Ultimately, eating a third of a Carolina Reaper wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Still the most pain my mouth has EVER been in! But I still expected worse, maybe I just didnt let it get there. a couple hours afterwards though? 😖😖😖 AD: Shop the Official King Ice | Pokémon Collection at kingice.com!/ Use Code: LOCKSTIN For 10% OFF!
@@Shrewstorm1 yeah same , love’d it , still do But I think it’s because it’s 2 headed , and usualy a 2 headed Pokémon ( like zewilos ) evolve into a 3 headed beast
Also generally hilarious how plants evolved this chemical that is extremely spicy and hurts to eat to keep animals from eating it and a specific kind of animal came in and decided they loved the fruits that hurt to eat
That's what I love about evolution! It's like a neverending dance between always changing species! And one species will always love something that is toxic to most other species!
🌶: "My fruit is spicy so no mammal would enjoy eating it!" A wild masochist appears! 🌶: 😟 And the pepper started to contemplate its life choices (although tbh humans do help it reproduce even if its not the intended way)
There is a hypothesis that spicy foods were prized because the capsaicin acted as antiparasitic drugs. In a way, it was a way to sanitize the food without having to cook it, and also providing some way to treat someone with preexisting enteric parasites like tapeworms. Not sure how much water that idea holds but it’s fun to think about 🥵
You forgot to mention that the white cap on Capsacid's head is also just a pepper flower, since he hasn't fully matured. They are also white with five triangular petals
Ohh, yes, I don't know why I hadn't really noticed it since I have seen the flowers of chili pepper plants so many times. My mum likes to keep "pet" chili pepper plants, they never thrive that well, because they are kept mainly in a relatively dim and dry-aired apartment, but many of them have made flowers and even some fruit.
Scovillain's in-battle animation frustrates me. Because when it uses Flamethrower, the stream of fire comes from the green head instead of the red. Which is the contrary to its pokedex description. It's just a detail but it's there!
SV has two animations per move category (physical/special), maybe in the other one it's the red head that attacks. I know Solarbeam is one of the moves that uses this "second" animation while Flamethrower uses the "first". Edit: Was able to try it and I can confirm the second special attack animation has the red head firing the attack instead of the green one.
G: "This body ain't big enough for the both of us. R: -We can't really duel each other you know. G: -Let's evolve to get a bigger body R: -Bahah I like that." _Evolves._ Y: "Howdy. G: -SHOOT! R: -Ok." _Shoots_ Y: _Instant dies._ G: "Not what I meant, but I guess that solves our problem."
@@RayKrayZuh, bruh wdym, the green one is said to be " turned vicious due to the spicy chemicals stimulating its brain. Once it goes on a rampage, there is no stopping it." That's definitely the bad.
@@RayKrayZuh, bruh wdym? The green head is said to be "turned vicious due to the spicy chemicals stimulating its brain. Once it goes on a rampage, there is no stopping it." That's definitely the bad one.
I was skeptical at first when I heard that we'd be getting the "Grass/Fire spicy pepper" idea that's manifest in thousands of Fakemon over the years, usually I like when the ideas are more out there. But making it two-headed and giving it oversized southern jeans? A Prevo with a buck tooth and straw hat? THAT'S saucy theming. That's some good stuff. As a hot sauce addict I give these two some big thumbs up. Spicy fellas.
When I found a Pokémon with a name like that and something of a plate on its head next to a river, I was surprised to see the Pokédex call it a Spicy Pepper Pokémon. But excited at the implication that we'd finally have a Grass/Fire Pokémon. That Scovillain stayed on my team the whole game.
I also ran into a shiny Capsakid on my original playthrough. I boxed her because I started with Sprigatito and had an Armorouge I really liked. And sort of forgot about until I was doing sex completion. I love the ability to change a nickname because she was originally Nugget, but after i finished the dex and evolved her I changed it to Blue Jeans. 😊
@@jeremylindemann3933I can’t believe there was a good 20 seconds where I thought you completed the Pokédex while also collecting both genders of each Pokémon before I realized it was just a very unfortunate typo.
What I find interesting , is that the Scarlet Pokédex entry for Scovillain mentions that the red head is the one that shoots flames. Yet in game , when you use moves like flamethrower , it’s the green head that moves forward shoots out flame ( And with moves like bullet seed, it’s the red head that moves forward to shoot it ) quite a nice move by game freak
another fun fact about spicy food. Eating spicy food helps keep you from over eating. i have a bag of spicy chips i get from my dietitian, while not SUPER spicy eating one pouch is enough to keep my satiated until the next time I'm ACTUALLY hungry.
In general, eating anything you dislike will kill your appetite. On that same note, I've seen this have the exact opposite effect on ppl who do like spicy food, lol.
I could see a new Miltank regional evo as a counter to Scovillain. Could be Ice/Fairy to really delve into the soothing and cooling aspects of milk and ice cream. Edit: One thing that doesn't help is that Miltank already learns Rollout. Ice Ball is the Ice type variant of that move.
If we ever get a region based around latin america (mexico specifically) i would love to see a regional variant that is part fairy to represent how we have spicy sweet over here
Im pretty sure that capsacian stuff stacks each time you eat a pepper like Damage Over Time Stacks (D.O.T.S.) Another thing it would do is increase over time, like +1 for each second its in effect on a person (minus 5 per milk drink, minus 1 per water drink), and with each bite of the pepper it adds onto the stacks. Take Ghost Peppers as an example, each time you eat one, you gain +20 stacks of capsacian (max 20), and the addition rate for each second you're under its effects would be around 5 stacks per second,with each stack dealing -2 damage per second.
love the video concept. Hot ones is such an icon on the internet and while we may never see Lockstin on officially this definitely counts in my book. gotta love the dedication to the craft by still delivering great edutainment despite the agony
Fun fact: another place in Europe that frequently was used to film Westerns was Yugoslavia. Specially modern Croatia. A lot of German Westerns in particular got filmed there. Even though it's too lush for the many Southwest-based Winnetou novels that were the main inspiration for the makers of German Westerns... But then again, the Winnetou novels are infamous for being very accurate with their descriptions of New Mexico & Co in terms of cultures and geography.
Scovillan also kind looks like it’s on a rampage, In a mid stomp position. He learns multiple anger based moves like stomping tantrum and temper flare. And due to its lizard like face. I think it may have kaiju based inspirations. And to add icing on the cake, a lot of kaiju based Pokémon like nidoking have the same foot as scovillan. So it can be referencing older Pokémon designs. I genuinely think scovillan due to this is the most “Gen 1” Pokémon in Gen 9.
4:43 "Fun fact, people often say it's the seeds in the pepper that are spicy, that's not entirely true. It's the pith! The white membranes *inside* the pepper that often *hold* the seeds, and so, are all around the seeds, and their oils and stuff get onto the seeds." It's actually the entire pepper. Every part of it. If you run the seeds, pith, or outer flesh through a chemical analysis machine, you'll find that all three contain capsaicin. So, all three are spicy. Just different amounts of spicy. In order of least spicy, to most, the parts stand thus: Outer flesh, seeds, pith.
You can test that by filling a saucer with some vinegar and dropping the pepper in varying stages of chopped-ness (whole, end cut off, top and end, half, then fully chopped), and find the spice level of the resulting vinegar escalates accordingly depending on what contacts the liquid. It's a key part of "sawsawan" culture in PH if you can only tolerate a specific level of spice.
I never thought I'd be watching a man die while explaining fun history facts pertaining to a fictional pepper monster, but here we are... and it was hilarious.
With all the inspirations laid out I could definitely see what the third EVO could look like. A bird looking plant that looks more like a cowboy now. It has 3 heads with the middle one being the biggest one and the meanest one. While the other two acts like a cowboy dual wielding pistols. Give this Pokémon bullet seed and solar beam and it would be the sharpest shooter in the west.
This sent WAVES of love and nostalgia for Hot Pepper Gaming back in the day when youtube was FUN. I have been stuck bed for almost 2 weeks i needed a good laugh so thank you kind sir.
Back when I used to work in a grocery store deli my buddy and I decided to grab a couple habaneros from produce, each down a whole one, then see who could keep it together better as we helped customers. Turns out he has the spice tolerance of an infant so it was an easy win and a damn good time 😂
One time in high-school a kid brought dried carolina reapers (supposedly drying them made them a little easier to eat at first but much worse when it hits your stomache and the acids come back up. Not sure though) and started sharing them with people. One guy had to go home he was in so much pain.
We humans are so weird, because so many plants have evolved parts of them to NOT be eaten, like how bitter coffee beans are(also caffiene, because pests die from it), the bitternes is so mammals don't eat it, same goes for peppers of course, there's also mint, you know that thing we eat and like because of how fresh and pleasant it is? Especially it's smell, well it evolved all that because pretty every other animals in existence DESPISES it, that's why a dog, who usually wouldn't give two shits about your breath, will physically recoil as the peppermint scent. Humans are literally the "Everyones hates it, therefore I like it" of the animal world.
the tounge also kind of resemble when a pepper has a seed sprout inside they turn into a really little pepper in capsicums (bell peppers) especially they usually become a small slender shape and have a very bright tip on the end
I love, love, love as you finally realize the mistake you made. Just because the spice didn't immediately hit does not mean it ain't coming. As you continued giving more facts on Scovilain your pauses due to the fire happening in your mouth were pricelessly hilarious and your facial expression, wonderful. Please don't ever do that again🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Literally you speak how I see spicy food! I live in when it actually has some super flavor! Like I always alter my franks red hot to add more flavor with garlic and butter
@@morgancrabtree6248 there are several varieties (via selection), ranging from a fex thousand to over 9,000 on the Scoville scale. So it exists both milder and hotter ones than the wild original, and it depends on the store which you could get.
THANK YOU! I hate the term "first partner" it just, doesn't sound right, they've been called starter pokemon for years, changing the term now is just dumb
If there was a pokemon region based on Texas, Then I would imagine these pokemon would have a third evolution that takes the cowboy aspects and crank it up a notch while maybe including the jalapeno elements as well.🤠🌶🔥
It saddens me that Gamefreak is forced to go with inferior designs due to fans creating so many great designs. They could pay the original artists but that sorta opens a whole new can of worms.
I'm one of the few people who actually like Scovillain. Even though I wish the move pool had a little more variation, it's the PERFECT Sunny Day and Chlorophyll combination. Scovillain needs more appreciation
Also a lot of "recent" research (i think a lot of it is actually decades old at this point) shows that capsaicin helps prevent mold in wet areas. Thank you for knowing about fats. I was unware of the alcohol reaction.
Scovillain is a good solid team member if you picked Quaxly he gives you fire and grass to go with your water starter, I definitely want it to get another Evolution, that would almost Guarantee that its BST will be over 500 I caught a shiny Scovillain and I named it Spicy Denim due to the blue pants
My idea for a pepper Pokémon also boiled down to it evolving into a Mexican outlaw-like Pokémon, but probably with more obvious aesthetics than Scovillain. The Pokémon would've been named Caperado (as in Capsaicin + Desperado), it would've had its pepper head with the more pointy part pointing upwards while a big, wide leaf is stuck through said head and hovering right above its face like the brim of a hat (making its head double as a sombrero), it would've had one or two more big leaves draped over its body like a poncho, and it would've had two more peppers for hands with holes on the tips, acting as guns. Though, I've only gone as far as drawing its pre-evolved form, Capsepper. I'm still kinda glad that Scovillain has SOME outlaw-inspirations in its design, but I wish that went a bit more all-out with that outlaw direction (also, they way they made Scovillain's heads kind of makes the whole head-with-sombrero thing I described earlier kind of impossible to to re-implement, since the pointy tip is designed to be its _mouth_ rather than the top of the head or hat, which is kind of a shame since it'd be perfect to re-implement for a Mega Evolution)
Scovillain is personally my favourite Paldean mon. Love how many different things are subtly referenced and influenced in its design, I didn't realise the points you pointed out with theatre, but now it's so obvious. I also like how ScoVILLAIN is a Grass/Fire type and Palafin, the Superman Pokémon, is a water type, so they match up with the starter types.
This was probably your most unhinged video and I gotta say I really enjoyed it LOL I would love to see more themed challenges like this, not that I can forsee many since not many pokemon have a thing like Scovillian does unfortunately but ya, this is probably one of my most favorite videos you've done yet! Also, love seeing the right arm tattoo, its sick!
Pretty sure Capsakid is also based on Kappa, its head looks like a Kappa head, its green and even the name Capsaka kid, can be read as Capa by removing the s and ka, i know its with a c but same pronunciation
You're right, it is the oily pith that is the spiciest part of the fruit. However, seeds do contain their own individual heat - they store the genetic material needed to create a whole other plant, including the fruit. In short, seeds do have a small amount of their own capsaicin.
This is the best spicy food challenge video I've seen. You just explaining the science behind your pain, it not being the main attraction of the video but just an extra thing, it's so much more fun and gives more reason to the video. Just sayin, I don't usually like people doing it for the sake of doing it.
15:48 I can confirm it I love spicy food, but once I ordered some chicken wings with a sauce made up of ghost chilli pepper, and I loved it, but it was painful too, specially when... I had to use the toilet the next day
I would be screwed eating anything that hot. I hate milk, super cold anything huts my teeth, and I do not drink alcohol. I heard bread does something but I think this might be a myth.
My assumption was that the red and green heads were a reference to the Capsichum monster from Dragon Quest VIII, which is a red pepper and a green pepper bound in eternal friendship by the skewer running through them. Also the “bonnet” on capsikid is the pepper plant’s flower, which is white with five petals.
It was actually discovered (can’t quite remember when) that most of the capsaicin in peppers comes from the ribs, not the seeds! Another fact about something in the video, the film industry moved from New York to Hollywood to escape the strict patent controls held by Thomas Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company in the East Coast.
This video was a treasure. Capsakid & Scovillian are 2 of my favorites. Also, the sponsor not making any iced out chains with ice types like Glalie or articuno is such a missed opportunity
You know it's a good video when you can learn about science of spiciness and pokemon at the same time, and with a nice amount of chuckle as well. Nice work, Lockstin!
The moment I saw Scovillain for the first time I liked it and now that I’ve seen this video I like it even more, I agree it’s final evolution should have a third head and in addition a leaf on its head that resembles a desperado hat as well as an additional signature move to go along with “Spice Extract”.
"it's actually not that bad" Lockstin said calmly Definitely agree how Scovillain feels like a middle evolution. They're also really smalll, barely a three foot villain!
Scovillain is my all time favorite Pokémon ever so I’m super psyched it gets a dedicated video! Super interesting to learn just how Capsaicin actually works.
When I played through Violet, I was planning in using ceruledge as my fire type. But then I caught capsakid, saw its dex entry, realized it was probably gonna evolve into grass/fire, and used it instead. Reaper did pretty well.
Extra historical fact: the largest producer of Chiles in the world is a former Spanish colony. I live half an hour from there, and Fall doesn't start until you smell chiles roasted.
As a connoisseur of spicy peppers, a frozen lemonade will work best, or like. A mountain dew slushie. Something cold and creamy with a good chunk of citrus, because citric acid and maltodextrin are both really good for combating capsaicin
I clicked on this video for 2 reasons 1. Scovillian is my favorite Paldea Pokemon, in a "They're so ugly! I love them!" kinda way 2. I wanna see him eat spicy peppers and try to act like everything is OK while reading the script
The idea of lockstin doing naurdwar-esk interviews where he does a bunch of research on other poketubers and interviews them, while eating spicy wings, would be incredible
If Scovillain evolves in a later gen, it could possibly be a contender for my Top 5 favorite grass types. Right up there with Dhelmise, Ludicolo, Exeggutor, Ogerpon, and Hydrapple.
Ultimately, eating a third of a Carolina Reaper wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Still the most pain my mouth has EVER been in! But I still expected worse, maybe I just didnt let it get there. a couple hours afterwards though? 😖😖😖 AD: Shop the Official King Ice | Pokémon Collection at kingice.com!/ Use Code: LOCKSTIN For 10% OFF!
I personally love scovillian but I get why people think something is missing
@@Shrewstorm1 yeah same , love’d it , still do
But I think it’s because it’s 2 headed , and usualy a 2 headed Pokémon ( like zewilos ) evolve into a 3 headed beast
This was an awesome vid :) Can't wait until you dig into Orthworm's design. I love him. Public transit worm.
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I really hope you didn't eat the whole Reaper raw...
Also generally hilarious how plants evolved this chemical that is extremely spicy and hurts to eat to keep animals from eating it and a specific kind of animal came in and decided they loved the fruits that hurt to eat
Not just this one. You'd be surprised at how many drugs from plant are bug-repellant or insecticides.
That's what I love about evolution! It's like a neverending dance between always changing species! And one species will always love something that is toxic to most other species!
🌶: "My fruit is spicy so no mammal would enjoy eating it!"
A wild masochist appears!
🌶: 😟
And the pepper started to contemplate its life choices (although tbh humans do help it reproduce even if its not the intended way)
@@victzegopterix2 Yes, caffeine is a great example of that. Then humans liked it now things like coffee and tea are everywhere because of it
There is a hypothesis that spicy foods were prized because the capsaicin acted as antiparasitic drugs. In a way, it was a way to sanitize the food without having to cook it, and also providing some way to treat someone with preexisting enteric parasites like tapeworms. Not sure how much water that idea holds but it’s fun to think about 🥵
wow capsakid is a lot more complex than i realised, pokémon never let fumble in the design origin department
hey callum
Yooo, hoodlumcallum on a lockstin video!
@@oscarbarron3681 YIPPIE
Pokemon fumbles alot.
@@CursedOniGaming HY
You forgot to mention that the white cap on Capsacid's head is also just a pepper flower, since he hasn't fully matured. They are also white with five triangular petals
Ohh, yes, I don't know why I hadn't really noticed it since I have seen the flowers of chili pepper plants so many times. My mum likes to keep "pet" chili pepper plants, they never thrive that well, because they are kept mainly in a relatively dim and dry-aired apartment, but many of them have made flowers and even some fruit.
The hubris of taking a second bite of a Carolina Reaper because it didn't seem that bad at first...
Carolina, not California, but yeaa. The slow build of regret is exactly what one expects from that LOL
the danger of slow-build heat...
@@Gnoggin hello gnog
LMAOOOOO STRAIGHT UP DRINKING TEQUILA FROM THE BOTTLE. I love the commitment!
The near immediate relief too
ONG! Felt so seen with that move
Lockstin taking a reaper like a champ and gulping a motuhful of tequila without a flinch was impressive.
The cameralady's _"oh my god"_ cracked me up.
That has to be his WIFE.
Scovillain's in-battle animation frustrates me. Because when it uses Flamethrower, the stream of fire comes from the green head instead of the red. Which is the contrary to its pokedex description. It's just a detail but it's there!
At least it commes out of A head, and not the empty space between them…
maybe its that one bc if the red one did it it would tm 64 the world
SV has two animations per move category (physical/special), maybe in the other one it's the red head that attacks. I know Solarbeam is one of the moves that uses this "second" animation while Flamethrower uses the "first".
Edit: Was able to try it and I can confirm the second special attack animation has the red head firing the attack instead of the green one.
@@bluekirby_64 it's so anoying haw hard it is to actualy see those animations ...
Imagine if it gets an evo with a third yellow pepper head. We could have the good (yellow) the bad (green) and the ugly (red). 👀
More likely to be the good (green) the bad (red) and the ugly (yellow) based on Scovillain.
G: "This body ain't big enough for the both of us.
R: -We can't really duel each other you know.
G: -Let's evolve to get a bigger body
R: -Bahah I like that."
_Evolves._
Y: "Howdy.
G: -SHOOT!
R: -Ok." _Shoots_
Y: _Instant dies._
G: "Not what I meant, but I guess that solves our problem."
@@RayKrayZuh, bruh wdym, the green one is said to be " turned vicious due to the spicy chemicals stimulating its brain. Once it goes on a rampage, there is no stopping it." That's definitely the bad.
I am now gonna put of hype stock into this pokemon for the future and will be vastly disappointed if I don't see a cowboy hat.
@@RayKrayZuh, bruh wdym? The green head is said to be "turned vicious due to the spicy chemicals stimulating its brain. Once it goes on a rampage, there is no stopping it." That's definitely the bad one.
just the "oh my god" after "i'm gonna eat the rest of that pepper"
She was not prepared for him to eat/wanna eat the whole thing
I was skeptical at first when I heard that we'd be getting the "Grass/Fire spicy pepper" idea that's manifest in thousands of Fakemon over the years, usually I like when the ideas are more out there. But making it two-headed and giving it oversized southern jeans? A Prevo with a buck tooth and straw hat? THAT'S saucy theming. That's some good stuff.
As a hot sauce addict I give these two some big thumbs up. Spicy fellas.
I'm pretty sure Capsakid is partially based on a kappa too, due to the flower on its head resembling thier dish, and it's sorta duck-like mouth
And then Scovillain is the green and red onis?
When I found a Pokémon with a name like that and something of a plate on its head next to a river, I was surprised to see the Pokédex call it a Spicy Pepper Pokémon.
But excited at the implication that we'd finally have a Grass/Fire Pokémon. That Scovillain stayed on my team the whole game.
It's said that kappas stories were originated when japanese people saw portuguese monks, so it would make sense too for Paldea
3:28 I randomly ran into a shiny Capsakid in the middle of a playthrough. There are many universes where I completely missed that thing.
I also ran into a shiny Capsakid on my original playthrough. I boxed her because I started with Sprigatito and had an Armorouge I really liked. And sort of forgot about until I was doing sex completion.
I love the ability to change a nickname because she was originally Nugget, but after i finished the dex and evolved her I changed it to Blue Jeans. 😊
@@jeremylindemann3933 *phrasing*
@@jeremylindemann3933I can’t believe there was a good 20 seconds where I thought you completed the Pokédex while also collecting both genders of each Pokémon before I realized it was just a very unfortunate typo.
Did you use it on your team, or did you pick the fire or grass starter
@RodimusMinor1987 I picked Sprigatito but I did pull it out for the dlc
What I find interesting , is that the Scarlet Pokédex entry for Scovillain mentions that the red head is the one that shoots flames. Yet in game , when you use moves like flamethrower , it’s the green head that moves forward shoots out flame ( And with moves like bullet seed, it’s the red head that moves forward to shoot it ) quite a nice move by game freak
In a nutshell, humans eat spicy food simply because they're masochists.
Yep. And seeing how we kept making them hotter and hotter says something. 😆
another fun fact about spicy food. Eating spicy food helps keep you from over eating. i have a bag of spicy chips i get from my dietitian, while not SUPER spicy eating one pouch is enough to keep my satiated until the next time I'm ACTUALLY hungry.
In general, eating anything you dislike will kill your appetite. On that same note, I've seen this have the exact opposite effect on ppl who do like spicy food, lol.
I could literally eat 20 hot wings. I have an addiction to spicy food
I could see a new Miltank regional evo as a counter to Scovillain. Could be Ice/Fairy to really delve into the soothing and cooling aspects of milk and ice cream.
Edit: One thing that doesn't help is that Miltank already learns Rollout. Ice Ball is the Ice type variant of that move.
Haha. It changing out rollout for ice ball for its infamous move would be great.
Personally, I am surprised we didn’t get a Miltank variant since we DID get a Tauros variant. What gives?
"SUPERCOW AL RESCATE!"
No one is going to get this reference (also, sorry, I don't know how to type an upside down exclamation point).
@@argentum1738I do lol. very surprised. I watched too much Cow and Chicken and actually liked it
Lockstin being like the dog in the 'this is fine' meme was not my expectation, but it is satisfying.
If we ever get a region based around latin america (mexico specifically) i would love to see a regional variant that is part fairy to represent how we have spicy sweet over here
Or just introduce an evolution for it and keep the Fire/Grass typing
Grass fairy or fire fairy?
@@yusheitslv100 Ideally Fire/Fairy, since that would be another new type combo and would be the only way to portray Spicy AND Sweet.
Im pretty sure that capsacian stuff stacks each time you eat a pepper like Damage Over Time Stacks (D.O.T.S.) Another thing it would do is increase over time, like +1 for each second its in effect on a person (minus 5 per milk drink, minus 1 per water drink), and with each bite of the pepper it adds onto the stacks. Take Ghost Peppers as an example, each time you eat one, you gain +20 stacks of capsacian (max 20), and the addition rate for each second you're under its effects would be around 5 stacks per second,with each stack dealing -2 damage per second.
love the video concept. Hot ones is such an icon on the internet and while we may never see Lockstin on officially this definitely counts in my book. gotta love the dedication to the craft by still delivering great edutainment despite the agony
10:32 “It was then that Lockstin knew, he f**ked up” 🤣🤣🤣
Fun fact: another place in Europe that frequently was used to film Westerns was Yugoslavia. Specially modern Croatia. A lot of German Westerns in particular got filmed there.
Even though it's too lush for the many Southwest-based Winnetou novels that were the main inspiration for the makers of German Westerns... But then again, the Winnetou novels are infamous for being very accurate with their descriptions of New Mexico & Co in terms of cultures and geography.
Scovillan also kind looks like it’s on a rampage, In a mid stomp position. He learns multiple anger based moves like stomping tantrum and temper flare. And due to its lizard like face. I think it may have kaiju based inspirations. And to add icing on the cake, a lot of kaiju based Pokémon like nidoking have the same foot as scovillan. So it can be referencing older Pokémon designs.
I genuinely think scovillan due to this is the most “Gen 1” Pokémon in Gen 9.
4:43 "Fun fact, people often say it's the seeds in the pepper that are spicy, that's not entirely true. It's the pith! The white membranes *inside* the pepper that often *hold* the seeds, and so, are all around the seeds, and their oils and stuff get onto the seeds." It's actually the entire pepper. Every part of it. If you run the seeds, pith, or outer flesh through a chemical analysis machine, you'll find that all three contain capsaicin. So, all three are spicy. Just different amounts of spicy. In order of least spicy, to most, the parts stand thus: Outer flesh, seeds, pith.
You can test that by filling a saucer with some vinegar and dropping the pepper in varying stages of chopped-ness (whole, end cut off, top and end, half, then fully chopped), and find the spice level of the resulting vinegar escalates accordingly depending on what contacts the liquid.
It's a key part of "sawsawan" culture in PH if you can only tolerate a specific level of spice.
10:24 Famous Last Words
I never thought I'd be watching a man die while explaining fun history facts pertaining to a fictional pepper monster, but here we are... and it was hilarious.
With all the inspirations laid out I could definitely see what the third EVO could look like. A bird looking plant that looks more like a cowboy now. It has 3 heads with the middle one being the biggest one and the meanest one. While the other two acts like a cowboy dual wielding pistols. Give this Pokémon bullet seed and solar beam and it would be the sharpest shooter in the west.
I suddenly have a mental image of a Hydreigon/Scovillain hybrid that could honestly be a fair conclusion to the theme
Name it Diablerado
@@soweli_Lukonsi Just a bit. But the heads would be under the wing leaves like it's in a pancho. Ready to pull out a head as a quickdraw.
@@soweli_Lukonsi A bit. I can see it crossing the wing leaves to look like it has on a poncho and it hides the other two heads under it.
0:56 Actually it’s not that one. The spiciest one, as of 2023, is called “Pepper X”.
he did mention that it wasn't the spiciest anymore but not what the new champ is called. thanks!
Also created by the same person who made the Carolina Reaper, Ed Currie
So
He's experiencing the pain of being a scovillian while explaining scovillian
For a second i actually thought you were on hot one's
This sent WAVES of love and nostalgia for Hot Pepper Gaming back in the day when youtube was FUN.
I have been stuck bed for almost 2 weeks i needed a good laugh so thank you kind sir.
Hope you get well soon.
I applaud you for this I could never. Ever since my surgery my body literally can not handle even mild spiciness since it now hurts my stomach
This delivery is something you’d do.
so what im getting from this is that (alcoholic) eggnog is the perfect capsaicin counter
I have always loved the cowboy aesthetic of Scovillain and never got the disappointment people had with Scovillain
I’m going to say it. I like Scovillain’s design. I like the theatre aesthetic and hope Gamefreak expands on it if it evolves.
Back when I used to work in a grocery store deli my buddy and I decided to grab a couple habaneros from produce, each down a whole one, then see who could keep it together better as we helped customers. Turns out he has the spice tolerance of an infant so it was an easy win and a damn good time 😂
First off that thumbnail though! I love it! Secondly, as much as I love spicy stuff, you are much braver than me Lockstin. That's for sure.
I for one will always appreciate Lock historically pointing out how yt he is because watching your face go red in real time was a TREAT 😂
I decided to name my Scovillian ZaknWee after the characters Zak and Wheezie from Dragon Tales. It's the first idea I had when Capsikid evolved
Funny, I named mine Barf & Belch after the Zippleback from the How to Train Your Dragon TV series.
One time in high-school a kid brought dried carolina reapers (supposedly drying them made them a little easier to eat at first but much worse when it hits your stomache and the acids come back up. Not sure though) and started sharing them with people. One guy had to go home he was in so much pain.
We humans are so weird, because so many plants have evolved parts of them to NOT be eaten, like how bitter coffee beans are(also caffiene, because pests die from it), the bitternes is so mammals don't eat it, same goes for peppers of course, there's also mint, you know that thing we eat and like because of how fresh and pleasant it is? Especially it's smell, well it evolved all that because pretty every other animals in existence DESPISES it, that's why a dog, who usually wouldn't give two shits about your breath, will physically recoil as the peppermint scent.
Humans are literally the "Everyones hates it, therefore I like it" of the animal world.
"If you detect spice in a bell pepper, it's all in your head."
Some people think Ketchup is spicy. Not spicy ketchup, regular ketchup.
the tounge also kind of resemble when a pepper has a seed sprout inside they turn into a really little pepper in capsicums (bell peppers) especially they usually become a small slender shape and have a very bright tip on the end
Challenge Idea: Every time Lockstin makes a joke/reference to feet or tells us what the Dark type is “all about”, he must eat a tablespoon of wasabi.
If you look closely, you can see the moment in the video where his face just says “oh no” and “was this a mistake”
I can't believe I just learned what the term "Spaghetti Western" actually means while watching Pokémon Hot Ones.❤️ 🔥 🔥 🔥❤️
I love, love, love as you finally realize the mistake you made. Just because the spice didn't immediately hit does not mean it ain't coming. As you continued giving more facts on Scovilain your pauses due to the fire happening in your mouth were pricelessly hilarious and your facial expression, wonderful. Please don't ever do that again🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I always thought they wanted a villain to contrast the hero dolphin. I had both on my team and named them Deku and Bakugo.
Literally you speak how I see spicy food! I live in when it actually has some super flavor! Like I always alter my franks red hot to add more flavor with garlic and butter
2:18 store bought jalapeños are mild cuz they were nerfed apparently wild jalapeños are extremely spicy
How were they nerfed?
@@morgancrabtree6248 selectively bred to be less spicy?
@@morgancrabtree6248selective breeding?
@@morgancrabtree6248 there are several varieties (via selection), ranging from a fex thousand to over 9,000 on the Scoville scale.
So it exists both milder and hotter ones than the wild original, and it depends on the store which you could get.
@@morgancrabtree6248 idk the scientifics they were nerfed in a lab look it up
1:26 STARTERS
THANK YOU! I hate the term "first partner" it just, doesn't sound right, they've been called starter pokemon for years, changing the term now is just dumb
If there was a pokemon region based on Texas, Then I would imagine these pokemon would have a third evolution that takes the cowboy aspects and crank it up a notch while maybe including the jalapeno elements as well.🤠🌶🔥
It saddens me that Gamefreak is forced to go with inferior designs due to fans creating so many great designs. They could pay the original artists but that sorta opens a whole new can of worms.
I'm one of the few people who actually like Scovillain. Even though I wish the move pool had a little more variation, it's the PERFECT Sunny Day and Chlorophyll combination. Scovillain needs more appreciation
Also a lot of "recent" research (i think a lot of it is actually decades old at this point) shows that capsaicin helps prevent mold in wet areas. Thank you for knowing about fats. I was unware of the alcohol reaction.
Bros willing to sacrifice his taste buds for us
11 minutes in. The suffering march in place of spicy 😂
Scovillain is a good solid team member if you picked Quaxly he gives you fire and grass to go with your water starter, I definitely want it to get another Evolution, that would almost Guarantee that its BST will be over 500
I caught a shiny Scovillain and I named it Spicy Denim due to the blue pants
My idea for a pepper Pokémon also boiled down to it evolving into a Mexican outlaw-like Pokémon, but probably with more obvious aesthetics than Scovillain. The Pokémon would've been named Caperado (as in Capsaicin + Desperado), it would've had its pepper head with the more pointy part pointing upwards while a big, wide leaf is stuck through said head and hovering right above its face like the brim of a hat (making its head double as a sombrero), it would've had one or two more big leaves draped over its body like a poncho, and it would've had two more peppers for hands with holes on the tips, acting as guns. Though, I've only gone as far as drawing its pre-evolved form, Capsepper. I'm still kinda glad that Scovillain has SOME outlaw-inspirations in its design, but I wish that went a bit more all-out with that outlaw direction (also, they way they made Scovillain's heads kind of makes the whole head-with-sombrero thing I described earlier kind of impossible to to re-implement, since the pointy tip is designed to be its _mouth_ rather than the top of the head or hat, which is kind of a shame since it'd be perfect to re-implement for a Mega Evolution)
13:39 *MANGA MENTIONED!*
Also, the pokemon bling is giving very 2010s hiphop culture
10:12 By the powers of naughtiness I command this particular pepper to be very very hot
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Scovillain is personally my favourite Paldean mon. Love how many different things are subtly referenced and influenced in its design, I didn't realise the points you pointed out with theatre, but now it's so obvious. I also like how ScoVILLAIN is a Grass/Fire type and Palafin, the Superman Pokémon, is a water type, so they match up with the starter types.
As a Scovillian fan I thank you for this amazing video.
This was probably your most unhinged video and I gotta say I really enjoyed it LOL I would love to see more themed challenges like this, not that I can forsee many since not many pokemon have a thing like Scovillian does unfortunately but ya, this is probably one of my most favorite videos you've done yet! Also, love seeing the right arm tattoo, its sick!
Pretty sure Capsakid is also based on Kappa, its head looks like a Kappa head, its green and even the name Capsaka kid, can be read as Capa by removing the s and ka, i know its with a c but same pronunciation
omg finally a scovillain video
oh dang congrats on the official pokemon partner sponsor, one step closer to the real big guys
Peppers aren't spicey to prevent mammals from eating it. It's for insect and fungus.
You're right, it is the oily pith that is the spiciest part of the fruit. However, seeds do contain their own individual heat - they store the genetic material needed to create a whole other plant, including the fruit. In short, seeds do have a small amount of their own capsaicin.
This is the best spicy food challenge video I've seen. You just explaining the science behind your pain, it not being the main attraction of the video but just an extra thing, it's so much more fun and gives more reason to the video. Just sayin, I don't usually like people doing it for the sake of doing it.
15:48 I can confirm it
I love spicy food, but once I ordered some chicken wings with a sauce made up of ghost chilli pepper, and I loved it, but it was painful too, specially when... I had to use the toilet the next day
I would be screwed eating anything that hot. I hate milk, super cold anything huts my teeth, and I do not drink alcohol. I heard bread does something but I think this might be a myth.
My assumption was that the red and green heads were a reference to the Capsichum monster from Dragon Quest VIII, which is a red pepper and a green pepper bound in eternal friendship by the skewer running through them.
Also the “bonnet” on capsikid is the pepper plant’s flower, which is white with five petals.
My first thought when I saw Scovillain was "we have Capsichum at home"
It was actually discovered (can’t quite remember when) that most of the capsaicin in peppers comes from the ribs, not the seeds! Another fact about something in the video, the film industry moved from New York to Hollywood to escape the strict patent controls held by Thomas Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company in the East Coast.
This video was a treasure. Capsakid & Scovillian are 2 of my favorites. Also, the sponsor not making any iced out chains with ice types like Glalie or articuno is such a missed opportunity
You know it's a good video when you can learn about science of spiciness and pokemon at the same time, and with a nice amount of chuckle as well. Nice work, Lockstin!
I'm having to write an essay on Western films, so this bit of spaghetti westerns is very fitting
Fun Fact: Bell peppers start off as white flowers, which is another reason why Capsakid has a little white flower/baby bonnet on its head
The moment I saw Scovillain for the first time I liked it and now that I’ve seen this video I like it even more, I agree it’s final evolution should have a third head and in addition a leaf on its head that resembles a desperado hat as well as an additional signature move to go along with “Spice Extract”.
The best gen 9 pokemon
"it's actually not that bad" Lockstin said calmly
Definitely agree how Scovillain feels like a middle evolution. They're also really smalll, barely a three foot villain!
Scovillain is my all time favorite Pokémon ever so I’m super psyched it gets a dedicated video! Super interesting to learn just how Capsaicin actually works.
The immediate relief from tequila was hilarious
did you just say we can taste spicynes with our asses
When I played through Violet, I was planning in using ceruledge as my fire type. But then I caught capsakid, saw its dex entry, realized it was probably gonna evolve into grass/fire, and used it instead. Reaper did pretty well.
Extra historical fact: the largest producer of Chiles in the world is a former Spanish colony. I live half an hour from there, and Fall doesn't start until you smell chiles roasted.
Tip from matpat: a mixture of honey and peanut butter, or a lime simple syrup help great with peppers
As a connoisseur of spicy peppers, a frozen lemonade will work best, or like. A mountain dew slushie. Something cold and creamy with a good chunk of citrus, because citric acid and maltodextrin are both really good for combating capsaicin
Ayyy huge love for using our song Gnoggin, absolute hero 💜💚💙💛 Eating a full reaper in the next one right? 🔥
Lockstin really went:
-Wanna see me the spiciest pepper in world
-Wanna see me do it again
I clicked on this video for 2 reasons
1. Scovillian is my favorite Paldea Pokemon, in a "They're so ugly! I love them!" kinda way
2. I wanna see him eat spicy peppers and try to act like everything is OK while reading the script
Is anyone gonna mention that the medallion he is wearing is a Charmander, cause pepper, fire.
Should’ve used the matpat methods to combat the heat
The idea of lockstin doing naurdwar-esk interviews where he does a bunch of research on other poketubers and interviews them, while eating spicy wings, would be incredible
It wouldn’t surprise me if Scovillain’s shiny was also a gen 1 reference, you got all 4 game colors there: Red, Green, Blue, & Yellow
If Scovillain evolves in a later gen, it could possibly be a contender for my Top 5 favorite grass types. Right up there with Dhelmise, Ludicolo, Exeggutor, Ogerpon, and Hydrapple.
I really appreciate your commitment to the eating hot peppers while talking about the hot pepper guys