Thank god he didn't notice Tatsugiri when he looked at least common. Bro would've flipped his lid if he knew sushi was a dragon.

Pretty sure Garganacl is the one that wants to eat the smurfs

@insanityapollo6261

5 ай бұрын

+2

@jasonbarry3301

4 ай бұрын

Nah he’s the cousin who wants to eat salted smurfs. Easy mistake tho.

Lol love that he’s upset that he’s starting to absorb pokemon logic now. Pokedoku can be brutal esp if you don’t know the generational additions well.

@uiron5755

5 ай бұрын

Bro why do they keep doing the violet/scarlet dlc category it's so lame

@SoggyWaffles.

5 ай бұрын

@@uiron5755 if you are referring to "paldea + area zero dlc," that category includes anything gen 9, not just the dlc.

@uiron5755

5 ай бұрын

@SoggyWaffles. woops I misread it LUL

@zankaa8031

5 ай бұрын

I played Pokemon religiously (showdown enjoyer) from gen 1-7 and I still get so fucked up on pokedoku

@Materialist39

5 ай бұрын

@@zankaa8031 Relatable, I skipped literally all of Gen 3-6, much later picked up Gen 1 and 7 ou, and then Gen 8 pre-DLC vgc and ou. I can tell you all about specific Toxapex sets but I’m never going to remember which generation Lucario debuted in.

I will not take this Garganacl slander. I fucking love that we have a 3 pokemon line that are all names using the chemical symbol for salt. Genuinely love those pokemon.

@depalodor

5 ай бұрын

always remember that they made the mfer named Seel in GEN ONE

@Mindofthequill

5 ай бұрын

@@depalodor Seel *and* Dewgong literally two animals that actually exist just misspelled

@Boamere

5 ай бұрын

He literally looks like donkey Kong

@GlobeStan

5 ай бұрын

nerds have ruined pokemon......

@jkid1134

5 ай бұрын

Reminder that three magnets combining into a big magnet is DAY ONE Pokémon bullshit

"Naga means poison, I've played DOTA" except Naga Siren and Slardar have no poison abilities

@TheMarkoSeke

5 ай бұрын

They're toxic

@Immor7alBG

5 ай бұрын

That's cuz naga means snake, not poison.

@TheUltimateShade667

5 ай бұрын

Why would naga mean poison anyway, you don't eat the snake.

@daniaaal

4 ай бұрын

Naga in Malay means dragon

@justadummy8076

4 ай бұрын

@@daniaaalbecause it comes from Hindi/Sanskrit in which Naga means snake/serpent

BRO he pointing the FUCK outta his index finger in the beginning you see how that shit bent

literally the only pokemon where his "learns bite = dark type" logic tracks is Mega Gyarados, which is the most Dragon/Water pokemon ever lol

@keesvanosch2372

5 ай бұрын

Plenty of examples, like absol nd mightyena

@polocatfan

4 ай бұрын

Alolan Muk is literally only Dark for that reason.

@creature6715

4 ай бұрын

Isn't that a bit like going "learns tackle=normal"? Nearly any pokemon with sharp teeth gets it

@dimetrodon2250

4 ай бұрын

@@polocatfan Well that and the lack of weaknesses.

"Theyre putting molecules as pokemon now?" Castform: nobody ever remembers me

you would think the pokemon called dragon air would be a flying type but alas

@Rusty_Spy

4 ай бұрын

It at least evolves into one

chat: its a sea dragon!! NL: No.

@evanpereira3555

4 ай бұрын

To bad this time it was the English language who was wrong.

Regibrain SENT me dude

@borkbork4374

5 ай бұрын

The Regitube in the back : : :

@hvw2377

4 ай бұрын

Opening my third eye to manifest Regibrain into becoming real

The entire sinnoh column could just be the garchomp line

sometimes I wish I could just have a 1 on 1 conversation about pokemon with this man

In japanese, a sea horse is called "tatsu no otoshigo". "Tatsu" means dragon.

@vanquish1333

4 ай бұрын

Sea dragons are also a thing, but that’s what Dragalge is based on

Want to note this is a Japanese thing with TV tropes saying "the Japanese word for seahorse, tatsu-no-otoshigo, literally means "dragon's bastard child." " so that is why in Japanese things (Such as Pokemon and Fruits Basket) seahorses are considered dragons.

@videoguy640

4 ай бұрын

Ohhhh that makes a lot of sense. But why is Charizard not a dragon type?

@violet_turning_violent

4 ай бұрын

@@videoguy640Because life is unfair and we mere made just to suffer. (In actuality it is due to the game play philosophy of Pokemon Red/Green, where Dragon type were made specifically to be better then other type but would be rarer and harder to obtain, thus why only 1 dragon type evolution line (Dratini/Dragonair/Dragonite) exists in the game. They lack many weaknesses on purpose because they were supposed to be a cool reward for finding it (Can only find it super rarely in the Safari Zone (a limited zone you have to use Pokedollars to walk though and you only get 300 steps before it boots you to the beginning)) and training it, Dragonite being the highest level evolution in the game. This comes around to Charizard where they would not want to give such a powerful type as a starter Pokemon. TL;DR Pokemon balance was wack in Gen 1, and giving you an intentionally broken Pokemon type as a starter was not part of their plan. Here is a bonus Pokemon Gen 1 fact, the starters of the game act as a difficulty select, Bulbasaur is easy, because the early gyms are weak to or not very effective against Grass, thus by the time you get to the Gyms you would need to swap, you could have either trained more Pokemon based on the larger pool you have access to at that point in the game, or try to just tank it with higher levels. Squirtle is medium where they can wipe out the first gym but then will struggle being the same type as the second and being weak to the third, you have to start training up a new Pokemon/Pokemon Team to tackle to game, and Charmander is immediately not good against the Rock type of the first gym so you have access to about 5 or 6 Pokemon total at that point and have to figure out how to really manage your types and using buff and debuff moves. So far as I know this was never really repeated and the reason is kind of obvious though never outright stated, kids were not going to restart the game because it was too hard or they couldn't advance, they just wanted to pick the coolest one or the cutest or whatever they liked and will just suffer smacking their heads against a gym until they win. So this soft difficulty select is inherently bad in a game about monster collecting that places emphasis on creating bonds with them and selecting the ones you relate to. Sorry for the long post, hopefully it was informative and enjoyable to read~

It’s just based on the seahorse species that’s named “sea dragon” if I had to guess. Who knows about Gyarados though

@osterro

5 ай бұрын

According to google: Water/Dragon type would have no weaknesses. The Flying type allows for a x4 weakness to Electric, which keeps Gyarados in check.

@Ragnell123

5 ай бұрын

@@osterro This is why AI is cooked. Water/dragon is weak to dragon and fairy type

@osterro

5 ай бұрын

@@Ragnell123 Forgot to mention that I was talking about gen 1. There was no fairy type yet. And I don't know if dragon was weak to dragon yet.

@juhoo2068

5 ай бұрын

@@Ragnell123 Fairy pokemon in gen 1? Dragon would be fair if gen 1 had other dragon moves than Dragon Rage, wich doesn't interact with types. So in gen 1 it wouldn't have any weaknesses.

@Ragnell123

5 ай бұрын

@@juhoo2068 Oh, yea if we’re only talking about Gen 1 then yea. That’s why fairy type was conceived to begin with, cause dragon type was too strong

3:07 the definition of: We are so back! It's over ! We are so back!

I hope the pokedoku era eventually coalesces into NL playing the next mainline pokemon game on stream when it comes out

@parks97

5 ай бұрын

He'll play the first half and then dip because it gets half the views of any random SAP episode lol

@shrimpchris6580

4 ай бұрын

I'd love to see this if they made one that wasn't shit, it's been so long

Oh my god nl remembered swampert exists were so back

I love you librariab

@Reflexzzzz

5 ай бұрын

libarian

I think if SMT was your childhood monster collector game, you will be cooked with Pokémon

There are two species of seahorse that have "dragon" in their common nomenclature: the leafy sea dragon; and the weedy sea dragon. Whilst neither are intimidating or particularly large, Kingdra was likely based off one and/or both of them.

I haven't seen a Pokemon Go ad in like 5 years and yet I got one on this video lol

Giblee, Olivia Munn

He's right about Gyarados and Dratini, but so very wrong about Sea(horse)dra(gon). Ice-psychic being his assumption for what it looks like just shows NL's gone off the deep end of expecting typings that make no sense. As if he thinks the devs knew about Pokedoku in advance and they're playing mindgames with their typings.

this is my fav dle to watch by far

In Japanese, Seahorses are partially spelt using the Japanese word for Dragon “Tatsu”. GF hopped on board with this and made Kingdra a Dragon. You could have also chosen Palkia.

I'm surprised that he didn't get another dragon like Dragalge being an evolved form of Skrelp.

NL and Pokemon is a blessed mix

pokedoku is peak content

we need the pokedoku supercut

Regisinnoh? Regi...Regimega.

He is right, gyarados should be dragon type, they basically dropped it because there isn't any dragon attacks for it to use

@matthiass._.

5 ай бұрын

Tell that to the garydos on my first ever pokemon team (it had dragon rush)

@SirToastyToes

5 ай бұрын

@@matthiass._. In Gen 1 it had Dragon Rage and that's it which does 40 damage even so the type chart doesn't even matter

@apuffin9545

5 ай бұрын

I thought it was because then it would be resistant to ice, the only thing that could combat dragon type in gen 1 as the only dragon type move was dragon rage

@masonroper4817

5 ай бұрын

but now lil bro doesn't even have any physical flying type moves to use (unless that was changed in scarvi dlc)

@lockman5196

5 ай бұрын

​@@masonroper4817Gyarados can learn bounce iirc

The Garganacl slander is crazy.

Recognizing the rare dub that was identifying the 'naga' in Naganadel

I’m guessing he’s never heard of a sea dragon before huh

Bruh I just played today's and it had steel final evolution so I put bisharp and it didn't count because kingambit now exists, then it had hoenn middle evolution and I put linoone because obstagoon now exists but that also didn't count because obstagoon only evolves from the galar linoon. For such simple prompts it rolled me.

Gyarados can fly, kingdra cannot Explained

Chat is right, he's a Sea Dragon. That's literally it

I love the upset over molecule pokemon being a new thing. *Glances nervously at Castform*

"Is Gabite a Dark type?" "Yes, because he can learn bite" THAT IS THE SMARTEST INCORRECT ANSWER I'VE EVER HEARD IN MY LIFE

It's insane that he knew a pokemon named kingdra existed and it evolved from seadra, and didn't think it was dragon/water

The Garganacci slander WILL NOT STAND, EGGMAN!

Have y’all never heard of a Leafy Seadragon? Look it up, it’s a relative of the standard seahorse, looks exactly like Kingdra, and is obviously what is was based on due to the stem and plant like bits coming off its head and fins.

Bro never heard of weedy sea dragons

The fact that mega and dynamax are even categories sometimes when those are so divisive, this game ain’t easy

@jimkas3606

4 ай бұрын

What do you mean they are decisive?

The reason Gyarados isn’t a dragon is the same as why Charizard isn’t a dragon. Imagine getting a water dragon type at level 20 from any magikarp, or a completely free fire dragon type, especially in early gens. Wayyy too broken

regibrain got me so good dude

@rice-jolteon

5 ай бұрын

nvm gruel and giblee destroyed me

I was trying to be smart by picking Origin Dialga in the Dragon / Sinnoh box, but it's a Gen8 'mon by all technicality.

This is so funny lmao 😂

Kingdra? Oh he got it later 😌

I think a lot of earlier pokemon were made with the design. in mind first and the typing second.

@LazurBeemz

3 ай бұрын

Typings weren't even a part of the game until halfway through development

Honestly it’s just gamefeak having fun. Leaning the origins of each design is interesting (most of the tem) and there a lot of thought that golf’s intooth a design.

Gyrados is a water/flying type not a water/dragon type because of the myth that it is based off of. A carp (magikarp) could work through adversity during its life, and work more and more to leap up into the air as high as it can, and one day it get's rewarded for it's perseverence by being turned into a giant flying dragon. Unfortunately, this increase in power stopped the carp from wishing to continue to push the limits, and as a punishment the dragon's ability to fly was taken away along with most of his powers. Gyrados is a lesson in humility, it's called a flying type but can't learn many flying moves and it doesn't have dragon powers so it's not called a dragon anymore, just a really big strong and scary beast.

"Regibrain" lmfaoooo

Garganacl is just salty donkey kong

Linbarian the GOAT

" 'Pokudoku' is making me mentally ill"

Kingdra is based on a sea dragon, a relative of the sea horse.

usually typings can be traced back to the pkmns origins, and with a quick google search kingdra is most likely based on a combination of a seahorse and a closely related animal called a seadragon, so im assuming it gets it's dragon typing from that...... otherwise we can go for the meta reason that they wanted a new dragon typed pokemon for the 8th gym so they made kingdra into one

@grantduerst8060

5 ай бұрын

Gyarados will always be weird because of Lake of Rage. Kingdra makes a certain amount of sense but they put a ton of hallmarks for Gyarados to be a dragon but more importantly not flying. Lance the dragon trainer has a quest with Gyarados. The design is based on mythical sea serpents (similar to Dragonair) Dragons in most cultures have a trait associated with anger/rage Gyarados learns dragon rage. The Pokemon is also most likely based on a Japanese legend where a carp jumps out of a pool and flies away.

@evanpereira3555

4 ай бұрын

​@@grantduerst8060there's a continuation of this fable where the Koi acts evil and does rampages with his dragon power, thus he's sentence by the heavenly gods and lose his godhood (dragon power) but still keeps his new form. That's why Gyarados, being full of rage isn't dragon type, and even mega into dark type, because he's evil.

I love chats reaction but I also hate chats reaction. There’s some people that are acting like they’re so much smarter than NL because they memorized a bunch of fictional characters in a children’s game. But it’s fantastic when everyone starts freaking out when he makes a wild guess and is right.

Someone said that Kingdra is a sea dragon. What this guy didn't realize, is that Sea Dragons are an actual thing, which Dragalge is also based on.

In Japanese mythology, sea horses are considered to be baby dragons, and according to legend, if a sea horse lives for 100-1000 years they become a full fledged dragon Also, in Japanese mythology, dragons are said to lose their dragon title if they abuse their power for greedy and evil purposes, such as blasting everything with lasers just because you felt like it, which is partly why Gyarados isn't dragon type There's also the whole balancing thing, where Water/Dragon types were only weak to Dragons until the Fairy type came around, and the only move in gen 1 that was dragon type was dragon rage, a move that always under every circumstance deals exactly 40 HP in damage So yeah, Gyarados would've been busted if it was dragon type

Its funny that the most common "why isnt this a dragon?" situations with pokemon, Gyarados and Charizard, are genuinely because it would have broken the balancing of the first few games. Dragons were meant to be rare and both of those would have been super accessible.

@jansonshrock2859

4 ай бұрын

I know for gyrados, it's that reason and also playing into the myth that inspired gyrados because once the carp jumped the waterfall and was blessed into becoming a dragon, it lost it's humility and it's ability to fly was taken away (why it's a flying type but doesn't learn many if any flying moves) so the flying secondary type is a reminder of it's past.

I can answer this one, as I did in a previous video: Gyarados is Water/Flying because back in Gen1 there was only one Dragon Type move, Dragon Rage, which always did 40 Static Damage. Gyarados would’ve had no Weaknesses back in Gen1 because of this. Gen2 introduced Dragon Pulse iirc? It introduced some new Dragon Type move so now Dragons were actually weak to Dragon and not just Ice. So then Kingdra was weak to Dragon. (Also Gyarados got a Mega which makes it Water/Dark which, makes more sense than it being a Dragon to me)

@opossumboyo

5 ай бұрын

It makes sense from a game balance standpoint, but why not change it now? They’ve added Fairy type to a bunch of pokemon who didn’t have it. As well, Dragon isn’t nearly as powerful as it used to be, if balance is the concern.

@jooko91

5 ай бұрын

Not Dragon Pulse, that's later. Twister, Dragonbreath and Outrage were the three Dragon type attacks in Gen 2.

@konsth191

5 ай бұрын

I find it unlikely that this no weakness detail would have played a role in the decision process

@DraconicCatgirl

5 ай бұрын

@@jooko91 TY for the correction o7

@KringleDingle

5 ай бұрын

personally, it's just wild to me that gyarados wouldn't be dragon type considering the evolution line looks like is referencing the fable where a koi climbs a waterfall and becomes a dragon

A lot of people don’t understand that all because the Pokémon lives in water doesn’t make it a water type, pokemon types aren’t based on where you live it’s based on what you do. If we assume Pokémon types are based on things like that charizard would be a ground type because it’s a cave/mountain Pokémon

Regibrain

in japan a seahorse is a dragon, you see that in fruits baskets when one of the zodiac signs turn into one when hugged by a girl. it's just a thing over there.

Seahorses are in japanese Tatsunoko, aka sons of dragons People used to think if they lived for long they would become full dragons! Its also Kiryu Coco (the dragon vtuber) fans name

can we talk about regibrain

Really like seeing these from a non-pokemon fan

I’m so tired of people being unable to comprehend that Game Freak like variety in their Pokémon concepts. An aquatic creature that’s only electric type, a ghost type that isn’t a ghost but a golem, a dragon shaped creature that isn’t a dragon. These things are done to provide variety and cover niches.

Kingdra being of my favorite pokemon ever. I never thought I would yell so much at a Bald man on a PC screen.

Kingdra is a dragon because the japanese word for 'seahorse' uses the kanji for dragon.

The reason Kingdra is dragon type and is considered a dragon is because Japanese mythology depicts sea horses as baby dragons.

Bro is mad

I felt him on the Garganacl bit WHAT is that pokedude

Who told him that dratini lives in the water 😭

says he knows gyarados is water/flying so picks the Pokémon named Dragonair... Dragon Air even if Dragonair was duel type why would it be dragon/water?

Look, the moment he put up the gyrados mega form and THAT NONSENSE wasn't a dragon type also.... Yet seadra is, I had to side with enelle, he just right. Lol. I was at least gonna pretend to play devils advocate in my. Head, but nls just right with this lll

she garga on my nacl till my salt cured

Tabarnacl

My brother in Helix, Dragonair literally has air in its name. Why would you think it’s water type? Granted it’s not flying either, but it evolves into one. Also huge L take hating on my boy Garganacl

Did he do the Goon Squad challenge?

@TheLibraryofLetourneau

5 ай бұрын

sadly not

Bro never heard of the weedy seadragon? Lost my respect

ugh people need to just stop freaking out over pokemon logic. gen 1 and 2 don't make sense we get it

"Are you telling me they gave this seal a horn? Pokemon is losing their MINDS."

I fear for chats media literacy on this one holy, he calls chat wrong after they're wrong and everyone suddenly somehow thinks that NL is complaining about his answer being incorrect. "you got it right tho" yeah......he knows that lmao

We're all fucking wrong

Hahaha, never say Mega Giratina ever again

GYARADOS IS A SEA MONSTER/ A LEVIATHAN He is dragon like, but he's not a dragon. In the past, sailors were afraid of the far away seas, imagining terrible sea monsters ( we could see maps with giant monsters in water ). Those creatures inspired fear of the unknown.. That's also why Mega Gyarados is Water/Dark. You're welcome.

@MATCHLESS789

4 ай бұрын

Isn't Gyarados literally built around a story where a carp swam up a waterfall to become a dragon?

@quentincl2932

4 ай бұрын

@@MATCHLESS789 you know, Pokémon has this power to take real legends and do something alike, that is their very own lol Now this is a carp who becomes a sea monster, that's all 🤣

@MATCHLESS789

4 ай бұрын

​@@quentincl2932 okay, and how does your little "there be dragons" story plays into this conversation? What I'm saying, that you're wrong and Gyarados has nothing to do with your proposed inspiration for it.

@quentincl2932

4 ай бұрын

@MATCHLESS93 oh ? So Game Freak said, "It was a dragon." Do you have some proof of what you're saying? Weird enough, Gyarados has not the dragon type .. for a dragon that's just funny... maybe because it is a Leviathan 😉 I mean, even charizard got an alternate dragon type when mega evolving , they could have done the same for Gyarados, but they didn't, they gave it dark type .. because it is a sea monster. Case closed

It's called bullshit

I gave up on pokemon around sword and shield era so I like to laugh at NL playing pokedoku but when I try to play myself I start to feel like NL 😂

Is he doing it on purpose?

this just in: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_seadragon