So... Are Grass Type Pokemon Plants or Animals? | Gnoggin

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  • Grass Type Pokemon are curious creatures... or are they even creatures at all? Are they plants? Are they a weird hybrid? What even is the definition of a plant vs an animal? Let's discuss this and see if we can come up with an answer!
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  • @Xojah4
    @Xojah4 5 ปีที่แล้ว +440

    Oddish is poison-type, so you shouldn't eat them

    • @zamasutard749
      @zamasutard749 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      But you can smoke it 🚬

    • @Xojah4
      @Xojah4 5 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      @@zamasutard749 Exeggutor is psychic-type and look like it has always fun, so try to smoke Exeggutor's leaves.

    • @zamasutard749
      @zamasutard749 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@Xojah4 what the hell did you say

    • @Xojah4
      @Xojah4 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@zamasutard749 How to get drags in Pokémon world.

    • @austinroy5146
      @austinroy5146 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@Xojah4 I mean Oddish in the pokedex is literally the "weed Pokémon"

  • @JustinWPruett
    @JustinWPruett 5 ปีที่แล้ว +229

    “For starters...”
    *shows the original four starters*
    I love this channel.

  • @bray2964
    @bray2964 5 ปีที่แล้ว +806

    "We know some of them are just animals with plants on them"
    *Shows an animal with fungi on it*

    • @Docwilson91
      @Docwilson91 5 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Bram Jans glad someone else caught that

    • @cypcyp77
      @cypcyp77 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      True

    • @Kayclau
      @Kayclau 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I was thinking the same.

    • @severalpigeons6946
      @severalpigeons6946 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Oh yeah mushrooms are fungi.
      I am ashamed of myself.

    • @Kayclau
      @Kayclau 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@soil9749 believe it or not, fungi are closer related to animals than plants. They are a kingdom of their own and have no traits shared with plants.

  • @rorytelling
    @rorytelling 5 ปีที่แล้ว +188

    Grass types are probably
    1) plants that became sentient and evolved (in the real life way, not the Pokemon way) eyes and ears and legs to become more animal-like.
    2) animals that evolved (again, in the real life way) chlorophyll and leaves to take advantage of energy provided by the sun in times of food scarcity.
    Both can be true at the same time for different Pokemon

    • @Fruit_Shark_in_the_microwave
      @Fruit_Shark_in_the_microwave 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Well actually there is more proof of this theory where animals evolved over time Growlithe is another example but for fire type pokemon because it looks like a normal dog but I swear in the Pokedex it said it has a heat resistant coat.

    • @thedragonwarrior5861
      @thedragonwarrior5861 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Makes sense

    • @aaronolson6736
      @aaronolson6736 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Fruit_Shark_in_the_microwave Exactly, these are all creatures that had the ability to evolve in a magical way (hence them being called Magical Creatures in the past during the Arceus movie). Grass-types likely developed more druidic magic to better blend with and hide in forests (primarily) for protection, survival (photosynthesis), or hunting.

    • @austinreed7343
      @austinreed7343 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Kenjee Morrison
      And you can tell from how each species appears, more or less.

  • @chickadeestevenson5440
    @chickadeestevenson5440 5 ปีที่แล้ว +530

    Eating an Oddish would kill you dead, because they're based off the mandrake.

    • @BearWith_You
      @BearWith_You 5 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      Or it'll kill you cause its Poison type

    • @Thurmanator
      @Thurmanator 5 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      or because it is the Weed pokemon it would just mess you up for a bit

    • @randomcanadianguy9740
      @randomcanadianguy9740 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Lol like you bite it and its scream "AAAAAAH WTF DUDE!"

    • @dwebly3089
      @dwebly3089 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Even though nothing about oddish mentions anything about ear-piercing screams, but I digress.

    • @dwebly3089
      @dwebly3089 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I actually looked up Oddish on the Pokémon Wiki and it says this about it: "If anyone pulls at Oddish's leaves and tries to uproot it while it is buried underground, Oddish will react by shrieking in a horrible voice." This means that it is possible that Oddish _is_ based on a Mandrake.
      Proof: pokemon.wikia.com/wiki/Oddish
      Granted, Wikipedia is the best source of information, but still.

  • @VaddyLemon
    @VaddyLemon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +118

    Then: "Don't grow indefinitely, they have a normal size"
    Now: "INTRODUCING DYNOMAX POKEMON"

    • @tijanamilenkovic3425
      @tijanamilenkovic3425 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Dynamax existed way back in anime

    • @justsaying6341
      @justsaying6341 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Tijana Milenković
      What? No?

    • @PajamaCat4
      @PajamaCat4 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just Saying r/woooosh

    • @PajamaCat4
      @PajamaCat4 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Tijana Milenković 7:24

  • @monferno1
    @monferno1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    This is probably more of a case of convergent evolution, they seem to almost be animals that have evolved the traits typically associated with plants, this can be seen in Leafeon, in that it evolved from an animal yet has gained properties more similar to a plant

    • @nonoctoro4933
      @nonoctoro4933 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I wrote my thesis on this !

  • @kill4karma
    @kill4karma 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    Less fun fact: the tree that they carved through fell during a storm a while ago

    • @Red_Neck
      @Red_Neck 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That's sad

    • @lexiph3721
      @lexiph3721 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Did you HAVE to ruin it?

  • @cullenhutchison6528
    @cullenhutchison6528 5 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    Venus flytraps still perform photosynthesis I think, and just rely on bugs for nitrogen that can't be found in the soil they live in.

    • @EricKonkol
      @EricKonkol 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don't comment unless you actually know what you're talking about.

    • @cullenhutchison6528
      @cullenhutchison6528 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Eric Konkol I said "I think". Am I wrong? I'm just quoting my biology professor from a couple of years ago, but haven't double-checked it.

    • @cullenhutchison6528
      @cullenhutchison6528 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Thomas Clark Okay good, thanks. I'm not an expert botanist, but the non-photosynthesizing plant you mentioned sounds interesting. What was it called?

    • @SamTAnderson
      @SamTAnderson 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@cullenhutchison6528 Monotropa hypopitys is one I know of. There probs are more.

    • @schwan2420
      @schwan2420 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@EricKonkol irony

  • @bigsoulja73
    @bigsoulja73 5 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Monstara
    “Crawls along the jungle floor”
    Well that’s horrifying.

    • @wilddrake9257
      @wilddrake9257 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Think that's why it's called a "monstara" plant

    • @hanoianboy9562
      @hanoianboy9562 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No, Monsteras actually tend to climb up tree trunks.

  • @mindyauron9137
    @mindyauron9137 5 ปีที่แล้ว +270

    I’ve always wondered the implications of being a vegetarian in the Pokémon world. Like there’s sentient cherries. That alone would terrify me if I went to the store. Not sure if that bag of them are Pokémon, regular cherries or dead Pokémon cherries
    Crazy world

    • @MollyOKami
      @MollyOKami 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      I'm not, nor ever shall be, vegan, so I'm fine, either way. Dead cherries. Dead cherry-like animal. It's the same thing…dead.

    • @DanielPereira-ey9nt
      @DanielPereira-ey9nt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Sentient or not, it is still a plant

    • @krankarvolund7771
      @krankarvolund7771 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Well, Cherubi measures 40cm and weight 3,3kgs. I think you would see the difference ^^

    • @LycanDreams9159
      @LycanDreams9159 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Molly O'Kami lmao then what is better? eating the flesh of a Lopunny as in rabbits, miltank? Or any of the fish Pokémon any more morally complicated than any of the plant Pokémon?

    • @Cut_Throat_Girl
      @Cut_Throat_Girl 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Actually it's shown in the anime several times how they roast Magikarps or eat Slowpokes tails (i think even the pokedex states that "it's a delicacy"). Same would go for Tauros and Miltank both producing milk and being meat.

  • @cheepcheeper3390
    @cheepcheeper3390 5 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    "Plants feel pain"
    Vegans eat air now

    • @somedummyonyoutube3362
      @somedummyonyoutube3362 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      to avoid hurting plants, you must become a plant and photosynthesise

  • @marilynlucero9363
    @marilynlucero9363 5 ปีที่แล้ว +145

    For the bat joke... you missed the opportunity to use a Zubat to trigger half the comment section.

    • @marilynlucero9363
      @marilynlucero9363 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So do I, mostly when i use a Crobat on the team I catch a female one to call her "Morticia"

    • @Username-zz7dz
      @Username-zz7dz 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      *Or several thousand Zubats!*

    • @jakobingersoll2946
      @jakobingersoll2946 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      ‘Twas with a Zubat against Colress that I learned how useful stunlock strats are.

    • @petermarsella6537
      @petermarsella6537 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Or any other bat Pokemon, like woobat

    • @draconicrain7609
      @draconicrain7609 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      or noibat

  • @Nekosage
    @Nekosage 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    11:04 - It's me in the center!
    12:52 - 12:56 - "Why would anyone want to eat an adorable little Steenee?" is a better question.

  • @ShiftyPokemon
    @ShiftyPokemon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +613

    The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

    • @AliceIsSleepy
      @AliceIsSleepy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Aydyn Fancher Cells are the mitochondria of the powerhouse

    • @dwebly3089
      @dwebly3089 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      WOW, REALLY??????? I TOTALLY WAS NOT TAUGHT THIS IN A 5TH GRADE SCIENCE CLASS AT ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!

    • @elvisfourth
      @elvisfourth 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      no its the site of oxidative phosphorylation

    • @diatonicdissonance
      @diatonicdissonance 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      are*

    • @xX_wiLLiam_Xx
      @xX_wiLLiam_Xx 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@dwebly3089 ever heard of a joke

  • @Lardo99
    @Lardo99 5 ปีที่แล้ว +136

    Would Cherubi be fruit or meat?
    The answer is probably yes.

    • @kingbowser4542
      @kingbowser4542 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And Applin

    • @gregzotter6189
      @gregzotter6189 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@kingbowser4542 Applin is definitely at least PART plant.

    • @bebbapik8908
      @bebbapik8908 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Applin is just inside the plant, I actually think there's a video where Lockstin says that

    • @LeapyGeck
      @LeapyGeck 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bebbapik8908 he eat da big apple

    • @lucazanellaterradeoliveira7582
      @lucazanellaterradeoliveira7582 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fruit

  • @dejaypage1575
    @dejaypage1575 5 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    Are they animal or vegetable...
    But wait, what if they’re Grass/Steel? Then the question is if they’re mineral too...

    • @malxire
      @malxire 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      for ferroseed and ferrothorn they are seeds that absorbs the mineral in caves and use it to create a protective layer and for kartana its just paper as sharp as a blade

    • @hotaruishere2133
      @hotaruishere2133 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Like Kartana!!!
      Even though it is moreso literally paper?? XD

    • @KibaTheBarbarian
      @KibaTheBarbarian 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Or maybe could be a Steel type because there is a type of tree called Ironwood who knows

    • @zoroearc2582
      @zoroearc2582 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The animal, vegetable, mineral classification system was abandoned in the sixties, so the answer will always be none

    • @Kuronosa
      @Kuronosa 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Are you the very model of a modern major-general?

  • @SomeoneTGL
    @SomeoneTGL 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Calling it halfway through:
    Each grass type is part animal, part plant.

  • @xenomorphoverlord
    @xenomorphoverlord 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Most likely they're animals with plant like properties, meant for offensive and defensive abilities, like camouflage. The "Vine whip" could just be tentacles the pokemon keep hidden

  • @JToaster
    @JToaster 5 ปีที่แล้ว +100

    Roses are red
    Florida is hotter then hell
    The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

  • @gaidencastro9706
    @gaidencastro9706 5 ปีที่แล้ว +117

    They're animal hosts of parasitic plant life. Duh.
    In all seriousness, it's probably a form of symbiosis where animals get advantages from having plants on them, like grass-type moves and solar energy.

    • @markusexe3436
      @markusexe3436 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dam I basically just said that

    • @LycanDreams9159
      @LycanDreams9159 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Even those like carnivine? Or bellsprout?

    • @gaidencastro9706
      @gaidencastro9706 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@LycanDreams9159 Those are actual sentient plants that no one would confuse for animals.

    • @aaronolson6736
      @aaronolson6736 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Symbiosis can be backed up by looking at the more Dinosaurlike Pokemon that can be found in the wild. A similar extinction event likely occurred, and now we can only find them either hidden away deep within caves like Aggron and Tyranitar or in symbiosis with plants like Meganium and Venasaur.

    • @markguyton2868
      @markguyton2868 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Then what does that make Bounsweet and Steenee? They clearly have a fruit membrane like a mangosteen... and a stem on their heads like they grew from a tree.
      I guess camouflage could be an answer, but why does the dex indicate it (or at least its sweat for some reason) can be used for juice?

  • @whatTFisThis
    @whatTFisThis 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    5:18 My grandma actually has that plant on her front porch, touched it yesterday and same old reaction of flinching a bit and closing leaves.

  • @hailgiratinathetruegod7564
    @hailgiratinathetruegod7564 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    The mitochondria is also the powerhouse of the plant cell, the Choloroplast jsut produces the fuel for the mitchondria in the plant cell.

    • @EricKonkol
      @EricKonkol 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It bothers me when people make videos and it's painfully obvious they don't know what they're talking about.

    • @tarri16
      @tarri16 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was going to say the same thing, also plants use oxygen and produce CO2 they just produce more oxygen than CO2, typically.

    • @marvinfung2050
      @marvinfung2050 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tarri16 i believe they have a small cycle of CO2 and O2 by mitochondria takes O2 and chloroplast takes CO2
      (The equations:
      Photosynthesis
      *6CO2* + 6H2O + sunlight ---> C6H12O6 + *6O2*
      Cellular Respiration
      C6H12O6 + *6O2* ---> *6CO2* + 6H2O + ATP
      (Also the ATP is the energy which only comes from cellular respiration aka mitochondria process))

    • @schwan2420
      @schwan2420 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@marvinfung2050 control c
      Control v

    • @tarri16
      @tarri16 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mar Fung yeah that is right except in respiration ATP isn't created in the process just converted from ADP and a phosphate what is created is the energy needed for that conversion. And with plants, if they get more light than their compensation point, when light stimulates enough photosynthesis that the CO2 used equals the CO2 produced and same with O2, it will then release the extra O2 and water. And plants can go through a lot of CO2, like a sunflower can use all the CO2 in a 1'x8' column above it in about an hour at the typical ~380ppm when it was tested. This is stuff like half of my classes in the past year and a half have been about, and I will probably go over it again a few more times before I'm done with school.

  • @tropezando
    @tropezando 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    If they're not plants, then I'm gonna have to stop smoking Oddish leaves.

  • @lavenstellar1451
    @lavenstellar1451 5 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    Planimals. Bam. Done

    • @jakobingersoll2946
      @jakobingersoll2946 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Another Acerola But whar’s the biology with that answer?

    • @Aliandrin
      @Aliandrin 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Chimeras. There are those, but they're mostly single-celled.

    • @Onxide
      @Onxide 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      oof

    • @mzyannibby
      @mzyannibby 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      LMAO yessss

    • @kingslayer3089
      @kingslayer3089 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      If you can kill something then nom on it and throw away the husk then you are a animal but if you try to take over your food before eating your food entirely or try to mulitply enough kill its host to consume it parasite/fungus/bacteria im on cristmas break

  • @a.h.2276
    @a.h.2276 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I like how Gnoggin single handedly created a 4th wall breaking fictional character

  • @futiffany8740
    @futiffany8740 5 ปีที่แล้ว +672

    Grass type pokemon are neither plants or animals,they are pokemon.
    Case closed

    • @KeshmarOrange
      @KeshmarOrange 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      This. Totally agreed with this.

    • @blackdot105
      @blackdot105 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Pokemon can be animals though

    • @LuxOnFiyah
      @LuxOnFiyah 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Exactly what I thought. Why spend time on plant pokemon when u have living trash and sludge. They are pokemon. No more reasoning is needed

    • @futiffany8740
      @futiffany8740 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@blackdot105 They aren't,Pokemon are living beings that look and behave like animals.

    • @joseignaciodepierola2855
      @joseignaciodepierola2855 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This Totally Blows The Minds Of People. Theory Over Brain.

  • @TheInzombiac
    @TheInzombiac 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thanks for the biology lesson Mr. Gnoggin I’m sure I’ll pass the test now!

  • @Docwilson91
    @Docwilson91 5 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Before the video starts, the answer is it depends on the Pokémon. For example, oddish is based on a mandrake which is a mythical creature.
    Edit 1: Also who else wants to see a moss Pokémon?
    Edit 2: is this a precursor to every grass Pokémon explained?

    • @celarc99
      @celarc99 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      For 2: Yes, I guarantee it. It's very likely he posted this so he wouldn't have to explain something complicated in the "Every Grass Type Explained" video, thus avoiding a 10-15 minute topic in an already 20-25 minute video.

    • @icouldntthinkofaname155
      @icouldntthinkofaname155 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Mandrakes are real... just commonly used in myths also their super freaking rare

    • @MarioAndWeegee3
      @MarioAndWeegee3 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      A grass-rock pokemon that's just moss growing on a rock

    • @MackenziiRivers
      @MackenziiRivers 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      the closes we've ever come to a moss pokemon is Regigiga, his legs have moss on them if that's correct. don't think we've seen any other pokemon with moss on it/moss properties?

  • @campsidesketch8184
    @campsidesketch8184 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    13:00 "I don't mean in that way"
    Yeah you did, otherwise you wouldn't have used it as an example in the first place

  • @thewalrusclown
    @thewalrusclown 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I personally think that more plant-like "grass" pokemon are actually an evolutionary offshoot of the fungus family, think about it, the parasect, Breloom, Amoonguss, AND the Shiinotic lines are mushrooms, that in conjunction with the fact that fungi are more closely related to animals than they are to plants AND that Slime mold fungi are able to move on there own in reaction to stimuli both helping to explain how they are able to move on there own like animals, it all starts to make sence

  • @akaia5035
    @akaia5035 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    props to hatok for the good ass editing

  • @reformedorthodoxmunmanquara
    @reformedorthodoxmunmanquara 5 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    They are Planimals

  • @pablojansen2080
    @pablojansen2080 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    1:56 well uhm thanks for that

  • @LilyTengoku
    @LilyTengoku 5 ปีที่แล้ว +220

    Is this the _NOT_ grass type video?

    • @jameslavorci8807
      @jameslavorci8807 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Million Dollar Man I don’t know

    • @lolface_9363
      @lolface_9363 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Nah bro

    • @Zadanoire
      @Zadanoire 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      *Sadly no... but I can sence it's coming...*

    • @Boxingcat23
      @Boxingcat23 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      This is the prequel

    • @vanajau2895
      @vanajau2895 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      No but also yes

  • @RiverOfTheHeart
    @RiverOfTheHeart 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "Consume the flesh of a Steenee."
    Please don't. :

  • @sivara750
    @sivara750 5 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    Shouldn't you have saved this for the every grass type Pokemon explained video?

    • @FrostedMike
      @FrostedMike 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      To make the video longer than it should? I personnaly it should stay seperate. However, it's a nice introduction.

    • @doopness785
      @doopness785 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's just a filler episode well he researches all the grass types

    • @Rileyrose-z8e
      @Rileyrose-z8e 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Kanna chan!

  • @joeschof_95
    @joeschof_95 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Planimals? Pft they’re animants obviously 🙄

  • @sharkbite7922
    @sharkbite7922 5 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    How many plant puns can you make in video? Well, i should get GROUNDED?! Or get cropped out of making these puns? Give me a break, im a FUNGI!!!! Someone... put... me out of my mistery!!!!! Or should i keep on Growing?

    • @valiang8867
      @valiang8867 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Shark bite 792 Now look...I'm a true pun master, you're a little sprout, nice try but the root of a good pun is deeper than just that! I'm more than pumpkin to point puns in every sentence I say, it may be a bit corny but that's just how I play the game~ The art of puns is pretty radish, dude~ You gotta cucumber out strong with a good attitude!

    • @Wolfiyeethegranddukecerberus17
      @Wolfiyeethegranddukecerberus17 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Now I wood join in your little pun war, bud I'm not gonna bark up the same tree. Bud you better peppare yourself for the next guy to reply to this. You're lucky I'm cotton doing sum'n else, so going all out is off the vege-table.

    • @valiang8867
      @valiang8867 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Wolfiyee Not a bad apple yourself, but there's not mushroom for me to make more puns but I'll try to squash some in. Now lettuce talk like gentlemen, I don't wanna full on fight. If this keeps going, we'll be up all nightshade.

    • @Zadanoire
      @Zadanoire 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Just stawk it already...

    • @valiang8867
      @valiang8867 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Luca Jenkins-Pugh Aww cmon, leaf us alone to our puns

  • @ofanichan
    @ofanichan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Your just a plant, what do you even do?"
    Nice Egoraptor callback
    I've always wondered what grass type pokemon eat in the wild... Like.. Do they eat grass? Isn't that cannibaistic?

  • @unknownman9966
    @unknownman9966 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    You said it: They’re Pokémon

  • @TheSebastianfan
    @TheSebastianfan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey Lockstin, what would the "food chain" or "food web" look like in the Pokemon world? It has been stated in the Pokedex entries of one of the pidgy line up likes to hunt Magikarp.

  • @amoose8256
    @amoose8256 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I loved the plants that could just like move in towards itself when something touched it, they’re so cool

  • @ADiretoria100
    @ADiretoria100 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Simple answer
    Pokemon are not plants neither animals
    *they are pokemons*

  • @domsquared9878
    @domsquared9878 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Well we know there's plants, animals, and pokemon in this world, only makes sense that there would be plant-animal pokemon. I feel like pokemon exist on a spectrum between plant/animal/crystalline/non-corporeal, and any pokemon would be a combination of or focus on the four extremes.

  • @loganargo4433
    @loganargo4433 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "You're just a plant, what do you even DO?"
    I see you, Arin Hanson reference. I know the old ways.

  • @QuestionableLogic_
    @QuestionableLogic_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Arceus is a plant confirmed

  • @isaiahhope5560
    @isaiahhope5560 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think the fact that all pokemon have nervous systems and rapidly respond to stimuli such as commands from their trainers makes all pokemon, vene plant ones such as carnivine, animals.

  • @doopfizzle4742
    @doopfizzle4742 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    What about Pikmin, would they be considered plants, or animals?

    • @phoebe5
      @phoebe5 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Doop Fizzle I'm pretty sure they are canonically a hybrid but more plant

  • @Zancibar
    @Zancibar 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    My friend, about the last count. . . You got it all wrong, I'm sorry.
    1. The chloroplasts exist in the plant cell to make photosyntesis possible and plants don't inhale CO2 and exhale oxygen, they inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxyde just like animals, however they technically eat that same CO2 and use it along sunlight to produce their energy and process the minerals they get from the soil, in resume: they breathe just like animals but eat light, CO2 and dirt, reason why they still have mithocondria even if they don't use it as much and meaning as well that all 3 reasons you gave for pokemon being plants (or at least 2 and 1/2 if we do count the cellulose as one reason on it's own) are the same; photosintesis.
    2. Another heavy difference that you seem to have forgotten is that plants can grow indefinitely and have very flexible anatomy and basic structure in their bodies, while animals (and pokemon) can't.
    3. (Take this with a pinch of salt since I am NOT INFORMED ENOUGH to take this data as 100% accurate) There is a species of green flat worm, the "mint-sauce worm" that has small algae living under its skin. The worm does not eat but is sustained by the algae inside it and has a very similar colour to most grass type pokemon. There is also another type of sea slug, the "emerald elysia" that eats algae and processes everything but chloroplasts and uses them for photosintesis as well, pretty much like pokemon could eat fruit and leaves and keep the chloroplasts. Both of these are considered animals.
    Resuming: They are pretty much a new living kingdom on it's own: plantalia or animae, whichever you like the most.

    • @OwGash
      @OwGash 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      2. Another heavy difference that you seem to have forgotten is that plants can grow indefinitely and have very flexible anatomy and basic structure in their bodies, while animals (and pokemon) can't.
      he did?

    • @Zancibar
      @Zancibar 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@OwGash In the last countdown. He mentioned it earlier, but forgot it at the end.

    • @apex2000
      @apex2000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ghost Lilly worth mention, no chloroplasts.

    • @livstudios700
      @livstudios700 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ok u either:
      A.took notes from Wikipedia
      B.Are nerding(no offense)
      C.Are ignoring hw/studying
      D. Have a lot of free time
      No offense on any of these :P

    • @Zancibar
      @Zancibar 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@livstudios700 Nerding, I guess. It doesn't really affect the facts though.

  • @joshwollet3637
    @joshwollet3637 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Looking at all of the grass type Pokemon I would say it depends whether they are plant-like animals or animal-like plants. There seem to be three categories that all grass types fit in to, animals that exist in some sort of symbiotic relationship with plants, animals with plant-like traits, and plants with animal-like traits. The first category is easy to spot as it includes creatures such as Bulbasaur, Turtwig and the infamous case of the paras line. These pokemon appear to have some plant form (and yes, I know fungi aren't plants) growing on them and it seems plausible that most of these pokemon would survive for some time if the plant were to be removed. The second is pokemon like leafeon and Rowlet, which are clearly animals, but they also exhibit some traits like plants, such as the ends of appendages being leaves or conducting photosynthesis such as Lcokstin mentioned. The last would include creatures like
    victreebel or cherrim, which seem to function so similarly to actual plants that I find it hard to believe that they simply look like plants.
    tl;dr are Grass Types plants or animals? it can be either, depends which Grass Type.

    • @JamesDavy2009
      @JamesDavy2009 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      The ones that can learn Spore fit none of your categories.

  • @Cata-qp6fi
    @Cata-qp6fi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Maxill censor sound: 1st is chikorita, 2nd is gengar and 3rd is purugly, right?

  • @Peliha
    @Peliha 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Technically, plants feel pain but not the same way as animals. Example, the corn plant will emit odorant messages to wasps who will lay their eggs in the caterpillars who eats the corn plant's leaves. By the way, some grass types are not plants but they're fungi (mushrooms) like Shroomish or algae (kelp or seaweed) (protists) like Tangela.

    • @kallistiravenhurst5232
      @kallistiravenhurst5232 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Plus the fact that that "Newly Mowed Lawn Smell" is actually the grass's screams of agony and terror Food for Thought

    • @jakobingersoll2946
      @jakobingersoll2946 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Peliha .ip ‘T’s all just chemical messaging.

    • @blarg2429
      @blarg2429 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jakobingersoll2946 You say that as if the medium employed makes some kind of difference as to how we should view the communication. Messaging is messaging.

    • @jakobingersoll2946
      @jakobingersoll2946 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      blarg2429 Sorry if I was unclear. What you’re saying is kinda what I was getting at.
      ...It was like 3:00 AM or something like that; I was almost too tired to form a coherent sentence.

  • @hanoianboy9562
    @hanoianboy9562 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Monstera: gets creepy and stupid description
    Philodendron: hold my coffee.
    Strangler figs: Am I a joke to you?

  • @romp0m344
    @romp0m344 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    “It is really a Pokémon by Pokémon thing”
    So...
    Grass type explained?

  • @MrKlausbaudelaire
    @MrKlausbaudelaire 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can't wait for the "every grass type explained" video.

  • @blackdot105
    @blackdot105 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Skull boy's animation's getting better.

    • @EricKonkol
      @EricKonkol 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's still awful and annoying though.

  • @ethan626-e9o
    @ethan626-e9o 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    5:45 the term you were likely looking for when talking about the acacia/mimosa is thigmotropism.

  • @Aurum4137
    @Aurum4137 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Well if you want a reasonable Pokemon based question I have one.
    How are ghost Pokemon made?

  • @sylvi0n796
    @sylvi0n796 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I know this video is old but what if the monstera pokemon was a regional variant of tropius that was grass/dark and had a monstera plant mask or cloak that was “controlling it” as tropius is pretty much a tree and monstera controls trees.

  • @KeshmarOrange
    @KeshmarOrange 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    I vote that they're neither plant or animal because none of them are in Plantae or Animalia. They are completely separate from Earth's only known abiogenesis, thus can't be in any familyt of Earth's family tree. They merely have characteristics that are familiar to us.

    • @asherdevin
      @asherdevin 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      But there are regular animals in Pokemon too, so they can't be that separate can they?

    • @AtomTomZeitalter
      @AtomTomZeitalter 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well that only leaves Fungi. Since mushrooms are closer to animals than to plants anyway, I guess we could just call a good of amount of Grass types Fungi and stop there

    • @cutrekukui475
      @cutrekukui475 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@AtomTomZeitalter It doesn't have to be something that exists in our world. Plantae, Animalia or Fungi are just the names we've given to certain groups of living organisms that share some basic traits, because that's how life happened to evolve in our world. The world of Pokemon includes things like sentient rocks and ghosts than can reproduce, so their classifications for living things would certainly be much different.

    • @ThePenguin369
      @ThePenguin369 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      sooooo a fungus? virus? bacteria?

    • @dapperparraper860
      @dapperparraper860 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well that’s not completely true there are animals in the real world capable of photosynthesis such as the spotted salamander, bacteria and some sea slug I can’t remember the name of. So it’s not like a hypothetical more diverse set of photosynthetic animals can’t exist. And that’s ignoring things that involve messing with a creatures dna such as making glowing cats are goats that produce spider silk.

  • @mattwo7
    @mattwo7 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    13:18 What did he expect? It's the first pre-evolution of Vileplume...

  • @ChristopherMoom
    @ChristopherMoom 5 ปีที่แล้ว +110

    nah they're obviously vegetables, I know this because I have 300 IQ

    • @Kleij77
      @Kleij77 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Are you Dr. Eggman?

    • @cylasbreakdown6140
      @cylasbreakdown6140 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don’t think a 300 IQ is even possible.

    • @Honeneko.
      @Honeneko. 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@cylasbreakdown6140 whooosh

    • @tailsrhtatonslice1418
      @tailsrhtatonslice1418 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Kleij77 or tails because theu have equal iq or something

    • @severalpigeons6946
      @severalpigeons6946 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      no they r obviuslee cerits

  • @nintenx1235
    @nintenx1235 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    5:40 use this when a vegan says "i only eat things that cant feel pain"

  • @minarc3682
    @minarc3682 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I was wondering the same thing like 3 hours ago while playing Ivysaur in Smash.
    Talk about TIMING

    • @ivanmegafanboy1981
      @ivanmegafanboy1981 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He is way better than he was in Brawl

    • @minarc3682
      @minarc3682 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ivanmegafanboy INDEED!
      Pokémon trainer is definitely my main thanks to Ivy!

  • @caelestisnox7045
    @caelestisnox7045 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    5:40 the smell of freshly cut grass is actually a distress signal
    Another weird nature thing

  • @JToaster
    @JToaster 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Ya it should be another video for each individual Pokémon

  • @JT5555
    @JT5555 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "I Am The Lockstin. I Speak For The Trees."

  • @thesuperbowser2
    @thesuperbowser2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    what about pikmin?
    is it the same case as grass pokemon or are they different?

  • @Vuizendrecht
    @Vuizendrecht 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was convinced that Lockstin added a few more plants to his room for this video, since I thought it looked greener than usual, but it turns out it looked like this in the previous videos too. He's just a pretty green dude.

  • @luke6495
    @luke6495 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    00:07 where I’m at ahah hi Lockstin

  • @omegahaxors9-11
    @omegahaxors9-11 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Leafeon's dex article is just a cute way of saying that it behaves more like a plant than of an animal, further confirmed by its other dex which heavily imply it doesn't eat.

  • @church113
    @church113 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    SHANTAE DOES DESERVE TO BE MORE RECOGNIZED! #Shantaeforsmash

  • @the_chosen_one5642
    @the_chosen_one5642 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Starts the video saying "in the jungles", shows satellite view of Europe.
    Makes sense.

  • @ailuroarmory89
    @ailuroarmory89 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Some can just be animals covered in plants

  • @apex2000
    @apex2000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I knew a guy who had 1 them mimosa plants in small green house, would show off to new guests how leaves reacted. Remarkable.

  • @cosmicchaos7510
    @cosmicchaos7510 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    ...
    This question makes my head hurt

  • @nopester1244
    @nopester1244 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    0:35 that image of a plant gave me duur plant flashbacks

  • @brickmastere5535
    @brickmastere5535 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Whether they be plants or not, they aren't vegan. Vegans don't eat animals not just for a "better diet" but also for ethical reasons. They don't eat animals because the animal was brutally slaughtered just for consumption. In the Pokemon World, things like Oddish and Shroomish have sentience, can speak with eachother, and have emotions. A vegan would never eat a Grass-type pokemon.
    And I love how Maxill is just Lockstin lampshading himself lol-

    • @KyubiBubi
      @KyubiBubi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What about a dead Grass Type that died naturally?

    • @futiffany8740
      @futiffany8740 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I heard somewhere in the internet that plants, and even WATER can feel emotions.
      Does it mean drinking water is cruel then?

    • @dionjones6300
      @dionjones6300 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Water isn’t alive. Plants do feel sensations but none they can be expressed in a way that humans can understand. Also, we are built primarily to eat vegetation and animal protein as a secondary. If you can’t eat one, you have to eat the other, ethics won’t change that.

    • @hi-i-am-atan
      @hi-i-am-atan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@dionjones6300 No, we're distinctly built to eat a balance of meat and vegetation, to the point where entirely subsisting on only one is _extremely_ difficult and can easily lead to malnutrition, not to mention we don't have the facilities to entirely take advantage of either. We struggle to eat bones and stuff, but we also struggle to chew and break down plants with dense cellulose that other primary herbivores can easily deal with. Which makes sense, considering all of our closest evolutionary ancestors are pretty unambiguously omnivores - and I mean, when your claims to fame are problem solving, dexterity, and tool use, it only make sense to evolve a diet that's basically whatever you can figure out won't kill you.
      The whole myth that humans are only secondarily carnivorous or somehow not carnivorous at all wasn't spread by anyone who really knows evolution or biology, because ask anyone who knows their stuff in either field and they'll instantly tell you that our teeth and digestive system completely contradict that.

    • @brickmastere5535
      @brickmastere5535 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@KyubiBubi They don't eat naturally dead animals either because of a better diet and whatnot.

  • @MilczekHD
    @MilczekHD 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "At some point something has had it away with a leaf"- Karl Pilkington

  • @cannibalitictendancies
    @cannibalitictendancies 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    *Maxel sticks his head up*
    Lockstin:"Oh go away!"
    *Maxel slowly disappears*
    Me:"Uhhh Maxy, you okay sir?"

    • @thedragonwarrior5861
      @thedragonwarrior5861 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I laughed when I saw that
      I'm not mean, I just laugh easily

  • @juanitoelmindo
    @juanitoelmindo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Also in plants Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. The Chloroplast synthesize Glucose and send it to the Mitochondria to create energy.

  • @volcanic0321
    @volcanic0321 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    But what if grass type Pokemon were......
    FUNGI??!?!??!!!

  • @kociarzultimate384
    @kociarzultimate384 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There was "are you kid or squid?" Now get ready for: "are you plant or animal?"

  • @gadobriel5417
    @gadobriel5417 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Steenee are pretty good, you know

    • @goGothitaLOL
      @goGothitaLOL 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Its evolution Tsareena is sexier and thiccer

    • @phoebe5
      @phoebe5 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jigglypuff this is a false statement

    • @cleverfunseeker3842
      @cleverfunseeker3842 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I’m scared now.

  • @gustavofb3
    @gustavofb3 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Plant fan fact: that Monstera plant that you talked about is called "adam's ribs" in Brazil

  • @dovahkiinthe3rd
    @dovahkiinthe3rd 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    They’re Pokemon obviously

  • @Katfeathers
    @Katfeathers 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Also this leaves out two points: fungi ( mushrooms) are their own irl kingdom, and in the og og games the initial description of what Pokemon even are uses a word that translates to faerie, or forest spirit; not animal (or demon).

  • @lfbg0794
    @lfbg0794 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love your channel,but you said something a little wrong;Some plants that “eat” insects are only looking for Nitrogen,and they only receive food with the photosynthesis.The only plants that don’t do photosynthesis are the ones that aren’t essentially green;for example:Some parasite plants that actually steal the elaborated sap from other plants.
    Please like for him to see :)

    • @MarceloLitometeoro5E
      @MarceloLitometeoro5E 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Just adding to your comment that green is not actually a signal of photosynthesis, some have carotenoids, other things or plasts (not cloroplasts) that make them purple or other colors. Even a bark can photosynthetize, it's just that it usually isn't exposed to enough sunlight and that the stuff that makes it brown-ish has to be more predominant to both protect and sustain the tree itself ;D

    • @lfbg0794
      @lfbg0794 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks ,I actually know that haha.I was just speaking in general(or most predominantly).But Thanks for the implementation man :D

  • @failedlocket8787
    @failedlocket8787 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "That reminds me of shantae.. And now it will remind you, and I like that a lot.

  • @DJTileTurnip
    @DJTileTurnip 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    *PLAN* T AN *IMAL*
    *PLANIMAL*

  • @Elsenoromniano
    @Elsenoromniano 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If I remember correctly there is a type of sea slug, the emerald sea slug or Elysia chlorotica, that actually steal chlorplast from the algae they eat and even have (probably through horizontal gene transfer), the ability to use them efficiently to photynthesize. I think most, if not all the grassPokémon could function like that. Another thing, the different between plants and animals is not that animals move in reaction to stimuli and plants usually don't. The main different is that animals are capable of locomotion, or the movement by themselve of all the body, and plants aren't . All Grass type seem to be capable of locomotion, so that a big one against them being plants. I think the best comparison for Grass Poke could be Lichen, Lichen is a composite orgonism for by to different organism from two different kingdoms (either a bacteria or an algae and a fungi), but when they work together to form a lichen they have properties and abilities that they don't have when they are separate and even theeir biochemistry changes. Grass Pokémon could be a similar case,

  • @Adeel808s
    @Adeel808s 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    1:39 compromising? Or comprising?

    • @Derpception
      @Derpception 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Comprising

    • @Adeel808s
      @Adeel808s 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Derpception he said "compromising"

    • @King63Kobra
      @King63Kobra 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I said bananaanananana because I can

  • @hylkevanderwerff
    @hylkevanderwerff 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I personally think most of them would maybe be like those sea snails that steal chloroplasts from the algea they eat, like corals that have a symbiotic relationship with algae or maybe like sloths that have algae in their fur for comouflage, but then a lot more connected to the pokemon.

  •  5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Yes you mean in that way *Lenny face*

  • @BindlessDoll
    @BindlessDoll 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When I think about it now, a Gigamax plant type plant Pokémon in real life is real, GO RED WOOD TREE, USE ENEGRY BALL!!!

  • @OatmealCreamPie
    @OatmealCreamPie 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    After giving it some thought after watching the video, I will hypothesize that Grass Types might boil it down to one of two things.
    A) Grass Types are Plants that obtained Animalistic Qualities.
    B) Grass Types are Animals that gained Plant-like Qualities.
    Whether it was a means of natural selection to have some way to compete with other Pokemon types, or a method to "join the crowd" in order to be considered a Pokemon, I cannot say for sure. However, both sides ended up join the Grass type for various reasons, ultimately creating an entirely new type of plant/animal species hybrid (haven't thought of a name for it yet, hmm). Fascinating, the many ways of evolution in Pokemon that occur.

    • @UnknownUnknown-ud7ot
      @UnknownUnknown-ud7ot 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      They could be like a hypothetical end point to an organism such as Elysia chlorotica, a type of Sea Slug that can photosynthesise due to stealing algal chloroplasts, which could potentially become a plant/animal hybrid.

    • @JamesDavy2009
      @JamesDavy2009 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      You forgot the fungi.

  • @harryguidotti3815
    @harryguidotti3815 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    "Right off the bat." Amazing visual pun. I love it.

  • @goby8984
    @goby8984 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    They Pokémon
    They ain’t animals
    *they pokemans*

  • @Makocat
    @Makocat 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just today I used Monstera leaves for wedding decoration. Now I like even more being a grass type trainer.