Random Pokémon Facts — The Hidden Island That Needs a Lucky Number to Appear

[Josh and Rowan: recorded by the host.]

Host 1: Okay, Okay, you guys, you will not believe this one. In Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire's world, there's an island that's only there sometimes. Mirage Island. It shows up on route 130 only if a random number matches a hidden number from one of your Pokemon.

Host 1: The game picks that number every day. Somewhere from 0 to 65,535. so most people never see it. ever. That's so weird. This is random Pokemon facts I'm Josh today's theme is record breakers and stats Okay, back to Mirage Island there are 65,536 536 possible numbers your odds are tiny but if you do get it wild why not live there and The tree has the only lychee berry in the whole game the only one Now here's another secret place.

Host 1: In Pokemon Emerald there's an island where you play hide and seek with Mew in the tall grass. Sounds amazing right? But you needed the old C map and it was only given out in Japan and Taiwan.

Host 1: In Japan it was handed out at the Pokemon Festa from July 17th to August 21st 2005 so on far away island Mew hides in the long grass every so often it pokes its tail out so you can see where it is sneaky right here's the trick don't use cut on the grass before you battle it if you do Mew disappears gone be careful okay third secret a real person from Game Freak is a trainer you can battle his name is Shigeki Morimoto in Pokemon Sun and Moon he's waiting in the Game Freak office in Haea City beat him the first time and he gives you an oval charm he's been in the game since black and white in the Game Freak building in Castelia City all the way through generation 8 in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon he teams up with the game's director Kazumasa Iwao for a multi-battle the director and in let's go Pikachu and let's go Eevee he's on the third floor of the Celadon Condominiums beat him there and you get 10 PP maxes 10 okay now stats who do you think has the lowest base stat total of any Pokemon like the weakest ever it's wishiwashi in solo form its base stat total is just 175 that's the lowest of any Pokemon but wait in school form it jumps to 620 it goes from 0.2 meters tall to 8.2 8.2 meters tall that's 41 times taller and the stat total more than triples bro that's a glow up Guinness lists solo Wishiwashi as the weakest Pokemon it's held that title since Generation 7 before that the record belonged to Caterpie and Weedle and then later Sunkern poor Sunkern wild facts Bulbasaur Charmander and Squirtle were all designed by one artist Atsuko Nishida she drew their final evolutions first then worked backward to the small starters she wanted you to be surprised when your Charmander turned into Charizard so she made Charmander look nothing like the huge dragon it becomes oh and she designed Pikachu too wow riddle time here's the riddle it's about a TV episode it's called the rainbow and the Pokemon master it's Ash's last episode as the star in it Ash comes home and the scene copies his very first day a Dodrio crows on the roof Ash sleeps in and he almost runs to Professor Oak's lab in his pajamas it aired in the United States on September 8th 2023 and that was exactly some number of years after the show's first US episode so how many years 10 25 or 40 okay ready it's 25 exactly 25 years did you get it that's the show for today tomorrow's theme is anime and movies I'm so hyped get ready see you tomorrow bye this was Josh