I am so late to this
Hope you’re in a nice comfortable seat as
today we’ll be talking about the birds and
the regis… and their friends that were also
released months ago that we’ll be running
through and ranking with the nice rounded
number of 10… never seen that number before.
With the new mini nintedo direct giving updated
pokemon news and memories of me forgetting
to make this video…
I thought it’d be fun to go through these
new pokemon and discuss all the news about
these pokemon, their possibilities and what
makes them great… or could’ve been done
better… let’s jump right into the brand
new generation 8 pokemon that’ll be coming
to pokemon sword and shield!
10 Zarude
Starting at the bottom we have Zarude… this
is worst to best, and I promise I’m not
just singling out the only mythical pokemon
like that’s really just a sort of sub category
to legendary pokemon… *cough* but we’re
really it’s just about how it looks in the
games compared to the rest of the picks…
and it might need a little more.
Dark Grass is a great type, but having another
grass monkey come in when we just got grookey
might be a little much, it’s okay they can
use the same animal and have a changed type
like it's an evil version coming in to steal
all the royalties from its band, but it’s
mostly the fact that it just doesn’t look
like what you’d really desire for a mythical
pokemon, it’s one to warm up to for sure,
and is sort of hard to place in what backstory
it’ll be given beyond just being a feral
rouge mythical pokemon, that more of a bridge
between the other mythicals and regular pokemon
where it has that look like it doesn’t care
about the status and it’s just here to fight.
Maybe it was made to be a show stopper in
the new pokemon movie, that movies in a jungle,
it’s in the trailer, koko has the same armbands,
maybe the movie will carry zarude’s story.
It just kind of looks like grookey’s deranged
uncle that comes out every 2-3 years for thanksgiving
and gets into arguments over how dry the turkey
is and why there’s chunks in its cranberry
sauce and you don’t actually know who he’s
related to… or how he got in the house and
now the kids gotta go upstairs to their rooms
because he’s getting zarowdy.
As a great comment on Zarude’s trailer once
said, bruh I sure can’t wait to get this
bad boy in my boxes so I can never touch him
again.
9 Calyrex
The first legendary pokemon to pop up on this
list is the psychic grass type, calyrex…
and while it may technically be the first
one to be show up on this list, it’s actually
last because this a ranking list and that’s
the ordering.
Legendary pokemon in general always have a
decent score when being ranked in anything
and clayrex is by no means ba… well you
know, maybe if it didn’t have the giant
pea on its head with a top section that looks
like it shoots out the string like substance
from sea cucumbers that you use to cover wounds
and cuts it’d be a little easier to push
past the few other legendary pokemon being
introduced into this region.
I do like the mystical rabbit like creature
with a stern look and magical aura, it has
a nice rounded charjabug necklace and some
wings that are almost a cloak to keep warm
during this snow storm but it will be one
of those pokemon needing to be carried by
its story and how you encounter it to really
make this a memorable one.
Easily looks to almost be on the average size
of a mythical pokemon and will likely be confused
for one, which isn’t bad, but calyrex is
for sure one of the more mixed review pokemon
which might not immediately jump out a legendary
pokemon that’s commented on as a 100% need
it now, but has a good base to wonder how
it will be in this expansion when we’re
all in game.
8 Moltres
Moltres has always been one of the pokemon
that’s had to fight tooth and nail to stay
relevant in the meta of popularity between
its two other bird groupies, with zapdos and
articuno always fighting for the number one
spot between the three.
I mean let’s look at pokemon 2000, moltres
doesn’t even get a home field advantage,
zapdos is poised to do double damage with
all the water there and likelihood of people
getting wet, and there’s so much ice for
articuno, it’s used to the cold.
Where’s the burning buildings or coal plants
producing soot and smoke for moltres?
Well turns out Moltres found it in gen 8 because
now its burnt.
I’m not in any way ripping on the design,
it’s actually incredibly great and an amazing
change to moltres, I love the look and look
forward to seeing what typing it could be,
my guess would of course be dark fire with
the color scheme, but we can’t always assume
the darker colours are… dark… it’s a
great change to moltres and definitely feels
like its own personal upgrade… even though
the other two birds are a little more significant
on their design changes and where moltres
is more of just a focus on colors and will
rely more on its animations and possible change
in personality in how it battles and flie.
Always the birdsmaid never the bird.
7 Regielectric
Ranking these without a little more to go
off of and just solely on design can be a
little bit hard… but by gone are we going
to do it.
Regiletric here, which hasn’t confirmed
in its type yet but I think we can guess these
are flows of currents, really comes in as
a surprise as both a brand new regi, and a
very unique one compared to the rest.
I do like this sort of lightbulb looking pokemon
with shocks of electricity going everywhere
as it looks to float around, I can really
envision the sparks flying everywhere and
possibly blacking out after a huge electrical
overdrive like its own personal charged up
electric explosion.
It might be seen as one of the more slightly
edgey picks to put above the last two pokemon…
but not zarude, however it is a really different
look and feels very standoutish, it’s design
is so palpable just from looks that you can
almost feel the electricity flowing from it
like the static shock I get whenever I touch
a car door… ow, I’m going to think about
this pokemon every time this happens.
6 surfishoe
I’m calling it that because I’m ranking
them separately and this is for the rapid
strike style… water, urshifu.
Like every pairing of pokemon or branching
evolution, there’s going to be a little
competition between the two, and while they
are basically the same design, it really comes
down to finely design dissecting their looks,
and the few differences given to them like
typing, moves, looks, forms, which has been
what’s shown to us, so we’ll be basing
it off that.
Today we have a face off for you 
all between number 6 surifishoe and number
5, darkishtoo.
Both urshifus have really interesting designs,
both rather similar but single strike style
having that look of a slightly more edgy brute
force way of fighting and rapid strike style,
still having a good look, the same colors,
but slightly less intimidating with more of
a focus on being meditative and calming.
It’s like the boxer vs the martial artist.
Really it’s up for debate, I personally
like single strike style’s look, and gigatanmax
form better, even though this is a much much
closer war between looks, and even poses.
Seeing them in battle with their signature
moves striking are also giving them some cool
kids points, but another win for single strike
style here where I don’t really know how
the green rapid strike style is really water
esque, and then even having to choose between
the towers to evolve kubfu in, where one is
called the tower of darkness and the other
is called the tower of water, is another point
for our single pal.
I mean which sounds more appealing in what
you want to visit, the tower of water or the
tower of darkness?
You might slip with all the running water
everywhere, and if the lights are always off
in the tower of darkness while the water is
always running means single saving urshifu
is paying much less for its tower than rapid
debt urshifu never turning off the water,
this is galar, we’re paying 30 bucks for
dlc, utilities are not included.
That’s a quick 5-0 in a first to ten between
the two wushu.
Number 4
You guessed it, it’s kung fu kubfu.
I didn’t mention this in the last section,
but before seeing the two evolutions in game,
kubfu was a lot higher on this list than the
others, but with them looking less chunky
and in battle, they looked a lot better, and
seemed to be on the better side of being well
received legendary pokemon evolutions to our
cute little legend.
Kubfu strikes in its own way as the tiny little
bear ready to fight, and its always nice to
see a legendary pokemon that’s more on the
ready to be bigger and stronger.
Kubfu sets the sights for its evolution and
even looks like a pokemon that’d be great
on ash’s team, maybe this could be the first
legendary he gets.
I this type of legendary evolution is well
done just because of kubfu’s personality
and the prospect of seeing it ready to join
you on your journey to take on whichever tower
you choose to bring it to, to see which evolution
it can become.
The two of its evolutions also look like pangoro,
you put pangoro between these two, that’s
basically a trio.
I mean are they gonna add kubfu into the middle
of this group picture too, get pancham, now
pancham gets a little legendary buddy in this
similar looking legendary group posing for
a picture.
Altogether this is a 5 piece chicken tender
combo.
3 Regidragon
While it’s not confirmed that this WILL
be a dragon type, that’s the best name I
can give it with that dragon looking arm engraving
on it, we might get trolled and it ends up
as something unable to be guessed upon looking
it, like a fire type where it’s not in its
fire form yet and just has dragon heads to
make it look like a dragon shooting spitting
hot flames, it does look like a really interesting
pokemon and an even more unexpected but a
pleasing new titan to see added into the group,
even more so than its partner in crime being
revealed at the same time.
You’ve got some really high-quality details
on its arms that stylistically make its entire
self be one of those pokemon that has that
different vibe from others, and gives off
the feeling it’s got something cooking in
where you have to get it or what you have
to go through.
Really excited for how these two new regis
are integrated, and while regielectric might
be 5 spots away, these two have a lot to bring
into the dlc and give off a lot of things
to speculate with how the original regis and
their leader will be brought in.
With you all being able to see that last two
remaining legendaries on this list are the
two remaining birds, it’s time for another
face off to see who prevails as number 1,
with face off 2.
Zapdos has always been one of my favorite
lengedary birds, with articuno coming in very
closely behind, zapdos’ form looks to have
a change of being a ground electric type with
its now grounded look and chocobo figures.
Articuno now looks like its gone back in times
to the 70s to part it up in its new sleek
form with such a drastic change in appearance
that you might not even know it’s the same
pokemon if you’ve never played the game
and didn’t see its name.
It could be a possible psychic electric with
the majesty of it all but who edges out the
victory for number 1.
Between the two, you’ve got the more rugged
look for zapdos and the more focus on beauty
with articuno, but that cosmic desire, looking
almost like it’s about to introduce a new
cyber typing and making it a psychic digital
pokemon shooting out fiber internet speeds
from its solemn eyes really brings the beauty
of original articuno and the grace of it as
an ice type to a new fold, zapdos barges in
close however with its fierce self, as it
struts its legs in a pose to run at mach speeds
really making it that down to earth bird we
know it as with a style that keeps its original
loving looks and adding a slightly more angered
an hostile look that we do know zapdos for.
Just brings it in close, but for the number
1 spot here, we have, Articuno, with Zapdos
being one of the closes number 2s to number
1, but with the completely brand new overhaul
to articuno and how well they added in a completely
different design, it earns that number one
spot, and closes off this ranking with the
new trio of bird gracing us in their new forms,
that when put together, bring a whole new
ability to highlight the personalities we’ve
seen in these birds since generation 1.
