The March 2025 episode of ASPITPIAY, aka Pokemon Meme Review!
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00:00So normally I start this series with a silly little gag,
00:02then we play the intro, and then I dive into the memes.
00:05But since this series kind of serves as a community powwow,
00:09get my thoughts out there,
00:11I figured I would start this one
00:14with my general thoughts about the Pokemon Day reveals.
00:17A lot of you probably saw my in-the-moment reaction,
00:21but it's been a few days since things were shown,
00:24and so I've had more time to collect my thoughts.
00:26So I kind of just wanted to start this off
00:27by talking about them.
00:29First, I want to say Pokemon Champions, fantastic,
00:32if they do it right.
00:33WolfieVGC has a great video talking about
00:35how it's not only beneficial for the competitive scene,
00:39but can be beneficial for the single-player scene,
00:42because when building mechanics
00:44for the single-player experience,
00:46they won't have to worry as much
00:48about how balanced it is
00:50for the competitive battling side of stuff.
00:52So while I am probably not going to engage
00:54with Pokemon Champions very much,
00:56because Pokemon competitive battling
00:58is really bad for my mental health,
01:00I think it's fantastic that they announced it,
01:03and congratulations to all of you
01:05who engage more with competitive battling.
01:07I just think it's a good thing that they're doing this.
01:10As for Legends ZA,
01:12I have kind of more mixed thoughts,
01:15but I want to clarify before I get into them,
01:19that anything remotely negative that I have to say about it
01:25tends to come down to just my personal preferences,
01:29and not just more objective measures of video games.
01:34I guess all of it's subjective,
01:37but you'll understand more in a second
01:38when I explain it more clearly.
01:40One thing I think is awesome is the new battle system.
01:43I was not expecting that at all.
01:46I'm really intrigued to see how that goes.
01:49It seems like a cool way to do real-time Pokemon battles
01:53that aren't just you fleeing for your life.
01:55I also think the game graphically looks pretty good.
01:59I've seen some people say that they think
02:01it's the best Pokemon has looked on the Switch.
02:04I don't know if I agree with that.
02:06I think the best Pokemon has looked on the Switch
02:10is places in Sword and Shield where the camera is fixed,
02:14like Stow-On-Side, really the towns.
02:16And a lot of the routes I think look better
02:19than at least that trailer showed of Legends ZA.
02:23But I do think Legends ZA does not look bad.
02:27I think where a lot of my kind of underwhelmed-ness
02:31and like honestly a bit of disappointment
02:33that has tempered in the days since seeing it
02:37came from, well, I got my expectations in a place
02:42that I should not have.
02:44Because if you get your expectations and they're not met,
02:48then you're kind of bummed.
02:49So this is on me.
02:50First off, kind of a quick thing.
02:52The starters just aren't for me.
02:54That's a very subjective measure.
02:56I know a lot of people are super hyped about
02:58Chikorita, Tepig, Totodile.
03:00It's kind of a sharp change from Legends Arceus,
03:04Arceus, where all three Legends Arceus starters
03:07were the ones that I chose in my first playthrough
03:10of their regions.
03:11Whereas considering I chose Oshawott and Cyndaquil,
03:14none of the ZA starters are ones that I chose
03:17my first time through.
03:18So none of them are my favorite for the region.
03:20So I didn't get any excitement from that.
03:22But again, that's very specific to me.
03:24I also was like really hoping I'd be right
03:26with my predictions and I didn't get a single one right.
03:28Final prediction for the starter trio is Snivy,
03:31Scorbunny, and Piplup.
03:32Kudos to Loxton.
03:34I watched his video explaining the reasoning behind
03:36the choices that they made,
03:38and he got two of the three right.
03:40He could have gotten the third one right
03:41if he had thought it was possible
03:44that they would do two from the same region.
03:45So like, good for him.
03:46I was just like,
03:48the Napoleon penguin's gonna be in France.
03:52Whereas he's like, cookies, a big part of French culture.
03:54I was very impressed.
03:55I'm like, oh, this is,
03:57you're going a lot more deeper than I do.
03:58And I'm, kudos.
04:00But moving on, I think a lot of what I felt
04:03when watching the trailer was kind of a sense of like,
04:05oh, this is a larger departure from Legends Arceus
04:10than I thought it was going to be.
04:12Which ended up bumming me out a little bit
04:16because I love Legends Arceus.
04:19It is my favorite modern Switch game.
04:22I was partially disappointed
04:23that my life was not going to be in danger at all,
04:25seemingly, but again, the new battle system,
04:30it seems like that's gonna still give me
04:31like the more excitement that I liked from Legends Arceus
04:35compared to like the turn-based of like,
04:37you know, traditional Pokemon.
04:39So I think the battle system might make up for the fact
04:42that I'm not gonna have to dodge roll away
04:44from a giant creature with axes for hands.
04:48But I do think I am gonna miss a little bit of the like,
04:52oh no, the Alpha Rapidash spotted me.
04:54You know, I liked having terror in a Pokemon game.
04:57It was a fun change of pace.
04:58But then also when watching it,
05:00I was genuinely shocked
05:01that it didn't take place in the past.
05:03I was incorrectly under the impression
05:07that all Legends games would be prequel stories.
05:11They would take place in the past.
05:12Legends ZA takes place some amount of years
05:16after the events of X and Y,
05:18as evidenced by AZ being present as not a Vagrant
05:23and being with his Floette.
05:24And some people I saw saying like,
05:26oh, like, you know, it's in the distant future.
05:28And I'm like, I don't think it's,
05:30I think it's just modern day.
05:31It's been 12 years since X and Y came out.
05:34So like X and Y takes place, let's say 2013.
05:37This game's taking place 2025.
05:39And I think the fact that it's a modern game
05:42was a little disappointing to me
05:43because I don't much care for city settings.
05:48This is kind of just like a general preference
05:52across the board,
05:53but I care a lot more about like nature and adventure.
05:57And like, I really like to get your hands dirty
06:00in video games because I don't wanna do that in real life.
06:03So that's a big reason why Legends Arceus
06:04was super appealing to me.
06:06You are venturing out into the wilderness,
06:08putting your life at risk,
06:10seeing these naturalistic environments that like,
06:13you know, before any other cities have been built.
06:15And even in like older Pokemon games,
06:17you get to go to all these different cities
06:19and see like very unique designs,
06:20like four tree cities, my favorite city in Pokemon,
06:23because I always like tree houses.
06:24And so I was, again, expectations.
06:28I was expecting that ZA was gonna take place in the past
06:32and Lumiose City was going to be much less built.
06:36So there would be a lot more just kind of natural stuff.
06:40So seeing it as just taking place in Paris,
06:44a city that supposedly smells like piss,
06:48was a bit of a bummer.
06:50I do have some worries that I'm going to get a little tired
06:53of the same shaped buildings constantly surrounding me.
06:59The only other video game that I can think of at the moment
07:01that I've played that takes place entirely within one city
07:04are the Spider-Man PlayStation games.
07:08And I enjoy those games because I get to be Spider-Man.
07:12I never really cared about the city
07:15because it's just like a city.
07:16I can go to that myself.
07:19I cannot go to a town where tree houses
07:22are the entire everything.
07:25At least, maybe I can actually.
07:27Maybe one of those exists,
07:28but probably just an expensive Airbnb.
07:32However, again, I watched a Loxton video
07:35talking about how the small map of Lumiose City
07:37could be a very good thing.
07:38He talked a lot about the Yakuza games,
07:40which I've never played,
07:42and they take place within just like a small city block.
07:45So like they have a lot more density
07:48to what you can put in there,
07:50as opposed to like having wide swaths of open field
07:53with nothing really in them,
07:56which is a fair criticism
07:57of open world more natural type games.
08:01Maybe this will change my opinion about urban environments.
08:03I thought he made good points.
08:04So I'm feeling less negative about the one city setting
08:09than I was before.
08:10Also, people have talked about potentially
08:12some like catacombs and or sewers to explore.
08:16And those are things I would be less interested
08:18in doing in real life,
08:20because sewers, catacombs.
08:24So in summation, I was feeling a lot more negative
08:28than I expected to on the day of the reveal.
08:32Honestly, pretty bummed for a few hours.
08:34And then I went to the gym and did some cardio,
08:38and then I was like, ah, I'm being dramatic.
08:40So I am looking forward to the game.
08:43I definitely, I'm gonna have fun.
08:45I know I am, especially again,
08:46the new battle system I think is really exciting.
08:48I just think the setting is something
08:50that isn't as personally appealing to me,
08:53but I could end up changing my opinion
08:56and I'm still gonna have fun anyways.
08:58Also, I was bummed that they didn't show any new forms.
09:00Some people said like, oh yeah,
09:02they didn't show any new forms with the reveal,
09:04the first Legends Arceus trailer.
09:07And I was like, they also just announced the game
09:09with the first Legends Arceus trailer.
09:10We got gameplay, same time.
09:12And it's been a year since the last one.
09:14But I'm also like, yeah, maybe I'm just being impatient.
09:16Maybe it's like the first gameplay showcase
09:17isn't gonna show any new forms.
09:18So I had to tell myself like,
09:20I know we're going to get them.
09:21I'm just being impatient because it's been a year.
09:24I've been spoiled as a Pokemon person.
09:27Just the reveals happen so much sooner
09:29or faster than like other franchises.
09:32But anyways, I think that pretty much covers my thoughts
09:33on the ZA stuff.
09:34I'm looking forward to it.
09:36I'm hoping the city setting is dense and interesting.
09:40And I have confidence in the story.
09:42Like Scarlet and Violet, story was its strong point.
09:45But I think I've rambled enough.
09:47Let's dive in to Pokemon.
09:50Meme review.
09:53Play the intro.
09:54♪ Leave your entries in the subreddit, Pokefans ♪
09:58♪ So I should mention in the next episode, Ass-pit-a-pie ♪
10:02Welcome to the March 2025 episode of Ass-pit-a-pie
10:05at some point in the past.
10:06I asked you, we're going to start off here
10:08on my subreddit r slash MNJTV
10:10sorted by top in the past month.
10:12So there'll be some stuff about ZA,
10:13but a lot of stuff that is not.
10:15I hate when this happens.
10:16Me going into battle with a gym trainer.
10:18Their Pokemon's type doesn't match the gym's type.
10:20Agreed.
10:21What are you doing there?
10:22Guy in Brock's gym that has a Sandshrew?
10:27Before shower, after shower.
10:29Yeah.
10:30In my reaction, I was very alarmed.
10:34I had a big reaction to just him.
10:38It's always the opposite gender.
10:40Jesus Christ.
10:42That's some Resident Evil stuff.
10:45Like he looks so spooky.
10:47And it wasn't because I forgot that he was tall.
10:49Like I knew that he was preposterously tall.
10:52It was just like seeing him in like a 3D
10:55with everything kind of to properly to scale,
10:58which you really only see very briefly
11:00at the very end of X and Y.
11:04It just like startled me.
11:06Also something I saw pointed out
11:08is that he attaches stuff to his clothes.
11:11So they fit him.
11:13Like he's got sewn on parts in the middle
11:15of his like suit pants to make the pants long enough
11:19to fit his nine foot body.
11:21I like how Colerest committed several war crimes in Unova
11:24and shows up two games later like it never happened.
11:26Alola is fascinating.
11:27I believe that I will stay in Alola for some time.
11:29I am wanted for war crimes in Unova.
11:33I mean, that's a pretty common just anime trope in general.
11:38The really, really bad guy gets a redemption arc
11:41despite definitely not deserving one.
11:44Some people are saying that about AZ.
11:46It's like, oh yeah, just like the guy who killed thousands,
11:50maybe even millions, just gets to own a hotel.
11:54I guess that's like somewhat fair.
11:56I also do think the statute of limitations has passed
11:59considering it was what, 3000 years prior.
12:02If some dude from Rome 1000 BC still alive today,
12:09I feel like I'd be like, it was a different time.
12:13No, I don't, okay.
12:16I don't actually think I would react like that.
12:19But I also just understand that like,
12:21anime likes to forgive their war criminals.
12:24Dr. Doofenshmirtz, a Pokeball, Valdarm the Pokeball, nice.
12:30I did see this already, Art by Kelp Chief.
12:33I think this is so funny.
12:36Yippee, we're going to Kalos.
12:38Ah, like the way they draw Cyndaquil is so funny.
12:43Actually all of them, look at Chikorita's face.
12:45Well, this one is certainly something.
12:48I thought Poppy was like four
12:50and looked up her actual age somewhat recently.
12:51She's nine?
12:53That is older than I thought.
12:55I like how this is damn kids age fast
12:57in the Pokemon universe.
12:58When like one of the people in this picture
13:01is very, very famous for not aging at all.
13:06Okay, so this poster did not credit the artist,
13:08at least not in the title and they should have.
13:11However, I know who this artist is
13:14because I follow them on Instagram
13:15and they have a very distinct style.
13:17This is Eye Draw Shizzle and they make great work.
13:20But now let's read this one,
13:21which I don't think I've actually seen.
13:23You guys are so unoriginal.
13:24Pick a different secondary typing.
13:26Charles, I'm talking about being original.
13:28Why are you here?
13:29I mean, fighting is like my job.
13:34What about you, Scorbunny?
13:35Whose side are you on?
13:36You.
13:40Oh goodness.
13:41Uses of a frying pan.
13:42I use it to fry.
13:44Use it as a drying pan.
13:46Is it to stop an effing Dragonite?
13:48I feel like there could have been a pun here,
13:50like a stop flying pan.
13:52See guys, memes aren't that hard.
13:54Best way of using the Gardevoir plush.
13:56Sitting there?
13:57It's not going to drive you, I don't understand.
14:00Any meme saying that none of the Pokemon's
14:01protagonist's dads are around.
14:03It's a pretty standard meme on Meme Review.
14:05Watch this.
14:06Oh, he's gonna say Norman is still around.
14:08Norman is still around.
14:10I mean, it's true.
14:12There's no way Pokemon did this.
14:14Professor Sycamore, did you?
14:16Yeah.
14:17Uh-huh.
14:18I have seen some posts about this.
14:20And the resemblance is striking.
14:22I just, I can't explain it though.
14:25I hate the fedora on the guy so much.
14:28Maybe you saw my tweet about this.
14:31He looks like a slimy street magician.
14:33It looks cute on the girl, but on the guy,
14:36I feel like maybe it's because it's a black hat
14:38on black hair.
14:39But like, I am getting rid of that fedora
14:42at the earliest opportunity.
14:43Take a chill pill.
14:44My brother and Arceus, I can't.
14:47Okay.
14:48This is a solid twist on this format.
14:49I gave myself a Stellar Terra Frigidbax,
14:52and this is what Nimona says when you get the Terra Orb
14:54for the first time.
14:55Wait, really?
14:56That's fun.
14:57After Terrasillises, I'm pretty sure your Frigidbax
15:00will be a type.
15:03That's so funny.
15:05Cause I guess in normal gameplay,
15:07you wouldn't be able to have a Stellar Terra type Pokemon
15:11that early in the game.
15:13What a fun little circumventation you did.
15:17It'll be a type.
15:20Typek asked the opportunity to do something really funny.
15:22Yeah, another fire ghost.
15:24That would be funny if it then tied fire fighting.
15:26I hope not, just for variety's sake.
15:29Gosh, I have no idea what starter I'm gonna choose.
15:31Of the three, like, assuming no changes,
15:35Totodile is my favorite.
15:36I prefer Cyndaquil, but I do generally like Totodile
15:39and Feraligatr.
15:40But I gotta see what the final forms look like,
15:43because that's what I'm gonna spend the most time with
15:44by far.
15:45Again, there's a lot of debate about whether
15:47they're gonna do like regional forms or megas.
15:49My prediction is regional forms
15:51for the Chikorita, Tepig, Totodile trio.
15:53Megas for the Kalos starters,
15:55but we will have to see because as they've demonstrated,
15:59they are not very predictable for most people.
16:03But me, I'm not good at predicting them.
16:06But if they make a regional Emboar,
16:09that's down on all fours.
16:10And we get a big, mean boar that doesn't look,
16:14frankly, very odd.
16:15Just like, I just like, imagine Emboar
16:18if you remove the fire.
16:19It's just like, it's like, it looks like a torso top
16:24where then a head should be there.
16:26But it's just like, mm-mm.
16:29But if it's on all fours and it's a big, mean pig,
16:32a big, mean war pig boar Pumba, I'm on board.
16:38I'm not apologizing.
16:41That was pretty good.
16:42I just came up with that.
16:43The chance of the 2032 asteroid hitting Earth is 3.1%.
16:47Shiny hunters, I mean, JTB fans, we'll be fine.
16:52Don't freak out.
16:53Hank Green has a good video.
16:54It's like, even if it hits Earth,
16:56like the most likely place it lands is in the ocean.
16:59And it would only be as powerful as like nuclear bombs
17:02we have already detonated on the planet.
17:05When I say we, I mean humanity.
17:06I had no role in those.
17:07Chikorita getting her time to shine.
17:09Tepig getting their time to shine.
17:11Totodile, already been a fan favorite
17:13being from the same generation as another
17:15and already having a strong final Evo.
17:17This is a bad take.
17:19If it hasn't ever gotten any kind of form,
17:23then it is fair game.
17:24I'm surprised it's two from the same region.
17:26But like, Totodile doesn't have a mega or a regional form.
17:30So like, it should be allowed to be there.
17:33We've got a Dorkly comic here.
17:35Chikorita, that's the lamest one.
17:37It looks like a fierce with a leaf growing on its head.
17:40I've never had that take.
17:42Plus, you'll only be good against the water type,
17:44even if its type advantage is lame.
17:46Reminder, humans are 65% water.
17:48I thought it was higher than that.
17:50F with a Chikorita and yo ass is grass.
17:54Congratulations again to Chikorita fans.
17:56Like father, like daughter.
17:58Oh man.
17:59If I had a nickel.
18:00When you hear your pet chewing something.
18:04Pretty good.
18:06Oh no.
18:07You're playing Pokemon?
18:08Of course.
18:08Isn't that game for children?
18:09Me and every other Pokemon fan in a 1000 kilometer radius.
18:13I mean, yeah.
18:14For children is a complicated term.
18:15Like, there's for children stuff that's like,
18:18only children could possibly enjoy.
18:21But then there's for children stuff that anyone can enjoy.
18:24I love RPG video games.
18:25Oh really?
18:26Name 30 RPG games.
18:27Pokemon.
18:28That's on me.
18:29I set the bar too low.
18:30That's pretty good.
18:31This is you, right?
18:32Yup.
18:33You're nine years old, right?
18:36Your Pokemon journey starts when you're 10.
18:37Therefore you shouldn't have a Pokemon yet.
18:39Makes sense to me.
18:41Why are you an elite four member?
18:42Cause I want to.
18:44Yeah.
18:45I mean, I feel like the laws have gotten lax.
18:48I mean, you've always been able to battle like preschoolers
18:50which is just kind of funny that you can do that.
18:53Maybe the 10 year old is just like an anime exclusive thing
18:56or there's regional laws.
18:58Maybe it's nine in Paldean.
19:00She's just a fricking prodigy.
19:02Me looking at people saying ZA looks bad.
19:05I did like that, that Gyarados's attitude.
19:07I will just say it now.
19:09I know this isn't going to stop anything
19:11but my personal take on this is just like
19:13people are going to have their opinions.
19:16As long as their opinions don't get to like
19:19defending it no matter what
19:21without any entertainment of any kind of criticism
19:26or hating it no matter what
19:28without like taking into account anything
19:31that looks positive.
19:33Like as long as you just as like
19:34people may say, yeah, they think it looks bad.
19:36I mean, I explained earlier in this video.
19:38I just don't personally like city settings.
19:40So I'm not as excited about the game as, you know
19:44a lot of other people and that's fine.
19:46Like if you're more excited than me, great.
19:48If you're like, like, I think I'm going to skip this one.
19:51Also fine.
19:52As long as you like let other people have their opinions
19:55and just try not to let other people's opinions
19:59impact yours.
20:00Like, yeah, there's going to be negativity
20:02in both directions.
20:03There's going to be negativity
20:04towards the people who had negativity.
20:06It's just like the less time you spend
20:08on social media, the better.
20:09But my videos don't count as social media.
20:15You can spend as much time watching those as possible.
20:19I'm kidding.
20:20Live your lives.
20:21But like my videos don't count as social media
20:23but if you spend less time on Twitter
20:25and Instagram and Facebook and TikTok
20:29that's probably better for you.
20:30Go for a run or a brisk walk.
20:34That's what I do.
20:35Power walk with an incline
20:36because running hurts my knees.
20:37And also if you're going to say,
20:38oh my God, he's got knee problems.
20:39That's like an old person thing.
20:40Ha ha ha.
20:41The knee's been giving me problems since I was in college.
20:43Okay.
20:44Do a lot of knees over toes guy exercises.
20:46My thighs and calves got so big
20:48that I had to buy different pants.
20:50That was a subtle flex.
20:51I hope you caught it.
20:52Pokemon, the Pokedex entry carrying
20:54the Pokemon versus lion discussion.
20:56What?
20:57I think Pokemon is perfectly fine
20:59without the Pokemon versus lion discussion.
21:02Or are they saying that carries the debate?
21:03I don't know.
21:04If I never have to see a Pokemon versus lion mention again
21:08it will have been too soon.
21:09Come on, man.
21:10Get some fight in you.
21:11Light a fire under your ass.
21:13My brother Knuckles, I can't.
21:15I am four times weak to fighting and fire.
21:18All right.
21:19Probably this is this meme format
21:20is not going to be funny again after this episode
21:23but I am enjoying the word play at the moment.
21:26Pokemon X and Y.
21:27Shows the name X and Y
21:28as it represents the X and Y coordinate
21:30which is symbolic as these are the first
21:323D mainline Pokemon games.
21:33Elon Musk.
21:34Twitter is now X because.
21:36Twitter is still Twitter.
21:37Pokemon X over platform X any day.
21:45Pretty good.
21:46You're a girl, right?
21:47Yes.
21:48You're a girl, right?
21:49Yes.
21:49Fun.
21:50Does anyone else actually choose
21:51the male main character in Pokemon games?
21:53Yes.
21:54Like millions of people do.
21:58Some guys play as female characters.
22:00Some girls play as boy characters.
22:02It's an RPG.
22:03You're playing a role.
22:04And the role I like to play is to put myself in the world.
22:06So that's why I tend to make my characters
22:08look somewhat like me.
22:10If only there was a letter in Paris
22:11that resembles the Eiffel tower.
22:12Paris, bonjour.
22:15I think I've seen this meme before
22:18but I'm allowing it to be present again because of ZA.
22:21Concept for an image ATV Pokemon fan game.
22:24Player characters, Mikey and the rivals, John.
22:26Excellent.
22:27And you can never beat the rival
22:29because he's so much better at battling than I am.
22:31The evil teams, the evil team, the main, huh?
22:33You know how in recent Pokemon games
22:34there's an evil team but they're not actually evil
22:36and the main villain is someone else?
22:37This is that.
22:38Nice.
22:39Gym leaders.
22:40Normal gym.
22:41That's the first?
22:42Okay, wait, maybe these aren't in order.
22:44You can't have Milkman Mike as the first one.
22:46Bug gym, nice.
22:47Ice gym, excellent.
22:48Have I covered all of them?
22:50Fairy gym, dark gym, grass gym.
22:55Oh, here, the fifth gym would start the tradition
22:57of having Megas in their teams.
22:59Nice.
22:59Electric gym and the mixed gym.
23:01Ah.
23:04Orange retires and becomes a gym leader.
23:06That's sick.
23:07The champion is Grunty Boy.
23:09I love this.
23:10This is very fun.
23:11Lumiose city citizens,
23:11when you send out your 700 pound hippo
23:13on the roof at 6 a.m.
23:16This reminds me of that meme
23:18when Sword and Shield were pretty new.
23:22Like when you live near a stadium
23:25and they're like trying to sleep
23:26and it's dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun
23:29with like the kaiju roars.
23:31This reminds me of that.
23:41Who would win?
23:42The Persian army or an army of Persian?
23:44I think the Persian army.
23:46Well, I guess I don't know enough about history,
23:49but I think bows and arrows would do a lot against Persians.
23:52But then of course they could like,
23:53they double team.
23:55Nevermind, I'm going with the Pokemon.
23:56Doing a Nuzlocke.
23:58Doing a monotype run where you get really into character,
24:00pretending to be obsessed with the type
24:01and that is despising any type
24:03that is super effective against the type.
24:04Mikey.
24:06Yeah.
24:07Although we're doing,
24:08we're almost done with it actually.
24:09A hardcore randomized Nuzlocke
24:11on John Michael and co.
24:12With PM7.
24:13So if you do wanna see me do a Nuzlocke,
24:15that's the closest you're gonna get
24:17is me Googling stuff for John.
24:19Diantha watching as a region burns around her
24:21as Lysandre almost commits mass murder of her whole region.
24:25Yeah, yeah.
24:25Not my favorite champion.
24:27Although this does remind me,
24:29because ZA is taking place after the events of X and Y,
24:35we will get to see new aged designs
24:40of the major X and Y characters.
24:43At least some of them.
24:44Like we're definitely gonna see an older Clement and Bonnie.
24:48Maybe not Bonnie, but definitely Clement.
24:50I mean, he's the gym leader of the town
24:52that the whole game takes place in.
24:54So that's fun.
24:55I guess I didn't consider that until this very moment.
24:58Pokemon presents mobile games ads and updates.
25:00What we're actually here for.
25:02Pretty much.
25:03It was a little different this time
25:04because they threw in Pokemon champions,
25:05which we weren't expecting.
25:07But yeah, I'm like, as I'm sitting watching that,
25:09I'm like, my God, there are so many of these mobile games
25:14and I don't play any of them.
25:16Me when I got the Pokemon autism
25:18instead of the being good at math or science autism.
25:24I got both.
25:26It's now time for the curated slide show.
25:30Holy leprechaun.
25:33Nice.
25:34Me and my friends have been working on the Bori region
25:36and here are the starters.
25:37Ooh, I like lizards.
25:41Oh, it's a frog.
25:42It still works for me.
25:43Oh my God, it definitely works for me.
25:44That's so sick.
25:45Oh my God, give me this Pokemon immediately.
25:48Not as cool, but I still like it.
25:50Ooh, that's an interesting angle.
25:52Fire fairy.
25:53Hell yeah.
25:54Okay, yeah, the frog's my favorite.
25:55Oh, what happened to it?
25:58Is it stuck in a building?
25:59I think you have a fan base.
26:01Protagonists?
26:02Hey, you wouldn't happen to be interested
26:03to join Team Sky, would you?
26:08Oh my God, a comic.
26:09No way.
26:10A Team Sky happy meal.
26:13I didn't get one.
26:15For me?
26:19Oh, this is awesome.
26:21It's the tears, the blush, the sparkles.
26:26Very good.
26:28John 6'2", Mikey 5'11".
26:31I'm not 5'11".
26:33Five foot 11 and three quarters.
26:35Just six.
26:37Any shoe.
26:38I got six feet on my fricking driver's license.
26:42Also, I've been doing posture exercises.
26:45I actually probably am six feet tall now.
26:47I know they're working
26:48because I was in my car the other day
26:49and the top part of the steering wheel
26:51is now obscuring the top of my speedometer.
26:53And I'm like, oh, that didn't used to happen.
26:57Cause you think about it,
26:58if you slouch, your point of view allows you
27:00to see it better.
27:01I don't know why this came to mind.
27:02Show me the chat of Pokemon.
27:03So the real chat of Pokemon.
27:05Perfection.
27:07Yeah, go Wolfie.
27:09I drew all 151 original Pokemon from gen one
27:11in my stupid art style.
27:13Well, I don't think it's...
27:14The Snorlax is spectacular.
27:16That is very good.
27:17I caught my eye promptly.
27:20Is the Muk wearing glasses?
27:22This is excellent.
27:23I don't want to say you could sell stickers of these
27:27because I don't know if that's technically allowed,
27:30but if you got away with it, you might be good.
27:33Relax, your landlord won't live forever
27:34to increase your rent, my landlord.
27:37I very rarely post my art to Reddit,
27:38but I made some fan art of Mikey
27:40versus the Trouble Trio, Terrible Three.
27:42What are we calling these guys?
27:43Don't know, but they are my enemies.
27:46As I've said before in a previous video
27:49at some point or another,
27:50if we find a Pokemon that I hate,
27:53starts with B and then H, we make it a group of five.
27:57We just call it MKBHD, who I do not hate at all,
28:04but it is just funny that we've got three
28:07of the four letters, five letters right here.
28:10Also, this is just sick art that looks so menacing
28:13and I look so, I look buff, honestly.
28:15Hell yeah.
28:16I made a custom Mega Electivire.
28:18Wow, he's so lightning.
28:20I like the switch to electric blue.
28:23I would love to see an electric type Pokemon
28:25go mega and turn that color.
28:27By the way, there was one more announcement
28:28regarding Pokemon Legend CA.
28:30What is it?
28:31It was, yeah, no one's talking about this
28:34because no one has any idea what it is.
28:37I didn't even mention it because I'm just like,
28:39new promotion match?
28:40What is this just like?
28:42Like, it looks like it's teasing part of the plot
28:45is just gonna be like some kind of like gym battle
28:47or like ranked battle system within the game story.
28:51Kind of like in like the Journeys arc of the anime
28:54where you just like, rather than collecting badges,
28:56he just did promotional matches against big name trainers
28:58to like rank high enough to then get
29:00into like the champion tournament.
29:01That's kind of my guess.
29:03I don't know, it was a very strange last teaser.
29:06Ha ha, pretty good.
29:09Ooh, a Rotom bus right on the magic school bus.
29:14Fantastic.
29:16Wait, why is his base stat total only 440?
29:19Buff that up, buff that up immediately.
29:21The other Rotom forms are like 500 something
29:25and the bus one might even need to be higher.
29:27Ooh, my team Sky OC, hell yeah.
29:30Oh my God, prosthetic wing for the Noivern.
29:34How creative, I like the spray paint logo on it.
29:36Okay, so Mikey's reaction to the trailer.
29:38Orbit needs you to find the differences
29:39between this picture and this picture.
29:41They're the same picture.
29:42Okay, I do need to immediately clarify something.
29:45A lot of people were very thirsty for Lady Demetrius,
29:49whatever her name is.
29:51I was not one of those people,
29:53which means I would react similarly to both her and AZ
29:57of like, oh my God, they're big.
30:00Five of my favorite Pokemon is regional variants
30:02with the ice type.
30:04I'm all for a conversion though, still ice type.
30:06Oh yeah, what do we got here?
30:07An ice type Venusaur.
30:09Is that like a snow globe?
30:10That's interesting.
30:12It's like a snowy Mimikyu, I think.
30:14Pinkatun, that's fun.
30:15The icy Blazikid, I like how the Blazikid's got his head
30:18in his pockets, that's so fun.
30:19And then that last one,
30:21I'm having trouble telling what that one is.
30:23It's cute, but I don't immediately,
30:24like the eyes make me think a Drifloon,
30:26but that is definitely not a balloon.
30:28Forgive me for my ignorance.
30:29Whoa, a Kolossian Emboar.
30:32How many will get the reference?
30:33Not me, I dig it, but I do not get the reference.
30:36Aw, hell yeah, hell yeah, aw, hell yeah.
30:44That's very good, they're like right after each other,
30:46two very cute drawings.
30:47One of them is me.
30:49Even when I watched the first half of the Pokemon Presents.
30:51Yep, I'm not playing the mobile game, sorry y'all.
30:54Last time there was a Dottostarter too, oh yeah?
30:56Yeah, but they got him.
30:58What does that mean?
30:59I liked him too, what do you mean they got him?
31:02This is an excellent reference.
31:06I've seen almost nothing from the TED TV show,
31:09but that clip where they're like, yeah,
31:11there was like another one, another kid here last year too,
31:14but they got him.
31:16What?
31:17What do you mean they got him?
31:18I liked him too.
31:20What do you mean?
31:22Just very good.
31:24Ooh, Team Night Sky, terrifying.
31:28So much eye shadow.
31:29Team Sky, an application,
31:32I've been watching since I was nine, I'm now 21.
31:34Oh my God, I'm incredibly flattered and feel old.
31:41When you were, wait, that's, how many years is that?
31:4512?
31:46So you've been watching since like,
31:47how old is Ash Ketchum?
31:49Damn, you're definitely a part of Team Sky.
31:51I don't even care that the Espeon's there,
31:53and I do not know what that is on the top left.
31:57It looks like an Espeon and a Dragapult fusion.
31:59I like it, welcome to the team.
32:01And honestly, you've probably been on it the whole time.
32:03Me when Chikorita might actually be good in a main release.
32:06Yep, congratulations, Chikorita fans.
32:08I myself am a, I'm not a Chikorita fan,
32:10but I'm somewhat of a Bayleaf and a Meganium fan, sort of.
32:14Like I'm like, oh yeah, I like them,
32:15but like they just kind of stink.
32:18And I like Bayleaf a lot more than Meganium
32:20because Bayleaf's got a sick head leaf
32:22and they replaced that with silly little antenna.
32:26I know they're like the things on a flower that stick out,
32:28but they just look so much less cool
32:29than Bayleaf's head leaf.
32:31So if we get a Meganium that looks like strong,
32:34gets a big head leaf, maybe I go with that.
32:37I'm very undecided still, but it'll be judgment.
32:39Dang, son.
32:40The Pokemon are looking very expressive,
32:42at least in the shots that they showed.
32:44And I am looking forward to seeing that.
32:47I think they'll be able to,
32:48one thing that again, Laxton pointed out in his video
32:50is that if you have an environment that's a city like this,
32:54you can't see very far into the distance.
32:56And so therefore things on the other side of the buildings,
32:58they just don't render.
33:00And then they can render things in more detail
33:02on the street that you're on,
33:05which is not something I'd considered.
33:06And so I think that could be a very good positive
33:09of the city environment.
33:11And it allows for maybe some great meme potential
33:14of sassy Pokemon like this.
33:16What pattern are the Legend starters gonna follow?
33:17That's the neat part, there isn't one.
33:20Yep, they got me.
33:21Which stinks, it has patterns.
33:23Help me make YouTube videos.
33:25But it's fine, it's gonna be fun.
33:27I mean, they could do the last Alola
33:31and Unova starters that are missing.
33:35So like the next Legends game
33:36could be Snivy, Litten, and Popplio.
33:39But who the hell knows?
33:41Oh, I love my Johto fire starter.
33:44Okay, this is very, this is very cute art style.
33:47Grunty boy.
33:48Hello, good sir.
33:49My God, look at all those chains and spikes.
33:52I'm terrified.
33:53It also chomped.
33:54All right, that's gonna wrap it up
33:55for this beefy episode of Pokemon meme review.
33:59Thank you so much for watching.
34:01And I will see you guys for the next episode next month.