"Welcome to Pokemon abilities explained, the ongoing series where I am going through every single ability in the Pokemon games and explaining their name, their effect, and why that name has anything to do with that effect."
"I love the mind games you can play with Zoroark's Illusion ability."
"Greninja, although it debuted in the 6th generation, quickly made its mark among Pokemon fans as one of the most popular Pokemon of all time, rivaling even giants like Charizard and Mewtwo."
"Ash Greninja shaped the entire tier, and one had to go out of their way to be incredibly safe against it defensively, or they would just get crushed."
"Pokemon is just...all the illustrators out there, y'all just been doing some of the best work I've ever seen."
"I can't wait to collect these for myself, it's like Pokemon."
"For the first time in almost 30 years, Articuno truly looked legendary."
"Pokemon announced their newest set... Brilliant Stars... will introduce Pokemon V Star cards like Arceus and Charizard."
"There's always going to be at least one person whose favorite Pokemon is one that everyone else claims to be terrible."
"In the end, Pokemon couldn't help themselves from making the power of friendship prevail."
"This might be one of the most frustrated times I've had in a Pokemon run ever."
"Pokemon Trainer, one of my favorite characters to just watch and even play because I'm just a huge fan of the Pokemon series."
"I remember being obsessed with Pokemon. I just thought it was the coolest thing."
"After three months, I have finally acquired the most valuable Pokemon collection in the world."
"Who's gonna be left to salvage the Pokemon community?"
"Pokken Tournament is a very awesome game; it's Pokemon and Tekken at the same time."
"Have you ever seen a Pokemon this cute? I doubt it."
"The Pokedex acts as a checklist for what Pokemon you’ve seen, a guide to point you to find what you’ve seen but haven’t caught, a lore dump, and an art gallery, all in one package."
"Kalos really does feel like the most unique and most lived-in of the Pokemon regions."
"I've caught many a legendary Pokemon before. I am determined to catch this one."
"I competed in the 2022 Pokemon video game World Championships, the biggest, most important event for competitive Pokemon players around the world."
"For me, Pokemon isn't about reaching the top and staying there. It's about getting knocked down and getting back up over and over and over."
"Every Pokemon can be appealing in different ways; in this context, perfect doesn't mean that a Pokemon is the most worthwhile but simply the Pokemon that satisfies the most amount of people."
"Seeing Infernape using a fully mastered Blaze to help Ash get the win... is not only amazing but poetic."
"Mythical Pokemon...rarity wise that's exactly what mythicals are."
"The Stellar type boosts every single type of move a Pokemon uses, but the catch is it only boosts them the first time they use a move of each type."
"I think it's probably a Pokemon that requires a really specific team built around it and unlike many other restricted Legendary Pokémon you'll probably need to give it a lot of help if you want it to move before your opponent."
"Stellar is a really cool concept and I'm personally happy that we got to experience the Pokémon company experimenting with it in a way that doesn't completely break the game."
"Kyogre's game plan is relatively simple: destroy you with powerful water type attacks."
"Zian Crown is the perfect offensive Pokemon."
"So, what does this mean? That the pokerus is inviable? That it's not a virus and it couldn't exist? Oh, absolutely not."
"Charizard got two mega evolutions and immediately jumped to a place it never been before."
"Abomasnow resisted Kyogre and Groudon stats, could swap the weather on them, and even had the ability to one-hit KO the behemoths via its powerful Grass Knot."
"The world saved, I celebrate by going on a shiny hunting extravaganza."
"Flag on HG: proving Flygon's worth one gym at a time."
"From gym leaders to the Elite Four, Flygon reigns supreme."
"It's so well done and it's a dragon electric type which is such a cool type for a pseudo."
"Gyarados protects the young of Milotic, ensuring the survival of its beautiful genes."
"N sees that past the battle of ideals, their sentiment had been one and the same - one full of hope for a beautiful world for Pokemon to thrive."
"Hippowdon's high physical bulk made it one of the few Pokemon who could take Kangaskhan's hits easily."
"But what is a Wonderlocke? Well, first and foremost, it is a Pokémon nuzlocke, and has the three primary nuzlocke rules."
"These games excel in the core aspects that make Pokemon great to me: interacting with Pokemon, bonding with them, and becoming the best Pokemon trainer."
"An open world game where we see the pokemon in the wild and we throw balls in real time."
"This Tyrogue is going to take us to the next Pokemon."
"This is probably the most fun that I've had with a Pokemon game since the DS days."
"Additionally, Pokemon really should follow you. The Isle of Armor DLC has following Pokemon, but uh, extending the camp feature to be more interactive and unique could really bring out the personalities of the Pokemon even further."
"If you have lots of pokemon with you, it'll be safer on long trips. Plus, it'll be a lot more fun having your pokemon friends along."
"Pokemon legends is no doubt the most important pokemon game to have come out in years and it needs to be good."
"Despite how cute and cuddly and kid-friendly Pokemon looks on the outside, it's a pretty well-known fact at this point that the series can get really dark. And by really dark, I mean really dark."
"Known as the Hypnosis Pokemon, Hypno was a psychic type introduced in the first generation. Its Pokedex entry reads, 'It carries a pendulum-like device. There was once an incident in which it took away a child it hypnotized.'"
"I love the designs first ever ghost normal pokemon I think they're really cool."
"My dream pitch would probably be to see the Pokemon actually moving around the battlefield."
"I like the fact that we're bringing joy to people... I'm happy that I'm making that [ __ ] happen."
"Lucario's like one of my top, probably my favorite Pokemon."
"Who would win, all the pokemon or one billion lions? All the pokemon, you kidding me?"
"New set is here, what is this? Okay, Battle Region. Would you look at that, we're finally getting Pokemon from the new region."
"If you're 16 and over like me you're technically a Pokemon master."
"Human throw's endurance is unrivaled; they can last in battle longer than any other Pokemon."
"Gengar... Ash showed Gengar the kindness it desperately needed."
"One of the most persistent urban legends in Pokemon history was that Mew could be found in red and blue."
"Mewtwo lives up to its name of being engineered to be perfect."
"Mewtwo is the best Pokemon in Gen one, bar none. Run it however you want, it will likely win."
"Mewtwo was still one of the scariest threats you could face, even in the Uber's tier."
"Mewtwo just keeps on mutating. Gen four Uber's was outright terrifying because of the introduction of even more Uber Pokemon."
"Mewtwo just keeps on adapting. The new move in our sphere was the reason for Mewtwo's continued position at the top of the lot."
"It's nice to see a friendly face, you know, Pokemon that you've previously gone through an adventure with."
"But hey, we're starting to stray further and further from the traditional Pokemon format."
"The Flaming bird on the end is super cute and it is also super cool to have a quadrupedal fire starter for the first time."
"One of my new favorite Pokemon of this entire generation."
"I think it has more potential to be entertaining and funny if I just have to come up with why I liked the Pokemon off the top of my head."
"Bulbasaur, very cute Pokemon, a classic gen one starter."
"I know a lot of people think Tauros is a pretty dull Pokemon."
"Heatran is one of those Pokemon that most certainly defines competitive Pokemon."
"Together we're going to become Pokemon Masters." (Repetition, but it stands out)
"Every generation of Pokémon folklore flavor from Japan."
"Check this out: Captain Falcon says pokeball go, I choose you executor!"
"Arceus has rekindled my love all over again!"
"The idea of the Pokemon being balloons was completely made up by the game's English localization team."
"Pokemon cards have been huge since 1999 and even now 21 years later the joy and Nostalgia of seeing all your favorite Pokémon cards is still enough to keep adult collectors involved in the trading card game."
"I actually like it honestly which is a surprise to me because it's probably the first legendary I've liked since gen 3."
"Azumarill is quite awesome. I just love the serene look on their faces. Let's keep Azumarill."
"Quagsire, I just love him floating around, bashing into the sides of boats."
"Alphabet Pokémon where you can spell out words with it, that's just beautiful."
"Sigilyph was everything Sigilyph should have been but designed beautifully."
"Generation 5 had another set of fossil Pokemon but to be honest we were back down into quite feeble ones."
"Generation 4...expanded upon the lore behind the pokemon universe."
"To have Pokemon opening its heart is the same mechanic as friendship."
"Pokemon Colosseum is one of my favorite Pokemon games because of the gameplay."
"Pokemon Colosseum is probably one of the most unique official Pokemon games out there."
"Red is easily one of my favorite protagonists in the entire Pokemon franchise."
"I respect Chris a lot for being the first female protagonist introduced to the main series Pokemon games."
"May just have such a great design and you can feel so much personality coming from her just by looking at her artwork."
"Rosa just has such an adorable and spunky design, she's definitely the most superior protagonist in the universe."
"But with all the positives in mind I think there's no doubt here that game freak has made one of the most formidable champions of all time."
"Steven is still an incredibly strong and powerful Pokemon champion."
"Galarian Darmanitan, or Garmanitan, is one of the most astonishingly overpowered Pokemon of all time."
"I think it's not a broken Pokemon, it just makes a player style good, but it makes all play styles good."
"Regenerator plus shed tail makes this mon kind of, well, as a support mod, this mod is as good as it gets."
"Sword and shield OU was, for the longest time, so I value that very high."
"Now then, if we really wanted to stretch it, you could argue that MOST grass type Pokemon are NOT grass at all."
"How satisfying is that? Whiscash still a very weird Pokemon but I like it."
"That's all the prizes that we're giving away in today's giveaway if you didn't enter or you didn't win."
"Legendary Pokemon, in my opinion, felt more special, because there were fewer of them."
"I played Pokemon Blue like no one's business, it was the coolest game."
"Just give me Pokémon legends please, but I will be very happy playing through the Diamond and Pearl remakes until Pokémon legends comes out."
"An astounding 25 years have passed since the Pokemon series was born."
"Overall, Politoed is possibly the best zero to hero story in Pokemon history."
"The game never tells you that Giovanni is the gym leader until you go into the gym and actually see him for yourself."
"Chandelure survived Gen 7 and established a niche for itself in OU in generation 8."
"Chandelure looks to be establishing itself as a top-tier Pokemon in Gen 8UU."
"Pokemon is something that's brought me a lot of joy over the years."
"One thing I super appreciated was the relative deep cut of the Ditto being a failed Mewtwo experiment."
"It's a love story to Pokemon and that's all you really got to see from it."
"It was one of the most sought after Pokémon amongst kids worldwide, myself included."
"It was effectively an OU banned Pokémon in the context of Gen 3 Ubers."
"Deoxys Attack was more than just a lead though."
"The leads and gen 4 ubers are deoxaspeed and leads that beat deox's speed alternatively if your lead allowed deoxyspeed to get up uncontested rocks and spikes uncontested in the first two turns it was a bad lead."
"It was one of the many many ways in which deoxys attack was yet again one of the most threatening pokemon around this time"
"The badge is achieved, badge numero 4, thank you very much, can now catch Pokemon up to level 40."
"Bex caliber... one of the best new Pokemon... really, really good..."
"Armors... very, very good... a nice consistent Pokemon..."
"The definitive best starter in Pokemon X and Y is (drumroll) froakie."
"These Pokemon are very good... we're dealing with some of the most powerful Pokemon of all time."
"Let's go baby, let's go! Let me get that Mew!"
"Welcome to the team, that is officially six shiny Pokemon."
"I've been having a phenomenal time catching Pokemon in this world."
"My Snorlax is fighting this Tauros, or at least it was. I see they love each other now and no longer want to fight."
"Any Pokemon that can replace the freaking Sun deserves legendary status in my book."
"There's such a mystery behind these Pokemon, did Arceus create the Unown or did the Unown create Arceus?"
"Lucario's between two borderline categories of legendary Pokemon and made to be popular enough to be considered as maybe it's one."
"Volcarona does have that special feeling I've been constantly mentioning."
"This is Pokemon's new product release and it might just be the coolest one of the Year."
"This is probably one of the coolest ideas Pokemon has ever done I mean this is kind of basically like a mystery box."
"Pokemon does bring us lots of joy, that's for sure."
"Pokemon is all about smiles, friends coming together, and being ourselves in a positive environment."
"Cinderace says ever since it got Libero, you know, it rose up, you know, top 10 usage. Fantastic Pokemon."
"What in the world is going on? Look at all these Pokemon, they're so cute!"
"It's probably going to be the Pokemon game as their big holiday. And they'll probably do another push for Skyward Sword and then continue with Smash and Animal Crossing."
"I think that makes these Pokemon really threatening."
"New shiny alerts! We've got Lugia in five-star raids!"
"Unlike you trainers, I do not make Pokemon my friends or partners. Instead, I make the power of Pokemon my own."
"Pokemon number 399 is badoof the plump Mouse Pokemon."
"Pokemon is like experiencing the height of its popularity again right now."
"Unreal, we did it! We beat a hardcore Nuzlocke of Pokémon Omega Ruby with only Brock's best team."
"Sawsbuck is a perfect example of how Pokemon themselves are pieces of art."
"Volcarona, with its own in-game event, battle, and appearance as the ace of a champion, deserves more attention."
"Shadow Lugia: trapped forever on fans' memory cards."
"If you enjoyed this series and would like to see me do version differences between Pokemon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum..."
"Psychic Pokemon are so overpowered in generation 1 not only isn't it weak to ghost it's immune to it."
"Larry does have amazing Pokemon, also this is probably the longest single turn in a Pokemon game."
"Starmie was an incredible Pokemon in GSC OU."
"Starmie, a key part of sand teams that came to dominate the metagame."
"Starmie's influence on Generation 4 truly cannot be overstated."
"Starmie, a force to be reckoned with, reclaiming its place as a top tier OU threat."
"Starmie is unquestionably one of the greatest Pokemon of all time."
"As long as there’s a Pokemon game under the tree all is right with the world, huh?"
"Life without Pokemon must be awful... the feeling of love that only a Pokemon can give."
"It's another genius combination of real world culture and existing Pokemon design conventions."
"Pokemon alone had generated 140 million dollars in revenue for the company."
"Shiny Mewtwo Y one of the most ultimate legendary Pokemon till this day."
"I can't believe the first Pokemon that we pulled was a Mech Pokemon."
"That means we have at least one Pokemon that we can use at the end of today's video."
"We got a shadow Mewtwo, no flipping way I cannot believe it."
"We might have to wait a while, luckily I have my Cacturn that I nicknamed Cacti."
"We got a Houndoom, yo, this thing's awesome!"
"Masuda told the design team to make Gen 5's Pokémon cooler than the Pokémon from previous gens."
"Oshawott and its evolution line were inspired by experiences with otters and sea lions."
"Yamper here represents that perfectly; it is literally known as the puppy Pokemon."
"The puppy Pokemon playing fetch, like what more could you ask for?"
"Plush ability is at maximum levels as well, so A tier for our favorite electric little Corgi."
"If you're lucky, you may encounter a shiny Pikachu wearing a Shaymin-inspired Grassidia flower costume in the wild."
"One of the coolest parts of gens 2 & 4 was the brand new evolutions of older Pokemon."
"Farfetch'd deserves to get at least one... personally would rather see it get a regular evolution."
"I would love to see it get an evolution that brings it back into the forefront of Pokemon that are used all the time."
"123 base speed on a grass dark type so it's like Sceptile Vibes."
"Bug dark witch with tinted lens is incredible."
"For every single Pokemon on your team that dies this move goes up an additional 50 base power."
"This is gonna be my new favorite mod apparently it's decent no it's amazing."
"I think it's very clever, I think that's why it was one of the first Pokemon they teased."
"Cosmic Eclipse, one of the biggest sets in Pokemon TCG history."
"He's the coolest of the Pokemon professors, and he's definitely the best person of the Pokemon Professors."
"Pikachu, the lovable electric yellow mouse from the Pokemon series, has always been among the best characters in each of the Super Smash Brothers games."
"Dolflow, the wave pokemon, is extremely social. It will use its solar abilities to find other pokemon to befriend."
"Men title has become less trusting. It uses psychic bubbles to collect trash and toss it back onto land."
"Stikid, the bug fighting type, fights back no matter the strength of its foe."
"Gerbolt loves to be the center of attention and puts all their efforts into saving others and fighting evil doers."
"It carries seeds to plant wherever there is famine. It has become a symbol of peace and prosperity."
"It can think as quickly as it acts, allowing it to control the maximum output of energy to every part of its body."
"It's true that drakeon are very fickle they are very intelligent and each has a drastically different personality they can master all natural elements and inhabit all sorts of locations."
"An overall wonderful Pokemon whose existence makes the Pokemon world a much better place."
"Pokemon Pinball would be on this, I had that on my list."
"Now we can officially put Mew on the Pokemon team."
"Let's go, Buff Mewtwo is still one of the coolest Pokemon."
"Competitive Pokemon is a surprise to people."
"Effectively an infinite combination of Pokemon."
"VGC is the official competitive format for Pokemon."
"If a move is the same type as the user, it gets a boost."
"Throughout all of Pokemon's history, speed is a crucial mechanic."
"2021 was the year that got me back into Pokemon."