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Kudos to lockstin for not putting r34 of pheromosa in the thumbnail. That must of been pretty difficult considering who he is.

I would love a spin off Pokemon game set in Ultra Space where the Ultra Beasts are treated like normal Pokemon, complete with a full Ultra Dex.

Fun fact: Pheromosa being obsessed with being clean is something cockroaches actually do. They groom themselves if they something they consider dirty, which include humans. They are still covered in germs, though

I love how in the Xurkitree dimension you can see giant ones in the background, almost makes ya think if the one you catch is a young one

I have another thing for Nihilego and Nihilism. The Irukandji Jellyfish has a venomous sting that can cause a sense of dread and doom, simularly to nihilistic mindsets.

The Ultra Beasts have so much personality injected into them.

a bit about Lusamine as her obsession wasn't there at first put simply, she first had just an intrest in Ultra Beasts, while her family was far more important to her but after she lost her husband, agreed on the "Anti-UB Fighting life-form" project (aka Type: Null), incountering Nihilego and was poisoned by it, before it could escape the love for her family became less and less, while her intrest to Ultra Beasts, slowly grew into an obsession

A fun fact is that the invasive mosquitos in Hawaii are the major reason the Hawaiian honeycreepers (what Oricorio is based on) are declining. They give them avian malaria, which they cannot handle because they evolved without ever being exposed to it. I love it that Oricorio completely dominates Buzzwole one on one though

I always thought that Buzzwoles Shiny was a reference to the Hulk. Also big, muscluar things tend to be green: You got The Hulk, 40K Orks, Doomguy, DB Broly etc.

I love Ultra Beasts, and while it seems unlikely, I wouldn't mind if new ones returned in future generations.

2:28 I'm a bit surprised you would say this. Yes kakapo remain endangered but thanks to captive breeding and moving survivors to predator free islands there are more kakapo in the wild now than there have been in over a hundred years.

People ask about why Game Freak hasn't done a dolphin Pokemon for a long time (Until Gen 9) but I'm surprised it took until Gen 7 to at least have Pokemon based off a mosquito and cockaroach. I think if we get another roach Pokemon, I think Bug/Steel and Bug/Flying are an obvious choice for types seeing as roaches and fly and withstand radiation unless exposed to the heat of a nuclear blast.

So fun fact, cockroaches groom themselves quite a lot, it's how they understand their environment by cleaning themselves with their antenna to both keep themselves clean and sense what kind of environment they are in from the stuff they clean off them. This might also be another inspiration for why Pheramosa hates getting dirty, if it is indeed inspired by a cockroach.

Interestingly enough, Buzzwole displays traits of female mosquitoes (only females drink blood, males feed on nectar) and Pheromosa displays traits of male cockroaches (longer wings, or in this case, "hair").

I wish they would have explored more the ultra beast concept. I would have love to see what other creatures exist on the ultra beasts's home worlds.

Fun fact about Pheromosa’s connection to cockroaches; despite being associated with filth and trash, cockroaches are actually known to obsessively clean themselves all the time, and can sometimes border on being obsessive over grooming themselves.

i love how the ultra beasts are based on contradictions, well at least some of them. Nihilego is flexible glass, Buzzswole is a strong mosquito, and pheromosa is a beautiful (for some people) cockroach

Kartana and Xurkitree are my favorites. Kartana being a tiny flat piece of origami that can and will merc you, is just so funny to me. And Xurkitree being this wire creature with frayed ends and a light for a head is a fantastic design choice (the fact that it learns power whip is just fantastic tbh)

To this day I'm still waiting for a Mystery Dungeon game (or any other Pokemon only spin-oof) to see how they write the Ultra Beats, are they the villains, a completely alien menace, or just lost creatures. So much potential yet to be used.

I love the ultra beast and I love how they are as strong as legendary pokemon but that they are just common Pokemon in their dimension. Which makes me think that the “legendary/mythical” ones would be some sort of eldritch horror with base stats in the thousands similar to gigantamax eternatus. Also think that eternatus is an ultra beast of some kind.

this might be the only channel who does justice to all the effort Game Freak puts in for these designs and concepts. I'm always glad for having you

In the prerelease time for Gen7, the similarities between Pheromosa and Lusamine, Lily and Nihilego and Guzma and Xurkitree made me think they were going to do an alien invasion bodysnatcher plot of sorts. Considering most of my nightmares as a kid came from bodysnatcher stories, I was intrigued to say the least.

Ultra Beasts are the best things in this entire series, I love that people remember them so fondly! Also the thumbnail is adorable

I do think Buzzwole's shiny color is a reference to maybe the most swollen up character in the entire DC universe, Bane. In most of the comics, he's addicted to Venom, a drug that enhances his strength and it's most depicted as a bright green fluid, so it would fit

Am i the only one who loves how he also changed the music to fit the UB? Nihilego starts creepy, Buzzwole with hyped up gym music, Pheromosa with a super model house music

Another thing about UB's being common is that Poipole is actually given out to new trainers like a starter pokemon so It must be somewhat common to do that. But then again you can't find most starter pokemon just out in the wild. So Idk

You couldve also pointed out how UBs also have some contradictions in them Like for Nihilego I think it's supposed to be a solid jellyfish hence the rock type Kartana for example too is a paper origami that actually has strength and can break/slice things with ease

I honestly love all the Ultra Beasts, they’re such interesting designs and can be extremely fun to use with Pheromosa, Stakataka, and Kartana being three of my favorites

I Love The Ultra Beasts. Especially Since Gen 7 was the Generation I grew up with.

I always liked the idea of the Ultra Beasts having natural predators (Ultra Predators I like to call them). I mean, the Ultra Beasts are common species in their dimension, so it's not entirely impossible to think about.

They actually were officially equated to legendaries at one point. A few years back during the "Year of Legends" event or whatever it was, the pokemon website had a list of legendary pokemon, and there were the Ultra Beasts

I remember that i was so excited when i realised that nihlego's name means no(nihil) self(ego)

Fun fact! Pheremosa’s cleanliness actually reflects real-life roaches, who compulsively clean themselves more than you might think

I was thinking Buzzwole's shiny colours are to make it look even more like a Kamen Rider - particularly the one you showed when mentoning them.

0:06 Ah yes, Duraludon, my favorite pseudo-legendary

Buzzwole's shiny reminds me of those squeeze balls that had holes and when you squeezed the inside would pop out. I remember one that was green and black and the inside was bright orange

I originally thought that everyone who dressed up like an ultra beast, eventually were revealed to be one as part of the post game. Like lillie was nihalego, lusamine was pheremosa, guzma was xurkitree, etc

I think the reason why shiny buzzwole is green, is a reference to Kamen rider Ichigo, who was green with red eyes, similar to buzzwole's bulging red muscles

Pheromosa could also point to an opposite specie called Emerita brasiliensis, commonly called "Tatuí" here (tah-too-EEH), a white crustacean hardly over a couple inches that loves to burrow in the wet part of the beach's sand. They are actualy indicators of a CLEAN beach.

It’s so dumb to me they changed the catch rate of the early ultra beasts. I thought by having an early Pokémon catch rate it was like “Buzzwole is this universe’s Pidgey”

I actually really like Shiny Buzzwole, it always reminds me of Mountaindew with the high energy it brings

Yeah, I had a feeling ever since I saw the TerminalMontage version of Snugooi that Lockstin and Terminal's next battle royale video is on the horizon. Kinda surprised its ultra beasts though since there only about a dozen or so of those

"Also, who would win in a battle royale? This isn't foreshadowing" Ah, yes. As subtle as a brick through a window.

Ultra Beasts are the coolest thing ever. I still can't get over the fact they actually included them. Interdimensional aliens are where I'm at!

Never realized the UB's were inspired by invasive species, they just fit smusum so much

Never knew about the invasive species thing but now that you say that, I can see it for most of them. And Pheramosa may just be my favorite bug type, so it's great to see a video on them.

How'd Lockstin completely overlook Buzzwole's shiny being Hulk?

Actually lockstin, niheligo looks like lily because in its pokedex entry it says it can change form and it's original form is unknown. So that means niheligo itself mimicked lily to draw in prey by looking like a little girl, that is also why it behaves like one, because it's mimicking lily.

Ultra Beasts are a little sad because it is speculated in games the reason they are attracted to Ultra Wormhole energy is because they want to go back home.

From what I remember, Sun and Moon had their plots and settings totally rewritten during the middle of production (the originally had a standard Gym challenge for example). However despite the rewrite, GsmeFreak couldn't make any new 3D assets as those were handled by a different company (Creatures Inc. maybe?) so they had to handle the redesign using what they had on hand. This could potentially explain a lot of details, from why certain NPCs strongly resemble a few Ultra Beasts to why a few very distinct looking NPCs barely show up in the game at all (like the Flying and Dragon specialists)

Since the Ultra Beasts are literally ailens, would be really cool to see some more Ultra Beasts in the future since Ultra Sun and Moon introduced them

Man, Ultra Beasts are so cool and interesting. Here's to getting a couple more maybe not in Scarlet and Violet but in another spinoff

I'm surprised you overlooked Nihilego being rock cause it's a silicon-based lifeform, the second-most possible element for life to be based on, and Buzzwole's shiny possibly being an Incredible Hulk reference, THE big strong hero like how Buzzwole is THE big strong Pokemon

One thing about Nihilego that may be a stretch, is that it may be also referencing the trope of silicon based life? It and Stakataka are both Rock type Ultra Beasts. Altho Stakataka may fit that bill more.

I really love Ultra Beasts. Still need to catch them in Moon myself. ^^;

12:42 Needless to say, I'm exited for that.

GF should make a Legends Necrozma game set in Ultra Space where you work in the Ultra Recon Squad where you have to travel between different dimensions in Ultra Space chasing Necrozma around to stop it from absorbing the light from different dimensions. Ultra Beasts would be normal pokémon everywhere, with a pokédex full of them, maybe with ultra beast version of pokémon we've already seen. The game would end with Necrozma getting to Alola in the main pokémon universe during the events of USUM, and you have to work with Elio and Solgaleo/Lunala in order to stop Necrozma, as the events of USUM play out.

fun fact: real life roaches groom themselves constantly, despite their reputation for being filthy because they live in dirty environments. this could have to do with pheromosa’s avoidance of touching things

I always thought shiny buzzwole was a reference to piccolo since the green and red remind me of his arm bump things

I love ultra beasts I was waiting so long for you to cover them. I'd be a bit interested if you also mentioned their unique universes they come from Also shout out to the amazing pokemon go ultra beasts trailer. Making a sort of found footage little horror pov thing I highly recommend.

I think pheromosa shouldve been bug/fairy, so it resists draco meteor, the same way the cockroaches survived the meteros that killed the dinosaurs

Pheromosa is one of the most brilliantly designed Ultra Beasts, I love the detail about its reluctance towards touching anything. It views our world as dirty and unclean, the same way we humans view cockroaches.

11:50 Ironically, cockroaches are known to clean themselves constantly. Which is probably why Pheramosa hates being touched.

Here’s an interesting thing that I realized when you brought up the moon jellyfish; see, when I was a kid, my family and I would go to Virginia Beach for vacation every year. Now I don’t remember exactly how old I was when this happened, or if it was even the first instance, but it was definitely elementary school age, 8-11, that range. And I remember going out to the shore and seeing a sea of jellyfish corpses washed up on the shore. I remember poking them and squishing them, separating them into chunks, despite having no idea what they were. Of course one of my parents explained to me that they were dead jellyfish, I don’t remember having any sort of extreme reaction to that. When I saw the moon jellyfish in the video I recognized the four circles on top of the jellyfish, orb, thing, because the jellyfish corpses on the beach had the same pattern. And I immediately went “THAT’S WHAT SPECIES THEY WERE?!” And my suspicions were pretty much confirmed when you said that they were basically everywhere. As for how they all died, I don’t know, it was cloudy that day and the water was cold, but I don’t think jellyfish are that fragile. If there’s any marine biologists reading this, do you have possible explanations on what could have happened? I remember the jellyfish corpse field thing happening at least once, perhaps more, Also, to save you the trouble of having to scroll back up scene of incident is Virginia Beach, summertime.

Imagine if the next "Pokemon Legends" game takes place in ultra space. Instead of joining the galaxy corps, you're joining the Ultra Recon Squad to study different ultra beasts, and maybe even fight more monstrous ones, like guzzlord. The final boss could be Necrozma. You could explore different worlds, studying dozens of different species of ultra beasts. Poipole could be a starter.

If ultrabeasts are super common in their own worlds then just imagine an army of Buzzwhole flying at you directly

This is a guess but Buzzwole's shiny is based on the comic book supervillain, Bane from "Batman" and the chemical he uses is green. And Buzzwole becomes stronger when consuming the energy from pokemon.

Ah, that's going to be an interesting match. If it were to happen of course, an Ultra Beast Battle Royale.

On the battle royale, of the 3 Ultra beasts described in this episode, I'd put my money on Pheromosa.

I think nihilego would win because it could easily just take over the minds of some of the ultra beasts to make them serve it, maybe by the end of the battle it could fuse with pheromosa like with lusamine for more power, I mean in the anime it was shown how powerful it was by it self creating massive amounts of poison and thick hard alien walls.

Nihilego’s lore would also explain the high encounter rate of Tentacool when you surf in the ocean.

I just realised that Nihilego may be rock type because jellyfishes are closely related to corals, also only other coral pokemon - Corsola is rock type

I love buzzwole, they turned something thought as gross and disgusting, mixed it with something thought as beautiful (bodybuilders) and we got a twisted masterpiece of a Pokémon

Glad to see an ultra beast video considering how interesting their origins are ! Very informative and entertaining

A while ago I came across a guys' video about how the ultra-beasts might have basis on the 7 deadly sins. The ones you speak about in this video as an example: Nihilego is Greed, Buzzwole is Pride and Pheramosa is Lust.

Besides bug aliens also often being colored green in media, it's possible that Buzzwole's shiny is a reference to Akira Toriyama's bug-like alien designs: namely Inner Lavos from Chrono Trigger and Cell from Dragon Ball Z. (They are also *very swole* because Toriyama loves drawing accentuated muscles)

9:36... Hmm, pheremosa is skinny hipped/thoraxed, the final segment isn't fused, with bigger "wings" and definitely no ootheca. Butch Mosquito, Femboy cockroach?

The collor of Buzzswoll shiny maybe has something to do with the Predator thermo vision

I’m fairly certain Shiny Buzzwole is meant to be a nod towards the Namekians of Dragonball, more specifically Piccolo, whose arms have a similar “outlined muscle” look to Buzzwhole.

I would love to see Ultra Beasts used as a regional variant. What would Ultra Lanturn look like?

0:17, actually no, they're not related to the Animalia kingdom at all

Stakataka is underrated Fight me

Finally an episode about Ultrabeasts afeter Blachephalon. Can't wait for other UBs like Guzzlord, Celesteela (which is probaly next) and Stakataka.

This channel has become so good now. Cant wait for new battle royal, UB and Scarlet and Violet videos!

Fun fact: All mythical Pokémon are legendaries but not all legendaries are mythical.

I want to see an edit of the star wars series where it replaces the word force with swag. The prophecy speaks of one born to bring balance to the swag. He will be swag sensitive and born of pure swag. Search your feelings you know this to be facts.

The green Buzzwole bit could be a reference to some of the more vibrant Kamen Riders

This video reminded me what a hilarious missed opportunity the battle with Nihilego!Lusamine was. It was wild seeing this monstrous intimidating design and...then she throws a Pokeball and it's a totally normal trainer battle. It would have been cool if after you defeated all of her Pokemon you had to fight her herself. Either the twist is that that's her last Pokemon ~or~ after the trainer battle she attacks you and it's treated like a Totem Pokemon.

I kinda want to see the Urshifu forms go up against Buzzwole and Pheromosa.

I think it would be a good idea for Lockstin to do a sort of enviromental charity initiative considering how often he ends up talking about enviromental troubles. I mean obviously it's a good idea to be donating to certain causes anyway if people have the funds resources available, but there are definitely some people who lack knowledge of which organizations are worthwhile, and a seal of approval from someone noteworthy can go a long way for that.

1:02 I HAD THAT BOOK! It helped me so much back in the Sun/Moon days when I didn’t have a phone, it was great!

My favourite ultra beast is Xurkitree. It's so silly, its entire name is a pun and I love it.

An animal like thing found on another planet would only be an animal if it happened to be genetically related to Terran animals. If not, we would have to create a new word/category.

Any chance you’ll talk about Ash’s championship win. It’s kinda different than what your Channels about but it’s still pretty cool

9:00 CLOSE, IT'S KING PICCOLO

Maybe the green shiny bits on Buzzwole are partially a reference to something like Bane from Batman's use of "Venom", a sort of super chemical drug that increases their already impeccable strength?

So I like to name my Pokemon off of some of my characters (I'm an author/writer), and, funny enough, I actually named my Buzzwole after a female character and my Pheromosa after a male character.

9:14 The... The Hulk..... It's green because of Hulk....

That was 100% foreshadowing.