10 Obscure Pokemon Facts You DON’T know

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[tedscheett]

One more thing about Reshiram and Zekrom's theme: Kyurem has the same theme but the difference in that rendition is that has extra parts earlier on. And during the fill section... it's empty. Much like the frozen dragon itself.

[Ospyroem]

Fun fact- when I first played gen 2, I somehow completely overlooked where to find the Waterfall HM (it didn't strike me that it was that item in the Ice Path). I knew from my copy of Pokemon Handbook that Seaking could learn it so, I traded a Goldeen over from my Red version (so that it would get the Exp boost and level up quicker) and painstakingly trained it until it learned Waterfall 😅

[eddie]

I remember replaying Pokemon Red back in 2001 after beating Silver and raising a Seakings level up using rare candies from the missingno glitch and I saw "seaking wants to learn Waterfall..." I was freaking out because I thought there was some hidden waterfall in the region that would take me to some Pokegod. I proceeded to waste an whole week looking for a waterfall that didn't exist.

[risel]

Here's an obscure fact: In Gen 3, Teddiursa is the only non-Gen 1 Pokémon whose sprite was changed going from Ruby & Sapphire to FireRed & LeafGreen, but retained its original sprite when Emerald was released.

[SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Some obscure facts of my own: Dragon Fang, Black Belt, and Silver Powder were almost impossible to obtain in R/S/E without trading as each required you to use Thief on a specific Pokémon in specific trainers' teams, with only one of each existing. What’s worse is that none of the items would appear in your first battle with these trainers, requiring up to 4 battles each to get the item to appear!

Phanpy can learn Water Gun, but ONLY in Crystal. Which is a weird thing to remove from my boi, since it’s not exactly balance breaking and fits the theme of “elephant.”

[alessandrorampazzo]

For the 2nd fact: you don’t need to cheat, it’s to force you to visit Celestic Town and take Surf instead of receiving a Pokémon able to use it by trade.

[luxrayblast]

If you trade a Surfing Pokèmon to Platinum, it's 100% possible to see those two trainers battling. You don't necessarily HAVE to use Action Replay cheats. Just beat Crasher Wake, trade a Surf Learner to DP/HGSS to teach Surf, trade back to Platinum, head toward Canalave and Surf. The reason they're there is because they are roadblocks for those trying to advance the story too far before they get the Surf HM from Celestic Town. If the game has not set the "Beat Cyrus, Open Canalave" flag, they will be there. In fact, what you've shown is in fact true that they are there UNTIL you beat Cyrus.

[NinjaPikmin]

Something I recently learned about was that Diamond and Pearl had some exclusive move changes that were only present in those games. Hypnosis was increased to 70 accuracy, and Thunder and Blizzard had a 30% chance to ignore protect if their respective weather was up. These changes were reverted when Platinum released. I'm unaware if there are more move changes that only affect Diamond and Pearl.

[TempoKong]

The Zekrom/Reshiram fact is particularly annoying when you understand that for ORAS and USUM, they used Zekrom's theme for both Zekrom and Reshiram and... Kyurem, despite having a clearly different theme lol

[tvheadted]

God this video made me realize then Gen 5 had peak sound design. Between the ambiance of the bridge or the various NPC’s you can interact with to change the over-world music to music change that occurs when you run. I really hope they remember this stuff in any remakes because it really does add so much to the feel of those games

[TWLSpark]

I actually knew the Waterfall fact, the reason being that in Pokemon Stadium, of all places, Seaking has access to the move. Not that I used Seaking, but the AI opponents sometimes do, and that's how I experienced it.

[hooviridis]

Certain Pokémon had moves added to their movesets in later versions for particular reasons. A few I found notable in Platinum were the Regis. Regigigas is caught at level 1 and the trio caught at level 30. In Diamond and Pearl, those Pokémon at their Platinum levels would know Explosion by default. A move was added to the trio's learnset to override Explosion and three moves for Regigigas for the same reason so they do not KO themselves mid-battle. Additionally Mew is able to do that in Emerald as it can Metronome into Self-Destruct or Explosion.

[TheBlDut]

The vcr effects are kind erie. These are actually interresting facts. I caught myself say "interresting" after at least 3 of these facts.

[AverytheCubanAmerican]

An obscure fact for Scarlet/Violet: In the games, there are Vivillon to catch but the average person probably wouldn't think anything of it nor its pattern until they read the description: "This form is from a mysterious land" or "This Pokémon was born in a mysterious land" depending on the game. The specific pattern of wild Vivillon in Paldea is the Fancy Pattern. Originally, you were only able to get a Vivillon with this specific pattern via the Nintendo Network from July 8th to the 31st 2014 when the Global Trade System celebrated its 100 millionth trade. So this "mysterious land"...is the INTERNET! The fact they brought back this formerly event-exclusive pattern for Gen 9 is a detail that I appreciate.

[ESparendro]

I knew waterfall was in gen 1 not because I've ever used Seaking, but because one day randomly I used metronome and waterfall was the attack. I played a lot back in the day and it really surprised me because I did never see that attack before

[justsomewheel]

This made me realise how rare it is to see facts in these videos from gen 6 onwards. Yeah small details like whiting out in a tutorial battle doesn't actually make you white out are cool and all but there's a lot of big secrets in the 3D titles that I feel like aren't really covered by anyone that much. Biggest thing I can think of is the sheer amount of secret interactions you can get in Ultra Sun and Moon after beating the main story. Like how if you enter Nanu's police station in the postgame you help a starting trainer pick out a starter pokemon from 3 alolan meowths. Even today I'm still finding some interactions in random buildings and sometimes I find another one in a building I already found a secret cutscene in on an earlier date like the Hau'oli City shopping centre's stage that holds random events you can watch. I'm pretty sure I walked in on a pokemon talent show once.

[CRANTIME]

I did know that Seaking had Waterfall in gen 1, I didn't realize he was the ONLY one to learn it
Good stuff as always
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[rafaelscott]

About Ho-Oh: haven't you guys ever wondered why you cannot step on the last spot of that platform before Ho-Oh notices and attacks you?
There is a Sacred Ash hidden on that last spot. I like to believe that Ho-Oh is protecting that Sacred Ash, and that is why we can only step on the last spot after catching/defeating the legend.

[lillylawbound]

I'm not sure how much I enjoy the new production style- The noise really does grate on my ears. But good episode, thank you!

[PestilentAllosaurus]

I only knew about the Waterfall move from the goldeen/Seaking line because I always loved those beautiful fish pokemon.
But I've noticed not many people share the same love for these two, so I can understand why it would be obscure.