You stare into the void of Shedinja's back and the void of Shedinja's back stares back...

Truly great Pokemon design, in my opinion: it show cases generation 3's most important battle mechanic, abilities, in a way that's both intuitive to Pokemon players AND that fundamentally alters how battles work when its out, all while being very well balanced. Then the actual design is so simple: cicada shells are creepy and do look sort of alive and sort of dead at once, and Shedinja is a fantastic version of that. It keeps the spirit of the original Pokemon games, which were based on catching bugs in your backyard as a kid: here is something you could meet in real life, and never meet in real life. Splendid video too! Shedinja is a favorite of mine. Every piece of this Pokemon from catch condition, visual design, its basis in real life biology, and its innovative ability make it so memorable.

Shedinja is prolly less of a Western-style possession and more of the traditional Japanese trope where "object gains sentience/soul after some time", mostly used in yokai folklore.

Nice video kinda reminded me of cacturne and how in one of its dex entry where it says it hunts humans

Shedinja is also a favourite of mine, I always liked its gimmick, and it's the mon that started my love for the Bug type as a whole.

So giving the bug a back scratch is out of the question

Two things: 1. You don’t just need an empty party slot. You also need a PokéBall in your inventory. 2. A cicada’s carapace isn’t produced by a metamorphosis. It’s a byproduct of molting. Exoskeletons are rigid, so when the cicada outgrows it, it sheds it and grows a new one.

Considering the dex says “believed”/“said” instead concrete evidence of someone’s soul being taken away/dying, like how Mimikyu dex actually having evidence of many people dying. I like to believe it’s just an urban legend in the Pokémon world. Considering how creepy it is that it just appears in it’s trainers pokeball and a ghost type, I can see em making a rumor like that. Especially if Shedinja is known for wanting people to stare into its back, people might’ve taken it as a bad omen lol

A lot of the ghosts of Pokemon are bizarre. Never in my life before Pokemon would I have ever heard of ghosts hatching from eggs.

I always thought you could look inside Shedinja because it is your friend and it doesn't harm friends.

In Go they messed it up, only available from certain events and dies in one hit. I have a Lucky one from a trade and powering it up would just be wasting resources

Shedinja is also an interesting thing in the pmd games, I've seen many users play as one in long dungeons; due to it being a ghost type and having wonder guard- its... Well in pmd rescue team and time, sky & darkness its downright broken

The fact that you need an empty team space for it to appear also adds to the ominous-ness. It's as if the ghost wants to come to you (maybe it likes you, or feels obliged to come because it stole _your_ Pokemon's skin?), but when it sees that it can't because your team is full, it simply floats away disappointed and it's as if it never existed at all. Imagine someone discovering this whole mechanic (how Shedinja comes to be) on a blind playthrough. What would their reaction be?

I have a small theory. What if Shedninja is actually a Mimikyu? They actually share a lot of similarities. When Mimikyu can't find or make their own Pikachu Disguise, they can sometimes find the discarded shell of a Nincada, and use that as a disguise as well. The only weak spot of the disguise would be the opening Mimikyu used to get in: The Back. Both Shejinja and Mimikyu have similarities in their pokedex entrees, where if you look directly at Mimikyu's true form, or in Shejinja's back, you'll die or lose your soul. It's probably not right, but its a neat theory

Gen 3 was my first pokemon game. Ruby to be specific(since red is my favorite color). Nincada was my 4th pokemon I believe. I was super surprised when it evolved, I check my Pokemon and my 6th slot was occupied by a Shedinja. I was like, where did it come from? It took me a while to figure out that it came from Nincada/Ninjask. Dude was super useful and came in clutch in a lot of battles, since he can no sell a lot of trainers. He was also my dedicated False Swiper. He did not like fighting Regirock though.

Fun fact I don't think many people know of; You can actually control what Pokeball Your Shedinja will have. Just put a specific Pokeball in the first slot of Your inventory, cuz usually We have typically Pokeballs

"Pretty crazy ability" And once you give it a Focus Sash, hoo boy.

The shells of most bugs are actually eaten but cicadas leave the shells wherever

Shedninja is really fun to use when you know the move sets of the other Pokemon.

I really enjoy your short form pokemon fact videos. Just the right length to not be a commitment to watch but also long enough to be really intresting! Keep it up!!

Shedinja is my favorite Pokemon I spent 17 days hatching eggs until I got a shiny nincada and nicknamed the shedinja that resulted "1 hit wonder"

I honestly cheated Endeavor and Shadow Punch to Shedinja because I found it funny, and it surprisingly works. Turns it's biggest weakness into it's strength

after looking inside Shedinja's back, you are teleported to Skyrim

The real question is, what happens if you smash this shell, does everything in the world die.

Shedinsh´s soul stealing abilities work, is just that the avatar doesn´t have a soul

Me: I really must experience training a Shedinja. My team of Eeveelutions: *whines* Me: My babies have spoken. *shrugs*

"A discarded bug shell that came to life. Peering into the crack on its back is said to steal one's spirit."

I want to thank you so much for making a video on my beloved Sheddy. Shedinja has been my favorite Pokémon since it’s debut.

I relate to shedinja on so many levels like- we're both dead inside! **cries**

Maybe it's like a cat. They always turn their behinds towards us.

Of all the animated sketches that play before Dobbs' videos, the one about Shedinja is the funniest.

that nincada walking clip is the cutest thing ive seen so far in my day

Shedinja: Cheap Trick, but it's a pokemon

Shedinja is, quite literally, a shell of its former self.

Shedinja is one of my favourite Pokémon as well, especially in duo battles. Does Soak work on Shedinja? If so; a whole lot of new strategies open up.

can’t wait for more, you’ve become one of my favorite pokémon creators, and seeing an upload notification is always a uplifter, even if i can’t watch the video right away.

You’re doing great, fam. Keep it up.

Shedinja's inside is hollow. It's possessed shell

You can’t steal my soul when I H A V E N O S O U L

fact-inside shuckle's back,there is mixed berry juice.

remember, cicadas spend a long time underground before they emerge. And it is stated that Nincada spends a long time before evolving. All that extra time probably stores a lot more life energy or whatever in the shell

Nincada's walk cycle gives me life I adore it. 1:58

Damn man just wanna say I love your vids in my opinion your channel is deserving of millions of subs. Such unique and creative videos❤️

I pictured someone sticking their face into the hole practically and then having their soul swap with it. It throws you into the shell which you don't know how to control and itself into your body. You lie either stuck for eternity or until something someone or some pokemon crushes your abandoned vessel.

4:38 The Pokémon with the lowest HP vs. a Lv. 99 Blissey, the Pokémon with the highest HP and level possible 😂

These Halloween themed videos are so fun!

So basically, don't look too long without conversation, and don't reach into there.

Shedinja's where I keep all emergency savings

I wanna get a Shedinja and befriend it enough that it's okay with me looking at its Back Hole, for science I mean my personal hypothesis is, youd just see the inside of the shell, but ig since ghosts in pokemon are more corporeal than ghosts we have, there might be something in there. maybe its jus really shy ...

0:41 he do be walkin

Never thought a shell would have this much lore

And of course the one time it appears in a major role in the Anime, it's sounds like it's saying it's name with same nasaly, raspy, creepy, tone of voice as "HEEEEERRRRES JOHNNY!" From The Shining. And it also has that sharp high pitched screech chord when it fires an attack from its Halo as it flips to resemble devil horns. It just sucks that it still is so unusable in most Battles Competitive or not simply because any form of Damage it is effected by KO's it including weather, status effects, and entry hazards.

In his back is the embodiment of KZfaq Kids.

"It will be a mere exact copy of the ninjask except it will be different in absolutely every way ever."

Shedinja just looks like an Angel with the sculpt of it's wings and the halo like thing above it's head.

The most questionable is how jessie is able to dress up mimikyu without getting killed by its aura

It's kind of weird. Metamorphosis in bugs like the butterfly actually involves the digestion of most of the caterpillar inside the cocoon. I'm no entomologist, but it could be interpreted that the caterpillar itself dies in order for the butterfly to be born. Then again, highly organized groups of cells from the caterpillar help form the new bug, so it could still be interpreted as the same bug "reorganizing itself." Studies even show that the butterfly remembers stuff the caterpillar does, but is it actual memories, or just copies of the memories from the larvae? There's probably no way to truly know if the critter that crawls out is the same one, but if there's pokemon that would leave behind a "ghost" of its former self, it would probably be something like the butterfly and not the cicada, which simply molts out of it's old shell as it grows. There's no complete metamorphosis. But you can see why the real life cicada would inspire something like Shedinja. The molted shell of a Cicada is incredibly lifelike, looking more like a complete creature than a lot of animals that shed their skin. And the cocoon that the butterfly leaves behind...doesn't look like much of anything at all. Most bugs that have a pupa exit it quite destructively, whereas the cicada doesn't even damage its own shedded skin after growing. But maybe, when looking at the discarded skin of a cicada, you can see glimpses of a past life as a ground crawling creature. And maybe that's what shedinja represented to the pokemon designer. Were they simply trying to do something creative with the shell of a cicada pokemon, or did they really feel that sense of a lost life when looking at empty cicada shells? To them, was shedinja the true original, and the Ninjask the copy, or the other way around, like most people probably think? Is the shell possessed by a wandering spirit, or the spirit left behind? It's hard to know when the pokedex entries of all three forms are so simple, basically being copy-pasted from game to game. There's no further information added from additional generations of pokedex entries; everything has stayed nearly or even exactly the same since the generation 3 games. Either way, the detail of the "wings" of Shedinja simply being part of the torn open shell spread out to the sides is really creative and cool. I have to say that, even if the pokedex entries haven't changed all that much, these ninja cicadas clearly have a huge amount of creativity put into them.

Nincada was my first shiny and I got 2 out of him for evolving it, I had no idea I would get Shedinja when I evolved it with 5 pokemon

Hippity hopity your soul is now their property

"Still with us?" "Yep." "Feeling tired?" "Nope." "Any feeling at all?" "I feel like washing my face."

I feel like it doesn't kill the player if they look into its back because it loves you too much too hurt you and only sucks out souls as a defense mechanism.

The hole in its back is where ninjask comes out of.

Ninjask is supposed to be a ninja, so perhaps Shedninja is supposed to be shadow clone like a lot of other popular ninjas in media

The unforgiving void that will consume the world

You enter the shadow realm when you look in its back

The Black part of shedinja is the local of ninjask get out of the shedinja after evolve to ninjask thats why.

I love Nincada more than Shedinja. I know,Nincada stats very low but- i still love it.

To be fair, a lot of oddball Pokémon have the capacity to be a Ghost type. Just look at Eevee. You just need a special item called Brick.

In Super Mystery Dungeon the Mewtwo fight was so hard I had to use a Shedninja to beat him cause he couldn’t land a crit on the ghost.

Shedinja is such a creepy little *******. But if you're brave (or foolish) enough, you can have one on your team. Just don't lose heart when it gets hit by a super effective move.

in short: your soul.

3:17 I have that Pokemon card also is that a dead person on the card? That's a clue to something kinda looks like a doll aswell

well i think its pretty obvious. shedninja shed=molt shedninja is only just molted shell, thats how insects work. so why theres a hole in its back? well thats where ninjask came out but anyway the first part was included in the video so yeah i made this without watching the whole video 💀

Shedinja is my favourite pokemon, once i got Selebi on one russian site for pokemon fans that is kinda a game, but instead of trading it for anything rare or valuable i traded it for shedinja haha. Never regretted this, because the person i traded with was quite happy :D

Wow, Nintendo can be dark when they want to be

The whole 1 HP thing reminds me of sans

what a fantastic way to kick off the best month of the year!

This is just something i came up with but what if nincada has a commensalism or mutualistic relationship with another pokemon that dies when it evolves into ninjask and takes the shell nincada left behind

It might be the same material mimikyu is made off

I thought about a rock roll

Has GatorEX considered becoming Gato REX: King of the Gatos?

The ghost is (insert black ghost pokemon here) the hole is blocked

The black hole of doom

Shedinja is very cute i want one

3:03 he pulls up

This made me like Shedinja more.

I was expecting a rickroll in the intro

Why does shedinja have defense and special defense stats?

I evolved my Nincada on pokemon go and got Shedinja!?

I would love to see a shed ninja evolution

shed the ninja

If shedninja is a Bug/Ghost does that mean Ninjask should be a bug and dark which represents the opposite where ninjask can outmanoeuvred Shedinja cuz its a ghost and knows dark type moves and I'm gonna mention that ninjask looks is based on a ninja, mayghash gamefreak

well to be honest i dont think any of the player characters in pokemon had a soul anyway

It is really a shame when pokémon with unique types evolve into an over used one Like sursquit and nincada

Hello 👋 love the vids

I was watching your other videos and you upload

boneless nicada basically

nincada is a 2 for 1

GatorEx, do a Mimikyu video please

What if nincada died and became shedinja and the ninjask just became a robot ninja haha just a guess