For the Wooper one, you could also mention how two regional forms of the same Pokémon were also released, with Meowth. I think Labsire stands out a lot among Quag and Clod too! It’d be the professors lab partner lol

The wooper looks sufficiently different from wooper to be its own character imo

As someone who has Celiac, I appreciate the acknowledgment of its existence and severity. Nowadays not many people acknowledge it except people who are affected by it.

Parallel thinking is real! I think we should embrace and appreciate the creative process and thinking behind the project itself before drawing comparisons. Similar things can coexist!

Honestly, I ended up making a pepper pokemon line myself years ago with it's middle stage named Capsaskidd and you have no idea how happy seeing Capsakid in the game with such a similar name it made me feel so SMART edit: ON AN UNRELATED NOTE WAS THAT A REGIONAL SANDYGHAST BASED OFF OF WHEN LIGHTNING STRIKES SAND

I See Woop, I click.

My usual response to seeing Game Freak use an idea I had is 'great! I wanted this!' partnered with 'I really gotta figure out some other ideas now!' Like, I had an entire game concept based around time travel (the classic 'Pokemon Past' and 'Pokemon Future'), but when Koraidon and Miraidon were revealed, I was afraid that Game Freak had beaten my concept to it. But ultimately the time travel 'mechanic' was limited to a line of not-really-legendary-but-sort-of-legendary-anyway Paradox Forms, so my concept of the trainer traveling through time wasn't even touched. ...now I hope that the DLC has the trainer traveling through time somehow...

This isn’t entirely related to the subject of the video, but i just wonder… if this region were official, where in the world would it be set? All the mainline regions are based on some real-life country/region, so i wonder where Stema would be. Or maybe it’s like an artificial region? There’s precedent for that. Aether Paradise is an artificial island/research station, and in Pokemon Masters, Pasio is a full-on region-sized artificial island

I absolutely, positively LOVE Malloaf - and all the amazing puns and clever plays on words that make up for most of these STEM designs! Great work altogether.

I totally get what you mean, seeing things for Scarlet & Violet coming out and going "welp, I can never post those ideas without getting accused of stealing..." I had drawn ideas back when I was in middle school (all the way back in 2015!) for fakemon games based on a future/past theme, I had called Rose and Violet... like the flowers. On top of that... (major spoilers below) I had even thought of having the professor being the villain, AND the profession having a realistic android they control- but I had stopped developing the idea because I thought it was too unrealistic for a pokemon game! The bitter irony of it all... I feel your pain.

Man I love the way you speak. People normally dont get that there is no way something is completely original if not for the twist representing you as a creator give to it. I really loved all of your designs and they have nothing to envy to Pokémon's design! I really am waiting for more news on your project! Keep up the good work!

Phenomenal work, man. Love these designs, even if they overlap with designs from Pokemon. I love that little computer bug from the route 1 video so much

This generation has taken the name of not one, but two different fakemon I've made in the past. I really do feel you on this sort of thing.

I've been feeling this ever since Scarlet and Violet came out. I've been working on my own fan region in private and a lot of fakemon I made are very similar to ones in the new games. There's some general ones like a macaw and a dolphin that im fine with keeping since their designs and concepts are not similar to the real pokemon (plus its not like there can only be one pokemon for every animal anyway). I even have my own grass/fire pepper since like you said, it seems like a very obvious concept, but in order to make it stand out, I'm also incorporating elements of samba dancers into the concept since my region is based on Brazil. But there's one fakemon I made which is so shockingly similar to a new pokemon that I think I just have to scrap it: I have a fakemon based on crickets and locusts that are bug/dark.

How can they C&D you for your "Wooper"? Especially if you give it a different name? It looks different enough. Your designs are awesome!

I have a lot of overlapping ideas with GF each generation with my fan region since 2013 when I started it, but the type changing gimmick was the most surprising. But I guess it was a no brainer

I feel this. I draw up ideas in a friend's server for Sonic designs and although I take inspirations from certain game characters I feel like I accidentally overlap with unintentional characters and have the anxiety of the "This person did it first" whether I did it first or not and feel like people can express things their own way. I like your Stem based region and it's origins, designs and direction are really great really feeling like they belong in your world for what it can teach people. It's pokemon inspired by the roots but is it's own beautiful thing.

it'll our honor to continue seeing you progress with your endeavours

I'm very excited to see how you could translate the oddities of quantum mechanics into a pokemon. Maybe they could have some ability to hit through protect or substitute to simulate tunneling

i remember making an alternate form for dialga and palkia, and a time based region where future and past pokemon exist before pokemon legends arceus and pokemon scarlet and violet were announced, and i was happy when i saw that my ideas were becoming a reality.

Labsire's design is SO GOOD and I am sad that it's never going to be an actual creature in any game I can play. It looks so expressive and cheerful and shares a lot of features with some of my favourite Poké and Fakemon designs. I'm really glad you decided to at least show it off for us :D

EPIC! Stemian wooper and its evolution is so good😆

I'm hungry for more of this content, but it's of such quality, I wouldn't dream of trying to pressure you into rushing it. Following you on Instagram. Great stuff. Still can't get over the water bear Pokemon 🤣 love it

We learned briefly about Capsaicin in school today and I immediately thought of Capsol, and went back to this video to learn more and appreciate the design :)

Love the designs and the thought behind their creation. Great work!

It's always interesting to notice how many people ended up predicting an official Pokemon design, especially since the time gap between Scovillain and the countless fake pepper hydras online. Stuff like this definitely makes you question how creative GameFreak is, but I'm sure that they had at least some of these ideas on the backburner for a while. I never really had the chance to say this until now, but I honestly love your work! Even after you removed your Stema mons from DeviantArt, I found a path to your Insta and KZfaq. Your mons are so unique, and the amount of detail and research you put into every one of them!

I LOVE the Maillard reaction mallard! This is such a cool concept for a fakemon :D

I can’t get over how clean and mesmerizing your style is

Your art style is the most unique one I've seen in a while, beautiful

As to the intro of the video, a few weeks before Scarlet and Violet were released, I had actually began a fakemon project that had to do with a region based off of Spain. Needless to say I felt kind of weird after it was announced as now I felt I had to give up on the project due to some of the aspects being similar

The Woop Troop continues to grow with each passing day

you raise such valid points in these videos honestly

Labsire is so cute- I love the little lab coat and gloves pattern!

Your art style is so cute I really like how you redraw even the Pokémon from the games in your own cute art style and your new designs are amazing.

Your artwork is always so inspiring to me and makes me want to create fakemon, I love your videos and your channel is quickly becoming one of my favorites

An idea I had wrt the mint and pepper Pokémon just now: Since they only *feel* like those types, I would have made them Something like Grass/Poison and give them abilities that makes their STAB moves add the simulated type. So for instance the menthol one, it’s grass-type moves for the sake of weakness and resistance are treated as “grass/ice” (similar to Hawlucha’s signature move which is both fighting and flying)

Definitely following you now, can't wait to see where you go!!!

I showed this channel and region to my science teacher who loves Pokémon and the instantly fell in love with. This wooper keep up the good work

I keep losing excuses not to make a fakemon thing. Now I've lost "I can't draw well", as you have improved so much within just a couple years.

This happened to me, with sprigatito and my grass cat starter grassnyor

Your story encourages me very much to keep on creating and pushing forward, even when the work I did back then makes me cringe. You reminded me that I can always revisit my past works and revise them! So thank you for being an inspiration to both my own Pokémon fangame and my art as a whole. Have a great new year nORtist and I hope your project goes well! 💖✨

Excited to see those reigonal Sandyghast, Huntail, Gorebyss, Sunflora, and Ledian 👀

I love everything about your stem mons !

Aw, i really love your Wooper form and Labsire, i would keep it to be honest, it would look original enough for your game, especially with the whole science-context it will have. Keep up the great work! 💚 Happy new years! 🎆

Labsire is so dapper I love the design! Your art style is very friendly. Subbed 😁

You're a really cool person and I myself am working on a Pokémon related open world game (Only thing similar is the monster catching aspect) and your videos are really fun to listen to while designing the game!

As a person with celiac disease i couldn't love more Doughling and Malloaf :D! (And also as you can see in my pfp i also love ducks xd) In general, your STEM based region looks really neat! Can't wait to see more about it!

all of the fakemon you drew looked pretty good and i would say are different enough even if they do stem from similar bases!

I hope nintendo let's this game live, the designs are really thoughtful, and the prospect of a new battle system is intriguing! Have a good new year everybody!

overlaps hit me hard too. grass cat starter. water starter with beak with sailor vibes. time based legendaries, Electric/Fighting Pika Clone that could evolve. bread. other unused type combo stuff. it could have been a lot worse but still

something that I find funny is that I drew a pokemon with 2 chili peppers as heads, many months later when SV came out, I was surprised by the similarity it has with scovillain, well, I won't be the only one with this design in mind but I didn't expect come true

I can see this being a game that’s played in school and by the end of the school year all the kids become champions

I do like the idea of this game being a college setting because it could imply two things: 1. The player character of Scarlet/Violet graduated from their school in Paldea 2. You’d be able to tutor some students from Naranja/Uva Academy (Although you probably can’t include them because of copyright issues, it’s a fun idea to think about)

You have a great enthusiasm and I think you can do whatever you want with your game

I actually like your 2nd version of Capsol the best. The 3rd one looks more generic and less interesting, like something anyone would come up with. The 2nd one looks more inspired to me. It doesn't have to look like Menthol to be a counterpart to it, in fact I think its better that they don't look the same.

axolotls are my favorite animal and i love when people give them love with pokemon

this is really inspirational. creating weighs heavy on the soul. i find solace in your words.

i love these videos so much, but its hard to listen to your voice when the music clashes so hard with it. Reducing it’s volume or something like that would make this channel literally perfect!!!

Please! Don't abandon your Wooper and Labsire! I love them, especially Labsire's tail - such a cool design :D

I like how you always sound so calm

Bro I didn’t expect to get an entire science lesson with a Pokémon video

I really like how Labsire is notably more wooper-like, in reference to axolotls neoteny!

I can relate, the first grass starter I made as a tiny little child was a grass cat, and now Sprigatito exists-

Scarlett and Violent feels like a fangame anyways, and also the similarities ain't too noticeable(for me at least). Your art style is also different and cute.

I love your lineless style

Minter having a signature gras smove that has a chance to freeze would be pretty cool

this video slays bruh. 10/10 ideas and opinions on art

I love labsire, the inspiration makes total sense. If you want to keep ip on your region, i think changing the name and removing the wooper pre evolution, it could still be a cool single stage mon. I think it looks different enough from quagsire and wooper.

I really like your vids! It has inspired me to at least make a concept for a monster catcher game based on geology, especially rocks and minerals, GeoMon! Because I have a special interest in rocks and minerals, I thought I'd put that knowledge to work!

I just found this channel on my recommended and my god you are kinda underrated !

Your game is gonna be amazing with a lineless style :)

You should make Minter and Capsol split evolutions Also they probably should get Snow Warning and Drought (idk, just think it would be cool to have a grass type drought user)

that "emoji" style quagsire is soooo beautiful

That wooper is so cool! I hope you can redesign and rename it because giving that up would be such a shame

oh my god your fakemon are so so cute! i love fakemons so much; its so cool to see them!

Now I’m imagining Capsol as a Physical attacker and Minter is a Special attacker.

Feel like its worth mentioning that whatwe know as axolotles ‘grown up’ is actually still a juvenile form as they do have gene coding for growing up but actively dont. It’s possible to force adulthood on them and you end up with a muddy coloured salamander look.

So relatable. I've actually had some ideas for a 'mon style series as well, and have just been drawing my first designs. I recall planning on drawing a pig-like creature shortly before lechonk was announced, then feeling daunted having a pokémon design I'd now also have to try to distinguish it from. I'll definitely say the anxiety of knowing you could be beat to an idea sure isn't pleasant. Not only that, but one of the designs I'd had planned was, get this, a bread bird. I get attached to ideas, so I might not jump to scrap it entirely after seeing this video, but I'm hoping it'll come out being its own thing, distinct from yours, if it ever does. I mean ideally, I think it ought to be understandable that there will be overlaps between franchises - I'm sure there are plenty of comparisons that can be made between certain pokémon and certain digimon (I definitely recall a digimon existing that maractus has always come off as a dead ringer for), and that's not due to unoriginality so much as there being concepts which will inevitably be repeated. It'd be nice if people remembered that instead of pointing the copycat finger at everything that reminds them of something else. Granted that is harder to do when one of them is world-famous, making it hard to believe it didn't have a direct influence, but still, I personally find myself thinking the original court decision that another fighting game's hadouken-esque move wasn't actually copying Street Fighter because a blast from the hands isn't a concept anyone owns was more sensible than the later court decision that if a judge can find a comparison of two things online, an infringement charge is valid.

Awsome Vid, I can't wait for this game!

This is a cool concept for a region!

Did anyone ever tell you that you have a very adorable narrating voice Seriously your ideas and channel are so underrated

I love the mallard reaction 😉

Please keep malloaf around he is a bread duck and my serotonin.

LOOKING FORWARD FOR THIS GAME!

This video was such a vibe!!

I really hope one day you'll be able to make your own pokemon-style game so that i'll be able to acquire it and play it, good luck!

There’s another plant that I think would work, just as well as a fire grass type for inspiration as a Pokémon, compared to a pepper. Those giant invasive hog weeds they’ve are all over New York. And the sap causes third-degree burns. the fire carrot Pokémon just imagine that. There’s an old sci show video about the hog weed. If you want to find out about it, I know all about.

I personally really like the old wooper and labsire

Oh my god, Labsire is actually adorable! 😍 I wish it was official because goddamnit, you made an actual cinnamon roll out of a cinnamon roll.

Great vid norton

omg i love this channel so much :D

me: gamefreak will never make a weed cat starter gamefreak: makes weed cat starter me: _spit out cereal!!!!!!!!_

Baker when his bread is stolen: "Where is my 5:18 ?

This whole video screams science nerd and Pokémon fan! I love it!

Ngl when I first saw the design I didn’t really see it as a Regional Wooper. Personally it feels like a distinct Axolotl Pokémon especially with how unique the design is compared to the generally subdued regional forms Pokemon does

Are you planning to have a mon similar to ditto in the sense that it copies other mons? (And in the sense that its very useful for filling the dex) Im not super into stem like I was when I was a kid but I feel like having a mon that can replicate another mon could be somewhere in the stem field. I love your region and I cant wait to see more!! ❤

You can uplift things without putting other things down I agree

What does the region actually look like? I’m looking forward seeing the full dex (whenever that happens)

I love the Wooper Trio!!!

It's very funny because before Scarlet and Violet came out, I had an idea for a Mexican and Brazil region that also featured a dolphin with rings on it, a, Flamingo that was also a flying fighting type, and a story about befriending the legendary Pokemon with one also lizard like and feathers because it was based off of Quetzalcoatl. Though a lot diverged from it. The flamingo Pokemon I had in mind was based on the flamenco dance and had the punny name of Flaminco whereas the flamingo Pokemon in Scarlet also has a Spanish inspired name of Flamigo. My dolphin was a water psychic type, not a pure water type. Though the game does have a water psychic type in the annoying piranhas that is Veluza!! And unlike Finizen, I didn't plan for Ringphin to evolve. Meanwhile Koraidon is more of a dinosaur. Arcoatl, meanwhile, has colorful plumage but is a snake. Mainly because the theme was rainbow and monochrome rather than scarlet and violet with the themes of tradition vs progression. Now that I think about it, It does have the accidental past and future vibe. Meanwhile, while the region of Paldea is not based on Mexico and/or Brazil, It is based in Spain.