What If Starter Pokemon Had Split Evolutions? #2

[@xxjihyology]

For Frogadier, it abandoned the Frubbles upon evolving to Greninja, maybe there could be a split evo, a kunoichi, that focuses to use the frubbles more, maybe a more stealth based mist ninja using frubbles as traps

[@Dudeman23rd]

A Water/Poison type that plants explosive toxic bubbles as traps to disorient and disable opponents? Yes please!

[@vaporean_boylove.0w083]

I'm in love with these 2 comments' ideas for this split evo

[@orbboom6119]

YESSSS

[@intergalactic92]

Yeah, I don’t care what anyone says: Greninja is as egregious as Blastoise for abandoning its core concept.

[@leviadams8777]

@@intergalactic92i think it did well with what it did. Greninja is my favorite pokemon, but I agree that the original concept does get lost in the evolution.

[@the_shiny_wartortle_8913]

Finally someone who understands the Wartortle evolution line and executes it beautifully (because Wartortle has always had a special place in my heart)

[@photoo848]

Not where I saw it going to but it's nice indeed. I always imagined a split evo would be a blend of Goku and the Ninja Turtles. Body plan of the turtles but the cloudy tail swoops in front of the feet (like that cloud Goku used for flying except light blue, not yellow). It could hold a metal staff that has one both ends the shapes of Blastoise's cannons. Make it water/flying but with ability lightning rod (because of the staff)

[@redkingdom15]

Seriously! I don't even know why, but I LOVE Wartortle and always have. Blastoise has always been kind of a disappointment to me, but we stay Squirtle Squad for life out here lol

[@B3Icongirl]

Same! But i actuly like blastoise​@@redkingdom15

[@zeroSEA]

the colors for slithereign are GORGEOUS

[@metasteelgaming4373]

My jaw dropped when he added the red! I usually don't react like that to videos like this

[@DanielGreenberg-ly4qg]

Flareath’s shiny is super cool

[@rowie5396]

2:58 Sharp outfit Blastoise. Careful, you could puncture the hull of an empire-class Kantonian battle ship, leaving thousands to drown at sea... because it's so... sharp

[@EmiyaHikari]

uhh... thanks...

[@neodica5967]

I feel like this is a reference to Ella Enchanted but I can't remember.

[@darkavacado7961]

Azula supremacy

[@neodica5967]

@@darkavacado7961 Damn! It totally sounded like something Ella's stepsister would say to Prince Char.

[@chubberdunkus]

i was gonna comment the same thing lol

[@aspiringwayfarer]

Wow. Slithereign looks so sick! What a great design with strong colors!!

[@natertot736]

i like how flareath still follows the trope of performer that we see with the other gen 7 starters, very neat design

[@franciscorosa1498]

You know how snapdragon flowers dry to look like skulls, i feel like that concept would make an amazing dragon grass serperiour varient

[@michaelgibson3479]

False hydra heads?

[@zachmcmullen2741]

Lol a Slythereign of every type video, I'd watch that.

[@lunarclysm4392]

Grass ghost type but yes

[@user-ye9bc7nw2c]

Lol

[@Calistoryn]

Is it okay if I use this idea for a fakemon? Because that's an amazing idea

[@QJCosmic]

I love the new Bayleef evo 🔥 also it was fun to see you not go for the wind turtle style most fakemon alternate blastoise become

[@Olivia-lx9tq]

Aquarrior is easily my favorite here. I always loved how fluffy Wartortle is. Also, Aquarrior also looks like a blue shell in Mario Kart!

[@Idiotic_B_Purcell]

"First" is its trigger word lmao

[@aspiringwayfarer]

Omg I LOVE Wartortle and was super disappointed when Blastoise lost its cool ears and tail, so seeing Aquarrior regain those awesome traits is amazing and the closure I never knew I needed!!

[@nasinnarcotics]

I am actually in love with Frondosaur. What a good little guy

[@Lila-ie1eo]

Same, he is my favorite one in this batch. But he looks more related to Tropius than Bayleef, IMO. Probably because his base color is not pastel. Still, I would pick him over Meganium 100%

[@AubreyAkyereko-pl7um]

Bro is 9ft+ how is bro a "little guy"

[@TheGalactic_whale]

​@@AubreyAkyereko-pl7um I assume because they find them cute

[@watershed6092]

That last evolution is sooo good on so many levels. Really like seeing the inspiration you too from Napoleon, vampires, even the Apple aspect. And the color scheme is awesome

[@i.lydsss]

LOOVE that you continue the trajectory of the color schemes from start to finish!! It always peeved me how so many middle stages are just blatantly a different color for no reason lmao

[@iremiagaming]

Slythereign looks sick, and that shiny is AMAZING.

[@benikujaku4567]

Slithereign was incredible. The colors are so well-chosen and the body shape is great!

[@skyec3418]

Slithereign is absolutely stunning! Would not hesitate to add it to my team. Well done!

[@HoodlumCallum]

Aquarrior RULES

[@verrdantwilds]

Serperior has been my favorite Pokemon for over a decade, while Snivy and Servine are less appealing to me, so I was fascinated to see you design Slithereign! Everything about it, from its color scheme, multiple origins, and even its name are absolutely imperial! I might even possibly love it more than Serperior, given enough time! Keep being amazing, and keep making wonderful videos like this one!

[@the25thjordan76]

With Blastoise and Incineroar being two of my favorite Pokémon, Aquarrior was so cool! Such an awesome way to evolve wartortle. Flareath left a lot to be desired for me though. Its facial expression seems a little basic and it just looked kind of uninspired imo. Frondosaur and Slithereign are peak designs!

[@ChiknTV]

0:16 That transition was equally as badass as the Pokémon you made

[@sddreamcrystal]

I kind of wish with the Wartortle split evo that the "turtle" in the naming stayed so it could finally match up with the naming on the Bulbasaur and Charmander lines. Squirtle line is the oddball of the Kanto starters with the naming schemes (at least with the English names, not sure about other languages)

[@aayanmukadam2538]

2:57 That's a sharp spear, Aqaurrior. Careful, or it might puncture the hull of an empire class Kantonian Battleship,... Because, it's so sharp.

[@gastdefender9625]

Copying other people's comments almost exactly

[@user-vw4xp5nt9f]

@gastdefender9625 no, it's a reference to something else. they're both quoting the same thing

[@kappaprimus]

​@@user-vw4xp5nt9fdo you know what that something else is?

[@gastdefender9625]

@@user-vw4xp5nt9f oh I didn't know that thanks for telling me

[@killerdragon5584]

Aquarrior: "Err...umm...thanks!"

[@zer0magician]

My biggest gripe with the blastoise line was them not doing anything with that sweet tail, so glad you added that into the design.

[@caracaracat2958]

These are all fantastic! My favorite is definitely slithereign, with the Torrecat evolution as a close second.

[@Galaxie_ivy]

Oh my God. Serperior is my favorite pokemon of all time. Your split Evo absolutely did it justice. I love it. I want it tattooed on me.

[@DukeDarkshadow]

Another all-around great job, Ron! These were all fantastic! Maybe for part 3 we could finally get that quadrupedal Meowscarada we all wanted?

[@shyguyrocks1]

Lol who's we?

[@kenzihenderson5258]

The Blastoise split evo was perfect. Exactly where I'd have wanted it to go The meganium split evo is a nice idea but has a major issue: it looks too much like tropius. Clearly the flower was necessary. I'd recommend changing the leaf shawl around it's body into the flower and adding a new flower related part on the the head somewhere The split evo for incineroar is in the right direction, but needed a bulkier sabre tooth tiger like body to keep the bulk of og incineroar, and tweaking the face a bit The serperior split evo is a nice change, love the pop of red. Visually it looks like it could do with a rose or dark flower

[@hues_of_neon]

Slithereign is BEAUTIFUL! But I can't believe that you somehow didn't give the evil, vampire snake any fangs lmao

[@flowerfaerie8931]

No fangs actually works though. It’s a vegetarian, it just likes to frighten and toy with others because it’s evil. It doesn’t need fangs to hunt because it eats plants, which makes it a bit clearer that its aggressive attitude is active malice and not because it’s predatory.

[@ambientwishwalker8908]

1:37 They called it "Totartle" Ron . That Blastoise line was completely separate . They did say they developed more than 200 pokemons in first generation and more than 150 for second generation .

[@MikoTP]

Totally agree!! Slithereign’s color scheme is so good!!! You really did a good job there!

[@jonalee5262]

Slithereign is an awesome design. At one point, I thought you said Slytherin from Harry Potter and that Pokemon is EXACTLY what I would think a person from Slytherin would have

[@KuroBlitz]

Amazing work here. This is what the Legends ZA starter trio needs if we get a mixed set. Not variants, but split evos. It would be a nice prepwork for Gen 10 and a celebration for Partner Pokémon. This alones would create 27 new mons.

[@CoralReaper707]

I always liked the squirtle line, so I would say I would have both an aquarrior and a blastoise on my team!

[@richardperks7776]

Slithereign also sounds like Slytherin which would probably be considered the most snooty or judgemental of the houses

[@Nuigi12]

Aquaarrior is such a cool design! I love the idea of going back to Wartortle's abandoned Design elements and name scheme

[@nyxzieeee]

Frondosaur would've been my go to Johto starter fr

[@Ruthles5games]

This made me realize the importance if thumbnails in videos, when i first saw it it had the litten split evo, which just from design didnt look quite as good as ron's normal designs imo while i liked the squirtle split evo (no shade at you ron you're amazing, one of my favorite youtubers)

[@Wildcatt1999]

As a HUGE Incineroar fan who isn't really keen on quadruped redesigns (not a furry btw), even I have to admit that Flareath does look really cool. I also think Aquarrior and Frondosaur are great designs as well. Keep up the good work, Ron! 👍

[@castform7]

Yeah I totally get it with not being keen on quadrupeds. It almost feels weird when I say I really like Incineroar or Floragato because a lot of people hate when starters stand up and I get that but to me, I just think the idea of a wrestler cat and a cat with a yo-yo are cool. That being said, Flareath is a pretty good alternate version of what we could've gotten.

[@TheLuckOfTheClaws]

I like it too, but i think the proportions needed to be a bit more muscular; its a tiger for petes sake, they're jacked! this one sort of looks like incineroar's head on torracat's body

[@Nephentine]

you're a furry

[@castform7]

Frondosaur looks so regal but also very friendly. Honestly between it Typhlosion and Feraligatr, I picking Chikorita almost every time.

[@Meela9088]

Chikorita is the cutest but grass types have tons of weaknesses

[@anthonynorman7545]

Frondosaur is EXACTLY what I expected Bayleef to become! You did such an amazing job transitioning it!!!

[@pelli-drive2348]

I love all your videos! I kinda wish you'd show pre-evolutions on the page when you show the evolutions though. It stood out in the video, like when talking about the color progression, it'd nice to be able to see each mon on the screen at once so we can actually see the colors and the other details you're referring too.

[@Ninja_grasshoar]

Aquarrior: 💦👊 Frondosaur: 🍀🐲 Flareath: 🔥

[@BenZosT4]

Slithereign is so beautiful. Great Work!!!

[@chrisschoenthaler5184]

Frondosaur is AWESOME! Leagues better than what we got. Honestly, given how much Grass type struggles in Gen 2, balancing it out by rewarding the player with a dragon typing in its final evolution would be decently balanced. Also, it would’ve been nice if the games with *two dragon specialists* actually had more than two fully-evolved dragon type Pokémon.

[@donovan802]

Thank you for giving the Chikorita line something. Like I love Typhlosion and Feraligatr, but Meganium deserves better.

[@SpookyDeerArt]

watched this and immediately went back and watched the first part! really like this series, hoping to see a fire/fairy braxien next time! i LOVE delphox, but i really wanna see what you could cook up with giving their evo a different type! if not fairy, maybe ghost? i could see a braxien evo with long, ghostly sleeves similar to how i've seen chinese spirits depicted...

[@JadeStudios_15]

10:24 that caught me off guard LMFAO but love these designs

[@raindancer77]

Aquarrior looks like he's ready to take out the first place driver in a nearby go-cart race. Slithereign is just phenomenal! These are all such solid designs!

[@bluekirby_64]

Drizzile could have a split evolution that focuses more on the "laziness" described in its dex entries, using its tongue for long-range fights and laying traps rather than unnecessarily moving its body. Inteleon is still said to be lazy, but has lost both of the other aspects after evolving. (noticed there's already a comment suggesting a similar thing for Frogadier, whoops.)

[@jaxvousten]

Hi

[@BCRvideos]

Ya know, I recently had started to appreciate Blastoise more after not liking it much when I was younger. Aquarrior is so good that it completely undoes all that Blastoise progress I’ve made. 😂

[@ethanel4222]

Love the first two. I wish the alternate incineroar looked more like a panther in the night, with accents of fire (blue) that would light up. It would come off more hidden, but striking when on the attack. And the Serperior alternate could have looked more like a basilisk. Just because it is serpent driven, doesn't restrict the shape. Then again those are just design thoughts of mine

[@3liasBlue]

0:46 oh no

[@Silly_Goose12]

No psyduck 😭

[@NegaHumanX]

I love Aquarrior. Blastoise is my favourite starter, but this is a lot more oriented to my taste in design. I never liked how Wartortle lost that foam tail and wing ears, so bringing them back feels good.

[@Idiotic_B_Purcell]

• Aquarrior looks like if Gamefreak made the Squirtle line in a more recent generation • Give Frondosaur a few tweaks and it could be a pre-evo of Tropius • Once again, Flareath is what the fandom wanted instead of Incineroar lol • Slithereign honestly looks like yet another ancient regional forme. Funny enough, I actually had a concept for a Grass/Dragon Serperior alongside a Fire/Fairy Delphox and a Water/Ice Primarina. AMA

[@daviddimitrov3696]

Love it, Flareath? Direct improvement.

[@Tebigong101]

Excellent designs, seriously impressive.

[@kutachimoshimo8264]

Considering how Legends Arceus sorta made Split evolutions, but didn’t alter their names, the concept is interesting.

[@natsandin5466]

I really love Slithereign! The colour scheme is great and it looks very sininister. The design's still balanced though, there's something cute about it that I can't put my finger on... 🤔 Also RIP to the poor shiny psyduck from the intro 😭

[@gamingamalgam1197]

This is sick and your videos are what got me into making fakemon

[@svenrosen-lidholm1713]

2:57 was that an avatar reference

[@SantaClawsYT]

Haha definitely

[@elijahfrantz1833]

I know I wasn’t the only one who thought that quaxly was going to evolve into a cool pirate bird and was disappointed with what we got. Maybe in the next episode of this series you could give it a split evolution that looks more like a pirate or a sailor.

[@slateportraichu5416]

Awesome split evos! Thank you for continuing the series=3

[@love2o9]

I have an idea: what if pokemon had convergent evolution? Like two lines that both evolve into the same third stage evolution.

[@GaelPascual-l8v]

0:46 R.I.P shiny psyduck

[@scarletrose-w9v]

amazing work as always :>

[@Substitube]

Aquarrior and Frondosaur are my favorite of this batch, Aquarrior especially. The wing ears can also be linked (retroactively) to Mario Kart Blue Shells!

[@Laz3rCat95]

I like most of these designs more than the official final evolutions. Well, except for Blastoise, it was already perfect.

[@oliverdavies4748]

All of these are better than pokemons official design, except inconeroar

[@Nephentine]

Looove this concept, please make more! I always preferred Wartortle's sleeker design and fluffly tail over hulking Blastoise, didn't even realize I wanted Aquarrior. I can totally see it animated in my head with the spike spinning, retracting, and stabbing. I got super excited watching Frondosaur's outline get drawn but was disappointed by the deep colors. It looks a bit too much like Tropius and not enough like it's part of the Chickorita line, just needs to be more saturated and less brown. A personal pet peeve but the blunt square ends of the leaves around its neck clash with the pointed ends, and I would have kept all the leaves the same shade of green to further parallel Meganium's petals. As someone who hates anthropomorphic starter evolutions I celebrated when you said Incineroar, but it's definitely the weakest design here. You even mention the ring of fire theme being a bit played out and proceed to do literally nothing other than tape a ring of fire to its belly button. This is the only design I'd probably start over from scratch, a commenter mentioned it looking like a Torracat with Incineroar's head and they ain't lion. You made it look very Gen 1, lots of spikes, angry eyes, not a whole lot else going on. I'd try to preserve some of its late Gen energy and give it a few more accessories, stray away from the spikes and find a way to better communicate that it's a ring leader. That bowtie design was going in the right direction. Finally Slithereign. Slithereign, Slithereign, Slithereign. You know that feeling when you see a fakeamon that looks so good and real it hurts a bit when you realize they aren't? You definitely did that here. This should have been a Hisuian split evolution, it looks fantastic - ugh. The colors, that devilish smirk that just oozes personality, the apple aesthetic is properly communicated without being as lazy as just drawing an apple (sorry to throw you under the bus Applin), 10/10 would definitely use in game and wouldn't change a single thing. A design like this feels like something official Ken Sugimori would be proud of. Thanks again for making these videos and please continue to!

[@domidoodleYT]

lol nice Avater reference. Also, Frondosaur probably would be my new fave Johto starter if it was real. Great job! Can’t wait for next weeks video

[@ChellyE72]

Am I the only one who heard the azula reference when describing Aquarrior.

[@theultimatenerd9825]

I did too

[@user-vw4xp5nt9f]

no, at least two others heard it too

[@Obileo346]

Same. Loved that.

[@FloWoodEnT123]

At 9:54 he almost sang “Leaves From the Vine” lol

[@Liberatorx13]

What was it?

[@turtlelongingforchaos9055]

Highkey love the color progression on frondosaur with bayleef and chikorita like the whole line is a sprout eventually turning into a tree

[@DinoNuggiez11]

2:58 that’s rough buddy

[@markthebeybladekid5157]

I always thought blastoise was lacking due to the fact it doesnt take much inspiration from its previous evo (wartortle) and alwayd thought it would be cool if blastoise looked more like wartortle as he is so cool so seeing Aquarrior makes me very happy.

[@Ghostalking]

I’m still convinced that Tropius was meant to be an evolution but they scratched it off and decided to use it as its own design

[@jasonweiden9167]

I’m a member hey everybody 😊

[@VDBROS_Edits]

hi

[@Lonley_Location]

Hello

[@donovan802]

What’s up, Bill! Excited for your book?

[@trulyagoose]

Howdy

[@Dkheijnen]

He pal how is it going

[@skaareen]

Slithereign could easily be a regional legends z-a serperior as it very well could be one of the starters

[@donovan802]

Aquarrior and Slithereign - those are my party members!

[@vinayakgurav3144]

5:26 bro forgot how to breathe

[@Edrandec]

In part three, can you do quaxly, I didn't expect and or like quaxwell and quaquaval. Maybe it could become more of a fighting type that is not a peacock. Maybe doesnt dance lol.

[@zetrif]

Thank you SO much for doing Bayleef. I love it so much, and it doesn’t give love… man you’re so awesome

[@jorgehaswag7294]

The frondosaur shiny should reference the Hawai’ian royal feather coat

[@kira3286]

Isn't Slithereign an absolute TREAT for the eyes. So far one of my favorite fakemon from you, it's so cunning and grim, I love it

[@jadc8193]

Slithereign's design is amazing!

[@Fae2705]

Slithereign looks like a "Legends" Variant! Soo good!

[@maverickw96]

Frondosaur and slithereign have amazing designs, great video!

[@FamiliarlyFrigid]

Slithereign is BEAUTIFUL

[@FloWoodEnT123]

9:54 You made me think of Iroh/Mako and Lu Ten 😢

[@jackcowles441]

The rendering in this lot is next level, they look so darn official

[@JakeSmith-mq5dc]

I feel like Chesnaught has some potential for a good split given it's rpg inspiration also Cinderace since it loses the mask and primarily black color scheme of Raboot to return to a mainly white body. So making him based on another breed of Hare perhaps as a rival Soccer player, perhaps with a different role than a striker or just try to make it less human like to make it more distinctive

[@mack-n-cheez]

Someone PLEASE give this guy a job at Nintendo. These designs are EPIC!!!!!!

[@aurorawizard7045]

I really want you to make Bond Phenomenon forms for other Pokemon. It feels unfair for just Greninja to get them. I'd love it if you created forms for the other Kalos starters which is like this, and perhaps even other starters from other regions (I'm banning Kanto and Hoenn cause they already got Megas, Galar for the same reason). Basically, with Bond Phenomenon forms, I'd want you to make them attribute far more to their inspiration, and make their already strongest element even stronger (eg. Greninja becomes even more sleek and agile, so Chesnaught would have an even better defense)

[@solaris7672]

What trainers would they be bonded too?

[@aurorawizard7045]

@@solaris7672 As a template, he could just make them have similar appearance to the protagonist of the region.

[@NinJenna]

Those shinies we all awesome!

[@AMICAI]

wow Aquarrior is a really good design

[@AubreyAkyereko-pl7um]

Slithereign is SO FANTASTIC. As a guy who loves Serperior man oh man did you make an equally good Pokemon.

[@dnprime1737]

bloody hell, the wartortle section gave me a digimon line idea, turtles and valkyries

[@kingofspade1739]

The Evolution methods for these Spilt Evolutions: 2:44 Wartorle evolves into Aquarrior at level 36 while a Falinks is in your party. 5:22 Bayleef evolves into Fromdosaur after eating 5 different berries. 7:52 Torracat evolves into Flareath at level 34 if Torracat is female. 10:33 Serive evolves into Slithereign at level 36 while at night. Tell me what you guys think and let me know if guys know any better ways to evolve into these Pokemons

[@tenatheumbreon.8348]

Me: Doesn't notice the Avatar references until i look at the comments. Also, me: Hears him, say Slytherin instead of Silthereign

[@jaspertxr]

I like all of this new evolutions! I was always curious about the warturtle to blastoise as was mentioned here. The wings just disappeared

[@ericolens3]

thick fat dragon is kinda almost broken. The only thing more broken is dragon steel. also, dragon starters is almost a taboo. I truly LOVE the design, but it's broken. Skill link bullet seed is almost the same thing, just add a kings rock. (i love broken pokemon, because they're fun to troll with, but not a fair fight.)

[@mcsbear13]

I’ve always liked greninja but it feels like a stand alone Pokémon compared to the rest of the evolution line. I’d love to see a design that incorporates the frubbles and colors from the previous stages. The switch to tung and a dark blue and tan color pallet always felt off to me.