Actually in the manga they explain the fused Dialga and Palkia. When they were fighting Dialga and Palkia at the top of Mount Coronet, space and time were warping in a way that made the two look like one Pokemon. They determined that the people who built the statue in Eterna city must've seen them when space and time were bending around them.

I always thought the statues in the original RBY games were Rhydon, as Rhydon uses the same menu icon and Rhydon was the first Pokemon programmed in.

In Scarlet it is implied the infant is Rabsca real body. So this is a contradiction between Scarlet and Violet.

I believe that the creatures that appear as statues aren't actual Pokémon but more akin to gargoyles in our world, mythological creatures born purely from imagination, and not based of of any real observations. In any case, really interesting video, as always!

The idea of a paradox floette as a boss/legendary in the expansions makes a lot of sense though

As with the Celesteela pre-evo, it could be a possibility that many ultra beasts could be final forms of their lines from their native worlds.

6:01 I disagree about Eternal Flower Floette. The idea of Azett spending eons on this earth searching for forgiveness from his friend finally attained said forgiveness and then just gives it away always was contrived to me. If anything I would want King Azett to be a Postgame Boss with Eternal Flower Floette as his Ace.

Those statues are supposed to be the original Pokémon overworld sprite (for Pokémon like Rhydon and Mewtwo) in Gen 1.

I know this wasn’t in the video but what about the true dragon aka the complete reshiram, zekrom, and kyurem fusion that is largely hinted at in the gen 5 games? With this, I would say that we need a legends unova game

Crystal Onix from the anime definitely needs to be added into the games, and possibly be given an evolutionary stage. On the flip side, there are many large Pokémon that need to get a baby form/pre-evolution.

Some of the Pokémon in this video makes me think back to that image I saw with the newborn Vulpix having only one white tail. Maybe the baby forms of Kangaskhan and Celesteela are simply how the look while they’re young while the infant Rabsca has is more of an embryo

"Hey dude what's your favorite Pokemon?" "the unnamed larva form of rellor bro"

An episode of Master Quest shows the Kangaskahn baby outside of the pouch, during which its just referred to as a Kangaskahn.

8:52 "As far as the in-universe lore is concerned, this thing is in the pokemon world so it must depict a pokemon of some kind" Says who? If we accept that animals do not exist in their world it still doesn't mean that statues MUST be of something that exists. We have gargoyles and grotesques, but there isn't winged fanged demidemons running around. Are little kids only allowed to draw pokemon with their crayons, too?

I think the baby Celesteela and Kangaskhan are still the same Pokemon, and they just slowly change as they age instead of evolving like most Pokemon do. Shellder's evo is definitely it's own Pokemon, though. It'd be cool to see a regional Shellder with a new evo based on it or something.

Should have mentioned the substitute doll, especially because like the gym statues, we don’t see an actual Pokémon that resembles it in the games

11:42 Alolan Swadloon lookin kinda cool ngl

DUDE a gargoyle pokemon would be dope.

8:11 while it could be its own pokemon, it could also be a mythological creature that we know isn't real in the pokemon universere(ex: in our world we have phoneixs which we know aren't real but people still have paintings drawings snd statues of it)

8:16 my head cannon is they’re paying tribute to scrapped Pokémon. Many of which we’ll never know about

I'm pretty sure that the Eterna City statue is supposed to be a representation of "Almighty Sinnoh" from PLA before the two tribes find out that it's actually two separate beings - Dialga and Palkia. It's a nice easter egg if you think about it.

I do think the gym statues are heavily stylised Charizards though, at least the ones in BDSP

Gamefreak has already said that Slowpoke aren't really hurt by losing their tail and they grow back quickly if lost. With all the regional and alternate form Pokemon at this point, there isn't any reason not to add Taaban at this point. I've wanted this since 1997.

The statues being cat-like could be an artists rendition of mew

I'm still waiting for crystal Onix to be catchable. Come on guys, you already released regional variants, give me my Crystal Onix!

The kangaskhan slot shoulda been swapped with the pokestar studio pokemon

i think the statue of dialga palkia is due to the mythical nature of them. the people heard stories of them and probably assumed it was one godlike pokemon instead of two

I love that celesteela pre-evo. The tale of princess kaguya is one i love very much and even though i already knew it was a reference, that just makes it even better.

I think the gym statue is generic enough to be an artist creation within the world of Pokémon just as artist in real life may make art of myths or legends. There are many Pokémon with the body type of the gym statues, especially in Kanto. The head is very plain like a blank slate. It has wings with 4 other limbs, just like the many reptilian hexapods in Pokémon.

I’m honestly extremely surprised that none of the Orange Archipelago variants have ever been used in the games from the anime. Crystal Onix forever lives on in my heart.

Old amber mosquito. Zygarde cell.

Also floet is kinda like a paradox Pokémon since it has a different name and it’s a middle evo.

I like this fused statue, since it ties with how the Almighty Sinnoh was reffered back in PLA. It had both kind of depictions, being either Palkia or Dialga, and the fused statue really helps selling this idea.

6:33 I still love the Paradox Virizion so much better than the Iron Leaves we got. Walking Wake is a win for me though

The fetal Rellor sends chills down my spine. It’s like finding an achievement in Superhot, it’s so gratifying to find it, but so scary and.. soulless. And the fact that there’s been a baby of a baby since the beginning is insane.

That statue could just be a made up monster. In our world there also are statues and stuff of animals that dont exist. Could be inspired by dragonite

We have gargoyle statues in real life, yet they don't depict a real creature that ever lived. I'd say the same of the gym statues. The same could be said of the Dialga/Palkia statue. They're legends, so it's very believable that the statue's sculptor had never seen them and only had descriptions passed down over many generations to go on for how it should look. On the other hand, it would have been so cool if you could take Dialga and Palkia to Unova and use the DNA Splicers on them to get the Pokemon in the statue.

Fun fact: shelders evo was going to be named turban

Here’s a fact: Slowking is the only Pokémon other than Team Rocket’s Meowth to have human-like speech capabilities in the anime

On this topic, I said it before,but they need to give us a baby Kangaskhan.

Looking at all of these, I feel like lately, GameFreak is telling us to chill out and see that not every hint is a conspiracy. What I mean is that the fused legends from Area Zero are just the imagination of some dude just like the statues in Galar that depicted the "hero" which once again was a myth that was deformed from reality.

I am kind of surprised original kyurem from black/white 2 was not mentioned as it was mentioned that kyurem is the original body but it basically got split and made 2 more bodies reshiram and zekrom and in black/white 2 you can only fuse 1 of the 2 to kyurem. This makes me wonder how does it originally look and how powerful would it be if in its original form as zekrom and reshiram are legendaries.

2:50 I think would be cooler if in pkm go you needeed have an shelder and a slowpoke together so it could evolve

Shellder’s other evolution is called Shellp. I’ve decided, you can’t stop me.

It would be cool if those become available. On top of my head, their names would be: Vaelar - larvae backwards Kangaskid - kangaskhan + kid Recoyster - reconnoiter + oyster Gargonage - gargoyle + gone + mirage

I would like to believe shelters evo was going to become its own pokemon, but pokemon researchers realized that after cutting off a slowbros tail to try to seperate shelder only kills it. Also I love the gargoyle statue. It only started as the same icon as the pokemon in red, blue ,yellow but it would be neat to be a new pokemon

In a way, AZ's Floette is the first "Partner" variant like Pikachu and Eevee. It has higher base stats, a unique appearance, a unique move, and can't evolve. I'd love to see more done with the concept

I definitely wish we could catch eternal Floette

Ive been wanting a Gargoyle pokemon based of the Gen 1 and 2 statues since Gen2, its such an interesting concept to consider what typing they would be. Rock is an obvious choice for a Gargoyle pokemon, but what would its secondary typing be? Flying because many Gargoyles are depicted with wings? Dark because of their terrifying appearance? Fairy for their supernatural nature? or Water because many Gargoyles function as archaic water drainage, their name is even derived from a word meaning Gargle. Hell, they could even be Rock/Dragon, or at least a final evolution could be that

What I love most about the Baby Celesteela design is that it plays further into referencing who Celesteela is based off of, Princess Kaguya from The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. With the princess being found within a bamboo stalk.

The big irony of Shellder's unofficial evolution is that the games have consistently ignored that piece of implied symbiosis prominently featured in the anime, to the point of the Cloyster and Slowbro lines being version-exclusives in the FireRed and LeafGreen remakes, respectively.

It actually is revealed that baby kangaskhan normal can leave and get faraway from it's mum in pokemon journeys episode 1

I've always known about the shellder Evo, but the regional variant aspect never crossed my mind!! That's so wild. Love it.

Here’s an awesome name for Rellor’s pre evolution. How about Larvring(a combination of Larva and spring)

I kinda think the statues part is a bit of a stretch. We have plenty of statues IRL of things that don't exist like mascots or dragons. I see the dragon dude on the gym statues as a sort of a mascot. As for the Dialga/Palkia statue I feel it's just a cool artistic piece. I don't really know if it's mentioned as anything specific but I see it as just a cool statue and artist wanted to put together depicting the two fused together.

It is probably a stretch, but could it be that the paradox beast and sword of justice in the book is foreshadowing the next mechanic/gimmick for the next gen? Like a Pokemon fusion. I mean gamefreak like to include some hint on the next gen in the current game.

As much as I enjoy all of your content, Hoops, I have to admit that I'm excited to see a new video that's not based around designing/creating new Pokémon 😅

There is also the original dragon from Unova that separated in Zekrom, Reshiram and Kyurem. We can fuse one of them with Kyurem but not all three together as they use to be in the legend.

The gym statue looks like the generic monster used as the sprite for monster like Pokémon in Gen 1. Aside from the wings, anyway, which certainly weren't there in the older versions of the statue.

The Shellder is not an evolution, though, just a form change. The pokédex explicitly calls it a Shellder, and I believe there are entries that say it turns back to its original form if detached from Slowbro’s tail.

Sorry, but the statue one is just so flawed. Why? Because we literally have statues of creatures that don’t exist IRL so there’s no reason that the humans in the Pokémon universe don’t do the same thing. “They don’t look like any individual Pokémon,” well most mythical creatures are mishmashes and the results of poorly described encounters with real animals, so I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the case here. The gym statues in BDSP could simply be an artistic interpretation of a vague Dragonite and/or Charizard description. Reptilian like, horns on its head, wings and stands upright. That’s super vague. I’m willing to be that if you asked someone who didn’t know any Pokémon to draw one based on such a vague description, then you would get some designs that look nothing like any of the known Pokémon. They are just mythical animals, like Dragons and Griffins IRL. The Dialga and Palkia statue does have an explanation if you think about it. Remember how in Legends the clans argued over which of their gods was the real almighty Sinnoh? It turned out they mistook two different Pokémon for Arceus and that there really was only one Sinnoh. Time passes, events fade into legend and some artist comes along, hears bits and pieces and makes the statue based on what they understood. I actually think someone in the games mentions it as being an artist’s interpretation of a legendary Pokémon, but I will have to replay and talk to a lot of people just to make sure. Point is that the statue arguments are…a bit flawed. That’s it though. Everything else is spot on. Still waiting for that Wailord variant that we saw in The Electric Tale of Pikachu manga when Ash went to Cerulean Gym. No, seriously. There’s a whale with a Blue Whale body and everything else matches Wailord swimming in a tank in the background of one of the panels. Considering how obscure some of the older mangas are, they could easily just rip and tweak the original ones from there for a game and call it a day if they ever wanted to. I actually wonder how many of those are based on scrapped Pokémon, if any at all.

11:00 buddy, did you forget that the statue was originally built in Hisui? It's ambiguous because people didn't know which pokemon was the creator of Sinnoh. That's why it also has tiny properties of Arceus in it.

I have a counter-argument to those pokemon statues: Real life statues of mythical beings. Nothing on earth resembles an eastern dragon, or a gargoyle. Same thing is definitely what's going on. A not-real creature that have statues made to look like them.

The Rabsca case is really interesting. Also, I think we need some type of consolation for what could've been Pokemon Z in the future.

Regarding the fused statue in Eternia city, in the Pokemon special DPPT manga where Dialaga & Palkia are fighting on mt Coronet, Diamond/Pearl notice that the distortions in time and space created by their fighting warps their perspective of the two Pokemon as a single Pokemon, which the people of Sinnoh in the past may have mistaken as 1 Pokemon opposed to the two box art mons. This is the only instance I have heard anyone try to explain the statue, and thought it was pretty interesting

To be fair, we have actual gargoyle statues everywhere, and they aren't....or at least no longer exist either.

"This is the pokemon world so the statues have to be pokemon" why? We live in the real world where pokemon don't exist, yet we have plenty of pokemon representations. These could be just art lol

So with that first one, if I've caught a Rabsca, haven't I caught it, too? Edit: Same for the second one, too... Edit again: Wow, and the third. Edit one last time: In the case of the statues...no they don't? The Pokemon world would still have its own myths that aren't real creatures. Or just inaccurate depictions of real Pokemon. Or, like, actual animals.

Actually, according to some theories (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pdWVeNiDuNXMenk.html) Eternal Flower Floette was deleted because in the original plan presumably his "flower" would have actually been AZ's mass destruction weapon. That story was scrapped, and as a result the pokemon was too.

Fun fact: The spiral slowpoke pokemon thing actually has an unused sprite in gen 1 and it wasn't tied to shellder at all. it's called Taabaan, and the original translator if it were in the game, would have called it Pinturban

The statue argument is like saying "oh wow, we have gargoyle statues irl so gargoyles must be a real thing irl

I think that the fusions for the Legendary Beasts and Swords of Justice are still just imagined Pokemon, Iron Leaves and Waking Wake are the actual Pokemon here. I'm not disqualifying the option to be wrong, but I highly doubt it. I don't think that these are Pokemon that technically exist but we just can't catch them at all. Awesome video once again dude.

For the baby kangaskahn I think it would be really cool if we got it as it’s own Pokémon along side a regional variant of regular kangaskhan that are more distant and less protective of their young and thus are two separate catchable Pokémon they don’t even need to have the “baby” evolve or they could turn it more teen like. There are a lot of possibilities for this scenario. Just a thought

We can't catch them all, and it just stare at us in mockery

For the statues/art, it’s possible the sculptors/artists in lore made up their own Pokémon to be symbolic of something or simply for fun.

Rellor's infant isn't a different Pokémon, it's a fetus, or larvae, it's still, biologically the same it's just a pre-gestation version. A more interesting thing about Rellor and Rabsca is that they can breed but it doesn't make sense that they can.

Wish we could of caught The Ghost of Cubone's Mother: Marowak that is given a Ground/Ghost type in Gen 1. That would of been sick and strong.

I just want to say that the gym statues being Pokémon implies that you think Pokémon people might think a statue of a demon is an animal

A counter argument to the statues is that you don't always make statues of creatures that actually exist

“Top 10 Pokemon You CAN’T Catch in the Games” 1. “This is not an official Pokemon” 2. “And to this day has not been recognized as an official Pokemon” 3. “It has never been acknowledged or upgraded as a proper Pokemon” And just FYI i’m not mad, this is just funny lol

So Rabsca is a parent, aw that's kinda cute, so that's make us the grandparents of the baby pokemon 😂

we arent going to talk about how this guy is a slowpoke connoisseur?

Looks like you may have been off by 10 years... legends ZA might be our chance to obtain eternal floette. Perhaps explaining its disappearance as being due to time traveling player shenanigans XD

The gym statue Pokemon looks vaguely like a chibified fusion of Blastoise, Venusaur, and Charizard.

I long await the day game freak finally gives us baby Kangaskhan

8:22 brock going for the batman look😅

Haven’t watched the video yet, but one not-pokemon that I wish existed is a Pokémon that looks like the substitute. I remember as a kid, I thought that when a Pokémon used substitute, that the substitute was a different Pokémon and I wanted one so badly

How about Venustoise from the anime? TECHNICALLY not a real Pokemon, as it's something that strange talking Gastly dreamed up as something akin to an illusion, but still really cool.

"Dude, the baby form of a kanghaskan will remain a kanghaskan..." ~ some philosophist

Pokémon Fans: "The people in the Pokémon universe are incapable of creativity. Any statue in the Pokémon world is based 100% on an existing Pokémon they've seen with their own eyes. Stylization or making up a creature are impossible."

The statue pokemon is a pokemon that was cut from the original games, you can actually find it in some of the cut artwork for Red and Blue.

my theory is that the gym statues are supposed to resemble the concept of a pokemon instead of actually being one

If you want baby Kangaskan to become it’s own Pokémon your basically saying you want baby Kangaskan to be orphaned 😂

the statue pokemon have always been depicting the OG pokemon sprites in RBYG versions. you either had a bug sprite, statute pokemon sprite, fish sprite, magikarp sprite, pikachu sprite, plant sprite, its not a specific pokemon.

Shellder evo should be in the games, I think should change the name from "Turban" to something else related to its actions, Clamtrap or something.

The original statue of Palkia and Dialga isn't even a fusion, it's just ambiguous without being colored on

Very interesting video! Definitely didn’t know about the baby Celesteela. I personally think the statues (especially in BDSP) resemble an abstract Charizard.

Baby Celesteela is a reference to its origins as Princess Kaguya. A bamboo cutter found an infant girl while in the mountains

I did not know about that Rabsca baby, that's awesome Also I really really really want Eternal Floette, I love her so much

Proposition: Rellor's prevolution should be named Avral, based on the naming themes of the rest of the line