9.5 Obscure Pokémon Facts You Don’t Know

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In high school, I became very good friends with a JP foreign exchange student who had been interested in Pokémon as a kid but had lost interest at some point. He traded me a whole bunch of exclusive event Pokémon, and one of them happened to be that shiny Arceus. I was the only person I knew who had a legit one all the way up to BDSP where now you can just hunt it lol

I have an interesting fact about Arceus So in gen 4 at least, Arceus will change types depending on which plate it is holding even if it doesn't have the Multi-Type ability. For all intents and purposes, Multi-Type's only effect is preventing moves that affect your held item, such as knock off, trick etc, from working. The game is coded to make Arceus change forms depending on its plate regardless of its ability. So then, that means that through glitching or cheating, it's possible to have an Arceus with another ability, but still have it change type depending on its plate. And it's also possible to remove or change its plate in battle while it is transformed. And this is when it gets interesting. In Platinum, the plate gets knocked off, stolen or whatnot, but nothing else happens. Arceus is still in the type of the plate until the end of the battle. Judgement's type will change, but that's it. ...however, in Diamond and Pearl only, something crazy happens. The plate gets knocked off or stolen... and then Arceus transforms, in the middle of the battle. Like Castform would. This is an entirely unused mechanic, with an unused text, that is completely unable to be seen normally. But Arceus can actually change forms in the middle of the battle this way. I think this indicates that Arceus was first supposed to be able to do that, but then they changed it and decided to make it immune to item shenanigans instead. And of course, it was removed in Platinum because it was unused. But it's still there in Diamond and Pearl, for basically no one to ever see.

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I think the minccino and trubbish thing is pretty cool, if you’ve ever played Pokepark 2, you can see an interaction between the two where trubbish gets scared of minccino thinking they’ll get cleaned up, but they eventually meet and become friends

the driftloon in the legendary cutscene never surprised me bc I noticed the opening animation uses the actual map. when you first start up the game with no save file on it and watch the opening, you can see items sitting on the unexplored routes, but once you've played them and collected those items, they're gone from the opening cutscene. using the actual maps as they are is apparently just something dppt does, so the driftloon being visible makes perfect sense.

dude you have no idea how many questions ive had about pokemon cries in scar/ vio. when i listen to them in the overworld it felt like certain mons got put in certain groups that gave them specific 'overworld' cries but i could never really figure out how or why they would do that in the first place. insane to know just how in depth that went!

I remember discovering the Freeze Shock/Ice Burn thing myself as a kid when I randomly did a link battle between my copies of White and Black 2 one day. It surprised me that the moves technically existed in Black/White in the same vein as what we’d later see in Thousand Arrows and Thousand Waves in XY

8:15 you can remove the pokéstar studios animation by getting a bad ending with the same pokémon, so regular shiny sparkles aren't necessarily replaced forever.

Phin is just on an entirely new level of Pokémon facts. Literally on a different plane than the rest of us. I love it

Another fun pokemon pairing that not many people know about is Skatmory and Mantine, both are flying types and have the same stats, but Skarmory has high defence whereas Mantine has the same high stat, but in special defence instead.

In BDSP, all legendaries (and some mythicals, including Arceus) are shiny unlocked which means that you CAN still get a shiny Arceus, but it's full odds only.

The meow system is a reminder of the crazy amount of effort and love that went into pokemon scarlet and violet. I just wish the pokemon company bigwigs would understand and feel the same way. They're great games, buried under a painful lack of polish and baffling design decisions.

Concerning the Mt Couronet fact, it is also possible to see Drifblim AND the honey tree shaking (it happened to me as a kid so I immediatly went there to check)

About the Catherine track, not only that (by the way, it's a cover made by Shoji Meguro of SMT/Persona fame) but also there was an unused scoreboard graphic with placeholder names. Among those: (Factory Head) Noland, Prof. Birch, Roxanne, Sabrina, (Steven) Stone, Tate (of Tate & Liza), Team Aqua, Team Magma and Team Rocket, all in English names.

The Trubbish and Minccino thing actually has a fairly big role in the Pokepark 2 game, pretty neat

I actually have three boxed copies of Pokemon Stadium 0 from my last trip to Japan. They go for roughly $11 in Japan but about $100 in the States. Playing it feels like a beta version of Stadium 1, there's no real side modes or anything, just pure battling, and some of the NPCs have weird teams cause they were pulled from real tournament rosters.

The first fact reminds me of when I trade my Venusaur with "Frenzy Plant" from Fire Red to Colosseum, and in the Gamecube game, the move's name was "Solid Plant"

In BW1 you can pull freeze burn and ice shock with metronome. Same with hydro cannon, frenzy plant, and blast burn in ruby/sapphire before FRLG 😎

That’s so interesting about the first Japanese Pokémon Stadium and the third sparkle effect in B2/W2. I’m always impressed by the things you come up with for videos!