I'm extremely surprised Lockstin didn't mention that Hisuian Goodra is probably based on mercury, one of the only metals to be liquid at room temperature. Mercury poisoning causes depression and the metal is associated with melancholy.

I love how the Kalos pseudo legendary is based of off the weakest/strongest JRPG enemies while the Kalos Starter are based around JRPG heroes: Greninja being a Rogue Chesnaught being a Paladin and Delphox being a mage

I love Hisuian Goodra's sleeping animation where it tucks inside of its shell.

I am ashamed to admit how long it took me to realize that Goodra's head tendrils are supposed to be the eye stalks of a slug, and that Goodra in general is a slug but with lil dino legs and a a face, and NOT just a slime monster.

The Kalos Pokédex is divided into three parts: the Central Dex (mostly plains and grasslands), the Coastal Dex (which includes oceans), and the Mountain Dex. This could be a reference to how the Shussebora lives 1000 years in the mountains, 1000 years in the plains, and 1000 years in the ocean.

Goodra can have sap sipper, making it immune to grass types, and it normally resists them. Most other slimy pokémon are water/ground type (like Swampert and Seismitoad), and are super weak to grass because of it. This implies predatory mimicry, where Goodra and its previous forms trick grass types into attacking them, only to play an Uno Reverse Card and eat them instead.

2:40 ditto. ditto is literally the most slime pokemon, that has or ever will slime. there are other pokemon that also are partly made of slime or made of slime but in a shape of something else prior to gen6. im thinking about reuniculus and manaphy lines respectively here. im sure there are one or two others that could be said to be slime pokemon as well.

I did quiz bowl in high school, and I’ll never forget the time I helped my team win a match because I knew that Goomy, Sliggoo, and Goodra were dragons

Btw i don't think regular sligoo's "shell" is actually a shell, rather than just a very short version of goodra's tail. It just happens to look like a shell so he looks snaily/sluggy in a more obvious way.

I just want to mention that in Greek mythology there was a dragon named Python who was made from the rotting slime left behind after a flood destroyed a village. It was the first thing I thought of when I saw the Goodra line, and I never see anybody mention it as a potential inspiration.

Kalos had a lot of video game rpg aspect, the starters literally being a mage, rouge, and paladin

I love that he snuck in the picture of the knight saving the dragon from the princess.

Oh boy! Nudies! A few notes: - Pronounced similarly to “sir-radda” - Nudibranch/naked gill comes from the fact that their gills are those (often) external plumes towards their rears. I forget the name.

Lockstin including the artist names on those pieces of art at the start... Truly a man of culture in these trying times.

Funny how he never mentioned that the goo on Goodra turns into liquid metal for the Hisuian Form.

I've always liked the theory that monks portrayed snails and slugs as monsters because the monks were angy that their manuscripts kept getting ruined by the slimy bois

13:20 I love that Lockstin had e6 open in the background. Very funny background gag on the editor's part, well done.

My favourite theory about snails in medieval manuscripts is that monks very often tended gardens and grew vegetables (which I guess was also just an incredibly common job in that era), so they had strong ill-feelings towards these creatures that ate and damaged their plants. So the illustrations might have been a power fantasy about the snails getting their comeuppance, or just wishful fantasy about having someone to fight and deal with them for them.

I love lockstins videos on specific pokemon or evolution lines! He always manages to teach me some new, it really makes me appreciate the design process behind the mon more :) I especially love when he does this for lesser cared about Pokemon like the video he did on arrokuda/barraskewda. I'd really love if he did a video on object mon! I'm sure doing a video on just one line wouldn't be very much content so a single video on multiple object mon would be very cool I think! Object mon are super under loved and I think lockstin covering them would do a lot towards helping people appreciate them more, maybe even put more love towards my favorite pokemon trubbish lol

I could just say that goodra is one of my fav Pokémon I'm happy to see a video about the goodra line

This line is absolutely adorable, change my mind.

I always thought Goodra's second form was growing a tail and when it got to its third form the tail is fully formed but that was back when it first came out😁

I love the Goodra line and the hisuian forms are cute too

Goodra has somehow managed to become one of my favorite Pokémon: it's shaped like a friend all throughout its line, and that's all that matters

I'm surprised you didn't bring up how it just looks like they evolved their tails different. Sligoo's "shell" looks like a premature version of Goodra's tail, giving it the snail look until it unfurls. While Hisuian Sligoo is able to change the hardness of its skins, so it uses its tail more "shell-like" than its counterpart. The fact that Goodra's tail turns into its shell just continues that theme.

Actually Goodra It's based on Lou Carcolh, or the Carcolh. A mythical beast from French folklore. It's described as a large, slimy, snail-like serpent with hairy tentacles and a large shell. It is said to live in a cavern beneath Hastingues, a town in the Les Landes region in southwestern France.

Dragon steel is a great pokemon type combo, can't wait to see them in scarlet and violet competitive

goodra isnt a goo dra, it is a good ra. He is very good

13:19 I see you were doing other kinds of research too, lockstin. You can't hide that from me.

I've read somewhere that one of the theories for all those snails in miniatures is that snails were just freaking everywhere in monasteries especially, being cold, shady and most of them kind of humid. This was waaaaay before pesticides and monasteries all had gardens so snails were basically ubiquitous. That and there's a little innuendo involved because snails have been associated with the male genitalia (for pretty obvious reasons), so knights fighting snails could be a dirty inside joke. Most scribe monks were young novices since glasses(or similar devices:the first glasses were invented around the 13th century, before some people used magnifying glass gizmos and it wasn't common) were expensive and the job was very, VERY tedious, older monks had too bad of an eyesight and better things to do. Thus is pretty easy to imagine a 17 yo sitting all day in front of his work thinking about dirty jokes and drawing silly things.

5:24 I can't believe I just got Rickrolled behind a mosiac filter.

6:45 the slime from Monster Girl Quest, I see you're a man of culture as well.

Is it fair to call this the perfect Pokémon line? All three of Goomy, Sliggoo (both forms), and Goodra (both forms) are adorable in their own ways, and in the case of Goodra, its got the power to back up that Pseudo Legend title. They’re all so likable, I don’t think anyone’s seen them and thought anything bad about them. Love all three of them

Since you brought up the anime, a fun fact about Ash's Goodra is that it was on his team for 16 episodes. That's right, in the span of 16 espisodes (not counting the Mega Evolution Special), Ash caught a Goomy, learned about it's trauma, worked through it's fear of Fairies, evolved it into a Sligoo, the into a Goodra (keep in mind this is a pseudo legendary evolving in between five episodes each), had a gym battle with it, defended it's home and the released it until it came back for the Kalos League. Keep in mind, they didn't appear in all 16 episodes. I'm not trying to say this is a problem, I love the Goodra line because of Ash's and didn't realise how fast it came and went until five years after XY had ended. Goodra was short lived but well handled (let's just not talk about the Kalos League.)

I'm always happy to learn more about Pokémon origins and inspirations, so I was thrilled to see a video of one of my favorite Pokémon in my sub box today. Thanks Lockstin!

10:53 Actually in old Greek, ( I am a student) the ‘x’ is more like a ‘ch’ and the ‘y’ more like a ‘g’ and the ‘p’ more like a ‘r’ So the word would be ‘Brachhia’. Just for information. You still got the Lattin right however! ( I am a greek-Lattin student.) Nice video! It’s nice to have so much thorough research explained!

6:43 holy CRAP is that a MONMUSU QUEST REFERENCE!? ...although considering the art in 0:22 maybe I shouldn't be surprised. if you know you know

Candidate for Weirdest Lockstin title ever? Lol

Goodra has been my favourite pokemon ever since I first interacted with it in Pokemon-amie. I've definitely said this before in your comments section (At least, I think so) but I found Goodra still being energetic and bouncy when most other fully-evolved pokemon become really understated and serious to be endlessly charming. They're just a big friendly squishy thing that wants hugs, and I love it.

I was very happy when the first Monster Girl Quest reference showed up (6:44), but the second was even better. (16:52) I always love it when it sneaks its way into the videos of people I watch.

13:20 Interesting screen there

I love Goodra. Lockstin has now covered 2 of my favorite Pokemon in a row! :3

After being out and about all day, it's nice to come home and see a video all about Goodra. The only mon I have yet to catch outside of Go. Also, I've had a rather bad day and this cheered me right up. ^^

13:21 God dammit Lockstin

13:48 the background 😏

8:06 *YOOOOOOO!* Slime Rancher! that immediately put a smile on my face

16:24 we do that with fish too. Steelhead vs Rainbow Trout. In fact nearly every kind of pacific salmon have the same thing going, two names depending on life cycle stage.

Goodra has been my favorite Pokémon ever since it came out 🥰 it’s practically my signature Pokémon, amongst my family; and so, it is very especially cool that you made this video!

0:16 “and since then, Goodra has become a very popular Pokémon! Especially from certain fans” I swear Goodra is one of the bigger examples of “I’m sorry little one,” of Pokémon and “””art”””

Ive always thought it was such an interesting concept to have a pokemon based on the Dragon-Snails medieval knights would fight in old manuscripts. Great video! Also it looks like you could cut your hand on your hair ridge that you have going on Lockstin 😉

3:31 lmao at the book titles: Magikarp Cookbook In's & Out's of Poke'marriage How to Become a Poke'professor and of course Science of Bidoof

I once saw a slug crawl out on to a patch of concrete while it was damp at about noon, the sun came out quite quickly and the slug died as the concrete patch heated up

0:20 I hate that I recognized all of those artists.

I can’t wait for you to cover Cetitan, Fidough, and Paldean Wooper.

Goodra is so awesome. Big slug puppy dragon. He's like a therapy dog, I want a big gooey hug on my worst days.

6:45 happy to see some MGQ rep

5:40 Worst thing is, salt makes snails taste better when you eat them (judging by the one time I ate snails and I had to cover them with salt to make them just a little tasteful)

2:28 even cuphead makes reference to it

I'm surprised you didn't talk about how many ancient european myths about dragons have overlap with slugs and snails, often because the words used were often similar. There's an old icelandic myth, about the lyngorm, a slug that turns into a venomous dragon, which plays off of the fact that the translation for both was "heath snake"

13:48 To be fair, Goodra does appear similar to many early sauropodomorphs that were around between the Late Triassic to Middle Jurassic thanks to it's long neck and tail along with it's bipedalism. Also, just to add, you know where you find an Alpha Goodra in PLA? On top of a mountain at the Primeval Grotto.

Seeing you make a video of this Pokémon (which just so happened to be my favorite) makes me very happy! Keep up the good work!

I love the idea of mons subtly based on RPG tropes. Hope we eventually see more (if we haven't already)

I’m so happy that in addition to a song dedicated to Goomy, there is now an entire KZfaq video dedicated to my favorite boy and his evolutions

15:16 ...that slime is from the Monster Girl Encyclopedia. Nice

8:13 I mean their policies were certainly _draconian_ (seriously though Greece and Rome were known for long histories of tyrannical rulers and one of Greece's tyrants was literally named Draco, seriously, can't make this stuff up)

respect for lookstin for shareing the sauce

A grass/dragon (or water idk) goomy form based on the costaseilla kuroshimae (adorable little things that can photosynthesise) would be so cool

Honestly this maybe my favorite pseudo legendary line hands down. Goomie is just so cute and squishy and I just wanna smother them in love.

5:07 *sees largest snail on the left* my brain: nice dog

I do wish Goomy line was the first Dragon/Poison as a counter to the newly introduced Fairy type- despite taking Fairy damage- it can come back with STAB poison moves- but Hisuian gains steel so it kinda is okay. But we have yet to see it in competitive matches or it’s ability

I love how Goodra is also a reference to classic rpg tropes, alongside the starters. It makes you wonder what other Kalos pokemon reference to them.

The Goodra line definitely should have been Poison type. It makes too much sense, and it’s perfect!!! I guess they’re just trying to make Dragalgae more notable being the Kalos Dragon/Poison.

13:15 Hm. Interesting thing you've got there, Lockstin. Necessary for research on Goodra, I imagine, or something.

Goodra is so cute! People say it is too cute to be a psuedo legend, but I think its a perfect one

The snail is my spirit animal. There is much to respect about the humble snail - it may be slow, but it always gets where it's going in the end, damn it! I was SO thrilled when I found out that Hisuian Sligoo and Goodra were a thing, AND that they were MORE SNAIL-LIKE! It's the closest thing to a full snail mon there is (Magcargo doesn't count, shut up) and I was SO HAPPY!!!! I HAD to have one on my team! Legends was great. :) Anyway thank you for talking about snails, you made my day. :)

Shussebora is also used in English sometimes. The main instance that comes to mind is sardines vs pilchards. They refer to the same group of species of fish, but iirc a sardine is one less than 4 inches, a pilchard is at least 4 inches long.

Anyone else notice the books on his desk at 3:25?

5:53 Noibat is weaker than Goomy. They came from the same generation btw.

this video turned the goomy line from a cool design for me to one of my favorite Pokémon lines. i never got that jrpg slime reference till now.

I lova how in the start the "old" lockstin 8s just sleeping in the background!!! 😂😂😂😂🤣😂😂😂😂

Not one, but TWO Monster Girl Quest cameos. Clearly a man of culture.

You can't keep getting away with this lockstin 6:44

I absolutely love that the old Gnoggin avatar was sleepin away in the background :D

13:20 Nice Now I know you got your Goodra pics XD

With the tutorial slime and the later image of Alice I'm beginning to wonder if he's played MGQ recently.

I love this but I’m also tempted to push back against the “humans scared but just want to be friends” idea for why H-Goodra is upset. Every stage from Goomy to Goodra attacks first when they spot you in the wild. Yet they don’t really have many predators out and about in the Crimson Mirelands at least. The fairy types nearby are peaceful like Ralts and Togepi line and there’s no ice types if I’m remembering correctly to hit Goomy. Upon evolving They gain an immunity to the nearby poison types and are further resistant now to most types or now neutral to everything except Fighting and Ground since Dragon/Ice/Fairy are all resisted by Steel. In the Highlands habitat probably it’s biggest predator in Hisui, the Gible line, are in abundance… which might back up your theory that Sharpedo native to Sinnoh eventually evolved into Gible but now we can speculate it is not only due to Ocean competition but due to its (potential) main food source the Sea Snails and Slugs that would become the Goomy line going to ground. Which even could explain why an escargatoire of the Goodra line migrated all the way up a mountain. Do you think the Gible line ultimately finished off the Goomy line is Sinnoh and caused it to eventually ditch the Steel type? I mean the Sharpedo line does learn Ice Fang naturally so even if Goomy was dragon type when it lived in the sea that wouldn’t stop it from being hunted by the proposed ancestors of the Gible line.

13:27 I don't know why I'm remotely surprised lmao

I always loved slimes and gelatinous cubes, so much I made one out of resin and little 3d printed weapons

00:52 Clearly the shell is for avoiding social responsibility

Ironically i feel believing snails lived up in the mountains is more believable than the true magical fact that no, ur island just used to be underwater.

I love other Lockstin sleeping at the back of class lol.

1:59 The Neptunia reference was definitely a surprise, but a welcome one.

Hey lockstin could u do a Buizel video? There’s nothing special about it but I just love those two so much. Even if it’s just a joke short it would mean a lot to me. Buh-bye!

My shiny alpha hisian goodra is literally my favorite pokemon iv ever had and the first shiny I grinded for and actually got.

@Lockstin&Gnoggin i find it funny that Melona of Queen's Blade is over the top parody of Ditto and Dragon quest slimes.It helps she has english VA of Korrina and Litten.

Hisuian Goodra may be the result of Hisui/Shinnoh being based on a large mountain range. The weather is possibly colder than in Kalos so Hisuian Goodra gained the Steel type to counter its dragon type weakness to the cold. The cold may also affect its personality.

I love your history lessons my man! I love that the Pokémon Company aoso does a lot of research before making a Pokémon. Its great!!

The editing never fails to impress me- great video!

It would have been really interesting if the Pokémon that look like ducks were used for the Goomy line control like ducks are often used for slug and snail control now. Like a fairy duck based Pokémon used to fight off the slug/snail dragons.

I think it would of related to the legend more if in Legends: Arceus Goomy could be found in the plains areas of the obsidian fieldlands, seeing as in the crimson mirelands you first find several Goomy and an alpha Sligoo in the southern area of the swamp and several Sligoo and an alpha Goodra in the mountains of the coronet highland.