The LOST Pokemon of Generation 3 👀

The best part of the teraleak? Cut and Beta Pokemon. In this video I'll explain something interesting about the design, lore, and origins, of each one from Generation 3. The one's we would have seen in Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire if not for them being cut or changed dramatically!

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Additional Credits:
Lockstin Austin Lockwood
Fineapple Ryan Porter

Chapters:
00:00 Game Freak TeraLeak
01:20 Pelican, Tengu, and Yeti, oh my!
05:05 Nobinyobi, not Sableye
07:17 Ozlo
08:30 A Shark to Gardevoir
11:49 Warabbit and [MISSING]
12:59 more mon, but IT'S STUMP!
14:45 2 SADDEST Pokemon
17:09 Not Greninja from Dragon Quest
19:52 Beta Flygon
21:10 The Blaziken/Latios/Delibird Hawlucha
22:03 Spheal is bowling for Penguins
24:26 Beta Huntail and Hariyama
26:12 This BEEcame Torchick?
28:50 Plapass... also Fire Skitty
31:00 Zangoose? Seviper? MORE!?
34:30 Evolotto & the WORST ideas.
38:11 Altaria and... South America?
39:58 Scrafty and Castform
43:33 Fish to Power Ranger Skunks
45:12 The Last Minute Changes!

So... why DID Mudkip replace a water type rabbit starter Pokémon?

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!

[chasemiller]

Beldum originally looks like a dumbbell.
Dumbbells are typically used for arm exercises.
Beldum now resembles one of Metagross's arms.
Beldum is an arm.

It all works out

[royaldonut]

I like how even Gamefreak devs themselves sometimes critique Pokémon designs by “It’s literally just an X thing” yet still gave us Flamigo

[TieYourLaurenDown]

Are we sure Aarie isn’t a dog that was drowned in a sack? That’s also incredibly sad and seems to fit with the design. The ghost of the dog emerging from the sack.

[Edujs]

It is cool How some design elements from Early Sableye and Sharpedo came back on their mega forms

[yuliybekutadaten-shi]

i get the feeling aarei was just made happier and turned into primarina 4 gens later due to blue seal dog, and then keromeelo and otoma were repurposed for the seismatoad line when gen five came around because of musical/vibration based tadpole to frog line. could just be me but that was my impression while looking at them in this video

[ryninja]

19:25 I’m 100% willing to bet this pokemon was originally the one you’d find on mirage island instead of wynaut. If that island idea even existed at this point.

[Necrosdragon]

25:03 The “sticks” you mentioned in Paaruru’s mouth are likely the adductor muscles found in real mollusks. They’re used to close the mollusk shells

[mitwhitgaming]

"Abandoned Pokemon" just made me imagine a commercial for shelter Pokemon set to In the arms of the angels . 😂😅

[andrewcogdillcole]

17:00. That's a better idea than what I thought. I was thinking it was a puppy in a sac that somebody drowned in the ocean, and it transformed into a siren like Johtos Beast trio

[NightFuryLover]

Maybe Aarei being a selkie is also because it sounds like “sulk.” Man, Flygon changed so much compared to what we got now.
“THE SKY FRUIT HAS ARRIVED!” 😆

[wickedTrickster]

My first thought when seeing Heppy and Supanku was "cherry blossom skunk".

Like, they spray you like a skunk but it smells like cherry blossoms instead

[marcobenevi]

You can tell Lockstin had fun doing research for this video. And here we are having fun watching it.

[jordanzwick]

That “Alabama banning California stuff” analogy sort of misses that Japan spent time trying to forcibly subsume and replace Korean culture. This makes the Korean hostility to Japanese cultural influences more understandable.

[timwoods]

That spiky kangaroo rat could definitely be the starting point for Togedemaru. A lot of these beta designs are similar to Pokémon we did eventually get. Like the sad water dog sounds a lot like Primarina and the musical frogs like the Seismitoad line.

[Bysthedragon]

I don't think Charmander should count as "Real animal with Element slapped on" cause it's inspired off of the Fire Salamander, which were believed to be "Born from Fire"

[alexlee]

As a Korean the note for the makuhita pre-evo is interesting since Korea and Japan have beef with each other still to this day.

[Isaac-lunar]

When lockstin said swamp rabbit, i immediately thought swampert. I guess having a water starter associated with swampy water was already decided

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12:33 "GENTLEMEN! Behold... This Thing!"
"Uh, what is it?"
"I DON'T KNOW!"

[GCatlord]

i think you misinterpreted clampearl and huntail, it seems to me like the throughline for the evolution is that they both use lures- i think the original clampearl *is* the clam, and the pearl with the "face" is the lure. the clam uses its tongue (with a fake face) to lure prey into its own mouth, and evolves into a pokemon that does the same with its tail. when gorebyss was added they changed clampearl because it didn't tie in with gorebyss at all, but it made the gimmick more confusing : /

[evanpereira]

Some of the notes are incredible, like the refusal ones or Trapinch in Flygon lines which is just pure genius.