Explaining Extremophiles with Pokemon

FYI, the color/name 'vantablack' is officially trademarked (in the US). I'm not a lawyer, but naming a monster after vantablack could have a bit of legal issue, or should I say, drop you into hot water.

Minior is definitely an extremophile. It lives in the upper atmosphere, usually in swarms, surviving the temperature and pressure extremes while feasting on particulate matter to survive and maintain its shell. After some time, the Minior pack becomes too heavy and they rocket down to Earth, losing their shells in the process and dying a few hours after the fact due to their core being exposed, unless they are shoved in Pokeballs (assumedly this is when they procreate, and the baby Miniors don the shell fragments of their parents to protect their own cores before rising up to the stratosphere to repeat the cycle. This bit in parenthesis is just headcanon though lol, extremely tangential and unnecessary Minior lore rant below) In the lore, it says that Minior are created from “mutated nanoparticles” whatever that means but it doesn’t explain how entire foot-long Miniors can aggregate consistently from billions of nanoparticles nor how this is a consistent enough process to make only five-pronged spherical Miniors and no other creatures nor how this process could possibly produce more than one at a time given the low density of the stratosphere and the low probability of this occuring, let alone creating entire Minior swarms. Unless Arceus itself divined that magical space dust create swarms of sentient magical space dust eaters in the stratosphere I cannot believe that this has happened as a result of natural processes. Even with the magical nature of Miniors there needs to be a consistent cycle if they are going to be common enough to be a daily Rayquaza snack, so I am changing headcanon in this case. Is it petty and pedantic and ridiculous? Yes. Does it bring me solace knowing how Minior are so abundant up there with an alternative explanation? Also yes

It's a shame that the only reference to alkalinity in Pokémon is in Gigantamax Kingler's Shield Pokédex entry, stating that its bubbles are so alkaline, that anything making contact will instantly melt. This shows that high alkalinity can be just as devastating to the body as the acids of the opposite end of the pH spectrum.

Perhaps this is a bit much since it's a legendary, but Rayquaza frequents the outer atmosphere and can enter open space unimpeded

You should make a mon that has different forms/colors and I can be like a PH scale, maybe some kind of fish or water creature that’s found in all different places around the map, some having different colors for different PH levels. Like those PH testing kits that change the color of the water

If I were a tardigrade, I'd move out from home... In all seriousness, this's an amazing video! I love the vanta black spy worm, its a really unique concept!

When you were talking about sulphophiles I was hoping you would mention the yeti crab, which, while probably not an extremophile, eats them and is the basis of crabominable

I actually have a very similar Fakemon to Nautigrade. It's also an astronaut tardigrade, and it's called Astrograde (astronaut, tardigrade, retrograde), and is a Bug-Psychic type. They have four arms, two legs, two satellite antenna that it uses to navigate towards water, a backpack made of wet moss, and a water bubble helmet, which makes it look like a cute alien astronaut, because it came from another planet. It's ability is Emergency Shut Down, which turns it into Traveling Form at half health. It's limbs retract into it's body, the backpack gets bigger and became a jetpack that sprays water, and the bubble helmet encases it's whole body in ice, also referencing cyro-sleep. Anyway, really cool that probably my favorite Fakemon maker had an idea similar to mine.

Not gonna lie, the pokèmon in this video are some of my favorite from you. And you have set some high standards.

8:39 That ability is very interesting… I can’t really say if it’s overpowered or not because it strongly depends on a lot of factors in the game In the Pokemon games the ability would be absolutely broken, because there are multiple ways to deal passive damage that this Pokemon could abuse, even if it doesn’t learn the moves necessary its allies can, and then this Pokemon can just fulfill the role of unbreakable wall and win you the game There are also some moves that allow a Pokemon to attack during sleep And there’s Rest, which means this pokemon can fully heal and be undefeatable for two turns But if your game has different moves or combat mechanics this ability could be balanced as is I would advise for it to just multiply defensive stats during sleep, maybe double, triple, or even quadruple them, testing would need to be done to really establish a balanced solution, but this balancing idea only works with the Pokemon Stats system of course I hope this helps just a bit, otherwise I just had some fun, I love designing abilities and moves :D

I think Thick Fat would work well on Nautigrade. Or maybe a buffed up version only when sleeping

I had a weird dream where I was using n0rt’s emojimon I like you art style a lot n0rt

Not even a minute in the video and I already know it's gonna be a banger

Honestly I’m just amazed that so few people have tried making fakemon based off extremophiles, they’re some of the coolest things out there. I myself have been working on designing a group of fakemon based on the animals sustained by hydrothermal vents, including the Pompeii worm and giant tubeworm. It’s been a lot of fun so far.

What if Nautigrades ability made it so it falls asleep when Ice moves hit it? Or it turns the frozen status into the sleep status?

Nautigrade's special def is literally off the charts

I've heard that flamingos are actually considered extremophiles, as they can live and eat in pools of extremely salty water and survive extreme cold, which they use to live in areas where there is no competition/predators. Tho they don't live in such areas all the time. Also for Pokemon, I wonder if the Porygon line would count? It's Pokedex mentions it being upgraded to survive in space. And would the digital world count as an extreme environment? Would man made pokemon count at all for this category?

nautigrade is a lovely design, i love him very much

I say Magcargo, or more so, the people and pokemon who live within a very large area of it, what with being several times hotter than the surface of the sun and all.

i love your videos so much i've started my biology degree this year and it's just amazing to see everything i learn in class here and i LOVE your art keep up the good work dude :)