I Ranked Every Single Pokemon Design

Heads up my allergies get REAL bad 2/3rds into the recording sorry for all the nose touching and breaking eye contact, I didn't care enough to rerecord. Subscribe?

I recently saw Jan on the streets. I went up to him to tell him how I was a big fan. He hit me with a right hook to the jaw, knocked me out, then started dancing around me saying I should have played around the crit. Overall, a wonderful fan interaction!

I am ready for an hour and a half of a tier list that I do not agree with

Jan saying that Garchomp wouldn't terrify him in real life gives off real "I could totally fight a bear" vibes

Jan noticed that the Pokemon community was starting to actually like him, so he put this out so he could be the villain again.

Jan is back with the 'gotta pay bills' video.

There’s something very funny about watching someone as jaded as Jan give genuine compliments. I can feel the pain in his voice when he’s forced to admit that he agrees with the general consensus that charizard is cool

It's nice to hear you nerd out about pokemon without numbers involved lmao

you asked to be enlightened on the designs you didn't get, so here we go: * wormadam is a bagworm moth, a species whose female doesn't develop its wings and just collects a bunch of stuff and makes that its home, i think it's a very pokémon-y inspiration, and it changing forms on its environment makes a ton of sense. also, the design is like simplistic but pretty cute! * axew line isn't a pseudo legendary! * the elemental monkeys are based on the "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" thing, but i'll be the first to say it doesn't really translate well into their design and they do just look like someone went "ooh monke + starter types" bam done! * gumshoos is supposed to look like a detective, but, that REALLY doesn't come across at all, and it just looks insanely ugly. i'm with you on this one. * necrozma is supposed to represent an eclipse. i will say the legendary fusion gimmick is a bit meaningless since it was done so quickly after gen 5, and in gen 8 they did it YET AGAIN. but yeah, that's why it fuses with solgaleo and lunala. in theory that also doesn't really make much sense because a solar eclipse is the moon going in front of the sun, and a lunar eclipse is the earth casting a shadow on the moon, so there isn't really a reason for necrozma to be that middleman, but idk, i think it kinda works! there are worst designs out there! * for hydreigon, the "extra things that look like a flower" are extra appendages that are supposed to help give that hydra feel. a pokemon with nine heads would be way too many, so they had those extra bits there to cover the negative space and make it look bigger and more numerous. it's fair that you don't like it, but i think it's a pretty ingenious solution to the problem, personally. * dedenne seems to be inspired on the french tooth fairy, which is a mouse. but again, not really communicated well in it's concept * kricketune is gives orchestra maestro vibes with it's body shape also resembling a musical instrument, but is also a string instrument player, with its hands that look like bows you'd use on a violin, viola, or cello. it may seem random, but it's based on stridulation, which is the process at which insects produce noise and it's a very interesting parallel to a bow and a string instrument. i for one think kricketune is a fantastic design, and it's incredibly cute. * cosmoem, i know you said you didn't care to learn it, but i'm trying to be thorough, so bear with me. it's a black hole or a neutron star, as explained by it's incredibly small size but gigantic weight. does it make sense for it to evolve into a moon? not really. does it make sense that even if you ignore lunala it goes nebula (star nursery) -> black hole (dead star) -> sun (star)? no not at all. but idk, we also have a remora evolving into an octopus. i don't hate it as much as you do! * pawmot is based on a defibrilator, at least, which is somewhat interesting, until you realize the fact that the only other electric/fighting type, also introduced this generation, is also, a defibrilator. and executes that concept a thousand times better. so pawmot just ends up being a scuffed ugly ass pikaclone with a middle evolution with no reason to exist. yeah, you don't need to not get the design to dislike this one. i'm with you! * after some research i can tell you glalie looks a bit like a hockey mask and and a japanese oni, doesn't really help it's case much i don't think... * kyurem's fusing is actually inspired on the taoism idea of wuji in taoism (absence of yin and yang, aka zekrom and reshiram), so it fusing with them and taking aspects of them kinda makes sense, like it's not bound by the strict boundaries of yin and yang, so it can navigate one or both of them if it wants to. the only sad thing is we never got the original dragon, so the concept feels unfinished... * after some reasearch i can't land on something solid for eternatus, bulbapedia lists a lot of things, but none of them really add up to me. i'm with you on this one. * farfetch'd is a duck holding a leak because of a japanese idiom. it'd be like if they made a flying pig pokémon. meh :| i agree with you here * yveltal has a very deep inspiration actually. it's reminiscent of a long-tailed widowbird to make that Y shape. it also bears resemblance to many birds of mythology like the celtic morrigan, and the norse hræsvelgr and vðrfölnir. all of which are associated with death, corpses, war, etc... * carbink and diancie are based on the carbuncle, a creature of chilean folklore! diancie in particular may be a pun on the "princess cut" of jewels, it seems. i'm 90% sure their relationship is "carbink was supposed to be a pre-evolution but they wanted another mythical", but since there's no confirmation of that. some theories people have suggested is that it's an eusociality situation (basically diancie is like a queen bee). or that it's a mutation of carbink! * porygon-z is like a computer glitch or corrupted data with how it moves so weird and all that. i'm not the biggest fan, but i think it works within its line very nicely! * the ring around floatzel is a buoy! this is a buoy / lifeguard pokémon! * jellicent is inspired on the japanese nurarihyon, which is a jellifish yokai that desguises itself as humans with fancy clothing and all that. although, it is a known fact that this pokémon used to be pure water-type and was given a ghost-type later for gameplay reasons, its designer has even come out and stated that they don't like jellicent being a ghost :( * tangela is based on swamp monsters and seaweed monsters of pop culture. also possibly medusa. the feet i have no idea about though, they're very cursed. * ampharos is a sheared sheep and a lighthouse * forretress is also kind of a bagworm, but this time it's hiding in what looks like a horse chestnut. pineco is a grenade or caltrops, and forretress continues on that theme with gun turrets and cannons, while also resembling a bomb somewhat. * darmanitan is designed after burning daruma dolls, these dolls, in turn, are modeled after the legendary buddhist monk budhidharma. zen mode darmanitan likely is modeled after this monk, meditation and achieving enlightenment and all that! that's all, hope it was insightful :D

honestly skipping over the mid mons is incredibly based

35:20 Kingambit makes more sense once you realise that the chess motif was mostly a localization thing, and that the whole evolutionary line were primarily based on samurai. Kingambit has those big blades all on it's head because that's based on how commanding samurai would have their helmets decked out in a similar fashion The closest to a chess theme it gets in the original Japanese (as far as I can tell) is Pawniard's Japanese name Komatana, which includes the word 'Koma', which is what the pieces in Shogi (Japanese Chess) are called. The localizers must've picked up on that and ran with that naming convention, using it's Western counterpart, for the rest of the evolutionary line

Porygon-Z is great design. Porygon upgrades into p2 with an upgrade disk. When you try to further upgrade using an upgrade of dubios origin (dubious disk) your p2 gets corrupted (or maybe gets a virus) and it gets scrambled. This is further reflected by not gaining any stats upon evolution, but instead stats getting scrambled, and 2 becoming Z which have a "similar" silhouette. Honestly a super great progression for the Porygon line

Jan: critiques Shelgon for looking like a medicine ball also Jan: I love whirlipede so much

''How much joy the pokemon sparks within me 💀'' We all know its not just joy that happens when he sees lilligant

In the haxorous lines defense, they aren’t actually psuedo legendaries. The design and dragon typing just makes them seem as if they are

Does Jan know that Hydreigon is SUPPOSED to look like a flower....? It starts as a bud around the head, then blooms more until the third evolution. Based on the name of the flower Hydrangea + Dragon, it's literally a flower dragon and I think it's awesome. Also German 1-3 "eins zwei drei" was incorporated into the naming scheme as it grows another head with each evolution. Just that knowledge of a few seemingly completely unrelated things coming together to make a Pokémon line made me appreciate it more.

I think this is the first Pokemon ranking list I've seen on YouTube that really takes game feel into account in the rankings. So much more thought goes into a Pokemon than how it looks, especially nowadays, that I think often goes unappreciated by a lot of people. Things like how the Pokemon battles, how it fits into the world, real world origins, how funny they are, how it differentiates itself from the others, all that stuff is important too

Seeing mons like Lugia, Pikachu, Entei, etc being called mid is definitely going to piss off a lot of people

10:19 A fun fact about Haxorus is that the evolution line was designed backwards. Someone designed Haxorus, and they proceeded to make Fraxure and Axew based off of Haxorus's design.

There IS an explanation for the goth design. They were introduced in the generation that was set in New York City. The designers visited the city for ideas first and saw piles of trash, people dressed in all black, kids in hoodies and baggy pants, and strong men carrying around steel beams on construction projects, and turned them all into Pokémon. Every Pokémon game is filled with social commentary like that, but you may not have caught it due to most of the games being set in Japan. Ex. that town in Kanto that has Grimer infesting a pool in the middle of town.