WEIRD Pokemon Facts you DON'T know! or maybe you do I don't know you...

[@TheEdFather]

I confidently said "HE'S GREEN" when asked what the Gen 3 Machamp had different

[@awesomeocelot7475]

Same!

[@mattitalks6261]

Same

[@mizusenshisongs]

I thought it was that one of his arms was folded, whereas all four are usually extended out. Then again they would probably have to change that sprite since the positioning of the folded arm could be interpreted as an "up yours" gesture. I know they changed the sprite of one of the Sailor trainers because his pose had him making that symbol.

[@eclipserisingsurfacelevel]

Don't worry, PaPaSea confidently said "Wikstorm" instead of "Wikstrom"

[@holyelephantmg8838]

I said shiny

[@thepokemonqueen]

i’m pretty sure the ??? arceus is to prevent the game from breaking if the player were to hack it in, since the ??? was used for the move Curse back then (similar to how pokestar studio props and shiny-locked pokémon have shiny sprites coded into their games)

[@Unotuchable]

That's my guess, it purely exists so people don't break their game.

[@fluffycuteish]

I’m still curious as to what that type is even supposed to be though

[@baddragonite]

04:40 obviously this Cyrus discovered the action replay code for duping items and that's how he succeeded in his timeline

[@baddragonite]

0:51 The PokeBall color is likely due to the color limitations of the game. Certain games based on their system can only have so many colors per sprite. For example in gen 3 pokemon sprites had to be within a 64x64 pixel square and have up to 16 colors including the background. So likely thing is the design was done and they just ran out of colors so chose one that they felt was passable enough for the ball. That or she just spray painted it

[@Jaund1ce_j3an]

It could be a repeat ball tho, since it has that yellowish-orange color on it

[@supermaster2012]

@@Jaund1ce_j3an it's the pallette, the sprite uses all the assigned colors.

[@g2ffi]

parkball? :)

[@Gronnwolf]

this is the correct answer. after ripping Glacia's sprite from the game, the color of the ball matches exactly some shades of her hair. it's absolutely due to the 16 color limit

[@nyls1717]

“The last elite four member I want to talk about, is Bruno” I saw what you did there Sea

[@Anonymoususer44569]

5:35 Birth Island, not Navel Rock. Navel Rock is where you get Ho oh and Lugia

[@PrinceTalonSabre]

also pretty sure deoxys is from space, right?

[@wesleyout190]

@@PrinceTalonSabre yes it is. That is stated both in the destiny deoxys movie and in the delta episode of oras

[@douglasthequilava]

Lumineon was not the most forgettable gen 4 pokemon because i didn’t ever find one in Platinum, making me not be able to access the national dex, and i was constantly screaming at myself for not finding that thing

[@namegoeshere5220]

What's worse is its base form is supposed to be super common with just the good rod (upwards of 45% encountering) in multiple areas.

[@douglasthequilava]

truth be told, Lumineon was the only mon i missed in the dex.

[@ceulgai2817]

Fun fact: Color has been used as the basis for which Pokemon were legal for a Christmas-themed Wi-Fi tournament, and iirc, height was used to decided which Pokemon were legal in certain official competitive formats. I think Pika Cup?

[@JR384]

Hot take: What if Arceus was originally intended to be the ???-type as a base form, and a Plate would've been required to turn it into a Normal-type? In my head, it makes sense that the literal creator of the Pokemon World would classify outside of the known-and-observable spectrum of types. After all - he had to be *something* before he brought everything into existence.

[@intentionalgamedesign1053]

Actually hight did matter in one very specific case: there is an npc in Kalos that asks to see pokemon under 1 foot I think every single day

[@johngerhart362]

yup

[@sashayayah]

I think he means height never matters in battle.

[@vwts]

Plus the breeding thing absolutely isn’t an issue, I’ve seen IRL couples with a way bigger size difference that were perfectly happy and started families

[@Guimhj]

@@vwts bigger than 14 x ,3 meters?

[@ButterFly-sf6dl]

Lull

[@Ylurple]

speaking of unown's animations, what's even better is that they all have unique animations in colosseum and XD, which no one will ever see because they're not available in those games so you'd only see them if you traded in unown's various forms from FRLG

[@BioniclesaurKing4t2]

Colosseum and XD, if I'm right, reuse all Gen 1-2 animations from Pokémon Stadium 1 & 2, so Unown's animations were probably a carryover from that.

[@BusinessSkrub]

On the yellow pokeball of Glacia and Wikstrom, If I remember correctly, the sprites all have an assigned set of colours that are slotted into the sprite. It's likely they wanted to save data by using yellow, a colour that was already elsewhere in the sprite, instead of adding another colour to the sprite.

[@roberteospeedwagon8178]

I mean for Glacia I can see it buy for Wikstrom... that's literally just his art.

[@RaichuGamesFormalyBeef]

Maybe since wikstrom is royalty he owns a special gold pokeball

[@bortzanator3018]

Huge fan of the WEIRD DONT series. I hope its weird and it dont

[@nineix9438]

6:11 when talking about Pokémon Adventure Diamond and Pearl, you showed the cover of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure despite their names being literally one word moved around, they're different stories with different characters, written by different authors

[@PaPaSea]

I didn’t even notice that. I haven’t read it yet and I didn’t know the difference

[@nineix9438]

@@PaPaSea that's understandable, their titles are honestly way too similar

[@demonshade500025]

The only official pokeball that has a solid yellow top that isn't the GS ball, is the park ball used in the pal park. The only pokeball you can't ever have in your inventory, and I really wish it could be a real pokeball you could own and use on any pokemon. ;-;

[@sournote8610]

The egg groups being super weird is why I find it morally correct to just breed things with ditto. Also easier. Way easier.

[@VilasNil]

I remember Lumineon because it's the last Pokemon I had to see to complete the Pokedex in Diamond back in the day

[@ClaireDiVODer]

Pretty sure the ???-type Arceus was made in case someone tried to hack the type into it, so the game wouldn’t crash, or try to load junk data or something.

[@shuckletamergaming]

I like how Deoxys was originally only obtainable via Birth Island, especially considering the following: 1. Its pokedex states that it was originally a spaceborne virus that gained the form we see by adapting to being on Earth. 2. Birth Island was actually based on a triangular island that the United States took from Japan in World War 2, but officially gave back to Japan after the war and the island is now primarily used for weather tracking. If anyone is interested in looking it up, it is called Minamitorishima or is also known as Marcus Island.

[@astridposey]

PapaSea: "So the Turtwig was named..." AD: "Black Atom"

[@myheartismadeofstars]

That's a pretty cool nickname tbh

[@kingbouncer1314]

The infamous tall bibarell quest from legends arceus definitely made hight matter!

[@matthewwilliams8267]

*Buizel

[@Father-of-Xerxes]

The ??? Type Arceus is to keep the game from crashing if you tried to hack in such a Pokémon

[@MrZer093]

Why would they care if your game crashed if you messed with the program? That isn’t something most would do and you can always just mess around some more to prevent a crash not to mention there’s no way to prevent the possibility of crashes when hacking

[@Father-of-Xerxes]

@@MrZer093 because an unknown bug or glitch could also cause the same error and it’s just generally better if you know that something is a possibility to not brick your hardware

[@JackieJKENVtuber]

0:30 I'm thinking it's a limitation; in the GBA era, you were limited to an 4-bit colour palette for most of the sprites This means you can have exactly 15 colours (16 colour slots, but the first colour is the transparency). That means that they just reused her other colours when they ran out

[@starrywave-spear]

Hate to "Um, actually" you but height has been used once! In Laverre city in XY there is a man looking for a pokemon under 1foot tall and a woman looking for a pokemon over 9 feet tall. Each will give you a poke doll if you can show them a pokemon of the required height!

[@PaPaSea]

I misspoke, I meant in terms of only battling since I remember another NPC in emerald who does a similar thing

[@Morgil27]

6:12 That is the wrong volume cover. That is from an entirely different manga series (albeit a good one) called Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Adventure, whereas the main manga that you were describing is just Pokemon Adventures.

[@hhjan594]

Few errors that likely is to bait comments and likely other people have mentioned. Deoxys shows up in the Birth Island. The Navel Rock is the location where you catch Ho-oh and Lugia in Fire Red/Leaf Green. Pokemon names that are consistent in all languages aren't really very rare I would say? I'm pretty sure half of the legendary Pokemon, multiple pika-clones, and Parasect also got their name the same in all languages, and this includes Chinese and Japanese. Lumineon however is not called Lumineon in either Japanese or Chinese.

[@PaPaSea]

the deoxys was bait I noticed it while editing and left it in, the lumineon was one of the few I knew of that was the same in multiple languages

[@azulthecerulean2.049]

A really fun fact I just came across while playing some old games, Ursaring having another evolution was hinted at way back in Generation 4 in the mystery dungeon explorers games. A Teddiursa to see throughout the game evolves after the main story climax and wants to evolve even further to avoid confusing himself with another Ursaring. Obviously it doesn't happen but nice bit of unintended foreshadowing.

[@marianosimoniglesias]

Fan theory: The reason why Berserker Gen never shows again after gen 2 is because that "gen" is the virus that get hit by a laser; giving birth to Deoxis

[@squishvgc]

It could theoretically be possible to get the type less arceus by having a fire type arceus use burn up. It can’t learn burn up though so you’d have to do some kind of trick or probably mod the game

[@bobbuilder625]

the problem with that is that it's form depends on the plate held, not Arceus's type itself.

[@TheRedSmarty]

The sprite is for a ???-type Arceus, not a typeless one. Plus, the ???-type (and therefore the sprite) was removed before Burn Up was introduced.

[@squishvgc]

@@TheRedSmarty ah i didnt know the sprite was removed, that would make it impossible i guess

[@JesusIsMyOxygen]

Technically it is possible, we’ll sort of, so if u go onto pkhex and u look up arceus and go to change it’s initial typing which with pkhex it allows u to change the type without having the plate there’s an ??? Option and when taking it into the game if u look at the summary it represents the fire form but still has the normal typing but when u take it into battle before u can do anything it says it has magically transformed and goes back to normal type instead of the glitched fire type(I tried this for Pokémon platinum so idk the generation up to would work but) although it’s “possible” I have so far not found a way of making it stop changing back to normal type

[@TheRedSmarty]

@@JesusIsMyOxygen ???-type so therefore the extra form were removed in gen 5 so hacking it in would only work in the gen 4 games. Plus, the original comment was reffering to Burn Up specifically. Is it possible to set Arceus's Ability to something other than Multitype to stop the transformation?

[@okimatcha]

Sooo with the RSE machamp sprite i think it was bc the people who made the sprites for RSE used the gen 1 original artwork as references instead of their more current ones, like nidoqueen has fangs in RSE but not in FRLG

[@MrZer093]

Isn’t Lumineon’s main claim to fame being the hardest mon to see naturally for national dex completion? It’s only used by one optional trainer and Finneon is an uncommon fishing capture that most don’t tend to give a second look (it’s yet another fish after all) while Lumineon is only able to be caught via super rod…which is after national dex

[@BioniclesaurKing4t2]

You mean everyone doesn't hunt down and fight every single trainer in every Pokémon game they play? Have I been playing them wrong all this time…?

[@Deadlift4chips]

Deoxys is still one of the weirdest legends does to me. Yet still loved.

[@PikachuODST]

8:05 The Typless Plate was most likely the Legends Plate.

[@ScarletDeclan]

Gamefreak: 28 different animations for unown Also gamefreak: double kick is literally just a hop

[@a.m.theshinyjohtohunter4287]

Did you know that if you contract Pokerus in Heart gold/Soul Silver, you get a special phone call from the professor telling you about it. 😊

[@lxn-p]

maybe it's possible that some people customize their poke balls in the pokemon universe by painting them? i always thought that was an interesting idea

[@brxtndog]

I think in languages like spanish and italian the pokemon names are not translated and just use the english names. French is translated so that may be why theres a newfound accent

[@GeographyJohn]

0:34 they use pallets to make the 2-D sprites and Glacia’s pallet didn’t include red to have the shades of white, purple and yellow. so i guess they just took an artistic liberty with hers

[@MoonyRanalie]

If you're monotype fire and use burn up, you will become typeless until switching out. If you're fire+flying and use burn up and then roost, you become typeless for the rest of the turn on each turn roost is used

[@grinbrothers]

Gen 3 Machamp has soak up too much Hoenn sun; hence the green tint to it's blue toned grey skin... oh, you meant this missing belt. I didn't notice that at all. 1:31 - The Bruno sitting down thing became a joke between me and my brother, with how his sitting pose has him equal size to his Onix sprites (technically, all the characters in the older games were near equal size to their Pokémons sprites) and thus concluding that Bruno is a giant far larger than all Pokémon. He needs to sit down to fit in the E4 rooms. 3:36 - Okay, off-topic from the Pokémon theme of the video; the talk of tea immediately had me interested. An Autumn Green Tea sounds like a pleasant treat. 4:16 - Cool to see Copycat/Mimic Girl still getting featured in present day Pokémon stuff (although, given Let's Go, it hasn't been that long since she last appeared in a game). The card's real cute; funny how much more accurate her Chairman Rose cosplay is to the other characters. 5:41 - A shame, but Lumineon's lack of usage in a region abundant with Water type Pokémon does make it understandable why it got forgotten. I've always been meaning to use one; perhaps when I try out Legends Arceus or replay Platinum some day. Funny how consistent it's name is. 8:22 - ??? Arceus looks so awesome!

[@awesomeocelot7475]

I honestly noticed how it was also green immediately Because I know Machamp is normally Grey.

[@ChiniganDoodles]

Please use perfect pixel upscaling when you make sprites bigger. It's so much nicer than looking at a blurry glaciaor Machamp

[@PaPaSea]

yeah I don’t notice it in the editing preview but it looks worse on KZbin

[@ChiniganDoodles]

​@@PaPaSea mood, scaling can be a pain to notice late late.

[@CreamerOfTheDairySquad]

Finally! one of these types of videos with an honest titles! Faith in humanity restored

[@baddragonite]

Technically Deoxys is native to outer space :p

[@hangryyeena]

gen 3 Brendan from the original Ruby and Sapphire also had a green Poké Ball in his artwork! it can also be seen on the cover art for the Ruby and Sapphire walkthrough manga

[@eternalsummer8409]

“This is a poke futa” what an unfortunate name

[@cailin9601]

Me, an American, hearing about the Pokémon-decorated manhole lids for the first time: wow, no one goes around trying to steal these? 😂

[@Foul_Ghoul]

It’s obvious Machamp lost the title and won it back at Summerslam

[@solitare4602]

If you could get Arceus to use Burn Up as a Fire type, it would become typeless. I'm not sure typeless and ??? are the same thing though. Plus, I don't think Arceus learns Burn Up or any copying moves. You'd probably have to hack it to do that, and you might as well just hack in a typeless Arceus at that point.

[@TheRedSmarty]

???-type and typeless are not the same. The ???-type (and therefore the sprite) was also removed before Burn Up was introduced.

[@duck_man1048]

6:11 that manga that you pictured here isn’t the adventures manga, it’s made by completely different people

[@Cheerybelle]

Some of the Kanto pokémon sprites from Gen 3 seem to be at least partially based on old Gen 1 artworks, which is why Machamp has no belt, along with other minute oddities like Nidoqueen having small fangs.

[@Bazinga7]

Painting pokeballs maybe?

[@dricoplayspokemon]

You could see Bruno standing in the background while you are battling him in LGPE

[@JamieC_94]

I don’t think that Typeless Arceus was ever intended to appear in game. I presume the ??? sprite was designed as a failsafe to prevent the games from crashing in the event that a glitch, cheat or hack ever forced Typeless Arceus to appear.

[@dalandorochester315]

Gastrodon has 3 eyes!?!?!

[@bpatania35]

8:20 could you not give Arceus the flame plate and teach it Burn up? At the very least that would make Arceus typeless

[@Gigaknight1]

The typeless type works as there is a fire attack that makes them discard their fire type. It's used in Shedinja super guard, to ability swap, in teams. Arcanine and Typlosion mostly.

[@georgeorwellgaming7898]

The move is Burn Up, a 130 BP Fire move that fails if the user isn't a Fire type. Arcanine would semi-often use it to become typeless in Gen 7 VGC. Growlithe, Arcanine, Tepig, Cyndaquil, Quilava and Typhlosion are the only mono-Fire types that can consistently become typeless through it, though Moltres and Ho-Oh can become briefly typeless if they use Roost after using Burn Up. On a similar note, Rookiedee and Corvisquire can become briefly typeless as well through Roost, due to being mono-Flying and Roost removing the user's Flying type for the turn.

[@NoonMight]

What’s crazy is KitKat is a US brand and US based, but Tokyo gets way better flavors, kinda unfair

[@Daniel_Coffman]

I do have to wonder if perhaps vanilla Arceus; no plates; was originally going to be the first ???-Type rather than just Normal, given that there isn't a ??? Plate even in the code?

[@jdb2002]

They also have a Shiny Victini sprite, even though Victini is shiny locked in all events

[@ZenoDLC]

Height/Length was used at least once in TCG with a trainer card

[@fireflakesss]

The gold PokeBall looks like the overworld TM containing ball in SWSH

[@jamesmkay]

Thanks for accounting for the fact that I might know these. I didn't know any of them, but most videos judge me AND don't know me so... lol

[@tvb5509]

Lumineon has a beautiful cry, making it memorable to me.

[@TomAmit42]

02:06 - 47.5 feet (14.5 meters) can't actually be Wailord's "height" (as in, the top of its head while it's lying flat on the ground), it has to mean actually Length (from the front of face to the tip of the tail).

[@captainpokemon4506]

1:53 "Two attributes that have no influence on anything are pokemon height and color..." If that's the case what about pokemon body shape?

[@TheDenssy]

I always thought that Glacia just had her pokemon in gold pokeballs because he is just that rich, she certainly looks like an aristocrat

[@yaminarthem1977]

I think the tipeless sprite is to prevent a error. Like, yeah, is simposible to got a??? Tablet, and arceus can't destroy the tablet mid battle,and even if he can, I should transform to normal.... But what if? If no sprite is assigned to??? And somehow arcruse become??? The game will crash, or worse, could corrup the data. Crwating the sprite should use almost no memory and is a fail-safe

[@conza1989]

Gold Pokeballs could be Park Balls.

[@brionywoo]

could’ve sworn bruno was stood up in lets go

[@benlhuillier9734]

You don't "catch" Celebi with the GS ball it's just used for the altar and why did Game freak make it so hard to get Celebi.

[@cultreader9751]

*reads title* THAT'S MY PURSE I DON'T KNOW YOU

[@vincenthall5908]

I wonder, if someone used skill swap to get Arceus to have the ability Color Change, would Arceus’s sprite change mid battle?

[@neosphere9248]

No, the multitype ability causes Arceus to change forms by holding a certain plate. Color change will simply change Arceus' type the same goes for protean, libero, and moves like conversion

[@ShutUpSceneKid69]

You cannot get rid of multi type with any moves

[@larryrottenberk7771]

On Glacias yellow ball, there's a brown pixel, so it's yellow and possibly brown, if that's not shadow over yellow

[@samwill7259]

Maybe you can just custom paint pokeballs. Just because the materials used to make them are a certain color doesn't mean painting them somehow would be impossible.

[@Joshi_ForReal]

4:30 I think it's just cause all the evil leaders whole team are in master balls so it would be a bit weird if only one of them didn't have any in a masterball

[@catalyst539]

Cyrus’ masterballs are because of Giovanni winning against Red in Kanto. He took over Silph Co. and started mass producing Masterballs and handed them out to the fellow team bosses.

[@davidwillard5182]

You know, you might be the best person to answer this. Why are Rayquaza and Deoxys fighting over Alola? In the episode in the Sun and Moon anime series where Kartana the ultra beast was introduced, these two legendaries knock a rock out of the Stuffle constellation.

[@werisekk3]

The 'ball conundrum' of the sprites of Glacia and Wikstrim (is that how you spell his name?) can be explained, in universe, very easily, especially when you take into account that those are two Elite Four members that likely have money and/or contacts: Those are either custom balls or even just custom designs. They are probably just ordinary Pokeballs with a fancy coat of paint. Even Cyrus' Pokeballs could be just painted to make them look like Master Balls. I am surprised more people don't show up with customised Pokeballs. Is it regulated or something?

[@PaPaSea]

That’s not an easy explanation since it’s still a theory. There isn’t a clear example of trainers in game painting pokeballs

[@sagacious03]

Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

[@InazumaDash]

You showed the wrong manga talking about Adventures. You meant the one made by Hidenori Kusaka. Not Shigekatsu Ihara. Oh well don't blame you it's confusing.

[@1musamune]

My idea for a height -based move timber grass type move base power 60 accuracy 75 this move does more damage the taller the target is

[@NeCoruption]

Caught a shiny alpha zubair I had no idea was alpha till I checked hours later

[@MsTatakai]

oh wow i don't play pokemon TCG but i found one card on the ground one day and has a star (its a dracozolt VMAX) i picked it up because i never knew this type of cards was a thing and now it seem is rare =P

[@SoulZeroTwo]

I *really* don't think there should be an attack that changes based on a Pokémon color, that's just a Twitter hellstorm waiting to happen.

[@t0xicrunner]

The ball kinda looks like a safari ball maybe?

[@Shai9001]

In let’s go pikachu after u beat Bruno you see him standing up

[@PrincessDella]

??? Arceus is just a fail safe I think. It was never meant to be available, it’s just there so the game doesn’t crash in the event of trying to make Arceus into that type.

[@blameitondanny]

Maybe the '???' type Arceus sprite was made to prevent glitch or crash when someone hack that in.

[@cedriclothritz7281]

Woah! How did you know I didn't know these facts?

[@MrMitchbow]

Maybe glacia was from gen 2 where the balls turned in to the color of the mon you caught

[@nmotschidontwannagivemyrea8932]

I wonder if a typeless-type Arcaeus would get STAB on Struggle.

[@amphareixon]

I remember when I was tryna fullfill the dex on my Diamond game like 10 years ago to get the natdex, I couldnt find which pokémon I was missing(It was just 1) and u guess what? It was literally lumineon 🤣

[@yuumijungle548]

i honestly think that if unown didnt exist we wouldnt have had the dex it issue in gen8

[@luukwilliams7013]

arceus can be typeless if you give it copycat incinerate with the fire plate

[@mattm7220]

Sorry, but when was it revealed that Kurt made the GS ball using a Lugia and Ho-Oh feather? Did I miss some key episodes from that plotline back in the day? From my memory, Ash and the gang delivered the GS ball *to* Kurt, who had no idea what it was, and was going to study it... Then the concept was completely forgotten about and never followed up on.

[@PaPaSea]

He made it in the games

[@Buzterer]

Actually in Gen IV there is a ??? programed, it's just unobtainable. Also even if you could get it, the type has just 1 move (curse) and has no strenths or weaknessess

[@LtVictor]

Im a huge pokemon fan and this was soon cool stuff.

[@Slimeonian]

4:30 ALL of the Pokémon owned by the evil team leaders are in masterballs

[@binamrakhaitugaming]

I love your videos its been like 5 days since i started watching your videos

[@miloticas2795]

I love these fact videos! I used to be obsessed with pokemon and every video is new facts to me! Keep up the good work!