When Burmy evolves, its cloak becomes part of its body. That’s why Wormadam has never been shown without a ‘cloak’ because it can’t take off what is its own body.

I heard an interesting theory that Dwebble and Crustle could possibly be the true forms of Paras and Parasect. Maybe in Kantos forests mushrooms are more accessible than rocks and boulders but using these mushrooms comes at a cost for these pokemon

Aerodactyl's true form isn't seen either, the mega form states it's 'close' to it's true form but not it's true form

One you have mentioned before, but not this time around, was the Pokedex entries that imply the existence of a not-helpless form of Magikarp. I was surprised you didn't give at least a mention of it.

Very surprised Dhelmise wasn’t mentioned, it’s canonically the kelp, it could have had a form that’s just kelp, or a controlled propellor, or a controlled sail, lots of forms Dhelmise could take

The unmoving Parasect are likely dead specimens. The mushroom is what keeps them animated.

I mentioned the Parasect thing on a Reddit forum and was SWIFTLY corrected by someone who told me that those Parasect were "Unmoving" because they were DEAD. Just like the REAL parasitic fungus kills its host after making it move into the open so it can spread its spores and infect more bugs.

I believe that there was actually an officially licensed plush of cubone with a removable skull which showed a brown charmander-like pokemon

For Hisuian Avalugg, I think that the greyish brown might also be rock covering, while what we can see of the seams are its real skin.

I love how Torterra is shown to grow to a huge degree, in the dex being said as a moving forest and in the Detective Pikachu showing that they were running on top of giant Torterras. Then the same for Avalugg, whose arguably a turtle as well and is shown to grow to huge feats as well. Would be cool to know if they also grew to the size of Torterra in the movie and were like living sleeping glaciers. The world building you can do with pokémon is something else.

Quick note about Burmy, it's always pure bug type regardless of cloak. Once the cloak becomes permanent as it evolves into Wormadam, then the different types apply.

I think it's worth to clarify that Burmy in all of its forms are pure bug type and only gain a new type upon evolving into Wormadam depending on the last cloak it wears.

You missed the two Shellder forms that latch onto Slowpoke to make Slowbro and Slowking. In their Dex entries it’s suggested that the Shellder can fall off and stay independent. Also the Original Dragon from Unova, which would be a form of Kyurem, which is the leftover body.

Getting to see mimikyu's true form would be awesome, but maybe they could do it mimicking other Pokemon probably the starters from various regions. It'll only be aesthetically pleasing but maybe they could give it different abilities or slightly varying movesets

I thinks there's way more to say about Spiritomb ! In the mini serie of Professor Oak he asks Spiritomb to tell his form before he got sealed in the keystone and that will be a big discovery . In the anime somehow they did the mistake to show the flashbacks apparently When the first person ever beat Spiritomb and sealed him , it showed spiritomb with already his own keystone and ghost body - which makes no sense - but I guess it was for laziness to create the past form of Spiritomb to becoming canon etc..

Considering the Past and Future theme of Scarlet and Violet, maybe we will see some past or future forms of pokemon, like Drapion's family for example.

I like to think that Snorunt and Falinks are the same pokemon but from different regions. The cold weather is what forces them to evolve.

The Paracect one has me confused. Unmoving without a mushroom confirms the controlling sounds to me like a discarded corps of Paracect and the mushroom has rotted, fallen off, etc. Not that there is one Living without a mushroom to be confirmed

For the Dreepy line I would assume they’re Dragon/Water

Considering the colors and markings I wouldn't be surprised if the Galar fossil legs belonged to Dreepy's living form. It can't be a coincidence that the dragon legs look like this ghost dragon.

Genesect isn't really a mystery. It's Pok'edex entry literally tells you that the only thing they really changed on this Pok'emon was adding the cannon to it's back which would not have been there on the original Pok'emon. So a natural Genesect would just be the same one we see but without the cannon. It should also be noted that the Drives which can change Genesect's type to Fire, Ice, Water, or Electric would not be a thing you could use on the original version of this Pok'emon since the drives connect into it's cannon that aren't a natural part of the Pok'emon to begin with. Anyway... I thought this video was going to talk about forms that don't exist in the games but do exist in other media. Like Mewtwo's Armored form which has still never been seen in any Pok'emon game and Genesect's high speed form which was exclusive to the Anime. There's also that Crystal Onyx that was in the Anime and appeared to have a different type than regular Onyx and is technically the first regional variant Pok'emon LONG before Regional variants were introduced. I'm surprised they didn't set that first game in the Orange Islands and make Crystal Onyx an official regional variant. They did put the game on a group of islands and seemed to take a lot of inspiration from the Orange Islands in the Anime but at the same time it's almost like the game developers forgot the Orange Islands existed.

there’s also the form of shellder that is attached to the slowpoke evolution line, it looks completely different from the actual shellder

i thought Spiritomb's whole deal has been pretty clearly explained now, especially given the quest you get in Legends: Arceus. it's 108 human spirits trapped inside a stone, simple as. if it doesn't have the keystone, the spirits would presumably just scatter and wander about like in Legends before you caught them all.

there is a Manga that has what tangela is under those vines, ill see if i can find it EDIT:Magical Pokemon Journey / Volume 1 / 04 Tangela-s Secret its not great and probably not Full cannon but i remember reading this as a kid

I was today years old when I realized Crawdaunt is replicating Sharpedo.

I always thought that spiritomb was just the result of arceus punishing 81 spirits for their bad deeds when living so arceus locked them all in the key stone because another dex entry states that it is made up of 81 spirits. That also could explain how there are multiple but hard to find. Because that's arceus' main form of punishment when people perform bad deeds.

Crystal Onix? I was always disappointed that the crystal Onix didn't exist in the games, it could have been a really cool ice type variant of Onix

I actually think we will see these prehistoric forms in the new pokemon game my guess is the pokemon professors are interested in pokemon from the past and future and might use some sort of travel to see these pokemon at a point.

Men, I was expecting to see a proper upgrade to Porygon2 rather than the glitched-out PorygonZ. I don't know how a Porygon3 would work, but I wouldnt mind seeing how'd they pull it off

One dex entry for Mareep says it get sheered. We haven't seen one in the game. Curious what a sheered Mareep looks like haha.

I feel so bad for Mimikyu. I wish there was a regional variant or an item like a charm or something that would let it safely come out in the open.

I thought that the "unmoving" part of Parasect's Dex entry meant it was dead, and the mushroom went away or something.

Paras probably stops moving during the faze where the mushrooms spores begin rooting into the body. My theory is that Paras is actually an extinct pokemon and the mushrooms are now the pokemon which is why the breed with mushrooms.

Considering Legends: Arceus is 300 years before Kalosian Avalugg's debut, Hisuian Avalugg has always been more rocky, with newer Avalugg gaining MORE ice on it's body.

There's a nice opening to see the galar fossils properly assembled with the new pokemon games as they deal with past and future so it would be interesting to see them do something with galars fossils

also, the trio of Raikou, Entei and Suicune are apparently resurrected forms of their original forms.

According to Vulpix's official dex, it was born white and had only one tail before splitting into six. Unfortunately, the form only has text descriptions and no images appear in any media, but we can assume it looks like Alolan Vulpix.

a few years ago one of my friends gave me a cubone plushie for christmas , and funnily enough the skull cubone wears comes off, i don’t know if it was intentional or if it wasn’t sewn on properly, or if it’s just a bootleg. but either way i thought it was something fun to bring up considering the video

BirdkeeperToby has a theory that Arceus has another unbound form too. Kind of like Spiritomb.

The original form of Zekrom/Reshiram is what I would've like to see

mimikyus height of 20 cm only includes up to the disguise's neck, there's a licenced life size plush that is about 20 cm up to its neck, so we can infer its body is small and round

I always thought that the substitute doll is based on what Cubone looks like before its mother dies. It has all of the features of Cubone and their mother's skull.

We should have gotten a Paras form as far back as sun and moon. How cool would a vulcano bug be

With the themes of past and future clearly present scarlet and violet we might see a real old genesect and maybe more past forms of other pokemon and even some future forms.

They revealed true Mimikyu on social media like Vaniluxe. It's basically just a lump with eyes

Golem appears quite different than its earlier stages, like a sort of reptile inside a rock shell. It's possible that the earlier stages are also these kinds of critters just fully encased in rock

Did I miss shellder and cloyster? based on the rest of the list, they'd be on there. since apparently removing a shell counts as a different form.

I once drew my own “concept art” of potential evolutions or just different forms of Mimikyu, one partially showing its true form, with its Pikachu disguise now being worn like a hoodie, and the final evolution/form being completely revealed, but keeping always its disguise nearby. It was a giant, scary monster. I wish I could find those drawings. I used to be pretty decent at drawing.

You touched on Dreepy and the Galar fossils. We could also assume that every ghost type has a living counterpart. And every fossil Pokémon has an original form that wouldn’t necessarily have a rock typing.

I'm surprised you didn't mention vulpix as so many dex entries mention that at the time of birth it has only one tail and that tail is white. Yet never in the games or even the anime (to my knowledge) have we been shown this baby form or a vulpix with fewer than 6 tails. It's strange as there have many opportunities to show a single tailed vulpix in both the anime and games as this fact was first mentioned in Gen 1 and Gen 2 introduced us to baby Pokemon. Also in the anime Brock was given a vulpix in episode 28 and had it with him until episode 169. We've even gotten a regional variant with an Alolan form yet still no single tail vulpix. O_o

There's also newborn vulpix that states in the dex that it starts out with just one white tail. We almost got something close with the baby vulpix in the GS leaks, but even that wasn't just one tail.

Actually, from what I recall, Burmy IS just a pure bug-type, no matter its cloak, it's only Wormadam, which, as mentioned by another comment, makes the cloak a part of its body, that changes type depending on which form of cloak it is. I also vividly remember Forretress as a case of this due to it being mentioned in PMDs "Seven wonders of the Pokemon World". btw, same should of course also apply for Pineco. One of my personal headcanons for Cubone is that their original species/their look under the mask doesn't matter, and that most of any Pokemon-species could become a Cubone if they lost their mother and decide to wear their skull, it's more of a group of Pokemon-orphans than an actual species... is one of the interpretations I came up with over the years. Obviously, this doesn't actually check out with the Cubones we catch in the game, although this would open up the possibility of "Cubones" of other species, like, a more bird-like Cubone, a quadruped Cubone, something along those lines. Another example I generally like to bring up is Makuhita, where its Sun Pokedex-entry feels like it's implying that the Makuhita we know is its Alolan form.

This is my favorite kind of Pokémon trivia! I hadn't seen a few of these

Cubone seems to be a fusion/hybrid of Charmander and Kangaskhan, so maybe it's a result of Rocket dealing with cloning technology.

Their secret evolution is something I would like to be shown

I always thought there was some connection between parasect and crustle due to their similar appearance. Maybe some sort of biological adaption occurred where the bug started living under rocks as so the mushroom cannot grow there.

I guess Spirittomb could have been like a Genie in the past and the keystone it is trapped by is like a Genie's lamp.

Something that would be pretty cool considering pokemon Scarlett is based in the past, have Dreepys pre-fossil form in that game, since it's in the past, and keep the normal-looking Dreepys (with the ghost typing) in pokemon violet. Dreepys "non-ghost" form could even be a new pokemon!! Or a different form... Could even do this with all the fossil pokemon from Sword and Sheild!!!

Thank you for keeping this up!

Did anyone already mentioned that Genesect may be actually Kleavor with that thing about "300 million years ago" being just overstatement?

I would like to offer a theory on Dreepy and the idea that it has a living cousin. If you compare images of Dreepy side by side with Applin (sans apple) they look close enough in design that a person could easily argue that one is the ghost form of the other. Especially with both having Dragon as the base type.

33 is an oddly specific number any reason why? Oh and great video as always

I noticed that wynaut's tail looks kind of like an unknown.

Gotta say I'm a bit disappointed you included Wormadam in this list, since it's not wearing a cloak. Rather, the cloak it has as a Burmy merges with it and becomes its skin. Also, Burmy is a pure Bug type regardless of cloak. Its cloak only gives Wormadam a extra typing. Fun video and great idea for a list, but it could have used a bit more research. You included a lot of obscure stuff but fumbled a bit on some basics.

Not entirely on topic, but close: I want to see a Shellder that is on Slowking as a regional variant or something. It doesn’t even have to be regional. They could figure it out.

What about the OG dragon from black and white, kyurem is supposed to be its form but its not the original typing for sure so it had to look different too

Very cool video! I always thought about Mimikyu and some others but never thought about Dreepy or even Burmy.

I imagine that snorunt, been normal grass and looking more like a coconut in warm areas.

A Bug/Water Seaweed Cloak & Bug/Fire Obsidian or Magma Cloak Wormadam always seemed like a no Brainer to me. Favorite is a Bug/Ice Icicle Cloak forme. Should have had that.

Sad that you didn´t touched the kyurem total form since kyurem is the shell left behind when zekrom and reshiram were split from the original dragon. It is so heavily in the plot of black and white 2, i hope to see it in a legends unova.

just a theory but the wobbuffet "tail" looks like an unknown, plus both are psychic and come from black & white.

This is such a fun idea for a video. :D I like the theory of Cubone being a baby Charmander. I also think poor Genasect was a Kabutops.

according to pokemon suns pokedex, makuhita might have a different form too, since the "alolan" makuhita is way more recognized than the makuhita of its original region

I just love how Pokémon like Snorunt, Burmy and Applin look exactly how you would expect them to look without their clothes. No surprises whatsoever

Me: *being happy that hoops used footage from the special Pokémon MV*

Wormadam's body is fused to its covering, so I think one without its cloak would just be... ah, "peeled"

Dragapult Scarlet version as a pure Dragon would be interesting new ground to cover. Maybe Tyranitar could get a Violet version as Steel/Dark.

cant wait to see what new forms awaits you later on the year PS: with an iberian penninsula game a new Crawdant is very possible

awesome video man...I really want to know Spiritomb's real form!...Kind of scary though to think of it

I love Burmy so much, but just as a design concept. 💘💘💘 I would so make a pet out of one of those little babies!!!! I used to be obsessed with them purely because of their little faces back when I was a little girl, and coming across them time to time is so nostalgic for me for whatever reason 😂😂😆

I checked out your poke mix’s and they where really good

Great video so far, but my OCD is going off the charts that we is the only word not capitalized in the title.

I'd like to mention that snowrunt without a cloak explains it's evolutions.

i love the idea of diglets true form being a giant with the fingertips as decoys lol

As a tangent regarding parasect; in Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon it's further confirmed that Parasect is the mushroom because when you talk to it it says "I, the mushroom, am in total control" and it's just been something that stuck wiht me, so creepy.

There is also a rare hisuian hoops only found in the youtube region

That drawing for snorunt IS interesting. But concept art often shows the deconstruction of a character. It’s about structure and continuity in animation and design. That is not a secret form.

I've seen Snorunt and Applin in their true forms from those images before ^^

Great video!

Quick theory: Applin true form might be an original Dreepy. Applin is Grass/Dragon and Dreepy is Ghost/Dragon, thus Applin without the apple would probably be just Dragon. Dreepy is said to have died and awoken as a Ghost, so we can also conclude that it was originally just a Dragon. Applin's true form does look like a Dreepy...

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Surprised you didn't mention Crystal Onix

Hopefully in the future we see more mystery Pokémon and they become actual Pokémon plus mystery forms Because there must be thousands out there that we don’t know of

I believe that the Dragapult "alive" form descended into a modern Salamance, that's just a theory, tho.

Great video wonder what some of them are hiding maybe with the release of Scarlet and Violet we might see a regional form of snorent, bergmite and avulugg because Spain is pretty close to the equator so it might melt away the ice and reveal their true forms.

For Cubone, there has been a licensed Cubone plushie that has a removable skull. I suppose you could assume that it shows the true face of Cubone without it's mother's skull in it's head.

Now I have to go find the SECRET Form of my dog by shaving off his fur!

Wow I didn’t know that there were so many concealed Pokémon out there!

If wobbuffet's design concept is about boxing, maybe its actually a punching pads. Because in some countries like Philippines their punching pads that their coaches use had somewhat of a handle so I think that is the inspiration why wobbuffet's tail is like that

Oh, I thought Wynaut and Wobuffet's tails were their shadows. Also the Shadow Tag ability. 🤔