EXPLAINING The Starter Pokemon Battle Royale from @TerminalMontage! 💥
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Published 2023-11-15
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Writer/Host: Lockstin Austin Lockwood
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Chapters:
00:00 Oh yeah! New Battle Royale!
00:47 Why No Sylveon or Raichu?
01:21 Explaining Bits of the Battle!
09:05 Why the Fire Types?
14:14 Why Pikachu V Blaziken?
Gnoggin, hosted by its creator Lockstin, is a show delving into the mysteries of Pokemon! (and other games sometimes too). Explaining everything there is to explain! Why is each Pokemon given the type it has? What are their origins? What is the lore of the Pokemon world and the design inspirations? And what does it all have to do with alchemy? Let's Go find out!
Bonus deleted scenes for the bottom of the description!
One joke I wrote but Jeremy (rightfully) cut was Eevee finding a Waterstone, looking at it with vehement disgust, and then moving on... if you know you know.
Serperior and Quaquaval originally had a much more intense... binding moment... it was reduced to under a second for your sake... I, I really don't know what was going on with me while writing this one...
You'll notice there's a semi-secret second Eevee at the end of the Eeveeloutions scene. Earlier drafts of this royale feature multiple copies of some of the starters, such as Partner Pikachu AND regular Pikachu from Yellow, or 2 different Rowlets for example, one for Sun and Moon, and one for Legends Arceus. The semi-secret second Eevee has a Katana, it's the Eevee from Conquest specifically, it was left as just a small visual gag/nod to that. Also at one point, I considered including the many starter Pokemon from Pokemon Battle Revolution too, but ultimately that would add too many Pokemon that most people would just be confused by... So we left it to the main game's Starter Pokemon
All Comments (21)
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HOOOO BOI! That last fight was INTENSE! Had a lot of fun working on this with you and loved the analysis and reasoning behind everything!
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Something Lockstin completely Mandela Effect'ed here is that Ground does not resist Fire. He mentioned Torterra not being vaporized by the explosion because it's partially Ground type, and Swampert holding off EXTRA well against the Fire onslaught because of its additional resistance to Fire brought on by its Ground typing, but Ground doesn't actually resist Fire. I remember that tripping me up a lot too when my slower Ground mons would get eviscerated by faster Fire mons and I'd be crazy confused
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Question: how was Rillaboom able to survive the fire explosion to later take out Swampert, while clearly being on fire during the explosion?
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I figured the reason for Charizard picking Typhlosion for its opponent was because they have the same stats, so Charizard saw Typhlosion as an equal.
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I don't really see where Primarina's fairy typing hinders it, fairy is resisted by fire but not weak to it. Defensively, it would actually wall the fire/fighting mons while maintaining super effective water and neutral fairy moves on offense.
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The only analysis mistake was claiming that Torterra and Swampert's ground typing resist fire. They are super effective against fire but, they don't resist it. Swampert's water typing still helps.
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Im proud of my boy Swampert for holding out for so long
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Greninja should have had more participation, in its debut it was in Ubers, it is the fastest water type starter, one of the fastest in general, the current effect of Battle Bond could be added since it is one more ability in Pokémon that only increases stats, his shurikens cut even metal, etc. Greninja could have done more and not been relegated to simply hiding and losing to Charizard.
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I guess "ground types being resistant to fire" is such a common misconception that even I forgot about it until it was pointed out in the comments (meaning Torterra would have still taken super effective damage from Typhlosion). It was still a fun video nonetheless.
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One thing missing was how none of the Pokemon started tearing up around Sobble when it started crying! Dex entries says Sobble's tears are hella pungent and makes anyone tear up around it when it cries, sad to see that detail missing here,,
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The burn status, cutting their attack in half doesn’t really matter for most of the water type starter since most of them have special water type moves
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I thought Primarina would dominate because of its type coverage and use in competitive batttling
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How would primarina’s fairy water type hinder itself to three fire fighting types? I would expect those bubbles and the songs to crush those fire fighters
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Something I remembered, I actually think Typhlosion could have a really good chance, it’s Pokédex entry says it can burn anything to cinders and it also has Flash Fire which means it would be immune to the other fire types attacks.
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I've never been more proud as someone who always picked and loved Blaziken. My boy is a champion!
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The Grovyle time gear scene almost made me shed a tear
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Great animation and summary, but you mentioned multiple times that water ground quad resists fire when it's only 0.5x despite ground hitting fire super-effectively.
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I still think Piplup was robbed.
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I just wanna point out that ground doesn’t resist fire. Yes ground is super effective against fire but that’s where the relationship ends. Rock resists fire but ground is neutral to it so Torterra should have burned up by the explosion
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I am incredibly sad that Empoleon was knocked out so quickly, but with Steel's weakness to Fire, I knew they weren't going to win. Empoleon is still the Starter Pokemon with the best typing (Water/Steel), but its good because of all the types Steel resists outside the Starter groups.
