Mathematically Proving which Pokémon Should Learn Flash
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Merry255's info-graphic on pokemon temperatures: www.deviantart.com/merry255/art/Pokemon-Fire-types-and-their-temperatures-635857342
Arcing electricity clip is from a wonderful video by @ElectroBOOM ( kzread.info/dash/bejne/lp6ZmdehqbqYY9I.html )
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If you'd like some further reading/viewing on Wien's Law / Blackbody Radiation:
wwelsh.sdsu.edu/CLASSES/ASTROBIO/LECTURES/wien_law.pdf
kzread.info/dash/bejne/q3eCxcSkfKm6dtY.html
kzread.info/dash/bejne/f55ms7Gpgc65lqw.html
Known errors:
- There's an erroneous red dot visible for a few seconds at one point. Can anyone spot it?
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@radosbarner1734
4 ай бұрын
Are we going to ignore the fact lanturn would quite literally create a black hole because of just HOW MUCH light it emits?
@DJCheese77
4 ай бұрын
Chinchou??
Fun fact, one of lanturns pokedex entries lists it as being able to produce light visible from the surface of the ocean at some absurd depth like a 3 miles or something. The amount of energy this requires is 10^35 times that available in the observable universe and would possibly result in a black hole many times the size of the current universe the instant it began to emit light. This is definitive proof that lanturn is the strongest Pokémon in existence and multiversal in power. Or maybe that the pokedex is written by a delusional 10 year old with no grasp of science or quantifiable phenomena. Could go either way, really
@ShaddyFromHatena
4 ай бұрын
Given that Gardevoir can also just "create black holes" I think it's safe to say the Pokedex is on a whole nother level (of bs)
@mag1ckyle799
4 ай бұрын
@@ShaddyFromHatena wait you don't just create black holes? must not have unlocked that ability yet
@andyz6306
4 ай бұрын
Not a single Pokemon game protag is 10, enough with calling them 10.
@Articfoxgamez
4 ай бұрын
I really hate the "Pokedex was written by 10 year olds" thing because that hasn't been true in SO many generations and has absolutely been retconned. The modern pokedex simply gives you the information on pokemon you scan, and doesn't tell you about those you haven't scanned (other than their locations) for gameplay reasons. Even in PLA it was the professor writing them, not the protag.
@andyz6306
4 ай бұрын
@@ArticfoxgamezMe too, just feels like a cop-out people say when they don't wanna think or suspend their disbelief of a fantasy world. (and also don't know that no main series protag is 10)
I don’t think you understand how badly I want to do obscure math with you
@trendrekt8363
4 ай бұрын
Holy shit is that TurnDownForWalt from hit Smash channel TurnDownForWalt?
@lazy_bt
4 ай бұрын
this is the most fascinating comment ever. so much passion, so much fervor...! and the wording, it just sounds so.... _intimate._ forget marriage, one day ill find someone that i will want to "do obscure math" with.
@DoctorSwellman
4 ай бұрын
I didn't know how much I needed this until reading this comment. Oh boy
@2yoyoyo1Unplugged
3 ай бұрын
ayoooo...?
@blepleb
2 ай бұрын
realest comment ever
“Let’s talk about fire, the opposite of milk.”
@Richard_Nickerson
4 ай бұрын
That one got me too
@Shugunou
3 ай бұрын
Best line
@emmafivecents5303
3 ай бұрын
I had to pause the video to laugh and find someone commenting about this before I could continue the video 😂😂
@rizu-kun9687
2 ай бұрын
Truly, you learn something new every day.
@Frogchamp10
2 ай бұрын
hes onto something
The Wilhelm Wien fan base is dying. Show your support and like this comment if you’re a true Wiener
@lancesmith8298
2 ай бұрын
Meanwhile, over in mathematics, I have to reckon with the fact that one of the most important figures between it and the concept of cybernetics is named Norbert Weiner. Wiener chaos explosion is a real Wikipedia article.
@syro33
22 күн бұрын
Sadly i do not live in Vienna, so i cannot like this comment.
i literally completely forgot about the move for a few seconds so when i saw the thumbnail i thought this was going to be a video on which pokemon can learn to use Adobe Flash .
@segfaultdev
Ай бұрын
LMAO SAMEEE (except for the "for a few seconds" part, im not that into pokemon but i am into random technical videos i dont understand :p)
You forgot to mention the luminosity of Lanturn where if it is actually visible from 3mi underwater like its Gold dex entry says it would have to be putting out more energy than the visible universe
@marsgreekgod
4 ай бұрын
thats becuse it has ghost light
@Grim712
4 ай бұрын
This! Adef please look into Lanturn! It's insane!
@AttmozJune
4 ай бұрын
Mama mia
@FrostyFrostySnow
4 ай бұрын
Lanturn is an underappreciated mon and needs more love
@doughboywhine
4 ай бұрын
As a lanturn fan this is an epic win
Also, the illuminate ability exists - so Staryu, Starmie, Chinchou, Lanturn, Volbeat, Watchog, Morelull and Shiinotic should be able to act as a torch But not Illumise, for some reason, despite being based on a firefly. Apparently, they attract Volbeat using sent rather than light
@hi-i-am-atan
4 ай бұрын
it's not "despite being based on a firefly," it's _because_ it's based on a firefly. while most species are bioluminescent, there are some that aren't and rely on pheromones for the same purposes ala illumise. as far as i'm aware, there isn't a species that specifically has bioluminescent males and non-bioluminescent females, but it's also not an unbelievable setup and lets pokemon represent both strategies of a family that's more diverse than i imagine most people realize
@Richard_Nickerson
4 ай бұрын
Scent*
He didn’t even bother talking about the firefly Pokémon. Which is fair, I guess. But Happini’s smile sure lights up the room!
@katzlover321
4 ай бұрын
Why do you think that is fair?
@JubioHDX
4 ай бұрын
@@katzlover321 because he left out dozens of others that very obviously produce enough light to help in a cave as well. Not sure why heat was the only thing he considered anyway for his definitive list at the end when theres so many pokemon that have non-fire ways of being bright, but since he only cared about the fire types regardless its fair to also ignore illumise/volbeat since he's ignoring other very obvious ones like Xerneas and regieleki as well. Tbh the video shouldve been called something like "what pokemon are constantly using flash" anyways rather than just what pokemon have the ability to use it
Wait until people find out Austrias Capital is called Wien
@Aal_4224
4 ай бұрын
Don't worry, I know some people that don't know our capital either and I am from Austria
@denis2381
4 ай бұрын
Hoid die goschn @@Aal_4224
@nicosteinbach618
4 ай бұрын
That’s where the sausages are coming from 🙃
@Ndetonados
4 ай бұрын
Bullshit, Austria's capital is Sydney. (ffs, i'm joking)
@denis2381
4 ай бұрын
@@nicosteinbach618 hoid de bappn
i think the shiny Fire types with a different color flame just produce extra chemicals that change the flame colors, cause i know that's a thing
@GaybrohamStinkton
4 ай бұрын
Gnome fire lighters
@oMuStiiA
4 ай бұрын
Those chemicals would affect more than just the colour of the fire though they would also affect the temperature of the fire among other things, so I can understand why he wouldn't include that.
@theapexsurvivor9538
4 ай бұрын
@@oMuStiiAnot by anywhere near enough to be an issue in most cases. Like, copper salts aren't going to be burning that much hotter than NaCL for example.
@oMuStiiA
4 ай бұрын
@@theapexsurvivor9538 I'm not saying it would be an issue for the pokemon it would just complicate things for an already complicated video. Why would shines produce these chemicals when non shines don't, for example? How/for what purpose would they produce the chemical in the first place? And so on and so forth.
@theapexsurvivor9538
4 ай бұрын
@@oMuStiiA Presumably they'd be producing them for the same reasons they produce different pigments. And I was just pointing out that they're probably not (significantly) different temperatures, so probably don't need to be accounted for or treated as a massive headache.
7:22 - small correction: there is one type of object in the universe that does not reflect any radiation at all - these are black holes. Theoretically, they even emit Hawking radiation, so we can even talk about their temperature.
@DrTako-wk7zj
4 ай бұрын
Would Cosmoem make a cave darker? 🤔
@primedialga
4 ай бұрын
@@DrTako-wk7zj sad necrozma noises, no one remembers it and it was trying so hard to absorb all the light in the universe
You’d never get this kind of KZread content 10 years ago
13:55 - Wouldn't the state of said magma be dependent on the pressure within Camerupt's vasculature? It could very well still be in a liquid state at high enough pressures.
@gregbrown98
4 ай бұрын
now i need a video about how much pressure that is and how godlike Camerupt must be to contain it.
@cookiesversuscream
4 ай бұрын
Fascinated by the implication that all of Camerupt's cells would be extremophiles... and that said cells could form functioning tissues, organs, organ systems, etc. under these conditions. (I'm not being sarcastic, I'd genuinely like someone to explore this in greater depth and also think it's hilarious.)
Honestly, the random walking in emerald and the static image of the OG Pokemon Snap made this video. Your math and explanation were flawless as always, but the background details are chefs kiss
Adef’s February calendar schedule (at start of vid): Feb 1: First day of Feb Feb 4: Get head shaved Feb 6: Attend first bald man meeting Feb 13: By second meeting, befriend leader of group, get his number. Feb 14: Test leader (Todd) on Valentine’s Day, the day he will be most vulnerable. Ask him out to dinner on Friday. Feb 16: Take Todd to booey dinner and uncover that he is not really bald and actually wears a bald cap to every meeting to make friends (loser) Feb 20: Reveal truth about Todd to other group members at 3rd meeting and easily win special election to become the new leader Feb 24: Flash video Feb 27: Announce new $$ cover charge to attend meetings. Profit. Feb 29: silly extra day (???) Feb only has 28 days (????) These calendar makers are losers, like Todd
@GaybrohamStinkton
4 ай бұрын
BooZey
@Richard_Nickerson
4 ай бұрын
@@GaybrohamStinkton Boujie*
When you remember this whole physics class of a video was made to explain a glorified lantern
Environmental science major here! I got super excited when you brought in Wien's Law and blackbody radiation, but I feel like you may have gotten ahead of yourself in conflating radiation peaks with luminosity. A tiny flame may emit light in the blue through infrared part of the EM spectrum, but that doesn't necessarily mean it casts off enough light to be useful in navigation, for example. You may have considered touching on the Stefan-Boltzmann law, which ties radiant emittance (if in the visible spectrum per Wien's Law, this radiated energy would be visible light) to temperature - once you've checked whether the light output would be visible, then you gotta also check whether it would be a useful amount of light. A super cool video nonetheless :)
I started watching with the Fly math equation video and have loved all of your work since, keep it up!
I'm surprised the opening gag didn't reference Adobe Flash
14:00 Not if it is highly highly pressurized.
@clawtooth35
4 ай бұрын
we've gotta get out the triple point charts for Magma of different compositions
No joke, despite being a former biochemistry major, this video's explanation of a blackbody is hands down the best one I've ever heard and what made it actually click for me. EDIT: And the quantum mechanics comment did convince me to subscribe, so I guess that worked on at least one person lol
Another contender for learning Flash are Psychic types. Common moves like Reflect and Light Screen explicitly mention using light (and some moves like Photon Geyser but those are more niche), and the type in general has a very heavy "magic" theme. It's up for interpretation but it seems like lighting up a space would be easy for them. As far as the actual learnsets go, quite a lot actually are on there. Alakazam line, Hypno, Mewtwo, Espeon, etc
can you do Mathematically Proving which Pokémon Should Learn strength
Adef, it is genuinely so amusing how relevant this is to a class I'm taking right now. I am in an astronomy class, and I knew you were gonna talk about Wien's law before the words left your mouth. I do love your explanation of photon emission by the way.
doesnt flash have a security issue?
@katzlover321
4 ай бұрын
That's why it was discontinued and stopped being supported by everything. R.I.P. Flash games.
Most fire is based on the burning of hydrogen, I'm not sure how it interacts with black-body radiation. However, in short, you can have blue-colored fire or fire emitting light-colored blue that is only as hot as around 2000 K. You don't need ridiculously high temperatures to generate light. Causing a chemical reaction (burning something) also generates light.
Of all this video I've watched, I gotta say .. I love how I've unironically played Emerald and realized you couldn't teach Flash to, oddly of all my pokemon in my party, one of them being magcargo.. and then in the same day get this video recommended to me. How does KZread read my mind like that..
Wait, does that mean some tycoon can capture a bunch of Magcargo to power power plant steam? Would like to know which pokemon violate conservation of energy.
You've got a knack for humorous educational videos... can't wait for more!
forget seeing light in a cave with a marcargo, the cave itself would be radiating light with that thing nearby, and like maybe not even exsist as it reaches temperatures of the sun
Electric types that can make 480W of sustained power could literally just hold 2 pieces of carbon and make a Carbon arc lamp. I imagine that that might account for some small amount more pokemon than already calculated.
can't wait for the just as scientifically intense follow-up: What Pokémon can snap a twig?
This is one of my favorite series on all of youtube. Love your videos so much
10:35 A lit match is about 2000 F and you are telling me that Panzer produces a flame that is 4 times colder than a freaking match! I guess it's possible but you have to be burning some weird ass fuel to make a flame that cold
So glad this channel came up in my recommended a month ago.
man, i'm loving these videos, hope you keep up with the quality and frequency
you look like one of those cool TAs that grade things really generously
This was so funny adef, I love all the bits u do in these videos. Also loved the gameplay footage in the background, was very thematic
I think Clawlitzer can also produce sonoluminescence as using compressed water it can "punch a hole right through a thick sheet of iron" so it's fair to assume that it works kinda like a snapping shrimp, hence it could use flash as long as it's underwater
Bro everytime he releases a video i always end up watching it as soon as possible. Omw to work right now and popped an earbud in just to watch 😅
Enjoying this series. Keep it up!
Can’t wait for more math lessons my guy
a flash video? youtube has been running on HTML for half an eternity by now
Great video dude. It's nostalgic seeing these videos for earlier gen pokemeon games
theres an episode in xy where pikachu, luxray, and dedenne sustain electric charge for a very long time in order to power the pokecenter when the fuse blew. They have the power to do so but it does take a toll on their bodies.
Really fun video, excited for the next one!
?? We're just trying to light a cave not level a city So, probably lean more towards that 100 or more answer, not the 5 who happen to literally be walking nukes.
i love these videos so much! super fascinating stuff, also your jokes are great
Me watching the silly Pokémon meme video to actually get educated on science and learning a whole bunch of things. Thanks for the hard work, I love these
At about 14:30 you mention you can just use Wien's law to tell the temperature of fire but that's usually not true as there are plenty of examples where a chemical burns a strong color due to its oxidation states. Like burning Borax to get green fire. Fire is about as far away from a blackbody as possible since the light itself is produced in a chemical reaction. (Fire becomes more like a black body when there are a lot of impurities such as soot that glow red hot)
I would argue that any pokemon that can learn flamethrower should be able to learn flash. reasons being: instead of them throwing the flames, they could just flare up their mouths, like the dragons do when hiccup meets his mother in how to train your dragon 2, and become a living torch. I think it makes sense.
great work again adef! rewound at least 5 different jokes just to take them in again. humor is on point alongside the ever-present knowledge. the work is appreciated!
Fantastic work yet again, adef. These are great
Really enjoying this type of nerdy content ^^
This has quickly become my favorite series on KZread.
Your jokes are so well-delivered, immediate sub
These videos are always so good. Keep it up man you'll blow up
The flame's color doesn't just indicate temperature. The chemicals being burned affect the flame color as well.
Banger video as always, keep up the great work!
This video is the perfect combination of comedy, learning, and Pokémon
Dude you are so funny and the videos are so interesting. Very glad I found your channel, hahaha. Thanks for the great video!
Amazing vids keep up the great work, although i am a little upset you didnt mention my boy Umbreon
15:30 most people don’t talk about it, but shiny Pokémon can be weird with what changes. Like, you have Pokémon like Dragapult and Mantine (in its home sprite only) being accompanied by another shiny Pokémon, you have Pokémon like Koffing where the gas it produces is a different colour as if it’s a different gas, Pokémon like Applin where the apple is a different colour when it’s not a part of its body, while Pokémon like Polteagiest have you give an item to them that somehow changes colour from its bag sprite, and Pokémon like Genesect and Iron Thorns where it seemingly was made to be a different colour while creating it since it’s artificial
Did you know that *humans* can technically learn the move flash? They’ll just be hit with a debuff called “indecent exposure”
The team who writes the Pokédex entries every gen must have had some wild dreams while they were in physics class.
Great video man!!! What’s next, Cut???
Can’t wait for the video “Calculating Spinda variations and how long to catch them”
Your this is the third video of yours I’ve seen now, and it seems you are really finding your comedic footing!
Oh, a video on my birthday! Thank you!
- Part 3: Luigi - certainly read that pretty wrong the first time
As far as shimy emboar is concerned, something I would like to note is that flames can also be coloured by impurities in the reaction, such as lithium chloride producing pink fires or copper sulfate making turquoise. Given shinyness doesnt change the stats of a pokemon, it is likely chemical changes in the flame rather than heat.
Thought this video was about which Pokémon could learn Adobe Flash, while not the content I hoped for still entertaining and highly informative!
me: *sees video about flash* oh boy i hope he talks about black body radiation!
6:39 HOW DID YOU KNOW I WAS WEARING BLUE
I was laughing so much watching this video! Incredible video! Not going to lie, you got me to click instantly implying my fav pokemon, which is a literal light for a lighthouse in Johto, could not learn flash with the thumbnail
this channel is so fucking good man
Rocking that men I trust shirt. Legend
this man is doing gods work
been looking forward to this video, I was a worried you might forget
Excited for the strength video
1:59 that totally explains how Rhydon, Pokémon weighing 264 lbs and is QUAD WEAK to water can learn surf
You are very entertaining dude, you make good vid often, keep it up m8
Come for the weird pokemon facts, stay for the physics lessons. I love this weird-ass video so much. Was not expecting this, and it's great.
RE: Camerupt. I'm almost certain that there's a pressure under which 18,000 degree magma remains a liquid, meaning Camerupt is essentially an explosive balloon.
Nice band tee. I appreciate that one fully 🎉
Just thinking about how high camerupts blood pressure must be in order to keep 18k temp blood a liquid.
Was hoping this video would be about the third type of "flash" 😔 (great video as always though adef)
@adef
4 ай бұрын
🤔
The only problem with pure color temperature analysis is that flame additives can also impact the color, so it's not all from thermal radiation. Shiny Emboar could just be providing a consistent amount of copper(I) chloride to its flames.
Your content is so good because you have such an amazing attention to detail and a brilliant mind. This was a gem to watch. Thanks for being a hot nerd Adef.
I think I agree with your assumption that flash is probably canonically more like it is in gen 3, with your pokemon basically acting as a torch, rather than suddenly making the entire area visible until you leave. That even tracks with something we learn from pokemon Yellow, which is that Pikachu can use thunderbolt or thunder to temporarily light up dark caves, but they only stay lit for the duration of the animation, meaning that it's actually possible to light up a cave only temporarily, rather than magically lighting it forever (until you leave lol). So like, it could probably be argued that in the games where you completely light up the caves, those lit up caves represent the fact that your character can see around them, and are simply shown differently just for game mechanic and/or hardware reasons.
its actually crazy that I watched this video last night and then this morning in class we start a new subject and we're learning about black body radiation and im just sitting here like wow, pokemon taught me this before my modern physics class
Flash is a skill that needs to be taught and not just a passive ability resulting from the heat of the body, and there are a lot of pokemon species that can sustain the required energy output to serve as a torch for reasonable time if taught that skill. Most electric types can use Thunder multiple times and Thunderbolt many times between resting, they can easily serve as an arc flashlight for an hour.
Necrozma might actually be a perfect black body, it's whole thing is devouring/emiting light, it's mostly black in it's weakend state but at full power it's whole body emits extremly bright light. This seems to mean that what you see is light it directly emits dependant on it's own internal energy. also makes sense design-wise, a literal black body that consumes the light around it but glows when containing immense amounts of energy.
Yesssss another adef video
I think this is a tough one, because Flash is as much about magically-produced light as it is physical light. Like, the reason so many Normal types can learn it (besides the fact that the move itself is Normal type) is because they're a type who can learn lots of elemental attacks, producing those elements purely through magic rather than biologically. It's especially hard to remove the supernatural stuff from the discussion when so many of the Pokemon who can learn it are Psychic, Ghost, and Fairy types; types whose entire existence is rooted in supernatural ideas to begin with, haha. Also, even if we're strictly going by which Pokemon can produce light physically, the fact that Grass and Bug types without bioluminescent body parts can learn it implies that it's one of those moves that can somehow physically alter the biology of the Pokemon who uses it, and all Fire and Electric types could just spark a flame on a torch or something
Ultra-Necrozma probably deserves a shout-out for being MADE of light, and also being hot enough to emit light. Also regular necrozma consumes light, so having one in your party should really prevent you from using flash at all.
I think the rationale for most Grass types being able to learn Flash is either bioluminescence (especially in the case of fungus Pokémon like Breloom, which aren't even related to plants but whatever) or re-emitting absorbed sunlight through the chloroplasts in their cells. Problem is, most real plants can't even do that...
We use disks to teach pokemon how to blind their opponents. I would argue that the pokeball technology contains some software that allows the pokeball to be used like a torch if the pokemon it contains knows the disc move flash. Unlike surf and fly we dont see the living torch moving around when it uses the move. Therefore I believe that using the same methodology as for those two fieldmoves is not reccomended.
"That one is a crime" guy is illustrating Wien's Law :).