I would like to mention that at the top of Tinkaton's hammer, there seems to be something that resembles a sextant, an "instrument for determining the angle between the horizon and a celestial body such as the Sun, the Moon, or a star, used in celestial navigation to determine latitude and longitude." By words of someone's elses for the love of Tinkaton: "This little s*** is using math to terrorize birds." - DaemonGrave

Actually, Duende is just a general term for small magical guys, like elves, dwarves and gnomes. It's sort of like the word Fae.

Tinkaton line might be most famous for going after Corviknights, but Tinkatuff's entry says they also battle it out with Pawniard and Bisharps too. Makes me think that it has rivalry with Kingambit and have fierce turf wars over metals and supplies.

Fun fact, the Tinkaton line is unique when it comes to shinies. The Pokemon itself doesn't change color, but the hammer does, implying that they simply use more extravagant metal to make their hammer.

It’d be interesting to have a Corviknight variant that turns the tables on Tinkaton or a variant of both that are comrades

Fun Fact: The Metals Cobalt & Nickel are both named after Germanic gremlin/goblin/fey things.

Favorite part of Tinkaton is when you look closely at the hammer, you can see both Tinkatinks baby rattle thing and Tinkatuffs hammer forming the base

So the duende just gaslights people, rearrange items inside your house, steal small things and they live in your walls, though a fire dark type named something like “gaslite” might be a bit much for Pokémon

Another thing about Tinkaton is that it has Pickpocket as its hidden ability, showing more of its gremlin side origins

The Pinkerton section at the end made me realize just how real the whole "massive company with private army" trope actually is.

As a Spanish person, I really appreciate how deep your research is when covering each Pokémon and the history of the Iberian Peninsula. By now you'd probably know more about Spanish History that 80% of Spanish population

Two thing I would like to point out, not only the Tinka line is responsible for taking out the Taxi Service of Corviknight, but also is partially responsible for Kingambit, Tinkatuff hunts down Pawniard and Bishard (groups of pokemon, I thought you were going there with your last point in the video). And also, while the meme of Tinkaton Bullying Corviknight is funny, most people miss the part is a "daring" disposition, is not easy for them, is a challenge, that is why they do it.

Love the fact that when it was just a tinkatink it got it's rattle stolen grew up and decided to make it everyone's problem.

Tinkaton may also take inspiration from the Japanese myth of a warrior with a magic hammer, who was tiny until he grew when hit by it. Okami, Yoshi's New Island, and Wario Land 4 also reference it too.

I have a friend who’s favorite Pokémon is Corviknight. They were not happy when I told them about Tinkaton.

It may be murderous but how could you be mad when it looks so cute

Waiting for a Clock convergent form Tinkaton called "Tickatok"

On the one hand, I understand Tinkaton not getting Steelworker as an ability, as the idea of a 160 base power Gigaton Hammer being boosted by STAB, the ability and Steel Tera would make Houndstone's Last Respects look meek in compairsion. On the other hand: *Come on, Look at it! The thing is a literal Steel Worker!*

Surprised you didn't bring up how Tinkatink has its hammer and the materials used for it stolen by Pokemon that eat metal (near literally taking candy from a baby), as it might explain the homicidal tendencies the Tinkaton has towards steel types besides its own line

Woah.............. First Grimmsnarl and his pre-evolved forms, and now Tinkaton and her pre-evolved form?! Those Fairy Type Powerhouses are already destined to be Warriors that can slay dragons much more destructive than Salamence

Imagine if the Metagross line was native to Paldea, what kind of monstrous hammer will Tinkaton have.

Considering the nature of Area Zero and the fact that that’s the primary place you can naturally find Corviknight, plus the overall stature and proportions of the body and hands, I kind of get the impression that Made in Abyss was referenced in some capacity, if not directly then at least alluded to. In particular, Tinkaton’s design reminds me of Nanachi with the personality and the bunny ears and hair and all, and the entirety of Area Zero just kind of feels like the Abyss.

Tinkaton: Pokemon's very own Bonk Hammer for those that are down bad Also, I can't be the only one to think that Tinkaton looks a lot like Jack Frost from the SMT series which that alone makes me love Tinkaton even more!

As a guy who usually despises the cute mons, I LOVE TINKATON!!!! It's Dex entry is so evil lol and it's a really good mon. This one deserved a proper reveal over the one we got.

One of the best gen 9 Pokemon. It's Pokedex entry and signature move are amazing

Tinkaton definitely one of my new favourite Pokémon. As soon as I saw it I knew I had to have it on my team. So getting to hear about its influences was great.

Regardless of how related to the pokemon some topics can be, I still appreciate the extra bits of history and trivia added in. It definitely makes these videos a lot more than just purely Pokemon stuff. Thanks for the hard work Lockstin!

I freaking knew this would one of the first post game release Pokemon you would do and I'm not complaining in the slightest. Tinkaton is really a standout of the gen and probably my favourite Paldea mon. As a Kirby fan, I very much like the small pink things with tremendous power.

I love Tinkaton, how much? A ton, me tinks.

The trope of Little-Girl-Big-Hammer could also be applied to Hilda Goneril of Fire Emblem Three Houses bit instead of a hammer she gets an axe and is a physical powerhouse in the game.

I’m really loving these new more intense and powerful fairies like grimsnarl and tinkaton

At first I thought she was kind of goofy, but everyone loves the goblin energy with a big mallet

I like how Tinkaton Kills Corviknite with a Corvikinte!

Tinkaton reminds me of Monster Hunter, it's a humanoid with a huge mechanic weapon made off the innards of a creature much bigger than Tinkaton itself

Coincidentally, I nicknamed my Tinkaton after League's character. Then, during elite 4, I was caught off guard as the 2nd trainer was also named Poppy (in german version) AND threw out Tinkaton.

Y’know if tinkaton ever gets introduced to galar that Pokémon species would be considered as an invasive species since galar relies on corviknight taxi

I love this mon so much! When I saw it I was like "Squee! You are so cute! You are coming from me!" Though if I had known how big her hammer would get I would've named her Autumn's Dust. Instead of Autumn Dusk. XD

Tinkaton is a vital part of my friend-shaped team, right up there with Bellibolt and Clodsire, so I'm choosing to believe the Pinkerton connection is coincidental at best. In any case, wonderful to see this line get highlighted.

I named my Tinkaton "Amy Rose". For obvious reasons.

There is an episode of Looney Tunes describing a lot of these tropes quite well. It's called "Falling Hare" and is one of the few times Bugs is the victim. And it's at the hands of an airplane Gremlin. And wouldn't you know it... in the episode, he has a GIANT HAMMER. It's a great example of the tropes put together. You can see it on KZfaq, just search for Falling Hare.

I love how theres no such thing as a shiny Tinkaton. Just Shiny Hunting Tinkatons.

Interesting fact: There are duende in the Philippines as well. Filipino duende live in mounds and like being given gifts. It’s also tradition to say Tabi Tabi Po while walking by natural mounds.

My favorite character in Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is Sena. And you pretty much nailed her with your description of the trope.

When I read corviknights dex entry and it said it can't be used for taxi service cause of predators, and tinkatons dex entry said it hunted corviknight I took it literally and thought that tinkaton eats corviknight... Looking back it really makes no sense but it's still funny though

Girls with Giant Hammers are quite Smashing

Honestly, tinkaton deserved to be a pseudo legendary more than baxcalibur

The fact that regular/shiny Tinkaton's hammer is the same color as regular/shiny Corviknight is a nice, if grim, touch.

1:50 can’t forget about the girl with the gall, Sena

Tinkaton is our hero

Tinkaton really struck a cord with me, and it's now one of my new favorite Pokémon, even my new favorite Steel-type. Getting to know the lore and inspirations around it definitely helped, too.

9:54 they could probably use the stork instead but it would drop the customer on purpose so they have to use parrots

Im really glad you touched on how the rattle is still the core of the hammer along the evolutions. I don't see that detail talked about often. Love this video.

Tinkaton's shiny is actually perfect! People hate it because it's body doesn't change but think about it! She's using shiny corviknight to make its shiny hammer! SHE'S A SHINY HUNTER!

I didn't expect Lockstin to talk about the "Martxoak 3 / 3 de Marzo / 3rd of March" incident in Spain, I live next to the church were everything happened and my grandmother was able to view everything from our balcony. It was a slaughter from which "luckily" only 5 people died, while having 150+ wounded, in a country where usage of fire arms was pretty rare. Tensions were pretty high, the incident took place in a city of the Basque Country which had our Basque culture stripped from while the dictatorship of Franco. Civilians were already tense with the government and factory owners were pushing workers way to hard. The workers organized a formal strike barricading inside a church and the police abused a loophole in the law about the property of the church and being an occupation of a private, government owned place. The higher ups ordered policemen to open fire but even common policemen knew it was a masacre so most aimed to wound and not to kill, even when they were ordered to shoot to kill. The injuries registered (around 150) are only about gunfire injuries, many people who even weren't part of the strike were brutally beaten up by policemen who didn't want to use their gun. A friend's grandfather lost his leg due to a beat down, and if you ask around many people have some anecdote about that day. It's an event which still has marked the history of the city until this day, but through violence and blood we now can live with worker rights. To this day there's an association and many political rallies are held on March 3rd, to commemorate and ask for fairer treatment of workers

Aww, man, I liked Tinkaton. She's a good girl and basically the Hatterene of this generation. I love the kawaii immature doof adults who try to defy Christmas cakeification with chaos and sweetness. And also, down with Pinkerton and Baldwin-Felts! Down with the blacklegs and scabs! Which side are you on?

It’s so cool you showed off Felicia from Magia Record at 2:17!! Thats who I renamed my Tinkaton after when I couldn’t decide on a name for her when she was a Tinkatink >w

5:03 There in the waaaaalls. THEY'RE IN THE GODAMN WALLS

I also like to think Gigaton Hammer hits every other turn because it’s referencing making mochi. One person hits the mochi while another folds it for the next strike. And with the pigtails, it even looks like a rabbit making mochi!

(Sees Corviknight) Tinkaton: That's it! I'm getting me mallet!

Will you consider making a video on all of the returning Pokémon in SV and why they’re in the Paldea region?

You really don’t miss! This is so filled with incredible information it’s mind blowing and really helps us appreciate your hard work and the design creators! Even the “Pinkertons” was not a stretch especially considering even the shiny form stays true to the name and remains pink

Wow, what deep inspiration and here I thought that Tinkaton was just Poppy from the Trolls movie mixed with traits of actual trolls… I just thought this because so many Paldean Pokémon seem to be based on characters from various pop-culture medias (ex: video games, comic books, children’s books, animated movies, anime, etc.).

I love how started playing dubstep for seemingly no reason after saying “ *huge* blacksmith-Chan” I also got REALLY happy when I saw robin from iconoclasts It’s pretty underrated, and one of my favorite games

I love Tinkaton too!

BlackPink’s light stick is a pink mallet 🤣 Also made me think of Hilda from Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Pink haired little girl. Super strong with an affinity for oversized axes.

Ah, yes the small pink demon. Not to be confused with Kirby

So if Tinkaton’s hammer weighs over *220 pounds* as mentioned in its Violet Dex entry, that is quite heavy… But the thing is the Scarlet entry for Talonflame states it can carry prey over *220 pounds* … … O_O Well…large birds of prey like eagles can carry heavy prey like monkeys or foxes. Roid a falcon up into a Phoenix and that puts faeries on the menu. And of course there are legends of birds of prey carrying people off to eat. So a short, fairy-lady seems plausible for consumption.

Bonus points in Spanish lore: There was a report from an helicopter being taken down after a man who thought the engine was too loud and flying too low take the vehicle down with a stone which got stuck in the tail rotor. The case was never closed since it was the words of one man against the other's thus the myth of the spanish man taking a helicopter down with a stone being why Tinkaton takes the Corviknights down with a stone - given how Corvs are like the helicopters of human transport.

I thought I'd hate this thing, but when I got used to the gen 9 designs, this became one of my favorites

3:42 Finally, somebody acknowledges the Tinkerbell movie from 2008!

I wonder if the teeth are also a reference to the "flesh tooth" trope somewhat popular with spunky, tomboy-ish and/or mischievous anime girls

I'm surprised you didn't mention the fact that Tuff and Ton have legs that are backwards, their whole lower half seems to be twisted around. The Douen a type of duende are also known for having backward feet. You even put up a picture of a backward footed Douen in your video at 4:54

Her signature move should've been very unique, where it's always super-effective on Corviknight specifically regardless of (tera) type.

Really wished that they match the pokemon's move to their dex entries. Tinkaton is Covidknight's natural predator, but it can't learn any attacks to hit it super efficiently. It's even at a disadvantage against covidknigjt type wise.

3:50 That last trope is even used in Scarlet and Violet with Penny

I love your videos, you’re so tenacious and I can’t get over it :)))

Workers in the region " we want too unionize" the boss "send in the tinkaton!"

The Mouros part of the inspiration got me thinking. What if there were male Tinkaton that instead of crafting a giant hammer, they used their crafting skill to create a more refined weapon? Like a sniper rifle, because why not? Male and female Tinkaton hunt as a duo, with the hammer-swinging girlboss doing what she does best, while the other picks off the stragglers from afar. The tag team is so effective that Paldea is starting to face a steel type shortage in some areas. Give it a signature move, a special steel type attack that either crits more often or is super effective against steel types.

Absolutely love this Pokémon. I also love these deep dive videos. They give me such deeper appreciation for the Pokémon. Thank you!

Best gen 9 mon, love this little gremlin.

Tinkaton can learn rock moves via TM but can't learn Rock Throw or Rock Blast at all. Also Corviknight, being part Steel-type, isn't weak to Rock-type attacks. Not to mention that aside from Thunder Wave, Tinkaton can't learn Electric-type or Fire-type attacks, Corviknight's only weaknesses.

"I FREAKING LOVE TINKATON" should be a phrase true to anyone in this world.

i loved it when they said "It's tinkerin' time!" and tinkered a ton

2:53 It's not uber-powerful with that pitiful base attack though lol.

1:27 AYOO you know what Blazblue is? BASED

3:35 I know another tinkerer: the tech-element skylander named Sprocket, well any of that element would still work here but I figured you’d find interest in her specifically… in series 2 she even has a tank on her skylander “figurine”(personally, not fond of the status being called toys but sadly I’m easily defeated in that argument).

I'm so glad to learn all of this stuff; I presumed the Tinkaton line was based more around Hephaestus as the ruins they are around also have Bronzor/Bronzing and Falinks, and kind of made a bigger nod towards Rome/ Greece.

Personally I saw the tinkaton line as Pokémon Kirby

If she finds a metal type it kills it and turns it body into its own hammer and that's probably why it kills that bird it's made of metal

Wanted to add, gremlins are a thing in the motercycle community as well. We gift each other bells to hang on our bikes to ward off gremlins. That would other wise cause the bike to malfunction

Small characters wielding huge weapons is such a fun trope for me

YES I knew as soon as I saw her that it could be based on a mouro, the only thing missing was the coal covered skin. Also I was surprised by the fact that unlike other videos of the channel you pointed out that the Mouros where from north portugal, galicia and asturias. Asturias is really small compared to other autonomous communities and we often get left out when people from outside the country do this kind of research. I know this may be weird to suggest but for an foreigner to get better info from wikipedia and other sources you should try searching the articles in spanish and then use autotranslate. The spanish articles contain WAY more info about those creatures and another ones that dont get even mentioned in the english ones. Just look at the asturian myths page as an example. The whole north of spain and portugal has loads of myths and legends that few people outside th country know about. Very ancient sites, and a whole lots of stories to tell.

The only thing that stinks about Tinkaton is that its attack stat it way too low. For how ferocious it is, is should really have a high attack stat, but it just doesn't for some reason. Gigaton hammer is super powerful, but you practically need to max out its attack stat to really make it worthwhile. Maybe also specifically an attack that is good against corvoknight specifically, like a rock move that is super effective against steel or something. But overall I still love it, core member of my team the entire game.

0:00 When he broke that, I felt it.

I'm so happy to have found this channel, I'm learning so much cool stuff while discussing pokemon :)

Best intro.

Very fitting, duende is a word that is hard to translate into English. Words like imp, pixie, dwarf, goblin, gnome, elf, etc. They just don't convey the same meaning. Duendes are their own thing and will always be a part of hispanic culture... And early 2000's KZfaq.

When Lockstin was going through the trope, I straight said something along the lines of, "Oh, like Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan," only to get whiplash when he said himself shortly after

*smashes bird ornament with hammer* Tinkaton -Lockstin 2022

Tinkaton gang represent