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Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Gamescast for Friday, March 6, 2026. I'm one of your host blessing. Adio Yay Junior. Joining me is the poke master, Mike Howard.
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That's what they call me. Yeah, they when they come to Pokemon and they want Pokemon news, Pokemon insights, thoughts and opinions, they come to me. Why? Because I beat my first ever Pokemon Nuzlocke last year.
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Wow.
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I did The Ultimate Challenge. I completed it. I got to the top of the summit, and I am the best Pokemon trainer.
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We're also joined by Poke Master Part two. I couldn't think of anything else.
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I know. Yeah, I don't know what Nuzlocke means. I've seen it a lot. It sounds cute, but it's one of those things where I'm like, I'm not gonna Google it, but I'm also not gonna ask anyone. I don't want the chat to tell me.
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Yep.
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Yeah.
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Live life.
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I'm so excited to talk about Pokemon. I'm a little disarmed. Cause I mostly brushed up on High Guard before I got here, and I wanted to talk about the skill trees. I wanna talk about Koldo.
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Oh, no. I got bad 5v5.
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I want to talk about war 3v3 shield breakers. Just a huge fan of what they've been doing. Looking forward to everything past March 12th.
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Yeah, I mean, I know you're on. You're on a flight. When they broke the news, I think
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I was actually on a flight on January 6th.
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Oh, wait, which one? Which January?
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The January 6th. I was at baggage claim and I got a. I saw a discord message from my co host on my stream, Patrick, that said, hey, we're not going to stream because of everything that's happening.
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And I was like, man, let me tell you, we were already streaming and I was looking around like, man, we gonna keep streaming. It was our anniversary stream, and we're like, what do we do right now?
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Just gonna keep streaming through this.
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Well, in the end, none of it mattered. So, you know, make content, if nothing else. Of course, I'm happy to be here.
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That is the voice of Charlotte Avery. Welcome to the show, Charlotte. Charlotte, People know you from Astro Goblin?
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They do. Well, maybe they mostly know me from Funhouse and then Astro Goblin.
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Well, if people. For the people who don't know you, who is Charlotte Avery? Why should they know you, dude?
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Wow. Charlotte Avery McGrath. I've been reclaiming the last name a little bit. Nice post. Funhouse People were getting a little chummy with it back in those rooster teeth days. I am a gamer. I'm a lover of beautiful games. I don't know. I do comedy with my friends Jacob and Patrick, who I worked at Funhouse with. We have a channel called Astro Goblin. It's incomprehensible. You know, babble taken from Hercules in New York and. Or season two terrible John Travolta movies, pop culture, video games. It's been called algorithmic Agnostic.
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Okay. Yeah. I mess with that. That's awesome.
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It's just like putting a bunch of just crap in a blender.
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Hell yeah.
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Yeah. It's like a protein shake, but for pop culture and comedy.
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Now this is what I want from you. Yeah, Right. This microphone.
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Oh, yeah.
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We're supposed to train you, but like, you wanna. Yeah.
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Fist away. Yeah. Was I too close?
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I think you're too far.
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I was too far.
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Yeah.
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Oh, okay.
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Okay.
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This is cool that you guys got such a heavy thing to have to pick up, move around.
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Yeah. But somehow, for some reason, Greg Miller will always do it. You know, Greg Miller will pick it up.
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I was watching that in the, you know, out in the area.
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He likes to get comfortable with it. You know, he likes to really lean back in the chair.
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What people don't know is that these microphones are so heavy. So whenever he does like, you can see if you pay attention, he's straining a little bit. You can see the flex on the army.
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Yeah. I, I, I record with a sure SM7B SMB.
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Yeah.
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I think that's the same SM7B at home. And it has fallen off the desk and almost taken the interface with it, so.
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Well, Charlotte, you're in town.
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Blessing. I'm in town for a very exciting
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piece of content that we're not going to talk about here.
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Yeah.
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But while you were in town, we were like, we got to get Charlotte on a different piece of content because of course, I have gathered the biggest pokey experts that I know. Again, Pokemaster Mike. Mike, Pokey Master Part two. Charlotte Avery, and of course me. The Gen one. I've learned what that is.
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The Gen one.
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Last couple. Gen one?
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Is that what you identify with?
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I feel like I'm Gen 1 through 2. Er. Okay. Because I was there for Gen 2 as well.
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Gen 10 has been just announced.
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Gen 10, Winds and Waves.
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Yeah.
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I have seen Mr. Windachu and Ms. Wavichu.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Yeah. You got Pom bon. Who is the fire little.
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Just the Pomeranian.
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Yes.
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Fantastic dog.
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Fantastic design. You have my guy, Brown.
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We like brow.
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I mess with.
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We mess with brow.
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Yeah. Brown is a bird who I'm pretty sure is going to grow up to be a sumo wrestler.
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No, really, for sure. I have a dream of what Brown becomes because about to mean little chicken. Little baby chicken.
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Yeah.
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I want brat to become a full on green mean rooster. I don't want him to, I don't, I want him to become a giant rooster.
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You want him to be Foghorn Leghorn. A really mean rooster.
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I'll say, I'll say, I'll say, I'll say. Now, I know this is more Digimon territory where they become angels and devils and stuff, but is there a Pokemon that the final evolution is the closest thing to, like an Eldritch horror?
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Eldritch horror?
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Yeah, like some Lovecraftian nightmare.
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I mean, probably like Tangela, right? Like Tango. Tangela is like already a bunch of weird, like, things smashed together. And then Tango grow.
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Tangrowth.
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Tang growth.
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Yeah. Tango is kind of.
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Yeah. Gen Tangrowth.
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Gen Tangrow. Of course we're talking about the top 100 Pokemon games today. Because of course, this is kind of funny Gamescast. If you're watching live, you can be part of the show by super chatting in YouTube.com kind of funny games. And today I want you to super chat in with what your favorite Pokemon is. Is it one of the best Pokemon? Should it be part of the top 100? And why? Let us know in the super chats. Remember, we couldn't do this without our producers over on patreon.com kindafunny so thank you to Karl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney. The Psalm Twining for now, let's begin with topic of the show.
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Tots.
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Tots.
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Tots.
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Tots.
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Tots.
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Tots.
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Tots. Tots.
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Today we're doing a shit list, Charlotte. That's where I go online. I find a top 10 list, or in this case, a top 100 list. I bring it back to the crew on the show and we judge it for the amusement of our audience.
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We don't have to supply the 100.
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Nope.
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No.
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Hell yeah.
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You texted me yesterday and, you know, I could have. You said, how much do you know about Pokemon? And a chill went down my spine. I was like, oh, no. Because it's, it's. It's a thing that people know about, but it's also a thing that people get very invested in. And I was like, okay, good. Great. Yeah. I'm like. I'm just thinking. I'm like, caterpie, fuck. That's as far as I got. Okay, cool.
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Yeah. So that's the fun thing about this, right? Yes, I did. You totally rank this. Yes. I just told you. We're talking about our top. We're talking about the 100.
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We were ranking it, not going through the list. This is a huge weight off my chest. This is great.
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So we get to critique the list. It's a fun vibe. It's a good.
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Yeah.
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March 2, 2026. That was four days ago. Polygon.com put up a list titled the 100 Best Pokemon of All Time. It was written by the Polygon staff, not just one writer. It is credited as Polygon staff. And I'm very excited to talk about this. Now, the way we usually start off shit list is by talking about our predictions, slash our picks. What would the top. Would what Pokemon would be in the top 100 for us? I mean, okay, I want to get like, the background of knowledge here because I mentioned I'm a Gen 1. Really, for me, I know Gen 1 through 3, and then we hop over to like, Gen 17 through 9. I miss the DS and the 3DS, eras of Pokemon. But Game Boy, Game Boy advance and Switch, I have that realm of knowledge. Charlotte, what are the bounds of your Pokemon?
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Well, yeah, as a Pokemaster too, which is what they call me out here in these streets. Yep. I'm coming for the crown. But no time soon.
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Today will be the day one of
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us will not make it out of this stream. I know. Yeah. Like Gen 1 through 3, I played a lot of Pokemon Red and Gold. You know, being in my early 30s means that I've aged with it.
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So
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where I go Pokemon goes. And then I came back into it at Pokemon White and Black and borrowed my sister's DS Light so I could play it. And then. Then that's pretty. You know, then it's been like a passing knowledge. So I know the Rabbit with like the. The concrete that it smashes around with. That's from Pokemon White, I think.
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Okay.
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Right. There's the garbage one.
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Trubbish.
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Trubbish. That's awesome. I love that rubbish. And. But I also just kind of have the background radiation of knowing about Pokemon and having covered it in, like, 2019 when they first started leaving Pokemon off the roster for games, which I remember Pokemon, yeah. That was a big thing. And everyone's like, we're not going to play this game anymore. Guess what they did.
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Turns out they still buy Pokemon.
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Still buy Pokemon.
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Yeah. Yeah, we do.
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Yeah. Anyway, that's. That's where I'm at. And I would love to see Mankey.
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Okay. I like that.
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I like that.
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That's the first one we're going to write down here.
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All right.
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Manky's a good poll. What do you like about Manky?
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Mankie hive. Stand up in the chat. I. I just like that. I mean, talk about a Pomeranian. This is like. That should be the evolution where it's fluffy, but it has arms and legs.
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Yes.
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Which just get more like, toned. I like a fighter. I like that. Like, in this. This realm of magic and elemental powers and psychic damage, it's like, what if a monkey was so strong?
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Yeah, yeah. What if we put a monkey and a pig together? Right? That's the combo, I think.
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Yeah. What is the nose of a pig?
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It's like a Dr. Moreau style Pokemon.
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It's literally a monkey with an A to the M. Yeah, we know it's a monkey, but it does have a pig nose, so I think you're spot on. On.
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Look at those weird little. Like. It's got cat ears. I don't think I remember.
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What about its evolution? Do you. Do you mess with primate.
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Primate primeape.
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Now, that's what it's like in its punk phase.
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Yeah.
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I like to call it.
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Yeah.
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Got the cool wristbands. Got the. Got the. The leg bands on. And like, we're going out to pop punk show.
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Yeah.
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And we're really causing a rush.
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You do not want to be in the. In the pit with this. He's going to hurt you. And he's trying to.
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He definitely knocks me down in a couple of circles. Well, I was going to say, do you identify with primeape at all? Bear. I'm replaying Fire Red right now. And primeape, part of my. My crew. I. I knew it.
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What's the third one? Is. Is it like Gorillan, Goril, Gorillum?
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Oh, is there a third Prime? Ape Evolution.
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Oh, someone says Annihilate.
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Oh, they did introduce Annihilate. Is that really. Yes. That was like a generation. Those are a few generations later. Well, sometimes.
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Oh, yeah. No super. No Super Evolutions in this, right?
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No, we're not doing any of. I don't think we're doing the Mega.
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Mega Evolutions.
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Maybe they are.
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That's pretty cool.
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That's crazy.
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Oh, yeah, that's anime, actually.
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I know it's all anime, but that's anime.
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This is where.
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That's the roadie of a rock band, rock band crew that's been around the block for about 42 years. And he's just backstage all. It's like, oh, yeah, that's Brad over there. He's riding with us today.
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People are saying it's a. This is a regular evolution.
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Oh, okay.
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Which I didn't realize. Tom Waits, I choose you now, Mike. People. People have seen you play Pokemon games. I think a lot of people know your Pokemon history. But if you want to recap real quick.
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Yeah, they know me. I've been on wax before saying that. I'm a 151 guy on wax.
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That is so cool.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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I'm sorry. This is so cool. It's the end of the way with words.
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I love that. That's.
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Sorry. I feel like I.
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No, no. I'm a 151 guy. I'm a Pokemon Red and Blue and Yellow guy. I have been slowly introduced of course to Soul Silver Heart Gold on to now Emerald. So I've. I got a. A knowledge of the early days when we get into the DS and on with Black and White, sun and Moon. Right. X and Y, diamond and Pearl. I remember buying those games but then never playing them. There's a huge middle ground where I just stopped playing the games but kept buying them. I don't know why, but I had to spend money, you know. And then I got on later on. But I am one that is like, I firmly believe in like the OG Pokemon. I like the, my pocket monster to kind of be like almost animal. Like they started to lose me when we did introduce the, the cherries, the cogs in the machine. Of course you'll get the Rodhams out there, right? So it's like I have a fine line of like that's too far.
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Yeah.
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Now will I make a little exception?
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That's for the crazy.
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For the apple pie dragon monster. Yes.
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How do you feel about Magnemite? Because Magnemite is just a bunch of magnets.
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Yeah, I'm okay with magnemite.
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Okay, you lost me.
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Yeah. So there's an apple pie that is also a dragon. And like I don't like food based Pokemon. But this one I make an exception for because it is so cute.
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Talking about Appleton.
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I do, I do feel like Nintendo is just stunting on us. Or Game freak is because like there's the whole question, right. Of like do people eat Pokemon in this world? Right? And there's pretty much on screen you just see like onigiri and food. But it's like if they're livestock, right? You know, I know there's like a cow. Sheeple, right?
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Yeah, there's sheeple and also delicious lamb.
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You know people are known to eat Magikarp as well.
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Yeah, see that's what I'm saying.
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Oh they're for sure.
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And like everyone's like, you know, you know we're on the Internet in 2014
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and we're like are people eating Pokemon
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before we know how bad things are going to get? And then Game freak is like, here's one that's a pie.
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Yeah, fuck you.
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Here's a really cute balloon. And I like. Yeah, I like the cute balloon, but I don't like the cute balloon. So there will be a line that I draw at like 51 through 50. No more BS, right? Okay, 80 to 100. I'll let you get away with the BS. You want to put the Rodham in there for Funsy. You want to put the balloon in there, that's fine. But, like, for me, we can generate 100 Pokemon that aren't some BS Pokemon. Now that's just my crazy.
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Listen, they're beasts. Yeah.
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Yes.
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Let's. Let's talk about it, because I feel like there's some off the bat that we're like, of course Gyarados.
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Gyarados is on there.
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Gyarados is like a top 10. We think in top 10.
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For me, Gyarados is going to be a top tenner.
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Same.
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But I do think Gyarados will be. I'm gonna say the easy bet. Top 50.
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I mean, yeah, I'll say top 10.
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I'll say. Yeah, I'll say top 10.
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That's fine by me.
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Well, actually, you know what? We got to talk about more because there's so many. You want to talk to contenders.
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Pikachu.
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Pikachu.
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Ready for this? Gengar.
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Yeah.
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I mean, Mewtwo, right.
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There's a four right there, but, like, those are, like, guaranteed. They're gonna be in there.
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Here's the problem. One that should be on there, Alakazam. But he won't be. See, I was gonna say Alakazam as well, even though I like Kadabra more. But I. Alakazam. I fuck with.
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I think that's in the top 100.
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Here's the problem down the list is if we were to be real about our top 10, it would be mostly Gen 1 with baby sprinkles at Gen 2. But I think, like, video game lists, they're not going to want to have a bunch of games of the same franchise. We can't have one through five. Halos 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 in the top. Xbox One, 2, 3, 4.
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Infinite.
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Infinite. Exactly. They're going to. They're going to want to share the love with other gens. So I think that's in there.
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Like, that list that we have is a solid top 10 and might be the top 10.
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So Girard, Pikachu, Gengar, Mewtwo, Charizard. Do we think solid.
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Do we think Ditto is going to have a moment?
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Yes, Ditto has to have a moment because of Ditto's The Kirby of Pokemon.
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Ditto is the Kirby of Pokemon. Yes. Like that little annihilation, too. A little terrifying. Little. The outside.
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I like that. I think you see a Cyndaquil somewhere in there. I think you'll see a lot of starters. People really identify with the starting Pokemon and their evolution line. So, like, those kind of nine Pokemon in each generation have a really good chance of being boosted into the top 100.
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We love typhlosion.
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Yeah, that's ocean.
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Yeah. I had a solid one. I think that was one of mine that I now does.
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Typhlosion making it onto the list. Push out Cyndaquil. Or do you think we see both on the list?
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No, you see both of them. I think you see separate spots. I think you see Totodile and for Alligator.
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Oh, we're pushing it. We got to pick one. Oh, yeah, yeah.
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Because there's. There's some middle evolution lines that will probably miss. Torchic is probably going to be on here. I don't think you see Blaziken.
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Yeah. I think I like them when they're cuter.
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Yeah.
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You know, like, like it's like when, you know, I was a camp counselor and. And you know, the beautiful innocence of youth sullied by when they become teenagers.
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Yes.
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You know, I hate. You hate to see it. You just want those, like small starters. Children.
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You said we see Torchic on there and not Blaziken.
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Yeah.
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That's crazy.
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I'm going off a cuteness factor here.
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I'm putting. Well, here's the thing, right? I think for the cuteness factor, Mudkip makes it in, but not the Mudkip. Evolution, I think.
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What's the Mudkip? It's like a big scary looking. It's like a drowner, right?
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Yeah. Mudkip, Mudkip. That giant frog thing is not making it on there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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But Mudkip, like that first Mudkip, like that's. That's the cuteness you want.
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Mudkip makes it.
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But Blaziken is way cooler than Torchic.
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Yeah.
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Nobody knows. Yeah. Who is that?
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The middle guy. I feel like I've seen. Yeah. Middle guy.
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You're not asking.
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Middle guy gotta be top 10.
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You're not asking the real question. Bless. How many Evolutions are on here? I saw all of them.
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Can I tell you? I better see at least seven.
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How many are there?
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A lot. There's more than 70. Because there's nine. There's Eevee, Flareon, Jolteon, Vaporeon.
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Like, I'm listening To the poker.
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Umbreon, Espeon.
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And then they added like a leafy on Glacion.
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Yeah, Leafeon Glaceon. That's where my knowledge stops. Umbreon is the goat. Same. I agree. Umbreon and Espeon are on my six. My team of six. Um, Drawn and Espeon are both on there. I think we'll only see two evolutions and then also Eevee itself.
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EV loot. Evolutions.
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Evolutions.
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I mean, EV. EV itself might be top 10.
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EV, top to. Absolutely.
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EV is top 10.
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Absolutely not.
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They're trying to. They at one point, they try to push Eevee like Eevee was Pikachu. Yeah, but that's Nintendo propaganda. And this. And I believe being made you think this list was, you know, pushed by Nintendo propaganda.
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We should probably call out, thank you Nintendo, for sponsoring this show. We want to shout out Pocopia. We want to shout out.
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Well, actually, I am.
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Well, I guess. Yeah, I guess people like Pocopia.
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How about the legendary.
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We don't shout out the US Government.
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How about the legendary birds? Articuno Moltres. But then we go into Lugia. Oh, Lugia.
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Oh. Oh, Lugia.
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Oh.
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Oh, hello. Pokemon Gold and.
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Or ho. Oh, Top ten.
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I think Ho. Oh, for face recognition is top.
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Lugia meant something to me, man.
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Lugia might be top.
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Lugia meant something to me. Hello. The first episode was like the one. One of the first, you know, mythical Pokemon. What we saw in the anime, man. Yeah. Remember the episode one. I think it was toward the end of the episode. Ash looks up in the air. We see a Pokemon we've never seen before flying up there, huge, sparkly. We were like, what is that? I play Pokemon blue and red. I have no idea what that is. We all had no idea. We didn't know for years. That was ho.
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It was a different time.
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Okay, how about the fun ones, like a sloth? The sloth.
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Can I see it?
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What's the name of the sloth?
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Oh, yeah, look at that. Slack. Slack off.
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Slack off. Yeah.
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You can't say that here. I'm pretty sure I love slack. They can't say that in the uk.
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I got something like that. How about a bidoof? The Beaver?
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I love the doof.
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I like.
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I'm always saying that.
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How do you feel about Celebi?
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Is that like an incel.
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You know, celeb in 2020?
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Like how a priest is Celebi?
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No, celebi is from Gen2. It was another legendary Pokemon. Yeah, I have like a cool Story moment.
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This looks fake. This looks like bootleg merch.
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I like. I like Celebia.
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I don't know.
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Celeb might be up there. Celeb might be an underrated Pokemon.
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Celebi.
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Yeah.
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Celebi might make the top 100.
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Oh, togepi.
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Togepi with Misty is iconic.
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What about Togepi without Misty?
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Okay.
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No, honestly, I like that.
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One more. I.
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That's my Togepi. That's what it looks like.
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This is what I think.
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Meowth is a. Meowth is a sleeper.
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Meowth is very special.
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Meowth is special. Can I tell you about a Pokemon I discovered recently that's changed my life? In real life, not in real life.
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Okay, cool.
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Unless TikTok is real life, which I refuse.
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I hope not.
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There's a Pokemon named Ceruledge.
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Okay.
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Have you heard of this Pokemon Accelerate? No. Ceruledge.
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Cerulege.
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I don't know what it's.
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Cerulege.
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How do you spell this? C, E, R, U. Ledge. When I tell you.
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Whoa.
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It's the coolest shit I've ever seen in my life. This is a Digimon. What a.
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What the fuck?
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This guy right here. This was enough to make me pick. Pick up Pokemon Za again this last week.
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Wow.
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A game that. I was like, I'm not playing this. And I learned that this Pokemon is capturable. Nza, the DLC specifically. But I was like, I'm gonna. I'm gonna find this Pokemon. I need to capture this guy.
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See, that's over the line for me.
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What?
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This is over the line for me.
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I don't like this.
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He's got two giant swords. This is a night. See, this is cool as hell.
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But this is not Pokemon. And again. I'll say it again. It's Digimon. And because Digimon are cool as fuck.
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And can I just say, wouldn't DLC be in the middle of that? Why are we paying more for all the letters we already have?
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Yeah, that's a good point. That's a good point. Come on. Oh, I thought you.
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No, I was. I tried to jump off it, but
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this was a Scarlet Violet Pokemon that I actually somehow missed. I probably. I think I caught the smaller version of it. I forget what the D evolution is called for. Sarah Ledge. But I definitely saw that and was like, oh, that's cute. And never really paid no mind.
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Oh, my brother's. My brother is my ace in the hole.
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Yeah, here we go.
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Much more plugged in. So he's telling me that Swampert is Mug Kip's third evolution, huh?
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Yes. Yes.
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Yeah.
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Okay, that's Swamp Tire, but I like that. Oh, no, no.
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Swampy did type in Swamper off road.
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Swampert. Yeah, yeah.
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There we go.
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Swamp Pair. Can I. You know, as long as we're looking at water starters. Yes.
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Yeah, please.
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I'm gonna say something controversial, and I want to not be thrown out of your studio. Blastoise, not Squirtle.
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I don't think that's crazy to say.
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Okay. I don't think that's crazy because Last Eyes is cool.
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Yeah. No, Blastoise has two bazookas on it.
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Crazy, right? Yeah. The other one's just a turtle.
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I mean, I ride for the two of them. I'm a water guy.
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And if it's the one, if it's the Squirtle squad with sunglasses, then that's top 10.
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Now, can I read the blurb from Polygon really quick?
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Rayquaza. Oh, yeah, the big green dragon.
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The cool thing about this whole conversation, I feel like we barely scratched the surface. We could go for another hour just naming Pokemon. Yeah. I didn't know. I knew. Like, Haunter. Like my boy Hunter. Oh, we said gang. I mean, gay bars.
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Great episode.
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There's a thousand Pokemon. Yeah. It's only 10% is making this list, so I don't know, a lot of them are getting kicked off here.
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I would like to also pitch, like, a micro list inside this one. Which, like, within the top 10. Maybe we can say, like, which ones are the biggest allies to the lgbtq.
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I like. And then also, would we eat?
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Yeah, which ones do we eat? No, I'm eating some allies. That's my right.
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I like that you get to do that.
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Which ones are TERFs?
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Now, to read the first read. To read the blurb at the beginning of this article. Right. 1025. That's how many Pokemon exist now after nine generations of creature collecting RPGs. As Pokemon turns 30, and as it's about to usher in a new crop of creatures through winds and waves, there's no better time to rank the best of the best herein. The 100 best poke herein. What did you say? Here are herein the 100 best Pokemon of all time. Yes. You might notice the scales here tipped toward Pokemon introduced in red and blue. We're not going to. They're starting to spoil it. They're starting to spoil it. But it sounds like they're like us.
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Yeah. 151.
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This is another gen one special spot.
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And people 30 and above is that
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they should have had a 15 year old.
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Right, exactly. That's the problem.
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Now my question is, is that unfair or is that just how. How it is is. Is the original 151 just do they just got the sauce like that more than the other ones introduced later?
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I think they have the nostalgia first.
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Okay.
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They do have the sauce. But I think the generations that follow a couple later do have the sauce as well because they stay in the animal kingdom that I like to call it. Before we got crazy and we started going a little over to the top,
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what are your thoughts on Infernape?
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We've all been waiting for you.
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Wow.
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Yeah.
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Is that the. The fire monkey? I don't know.
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Appreciate. Well actually. Hold on.
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Your silence.
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Yeah, sorry. Yeah, yeah.
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Not Infernape. Who's the one in Smash. There's another fire.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Oh, you're talking about the furry.
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Yeah, yeah.
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The fire cats.
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How do you feel about him?
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Oh, I like him. Yeah, yeah. Wrestler.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I like this guy.
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I don't know. I like him with no context. I don't like that my little litten boy turns into him.
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That's what I'm saying. You lose the. The beautiful innocence of a litten.
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And see now here's the problem is everybody will talk about that is that's why they're trying to tape the little pom bons feet down. Of like don't go two feet on me. Stay four feet down. That's the artwork.
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Should look like this the entire time. I love how the face is. Stays the same size. I know.
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That's amazing.
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Pompon is going to stand up. Just so you guys know.
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No, I think Pompon will turn just like that shield dog.
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By the time you get to the third evolution. Pompon is going to be like this like chest up, fucking two arms like this. Walking like this.
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I think it should be like a centaur. So like the pom pom feet stay on the ground but then it's this on top.
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Yes. Yes.
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I do also think that the first two evolutions should be pretty close to a Pomeranian. And then the third one is they get the asset for the Red Wolf of Radagon. And it's. You know, it's got the glintstone sorcery.
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Yeah.
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And it's. And it breaks the game. It's bad for the game, but it's cool for.
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I'm all about that.
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Yeah, right.
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Yeah.
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Big dog.
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I love it.
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Fire wrestling kid in because it matches up with like Machamp and Machoke and Machop.
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Right.
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Like I do like the wrestlers Hitmonlee.
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Hitmonchan, Hitmonlee.
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We grew up with those guys.
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One of my favorite Pokemon, him only might be my favorite Pokemon. Just like design wise. I love him from as a kid I was like, that's just the guy. And I fuck with it. It's just a guy with a weird build who loves to kick.
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Oh yeah, he is good, isn't he?
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He's so cool to me.
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See, this is the thing.
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Wow. I don't know about it.
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It's like a myth. The thing about the first generation, right, is it was kind of a gold rush, you know, sort of the, the extravagance of, of unmind. Unrefined raw material.
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Yeah.
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So they could, they could do whatever they wanted and now they're working in a point of diminishing returns. Or it's like you can't just come in and say like, what if we made a dog?
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Yeah.
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Now they have to, now they have to be like, we have to make a different smaller dog.
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Yeah.
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I don't know. It's just maybe the good old days are gone and they'll never be able to strike such riches.
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The vein is we also still have ones like Sprigatito. How do you like Sprigatito?
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Is that an Italian one? Yes, Sprigatito. You never win the battles for me.
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Well, I think it's time.
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Let's do it. Let's tear up this list. I'm excited.
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We haven't started.
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No, but before we have a long
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and fees, extra fee full terms@mintmobile.com before we get to the list, I want to tear up some super chats here. The five star man says can't watch live. I wanted to say I've been a fan of Charlotte since inside gaming. Her and Patrick were constantly highlights of Funhouse and Astro. Goblin quickly became one of my favorite channels. Rakan writes it and says this one's for Charlotte.
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Thanks. Do I get that money?
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You know? Noah McKay writes in and says my favorites have always been in in some order Squirtle Eevee Cyndaquil and Lugia. I love the Lugia.
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What's great once. Oh, man.
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Bear, bring up Lugia.
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Big old silver Luggia had a whole movie thing.
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Yeah. Pokemon 2000.
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Never forget beyond the first Pokemon movie, which I'm surprised that VHS still works. Oh, yeah. I know this motherfucker. Yeah.
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Like, look at that.
C
That is cool. Big hands.
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You know, I never noticed that those are hands.
C
It's like a whale, right?
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Yeah. Like, I always just saw them as wings, but now that I'm looking at this, those are definitely just big, big hands.
C
Yeah. This is Pokemon.
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That says, where's my hug? God. Who else we got? Oh, we also didn't say mew. He said mewtwo, but we didn't say mew. We got to put some respect on mew. G Danner 97 says fave is noibat. In my opinion, it or noivern should make the list, but probably in the early parts.
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I remember Zubat.
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Yeah.
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What is N o I Bat Noi.
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Oh.
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Oh, it's like a cuter zoobat.
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Cute little bat. Yeah.
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Yeah. I like this more.
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Is that it's is noiver and its evolution there, because that's scary looking.
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Yeah.
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Oh, those aren't eyes. Okay, that's better.
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, it's Giannir's.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Jeremy Game says found out I love Shinx while watching Pokemon concierge is Shinx. Is that like the electric little guy?
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Yeah, I like that Jinx, which is I think the only Jinx better not Drag queen.
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Pokemon Jinx.
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I don't know.
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It's just divine. It's just crazy.
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Jinx rocks.
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AK Dot says we love Charlotte in this house. Have her on more. Hell yeah.
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Oh, you stop.
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Trembly. Wimbley says if lechonk isn't on this list, we riot. I agree. I love Lechonk, mainly because I love lechon, which is like pork. It's like a Filipino.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Oh, okay. Okay.
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Yeah. And I love that they just called this thing Lechonk.
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Oh, man. If anyone's in la, go to Versailles, get the. The lechon.
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Listen, if you're in the Bay area, listen, Daily city is known for the Filipino food, so.
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No.
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Oh, yeah.
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Daily City.
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Oh, yeah. Demon Hacker says are regional forms different Pokemon. I don't. I mean, we'll have to see as we get into the list, but I wouldn't. Maybe Mega Evolutions I could see because those are different designs, but like gigantamaxing. That's just the same guy.
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But big regional Forms, I think.
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Oh, wait, no, I'm getting this wrong. Regional forms are like.
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Yeah, that's when they started going different areas.
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It's like when they gave Exeggutor a big old neck.
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Oh, that's when Meowth grew a beard. Yeah.
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Yeah. It started getting weird.
C
That's crazy.
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And then that other Meowth.
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Is this just because they're just eating different. Different wildlife, you know, different grass. It's like the Galapagos, you know, Darwin would have a field day with bearded meows.
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Dolphin corn says Crobat and Silver Lee are the goats. So is Charlotte. Alexio Stevens, 609, says this is like a group who only owned the OG Xbox for a year, speculating on the top 100 Xbox games list. Let's have fun. We never. I didn't come into the saying, we're the biggest Pokemon experts. Oh, shit. I did. I did.
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I'm number two.
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I'm number one. So you can come after me. Yeah, I know.
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Pokemon Snorlax, number one.
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Snorlax is on the list for sure. Well, yeah, has to be. Jose Cortez says. You still making music, Charlotte?
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Yeah, I am. I got something in the mix stage.
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Oh, okay.
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Check out Mom's home. Wherever you listen to music, give me those sweet. 017% of a cent. Or go to my band camp.
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And then last one comes from Redshirt Draper, who says Charlotte. Top three, Astro Goblin.
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Oh, my God. It's got to be Jacob. Me, I can't think of a third.
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Yeah, that's tough. Yeah, that's tough after that.
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But I don't know you guys. Let me know what you think.
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Without further ado, the top 100 best Pokemon as decided by Polygon.com coming in at number 100, Arceus of the legend.
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God of time.
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Yeah, the God of time. Of course, you know them well from Pokemon legends. Arceus. Yep.
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Never learned how to pronounce it. Arceus. Arceus. I know.
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It changes every single time. Arceus, just ride with us. Pokemon number 493.
A
Thought that would have been a little bit higher.
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Well, here's the thing, because, like, we're not gonna put every single legendary Pokemon in the top 20. You know what I mean? That's true. It's, like, cool when there's so many legendaries, the legendaries start to feel less legendary.
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Wow.
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So we gotta. We gotta prop up the best one. Okay.
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That is true.
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And while we're here, shout out Entei. We didn't talk. We didn't mention Entei.
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Oh, my big dog boy.
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Entei is. That's. See, that's a legendary right there. That's a legendary. A number 99.
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Yeah.
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We got Venusaur. Oh, surprise. Venusaur is on the list. Actually, you know what? I like Venusaur, but damn, I'm right there with you.
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Blessed guy. Could have skipped the list.
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It's another one where you got Bulbasaur. Cute.
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Yeah.
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Effective. Wonderful. Then you've got this. This lumbering, disgusting, cute bangs.
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But I like Solar Beam.
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That the second one? No.
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Solar Beam is the move that he does. Yeah. Where it's like, it takes a turn to charge, and then the next turn he fucks you up. I like.
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That's cool. I like that.
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Somebody in chat says Venusaur above literal God. That's really funny. Coming in at number 98, we got Trubbish.
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There's Trubbish. Yeah.
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Mike said keep this to 80 to 100.
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80 to 100 is where you can get with the weird ones. Yeah.
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You're dead on Pokemaster.
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Trubbish. Trubbish. Making the list. Trubbish is beloved, though. You get something cute and weird.
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Yeah.
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The kids love that.
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I can't wait to see the car. The car keys and the ice cream. Yeah. Because those definitely have to make the list. I know.
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This one's a proper, like, yokai. Yeah, right.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yes. Yeah. A little demon born of some real thing, which is trash.
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Oh, we didn't even say Mimikyu.
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Speaking of that, Mimikyu's on the list for sure.
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And unknown number 97. We got Poliwhirl. I like Poliwhirl.
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I feel like Polywell should be higher.
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Mike looks shocked.
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I like Poly World. I am so. I am surprised. This is like some 151 stuff here. No, poly world top one, I think poly. I don't know if Poly World's top 100.
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What does Polygon have to say about it?
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Yeah, what does Polygon say? That they. Just because of the belly.
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Poly World has always obsessed. Sorry. Has always possessed a fierce serenity. World's obsessed. Its final stage, evolution. Poliwrath. Which I'm surprised we didn't go. Poliwrath walks around with rage on his face, a loose cannon ready to start a fight. Make no mistake, with those mitts, Poliwhirl could still win a fight. But it's Calm Eyes Belly Piece, which is more welcome than ever these days.
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Belly Piece. Belly Piece.
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I like that. I like it.
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They're like, we're in tough Times. Times like this require poliwhirl to come through.
C
Yeah. Good times. Create hard Pokemon, hard Pokemon. Create soft times, Soft time. Create belly piece. Nice.
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I like that. At number 96, we got Kabutops.
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I am surprised Kabutops is on this.
C
Really?
B
I like Kabutops, though.
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I like Kabutops. I like the fossil Pokemon. Aerodactyl and Kabutops back in the day were cool, but, like, top 100, but
B
it's, like, out of a thousand.
C
So, like, what's the. Is it cipher? I feel like this is not quite as good as Cypher.
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Yeah, I think we'll see Cyther on the list. Yeah.
A
Then will Horcross be on the list? Heracross.
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Heracross.
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What's the. They remade Scyther into a red one, and I hated it.
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Caesar.
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Yeah, I hated Caesar.
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They remade him into that. Hate it.
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Hate it.
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Now here's what I'll say about Kabutops. This is so specific, but Pokemon Stadium 2 Gym Leader Castle. Kabutops will get you through some tough times, man. When I tell you, when I was replaying Pokemon Stadium 2 gym leader Castle last year, Kabut Ops is like, that was MVP on my team right there. So, okay, shout out number 95. We got slaking.
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Who's this?
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That's the big sloth. That's the third evolution.
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Slack off.
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Y not slaking, like when your thirst
C
is slaked, but the.
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It's the way he's laying down.
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I like it. I I. Yes. This is making the top 100 for me. Yeah, I like sloths.
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This is how I watch tv.
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So let me tell you, Chad's not feeling this. No, I so far, Chad hates this.
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So far, they've come out not swinging at their best.
B
Yeah.
A
You're only getting me because I like this Pokemon a lot.
B
Now, Chad, is it the fact that they put arceus at number 100? Is that why we're not feeling this or.
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Holly World's not a top 100 Pokemon. Nor is Kabuto.
B
Look at him. I like just a guy. He's. He is just a dude. Coming in at number 94, we got Vanillish. There's that ice cream. That's nice.
A
The only area you put that. That shouldn't be on the list.
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I mean, I like it at number 94.
C
Feels kind of crazy. It feels like a Cartoon network show from 10 years ago that I ever saw.
A
Yes.
C
Yeah, I feel that little chowder.
B
This is a Foster's Home character, right? And number 93.
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Pull.
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We got Latios I like this guy. Latios is sick.
C
I feel like it should be higher.
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Yeah, well, there's another one, too.
B
Yes.
A
Will they both be on the list? They. They messed with this one, so.
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Yeah, people like this one and number 92, we got.
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Okay, there we go.
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I could have called this one, honestly.
C
Yeah.
B
Dang.
A
That was Gen 3.
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I didn't realize that was Gen 3. I just love that their description for this, all of the above, reads a better look, though. I. You know what? I get it, though. Yeah, I get it.
C
Yeah.
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Red's a better look. I'm a blue guy. I like blue.
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Yeah.
C
I gotta go with the blue on this one.
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And they just chose a better photo for the red one. Like, get a better photo of the blue one.
B
No, the blue one looks sick as hell here.
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I mean, I don't know. Find a better, more flattering blue one
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looks like whenever a Gundam transforms into, like, a airplane, and you're like, this is just a guy, and, you know, crouching. This looks like this is shot of
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the hedgehog's favorite Pokemon.
A
Really?
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Coming in at number 91. It'll hit you later. Clefairy.
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I don't know. No, I don't know about Clefairy. Top 100.
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Yeah.
C
What's Clefairy's?
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Clefairy's iconic, Mike.
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I mean, yes, it's iconic, but we're going back to the 151 nostalgia. I think we can name a lot of better Pokemon than Clefairy.
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Is there a criteria put forth by Polygon? Like, is it. You know, I mean, I read Vibes.
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Yeah. I mean, the first things we. The first two paragraphs kind of laid it all out.
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How are we supposed to trust in the efficacy of this endeavor?
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Exactly.
C
We don't even know.
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Are we going by Move? Set how tall they are?
C
Merchandising, then this should be high.
A
How many cards?
C
Chinese.
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Exactly. What's the deal here?
C
Chinese?
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Yeah, I'm like. I'm rereading their first paragraph. They don't really give much criteria. And honest, I think this is based on Vibes coming in at number 90. We got drift, Lou.
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Drift. Got it.
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I found this Pokemon in Procopia.
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Oh, yeah?
C
What does it do? Yeah, because Procopia, like, they help you, right? Yeah, they.
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They say that this one has a dark story. Maybe it lures children and takes them away because it's like a ghost.
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Jesus Christ. Like, why you're on it when you
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first meet the Pokemon. It's like, I'm really lonely. If you could bring me back to camp around other Pokemon, I'd be happy again. I'm like, I got it.
C
Okay. And then it just haunts you for the rest of your days.
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He's gonna take you.
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All right. At 89, we got Dragonair. Dragonair could have been higher. Honestly.
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I think so. Yeah. Dragonair.
B
Dragonair is pretty cool.
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I remember. I. Yeah. I can't believe I figured this out at such a young age. But coming out the gate with Dratini in the number one slot and then moving them back in the rotation to get the exp. Oh, So I could get the evolution, that was hard earned, and I wouldn't have figured that out today.
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Yeah.
A
So this is going to be a double right here because we will see Dragon Knight.
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Yes.
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In this, we won't see Dratini, but we'll see Dragon Knight.
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I agree.
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So a little double evolution. Out of the three, That's a big shout out, right?
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That's huge.
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Yep.
C
Yeah.
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And number 88, we got. Yes. Mousehold. I forgot to. I forgot to bring up Mousehold. I love this Pokemon.
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You like this one?
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I love this Pokemon. This is one Pokemon.
A
So not a family of mice.
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This one was introduced in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. It starts off as tandem mouse, which are just two mouse. It's a husband and wife, and they're holding hands. That's this first evolution. Then it evolves into mouse hold. Mousehold will either evolve having one kid or two kids.
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Diminishing returns, Sort of going dry. I want to do a mouse. Ooh, sorry. We have Pikachu. What if I did four mice? All right, we've got a Pokemon.
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I'm so happy this is on the list. I love this Pokemon. It's the. It's just. Yeah. Like, they're just like, I don't know, man. Make a family of mice. How do we make the mice feel unique? Should we add, like, I don't know, like, she put swords for both of his hands or something? Not just make him regular mice?
C
Do other Pokemon made for life do these even. Or is this just like a, you know, situationship?
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I mean, I don't want to have kids in my situationship. I'm sorry, if you're listening, but I don't want to.
C
Well, you know, but if you're. But if you're.
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If you're a mouse, you know, that's an imaginary person. But also, if it's considered one Pokemon, are they technically just one Pokemon, like, all sharing the same brain? Like the. Like the Borg Yeah, yeah, exactly. We are the Borg.
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Yeah.
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Resistance is. That leads me to like a lot more questions, but I'm not going to get into it. St. Number 87 on the list. We got Groudon. Groudon deserves to be on this.
C
I like this guy. Is this Ruby?
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This is Ruby Sapphire.
C
Yeah.
B
One of the legendaries. Yeah, Some a good group grouping of legendaries in Ruby Sapphire.
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My team, Team Magma.
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Team Aqua. Yeah.
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Of course. Maxi was trying to fill up the world full of magma to make a bunch of land. And then Team Aqua with Archie was trying to fill the world up with a bunch of water.
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Both are like, hey, homie, both are
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Lex Luthor ass plants. That's crazy.
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Maybe we don't do that. That's when Rayquaza. Maybe we don't do that and stop the two of them, because they had awoken the ancient beasts and they were going to clash inside of the island crater and then that was going to set off the world. But then Rayquaza swooped down from the heavens and said, stop that. Put him back to bed.
B
It sounds like you're describing something biblical. That it does. Yeah.
C
This is Old Testament.
A
Yeah, that's what they wrote.
B
At number 86 we got Ursaluna.
A
Yes. Oh, big old bear. Yeah.
B
Is this his evolution because he was Ursa Ring.
A
Yes.
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Previously. I've not seen this version. I like this version.
C
I love normal type.
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This is from Jenny.
C
Normal.
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I like that.
C
Just normal.
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Coming in number 85, we have Appleton. That was the apple pie Pokemon.
A
Your apple pie right here. Your apple pie dragon. Now this apple pie could get two. Because I do like the next form. I like when it becomes the full apple pie dragon.
B
Okay, we'll see.
C
Does it smell good? Right?
A
I would hope.
C
I feel like I'd have to smell like, you know, I'm off my feet, floating.
B
Yeah.
C
Pulled along by the scent up my nose.
B
I don't think I can have a Pokemon that's also apple piece. Because I think that would ruin apple pie for me. Because then I'm just smelling apple pie all the time.
C
Right.
B
And I get over it because it's
C
not apple pie inside, it's viscera. Yeah, exactly. Like it's not actually apples. Maybe it's a sweet meat of sorts. Yeah, but I mean, it's not apples.
A
It's a sweet meat.
B
At 84, we got sableye. Mike's shaking his head.
A
I'm not vibing with that one. People mess with. People mess with this Pokemon. I don't love this Pokemon in general. With the the gem eyes and stuff wouldn't have been on my top 100.
B
Fair enough. At 83, we have Electabuzz.
C
Okay, this is crazy.
A
I've. I love Electabuzz. Yeah. Okay. I rode with this guy's crazy back in the 151. I identified here. Absolutely not on the 100. Really? What?
B
No, no. Okay, now you're pushing.
A
Stop.
B
No list. Now you're pushing. You think Electabuzz isn't in the top 100?
A
If they came to me and they were like, mike, you only know 151 make the list. And I was like, got it. Absolutely not.
B
Electabuzz is pretty cool.
A
I feel like we're gonna put Magmar on this list then.
B
Yes. Magmar is sick. Are you kidding me? Magmar is a cool Pokemon.
A
There's a thousand Pokemon plants, and most
B
of them are kind of. Whatever.
C
I feel like I'm sitting in the middle of a broken mouse hold right now.
B
That's really good.
C
Thank you. Thank you. I don't know. This guy just feels bad. Guy coded, which is unfortunate.
A
Yeah. He didn't run with Team Rocket. Like, they should have had him in Team Rocket for sure.
B
Electabuzz.
A
Yeah. He should have been running with Jesse and James.
B
Yeah. Him just hanging out with Meowth because
A
he's got the vibe.
B
Do you think he would talk? Like, he would talk to me out?
A
Oh, he would definitely talk. No, he would talk like, Frank.
B
He had other Pokemon that didn't talk. Shout out to my boy Wobbuffet.
A
Wow.
B
Yeah, they had Wobbuffet.
C
I'm picturing, like, him and Meowth being kind of like a George and Lenny type duo. Keeps shocking women.
B
Meow is like, just look at the flowers or whatever. Yeah.
C
We're gonna have a farmer's date with, you know, with lots of eeveelutions.
B
And number 82, we got Bulbasaur
C
number one. Yeah, sure.
B
number.
C
Wait, this is, like. So this is the number one Pokemon didn't realize.
A
Yeah, yeah.
C
Do you think they were disappointed when, like, Pikachu, like, became the one, like, the Pokemon that everyone knew? Because did they think, like, number one was gonna be it?
B
You know, that's a really good question
A
because how did they create the Pokedex and numbers?
B
Was Pikachu manufactured? Like, was it just. When did. Was it the Pikachu or the Egg? Because was it the anime where Ash picks Pikachu or whatever? And it's like, we're rolling with you now. Or was Pikachu already On fire. Before the anime came out, it was Japan popping off for Pikachu. When green and red came out, I
C
feel like it had to be the anime, right?
B
I don't know. I think I would assume the anime because yellow didn't come out until after the anime.
A
Yes. And then red and blue, Pikachu was just Pikachu. But you got a 7% chance of finding Pikachu in the first area. That was a big deal.
C
Really?
A
Yeah.
B
Then you.
C
Okay, so there's like an exclusivity about it. I don't know. I just feel like number 82 for number one. That's. Yeah, that's got a sting if you're Bulbasaur.
A
I like this. I like. I have some respect for Bulbasaur. I think it's a very cute Pokemon. It's. It's a 80 through 100 type of list. Yeah.
B
And coming in at number 81, we got Omastar.
A
No,
B
coming in at number 80, we got. Even talking about Tropius.
A
Okay.
B
It's a gen 3 one.
A
Yeah. This is a cool one.
B
You light up for Tropius.
A
Yeah, I like the banana. I like the banana chin strap thing. It's got going on.
B
All right.
A
The banana gullet.
B
At number 79, we got shinx. I like Shinx. Shinx is a Gen 4 Pokemon. Funny enough. I did. I guess I said I didn't play gen 4. I did play some brilliant diamond shining pearl until I lost my switch.
C
Truth comes out.
B
So I did catch Jinx. And I like. I like it. Number 78, we got typhlosion.
A
Called it. Nice job.
C
You low my opinion, my guy. Yeah, this is. I didn't realize how stupid it looked.
B
What about it looks stupid?
C
Can we see the pixel art from Pokemon Go? Because it's kind of. It's kind of got like a bottom. Like a. Like a weird rodent, you know?
A
Goddamn stupid, stupid looking Pokemon kid.
B
Faith in chat says this is a bad angle. That's cool.
C
Well, I mean, that's. I guess that's like Minecraft, but like the first one, you know, where it's a little rougher. I don't know the way I. Sugar Glider. No, that looks stupid too. Kind of a Victorian collar, I guess.
B
I've never just sat and looked at Typhlosion.
C
That was the realest thing I've ever said. Like that. There was no filter.
A
No, no. You let that fly.
B
Yeah, right. Okay, this is what I'm gonna do because we have a lot more Pokemon left. I'm gonna start reading these in bulk. And so let's just.
A
We'll just tear through them. We'll just say yes.
B
No.
A
Yes, no. You know what I mean?
B
So. 77. We got Tauros, man.
A
Okay.
B
Okay.
A
No.
B
But yeah. Nobody. 76. We got Flygon. I like this guy.
A
Thumbs up.
B
I don't remember Flygon, but I like him crazy looking.
C
Yeah. I like those wings.
A
That was like when we. You like you're on a walk. You're like, let's make a Dragonfly as a Pokemon. They were like, nailed it.
B
That's a great idea. He cooked 75. Ente. Too low. Too low.
C
Too low.
B
Entei gotta be higher. It's my goat right there.
A
Hell yeah.
C
Looks like Hulk Hogan.
B
Oh, don't disrespect Entei like that.
C
He's a real American RIP Gawker.
B
Entei would not have said the things that Hulk Hogan said.
C
I don't think many would.
B
Number 74. You'd be surprised. Pelipper is number 74.
A
I love this Pokemon from Gen 3. This is one of my favorite. Wingle. This is what it goes into Wingle.
B
Hell yeah.
C
I'll look it up.
A
Wingle.
B
I want to say Pelipper was on my team when I played Gen3 back in the day.
A
Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
B
I like this Pokemon.
C
Yeah, It's. It's good.
B
73.
C
Yeah. This is great.
A
Yeah.
B
We got.
A
Got to have B on the list.
B
And number 72. Butterfree.
A
Butterfree. Of course. Yes.
C
Yeah.
A
Will we get a caterpie?
B
We better not.
A
We must.
B
If we get a caterpie, I'm going outside finding a caterpillar and stomping on it. Blessing. Sorry. With you. I know that's messed up. I take it back. I take it back.
A
Here's something crazy. I was always a bee drill guy.
B
Yeah.
C
Cool.
A
Over Butterfree. I just like bees back in the day. Now we got to save the bees.
B
We do got to save the bees.
C
We do got to save the bees. Caterpillars, you know, it's whatever. There's enough of them. Right?
B
I feel. At number 71. We got Piplup.
A
Yes. Penguin.
C
It's easy win little Mickey Mouse buttons.
A
It's giving very neopets vibes, this one.
C
Yeah.
B
It is giving neopets for sure.
C
I want to care for it and
B
number abandon it, I guess.
A
Yes.
C
Yeah.
B
Take it to the soup kitchen because you're losing all the games. They can't afford actual food for your
C
neopets that just be put it in a basket.
B
Yeah. We're at the Soup kitchen every day on neopets.com. it was really sad over here.
C
There was a soup kitchen. For real?
B
Yeah, there was a soup kitchen. If you didn't have enough points to feed your Neopets, you can get free food kitchen.
C
That happened to my great grandfather. Oh, yeah. You can take care of all the kids.
B
I didn't mean to laugh.
C
No, no, no, it's cool.
B
It's.
C
It's cool. He's not with us anymore.
B
All right. And number 70. We got Vulpix. Yeah.
A
Yes. Vulpix. And the nine tails. I bet you we see both of them. Both of them.
C
Both of DZVs.
B
And number 69 better have something nice. We got Salamence.
A
Cool.
B
This looks cool. Yeah, this is a gen 3 one. I remember Salamence. I don't think Salomon really stuck with me like that, but yeah, it's cool. And number 68, Mew.
A
Gotta be on the list.
B
Gotta be on the list.
A
Number 151.
B
Mewtwo is pretty cool though.
A
Yeah, huh?
B
You know, Mewtwo is gonna be the one that gets higher.
C
That truck, right? It was under a truck.
B
Oh, yeah, right. I. I never knew if that was a glitch or not. Was that like a real thing? Mewtwo was actually under a truck, or was that like a mod or like some. Some weird people did.
C
I have no idea.
B
Somebody in chat that says this order feels random. Not gonna lie. And you know what? I tend to agree.
A
When you're in the 50 through 100 range, sometimes you're just throwing darts at a wall.
B
Yeah.
A
I mean, especially when it comes to Pokemon that don't really have like a guiding light of like, best moveset, best Pokemon cards, best appearance in a TV show. Like, if it's just best Pokemon, you're going to be really throwing things at a wall.
C
It's like if you threw spaghetti at a wall and it all stuck.
B
Beautiful. Just the whole plate. Toss it. Now people in chat are saying Eevee or Mewtwo. Sorry, Mew. Being under the truck wasn't real. It was a rumor. It was a playground.
C
I'm very gullible, so. Yeah, that makes sense.
A
I missed the playground. Rumors of back in the day with these things.
C
Yeah. My. My friend's uncle actually worked for Nintendo.
B
For real? Yeah. I had a friend when I was a kid, I had a friend convince me that Goku was unlockable in smash 64. And let me tell you, he sent me on a wild goose chase. I was on smashbrothers.com dad printing things off.
C
You were in that. You were in the dojo.
B
I was in the. I was in the smash dojo. I was doing everything to try and figure out how to get Goku in this game. He was like, oh, yeah, you can get Luigi to ride Yoshi. You just have to press L, Man.
C
I think that's the funniest thing that, like, Goku in any game is just immediately such a funny idea outside of Dragon Ball Game.
B
Yeah. All right. Speeding through some of these. 67.
A
Oh, hold on.
B
We can't speak. We can't speed through this. What number 67 is Pikachu? Get the out of here. This is a list. Yeah, I'm calling it now. This is a list. Mon Lee list.
A
This is the top 25 Pokemon of all time. And I know people want to hate on Pikachu, but he is top 25.
B
Yes.
A
Has to be.
B
What do they say?
A
I mean, technically, you should probably be top 10, but, you know, whatever they say.
B
Look, don't get us wrong. Pikachu is a classic by most men.
C
I'm getting you wrong.
B
There's no Pokemon more classic. But if there's any Pokemon who could move out of the limelight and let some others occupy top billing, it's Pikachu. So they're just like, we. We want to put him lower because he's too popular.
C
This is. This is contrarianism.
B
Yeah. That's crazy. Like, I understand moving him lower to, like, maybe he's 24, but to 67.
C
Six. Seven, maybe. This is actually a tip of the cap from the Gen Alpha writers Polygon.
B
They're memeing.
C
Yeah.
B
Right at number 66.
A
That's good. So good.
B
Torterra.
A
Oh, I like this one. Great appearance in the movie as well.
C
Really?
A
Yeah. When they started to wake up and the. The whole earth was, like, crumbling around the photo.
C
Gotta see that.
B
You should watch that. Oh, you would like that.
A
It's a delightful movie.
B
65. We got Houndor.
A
Yes.
C
Hell, yeah. Scary. Great pixel art. I feel like. I feel like this one is rendered well in game.
B
And number 64. We got Crobat.
A
Nah, Crobat's not a top 100.
B
Nah, not. Not a top one.
A
But the cool X wings is pretty sick.
C
Yeah, I like that.
A
Yeah. To go from Zubat and, like, get up towards these ones is pretty cool.
B
Yeah.
A
Yeah.
B
Number 63. Oh, what are we doing?
C
63. Huh?
B
Gyarados.
A
I mean, I think we can call it right now. We can end the episode right now if we wanted to.
B
Now we need to see what's above Gyarados.
A
It's a shit list.
B
Hold on. No, we're speeding through some 62. We got Machamp already. That's crazy as well.
A
Machamp is legit.
B
Machamp should be higher. Number 61, Gardevoir.
A
Yeah. Yeah.
C
Nobody played Gardevoir on the PS2.
B
This is. That's good. That's really good. Damn.
C
Damn.
B
That's a callback right there. Yeah, I think.
C
I don't think we were.
B
That was the only show that was before the show.
C
It's all content. We have, like, time. I wake up.
B
Yeah. That's three bangers back to back, by the way. Between.
C
Yeah, that is kind of crazy.
B
Gyarados into Machamp into Gardevoir, and we're not in the top 50.
A
Those could all be top. Those are all guaranteed top 50 at this point. Yeah.
B
Yeah.
C
At number 60, what has happened at Games Journal.
B
Lucario.
A
Ah, Lucario. Of course.
B
Another top 50. Another one that should be in the top 50.
C
My mom knows who Lucario is.
A
Yeah.
C
She doesn't know its name, but she recognizes.
B
I know what that is.
C
It's like one of those Pico Chews.
B
That's one of the. Like they had. Yeah. At number 59, we got Glaceon.
A
Okay. This is our first evolution.
B
Our first evolution. I better see evolution.
C
I like the Hatsune miku hair.
B
Yeah. 58, flareon. Oh, we're about to get all of them.
C
Okay.
B
Back to back.
A
No, you can't group them all together. Some are better than others.
C
You think? They really are.
B
Well, they're being grouped, but some are literally higher than others.
A
Yeah.
B
It's not like they're all number 50.
A
I think they're gonna put Umbreon, like, top 10.
B
They better.
A
Umbreon will go top 10.
B
At number 57. Leafy on. What are we doing? They're putting them all one after another.
A
Leafy on.
B
This is crazy.
C
If you're a list writer and you've got a hundred to do and you can knock out, like, six or seven,
A
you, like, crack your knuckles, you go. Got it.
C
Not a problem. Yeah, no problem. Going from 62 to 51.
B
So to read the Glaceon thing, which was the first one, we'll just be reveal this up front. Every evolution made the the cut for this list.
A
Told you.
B
And they're all gonna be in the.
C
They're adorable cats.
B
Now this is what I'll say.
C
Aren't they Fox?
B
This is where I'm gonna pause and say, listen, I love Polygon. I respect Polygon. This is an unserious list. They're not being for real about this list. They're trolling us. And I'm sad that we had to learn this this way. If I knew before the episode Vapor. I called it. Oh, no. Okay, wait, hold on. So number 56 was Vaporeon. Number 55, Sylveon. Number 54, Whaler.
A
Shout out the big whale.
C
Yeah, yeah, I like this.
A
Whale's very cool.
C
Whales are big on Astro.
A
God.
C
But we're all reading Moby Dick.
B
Yeah. Oh, nice.
A
Now we pause for a second. So that means Jolteon is not in that mix right there.
B
Umbreon. Espeon.
C
Wasn't there another one earlier?
B
Jolteon.
A
I love Jolteon. But that's like. We had a rock block here of the generic Eeveelutions. They're like, you know what? Jolteon actually better than those.
B
I mean, Jolteon is better than those.
A
I like that for me. I don't know about that, though.
B
Coming in. Number 53, total dial.
C
I love this guy.
B
Yeah, I think that's the right spot for total 53. Yeah. Higher. Yeah. At number 52, we got. Beware.
A
Love this bear.
B
I love this bear, too.
A
I sent that over to Bear before the people started yelling at me in Assets.
B
Because you sent 20 individual links. Pokemon one after another. And we all kept getting notifications for it to the point that Andy slacked. Mike, stop.
A
I was making my own list.
B
I don't understand why this is a fighting type, though. That's my. That's my one complaint.
C
Should be a hugging type, a loving type.
A
I love that.
C
It Love bonds a caring type.
B
At number 51, we got melodic. Oh, now. Cool. Look.
C
Who is she?
B
We're getting into the top 50.
A
Yeah.
B
I'm again, I'm going to speed through some of these. I might read them ten at a time for the next few.
A
Okay.
B
I just want us to remember this is an unserious list.
A
Unserious.
B
And it's okay to joke around. You know what I mean? It's okay to, like, hey, we're just putting out a list. We're just being wacky guys. But just so you know, calling. I'm clocking this. Next time we do a shit list and we're doing a Polygon list, I'm gonna be like, all right. But they're unserious, though. This is Polygon.
A
Okay.
C
Wow.
B
IGN would have had Pikachu in the top 10.
A
Yes. Yes.
C
I mean, that seems like a slam dunk.
B
Crazy. All right, let's get into it. I'm gonna read 50 through 40. All right, so 50. Oh, my God. 50 Raikou.
A
Of course.
B
49. Okay. No, we're stopping. 49 is Lugia.
A
Yeah.
C
Is that bad?
B
That's terrible.
A
Is the top 25 Pokemon.
B
Yes.
A
Top 25.
B
Top 25.
A
Yes.
B
We're going to keep going. 48 Blastoise.
C
That's some bullshit.
A
Love this one.
B
Number 47, Alakazam.
A
There it is.
B
I respect it in the top 50.
C
I feel like this fits.
B
At least it's on the top.
A
Very bad.
B
46 absolute. I love Absol. He's one of my favorite rappers. At number 45, Geodude. That makes sense. Geodude. Maybe it should be 80 to 100, though.
A
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. It's an unserious list.
B
44, Raichu. Above Pikachu.
C
That's crazy.
B
Above Pikachu.
C
What's their justification for this?
B
Ash famously never evolved Pikachu, which made sense for them, but for everyone else, Raichu is stronger, tougher, faster, and way cooler.
C
So is the criteria that it's.
B
No.
C
Are those the. The criteria, then? Better, faster, cooler.
A
Yeah.
B
Is the Daft Punk song.
A
Yeah.
C
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And no samplings of it.
B
43. Arcanine.
A
Yeah.
B
Hell, yeah.
A
A great Pokemon.
B
I, arguably, should be higher. 42. Ninetales.
A
Yeah.
B
Nailed it. 41, Alolan. Ninetales.
A
No.
C
What's Alolan?
A
Ninetails. No, you're not allowed to do that.
B
And ice.
C
Oh, okay.
B
The ice does make it cool, though.
A
You can just give that a side shout at an honorable mention.
B
Yeah, they don't have that built into, like, their back end. If we're allowed to do all the evolutions, I think they're allowed to also do different versions. All right.
C
What is a listicle even anymore?
B
Yeah.
A
Get the click. They got it. They got it.
B
This is brought to you. Number 40 is Rallet. I love Rowlet. I with Rallet. This is deserved.
A
I like owls. Yeah.
C
All right.
B
Are you just realizing that about yourself right now?
A
I like owls.
B
You said that like you just discovered that. Yeah. You just thought about it now. You know what, guys? I like owls.
C
Guys, I want everyone to know. Kind of an owl person now. I'm into it.
B
I know.
C
You're saying. Who's this like it owls so much? Well, it's owl Master, too, obviously.
B
Number 39, Articuno.
A
Okay. Get the big bird up there.
C
Damn. 39. We're really into it now. Yeah.
B
38. We got Cyndaquil.
A
Cyndaquil.
B
Yeah. Did we already get Typhlosion?
C
Yeah.
B
We did okay.
C
Yeah. I like this little guy.
A
Yeah, everybody loves this.
B
Looks better than typhlosion, honestly.
C
Yeah, I wouldn't have said it before this morning. This is like when I went to see episode three in theaters and I was like, oh, wait, this movie sucks. But I remembered it nice and good.
B
At number 37, we got Esper.
C
Who's this?
B
Who is this? This looks like a character from Earthbound. I don't know. Esper's expansion. Sorry. Exper's expression never changes. But what could be read as stoicism
C
is in fact Pokemon. They don't all of them have one expression.
B
Expression is deep concentration. Esper constantly struggles to subdue its apparently overwhelming psychic powers, which would be disastrous if not controlled. At least the result is an adorable face.
C
That's not deep. Constant. That's shell shocked.
B
Yeah, yeah. Esperance just saw something I did not want to see.
C
Yeah, that's like this Pokemon came home
B
and Esper smoked a lot.
A
That's like when I accidentally walked in on my father in the shower and I said, ah, shit.
C
Are you concentrated?
A
I'm never gonna forget this.
C
You were like, think about owls, think about owls, Think about owls.
B
Going in number 36, you got smalliv.
A
Smoliv is great.
B
I like it at number 35. I'm surprised you like smalliv, Mike.
A
I like small.
B
Small, I feel like fits the criteria of what you don't like.
A
Why don't you know? Sent it to Barrett. It was in my list. It was on my list.
C
Hey, when you're here, you're smamily.
B
Number 35, we got Dragapult. Whoa.
A
Yeah. Pretty cool looking.
B
I don't know what I'm looking at right now.
A
That's a cool dude.
C
Its head is a stealth bomber.
B
Yeah, this is like a.
A
And it's like a dragon.
C
Oh, it's got feet. I thought it was like a worm.
B
Like a Paper Mario boss. Yeah.
C
Yeah.
B
This thing weird to me. I like it, though.
C
Crazy.
A
Yeah.
B
This is gen 8 and it's a dragon slash Ghost Pokemon. This is cool.
C
It's like Mecca.
B
I like Dragapult.
A
Hey, put it on your list.
C
Yeah, this is cool.
B
This on the list.
C
I like it.
B
Number 34, clef key.
A
Fuck no.
B
Fuck you. Y' all don't like keys.
A
That's crazy.
B
Above Pikachu, but like, it has car keys and a house key. It's probably a closet key right there above toe to dial. This is up.
C
What's it do? Like the stars.
B
Car steel slash Fairy Pokemon. Klefkey's original Pokedex entry says that it'll threaten any attackers by fiercely jingling their keys at them.
C
I was gonna say. Does it distract children?
A
Wow, that's crazy.
B
That's nuts. All right, coming in. Number 33, Suikun Horse. Cool. I'm okay with that. Number 32, Scyther.
C
Is this a bug?
A
Yeah, that's a bug.
C
That's awesome.
B
Bug and flying type.
A
And he's in a new Pokemon game and he's down to help you cut. Cut logs.
C
Oh, yeah, yeah.
A
Very nice of him to do that for me. Have you been playing that?
C
I might have to.
B
Everyone's been talking. Everybody's been talking.
C
To justify having a switch too.
A
Exactly. Might be the start.
B
At number 31, we got Kyogre. Kyogre. I never knew how to pronounce this one. But this is another Gen three legendary Pokemon.
C
Yeah.
B
And I like the Gen three legendary Pokemon.
C
I love the, like, linear sort of geometric design.
B
Yeah, it's cool. And we haven't even seen Rayquaza yet.
A
No, Rayquaza will be up.
C
You haven't seen Rayquaza yet.
B
Number 30, Kramer Ant. Number 29. We got Jigglypuff.
A
Jigglypuff.
B
You even mentioned Jigglypuff.
C
I feel like.
B
See, but like above Pikachu, though.
C
That's what I'm gonna say. If you're gonna put Pikachu that low because someone else should have the limelight.
A
Yeah.
C
Why is Jigglypuff here?
B
Yeah, I feel like Jigglypuff. If we're talking about the. The trinity of Gen1 cuteness. Right. Like the Pokemon that we're putting out there because we know we're gonna sell merch is Pikachu, Jigglypuff and Eevee.
A
Yeah.
B
They're like. That's the triangle right there.
A
I like that. I like that.
B
And so Jigglypuff being this high while Pikachu is that low.
A
Maybe they just saw the super bowl commercial where she was singing with Lady Gaga.
B
Oh, yeah.
C
They might have seen the super bowl commercial where she was singing with Lady Gaga.
B
28. We got Bayleaf.
A
Yes.
B
I like this Pokemon a lot.
A
Good looking Pokemon.
B
Yeah.
A
Not a top 28 Pokemon, but a good Pokemon.
B
I agree.
C
I like a Baylee. Put it in with your rice, folks.
B
Boom.
C
It's subtle, but it makes a huge difference.
B
27. Ditto.
C
See, ditto moment. Ditto's having a moment.
A
Having a moment. We're going to fall in love with Ditto here.
C
This is the Ditto songs. It's like McConaughey, you know, when's Ditto going to have at Stylus Buyers Club
B
crazy deja vu right now? Because we talked about connaissance yesterday.
C
You did?
B
Yeah, on an interview. Because we reviewed.
C
You guys talk about the lost bus?
B
Oh yeah, we didn't talk about the lost bus.
C
I just watched Interstar last week.
B
I just watched it for the first time like a few days ago.
C
What'd you think?
B
Oh, fantastic movie. Yeah. Crazy slow paced in the first half.
C
Yeah.
B
Like it was kind of tough to watch it at home by myself. Yeah. For that first half. But the second half locks in so much that I want to watch it a second time so I can appreciate it in full.
C
We love tars. Oh, so much that I forgot about Case.
B
Dude. Oh my God. As soon as I saw that robot move, I was like, what are we doing?
C
Yeah, yeah, that's a cool looking robot. And cooked with that one.
B
Yeah. Good times.
C
Dialogue's a little quiet.
B
Yeah, it's a little bit.
C
But yeah, Ditto's gonna have its own Lincoln commercial.
A
Exactly.
C
I don't know if we have any artists in the chat, but of Matthew McConaughey. But his face is wiped clean and it's just a ditto face. You can get at me on blue sky.
A
I love that.
C
I think mom's home is my handle. You know, whatever.
B
Number 26, we got Diglett. What are we doing? No Diglett. Fucks. I love Diglett. Did you know that's not a nose? That's actually a tooth in his mouth. His mouth should open. That's what Twitter would try to tell you.
A
Oh, okay.
C
You mean X the everything? Apparently.
A
Yeah.
B
Grock, is this or is this nose a nose rock? Let me know. At number 25, we got Garchomp. Yeah, cool one. I like this one. That's. This is a good one.
A
Garchomp is up there.
B
Number 24, we got Magikarp.
A
You gotta love Magikarp.
C
Oh yeah, Pikachu.
A
Magikarp is an 80 through 100 top 100 list. Pokemon.
B
Yes.
C
All right.
A
But not a. Not 24.
B
No.
A
The whole reason above Gyarados.
B
The reason why we love Gyarados is because Magikarp sucks. The idea that we got to be real with ourselves.
C
Yeah.
B
That's why we love Gyarados. Because Magic harp is useless and become something cool. Yeah.
A
Right.
C
We all want to be Magikarp or.
A
Yeah, we all want to. We all want to.
B
You want to all want to have
A
to become the best.
B
We all want to have the Potential of a match.
A
Yes.
B
I love, you know, the faith of a mustache. Mustard seed. That's the Bible.
C
Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Damn.
B
At number 23, we got Eevee. Okay. Still haven't seen a lot of the other evolutions, which they did claim are all on the list.
A
They'll be top tens, top ten.
B
Number 22, we got sneezel.
C
Who the is sneezel?
A
That.
C
215, though. Shout out 215.
B
Sneasel.
C
Shout out southeastern Pennsylvania.
A
Hell, yeah.
B
Sneasel looks like a villain in brandy. And Mr. Whiskers. That's a reference for, like, five.
A
When they said, we got to make a new meowth, and they made Sneasel.
C
You guys have been asking for new Meowth.
A
Yes, exactly. This is. Oh, y' all wanted team Rocket to kick out meowth. Well, here's the new meowth.
B
By the way, everybody in chat loves Sneasel. By the way, Sneasel and chatter like, wait, whoa. We like Sneezel.
C
Damn. Sneasel rock. A lot of Sneasel fans fuck with Sneasel. I love you, sneezel.
A
Okay. Wow.
C
Okay, I guess I got to read up on Sneasel.
B
215, 21, we got Dragonite.
A
Dragonite.
C
Hell, yeah, Dragonite.
A
We love that guy.
C
Great thighs.
B
Great thighs. And I like the belly.
C
Yeah. I like the scale. The kind of belly.
A
Yeah.
B
Because, like, it's. It's crazy that you have Charizard and Dragonite in the same generation, but somehow Dragonite, even though he's, like, a lot rounder, in my opinion, has more sauce than Charizard. Maybe it's because the anime. Okay, I think because of the anime, because Charizard and Dragonite fought, and Dragonite whooped Charizard's ass.
A
Yeah. Dragonite reminds me of that guy with the big old dad bod who did the backflip on the roller skates and was like, this is what peak male athleticism looks, honestly.
B
Yes.
A
You're like, I got a dad bod, too. Like, I appreciate that, bro.
C
It's like seeing curlers in the Olympic village.
A
Yes.
C
It's like, right on, guys. That's awesome. You guys wear dress shoes.
A
You're part of it.
B
Somebody in chat says, dragon tails ass Pokemon. It does look like a dragon.
C
I do like that the third evolution completely. Completely changes the color scheme.
A
Oh, yeah. That iconic blue right there and just says, yeah, see you later.
C
Yeah. That's great.
A
Yeah, that looks great.
B
Number 20, Cubone. Cool.
A
I mean, cubone is up there. Cubone could have a Case for a top 100 Pokemon, but, like, not top 20.
B
No, no. Number 19.
A
We don't even have Sandshu on this list. Espion. Oh, wow.
B
So we're back. We're back to the Evolutions.
A
They really like Jolteon like I did.
C
They did they acknowledge that? They didn't put it with the other ones.
B
Let's see again. All the Evolutions are among the best Pokemon of all time. Espeon, Though you had to evolve it through a method new to the series at the time. By maxing out your hidden friendship meter with an Eevee.
A
Yes.
B
Then if you leveled it up during the day, boom, you had the one. You had one of the best psychic Pokemon of the game. Espeon taught trainers how rewarding friendship can be.
C
Wow.
B
So they didn't say why it's separated from the earlier EVs, but I think it's just like, the tier list.
A
Right.
B
They're like, all these Evs are tier B. Now we're into the tier A slash.
A
Tier A.
B
Number 19. Or number 18. Umbreon. Hell yes.
A
I mean, I love that.
B
Yeah.
C
And I just got warmer.
A
I love Jolteon to the death of me. I am a Jolteon number one fan. This very unserious but serious list. But Jolteon is the number one. Eeveelution.
B
I think. I think a lot of people think that, though.
A
I don't think so.
B
Design wise.
A
I feel. I feel there because I'm an umbrella.
B
I'm Team Umbreon. Yeah, for sure. But I feel like if you polled people, I think Jolteon would be number one. Chad. Am I crazy? Wow.
A
I think Chad. Chad's gonna say you're crazy.
B
Can we put up a polling chat who the best Eevee is? Evolution.
C
We had a wild card in there too.
A
Yeah.
C
Just Gengar.
A
Gengar's gonna be here.
B
People are saying I'm crazy. I always thought people would have rolled for Jolteon.
A
No.
B
But hey, like, I'm with y'.
C
All.
B
Umbreon is my guy.
C
I don't think I ever had an Eevee in my party.
A
Wow.
B
Really?
A
Did you identify with any of the three starting three Evolutions? Vaporeon, Flareon, and Jolteon?
C
I don't even remember.
A
Wow.
C
Yeah. I'm built different, actually.
A
Different.
C
Yeah. Is there a fire one?
B
Flareon. Larry, have you not seen Flareon? Flareon was in that first.
C
No, he did okay. I just. I like fire. I liked burning stuff as a kid.
B
Nice. Number 17. Greninja.
A
Yeah. You knew it was gonna be on here.
B
I forgot About Greninja, but, yeah, I could see it. I don't like that it's tongue into the scarf. It freaks me out every time I remember that. I like it. I'm like, oh, that's pretty sick, actually. At number 16, we got Zangoose.
A
No.
B
Who the is this dude? Never seen this guy. I like my life.
A
I've seen him. Absolutely not.
B
Never even heard of Zangoo.
C
Zangoose. Sangu's Chicken. You guys have zenku chicken up here?
B
I don't think we do.
C
Next time you're in LA.
A
Okay.
B
All right, number 15, we got slowpoke.
A
No, I love Slowpoke.
C
No, what's the evolution where it's got
A
Slow Bro and then Slow King?
C
The Slow King have the, like, shellfish
B
biting its ass, I believe Slow bro does.
A
And then Slow King stands up on two feet, has a crown still with it. That thing biting its ass.
C
Got it.
A
Is that thing a separate Pokemon? Did we ever.
B
It's a separate creature.
A
And then is it actually a standalone Pokemon, or is it just, like, a creature that appears and is only Slow Bro and Slow King affiliated?
B
We bring up a picture of Slowbro because I think it's. It is a separate entity because that's how it evolves in the cartoon, is that it gets bit. Right. And that's how you do the evolution.
A
Yeah.
B
It's been. It's been decades.
C
You know, I'm thinking that this list might be kind of what Pokemon is a shell serves. Because they get silly with it the whole time. Pokemon's always been silly. They don't think they got silly with it. You can have a list that's a little goofy.
B
The Shelter evolves with the Slowpoke.
C
So it's. It's. Yeah, it's symbiotic.
B
Wow.
A
Okay. Oh, so there's the shelter, the little one, the tiny one. And then you're telling me it grows up to just bite onto the Slowbro,
B
and that's like a bite line. It bites its tail, and then they evolve together.
C
It's like the symbiont.
B
Yeah.
A
That's beautiful.
B
That's crazy, because I mess with that. In the back of my head, that's what I thought it was, but I was like, no, that doesn't make sense. I vaguely remember that episode in the anime. Yeah.
C
Can they live without each other or would one?
B
I think so.
C
Because I'm like, if you took them apart.
A
Yeah. What happened? They die or do they d. Evolution devolve?
B
Well, how does Slowpoke become Slow or Slow Bro. Become Slow King. What does Slow King look like? Does he still have the guy he defeats?
A
The Slow King, like, he has to.
B
He has to kill the shelter.
A
The other one.
B
Yeah. In order to. Man.
C
It's Highlander Rules.
B
Oh, no. I. I feel like this implies that Slow King kills the shelter and makes it its crown, but that's just nature.
C
Whoa.
B
Damn.
C
What's that dark Slow King next to it?
A
Whoa.
B
Mega evolution. What is that? I have no idea.
A
It's come back to life as a ghost. On his head now.
C
Yeah, that's what happened. Yeah, we need to click into that.
B
We need to figure out what's going on in the Pokedex.
A
We need to learn about this.
B
Oh. So it just brings you to the Slow King.
C
Does that say six foot?
B
Okay, well, yeah, let's calm down.
C
Six, seven.
B
Six, seven, seven.
C
I didn't even mean to. I didn't even mean to.
B
Okay, there it is. So.
A
Oh, he's got it on his hand this time.
B
What is hap. Are these a Lola? Like, what is.
A
Yeah, it's a different region.
C
Yeah, it's got it on its hand.
A
Galerian. Is that when they went to Europe?
B
So I guess that's what happens when the shelter wins. That's my guess.
C
Wow.
B
But I do like that he has the shelter on his fist.
C
Yeah. And that little Hellboy.
B
This is actually pretty sick.
C
Number one.
A
That is cool.
B
Oh, no, My page crashed. Oh, wait, no, we got. We got there. Number 14, Gengar.
A
Wow, that's wrong. Top 10.
B
Unless.
A
That's wrong.
B
Unless my boy. Haunters.
A
Top 10.
B
Oh, that's a good.
C
When I was saying Gengar, I was picturing Haunter. So this is.
A
Yes. Yeah, we like Haunter a lot, but the world loves Gengar.
B
Number 13, Jolteon.
A
Yeah, it's insane.
B
It's the fastest non legendary Pokemon. Do you know that?
A
Wow. Really?
B
Yeah.
A
I didn't know that. I also wouldn't believe that, but I like that. That's cool. Good to know.
B
Number 12, squirtle.
C
Stupid.
A
Okay. Stupid.
B
Number 11. We got no Porygon.
C
Greg Miller wrote this list from porygon.com.
A
yeah. That's great.
B
Your third eye.
C
Yeah, I'm. It's wide open.
B
All right. We're in the top 10. Number 10, Charizard.
A
Wow. Okay.
C
Feels kind of washed.
A
Show me 10. Better than this.
B
Number nine. We got Tyranitar.
A
I do fuck with that guy.
B
Tyranitar is pretty sick.
A
Whoa.
B
So far, they're doing all right. At number eight, we got. Okay, no, no, no. I don't like this. Alolan Raichu. Why Dumber Raichu. Oh, okay.
C
But like, why? Why?
B
It's just. Let's take the edges away from Raichu.
C
Yeah, yeah.
B
It's up. Chad is very split on this, by the way. Some people in chat are very.
A
No, I think they were right. I think they were right. Oh, really?
C
Raichu industry.
A
No, they were riding for Tyranitar. They're just catching up now.
B
Oh, I see.
A
They're catching up.
B
Yeah, a lot of. A lot of people are.
A
Yeah. They were riding for Tyran.
B
Some of them. There are some people that are very pro Alolan Raichu. And I'm not trying to yuck or yum.
A
That's crazy.
B
But, man, not anti Alolan raichu, but top 10 above OG raichu. No, number seven. We got chandelure.
C
That's black and white. I remember that one. Kind of crazy.
B
Yeah. What are we doing here? We're doing the chandelier. Pokemon, man. Polygon. Just straight up crashing my yes.
C
Yeah. Like you asked if I knew about Pokemon. Answer is yes. Enough to get mad.
A
Yeah, exactly. Enough to get mad.
C
Pissed off.
B
Remember?
A
This is right.
B
Show me number six. Mimikyu. I like that, though. I mean, here's too high, but Mimikyu Top 20.
A
Top 20.
B
Mimikyu has been making waves.
A
Top 50. I'll give you.
C
Really?
A
Top 50. Making waves.
B
The waves in interstellar. Oh, yeah.
C
Those aren't waves. Wait, those are waves?
B
Yeah, Those aren't mountains. They're waves.
C
You can't like. Yeah. Our sweet Pikachu wannab. You know who we had at like, 75?
A
Yeah, exactly.
B
That is true, though. Yeah. You can't rake. You can't rate Pikachu that. This is Pikachu hate. Let's be real.
C
This is hating our boy is getting.
B
You're going to put Pikachu that far down at 69 or 68, whatever it was. And Mimikyu is number six. That's. That's tier one hating.
C
Slumdog said LeBron over Michael.
A
That's crazy.
B
Show me number five. Heracross. No, no.
A
That's amazing.
B
What's number four?
C
You gonna be okay?
B
No, I'm gonna think about Sprigatito.
A
I'm gonna really think about this.
C
Come on. Come on. Is this weed?
B
Cat. Weed Cat.
C
This is my brother. Was T texting me? Okay.
A
Yeah. Hell, yeah.
B
Show me number three. Snorlax iconic Number two.
A
He's all of us.
C
Yeah, we love Snorlax.
B
Number two is Psyduck.
C
Can we guess what number one is?
B
Yeah. What do we think number one.
C
I think it's Mewtwo.
B
Yeah, it has to be Mewtwo.
A
Well, the way they've gone through this list, they don't have to put me.
B
Have we seen Rayquaza? No, you can't leave out both Mewtwo and Rayqua. That's crazy. Have we seen Onyx? No, we haven't seen Charmander. What's number one? Show me number one. Mewtwo.
A
Wow. Wow.
B
That was a rough ride. I'm not gonna lie.
A
Well, I'm glad that they made such an unserious list.
B
That's unserious.
A
The people, if it was a serious list, would have been mad at us for being so unserious. But guess what? You got unserious and unserious, which equals fun. Yeah, it's a good time, man.
B
That's a thumbs down for me, dog. I'm sorry.
C
Chandelier is an ally, though. I wanted to put that.
B
Oh, yeah. List.
C
I just did.
B
I would only.
C
Dragonite. Yeah. Dragon.
B
Dragonite. Well, no, I'm saying I would eat. Oh, you would eat. Yeah. Dragon egg.
C
Yeah. Okay, cool. Mewtwo is. I don't want to talk about Mewtwo's views.
B
Yeah, no, no. Poliwhirl seems like an ally.
C
Yeah, I think so. Peaceful belly.
B
He's got the fist in the air. Shout out. My guy, Polyro Heracross also seems friendly.
C
Yeah, I feel like Vapyon is a turf.
B
Oh, really? Vapor and you think a turf?
C
I don't remember what it looks like, but yeah.
B
I mean, Vaporeon has like a very, very like the trans colored one. It's like the blue, like, very feminine looking Pokemon.
C
There's one that has the transmit. So I might. I might have just spoke out of turn.
B
Listen. Oh, that's Vapore.
C
That's not the one I was thinking of. Okay, that's gay. That one's not a turf. That's trans. Not a turf. Doesn't really know enough. Not taking a side, which makes them effectively a turf. Turf.
B
Glaceon is the one we're talking about. Mike, Charlotte, thank you guys so much for joining me on this episode. Breaking down the top 100 Pokemon.
A
That was a list.
B
That was a roller coaster.
A
That one's gonna sit with me all weekend.
C
I had a great time with you boys.
B
I'm glad you had a great time.
C
I had a blast.
B
You had a lot of one liners that, like, I. I think people are gonna be driving home and it's gonna hit them randomly. They'd be like thinking back to this episode and be like, they're going to do the random chuckles because they're going to realize what you meant.
C
Time release capsules.
B
Yes.
C
That's what goes down with Charlotte.
B
Yes. Charlotte. Again, thank you so much for being on this episode with us.
A
Thank you.
B
This is a blast.
C
Thank you so much.
B
Let's do this again soon.
A
Thank you so much.
C
Thank you so much.
B
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A
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C
I didn't know that.
A
If you and your crew want to play it, you can all play it just like Minecraft. So it's pretty fun. We're going to do that right now.
C
Okay.
B
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Date: March 6, 2026
Host(s): Blessing Adeoye Jr., Mike Howard, Charlotte Avery
Guest: Charlotte Avery (Astro Goblin, Funhaus)
In this engaging and often hilarious episode, the Kinda Funny crew, joined by Charlotte Avery, take on Polygon’s newly published “The 100 Best Pokémon of All Time.” Rather than making their own list, they react live to Polygon’s rankings, critiquing, laughing, and celebrating the world of Pokémon. The conversation covers nostalgic favorites, newer oddballs, and plenty of debate about what should make a true top 100 — with memorable tangents about Pokémon’s design philosophy, personal favorites, and even which Pokémon are “allies” or edible.
Notable Quote:
_"I'm a 151 guy. I like my pocket monster to be almost animal. They started to lose me when we did cherries, cogs... there will be a line that I draw at like 51 through 50. No more BS." – Mike Howard (14:21)
Memorable Exchange:
"If we're being real about our top 10, it would be mostly Gen 1 with baby sprinkles at Gen 2. But I think like, video game lists, they're not going to want to have a bunch of games from the same franchise."
– Blessing (16:58)
Notable Moments:
Blessing on workplace drama:
"I'm pretty sure I love Slack." (21:29 – on Slack Off the sloth Pokémon)
Charlotte on Pokémon snack foods:
"If they're livestock... there's sheeple and also delicious lamb." (15:25)
Mike on Pokémon’s evolutionary lines:
"There's a huge middle ground where I just stopped playing the games but kept buying them." (13:30)
Charlotte, improv genius:
"I'm picturing, like, him and Meowth being kind of like a George and Lenny type duo. Keeps shocking women." (49:47)
On the Polygon list’s dubious methodology:
"Is there a criteria? I mean, I read vibes." – Charlotte (43:18)
Emerging list consensus:
"You got unserious and unserious, which equals fun." – Mike (84:21)
| Timestamp | Segment | Key Points | |-----------|---------|------------| | 02:16–10:00 | Intros/Expertise | Pokémon origins; Host and guest introductions. | | 13:41 | "151 guy" | Mike’s nostalgia for Gen 1 and what makes a great Pokémon. | | 26:05 | List Criteria | Reading Polygon’s intro on methodology – “vibes” over strict rules. | | 38:12 | Venusaur > Arceus | Amusement at ranking “literal God” below Venusaur. | | 54:22 | Butterfree & Caterpie | Debates about the legitimacy of bug Pokémon in top ranks. | | 57:46 | Pikachu at #67 | Hosts call out the unserious nature of the list. | | 63:39 | “IGN would have had Pikachu top ten.” | Critique of Polygon’s choices; comment on list-writing. | | 83:46 | Snorlax at #3 | “Snorlax is all of us.” | | 84:14 | Mewtwo at #1 | Final reflection on rankings and list quality. |
The episode is filled with banter, mock outrage, and playful sarcasm — particularly at the expense of Polygon’s “unserious” list choices. The crew deftly balances nostalgic love with fresh criticism, creating an environment where both diehard fans and casual Pokémon players can enjoy the ride.
This episode of Kinda Funny Gamescast offers a lively, unpredictable romp through the world of Pokémon favorites, reminding listeners why these creatures have such staying power in pop culture. Even with a list that’s “by vibes” and “unserious,” the conversation reveals just how personal and varied ’favorite Pokémon’ can be — and how the real fun is in debating, not ranking.
Listeners will leave with:
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