We need mega parasect so we can get an item called parasite

I would like to see a regional evolution of Paras where the bug over powers the mushroom and becomes a Bug Fighting type

Paraspectre is absolutely correct that parasitic plants are not mushrooms, nor do mycorrhizae infesting a plant’s roots make that plant a fungus any more than my ketamine addiction makes me a horse

Toedscool's design answers the age-old question of "What if foreskin could walk?"

So apparently there are patterns with mushroom Pokémon -each line is a two stage -each line has a completely unique secondary typing -shroom lines are made every two gens

I love shiinotic so much

Breloom will always be a favorite, gen 3 Pokemon were interesting since they had the turnaround in gen 4 with the physical/special split. Gotta love dropping those STAB Seed Bombs.

If I was a gym leader I would have a mushroom theme, I think they're just so cool, and could offer some fun gym puzzles. 5:55 Omg! I have the same plush!! I like to keep him in dark places like under a shelf.

I was pretty meh on Parasect until I found your channel. Now I will forever associate it with you and your content so it's risen several notches in my eyes and I've come to appreciate it a lot more. I had a pretty similar reaction to you when I first saw Toedscoel running about. It and Toedscruel quickly became two of my favorite Paldean Pokemon and it was a main stay on my team through my first run of Scarlet.

Breloom my beloved ♡ it's one of my favorite Pokémon for sure, and definitely fun to use competitively.

Never knew Shiinotic and Parasect have a rivalry type thing going on, suppose its only natural you wouldn't be a fan lol. Personally, Shiinotic is actually probably my favorite mushroom Pokémon, I like how weird its proportions are and the almost creepy permanent smile it has. Feels sort of alien-like.

In all fairness, Convergent Mons are just an expansion of the variant concept. In addition to Variant Breeds, Paldea surprised me with how it’s given us more future potential for variants than most had ever considered. I remember when Regional Evolutions were introduced almost 4 years ago and everyone thought we had reached the pinnacle of the variant concept. Also, Parasect is my favorite Kanto mon, and I’m also hoping it gets a variant one day. My personal hope is that they switch the fungus from a mushroom to that fungus that infects spiders and turns them into zombie puffballs.

Toadscruel was a pillar of my team! As a fast special attack her carried his weight 😅 as soon as a I saw a toadscool running in the wild I knew I needed it.

I genuinely wish Pokemon kept the quirk in Gen I where Bug was super effective against Poison (and vice versa). Leech Life would have continued to absolutely wreck the sheer number of Grass/Poison Pokemon, and I would have kept using Parasect outside of Gen I. As is, I remember using it to beat the rival's venasaur with its double resistance to razor leaf, and it also easily mopped up Erica's gym.

I liked that paradox Amoongus! It looks so menacing. But can't argue Parasect in gen 1 using Spore to catch wild pokemon. Playing Pokemon TPP and Parasect has been a suprise favorite on my team.

I'd like to see a Parasect evolution that is Bug/Ghost where the mushroom parts of its body are translucent.

The biological principle at play in ScVi is called ‘convergent evolution’. It’s the term for two animals that have similar features despite not being closely related at all. For example, a platypus has a bill-like mouth and lays eggs, so do ducks, but one is a mammal and the other is a bird!

Damn. I wanted to go to sleep. Now I'll go through all mushroom pokémon.

This was such a fun video. I have to say, in regards to mushrooms: I’m team Shroomish/Breelom. They’re just so cute. And they have such an interesting moveset. I remember Breelom being a staple in my team during gen4.

I always thought Shroomish looked like a slightly cuter Goomba, and Breloom bears a passing resemblance to Yoshi. I always thought Shiinotic was like an eerie, otherworldly Toad.

I kind of wish that in gen 2 they swapped paras and parasect's grass with dark, it would have been so aesthetic and would have satiated my desire for mushrooms not being treated as plants

Very cool. Just got Scarlet after mostly playing Gens 1 to 3 so excited to check out some of the newer Pokémon. You could do a mouse Pokémon theme, for your shrew boys, but it might be a hell of a long list!

Ha! Love the stuff you come up with to analyze.

18:04 the whole idea of toedscool (and wugtrio) is the real-life concept of convergent evolution. Dolphins and sharks might have very similar body types, but aren't directly related in any way. Same idea here

I knew this would come one day! Very much ecstatic to hear why Parasect is the best shroomie boi

I'm actually using a parasect on my fire red playthrough currently. People keep asking me why? And I tell them that I just wanted to use it. I'm kind of a bug type fanatic. I love most bug types and use at least 1 in almost every team. Paracect actually doesn't do terrible in newer Kanto games. Grass in general does pretty good in Kanto. As a gen 3 game it doest get acess to a ton of bug moves. But since leech life had been buffed and it can now learn X Scissor parasect is much better.

Me before this video: How nice, a fun video about mushroom Pokemon! Should be a good time! Me after this video, losing sleep at a red-string conspiracy board after being cursed with the knowledge that mushroom Pokemon are only in even nunbered gens, always have a unique type matched with grass, and always evolve once: I DON'T NEED SLEEP, I NEED ANSWERS

I like listening to your videos after work to help me fall asleep. Your voice is very soothing

18:07 its based on convergent evolution, so that body is just peak performance.

now this is what i was waiting for

Both toedscool and toedscruel have the exact same stats as tentacool and tentacruel, respectively, which kind of explain why both have higher speed then the other mushroom pokemon (somehow jellyfish from Gen 1 are pretty fast). Also, loved the use of "Beware the forest mushrooms" theme from SMRPG!

I feel like you should be listing all of their effects as well There are some interesting insights there, like Brelooms poison heal making it not poison type but showing some mushroom characteristics

There's another youtuber named Zen Mode who recently made a video about Paras and Parasect that I think would be _extremely_ up you alley.

whenever i go to the grocery store i try to buy a dollar or so of loose mushrooms. its such a fun food and can make a lot of things so much savory and fun. if you ever wanted to try to get into mushrooms, see if your store sells white button mushrooms loose, so you can try a few and see if you like em my favorite are chanterelle mushrooms. garlic herb butter or in a risotto are just amazing things

One pokémon that was left out as an honourable mention is nacli, which apparently is based on a mushroom rock. Not technically a fungus, I guess, but it probably still could've been brought up.

My ranking is almost identical to yours, except for my top three. 3: Toedscruel - it's an absolutely iconic rendition and i fully agree that it counts as a regional variant. 2. Parasect - truly one of the greats, but i think the fact that it's not even remotely one of my favorite gen 1 mons keeps it from the top spot. 1. Breloom. My beloved. The design, the typing, the move variety, it's not only my favorite mushroom, but it's also one of my favorites in general. In fact, the only gen 3 mon i like more is Absol.

A Look At Every Cicada Pokémon next? 👀 I mean it's only 5 pokemons in 2 evolutionnary lines so that's not a lot so probably not. X^)

Well this was nice :)

It's funny that your KZfaq username is Paraspectre, which is what I always imagined the name of a Parasect evolution to be!

Fun fact: mushrooms aren't plants, they are a separate biological kingdom all to themselves, Kingdom Fungi.

Pokemon Gen 1 is like a warm fuzzy blanquet.

11:26 an 8" mushroom that weight 2+lbs is actually insane to consider

I have a Vileplume tattoo and the untrained eye often refers to it as “mushroom guy” lol

Paras is the best!!!

what a guy, that parasect!

Shiinotic is my favorite pokemon I've never used. It's an alien that's cool af. With the ufo hat very spicey

the paras episode of the anime was the best episode ever made

Nice

Hey Paraspectre, I made pokemon cookies a while back and you inspired me to make a parasect cookie. Id love to send a picture of it to you, if youre interested.

Oh yeah, another detail to bring up about Breloom, apparently it's able to stretch its little T-Rex arms to punch better, which I choose to believe is a reference to Dhalsim from Street Fighter, because Breloom is a Fighting type. Of the mushroom Pokemon, Breloom is my favorite. Fighting is high on my list of top five types, so it's high among the best, and it's a perfect example of a Pokemon that is cute AND cool. A lot are one or the other but it's very hard to be both. Toedscruel and Brute Bonnet are 2 and 3, not sure which order they'd be. Then Parasect and Shiinotic, then all the unevolved ones.

the reason toedscool and toedscruel look like tentacool and tentacruel is because of a natural phenomena called convergent evolution where two species that are completely unrelated evolve to look similar. that's how toedscool and toedscruel can look like tentacool tenacruel without actually being related.

From my least to most favorite: *11: Shiinotic* - artwork’s pretty creepy, but its animations are kinda cute *10: Morelull* - pretty cute, its evo line is just overshadowed by the others, guess being luminescent doesn’t help with that *9: Amoonguss* - I respect it for pulling double duty as both a mushroom mon and a mimic, but I think its design does each of those two roles worse than the mons before it *8: Foongus* - same logic as Amoonguss, but substantially cuter *7: Shroomish* - he’s a funny guy *6: Brute Bonnet* - if Amoonguss had knees it would fall to them, realizing it is not Brute Bonnet *5: Parasect* - easily one of the most interesting Gen 1 designs in both concept and execution, it’s a shame it isn’t stronger *4: Paras* - same logic as Parasect, also it’s really cute *3: Toedscruel* - extremely cool, need I say more *2: Toedscool* - the funniest guy *1: Breloom* - I just love this thing, used it in ORAS and it was very strong, plus I think its design is neat

I always forget Shiinotic exists, although every time I see it, it reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Mr. Burns gets mistaken for an alien

Parasect is my favourite pokemon, I just wish it'd get acknowledged more

Interesting video, thanks for the upload. My list would be quite different (maybe because I actually like mushrooms?). Shiinotic line and Toedscruel line would certainly be swapped, more appreciation for normal Amoongus as well. Brute Bonnet I don't care for very much, if they added a ton more spikes to the head and arm caps so it would look like lycoperdon echinatum that would put it back in the running.

don’t think it don’t say it don’t think it don’t say it

Parasect is my favorite pokemon of all time. Shiinotic is great too =]!!!

Shiinotic reminds me of the evil mushrooms from Mario and Luigi Partners in Time

Hearing the praises for Brute Bonnet in this video, and then watching somebody dump Shiitake over the design in another video, just reminds me that there is no perfect Pokemon, and everyone has their preferences. Also, I've always been a fan of Paras/Parasects design, and always having one in my teams, and then sadly boxing and forgetting about them as well. Def in need of a buff.

Shroomish is very Goomba

I loved using Parasect in Radical Red. Its not the best but with better bulk and attack and some much needed improvementa to its movepool it definitely has a seriois nieche

Competitively, Breloom and Amoonguss are probably the best out of them, with Toedscruel (maybe Brute Bonnet?) as a close third. Breloom is excellent in Gens 3-5, with its powerful Attack stat, the fastest Spore out of the bunch, and two incredible abilities in Technician and the rare and amazing Poison Heal. Amoonguss has a similar advantage in Abilities- but instead, it has the incredible Regenerator. Any VGC player can tell you about Amoonguss! In Gen 3 (ADV) OU, Breloom's Focus Punch is one of the strongest attacks out there, and considering two of the tier's best- Tyranitar and Blissey- absolutely DROP to fighting moves, it's pretty valuable there, especially when it sets up a Substitute. Spore is also a great help- or, if you ask some people, a great annoyance!

They should give Parasect a further evolution

What are those card-like things you're pulling up as you showcase the pokemon? Some kind of tabletop game?

For some reason KZfaq didn’t notify me about this video.

Fun fact: an Mushroom Pokemon is introduced in every uneven numbered gen (being in 1,3,5,7 and 9) ...and fungi aren't plant, so why are they Grass type lol

Pretty sure Shiinotic is the only Pokémon to be posed facing directly forwards in its official art. Those beady little eyes creep me the fuck out…

Breloom is my 2nd favorite Pokémon! Sandslash is first.

Breloom is the best mushroom boi 👌

I didn't really like Amoongus back when Gen 5 initially released, but come Gen 7 I hated Shiinotic even more to the point I learned to appreciate Amoongus for what it was. It also surprisingly cracks skulls in competitive, so I'm pretty much forced to tolerate it anyways. My personal list would be: 12. Shiinotic, 11. Empty slot to emphasize the gap between Shiinotic and the rest, 10. Morelull, 9. Amoongus, 8. Foongus, 7. Brute Bonnet (this might sway a lot in the future, since I only now just notice it has a freaking dinosaur tail that makes its design changes much more cohesive), 6. Toadscruel, 5. Toadscool (I've always liked Tentacool more than Tentacruel, for some reason), 4. Parasect, 3. Shroomish, 2. Paras, and 1. Breloom. Now Parasect at number 4 may seem low, but do note that Toadscruel is a pretty average, middle-of-the-road design for me, while Parasect and up are easily in my top 10% favorite mons. Now for some more competitively-oriented thoughts: Parasect could use a regional variant, but what it really needs asap is a bst boost. 405 bst is _not_ it for a final evolution, only being outbadded by absolutely trash tier second stage final evos like Ariados, Ledian, and Delcatty. Freaking _Ponyta_ has a higher bst. Give it 10 points to Attack and 40 points to HP, and you have a semi-workable Spore spammer. Not at all destined for higher tiers of play, but not outclassed in every category by other Spore users as it is now. Breloom and, as mentioned above, Amoongus are actually doing well competitively, with both of them kicking it in Smogon Gen 9 OU alongside monsters like Walking Wake and Dragonite. Toadscruel is also doing pretty well there, being a UU denizen. Shame that it's signature ability is pretty much just a worse Mold Breaker, though; gotta keep Spore in check for VGC somehow. As much as I dislike Shiinotic's design, a counterpart is a counterpart. If Parasect is offered a 50 bst boost, I'll recommend one for Shiinotic as well. Give it the same boost of 40 HP, and instead of Attack, put the remaining 10 into Sp. Atk. The HP boost alone makes it a tough to break Strength Sap abuser, and base 100 Sp. Atk is nothing to sneeze at when it is throwing around chunky Moonblasts. I'll even throw in a buff idea for Illuminate: Have it boost the power of light-based moves by 30%. If Moonblast falls under that category, being the redirected power of moonlight and all, then it has access to some nasty 124 bp cannonballs right there. Last, but certainly not least, is Brute Bonnet. IIRC, it's a threat in VGC, but in Smogon Singles, it has slumped down to RU - far below its more meek looking descendant, ironically. The main issue with it is that the _only_ way to buff it is to buff its movepool. But luckily for it, its movepool is a bit lacking and can easily be bumped up. The elemental fangs are an easy pick, being staple coverage moves for many mons while not being too oppressive in terms of raw power. Recover could be an option for it that allows it to have a less weather dependant form of recovery. And in the same vein, giving it Strength Sap would allow it to smack around many physical threats that otherwise slowly wear it down. And the biggest boon for it would be physical STAB that is around 120 bp. Since Wood Hammer wouldn't fit thematically, a new Grass or Dark type Close Combat variant would be needed; immediately boosting its 127 base Attack into something to be truly feared, outputting damage in the same realm as a Close Combat throwing, Headlong Rushing Great Tusk.

Oh my god, looking at Shiinotic in this videio, I just realize that its pants resemble milcery.

Mushrum!

would be cool to give shuckle a shoutout, since its also a mold pokemon (fungus)

Mario aprooves.

Amoongus is Sus... How did you not make one among us reference 🤣🤣🤣

Shinotic looks like Roger from American Dad to me. 😅

Until today I just assumed Foongus and Amoongus mouth was actually it's nose. I thought they were like Mushroom pigs. I never watched the anime past sinnoh and I never used either in a game so I didnt see them much and didnt know that was it's mouth

I enjoyed this. But as far as I know, Paradox Pokémon are not past/future relatives.

What you got to try mushrooms on your pizza.

I despise mushrooms personally. You'd have to trick me into eating them physically. Flavored by mushrooms is fine, but they're existentially terrifying to me. I feel their spores latch and begin to fruit my insides. Also bad mouth texture makes me want to cry. But Paras is my fav Pokémon 💛

Parasect enjoyer based choice

Shuckle as an endolith could have been a good honorable mention. Do you think the Paras line should be looked at like Slowbro with Shellder? Is the mushroom its own actual pokemon? What if the regional variants for Paras are Nincada and Foongus that just don’t interact with each other. I do think we need a new term for pokemon like Toadscool and Wigglet that are based on convergent evolution instead of regional variant’s divergent evolution. Would Sharpedo and Crawdaunt count as those?

Not gonna lie, Morelull and Shiinotic are the two Pokemon I NEVER remember. Now, admittedly I paid very little attention to gen 7, but I at least remember the other pokemon from Alola since I pride myself on my Pokemon knowledge. With the Morelull line they're just so forgettable.

Honestly, though they don't justify a new type quantity wise, mushrooms are different enough from plants to differentiate in a different type, maybe even more so than insects. A Grass/Mushroom mon would still be pretty bad because of two double weaknesses, to Fire and Ice, and would have a double resistance to Grass and Ground, possibly Mushroom too, but that's where the similarities end. While birds eat plants and insects, many mushrooms, including kinds edible by other animals (including us Humans), are deadly to birds, so Mushroom would actually resist Flying. Poison could also be resisted, as many mushrooms are notoriously poisonous to everyone. If the Light type was ever introduced, Grass would obviously resist and be super effective against it, while Bug would possibly be resisted by it. Meanwhile, Mushroom Pokemon would not only be resisted, but also weak to Light.

For amoongus you could've made an among us joke Edit: paradox pkmn are technically imagined creatured not actually from any time period

Great video! I'm a big fan of all the 1/20 Scale World studio stuff you included, are you a fan too?

For the algorithm!

I liked toedscool and then hated toedscruel. Definitely because the original is one of my favourite pokemon

Hey paras 😂 I have a question how do you multiply if your basically a zombie insect can't say spores lol that cheating.

Have you managed to catch a shiny version of your mascot?

Amoongus is my dude. Top 5 of the more recent pokemons they have made. I love that he actually gets love in competitive play bc he is so annoying. Lol

I feel like mushroom season is fall

My favorite is Parasect but it's VERY reliant on the depiction. I actually don't like the washed out pink-ish look the entire line sometimes has, but when the mushroom is a healthy bright red and the bug is a healthy, not washed out orange, that's the look that grew on me. And it's not even a case of one being definitely correct, because right now, at this second, the most recent game iterations of Parasect are different between games - SDLP Parasect is washed out and ugly, while Home Parasect, as well as PLA Parasect are colorful and bright. Even Sugimori's art isn't consistent on it, with the original watercolor art being bright red and the modern digital one having the pink mushroom. My favorite depictions of Parasect are its Gen2 and Gen3 sprites, all of which go for a strong red. Gen2 Parasect is actually also pretty interesting to use because it gets the unique combination of Fury Cutter, Sweet Scent and Spore to work with, eliminating Fury Cutter's Chance to miss and being able to build it up safely as the opponent sleeps. Conceptually, the zombie look is great and apparently there was at some point a baby Paras planned, which, considering the implications of being born with a parasitic shroom, sounds pretty grim. Of the other shroom pokemon, only Morelull and Shiinotic stand out, because I like how Morelull glows. The evolution into Shiinotic sadly loses a lot of its charm for me, but shiny Shiinotic looks kinda nice.

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So what's your favorite Pizza topping?

wdym 27 minutes

0:38 If you're talking about some fungi being disgusting, it would be better to have one that is disgusting as an illustration instead of the cool-looking one.

Poisonous mushrooms of Thailand??

These KZfaqrs are running out of ideas. And then say the same facts we’ve heard a million times already.

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