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Two things that I feel kinda got overlooked here, which you might find interesting: 1.) Hisuian Decidueye seems to take quite a lot of inspiration from the Matagi -- skilled hunters from the northeastern parts of Japan, who moved up into Hokkaido for the then-plentiful wild game -- moreso than they do from ronin. They, too, would wear the thick grass coats, especially for warmth in the colder climes they typically hunted in, as well as the straw hats, and they were often depicted as skillful archers, which absolutely fits Decidueye's schtick. When making a northern-japanese variant of a western-style archer, a Matagi would be a clear first pick for the creative team. 2.) Typhlosion's tie to the region seems to be that it is the closest to a bear out of the starters - basically, evolving from a hedgehog to a badger to a WAY bigger badger / bear thing. Keeping this double-duty in mind, bears were very INCREDIBLY sacred to the Ainu people, with bear gods serving as the god of the mountains and the head god. With that in mind, all three starters (at at least one point in their evolution) are animals that the Ainu held as sacred, hence their being chosen for the roster. Seems quite likely that they were selected for this reason first, with the Hisuian evolution designs being the second step.
You didn’t mention Typhlosion’s signature move, Infernal Parade! As in the Night Parade of 100 Yokai! I always name my Hisui Typhlosion Nurarihyon because of it.
Hisuian Decidueye looks like an Anime protagonist that just witnessed its entire family get murdered and is about to set out on a quest to avenge them.
Hisuian Samurott is the rival of course, or maybe he was the one who murdered his entire family. Thyplosion is either his mentor or his rival that also gets killed by Hisuian Samurott
I might have realized something A ronin comes about when a samurai doesn’t commit suppuku. A ronin is a samurai that’s supposed to be dead, but isn’t. Hisuian decidueye is a Pokémon that’s supposed to be ghost type, but isn’t.
Few other things, samurai were known for their sword play but primarily relied on archery, hence why we got decidueye. Also since Samurott is a dark type I feel that it is the ronin of the trio and decidueye is the honorable samurai.
Its more like a subversion of tropes, which became a trope. Decidueyes a good ronin (which are seen often in media), and samurott is a corrupt “honorable” samurai, abusing his power (which is also seen often in media)
Samurai should be dark type, to get STAB Night Slash (Its Japanese name references how some samurai would allegedly test their newly-sharpened blades by killing a random peasant). Either that or Flying for STAB Aerial Ace (Whose Japanese name is the same as a kenjutsu(?) technique)
They also look like elite trainers from their region of the secondary type Samurott’s Armor = Grimsley’s Coat Typhlosion’s Neck Flame = Morty’s Scarf Decidueye’s Top = Hala’s Hair Top
Typhlosion might have been picked because of its Volcano inspiration rather than its animal basis (the Cyndaquil lines draws from multiple species and Typhlosion is called the Volcano Pokemon), as a refence to Ushishir, volcanic islands that were considered a sacred area to the Ainu. Hisuian Typhlosion even gets its powers from Mt Coronet's spiritual energy.
Typhlosion 😢 Mugina... Pandemonium... March of the 100 Yokai 😢 Also Samurott... the Ainu tale about eating an otter's head... the dagger across Samurott's helmet... 😢
So the connection for Typhlosion is that there are badger yokai called Mujina (it's often interchangeably used to describe tanuki in many areas) and animal yokai such as kitsune, Tanuki and Mujina are associated with ghostly fire and these phenomena are called kitsunebi and tanukibi, hence Typlosion is an appropriate being a fire type and given ghost type. You can extend this to Oshowatt as there are otter yokai called Kawauso but their pranks are alot more nefarious than tanuki. And Dicidueye may also draw inspiration from Tengu who are depicted as long nosed hermits or monks but often are given avian features such as a beak
That and Typhlosion isn't really a litteral badger. It's a mix of different animals, getting caught up in trying to find specifically badger things wasn't really productive.
It’s so cool that Samurott was based on Nobunaga, because, coincidentally, I named mine Nobunagua, making a pun with the word “água” (meaning “water” in Portuguese). 😁
Also, H. Samurott being dark-type could be connected to the move Night Slash, since the japanese name of the move, Tsujigiri, references the habit of some samurai of attacking random people in the middle of the night, for no other reason than to test their blade or for fun
Honestly the pokemon conquest section made me think of how cool an idea of explaining why the warlords perfect link pokemon are what they are (that and I'm just hoping for pokemon conquest 2 one day)
Loved that game as a kid, really need to replay, but I remember it being really fun and the story pretty interesting. While I doubt they will at this point given how long it’s been since the game was released I also hope they’ll make a sequel to it someday.
I love the Decidueye take.. I named my shiny "Ghillie" thinking it looked like an owl covered in a ghillie suit. Ties in nicely with your take on the ronin outfits.
It's probably also worth noting that being a ronin, Hisuian Decidueye is very specifically NOT a Ghost-type anymore. As in, it REFUSED to commit... er... sudoku. It's gone native, as it were, embracing the land of Hisui as its protector, embodying the ideals of Cikap-Kamuy. Meanwhile, Samurott has fully embraced its role as a conqueror, embodying the ideals of Oda Nobunaga. Decidueye is Hisui's protector, Fighting and Grass, the perfect counter to Hisui's conqueror, the Dark and Water Samurott.
There is more to Oda Nobunaga and why he did the things he did, also his title of the demon king of the 6th heaven, is something he named himself. It was to mock one of his enemies who called them self the the friend of Buddhism or something along those lines.
I thought Nobunaga's moniker of "Demon King" was his tongue & cheek rebuttable to Takeda Shingen addressing himself as a "protector god", his way of saying 'anyone can call themselves anything, as example'
I honestly prefer Hisuian Typhlosion more than the original, feels like his own guy rather than "Guy that came after Charizard". That and he just looks stoned as all get out, and I find it funny.
Typhlosion was originally my favorite Starter, and after PLA, Hisuian Typhlosion took its spot! I love the design and typing, and I think it just looks uber cute. Even if you couldn't find much for it, it actually cemented my love for the ghostly badger even more. Great video as always! ^^
The cyndaquil line is my favorite of the starters too! While the original typhlosion is still my favorite the hisuian form definitely gives it a run for its money.
You know, this series got me thinking. Every starter needs its own 'proper' signature move. And not the Pledges or Venusaur: Petal Veil (Aurora Veil, but works in Sun (and Rain?)) Charizard: Molten Breath (Fire Type, Freeze Dry against Rock Types) Blastoise: Hydro Blast (Water Type, Double Iron Bash) Meganium: Floroblast (Grass Type, Double Edge) Typhlosion: Friction Burst (Fire Type, Explosion that can also leave those affected with a burn) Feraligatr: Combat Roll (Water Type, Thunder Cage (and Octolock?)) Sceptile: Primal Slice (Flower Trick, neutral effective against Dragon Type) Blazekin: Primal Kick (Flower Trick, neutral effective against Dragon Type) Swampert: Primal Fist (Flower Trick, neutral effective against Dragon Type) Torterra: Geosphere (Max Overgrowth, 90 Base Power) Infernape: Flame Arena (Max Flare, 90 Base Power) Empoleon: Ocean Surge (Max Geyser, 90 Base Power) Serperior: Sneer (Grass Type, Snarl) Emboar: Fired-Up (Fire Type, Endeavor) Samurott: Cleave (Water Type, Hyperspace Hole) Chesnaut: Shield Charge (Grass/Fighting Type, Circle Throw (and Counter?)) Delphox: Fireball Spell (Fire/Psychic Type, Mist Ball (and Wil o Wisp?)) Greninja: Aqua Double (Water/Dark Type, Fake Out (and Shed Tail?)) Gen VII, Gen VII, and Gen IX still have intact signature moves.
But starting Gen 3, almost all remaining Starters got Signature moves. Leaf Blade, Blaze Kick and Muddy Water. Its just in the nature of signature moves that they "lose" their exclusivity. Eventually, Gen 7 and above starters' signature moves will be given to other Pokemon befitting of that move.
@@kirinotosaki9004 True, I just think that they should get a move that remains with them in perpetuity. The Pikachu line has kept Volt Tackle since Gen III. The Chansey line has kept Soft-Boiled since Gen II. And the Porygon line has kept Conversion (and Conversion 2) since Gen I and II respectively.
Heyyy, fabulous work, whoever did the research here! It's so hard to find decent sources for "Ezo" related material let alone anything Ainu. (Spotted some holes and inaccuracies though, would recommend redoing this one someday. 👌) Having had to trawl over this material myself, let me offer some additional details!: Hisuian Typhlosion's animal species intrigue has more to do with the Japanese term mujina. While it now means the badger as a species, it means "hole bear", which was historically used interchangeably with bears by hunters (traditional, Wajin), especially when bears were hibernating. The Ainu culture has a deep connection with bears. While we do have another bear poke already, hibernating bear dens were an important find for an Ainu hunter to mark for later, because taking young cubs into their (coughcough *hearth* & home, and) village was an integral part of their iomante tradition. The spirituality of which lends ties to Spiritomb again, but its referencing Ainu religion this time. But yeah, the holebear cub, now grown, is (💀) 'sent' back to the spiritual realm, to deliver a message of good tidings, and relevant here: the generous hospitality of the humans. (Which is relevant to the Traveler motif, but I'll expand on that below.) (tl;dr Read more about the spiritual aspects of the Iomante ceremony for details. Though there are many Ainu stories of bears Ursaluna could claim, the role of the Iomante'd Bear works perfectly with our Spiritomby HTyphlosion. lol) Also, its reported that many Ainu shamans were traditionally women. *But it wasn't gender locked traditionally either, according to the interviewee. But yeah the "jovial foreign traveler" / (Historically a slur don't use this for the people or culture.)"Gypsy" motif works with the Yokai Night Parade theme of HTyphlosion's signature attack, as well as well as the (plural as it is a large branching cultural group all over the world now)Roma people's origins in ancient India. With which, Laventon seems to perhaps be a gentleman from (time period accurate)British Colonized India. Also, a minor correction. Your statement about their main owl kamuy is correct, but it has a very specific connotation to be the protector (kamuy) of the kotan. The village. I'd also suggest you look into their stories and yukar that reference the other owl kamuy. There's some looser connections there. Anyway, their owl kamuy (ig / some in particular), are tied to leading hunters to their game, or away from danger. So Hisuian Decidueye isn't just a lone ronin. He found a home to protect, and has been adopted by them. *Sources suggest that aside from the historical tensions against the colonizer groups, Ainu didn't see much of an issue with accepting other people into their culture/community. When an ethnographer asked about this, I remember reading that the Traditional Ainu person simply replied, that they consider all people "humans", and so welcomed them. Lemme bookend this research-spiel with a funny: Otters were considered by the Ainu to have the shortest attention spans of any creature. There is even a myth about it. To the point where, one isn't to eat (I think it might be certain ?) parts of the otter, lest you acquire the same fate! lol
Hisuian Typlosions ghost type might have some more inspiration from the Japanese badger than you think, as the Japanese badger (or Mujina as they're called) is also often depicted as a yōkai
Between the starters (ignoring type change), Decidueye really changed the least & Typhlosion the most. Most common conceptions to ronin attire with Decidueye's look is more with sword samurai & less with archers; plus battle style remains same as Decidueye is still an archer & its kicks are still prominent. Typhlosion became a psychopomp spirit guide rather than its wildfire type self. And Samurott still remains basically the same but IT becomes more of a ronin samurai
@@LeBongFairy I’m not the type to really care about drastic changes in evolution lines or whether it’s on 4 or 2 legs I just look at the Mon itself instead of the connections to the others in their line. I mean a fish turns into an octopus themes aside that makes less sense. Plus I think Samurott just looks cool and I prefer water starters over the other types most of the time. Their no real deep reason it’s just preference
That slight design change was all it took for me to prefer it over Serperior, talking strictly about the gen 5 starters. I always thought Samurott was almost good with the theme and all but it just missed something unique in the design itself. Now with the Hisuian form it looks so much better, overtaking Serperior as my favourite gen 5 starter
Honestly I like Hisuian Typhlosion. that was my first immediate choice for the starters. i also found it cool that all three of them had something to match the specialist of the type they gained. Typhlosion, Johto, Morty's Scarf has the same colors. Samurott, Unova, Grimsley's outfit. And then Decidueye, Alola, Hala's Hair.
@@WarterHat6232 to quote Lockstin in his latest video over the teraleak. " y'all are making a mountain out of a mole-hill" and "Deleted canon is non-canon" like not even two minutes into his latest vid. I could care less on what was written.
Imagine if we got BDSP after Legends and if you leveled up Dartrix, Quilava, and Dewott in the Grand Underground, you got the Hisuian forms of their evolutions. Hell imagine if many Hisuian forms were exclusive to the Grand Underground. It would’ve been so cool if Ash had been sent to Hisui and his Rowlet, Quilava, and Oshawott came along with him and evolved to these Hisuian forms. I mean Goh got the Galar starters, might as well give Ash the other sets of starters.
There's quite a lot of characters that have strong connections to Oda Nobunaga, like Ode Iou, Masayoshi Shido, and Ragyo Kiryuin, just off the top of my head - all fixated on domination. So yeah, Dark-type fits like a glove.
An interesting interpretation of the three forms is related to the different ways animals evolve and adapt to environments they are not native to. After being introduced artificially they can either: 1) adapt to survive in the new environment, changing to better suit the environmental pressures of the place. H-Decidueye shows this, adapting to be better protected from the harsh cold climate of hisui. 2) take over the new environment as an invasive species, causing damages to the habitat. H-Samurott represents this by having little to no changes in look and becoming a dark type, which represents it's negative impact on the ecosystem 3) fail to adapt, which leads the indtroduced species to extintion. This explains H-Typhlosion ghost typing: it just couldn't survive in hisui and become a ghost type. It also makes sense given the lack of badgers in Okkaido which may be interpreted as it being harder for them to survive there
I wonder if Hisuian Decidueye, as a first generation regional form, doesn't know how to make a new home that isn't like the nests their ancestors made in Alola, so instead of suffering and failing at making the same genetically hardwired nest they would've made if they stayed in Alola, they wander the land instead, a sort of metaphorical "death" of their previous land
Hisuian Samurott and Typhlosion are amazing in my opinion My favorite is Samurott but I love Typhlosion's mysterious and cunning energy like a scheming vizier specially with how the flames around the neck look like an extravagant collar
What I always wanted to see from a Legends Arceus anime was ash getting sent back in time after the events of the Pokemon Master anime while he had Quilava, Oshawott, and Rowlett on his team and the shenanigans of Legends arceus goes down but it results in the hisuian final evos. of course our boi ash is retired but the fact he has the 3 starters and ash has a record of being sent back in time means if the Pokemon Company wanted to return to Ash after the Horizons anime that would be an awesome place to go to.
Ronin are kind of the cowboys of Japan. Thats one reason they are pretty popular. Heck westerns are still liked in this time. Along with various ronin types of stories. So having an owl ronin as your partner is awesome. Also, given the tales of Ranmaru Mori, that is accurate when talking about Nobunaga.
How funny that Lockstin made a video about Legends Arceus right before we got the confirmation of Legends A-Z! I was hoping I would get to see lockstins initial reaction to the trailer tho
When I saw that the final evolutions of the starters would be reagional variants of their originals I was SO on board. That opens SO many possibilities and I hope they do it again. Hisuian Samurott is PEAK. PS: I second the "Lororigins" branding!
I associated Hisuian Samurott with the Republic of Ezo (A republic founded in Hokkaido by rebels of the Boshin war) whose elected president was a Samurai+Admiral. Imagine an Admiral of the japanese Navy betraying his emperor and establishing his own Country in Hokkaido.
I chose Rowlet in PLA man I made a good choice! Just as I did in Pokemon Sun: Hisuin Decidueye is such a good attacker in PLA not to mention Grass/Fighting type getting more love is nice to see! If we get anymore Legends games I want see Totodile get this treatment and Turtwig.
"Hey that's-!" "That blue Samurott again of all places!" "I've found you, faker!" "Faker? You're not even good enough to be my fake-" "I'LL MAKE YOU EAT THOSE WORDS!"
Legit before I knew what Oshawott would evolve into in this game, I named mine Nobunaga. You can imagine my surprise when it got the new dark form with a move literally called Ceaseless Edge/
Typhlosion definitely had a lot more going on then that. The March of 100 Yokai and it signature move could have given just a little more substance but regardless it my favorite starter. I like the zen Badger that guides the souls of the dead.
Can you try a part 2 of "Monster Hunter Named Explained!" while you're at it? Cause there's a lot of variants and new monsters what Rise and Sunbreak has introduced. In addition to that, there's also a lot of monsters what you forgot to mentioned
Lockstin's so talented he predicted a new legends game by talking about the starters of the first legends game a few days before Legens ZA was announced. btw i know that I'm exaggerating but it's still funny.
It’s nice to see legends arceus talked about again just a month ago I finished all research task to see if shiny odds are better I won’t do the legendaries but there the last part
Maybe because badgers aren't found in Hokkaido is why they chose Typhlosion to be the ghost type. I don't know if Hokkaido had badgers and they went extinct there or maybe because they didn't know much about badgers so they were spooky and mysterious. Those are my best guesses.
I could have sworn I read somewhere that Cyndaquil was a hedgehog with quills made of fire, but I guess Typhlosions are bigger, and they look like mustelids, so maybe they are badgers...
Man I kove hisuian typhlosion. Wasnt too much of a fan of the original, but when i got a shiny 98% from a raid last year and I best buddied it, it bacame my favorite starter pokemon. This is in pokemon go btw (You still have very a special place in my heart charizard).
As a History Major with a focus in the Far East: Nobunaga didn't hate Buddhists for being Pacifists. He Hated and burned down the temples of Warrior Monks. The very same monks who would often times riot and attack Kyo in order to force their political views, and famously doing the who grape and Pillage that come along with being a literal Army. Hells, his family line came from Shinto Priesthood, he advocated for the Missionaries of the west to be allowed to practice and proselytize, and for even more proof, Nobunaga himself erected Souken-ji, a Buddhist Temple in Azuchi. The constant depiction of Oda Nobunaga as "Demon King" was because he wildly revolutionized how to wage War. For instance, he famously had a peasant as one of his right hand men, the Second of the Great Unifiers Hideyoshi Toyotomi, the Monkey Man himself, and even more famously gave rifles to peasants, arming them to fight in his wars. No longer did a person have to spend years of their lives training to be a good soldier, when a peasant Militia carrying guns could obliterate the famous Unbeatable Takeda Cavalry on PLAINS. He also established Rakuichi Rakuza, or the practice we commonly associate with "Free Markets" allowing anyone anywhere to sell anything to Anyone, and had strict policies against Monopolization. In the lands he conquered through warfare, he removed barrier and check points to allow merchants and traders to go between different provinces without bribe or tax on moving province. He started the Oda Kenchi, a form of Land Survey to verify crop yield and conditions for proper taxation (Before this it was a flat tax that could choke people who had poor harvest, now it was well documented and lenience given where needed). It is true, he showed no mercy to people he battled. But to those who surrendered, he gave three options. Commit Sudoku to keep your honour. Leave to seek revenge by running like a coward, or live on in his territories and armies as Living Dead-men (As in men who should have died for their Honour but live on in spite of it). He extended this to *everyone* including the Buddhist Warrior Monks. If they set down their weapons and live peaceably, then he wouldn't care what you did as long as it was within the law (when he marched into Kyo, he made a special task force to brutally beat any criminal including those of his own soldiers). When people now a days think of "Demon King" they assume evil, but the man was far more in line with a Japanese Buddhist Demon, a man of hell who punishes karma.
It's really cool to learn that all 3 of the Hisui Starters have potential ties to major aspects of Ainu culture, not just Japanese culture in general. On Nobunaga, as far as I'm aware, his reason for disliking Buddhism wasn't just because they preached pacifism, I mean, in that case, the Christians he bought his guns from should've rubbed him the wrong way just the same with all the missionaries they brought along. It's also because most of his early losses are appearently to legions of buddhist warrior monks that allied with his opponents... and at least the first temple he burned was due to a group of those same warrior monks fortifying in said temple since they're supposed to be neutral ground, it's easy to see how he'd have enough of their shenanigans at this point and just ignore convention. Also, I'm pretty sure the place Nobunaga died at, Honnoji, was also a temple, ironically he wasn't there to burn it... presumably... but it was stll burned down when Nobunaga was betrayed, although I don't believe there's a consensus regarding wether it was put on fire by Nobunaga as a sort of final f you or by the guy who betrayed him, the entire thing in general has a few narratives surrounding it. For Typhlosion, I also always assumed it being based on Japanese Onmyouji, Shinto spellcasters or exorcists, the 108 spirits it employs would specifically resemble the 108 bead prayer necklace that'd probably find use in their rituals, although the connection to the Fire Kamuy seems 100 times stronger, learning about that. Although also in regards to badgers and Ainu, even though they can't be found on Hokkaido natively, as far as I'm aware the Ainu people of Japan used to populate a good bit of the eastern half of the Japanese mainland as well, but as the first Japanese kingdoms expanded, they were eventually conquered, with the Ainu people who used to settle eastern Japan either being integrated into Japanese society, I remember hearing that most modern Japanese people have at least partial Ainu heritage in their DNA, and it's also theorized that Ainu believes at least influenced some aspects of Shintoism, as well as possibly some of the first Samurai families being Ainu-families that were integrated, or they fled and migrated to Hokkaido... which would then mean that those people that used to live in eastern Japan should have legends involving badgers. Of course, due to the nature of Ainu culture, being transferred by word afaik, those legends simply might not've survived those 1000+ years into modern day, SINCE there were no badgers on Hokkaido, but there realistically still should've been Ainu tales about badgers that were told at least for some time on Hokkaido as well.
Nobunaga is... hot, like bad boy types of hot.. He's so bad but handsome and masculine as hell.... Is that why I've always really liked hisuian samurott?! 🫠
The flames Typhlosions neck do look like the prayer beads monks wear, the blue part of it's fur behind it, which regular Thyplision lacks, further insinuates this.
isn't professor lavender insinuated to be from the same region as copperajah. as in the indian region nor galar. it makes sense given his completion and that leon/hop are insinuated to be from immigrant families.
I think I found the inspiration of the whole Ogrepon storyline. Apparently the town was following the popular Japanese myth of Momotaro. Now the whole masks thing kinda feel a little lazy since it was said Momotaro and his friends defeated multiple oni….
That’s kind of old news, multiple people picked up on the momotaro inspiration from the moment the DLC was revealed. Lockstin even has a video explaining it. As for the masks, they aren’t really lazy as they take inspiration from other relevant sources. For context, Kitakami is based on the IRL Tohoku region of Japan. It’s known for many producing the most apples in Japan (hence why Dipplin is there) and iconic festivals and folk events. It’s a bit too much to write here, so you can read the origin portion of the trivia section of Ogerpon’s bulbapedia page for more info, but the most relevant inspirations are 1) the Namahage folk tradition in Akita prefecture (west Tohoku) and 2) traditional Japanese theater masks. The Namahage were oni portrayed by men wearing oni masks that would go around to different houses scaring children and warning them to not behave poorly, saying things like “are there any crybabies around?” and other things. One website detailing the Namahage museum in Japan even states that the oni are mistaken for bad guys but are actually believed to bring good harvest. This is also what Ogerpon experiences; she is also mistaken for a villain AND is grass-type to represent the harvest aspect. In modern day Akita, the Namahage even give away mochi to the households they visit, which is why you get mochi in the Ogre Oustin’ minigame in the DLC. Then there’s the traditional Japanese theater inspiration. Japanese theater often tells its stories using many masks that represent emotions, including many oni masks. There are four moods in East Asian theater, joy, sorrow, anger, and fulfillment, each represented by one of Ogerpon’s four masks. So Ogerpon as a whole incorporates several Japanese traditions, including the tale of Momotaro, the Namahage, and traditional Japanese theater (plus like several more sources according to bulbapedia’s trivia/origin section on Ogerpon, which I highly recommend you read for a larger perspective on Ogerpon and the DLC) :)
It’s funny you upload this today because the last 2 days I’ve been grinding space time distortions to catch all the starters then evolve them and send them to Scarlet and Violet. I managed to catch 2 Rowlets and a Cyndaquil so far.
I guess now all thats left of Hisui for me to explain is... the new Dialga and Palkia... hmmmmmm... Well thank you Helix Sleep for sponsoring! Click here helixsleep.com/lockstin to get 25% off your Helix mattress (plus two FREE pillows!) during their Presidents’ Day Sale, which ends February 29th. If you miss this limited time offer, you can still get 20% off using my link! Offers subject to change. #helixsleep
You could always cover Oricorio...just throwing it out there lol
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I mean, they tried to become God and instead became horrid abominations.
Still waiting on that video about Lucario. Just hope nothing stupid is put into that one when you get around to it.
Two things that I feel kinda got overlooked here, which you might find interesting:
1.) Hisuian Decidueye seems to take quite a lot of inspiration from the Matagi -- skilled hunters from the northeastern parts of Japan, who moved up into Hokkaido for the then-plentiful wild game -- moreso than they do from ronin. They, too, would wear the thick grass coats, especially for warmth in the colder climes they typically hunted in, as well as the straw hats, and they were often depicted as skillful archers, which absolutely fits Decidueye's schtick. When making a northern-japanese variant of a western-style archer, a Matagi would be a clear first pick for the creative team.
2.) Typhlosion's tie to the region seems to be that it is the closest to a bear out of the starters - basically, evolving from a hedgehog to a badger to a WAY bigger badger / bear thing. Keeping this double-duty in mind, bears were very INCREDIBLY sacred to the Ainu people, with bear gods serving as the god of the mountains and the head god.
With that in mind, all three starters (at at least one point in their evolution) are animals that the Ainu held as sacred, hence their being chosen for the roster. Seems quite likely that they were selected for this reason first, with the Hisuian evolution designs being the second step.
You didn’t mention Typhlosion’s signature move, Infernal Parade! As in the Night Parade of 100 Yokai! I always name my Hisui Typhlosion Nurarihyon because of it.
Yokai watch!!
I use yōkai Pokémon and named mine “Ibi”, after “onibi”, a kind of fire yōkai its fire is based on.
You, sir/ma'am, are a person of class to remember Nurarihyon Rise of the Yokai Clan.
@@valisterreuben8392 I mean, Nurarihyon is an actual yokai who was said to lead the night parade of 100 yokai
Typhlosion on parade
Hisuian Decidueye looks like an Anime protagonist that just witnessed its entire family get murdered and is about to set out on a quest to avenge them.
That checks
Hisuian Samurott is the rival of course, or maybe he was the one who murdered his entire family. Thyplosion is either his mentor or his rival that also gets killed by Hisuian Samurott
basically Gintoki from Gintama
Hisuian Sam was the person who killed his family.
And Hisuian Typhlosion is his love interest.
The story just writes itself.
@@TheScholarOfLemonstoo real 😂
Hisuian Decidueye having autumn colors, instead of the normal green aesthetic grass-starters usually have, is more badass than it has any right to be.
So true...
Its so ingenious and I love it
But I don't like his hand.
Hope he a leg fighter
@@Watch-0w1 he is a leg fighter
@@godther1391 o that great. All promotions art show him making a ✊ fist.
Autum themed ronin are always badass
I might have realized something
A ronin comes about when a samurai doesn’t commit suppuku.
A ronin is a samurai that’s supposed to be dead, but isn’t.
Hisuian decidueye is a Pokémon that’s supposed to be ghost type, but isn’t.
wait he has a point
So Decidueye is a samurai who commited seppuku
DUDE THAT IS SOOO DEEP
Few other things, samurai were known for their sword play but primarily relied on archery, hence why we got decidueye. Also since Samurott is a dark type I feel that it is the ronin of the trio and decidueye is the honorable samurai.
Its more like a subversion of tropes, which became a trope. Decidueyes a good ronin (which are seen often in media), and samurott is a corrupt “honorable” samurai, abusing his power (which is also seen often in media)
Samurai should be dark type, to get STAB Night Slash (Its Japanese name references how some samurai would allegedly test their newly-sharpened blades by killing a random peasant).
Either that or Flying for STAB Aerial Ace (Whose Japanese name is the same as a kenjutsu(?) technique)
@@berserkerciaranKantonian Farfetch'd should get the Sharpness ability as its reminiscent of a japanese swordsman and gets STAB Slash and Aerial Ace
If i was a nobleborn warrior and got to pick my place on the battlefield I'd be an archer too. Furthest away from harm and all that.
I personally love the Hisuian Typhlosion the most. The face just says to me "I've got a secret that I'll share with you one day."
My favorite is samurrot because I am a sucker for edge
To me he just looks absolutely zooted out of his mind
Me too, I also like Typhlosion the most. I think the dex entry of purifying souls sounds cool
Same they finally gave my guy typhlosion some well deserved buffs 😭❤
Hisuian Typhlosion is my second favorite Pokemon, only beat out by Cyndaquil's gen 2 shiny (which is, coincidentally, also purple).
They also look like elite trainers from their region of the secondary type
Samurott’s Armor = Grimsley’s Coat
Typhlosion’s Neck Flame = Morty’s Scarf
Decidueye’s Top = Hala’s Hair Top
Typhlosion might have been picked because of its Volcano inspiration rather than its animal basis (the Cyndaquil lines draws from multiple species and Typhlosion is called the Volcano Pokemon), as a refence to Ushishir, volcanic islands that were considered a sacred area to the Ainu. Hisuian Typhlosion even gets its powers from Mt Coronet's spiritual energy.
Typhlosion 😢 Mugina... Pandemonium... March of the 100 Yokai 😢
Also Samurott... the Ainu tale about eating an otter's head... the dagger across Samurott's helmet... 😢
It’s mujina.
I actually didn't realize you didn't do the Hisuian starters final evolutions I could've sworn you did.
So the connection for Typhlosion is that there are badger yokai called Mujina (it's often interchangeably used to describe tanuki in many areas) and animal yokai such as kitsune, Tanuki and Mujina are associated with ghostly fire and these phenomena are called kitsunebi and tanukibi, hence Typlosion is an appropriate being a fire type and given ghost type. You can extend this to Oshowatt as there are otter yokai called Kawauso but their pranks are alot more nefarious than tanuki. And Dicidueye may also draw inspiration from Tengu who are depicted as long nosed hermits or monks but often are given avian features such as a beak
That and Typhlosion isn't really a litteral badger. It's a mix of different animals, getting caught up in trying to find specifically badger things wasn't really productive.
It’s so cool that Samurott was based on Nobunaga, because, coincidentally, I named mine Nobunagua, making a pun with the word “água” (meaning “water” in Portuguese). 😁
Also, H. Samurott being dark-type could be connected to the move Night Slash, since the japanese name of the move, Tsujigiri, references the habit of some samurai of attacking random people in the middle of the night, for no other reason than to test their blade or for fun
Honestly the pokemon conquest section made me think of how cool an idea of explaining why the warlords perfect link pokemon are what they are (that and I'm just hoping for pokemon conquest 2 one day)
I think he may or may not have done a video on that leading up to the release of PLA
Loved that game as a kid, really need to replay, but I remember it being really fun and the story pretty interesting. While I doubt they will at this point given how long it’s been since the game was released I also hope they’ll make a sequel to it someday.
I love the Decidueye take.. I named my shiny "Ghillie" thinking it looked like an owl covered in a ghillie suit. Ties in nicely with your take on the ronin outfits.
I'm really shocked lockstin hasn't gone over name meanings yet.
Apparently samurai committed "sedoku" I didn't miss that part
It's probably also worth noting that being a ronin, Hisuian Decidueye is very specifically NOT a Ghost-type anymore. As in, it REFUSED to commit... er... sudoku. It's gone native, as it were, embracing the land of Hisui as its protector, embodying the ideals of Cikap-Kamuy.
Meanwhile, Samurott has fully embraced its role as a conqueror, embodying the ideals of Oda Nobunaga. Decidueye is Hisui's protector, Fighting and Grass, the perfect counter to Hisui's conqueror, the Dark and Water Samurott.
Now I'd really like to see a video that explains in-depth the masks of Ogerpon, as well as the Loyal Three.
Yeah, especially why Pecharunt and its retainers are just plain thieves.
There is more to Oda Nobunaga and why he did the things he did, also his title of the demon king of the 6th heaven, is something he named himself. It was to mock one of his enemies who called them self the the friend of Buddhism or something along those lines.
I thought Nobunaga's moniker of "Demon King" was his tongue & cheek rebuttable to Takeda Shingen addressing himself as a "protector god", his way of saying 'anyone can call themselves anything, as example'
9:16 It's the real martial art Iaijutsu
Now we just need to wait for the "Best Helix matress for each pokemon" and then Lockstin will have completed the channel
1:56 an element people forget is that it was likely based on the popularity pool in 2021
And the best one of they're trio stater. Unlike gen 1,3,4 n 6 starter, who were all great
@@Watch-0w1*most popular of their trios.
Decidueye wasn't the best nor was Samurott and Typhlosion is debatable.
@@TheDragonstorm1993YT yes design wise
@@Watch-0w1 design only get you so far
@@TheDragonstorm1993YT casual gaming it gets you very far
I honestly prefer Hisuian Typhlosion more than the original, feels like his own guy rather than "Guy that came after Charizard".
That and he just looks stoned as all get out, and I find it funny.
I like it more too but that's not that big of a deal as I never liked Typhlosion that much anyway, Cyndaquil is way better
Typhlosion was originally my favorite Starter, and after PLA, Hisuian Typhlosion took its spot! I love the design and typing, and I think it just looks uber cute. Even if you couldn't find much for it, it actually cemented my love for the ghostly badger even more.
Great video as always! ^^
The cyndaquil line is my favorite of the starters too! While the original typhlosion is still my favorite the hisuian form definitely gives it a run for its money.
You know, this series got me thinking. Every starter needs its own 'proper' signature move. And not the Pledges or
Venusaur: Petal Veil (Aurora Veil, but works in Sun (and Rain?))
Charizard: Molten Breath (Fire Type, Freeze Dry against Rock Types)
Blastoise: Hydro Blast (Water Type, Double Iron Bash)
Meganium: Floroblast (Grass Type, Double Edge)
Typhlosion: Friction Burst (Fire Type, Explosion that can also leave those affected with a burn)
Feraligatr: Combat Roll (Water Type, Thunder Cage (and Octolock?))
Sceptile: Primal Slice (Flower Trick, neutral effective against Dragon Type)
Blazekin: Primal Kick (Flower Trick, neutral effective against Dragon Type)
Swampert: Primal Fist (Flower Trick, neutral effective against Dragon Type)
Torterra: Geosphere (Max Overgrowth, 90 Base Power)
Infernape: Flame Arena (Max Flare, 90 Base Power)
Empoleon: Ocean Surge (Max Geyser, 90 Base Power)
Serperior: Sneer (Grass Type, Snarl)
Emboar: Fired-Up (Fire Type, Endeavor)
Samurott: Cleave (Water Type, Hyperspace Hole)
Chesnaut: Shield Charge (Grass/Fighting Type, Circle Throw (and Counter?))
Delphox: Fireball Spell (Fire/Psychic Type, Mist Ball (and Wil o Wisp?))
Greninja: Aqua Double (Water/Dark Type, Fake Out (and Shed Tail?))
Gen VII, Gen VII, and Gen IX still have intact signature moves.
But starting Gen 3, almost all remaining Starters got Signature moves. Leaf Blade, Blaze Kick and Muddy Water. Its just in the nature of signature moves that they "lose" their exclusivity. Eventually, Gen 7 and above starters' signature moves will be given to other Pokemon befitting of that move.
@@kirinotosaki9004
True, I just think that they should get a move that remains with them in perpetuity.
The Pikachu line has kept Volt Tackle since Gen III.
The Chansey line has kept Soft-Boiled since Gen II.
And the Porygon line has kept Conversion (and Conversion 2) since Gen I and II respectively.
@@kirinotosaki9004
But in any case, here are some more signature moves for the remaining Gens
Decidueye: Triple Shot (Grass Type, Surging Strikes)
Incineroar: Fire Splash (Fire Type, Hi Jump Kick)
Primarina: Aqua Sonata (Water Type, Torch Song)
Rillaboom: Drum Crash (Grsss Type, Core Enforcer)
Cinderace: Pyre Cycle Kick (Fire Type, Core Enforcer)
Inteleon: Stealth Shot (Water Type, Core Enforcer)
Meowscarada: Lightfingers (Grass Type, Knock Off)
Skeledirge: Blazing Blues (Fire Type, Snarl)
Quaquaval: Quick Step (Water Type, Sucker Punch)
Leaf Blade, Muddy Water and Blaze Kick were the signature moves of Gen 3
Gen 5 had Leaf Tornado (maybe?), Razor Shell and Heat Crash
@@kirinotosaki9004 Gen 5 and Gen 6 had too
Favorite starter trio!
Same
It was so hard to choose!
Heyyy, fabulous work, whoever did the research here! It's so hard to find decent sources for "Ezo" related material let alone anything Ainu.
(Spotted some holes and inaccuracies though, would recommend redoing this one someday. 👌)
Having had to trawl over this material myself, let me offer some additional details!:
Hisuian Typhlosion's animal species intrigue has more to do with the Japanese term mujina. While it now means the badger as a species, it means "hole bear", which was historically used interchangeably with bears by hunters (traditional, Wajin), especially when bears were hibernating.
The Ainu culture has a deep connection with bears. While we do have another bear poke already, hibernating bear dens were an important find for an Ainu hunter to mark for later, because taking young cubs into their (coughcough *hearth* & home, and) village was an integral part of their iomante tradition. The spirituality of which lends ties to Spiritomb again, but its referencing Ainu religion this time.
But yeah, the holebear cub, now grown, is (💀) 'sent' back to the spiritual realm, to deliver a message of good tidings, and relevant here: the generous hospitality of the humans. (Which is relevant to the Traveler motif, but I'll expand on that below.)
(tl;dr Read more about the spiritual aspects of the Iomante ceremony for details. Though there are many Ainu stories of bears Ursaluna could claim, the role of the Iomante'd Bear works perfectly with our Spiritomby HTyphlosion. lol)
Also, its reported that many Ainu shamans were traditionally women. *But it wasn't gender locked traditionally either, according to the interviewee.
But yeah the "jovial foreign traveler" / (Historically a slur don't use this for the people or culture.)"Gypsy" motif works with the Yokai Night Parade theme of HTyphlosion's signature attack, as well as well as the (plural as it is a large branching cultural group all over the world now)Roma people's origins in ancient India.
With which, Laventon seems to perhaps be a gentleman from (time period accurate)British Colonized India.
Also, a minor correction. Your statement about their main owl kamuy is correct, but it has a very specific connotation to be the protector (kamuy) of the kotan. The village.
I'd also suggest you look into their stories and yukar that reference the other owl kamuy. There's some looser connections there. Anyway, their owl kamuy (ig / some in particular), are tied to leading hunters to their game, or away from danger.
So Hisuian Decidueye isn't just a lone ronin. He found a home to protect, and has been adopted by them.
*Sources suggest that aside from the historical tensions against the colonizer groups, Ainu didn't see much of an issue with accepting other people into their culture/community. When an ethnographer asked about this, I remember reading that the Traditional Ainu person simply replied, that they consider all people "humans", and so welcomed them.
Lemme bookend this research-spiel with a funny:
Otters were considered by the Ainu to have the shortest attention spans of any creature.
There is even a myth about it. To the point where, one isn't to eat (I think it might be certain ?) parts of the otter, lest you acquire the same fate! lol
Hisuian Typlosions ghost type might have some more inspiration from the Japanese badger than you think, as the Japanese badger (or Mujina as they're called) is also often depicted as a yōkai
Between the starters (ignoring type change), Decidueye really changed the least & Typhlosion the most. Most common conceptions to ronin attire with Decidueye's look is more with sword samurai & less with archers; plus battle style remains same as Decidueye is still an archer & its kicks are still prominent. Typhlosion became a psychopomp spirit guide rather than its wildfire type self. And Samurott still remains basically the same but IT becomes more of a ronin samurai
Samourott finally getting some love! ⚔️
While the design isnt drastic I love hisui an Samurott. I always loved the base form and it gaining the dark types was unexpected.
Why do people like the misplaced seal in an otter line? Genuinely curious
@@LeBongFairy I’m not the type to really care about drastic changes in evolution lines or whether it’s on 4 or 2 legs I just look at the Mon itself instead of the connections to the others in their line. I mean a fish turns into an octopus themes aside that makes less sense. Plus I think Samurott just looks cool and I prefer water starters over the other types most of the time. Their no real deep reason it’s just preference
That slight design change was all it took for me to prefer it over Serperior, talking strictly about the gen 5 starters. I always thought Samurott was almost good with the theme and all but it just missed something unique in the design itself. Now with the Hisuian form it looks so much better, overtaking Serperior as my favourite gen 5 starter
@@LeBongFairy Because he's cool, nothing more, nothing less.
@aaajeear8654 yeah but he shouldn't be a seal. Or at least not oshawott/dewott's final form. It's jarring as hell
Honestly I like Hisuian Typhlosion. that was my first immediate choice for the starters. i also found it cool that all three of them had something to match the specialist of the type they gained. Typhlosion, Johto, Morty's Scarf has the same colors. Samurott, Unova, Grimsley's outfit. And then Decidueye, Alola, Hala's Hair.
Still like him after the allegations?
@@WarterHat6232 to quote Lockstin in his latest video over the teraleak. " y'all are making a mountain out of a mole-hill" and "Deleted canon is non-canon" like not even two minutes into his latest vid. I could care less on what was written.
Imagine if we got BDSP after Legends and if you leveled up Dartrix, Quilava, and Dewott in the Grand Underground, you got the Hisuian forms of their evolutions. Hell imagine if many Hisuian forms were exclusive to the Grand Underground.
It would’ve been so cool if Ash had been sent to Hisui and his Rowlet, Quilava, and Oshawott came along with him and evolved to these Hisuian forms.
I mean Goh got the Galar starters, might as well give Ash the other sets of starters.
Unfortunately, Ash's Rowlet still has Everstone particles inside its guts 😭
@@jannfredryckmatias3545 Maybe Arceus removes them as to enable it to get stronger
There's quite a lot of characters that have strong connections to Oda Nobunaga, like Ode Iou, Masayoshi Shido, and Ragyo Kiryuin, just off the top of my head - all fixated on domination. So yeah, Dark-type fits like a glove.
An interesting interpretation of the three forms is related to the different ways animals evolve and adapt to environments they are not native to.
After being introduced artificially they can either:
1) adapt to survive in the new environment, changing to better suit the environmental pressures of the place. H-Decidueye shows this, adapting to be better protected from the harsh cold climate of hisui.
2) take over the new environment as an invasive species, causing damages to the habitat. H-Samurott represents this by having little to no changes in look and becoming a dark type, which represents it's negative impact on the ecosystem
3) fail to adapt, which leads the indtroduced species to extintion. This explains H-Typhlosion ghost typing: it just couldn't survive in hisui and become a ghost type. It also makes sense given the lack of badgers in Okkaido which may be interpreted as it being harder for them to survive there
I wonder if Hisuian Decidueye, as a first generation regional form, doesn't know how to make a new home that isn't like the nests their ancestors made in Alola, so instead of suffering and failing at making the same genetically hardwired nest they would've made if they stayed in Alola, they wander the land instead, a sort of metaphorical "death" of their previous land
Pokemon LORIGENS. Big dad-joke energy. Love it
Love Hisuian Typhlosion, the eyeshadows/bedroom eyes do things to me
Yes I love Scolipede too
Based.
Serperior?
Nice to see some Scolipede Fans exist.
@@hahahehehoho612 Hrm, Serperior's eyes aren't shadowed, so it probably doesn't count here.
Bruxish, on the other hand...
@MrAuthor3DS Hmm I mean, alpharad did describe it that way in his black and white nuzlocke
Tsareena though...
Hisuian Samurott and Typhlosion are amazing in my opinion
My favorite is Samurott but I love Typhlosion's mysterious and cunning energy like a scheming vizier specially with how the flames around the neck look like an extravagant collar
Don't forget, that owls that Decidueye is based on, hasn't extinct yet, so it adds more why it not be ghost type!
What I always wanted to see from a Legends Arceus anime was ash getting sent back in time after the events of the Pokemon Master anime while he had Quilava, Oshawott, and Rowlett on his team and the shenanigans of Legends arceus goes down but it results in the hisuian final evos. of course our boi ash is retired but the fact he has the 3 starters and ash has a record of being sent back in time means if the Pokemon Company wanted to return to Ash after the Horizons anime that would be an awesome place to go to.
Ronin are kind of the cowboys of Japan. Thats one reason they are pretty popular. Heck westerns are still liked in this time. Along with various ronin types of stories. So having an owl ronin as your partner is awesome. Also, given the tales of Ranmaru Mori, that is accurate when talking about Nobunaga.
i always thought that hisuian decidueye was what alolan decidueye looked like, before he became a ghost type
It would also explain why the Hisuian version gets Scrappy, having the ability to touch spirits before becoming one
The archer, swordsman, and volcano
How funny that Lockstin made a video about Legends Arceus right before we got the confirmation of Legends A-Z! I was hoping I would get to see lockstins initial reaction to the trailer tho
*Z-A
Just waking up, seein more lockstin. Todays seems like I gotta lock in
I love hisuian typhlosion man they finally did my guy justice 🙏🙏🙏
DIDDLER
I love that I never know when the sponsor add hits and never feels like a separate element from the video.
Goodness, i love the physical sttack animations in PLA. I hope the next game uses physical approach and effects to show emphasis of contact.
I did not expect lockstin to call Samurott sexy. I mean i agree but lockstin usually saves his thirst based comments/jokes for more anthro pokemon.
so yea...the badger yokai thing... tricking humans...
It went full yokai
Diddy disciple
Zamn
🫥🫥🫥
Everyone crapped on H. Decidueye’s design but I love it. I actually think it’s better than the original.
Hisuian Samourott fans here
When I saw that the final evolutions of the starters would be reagional variants of their originals I was SO on board. That opens SO many possibilities and I hope they do it again. Hisuian Samurott is PEAK.
PS: I second the "Lororigins" branding!
I associated Hisuian Samurott with the Republic of Ezo (A republic founded in Hokkaido by rebels of the Boshin war) whose elected president was a Samurai+Admiral. Imagine an Admiral of the japanese Navy betraying his emperor and establishing his own Country in Hokkaido.
I chose Rowlet in PLA man I made a good choice! Just as I did in Pokemon Sun: Hisuin Decidueye is such a good attacker in PLA not to mention Grass/Fighting type getting more love is nice to see! If we get anymore Legends games I want see Totodile get this treatment and Turtwig.
"Hey that's-!"
"That blue Samurott again of all places!"
"I've found you, faker!"
"Faker? You're not even good enough to be my fake-"
"I'LL MAKE YOU EAT THOSE WORDS!"
3:56 or because the feudal system ended and samurai don't exist anymore
I think Hisuian typhlosion looks cooler than regular typhlosion.
Everyone agree that statement
15:52 ohhhhhhh that's why that show is called Hero 108 lol
Legit before I knew what Oshawott would evolve into in this game, I named mine Nobunaga. You can imagine my surprise when it got the new dark form with a move literally called Ceaseless Edge/
Typhlosion definitely had a lot more going on then that. The March of 100 Yokai and it signature move could have given just a little more substance but regardless it my favorite starter. I like the zen Badger that guides the souls of the dead.
I mean the Rowlett line losing the flying type always made sense to me. Owls are the slowest flying bird
…owls fly slower than swans?
I love legends arceus shiny hunting not at all needed information but :P
Can you try a part 2 of "Monster Hunter Named Explained!" while you're at it? Cause there's a lot of variants and new monsters what Rise and Sunbreak has introduced. In addition to that, there's also a lot of monsters what you forgot to mentioned
Hope to see a Terapagos video soon!
Lockstin's so talented he predicted a new legends game by talking about the starters of the first legends game a few days before Legens ZA was announced.
btw i know that I'm exaggerating but it's still funny.
Hisuian Thyplosion is also based on Hyakki Yagyō, also I prefer Hisuian Thyplosion over the original
I had been wanting this but was almost sure it would never happen, thank you gnoggin
missed oppertunity to say that Decidueye didn't commit "Avatar Fire Prince".
Regional variants and evolutions are so fun and I find many of them cool.
It's pretty cool that the Cyndaquil line is related to the Zigzagoon line! That makes me love it even more! ❤️
It’s nice to see legends arceus talked about again just a month ago I finished all research task to see if shiny odds are better I won’t do the legendaries but there the last part
Maybe because badgers aren't found in Hokkaido is why they chose Typhlosion to be the ghost type. I don't know if Hokkaido had badgers and they went extinct there or maybe because they didn't know much about badgers so they were spooky and mysterious. Those are my best guesses.
5:27 actually, burrowing owls are one of the few owls who are rather social
I actually loved all three of these so much I put them all on my team postgame.
Yes. I love Pidove. It's very cute.
I could have sworn I read somewhere that Cyndaquil was a hedgehog with quills made of fire, but I guess Typhlosions are bigger, and they look like mustelids, so maybe they are badgers...
from the description, Typhlosion is giving me a lot of Yoh from Shaman King vibes
Nah it has Diddy vibes
@Beckloin not sure how it reminds you of Donkey Kongs little peanut shooting buddy, but alright
@@evodolka no it’s Sean Diddy not Diddy kong
This is the best Typhlosion, IMO. I think that the design really needed something like the collar that the Hisuian version has.
Ive been waiting for this! I was super intrigued by Decidueye's origins, and not i love him even more. And ill say it again, I love Pidove lol
Man I kove hisuian typhlosion. Wasnt too much of a fan of the original, but when i got a shiny 98% from a raid last year and I best buddied it, it bacame my favorite starter pokemon. This is in pokemon go btw (You still have very a special place in my heart charizard).
YES!!! A Lockstin's video!!!!! Always made my day!!!
I also like the part about the samurai, and the whole video.
As a History Major with a focus in the Far East: Nobunaga didn't hate Buddhists for being Pacifists. He Hated and burned down the temples of Warrior Monks. The very same monks who would often times riot and attack Kyo in order to force their political views, and famously doing the who grape and Pillage that come along with being a literal Army. Hells, his family line came from Shinto Priesthood, he advocated for the Missionaries of the west to be allowed to practice and proselytize, and for even more proof, Nobunaga himself erected Souken-ji, a Buddhist Temple in Azuchi. The constant depiction of Oda Nobunaga as "Demon King" was because he wildly revolutionized how to wage War. For instance, he famously had a peasant as one of his right hand men, the Second of the Great Unifiers Hideyoshi Toyotomi, the Monkey Man himself, and even more famously gave rifles to peasants, arming them to fight in his wars. No longer did a person have to spend years of their lives training to be a good soldier, when a peasant Militia carrying guns could obliterate the famous Unbeatable Takeda Cavalry on PLAINS. He also established Rakuichi Rakuza, or the practice we commonly associate with "Free Markets" allowing anyone anywhere to sell anything to Anyone, and had strict policies against Monopolization. In the lands he conquered through warfare, he removed barrier and check points to allow merchants and traders to go between different provinces without bribe or tax on moving province. He started the Oda Kenchi, a form of Land Survey to verify crop yield and conditions for proper taxation (Before this it was a flat tax that could choke people who had poor harvest, now it was well documented and lenience given where needed).
It is true, he showed no mercy to people he battled. But to those who surrendered, he gave three options. Commit Sudoku to keep your honour. Leave to seek revenge by running like a coward, or live on in his territories and armies as Living Dead-men (As in men who should have died for their Honour but live on in spite of it). He extended this to *everyone* including the Buddhist Warrior Monks. If they set down their weapons and live peaceably, then he wouldn't care what you did as long as it was within the law (when he marched into Kyo, he made a special task force to brutally beat any criminal including those of his own soldiers). When people now a days think of "Demon King" they assume evil, but the man was far more in line with a Japanese Buddhist Demon, a man of hell who punishes karma.
Yeah, there's a lot of historic revisionism going on with Nobunaga...
Well
For legends Z-A
Sprigatito (France is near Spain)
Scorbunny (France is near Great Britain)
Piplup because Napoleon
It's really cool to learn that all 3 of the Hisui Starters have potential ties to major aspects of Ainu culture, not just Japanese culture in general.
On Nobunaga, as far as I'm aware, his reason for disliking Buddhism wasn't just because they preached pacifism, I mean, in that case, the Christians he bought his guns from should've rubbed him the wrong way just the same with all the missionaries they brought along. It's also because most of his early losses are appearently to legions of buddhist warrior monks that allied with his opponents... and at least the first temple he burned was due to a group of those same warrior monks fortifying in said temple since they're supposed to be neutral ground, it's easy to see how he'd have enough of their shenanigans at this point and just ignore convention. Also, I'm pretty sure the place Nobunaga died at, Honnoji, was also a temple, ironically he wasn't there to burn it... presumably... but it was stll burned down when Nobunaga was betrayed, although I don't believe there's a consensus regarding wether it was put on fire by Nobunaga as a sort of final f you or by the guy who betrayed him, the entire thing in general has a few narratives surrounding it.
For Typhlosion, I also always assumed it being based on Japanese Onmyouji, Shinto spellcasters or exorcists, the 108 spirits it employs would specifically resemble the 108 bead prayer necklace that'd probably find use in their rituals, although the connection to the Fire Kamuy seems 100 times stronger, learning about that.
Although also in regards to badgers and Ainu, even though they can't be found on Hokkaido natively, as far as I'm aware the Ainu people of Japan used to populate a good bit of the eastern half of the Japanese mainland as well, but as the first Japanese kingdoms expanded, they were eventually conquered, with the Ainu people who used to settle eastern Japan either being integrated into Japanese society, I remember hearing that most modern Japanese people have at least partial Ainu heritage in their DNA, and it's also theorized that Ainu believes at least influenced some aspects of Shintoism, as well as possibly some of the first Samurai families being Ainu-families that were integrated, or they fled and migrated to Hokkaido... which would then mean that those people that used to live in eastern Japan should have legends involving badgers. Of course, due to the nature of Ainu culture, being transferred by word afaik, those legends simply might not've survived those 1000+ years into modern day, SINCE there were no badgers on Hokkaido, but there realistically still should've been Ainu tales about badgers that were told at least for some time on Hokkaido as well.
Nobunaga is... hot, like bad boy types of hot.. He's so bad but handsome and masculine as hell.... Is that why I've always really liked hisuian samurott?! 🫠
You should play Pokémon conquest lol
The flames Typhlosions neck do look like the prayer beads monks wear, the blue part of it's fur behind it, which regular Thyplision lacks, further insinuates this.
isn't professor lavender insinuated to be from the same region as copperajah. as in the indian region nor galar. it makes sense given his completion and that leon/hop are insinuated to be from immigrant families.
I think I found the inspiration of the whole Ogrepon storyline. Apparently the town was following the popular Japanese myth of Momotaro.
Now the whole masks thing kinda feel a little lazy since it was said Momotaro and his friends defeated multiple oni….
That’s kind of old news, multiple people picked up on the momotaro inspiration from the moment the DLC was revealed. Lockstin even has a video explaining it.
As for the masks, they aren’t really lazy as they take inspiration from other relevant sources. For context, Kitakami is based on the IRL Tohoku region of Japan. It’s known for many producing the most apples in Japan (hence why Dipplin is there) and iconic festivals and folk events. It’s a bit too much to write here, so you can read the origin portion of the trivia section of Ogerpon’s bulbapedia page for more info, but the most relevant inspirations are 1) the Namahage folk tradition in Akita prefecture (west Tohoku) and 2) traditional Japanese theater masks. The Namahage were oni portrayed by men wearing oni masks that would go around to different houses scaring children and warning them to not behave poorly, saying things like “are there any crybabies around?” and other things. One website detailing the Namahage museum in Japan even states that the oni are mistaken for bad guys but are actually believed to bring good harvest. This is also what Ogerpon experiences; she is also mistaken for a villain AND is grass-type to represent the harvest aspect. In modern day Akita, the Namahage even give away mochi to the households they visit, which is why you get mochi in the Ogre Oustin’ minigame in the DLC. Then there’s the traditional Japanese theater inspiration. Japanese theater often tells its stories using many masks that represent emotions, including many oni masks. There are four moods in East Asian theater, joy, sorrow, anger, and fulfillment, each represented by one of Ogerpon’s four masks.
So Ogerpon as a whole incorporates several Japanese traditions, including the tale of Momotaro, the Namahage, and traditional Japanese theater (plus like several more sources according to bulbapedia’s trivia/origin section on Ogerpon, which I highly recommend you read for a larger perspective on Ogerpon and the DLC) :)
I personally didn't like Hisuian Typhlosion but with time I learned to appreciate greatly. Fan art and Lore references helped greatly 😅
"And Decidueye is here to avenge it!"
That line got me more than it should have
18:42 right.
The hisuian starters are the best trio in the entire series
It’s funny you upload this today because the last 2 days I’ve been grinding space time distortions to catch all the starters then evolve them and send them to Scarlet and Violet. I managed to catch 2 Rowlets and a Cyndaquil so far.
One thing to add about badgers in Japanese folklore is that they’re sometimes conflated with tanuki as tricksters (see Mujina)
11:40 - Secret Stone?