These Pokémon Body Shapes Make No Sense

[@CyberDrewan]

Given the history with the inconsistencies with body types, I’m almost convinced some that they just go to a random middle manager and give them 5 minutes to give all the new Pokémon body types. Then, they’re given like one picture per Pokémon and have to give their best guess from that.

[@emperorcubone]

Haha, that would actually be pretty fun to watch them frantically sort all the new Pokemon...

[@GurrenPrime]

I’d put the wheeled mons (Varoom, Revavroom, Carkol, and any others if I missed them) into the “head with base” category myself. Just feels the one that’s generic enough to fit them.

[@emperorcubone]

I would honestly like that way better then calling them "legs."

[@gaara8014]

Alternate title, Grown man body shames pokemon for 11 minutes 😹

[@zachpro5475]

Do the same thing for the color option in the Poke Dex

[@emperorcubone]

For real; some of those color choices are so weird!

[@EmmaBunny88]

Yes! Some of them legitimately make no sense!

[@JhoF79]

Spoink is considered black while lechonk is gray 😂

[@atgosh]

Are footprints worth covering too?

[@Rainbowfox4]

Milotic is pink

[@enzoforgets9456]

Miraidon on his way to show us the MEANEST hand stand to get into the bipedal group

[@AgusSkywalker]

In good ole gen 1 we only had 11 body types. You were either a plant, a monster, a seal, an insect, a bird, a bull, a serpent, a fairy, an orb, a snail, or Pikachu. And we liked it that way!

[@emperorcubone]

Haha this is true! Although I more prefer the Gen 2 setup with a couple of extras like a bat, a fox thing, a shell, and even some more recognizable ones like Lapras, Unown or Sudowoodo...

[@adamj.cuthbert7528]

Any mistakes in the Pokédex can be chalked up to Cara Liss getting her hands on it: she made up the entries for the Galar Fossil Pokémon, after all, when they never existed in the forms you get them.

[@emperorcubone]

Truly more evil than Cyrus, Ghetsis or Lysandre!

[@warriorstar2517]

Don't forget, Dipplin is actually two worms, so that's why it's classified as having multiple bodies.

[@emperorcubone]

I know; I wasn't saying it's unfitting, I was saying if two bodies gets it into the group then surely Wugtrio's THREE would be worthy of it as well...

[@warriorstar2517]

@@emperorcubone I misunderstood that part of the video and thought you were referring to the actual apple rather than the wyrm within. I swear, my perception sucks sometimes.

[@toumabyakuya]

@@emperorcubone I feel that the problem here is that Wugtrio might simply be only one creature with 3 heads, meanwhile Dipplin is two creatures inside the same apple.

[@rjd-kh8et]

The Pokédex thinks Primeape has a tail and Lickilicky doesn't.

[@emperorcubone]

Haha I didn't even realize that about Likcilicky, that's hilarious!

[@bluekirby_64]

Primeape does have a tail, it's the Iron Tail it mastered without one in Pokepark

[@SeantheSharkGuy]

I think that ‘bipedal with a tail’ and ‘bipedal without a tail’ are meant to be ‘bipedal’ and ‘humanoid’. Not that it makes some of these errors any less strange

[@emperorcubone]

Yeah, if the model didn't have weird ears it would probably be called "human-shape" or something...

[@OniBoiXD]

the body shapes are actually based on that rig used on the 3d model. instead of having tons of different 3d rigs they just make them fit into one they already have.

[@Blastosie_Offical]

Wo-Chien being serpentine makes sense given that it's actually the tablets. Also Scream Tail does actually have a very small proper tail if you look at it from behind.

[@t4tz3lwurm]

wo-chien is not the tablets, it's the leaves. "The grudge of a person punished for writing the king’s evil deeds upon wooden tablets has clad itself in dead leaves to become a Pokémon."

[@Compucles]

@@t4tz3lwurm No, "clad itself in dead leaves" sounds to me that the leaves are certainly *not* part of its actual body.

[@Blastosie_Offical]

@leozi11a ah yes, my favourite treasures: dead leaves, fire, snow and dirt. I can surely see why the greedy king would be interested in such rare and cool things!

[@t4tz3lwurm]

@@Compucles he isn't the tablets too

[@xian2themax]

In that case ting-lu should just be a head because its just the bowl, but its a quadruped

[@Chdonga]

I wonder if to speed up the task of animating 1,000 pokemon, the body shapes are simply what determines a mon's generic animations.

[@KenMantheUltimate]

Scream Tail actually has a stubby tail, the hair is not its tail. I guess the tail is mentioned cause Jigglypuff doesnt have one at all.

[@cheels1655]

I was looking for this comment

[@toumabyakuya]

I think the problem is that most Pokemon fit multiple categories and, instead of simply adding them under all the possible categories, they are pressured into selecting only one category.

[@CosmicNebula444]

Honestly I completely forgot the pokedex included body shapes, and maybe gamefreak did too with some of these choices 💀 Ah yes, my favorite bipedal Pokémon, the floating ball that is Musharna

[@everythingpizzaandknuckles6268]

I'm just now realizing that this intro song (which I know is from the games) also plays when Clemont introduces an invention in the XY anime, and now I'm dissapointed by the lack of explosions on the channel

[@emperorcubone]

"The future is now thanks to science!"

[@wispyfox6854]

i m not gonna lie i thought you were gonna say Miraidon was in the serpentine category and it made no sense but the fact that its just not in that category to begin with considering as you said its also called the Iron Serpent. It kinda threw me off there

[@emperorcubone]

It's like they're not even trying at this point!

[@Minezum]

6:14 You can use Roaming Form in battle, you can get it from GO and transfer it from there to Home/SV

[@emperorcubone]

Yeah, I guess for all three people that did that they enjoyed it having legs...

[@AlexConway-hb8xo]

2 wyrms are inside diplin

[@TheYoshiChannel-7]

You are right in the anime they call zeraora’s lightning bolt a tail

[@Mizu_Melon]

This is just as ridiculous as the colors some pokemon are categorized as (for example, Salamence being categorized as blue makes perfect sense. You'd think Roaring Moon, which is a prehistoric version of Salamence, would have the same color category, right? NOPE! Roaring Moon for some reason is categorized as GREEN. Also shout out to every pokemon that's orange, because that color's not a category in the pokedex. So some are considered red, others are yellow, and some are even brown)

[@georgecataloni4720]

MandJTV often mentions Sandygast when talking about this problem. It's apparently a serpent lol

[@chrishollingsworth7249]

Koraidon and Miraidon are both quadrupeds, but Koraidon stands up so its a biped while Miraidon just floats.

[@TheLonelySoulja]

That is odd I literally was just talking about this to my daughter last night.

[@agm5424]

New video suggestions: Ehat each pokemon type is good at in terms of battle, designs, lore, etc.

[@macwelch8599]

How is Pyukumuku a serpentine Pokemon? That especially doesn’t make sense

[@pyroflamekid7412]

I think bc it's able to puke out it's gut like a long hand but even then that's a stretch

[@macwelch8599]

@@pyroflamekid7412 yep

[@emperorcubone]

I guess it's just like any other pupa style Pokemon?

[@macwelch8599]

@@emperorcubone yes, but even those don’t make sense

[@colindion4611]

Then there’s mimikyu who is also serpentine shaped. Which doesn’t make sense at all.

[@ScorchyScorch]

These Pkmn Body Shapes should just help trainers figure out which Pkmn can breed with whom.

[@emperorcubone]

You'd think, but Body Shapes have no bearing on Egg Groups whatsoever...

[@Summonsloth]

They should make the body shapes pokemon like unown

[@emperorcubone]

That would make sense too!

[@lipika2841]

Celesteela maybe based on a princess & that could be the reason for categorising it as bipedal body shape even tho its actual design isn't shaped like that.

[@ohno5559]

I feel like some of the people doing the sorting think a tail only counts if it's integral to the shape of the creature, and some of them think any tail at all means it should go in the tail category. It's the Petronas towers all over again.

[@johanstenfelt1206]

Huh, how very interesting, I guess some sorting out is required, I guess, is this important to get right?

[@Gamebuilder2000]

8;45 i think it might be the head that's pronounced

[@zinzolin14]

Pretty sure the wheels on Varoom and Revaroom are actually just rocks it picked up and not actually part of its body, so it wouldn't necessarily make Revaroom a quadruped.

[@pablesm]

There really should be a "blob" shape for things like ditto, muk and even dhelmise. They should call it "Pokemon with changing body shape" or "Pokemon with no descript shape"

[@emperorcubone]

Or just "Amorphous" like the egg-group could work too!

[@pablesm]

They should make the shadow shapes Pokemons. I refer to them as: Human Kaiju Fish Dragon Ant Flying Insect Ball Wobbuffet Jellyfish Dog Walker Geodude Multi Can you tell which name is which shape?

[@jaschabull2365]

With charizard, it seems relatively consistent that the two-winged category is only for pokémon whose forelimbs consist of wings. Reshiram, which has wings but no arms, is in it, but zekrom, which does have wings, but also has arms, is not. Same with salamence and dragonite, it seems if a pokémon has four limbs plus wings, the limbs take priority. This is different for the four-winged category, probably because it was made for mostly winged insectoid pokémon, which would generally have multiple limbs and wings, but it's much more inconsistent what is and isn't included in that category, with volbeat and illumise not being included in it, while kricketune is. Perhaps the fireflies are disqualified because they're in the humanoid breeding group, making them people with insect features instead of plain old insects? But that doesn't really excuse heracross's being put in the bipedal category, and if it's because its wings are often concealed under its elytra, that really doesn't explain ledyba and orbeetle being put in a winged category - the two-winged category, no less (I guess because elytra don't count as wings?), making them about the only members of that category that have distinct arms. Flygon is probably included in the 2-winged category despite its arms for the same reason ledian and orbeetle are, namely that it's in the bug breeding group and based on an insect, so it will inevitably have several limbs in addition to its wings. At least it pretty clearly only has 2 wings, and isn't a victim of elytra erasure as the beetles are. That brings us to buzzwole, which really doesn't have a shape category which suits it. Considering it has arms, it doesn't seem a good fit for quadrupedal, or two-winged, but it only has two wings, so four-winged is out too. Its erect body stance makes insectoid feel off too. I guess really, there is precedent for bug pokémon which only have two wings being included in the four-winged category (ribombee) and pokémon which stand on 4 legs and have a pair of arms being included in the insectoid body plan (kingler), but I guess this was overlooked. And as for dewpider, I can only guess that 3 limbs (which are the only ones it stands on, and I guess the ones it holds its bubble with don't count as arms, as they don't have any other use) have a precedent to be rounded down to 2, as that's what was done with chimecho. Not too sure that was a sensible call to begin with, but I guess it's at least semi-consistent.

[@Compucles]

Maybe Heracross is bipedal due to being one of the rare Pokémon that can fly but is neither a Flying type not gets the Levitate Ability? If it's disqualified from Sky Battles, then it's also disqualified from either of the winged body shape categories?

[@jaschabull2365]

@@Compucles Doubt it, beedrill, venomoth, scizor, dustox and volcarona are all in the same boat, yet they are included in the four-wings category. Being a flying type is not a prerequisite for being in the four-wings body category.

[@BepisQueen]

Do the body shapes have official names?

[@emperorcubone]

Not so much, the names are largely agreed upon by the fans, just the images are official.

[@BepisQueen]

@@emperorcubone gotcha

[@Zakatakamime]

Musharna is often bipedal in the anime so maybe that’s their reference.

[@micclman5537]

Dipplin has 2 applins in it

[@Persona-Joop-157]

Dipplin is made of two worms, the first its head and the second its tail. So his category is the right one

[@emperorcubone]

I know; I wasn't saying Dipplin shouldn't be there, I'm saying if he counts with just TWO, then Wugtrio having three should definitely count!

[@fireembliam9090]

I do not know why Grunbull is a Fairy type because it is pink. It should be a normal type.

[@emperorcubone]

Well it WAS Normal type, to be fair. However I think it's more that its category was literally called "the Fairy Pokemon," so they're hands were kind of tied...

[@matydavus1078]

Bruh its 2024, u cant body shame pokemon, ull get cancelled

[@emperorcubone]

Mmm, good point... That's likely their defense for all of these!

[@DracoMeteor91]

i mean.. this is the entire purpose. that pokemons are magical creatures and they can be anything and everything. if pokemons were just regular animals it would be boring

[@apandawithnodirectionsinli1327]

What are you even trying to say? The youtuber is just making fun of the fact that an official feature is so wild in some, actually all I'm pretty sure, of it's categories. It's not like the youtuber just made up the body shapes, no, Game Freak themselves made the body shape categories and then said "Yeah, this Pokemon with 3 heads doesn't go into the category of Pokemon who usually have multiple heads" and such. So what is the "purpose" of a incorrect feature like that? And also, you can make "not-real animals TM" with the body shapes, they already did with most starters. So it's not even like the feature working would stifle creativity or anything, if that's what you were trying to say.

[@houselightkell]

Bipedal pokemon NEED TO BLOODY STOP

[@emperorcubone]

But then what would we do for starters!?

[@sharkeatingleeks4042]

first

[@lipika2841]

I like your pfp. 😉

[@Pktommy1]

I just don’t want Pokémon to have knees 🫠 that’s all I want lol. Idc if they’re bipedal

[@emperorcubone]

That's an interesting request. Any reason they bother you so much?

[@Pktommy1]

@@emperorcubone Just too humanoid. Feels far too weird owning a pet that looks like a person in a fur suit lol. Exceptions for Pokémon that are clearly a monster like Hitmonlee or similar. Besides that bipedal all day is fine lol