How the First 151 Pokemon Changed Over Time

Pikachu learned it's own name, and Snorlax learned to stand up and run. This is important to their evolution.

It’s pretty crazy that the main Generation V games did not have Pikachu in its respective region.

I like the convergent pokemon but it is very funny to think of "ghost tea container" as an ecological niche

i just want to point out the changes to the models in legends arceus and scarlet/violet are from normal mapping and other such tools, not from creating entirely new models from scratch. ...that would be insane.

22:20 actually, they try to explain new types in the manga ay one point — when the steel type was added in gold and silver, the characters discussed the fact that various pokemon that had already been discovered and documented (such as magnemite) may actually have this undiscovered type, and they hadn't considered it before because there weren't enough pokemon with the same attributes to support it as its own type. when other pokemon like steelix were discovered however, they found the common attributes associated with the steel type, and classified the initial pokemon accordingly... it could be that with the fairy type, they just didn't think that the shared attributes between existing discovered pokemon were enough for a new classification, so when more research was done and new pokemon were found, they decided that fairy would need to be a new classification. idk, just thought that that was interesting. sometimes pokemon does explain things, it just takes some digging :)

What a great video i hope the creator didn't go insane when drawing the charizard line

I wanna point out that while ys the nostalgia factor plays a big role in why so many old Pokémon get new things, there's also the aspect of powercreep. Pokémon's competitive angle has changed drastically since the first few generations and the simple matter of fact is that the majority of Gen 1 (and really 1 to 3) mons had poorly distributed stats, so they simply couldn't really keep up. Things such as Regional Variants or new evolutions help bring these back immensely

I was literally thinking “I sure hope he didn’t painfully make each one of these Pokémon depictions” they are too good looking for how little they get shown

I find it super weird that through ALL of that, Kangaskhan's baby never became it's own pokemon. Also no alternate Dragonite form of any kind.

37:04 I love how they got so angry when they said "Primape gets so angry that it DIES!!", you can hear the Sliiightest bit of a mic bump afterward. Beautiful. Just beautiful.

im get it out of the way, i dont mind gen 1 pokemon getting new forms, i enjoy seeing them as modern interpretations… still waiting for a Dewgong line form/variant lol

Man, I forgot how much I loved the original Pikachu sprite. Great vid!

One interesting thing you left out from the original 3D Sprites. On the 3ds In 2011, nearly 2 years before the X and Y announcement, they released the Pokedex 3D. Which was a free app you could download onto your 3ds and slowly unlock a full Pokedex of every single Pokemon that existed up to that point. This was a way to utilize those 3d Models they had developed for X/Y prior to the release, and help build the hype.

Looks like the original 151 pokemon lines that haven't been touched at all are: Fearow Arbok Nidoqueen/king Parasect Venomoth Golduck Victreebel Dodrio Dewgong Cloyster Hypno Seaking Starmie Ditto Omastar Kabutops Dragonite

I really like those timelapses, they recap the entire video in a really nice way

It’s crazy because I’m a victim of it. In general 5 I was “too old” for Pokémon and I went back later and they’re great Games. I wish people would’ve bought more at the time of gen 5 cause it was great

33:23 "And players STILL loved this game! For the refreshing catch mechanic and action boss battles." Also because Ingo was there. You forgot to mention that

Fat pikachu needs to become a regional form.

I like how Psyduck is in every generation

22:15 I swear there was an explanation but I think I must have dreamt about it because I don't hear anyone else talk about it. What I remember is that Xerneas was dormant all this time, and some time before the events of X&Y it awakened, and its presence returned the fairy type to every pokemon that lost it when it was asleep