I made a weird error in this video and said Shadow Lugia was introduced in the same gen as Lugia, something I know clearly not to be true. I am befuddled and ashamed, but you can make me feel better by buying merch hahahahahaha https://mandjtvmerch.com/

Even if you made that mistake the rest of the argument still holds, that form can't be used in other games

Hahaha

Typhlosion should get a mega and g max cause it's the best

Bruh

No, you suffer in your foolishness. I shan't but your merch. Also, I can't anyway since I don't get paid for another week

15:19 also giving Shuckle an evolution means that Shuckle will be able to use an Eviolite, making it's defenses even more insane

Oh god

tbh....Shuckle is purely a wall and that's it, it's defensive stats are astronomical....and then literally everything else is bad

Yeeees 😈

@@bulborb8756 It's also a hazard setter.

I want a shuckle evo now

I just wanna say this. if GameFreak does give Shuckle an evolution, it means you can give Shuckle the Eviolite. which means it can basically tank like, 3 Water Spouts

from primal kyogre in rain

Change how the eviolite works, if the Pokemon has 200+ special defense and physical defense it boosts attack +50%, which shuckle needs to boost

@@MacaroniHairZenitsu16 That could actually work

Wow, that’s more than a billion lions could handle.

And then just get Toxic'd and set-up on. 🙄 I mean, yes I know this isn't a Competitive channel but

There’s a reason Rowlett, Oshawott, and Cyndaquil were the chosen mons to be starters. Each of their names hold a feudal Japanese reference in which Legends of Arceus was built around- feudal Japan. Not to discount the lack of love chikorita and todadile got but there were reasons.

At least they could've made Chikorita and Totodile accessible somewhere, since it sucks that both of those starters are just locked away from people for like 3 regions already. And the games that had them prominently are like almost 15 years old (the only other thing they even got in those years was being a gimmick reward for qr codes in gen 7). I love all 3 Johto starters and it sucks that only one was avalible in new games (not counting BDSP, since they are remakes - and they cut the whole dex after gen4, but I'm glad they are usable there). I get it that other starters are also absent most of the time (which also sucks, since pre Switch era games tried to make all previous starters somewhat relevant/accessible, even if they were post game or hidden content).

@@dozzy9984 all the past-gen starters are returning in the Indigo Disk DLC!

You mentioned how giving Sudowoodo an evolution/regional form would change too much because of its theme, so i think giving it a Convergent line would be perfect! You'd be able to make another sudowoodo without changing the original sudowoodo!

And make it Grass type

@@joshblue65gaming43 it could be like "people are so used to knowing Sudowoodo isn't actually a plant, but they'll never see this coming."

Make it a plant pretending to be a rock

Or have Sudowoodo gain moss to make it Rock/Grass. Heck, even make the moss its own Pokemon.

​@@peterrealar2.067kinda like Dhelmise

The only upside I can think of for baby forms is they let some Pokemon be encountered earlier than they normally would and give the satisfaction of getting one more evolution as you play. It's neat to, for example, get a Pichu at the start of SuMo and work with it to get it to Pikachu instead of just getting a Pikachu right off. Azurill is another one like that, and I remember catching one early on in my Pokemon Y game to use as my Water type in a playthrough. Better example might be something like Smoochum, since Jinx is almost always caught super late but Smoochum could be placed in the wild early, or Igglybuff, which you can get super early in SV, but Jigglypuff normally is an early/mid encounter instead of a route 1 encounter. It's not a lot, but it's one purpose for baby forms, I guess!

I feel that a Future Paradox Ledian would be pretty cool. It wouldn't improve actual Ledian but aside from a new evolution which would be likely to mess up the designs simplicity, it seems like a good compromise.

For what it's worth, Ariados was gifted a signature move in Gen 7 that would actually be a pretty solid move if given to a pokemon with better stats.

yeah cause ariados has god awful stats, especially with how slow it is cause it doesn't have a single niche

Glad someone else remembered! I loved using my Toxic Thread Ariados in the Battle Tree, even though it wasn't very good

Yeah still could benefit from an evolution. Would be cool if it had a regional form that mimicked Durant since theoretically part of Ariados’s design inspiration was an Ant-Mimic Jumping Spider.

I loved my Ariados, whom I named "Sheeeeeeeesh". He got me a 50-streak in Doubles at the Battle Tree. I ran a bulky biased set with Toxic Thread, Sucker Punch, Baton Pass, and Fell Stinger.

Lol

You can also use Shadow Lugia in Pokémon Go, which is also weirdly connected to the mainline for trading. It's specially important because it was probably the inspiration for the concept of all shadow Pokémon in Pokémon Go. Shadow Lugia could be seen as an upgrade to Lugia from a DPS perspective too. They should just make it canon as the alternative form in the mainline games since it has appeared in two pretty prominent spinoffs.

I always liked the idea of a regional Noctowl that looks like a snowy owl and is Ice/Psychic. Hisui would've been a great opportunity for that

Polities actually got a huge buff. In gen 5 It got the drizzle ability, summoning rain when it enters the field. Since weather was permanent in gen 5, Politoed skyrocketed in usage as the only rain setter. Later, however, Pelipper would outclass it in this role.

I've had a very cool idea for a Shuckle evolution. Give it like a multi layer stack of rotating shells that it can shoot juice out of. Keep the defense and maybe bump the attacks just a very tiny bit. After taking a certain amount or type of damage the shells break, like Eiscue, and after that slash the defense but shoot up the attacks and speed. Boom, new Shuckle.

Honestly love the Johto Pokemons and I do wish they receive more love in general

THE PLURAL FOR POKEMON IS NOT POKEMON! NO S!

It's worth mentioning Unown did get a buff in Legends Arceus by changing how Hidden Power worked. Now it's not just one type, but it picks a type the opponent is weak to. That's a pretty giant buff, considering that's Unown's only move.

And then Hidden Power was restored to its original functionality in SV

@@MaxWelton Non-existence? AFAIK it's not in SV at all.

Spiritoumb.

@@bhuggins6059 No Pokemon has Hidden Power in S&V. It doesn't even work if you were to transfer a Pokemon in, currently.

Amazing how much PLA fixed

The Sunflora "puzzle" was my favorite on SV. Supes adorbs seeing those happy boys prancing behind you.

A mega for Ho Oh and Lugia, or even some Primal form love considering their importance to the ecosystem would be amazing.

I would adore an alternate version of Meganium. One that makes it a more attack viable starter than the support/defense it has always been. And it also comes from my favourite Pokemon ever. Really, I just want a new game to pick Chikorita in. It's definitely the red-headed stepchild of starters. (Probably why I like it so much, as I actually am a red-headed stepchild.) Maybe in a new Legends game that I desperately hope they make.

The lore behind the creation of lugia is enough for me. I absolutely love lugia and once I found out the story behind it I'll never complain about lugia never getting extra attention

Magcargo’s evolved form can be done through a metal coat trading. Also, imagine if Smeargle gets different VARIANTS based on “creative” occupations. Like a defensive smeargle variant that can “cook” up new moves.

You must do Hoenn next! I think everyone is suprised that Milotic got nothing all these years.

I don't think completely ignoring Jynx is the right call. I get not wanting to draw attention to... you know. It's weird that the pokemon she's sandwiched between and were getting things distributed to them evenly. Then Jynx got the boot. (Those 2 being Electabuzz and Magmar.) Give me a Jynx evolution that looks like that picture of Rapunzel from Tangled when she wraps herself in a hair cocoon. Adorable!

Firstly, I'd like to mention Mantine DID get special treatment in Gen 7 with the Mantine Surf minigame… And trust me, Crobat was definitely the center of my attention when I was trying to complete the Arkoos Pokédex…! Had to catch the stupid guaranteed Alpha one cuz the Golbat I was trying to evolve refused to be my best friend!

I'm sure you already have ideas, but I was wondering if you could rate how well the original gen 1 mini sprites fit the actual Pokemon they're based on? Gen 2 as well, if you're feeling bold 😊

I’d love to see Lanturn get a regional variant that’s Ghost/Water, having it be a guide for the souls of people who die at sea. A regional evolution on top of that would be awesome too.

game freak needs to hire you asap

Maybe in a Greek region! As the farer to the underworld!

@@dontnswerthat for real.

Give him a Fire/Water regional would be better for me.

@@dontnswerthat I said that EXACT same thing when I read Leviathan's comment 😂😂 that idea is so sick

I would argue that base stat totals in the 400 aren't weak for the time, but more below/above average. 420 and below would be below average, 421-479 is average, and 480-500 is above average. But definitely not weak since at the time many of the Pokémon were in that 400 stat total category and focused on one high stat above others. Stats around 600 should be amongst few and rare Pokémon in my opinion

12:55 kinda think for unknown would be cool to make it a collectible like Legends and once collecting them all they form into a new viable pokemon. They got rid of hidden power effectively, making it usless in battle, so having it be part of a collectible role almost like Gimmighol sounds cool, and we kinda see them used to create things

DO NOT LEAVE OFF THE U IN GIMMIGHOUL!

@@Amelia4111why wold yo not leave the in gimmighol

If they could make a Jhotolegends showing you how the tower burns down that would be cool. They could add in extras such as Xatu having an evolved form, feraligatr as a dark and water, or ground and water and Meganium with a Grass poison typing, while possibly adding adding in a starter from a different region to cover the 3rd pick. They could also add in ever evolutions with that due to the focus on eevee in Jhoto

It's "Johto"

I think a good change for wobbufet (aka a regional form) is a wobbufet that is an extremely frail but really hard hitter that is really fast.

Honestly with unown they need to have an evolution method involving using them for their intended purpose (writing messages). It's kinda their thing that they show immense power in groups so if a group of them are put together in a specific order somewhere maybe they all become a single evolved whole?

I can actually see Sunflora's potential to evolve. I'd like to imagine Sunflora's evolution being a Grass/Fire type because it's a "sun" flower. Kinda like if Volcarona was a flower.

I highly doubt Sunflora will ever get an evolution, concidering it's a stone evo, and so far they have all been final evos. I don't know how stone evos would be able to evolve further unless GameFreak introduces a new fancy hyper-stone evolution method or such. But if such a method were to be created in, say, gen 10, Delcatty DESPERATELY needs an evolution as well, being the actual worst stone evo, even worse than Sunflora, at least imo, idk if some genuises have figured out a way to make Delcatty pseudo-OP in some way while Sunflora is still just playing hide and seek in plant pots.

@@Rubywing4 and why not both? There plenty of unexpected evolutions gamefreak did. Like people barely expected bisharp end primape to evolve.

@@Alouette_EXE The thing is, the new unexpected evolutions were on mons that either have no evos or evolved through level-up, not stone evos. Not sure what you mean by "both", if you mean Delcatty and Sunflora, I mean, I never said either needs an evo more than the other, they both need evos desparately. I'm just saying, Sunflora has pretty good Sp. Attack but bad everything else, while Delcatty has bad stats across the board, the only good stat being its speed at 90, which is only decent.

@@Rubywing4 well i mean both Delcatty and Sunflora. And it doesn't matter if Sunflora is a stone evo or it has a high special attack. Gamefreak always has different weird mechanics on how to evolved certain pokemon and it is still a fact that Sunflora is a first evolution so it still has a room to evolve.

@@Alouette_EXE I know it has room for an evolution, I'm just doubtful it will get one because stone evos so far have never gained an additional evo beyond pre-evos, which has not helped their case at all. But hey, who knows? Maybe GameFreak will surprise us with breaking their unspoken rule of stone evos in future gens.

What I’m learning from this video is that we need another Johto remake

I know that gen 7 is in the past, but imagine an Unown Z-move that acts like no retreat and an actually good psychic attack But it can only be used on Unown-Z

I think a shuckle evolution could totally be done. I've seen plenty of fanart out there of it and even drew one myself. Made it also fighting type and called it ShuckleDuster.

IMO a cool idea for a skarmory evolution would be an apex predator that can easily take down corviknight. I also think it should lean into the whole "feathers like swords" thing

1:10 actually, the first time a starter got a new form without the other two getting anything was Greninja gaining the Ash forms, while Delphox and Chesnaught getting nothing

thats anime original though

And besides that, Samurott and Decidueye got something but the other gen 5 and gen 7 starters got nothing, so people who know what legends Arkoos is but not Ash-Greninja would also complain about that.

​​@@shadowdragonemperor4250I'm guessing you mean "anime original". Which sure, it did show up first in the anime, but it's not an anime exclusive thing since you can get Greninja with battle bond in games through events, it has it's own base stat total of 640 which is massive compared to it's regular base stat total of 530 and it has been used in Online competitive play, meaning it's usable and ultimately has the edge over it's other fellow starters because of that.

I really wish they would bring back the “baby Pokémon in the wild have 3 perfect IVs” thing. It really gave an incentive to catch and raise them.

I mean, while that is nice in a way, a huge issue right now is that baby pokemon cannot breed, but are the result of breeding regardless of incense. Due to baby pokemon being much more common and a lot easier to catch, I kinda get the IV thing, but on the other hand, hypertraining kinda replaced that.

In which gen it worked?

@@ldmtag Gen 6. To be precise, any wild Pokemon in the "Undiscovered/No Eggs" group would be guaranteed tp have at least 3 perfect IVs. This was presumebly done to make getting competitive-ready Legendaries less painful, but a side effect of this made Baby Pokemon (which can't breed either) be affected by this too.

It is worth mentioning that lugia got a really playable card in the tcg that was so good that almost every non lugia deck in tournaments was a lugia counter deck

Baby mons serve as a means to get baby moves into their fully evolved forms. Also, some people play casually and want Pokemon even if they aren't viable competitively, which, in some cases, causes people to get creative and change the meta.

It's weird to me that Jhoto pokemon don't get more love. I started with Red Version, but, with the exception of dangling powerful stone-evolution pokemon like Bellsprout and Growlith in your face then not giving you easy stone access until the late game, I mostly thought the games were better-designed. They're not that much less iconic, either, since Silver and Gold were near release by the time the games became handheld staples.

AGAIN, THE H IN JOHTO SHOULD BE AFTER THE FIRST O! AND GROWLITHE IS SUPPOSED TO END WITH AN E!

Re furret, they should do a split evo based on the angora (fairy) breed and European Polecat (dark). Both are regularly bred into ferret normal lines and I think it would be a cool nod to that

For Unown, you can have a gimmick evolution that requires capture of all Unown forms and which gains Arceus's ability (from Legends) that Hidden Power will always hit for super-effective damage and it will always resist

I feel Ledian actually has the highest chance of any early route bug to get something. It just feels like it has more potential than the others

Just make it a golden bug-angel-thing with winged boots. There. Excellent idea.

Ledian does have the most potential. They better give it something.

New Pokémon forfortress megmegmagniem

Ledian looks awesome. Such an obscure pokémon but i think it looks so dang cool. Like a bug Astro-boy. I would totally be with them leaning into that more and going for another Bug x Steel type.

Make him bug/fighting

Scizor got HUGE love in gen 4, it got an AMAZING ability, Bullet Punch and U-Turn. It may not have gotten a new form, but the relatively small changes that it got were a GODSEND for it. This also applies to Cloyster for fen 1 with Skill Link in combination with Icicle Spear, Rock Blast AND Shell Smash, a terrifying combination. Also Ho-oh and Lugia got love woth their awesome Hidden Abilities (Regenerator and Multiscale respectively). Azumaril also got love in gen 3 with Huge Power, sure it wouldn't fully be able to take advantage of it until the next generation. Also Scyther, Scizor and Cleavor all share the same base stat total, they just distribute it differently, so Shuckle could get an evolution. The thing is that a pokemon getting attention isnt just the obvious things like evolutions, Megas or regional forms, sometimes it comes in the form of an amazing Hidden Ability becoming usable (Gliscor, Espeon, Alakazam, Politoed, etc.), being given moves that it benefits from greatly (see Cloyster or Scizor), or even boosts to their Base Stats.

Gen II is my favorite gen, so I agree with all of these, though a few of the "get a new evo" I'm not sure about, just because I like the current form so much. Noctowl is my favorite flying type and Ledian/Ariados are both fairly high on my bug list. Then again, my favorite stage in a line is quite often the middle stage, so this would just keep that trend, assuming the new final stage didn't hook me as much. But then I'm stuck with lower stats if I want my preferred stage. Crobat is my favorite pokemon overall, so I'd like to see a cool regional form for it. But since Sneasel and Quagsire's (other top favorites) new forms were less appealing to me than their normal form, I'm assuming I'd be disappointed in the new bat.

I remember watching the Johto episode Ariados Amigos and thinking how cool it was. I'd like it to have an upgrade. Also I think Jinx was left out of the trio in getting a new evolution so it should get a new one since its a Kanto pokemon with a new Johto baby form just like Clefairy. I'm also really anticipating a new Lugia form since its my favorite Legendary. Overall Johto is my favorite region and Gen. I hope it gets some more love.

I always tell myself that all original 151 Pokemon (or atleast one in each evolutionary family) will have a new form (regional variant/mega evolution/ gigantamax) or an additional evolution before the franchise ends, but I hope Johto Pokemon will too.

I use ladian a lot in Pokémon stadium 2, if you transfer it into your game with a good move set it’s actually quite viable, you can go the spore route and use it as a stall Pokémon and just sleep, paralyze your opponent. You can also go with sunny day and solar beam direction along with giga drain and correct me if I’m wrong but I think it can learn fly and even hyper beam

I know you counted getting the fairy type as special treatment for azumarill, but its also worth mentioning the fact that it was given the ability huge power in gen 3 when abilities were introduced. That plus the physical/special split in gen 4 made azumarill so strong. It's just been getting better and better over the years

It had huge power in gen 3? Are u sure. I thought it was only thick fat in gen 3 but in gen 4 he got huge power which started it getting buff and better

@@brentrobinson3275 it had both huge power and thick fat in gen 3, but at that time all water moves were special so they were unaffected by huge power. In gen 4 there was the physical/special split so moves like waterfall became physical and could utilize huge power

@@quaidreynolds4432 belly drun+huge power=shred

@@BrineOkale yeah it’s so useful when it immediately dies after using belly drum

It's like wine: the more time passes, the better

Gen 2 introduced so many cool pokemon, but so many either sucked in battle, or you just couldn't find them in a casual playthrough of the region. This is why I so want a remake of the Gen 2 games in some way, and with an interesting spread of the pokemon from that region so you can use them on your journey

I'd love to see a new evo for smeargle, keeps same stats (maybe even lower all stats except for HP or something) and giving it a new ability were after it uses a move in it's move set it switches the entire moveset into a secondary moveset and after using one of the moves in that set it switches back. Call it "Palette Swap". Would just love to see it do something wacky with 8 moves but might be completly busted ahah

I recall nicknaming my Ledyba/Ledian “Ledrior” a few times, and somehow tricked myself into thinking Ledrior was the name of a third stage. For that alone I’d be down for giving them a new evolution.

The editing is on point in this video ❤

What they could do with unknown is to finally use them as we see them in the lore: as a way to "bend reality" by collecting and arranging them to cause something impressive to happen.

Personally, I've had an idea of Octillary evolving into a giant pirate ship that's also a giant squid, with canons under its suckers. I gave it the water/steel typing, and named it Kalarmada.

Oh my god, that name is absolute perfection. I'd love to see this officially

Honestly, Dhelmise would be much more suited to have a pirate ship evolution

I think it would fit better as Water/Steel

K A L A R M A D A BABY!

DO NOT GIVE A POKÉMON WITH MOODY AN EVO

My theory for Legends Arceus starters is that they picked the starters that were doing exceptionally well in their generations. Typhlosion was doing well, thanks to the second gym being bug type, and its also the favourite starter. Samurott was doing well in casual playing, but Emboar is definitely better in competitive but theres already a fire starter. Decidueye was a favourite for Alola games as Incineroar and Primarina are masculine and feminine, but honestly Primarina is definitely the best starter for competitive. As for why the other generations' starters were never picked, I think its because they have around the same fans. Gen 1 and 3 are obvious, Gen 4 is also fairly equal, and so is Gen 6 (Even DELPHOX) and Gen 8 (They are all really bad)

Multiple years before the gen 1 version of this, I thought of an evolution for Skarmory called Excalibird and its feet were swords.

I think it’d be interesting to consider these Pokemon’s love in other media. Noctowl is Ash’s ONLY Shiny, etc.

I always been a fan of Ledian and Lantern too. Not gen 2 but I would love to see an Evo for Lumineon hopefully it looks like mix of Dragonair Milotic. Jynx needs an Evo too.

I think unknown deserves a paradox form because in the movies it was shown in ancient texts and with that logic, it could be like a psychic dark type And probably have an ancient scroll design where if you’re able to read it you’ll die but hey, this is just an idea of mine

Wynaut was actually really important to making Wobuffett usable as it lets Wobuffett learn Encore which is huge since it takes away the need to predict what attack the opponent is using.

Yes

Well that is true but they could have added encore to wobuffett. Atleast it is good for wynaut memes

i think a really weird thing for unknown that could make it better is an ability that allows it to become stronger when paired with another unknown. maybe when two unknowns are on the field on the same side, both get a x2 stat boost. They will still only know hidden power, but with a bst on par with legendaries, it might hit a little bit harder. if its too broken they can reduce the buff to 1.5, but that reduces the gimmmick a little.

*IT'S UNOWN, NOT UNKNOWN! FIX IT NOW!*

Well needed video. Quite frankly, I feel that Game Freak just completely forgot about Johto. HGSS is amazing! But SO MUCH more love needs to be given to Gen 2...

For sudowoodo, and maybe others too, in a legends celebii game we could see a new evolution similar to kleavor. Imagine a giant ancient tree boss battle.

I used a Lanturn named Flicker on my main playthrough team of Shield, it was the first pokemon game I ever played beginning to end and I used the exact team all through the DLC as well (with the exception of replacing my Thievul with the gift Silvally from the battle tower). It's not my favorite pokemon but using it on my team definitely made me grow a soft spot for it, so I'd definitely be down to see it get some love. And, funnily enough, it stood out the most from the rest of my team, being the only one that had dual typing, a non-attacking move, was not in a regular pokeball, and was the last addition to my team before the champion. And surprisingly, despite its "meh" stats, it did manage to pull through for me in some really tough battles so I have Flicker to thank for that! If I were to use that same Lanturn again it'd be nice to see it get a well-needed upgrade so it can continue to be awesome.

I think it'd be cool if Unown could evolve if you had every form and maybe some item. Could turn into a book since it's just letters, maybe with more Unown swirling around it

Lugia and Luigi sound like they could be two box art legendaries.

Yes

luigi, oh yeah oh yeah

Luigia

Luigi time.

@@ze_kirby_man The fusion

So, first up: Crobat got new moves it didn't actually need, like Heatwave. Wobbuffet got Shadow Tag, because in gen 2 abilities weren't a thing. Jumpluff could get 20 added to its special attack and would actually be pretty interesting, since it would be fast, have decent special bulk, and also has access to Leech Seed. Lanturn's bulk means that giving it a little more special attack oomph, maybe 15 points, would make it viable, because its typing and reasonably good movepool makes it pretty usable, yes, even if its stats aren't overwhelming except for its HP. You're really off your game here.

a cool idea for a shuckle regional form is changing the insane defense to speed or attack while keeping the other stats bad, like if it had a regional form for attack it could remove the shell and get strong hands or something like that, if it got a regional form that focuses on speed it could have some sort of electronic mechinism to make it move fast like wheels or a jet engine.

I think if it got something similar to aegislash where it swapped its stats it would increase its usefulness

Mikey,you should try out a fan game called infinite fusions,you can fuse any Pokémon you want and every single fusion is actually good and the creators putted a lot of work on these designs, there’s also a randomiser mode

Meganium should be a grass dragon they need to add wings and it would be dope. Imagine a grass dragon who knows fire blast or solar beam . I think that concept would be dope. And I love dragon pokes

Azumarill and Marill both got Huge Power as an upgrade in Gen 3. Arguably as important as the fairy type upgrade imo

And Huge Power did nothing for it before the Gen4 physical/special split,

@@trinketmage8145Indeed but even then it was a bit middling in gen 4 and 5 due to its low speed stat. The fairy type completely made it broken however.

Idea for Xatu evo: Xanatu (based off the concept of Xanadu, but following the naming convention of its pre-evs) Ghost/Flying After having gazed into the future for so many years, it was finally able to peer into the afterlife. What it saw was so shocking, this pokemon passed away due to shock.

Reminds me of how Gothitelle will have visions of how the universe ends and just casually shares them with other Pokémon. xD

Cool concept. Kinda like annihilape who got so angry that he died

Wouldn't Ghost/Psychic be better assuming that it's not a bird anymore?

THANK U THANK U THANK U THANK U IF THIS HAPPENED IT WOULD BE FOR ME THE SAME REACTION OF ANNIHILAPE

a good concept for a sudowoodo evolution design back in the 2d sprite games when it was used to block a path by pretending to be one of the buses you used cut on, would have been for it to take it's disguise to the next level and make it look like of the regular trees, but with different colours or shading, idk. and the way you'd be able to tell if it was the evolved sudowoodo would be if you could see an item or an area behind it, or it could just be the colours used to indicate that it was a fake tree, but that can't really be used as effectively now as the whole sudowoodo pretending to be a bush isn't really a thing anymore as both the move cut and the watering can item just aren't a thing anymore, and the change to 3d open world has severely reduced the use cases of a roadblock like sudowoodo or a potential evolution.

13:00 I've actually thought about an evolution (kind of) for Unown. It would be based on having multiple Unown combine to become a word or a full on sentence. This would make sense with how they are often seen swirling around in rings together. This would just be that essentially with the Unown being attached to each other to create a full ring which could spell out a word or sentence. I know it would be a pain to figure that out code-wise and keeping it kid friendly, but I see the potential. Plus, they could get cool punny names like Onword and Sentrance or Sentaur. I love a good pun!

Verbundance?

I agree, with the crobat thing, its the third stage from Zubat. Because between them is, Golbat, why not have a regional varient for the Zubat line. Something based off of a bat found in Europe, like a giant bat for galar and a free tail fox version for France, involving Kalos. Plus Polynesia has a lot of bat types, one is grey and looks like a fossil. It could work, because there are a lot of types bats, especially ones that are red, which could add a fire flying type for another region based somewhere like Australia or Mexico.

I love crobat. It’s one of my best Pokémon in bdsp. And I’ve used it in other games before too

The Johto starters would have been perfect for Megas. Their were obvious type additions that would worked perfectly with their current designs: Fairy for Meganium Dragon for Feralagatr Steel for Typhlosion

I know they already had the dialga/Celebi time travel stuff in the mystery dungeon series but it just makes so much sense to tie them into scarlet and violet DLC with time travel being such a focal point of the games. Dialga is already featured in Legends Arceus and could be a great way to tie that in and Celebi could be used as a way to explain bringing the paradox Pokemon to the present

It's certainly interesting to think about, but I disagree with it making sense. Dialga is from hisui/sinnoh, which is based on Hokkaido in Japan. Celebi is also from a region based on a place in Japan. Scarlet and Violet take place in what is very Spanish/Portuguese. The looks and feels of Dialga and Celebi don't fit neatly with the region. The time travel machine fits much better, both in the story and as design. A product of a professor becoming obsessed with learning more about this strange place and it's past/future, which has become out of control and sucking more and more pokemon from other times into the present. And aside from that, it would be really weird to have a legendary Pokemon from a different region play a main role in games that take place in a completely different region on the other side of the world. Legends Arceus and the mystery dungeon had legendaries play a role in the story where their home region is (near), so that was much less jarring

First time I've watched one of your vids and understood the fondness for Legends. Finally sank my teeth into it just recently and easily the best Pokemon game...ever? Damn close if not.

It would be kind of interesting if they gave Ho-Oh and Lugia a third legendary counterpart. I always saw Ho-Oh as representing the Sun and the Sky. While Lugia was more of a symbol for the Moon and the Sea. Also one was associated with the Beast Trio while the other was related somewhat to the Bird Trio. So a third counterpart bird embodying the Earth as both the planet and the element could work and maybe make it relatively associated with the Swords of Justice Trio.

I really want to see "every Hoenn Pokémon GameFreak forgot". Tropius and Castform are waiting :)

I wanted to see "Every Pokemon that can't be obtained on the Switch" discussing every Gen 5-7 Pokemon that are not in any Switch games as of making that video

Fun fact: you can actually pick them in OR/AS I think it’s when you complete a certain amount in the national dex or regular idk I just remember having a typhlosion in alpha shaphire you can get gen 2 and 5 starters but you can only pick one of each gen

Only recently has skarmory gotten outclassed by corviknight, I can see a regional variant but anything else would make it waaaaayyyyy to good

I was genuinely surprised Sunflora got nothing in gen 9. Especially since it had a focus from the grass leader. It could've absolutely gotten a new Evo in Scarlet and Violet.

While watching i kinda thought of an idea for shuckle a regional veriant that switches his high defence stats for a high attack stats it could make for a decent glass canon depending on the types and moveset

Fire/Fairy for a Ho-oh variant and Water/Dragon for a Lugia variant; it keeps them as strong rivals, and also feeds into their respective legends, with Ho-oh being the deliverer of dreams and fairytales being the stories of dreams, and the beast of the sea for Lugia as an exceptionally strong water dragon.

The problem with trying to give Shuckle an evolution isn't what it's stats would be. It's the fact that Eviolite Shuckle would exist

In gen 7 they actually buffed ariados giving it a whopping 10 bst in sp def (originally 60 sp def 390 total Also i think it was gen 7 or 8 it got a unique move, shame it sucks so hard

I would love a split evolution from Wynaut, where some scientist in the new region makes a Wynaut evolve without getting its disguise, and actually gets attacking moves

I actually think an evo for Octillery could work really well. If you give it the same treatment as Dracopult where it can use Remoraids like guns it can pull out. Make it an armory of sorts, have it evolve into a squid even. So more tentacles, Remoraids stored in its body, and then it would come full circle with the whole "gun fish" motif.

Glocktopus.

maybe a cthulu that is controlled my a remoraid in an egg

No it clearly has to evolve into a jellyfish. They have even more tentacles and are from a different phylum, which is perfect for that nonsensical evolution line.

Machine gun fishes

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I love smeargle and even then i agree that it shouldn't get an evolution due to it's ability to learn every move Perhaps a region form of some sort with simmilar base stats but new typing and ability Potentially a smeargle for gen 9 based off of digital art could be very cool considering gen 9's whole past and future theme Plus even just having smeargle in gen 9 would be nice as it would be intresting to see smeargle's dynamic considering other gen 9 pokemon like grafaiai and such

I'd argue that Skarm wasn't really hurt by power creep, so much as being specifically outclassed by corviknight in most roles. It doesn't significantly struggle to hold up to the higher power level of newer gens. There's a meaningful difference between: can't hold up and something does most of the same jobs better

Kingdra would have been a perfect candidate for a mega evolution, it needs something new to make it relevant again. Also jumpluff and meganium need some love as well

Been rooting for lugia and ho oh to get some love since realizing every other box legendary has a gimmick like mega, primal reversion, fusion, or in gen 8 and 9's case, a simple forme change As cool as shadow lugia is, it doesn't really count, and i hope that the birds and beasts getting attention is setting up for something really cool with lugia and ho oh

In fairness Ho-oh and Lugia both did get some of the best hidden abilities compared to other legendary Pokemon with regenerator and multiscale

I think the best they could do for Sunflora, was either evolve it or give it a secondary type - like fairy. Sunflora using Dazzling gleam or play rough just makes sense to me.

Or a more sun-like one that's Grass/Fire. But I could kinda see Grass/Fairy too.

An ice type noctowl would be a cool play for snowy owls as a varient ^^

Now the question is when will Gen 3 Pokémon show up. While there will be more, I am curious about what you think those Pokémon deserve

A cool idea they could do for Lanturn is a regional form plus a regional evolution so it can get a well needed BST boost. They could change it from a happy angler fish to an aggressive one, like real life anglers. They could make it water/dark which would be very fitting since dark is evil type in Japanese, as well as anglers living deep in the ocean in literal darkness

Concerning Unown, While it is true that they are a gimmick Pokémon, there is something to be said about leaning into the gimmick. Rather than a new form, I think they should be given new moves. Specifically, I think they should be given access to a list of moves that all have "power" in their name. They already have Hidden Power, so Secret Power, Cosmic Power, Superpower, Power Trip, etc.