@TheAce I would make a joke like "His defense says otherwise", but I was surprised to see Scyther actually has pretty decent defense for an unevolved mon
Kleavor seems really cool, until you realize that they're probably extinct now. I bet it's because Scizors came along and Bullet Punched all of them into nonexistence.
Maybe you can still evolve them with other methods, like some pokemon evolve with ancient power which suggest that they are ancient evolution of a pokemon
@@JackieMReacts maybe depends if it counts as died off or becomes a unique evolution in future games where you have to jump through hoops to make sure it doesn't evolve normally
Anthro student here: hand-axes have been around since the early stone-age, roughly 2.3 million years ago with Homo habilis and the Oldowan stone tool type that they used, which only got refined more and more, especially once Homo erectus pops into the fossil record
Mad props good buddy. I was spacifically going to refrence paleolithic and neolithic technologies and how hand axes ( as well as celts, spuds, stone adze blades and stone axes) were/ still are ( in some areas) amazing tools to work with. I especially found it interesting that the entries mention examples of elder Kleavor essentially learning techniques like correcting their chipped edges by essentially micro flaking sections where vhunks had spalled off via pressure flaking ( hence why the blades would get sharper if parts were smashed off.).
Considering he is one of the "Nobles", Him looking like Shibata Katsui makes sense. Hisui/Sinnoh being the place where the Shinto idea of the land being formed would make sense. You could see the "Lord of the lords" as Nobunaga" be it Arceus or some main antagonist pokemon who wants to conquer Japan.
I freaking love the way Kleavor looks. It's so gen1 inspired but with modern updates, which is fitting since it is a Scyther evolution that is found in the PAST.
But the real question is, what would be something more advanced than a Scizor and go in tune with the scyther line? A saw? A scalpel? A diamond cutter?
I love that Kleavor makes so much sense for the time the metal coat wouldn’t exist back then and while Scyther is based on typical green Mantids another basis for Kleavor could also be a much more aggressive species of Mantis since well we’ve seen it’s intro cutscene
I thought that too! Metal wouldn't be easy to access like it is in modern day so this was what scyther evovled into until they discovered metal and scizor was discovered and eventually kleavor was left in the dust case metal in most cases is better then rock. Honestly this was a big brain play by gamefreak with this one I love it!
@@multilink1748 imagine if the method was a Hard Stone like someone mentioned, they could just make the excuse that it was recently rediscovered in order to bring it back.
@@mohammadmurie Bug Steel is a Pseudo legendary worthy typing, up there with Water Ground. It's only weakness is Fire, granted a 4x weakness, but that's damn good.
Do you think cleavor is the natural evolution for scyther? If you give it a metal coat it becomes a more man made pokemon with steel alloys as its exoskeleton but if left alone it accomplishes the same but with natural rocks
A weird thought crossing my mind is that Scyther doesn't naturally evolve without some outside "help." It seems to me it almost always needs a Trainer's assistance to evolve. That's just my teo cents, anyway.
It’d be cool if Scyther’s evolution method is triggered by its exoskeleton. Imagine a Bug/Dragon or Bug/Ghost Scyther evolution if triggered by Dragon Scale or Reaper cloth.
@@Galavantworks In the hybrid board game/card game I've been working on, Scyther has another alternate evolution (conceptualized long before Kleavor was revealed) called Mantoro-ken, which is a Bug/Fighting type obtained when Scyther is traded while holding a Black Belt. It's based off of the Mantis style of Kung Fu, which was traditionally called Toro-ken (or Tanglangquan). Also added a baby form/prevo for Scyther called Mantimid.
Kleavor definitely isn't my favorite new Pokemon, but it's still a good one and I can't honestly even imagine what else a Rock type Scyther evolution could look like.
Also, it just occurred to me to ask this, but are there any Pokemon in particular that you feel would be perfect to receive something new in Hisui based on what you know of the Ainu?
Oh yeah, I've heard a lot of people mention that idea. Personally not a fan of it, nor do I anticipate it, but it is still kind of a neat concept I guess.
The interesting thing is that he is still non-playable and a boss servant for an event. The reason why he is in said event was his relationship to the Oda clan and his stepdaughter Chacha(Nobunaga's niece due being Oichi's daughter) being one of the main characters of the said event as well.
I had no idea this thing was a Scyther evolution until I heard it through the internet zeitgeist. The trailer didn’t mention it at all and I personally haven’t made it a habit to go check the Pokémon website after new stuff drops…
I don't get how people didn't know straight away. It's legs and abdomen look exactly the same, and the first thing we focus on in the trailer are the bottom half. It's quite obvious.
Between Alola, Galar, and now Hisui, Game Freak is killing it with themeing their Pokemon to their regions. I'm wondering how many more new Pokes we're gonna get with Legends? It's exciting.
While he’s definitely more imposing, he’s definitely worse than Scisor typing wise. But given this is olden times and trading Pokémon with a metal coat is probably not a thing, a natural evolution like this makes way more sense. Which means there’s a chance Steelix doesn’t exist. Maybe we’ll get my dream variant of Onyx. A pure fairy type, based on the Crystal Onyx from the anime. Made of mystical stone than normal stone. I will accept rock/fairy. But I want a new evolution that’s a dragon fairy type. I think that would be a cool variant.
It isn't a chance its more of a fact steeling doesn't exist yet because of humans haven't invented the required items most mons evolutions are birth from human actions
@@maganhassan2627 scizor may have a 4x fire weakness, but the upside is that it's the only weakness it has, and resists 8 types and is immune to 1 more, while kleavor has 3 weaknesses and only resists 2 types and has no immunities, so scizor has the far better typing
I love Kleavor. Scyther's my favorite Pokemon, and I've never really been able to get behind Scizor (I'd like it more if it was purple or blue), but Kleavor looks great to me. It's weird though. The Scyther family is now like Rock, Paper, Scissors... except Rock beats Paper and loses to Scissors, and Paper doesn't beat anything. In before Scyther gets a Bug/Fire evolution to finish off the Rock/Fire/Steel triangle. Or a Ground or Ice one.
I also like the idea that instead of evolving into a steel-type, since metal wasn’t common in that place in that time, it becomes rock type. Like, “oh, there’s not enough steel lying around for a full coat, so just become a rock, that’ll do the trick”
Kleavor looks dope as hell. Sure it doesn’t make sense from an evolutionary standpoint, but neither does Scizzor because it goes from having scythes to having big claw-like scissor hands. This helps further back up the “stuck in the Stone Age field” because they didn’t have metallurgy to make Metal Coating so instead Scyther became Kleavor. The only question I have is why didn’t Kleavor become a thing in every region? Technically it could thrive in every region, moreso in Kanto, Hoenn and Unova
Great video, though Katsuie didn’t actually murder Oichi. The two were married after her first husband, Azai Nagamasa was defeated by Nobunaga and committed seppuku. Instead, she died alongside her husband when their castle was being under siege by Toyotomi Hideyoshi (this was due to Nobunaga’s assassination leaving the heir to the Oda unclear, with Katsuie supporting another of Nobunaga’s sons rather than Hideyoshi himself)
I think an interesting connection is that the other name for the cleaver, “bone axe” shares similarities with the new move Kleavor is seen using, “stone axe.”
so i was thinking as to why we don't see Kleavor anymore was that the Special minerals used for it's evolution all got mined up and then they where refined into a metal, put the Special properties that allowed it to evolve are still there, which is why we get Scizor with a metal coat now.
Huh, I thought with it being the "Lord of the Woods" and its oddly appropriate for a Scizor predessor gold and silvery color scheme, it was influenced by the tale of the Honest Woodcutter. In fact, its part rock type works in its favor, as rock tools were primitive compared to the later Iron and steel tools that would be made. Which goes well with being an ancient Scizor of sort. Okay I'm gonna be completely honest, when I saw the title, I was thinking Kintaro, but realized this would only really work if it was a bear so I scrapped that and came up with my second conclusion above.(Hisuian Ursaring would have been awesome)
Why are they giving SO MANY NEW POKEMON a beard? What a weird phenomenon?0_0 I know you can see them as spikes or armor here, but I'm pretty sure the designers got the task to make it beard-like again. These anthropomorphic features somehow bug me :'D
Thank you!!..I thought I was the only one that felt this way lol…they look so stupid and ruin a good Pokémon…most of the regional forms from alola and galar look nowhere as good as there original counterparts and just shouldn’t exist
@@kristyw89 Real life animals also don't shoot fire from their mouth, create black holes, and punch things over the horizon. Arguing that a Pokemon design is bad because "real animals don't do that" is stupid. I'd much rather have Pokemon that have beards and are creative in many different ways than Pokemon that are just "animal" like Dewgong or Persian.
Kleavor makes so much more sense as an evolution to Scyther than Scizor. I always felt like Scizor was a downgrade in design compared to Scyther, as it just looks more like a kids' toy, whereas Scyther looks so dangerous. Kleavor looks like a much meaner and more dangerous version of Scyther. I really like the evolutions they presented in this game so far. I'm excited to see what Growlithe's evolution will look like.
This is definitely someone else’s Pokémon, but it is interesting to learn its history. Might need to make a Ranger based off this guy in my next dnd game.
Also, as time went on and rock tools became more and more obsolete, Scyther had to find a new survival tactic. Thus, Scizor. The steel type. It's literal evolution and I love it.
I like to think kleavor’s extinction is explained by rock-paper-scizzors. Kleavor being rock, but scyther as paper (paper thin blades) being strong vs rock was able to survive. With rock gone, scizzor was now able to have a chance and evolves from scyther having no extra competition anymore
I saw Japanese PokeTheory youtuber speculating that Kleavor might be representing the logging of woods during Hokkaido development, it's such an irony seeing that Kleavor is the Lord of the Woods.
Now I want to see a Pokémon based on the last Samurai. My man fought with 500 Samurai against the people that wanted to change Japan, and they lost because they used swords against guns and were EXTREMELY outnumbered. Hisuian Bisharp should be based on that madlad who got a song based off of him
I'd also like to add that Kleavor could also be based off of the Chinese warrior Li Kwei or Li Kwai, since he also wields two axes, resembles Kleavor, and even is referred to as the "Black Whirlwind", which is coincidentally the color of Kleavor's axe hands, as well as the Black Augunite you use to evolve Scyther into a Kleavor-
so the whole breaking off bits of stone is called pressure flaking, and not only does breaking off flakes sharpen the edge of the big stone, but every little hard broken off is itself its own tool. it's one of the first things you learn, and most important things to learn, in bushcraft. every flake can itself become a thousand different kinds of knives, an arrow head, a burrowing tool (drill), and so much more. to make that into a pokemon is honestly really fuckin cool, and I really hope we see more like it, esp if we ever get more legends games.
I know why there is a phone in the game, the first phone was made in 1876. Japan would start colonizing Hokkaido Wich hisui/sinnoh is based on in 1869, although Japan only started documenting the fauna and Flora of Hokkaido until around 1877 so my theory is your character will be using one of the first phones in the Pokemon world.
Next scyther evolution! Big/Grass - because paper to complete the trio. rock - kleavor, scissor -scizor, and paper - wryter. Rhyms with scyther as well.
I think something to note is the black blades resemble obsidian. Hokkaido being a volcanic region had an abundance of obsidian and was used in paleothic times to create cutting tools. This would mean that Kleavor could quite literally be a glass "cannon", or more specifically a glass axe. Which is appropriate because there would be exceptionally sharp weapons and a complete lack of armor in the stone age.
If it has the same base stat total as Scyther/Scizor. Then I wonder if it’s exoskeleton a evolution trigger method. Like what if other regional Scyther’s can evolve holding Dragon scale?
You kind of touched on this briefly but the fact that it is yeah it's fact that it is stone like ancient weaponry kind of alludes to the idea that it would evolve eventually into its modern counterpart scissor whose steel type or metal
i love the fact that you used Shibata as the comparison at the beginning. I didn't see that at first. side note, how many people are going to nickname it Headsman?
Am I the only one who recognized the image when he started talking about the Top-Knot as a still of Matsudaira Ken when he was younger and in Yoshimune Hyoubanki Abarenbo Shogun?
I'll probably warm up to Kleaor soon, but I'm not really sure right now. Its design just doesn't seem... realistic. Well they are imaginary monsters but you know what I mean.
Its artwork just doesn't convey the idea very well, even more so because Scyther doesn't have a quadruped stance anymore like it used to. But if you take a closer look you'll see that it's basically brown Scyther. It looks even more like a Scyther evolution than Scizor.
Theory: In Platinum, Scyther's location can be found on route 215 , west of Veilstone City and as we all know Veilstone is a city "Hewn from Rock" . Hew is define as a something to chop or cut off using an axe. Kleavor is an Axe Pokemon and maybe Kleavor was used to create that city, to create the first Head Quarters of Team Galactic (led by Cyllene, the ancestor of Cyrus) .At some point maybe Kleavor was abused and started dying. When you look at scythers location in Platinum, its like the best location to set up bunk houses before construction, and maybe a rest area for the workers which is just west of Veilstone.
Ten points for that tiny Scyther in that pocket. 4:40 Actually Katsuie didn´t murdered Oichi, they both commit seppuku during a castle siege. And to this day their descendants are part of the imperial family bloodline.
It's interesting that Scyther can be influenced and modified by minerals, one being a Hisuian stone-like mineral and the other being the Metal Coat. It would be cool if Onix had a branched evolution with the same evolution method as Scyther. If I'm not mistaken, one of the Pokémon depicted in the flashback of the Kalos War in X/Y was Steelix, implying that Onix were able to evolve into Steelix several hundred years ago. Additionally, both Steelix and Scizor had Mega Evolutions. At the very least, since Steelix and Scizor can be found in the wild of at least Sinnoh and Galar in the present day, I would hope that Onix and Scyther back in the days of Hisui could still evolve into Steelix and Scizor respectively.
I just got the tofrug plush in the mail today, it’s pretty soft. You and whoever helped manufacture it did a great job! The kaskade region series is my favourite on your channel, hope the fan games end up being good!
Kleavor's grown on me since it was first shown. I kept compairing it to Scizor, which I still like better, but taken on it's own merits, it's a cool mon.
The Scyther Line is now just Rock, Paper, Scissors Trio
@TheAce paper cuts
@TheAce I would make a joke like "His defense says otherwise", but I was surprised to see Scyther actually has pretty decent defense for an unevolved mon
Next Gen Scyther gets a Grass type Evo.
@@howardjones1388 man that one would for sure get the shortest end of the stick as bug grass is terrible type combo
Don’t say that dude
Wyrdeer, Basculegion, and now Kleavor. Hisui is hitting the nail on the head with these evolutions.
Arcanine
All we need is a Gorochu alternate evolution for Pikachu.
@@CashAdams___ not confirmed
@@pixellord2370 YES PLEASE
@@endk.3500 in a way it is. Chances are they aren’t gonna let growlithe evolve into something other than Arcanine with it being so loved.
Kleavor seems really cool, until you realize that they're probably extinct now. I bet it's because Scizors came along and Bullet Punched all of them into nonexistence.
Maybe you can still evolve them with other methods, like some pokemon evolve with ancient power which suggest that they are ancient evolution of a pokemon
From stone to steel, it'd make sense, stone Age died off once metals were found,
@@MrBounceoutboi maybe we'll see a steel-type kleavor in future games?
@@JackieMReacts maybe depends if it counts as died off or becomes a unique evolution in future games where you have to jump through hoops to make sure it doesn't evolve normally
I think it evolved in a Darwinian way because like, which is stronger, a literal rock, or a piece of steel
Anthro student here: hand-axes have been around since the early stone-age, roughly 2.3 million years ago with Homo habilis and the Oldowan stone tool type that they used, which only got refined more and more, especially once Homo erectus pops into the fossil record
Mad props good buddy. I was spacifically going to refrence paleolithic and neolithic technologies and how hand axes ( as well as celts, spuds, stone adze blades and stone axes) were/ still are ( in some areas) amazing tools to work with.
I especially found it interesting that the entries mention examples of elder Kleavor essentially learning techniques like correcting their chipped edges by essentially micro flaking sections where vhunks had spalled off via pressure flaking ( hence why the blades would get sharper if parts were smashed off.).
I like how Lockstin acts SO stupid, then just says something mind bogglingly smart. I love him!
And he's really funny too
Thanks. :)
smart idk, cultured sure
@@solarprogeny6736 Lmao
And sometimes he ends with something stupid to help you snap back to reality
Considering he is one of the "Nobles", Him looking like Shibata Katsui makes sense. Hisui/Sinnoh being the place where the Shinto idea of the land being formed would make sense. You could see the "Lord of the lords" as Nobunaga" be it Arceus or some main antagonist pokemon who wants to conquer Japan.
Now that you said that,I feel there will be another Pokemon Conquest game someday.
*Katsuie
If it’s going for a nobles = historic generals, could we then see more of the noble Pokémon being based off other generals of Novunaga?
Holy Bidoof! Kleavor ACTUALLY looks like Katsuie Shibata from SW2! The manbun, facial hair and the twin axe! Genius.
@@joshuaarceo9938 now we just need a demon aura-imbued mon based on Nobunaga and a butterfly assassin based on Nōhime!
I freaking love the way Kleavor looks. It's so gen1 inspired but with modern updates, which is fitting since it is a Scyther evolution that is found in the PAST.
I’m hoping they stick to more animalistic while combining gen 1 or earlier aesthetics because I feel the same!!! :)
I know I saw artwork on it and it feels like something that would have already existed in Pokémon
I hate it tbh
Scyther: Scythe
Scizor: Scissor
Kleavor: Cleaver
So from I've gotten from this is that if Scyther got another evo, it can and will be named Stabber
Better yet, the one after is gonna be Cutler
Not sure for those names. I think that a fitting name would be Daggor since the 'or' at the end of both evos
Katanor
I would bet for Knifor, so it goes er, or, er, or (even if its not right with the timeline)
But the real question is, what would be something more advanced than a Scizor and go in tune with the scyther line? A saw? A scalpel? A diamond cutter?
I love that Kleavor makes so much sense for the time the metal coat wouldn’t exist back then and while Scyther is based on typical green Mantids another basis for Kleavor could also be a much more aggressive species of Mantis since well we’ve seen it’s intro cutscene
It would be very fitting to have the hard stone let it evolve
Makes me wonder if Onix will get an alt too.
Finally someone else gets it
I thought that too! Metal wouldn't be easy to access like it is in modern day so this was what scyther evovled into until they discovered metal and scizor was discovered and eventually kleavor was left in the dust case metal in most cases is better then rock. Honestly this was a big brain play by gamefreak with this one I love it!
@@multilink1748 imagine if the method was a Hard Stone like someone mentioned, they could just make the excuse that it was recently rediscovered in order to bring it back.
Scizor: Who are you?
Kleavor: I am you without the 4 time weakness to fire.
"Bold words for someone in clamping range"
But with added water, steel and rock weakness
Damm, bug rock is actually a good type
@@Edujs23 yeah I thought it was bad but I just checked it out it is pretty solid of a type combo, not as good as bug steel but it is still good
Bold words with Technician bullet punch
@@mohammadmurie Bug Steel is a Pseudo legendary worthy typing, up there with Water Ground. It's only weakness is Fire, granted a 4x weakness, but that's damn good.
Do you think cleavor is the natural evolution for scyther? If you give it a metal coat it becomes a more man made pokemon with steel alloys as its exoskeleton but if left alone it accomplishes the same but with natural rocks
A weird thought crossing my mind is that Scyther doesn't naturally evolve without some outside "help." It seems to me it almost always needs a Trainer's assistance to evolve. That's just my teo cents, anyway.
@@Chaos89P That's just because Game Freak is allergic to letting Pokemon evolve in ways that could potentially be recreated in past games.
It’d be cool if Scyther’s evolution method is triggered by its exoskeleton. Imagine a Bug/Dragon or Bug/Ghost Scyther evolution if triggered by Dragon Scale or Reaper cloth.
@@Galavantworks
In the hybrid board game/card game I've been working on, Scyther has another alternate evolution (conceptualized long before Kleavor was revealed) called Mantoro-ken, which is a Bug/Fighting type obtained when Scyther is traded while holding a Black Belt. It's based off of the Mantis style of Kung Fu, which was traditionally called Toro-ken (or Tanglangquan).
Also added a baby form/prevo for Scyther called Mantimid.
@Ik It is very unwise to count out Bug Pokémon, for sure.
Kleavor definitely isn't my favorite new Pokemon, but it's still a good one and I can't honestly even imagine what else a Rock type Scyther evolution could look like.
Also, it just occurred to me to ask this, but are there any Pokemon in particular that you feel would be perfect to receive something new in Hisui based on what you know of the Ainu?
@@chrisjohnsen8448 we need an origami porygon called porygami. its just too perfect
Oh yeah, I've heard a lot of people mention that idea. Personally not a fan of it, nor do I anticipate it, but it is still kind of a neat concept I guess.
It's official; if I every play Legends and get a Kleavor, I'm naming it Shibuta.
DeltaKnight or basagiri
I will be very, very sad if there is no reference to pottery. The Ainu are the *oldest* pottery producing culture on heath.
I’ve been accosted by visions of the player channeling their inner Link and throwing/smashing it all… :(
Wasn't expecting to ever see FGO referenced by Lockstin.
Same!
The interesting thing is that he is still non-playable and a boss servant for an event. The reason why he is in said event was his relationship to the Oda clan and his stepdaughter Chacha(Nobunaga's niece due being Oichi's daughter) being one of the main characters of the said event as well.
And he was a pain in the ass of a boss in that event's CQ
I had no idea this thing was a Scyther evolution until I heard it through the internet zeitgeist. The trailer didn’t mention it at all and I personally haven’t made it a habit to go check the Pokémon website after new stuff drops…
I thought it was a midpoint between kabutops and Scyther...
I don't get how people didn't know straight away. It's legs and abdomen look exactly the same, and the first thing we focus on in the trailer are the bottom half. It's quite obvious.
Between Alola, Galar, and now Hisui, Game Freak is killing it with themeing their Pokemon to their regions. I'm wondering how many more new Pokes we're gonna get with Legends? It's exciting.
How do you make these so fast?! The research! The lore! So fast! This is amazing!
It's my job. 🙃
And even outside of Pokemon I LOVE researching and learning.
While he’s definitely more imposing, he’s definitely worse than Scisor typing wise. But given this is olden times and trading Pokémon with a metal coat is probably not a thing, a natural evolution like this makes way more sense.
Which means there’s a chance Steelix doesn’t exist. Maybe we’ll get my dream variant of Onyx. A pure fairy type, based on the Crystal Onyx from the anime. Made of mystical stone than normal stone. I will accept rock/fairy. But I want a new evolution that’s a dragon fairy type. I think that would be a cool variant.
How is scyther better than kleavor typing wise??
@@maganhassan2627 steel has more restistances than rock
@@WinningTho oooh you're talking about scizor ooops
However, kleavor's typing isn't bad especially compared scizor with double weakness to fire lol
It isn't a chance its more of a fact steeling doesn't exist yet because of humans haven't invented the required items most mons evolutions are birth from human actions
@@maganhassan2627 scizor may have a 4x fire weakness, but the upside is that it's the only weakness it has, and resists 8 types and is immune to 1 more, while kleavor has 3 weaknesses and only resists 2 types and has no immunities, so scizor has the far better typing
Shibata Katsuie in Samurai Warriors is awesome! You just feel powerful when you cut through enemy hordes with this guy.
I love Kleavor. Scyther's my favorite Pokemon, and I've never really been able to get behind Scizor (I'd like it more if it was purple or blue), but Kleavor looks great to me.
It's weird though. The Scyther family is now like Rock, Paper, Scissors... except Rock beats Paper and loses to Scissors, and Paper doesn't beat anything.
In before Scyther gets a Bug/Fire evolution to finish off the Rock/Fire/Steel triangle. Or a Ground or Ice one.
Same
Honestly, I can't look at the eyes without thinking of enemies from rareware games, like the ants in Banjo Kazzooie.
Same goes for Carkol
I also like the idea that instead of evolving into a steel-type, since metal wasn’t common in that place in that time, it becomes rock type. Like, “oh, there’s not enough steel lying around for a full coat, so just become a rock, that’ll do the trick”
The bug rock type combo is cool to see from an evolution of an old mon tho
"And then it became a manbun."
How the mighty have fallen...
Scyther has a double evolution yay
It probably won't evolve into scizor
No this is an evolution that by now is extinct in modern age Pokémon since the metal coat was invented and there wasn’t any need to evolve to Kleavor
Nah, it's just an ancient evolution you won't get in the main line games, that's why it has a different name and isn't just called hisuian scyther
Kleavor looks dope as hell. Sure it doesn’t make sense from an evolutionary standpoint, but neither does Scizzor because it goes from having scythes to having big claw-like scissor hands. This helps further back up the “stuck in the Stone Age field” because they didn’t have metallurgy to make Metal Coating so instead Scyther became Kleavor. The only question I have is why didn’t Kleavor become a thing in every region? Technically it could thrive in every region, moreso in Kanto, Hoenn and Unova
For those confused; the Pokémon site saids its an evolution of Scyther
Great video, though Katsuie didn’t actually murder Oichi. The two were married after her first husband, Azai Nagamasa was defeated by Nobunaga and committed seppuku. Instead, she died alongside her husband when their castle was being under siege by Toyotomi Hideyoshi (this was due to Nobunaga’s assassination leaving the heir to the Oda unclear, with Katsuie supporting another of Nobunaga’s sons rather than Hideyoshi himself)
I know the MCs (both male and female) of Pokémon Conquest are roughly based on Azai Nagamasa, so maybe he was confusing Oichi w/ the MCs, idk.
I was wondering about that. I had never heard that, and I couldn't find anything on it, so I was wondering if I was just dumb
@@emerfirek maybe, but then again Azai committed seppuku so even then I have no idea
I think an interesting connection is that the other name for the cleaver, “bone axe” shares similarities with the new move Kleavor is seen using, “stone axe.”
WAIT IT ELVOVES FROM SCYTHER DID I JUST NOT PAY ATTENTION OR SOMETHING
It was part of its detailed explanation on the website, the trailers never mentioned anything about it
"Who the heck are you"- Oversimpilfied (your reaction to Kleavor)
Man the lore and logic tying this region and its variants together is on point.
so i was thinking as to why we don't see Kleavor anymore was that the Special minerals used for it's evolution all got mined up and then they where refined into a metal, put the Special properties that allowed it to evolve are still there, which is why we get Scizor with a metal coat now.
Huh, I thought with it being the "Lord of the Woods" and its oddly appropriate for a Scizor predessor gold and silvery color scheme, it was influenced by the tale of the Honest Woodcutter.
In fact, its part rock type works in its favor, as rock tools were primitive compared to the later Iron and steel tools that would be made. Which goes well with being an ancient Scizor of sort.
Okay I'm gonna be completely honest, when I saw the title, I was thinking Kintaro, but realized this would only really work if it was a bear so I scrapped that and came up with my second conclusion above.(Hisuian Ursaring would have been awesome)
Ursaring did get something after all...
Why are they giving SO MANY NEW POKEMON a beard? What a weird phenomenon?0_0 I know you can see them as spikes or armor here, but I'm pretty sure the designers got the task to make it beard-like again. These anthropomorphic features somehow bug me :'D
The Ainu people are famous for their beards or being hairy in general so many of the new pokemon will also have bears.
@@TheWerewolf1989 Pokemon are not people. Real life animals don't look like the people of the same region they're from, so this argument is pointless.
Thank you!!..I thought I was the only one that felt this way lol…they look so stupid and ruin a good Pokémon…most of the regional forms from alola and galar look nowhere as good as there original counterparts and just shouldn’t exist
He he. *BUG*
@@kristyw89 Real life animals also don't shoot fire from their mouth, create black holes, and punch things over the horizon. Arguing that a Pokemon design is bad because "real animals don't do that" is stupid. I'd much rather have Pokemon that have beards and are creative in many different ways than Pokemon that are just "animal" like Dewgong or Persian.
Someone pointed out in another video that Kleavor is what Scizor looks like under the metal suit
which does make sense in a way
Kleavor makes so much more sense as an evolution to Scyther than Scizor. I always felt like Scizor was a downgrade in design compared to Scyther, as it just looks more like a kids' toy, whereas Scyther looks so dangerous. Kleavor looks like a much meaner and more dangerous version of Scyther.
I really like the evolutions they presented in this game so far. I'm excited to see what Growlithe's evolution will look like.
This is definitely someone else’s Pokémon, but it is interesting to learn its history. Might need to make a Ranger based off this guy in my next dnd game.
Also, as time went on and rock tools became more and more obsolete, Scyther had to find a new survival tactic. Thus, Scizor. The steel type. It's literal evolution and I love it.
i kinda love the design. it appears so strange, but i think they tried to imitate the gen 1 style once again
I like to think kleavor’s extinction is explained by rock-paper-scizzors. Kleavor being rock, but scyther as paper (paper thin blades) being strong vs rock was able to survive. With rock gone, scizzor was now able to have a chance and evolves from scyther having no extra competition anymore
I think it's interesting that instead of a metal coat, you use a special rock to make scyther evolve into Kleavor. It's almost a proto-scizor.
I’ve heard people say it looks like a rom hack Pokemon
To be fair every Pokémon looks like a rom hack Pokémon when you first see it
I can't tell if thats good or bad cuz there are some amazing ROM hacks out there
Ah it's just Pohatu from Bionicle, don't worry
OMG IT DOES LOOK LIKE POHATU
Man I'm just stoked to have a Scyther evolution that (hopefully) doesn't evolve by trade evolution. Kleavor looks sick.
I love that they kept up the naming convention from Scizor. Scicor (scissors), Kleavor (cleaver).
Wait till I tell you about a scythe.
0:40 the naming of this pokemon is pretty... klevor
The axes could be also a reference from the stone tools used in the Jomon period they were pretty common back then in Japan
Basculegion- Surf + Jump
Hisuian Braviary- Fly
Wyrdeer- "Fast-Travel"
Kleavor- Cut
??? "Lady Pokémon"- Rock Climb*
*(New Munchlax Evo)
Shout out to Kleavor fr
Gotta be one of my favorite genders
WHAT?!
So we have male, female, nonbinary and Kleavor?
I saw Japanese PokeTheory youtuber speculating that Kleavor might be representing the logging of woods during Hokkaido development, it's such an irony seeing that Kleavor is the Lord of the Woods.
Kleavor is badass
Now I want to see a Pokémon based on the last Samurai. My man fought with 500 Samurai against the people that wanted to change Japan, and they lost because they used swords against guns and were EXTREMELY outnumbered. Hisuian Bisharp should be based on that madlad who got a song based off of him
At 6:01 i only just realised the scyther in his pocket. Great detail in the video, love the content Lockstin!
I‘m honestly stunned right now. When I watched the latest trailer I just thought cool a new Pokémon. I never would’ve associated this with Scyther.
If Lockstin ever talks about the Yakuza games I'm gonna cry
2:04 - It's a football! I chiseled it!
4:04
I don't hear enough of this awesome game. Where are my Fate Grand Order people at ?
We are off at a theme park
@@Raiga0310lmao, Oniland heh ?
"And here he is in FateGrand Order." Having flashbacks to the event 😱
kleavor literally seems like a fan made pokemon
I'd also like to add that Kleavor could also be based off of the Chinese warrior Li Kwei or Li Kwai, since he also wields two axes, resembles Kleavor, and even is referred to as the "Black Whirlwind", which is coincidentally the color of Kleavor's axe hands, as well as the Black Augunite you use to evolve Scyther into a Kleavor-
is it weird that all I know about Legends Arceus I've learned from this channel?
Go do some web browsing
so the whole breaking off bits of stone is called pressure flaking, and not only does breaking off flakes sharpen the edge of the big stone, but every little hard broken off is itself its own tool. it's one of the first things you learn, and most important things to learn, in bushcraft. every flake can itself become a thousand different kinds of knives, an arrow head, a burrowing tool (drill), and so much more. to make that into a pokemon is honestly really fuckin cool, and I really hope we see more like it, esp if we ever get more legends games.
I wonder what a hypothetical Mega form for Hisuian Pokemon like Kleavor and Wrydeer would look like.
6:43
Wasn't expecting a Yoshihiko reference here
1:32 The origins of Basulegion
also self-explanatory how they went "extinct" ...steel out-competes stone even in pokemon
Can't wait for Lockstin to try and figure out how the Arc Phone fits into his time period theory.
I knew what a Cleaver was but when you said Kleavor I thought that his name was Clever like a pun
I know why there is a phone in the game, the first phone was made in 1876. Japan would start colonizing Hokkaido Wich hisui/sinnoh is based on in 1869, although Japan only started documenting the fauna and Flora of Hokkaido until around 1877 so my theory is your character will be using one of the first phones in the Pokemon world.
Next scyther evolution! Big/Grass - because paper to complete the trio. rock - kleavor, scissor -scizor, and paper - wryter. Rhyms with scyther as well.
Haven't watched the video yet but the answer to "Who is Kleavor based on?" is CLEARLY Clearcutter from Futurama. Cuz like. Scizor is Clamps.
I'm glad I am not the only one that the second i saw him i went, "Huh thats Katsuie Shibata."
I think something to note is the black blades resemble obsidian. Hokkaido being a volcanic region had an abundance of obsidian and was used in paleothic times to create cutting tools. This would mean that Kleavor could quite literally be a glass "cannon", or more specifically a glass axe. Which is appropriate because there would be exceptionally sharp weapons and a complete lack of armor in the stone age.
The axe turnado that cuts surrounding trees down, yet only knocks a pokemon trainer back.
His special ability is probably going to be where "when he takes physical damage he gains attack, but loses some accuracy."
As soon as you said "WHO", I knew we were talking about Katsuie (sp) Shibata from the Sengoku Era (Samurai Warriors games).
If it has the same base stat total as Scyther/Scizor. Then I wonder if it’s exoskeleton a evolution trigger method. Like what if other regional Scyther’s can evolve holding Dragon scale?
Hisui: Stone tools
Also Hisui: Arc Phone
Kleavor, the newest character in the Masters of the Universe Collection, rival of Konstriktor, and champion over Stinkor.
You kind of touched on this briefly but the fact that it is yeah it's fact that it is stone like ancient weaponry kind of alludes to the idea that it would evolve eventually into its modern counterpart scissor whose steel type or metal
Gnoggin: Anything you want to add
Me: It might be based on the dead leaf mantis.
Kleavor also has an elongated brow and beard, which made me think of it as sort of a Neanderthal version of Scizor
My favorite part is that just how scyther is named from the weapons on his arms scythes. Kleavor is also named by the bone axes or kleavor on him.
Scizor as well.
i love the fact that you used Shibata as the comparison at the beginning. I didn't see that at first. side note, how many people are going to nickname it Headsman?
My favorite part, is this is just pre-steel age Scizzor.
like, Rock bug VS, Steel bug.
it's literally unrefined ore.
Am I the only one who recognized the image when he started talking about the Top-Knot as a still of Matsudaira Ken when he was younger and in Yoshimune Hyoubanki Abarenbo Shogun?
I'll probably warm up to Kleaor soon, but I'm not really sure right now. Its design just doesn't seem... realistic. Well they are imaginary monsters but you know what I mean.
Scizor is covered in steel rather than a typical exoskeleton, which is arguable more unrealistic than a rough, natural mineral down.
Its artwork just doesn't convey the idea very well, even more so because Scyther doesn't have a quadruped stance anymore like it used to. But if you take a closer look you'll see that it's basically brown Scyther.
It looks even more like a Scyther evolution than Scizor.
@@braydenleaderofthetirkins1143 yes but it just doesn't... look right. Am I making sense or is this just me? Maybe im just feeling nostalgia.
There's Pokéballs with eyes, sentient piles of sludge and flying keys out there, Kleavor is ultra realistic by comparison. XD
Cleavor: *exists*
Me: finally, a viking that uses axes.
Theory: In Platinum, Scyther's location can be found on route 215 , west of Veilstone City and as we all know Veilstone is a city "Hewn from Rock" . Hew is define as a something to chop or cut off using an axe. Kleavor is an Axe Pokemon and maybe Kleavor was used to create that city, to create the first Head Quarters of Team Galactic (led by Cyllene, the ancestor of Cyrus) .At some point maybe Kleavor was abused and started dying. When you look at scythers location in Platinum, its like the best location to set up bunk houses before construction, and maybe a rest area for the workers which is just west of Veilstone.
Ten points for that tiny Scyther in that pocket.
4:40 Actually Katsuie didn´t murdered Oichi, they both commit seppuku during a castle siege. And to this day their descendants are part of the imperial family bloodline.
It's interesting that Scyther can be influenced and modified by minerals, one being a Hisuian stone-like mineral and the other being the Metal Coat. It would be cool if Onix had a branched evolution with the same evolution method as Scyther. If I'm not mistaken, one of the Pokémon depicted in the flashback of the Kalos War in X/Y was Steelix, implying that Onix were able to evolve into Steelix several hundred years ago. Additionally, both Steelix and Scizor had Mega Evolutions. At the very least, since Steelix and Scizor can be found in the wild of at least Sinnoh and Galar in the present day, I would hope that Onix and Scyther back in the days of Hisui could still evolve into Steelix and Scizor respectively.
I just got the tofrug plush in the mail today, it’s pretty soft. You and whoever helped manufacture it did a great job! The kaskade region series is my favourite on your channel, hope the fan games end up being good!
Totally off topic, but a super adorable Tofrug was just delivered. Luckily Amaze-all Corp. didn’t intercept.
My friend was talking about this guy and said "man I can't wait to get cut in half in a Pokémon game."
[Cue background music]
Who TF's that Pokemon?
...
It's... Kleavor!
"Klee-verr!"
Kleavor's grown on me since it was first shown. I kept compairing it to Scizor, which I still like better, but taken on it's own merits, it's a cool mon.
I just had the thought Kleavor is our first lumberjack Pokemon
cool axe-wielding mantis thingy