Why is it a bug type? It's a mold Pokemon. Mold isn't a bug. What next? A winged monkey you call dragon type? Not to mention, design-wise it looks more like a turtle. What the heck, Gamefreak?🐢🐒
Shuckle could also be based on snails. Explaining the high defenses referencing the snail shells and lack of a good speed stat. More specifically the African Giant Snail.
I mean when you think about it any animal terminology we use doesn't ever apply in pokemon since they don't actually have arachnids in their worlds. If you think about it all the titles for pokemon don't really make sense. Like pokemon being classified by the pokedex as bagworm pokemon since... well there is no such thing as a bagworm in the pokemon universe. Same for arachnids, technically the term doesn't exist in that world, hence why they can take the liberty of making them look different from our world's arachnids.
@@greenxmango8049 When have you seen those??? If it's in the anime, well there were instances of monsters from the Mana series in there so that's not accurate XD
I think it's pronounced "ARTH-ro-pod" not "ANTH-ro-pod." 'cause the defining characteristic is having jointed legs. "Anthropod" would be... like, a human-legged creature. Which brings some GREAT images to mind, let me say.
Metroid4ever I'm 25 so my parents don't live with me. There are so many misconceptions about tarantulas being deadly, vicious creatures and it's really sad. My Jinx (and rose hair) and Cordelia (p.metallica) are super docile and very fascinating. Jinx gives highfives! I hope you get a chance to spend time with a tarantula xo
Tarantulas are the least scary spiders, sure, they are big, (not all the time but whatever) but i prefer having a bigass spider that i can easily bag and put outside than a sneaky scary ass spider that I can't see for the life of me
OMG Don't remind me of that time... I was studying Biology because of plants! not bugs! why do i have to go out catch a bunch of them and classify all of them???????
Its interesting, I hate bugs in real life, but my favorite type is bug type. Most of them have cute designs or just are interesting or underrated! Thanks for the video! Can't wait to see what you say about my favorite, Leavanny! Edit: That giant cenetipde grossed me out so much 😂
Same here. I really only like butterflies and moths, but Pokémon makes so many of the bug types so lovable! I'm terribly arachnophobic, but Galvantula is just so cute and fuzzy that I can't help but love it!
in german it is a lot easier: Feromosa -> Schabelle the Schab part of the name is littlally the start of the word Schabe which is german for cockroach...
From what I remember when looking up Genesect and the movie; Genesect was a Genesect. It's just that modern day people modified it with technology so it can survive in modern times. So presumably, it's original form would look similar to it's current form. Just without looking like tech.
how could you miss the origin of Durant, that bug is amazing, is it based of an ant AND the Ironclad beetle, whose exoesqueleton is extreamly tough,, harder than some metals as enthomologists can't run a pin, like they normaly do to study bug's anatomy, through them without the aid of a drill
@@MaxxStacks "bugs" is essentially synonymous with arthropod these days, so a bit more than just "related". Theres also hemipterans, aka "true bugs", these are insects with a needle mouth and an incomplete metamorphosis, such as stink bugs, aphids and pond skaters.
Shuckle's the Mold Pokemon. But maybe not like, the cheese kind? Maybe more like the plastic toys that you squeeze Play-Doh through? Shuckle is just Play-Doh being squeezed out of a rock mold. And that bugs me.
Common misconception about the chrysalis. They aren't actually spun by the caterpillars themselves (those are cocoons). Chrysalises are actually a hard outer shell that caterpillars form under their old bodies which grow and literally bursts out of them. Everything about the caterpillar's old appearance (face, legs, skin) is shed like a dirty onesie, and replaced with a stationary container where the caterpillar melts itself, reforming into a new creature a few days after.
Pheromosa is based on a cockroach I guess since its/her name in the French version is "Cancrelove" from "Cancrelat" (cockroach) and "Love" Even the Japanese and German names refer to cockroach Moreover, Pheromosa is really fast... Just like a cockroach
Wait, cockroaches are fast? I'll admit, I live in more northern Canada so I've never seen one in real life, but I've seen pictures and they don't look very agile.
I personally think that the Bug-type represents the "Arthropod-type" the same way how there used to be a Bird-type that they then renamed because things fly other than birds. There are things that are Bug-like that aren't just insects: like spiders, isopods, and hermit crabs. I wouldn't be surprised if in the future we get a Bug-type Horseshoe Crab or Sea Monkey. This also explains Shuckle because if Shuckle is based on a Crustacean (a Barnacle) it would be in line with the other crustacean bug types.
“Bugs” are an actual type of insect too, eg: assassin bug, kissing bug, stink bug. Since the name has been kinda washed out, we call them “true bugs” now. Think of it as calling a bee a butterfly when people say “that fly is a bug”, when that is not the case lol.
Since Shuckle is classified as the mold Pokemon, and mold is a fungus, which is normally grass type, we should ask for a regional variant of Shuckle that's Grass/Rock, has more algae on it, etc. Then it makes more sense.
As i was watching this episode, i was playing Ultra Moon. I was legend hunting in the ultra wormhole, i went into a non legendary wormhole, and i encountered a shiny yanmega. Ive encountered two and caught both of them. Such an underrated shiny.
I thought Pheromosa was a silverfish, which is definitely an insect. Also, people *do* call lobstery things "bugs." Just come down South and ask for some mudbugs. 😆
@@gabriellavedier9650 i mean, there is *some* resemblance, but i really cant see it at all besides the antenna and the vague shape if the appendix dorsalis and cerci (the three "tails" on silverfish) and a lil bit of the head shape. to me, pheromosa very much resembles a cockroach, specifically an amberwood or german cockroach. pheromosas translucent back highly resembles wings, their head and eye shape, the two claws some of them have, and cockroaches also have cerci themselves. contrary to popular belief, cockroaches are very clean and are condtantly grooming themselves. one of pheromosas pokedex entries say that it refuses to touch anything because it senses the uncleanliness of the world. another pokedex entry says that theyre very common in their world, like cockroaches are here. also many of pheromosas foreign names are derived from cockroach. i dont know much about copepods, but i know a lot about insects and pheromosa is about as cockroach like as a pokemon can get
@@gabriellavedier9650 true, true! although cockroaches aren't /that/ big on their underside, their wings make them look bigger. plus, the brown banded cockroach is pretty fuckin thin. i dont even think pheromosas "torso" area was meant to resemble a bug, it looks more like a bugs segmented body mixed with a dress. i really dont mean to be a know it all but they just resemble a cockroach so much to me. plus i plan to be an entomologist (bug scientist) one day and ive been studying bugs as much as i could fir quite a number of years. im still far from knowing all of what i could know but id say i know a lot more about insects than the average person. but i guess we'd have to ask satoshi ourselves to really know for sure of pheromosas inspiration!
I was always under the impression shuckle was a type of tube worm. He can only be found by the sea (you couldn't go underwater in the second gen so it wouldn't be found in exactly the right place), resides in rocks where a tube worm would be found, and creates a mineral shell that it retreats into when threatened explaining ts high defense.
There is a book by Dan Brown, "Deception Point", which takes the point and runs with it. The plot revolves around a meteorite discovered in the Antarctic which has fossilized insects within. It's an ok mystery/thriller. I won't spoil how it ends.
Madison Taylor no more being late... everyone would flip out in either disgust or wonder... no one would pick fights with an 8'02" millipede that can summon earthquakes... yeah, it would be pretty dope.
Fun fact, my two favorite pokemon happen to be bug type; Scolipede and Genesect. I love how Genesect's special move can change depending on what drive you give it, and I really like Scolipede cuz its moveset really appeals to me, along with its stat totals
So then why aren't Krabby, Kingler, Corphish, Crawdaunt, Clauncher, Clawitzer, *catches breath* Binacle, Barbaracle, Crabrawler, or Crabominable bug type? All of them are based of crustaceans (though Binacle and Barbaracle are pretty...out there interpretations of a barnacle).
Yeah, part of why I'm annoyed by this is because the Bug/Water type is a really cool combination that we've only really seen used to its potential in generation VII (yes, Surskit is gen III, but it wasn't really...using Bug/Water to its potential). Araquanid and Golisopod are really neat Pokemon, and I feel like Krabby, Clauncher, Kingler, or Clawitzer would appreciate having the second type to help them stand out from the plethora of other mono-water types (though Clauncher and Clawitzer already have a degree of uniqueness).
I'm sure most people have seen the Swapped Butterfree & Venomoth speculation. Where Butterfree has Venonat features while Venomoth has more similarities to caterpie than venonat.
Raphael Luiz what you just did is explain a theory. That’s not a source, that’s not confirmation, it’s theorizing. Unless Game Freak themselves confirm it, it’s a theory.
I never knew that about Burmy's line. I just thought Mothim being male exclusive was just sort of a counterpart to female-only Vespiquen. Heck, I didn't even know that the bag was actual constructed by the bagworm itself; I just kinda assumed it was some next-level camoflage. Now I can go away and impress everyone with my bagworm trivia... ehm... woohoo?
Not bug? Not grass? Not fire? Not water? Not dark? Not dragon? Not psychic? Not electric? Not ghost? Not fairy? Not fighting? Not ice? Not poison? Not ground? Not rock? Not flying? Not steel? Not normal? What are they then? PINEAPPLES?!
0:47 for those people wearing headphones, that mosquito sound made me swing my hand to my right of my head to scare it, and realized it was the video, and now I feel very stupid.
Uhh.... not anthropods..... insects, arachnids, and crustaceans and myriapods are all part of the phylum Arthropoda, not anthropoda... Arthropoda literally means “those with jointed feet. “anthro” means human so anthropods would be “those with human feet....”
I noticed that he commonly mispronounces certain words. I am sure it was something like that but it really is annoying to me as well. It only take a little time to practice to pronounce properly and there are so many other groups that are much more difficult to pronounce. I am happy someone else caught it too.
I've thought about this and I think the type name is supposed to be a pun, things that BUG you, basically a pest type, or an annoyance type. this would make sense with all of the other things that aren't actually bugs; crabs, mold, spiders, etc, those things are annoying, it would also make the type advantage against psychic, because they annoy them and brake their focus and divert mental energy with distractions
Crustaceans are arthropods, just like insects, arachnids, and myriapods. I'd give Nintendo a pass on that, since crustaceans are basically bugs with gills.
I’ve always actually thought that scolipede was based on the extinct arthropleura , which was a giant species of millipede that lived during the Carboniferous and was about 2.6 meters long!
shuckle is actually based on an imprisoned god that can only escape when the stars align. you can see this in that one particular strategy you can use to make shuckle commit war crimes. its very complex, and i have no idea how to do it, but its hysterical to watch a shuckle do a ridiculous amount of damage
I normally think of this as the “Invertebrate” Type. If a Pokémon is not specified to a certain type (Crabrawler in both name and design is Fighting incarnate), and is not mammalian to be Normal, it becomes Bug. Pheromosa is not Fighting enough to be pure, so it gains its Bug or more appropriately Invertebrate typing. That’s also how spiders and other arachnids can join the type. And to explain Drapion; though it is an Invertebrate, its brutal nature makes it more specific to be JUST a “bug.” Finally, my explanation works beautifully for Crustle. These crustaceans are still Invertebrates, but Crabominable is also an Invertebrate, yet is definitely Ice with it living at the top of mountains and Fighting due to being based around boxing and finding tricks to fight to the top, so it’s too specified for the generic Bug. Crustle, on the other hand, only has the crust on its shell, so it’s only partially the type. The Bug is the generic bottom part with no traits to pin it down to something else.
That is true, but the pill millipedes he compared Venipede and Whirlipede to actually are a different animal that are a type of millipede. They just look and act similar.
Yet in the Pokémon Gold Alpha Demo, Paras apparently had a baby form where it ate it's way out of the mushroom. So it turns out that Paras was the true parasite all along!
Nah, it's a continue fight for survival. The fungus grows to control Paras and kill it, but Paras leaves eggs inside it that are eventually born and eat the fungus, and because they eat it it's spores start growing on top of the baby paras and grow enough to control it, and so the cycle continues.
I think Pherimosa might be a moth of the Lymantriid family; they are very pale and sometimes have translucent wings. And pheromones, the word and sexual bio-chemical this Pokemon was named for, were first discovered in moths. Especially considering Pherimosa's feminine design; female moths give off pheromones to lure in males; butterflies and moths do it purely to find a mate, but some insects will apply a femme fatale strategy and lure in males of another species and devour them. Talk about a bad date.
fun fact, at one point people did call lobsters bugs, and the rich wouldn't eat them, so the poor did. they were thought as the cockroach of the sea.
I imagine its called a Lobster because people "lob" the things out to sea? my guess anyway.
@@tycko4 no it's called a lobster cause rich people lobbied to get it the hell away from them as quickly as possible right now peasant!
Well shrimps are also members of the cockroach family
@Himalayan Duck it already ruined my sister when she found out
Where I live there's a lobster-like crustaceans called a bug that people eat.
Lockstin in the beginning:
“Hey guys welcome to a nice calm video.”
Lockstin at the end:
Has a mental breakdown because of shuckle
Don't f**kle with Shuckle lmao
@@Error403HRD Arceus and Mewtwo: **sweat intensifies
*no*
Why is it a bug type? It's a mold Pokemon. Mold isn't a bug. What next? A winged monkey you call dragon type? Not to mention, design-wise it looks more like a turtle. What the heck, Gamefreak?🐢🐒
@@zimmygirl777 Or it could he a weird snail thingy... which also aren't insects, but hey, if a Shelmet, a snail can be Bug-type, why not Shuckle.
"Beedrill isn't a bee. It's an Asian Giant Hornet."
Or, as people call it nowadays, a murder hornet. wow.
If they ever make another America-based region, they need to make a Regional Beedrill, just for the joke.
@@TheQuashingoftheTub week, unova was based of new york
@@amirulamani1487 I said _another_ America-based region. Unova's New York, Alola's Hawaii.
Special Agent Washing Tub make it dark type cause people think it’s actively killing
They're still called giant asian hornets.
Shuckle could also be based on snails. Explaining the high defenses referencing the snail shells and lack of a good speed stat. More specifically the African Giant Snail.
Endolith.
@@Bugser64 doesn’t exist when this comment was made.
@@LowQualityCarbink money.
I'm always amused by "arachnids" in Pokemon cause they never have eight legs.
Yeah true
I mean when you think about it any animal terminology we use doesn't ever apply in pokemon since they don't actually have arachnids in their worlds. If you think about it all the titles for pokemon don't really make sense. Like pokemon being classified by the pokedex as bagworm pokemon since... well there is no such thing as a bagworm in the pokemon universe. Same for arachnids, technically the term doesn't exist in that world, hence why they can take the liberty of making them look different from our world's arachnids.
@@greenxmango8049 When have you seen those??? If it's in the anime, well there were instances of monsters from the Mana series in there so that's not accurate XD
Monsters of ethieria and loomian legacy: 😐
At least they get the octopi right
He kept saying "anthropods" instead of "arthropods" and it was really *BUGGING* me
Well they're anthropods
@@Zyrdrakyll
No, they're not
Yvh Ethyst Google it, m8. I did, and “anthropods” don’t exist.
@@anothercreator7433 my bad then
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I think it's pronounced "ARTH-ro-pod" not "ANTH-ro-pod." 'cause the defining characteristic is having jointed legs. "Anthropod" would be... like, a human-legged creature. Which brings some GREAT images to mind, let me say.
8:29 that explains why Yanma needs Ancientpower to evolve.
Venopede is a roly poly. Pill millipedes. I call them roly polies. Venopede and Whirlipede are based off roly poly bugs.😺👻
zimmygirl777 but they are specifically -pedes, so why wouldn’t you use the incredibly similar -pede?
@@Edgeperor When I was younger, I called them rolly poly bugs.😺👻
Imagine mega scolipede being based on arthrpourtha or however you say it
Then again that thing was more of a giant car sized megapede that was a plant eater and more of a I HAVE THE HIGH GROUND when it's on it's hind legs
"Those large fuzzy spiders that weirdos keep as pets"
Just call me out why dont you
Aww, lucky. My folks won't let me keep a tarantula as a pet. So I'm stuck with wild spiders as pets.
Metroid4ever I'm 25 so my parents don't live with me. There are so many misconceptions about tarantulas being deadly, vicious creatures and it's really sad. My Jinx (and rose hair) and Cordelia (p.metallica) are super docile and very fascinating. Jinx gives highfives! I hope you get a chance to spend time with a tarantula xo
Cadaver Cutie Whenever I think of trantulas I go bavk to Song Drop's "Tarantula song" super catchy ;)
Tarantulas are the least scary spiders, sure, they are big, (not all the time but whatever) but i prefer having a bigass spider that i can easily bag and put outside than a sneaky scary ass spider that I can't see for the life of me
Cadaver Cutie I'm afraid of all spiders but what scares me the most about a pet Tarantula would be it's fragility.
just to add to the butterfly effect, Vivillon's Dex number is 666.
A missed opportunity for a devil like Pokemon obviously dark fire typed
why did you say 666 thats a cursed number dumbass
@@audreybullock6218 666 666 666 666 hail satan
There should be only 2 I's in Vivillon!
@@Amelia4111 ah, thanks.
He’s a bug, he’s a bug, you’re a bug
IM A BUG
Are there any more bugs I should now about
Shuckle: hi
Im out of here
That's a spongebob reference. Right?
The L-' Same ya
5:52 - "Female Bagworms never fully mature into their moth stage"
(Male Bagworm moth approaches one)
*"FBI OPEN UP!!!"*
As a zoologist, who specializes in bugs, let me tell you that real life taxonomy is just as much of a headache ;)
Caridad Chang entomologist?
No, that's the study of Ents.
I'll just show myself out...
I read that as taxidermy and got really confused.
more or less, I need to further specialize for that but most of my electives were on invertebrates
OMG Don't remind me of that time...
I was studying Biology because of plants! not bugs! why do i have to go out catch a bunch of them and classify all of them???????
This episode is Misty’s worst nightmare
Still wondering Misty's reaction to all those Water/Bug types :p
And mine
Mindy Auron and misty is my wet dream, what's jor point? o.o
What about Peppers ;-)
It's ironic that she didn't react to other bug types.
Its interesting, I hate bugs in real life, but my favorite type is bug type. Most of them have cute designs or just are interesting or underrated! Thanks for the video! Can't wait to see what you say about my favorite, Leavanny!
Edit: That giant cenetipde grossed me out so much 😂
Nintendoge accelgor is also underrated. It’s super fast and gets spikes, toxic spikes, encore, and final gambit.
Same here. I really only like butterflies and moths, but Pokémon makes so many of the bug types so lovable! I'm terribly arachnophobic, but Galvantula is just so cute and fuzzy that I can't help but love it!
That centipede is the definition of nightmare.
The one that got me was seeing someone let a giant hornet crawl on their finger. There's brave and then there's stupid.
yeah...that centipede will keep me awake tonight...the only bugs I really, REALLY can't stand
15:12 "Don't fuckle with shuckle"
Dookieshed, is that you?
Fuckle... Shuckle😂😂😂
in german it is a lot easier: Feromosa -> Schabelle the Schab part of the name is littlally the start of the word Schabe which is german for cockroach...
It's "Schabe" not "Scharbe", but good explanation
In French it's also easier as it is called "Cancrelove" from "cancrelat", also meaning cockroach...
From what I remember when looking up Genesect and the movie;
Genesect was a Genesect. It's just that modern day people modified it with technology so it can survive in modern times. So presumably, it's original form would look similar to it's current form. Just without looking like tech.
Crustaceans are absolutely bugs, heck there's a one that's just called a "bug" that's eaten here in Australia (it's a kinda lobsters thing)
Ocean bugs
Yeah
Yeah, if woodlice (a crustacean) can be called pilbugs, it doesnt seem a stretch.
Yes. I totally agree. Louisiana has crayfish in the bayous. A local name for them is mud bug.
rollie pollie/pill bugs are often called bugs but are crustaceans
What, a yabby? I've never called a yabby a bug
"AND THEN, THERE'S SHUCKLE!!!"
😂
“he’s dead”
DK!
Donkey Kong!
DK!
Shuckle's dead!
Flippy YT 1337 AND THEN, THERE’S SHUCKLE he’s dead
Shuckle hi algae
Scolipede being the size of a horse? Now I want to ride through town on the back of one hahaha
Also imagine hoverboarding around on a Genesect ^^
I vaguely remember seeing Ash ride one in the Genesect movie
Reported for sexual solicitation
TheOne WhoGeeks Nani?
I called mine Lancelot :D
Yeah but if we apply real world science to it, it would be crushed by its own exoskeleton.
how could you miss the origin of Durant, that bug is amazing, is it based of an ant AND the Ironclad beetle, whose exoesqueleton is extreamly tough,, harder than some metals as enthomologists can't run a pin, like they normaly do to study bug's anatomy, through them without the aid of a drill
W o a h that's badass
hm neat
I never heard of that
Read this while watching him explain durant
Carlos Emilio Avila Olivera too bad poor Durant developed the steel type to protect it from a fire type predator
pillbugs arent bugs, theyre crustaceans that decided “i wanna chill on land” so the line of bug and crustacean can get pretty blurry
Why? The sun is a deadly lazer
Not anymore there's a blanket
perhaps their pathfinding bugged out?
arthropods are related to bugs though?
@@MaxxStacks "bugs" is essentially synonymous with arthropod these days, so a bit more than just "related".
Theres also hemipterans, aka "true bugs", these are insects with a needle mouth and an incomplete metamorphosis, such as stink bugs, aphids and pond skaters.
Gnoggin: talks about beetles
Everyone who played animal crossing: OH YEAH
So people who haven't played don't know what a beetle is. Okay.
That and the fact that hermit crabs are insects
To
Catch
-Kool-Aid Man
@@soup2865 what need did you have to say that? I was making a joke man
I did play i dont now
Shuckle's the Mold Pokemon.
But maybe not like, the cheese kind?
Maybe more like the plastic toys that you squeeze Play-Doh through?
Shuckle is just Play-Doh being squeezed out of a rock mold.
And that bugs me.
That's why it's a bug pokemon!
CRANTIME ll
Yeah! Gen 2 came out in the year 2000, right? I grew up in the early 2000s and these toys were everywhere!
Eeeyyyyy! *finger guns*
CRANTIME Maybe its a maggot
"Next up: Arachnids"
But... Scorpions are arachnids...
Exactly.
it's an easy mistake to make...
I know I just find validation in pointing out mistakes and providing facts that ultimately won't benefit me or anyone else in the near future.
@@adwitatherealadwita same..
And crabs are very closely related to arachnids , but scorpions are more related to crabs than spiders. WTF gnoggin
Common misconception about the chrysalis. They aren't actually spun by the caterpillars themselves (those are cocoons). Chrysalises are actually a hard outer shell that caterpillars form under their old bodies which grow and literally bursts out of them. Everything about the caterpillar's old appearance (face, legs, skin) is shed like a dirty onesie, and replaced with a stationary container where the caterpillar melts itself, reforming into a new creature a few days after.
I wish I could melt myself; reforming into a new body.
That all sounds incredibly painful
+Jared McKenzie I just did it over the weekend it was surprisingly not bad.
Wack
@@McEezy94 bugs's nervous system is too simple for pain receptors.
Imagine Shuckle with the Hp of Chansey and still having the same defense and so defense stat
What if you put all of Shuckle's EVs into HP?
That's overkill
@@mr.tadpole1697 it really doesn't matter that much because it's base 20 as opposed to base 255
@@walesjedi9217 I know
No....
Pheromosa is based on a cockroach I guess since its/her name in the French version is "Cancrelove" from "Cancrelat" (cockroach) and "Love"
Even the Japanese and German names refer to cockroach
Moreover, Pheromosa is really fast... Just like a cockroach
No, she's clearly a cabinet what even is a bug she's a very pretty cabinet
Lady Tyltea She's a cockroach. People won't admit it because they hate the fact they fapped to an antropomorphic cockroach.
Wait, cockroaches are fast?
I'll admit, I live in more northern Canada so I've never seen one in real life, but I've seen pictures and they don't look very agile.
Nice profile pic
That sounds absolutely terrifying.
Explain every Dragon Type
Gnoggin: Um... they're Dragon types because.. they're dragons
Everyone: Woah.....
The Crimson Fuckr Kingdra though
Well it is a sea dragon... so they made it Dragon.
The Crimson Fuckr Exeggutor tho.
could cover different types of dragons. there are a lot
Bluespheal dragon fruit tree
Shuckle always reminded me of maggots in a fruit, maybe that's part of the concept.
That, combined with the gooey insides-turned-outside when you squish a bug...
Bulbapedia states it may be based off of endoliths, tiny organisms that feed off of minerals in rocks.
That would explain the berry juice...
Worm apple.😺👻
You ruined chuckle for me. 😡
I personally think that the Bug-type represents the "Arthropod-type" the same way how there used to be a Bird-type that they then renamed because things fly other than birds. There are things that are Bug-like that aren't just insects: like spiders, isopods, and hermit crabs. I wouldn't be surprised if in the future we get a Bug-type Horseshoe Crab or Sea Monkey. This also explains Shuckle because if Shuckle is based on a Crustacean (a Barnacle) it would be in line with the other crustacean bug types.
“Bugs” are an actual type of insect too, eg: assassin bug, kissing bug, stink bug. Since the name has been kinda washed out, we call them “true bugs” now. Think of it as calling a bee a butterfly when people say “that fly is a bug”, when that is not the case lol.
Horseshoe crab and barnacle pokemon already exist as Binacle and Kabuto.
Shuckle is a god type pokemon
@bryan diaz varela no if Arceus came from an egg, Shuckle laid that egg
@@yeetoban, you don't know lore, magkicarp laid the egg duh.
truly
@bryan diaz varela Shuckle has better defenses than Arceus.
@@yeetoban no... shukle IS THE EGG
Missingno is also a «bug»
Kristian Berget HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I get it
Kristian Berget MissingNo. Is BIRD.
@@christopherfleetwood5252 r/woosh
No it’s bird
Wait...
Like 80% sure shuckle is sposed to be a polycheate or tube worm which often build strong calcified shells around themselves on rocks by the sea
he's a tube wrom
You might be onto something there...
I actually think Shuckle is Slime Mold.
handrads GD dont fuckle with shuckle
Since Shuckle is classified as the mold Pokemon, and mold is a fungus, which is normally grass type, we should ask for a regional variant of Shuckle that's Grass/Rock, has more algae on it, etc. Then it makes more sense.
I actualy feel umcomfortable when the real bug show up on the screen...
I scrolled down during those parts.
@@ZekeAxel oof I'm on mobile
There should be an N in uncomfortable (the word is not spelled with 2 M's)!
once i was at village and It was like 1 am and the screen was attracting bugs and mosquitos wich was annoying as hell!
@@Amelia4111 he miss spelled it because m and n are quite close plus we learn off of our mistakes
Ironic how BEEdril is actually a Wasp and VESPIquen (vespi means wasp) is a bee queen.
Ikr XD.
we do not have this problem with the french version
vote for renaming to Vespidrill and... Beequen? lol
I also find it odd how most combee are male, yet only female bees leave the hive
11:20
Scolipede is based on the Arthuplaura. Which is the largest arthropod to ever walk on land with it's estimated size being about the same.
Oh ma gawd.
Game man it's okay it was a herbivore and generally chill dude.
@@pphyjynx8217 I just meant the "Oh ma gawd" in general but thanks for the information.
Looked it up….I feel happy to know that something like that actually existed, but at the same time, a little freaked/grossed out
@@Vershane honestly it just gives me more reasons to like that big-ass fella.
Or should I say... Bug-ass fella?
....I'll see myself out.
1:35 Imagine all the horses become bugs: there is the result
As i was watching this episode, i was playing Ultra Moon. I was legend hunting in the ultra wormhole, i went into a non legendary wormhole, and i encountered a shiny yanmega.
Ive encountered two and caught both of them.
Such an underrated shiny.
Agreed.
I thought Pheromosa was a silverfish, which is definitely an insect.
Also, people *do* call lobstery things "bugs." Just come down South and ask for some mudbugs. 😆
Pheromosa is a cockroach (which are white just after shedding) and/or a copepod.
@@awesomecat42
Have a look at a silverfish. I've kept them as pets and the resemblance is no joke.
@@gabriellavedier9650 i mean, there is *some* resemblance, but i really cant see it at all besides the antenna and the vague shape if the appendix dorsalis and cerci (the three "tails" on silverfish) and a lil bit of the head shape. to me, pheromosa very much resembles a cockroach, specifically an amberwood or german cockroach. pheromosas translucent back highly resembles wings, their head and eye shape, the two claws some of them have, and cockroaches also have cerci themselves. contrary to popular belief, cockroaches are very clean and are condtantly grooming themselves. one of pheromosas pokedex entries say that it refuses to touch anything because it senses the uncleanliness of the world. another pokedex entry says that theyre very common in their world, like cockroaches are here. also many of pheromosas foreign names are derived from cockroach. i dont know much about copepods, but i know a lot about insects and pheromosa is about as cockroach like as a pokemon can get
@@thefluffyaj4119
Fair point. She just looks so thin. No cockroach would ever have an abdomen like hers. Seems like she could be some mix of both.
@@gabriellavedier9650 true, true! although cockroaches aren't /that/ big on their underside, their wings make them look bigger. plus, the brown banded cockroach is pretty fuckin thin. i dont even think pheromosas "torso" area was meant to resemble a bug, it looks more like a bugs segmented body mixed with a dress. i really dont mean to be a know it all but they just resemble a cockroach so much to me. plus i plan to be an entomologist (bug scientist) one day and ive been studying bugs as much as i could fir quite a number of years. im still far from knowing all of what i could know but id say i know a lot more about insects than the average person. but i guess we'd have to ask satoshi ourselves to really know for sure of pheromosas inspiration!
Poor Shuckle. He's doing his buggiest.
SHUCKLE IS NOT A HE, SHUCKLE IS AN IT!
Shuckle is the only Pokemon that can stop Miltank from getting a mega-evolution.
@@Amelia4111 EXACTLY, ITS 2019, I HAVE A FRIEND THATS A GUY AND HE WEARS MAKEUP ALMOST ALL THE TIME
Don't be sad, he is a real bug. Fig wasp.
I habitually refer to shuckle as a he thanks to Dorkly
Paras and parasect are ants being mindcontrolled by a parasite.
The Last of pokerUs
Cordyceps! The fungus from your nightmares! C:
But why the hell do they have claws if they are ant Pokémon?
@@emanuelrojas2 they are cicadas
Blind Moron
I was always under the impression shuckle was a type of tube worm. He can only be found by the sea (you couldn't go underwater in the second gen so it wouldn't be found in exactly the right place), resides in rocks where a tube worm would be found, and creates a mineral shell that it retreats into when threatened explaining ts high defense.
i always thought shuckle was an alien in a meteorite
yes please then we could change him into different types like deoxys, speed shuckle would be the best thing ever
Chargabug is obviously a school bus
It actually looks more like a Japanese microbus
Beep beep.
Yep!
No its the magic school bus
I'm autistic so I have special needs and it isn't funny to me ( reply to I'm not funny )
His reaction to shuckle is priceless.
11:42 Actually scorpions are arachnids so it is not clearly a bug but I under stand that arachnids are bug type in pokemon
scorpions ARE aracnids! why does nobody know that!?
came here to say this, thanks
Cause they look very different kind of
I do
So are solifugae but everyone thinks they're spiders.
I no tat
I have always called shrimp, lobsters, crabs, etc. "bugs of the sea".
There is a book by Dan Brown, "Deception Point", which takes the point and runs with it. The plot revolves around a meteorite discovered in the Antarctic which has fossilized insects within. It's an ok mystery/thriller. I won't spoil how it ends.
That's racist.
Scolipede is my favorite bug type and if I was a Pokemon trainer it is how I'd get around
Troper H'ghar SCOLIPEDE IS B E S T B O Y! I love it so muchhh
Troper H'ghar Same here. God it would be awesome to ride a speed boost scolipede around!
Careful not to pet it. It might have poison point!
Cepherneeze 157 Imagine riding one to school!
Madison Taylor no more being late... everyone would flip out in either disgust or wonder... no one would pick fights with an 8'02" millipede that can summon earthquakes... yeah, it would be pretty dope.
Fun fact, my two favorite pokemon happen to be bug type; Scolipede and Genesect. I love how Genesect's special move can change depending on what drive you give it, and I really like Scolipede cuz its moveset really appeals to me, along with its stat totals
This man spends nearly 2 minutes screaming about Shuckle. And I love it.
I bet he does that once a week
In Japanese, crustaceans like crabs (蟹) and shrimps (蝦) use the 虫 character which means bug which is probably why they refer to them as bugs.
But… but clauncher…
So then why aren't Krabby, Kingler, Corphish, Crawdaunt, Clauncher, Clawitzer, *catches breath* Binacle, Barbaracle, Crabrawler, or Crabominable bug type? All of them are based of crustaceans (though Binacle and Barbaracle are pretty...out there interpretations of a barnacle).
Some of them also really do feel and look like bugs of the ocean's imo.
So I can definitely see why they gave them that typing.
Yeah, part of why I'm annoyed by this is because the Bug/Water type is a really cool combination that we've only really seen used to its potential in generation VII (yes, Surskit is gen III, but it wasn't really...using Bug/Water to its potential). Araquanid and Golisopod are really neat Pokemon, and I feel like Krabby, Clauncher, Kingler, or Clawitzer would appreciate having the second type to help them stand out from the plethora of other mono-water types (though Clauncher and Clawitzer already have a degree of uniqueness).
The mono type crustians should have bug type added.
I thought Chargerbug was just basically like
A bug squashed in a toaster
It sounds stupid logistically, but it's what it looks like to me
Lol
You make me smille
Thank
Alex Benavidez It’s supposed to be a battery, but your interpretation is funnier. XD
Chargabug is a a battery bug. Its eyes even look like battery life indicators.
To me, it looked like a bus
It’s a kids game, i don’t think “arthropod type” would be understood very well
It Would For Japanese Kids.
@@JT5555 why
@@JT5555 Racist.
What did u say about pokeman?
@@nitrosherbert888 why
can you pls do a ghost type explained
sk2bradley what’s to explain?
Maybe what type of ghost,lore,what their based on idk ghost and dark are a pain to my brain
sk2bradley Hes doing every type
This guy gets me!
I need this in my life. I love ghost pokemon.
sk2bradley MA BRO i wright a comment with the same idea like yours,i 100% agree wit you
I'm sure most people have seen the Swapped Butterfree & Venomoth speculation. Where Butterfree has Venonat features while Venomoth has more similarities to caterpie than venonat.
Yes I have quite thoroughly enjoyed that theory MR FANCY PANTS
Raphael Luiz source
Raphael Luiz that doesn't make it confirmed.
Raphael Luiz what you just did is explain a theory. That’s not a source, that’s not confirmation, it’s theorizing. Unless Game Freak themselves confirm it, it’s a theory.
I never knew that about Burmy's line. I just thought Mothim being male exclusive was just sort of a counterpart to female-only Vespiquen. Heck, I didn't even know that the bag was actual constructed by the bagworm itself; I just kinda assumed it was some next-level camoflage.
Now I can go away and impress everyone with my bagworm trivia... ehm... woohoo?
Well, I thought Pheromosa was a Silverfish
Not bug?
Not grass?
Not fire?
Not water?
Not dark?
Not dragon?
Not psychic?
Not electric?
Not ghost?
Not fairy?
Not fighting?
Not ice?
Not poison?
Not ground?
Not rock?
Not flying?
Not steel?
Not normal?
What are they then?
PINEAPPLES?!
Cotlno da sQuiB Overlord They are then ???-Type.
@bryan diaz varela Whoa. That was like a flashback to middle school.
There Bananas
One of my Pokemon OC's is a pineapple.
0:47 for those people wearing headphones, that mosquito sound made me swing my hand to my right of my head to scare it, and realized it was the video, and now I feel very stupid.
Uhh.... not anthropods..... insects, arachnids, and crustaceans and myriapods are all part of the phylum Arthropoda, not anthropoda... Arthropoda literally means “those with jointed feet. “anthro” means human so anthropods would be “those with human feet....”
He probably meant "arthropoda", then. It's easy to mix the two up. :)
So glad I'm not the only one who kept blinking slowly at thay
*that
I noticed that he commonly mispronounces certain words. I am sure it was something like that but it really is annoying to me as well. It only take a little time to practice to pronounce properly and there are so many other groups that are much more difficult to pronounce. I am happy someone else caught it too.
I've thought about this and I think the type name is supposed to be a pun, things that BUG you, basically a pest type, or an annoyance type. this would make sense with all of the other things that aren't actually bugs; crabs, mold, spiders, etc, those things are annoying, it would also make the type advantage against psychic, because they annoy them and brake their focus and divert mental energy with distractions
Crustaceans are arthropods, just like insects, arachnids, and myriapods. I'd give Nintendo a pass on that, since crustaceans are basically bugs with gills.
Look up Pancrustacea! Insects evolved from crustaceans, in a way insects are higly specialized terrestrial crustaceans!
Pillbugs are isopods that decided to live on land. They even still have gills!
But they're still not bugs, as bugs are a subset of insects. Strictly speaking, bugs are insects with piercing beaks and a specific wing structure.
I'm pretty sure shuckles design is supposed to be visually reminiscent of a worm in an apple.
bryan diaz varela but worms coming out of apples are usually associated with rotten apples so by that logic it should be bug ghost
Hellooooo, UA-camrs! I bring you greetings from Apple World!
then why is it a rock type?
@@randomguardian9587 he said visually reminiscent not that it's apple
@@joshuamendoza7596 well guess what, nope its grass dragon.
*jEsUs BuG*
*maybe the water bike from Gen 8 is made of Surskits*
Illuminati confirmed
What they don't tell you about dexit
Eeeh
*giorno giovanna and golden experience have entered the chat*
Amenby and gerridirah from monsters of ethieria: WE ARE SAFE!!
When the narrator goes into his Shuckle rant, I can only imagine Dorkly's shuckle answering back in that shuckle voice lmao
I think that all of us that have watched any of the Dorkly videos with Shuckle in them.
Irony about Buzzwole; only female mosquitos suck blood, the males drink nectar and are peaceful.
So the manliest Ultra Beast might actually be female!
And what it pheromosa was male?
Buzzwole is genderless, also things might be diffrent on space
There's a joke to be made here about only the female mosquitos drinking blood
trans buzzswole confirmed?
@@skyariakerti-attfield7847 is an alien, it dosent have to be the same as an animal
1:06
"anthropods"? Greek for "human-foot"? I think you mean _arthropod_ ("jointed-foot")
Guzma would approve of this video.
(Does team skull pose)
ITS YAH BOI
yaaahjh boooiiii💀
It's pretty cool that Entomologists named the new species of roach after Pheromosa... So ya she is basically a bug.
Shuckle is whatever he wants to be because one does not simply fuckle with the shuckle. >:D
I mean.... i would fuckle a shuckle
Random Cat Name No you wouldn't. Shuckle would fuckle you.
ChaddyFantome 😂😂😂😂
Excuse you, charjabug is clearly a school bus
It has head lights windows, and eyes that look like a wind shield with wipers
Lord Lucemon I thought it was a train?
Lord Lucemon : I always thought it looked like it was designed after an accordion.
But is it left hand drive or right hand drive?
A cube shaped beetle pupa that acts like a battery, looks like a bus, and sounds like an accordion. Still not as weird as shuckle.
More specifically its a bus in a zombie apocalypse
(It has spears on the frint
*hard type? Giggity*
A certain tree would lose its rock type.
Because Pheromosa makes you hard.
Because Shuckle is too hard
"Hard type." That's what she said.😹👻
I’ve always actually thought that scolipede was based on the extinct arthropleura , which was a giant species of millipede that lived during the Carboniferous and was about 2.6 meters long!
I think shuckle is a worm in an apple
Also explains the juice part. XD
But worms don't have legs
Jdman 2008 Cats dont wrestle and beetles aren't the size of Danny DeVito.
@@thevoid4060 what do cats have to do with shuckle
@@jdmannnn Think they just mean in the world of Pokemon, anything goes really. :)
Fun Fact: The creator of Pokemon, Junichi Masuda, was inspired to create Pokemon because when he was a kid, he used to like to catch bugs.
Laura The creator of Pokémon is Satoshi Tajiri, not Masuda.
And yet he made bug one of the worst types
WRONG! Masuda was the director in charge on most of the Pokémon games. Satoshi tajiri was the creator
Laura Masuda did not create pokemon. Satoshi Tajiri did. Thats why Ash is called Satoshi in Japan. to honor the series creator.
Sir Parker to be fair, there was a programming oversight that made bugs WEAK to psychic instead of super effective
MissingNo. should be a bug type
Bizo Nah he Byrd type remember? ^^
Bizo That would make more sense, but no, Bird.
why?
Software glitches like MissingNo. are commonly referred to as "bugs", that's why.
I'm so slow...
"atleast they aren't bug types"
- misty
You're slacking on those thumbnails Gnoggin...
Bug Type is really hard to find.... THOSE bits of art for.
HailedSpace25 where’s the cropped furry porn
Lockstin & Gnoggin likely excuse...
Leavanny would be easy
Lockstin & Gnoggin Pheremosa exists, this should be easy.
Crustaceans are the bugs of the sea. :D
Foretress is maybe a bag-worm hiding in a clam
There should be 3 R's in Forretress!
@@Amelia4111
Forretnite.
or its a pineco which get bitten by a shelder
shuckle is actually based on an imprisoned god that can only escape when the stars align. you can see this in that one particular strategy you can use to make shuckle commit war crimes. its very complex, and i have no idea how to do it, but its hysterical to watch a shuckle do a ridiculous amount of damage
Lockstin getting upset at Shuckle is the thing I always wanted but never knew until now. Pure. Gold.
Also, Galvantula is the best Bug-type.
So if I’m a bug
And if you’re a bug
WHO’S FLYING THE PLANE?!?!
Why are you flying a plane if you have wings?
I'm a happy Spider-owning Weirdo, thanks ^.^
Well... I used to, r.i.p. little guy
R.I.P Spider
1337 - 2018
Seriously, rip him.
Press F to Respect
F
I aim to own a spider one day. I love them.
F
The Android from Aiur F
Lockstin: Is freaked out by bugs
Also Lockstin: Designer of Kleptarach
So that explains why Yamna evolves after learning Ancient Power
I normally think of this as the “Invertebrate” Type. If a Pokémon is not specified to a certain type (Crabrawler in both name and design is Fighting incarnate), and is not mammalian to be Normal, it becomes Bug. Pheromosa is not Fighting enough to be pure, so it gains its Bug or more appropriately Invertebrate typing. That’s also how spiders and other arachnids can join the type. And to explain Drapion; though it is an Invertebrate, its brutal nature makes it more specific to be JUST a “bug.” Finally, my explanation works beautifully for Crustle. These crustaceans are still Invertebrates, but Crabominable is also an Invertebrate, yet is definitely Ice with it living at the top of mountains and Fighting due to being based around boxing and finding tricks to fight to the top, so it’s too specified for the generic Bug. Crustle, on the other hand, only has the crust on its shell, so it’s only partially the type. The Bug is the generic bottom part with no traits to pin it down to something else.
Dragon's Beard Gamer Agreed. It's the only thing that really makes sense.
Yep
Shuckle is just a spaghetti noodle in a rock
Tacoman450 No I am your God
it's like a super easy flowchart.
Is it a creepy crawly?
Yes -> Make it Bug type.
No -> Figure out what it should be.
"You always ruin everything, Shuckle!!"
XD
Whisper poor shuckle
.....
Shuckle: The only gift Pokemon you can - and probably will - give back.
You know pill bugs are crustaceans right
That is true, but the pill millipedes he compared Venipede and Whirlipede to actually are a different animal that are a type of millipede. They just look and act similar.
The pill bugs you're talking about are isopods (crustaceans). But there are pill millipedes (myriapods).
random != funny
Yeah dude, he never even brought up pillbugs, but the pill millipede is very similar looking so I can see how you got confused.
parasect is actually technically a fungus inhabiting a possibly not a bug.
so are fungi bug type?
I'd have made them plant
Yet in the Pokémon Gold Alpha Demo, Paras apparently had a baby form where it ate it's way out of the mushroom. So it turns out that Paras was the true parasite all along!
Nah, it's a continue fight for survival. The fungus grows to control Paras and kill it, but Paras leaves eggs inside it that are eventually born and eat the fungus, and because they eat it it's spores start growing on top of the baby paras and grow enough to control it, and so the cycle continues.
Looks like a pre-adult cicada to me.
I would assume that land crabs are bugs is a valid way to look at it. Barnacles are crustaceans, so Shuckle being a bug is appropriate enough.
Seem like Shuckle is really buggin you
_no regreeeeeets_
I think Pherimosa might be a moth of the Lymantriid family; they are very pale and sometimes have translucent wings. And pheromones, the word and sexual bio-chemical this Pokemon was named for, were first discovered in moths. Especially considering Pherimosa's feminine design; female moths give off pheromones to lure in males; butterflies and moths do it purely to find a mate, but some insects will apply a femme fatale strategy and lure in males of another species and devour them. Talk about a bad date.
Pheromosa is clearly a cockroach.
Levi Maxwell nah, is clearly a silverfish
gnoggin: covers skorupi
gnoggin: lets move onto arachnids
Me: no
The only part I didn’t freak out over were tarantulas. Love em, on the other hand I am TERRIFIED what caterpie is based on