The Teal Mask DLC, Pt. II: Crystal Pool, Finding and Fighting the Loyal Three, Fighting and Capturing Ogerpon (#209)

[00:00:01] Hello and welcome to Kitakami Island.

[00:00:15] That one was so loud that my recording muted you.

[00:00:20] Well done.

[00:00:21] And experience share. It's a Pokemon podcast starring me.

[00:00:27] What about me?

[00:00:28] Tankidory.

[00:00:29] Uh, uh, hunkydory?

[00:00:32] Monkeydory.

[00:00:33] Monkeydory.

[00:00:35] Because the pun is hunkydory.

[00:00:37] Yep.

[00:00:38] AKA Tanner Greenring and I am joined as always by my co-host.

[00:00:42] Fum.

[00:00:45] Let me really look at this word before I take a run at it.

[00:00:48] I'm looking at it on the notes and that is tough.

[00:00:51] Fjelzandipity.

[00:00:53] Fezzendipity?

[00:00:54] Fezzendipity.

[00:00:57] One of the lousy three, as Carmine calls them, who we fight this week.

[00:01:02] Fezzendipity.

[00:01:04] Let's take a run at this word.

[00:01:06] Fezzendipity.

[00:01:09] Fezzendipity.

[00:01:10] Ooh, that sounds a lot better.

[00:01:11] Fezzendipity.

[00:01:12] Doesn't it?

[00:01:13] That sounds a lot better.

[00:01:14] That gives it a little flair.

[00:01:15] Alright, so you'll be Fjelzandipity.

[00:01:17] Fjelzandipity.

[00:01:18] That sounds nice.

[00:01:20] That seems right to me.

[00:01:21] AKA Joshua Fjelstad.

[00:01:22] Welcome back to Ketamine Island.

[00:01:25] We are out here.

[00:01:26] We are...

[00:01:27] The K-hole.

[00:01:28] Microdosing ketamine.

[00:01:30] I hear it really helps with anxiety and depression.

[00:01:33] And then we are also catching...

[00:01:36] Well, we're visiting signposts mostly.

[00:01:39] I was going to say catching Pokemon, but that's not true.

[00:01:41] We did that.

[00:01:42] We got all the signposts.

[00:01:43] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:01:44] Sorry.

[00:01:45] So far, all we've been invited to explore on the island so far is the signposts.

[00:01:50] Really takes sort of a dark turn after the innocence of the signposts.

[00:01:56] Yeah.

[00:01:57] I have bad news.

[00:02:00] Just tell it to me straight.

[00:02:02] I was dating a boy last week, as you know.

[00:02:05] Just sort of happened.

[00:02:07] Don't know how.

[00:02:08] Actually, me too.

[00:02:09] And we broke up.

[00:02:10] Oh my god.

[00:02:11] And I think I maybe turned him into a supervillain.

[00:02:13] Yeah.

[00:02:15] This is the...

[00:02:16] Yeah, you know, Don Joey and Kiki, or I guess that's Briar for you.

[00:02:22] So...

[00:02:23] Or Keenan?

[00:02:25] Keenan.

[00:02:26] Yeah, Keenan.

[00:02:27] What are you talking about?

[00:02:28] Keenan and I ran into some...

[00:02:31] Sorry.

[00:02:32] Keenan and Don Joey ran into some problems this week, too.

[00:02:35] It seems like maybe the negligence in our relationship has really, really turned this guy south.

[00:02:45] I don't see him going in a good direction.

[00:02:47] I mean, honestly, if he had that in him, like, I can't really, like, take the blame, you know?

[00:02:52] Yeah, I mean, there were some...

[00:02:54] I'll admit...

[00:02:55] He's got like a dark soul.

[00:02:56] There were some yellow flags going into this relationship, but it's pure red.

[00:03:01] It's like a deep dark red now.

[00:03:03] Yeah.

[00:03:04] He's like slicking back his hair.

[00:03:06] He's smiling in a way that seems pretty, like, honestly, like a little...

[00:03:11] Sinister?

[00:03:12] Scary.

[00:03:13] Yeah.

[00:03:14] Oops.

[00:03:15] After showing us around to all the signposts last week, Kieran has really gotten real moody.

[00:03:19] Gotten really in his moods lately.

[00:03:21] Yeah, he was pretty upset that that ogre pawn seems to be a little bit more in love with Don Joey.

[00:03:29] Ogre pawn is kind of like a wedge in our relationship, and I'm like...

[00:03:33] As I said, it's a challenger situation, and it ends in a challenger situation.

[00:03:38] I haven't seen it yet.

[00:03:39] How does challenger end?

[00:03:40] With a tennis match?

[00:03:41] None of these jokes land for you, and it's very disappointing because that is a hachi-machi, that film.

[00:03:47] Yeah.

[00:03:48] It ends with a match point between...

[00:03:51] In this situation, it would be Kieran and Don Joey or...

[00:03:57] Whoa, now Don Joey's in this?

[00:03:59] Esteban Umano and Keenan over the ogre.

[00:04:03] So it's a love square.

[00:04:05] Ogre pawn.

[00:04:06] We're fighting over him.

[00:04:08] And whoever wins gets to bang him, I think.

[00:04:11] Bang who?

[00:04:13] Ogre pawn?

[00:04:14] Okay.

[00:04:15] My ogre pawn was a girl.

[00:04:16] Is that normal?

[00:04:17] I don't know.

[00:04:18] I don't even...

[00:04:19] Oh, okay.

[00:04:20] Don Joey doesn't really see gender.

[00:04:21] He's open to whatever, as I said.

[00:04:23] He's figuring it out.

[00:04:24] That's cool.

[00:04:25] Yeah, this is a friend of mine, so she introduced herself with she-her pronouns.

[00:04:31] Oh, right.

[00:04:32] Because in Esteban Umano's world, ogre pawn's just a woman.

[00:04:36] Just a lady.

[00:04:37] Yeah, friend of mine.

[00:04:38] Good friend.

[00:04:40] Yep.

[00:04:41] So we've seen these signposts.

[00:04:42] Now we have to unravel this mystery.

[00:04:45] Okay, let's find this ogre that has been chased out of the town so we can meet it and fall in love with it.

[00:04:52] All at the same time.

[00:04:53] All three of us.

[00:04:54] First, we're going to have to go visit the whatever...

[00:04:57] What's it called?

[00:04:58] Loyalty Plaza.

[00:04:59] Oh, no.

[00:05:00] Oh, sorry.

[00:05:01] No.

[00:05:02] No, no, no.

[00:05:03] There's something that happens way before this.

[00:05:04] The crystal pool.

[00:05:05] They're like, hey, first...

[00:05:06] Yeah, first, before you do the thing you came here to do, you have to just climb to the top of the mountain with the mean one.

[00:05:13] The teal mask was damaged from our previous brawl.

[00:05:18] Yeah, okay.

[00:05:19] And Gramp was the only one who knows how to fix them and we have to go get the crystals to fix the mask.

[00:05:25] I don't know why they do it.

[00:05:27] And then once we get up there, they send a melodic at us, which seems like a weird choice.

[00:05:33] I mean, I guess it's a fine choice, but it's like, why not one of these cool new Pokemon we've been hearing all about?

[00:05:39] I know.

[00:05:40] Or like a regional variant melodic would be cool.

[00:05:42] But it's just kind of a melodic.

[00:05:44] It's a big melodic.

[00:05:45] I agree.

[00:05:46] A regional variant melodic, that would be nice.

[00:05:49] That would have been nice.

[00:05:50] Yeah.

[00:05:51] Especially because it's in a crystal pool.

[00:05:53] Yeah.

[00:05:54] How about it's permanently interstellized or whatever?

[00:05:57] Like crystal wings or something?

[00:05:59] And I'll say two things.

[00:06:01] Did you encounter one of the six wonders of Kitakami up here?

[00:06:06] Somewhere around here?

[00:06:07] Seems like something that would have been a blip on my radar.

[00:06:10] But no, I don't think I did.

[00:06:12] What's up here?

[00:06:13] Don Joey stumbled across the gracious stones, which were identified as one of the wonders, one of the six wonders of Kitakami.

[00:06:25] And it was just like normal stones, not like a stone hinge, which would have been cool.

[00:06:31] These are just laying about.

[00:06:32] Yeah.

[00:06:33] And there's like a grassy field.

[00:06:35] So it's somewhere on the way.

[00:06:36] I can't remember, but it's somewhere on the way.

[00:06:38] And there was just a number of stones arranged in a circle and no grass grew in the middle.

[00:06:44] And it said only a select few know of this power spot, the gracious stones.

[00:06:50] Curiously, no grass grows within their ring.

[00:06:53] Curiouser yet, gazing upon them lifts the spirits.

[00:06:57] Oh, wow.

[00:06:58] I wouldn't say.

[00:06:59] How do you feel?

[00:07:00] His spirits were that lifted.

[00:07:03] But I'm certainly growing curiouser about what these six wonders are.

[00:07:08] Certainly.

[00:07:09] Yeah, I don't think I encountered any wonders, which is odd because one of the wonders that I'm seeing here is the crystal pool, which I definitely did go to because I did fight a melodic at it.

[00:07:20] Crystal pool looked pretty good as well as wisteria pond, which I think we had to go to this week as well.

[00:07:27] Yeah, I think that's where ugly monkey was or whatever the fuck these things are.

[00:07:31] So the the other thing I was going to say is that these battles finally started being tough and there will be a couple more comments about that later on.

[00:07:42] But they're finally.

[00:07:43] Oh yeah.

[00:07:44] Tough for little baby Josh.

[00:07:45] Like level 30 or so.

[00:07:47] I'm joking.

[00:07:48] I almost died a few times.

[00:07:49] Or I like my teams almost got wiped out.

[00:07:51] I died.

[00:07:52] I actually I whited out twice on this leg.

[00:07:54] I'll say that close not to do with the melodic.

[00:07:57] The melodic is just a big level 73 melodic, but it is just a melodic and you were fighting it with.

[00:08:02] Well, it wasn't.

[00:08:03] Was it level 73 for you?

[00:08:05] That's what the walkthrough says.

[00:08:06] I don't know what mine was.

[00:08:07] I think it was level 30 or so.

[00:08:09] Oh, there's they scale, right?

[00:08:11] We ran into this last week, but I was going to say that the trainer leveling since completing the three signposts has gotten a little incongruent.

[00:08:22] I would say because I encountered a couple of trainers whose Pokemon totally over leveled.

[00:08:29] Oh, really?

[00:08:30] Versus this storyline.

[00:08:32] I think they all stayed within the realm of possibility, but I encountered some.

[00:08:38] I encountered a level 75 Pokemon this week.

[00:08:41] Yeah, there was definitely a side of the island where the Pokemon were like, oh yeah, oh, beefy at Pokemon.

[00:08:48] There were woods east of where this crystal pool is on the way to it, at least.

[00:08:54] And I fell into the woods and I fought level 55 Pokemon.

[00:08:59] You almost died in there that we're just roaming around.

[00:09:01] It's a little.

[00:09:02] It got a little dicey in some spots here.

[00:09:05] I was like, holy shit, where am I?

[00:09:07] But I got through.

[00:09:08] I didn't have any issues.

[00:09:09] And I fought this melodic with Carmine by my side.

[00:09:13] It's like, hey, thanks, Carmine.

[00:09:14] But actually don't need an assist on this one.

[00:09:16] No, not on that one.

[00:09:17] I've got six Pokemon, six people with me here.

[00:09:20] And after this battle, my crocolure evolved and turned into Skeledurge, who, as Greg told us, is a singer.

[00:09:32] And that was that was revealed in its Pokédex entry.

[00:09:37] So I'll do a quick Pokéchecks yourself.

[00:09:41] Skeledurge's gentle singing soothes the souls of all that hear it.

[00:09:51] It burns its enemies to a crisp with flames of over 5400 degrees Fahrenheit.

[00:09:58] How hot is that?

[00:09:59] And that was more to just highlight like, wow, that is a big heel turn on those two sentences.

[00:10:07] It's either singing you to like Nirvana or it's just burning you to a crisp 5400 degrees Fahrenheit.

[00:10:17] Like, what's the sun?

[00:10:19] How hot is the sun?

[00:10:23] Ten thousand.

[00:10:24] So it's like half half the heat of the sun.

[00:10:27] It's pretty hot.

[00:10:29] That's very hot.

[00:10:30] Seems like it would vaporize pretty much anything around.

[00:10:32] Right.

[00:10:33] Including crocolure.

[00:10:34] But I guess that's why Skeledurge.

[00:10:36] But I guess that's why it's a skeleton.

[00:10:38] But it reminds me of.

[00:10:39] Its flesh has just been seared off.

[00:10:41] The like Magcargo's Pokédex entry is something like that, too, where it's like, except that one is like permanently emanating like 10,000 degrees or something hotter than the sun.

[00:10:52] Yeah.

[00:10:53] And it's like what happens when it just uses a flamethrower or something?

[00:10:58] Like even if it's directed at one object or one Pokémon.

[00:11:02] It's just going to melt anything in front of it.

[00:11:04] It's going to everything else around it is fucked.

[00:11:06] Yeah.

[00:11:07] Think about it.

[00:11:08] It's going to vaporize everything around it.

[00:11:10] Yeah.

[00:11:11] Think before you write these.

[00:11:12] You just don't have to go this far.

[00:11:14] Like, how about you call it 540 degrees?

[00:11:17] Reel it in.

[00:11:18] It's power creep.

[00:11:19] It's happening to the Pokédex entries.

[00:11:21] It is.

[00:11:24] We've defeated the Melodic.

[00:11:25] We've gotten our crystal from the bottom of the crystal pool.

[00:11:28] Well, actually, no, we didn't.

[00:11:30] There's like an argument with Carmine where she's like, I'm not getting in the fucking pool.

[00:11:34] It's like, well, I'm not getting in it.

[00:11:36] And then it turns out the Melodic just drops one.

[00:11:38] So bring that to Grandpa.

[00:11:40] Fixes the teal mask.

[00:11:42] Ask him to put the teal mask back together.

[00:11:44] And then he's like, I'll do that.

[00:11:46] But in the meantime, you have to go on like a little manhunt.

[00:11:52] There's about to be a manhunt.

[00:11:54] Guy?

[00:11:55] Oh, my manhunt now.

[00:11:56] This is not really a guy hunt because these are not guys.

[00:11:59] These are like not guys in any sense of the word.

[00:12:02] There's about to be a mask hunt.

[00:12:05] Mask hunt is good.

[00:12:06] Yeah.

[00:12:07] We have to learn about these awful three little Pokémon.

[00:12:11] As I said, Carmine calls them the lousy three, which is actually a pretty good one.

[00:12:16] Oh, you know what we have to do first is we have to fight our boyfriend.

[00:12:19] Yeah.

[00:12:20] This is when the trouble starts with the boyfriend.

[00:12:24] We get back to town and for some reason our boyfriend is like, hey, welcome back.

[00:12:29] Like I'm ready to throw down if we're going to go find Ogre Pond.

[00:12:33] Not in a good way.

[00:12:34] If we're going to go find Ogre Pond, it's going to be this guy who's going to be catching him.

[00:12:39] He wants that Ogre Pond.

[00:12:41] He's in love with it.

[00:12:42] I think he literally says like, you know that I love Ogre Pond and I can't believe that

[00:12:48] you're trying to get in the way of us, of our love.

[00:12:51] And then we have to fight.

[00:12:54] Yeah, we have to fight.

[00:12:55] He's got obviously I don't know what the levels are.

[00:12:58] They were in the 30s, but he's got a Yanmega, Gligar, Diplin, Poliwrath.

[00:13:05] I think Poliwrath is his ace.

[00:13:07] That might be one of the reasons that you liked him.

[00:13:10] That's how we connected.

[00:13:11] One of the things we connected over.

[00:13:12] Yeah.

[00:13:13] I like the regional variant Diplin, by the way.

[00:13:16] Oh, me too.

[00:13:17] Little candied apple.

[00:13:18] I like it.

[00:13:19] Yeah.

[00:13:20] And he also had a Joshie Sweetie Cramorant.

[00:13:29] That's okay.

[00:13:30] Do we treat the Pokemon Unite episodes?

[00:13:32] Is that canon in experience here at Pokemon Podcast?

[00:13:36] I think so.

[00:13:37] Yeah, I think Chef Green Ring and Brie.

[00:13:40] I mean, yeah, of course it is.

[00:13:41] Brie was the return of Brie Van Der.

[00:13:43] But for those bug catchers who didn't listen to the Pokemon Unite episodes, I love Cramorant.

[00:13:49] That is now my main in Pokemon Unite or Mewtwo.

[00:13:53] But Cramorant, great.

[00:13:55] It's a sassy bird.

[00:13:56] I love that it's just spitting Pikachu's at me.

[00:14:00] Love it.

[00:14:01] I think it's cute.

[00:14:02] I think it's good.

[00:14:03] Yeah.

[00:14:04] I guess I don't actually know how good the Pokemon itself is in the mainline games.

[00:14:09] But in Unite, I think it's great.

[00:14:11] And I just want to say-

[00:14:12] It was pretty easy for me to be.

[00:14:14] I want to make sure that everyone knows Cramorant is a sweetie.

[00:14:17] It was easy to beat, though.

[00:14:19] Yeah, we beat him and he's like, okay, well, I guess I'll keep training.

[00:14:23] I guess I'm going to become a villain.

[00:14:25] But you and Carmine go and check out the-

[00:14:30] Lousy Three.

[00:14:32] Yeah, the Loyalty Plaza.

[00:14:34] Head out to Loyalty Plaza to check out the monument to the Lousy Three.

[00:14:40] And we go out there and for some reason, I don't know what it is about Esteban Numano's presence.

[00:14:45] But the party always comes to him.

[00:14:48] You know?

[00:14:49] Yeah.

[00:14:50] When he got within 10 feet of this monument, raised the dead.

[00:14:54] And these three awful, awful, awful Pokemon came out of the ground.

[00:14:58] Oh my God.

[00:14:59] Yeah.

[00:15:00] Can we even-

[00:15:01] It felt like a joke.

[00:15:02] It felt like a joke.

[00:15:03] I was like, okay.

[00:15:04] Are they undead?

[00:15:05] This is like a joke Pokemon.

[00:15:06] And then they're going, yeah, what are they?

[00:15:07] What is this?

[00:15:08] Are they undead?

[00:15:09] Is there like a big-

[00:15:10] I guess there are a number of caverns, but is there some subterranean labyrinth underneath

[00:15:15] Kitakami that they live in or are they undead?

[00:15:18] What's happening?

[00:15:19] They rise from their monuments.

[00:15:22] They expect to be greeted as heroes and they fuck off to who knows where.

[00:15:28] They're all run around the island.

[00:15:30] Yeah.

[00:15:31] So you're like, okay, let's go learn more about these big dumb idiots.

[00:15:36] And we head to town and we ask around.

[00:15:39] We have to like accost people.

[00:15:40] They just make us talk to NPCs for some reason.

[00:15:43] I don't know.

[00:15:44] Maybe they're setting things up backstage.

[00:15:45] They're dubbed the false prophets.

[00:15:47] We have to find the false prophets.

[00:15:49] Yeah.

[00:15:50] At least that's how the IGN guide calls, describes them.

[00:15:53] Yeah.

[00:15:54] The darkness around this, the dark language around these three.

[00:15:58] And they're also all poison type.

[00:15:59] They're all like just bad guys.

[00:16:01] Like so clearly bad guys.

[00:16:03] And they all suck.

[00:16:04] Only one that's maybe okay is Okie Dokie, but I don't think so.

[00:16:08] No.

[00:16:09] And every, okay, we'll get to it when we talk about them.

[00:16:12] I want to talk about some bad guys that I ran into who were not the lousy slash loyal three.

[00:16:18] Yeah.

[00:16:19] You'll recall from last week you told me about the Glitterati.

[00:16:23] Oh yeah.

[00:16:24] And you described it to me as being a couple who was like in the hills above Masui.

[00:16:32] Swordbert and Shieldbert or whatever.

[00:16:33] Yeah, Swordbert and Shieldbert.

[00:16:35] So I was trying to find them and I went way up into the hills above Masui because that's what you said, where you said they were.

[00:16:44] And I found a cave.

[00:16:47] Did I say Hisui?

[00:16:48] Are we in Hisui?

[00:16:49] Masui.

[00:16:50] No, it's Masui.

[00:16:52] Oh, Masui.

[00:16:53] Masui.

[00:16:55] And I went way up in the hills and I found a cave and there was somebody in there that was terrifying.

[00:17:02] Who?

[00:17:04] You know, I'm going into this where I'm like, oh, anybody I encounter right now, they probably have like the same levels we all have.

[00:17:10] Yeah, of course.

[00:17:11] So I go into this cave and there's like a couple of items in there.

[00:17:14] What are you popping into caves though?

[00:17:16] And it was not a cave of love like the boy cave.

[00:17:21] It was a very, very horrifying.

[00:17:25] Challenging sentence.

[00:17:26] Yeah.

[00:17:28] It's not.

[00:17:29] This was not a cave that you would call home because.

[00:17:34] Oh, Nair.

[00:17:35] Their names are Oh Nair and Billy.

[00:17:38] You know what's funny is Greg tweeted us this week and I was like, what's this dude talking about?

[00:17:42] He was talking about their names.

[00:17:44] I did find them eventually.

[00:17:46] And that was problematic as well.

[00:17:48] First, I ran into someone in this cave who claimed they were from the Kitakami Ogre clan and they had a mask.

[00:18:00] Are they taking new members?

[00:18:01] Like a teal mask.

[00:18:02] That's what I was.

[00:18:03] That's what Don Joey was hoping because.

[00:18:05] I'm always looking for new buds.

[00:18:07] You know, wants to bring in some new, you know, nights into the realm.

[00:18:11] But this night was not interested.

[00:18:16] They opened with a level 75 right shoe who killed my entire team.

[00:18:22] Level 75 Jesus.

[00:18:24] I think this person had like five other Pokemon or at least four and I don't know what they are.

[00:18:30] The right shoe took care of my entire team.

[00:18:33] Whited out, woke up in Masui town.

[00:18:36] There's eight of them.

[00:18:38] They give you high level items like choice specs, choice bands, ability patches, rare candies.

[00:18:46] If you can beat any of they all have 70 plus and competitive build Pokemon.

[00:18:51] Yeah, I don't know what they are other than the right shoe.

[00:18:56] That's all you need.

[00:18:58] And after that, I then did find the Glitterati who called me a commoner, called Don Joey a commoner.

[00:19:06] Man wants to stung.

[00:19:07] Ouch.

[00:19:08] And they were like, Oh, what?

[00:19:09] How do I even interact with this commoner?

[00:19:12] I've never seen one before in my life.

[00:19:14] Yeah.

[00:19:15] And the girl, I guess, O'Neir presumably.

[00:19:18] Or Billy.

[00:19:19] Because the other one's Billy, but I don't know.

[00:19:21] O'Neir is the head of like Kitakami Realty or something.

[00:19:25] So she challenged Don Joey to a battle.

[00:19:28] And once again, he made a big mistake because she has a level 65 Persian was the opener.

[00:19:35] And that Persian also killed my entire team.

[00:19:41] Did you get?

[00:19:42] OK, you didn't get through.

[00:19:43] No, but you fought when you did you fight them when you encountered them?

[00:19:47] Yeah, but they may have beaten me and I don't know if I went back.

[00:19:51] So I don't know what the deal is with the Glitterati either.

[00:19:54] But this commoner was destroyed by the Glitterati.

[00:19:58] But why are some of the trainers just to fuck with us?

[00:20:01] I go into like post elite four levels and the other ones to penalize you.

[00:20:05] Well, I'm a commoner apparently.

[00:20:07] Don't approach these people.

[00:20:08] Yeah, they'll insult you and then they'll kill your entire team.

[00:20:11] So don't approach anyone on this little hunt for the false prophets.

[00:20:16] Don Joey also got just decimated back to back by two trainers.

[00:20:22] That's why I don't talk to these people.

[00:20:24] I just you know who I target is like the young and the old and the visibly weak when I'm out in the field.

[00:20:30] Like if I see a young trainer out, I'm like, oh, I'll approach that person.

[00:20:34] Yeah, I can decimate this kid because I did run into new trainers on this.

[00:20:40] What we're about to go into looking for these lousy three and they all still had level 20 or 30 Pokemon.

[00:20:48] But these two were just totally leveled up.

[00:20:53] And I don't know how it happened.

[00:20:55] And it's troubling.

[00:20:56] There was a few battles where it was surprising that all my Pokemon were going down in one hit.

[00:21:00] And I don't know if I ever re-approached any of those battles.

[00:21:03] I just thought like, you know, it's kind of like when you run into one of the big Titans in Breath of the Wild.

[00:21:08] You're like, well, I'm not like I'm not ready for this.

[00:21:11] Right. Maybe I'm supposed to be able to navigate this right now.

[00:21:13] But like, I'm not going to sit and figure this out.

[00:21:15] I'm not going to have a boss battle right now.

[00:21:17] No, I think we will be checking off Kidikami for now because there is a 2B continue.

[00:21:23] Oh yeah. Also, we will come back here.

[00:21:25] We'll come back here. Ushered off the island at the end.

[00:21:27] Yeah, we'll come back here though, because there's obviously some business that has to be dealt with.

[00:21:32] Don Joey is going to have to avenge himself with these Glitterati and the Kidikami Ogre Clan.

[00:21:39] But that is going to be in a while.

[00:21:41] So let's get after these.

[00:21:44] Why are two of them like, I guess one's a bear.

[00:21:48] It's a bear, a monkey, and a bird.

[00:21:51] Pheasant. Yeah.

[00:21:53] And they're just bad.

[00:21:55] They just look bad and dumb.

[00:21:57] And I like a lot of the new designs in the new generation.

[00:22:00] I like Ogre Pond.

[00:22:01] I think he's kind of funny.

[00:22:03] She, it, they.

[00:22:05] But these things all suck and they are not fun to look at.

[00:22:08] And they're wearing this big stupid scarf and it's like.

[00:22:11] They all have the toxic chain.

[00:22:13] I could not.

[00:22:14] The thing that was challenging about, I guess we'll just go into it.

[00:22:18] Like you talk to these false prophets and they reveal the locations of where these three loyal Pokemon are.

[00:22:26] And then you have to go all around the island and find them.

[00:22:29] Or the region.

[00:22:31] After this break.

[00:22:33] Oh wow.

[00:22:34] Look at that.

[00:22:35] Just wanted to make sure we got one in.

[00:22:36] Yeah, that was good.

[00:22:37] Hello and welcome back, Bug Catchers.

[00:22:45] Hello and welcome back to Joshua's Experience Share.

[00:22:47] And we are on our way to.

[00:22:53] One of these damn fucking Pokemon.

[00:22:55] Monkey Dory.

[00:22:57] They're all over the map.

[00:22:58] But for some reason, you can only, like I could only get to one of them.

[00:23:01] Like I was already like up on the mountain.

[00:23:03] So I was like, all right, I'll go after this pheasant.

[00:23:06] But then I couldn't find it.

[00:23:07] It was like its marker was there, but I couldn't like.

[00:23:10] Oh my God.

[00:23:11] It helped me out, I guess, because I got a couple of like fly to here points out of it.

[00:23:16] But finding the pheasant sent me on this wild goose, I guess wild pheasant chase like all around the mountain.

[00:23:26] And that's where I ran into that forest that had level 55 Pokemon in it because I fell off a cliff at some point.

[00:23:33] Obviously, I was jumping off cliffs because there is no fall damage if you're riding on the back of Coridon.

[00:23:38] No, there's no fall damage.

[00:23:40] It's either because of Morayden or the subjugation of Rotom.

[00:23:46] Yeah.

[00:23:47] Yeah.

[00:23:48] So we are.

[00:23:49] I was sort of railroaded into heading to the pond to take care of a Monkey Dory first.

[00:23:55] Wisteria pond.

[00:23:56] It was the easiest one to get to.

[00:23:57] So I went down there and there it was.

[00:24:00] Oh, one other thing I should say is when the Pokemon rose from the dead and blew past us to go to the village, the village people fed the Pokemon and made them into giant monsters.

[00:24:14] Oh, is that?

[00:24:15] I must have aggressive monsters taking a page out of your book.

[00:24:18] And I was slamming a through a lot of this.

[00:24:20] Yeah.

[00:24:21] So I was confused why they were big suddenly.

[00:24:24] Yeah.

[00:24:25] There's a little cut scene where the villagers like, oh, I can't believe the loyal three just came by.

[00:24:31] It was so great to see them.

[00:24:32] I'm so glad we fed them all of our like, oh, we must pay them empowering Pokemon treats.

[00:24:38] So, yeah, they're fucking huge.

[00:24:40] They become Titans.

[00:24:41] Yeah.

[00:24:42] Which is a pretty like, okay thing when it's something like Okie Dokie or Fez and Dippity.

[00:24:50] But Monkey Dory is not particularly intimidating, either small or big.

[00:24:55] No, because they what they did with the design was basically just take like the basically just take the design and then stretch the neck and head.

[00:25:06] Yeah, just a little bit.

[00:25:07] So it looks dumb.

[00:25:09] Just longer like a finger.

[00:25:10] I'll say on all three of these, I could not get a handle on what any of their types were.

[00:25:15] We know that they all have poison because their little poison necklaces.

[00:25:19] Yeah.

[00:25:20] But like I had no idea what any of them were, which is clever.

[00:25:24] I mean, it made the battles actually somewhat tough.

[00:25:28] And I want to give a actually want to give a respect to Carmine.

[00:25:33] Hermor Pico actually did most of the damage in the battle I had with Monkey Dory because I guess then I figured it out that it must be psychic because

[00:25:46] Hermor Pico kept using bite and it was taking out a ton of Monkey Dory's hit points.

[00:25:52] And I got in like two little hits.

[00:25:54] Oh, yeah.

[00:25:55] She killed Monkey Dory.

[00:25:56] So this is a rare instance of the NPC.

[00:26:00] And I can't even think of another one where the NPC actually got the killing blow.

[00:26:06] She always calls out like when an effective move is used or like a critical move is used.

[00:26:12] Yeah, she does love talking about that.

[00:26:14] So I think that's just kind of her thing.

[00:26:16] But yeah, sure.

[00:26:17] Her little more Pico is pretty helpful in some of these battles.

[00:26:20] But mostly it was my Pokemon doing all the heavy lifting on the other two.

[00:26:24] Same.

[00:26:25] But I would say in general, like she actually like held her own.

[00:26:28] And usually they're a total fodder cannon fodder.

[00:26:33] Okay.

[00:26:34] Monkey Dory.

[00:26:36] Here he is.

[00:26:37] He's a big, dumb idiot.

[00:26:38] One of the dumbest designs, I would say.

[00:26:41] Yes.

[00:26:42] We beat him and he.

[00:26:46] What happened after we beat him?

[00:26:47] Well, he shrinks back down to his normal size and runs scurries away and we get the mask.

[00:26:53] That's what we're here doing.

[00:26:55] They've all taken masks and we need to get them back.

[00:26:58] So yes, Monkey Dory drops one of the masks.

[00:27:02] I love that the Bulbapedia entry about Monkey Dory on origin says Monkey Dory may be based on a monkey.

[00:27:11] Well, maybe, maybe.

[00:27:13] Okie dokie, which is not a bear.

[00:27:15] It's a dog judging by the name.

[00:27:18] Okey dokey.

[00:27:19] Lazy also lazy design.

[00:27:21] Yeah.

[00:27:22] Yeah.

[00:27:23] And it's also like clear what it is.

[00:27:25] It's fighting.

[00:27:26] It's got big mitts.

[00:27:27] Yeah.

[00:27:28] Well, I guess you're right.

[00:27:29] In retrospect, I couldn't really figure it out.

[00:27:32] Like I said, well, other than the bird, obviously.

[00:27:35] Yeah, the birds pretty easy.

[00:27:37] The other ones.

[00:27:38] The other two.

[00:27:39] I was like, I don't know what the hell this thing is.

[00:27:41] Psychic type moves.

[00:27:42] Monkey Dory psychic type moves didn't tee off.

[00:27:45] Well, when Carmine started landing super effective moves with the bite, then I knew.

[00:27:52] But okie dokie.

[00:27:54] Okey dokie.

[00:27:55] Okey dokie.

[00:27:56] Okey dokie.

[00:27:57] No, I could not get a handle on what that was.

[00:28:00] And in retrospect, I feel like an idiot looking at it after you said, well, it's got the big mitts.

[00:28:07] So obviously it's fighting.

[00:28:08] And yeah, seems clear.

[00:28:10] Yeah.

[00:28:11] The green threw me off.

[00:28:12] I would say I look at the colors.

[00:28:14] Okey dokey was easy for me because one of my friends is fairy type.

[00:28:20] Her name is Margo Pence and she's got a big fucking hammer and she used it on.

[00:28:26] Okey dokey.

[00:28:27] Oh, I actually had lady.

[00:28:29] Oh, well, that's getting ahead of myself.

[00:28:32] But Trish of LaVentia was also my Tinkerton also is the one that took on Okey dokey.

[00:28:40] Oh, I forgot to say it about Monkey Dory.

[00:28:42] And now I will say it about Okey dokey as well.

[00:28:44] They're both might you make me barf Pokemon of the week as is.

[00:28:48] They're all bad.

[00:28:49] And I have three this week and they're all bad.

[00:28:51] Actually, just the loyal three.

[00:28:52] The loyal three are might you make me barf Pokemon of the week.

[00:28:55] They're all bad.

[00:29:00] The lousy three lion lousy three.

[00:29:03] Yeah, I mean, I mean, can you qualify the the barfing?

[00:29:08] Because I don't think they're ugly.

[00:29:09] I do think they're lazy.

[00:29:10] Monkey Dory is ugly.

[00:29:11] I think they're lazy is my problem.

[00:29:13] Monkey Dory is certainly ugly and I won't take any notes on that.

[00:29:18] I don't have like a good counter.

[00:29:20] Okey dokey I think is the only one who is OK looking.

[00:29:23] I feel like I have the biggest problem with Okey dokey because it's just like you're basically manipulating an Ursaring model.

[00:29:30] Yeah, well, you're basically manipulating an Unfrozen model and you're basically manipulating like whatever dumb one million monkeys there are.

[00:29:40] You know what happened to your man key, by the way?

[00:29:43] Rusty?

[00:29:44] Yeah, because that seems like a like pad.

[00:29:47] It's like kind of a homebody.

[00:29:48] Oh, he's just chilling.

[00:29:49] All right.

[00:29:50] Yeah.

[00:29:51] Yeah.

[00:29:52] Fez and Dippity get up this hill, dive down a hole and then out cave entrance and you'll be on like the side.

[00:30:00] Of the mountain.

[00:30:01] Oh my God.

[00:30:02] The chilling waterhead.

[00:30:03] There is some freaky stuff in that chilling waterhead.

[00:30:06] I was chilled.

[00:30:07] I did not like it in there.

[00:30:09] In the chilling waterhead?

[00:30:10] No.

[00:30:11] Yeah.

[00:30:12] Did I see some pretty upsetting stuff in there too?

[00:30:14] I think so.

[00:30:15] I saw Joshi's you make me barf Pokemon of the week.

[00:30:20] Uh huh.

[00:30:21] Dedun Sparse.

[00:30:22] Dun dun.

[00:30:24] You didn't see the other one?

[00:30:29] The longer one?

[00:30:30] No, Dedun Sparse is the longer one.

[00:30:32] There's not a Dedun Dun Sparse?

[00:30:34] No.

[00:30:35] And that's part of my problem.

[00:30:37] That's part of my problem.

[00:30:38] There should be like six of these.

[00:30:40] My problem with this is obviously Dedun Sparse baseline is ugly.

[00:30:46] Yeah.

[00:30:47] As discussed.

[00:30:48] Classic you make me barf.

[00:30:50] Classic model of the form.

[00:30:53] Dedun Sparse, they just add a segment to it.

[00:30:56] Okay.

[00:30:57] So there are two types.

[00:30:58] There's two segment form and three segment form.

[00:31:01] Oh, you're right.

[00:31:02] Yeah.

[00:31:03] But they're both just called Dedun Sparse.

[00:31:04] Why not call the three segment one Dedun Sparse?

[00:31:07] Well, and how about this?

[00:31:09] How about you take that line in a totally different direction?

[00:31:13] What about that?

[00:31:14] Yeah.

[00:31:15] Yeah.

[00:31:16] Yeah.

[00:31:17] Yeah.

[00:31:18] Or finally admit that it's the Gligore pre-evolution that it's clearly was always meant to be.

[00:31:20] Actually, that's interesting.

[00:31:21] I like that.

[00:31:23] I've also seen some fan art that made the evolution into a normal type dragon.

[00:31:29] Oh, interesting.

[00:31:30] And that was cool.

[00:31:31] Like turn this thing into something interesting.

[00:31:34] I guess like if they're just trying to make a joke about how stupid it is and just adding

[00:31:40] more segments to it, that's kind of funny, but we don't like it.

[00:31:44] Like you're giving an additional national Dex number to this thing.

[00:31:48] You spent time and energy on this.

[00:31:50] You've thought about this.

[00:31:51] Yeah, I hate it.

[00:31:52] This could have been something else.

[00:31:54] Yeah, I don't know.

[00:31:55] Now that I see one that has three segments, are they like super rare?

[00:32:00] Is that the thing?

[00:32:01] Okay.

[00:32:02] So when Dunsparse evolves, it has a one in 100 chance of evolving into a three segment

[00:32:08] to Dunsparse.

[00:32:09] Okay.

[00:32:10] And does that change?

[00:32:11] I think you just probably want to catch a lot of them.

[00:32:12] I don't know why you would want to do that.

[00:32:14] Does it enhance the stats?

[00:32:16] It doesn't look like it.

[00:32:19] It just has more segments.

[00:32:21] Yeah, no, no.

[00:32:24] Yeah.

[00:32:25] Bad.

[00:32:26] Yeah.

[00:32:27] All right.

[00:32:28] Okay, so we're not doing to Dunsparse, but there's another guy in here who I ran into.

[00:32:34] This is a creepy cave full of horrors.

[00:32:36] One of them is to Dunsparse and one is the guy who kept talking about his goo.

[00:32:41] Oh, did you see him?

[00:32:43] He's my trainer danger of the week.

[00:32:45] I encountered that guy.

[00:32:47] He kind of like flags you down from the other side.

[00:32:55] There's a bunch of goomies in here.

[00:32:58] Yeah, goomies.

[00:32:59] And you approach him and he's saying out loud, he flags you down.

[00:33:02] He's like, my goo.

[00:33:03] And it's like, all right, you hooked me.

[00:33:06] Now reel me in.

[00:33:08] And I did.

[00:33:09] I reeled in and I went and talked to him and he said, battle you the goo.

[00:33:14] And I said, all right, let's hammer down.

[00:33:17] And it was just a goomy.

[00:33:19] And I did beat it easily.

[00:33:21] It is my goo.

[00:33:22] And he didn't even uppercase it.

[00:33:23] It was a joke.

[00:33:24] I don't know.

[00:33:25] Then it's like, oh, OK, he's talking about like a Pokemon.

[00:33:27] He's not talking about goo.

[00:33:30] I'm very goo sensitive.

[00:33:32] My goo.

[00:33:35] His own goo.

[00:33:36] Why do they have to make the Pokemon so gooey?

[00:33:38] Yeah, you really.

[00:33:39] I mean, that's like a trademark of you make me barf stuff.

[00:33:44] Yeah, this is they're just like goo being involved in us up.

[00:33:48] You know, not just me, not just me and my you make me barf Pokemon,

[00:33:54] but a whole community of artists online.

[00:33:56] Oh, we don't have time today.

[00:33:58] We don't have to go into it, but, you know, it's clear.

[00:34:01] Fez and Dippity find this thing, take it down.

[00:34:05] Then we're done.

[00:34:06] We have the masks back and these Pokemon are vanquished and fuck them.

[00:34:11] And now I think everyone is sort of finally aware that these are enemies,

[00:34:16] villains.

[00:34:17] Yeah.

[00:34:18] Ogre pond gets vindicated.

[00:34:20] That's more confessional.

[00:34:22] I think we go back to the village and Kirin seemingly.

[00:34:25] That's what I'm going to talk about in first because we have to do a couple of battles against Kirin.

[00:34:31] Yeah, this is where things kind of get a little dicey.

[00:34:34] Yeah, this is the when the relationship really gets toxic.

[00:34:39] All three masks are secured.

[00:34:41] The masks are in the bag except one.

[00:34:44] The teal mask, which Kirin has run off with now that grandpa has fixed it.

[00:34:48] Yeah.

[00:34:49] And we're supposed to be like just take an ogre pond back to their house.

[00:34:53] You know, the cave up in the hills above Masui town.

[00:34:57] No, Kirin has left the mask.

[00:34:59] We catch up with him and he's kind of gone sicko mode a little bit and wants to fight.

[00:35:06] He wants to fight over the love of Ogre pond.

[00:35:10] He says whoever wins this battle wins.

[00:35:13] Yeah, the love of Ogre.

[00:35:14] So we should talk about the teams we brought into challengers this battle in a segment we call level check level check.

[00:35:24] Josh, my team's mostly the same.

[00:35:29] I guess your team's mostly the same too.

[00:35:31] There's one change and there are some nightings that took place.

[00:35:36] Oh, lovely.

[00:35:37] Let's hear about them.

[00:35:38] Rouncy Skeledurge talked about him level 42.

[00:35:42] Cookie Arboliva, the sexy plant is level 42.

[00:35:47] Very fuckable plant.

[00:35:48] Yep.

[00:35:49] Black Knight low kicks level 38.

[00:35:53] Love it.

[00:35:54] Special Ops unit and then Trish of Lavencia is now lady.

[00:35:59] Lady Trish Tinkerton level 40.

[00:36:03] Lady Trish.

[00:36:04] Wow.

[00:36:05] Lady.

[00:36:06] Welcome to the club.

[00:36:07] I have a lady on my team, Lady Beth.

[00:36:08] But is Lady Beth knighted?

[00:36:10] Oh no, I'll tell you about it.

[00:36:12] I'll tell you all about it.

[00:36:13] Okay.

[00:36:14] It's going to be kind of copping your bit a little bit.

[00:36:17] Yeah, I was concerned about that from the beginning.

[00:36:21] Lady Trish got knighted for her valiant performance in the battle against Okadogi.

[00:36:29] Okay, great.

[00:36:30] And she evolved to a Tinkerton as well and she's doing great.

[00:36:34] Like her.

[00:36:35] That's great.

[00:36:36] On the other side of things, I do have something difficult.

[00:36:40] Oh no.

[00:36:41] To say, which is that the Duke and the Duchess are kind of having some marital issues.

[00:36:47] Is that allowed?

[00:36:48] Well, I mean, ever since Henry the Eighth, it's been allowed.

[00:36:52] Yeah, sure.

[00:36:53] I guess.

[00:36:54] Whether it's decapitating or divorce.

[00:36:56] Yeah.

[00:36:57] And it's neither yet, but the Duchess.

[00:36:59] You didn't decapitate Azumarill, did you?

[00:37:01] No, the Duchess is on ice though.

[00:37:05] Azumarill is level 32.

[00:37:07] She's just taking some time.

[00:37:09] Like the Duke, Pommat, level 44, has gotten haughty recently.

[00:37:15] Like as I said, he's been kind of the MVP on the team.

[00:37:19] You know, Duke's like the sixth or seventh down on like the rungs of like royal titles.

[00:37:26] Well, it's the Duke for now, but like maybe he's specifically gunning to move up the ranks, you know?

[00:37:32] Okay.

[00:37:33] And the Duchess was like, you know, I like where we were.

[00:37:36] I like who we are.

[00:37:38] And she-

[00:37:39] Got in the way of his ambitions.

[00:37:40] That's fine.

[00:37:41] She needs to go find herself and like really think about stuff.

[00:37:44] And she's taking some distance from the Duke right now.

[00:37:47] So she's out.

[00:37:48] She's out for now.

[00:37:49] That's the best for her safety.

[00:37:51] Yeah.

[00:37:52] But we did encounter Sir Jangles.

[00:37:55] Ooh.

[00:37:56] Who is Hock-a-moe-o.

[00:37:58] Yeah, there was a lot of Hock-a-moe-os around here.

[00:38:02] Or the younger one.

[00:38:03] It was the younger one originally.

[00:38:05] Yeah, yeah.

[00:38:06] Hock-a-moe?

[00:38:07] Jang-a-moe-o.

[00:38:08] Jang-a-moe-o.

[00:38:09] Yeah, yeah.

[00:38:10] Originally.

[00:38:11] Yeah, there's a few of them around here.

[00:38:12] It was kind of fun to see them out in the wild.

[00:38:14] Isn't that like a semi-legendary or whatever?

[00:38:16] Well, it is.

[00:38:17] In this situation, it is semi-mythical because you sort of suggested like what if Don Joey

[00:38:23] and his knights tried to tame a dragon and bring a dragon into the mix?

[00:38:28] Oh, yeah.

[00:38:29] It's more like a chocobo than a dragon, wouldn't you say?

[00:38:32] Well, yeah, for now.

[00:38:33] But it is a dragon type.

[00:38:35] And they're at least starting here, they tamed a lower level dragon to bring into the knights.

[00:38:42] You know, those are like having like a baby gator or something.

[00:38:45] Like that's going to get big.

[00:38:47] Yeah, it's like in the tub right now.

[00:38:49] It's not like an easy thing to take care of once it gets big.

[00:38:52] Might be hard once it keeps growing.

[00:38:55] But Sir Jangles, level 36.

[00:38:58] Fine, tameable for now.

[00:39:00] But we'll see.

[00:39:01] Yeah.

[00:39:02] And what are we seeing on Esteban Umano's team?

[00:39:04] Lady Beth is Charkadet level 39.

[00:39:08] So Lady Beth revealed to me this week.

[00:39:11] You know, she's just a friend.

[00:39:12] She's like eccentric and I like her a lot.

[00:39:15] But I don't know her that well.

[00:39:16] She's the LARPer?

[00:39:17] Yeah, she's a LARPer.

[00:39:18] She was like, I'm actually on a mythic quest.

[00:39:21] And I was like, what do you mean?

[00:39:22] That's Don Joey's thing.

[00:39:23] She's like, I know.

[00:39:24] She's like, I'm on a holy mythical quest for the throne

[00:39:27] and I need to find and claim my ancient mythical armor

[00:39:32] in order to evolve into my final form.

[00:39:35] And I said, why didn't you fucking tell me this ages ago?

[00:39:38] I've been sitting here throwing you out in battles

[00:39:40] waiting for you to evolve.

[00:39:42] So once we're back in Paldea,

[00:39:44] I have to go and find this armor dealer or whatever.

[00:39:48] This mythic quest with Lady Beth to get her armor

[00:39:51] so we can finally evolve her.

[00:39:53] Next up is Gregor Samsa.

[00:39:56] He is a beetle man.

[00:39:59] Well, he was a man from Czech Republic, Austria-Hungary.

[00:40:04] Yes.

[00:40:05] And he woke up one day, he was a beetle.

[00:40:07] He came to America after being shunned by his society

[00:40:10] and now is on my crew.

[00:40:13] Also was wondering when Gregor would maybe

[00:40:16] kind of start to take care of himself a little more

[00:40:19] and looked it up.

[00:40:20] And it turns out that you have to walk around

[00:40:23] in let's go mode with Gregor for 1000 steps.

[00:40:30] That's what I had to do with Palmo.

[00:40:32] I don't know how many steps is a thousand steps is.

[00:40:34] It doesn't seem like it would be that many,

[00:40:36] but I've had this literal piece of shit following me around

[00:40:40] for this entire leg and he hasn't evolved yet.

[00:40:42] And he's slow, so he'll keep popping back into my ball

[00:40:45] and then I have to throw him out again.

[00:40:47] Yeah.

[00:40:48] So it's kind of a nightmare.

[00:40:49] I think that makes sense for what he is.

[00:40:52] Should be a nightmare.

[00:40:53] I'm hoping he'll either turn back into a Czech man

[00:40:56] or evolve into whatever the cool beetle is.

[00:40:59] Austro-Hungarian man.

[00:41:01] Sorry, yes.

[00:41:03] He's level 44.

[00:41:05] Jesus.

[00:41:06] Donna Baker has grown up a little bit

[00:41:09] into a meow-scarata, don't like it.

[00:41:12] Too bad, yeah.

[00:41:14] Level 40, sorry Donna.

[00:41:16] I know it's just like, it's not a look I like on you.

[00:41:19] I hate for you to hear it on the podcast, but.

[00:41:21] Well, shouldn't be body shaming.

[00:41:24] It's not the body shaming.

[00:41:26] Her body looks great and that's also,

[00:41:28] I've gone too far the other direction.

[00:41:31] Yeah.

[00:41:33] You can talk about someone's clothes or clothes.

[00:41:36] I guess she probably, is she wearing clothes?

[00:41:38] Probably not.

[00:41:40] She's level 40.

[00:41:42] Margot Pence, Tinkerton.

[00:41:45] No relation to.

[00:41:47] Margot Robbie or Mike Pence, no.

[00:41:49] Nope.

[00:41:50] Total coincidence.

[00:41:51] Yeah.

[00:41:52] Tinkerton level 43, I like Tinkerton.

[00:41:54] Yeah, me too, I'm liking Lady Trish.

[00:41:57] Fun combo, steel.

[00:41:59] Fairy.

[00:42:00] Fairy, I have too many steel types on my team though.

[00:42:03] Donna's car, she traded in the old model

[00:42:07] and upgraded because she was like,

[00:42:09] well if we're doing this, let's get a bigger car.

[00:42:12] So we upgraded to Rever room, level 41

[00:42:15] and it does have more room, which is nice.

[00:42:17] Oh yeah, you could fit the whole crew in there.

[00:42:20] Cup holders, everything, yeah.

[00:42:22] Moonroof.

[00:42:23] And then we sort of did this whole journey together.

[00:42:27] There is a sixth member, but I won't reveal it yet.

[00:42:30] Oh, interesting.

[00:42:32] There was one other person who was involved in this point.

[00:42:34] She's on ice now, her name is Ginny Big Mac.

[00:42:38] Right, the SoundCloud rapper?

[00:42:41] Yeah, she was canceled.

[00:42:44] Yeah, someone found an old SoundCloud rap of hers

[00:42:50] and it was pretty dirty.

[00:42:52] Pretty problematic.

[00:42:53] Really problematic.

[00:42:54] Yeah, you know those things that rhyme with Ginny Big Mac,

[00:42:58] it really goes south quickly.

[00:43:01] She did evolve into a hat trim

[00:43:03] before she was booted from the team,

[00:43:05] but she's gone, Ginny Big Mac's no more.

[00:43:08] She might make a comeback, I don't know,

[00:43:10] maybe she'll kind of like rehab or whatever.

[00:43:12] Right, she has to do a publicity tour to clean her name up.

[00:43:17] That's who I went into this battle with, Kieran,

[00:43:21] on my team.

[00:43:22] Yes, let's talk about the villain arc.

[00:43:25] So, Kieran wants to fight over the love of Ogre Pawn.

[00:43:32] I get it.

[00:43:33] And he did peel off a couple of Don Joey's Mon.

[00:43:38] He's got a shiftry Yanmega, Probopass, Gliscor, Diplon,

[00:43:42] and then the ace, Polywrath.

[00:43:44] But took care of him.

[00:43:46] No problem.

[00:43:47] It's like a really sad way to end this relationship.

[00:43:51] Yeah, I guess so.

[00:43:53] He was kind of turning into a bit of a pill.

[00:43:55] He was pretty emotional, which is fine.

[00:43:57] I'm an emotional guy myself,

[00:43:59] but he's always just running off.

[00:44:01] And it's like, man, you gotta start taking care of yourself.

[00:44:04] Take care of your mental health a little bit, Kieran,

[00:44:06] or else you're going to slip into the dark side.

[00:44:08] In retrospect, we betrayed him first, if you think about it.

[00:44:12] We lied to him.

[00:44:13] Sorry, I was just playing by all the rules set out in front of me.

[00:44:18] I am on this fucking journey.

[00:44:20] I'm slamming A through 45-minute cutscenes.

[00:44:23] I'm not the one making these decisions.

[00:44:25] It's all Carmen and Grandpa.

[00:44:27] And then I get up to the top of the hill,

[00:44:29] and he's like, all right, let's have a battle.

[00:44:31] The winner of the battle will get the opportunity

[00:44:33] to woo Ogrepon.

[00:44:36] Yeah.

[00:44:37] And it's like, okay, I agree to these terms, sir.

[00:44:40] And then I kick his ass.

[00:44:42] He took a few of my Pokemon, not going to lie.

[00:44:45] Yeah, me too.

[00:44:46] But I kick his ass.

[00:44:47] And then I'm like, okay, great.

[00:44:50] Our battle is over.

[00:44:52] The contest is decided.

[00:44:54] I am the champion.

[00:44:55] Please step aside and be a humble,

[00:44:58] dignified loser that you are, Kieran.

[00:45:02] But no, he's like, I'm out of here.

[00:45:05] Fuck you.

[00:45:07] So after we beat Kieran, then we have to fight Ogrepon.

[00:45:10] And Ogrepon is a big Titan Pokemon

[00:45:12] because he's got all his masks.

[00:45:14] Actually, mine is a girl, so I should say her.

[00:45:16] And I would say Ogrepon is a sweetie.

[00:45:19] And the masks are funny.

[00:45:21] It terrestrializes each of the masks,

[00:45:24] and the mask becomes like its whole body.

[00:45:27] And I liked it.

[00:45:28] I actually did catch Ogrepon,

[00:45:30] and that is my sixth member of my team,

[00:45:32] which we'll talk about in a moment.

[00:45:33] The guy hunt is over.

[00:45:34] Guy hunt's over.

[00:45:35] Yep.

[00:45:36] Target acquired.

[00:45:37] Yeah.

[00:45:38] Kieran's pissed.

[00:45:39] He's like, I break up with you.

[00:45:40] I'm out of here.

[00:45:41] He goes back to Musui Town.

[00:45:43] Yeah, he just runs off in the pouring rain.

[00:45:46] And then I get to know my friend, Fiona Eilish,

[00:45:51] a little bit better.

[00:45:52] Is that any relation to Billy Eilish?

[00:45:54] No relation to the famous Ogre Fiona from Shrek

[00:45:58] or Billy Eilish.

[00:45:59] OK.

[00:46:00] Just a coincidence.

[00:46:02] Ogrepon, Fiona Eilish.

[00:46:04] They gave this thing to me at level 20,

[00:46:06] so we got a little work to do.

[00:46:07] It's level 26 now.

[00:46:08] It came with four items.

[00:46:10] And confusingly, they didn't put them

[00:46:12] in the key items section.

[00:46:14] They put them in the candy section.

[00:46:16] Other items.

[00:46:17] Yeah.

[00:46:18] That was strange.

[00:46:19] So I had to go hunting for them.

[00:46:21] But this is my item finder of the week,

[00:46:23] and this is kind of what makes Fiona so fun.

[00:46:28] She's got four masks.

[00:46:29] Her teal mask just makes her straight grass.

[00:46:31] Already got a grass, thanks.

[00:46:32] It's Meowth Skarada is grass star.

[00:46:35] Donna Baker.

[00:46:36] Yep.

[00:46:37] Wellspring mask turns it into grass water.

[00:46:39] That's what I've been using.

[00:46:40] I'm weak on fire and a couple other types.

[00:46:43] So welcome, Wellspring mask.

[00:46:45] And it's beautiful, honestly.

[00:46:46] She looks great.

[00:46:47] She looks like Billy Eilish in the Wellspring mask.

[00:46:49] But there's no relation?

[00:46:50] None.

[00:46:51] No.

[00:46:52] Hearthflame mask is grass fire, which is pretty interesting.

[00:46:55] Yeah.

[00:46:56] And the cornerstone mask is grass rock.

[00:46:59] You know what I'm just noticing?

[00:47:00] I've got a lot of weird double type teams.

[00:47:03] Like Reverum is poison steel.

[00:47:05] Tinkaton is steel fairy.

[00:47:09] Meowth Skarada is fine.

[00:47:11] Grass dark.

[00:47:12] Pretty interesting team getting put together here.

[00:47:16] A lot of coverage.

[00:47:17] Yeah.

[00:47:18] A lot of weaknesses.

[00:47:19] Yeah, I mean, I have to say without having the Duchess,

[00:47:22] while the Duchess is like finding herself,

[00:47:24] it's been a little rough not having a water type.

[00:47:27] Yeah, well, I've got one on my team now.

[00:47:29] Carmine challenges us to one last battle at the loyalty plaza

[00:47:34] because she wants to see Fiona Eilish slash Ogrepon in the flesh.

[00:47:39] You want to fight my level 22 Ogrepon?

[00:47:41] Okay.

[00:47:42] I used the cornerstone mask and Ogrepon died,

[00:47:47] but she got to see it.

[00:47:49] Otherwise, her Ninetales was quite good.

[00:47:52] Her Ninetales was good.

[00:47:53] But you know what?

[00:47:54] I had a fucking water type for it, so I took it out.

[00:47:56] That's what I was saying.

[00:47:57] Where not having the Duchess has been problematic

[00:48:00] because of that Ninetales.

[00:48:01] And then we head back to town and the director is like,

[00:48:04] hey, thanks everyone.

[00:48:06] It sounds like all of you are starting to wrap up.

[00:48:08] Feel free to tour the grounds.

[00:48:10] Like stick around, do whatever you want to.

[00:48:12] And then Kiki or whatever her name is, Lady Briar.

[00:48:16] Miss Briar.

[00:48:17] Miss Briar is like, actually, not you, Esteban.

[00:48:22] You have to head back to the mainland

[00:48:24] because shit's popping off back there.

[00:48:26] And it's like, yeah, I believe it.

[00:48:27] I've been out here a while.

[00:48:28] She recalls Carmine and Kieran to the Blueberry Academy

[00:48:33] to deal with something going on at the Great Crater

[00:48:37] or something.

[00:48:38] We also get a little cut scene where we see the final evolution

[00:48:43] of the villain arc with our ex-boyfriend.

[00:48:46] Ex-boyfriend, yeah.

[00:48:47] Where he's like, I will become so powerful

[00:48:50] that you won't be able to stop me, Don Joey.

[00:48:53] I'll get you.

[00:48:54] Yeah.

[00:48:55] And slicks his hair back.

[00:48:56] It's just, it's going to be a nightmare.

[00:48:59] So we're going to encounter our ex-boyfriend again.

[00:49:01] I should make it clear that Esteban Humano is not dating Ogrepon.

[00:49:06] Oh, OK.

[00:49:07] Yeah, yeah.

[00:49:08] They're just kind of hanging out.

[00:49:09] They fuck, I think, sometimes.

[00:49:10] But I don't, they're just like, it's not like a thing.

[00:49:14] He didn't break up with Kieran to be with Ogrepon.

[00:49:19] Does that make sense?

[00:49:20] Yeah, they're just friends and occasionally friends

[00:49:23] with benefits, it sounds like.

[00:49:27] All right, Joshua, that's it for us.

[00:49:29] We are going to be back in Paldeia next week.

[00:49:32] We're going to wish Ketamine Island a fond farewell

[00:49:36] and hopefully have a smooth come down.

[00:49:39] And then we will be back in Paldeia where we were going

[00:49:42] to take on the final Titan Pokemon

[00:49:47] to finally beef up our Coridon.

[00:49:49] I think we have two left.

[00:49:50] And then the final couple Starbases.

[00:49:52] OK, so that's what we're going to be back next week doing

[00:49:55] and just kind of reacclimate ourselves to Paldeia, you know?

[00:49:58] Yeah, we'll probably have to do some roaming around.

[00:50:01] I'd love to.

[00:50:02] We'll get an update next week on the Gimme Ghoul grab.

[00:50:05] Oh, yes.

[00:50:06] I think that we will battle finally.

[00:50:09] Yes.

[00:50:10] Next week as well.

[00:50:11] Yes.

[00:50:12] Now that my teams are catching up with your,

[00:50:14] my levels are catching up with yours, finally,

[00:50:16] I'm good with that.

[00:50:17] So you'll be taking on the Poison Crew,

[00:50:20] the Fairy Crew, the Quaking Earth Titan

[00:50:25] and the False Dragon type.

[00:50:27] Great.

[00:50:28] Scary.

[00:50:29] Joshua, that's for next week.

[00:50:30] This week we have been Tanky Dory and Fjell Zandipity.

[00:50:35] I should just change my last name to that.

[00:50:38] It's got a nice ring to it.

[00:50:39] Yeah, that's beautiful.

[00:50:40] Yeah.

[00:50:41] It doesn't read well.

[00:50:42] No, it looks very chaotic.

[00:50:44] But I suppose Fjellsted doesn't either.

[00:50:46] No, it's only useful at bars, closing out a tab

[00:50:50] because all that I ever have to say is it's FJ.

[00:50:53] And they're like, got it.

[00:50:54] Nobody else has that one.

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[00:51:35] Joshua, next week we'll be back on Palladaia Island.

[00:51:39] Back in Palladaia.

[00:51:41] So this will be our last time until maybe we come back saying

[00:51:45] what the opposite of Konichiwa is.

[00:51:51] What did you say?

[00:51:54] Kon Bon Wa. That sounds French.

[00:51:55] I don't, I might be saying it wrong.

[00:51:57] I only know it from Terrace House.

[00:52:02] Remember Terrace House?

[00:52:03] No, I don't know what that is.

[00:52:04] I've never even heard of it.

[00:52:06] Okay.

[00:52:07] It was a TV show.

[00:52:09] Okay.

[00:52:10] Any good?

[00:52:11] Yeah, it was like Japanese real world.

[00:52:14] And there was like a little panel that would come on at commercial breaks

[00:52:18] to talk about what we were seeing on, in the house, in the Terrace House.

[00:52:22] And oftentimes at the end of the episode, they would say Kon Bon Wa,

[00:52:25] which I think means goodbye.

[00:52:27] Okay, so Kon Bon Wa, Alola, tip tip bottom of the episode to you.

[00:52:34] Smell you later.