I think the megacorp idea explains the future 'mons perfectly. They're all uniform even in naming convention, area all fully evolved pokemon and strong ones at that. It's easy to assume someone's weaponizing pokemon in this alternate timeline. Perhaps one where Team Rocket's MewTwo project was a rousing success. I'd like to learn more of what brought them out, but right now I'm just really wanting iron waifubot.

there is another theory regarding the Paradox Pokémon and that is that they actually aren't from the past or future rather from the imagination as it all comes down to the Scarlet/Violet Book with the blocked off letters

I always felt that this was a missed opportunity. You could had great ideas like: - A futuristic Chansey that has been turned into an incubator - A futuristic Remoraid that’s a ray gun that evolves into a Octillery that’s a futuristic tank - A Salamence that nevered learned to fly, so now it is always angry due to a broken dream - Klink, Klang, and Klinklang made out of stone instead of metal - A wooden and or laser sword Aegislash - Iron Thorns, but they out right admit that It was made by people who are a fan of Mecha Tyranitar

I think it makes sense that the future are more uniform as the world becomes more uniform. But I do wished they did something more than just robots like cyborgs or fused combinations like iron valiant.

I've also seen a theory floating around about how the "time machine" isn't really a time machine and it is instead creating these paradox pokemon from the professors imaginations, as Arven points out in the post game, Great Tusk/Iron Treads were documented in the Scarlet/Violet book long before the "time machine" was made which is what inspired Sada/Turo to build the "time machine" which according to this theory formed the other paradox pokemon and additional Great Tusks/Iron Treads from Sada and Turo's imagined ideas of other past/future pokemon, part of this theory is that the "3rd legendary" is responsible for this, there's also the fact that there's very little info on the past paradoxes despite the fact that if they really are past versions of pokemon there should be evidence of their existence like fossils and such.

Personally I like the theory that the time machine isnt actually a time machine and is instead just creating pokemon that sada/turo think they will find from the books they read as kids, explaining the design similaritys and lack of evos.

I’d be down to see a battle between Paradox Pokemon and Ultra Beasts. Also I imagine if the Paradox Pokemon were akin to regional variants rather than Ultra Beasts. I could totally see the future Paradox Pokemon being in Mineral while the past are all part of the Monster egg group alongside one of their original egg groups.

Honestly, I'd love to see more Paradox Pokemon down the line. Perhaps they could even work in aspects that were on the cutting room floor, like say, having a past Raichu that borrows from the cut Gorochu, or a future Octillery that draws from its tank-like beta design.

I think they're neat. When it comes to endgame special pokemon, I prefer the Ultra Beasts, but I do like the ideas and *Theories* they present.

I wish we got a future Dragapult and Garchomp. One could be a "ghost in a machine" And the other I could see being "Steel sail" an all terrain mech that can swim through sand air and even the sea with ease.

Iron Treads is underrated

I have heard of some theories that yeah, some mega corp ended up robotizing pokemon in order to make them into weapons. Iron Treads being a type of tank. Iron Hands being a type of guard bot. Iron Bundle being a spy toy that can go all kill mode when it sees a problem. Iron Moth being an anti aircraft weapon. And Iron Valiant being almost like a terminator bot with how powerful it is. Now of course these are just theories and the dex entries don't help us much. Hell, Iron Jugulius is said to be a cross between Hydreigon getting it on with a robot. So we can't really get a good grasp on these pokemon fully. But I would say there is some merit to them. But I do also agree, would of prefer if they were all "Chrome" instead of "Iron". IDK, Iron just sounds a lot more primitive compared to chrome.

What are your thoughts on the theory that Paradox Pokémon aren't real, but were manifestations of what Professor Sada/Turo saw as the Past/Future based on a dubious Sci-Fi Magazine?

I like that THEORY (hehe) where these paradox Pokémon actually do not exist in the past/future, but are a child's dream given form by that mysterious third legendary. Just think about it, when a kid thinks about such a distant future, most of the times they think "robots" right? Also, it explains the naming process of these paradoxes.

I find it interesting you didn't bring up the "not actually from time" theory when discussing them. I'm skeptical myself but it's an interesting theory, and it does explain traits of these paradoxes. For any uninitiated there's a theory that instead of a time machine this is a "make it reality" machine where it takes the things from the book and brings the Pokemon to life. So for example the "Iron" in the names may be because the person who wrote the book liked uniformity, or lacked the creativity to give them a different name. The theory even discusses the idea that Sada/Turo are the ones who created these Pokemon as children in the book. So in that case you'd have a child who used a lot of wild adjectives, and a child who wanting to keep everything uniform used a labeling style name system for consistency with the designs. Kinda gives some personality traits to the two of them. That all is of course if the theory is correct, as it does have quite a few holes. Either way I like these fish out of water Pokemon, they're all really fun. Even if they have some questionable implications about the future world of Pokemon.

I haven't gotten far enough into Pokemon to reach these guys (thank Fire Emblem for finally catching my attention) but I do like the *THEORY* of them being from a megacorp. Maybe that'll be whatever expansion they think of. Who knows.

Honestly, I agree about the uniformity of the Future Paradox Pokemon being a bit of a letdown. That being said, it's a VERY minor issue to me, and I still love all of them to death and collectively like them much more than the past Paradox forms. I don't think the past Paradox forms are bad or edgy though, in fact I like most of both the past and future Paradox forms even more than the originals. Especially Iron Bundle, or as I called the one I trained: "Deli-Bot".

Ultra Beasts started off as completely distinct Pokémon, but Ultra Sun and Moon showed they could evolve through Poipole and Naganadel being introduced. It’s possible we could see more Paradoxes be added and with the potential to evolve maybe

I don’t care what people say about the rest of the futuristic Pokémon, all I know is that Iron Valiant is single handily one of the coolest Pokémon ever! A Gardevoir/Gallade fused android with a freakin energy scythe is undoubtedly badass!

One thing I see people complain about is the Paradox names for Violet are bad and I can't disagree enough. People have to remember that explorers in Imperial Paldea way back when were the ones who originally named the Paradox pokemon recorded in the Violet book. They wrote about what they saw and they had no way of properly taming these pokemon to study them and assign them proper names like Turo did with Miraidon.

I'm glad that Paradox Pokémon ain't forms but new mons. That is cool.

Some of the iron Pokemon look kinda cool to me. I like the treads and valiant.

My headcanon was that they figured out about the time machine then in the future built a plant outside of where the time machine is sending out all the pokeballs that makes the robot pokemon as a joke to fuck with the past

I personally very much enjoy the talks of Pokemon and art design. As for the Paradox Pokemon, I'm not a big fan of how in general their names are just titles instead of the usual pormanteau naming scheme. As for the Pokemon themselves I think most of them are fine but I have to say, there's only a few I find very intereseting (like Great Tusks or Iron Bundle). I feel like this concept could be expanded a bit (especially with the future forms) but for what they are now, they're alright.

I think we should still wait to really have an opinion on the Paradox mons until the DLC comes in. That's when we're really gonna get answers to the Origins for them and all-

I love the idea robotic Pokémon, and I feel that the uniformity and streamlining of the future Pokémon has a bit more symbolism and a point. Not to discredit what you said at all cause I’m not talking about the crucial execution, but nonetheless that was my take

I like to think that Past paradoxes are actual ancestors of modern pokemon, i think it's also interesting that some of them are not fully evolved, like we have Magneton instead of magnezone and Misdreavus instead of Mismagius. This telld us that modern pokemon found a way to evolve only recently, and in the past some of them stayed as 2 stagers or single stagers. Future pokemon are interesting to me too, because they are soulless robot versions of normal mons. I have a theory that they came from a far far future, where every pokemon got extinct or replaced with far more better metalic counterpart. I think some of these robots function more like tools with different jobs. And Miraidon is a cyborg and not a robot intirely, because it feels alive and feels emotions and feelings.

I find it totally weird for someone who love Super Sentai or Tokusatsu in general have complain about the future Paradox why their name starts with Iron really kicked off the Sentai naming conventionally in my point of view, most of Super Sentai are just named after their squad name + their respective colors, and that to me is very interesting compared to the ancient Paradox also, most of their design reminds me of Gekiranger of some sort

i personally really like both naming conventions. the past names remind me of the names ancient tribes would give unusual creatures that they spot, and the future ones remind me of simple codenames researchers would give to test subjects, which really fits the aesthetics of the two games. also, i like the idea of some corporation weaponizing these strong pokemon causing them to appear robotic, but i personally prefer the idea that their "evolution" into these chrome creatures was semi-natural, such as some sort of future infinity energy shortage that caused them to rely more on technology

If anything the Gardevour/Gallade should have been the start. Take two Pokémon with different male or female forms and FUSE them. Or even regional variants as it would have been interesting. It was the paradox pokemon that sealed the deal for me on which game to get. If the paradox on violets side I liked iron valiant, but that was it. Loved the uniform for Violet as it’s not as terrible and CAN be worked with. I’m half wondering if they did the uniforms so they could do the graphics of you moving easier or something. Don’t know but it’s the main thing I can think of as the uniform to me should have only been a while at the school or during gym challenges. The treasure hunt is about finding yourself for the students. This seems the opposite of wearing a school uniform as it’s less freedom to explore or express yourself. School and the gym challenge would have been a good ‘there is a time and place to wear it’ as a means to prepare for the work environment. Beyond that just hate the whole aspect of the uniform. Because even with the other things you can change it’s not really something you can do without making the player characters look horrible more often then not.

Theory: The one thing that stood out to me was that when you get a chance to talk to arven during post game, he talks about the fact that the paradox pokemon you guys found were mentioned in the book. Yet, he also states that his parent made the time machine roughly 10 years ago but rhe notes about the paradox pikemon were from hundreds of years ago. So he wonders where the pokemon actually came from. Most people subscribe to the thought of the pikemon coming into being thanks to imagination and I suspect this is possibly the best one, but to add to it, the rumored pokemon in the scar/viol book is a paracitic/nanomachine type pokemon that makes random pokemon or (thanks to sada/turo) creates new pokemon

I'm no longer so concerned about things like IV training and breeding (at least for the future pokemon on the breeding part) now that Hypertraining via bottle caps and mints exists. It's now tradition for me to hypertrain my starter pokemon, even if I don't plan on using them too often

This would’ve been the perfect generation to create a new Eeveelution tbh. Techneon could be exclusive to Violet version while Drakeon could’ve been exclusive to Scarlet.

I’m hoping that they expand upon Paradox Pokémon in the future. I feel like the Future Paradoxes were done dirty by all being seemingly-robotic versions of Pokémon. I was kinda hoping for something like speculative evolution, but I do love my theory that I made to explain it that Pokémon can incorporate existing technology into their bodies.

Really hoping that the paradox Pokémon get full evolutionary lines in the future.

Part of why I love these oddballs is part of the reason I like the Ultra Beasts. One half, too savage to be considered tameable. The other half, too mechanized to be considered alive. Only the truly compassionate _(or the completely insane)_ would ever see past the terrifying and unnatural, and view these monsters as Pokemon worthy of love and affection like any other.

I was very disappointed by the future Pokémon just being robots. As soon as the trailer showed Iron Treads, I immediately jumped from wanting Violet to wanting Scarlet. Although I won't deny I have a soft spot for Iron Hands because I loved Hariyama growing up and Electric is my favorite type. But I adore the dinosaurified Ancient Pokémon and was hoping for some hyper-evolved Pokémon as their counterparts. Although someone told me the Future ones are actually cyborgs and not robots. Also, Iron Bundle is allegedly not from the future but actually the past according to the books in-game, which makes it VERY interesting to me. Also Iron Jugulis, huge missed opportunity to make it look like a literal tank like Hydreigon's original design. Probably my least favorite of the future ones because it's *just* a robot Hydreigon

To be honest the only two paradox Pokemon I don’t really vibe with are iron thorn and jugulis. They just feel too samey to their og counterparts for my liking. The rest have enough differences that I can chill with them. Also my theory for why we don’t have paradox mon of wigglytuff and the rest is simply because stuff like moon stones don’t really exist or common at this time period (or whatever’s going on with them)therefore their bodies don’t have a reaction to it like their present counterparts do. Is it a foolproof theory no… but it’s just a quick thought. Overall I’ll give the paradox mon’s a 7/10. Pretty solid but could use some more work.

I hope that in the dlc we get to see how these mons came to be, maybe the future forms all being the same will make sense

Mangakamen I also agree with your issues/have similar feelings about Future Paradox Pkmns. I really did enjoy the Ancient variants compared to the Future variants we got, especially since some of my favorites pkmns got the Future treatment instead and essentially got simple basic robotical versions of themselves. Like Slitherwing essentially being a Volcarona that stayed as a big Larvesta that never evolved to fly like a moth is so much better than Iron Moth who essentially got solar panel wings but practically looks the same. If they could at least have added some mechanical parts (similar to Genesect getting a weapon mounted on his back) just to hit further the theory that these pkmns possibly come from a future where some mad scientist had the horrible idea of automation/robotization of these pkmns with the goal to make them stronger compare to original counterpart like Iron Bundle vs Delibird. Like if it's normal for Blastoise to have some cannons inside his shell, it wouldn't be too farfetched that all these Future Paradox Pkmns have some sort of mechanical robotic weapon added inside of them. Like maybe Iron Jugulis having some laser cannon added inside of it's mouths, and having his tail also become another head or having a laser cannon attached to it or something, just to show that these pkmns have been at least modified even through their exoskeleton looks similar to their normal counterpart. Imagine if Iron Jugulis was the Mecha Ghidorah version of Hydreigon and used some of the original concepts they had for him. Instead Iron Jugulis just feels "safe" and in that sense disappointing compare to some of the other interesting ones like Iron Valiant, Miraidon or any of the Ancient Pkmns we got.

Considering they're call Paradoxes, maybe they aren' being pulled from one linear point of time, but a hypothetical point of time that would be possible. Much like how we won't know what the future holds or how certain points in history are left obsured my the passage of time, but could very be possible directions based on current knowledge. The Scarlet "Imaginary Pokemon" is probably the biggest example of this. We know the Beasts were 'something' prior to the Silver Tower in Johto burning, but 'what' exactly we don't know really and that illustration in the Book could simply be one possible interpretation of what they use to be or at least what their primal ancestors were.

I like the megacorp idea, but it needs to have more canon things hinting at it other than a THEORY about design elements. Also as someone who only has Violet version, I kinda wish I got Scarlet because of the paradox Pokemon. I really want to hunt a Shiny Fluttermane, Roaring Moon, Slither Wing... While I was only interested in shiny hunting Iron Valiant (I nicknamed it Pixl) Also opinions on Turo/Sada's reveal about being AI? Because it literally came out of nowhere, at the most I found a book on my way down to the Area Zero mega base (which is way to late to hunt at something like that). And I instead thought "oh Turo cloned himself! So maybe there will be two Turos! That would be kinda funny". It's my only problem with the game narratively speaking other than Arven getting shafted at the end, but I always thought "oh, he's in charge of catering the School Brawl"

I doubt it would happen but I would LOVE for the DLC to give us Past Paradox Pokemon... of the Fossils from Galar. But they are the TRUE versions, not the Chimeras. A lightning raptor, a dragon spino (or some other theropod), water megaldon, and ice krono

in the comics they called an ancient Haunter "Black Fog" so I like to imagine that pokemon didn't use to be named what they said but rather what they do or look like ,by humans before they were catchable and for a while after.

I keep coming BACK for Pokémon art design talks lol. Who complains about these 👀

I’d have assume with the Mega Corp pokemon, perhaps (and granted this a theory that conceptually revolves around Donphan (Elephants)) were hunted into extinction and made in labs like Mewtwo and Genesect. Porygon is currently an outlier until we get the paradox ancient Porygami.

I’m quite fond of the robot Pokémon I think they’re a good addition for the game since violet is focused on the future and scarlet is focused on primitive Pokémon

I do like the theory talk about the Paradox Pokemon and do hope that either we see more in the future or for any future DLC (because it does feel like we will be getting some DLC for S/V). But yeah, Future Paradox pokemon are kind of a shame if they were all called "Iron." Either give them different kinds of Iron names or maybe some mutated forms or something (and don't say it would be too dark to see a mutated pokemon when Ghost Pokemon have some pretty dark stories in their own right). Honestly, part of me thought there could have been a chance we could have "mutated" existing pokemon into paradox forms (thus to explain how we could have evolved our cycle pokemon into a legendary form of the past or future) like a sort of way to return to mega evolutions. A good step in the right direction, but definitely one that needs to get some expansions to it in order to properly sell it.

I like to think that the future Paradox Pokemon aren’t robots but are the modern Pokemon they’re based off that have adapted to the future. It is a stretch, but when you think about how a majority of them aren’t steel types so they can’t have steel resistances like Iron Valiant to poison and Iron Bundle to grass, function as much as they like without the use of an internal battery, no signs of ports or electrical sockets on them at all, and able to consume natural herbs and get their nutrients like the Iron Treads Titan, it sounds more like their artificial look is just for show. Violet’s Paradox Pokemon is so rich with potential of what they are without writing them off as “Robots”. They could not be affected by EMPs and don't short circuit when submerged in water just like normal everyday Pokemon. I mean, their animations aren’t even robotic like when you compare them to the AI professors and their animations. It oddly makes more sense than certain Scarlet Paradox Pokemon that have tails with spines and Sandy Shocks being in that time period. Not that I am bashing on Scarlet’s Paradox Pokemon, I love them all even Sandy Shocks and how silly and awesome it is. The term Paradox Pokemon is also a interesting subject to dive in. The leading theory is that by the group they're in, they're are of course Paradoxes. Their very presence is anomalous as some wouldn't even call them Pokemon. It's possible that they aren't even from the time periods as the professors say they are. They don't even follow the normal naming conventions, they all have names based on their biggest attributes like Scream tail that has it's hair curl as a big tail and it screams, Iron Hands simply having Iron hands, and Great tusk goes without saying. The only thing that makes them Pokemon is that they can use Pokemon moves, receive Super effective damage, and can be contained in Pokeballs. The Mascot Legendaries are also something I like to point out. They follow normal naming conventions as their names are literally given to them by the professors. They were classified by "Winged King" for Koriadon, and "Iron Serpent" for Miraidon. Kori which means Ancinet, Mirai which means Future, Raido which means Ride, and Don which is lord and a suffix for Dinosaur. Although they're all Paradox Pokemon of Cyclizar, they're all drastically different and more powerful than Cyclizar. It's possible the professors coined their names because they vastly differ from the bicycle lizard.

I personally like the violet paradox forms They do just look like the originals but as robots but I think that’s the point they aren’t future versions of those Pokémon but instead are attempts to recreate long extinct species via artificial means, capturing the look of the old Pokémon but ultimately resulting in a soulless replica

I love when you casually mention Tokusatsu franchises It feels like an easter egg everytime

I agree with the future names being too uniform and with Iron Valiant being the next best future paradox besides miraidon (honorable mention to iron moth though), I wish we got more fusions and/or a cyborg. But oh well. At least I have the Wallynator

Sandy Rocks I would call LMC 01 (Living Magnet Creature 01) if your going by mechanical names. LCD 02 (Living Crome Dino 02) MHM 03 (Maglev Hand Man 03) BWM 04 (Blade Wing Moth 04) BD 05 (Blade Dancer 05) Usually when naming tech it is with letters and numbers.

They could had played so much with the paradox pokemon, like having a past garchomp look like sharpedo and a future sharpedo look like garchomp, have golbat/woobat/noivern look like something the Night Stalker from After Man, and more. At least we've got roaring moon looking like Mega-Salamance, which is a cool reference for megas being kind of ancient verions of said pokemon. also THEORY

You want to know the REAL reason all of the future Paradox Pokémon all have "Iron" in their names? Because I guess that was the only futuristic sounding word that they could think of that'd fit within the 12-character limit. And yes, the space between the two parts of their names also counts. All of the names Manga suggested all go over this threshold.

Y'know, it would be so cool if the future Pokemon were cyborgs instead of just robots. Imagine a half organic half robotic type Hariyama or something.

I was kind of hoping there was a Paradox Magikarp after the Violetdex entry stating it was stronger in the past. Imagine a beast mode Magikarp. Maybe with a unique (and powerful) move based on Splash. Would have been both really cool and amusing.

I'm going to be honest here, I used to be subscribed, but I need to see that you haven't changed, that you do care, that you have heart, soo many videos come across as this you don't really care middle ground, I need to hear what you care about.

4:18 Also Mecha Sonic, Archie Mecha Sonic, 8-bit Silver Sonic (the 16-bit one is actually Mecha Sonic) , Silver Sonic 2 and 3 (Archie Sonic's Mecha Sonic is a robotiziced Sonic instead), Mecha Knuckles, Archie Mecha Knuckles, Mecha Sally, Rusty Rose, Team Cybonic, basically everyone in Archie Cyborg Sonic's universe, there's seriously _way_ too many of these lol.

They could’ve just named Iron Bundle, Delibot…it was right there all they had to do was reach out and grab it…oh well he’s still my special boy.

Maybe them all being genderless and unbreedable is an intentional choice? Plus, the ancient paradoxes have questionable designs too. None are actually based on real ancient animals or phenomena, they’re just the lookalike Pokémon with a coat of primeval flavored cheese. The same applies to the future Paradoxes. They’re not dipping into truly wild futuristic characteristics because they’re not legitimate. They’re just their lookalikes with a coat of cheese. Really puts a hole in their legitimacy as truly being from other times. These things are supposed to be really fake looking and cheesy, and that’s good. They do that job well.

THEORY Ngl I kinda wanna play Violet just to catch some Paradox Pokemon, plus, it doesn’t look that bad.

One thing I liked about the future paradox Pokémon was that I was constantly getting tripped up by their typings. I thought they were all steel type because they all had "iron" in their names. It made fighting them fun because I actually had to experiment with different moves to find their weaknesses.

Since you mentioned "uniformity," I'm a little bothered at all the Paradox having the same ability, depending on them being future or past. On one hand, it mechanically means they are even more similar to the ultra beasts like you said but on the other, it means they're just more nasty to deal with, especially when odds are they'll always be paired up with their respecting -raidon. As of writing this comment, all paradox Pokémon are banned in VGC but I'm afraid of how much they'll affect the game in future rule sets.

Honestly imo except for iron valiant and iron thorns, I’m kinda bummed out all the future form shinies are basically the same metal grey scheme. Seeing the past paradox shinies I was hoping the future ones would have unique colors that either were like the original or expanded upon their current design. I say iron valiant and iron thorns are my only exceptions to this but with iron thorns I feel like it would be cooler if the green color scheme was the actual shiny and the monochrome being it’s normal colors

I think if they went with the design philosophy of Mega Mewtwo X for past, as a brute, meaner and bigger version of Mewtwo, like the past paradox mons already are, and Mega Mewtwo Y for future as in perfecting it's best qualities being aerodynamic, fast, more intelligent and pure psychic power in contrast with the brute past I would've preferred it. Meaning the future mons being perfected version of themselves and their best qualities instead of just robots

I feel the lack of evolution feeds into them, like imagining mismagius and wigglytuff are newer evolutions whilst foongus and phanpy were newer preevolutions to more easily help the species expand. The future ones can be built without evolution in the first place though

I do agree that the Ancient Paradox Pokemon have much more interesting and diverse designs than the Future Paradox Pokemon. I will also agree that for the future Paradox pokemon, they could have covered a wider range of themes. However, given that all the information we have on them so far is from the Pokedex getting information from a occult fiction magazine, I am definitely hoping the DLC will touch upon it somehow. After all, if you go back down to the time machine, it seems like it's still operational. A interesting theory that has been going around that I kind of like is the theory that Paradox Pokemon aren't technically real. There are different takes on this theory, but it is believed that the crystals found at the bottom of Area Zero have much greater potential power than one may think.

2:34 most based thing MK has ever said.

Past Paradox do share a unifying theme across the board, they are all just "dinosaur" versions of the mon. They took the mon, just gave it a ton of spikes/zigzags everywhere, and gave a tail to the ones missing it Not much different to how they took all mons, gave them body armor, digital eyes, and some form of futuristic trait (ei, levitating limbs, solid energy parts, etc) for the Future Paradox

My biggest gripe with the future paradox forms is that the shiny variants are hardly noticeable and all the same

Theres something I thought of basically inmediately when I saw the Paradox Pokemon and that they couldn't evolve or have a gender that I haven't seen people bring up. It's probably because there's just no way of knowing. The dinosaurs' biology could be so alien and different from what it evolved into in the present day that sexing them isn't something modern science knows how to do. There's some species of lizards that are like this. Similarly, the fact that the robots all seem to be made of this same metallic material with some colored fluid underneath might suggest they don't have biological gender. Iron Valiant especially implies this, given it's a fusion of the male-only Gallade and the stereotypically female Gardevoir. Also, regarding how some dinosaurs are based on pre-evolved forms, my theory is that those evolutions didn't exist back then. Jigglypuff, Magneton (as of Gen 9) and Misdreavus all evolve when exposed to stones, not naturally through leveling up. Those stones might not have existed back in the time of Scream Tail, Sandy Shocks, or Flutter Mane.

Bro I love the Past Paradox mons. They’re like Pokémon Dinosaurs. Sure, the Future ones are cool, but they’re all so…uniform in design. Even their shinies are kinda lackluster compared to the Past Paradox mons.

Koraidon is one of my new favorite Pokemon. Great Tusk is my favorite of the Paradox subset.

An interesting thing about them being called paradox Pokémon the characters in post game actually point out “Wait how are these past/future Pokémon recorded in the book if the time machine wasn’t made till much later to bring them to Aero Zero” It really makes me excited for what they have planned for the DLC involving the unsolved mysteries of Area Zero and the 3rd Legendary

I think scarlet and violet did well designwise. The pokemon are interesting, the open world was executed as well as pokemon could. I love the paradox forms for the pure "coolness" of them, the energy that captures a 7-year-old's attention. I was literally squeaking when looking through the scarlet and violet pokedex. They look cool. Sure they're flawed, but all pokemon games have their... jynxes. More recent games just had more. I've come full circle, when I wasn't much into pokemon I was like "ooh, new game cool" then I got my hands on pokemon crystal and the first gen, watched x and y and had some older friend influence, and was like "new game bad." But now I see both. The money-grabbing gimmicky mess, and the game for children that maintains its magic and joy.

I feel like the whole time travel plot doesn’t make as much sense for violet being I can understand the past paradox going on a rampage because we got 6 Jurassic park movies to explain it while the future paradox I feel would more just be made by the time machine to defend itself

I'd like to hear your thoughts about the Pokemon Adventures manga, that series is severely underrated. People online usually only talk about the first gen, and aren't even mentioning much of the series going forward even though a lot of the stories and characters afterwards are arguably better.

Absolutely agree about wanting evolved past paradox forms and better future forms, I did attempt some past evos and prevos myself and I want to try to make future redesigns such as iron treads perhaps losing their tusks as real life elephants are and having to adapt ect, they could've really played with it and done something cool but most of the time it's just an uninspired reskin. Though they are growing on me slightly such as Iron valiant and delibird his skates are fun especially with the whole snow globe bag thing I think he has now and I suppose iron moth it's a neat interpretation of Volcarona

Past paradoxes do have a unifying design element in that they all have yellow sclera

Okay analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

I’d absolutely love to hear your experience with playing Scarlet or Violet. What did you love about it? What Pokémon you like this generation? What problems you had with it? And Which Gym leader, E4 and Geeta did you like, love, or have a problem with💖💖💖

"Dystopian futures are a thing you know!" I'm sorry, does a future where all pokemon are replaced with robotic versions not sound like a dystopia to you?

>one-way time machine technology *somewhere in the universe* Celebi: Y'know, I could just help the humans with this. Arceus: No. We will not intervene in human machinations anymore. Celebi: ...any word back from Palkia or Dialga? Arceus: You know very well they still have not forgiven me for what happened in Hisui...

I love how their Dex entries are BS even for a pokedex entry. Anyways, while I still feel the past paradoxes are cooler looking I feel the future ones have a lot of charm when we consider their animations, specially when they faint. Mecha Donphan turns into a ball and Delibird gets its head punched out like a boxer robot! That's pretty cool!

Theory “Everything is Chrome in the future” sums up the shiny Futuristic Paradox Pokémon rather well.

The paradox Pokemon are really something interesting I'm hoping to see what else gamefreak might show (plus I have a little art idea for them)

I was really hoping the future mons would've taken a more speculative biology route with the pokemon they're based on. Like how they'd evolve in the future.

My favorite pokemon is Larvesta and when I got spoiled that there's not one but two new versions of Volcarona, I was like "wow, does that mean we get 2 new Larvesta forms, too?" and oh man, was I disappointed. There's that theory that the paradox pokémon aren't actually from the future and that the time machine is more of a wish fulfilment machine which just brought back these pokémon cause thats what the professors wanted to see, which could be proven right if the Sword of Justice fusion and the Legendary Beast fusion appear in the dlc, as those are described as purely fictious beings

Honestly I can understand the flawss you bring up with the Future Paradox Pokémon, even if I do still personally like them. While they have less variation than the past versions and are more or less just robotic, they do still have some variety between them such as Iron Treads’s actual face being behind its trunk, Iron Bundle’s body being detachable or Iron Valiant being a fusion between both Mega Gardevoir and Gallade, as you said. Though this does beg the question of why there aren’t more “fusion” Paradox Pokémon, such as a mix between Mega Charizard X and Y or Pokémon with split evolutions like Poliwhirl, Slowpoke or Rockruff. Which’s where I can see it has some missed potential, and I do hope to see the concept expanded on in the future (most likely in DLC.)

One thing I found disappointing about the future pokemon is the pokedex entries in violet. They all were essentially this pokemon is in the violet book with no more information.

What if the future paradox forms were instead acronyms? [T.R.E.A.D.S.] , [H.A.N.D.S.] , [M.O.T.H.] , etc.

Correct me if I’m wrong but past mons that aren’t evolved require a stone to evolve in the future right?

I'm glad I'm not the only guy who got flashbacks to the pokemon ranger 2 NPC as well, but in my case it was probably because i had just replayed shadows of almia a few weeks before SV released.

You know, I once heard this idea that the future paradox Pokémon could have been based on speculative evolution, a science fiction concept that imagines what animals could evolve into in the future or in a world where the conditions that affected their evolution were different. What if, for example, Iron Thorns evolved into a quadruped due to the heavy nature of its back spines, being slower than Tyranitar, but able to manipulate electromagnetic fields to protect itself. What if Iron Moth evolved into a soaring form that rarely spends time on the ground and kills its prey by silently swooping down on them and poisoning them with its venomous stinger or antennae.

It probably wasn't intentional but it's also pretty cynical in tone to say that the ONLY evolution will be robots, instead of trying to theorycraft what ways that things coming around in the future would influence a Pokemon's development.

As a prehistory nut, I adore all the ancient Pokémon. I love how wild and untamed they all look and how many elements from real life prehistoric animals they have, such as being more armed and armored and being larger then their present day descendants. I really hope this concept gets expanded and developed down the lane because I want to know more about them, like what happened that cause Slither Wing to become Volcarona or the existence of Roaring Moon implies that Mega Evolution kinda reverts Pokémon back to their primal states.

It is pretty cool that a Pokemon like Misdreavous can get a Paradox Form that gets immediately banned from competitive for how good it is. Glad to see pre-evo designs get better stats this way. As for Future 'Mon, yeah the corporate mass production of these guys sounds plausible. We'll see how the DLC tackles these concepts, hopefully with more elaborate detail.

7:00 that’s so cool imagine a paradox dodrio with that design concept

One detail that really points out to these pokemon not really being past and future, is the "fusion" in Scarlet Book, is a fusion of the Legendary Dogs... the Dogs that were made by Ho-Oh just a couple decades ago, they are way too recent and is imposible to have an "ancient" form.