever it wants. What seems like at least half of our words aren’t even English, though that’s probably an exaggeration. Someone could claim they pronounce Aegis as “aye Gus” and I wouldn’t even doubt it.

[@byeguyssry]

@@earthbit. Ye, we copy other languages' words and pay respects by not changing it at all. On the bright side, we now have spelling bees. And the strange words can be aesthetically interesting, speaking from a poet's point of view

[@mrboost4186]

You see it in words like archaeology, paediatrician, encyclopaedia, and palaeontology but not in American English because they replace the ae witn an e. Other words like Europaean and Aegyptian used to be spelt this way too.

[@Veltal-for-your-information]

For me "ee-jil-slash" out of preference.

[@gb731]

The Ultra Beast fact is simply incorrect. The Beast Balls are more so a game mechanic, but lore-wise those 5 are Ultra Beasts. They come from Ultra Wormholes from far off in Ultra Space, and if you want in game evidence, they share the Ultra Beast sound in their cries. While gameplay makes them act as normal Pokémon due to being Boxart legendaries, they are canonically Ultra Beasts

[@ruyi677]

1:30 why does Pichu count as a pika clone when Pichu is basiclly pikachu but devolved

[@sub0971]

The thing with the alola legends is that they definetly aren't native to our dimension but they stayed there long enough for them to lose that ultra characteristic and as for necrozma they get a pass because they scare me and I lost i nuzlocke to them when i forgot to get a focus sash and was too lazy to go fetch one

[@Novaurawr]

Who else loves Alex's tone of voice?

[@Matty002]

first of all, thinking nobody ever complained about why remoraid turned into octillery without hearing gamefreaks explanation is ignorant. i know these people. i am one of them and yes, barring a GOOD explanation, koraidon looks stupid running with a wheel on its chest. you can tell they have a concept in mind because they did the tail correctly. it can curl up to look like a wheel but it isnt one, YET! thats the point of being the past form. no wheels yet. if they had made the front wheel look more like a dewlap hanging from the chin, i would love it. but its literally a wheel on the chest. it goes against the concept

[@coolguy5133]

If Volbeat and his female counterpart had a second typing, they would have the Electric Type since they are both Lightning Bugs.

[@GoinGreninja]

Or Fire types because they're fireflies. Honestly, it could be pretty interesting if both of them had separate typings. Volbeat being Bug/Fire and Illumise being Bug/Electric. This way both crowds are happy and these bugs become more usable as well.

[@fenixrises9854]

In at least one of drayano’s rom hacks, they are changed to be bug/electric and bug/fire (one of them might be fairy as the second type but I don’t remember and am too lazy to look it up) so drayano definitely thought they needed some kinda second types in the same train of thought

[@Dexuz]

@@GoinGreninja Reminds me how boring these two are. Why not to make something cool with the firefly design? I mean it was Gen 3, they already had the cicada husk ghost, that's cool, but the two fireflies? Lame.

[@GoinGreninja]

@@Dexuz That's the con of having too many Pokémon designs in one generation. It makes lame looking Pokémon more likely. Gen 5 is the biggest culprit of this. I love a lot of Gen 5 designs like Gigalith but Swanna is just a complete sham. Same with Basculin before Basculegion etc.

[@Yae_Miko.-simp]

Omg,my fav poke-tuber posted! Yay:))

[@kaerassius]

i always pronounced 'elio' as 'helios' without the h and s because i assumed that's what the name was based off of, like how selene's name is based of helios' counterpart named... selene... the ancient greek moon goddess

[@Dexuz]

That's what the name is based on! The fact that it's written or pronounced differently doesn't change the inspiration, just as Aegislash being clearly "aegis".

[@eliotrumbleny7280]

5:41 they are talking about the competitive standpoint, no one has ever say Zacian is the strongest in lore Pokémon

[@alexanderwilliams644]

I still think Solgaleo, Lunala, and Necrozma are Ultra Beasts because (I think) we saw one of the box legendaries come out of a wormhole, you can literally ride them into Ultra Space, Necrozma came out of a wormhole to fuse with Solgaleo/Lunala (I think) , and at the end of their cries they have that little noise the other Ultra Beasts have at the end of their cries. The Beast Ball thing doesn't disprove them as UB's imo because I don't think you can get Beast Balls before the fight against them, meaning that it doesn't matter if the catch rate doesn't increase for them, but that's just me.

[@brothatsucks]

yea but the tcg kinda confirms these ones are not ultra beasts Ultra beasts are only(buzzwole,pheramosa,stakataka,kartana,guzzlord,blacephalon,xurketree,celestila,all of the necrozma forms excluding the base form and the poipole line). Keep in mind that in the tcg if a pokemon is or not an ultra beast matters since there are a lot of cards that only work with them

[@alexanderwilliams644]

@@brothatsucks you’re seriously going by TCG logic over game logic? Even if you did I don’t think they would include them as UB’s because then it would be confusing trying to figure out if they’re UB’s or Legendaries.

[@brothatsucks]

@@alexanderwilliams644 There is nothing in the game logic that includes ultra beasts outside of the beast ball which does not work,also the pokemon company does the cards so idk what to tell you.Also you brought the wormhole thing.Do you reallise that the dinamax adventures are caused by them right?So those legendaries that you fight would be ultra beasts cause they also came from them.About the fact that solgaleo and lunala fly in ultra space is the only thing I do not have a counterpoint but everything else points towards the option that are not ultra beasts.

[@alexanderwilliams644]

@@brothatsucks yeah the wormhole caused the dynamax adventures, how does that disprove what I said? The legendaries exist in their own spaces that you travel to with Solgaleo/Lunala, so if the two are linked, they were pulled from their spaces into the dynamax caves. You do realize that you failed in disproving my point right?

[@trainerrichard6859]

The cosmog line and necrozma are in fact ultra beasts, the dex says they come from another world, the game says it as well. Just because they don't get beast ball boosts doesn't mean they're not ultra beasts.

[@GoodGregory]

1:21 i don't count pichu as a pikachu clone either, it's literally pikachu just as a baby.

[@GoodGregory]

4:18 doduo is also a good example of this. Most people don't know its normal / flying type

[@GoinGreninja]

I still think that the Cosmog Family and Necrozma are Ultra Beasts. Yes, the Beast Balls don't work on them but the reason it doesn't is a pretty simple one. Because these Pokémon have gotten used to this world, they've slowly lost parts that made them Ultra Beasts but not all of it. The Beast Balls work because it's foreign DNA entering this world. But if they've this world's DNA as well, then it's not gonna work as well. Also, all of them came from Ultra Space at one point anyways. So lore wise and everything else wise, I agree with everything except this one.

[@wintertheampharos4725]

The Mimikyu that belongs to Jessie HATES Pikachu and actively attacks any Pikachu it sees. Of course Acerola’s Mimikyu gets along with Pikachu, so this is only the case with Jessie’s Mimikyu specifically.

[@memekip7499]

6:14 I mean, Regigigas was able to move an entire continent by dex description Can't get much stronger than that can you?

[@inkyinkfrfr]

Shukle:Am I a joke to you?

[@memekip7499]

@@inkyinkfrfr What's in Shukle's dex entry?

[@SutaFokusu]

​@@memekip7499(late) i think they are talking about how shuckle can do more than 500 million damage in a single turn with the right setup

[@urlovelybaker]

In TCG SM series, Necrozma was labelled as a Ultra Beast

[@martimferreira3433]

Can we talk about how he starts by talking about how to correctly pronounce Zacian and then repeatedly mispronounces Zacian at 6:00?

[@rayyaninspookymonth1630]

*sigh of stress* everyone screws up all the time!

[@maleficking6556]

2:49 I get what they're going for, but it's dumb that the wheels are fully extended while you ride Koraidon. By all means, they would just add drag and unnecessary weight. Fan-throated lizards don't keep their dewlaps extended while their running, so that doesn't defend it.

[@maganhassan2627]

🤷‍♂️ it's meant to look like a motorbike not exactly be 1 I think

[@maleficking6556]

@@maganhassan2627 Then I ask, what's the point? There are a lot of Pokemon with silly design traits but this is honestly just distracting.

[@rayyaninspookymonth1630]

@@maleficking6556 it's a children's game, don't throw poo at everything you mildly have a gripe on on the way out

[@EzRida04]

Keep it up Alex!

[@shiny_lock]

As for the Cosmog line and necrozma being ultra beasts, they are, just ONLY when they fuse. It says so on TCG cards.

[@droozyyy]

"Dude you're complaining about a franchise where a fish evolves into an octopus" best thing I've heard all day

[@matthewkuscienko4616]

If people still think that's weird, they should see some of the digivolutions in Digimon, as there are quite a number of them that make that look borderline normal by comparison

[@murasakibebeby3127]

Nnnoooo! You're telling me that's a third eye?! Seriously?! Why have I never figured this out before???

[@FamilyStoriesInc]

couple of things i believed about pokemon when i was younger Trevenant was Grass/Dark type Chimecho was Steel type Skarmory was a gen 3 pokemon

[@dany_fg]

you can also argue that the cosmog line and necrozma are ultra beast based on the sound at the end of their cry. each of the ultra beast has a cry with what I can describe as "space sound" at the end of them. both the cosmog line and necrozma share this trait.

[@megarayquaza2240]

3:44 cosplay pikachu has this.

[@adamk-paxlogan7330Sucks]

we know that dumbass,but people thought about this long before cosplay pikachu even existed

[@rayyaninspookymonth1630]

They got mandelad

[@LockheartCrow]

You can understand why ppl call mimikyu a pikachu clone, it literally tries to be a pikachu after all, not try a object for the sake of objecting,I’m only justifying.

[@ThePokemonKage]

I'd say according to lore, the Cosmog line and Necrozma are UBs Necrozma literally has a whole ass utopia centered around it in the Ultra Space and (ik im kinda stretching things here but) the entire Cosmog line, as well as Necrozma, have the special cry sound effect, that all the other UBs have

[@EightViolett]

Maybe, lore-wise they used to be Ultra Beasts but have had enough contact with the 'regular' world to adapt.

[@GoinGreninja]

@@EightViolett Exactly. They were once Ultra Beasts that came from Ultra Space but now, living in this world for centuries, they've changed a lot and have become normal Pokémon with Ultra Beast like powers.

[@blueflare3848]

5:10 Another one to add is Gengar. I constantly forget that it's part Poison-type.

[@velvetbutterfly]

Why? The rest of the line is too

[@blueflare3848]

@@velvetbutterfly Again, I forget they're part Poison-type and sometimes think they’re pure Ghost.

[@earthsruby]

just based on lore the Cosmog evolution line ARE Ultra Beasts. they are originally not from this world and came to us through Ultra Wormholes, which they can also open and travel through. I think it rather was a gameplay mechanic decision to not make them catchable with Beast Balls. first and foremost, it never was set that a Legendary HAS to be caught be with a certain type of ball before and it never has been since. sure, the Master Ball is supposed to be used for this kind of situation, but even that is optional. the other reason, and that also seems obvious, is that there is only a certain number of Beast Balls you can get in the game. if you're off to catch a Legendary, you know it can take you up to 100 Balls or even more to get that son of gun. if my calculations are correct, then you're able to get 50 Beast Balls over the entirety of Sun/Moon - and all of them AFTER the main story, when the Legendaries have already been caught. so in order to make Solgaleo/Lunala catchable with Beast Balls, they would've had to think of an entirely different system of when and how to get these, so it was probably easier to say: "they're the box Legendaries; let's just treat them as the box Legendaries and catch them with whatever ball you've got in your bag."

[@shipshill6026]

I love how after discussing how to pronounce Zacian's name but then later pronounces it differently.

[@shyj5605]

I think the whole past and future thing is going to be some sort of phenomenon happening in the region, and koraidon and miraidon are the past and future version of cyclizar. This is probably why the legendary has an attachment to you, because its the cyclizar from your household.

[@wadut7261]

7:48 that's actually wrong. By this definition Manaphy would be a sudo legendary. Sudos have a base stat total of 600, have three stages of evolution, need 1,250,000 Exp points to reach lvl 100 and share a few other similarities.

[@ARandomMinecraftVillager]

Ok, first, Pseudo* lol Second, since "Pseudo-Legendary" (literally Fake Legendary) is a fan term, it's applied to any pokemon that meets the criteria (having 600BST) that doesn't have an official "title" already Manaphy, by being Mythical, doesn't get to be a Pseudo

[@B14z6]

are we not gonna talk bout the fact he put bidoof there💀

[@ChariGirl13]

What is this? A new video?! A blessing from the Lord!!!!

[@skotiaH2O]

I cannot imagine the mayhem that Teleport Mew could cause in OU

[@kirbyfazendoummoonwalk9214]

Why is Teleport so good? Isnt it basically the same as just switching out?

[@skotiaH2O]

@@kirbyfazendoummoonwalk9214 teleport has negative priority, so the Pokémon that uses it can take a hit and then switch out, allowing you to bring in a frail offensive Pokémon safely. It's especially nasty on Slowbro because of Regenerator, but Mew could also make good use of it with its amazing bulk.

[@kirbyfazendoummoonwalk9214]

@@skotiaH2O oh, i didnt know that, Thanks for the info

[@velvetbutterfly]

When did Teleport gain an in-battle use?

[@skotiaH2O]

@@velvetbutterfly relatively recently, in Let's Go Pikachu and Let's Go Eevee It's a really nice move, one of my favorites competitively, and i'm glad it made Slowbro good since i love it as a Pokémon

[@tvman4054]

wolfy means zacian is the stringest as in highest stats and best moves and stuff not phisical strangth

[@BigBear_Alex]

3:59 interestingly enough, in PLA only two of three of Alpha's Gastrodon eyes shine red, it seems that maybe it's a mistake they made or maybe thing in the middle isn't an eye??

[@ARandomMinecraftVillager]

It's not The Bulbapedia isn't a 100% reliable source for things like that, and those third eyes are a completely different shape and color to the other two I don't really know how anyone _could_ see those as eyes

[@rayyaninspookymonth1630]

@@ARandomMinecraftVillager oh, so bulbapedia is CNN now-

[@helmenhjelmen1955]

I found drawings i made on pikachu from when i was a kid. All the pikachues has a black tip on their tail.

[@Sahlos]

Mewtwo actually can learn teleport but specially in the Let’s Go games. I know this because I did a haha funny moveset for mine in that game but giving him his smash bros moveset (Shadow Ball, Disable, Confusion, Teleport). But as of naturally, yeah no he can’t.

[@robbieq7814]

People think that pikachu has a black tipped tail is because of cosplay pikachu.

[@adamk-paxlogan7330Sucks]

that's not true,people thought about this years before cosplay pikachu even existed

[@supersmashseandx1991]

If mimikyu isn't a Pikachu clone, then Pichu isn't either since Pichu evolves into Pikachu. Even if you disagree with me, I still sorta consider mimikyu a piklone to an extent. Also, necrozma has a ub code name:UB-BLACK