Hello from Kanto! 😁 (First Pokémon game I played) I don’t think there’s a Pokémon game based off of my area yet. I was born in Oregon. Specifically Salem. So the Willamette Valley area but the forest part on the way to Independence, not the city area. Now I’m in a rural/suburban mix town. Still in the Willamette Valley though
Riolu and Lucario were introduced in Gen 4, but the only way you could get one in Sinnoh was for Riley to give you an Egg. But they could be found in the wild in Hisui (ancient Sinnoh), implying that they became an endangered species.
The first region we find wild Riolus is Unova, in the grass right after Floccesy Ranch in BW2. But they're also present in the very earlier routes of Kalos and Alola's Poni Island along wild Lucarios.
You missed Urshifu, this is the shield dex entry for Single Strike Style, "Inhabiting the mountains of a distant region, this Pokémon races across sheer cliffs, training its legs and refining its moves"
With Hisui's gimmick being Strong and Agile Style moves and Urshifu having its Single Strike and Rapid Strike forms, I think it's very safe to assume that the distant mountainous region they hail from is Sinnoh.
To counter your points on so many Pokemon being native to Alola, keep in mind that this is only due to Island Scan, which allows exceptionally rare (starters) or non-native Pokemon to appear on the islands
A lot of starters are probably native to the Lental Region, as you can find them in the wild there. This especially can be true for Meganium, due to its entire storyline.
Theory Oswald's device wasn't an alien detector, it's a Fairy detector. It was detecting Clefairy's Fairy type, as well as Jigglypuff's. The reason it went off near Misty, is because it was actually responding to Togepi in her arms
The original plot concelt that the Kalos games were designed around was talking about how the newly discovered fairy types are actually aliens from the moon, and Team Flare are MIB that were possed by evil aliens. So back before they scrapped that you would be close
It's funny to think about how many Pokemon have been retcon to come from other regions, and then there's Copperajah which from the second it was created was meant to reference an Indian Pokemon region that we'll someday see.
I hope that by gen 11 or 12, a pokemon region based on India would be implemented as there are are few wildlifes to make new pokemon based on it such as bengal tiger.
Hopefully if they ever do an Indian based region, Copperajah can be reworked so it doesn't look so squished. It's an elephant pokemon but it's body looks flat compared to its trunk.
5:05 Aerodactyl nor the old amber cannot be found in Paldea as of yet 6:50 Cyndaquil’s dex entry in PLA states that it is from Johto 13:42 Oshawott at the very least is from Unova according to Hisui dex entry
Well in PLA, laventon wrote the dex itself, and if laventon traveled to the johto region and obtained it as a gift, it could mean cyndaquil is not from johto. same with oshawott. however, thats a pretty specific requirement
@@ThewandererFN Or he could have found a wild Cyndaquil/Oshawott/one that someone released (maybe a shiny hunter was trying to get a shiny but the egg wasn't shiny and so they released it or something idk) or the descendent of one.
I think you misheard me, I stated that Kanto, Alola, and Paldea are the only regions the Old Amber cannot be found in 😉 As for the dex entries, I totally missed that! That is a good counterpoint!
The fact Omanyte is the ancestor to Octillery's line doesn't mean that Octillery isn't native from Johto. Omanytes could change and evolve over time as they changed locations and expanded around the world. With how close Johto is from Kanto, it's totally possible for a comunity of Omanytes (or of a different especies that evolved from Omanyte) to travel to Johto and keep changing and evolving there.
I think Spinarak is from Alola. They are more common there (counting their evolution too) and they are based on the happy face spider, a spider endemic to Hawai'i
I actually think Eevee is native to Paldea. Not only is Eevee encounterable in the wild, but so are all of it's evolutions. If you include Eevee and all of it's Evolutions, they can be found in North, South, East, and West provices, and Vaporeon can be found in Area 0. When I was completing my Pokedex for Pokemon Violet I was able to catch every single evolution form of Eevee in the wild, I didn't even have to evolve any of them myself.
Thinking about it further the long lasting effects of the Area Zero crater forming may have even destabilized Eevee's DNA to cause it to evolve into so many forms.
Isn't the same true of Galar? I think you can find Eevee and all of the Eeveelutions in Galar. Eevee is on the route before the grass gym and the Eeveelutions are in the wild area and the Crown Tundra
I think this is one time where the anime seems more likely to be reality since I feel like a lot of things like starters not being in the wild is more of a game mechanic then anything
The only time we see Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle in the anime was the group of Bulbasaur migrating from another region to evolve in Kanto, the Charizard mountain tribe in Johto, but we did see a herd of Wartortle in Kanto. So he could be exempt from the list.
I love how most of these are Pokèmon that were expounded upon by being given pre evolutions or evolutions in different regions, only for them to turn out to be from those regions.
One I'm surprised he didn't mention was marill since its so rare in the johto games but common everywhere else especially in hoenn. Makes me think marill Is from hoenn
I think the starters are native to their respective gens but are endangered species, hence why they are given out to trainers. To help grow their numbers, which would explain how other starters become catch-able in later games (like the Kanto starters in the Let's Go games)
Legends Arceus gives evidence to both starters being endangered native species and imported species. The starters for that game are all imported from other regions, but DPPt/BdSp's starters are found somewhat uncommonly in the wild. More so for piplup and turtwig than chimchar.
One of hoppip’s dex entries in scarlet and violet talks about how they floated in from a different region so this could mean that hoppip are from another region besides johto
Lapras can be found ON Four Island, I’m pretty sure they even mention that’s where Lorelei caught hers. It’s safe to say they come from there rather than Johto where it only shows up once a week (perhaps because of the migration thing you mentioned)
The Togepi line can’t be native to Hoenn because you’re not able to encounter them in the wild in Ruby & Sapphire. The only games where you can encounter wild Togepi are Pokémon Diamond & Pearl’s Route 230 and Pokémon White’s White Forest.
My current theory is that Togepi are Galarian. It's the only game they and their evolutions can be found in the wild not including Legends: Arceus. When the industrial boom that made Galarian Weezing and Corsola happened, they migrated elsewhere to spread joy
@@itsfaythe6674 Yup! The Johto thing is just because of the player. Mr. Pokémon’s egg he gave them hatched into the first Togepi in Johto, thus making the player’s recording of them in the dex the first as well. It’s also why there’s not a single trainer with one
I'm not listening to nine separate arguments for starters alone, especially when Hisui's starters also came from other regions, despite also being found in the wild in Hisui. They're native to the region of their origin games, especially if you've got people talking about the anime in the comments.
Okay, hear me out: all four of Raikou, Entei, Suicune, *and* Ho-Oh aren’t native to Johto. Yes, even with the whole Burned Tower incident. The real-world inspiration for all four Legendary Pokémon comes from Chinese origin, and it’s possible that the Pokémon that died in the Burned Tower were from an undiscovered China-themed region before being reincarnated by Ho-Oh, who itself can make a case for only roosting in Johto and not actually being from there. As for why all of the Johto Legendaries (except Lugia; remember, it was designed specifically for the movie originally) are from a different place and why Gen 2 isn’t Chinese themed: that’s probably just a represent consequence of video game history in the country.
I hope this hackrom had been made before the fourth gen, since Beldums are available on Route 228 and also this would contradict the fact the anyone can get a Metagross in the game. Even Riley has one in Platinum and in the double battles.
Pokemon Legends: Arceus seems to imply that the starters are native to their home regions. Not only does the three starters Dex entry state this, but the Sinnoh Starters are also caught in the wild.
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Quaxly is probably from a brazillian region, since quaquaval is the single most brazillian pokémon ever created. Brazil is a whole ocean away from the Iberic Peninsula (which Paldea is inspired by, it isn't just Spain, but Spain AND Portugal), so the "from distant lands" quote fits, and since Brazil was colonized by Portugal, it would tie nicely as to why Quaxly is present in the Paldea region.
But here is the thing though. Quaxly is based on the Crested Duck: The Crested is a breed of domestic duck. It was probably brought to Europe from the East Indies by Dutch ships.[3]: 413 It has its appearance because it is heterozygous for a genetic mutation causing a deformity of the skull. The Indies refers to various lands in the East or the Eastern hemisphere, particularly the islands and mainlands found in and around the Indian Ocean by Portuguese explorers. So Quaxly is most likely from the East Indies.
@@nickdentoom1173 That is indeed the animal it is inspired by. But the brazilian carnival references in quaquaval are undenyable, with even it's name being a mixture of "qua qua" (the brazilian onomatopoeia for the sound that ducks make) and "carnaval" (the portuguese word for carnival). With the portuguese being the ones that brought the crested duck do Brazil, quaxly can still be a crested duck while being from a region inspired by Brazil (one thing does not exclude the other). Now, because the crested duck is not native to Brazil, a regional "original" form of quaxly, quaxwell and/or quaquaval could still exist in a region inspired by the east indies (much like galarian zigzagoon being the original zigzagoon). But as far as the current quaquaval, it makes a lot more sense for it to be brazilian, especially since the connections it has to the brazilian carnival are stronger (at least with quaquaval) than the ones with the crested duck.
@@matheuscastro990 Like... it can have been brought to Paldea from the East Indies and then brought to a Brazilian (South American region, where it regained its original Quaquaval form). Wouldn't it be funny if we get a regional form for Quaxly/Quaquaval inspired by an Asian region Legends Game, Johto perhaps.
You forgot the Sacred Treasure beasts. They spawned from the gifts of a merchant not from another region. That's why their names and battle music are reminiscent of China. So, perhaps there's a Chinese region out there as well?
@@ghoulchan7525seeing as they've made 4 regions based on Japan (6 if you include kitakami and the sevii islands and more if you include Fiore and all that which idk about), 3 based on highly specific American locations (Arizona, NYC/NJ, Hawaii) then a region for France, Great Britain and Spain/Portugal so they have about 95% of the world left to work with lol A region based on China, Australia, India, the Southern US, California, Mexico, Russia, the Arabian peninsula, Scandinavia, East Africa, or even another region of Japan could all be really cool.
I think the great marsh is practically the same as the safari zone but not lore wise. Gible is found in the desert in ORAS after the box legendary is defeated/caught so gible being a rare hoenn mon works for me. Metagross is found in the great chasm in unova so i can see beldum being from there and its said the chasm is dangerous which is why theyre rare, no one goes there. Mr. Mime being from kalos, reflection cave is cool. Makes sense since kalos is close to galar where theres a regional mr mime.
It's clear to me that will have a south american/Brazilian region. It was kinda confirmed in mew's Pokedex, besides that, quaxly/quaquaval (carnival dancer), hitmontop (capoeira fighter), cottonee/whimsicott (a Brazilian folklore), and zarude (probably from the amazon jungle), and many others that makes reference to Brazil.
My head cannon is that starter pokemon come from the regions of Pokemon Ranger games, like Fiore from the first one. In those regions, the starters from generations 1 to 4 (the ones available when Ranger games were launched) can be found in the wild, and it explicitly explained that Pokemon trainers are not allowed in those regions. So, it would make sense that professor Pokemon can obtain starter Pokemon from the rangers on Fiore.
Regional variants of pokemon and usually their dex entries will answer if that is their native form (such as with Alolan Executor actually being the original form) or a form they evolved later on after being introduced/imported (Alolan Grimer/Muk). So when you're theorising stuff about Alolan Grimer/Muk, your answer was literally right in front of you.
Amazing how a Pokèmon from Gen 1 was actually originally from a region that was introduced years later. Until you remember the original timeline without Alola. 😳
Maybe togepi is the alien (or otherworldly entity of happiness) since Misty is holding it when the machine goes off. Don’t you dare tell me togepi paradise is a normal place, seems like some kind of extension of another world (fairy land or something)
I've always thought it'd be cool for them to do a South America region. And drop a mew regional variant that is its true form. They could even make faraway island a location in the region as it seems like a jungle area.
Good video as always Dobbs, you can always tell good effort goes into your videos! Your videos are comfort videos, nothing but fun and good vibes. Thanks for that.
BIG disagree with Murkrow. And this also includes Misdreavus. My theory is that they both migrated to kanto/johto later on. Which is why you can’t find Mukrow in red and blue. And I believe they migrated from Sinnoh where these pokemon are plentyful and it’s easier to find their evolution stones. Houndour as well, I am certain is from either Kalos or Paldea And Slugma is most likely from Hoenn.
Yeah... its hard to actually pinpoint an actual native region for Water and Flying types and Pokemon that can float, considering they aren't landlocked compared to other Pokemon. Like, you can make that same case for Pokemon that can turn into Water types (For example Eevee can be native to Galar or Paldea, considering those are the only regions where they can be found, but if we look at locations, Eevee appears at more locations in Paldea than in Galar, especially with the Eeveelutions as well, which you can only catch in one location in the base game, so Eevee is probbaly native to Paldea, but Vaporeon swam to Galar and that is why the line also exists there). Murkrow are actually more plentiful in Paldea than in Sinnoh though. In Sinnoh, Murkrow only appears in the Lost Tower and Eterna Forest, while in Paldea, Murkrow appears in three of the four provinces in multiple area''s. Another point to add is that Murkrow is based on the Carrion Crow, which can be found in Iberia. Not to speak about Paldea actually being the only region you can find Honckrow in multiple provinces and area's and Honckrow also has the Europe inspiration, being based on the hooded crow. Misdreavus is most likely native to Paldea as well, since Paldea yet again being the region where its the most abundant in locations, as well as its connection to Flutter Mane.
It’s also a little bit more confusing with jigglypuff by the fact that scream tail exist since that means that jigglypuff must have been on planet earth (or whatever the Pokémon planet is called) for a very long time
While this is true FOR NOW, we haven’t had any DLC for SV yet & there’s a lot of speculation surrounding the Paradox pokemon that suggests they aren’t past/future pokemon since the Time Machine isn’t a Time Machine at all, but a machine that manifests dreams and whatever your imagination can come up with. However all of this is just speculation for now until we get DLC.
I don't think anything in the Occulture magazine can really be taken as objective fact or is meant to be. The Paradox Pokémon and Occulture are based on cryptids and the exaggerated and unbelievable stories published by paranormal magazines. Even the names of Paradox Pokémon are similar to cryptids, being descriptors of their appearance with names like Great Tusk and Roaring Moon while we have cryptids in real life named things like Bigfoot and Mothman.
Wait at 4:37 you said Lapras could be caught every Wednesday. I thought Lapras as catchable in the union cave on Fridays. Maybe I'm misremembering, I dunno, I just remember playing johto a lot and getting my lapras on a Friday. (I just absolutely love johto, it's got my favorite pokemon there.)
You forgot Falinks, since Falinks is based off of the Phalanx formation from Sparta, along with a headcanon I have where Falinks travels across the world (Though maybe they got the armor from the ruins they are most often found in)
tbh.... if we go off that (A Pokemon that is based off of something), Girafarig and Zebstrika aren't native to their respective regions either (Same with Litleo and Hippopotas for example).
It might be reconned but technically all Johto mons are foreign to johto. Since technically they’re are the only “newly discovered” Pokémon in canon every other gen moved along like those Pokémon always been there
I think safari pokemon are probably pokemon that went near extinct in their own regions. So Scyther, Kangashan and e.t.c . I think they are native in Kanto but they went almost extinct there. Same for Lapras
I think copperajah got to be in a India 🇮🇳 region because if you read raichu Pokédex entries it says that it can shock a India elephant 🐘 but in legends of arceus it says the same thing but it says it shock a capoerajah so yeah I think we might a India region
If Island Scan is a viable way to determine a Pokemon is native to a region, then why not also Pokemon encountering features such as PokeRadar? They're used to get Pokemon don't naturally spawn to become catchable. So what makes one an indicator of region of origin while the others don't?
I think Lapras is from Galar natively because of its Loch Ness monster and the reason you can also find it in the wild in the most location. It being a Water type, probably means it migrated to the other regions and sought out the locations it felt the most comfortable in.
I really think Quaxly comes from a Brazilian based region. Its evolution is literally a madrinha de bateria who dances samba during Carnaval (especially in Rio de Janeiro).
I firmly believe that Larvesta & Volcarona are not native from Unova, but from Alola, because the Pokedex states that they are native from Volcanic bases, and although Unova has a volcano, you can't find neither Pokémon in the wild, and to further add to this, Alder and his grandson are the ONLY people in Unova to use a Volcarona, with NO ONE, using Larvesta through the games they were introduced or their sequels
Agreed. Heck, Zorua is not native to Unova either, since you can only get it via in-game and cannot catch it. The only region you can find Zorua in are Paldea and Alola (Yes... i know you can get it in Hoenn... but you can only do it after having captured or completed Groudon, which means its a bonus capture and not actual one intended for the game specifically, so that is why i don't count it for the Galar DLC either).
@@nickdentoom1173 absolutely yes, I also consider Zorua to not be native to Unova either Also, I wanted to correct something I said in my original comment There is ONE trainer in B2W2 that have a Larvesta in her team, but I believe they did this because Larvesta is literally impossible to see before the Post-Game, and you need to breed the Volcarona that you got in order to see the thing Is funny but tragic how Larvesta and Zorua are the rarest Pokémon in their debut region 😭😭😭😭 (Zorua is rarer)
Tauros is not native to Paldea because all three of their forms are called breeds: Combat Breed, Aqua Breed and Blaze Breed. So that alone already suggests they are bred from other Tauros forms.
a lot of those made sense, but, i still think the quaxly line are native to brazil. it's final form sambas and that dance, as far as i know, comes from rio's carnival which is in brazil.
Sizzlipede is only in ONE area in Galar, not all over the place. Raid Dens do not count since those are totally random and not on a set encounter pattern.
It sort of feels like the starter Pokemon were bred in captivity on some island where all the regional Professors vacation on, and they each take three back with them to their home regions. The island is probably in or near Alola, and that's why they appear so regularly there Whenever they appear in the wild elsewhere, they're probably the descendants of the ones who've escaped, been abandoned or lost and have bred with others of their kind in similar situations
If we assume Dobbs is correct and cut non native Pokémon, and follow the traditional 151 rules (meaning no prevos and evos added later in the franchise); then the acient natives of the Red/Green/Blue Universes could only encounter 115 Pokémon. I guess that's not too bad
I think that the Hoenn starters are native to Hoenn, since Prof. Birch is said to study habitats and be out and about constantly but nothing is said of him traveling the world, so the anime might be right
When I read Quaxly’s Pokédex entry, I thought about if it came from a Brazil-based region because of how Quaquaval is based on Carneval dancers. Then I thought what if Fuecoco came from a Mexico-based region. Idk where Sprigatito would be imported from, though.
I vaguely remember reading that Fuecoco is from the Philippines while Sprigatito is from Mexico, and the third from Brazil all of which were Iberian colonies in the past.
@@Ivashankoeh, but fuecoco's face is similar to a sugar skull, which is a mestizo mexican origin. Plus, all peppers originated from the americas, and mexico has many, many mythos of cryptid crocodilians. Considering Sprigatito's design influences are of a Jester, one who can put on a show to kings and masters of illusion, and considering the french "mascara" was taken from the spanish word for "mask", I think Sprigatito is either from Paldea, and *maybe* Galar or Kalos, but I think its less likely.
I think Yungoos and Gumshoos are actually from Paldea as it’s newly added dex entries that we haven’t gotten since Alola don’t state anything about it being foreign to Paldea unlike Alola which is a first for this line.
I planning to make a fake legends game in the future based on hoenn and centered around deoxys and pokerus so explimations for starmie and togepi will be very helpful in making ancient forms
How about the Forces of Nature? They clearly are out of place in Unova. Japanese deities in a region not based on a japanese region. It's pretty obvious that they're from either Kanto, Johto, Hoenn or Sinnoh (probably Sinnoh if we look at Legends). And the Treasures of Ruin too. What are chinese relics doing in Spain?
I thought that too! But on the official Sword and Shield website it states that Kubfu’s original home is Galar, so I took them out of the video last minute
Snorlax idk. They literally say oh snorlax returned back to the mountins⛰️ . So what now... some hikers let free a ton of munchlax to evolve up in the mountains and then they started coming down? We gotta not infer but take at face value. My opinion is snorlax is native to multiple areas. Including kanto. From the mountains.
I'm from the Johto region 🤓
Hello from Hoenn.
i'm kinda from unova lol unova is new york and i am in washington those are both america so i am loosely from unova
I'm from Paldea! (Spanish)
Hello from Kanto! 😁
(First Pokémon game I played)
I don’t think there’s a Pokémon game based off of my area yet. I was born in Oregon. Specifically Salem. So the Willamette Valley area but the forest part on the way to Independence, not the city area. Now I’m in a rural/suburban mix town. Still in the Willamette Valley though
@@Supersonic992 can you see kalos from over there
Riolu and Lucario were introduced in Gen 4, but the only way you could get one in Sinnoh was for Riley to give you an Egg. But they could be found in the wild in Hisui (ancient Sinnoh), implying that they became an endangered species.
Or they just wanted riolu to be a gift pokemon back then and nowadays it's nothing important :)
or maybe they're just harder to come by, wild Riolu and Lucario definitely seem like rare mons you'd find in remote mountains or ancient ruins
@@superbodoque7860 the dex entry says it’s the last
You can find them in b2&w2, implying riley got his from unova.
The first region we find wild Riolus is Unova, in the grass right after Floccesy Ranch in BW2.
But they're also present in the very earlier routes of Kalos and Alola's Poni Island along wild Lucarios.
You missed Urshifu, this is the shield dex entry for Single Strike Style,
"Inhabiting the mountains of a distant region, this Pokémon races across sheer cliffs, training its legs and refining its moves"
With Hisui's gimmick being Strong and Agile Style moves and Urshifu having its Single Strike and Rapid Strike forms, I think it's very safe to assume that the distant mountainous region they hail from is Sinnoh.
@@spamtong.spamton8416 there is a theory that RS was trained by keldeo in water style
To counter your points on so many Pokemon being native to Alola, keep in mind that this is only due to Island Scan, which allows exceptionally rare (starters) or non-native Pokemon to appear on the islands
also being the last 3ds pokemon game it literally had every pokemon available in it
A lot of starters are probably native to the Lental Region, as you can find them in the wild there. This especially can be true for Meganium, due to its entire storyline.
Theory
Oswald's device wasn't an alien detector, it's a Fairy detector. It was detecting Clefairy's Fairy type, as well as Jigglypuff's. The reason it went off near Misty, is because it was actually responding to Togepi in her arms
@Cosmic Power Retcons are the bane of everything in pop culture.
@Cosmic Power this video is about pokemon being from regions that were not thought of yet. either this is all bullshit or enjoy the fun thoughts.
Maybe but idk
The original plot concelt that the Kalos games were designed around was talking about how the newly discovered fairy types are actually aliens from the moon, and Team Flare are MIB that were possed by evil aliens. So back before they scrapped that you would be close
@@andrewcogdillcole3826 Source?
It's funny to think about how many Pokemon have been retcon to come from other regions, and then there's Copperajah which from the second it was created was meant to reference an Indian Pokemon region that we'll someday see.
What
I hope that by gen 11 or 12, a pokemon region based on India would be implemented as there are are few wildlifes to make new pokemon based on it such as bengal tiger.
Hopefully if they ever do an Indian based region, Copperajah can be reworked so it doesn't look so squished. It's an elephant pokemon but it's body looks flat compared to its trunk.
"Ok your pikachu is cute but what's it's Ethnicity"
5:05 Aerodactyl nor the old amber cannot be found in Paldea as of yet
6:50 Cyndaquil’s dex entry in PLA states that it is from Johto
13:42 Oshawott at the very least is from Unova according to Hisui dex entry
Aerodactyl is a fossil, and therefore, is not (yet, or ever) in Paldea
Well in PLA, laventon wrote the dex itself, and if laventon traveled to the johto region and obtained it as a gift, it could mean cyndaquil is not from johto. same with oshawott. however, thats a pretty specific requirement
@@ThewandererFN
Or he could have found a wild Cyndaquil/Oshawott/one that someone released (maybe a shiny hunter was trying to get a shiny but the egg wasn't shiny and so they released it or something idk) or the descendent of one.
I think you misheard me, I stated that Kanto, Alola, and Paldea are the only regions the Old Amber cannot be found in 😉
As for the dex entries, I totally missed that! That is a good counterpoint!
@Alan I take the remaining region dex entries with less than a grain of salt: BUT I will believe in Laventon's dex wholeheartedly.
The fact Omanyte is the ancestor to Octillery's line doesn't mean that Octillery isn't native from Johto.
Omanytes could change and evolve over time as they changed locations and expanded around the world. With how close Johto is from Kanto, it's totally possible for a comunity of Omanytes (or of a different especies that evolved from Omanyte) to travel to Johto and keep changing and evolving there.
I think Spinarak is from Alola. They are more common there (counting their evolution too) and they are based on the happy face spider, a spider endemic to Hawai'i
Spinarak is based on the Japanese Joro spider. In fact, the whole Johto region is a shot for shot recreation of the corresponding region of Japan
@@KnuttyEntertainmentit does look similar to it, but it has a face on it's abdomen like the happy face spider. They are also a similar color too
I actually think Eevee is native to Paldea. Not only is Eevee encounterable in the wild, but so are all of it's evolutions. If you include Eevee and all of it's Evolutions, they can be found in North, South, East, and West provices, and Vaporeon can be found in Area 0. When I was completing my Pokedex for Pokemon Violet I was able to catch every single evolution form of Eevee in the wild, I didn't even have to evolve any of them myself.
Thinking about it further the long lasting effects of the Area Zero crater forming may have even destabilized Eevee's DNA to cause it to evolve into so many forms.
Isn't the same true of Galar? I think you can find Eevee and all of the Eeveelutions in Galar. Eevee is on the route before the grass gym and the Eeveelutions are in the wild area and the Crown Tundra
I think this is one time where the anime seems more likely to be reality since I feel like a lot of things like starters not being in the wild is more of a game mechanic then anything
The only time we see Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle in the anime was the group of Bulbasaur migrating from another region to evolve in Kanto, the Charizard mountain tribe in Johto, but we did see a herd of Wartortle in Kanto. So he could be exempt from the list.
What about the Squirtle gang?
I mean, can't you catch them in the wild in LGP/LGE?
@RabblesTheBinx probably. never played. To gimmicky for me. If they make another let's go, it should include actual combat with wild pokemon.
I love how most of these are Pokèmon that were expounded upon by being given pre evolutions or evolutions in different regions, only for them to turn out to be from those regions.
One I'm surprised he didn't mention was marill since its so rare in the johto games but common everywhere else especially in hoenn. Makes me think marill Is from hoenn
I believe Beldum comes from Unova because in the giant chasm you can find wild Metang and Metagross
I think the starters are native to their respective gens but are endangered species, hence why they are given out to trainers. To help grow their numbers, which would explain how other starters become catch-able in later games (like the Kanto starters in the Let's Go games)
Perhaps for some of them, but pretty clearly the PLA starters are imported, and Quaxly's dex entry even says it came from another region.
The Let’s Go games are a different dimmension/timeline
Legends Arceus gives evidence to both starters being endangered native species and imported species. The starters for that game are all imported from other regions, but DPPt/BdSp's starters are found somewhat uncommonly in the wild. More so for piplup and turtwig than chimchar.
One of hoppip’s dex entries in scarlet and violet talks about how they floated in from a different region so this could mean that hoppip are from another region besides johto
I think the only other region they are in the wild is kalos
Lapras can be found ON Four Island, I’m pretty sure they even mention that’s where Lorelei caught hers. It’s safe to say they come from there rather than Johto where it only shows up once a week (perhaps because of the migration thing you mentioned)
There is a one percent chance of lapras being above a waterfall on island 4
I want to make a huge chart split up by region and organize the pokemon by their native regions
I'm trying to do it :)
Your profile icon is amazing, do you know where I can find the artwork in full?
@@alexmoreira876 how is it going?
@@iHerc It's not, it's been a while, gotta get back to it some time.
Lapras was found in GSC (NA region) every Friday, not Wednesday
The Togepi line can’t be native to Hoenn because you’re not able to encounter them in the wild in Ruby & Sapphire. The only games where you can encounter wild Togepi are Pokémon Diamond & Pearl’s Route 230 and Pokémon White’s White Forest.
Did you forget sword and shield?
My current theory is that Togepi are Galarian. It's the only game they and their evolutions can be found in the wild not including Legends: Arceus. When the industrial boom that made Galarian Weezing and Corsola happened, they migrated elsewhere to spread joy
And so arrived in Sinnoh, since they can be encountered in the wild during the post-game.
@@itsfaythe6674 Yup! The Johto thing is just because of the player. Mr. Pokémon’s egg he gave them hatched into the first Togepi in Johto, thus making the player’s recording of them in the dex the first as well. It’s also why there’s not a single trainer with one
@@logans.7932 Exactly.
In Sinnoh, however, there are Trainers with Togepi and its evos in the team.
Even Cynthia has one 😁👍🏻
Of course, the region representing Britain drove them away lol.
Metagross could be native to Unova as well, since they're found in the Giant Chasm in both BW/BW2
i think the reason the alien machine thing went off on misty was because she was holding togepi
1:23 What if the device was picking up on Togepi, not Misty, and that all Fairy type PKMN are aliens?
I'm not listening to nine separate arguments for starters alone, especially when Hisui's starters also came from other regions, despite also being found in the wild in Hisui. They're native to the region of their origin games, especially if you've got people talking about the anime in the comments.
Okay, hear me out: all four of Raikou, Entei, Suicune, *and* Ho-Oh aren’t native to Johto. Yes, even with the whole Burned Tower incident. The real-world inspiration for all four Legendary Pokémon comes from Chinese origin, and it’s possible that the Pokémon that died in the Burned Tower were from an undiscovered China-themed region before being reincarnated by Ho-Oh, who itself can make a case for only roosting in Johto and not actually being from there.
As for why all of the Johto Legendaries (except Lugia; remember, it was designed specifically for the movie originally) are from a different place and why Gen 2 isn’t Chinese themed: that’s probably just a represent consequence of video game history in the country.
10:00 in a pokemon hackrom, someone made a book explaining that metagross was made by Devon in Hoenn, and that's why only Steven has a Metagross
I hope this hackrom had been made before the fourth gen, since Beldums are available on Route 228 and also this would contradict the fact the anyone can get a Metagross in the game.
Even Riley has one in Platinum and in the double battles.
Pokemon Legends: Arceus seems to imply that the starters are native to their home regions. Not only does the three starters Dex entry state this, but the Sinnoh Starters are also caught in the wild.
1:30 The alien detector is clearly detecting fairies. It detects Misty as an alien because she's carrying Togepi.
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Quaxly is probably from a brazillian region, since quaquaval is the single most brazillian pokémon ever created. Brazil is a whole ocean away from the Iberic Peninsula (which Paldea is inspired by, it isn't just Spain, but Spain AND Portugal), so the "from distant lands" quote fits, and since Brazil was colonized by Portugal, it would tie nicely as to why Quaxly is present in the Paldea region.
But here is the thing though.
Quaxly is based on the Crested Duck: The Crested is a breed of domestic duck. It was probably brought to Europe from the East Indies by Dutch ships.[3]: 413 It has its appearance because it is heterozygous for a genetic mutation causing a deformity of the skull.
The Indies refers to various lands in the East or the Eastern hemisphere, particularly the islands and mainlands found in and around the Indian Ocean by Portuguese explorers.
So Quaxly is most likely from the East Indies.
@@nickdentoom1173 That is indeed the animal it is inspired by. But the brazilian carnival references in quaquaval are undenyable, with even it's name being a mixture of "qua qua" (the brazilian onomatopoeia for the sound that ducks make) and "carnaval" (the portuguese word for carnival). With the portuguese being the ones that brought the crested duck do Brazil, quaxly can still be a crested duck while being from a region inspired by Brazil (one thing does not exclude the other). Now, because the crested duck is not native to Brazil, a regional "original" form of quaxly, quaxwell and/or quaquaval could still exist in a region inspired by the east indies (much like galarian zigzagoon being the original zigzagoon). But as far as the current quaquaval, it makes a lot more sense for it to be brazilian, especially since the connections it has to the brazilian carnival are stronger (at least with quaquaval) than the ones with the crested duck.
@@matheuscastro990 Like... it can have been brought to Paldea from the East Indies and then brought to a Brazilian (South American region, where it regained its original Quaquaval form). Wouldn't it be funny if we get a regional form for Quaxly/Quaquaval inspired by an Asian region Legends Game, Johto perhaps.
She was holding Togepi, that was why the machine was going off.
You forgot the Sacred Treasure beasts. They spawned from the gifts of a merchant not from another region. That's why their names and battle music are reminiscent of China. So, perhaps there's a Chinese region out there as well?
how long till they run out of ground to make into pokemon regions?
@@ghoulchan7525seeing as they've made 4 regions based on Japan (6 if you include kitakami and the sevii islands and more if you include Fiore and all that which idk about), 3 based on highly specific American locations (Arizona, NYC/NJ, Hawaii) then a region for France, Great Britain and Spain/Portugal so they have about 95% of the world left to work with lol
A region based on China, Australia, India, the Southern US, California, Mexico, Russia, the Arabian peninsula, Scandinavia, East Africa, or even another region of Japan could all be really cool.
I think the great marsh is practically the same as the safari zone but not lore wise.
Gible is found in the desert in ORAS after the box legendary is defeated/caught so gible being a rare hoenn mon works for me.
Metagross is found in the great chasm in unova so i can see beldum being from there and its said the chasm is dangerous which is why theyre rare, no one goes there.
Mr. Mime being from kalos, reflection cave is cool. Makes sense since kalos is close to galar where theres a regional mr mime.
It's clear to me that will have a south american/Brazilian region. It was kinda confirmed in mew's Pokedex, besides that, quaxly/quaquaval (carnival dancer), hitmontop (capoeira fighter), cottonee/whimsicott (a Brazilian folklore), and zarude (probably from the amazon jungle), and many others that makes reference to Brazil.
I always thought Zarude could have been from the lush jungle as a protector of sorts before becoming a trial site
My head cannon is that starter pokemon come from the regions of Pokemon Ranger games, like Fiore from the first one. In those regions, the starters from generations 1 to 4 (the ones available when Ranger games were launched) can be found in the wild, and it explicitly explained that Pokemon trainers are not allowed in those regions. So, it would make sense that professor Pokemon can obtain starter Pokemon from the rangers on Fiore.
Regional variants of pokemon and usually their dex entries will answer if that is their native form (such as with Alolan Executor actually being the original form) or a form they evolved later on after being introduced/imported (Alolan Grimer/Muk). So when you're theorising stuff about Alolan Grimer/Muk, your answer was literally right in front of you.
Amazing how a Pokèmon from Gen 1 was actually originally from a region that was introduced years later.
Until you remember the original timeline without Alola. 😳
1:24 the device goes off near Misty because she’s holding togepi
I like that some people aren't from the regions introduced
12:04 Carnivine can be found in the Crimson Mirelands in Legends Arceus
Maybe togepi is the alien (or otherworldly entity of happiness) since Misty is holding it when the machine goes off. Don’t you dare tell me togepi paradise is a normal place, seems like some kind of extension of another world (fairy land or something)
I've always thought it'd be cool for them to do a South America region. And drop a mew regional variant that is its true form. They could even make faraway island a location in the region as it seems like a jungle area.
Probably not Mew because the Pokédex has stated there is only one left.
If we get a South American region, we should get a regional form for the Lotad line
Argentina pokemon region lol
Are there jungles in Argentina?
@@lollertoaster yeah
Beldum probably lived from the Galar region, mainly the Crown Tundra, due to how moves faster in colder climates.
Beldum is usually found around meteor sites, so I theorize it to be from space.
You forgot to mention you can find Murkrow on Fire Red's sevii islands' Lost Cave!
Good video as always Dobbs, you can always tell good effort goes into your videos! Your videos are comfort videos, nothing but fun and good vibes. Thanks for that.
I don't agree about Great Marsh being the same as Safari Zone. I think it is more like a nature preserve.
You see the entire togepi line in the hisui region in the wild or at least I did it contradicted the dex
BIG disagree with Murkrow. And this also includes Misdreavus. My theory is that they both migrated to kanto/johto later on. Which is why you can’t find Mukrow in red and blue. And I believe they migrated from Sinnoh where these pokemon are plentyful and it’s easier to find their evolution stones.
Houndour as well, I am certain is from either Kalos or Paldea
And Slugma is most likely from Hoenn.
Yeah... its hard to actually pinpoint an actual native region for Water and Flying types and Pokemon that can float, considering they aren't landlocked compared to other Pokemon.
Like, you can make that same case for Pokemon that can turn into Water types (For example Eevee can be native to Galar or Paldea, considering those are the only regions where they can be found, but if we look at locations, Eevee appears at more locations in Paldea than in Galar, especially with the Eeveelutions as well, which you can only catch in one location in the base game, so Eevee is probbaly native to Paldea, but Vaporeon swam to Galar and that is why the line also exists there).
Murkrow are actually more plentiful in Paldea than in Sinnoh though. In Sinnoh, Murkrow only appears in the Lost Tower and Eterna Forest, while in Paldea, Murkrow appears in three of the four provinces in multiple area''s. Another point to add is that Murkrow is based on the Carrion Crow, which can be found in Iberia. Not to speak about Paldea actually being the only region you can find Honckrow in multiple provinces and area's and Honckrow also has the Europe inspiration, being based on the hooded crow.
Misdreavus is most likely native to Paldea as well, since Paldea yet again being the region where its the most abundant in locations, as well as its connection to Flutter Mane.
Drink every time Dobbs says pokemon
You can also get eevee in gen 4 during outbreaks
I've been binge watching every one of your videos lately. Been looking forward to a new video
It’s also a little bit more confusing with jigglypuff by the fact that scream tail exist since that means that jigglypuff must have been on planet earth (or whatever the Pokémon planet is called) for a very long time
Yeah, I think JigglyPuff/Scream Tail came from Area Zero in Paldea.
While this is true FOR NOW, we haven’t had any DLC for SV yet & there’s a lot of speculation surrounding the Paradox pokemon that suggests they aren’t past/future pokemon since the Time Machine isn’t a Time Machine at all, but a machine that manifests dreams and whatever your imagination can come up with. However all of this is just speculation for now until we get DLC.
I don't think anything in the Occulture magazine can really be taken as objective fact or is meant to be. The Paradox Pokémon and Occulture are based on cryptids and the exaggerated and unbelievable stories published by paranormal magazines. Even the names of Paradox Pokémon are similar to cryptids, being descriptors of their appearance with names like Great Tusk and Roaring Moon while we have cryptids in real life named things like Bigfoot and Mothman.
Wait at 4:37 you said Lapras could be caught every Wednesday. I thought Lapras as catchable in the union cave on Fridays. Maybe I'm misremembering, I dunno, I just remember playing johto a lot and getting my lapras on a Friday. (I just absolutely love johto, it's got my favorite pokemon there.)
Misty wasn’t the alien, Togepi was
You forgot Falinks, since Falinks is based off of the Phalanx formation from Sparta, along with a headcanon I have where Falinks travels across the world (Though maybe they got the armor from the ruins they are most often found in)
So their native region is either Italy or Greece.
tbh.... if we go off that (A Pokemon that is based off of something), Girafarig and Zebstrika aren't native to their respective regions either (Same with Litleo and Hippopotas for example).
Nice Diddy Kong racing background music lol. It brought me back pleasant memories.
i think you can catch carnivine in the route west of pastoria city? the route that connects pastoria to the pokémon mansion
Just realized there was a huge missed opportunity to give Geeta a Copperajah in her team.
It might be reconned but technically all Johto mons are foreign to johto. Since technically they’re are the only “newly discovered” Pokémon in canon every other gen moved along like those Pokémon always been there
I think safari pokemon are probably pokemon that went near extinct in their own regions. So Scyther, Kangashan and e.t.c . I think they are native in Kanto but they went almost extinct there. Same for Lapras
I think copperajah got to be in a India 🇮🇳 region because if you read raichu Pokédex entries it says that it can shock a India elephant 🐘 but in legends of arceus it says the same thing but it says it shock a capoerajah so yeah I think we might a India region
Thank you for the Diddy Kong Racing music in the background 2:00
Always thought that the OG starters had a more exotic, tropical feel than a lot of the other Pokémon from gen 1
Can't believe I missed the shiny zeraora event
The Great Marsh appears to have been built over an existing ecosystem so it's very likely the Sinnoh Pokemon found there are native.
If Island Scan is a viable way to determine a Pokemon is native to a region, then why not also Pokemon encountering features such as PokeRadar? They're used to get Pokemon don't naturally spawn to become catchable. So what makes one an indicator of region of origin while the others don't?
The only regions Lapras aren't in would be Kanto, Hoenn, and Paldea, and in Ultra Moon's Dex entry, there are now more of them
I think Lapras is from Galar natively because of its Loch Ness monster and the reason you can also find it in the wild in the most location. It being a Water type, probably means it migrated to the other regions and sought out the locations it felt the most comfortable in.
Bro this was craY
I really think Quaxly comes from a Brazilian based region. Its evolution is literally a madrinha de bateria who dances samba during Carnaval (especially in Rio de Janeiro).
I firmly believe that Larvesta & Volcarona are not native from Unova, but from Alola, because the Pokedex states that they are native from Volcanic bases, and although Unova has a volcano, you can't find neither Pokémon in the wild, and to further add to this, Alder and his grandson are the ONLY people in Unova to use a Volcarona, with NO ONE, using Larvesta through the games they were introduced or their sequels
Agreed.
Heck, Zorua is not native to Unova either, since you can only get it via in-game and cannot catch it. The only region you can find Zorua in are Paldea and Alola (Yes... i know you can get it in Hoenn... but you can only do it after having captured or completed Groudon, which means its a bonus capture and not actual one intended for the game specifically, so that is why i don't count it for the Galar DLC either).
@@nickdentoom1173 absolutely yes, I also consider Zorua to not be native to Unova either
Also, I wanted to correct something I said in my original comment
There is ONE trainer in B2W2 that have a Larvesta in her team, but I believe they did this because Larvesta is literally impossible to see before the Post-Game, and you need to breed the Volcarona that you got in order to see the thing
Is funny but tragic how Larvesta and Zorua are the rarest Pokémon in their debut region 😭😭😭😭 (Zorua is rarer)
Actually, Oswald's device was a toy. After Misty broke it, he mentioned submitting cereal box tops to mail order it
Also I think that beldum is native to the Giant Chasm in Unova
Tauros also, may be from Paldea due the three different species that already lived there.
Tauros is not native to Paldea because all three of their forms are called breeds: Combat Breed, Aqua Breed and Blaze Breed. So that alone already suggests they are bred from other Tauros forms.
a lot of those made sense, but, i still think the quaxly line are native to brazil. it's final form sambas and that dance, as far as i know, comes from rio's carnival which is in brazil.
I mean the beldum line might be from unova as well since you can catch wild metangs in the giant casm in b2w2
Sizzlipede is only in ONE area in Galar, not all over the place. Raid Dens do not count since those are totally random and not on a set encounter pattern.
solid theory's my man, good video . we like all dobbs video
It sort of feels like the starter Pokemon were bred in captivity on some island where all the regional Professors vacation on, and they each take three back with them to their home regions. The island is probably in or near Alola, and that's why they appear so regularly there
Whenever they appear in the wild elsewhere, they're probably the descendants of the ones who've escaped, been abandoned or lost and have bred with others of their kind in similar situations
If we assume Dobbs is correct and cut non native Pokémon, and follow the traditional 151 rules (meaning no prevos and evos added later in the franchise); then the acient natives of the Red/Green/Blue Universes could only encounter 115 Pokémon. I guess that's not too bad
This is very well done yals theories are really interesting and make you think
I think that the Hoenn starters are native to Hoenn, since Prof. Birch is said to study habitats and be out and about constantly but nothing is said of him traveling the world, so the anime might be right
When I read Quaxly’s Pokédex entry, I thought about if it came from a Brazil-based region because of how Quaquaval is based on Carneval dancers. Then I thought what if Fuecoco came from a Mexico-based region. Idk where Sprigatito would be imported from, though.
A European Spanish region maybe?
@@TeaPawt So the only one native to paldea? Since its based on spain.
From Mexico too
I vaguely remember reading that Fuecoco is from the Philippines while Sprigatito is from Mexico, and the third from Brazil all of which were Iberian colonies in the past.
@@Ivashankoeh, but fuecoco's face is similar to a sugar skull, which is a mestizo mexican origin. Plus, all peppers originated from the americas, and mexico has many, many mythos of cryptid crocodilians. Considering Sprigatito's design influences are of a Jester, one who can put on a show to kings and masters of illusion, and considering the french "mascara" was taken from the spanish word for "mask", I think Sprigatito is either from Paldea, and *maybe* Galar or Kalos, but I think its less likely.
I think Yungoos and Gumshoos are actually from Paldea as it’s newly added dex entries that we haven’t gotten since Alola don’t state anything about it being foreign to Paldea unlike Alola which is a first for this line.
True. And Rattata aren't there either, so they don't need pest control, meaning its easier to take Yungoos away from their.
Carnivine can be found in the wild in legends arceus so it is definitively from sinnoh
"There are no Jungles in the Galar Region"
The Glimwood Tangle: am I a joke to you?
That is Galar
@@Abyss_WaIker Still my point stands
Dunno if its already said: but Lapras is actually available every Friday not Wednesday
Mime Jr. debuted in the 4th Generation, meaning it can't come from the Odd Egg in the 2nd Generation games.
If you take into consideration the Pokemon TCG lore, Mew is native to the Holon Region, as that is where scientists went to search Mew.
I planning to make a fake legends game in the future based on hoenn and centered around deoxys and pokerus
so explimations for starmie and togepi will be very helpful in making ancient forms
He missed kubfu and urshifu for gen 8, it literally mentions that it is from a distant region in it's pokedex entry
How about the Forces of Nature?
They clearly are out of place in Unova. Japanese deities in a region not based on a japanese region. It's pretty obvious that they're from either Kanto, Johto, Hoenn or Sinnoh (probably Sinnoh if we look at Legends).
And the Treasures of Ruin too. What are chinese relics doing in Spain?
I thought that too! But on the official Sword and Shield website it states that Kubfu’s original home is Galar, so I took them out of the video last minute
I was wonder about the pokemon with no area and this helped
Snorlax idk. They literally say oh snorlax returned back to the mountins⛰️ . So what now... some hikers let free a ton of munchlax to evolve up in the mountains and then they started coming down? We gotta not infer but take at face value. My opinion is snorlax is native to multiple areas. Including kanto. From the mountains.
Man forgot Unova is the only other region to find Corphish, the evidence for it native there is hard
They might not be from Alola but love them like they were especially the cosmog and UB
Carnivine is found in Legends Arceus so it has gotta be native there.
My opinion for Farfetch'd is that it's from Johto. It can be found there.
the machine from the begining was detecting the fairy type! :O
That map actually looks really accurate