Pokemon Theory: Snorunt is a Failed Falinks? | Gnoggin
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- Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield gave us Falinks, an incredible Pokemon from the Galar region. But also in the Galar region is Snorunt, a little yokai Pokemon. What is such a Japanese Pokemon doing in the Galar region? Which is based on the United Kingdom, especially England? Well! There may be a lot more to it than you think! Enough for a mini game theory anyway!
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One thing that supports this theory is that both Falinks and Snorunt are of the Mineral and Fairy egg group. The only other pokemon like this is Carbink.
Golden Cog
Carbink are ancient Falinks/Snorunt
@@gabriellockwood2780 Carbink is snowrunt trapped inside a rock?
Then why is it, when u breed snorunt, u get a snorunt and not a Falinks?
However, Snorunt literary has the name runt in his name. Sno-runt.
Shimorgaming Mo
They've Evolved overtime to be separate species.
Think Frogs vs. Toads, or the various colorations and patterns of domestic cats and dogs vs. Wild cats and dogs.
But how does the "skin" evolve from (iguess metal) metal body to a strawlike snorut thing 😐
_remember machamps underwear? Yea this is a part of his skin🤷🏾♂️_
Not too farfetched if you ask me. Physically, behind his robe, Snorunt has a round body, like a member of Falinks group underneath that armor.
*farfetch’d
Halberd-3 da dum tsh
But why is it so much larger than even the leader Falinx why would the run grow so much bigger.
@@Toneill029 Evolution. To adapt to a harsh environment.
@@Toneill029 who says the Snorunt is actually bigger?
That coat could be way too large for it
The Spartans did ditch babies that they saw as weak in mountains to he eaten by wild animals. Maybe snorunt was one of them.
That is disturbing and wrong.
@@cintronproductions9430 is it though?
@@Jormyyy Well yeah, if I saw somebody dump a helpless baby in the wild simply for being weak, I'd scoop him/her up and raise him/her as my own, or at least find a family that will love and nurture him/her. Call me soft but anyone with a heart would do the same. People were savage back then, brrrr!
@@cintronproductions9430 well not everyone, but spartans specially, they ARE known for being pretty brutal
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Lockstin: "It's time for a mini theory! Do you remember those? I used to do them all the time..."
Me: Oh yeah I do remember those!
Lockstin:"*six years ago*"
*ohgodI'vebeenwatchinggnogginforsixyears*
Yo same
@@z_3mk.296 Doenst even feel like it. Glad he has gotten this far into his TH-cam career
I see you've never stopped using your Noggin
ヘ（。□°）ヘ
I felt old when he said that😶
Counter Theory: Snorunt is in Galar because Glalie looks sort of like a football/soccerball
Counter-counter theory: No, it doesn't. It absolutely doesn't. Golem looks more like a soccer ball and where he at?
No, Golem isn't black and white
How does a ball with 2 horns roll like a football? Glalie may have hockey mask inspirations, but with a football it doesn't hold up
I was going to comment this dang it
Jernej Fric Glalie is black and white and ball-shaped, which already is most of what defines a soccer ball. The black portion of glalie is made up of a few geometric shapes placed symmetrically across it’s body, very similar to a soccer ball.
Shower thought: if you breed a Phalink, does only the leader breed or the entire Phalanx? Does the leader lay a bunch of eggs that form a single Phalink? In nature, is the leader the mother or father?
That would make sense.
The leader would effectively be the Alpha of the group, and thus would be the one who's allowed to mate to insure stronger offspring.
It might be like alpha male matings. The alpha has a harem and the others sneak their turns in with females when he isn’t looking.
Then again, you would need a Ditto for that...
falink*
Actually whomever is the biggest so technically the mother or father could be
Lockstin 2019: I'll try making less Pokemon videos to even the content
Lockstin 2020: nOt gRoUnD mOvEs!?
Yeah, lokstin is a poketuber now. His most recent not Pokémon episode was “is samus a magical girl?”
He embraced the Poketuber role last year though
I tried, man. I tried.
What if he did videos based on Horizon Zero Dawn? That game has plenty of lore and mystery
Well, they're in the same egg group, have the same leveling rate, and snorunt hang around each other in groups of five, much like a single falinks is made up of five. Snorunt's stats are lower than falinks. (Notably in Attack, Defense, and Speed.) Sounds feasible.
Also, let's declare a Hug-a-Snorunt day!
Edit: Falinks move in groups of six.
Isn't Falinks made up of 6?
Rah Collier let’s declare it
@@dorianjareth9198 Oops, you're right.
So, maybe... they lost their leader?
Snowrunts might just live in groups of 5 because they lack an alpha as they are all runts
A fascinating and plausible theory. One of the best explanations you've made was addressing the question as to why there are more Snorunts than there are Falinks, it's because they usually walk in a pack together and the ones that get left behind are just there, forced to evolve and adapt to its environment.
Omg you are everywhere this really is a small world
@@pyrite2084 it's not small, this guy is just god, so don't worry
You an OwO are everywhere
I gave you your 100th like!
Trayvon Collins actually the real one is in Pokémon videos. Others just go wherever
"all the Pokemon we brought back have a good reason to be back" yea, like Vileplume
Diamond Jub eh let the Oddish hang out with all the Gossifleur
I like the Oddish line, in Let's Go Pikachu I caught an Oddish that I named James, and he grew up together with my Bulbasaur Gordo. I'm happy my plant bois are in Galar.
@@cintronproductions9430 Vileplume is based on a TROPICAL flower called the Rafflesia, the only reason I could see for it being in Galar (which is based on Britain) is royalty importing exotic things
Just like they said they took out the National Dex to "improve the animations".
@@dalekrenegade2596 blatant lie, proven by dataminers
I want to see a SFM where the Falinks "sing" a military cadence or march to classic marching songs (i.e. Imperial March, LOTR).
And Snorunt stumbles behind the Falinks.
falinks march to make a man out of you
@@summermermaidstar756 I'll make a Mon out of you
A fail Falink that’s an interesting theory
A Failinks if you will
Budum tssshhhh
I really love watching your videos even when you make random theories sometimes. Thank for the constant videos even though TH-cam can be a asshole about ad revenue.
Also, thanks for not dragging out the video to the ten minute mark even though I wouldn't mind.
I'm gonna go with "Galar imported it" instead, but it is an interesting theory.
Yeah i agree. Galar most likely imported the majority of the Pokemon (Since Bounsweet being there as a tropical fruit doesn't make much sense either).
There are so many pokemons that look like evolutions (in the real meaning of the word) of other pokemon according to the environment.
Jynx and Froslass both evolve from little blonde creatures both look feminine and both have a red piece of cloth or a pink piece of cloth in their shiny form, and this is the best example.
I wouldn't be surprised if pokemon like Feebas-Milotic and Magikarp-Gyarados or Croagunk-Toxicroak and Toxel-Toxtricity were related.
By the way, I think that it's more probable that Snorut's became Falinks's, not the other way round.
That would also explain the change of type from ice to fighting.
Ice is weak to rock and steel, so you have to evolve in a fighting (or ground) type to fight them.
Also, Snoruts are weak alone so some of them probably had to form groups to survive.
And my theory is that that the Snorunt were the descendants of failed brass trainees. They washed out of the harsh training required to become one, thus adapting to the icy environment in disgrace. This populace slowly drifted away from the Falinks line, thus creating a evolutionary line as they reproduced in the new environment they found themselves in.
Theory: Snorunt IS a Falinks member,but left behind. It became homeless so that's why it's wearing a robe;it lost it's armor. But it goes on to evolve into stronger things if merged with more ice
here's the thing: the Mycenaeans in ancient Greece (for some time) had councered the whole country, so they went exploring. They traveled across the Mediterainean sea, then north of the antlantic all the way to GREAT BRITTAN (the Galar region).
so, this is my theory :)
Snorunt is a failed falinks...
A failinks :)))
Yes
Ayy! XD
There is more solid evidence in this "mini-theory" than there was in the Melmetal it-all-comes-together theory. Just saying, for a mini-theory that isn't supposed to have much evidence, it's actually pretty solid. Well done, good sir! :D
Fun fact: the Illiad was essentially named after the then name for Troy. The original name of the epic being "he poíesis Ilias" translated as "The Trojan Poem". So basically Troy Story.
-osp
Cool theory! Very interesting.
IMO Snorunt looks more like a tiny thatched house with a face. Would've been cool to connect Snorunt's look with the thatched roofs of the old houses around the UK. The UK also has folklore including household spirits like Brownies or Hobs, so Snorunt could still fit in with the region. Just a slight design alteration - so a Galarian Snorunt - and maybe a type change (Ice/Fairy?) would be necessary.
snorunt: well at least i have arms, a mouth, and 2 different evolutions.
I love this theory, but it could also be the other way around. What if sometimes the runt in a litter of snorunts gets left behind and rather than evolve it congregates with the others that are left behind too for protection and they eventually become a falinks. That could be why their called falinks, because they failed at being snorunts.
Pokemon is full of examples of mislined pokemon (Gastley, Haunter, Gengar, Venomoth and Butterfree etc.)
ALso pokemon would wander out (Pokemon SuMo has Eeevee on a ship going towards Alola... pokemon WILL find their way out of their natural habitat!)
I have another theory that the falinks are actually a type of tangelas that don't grow their vines in, making them hard to be protected from predators, so groups of bald tangelas create groups of falinks by finding old armor to protect them.
Falinks are Roman, right? So maybe they were spread out really far, and the Snorunt were left behind after they hypothetically retreated back to Galar.
I think this is the best theory for location but that also means that Falinks itself would show up either only in Rome or throughout the entire meditaranian(can't spell, sorry)
i have a theory galar isn't an island and its relatively close to an italian and greek based region, besides kalos obv
@@babel_UV I suppose the northern part of the region isn't shown on the map, and the proposed Pokemon world map does tend to be land to the north, islands to the south.
4:06 Gave me Blue's Clues reminiscent vibes: "Blue scadooed; we can too!"
I'm liking this theory, but the thing that would make me absolutely believe this is if Falinks and Snorunt/Glalie/Froslass have a rivalry as in like what Heatmor and Durant have
RegFromSpongebob77 Vlogs I mean... Maybe they don't hate each other. Snorunt could still want to rejoin them, even if it can't, and Falinks could pity snorunt, but know that they had to leave them behind so that they wouldn't also be stuck.
Was there a video where he explains the theory of Dwebble being a Unova variant of Paras?
Never, Falinks would never leave a man behind. Such a cruel practice could never be achieved by a team as loyal to eachother.
i mean if we're looking at history they kinda did tho..
On the surface. What about underneath that surface?.....
@@KnoblinReboot Falinks are Roman Legionaries, not Spartan warriors. One cool thing is that if a Roman platoon was behaving poorly, one of the soldiers would be killed to punish the group, could relate to ghost type in it's Evo.
Well... Given snorunt's size they could also be Brasses. Maybe they didn't stand up to the training required to be a leader and got stuck in the icy mountains or the rest of their group died, leaving them alone to fend for themselves. With that, they either perish due to being accustomed to having a group or grow aggressive and feral to survive the harsh places (frosslass or glalie)
0:02 lockstin’s tiktok: am i a joke to you?
I mean, Ghastly look very similar, which could also mean that they are pralines that died in non snowy terrain. Glailie looks like a ghastly covered in snow, maybe preventing it from turning purple and evolvibgbinro genera. Froslass IS purple, maybe more of a purple ghastly due to its shape. Ghastlier are also stated to be a collective essence of multiple ghosts, meaning they could entirely be an entire GROUP of phalynx. I don’t know, but it’s all pretty cool
One thing that I would categorize as a hole in this theory is: If Snorunt is a runt Falinks, then why is it _triangular_ instead of _round_ like its supposed brethren. Other than that, this makes for an interesting idea.
snorunt is round tho
cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/7/79/Sugimori_Snorunt_AG.jpg
Also Snorunt has teeth.
@@cintronproductions9430 Implying Falinks don't?
He's not defective, he's cold because he doesn't have homies to cuddle with like falinks does :(
The reason why Snorunt line is in SwSh is because form change is a really common trait with the new pokemon from the galar region (represented by Morpeko as the pikachu clone). And this is why many pokemon from previous generation that have more than one form or evolution ended up being part of the galar dex.
However, this theory is really interesting.
Another reason for snorunt to be spread out across the world could be that some of them are exiled for weakness or failure and wander across the planet looking for shelter.
This is a theory I didn't know I needed.
Another possibility to add onto this: female Snorunt specifically evolve into Frosslass in Galar not to drag just any manly thing to its death but the machismo Falinks that caused it to die. Searching for them on the mountain they had been abandoned. Also Mega Glalie's entry states it's in constant pain from mega evolving. Pain it was already experiencing as a Snorunt from abandonment, and having to grow large teeth quickly subdue enemies with bites and crunches. Froslass looses these teeth and thus the pain, well all of that from dying.
This doesn’t make sense, for a couple of reasons. One: Snorunt is much bigger than Falinks, even the leader. Secondly; if Falinks act as one group, wouldn’t they recognize one of their own falling behind, and do something to help them?
My point exactly, because isn't their group a set number of 6?
Well on the 2nd point, Spartans were known to abandon babies they saw as weak in the mountains and other harsh areas. Perhaps it's less that the runt "couldn't keep up", and more that the runt "wasn't strong enough to train" and was therefore abandoned
Since Snorunt are found everywhere rather than being failed Falinks, it might be more likely the other way around. That Falinks are Snorunt who have banded together, adopting an alternative communal life style to better survive some environmental factor unique to Galar.
Wait what????
[Insert what face pickachu face here]
[Distressed Rowlet]
during part of spartan training they had to survive in the wild with their only worldly possession being a red cloak... and in turn a lot of them probably die of hypothermia as they have no shelter from the elements. Also in a true phalanx formation you would put the best warrior on the rightmost end of the formation as each hoplite shield covered half of you and half of the guy to your left so the right most spot was where the formation was most vulnerable, hence the best soldier aka the big one at the end.
Mini theory in British is actually called ‘Filler Video’
Don’t look it up
Your hair is seriously bouncy and fluffy like a JRPG character or something what the heck I love it.
since the route above the only area (excluding the wild area) that falinks is found is snowy (not to mention snorunt also live there) it could be that, being the runt of the group, it was abolished to the snowy area nearby.
The Spartans were known to similar things to babies they deemed too weak
They should make a Pokémon game with no Pokémon, dexit means dexit
Oscar Sullivan how would it work?
Don’t worry urself with minor technicalities
Oscar Sullivan minor ? You are taking away the major part of the game.
Willie Preisig it’s a joke smart one
Maybe snowrunt got separate from the Falinks via the Darkest Day that brought the snowrunts to other regions, I mean have you seen the darkest days boss battle
Broke: Snorunt is a failed Falinks
Woke: Falinks is successful Snorunt
The whole snorunt shivering despite being ice type did always bug me. Even when I rationalize it as an aesthetic choice. They could have made’em normal that had latent ice powers. Like psyduck...despite never becoming psychic.
You sounded like Steve from blues clues when you said "let me know, down below" in that singsongy fashion.
But I think you hit this theory right on the head. It makes so much sense.
4:03 Illium is another name for the city of Tory. -iad is a Greek suffix meaning story of, like how the Alexiad tells the story of Alexios Kommenos' reign. So an Illiad is "the story of Ilium. Its actually the same with the Oddesey. Odussiea also means "the story of Odysseus." The reason why oddsey has come to mean a long journey is because that's what happens in the epic
snorunt: jokes on you falinks! I have arms and can evolve into 2 different pokemon!
Maybe the Falinks left behind in jungle/tropical areas become Tangelas, and tangelas lost in snoy areas also become Snorunts and vice-versa, that could explain the expansion of this little species all over the world as non-falinks
I do like the idea of Falinks going on the Pokémon equivalent of the Great Modron March. Bunch of little Spartan monodrones making their way about the world.
I mean it is shivering you wouldn’t think a Pokémon that is supposed to live in cold would be shivering
i like the idea that Falinks was a regional variant of snorunt that over time started adapting by teaming up like eggsecute
1:31 *I can disprove the whole theory with just 5 words:*
Snorunt has teeth, Falinks don't.
He could have explained it as falinks being takin into battle during war and colonization
As someone who’s favorite Pokémon isFalinks I’m fricking crying
From abandoned chain bug thingy to best ghost girl, I think Froslass won in the end.
I like the idea that snorunt are the left behind falinks that evolved into their own thing over time in a colder climate
It may be specificly Galarian Snowrunts that are failed Falinks. The others could be a Falinks subspecies that evolved into Snowrunts overtime, as they didn't produce a 'Big Brass' type.
I just imagine that the left one just wants to play in the snow/ice
At 1:48 it does look round like it's coat just so happens to be pointy, or as if it has a horn under there
Don’t forget that the ruins where falinks can be found are right next to route 8, a snowy route where snorunt can be found
Glalie is probobly the snowrunt becoming angry for vengeance, to take revenge on the others that left it behind to die.
No bad it's weak to Falinks
@@notscorchingsands9718 But Froslass is immune to Falinks and... (Falinks used Smart Strike) oh...
This makes a lot of since. They look a lot alike. Maybe the yellow snorunt has is the armor of falinks, and was left behind while they were walking in the cold
To support this theory, both Pokémon can learn the moves head-butt and protect naturally, and they can both be found on Route 8 the former being found in the rocky terrain while the ladder can be found in the snowy areas literally right next to them
Wait Lockstin doesn’t this mean there was enough butter sauce for the region?
Imagine if there was a line before Falinks and snowrunt that when it evolves, splits like nincada into multiple pokemon at a time
Snorunt is just a Falink the brass forgot about in the frozen food aisle. By becoming frosslass, it now makes its own frozen food.
0:50 Zashiki Warashi reminds of a doujin manga
I don't personally imagine pokemon coming into existence like that, especially the idea that ghost pokemon are other dead pokemon. But rather than being left alone I could imagine Snorunt origin being maybe connected, where generations in groups or alone activated different DNA.
sno runt LOOKS triangular but when i looekd at it closely in a close up shot I saw a great thing above its head in the coat which probably the inside of the coat and it already looks spherical
Theory: As all of the Falinks Marched through other regions, some of them got left behind in other regions. The runt thought its armor would keep it warm, but it didn’t. They found the remains of a dead animal, took some of its fur, and with a bit of dye made it their clothing.
Those which did not survive however, (the females) right as they were about to evolve they died, turning them half ghosts. The ones who did survive, (the males) had adapted to the cold environment, along with the ice type. It roamed the land searching for other falinks that may have been left behind, to rescue them. It may look scary, but it’s got a really warm heart. Froslass on the other hand, searches for groups of Falinks to curse, in anger of the ones that left it behind. Gallaie soon found itself with some trainers to spend its time with, and got the bond between it and its trainer gave it a mega evolution (hence my theory of why it looks intimidating but it’s actually really friendly). Frosslass though, is to angry on getting revenge on the Falinks, and has not formed a large bond with its trainer if it has one.
Tell me if there’s anything that I may have gotten wrong
Both genders can evolve into glalie, which actually makes more sense. If the pokedex is true, perhaps froslass are special evolutions when the freezing female snorunt comes possessed by a human girl , hence its humanoid form.
I thought of a fan-made evolution to falinks involving snowrunt thanks to this theory. here is the story.
long ago after the odessy, the leader notices the runt of the litter had vanished, the entire group goes back and look for the lost falink, to no avail, week past then months, they leave the to head home heartbroken and devastated that they lost one of their own. they mourn for the lost one, until years later, during a trip with a trainer the falink notice a snowrunt in their party, and one of the falinks seemed to be familiar with said snowrunt and vice versa,
after the entire adventure the snowrunt never evolved and soon the falinks and the snowrunt realized that the falinks were its family that left it long ago, it was still angry until one of the other links explain how long it looked for the snowrunt. and after reconciling both pokemon embrace with each other and soon begin to emerge and evolve into the new pokemon Tetsudo, and depending on the gender of the snowrunt Tetsudo gainss aitgher a defence boost ( for glailie) and a speed boost ( for froslass)
4:00 Me when I see a new Gnoggin vid uploaded
That footage of Snorunt walking slowly and sadly past the Falinks at camp was heartbreaking!
Troy, the country the Greece destroyed, was called also called “Ilia”. Which is why the book is called Iliad. I know it’s not what the videos about, but I wanted to pass that along.
Lockstin: whats an iliad again?
My exact thoughts when im reading the iliad
It could be that both Falinks and Snorunt are evolved from a common baby pokemon that is round, and in galar some of them band together and evolve into Falinks surviving together while these that keep surviving alone tend fare worse, and later die to evolve to Froslass and Glalie where they do embrace the cold.
I forgot how much I liked your mini theories. More please :) Cool idea this one.
So... Falinks can march underwater to go from region to region since Galar is an island (They how aren't they part Water type, since nothing mentions they do live underwater, unlike with Grapploct).
The reason why Snorunt line is in so many regions, is that its actually one of Gamefreaks favorite lines (They prefer them over any other Ice type line at least by the looks of it)
Or, the Snorunts from other regions were left there when Falinks migrated across regions in ancient times. Then something like continental drift occurred that separated the Snorunts of those areas from the constantly moving Falinks. That way only Snorunts would be able to reproduce on those continents while Falinks would reproduce on Galar and the rings of the Falinks would still produce Snorunts in Galar.
Glalie has the shape of what a Falinks would likely evolve into, with two horns, and an armor... made of ice due to its history/type as Snorunt.
It could also be that they followed humans on their journeys to explore new lands, like it happened to the Zigzagoon line. It's born into Galar but then in Hoenn changed nature and appearance. I don't remember now if there's a cold/icy area in Hoenn but it could be related to that as well? During travels a Falink lost its platoon and was left behind, turning into Snorunt?
I can’t believe I live in a time where I’m seeing Pokémon I’ve never seen before like every day
The Spartans did always tell their soldiers one thing: Come back with your shield or on it. That meant either they came back as winners or as corpses. Yeah, they were that hardcore. They had to be. Have you seen the place where they lived?! It's no wonder Athens is still a city today!
I got a theory about falinks. It's actually not a pokemon but a badnik that eggman created.
I think sinnoh is the original home of snorunts line sense it is the most northern japanese region and the stories and origins of these pokemon is hokkaido japan IRL
I think that instead of being a follower and getting lost it was supposed to be one of the heads but there weren't enough smaller ones so as a way to fix the problem it was knocked out and woke up in a mountainy terrain
i always thought that snorunt was tangela without the vine infestation but this makes more sense
You should have a taxonomy episode. It would make a great episode. Like which egg groups came first and how they interacted. Dragon and Monster egg groups would have been among the first after the fish and insect egg groups, kind of like how you mentioned in the dragon types explained video, with dragons having primordial power. Fairy’s would evolve to counter them, and steel types would be the last to develop since they have a close connection to humanity. You could suggest how charizard dropped the dragon types to ward off fairies.
Glalie is in a British region because it looks like a Canadian (country tied to England) hockey mask. Froslass is there as a substitute fairy/ghost/witch pokemon. Snorunt is naturally there and is a wandering traveller in the cold areas
I was thinking that when a baby falinks was not tough enough to fight, or it cried too much, they do as the spartans do, and yeet them into the cold. I’d say the same thing about the evolutions.
The fact that Falinks is found on the sandy area at route 9 and the snowy part just north is full of Snorunts only helps this theory.
Falinks Odyssey , that could work as a movie
Glad to see someone make a theory about this, I've been saying this since falinks was revealed
I didn't know this theory was out there already but I was thinking about this the other day. Only the idea occurred to me backwards: maybe a Falinks is a grouping of Snorunt that have organized. Though this way makes more sense.
I've also ALWAYS thought Snorunt was odd. Adorable, but odd. It does not like to be cold. It looks to be struggling with being cold constantly. Yet it's ice type? And grows into two things that ARE icy? So this theory explains that well.
It's also worth noting that Glalie is a rock, the Pokedex states. However none of that line are rock type, which indicates they aren't characterized by it. Possibly it is a very soft rock. Snorunt and Glalie use the little clothes and ice respectively to protect its very vulnerable body from attacks. Falinks can be looked at in the same way. The Falinks' wear armor and shields to guard their soft body. Snorunt lost its armor or perhaps never got it, so it made do with what it could.
Another Pokemon that could be Falinks related is Johto beta Warwolf evolution line. The creature in the fur coat looks like a Falinks.