Well that was Foongus but same diff

My personal headcanon is that in the pokemon world, the pokeball symbol is some sort of repeating symbol that occurs in nature all over the place, sort of like how in real life the golden spiral appears in a bunch of stuff like flowers and snail shells

1. thats for foonguss not amoonguss 2. its not confirmed "There is a theory that the developer of the modern-day Poké Ball really liked Foongus, but this has not been confirmed."

Poor voltorb

@@skakee10 you mean the golden ratio?

Either that, or theyre somehow retconning mega evolution to be similar to dmax and gmax, as in only possible near the area where the ancient weapon was fired, aka kalos

Wdym? Mega evolution is in every time line, the only region specific thing is dmax because it needs galar particles from Eternatus. You can mega evolve and use z moves in galar too and can mega evolve in kanto and Hoenn

@@callmesilver2683 you do know what retconning means right?

@@callmesilver2683 but when AZ fired off the weapon, it created two main timeliness; one with mega evolution and one without. Gems 1-5 are basically the timeline without mega evolution

@@callmesilver2683 there's actually 2 timelines

the thing thats even funnier is that corviknight literally walls it in game unless you use tera electric or something it resists both its stab combinations and is only hit neutrally by knock off and ice hammer which doesnt do much damage anyways because of its high bulk

I nicknamed my Tinkaton Harley Quinn solely because of her having the giant hammer but the Pokedex entry just makes its nickname fit so much better now!

For the sake of a certain animation video... *growls with Unadulterated Anger*

@@im_totally_human8216 True, I kinda gave up on her offense and opt for the support build now.

Magneton may have had to do some adapting as well

Magneton is also a stone evolution as of gen 8. This really doesn't seem like a coincidence.

Darwinist approach

I never even thought about that, makes me wanna see more ancient forms for unevolved stone evo pokemon

It's likely that the process of traveling through the portal powers the mup, similar to the Ultra beasts getting empowered by energy fro mthe wormholes.

The paranormal magazine is called Occulture. There are issues in the academy and prof's lighthouse lab.

It does the other way around in Violet. With the robots being the monsters seen in the expedition journal, and the prehistoric dire beasts being the things that look like creatures from works of fiction. The only verifiable information we have on these Pokémon is the fact that they were in the Great Crater of Paldea long, long before the Professor invented their time machine. Our only other sources are the Expedition Journal, where they couldn't get too close to the creatures without getting killed. and Occulture Magazine, which is nothing but pure fiction. Frankly this is exciting! With the Ultra Beasts, there were people who have been studying them for years in secret, which is how we know so much about them despite them being from other universes. With the Paradoxes, the only real experts on them are either dead or just making crap up! No one knows anything about these Pokémon- many can't even bring themselves to see these things AS Pokémon!

Vice Versa? Nah, we got Visa Vera

That's raw as hell actually

salamence is metal holy shit

I have an idea for a official dex entry for Roaring Moon if it does get an official dex entry that isn't empty: [Version 1]: "This Pokemon bares a similarity with Salamence and a form from a distant region. Believed to be Salamence's Ancestor, this Pokemon is among one of the most savage and most dangerous. It's believed this Pokemon is responsible for countless mass extinction of Bird Pokemon. It was believed to have clashed with it's kind the most over territorial struggles or food." [Version 2:]: "Thousands of years ago, this Pokemon was the Apex Predator of the Skies. It's believed this Pokemon is the ancestor of Salamence. Roaring Moon has a similar shape to a form of Salamence in a distant region, It was nicknamed ''The Blood-Soaked Hurricane" from how vicious this Pokemon performed to tribes and prey in the past. Ancient People in the past have mistaken this Pokemon for Hydreigon due to this Pokemon's Brutality." [Version 3:] "This Pokemon shares a extreme rivalry with Hydreigon and is believed to be the cause of Hydreigon's extreme paranoia. Sharing similar DNA and a ancestor to Salamence and Bagon, Roaring Moon is most active at night, having terrorized ancient peoples and clashed with it's own kind over territorial struggles or food. It is believed the struggle for food was what killed off this species of Salamence."

@@USSFFRU too long for a dex entries ian reading all that

@@enriquejr7834 Your choice!

Seriously, Glimmora should have been first, and kingambit last. It only makes sense. But seems like they were more focused on the colors matching for her ace sadly

@Bryce Theobald SwSh has a better "Victory Road" path in general. Team Star and Titans were much more challenging.

They did it that way so the e4 + champion represent the 5 types that arent used mainly by gym leaders/star bases, in other words the 5 types of the titans. Rika is ground, poppy is steel, Larry is flying, hassel is dragon, and geeta is rock because her ace is glimmers. They could've changed poppy into a rock user and made geeta's ace a steal tera kingambit tho, which amazes me that she didnt, especially since shes the chairwoman and basically bosses everyone around. They could've even made the kingambit shiny too and it would sorta match her outfit

@@uzumakimadeit Hell her ace doesn't even need to match her outfit. Cynthia's outfit is Umbreon inspired, and the only time she ever had an Eeveelution on her team it was a glacion lmao (her teams in Black and White 2). Plus why does kingambit need to terra to steel or dark? Its not like any of the gym leaders terra'd to one of their natural typings (except Larry). Her Kingambit even has stone edge, so its not like they need to change anything about it. And they can just swap Glimorra's Terra Blast with Power Gem or (if they lead with it) stealth rock, both are better options for it anyway.

@@m05513 because tera steel is WAY better than tera rock

its more so a mix of both if it is a mega evolution nod, because it has a mix of gallade and gardeviors cry. thats basically them saying "yea we know its a mix between the two"

It's a mix *of* the megas tbh

Honestly Iron Valiant is the coolest looking of all the paradoxes.

Well it is a mix of mega galade and mega gardevoir

It also has the Fairy/Fighting type.

Gamefreak really had to make another Mawile. :/

Might as well only give it two moves: Gigaton Hammer and Protect. Because that's all it's good for.

@@ShayTheValiant fake out in VGC

Was just looking at its moveset and it really gets Stealth Rocks, helping hand, skill swap, knock off, ice hammer for ground types, encore, and a lot of other good stuff but yeah most of the time it’s just Gigaton Hammer

But couldn’t they just lower the signature move power to 85-100 then Pokémon increase the attack stats to 100 or 95 because gigaton hammer works like a giga impact, which is not very viable or at least to my standards

@@joshuaded1052 Way better than Giga Impact. You can protect or use another move next turn

Roaring moon being the perfect example, it has a little less than salamance but it has slightly higher attack and is a lot faster.... find a way around intimidate and one of my favorite honen mons gets smacked

Clodsire might be the perfect representation of this.

Ooh I like this theory

@@yeezhernng4645 its not a theory, the Chinese version of the games uses this as the explanation of where the paradox mons come from, when using this context, it makes sense why sandy shocks has 🧲, nuts and bolts for a prehistoric mon when it wouldnt exist otherwise.

@@petercottantail7850 reminder that transalation things like that arent canon. 💀

personally would love a game where the "special" pokémon are ALL experiments, not just one or two. give me a plot where a lab got destroyed and they got sent loose Mewtwo-style

@@aceofjacks7071 call it Pokemon Uranium and Plutonium

YOO I remember that!!

there still is an iron ditto... it's called meltan

​@@feIon Meltan is its own pokemon that doesn't transform

@@ionryful r/whooosh

Delibird was also Ice/Water at some point

Roaring Moon has Shelgon's shell on its head.

Darwinian evolution has been proven since alola. Regional forms are an example of divergent evolution

Yeah, the convergent evoulution species is also a pretty cool detail

It's also likely that due to how similar Volcarona and Slither Wing are, Volcarona is Slither Wings that have mastered flight and has thus, long past the needs of fighting physically.

It also alludes to a possible southern Kalos DLC, as it states it has something in common with a certain phenomenon in a certain region. Meaning it is possible Mega Evolution is possible in the Universe, and is limited to a certain region.

@@mcoodlesfilms9364 so similar to how dynamac and gigantamax is only possible in galar? Could it be that since the ancient weapon was fired in kalos, it spread the mega energy in that area, and ig the megastones get somehow deactivated when outside the region?

@@itszefas no you can mega evolve and use z moves in any region like in the games and anime, as you can mega evolve in oras and lgpe and in the anime, you can mega evolve in galar as well as use z moves there

@@callmesilver2683 i meant they might be retconning it to work like that, since it specifically states "in a certain region" instead of "popular in other regions"

@@itszefas yes but O.R.A.S isn’t a mane series game. Also I’d just like to say the ultimate weapon is what I think made the great crater of paldea. That or the third legendary

They actually DO exist in-game too. These magazines are in the school library, and you can see Ancient Suicune/Raikou/Entei and Future Verizon/Terakion/Cobalion in it.

@@SomeAsian I meant that the Violet entries of the magazines probably exist in Scarlet and vice versa. We just don't get to see or read them. The same with the Scarlet and Violet book. There are definitely pages and entries that are in that book that we can't read for whatever reason.

Or, hear me out. The magazine is only referenced in the version the mon isn't native to. I.E. past mons mention magazine in viiolet. In the native reality the paradox mon are in the scarlet/violet book and the non-native paradoxes are in this weird magazine that some has info from the other version/reality

@Fahad Alzie ok? Then don't? Not sure why you felt the need to tell me that.

It’s also based on ferrofluid

@@applesauce1348 not ferro fluid, but more like iron that's caught in its magnetic field you can see videos of iron(or other metals) reacting the same way on an actual magnet

@@PreferablyPurple true true

When a Magneton watches too many reruns of Mad Max.

I really like that the iron dust on top of sandy shocks looks like caveman hair

Roaring Moon also has a more useful stat spread. Faster, hits a bit harder and is overal bulkier. It hates Fairy as much as Salamence hates Ice, and has one more weakness, but it also has one more resistance

yeah, just like snakes lost they legs

Beeeerry?

Yeah, I feel it wouldve made more sense that BB had a VAGUELY wild red-and-white-ish design and modern Amoongus just made it into a pokeball to adapt to the invention. It would’ve driven home the theme of past vs. modern evolution.

I mean the red and white pattern is actually really good for it because of the spikes on its head. It probably just lies in wait until something leaps on it and gets impaled by its spikes

Then the problem is why would the PokeBall inventor design it as a literal trap. Since gen 5 the two pokemon have been looking like PokeBall to catch people unaware

@@XXXEmpoleon I don't know, ask Gamefreak. I didn't come up with that

That entry also states that we don’t know if that’s even true. We know Laventon developed the first proper functional balls and the art of crafting them was passed down by the man in Johto but we can’t be sure if either of them came into contact with Foonguss and were inspired by it.

@@itsturniptime3699 That's not true as Laventon just adapted the Apricorn methods to using Tumblerstones which could be found in Hisui. Laventon is just the earliest person we've seen producing balls. According to Bulbapedia (keep in mind that this old lore so it may've been discarded), the modern Pokeball is actually extreme recent as a Professor Westwood from Celedon made the modern design (I'm guessing he came up with modern mechanisms to take advantage of a Pokemon's ability to shrink itself and digitize it for the PC systems as he got his inspiration when he saw a Primape curl up and shrink into his glasses case).

@@blackmark2899 Wtf? I thought Pokéballs shrunk the Pokémon like how Bulma's capsules from DBZ can shrink vehicles, houses and other objects. It makes no sense for all Pokémon to be able to shrink themselves.

@@lucifermorningstar8562 That's the offical lore. I don't write it, I just recite it. It was mentioned twice. Once with Westwood and the other in PLA from Professor Laventon. So yeah, Pokemon apparently could always shrink themselves down.

@@blackmark2899 That's retarded. Then why did they always have pokeballs shoot red beams of light that Pokémon can dodge? I always assumed it was like a shrink ray. That's how it seemed in the anime. Really wish Legends Arceus didn't make that stupid shit canon.

Same with Mega Ampharos; Mega Evolution awakened its ancient Dragon genes. Could possibly get a Paradox Ampharos in the future.

You mean aerodactyl?

like in jurassic park the scientists that ressurected aerodactyl had to make some modifications to it to keep its dna stable

@@Samrules888 And that's why going Mega causes it pain- modern day Aerodactyls lack the important genes to allow it's body to accept the changes. Because those genes were taken out of it so the scientists reviving it can have a living specimen.

Didn’t stop me from using it in my Violet playthrough lol. While the low attack stat is a little irritating, it’s not distressing for a casual playthrough.

Doesn't make sense since it's a future pokemon

@@phazerx4525 I mean, it could have arrived from the future, try to fly out of the pit, and then get spooked back inside after realizing "oh dang people notice me."

so that scarlet stays winning =)

Robot. He's designed that way. Don't know why they felt obligated to make his so stupid looking, but they did.

@@Snowleaper101 nah man, only roaring moon and great tusk are great in scarlet imo. I don't like scream tail, Slither wing, Sandy shocks a'd brute bonnet at all. Flutter mane and koraidon are good, but not great. Violet however, has all great ones. Iron hands is extremely good, followed closely by miraidon and iron valiant. Iron thorns and iron moth look great to, while iron bundle is extremely adorable. All 6 of these are great (we don't speak of iron treads and iron jugulis) In the normal mon department violet wins to. Dragapult and clawitzer are some of my all time favorites, and I adore Swalot, salamence and ceruledge aswell. Others for which I not really care eclipse their counterparts as well. Passimian, eiscue, misdreavus and others I am forgetting atm.

To make it fair that Violet has the Dragonzord. None of the prehistoric designs look that cool.

It's a wheel that's why (still kinda ugly tho ngl)

Ay, me too. The only thing in violet that I think really makes me want to buy it is the design of the paradox forms, iron valiant and ceruledge.

they are married

Basically what im trying to say is that theres no way they will just have there own cults and make fun of eachother thats insta divorce

@@DavidLuvsBread I mean one did leave the other after Arven was born so…

@@ericwilson8867 oh didnt know that

@@DavidLuvsBread My bad, sorry if I spoiled it. It was in one of the books at one of the Research Labs. I think number 3 or 4?

YO GAMEFREAK! WHERE YOU AT!? THIS PERSON'S GOT BETTER NAMES THAN Y'ALL!

In fact, the only Paradox Pokémon (including Ancients) that aren't weak to Iron Valiant's STAB are Iron Moth and the three "unevolved" Ancient Pokémon

Sonic didn't invent the "mad scientist creates killer robot" trope

Nah it's just meant to be the future's Mewtwo, in the magazine it says that scientist tried to make "the strongest psychic-type pokemon". The future was probably fascinated by Mewtwo's origin.

Yeah. I hope they release an event one that's huge. It's so sick.

Wait who was Alders relative in Legends Arceus?

@@lucifermorningstar8562 Visable in a portrait in mons of the diamond or pearl houses. More likealy a relative than a time traveling Alder but who knows

Like the Magnemite found in Hisui distortions

That would mean the “Time Machine” wouldn’t really be a Time Machine right?

My only question to that entire theory is that why would the Professor would call their machine a time machine? They should know the difference between a time machine and a machine that makes imaginary pokemon real because both of those already exist in the Pokemon world.

@@blackmark2899 could you be more specific on those things already existing? I ask because I am not aware of them existing in game canon, unless we are talking about transferring pokemon from an older generation to a newer one and pokemon that can time travel.

@@justsomeguy7077 Johto (gen 2) made their trade machines as time machine. They specifically said that they were time machines trading into the past. As for the machines that make imagination into reality there is the suite of Dream Machines that Fennel pioneered using Musharna's ability to manifest its dreams into reality. It's how Pokemon with Hidden Abilities got introduced, as Pokemon dreamed up with Abilities they normally wouldn't or shouldn't have, and being brought into reality with that machine.

@@blackmark2899 Ah okay, kind of forgot about Dream Radar. Also, I just read that the paradox pokemon being imaginary might have only been in the Chinese version of the game because the leaker that started the rumor was getting info from China. Don't quote me on that though. The only reason why I personally think the imagination theory is still plausible is because of the sketch of the past beast that looks like a cross between the 3 legendary beasts.

thats not true. shiny tinkatons hammer is brown, shiny corviknight is silver.

A swing and a miss