Honestly, Tinkaton's popularity surprised me. I thought it's dex entries about its beef with steel types (especially Corviknight) were hilarious, but I thought everyone would just see it as another fairy type. Pretty happy with a good amount of the dex

I don't understand how we have been getting such bad shinies since Galar considering the developers are CHOOSING them. At this point, I would rather have the pallet swap method.

The Legendaries in this gen are actually not the forms you see around them. The Legendaries are actually the TREASURES on each of them. For instance, Chien-Pao. The broken sword you see is NOT stuck in the snow beast. Rather, the Chien-Pao is actually the sword itself. It just gathered snow and ice from around it to give itself a body so that it could move and be more active.

Paldea gave us a lot of animals that haven't been made into a Pokemon prior. I mean we got, a peacock, grasshopper, dung beetle, dolphin, flamingo, stork, ostrich, firgatebird, aye-aye, moose, and snow leopard, ALL in this one Gen. (If I missed any, I apologize)

I hate how many shinies in this gen barely change, especially because they don't make a noise or visual effect in the overworld anymore.

Hey, just so you know, you forgot Glimmet and Glimmora. Geez, i knew people don’t really like Geeta’s fight, but to straight up forget her ace when talking about all Gen 9 Pokemon is on another level

It felt so weird to go from "It's all chrome, it's one of the best shinies" for Paradox Tyranitar to "It's all chrome, it's boring" on paradox Delibird

Alex, the reason you haven't seen goldengo's shiny is because it looks damn near the same to the original. The change is something that will probably take months to see. The only change is that the lines on goldengo change from orange to grey.

The flamigo shiny makes sense tho since flamingos get their signature pink color from their food. The babies start off grey and when the moms are feeding their young they lose a bit of their pink color and turn that light pink/grayish color. It isn't the most exciting shiny but it makes sense when you look at their real world counterpart

15:03 DISSAPOINTED 17:48 DISSAPOINTED 2 20:40 DISSAPOINTED 3 21:13 DISSAPOINTED 4

Palafin is based on Superman, and it evolves at level 38 The first Superman comic came out in 1938. And thus, it becomes Superman

While I’m a bit medium on the overall direction they went for Dudunsparce, I’m honestly just really glad it exists, Dunsparce really deserves it. But the fact that they made Tropius part of the regional Pokédex and gave him literally nothing is an actual war crime.

I know that lots of people don't care much for Flamigo, and I totally understand why, it's just a flamingo. But as someone who was asking for a flamingo Pokémon I can't help but feel satisfied that we finally got one, even if it's just a flamingo, can't help but love it. No, I really love it. :)

If you're going to make your own shiny Hisui and Paldea pokemon, can you think about these ideas?: Skeledirge being dark green or gray as a real alligator/crocodile Scovillain's heads being yellow and orange as yellow bell peppers & orange bell peppers Armarogue and Ceruledge swapping color schemes for their shiny variation Tinkaton's hammer being gold colored or silver colored Gholdengo's body being pink gold colored or silver colored Lokix's body being green as a real grasshopper Wydeer's color being brown as Stantler

I got an idea for a regional mimikyu: It Dresses up as eevee cuz its really popular in this region the mimikyu can evolve and haz a 10% chance to evolve into each eeveelution vaporeon form : ghost water flareon form: ghost fire jolteon: ghost Electric and all the others. In my opinion it could have a good design iff theres any good animators who wanna make their own region Who see this u can take the concept (:

Honestly, meowscarada is probably my favorite final evo starter out of... well, all of them. It's a solid design and really fun to use in the game. I never could understand why so many people hate on it. If anything, quaquaval is the weakest link for me in terms of the gen 9 starters. Skeledirge is pretty cool, though.

I think for a design standpoint, the new pokemon are great and some of my fav in recent gens. Shiny wise, a lot of them leave a LOT to be desired. Especially the Charcadet line

We do have Gimmighoul and Gholdengo's shines. Gimmighoul just becomes lighter, a whitish color while for Gholdengo only the eyes and lines are silver instead of Bronze.

I'm pretty sure it mentions somewhere in Violet that the future pokemon have been cybernetically upgraded and haven't actually evolved to be that way, which I know is why some people didn't like them. Edit: the evolution bit, I mean

I think Capsakid is really cute, I love the way they jump and tap their feet together when they're happy. I also really love Scovillain and had one on my team, although it feels like it could still evolve further.

The thing about Iron Valiant's shiny is that in game, it's more of an off-white than a chrome. It gives GladOS vibes and I love it. Though I am partial to it cause it was the first shiny paradox I found

I love Meowscarada, gives me magician vibes.

I love the fact that I didn't even realise Flittle evolves into Espathra until watching this. I thought they were both completely separate Pokémon

I used to think Quaqaval was ugly but I've REALLY grown to love him. He and Meowscarada are my favorites.

I love that someone else shares the love for Rabsca, Palafin, and Cetoddle. These three are amazing, and Iron Hands and Nacli

The best thing about Rellor's shiny is that instead of being a recolour like every other shiny, they actually put in the effort to retexture the ball, which is just amazing, I wasn't expecting them to do that for a completely normal and random Pokémon

If Koraidon wasn't already my favourite box legendary then its shiny absolutely solidified it. Was Team Scarlet from the start and I was not stirred wrong!

I actually adore that all the Future Paradox forms have a lack of a paint job while their glowing effects remain unchanged. But TBH you really need the full set to fully appreciate them.

The robot-looking Hydreigon is obviously a reference to Mecha Ghidorah, since they also made a Mecha Godzilla equivalent. (Hydreigon is based on Ghidorah, which is considered to be Godzilla's archnemesis.)

(Not so) Fun Fact: Gimmighoul and Gholdengo do have shinies, Gimmighoul goes from light bluish silver to white. It probably wouldn't be half bad if Gimmighoul wasn't so small. Gholdengo has his eyes and the lines through his body change (from a sikver to a red iirc), and he's arguably worse than Gimmighoul, it sucks :P

I've analysed Gholdengo's shiny and I *think* that its eyes are an *extremely slightly different* colour

The emotions in this video felt too intense for Alex.

Finally someone else who loves Quaquaval as much as me!

18:55 "Everything is chrome in the future!"

An idea to make the Violet Paradox Pokémon shinies more interesting without changing the chrome theme Make the glowing bits the color of their *other* typing as well as turning chrome Examples: Iron Valiant gets a light pink glow to represent its Fairy typing Iron Hands gets an orange glow to represent Fighting Iron Moth gets purple and chrome to represent Poison (which I think silver and purple looks sick if done in the right shades) and Iron Bundle gets that light teal-y blue for Ice typing Iron Jugulis doesn’t really work since the magenta and blue glow is based on the normal form’s colors which don’t fit Dark or Flying type, but I suppose a solid black and chrome Iron Jugulis would look cool Iron Thorns is good as is but if we followed the others the lights could turn yellow for Electric Miraidon I feel like does chrome the poorest, but you could swap the purple and yellow’s gradient in the colors I guess (so the chest is yellow and the outline of the chest is purple and etc.)

Okay, no one else seems to have noticed this and it's driving me insane. Shiny Spidops has Spider-Man colours.

I think Gholdengo is partially based on the Silver Surfer

You’ve made me appreciate the Tinkas shinies waaaay more: it’s genuinely hilarious what they did with it

About Gimmighoul and Gholdengo's shiny, it actually IS released in the game files... and the only thing that changes is that Gimmighoul gets lighter and that the yellow lines on Gholdengo become a dark grey instead.

Aura guardian:We don't need a dolphin pokemon, it looks like other fish Also Aura guardian:Palafin is Amazing

"Everything is chrome in the future!"

I do honestly like that the future paradox forms are just unpainted

Everyone after finding a violet paradox pokemon: *ok, so this is a steel type*

I love wiglet and wugtrio for a few reasons. I do agree that they’re kinda dumb, but the fact they’re based on Conger Eels ( as least from looking at them) is so cute and also works as a good simple example of convergent evolution, a concept we have Irl. Even though Wiglet isn’t related to Diglet, the two took similar forms to eachother even though their environments aren’t strictly the same. Also this kinda puts firm the question as to if Diglet and Dugtrio are snakes at all or not

9:48 the purple one reminds me of the "Black Luster Soldier" from Yu-Gi-Oh

When I first saw all the new shinies, I knew the DISAPPOINTED clip was going to get a lot of use for Aura's eventual review on them lmao

Dunsparce was always one of my favorite pokémon , I'm happy they make a evolution even if they just made him ten times bigger

Gimmighoul's body changes to silver white when shiny. Ghouldengo's lining on its body and eyes changes to a reddish color when shiny.

I genuinely hate almost all of the new pokemon in terms of looks. Literally like 80% of them are either “just a real life animal but slightly stylized” “LITERALLY just a real life animal” or “just an already existing pokemon but slightly different, but not enough to matter” like its mostly just those 3 categories. I will say tho, some of them are REALLY good. Palafin without zero to hero is F tier for being literally just a dolphin, but hero form? Holy crap i FUCKING LOVE IT! And slither wing is actually really unique considering its a paradox pokemon, it actually looks super unique and different from volcarona, and it really works. But my only SS tier pick goes to the entire smoliv line, they really knocked it out of the park with that one! Every stage looks amazing, and i love it so much

I just realized he skipped glimmer and glimmora

Palafin absolutely blew me away with what they could do with a dolphin Pokémon! I did not expect them to turn it into a superhero, but I am HERE for it!

"Awww! Iron Bundle is so cute!" Iron Bundle: 32 buried. 0 found.

Fun fact, lokix is based on Kamen Riders in general. I think it was Kamen Rider Black RX for the normal form and the shiny form has the colour palette of Kamen Rider Zero One

I like the convergent forms.. it's like convergent evolution in real life, and Pokémon has been trying to mimic aspects of evolution irl since the start.

i'm so happy to see you love a lot of the pokemon that i do, that i've found other people tend to dislike. it was nice to feel like i wasn't so alone in really enjoying them!

Idk why but when I saw the iron worm I immediately thought of the Alaskan bull worm from SpongeBob

Charcadet's Shiny should have been Ceruledge's palette.

I don't care what people say, I love the Shiny future Paramons. To me they look like Beta, Prototypes, Unpainted finished products straight out of an assembly line. Btw you look completely different than I expected (Not saying this as a bad thing).

A neat little detail from Scovillain, it's two heads resemble the Comedy and Tragedy masks, since it is a rampaging villain.

I agree, Koraidon is my favorite box art legendary, and my favorite fighting type as it uses its wings to fight. It's very creative

Quaquaval is my favorite of the Paldea Starters! I love it's design, it's personality, it's animations, it's typing, and it's hidden ability. Easily my new favorite Water Starter.

Is it just me or did he miss Glimmet and Glimmora

thankyou for saying Scovillain is awesome. it good to hear my favorite poketuber think same as me. so thankyou again.

I'm going to guess that had been made before we know the national dex numbers. Very good video outside of that noticed detail.

The reason that moushold's shiny form looks like that is because it swtiches from a blue to white kn the body, like a blue collar worker to a white collar worker

Brumbleghast can be in some way related to Dhelmise? Not just the typing but his eyes and being a ghost attached to a plant

"all future paradoxes don't have to be robots" all past paradoxes don't have to be dinosaurs

Gholdengo is really cool, but he looks like he's the reason some people call money cheddar

what I would have done with sprigatitos shiny is keep purple flower and purple eyes and make it orange and yellow.

If you're gonna do 'Biggest Problems with Scarlet and Violet', here are some suggestions. Shinies don't make a sound when they appear in the overworld like they did in PLA. This video actually rubs some salt in the wound considering how little most shinies change, giving me constant paranoeia that I'll miss a shiny. Now lots of people have wanted to be abl to do the Gyms in any order. And we can now. Buuuuut they'll remain at the same level no matter when you face them. This is an issue with the other two storylines, too. On the one hand, being pushed into fighting people by NPCs can be slow and annoying. But on the other, would be better if they didn't GUIDE you in that was. Like, maybe you can fight the others if you wanna prepare for them? Let me put that better... basically, the game could recommend an order for you, while still giving you the freedom to do it how you want. I have to turn to researching what level each Team Star Boss' Pokemon are just to know where to go next. When a Pokemon reaches its evolving level while in autobattle, it doesn't evolve. You have to resort to getting candy. Isn't the whole point of this mechanic to level up Pokemon? You can add more if you wish.

If I came up with a design for a shiny for both Gimmighoul and Goldengho, I wouldn't change the chest because I don't know how to change it, and I'll change Gimmighoul's body from silver to gold and the coins to either silver (give it the lazy man's treatment of silver to gold and vice versa) or give the coins a more reddish-brown look (to either look like copper or even gold-oxide, to make the coins look like they've been in that chest for a long time).

I like these supplementary videos a lot. The original one was very nice, but some opinions were kept very short (which was funny mind you). But I feel like for this one, every mon got some good time dedicated to them.

In my opinion, I think what could've made the future paradox shines work aside from adjusting the chrome was if they also changed that lighting on their body (can't remember the specifics but it's the part on their body that can go black when they sleep) to something of a different colour. I think the future paradox shines might've been better if they did that at least. Edit: Do you also think you'll do a video where you'll try and recreate all the gen 9 shines to how you'd make them?

Annihalape honestly feels like something that could've been from a previous generation, it's so good.

I didn't care for Crocalor until I realized it's a mariachi singer wearing a sombrero that's actually an egg in a nest of marigolds. It's still not my favorite but I can appreciate it

Armarouge is my new favorite fire type and it makes me glad that I decided to go with the grass starter for this generation.

We’ve been blessed with the DISAPPOINTING yell multiple times in this video 😂

Wondering when this was going to come out.

- I start watching - I see Quaquaval being praised. - I choke on objectively incorrect opinion - I leave

Shiny Fidough was my first shiny in the game, and I got it when I didn’t even have a single badge. I love it and it’s evolution’s shiny.

11:37 That's not a shiny, game freak just left Quaquaval out in the sun for too long.

Thank you for appreciating scovillain. He was on my team from the water gym to the second koraidon battle

alex bro i loved your videos from like 2017 and your voice seems like a friend to me. that's so mad

woaahh, i agree with you by 99%, the 1% is me liking ceruledge a bit more than armarouge, but other than that this video was a pleasure to watch seeing that our opinions on this generation and its shinies are almost the exact same! :D

16:42 This is the first shiny I got. Still looks like it's straight out of Minecraft.

Good video, although I'm wondering if you've never seen green olives or a black pig as you seem to label the pink pigs and black olives as their "actual" color 😆they are fairly normal, specially in Spain, the country on which the region is based on. In fact I'm pretty certain they've choosen the black pig variant due to the Pata Negra pigs (Literally translating into "black leg"), which are quite famous due to their special acorn diet giving them the highest quality curated ham in the land 😁Source: I'm a spanniard

I feel like because magearna’s shiny is chrome they wanted to keep the trend of mechanical pokemon being chrome too, which of course did not work in their favour as I feel like the future pokemon could’ve had some really cool shinies with the chrome texture and glowing parts

Nice to see this video on your opinion on the new Pokémon. And the disappointing sound effect being used. Still trying to find where the sound is from.

It’s most likely due to the future theme, but I love Violet’s Paradox pokemon a LOT better than Scarlet’s. I like the mecha-aspect and it reminds me a lot of Eggman’s original premise: capturing animals and turning them into machines. It also speaks volumes on the potential next stage of Human evolution: A.I. Also Ceruledge is my new favourite pokemon and Iron Valliant is straight up the best Paradox pokemon, detaching it’s elbow blades and converting them into a double-sabre is just so awesome

My favorites are Quaquaval, Ceruledge and Armarouge, Bellibolt…. and Farigiraf. Grafaiai is an honorable mention for me 🥰

Quaquaval is just fabulous dearie, I love the feathers.

I recently found a random Shiny Rellor while hunting for money in the desert. I love the golden ball.

Don't wanna be a downer but you forgot about glimmet and glimmora

That moment when Gimmighoul and Gholdengo’s shinies are so bad that Alex can’t even tell the difference…

Me at Game Freak: Why are the Violet Paradoxes all chrome?! Game Freak: Everything is chrome in the future!

I think they're all robots because the original forms died off and went extinct, so they tried to recreate a better version of them and the best you can do to do that is make robots? But that's just a theory I've seen a lot of places

FINALLY, SCOVILLIAN RESPECT.

Forgot glimmet and glimmora

Am I the only one who likes klawf? It's so adorable in a derpy way

Apparently, Gimmighoul and Gholdengo are shiny-locked for now. Once the shiny forms are released, they'll supposedly be exclusive to Go