2:02:10 "Is crasher wake really that iconic?" YES HE IS, YES HE IS That guy literally has the most appearances out of any gen 4 gym leader, he appears in DPP (plus your rival becomes his student), and gets a cutscenes in the department store in HGSS and on route 18 in B2W2. What makes gym leaders iconic are when they have actual appearances outside their own gym. Even better if the appearances are unexpected. Clay is my all time favorite gym leader cause even though he's one of the busiest, he's one of the few that throughout the story of BW, takes his time to check in on the player character, even if it's just sending his assistants to help out. He's also the first gym leader to arrive to fight plasma in the climax too. This just makes his characterization so amazing you have this rough and stern cowboy businessman, but he genuinely cares the most about not only the wellbeing of the youth but his region as a whole.
1:36:34 x&y has so many tools to create an extremely 3D and twisted map. Like it's a circular city but what if there's like a Hoopa ring on the side of a dumpster and it takes you through a long winding tunnel that leads you to a lava area, and so you have this map with all these multi dimensional chutes and ladders coming out of it in all directions.
12:45 The thing is in Legends: Arceus, it’s a time when people and Pokemon live separately. People don’t own a lot of Pokemon. So Lumiose becoming a city where people and Pokemon coexist, could just be what modern Lumiose City becomes.
I think Legends ZA Will be your brave trainer helping build Lumios city. Going out, collecting Resources and catching Pokemon to assist in the city's Development. A different type of pokemon for A different job
Honestly if Z-A somehow did end up being November 2025, I wouldn't actually mind that. Cos a longer dev period for it would (hopefully) mean that a lot of the performance and stability issues that have been plaguing Gen 9 so far would be somewhat resolved. Extra time for optimization is never a bad thing imo. Granted, yes the drought is painful but I'd rather that than have another game that is barely able to run on the one console it's exclusive to. Tangentially related(...ish), but I hope Z-A focuses on Gens 5-9 for new Megas. Gen 1 alone has like, what? 15 out of the current 48? That's around 1/3 and that kinda irks me a little ngl.
one of these days chikorita and totodile need to get some love from gamefreak... chikorita- meganium specifically cuz its gotta be the worst starter option of any gen ever. gotta modernize them. great episode guys!
2:23:45 … yo, Grape just got me thinking… what if Synchro Machine is the “perfect” version of Mega Evolution, while Mega Evolution is the failed attempt? The ultimate bond would be combining your consciousness with your Pokemon, right? Become one being? Isn’t that what Synchro Machine is?
14:49 in norse mythology Ragnarök is told from the perspective of its already happened when it has never happened. Its a paradoxical way of storytelling. Telling events of the future like they have already happened. So ifs very possible that Legends ZA is set in the modern time explaing a tale of zygard that has yet to unfold, when in reality it starts unfolding throught out the plot line. So it has jumps to the past to uncover the truth
Love the ZA Bingo Card idea!! 😂😂 still behind on playing Legends, but I still want to play it before ZA comes out. I know I’ve got some time. 😂Thanks for all the work you guys are doing! Love the theory crafting and discussions!
Hmm the battle bond phenomenon is what sets off research for the synchro machine. Only you the player is able to bond with certain Pokemon. Mega/BB Pokemon are not only RIDE Pokemon, but you BECOMES them to complete certain quests. To unlock them, either a person gives you the stone or, similar to LA and anime, you battle a mega and earn its trust. Also, I really want UB in Paris to tie to the original XY story concept of aliens. Zygard already looks alien in nature, similar to necrozma’s color prism, and how it’s so similar to Guzzlord. As for its ties to Paldea, they will mention things. Heath would be awesome to meet briefly. Levanton goes to Kalos to publish the Dex, setting off a similar quest for Kalos Pokemon, just not as hefty. If distortions return, maybe Paradoxes can show up, but like it’s been mentioned, keep them for Gen 10/BW remakes. And omg Grape’s mega theory is actually fantastic. Like look at mega Audino and Altaria. THEY’RE ANGELIC AND NOT IN PAIN! Actually so stellar! Uuuh ok I’m done for now weeee this is too much for a tweet, feel free to snag my ideas 🙃 Give me normal ice, it would be cute. yum yum HPP breakfast
I wonder if GF would make regional variants of the starters but they all mega evolve into the same mega. For example. Say we get regional variants of the litten, snivy, and totodile lines and they’re able to mega evolve. In future games where the regional variants do not exists, their regular forms mega evolve into the same mega. This would be because mega evolution taps into the Pokémon’s primitive dna to give it different features.
I think if it does take place in the past, and they really lean into the late-19th century French aspects, no set of starters would be better than Snivy, Popplio, and Fennekin, as their final evolutions are all so thematically appropriate, Especially if you consider that in PLA, the three starters were from a generation before, the same generation as, and a generation after the original Sinnoh games, and also none of them had any new forms or Mega Evolutions otherwise, the starters I'm hoping for fit those same rules. On the other hand, it's possible GameFreak doesn't want to pull from 3 consecutive generations, or doesn't want to use another starter from gen 7, so who really knows?
I really think that PLZA story will be the best part about it I think it's going to follow the legends format of few battles and type attack mechanism strong/swift. Some form of action based puzzle battles (maybe five) that contribute to the development of the city. The story is the only reason to progress beyond that in the current format their could be an updated Pokedex and filling it contributes to the development of the city ( maybe they put a lake where all the water Pokemon are or something like that to accommodate the different Pokemon in the area) and that's it that's my best evaluation as far as a release date goes I think we could know as early as August 8th I'm guessing Kalos starters and maybe they get megas I'm guessing we will see them and a few more new megas
Great episode! These are so fun, hate that I missed out on this one but I'll hopefully catch the next live q&a lol. Also I seen Suba make a 65 % mako shark form of Zygarde and I'm sad because I know we won't get it🥲. We need an actual shark man😪, I hope Sharpedo doesn't see this because I don't want him to think I don't love him 😂
Hmm the battle bond phenomenon is what sets off research for the synchro machine. Only you the player is able to bond with certain Pokemon. Mega/BB Pokemon are not only RIDE Pokemon, but you BECOMES them to complete certain quests. To unlock them, either a person gives you the stone or, similar to LA and anime, you battle a mega and earn its trust. Also, I really want UB in Paris to tie to the original XY story concept of aliens. Zygard already looks alien in nature, similar to necrozma’s color prism, and how it’s so similar to Guzzlord. As for its ties to Paldea, they will mention things. Heath would be awesome to meet briefly. If distortions return, maybe Paradoxes can show up, but like it’s been mentioned, keep them for Gen 10/BW remakes. Uuuh ok I’m done for now weeee this is too much for a tweet, feel free to snag my ideas 🙃 Give me normal ice, it would be cute. yum yum HPP breakfast
what is Legends ZA is like Samurai Jack? "Long ago, in the distant past, I, Zygarde, the shape-shifting master of darkness, unleashed an unspeakable evil. Then a foolish Pokemon trainer with a Mega-Starter stepped forth to oppose me. Before the final blow was struck, I threw open a portal in time and flung the Pokemon trainer into the future, where my evil is law. Now the foolish trainer seeks to return to the past, and undo the future that is Zygarde's."
Personally id prefer ZA to be based in the future unless it's in combination with what Lumi said where the biomes consume the city, sort of like Area Zero with the overgrowth and dystopian vibes. But I think it might be present day only because we just had past and future games. Also green falls in the middle of the color spectrum between violet and red🤷🏼♂️
2:06:10 gen 10 needs to do away with type-specialist gym leaders and lean into the side job aspect. Like inagine tough trainers with thematic yet competitively viable/ challenging mixed-tyoe squads.
I hope the in Pokémon Legends z a, either or either we're dealing with a fixed timeline or we're dealing with both the past and present and it goes forward it seems like we're trying to fix something cuz the game's overall have had a little bit strange time dilation lately and I'm not really sure if they did it intentionally or not, it's something to watch for. one of the things that I want to upgrade in lumio city is on one of the is the Pokeball shop, in such a way that the strange ball is no longer necessary. that includes the Aaron's staff model and the ability to switch out Pokeball models at will preferably in the shop to reduce the littering or coding issues. the other details of the Pokémon's summary does not change preferably to reduce confusion.
8:00 Dusty, you’re thinking of the discussion where people were trying to justify the presence of Baseball caps in France, as not being modern clothing. Technically they existed in a form in the past, but not as close to the modern day look as they were shown in the trailer, fyi.
Love when you get everybody in there!! Awesome show today boys!! Also I would love to join in on the league and take it on but do you have to be a member to challenge it?
it will probably be we unlock pokemon as we go on developing the city to be more compatable for pokemon to live like how we unlock all starters in the Blueberry Acadamy
It's so funny how Nintendo made the plot of Kalos and Unova so representative of their real world regions. Unova and the conflict between truth and ideals is the spiritual interpretation of republicans vs democrats in the two party system seeing things black and white, even the racial connotations, it's perfect. While Kalos represents France's leadership in Davos wanting world depopulation because they have delirium of a beautiful perfect Earth with nature and without people, but using the ultimate weapon in-game. It's so perfect.
It Would be funny if the za starters weren’t any of the starters from previous games but poipol and some other Pokemon we haven’t seen to me poipol reminds me of prism tower and the map of za from above prism tower kinda looks like a beast ball
Plza will be in the past just so they can reuse the pokeballs from pla. It could also be set in multiple timelines but either way their lazy so they wont make them balls to use only once 😂
28:47 nope, i hate battling npcs, story beats are fine of course but i mega hate random trainer battles and clearly im not alone which is why battle facilities have not returned
I will be glad that Pokémon will be Pokémon again-no matter how Japanese it is. People worldwide are already respecting any country-based work as it is. Being multicultural ends up being confusing messes that it is better to go one at a time.
I wonder if GF would make regional variants of the starters but they all mega evolve into the same mega. For example. Say we get regional variants of the litten, snivy, and totodile lines and they’re able to mega evolve. In future games where the regional variants do not exists, their regular forms mega evolve into the same mega. This would be because mega evolution taps into the Pokémon’s primitive dna to give it different features.
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2:02:10 "Is crasher wake really that iconic?" YES HE IS, YES HE IS
That guy literally has the most appearances out of any gen 4 gym leader, he appears in DPP (plus your rival becomes his student), and gets a cutscenes in the department store in HGSS and on route 18 in B2W2. What makes gym leaders iconic are when they have actual appearances outside their own gym. Even better if the appearances are unexpected. Clay is my all time favorite gym leader cause even though he's one of the busiest, he's one of the few that throughout the story of BW, takes his time to check in on the player character, even if it's just sending his assistants to help out. He's also the first gym leader to arrive to fight plasma in the climax too. This just makes his characterization so amazing you have this rough and stern cowboy businessman, but he genuinely cares the most about not only the wellbeing of the youth but his region as a whole.
i thought you were talking about crash bandicoot at first and i was confused
Maybe the game is like Assassins Creed, where you're in the future trying to locate an object, so you go back to the past
No
@@Chris_Thorndyke Well aren't you just a bucket of bummer, huh?
that Z-A power could be anything
Exactly
1:36:34 x&y has so many tools to create an extremely 3D and twisted map. Like it's a circular city but what if there's like a Hoopa ring on the side of a dumpster and it takes you through a long winding tunnel that leads you to a lava area, and so you have this map with all these multi dimensional chutes and ladders coming out of it in all directions.
My man said hes enjoying The Acolyte I am dead
Love you guys, your content keeps pokemon alive (for me)
And i always love seeing Jake in your videos, all 4 of you have a great chimestry
1:22:45 This is the best midpoint of any video EVER
man literally DISAPPEARED
12:45 The thing is in Legends: Arceus, it’s a time when people and Pokemon live separately. People don’t own a lot of Pokemon. So Lumiose becoming a city where people and Pokemon coexist, could just be what modern Lumiose City becomes.
Really fun episode this week!! Was awesome hearing everyone’s ideas & contributions on the topic much love fellas!!!
Just wanted to point out that quasars weren’t discovered until the late 1950s-early 1960s… Food for thought
I think Legends ZA Will be your brave trainer helping build Lumios city. Going out, collecting Resources and catching Pokemon to assist in the city's Development. A different type of pokemon for A different job
Honestly if Z-A somehow did end up being November 2025, I wouldn't actually mind that. Cos a longer dev period for it would (hopefully) mean that a lot of the performance and stability issues that have been plaguing Gen 9 so far would be somewhat resolved. Extra time for optimization is never a bad thing imo.
Granted, yes the drought is painful but I'd rather that than have another game that is barely able to run on the one console it's exclusive to.
Tangentially related(...ish), but I hope Z-A focuses on Gens 5-9 for new Megas. Gen 1 alone has like, what? 15 out of the current 48? That's around 1/3 and that kinda irks me a little ngl.
1:16:37 Only in the Alola games. You know, right before they removed them from the games? The Dex entries for megas before that were normal
one of these days chikorita and totodile need to get some love from gamefreak... chikorita- meganium specifically cuz its gotta be the worst starter option of any gen ever. gotta modernize them. great episode guys!
1:06:28 who is that handsome devil in the shrubs
Woah thought I heard a familiar voice 😂
2:23:45 … yo, Grape just got me thinking… what if Synchro Machine is the “perfect” version of Mega Evolution, while Mega Evolution is the failed attempt? The ultimate bond would be combining your consciousness with your Pokemon, right? Become one being? Isn’t that what Synchro Machine is?
14:49 in norse mythology Ragnarök is told from the perspective of its already happened when it has never happened. Its a paradoxical way of storytelling. Telling events of the future like they have already happened.
So ifs very possible that Legends ZA is set in the modern time explaing a tale of zygard that has yet to unfold, when in reality it starts unfolding throught out the plot line. So it has jumps to the past to uncover the truth
I dont necessarely care if Furfrou gets an evolution, as long as I can transfer its trim forms into Home😂
Love the ZA Bingo Card idea!! 😂😂 still behind on playing Legends, but I still want to play it before ZA comes out. I know I’ve got some time. 😂Thanks for all the work you guys are doing! Love the theory crafting and discussions!
1:42:16 SAO but it's a Pokémon nuzlocke and wipe means death IRL 💀 🪦
1:17:56 I think you’ll just need the stones in your Inventory. Kinda like the Legend Plate in PL:A.
Hmm the battle bond phenomenon is what sets off research for the synchro machine. Only you the player is able to bond with certain Pokemon. Mega/BB Pokemon are not only RIDE Pokemon, but you BECOMES them to complete certain quests. To unlock them, either a person gives you the stone or, similar to LA and anime, you battle a mega and earn its trust. Also, I really want UB in Paris to tie to the original XY story concept of aliens. Zygard already looks alien in nature, similar to necrozma’s color prism, and how it’s so similar to Guzzlord. As for its ties to Paldea, they will mention things. Heath would be awesome to meet briefly. Levanton goes to Kalos to publish the Dex, setting off a similar quest for Kalos Pokemon, just not as hefty. If distortions return, maybe Paradoxes can show up, but like it’s been mentioned, keep them for Gen 10/BW remakes. And omg Grape’s mega theory is actually fantastic. Like look at mega Audino and Altaria. THEY’RE ANGELIC AND NOT IN PAIN! Actually so stellar! Uuuh ok I’m done for now weeee this is too much for a tweet, feel free to snag my ideas 🙃
Give me normal ice, it would be cute. yum yum HPP breakfast
I wonder if GF would make regional variants of the starters but they all mega evolve into the same mega. For example. Say we get regional variants of the litten, snivy, and totodile lines and they’re able to mega evolve. In future games where the regional variants do not exists, their regular forms mega evolve into the same mega. This would be because mega evolution taps into the Pokémon’s primitive dna to give it different features.
I thought legends Z-a would take place in the past like the PLA did with new forms and stuff
I also like for furfrou to have a pre-evolve form as well
37:37 having an HM built in is something that Monster Hunter Stories did and it was an excellent mechanic.
If pokemon a-z is November hopefully this game is game breaking
2:01:42 I mean I think the Galar gym leaders are amazing. Paldea’s are just okay.
I think if it does take place in the past, and they really lean into the late-19th century French aspects, no set of starters would be better than Snivy, Popplio, and Fennekin, as their final evolutions are all so thematically appropriate, Especially if you consider that in PLA, the three starters were from a generation before, the same generation as, and a generation after the original Sinnoh games, and also none of them had any new forms or Mega Evolutions otherwise, the starters I'm hoping for fit those same rules. On the other hand, it's possible GameFreak doesn't want to pull from 3 consecutive generations, or doesn't want to use another starter from gen 7, so who really knows?
I really think that PLZA story will be the best part about it I think it's going to follow the legends format of few battles and type attack mechanism strong/swift. Some form of action based puzzle battles (maybe five) that contribute to the development of the city. The story is the only reason to progress beyond that in the current format their could be an updated Pokedex and filling it contributes to the development of the city ( maybe they put a lake where all the water Pokemon are or something like that to accommodate the different Pokemon in the area) and that's it that's my best evaluation as far as a release date goes I think we could know as early as August 8th
I'm guessing Kalos starters and maybe they get megas I'm guessing we will see them and a few more new megas
Great episode! These are so fun, hate that I missed out on this one but I'll hopefully catch the next live q&a lol. Also I seen Suba make a 65 % mako shark form of Zygarde and I'm sad because I know we won't get it🥲. We need an actual shark man😪, I hope Sharpedo doesn't see this because I don't want him to think I don't love him 😂
Hmm the battle bond phenomenon is what sets off research for the synchro machine. Only you the player is able to bond with certain Pokemon. Mega/BB Pokemon are not only RIDE Pokemon, but you BECOMES them to complete certain quests. To unlock them, either a person gives you the stone or, similar to LA and anime, you battle a mega and earn its trust. Also, I really want UB in Paris to tie to the original XY story concept of aliens. Zygard already looks alien in nature, similar to necrozma’s color prism, and how it’s so similar to Guzzlord. As for its ties to Paldea, they will mention things. Heath would be awesome to meet briefly. If distortions return, maybe Paradoxes can show up, but like it’s been mentioned, keep them for Gen 10/BW remakes. Uuuh ok I’m done for now weeee this is too much for a tweet, feel free to snag my ideas 🙃
Give me normal ice, it would be cute. yum yum HPP breakfast
what is Legends ZA is like Samurai Jack?
"Long ago, in the distant past, I, Zygarde, the shape-shifting master of darkness, unleashed an unspeakable evil. Then a foolish Pokemon trainer with a Mega-Starter stepped forth to oppose me. Before the final blow was struck, I threw open a portal in time and flung the Pokemon trainer into the future, where my evil is law. Now the foolish trainer seeks to return to the past, and undo the future that is Zygarde's."
Personally id prefer ZA to be based in the future unless it's in combination with what Lumi said where the biomes consume the city, sort of like Area Zero with the overgrowth and dystopian vibes. But I think it might be present day only because we just had past and future games. Also green falls in the middle of the color spectrum between violet and red🤷🏼♂️
2:06:10 gen 10 needs to do away with type-specialist gym leaders and lean into the side job aspect. Like inagine tough trainers with thematic yet competitively viable/ challenging mixed-tyoe squads.
Dusty, Cresselia is a “pesky flying croissant” 😂😂
I low key want to hear dusty's acolyte opinions!
I hope the in Pokémon Legends z a, either or either we're dealing with a fixed timeline or we're dealing with both the past and present and it goes forward it seems like we're trying to fix something cuz the game's overall have had a little bit strange time dilation lately and I'm not really sure if they did it intentionally or not, it's something to watch for. one of the things that I want to upgrade in lumio city is on one of the is the Pokeball shop, in such a way that the strange ball is no longer necessary. that includes the Aaron's staff model and the ability to switch out Pokeball models at will preferably in the shop to reduce the littering or coding issues. the other details of the Pokémon's summary does not change preferably to reduce confusion.
8:00 Dusty, you’re thinking of the discussion where people were trying to justify the presence of Baseball caps in France, as not being modern clothing. Technically they existed in a form in the past, but not as close to the modern day look as they were shown in the trailer, fyi.
01:22:40 😂😂😂
Love when you get everybody in there!! Awesome show today boys!! Also I would love to join in on the league and take it on but do you have to be a member to challenge it?
Yes, the league is a perk for our members/patrons!
@@HiddenPowerPodcast okay looks like I’m gonna be a member soon! 😂
Please note tho that it hasn’t yet been opened to be challenged. An official announcement will come when that’s the case.
@@HiddenPowerPodcast oh for sure!! I’ll wait how ever long it takes! Haha I just love idea!
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Calling it now Heath is going to show up tracking the gorilla Pokemon from the S/V book and it's going to turn out to be the A Pokemon.
it will probably be we unlock pokemon as we go on developing the city to be more compatable for pokemon to live like how we unlock all starters in the Blueberry Acadamy
It's so funny how Nintendo made the plot of Kalos and Unova so representative of their real world regions. Unova and the conflict between truth and ideals is the spiritual interpretation of republicans vs democrats in the two party system seeing things black and white, even the racial connotations, it's perfect. While Kalos represents France's leadership in Davos wanting world depopulation because they have delirium of a beautiful perfect Earth with nature and without people, but using the ultimate weapon in-game. It's so perfect.
2:01:50 soul, what kind of Football? Was this recorded during the Euro’s and you watching Italy?
Mega Dudunsparce... Dududunsparce. I don't even have to explain this one, I know you know
It Would be funny if the za starters weren’t any of the starters from previous games but poipol and some other Pokemon we haven’t seen to me poipol reminds me of prism tower and the map of za from above prism tower kinda looks like a beast ball
When is soul hopping back on Pokemon X again and live streaming
I think the A legendary will be an evolution of eternal flower floette
Slay. My fav trio
How do we get involved with the battle league?
Join our patreon or TH-cam members and join our secret discord!
Please note tho that it hasn’t yet been opened to be challenged. An official announcement will come when that’s the case.
@@HiddenPowerPodcast ok thanks!
Do think mewtwo and legendary birds will make an appearance in Z-A?
can’t stop laughing at the sus chat exposed 🤣🤣🤣
Can you guys make drogain the 4th member. Bro has knowledge
Zygardseus
You should read all the leaks
Plza will be in the past just so they can reuse the pokeballs from pla. It could also be set in multiple timelines but either way their lazy so they wont make them balls to use only once 😂
28:47 nope, i hate battling npcs, story beats are fine of course but i mega hate random trainer battles and clearly im not alone which is why battle facilities have not returned
yooooooooooooooo
I will be glad that Pokémon will be Pokémon again-no matter how Japanese it is. People worldwide are already respecting any country-based work as it is. Being multicultural ends up being confusing messes that it is better to go one at a time.
I wonder if GF would make regional variants of the starters but they all mega evolve into the same mega. For example. Say we get regional variants of the litten, snivy, and totodile lines and they’re able to mega evolve. In future games where the regional variants do not exists, their regular forms mega evolve into the same mega. This would be because mega evolution taps into the Pokémon’s primitive dna to give it different features.