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S1 EP07 | Hello Trainers, and welcome to the wonderful world of Another Pokémon Podcast! In this episode, we hope you brought a Burn Heal because Becs and Galutrad discuss their favorite fire type Pokémon! 
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Creators & Guests

Host
Becca "Becs" Jewell
Dog Mom. Bookworm. Pokémon Master.
Host
Jacob "Galutrad" Taylor
Fluffy haired content creator with golden retriever energy.
Producer
David Geisler

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Galutrad:

Welcome back to another episode of another Pokemon podcast. My name is Gallatrade.

Becs:

And my name is Bex.

Galutrad:

And today, we are going to be talking about our favorite fire type Pokemon.

Becs:

Hiya.

Galutrad:

We have already done this type of episode for grass, but, obviously, now we're doing fire. I bet you can't guess what's gonna come next in the list. Fairy. Yes. Absolutely.

Becs:

The three main types.

Galutrad:

The three main types, fire, grass, and fairy. But before we get started, Bex, how are you doing?

Becs:

I'm doing I'm doing well. I'm doing well. Yeah? Yeah. We've we've had a very we've had a very fun day today.

Becs:

We We have. We got some cooking in that we, or some baking in rather. That's what we don't normally do. We normally do cook dinner together, but we we baked a cake that I hope will

Galutrad:

In our microbake.

Becs:

Yes.

Galutrad:

Sorry.

Becs:

We baked a cake that is not very pretty, but I it look it seems like it's gonna taste very good. So that's good.

Galutrad:

Yeah. I think it'll taste excellent. I mean, it's a it's a banana cream frosting type of cake with actual bananas and vanilla wafers and Yeah. Homemade whipped cream. That That that's kinda where we struggled.

Galutrad:

Everything else looks

Becs:

great, though. I think it'll Honestly it'll be good. I, I had fun yesterday with one of my best friends. We did brunch and book shopping, which I did not need to do, but I did anyway. And then I dusted off all the Wii U today to play some Twilight Princess.

Becs:

That was fun. How have you been?

Galutrad:

I've been good. 1st weekend in my new job, my new role, and I'm I'm really enjoying it. It's been a lot of fun. Good. I've been playing Dragon Quest.

Galutrad:

I've been working through the entirety of the series kind of in preparation for Dragon Quest 12, but I'm not gonna be done by the time Dragon Quest 12 comes out because I'm only on 4.

Becs:

Not with that attitude.

Galutrad:

That's true. That's true. And then I've been kind of shiny hunting in Pokemon a little bit. Oh, okay. Just kinda dabble in in in Back

Becs:

in the Scarlet and Violet

Galutrad:

a little? Yeah. Just a little bit.

Becs:

What you hunting?

Galutrad:

Well, the most recent thing that I was hunting was they did, like, an event on Gimigle Mhmm. And on Watch Roll, I think. It's been a while. I can't actually remember what I've hunted last. I've just gotten so many of them.

Becs:

I don't wanna spoil anything, but there's actually this episode Yeah. Kind of inspired me to go back and maybe shiny hunt something.

Galutrad:

Oh, okay. Well then.

Becs:

So no spoilers. But, yeah, I, I'm I'm excited to I'm excited to get back into playing Pokemon. I've been wanting to play. I just I think I'm so excited for the new legends game

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

To come out.

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

And, like, obviously, we have some games before that, like, echoes of wisdom and that kind of thing, but, like, Pokemon based.

Galutrad:

Yes.

Becs:

I don't wanna go back play Scarlet, but I want a new Pokemon game. But I'm like, I have so much still to do in Scarlet and Violet, so I need to go back and play it.

Galutrad:

Yeah. Like, I haven't I actually I haven't even, like, gone through and caught the new legendaries. I say legendaries. I'm not sure if they're classified as that, but, like, the Entei, Raikou Yeah. Those things.

Galutrad:

I haven't gone and actually done that. Okay. Yeah. So I I have a lot to do in Scarlet and Violet as well. And then I also was playing PicoPark 2, which, is a new game.

Becs:

You said you have fun.

Galutrad:

Yeah. Oh, yeah. PicoPark is a if you've got a if you've got $8 to spend, PicoPark is an excellent fun time game.

Becs:

The money.

Galutrad:

Yeah. And it's it'll have you all yelling at each other and then being crazy and wild.

Becs:

And it is it is a party game.

Galutrad:

It is a it's very much

Becs:

a party game. You can't just pick it up and play it?

Galutrad:

You could, but it wouldn't be nearly as fun.

Becs:

Got it.

Galutrad:

Yeah. Speaking of party game, we're going to get into a little listener feedback party. Do you wanna go ahead and read the first one?

Becs:

Yeah. Of course, I do.

Galutrad:

Okay.

Becs:

So over on x because it's it was for me. It was for the girls.

Galutrad:

It that's true.

Becs:

Over on x, we, I got actually kind of a a a really sweet Yes. Tweet?

Galutrad:

Yeah. I guess. Zeet.

Becs:

Zeet, x x from a user called Sean or she who goes by Shauna Jessica.

Galutrad:

Mhmm. And

Becs:

it says, at another Pokemon pod. I just found your podcast on Audible and finished episode 0. Totally hooked. Atrebellity, my favorite Pokemon is Espeon as well and has to be in my party 100% of the time because you are a person of taste, Shauna. Loved the shout out to Colosseum as well.

Becs:

It's a top tier game and needs to be revived. I I would literally cry if someone revived Colosseum.

Galutrad:

Yeah. It would be and a lot of people who who haven't had the opportunity to play it would finally get to play it.

Becs:

Oh oh, yeah. For sure. Yeah. I would love it if they would do that in Gale of a Gale of darkness.

Galutrad:

I I haven't played it all the way through. I've barely gotten far at all.

Becs:

I have I never beat Colosseum. I know I know how it ends because I've watched, like, playthroughs of

Galutrad:

other people playing them. Speed they speed run it a lot at, like, GDQ.

Becs:

Oh, really?

Galutrad:

Yeah. So

Becs:

Much like Pokemon Stadium, I I found it to be pretty challenging, at least if you're like me and you're trying to, save everyone, every single every single Pokemon.

Galutrad:

So It's it's tough to catch them all in that one. For sure.

Becs:

But, yeah, thank you, Shauna. We we really appreciate the feedback and really love the shout out for sure. And then over on Instagram, a user I'm gonna butcher this. A user lio lieorbach

Galutrad:

I think maybe 92? I think maybe Leorbach.

Becs:

Leorbach, I ninety two.

Galutrad:

We're so sorry if we got that pronunciation wrong.

Becs:

Yes. For sure.

Galutrad:

Please correct us if we if we did.

Becs:

It's liorba c 1992. Mhmm. They said great episode. Shout out from Israel. Such an awesome podcast for Pokemon fans, and he did the the the gratitude emojis too.

Becs:

The gratitude emojis.

Galutrad:

Yeah. I I'm so sorry if we butchered your name, but it's really cool that we have fans all the way out in Israel. We have global fans. Mhmm. Yep.

Galutrad:

That's super exciting to us. We we'd love to hear from all all the different countries that listen. It's it's amazing that there are people out there that listen to this podcast. It makes us super, duper happy.

Becs:

It's very strange knowing that there are people in in 23 countries so far

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

That have tuned in and listened to us.

Galutrad:

It's like we're natural and all.

Becs:

No. I I think it's it's so neat. Like, someone is across the world, like, listening to us.

Galutrad:

It's very cool. But thank you so much for your comment over on Instagram.

Becs:

Yes. Thank you.

Galutrad:

Appreciate the the

Becs:

The feedback.

Galutrad:

The feedback there. Yeah. Yeah.

Becs:

And then over on Apple Podcasts, we got another 5 star review. Did. This one came from Vanover 95. Vanover said, just finished episode 5. I also worked at Hallmark.

Becs:

How cool. Yeah. For those of you that don't know, I did do a a brief stint in retail. And by brief, I mean over a decade. Vanover said, I got a Mario ornament when I worked there.

Becs:

How nice. Anyway, love the podcast. Love you both. Keep up the great content.

Galutrad:

Thank you so much, Vanover. I'd love to know what Mario ornament you have.

Becs:

I bet it's I bet it's, like, the there's just a Mario ornament. There's just Mario, and then there's also, like, a Mario Mario Kart, couple Mario Kart ornaments. Yeah. Do you wanna read the

Galutrad:

the next few? Yeah. I'll read I'll read the the the next few that we have for listener feedback. Another Apple Podcast review. This time, the username

Becs:

star 1. Yeah?

Galutrad:

No. This was a 5 star review. Thank you so much for all the 5 star reviews. This was from the username for this is just a bunch of food emojis. It's like, I think, 2 pizza emojis, some french fries.

Becs:

It was like pizza, pizza, pizza.

Galutrad:

French fry. Fry. Burger, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot. Yeah. Yeah.

Galutrad:

It was a bunch of food emojis. It's a the title of the review is Pokemon yay, and they said, I saw this at the start, and just like AZP, let's make the red heart emoji the and they put the red heart emoji and the the white heart emoji our logo. If someone reads this, please say yes or no.

Becs:

Yes.

Galutrad:

Yes, indeed. PS, I am a Charizard, orange heart emoji, dragon emoji. So I'm assuming Charizard, your favorite Pokemon. Great Pokemon choice there. Charizard is awesome.

Galutrad:

And, yeah, absolutely. Like, we are all for adopting the red and and red and white heart combo, like, to represent, like, a Poke Ball Oh, yeah. Super cute. Fan our little fan emojis, like, how AZP has the green heart emoji.

Becs:

Red heart white heart

Galutrad:

is perfect. That'll that'll be our secret code to know, hey. That guy that person's an AZP or APP fan, another Pokemon podcast fan. Another 5 star review on Apple Podcasts. This time from box story 5680, and they said, I played it when it came out, smiling face with hearts emoji.

Galutrad:

So cute finding the podcast, best one, and the hedgehog are the best. I I'm assuming you mean Shaymin, the little hedgehog Pokemon. Yeah. If you don't

Becs:

Let us know. Let us know.

Galutrad:

But we'd yeah. Shaymin's super cute And, That's

Becs:

only that's only hedgehog Pokemon that comes to mind.

Galutrad:

Yeah. Yeah. As far as I'm aware. And but super cute. Love the green.

Galutrad:

Love how it's, like, blue. I mean, it looks exactly like Sonic whenever it's a shiny.

Becs:

Isn't it isn't shaman doesn't shaman do the whole seasonal thing too, or is just your land?

Galutrad:

It's not a seasonal thing. I I know I kinda get what you're how you might be confusing those. It's not a seasonal thing. There's, like, the shaman I think it's called the grass or maybe the flower form, which is the little hedgehog shaman. Mhmm.

Galutrad:

And then there's the sky form, which looks like like a deer where it, like, becomes a deer and has, like, little, like, winged antlers.

Becs:

Oh, cute.

Galutrad:

It's very cute. Yeah. Yeah. Shaymin Shaymin's a great Pokemon. Thank you so much for the 5 star review box story.

Galutrad:

We really appreciate it. Mhmm. And we're glad that you're enjoying this podcast. Yeah. Do you wanna read the last listener feedback we've got for this episode, or would you like me to?

Becs:

Oh, sure. I can. Comment that we got on Spotify. It was on our it was actually on episode 1 of the season 1, which was our favorite gym leaders episode. And the the user, another Hylian poker nerd, which I love.

Galutrad:

That's perfect. That's great.

Becs:

Definitely the right audience, for sure. Another Hylian poker nerd said, very good. Flannery was cool, but Larry beat a goat.

Galutrad:

Larry do beat a goat.

Becs:

Larry do beat a goat. I I I don't I personally don't feel like Larry is better than Flannery, but Larry is beloved. I mean, everyone well, not everyone, but there's a lot of people

Galutrad:

that really

Becs:

love Larry.

Galutrad:

The Larry picked off big time. He was he was an instant favorite for a lot of people.

Becs:

For sure. For sure.

Galutrad:

But yeah. Thank you so much for the comment over on Spotify. And we know we've been getting a lot of comments on Spotify, like we said earlier just a little bit ago is we love the feedback is flowing in, and we love it so much, guys. Thank you. Thank you.

Galutrad:

Thank you so much. We we do promise we will get to everything on the episodes as soon as we can. We're just working through them as as we can with each episode. So

Becs:

Please please keep submitting feedback. Please keep leaving 5 star reviews on Apple Podcasts and the other of the platforms that you currently get your podcast from.

Galutrad:

Yeah. And and if you don't wanna leave anything there, feel free to reach out to us on socials at another pkmnpod.

Becs:

Or if you wanna directly message us, like like our some of our listener feedback comments did do Yeah. You can message us directly at Gallutrad for you and Rebelety for me on most platforms.

Galutrad:

We love hearing that. We love you getting we especially when y'all tag us as part of the another PKMN pod, like, the the listener feedback that we got this time that's I I am not stressing enough when we

Becs:

Oh, we stop what we're doing. Yeah. Like, we're I like when we got the comment on on x Yeah. I I you know, I literally

Galutrad:

went Yeah.

Becs:

I called you. I was like, I stopped what I was doing. I think I was like I think I was in the middle of doing something, and I was like, yeah, you tried. I got lister feedback. It like, we did.

Galutrad:

Specific.

Becs:

We did, but I I got called out. Called out. I was so I was so I was very pleased Yeah. To to get it. So, yeah, we our hearts are warmed.

Becs:

And speaking of warm

Galutrad:

Speak that's great. That's even that's even better. Oh my god. Terrible. No.

Galutrad:

That's fantastic. I love that.

Becs:

This is going to continue for the rest of the

Galutrad:

There's so many great fire puns.

Becs:

Too many fire puns. No. But speaking of speaking of warm hot fire, let's dive in.

Galutrad:

So just like last time, I'm gonna interrupt a little bit here to share some fun information about fire type Pokemon if you're ready for that.

Becs:

No. Okay. Go ahead.

Galutrad:

So same as grass. Obviously, fire is one of the 3 basic elemental types, grass, water, fire

Becs:

And fairy.

Galutrad:

And fairy apparently as well. Fire types are notoriously rare in the early stages of the game. So choosing fire the fire variation starter is often a good idea if you are into fire starters like I am. I've actually only we were talking about this while we were, like, writing this episode, and I have only ever picked not the fire starter. That was a weird way to say that.

Galutrad:

But I've I've picked the fire starter 7 out of 9 times, and you've picked fire 4 times at least. Right?

Becs:

About half. Yeah. So I've done I I counted it because we were talking we went we got into a deep conversation about starters and middle evolutions and all kinds of stuff. And I I have picked grass 4 times. I have picked fire 4 times, and water, for some reason, is what I have picked the least.

Galutrad:

Even though you love water types.

Becs:

I do. And I would be, like, if I I think if I was a I mean, let's pretend like Espeon doesn't exist for a second. Just looking at, like, the types and, like, the the vibe, I think a water type trainer

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

I think you do. If I had to limit myself in that way versus, like, being, like, ash and having multiples, that's what I think I would be. So it's shocking, but I'm just I'm I have been more drawn to the starters

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

Of those types. Yeah. Yeah.

Galutrad:

Fire is strong against grass, ice, bug, and steel, and it is weak when attacking to fire, obviously, water, obviously, rock, and dragon. It's strong defensively against fire, grass, ice, bug, steel, and fairy. So there's that fairy type again. Okay. And then it's weak defensively against water, ground, and rock.

Galutrad:

Generations 1 through 3 didn't have the special and, physical attack split. So all fire moves were considered special attacks rather than sometimes being special or physical. There are a lot of fire type users that have a high physical attack stat and a low special attack stat, so they were not very good because of that split. There are 97 fire type Pokemon in total, 37 of which are just pure fire types.

Becs:

Can I can I just say it felt like 97 out of a1000?

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

I was like when I got done I think I told you this for perspective. When we did the grass type episode, I I narrowed it down to all the grass types I liked, and I had 30. And I was like, oh, cute. I have to narrow this down to 5. Mhmm.

Becs:

I'm gonna have 20 honorable mentions, and I and I basically did.

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

I basically had, like, 12 honorable mentions. I narrowed it down quite a bit. Yeah. For fire, I my list was, like, 12 Yeah. Of just ones I I felt, like, needed to be in the running.

Becs:

That was not that hard to narrow down. It was just it's just interesting. That's all. It's it's just the the difference between the

Galutrad:

2. It is interesting. Notably, Sinnoh is the, like, the the poster child for this problem because I believe there are only up until platinum version, I think, in diamond and pearl. I'm pretty sure it's just your fire choices are Chimchar and its line and Ponyta and Rapidash.

Becs:

Isn't black and white pretty bad too? Like, don't can't you just have your your fire starter or your or your fire monkey?

Galutrad:

I'm not a 100% sure, but that does seem like it's probably pretty similar. Yeah. I just know that Sinnoh's, like, the poster child for the bad fire types options.

Becs:

I feel like sun and moon opened it back up Yeah. Quite a bit. I think

Galutrad:

Once we once we gotten to

Becs:

Canto had that many, though, either. Well Or maybe I'm wrong because there's only a 150.

Galutrad:

Yeah. There's only a 150 in in in in Canto region. So, yeah, 37 of them, 37 of them are singular fire types, making the remaining 60 dual fire types, and then there are 49 fire type moves. So they don't have a they have a pretty limited move pool.

Becs:

And some of them are not great. No. Like Yeah. When when they are great, they're they're great. But, like, it's like it's kinda like I guess, electric is probably like this

Galutrad:

Mhmm.

Becs:

Where if they're if they're powerful, the accuracy is not very good. Is that right?

Galutrad:

Is that correct? That's usually pretty I think I think most moves are if they're, like, really, really strong, but there are a lot of fire type moves that rely on either low accuracy or on hurting yourself or I

Becs:

just remember, like like, when I was playing Pokemon as a kid, like, I would, like, I would teach, like, 9 tails or or or arcanine fire spin.

Galutrad:

Yeah. And I'd

Becs:

be like, oh, my gosh. Fire spin. That sounds great. And it would use it. And it was like, okay.

Becs:

It does burn you. Like, you could

Galutrad:

get burned and it would

Becs:

be trapped. Yeah. But it's like minimal. Even even type advantage. Mhmm.

Becs:

And I'm like, oh, this is

Galutrad:

not great.

Becs:

But then you get, like, fire blast or something. I feel like it's better.

Galutrad:

Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of burn, fire types. So I mentioned this in the grass episode that, like, grass types are immune to spore type moves. Fire types are they cannot be burned, obviously.

Galutrad:

That makes a lot of sense. Which burn when you do get burned, that reduces that cuts your attack stat in half, just flat in half. So a really great move to hit with your hit your opponents with. Mhmm. Fire type attacks increase by 50% during harsh sunlight, so moves like sunny day, which means, of course, they also decrease by 50% during rainy conditions, so move like rain dance.

Galutrad:

And then, funnily enough, it's interesting that you had kinda brought up, electric because so fire types also have a move called called burn up which causes the user to lose their fire type making them a typeless Pokemon if they are pure fire. I know, this is weird. Right? So it's a very small list, but it's a it's a kind of a, interestingly prestigious list of Pokemon. So Growlithe, Arcanine, Cyndaquil, Quilava, Typhlosion, and Tepig are part of the rare group of Pokemon that can straight up become typeless Pokemon.

Galutrad:

They So you don't even come in

Becs:

normal? They're just typeless?

Galutrad:

No type at all.

Becs:

Oh, weird.

Galutrad:

When a Pokemon is type less, it deals regular damage to every other type, and it receives regular damage from every other type.

Becs:

So those are so those are the only just not dual typing?

Galutrad:

Not dual typing

Becs:

Oh, that's interesting. Burn up. Okay.

Galutrad:

Because the list of fire Pokemon that can use burn up is also a pretty small list as well. Now there are a couple caveats to that. Ho oh and Moltres can use burn up, and but they do they're flying as well. However, technically, when a flying type Pokemon uses the move roost, they lose their flying type. So if you have a Ho oh or a Moltres that burns up and gets rid of its fire type and then uses roost, it loses its flying type, and then it becomes typeless.

Becs:

So as someone who who felt like part of your info was Greek because I don't know competitive Pokemon Sure. And and probably won't ever really get it, just because that's not something that I'm entitled to. What would be the goal? Like, why would someone want to be typeless?

Galutrad:

Yeah. So a typeless Pokemon would have an advantage if so say you only if it was you and me battling and you had Blastoise and I had a Entei or not Entei. Sorry. 1 of the ones that can use burn up, obviously, Blastoise is gonna do deal double damage to fire type Pokemon because water be normal damage. Be normal damage.

Galutrad:

And then but yeah. So I would I would put myself in a better defensive position.

Becs:

But if you turn around and you used fire blast after becoming typeless on blast flash.

Galutrad:

Regain your you just stay typeless.

Becs:

Okay.

Galutrad:

Yeah. You do not regain burn up

Becs:

No. No. No. Would it would it be would it still be not effective hitting blast as a fire move if you're not a fire type

Galutrad:

Pokemon anymore? The move itself is still a fire type.

Becs:

Right.

Galutrad:

Right. Right. So it would still it would still do

Becs:

Okay. Yeah. So it's a good defensive move, but it's not necessarily it's not necessarily a good move. Yes. Okay.

Galutrad:

Yeah. Okay. I'm picking up my And then electric, the only other Pokemon that can achieve this typeless stat is Pawmott from Scarlet and Violet. Its signature move is called double shock, which makes it typeless. It gets rid of its electric static electric type, and then that's all it is.

Galutrad:

At least, Palmot, the evolved evolution, I think is electric fighting, I believe.

Becs:

Yeah. It gets a fighting

Galutrad:

in there. Yeah. So then it can't anymore. But Palmot can become typeless. Hey, Pokemon trainers.

Galutrad:

A quick editor's note here. Palomont is the electric fighting, and it actually cannot become typeless. It has it will always be electric fighting, and so, therefore, it will become just a fighting type Pokemon. So that's actually kind of, unique

Becs:

That is interesting. Fire. Yeah. I had no I did not know that was a thing.

Galutrad:

Yeah. I and I've always wondered why, kinda similar to you, when I first saw it in a game, I was like, what is the point of this? Yeah. What is

Becs:

the point of this?

Galutrad:

Yeah. What is the point of this? Yeah. What is the point of this? But then Yeah.

Galutrad:

You know, and it's it's very situational, but it could be it could mean the difference between winning and losing.

Becs:

I don't think I realized because I because I have had a flying Pokemon that's known roost.

Galutrad:

Yeah. I don't think

Becs:

I realized that that got rid of your flying type.

Galutrad:

It does. Which is why And

Becs:

it's just for the battle.

Galutrad:

It's just for that one turn for roost. So, technically, roost gets rid of your flying typing for one turn. Burn up gets rid of the fire typing for the entirety of the battle. So roost does work a little bit differently, which is why Ho'o and Moltres aren't considered fully typeless like the others ones are, but they can, for one turn, be typeless. And that's also why we'll talk about this more in the flying type favorite episode, but flying is immune to ground type moves unless you use roost Okay.

Galutrad:

Because then you're not flying anymore. Yeah. Notable fire type trainers. Of course, there's Blaine from the Cinnabar Island. Flannery.

Galutrad:

My girl, Flannery. Girl. We've got Flint who's

Becs:

in the elite 4 on generation 4. That's

Galutrad:

diamond pearl platinum. Chili, one of the

Becs:

I like chili.

Galutrad:

Yep. Black and white gym leaders, the chefs. There's Malva, who's the elite 4 for generation 6. That's x and y.

Becs:

It just occurred to me, I knew Chili immediately because I always I've been pick I picked Snivy. Yeah. So it's this one This is

Galutrad:

the person.

Becs:

Yep. Yep. Okay. That makes sense.

Galutrad:

Yeah. Because you didn't know I forget his name now, but you didn't know when I said his name the chef's name for the grass type.

Becs:

I was like, who's that?

Galutrad:

Yeah. Exactly. There's, I I hopefully, I'm gonna pronounce this right. I think it's Kiawe, who is a trial captain in generation 7 with sun and moon. Kabu, my personal favorite, fire type gym leader from Motostoke gym in generation 8.

Galutrad:

That's, sword and shield. And then Mala, who is a team star boss in Scarlet and Violet. With her fire truck. And a fire truck. And she's got those crazy boots too, which are, like, insane.

Galutrad:

They're great.

Becs:

Star people.

Galutrad:

They're pretty good. Yeah.

Becs:

I like them.

Galutrad:

Yeah. But now that's all I've got. Do you have any

Becs:

general fire book?

Galutrad:

Yep. General fire book.

Becs:

That's not my forte. No. I just I'm excited to I'm just excited to once again see what your, what your favorites are and and talk about a little bit of my favorites and then just talk about some some honorable mentions. I just I'll I'll these are these are the type of podcasts that are they're easy to research, right, because they are opinion Yeah. Based.

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

But I very much enjoy okay. I know I love this Pokemon, but I can't just say, I love them. Next. Like, I like to I like to dive into

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

The choices I've made and, like, share some info about them too.

Galutrad:

And I

Becs:

think you're gonna be proud of me because I I I got a little bit more research y Oh. In this one than I did in the grass one.

Galutrad:

I'm excited to hear it.

Becs:

I'm not saying that helped my choices, but it it I did want to bring a little bit a little bit more

Galutrad:

to

Becs:

the conversation than what I did last time, which was I like this. It's cute. Next.

Galutrad:

That's always that's a good enough reason, honestly.

Becs:

Gonna be in there. I like this. It's cute, and or I like this. It's very cool.

Galutrad:

For me, grass type was it's kind of the opposite because grass, I, like, knew immediately. These are the ones that I'm gonna choose.

Becs:

Same.

Galutrad:

But but fire, I was like, oh, I I mean, I don't know. I feel like maybe if you ask me on a different week.

Becs:

A couple of

Galutrad:

them. Might change some of my answers.

Becs:

Yeah.

Galutrad:

But I'm I'm I'm very positive about my number one.

Becs:

Okay.

Galutrad:

And then I know there's one of them that's in there, maybe even 2 of them that probably will always be in the top, like, 5. Yeah. But I don't know if their positioning is exactly where I would always keep it.

Becs:

I think I hyped up a Pokemon, but when I was making my list, I said, this is not my number one. Yeah. It's not, and it's not going to be.

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

My number one is where my heart is. So I I did I kind of the same thing. I knew knew a couple of them for sure, and then I was, like, you know, I looked through every fire type Pokemon that ever existed, which wasn't that many

Galutrad:

No.

Becs:

But it was still a a list, and I was like, yeah. Okay. Grab a couple of those. Yeah. I'm excited.

Galutrad:

Very excited. What's your

Becs:

Oh, you want me to go first?

Galutrad:

Yeah. Why don't you go first?

Becs:

Well okay. I'm so excited. Okay. My number 5

Galutrad:

Uh-huh.

Becs:

Favorite fire type Pokemon is Volcarona.

Galutrad:

Volcarona? Yeah. Really?

Becs:

Yeah. I Wow. If you had if we had done this list before I played Scarlet and Violet and had Volcarona on my team, I'm not sure that they would be. Yeah. But I have gotten very attached.

Becs:

Yeah. So first of all, just look at it.

Galutrad:

It's it's a really pretty Pokemon.

Becs:

It is it is a it's just cool. It's a cool Pokemon. Yeah. It it just looks like it will eat you. You know what I mean?

Becs:

Like, it is very neat. It looks it's strong. It's it may be one of the only ones like that for me that I'm that I gravitate towards.

Galutrad:

Mhmm.

Becs:

And it's kinda like like I gravitate towards Metang. Makes no sense for me.

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

But I like that. I there's some Pokemon like that that I like having on my team.

Galutrad:

Almost like you you kinda want to have, like, a a tank Like a tank. Type Pokemon on your team.

Becs:

Or is it like I'm doing a D and D playthrough, but a Pokemon. Yeah. Yeah. No. I just it's it's very cool.

Becs:

Some of the things that I that I pulled together for this were something that I feel like is very challenging for a lot of people. It doesn't evolve into level 59. Yeah. That was tough. And it and I don't it's not that it's not a good Pokemon

Galutrad:

until it

Becs:

evolves, but it is not as good as when it evolves. I think it's worth the wait. So like, when you have when you have Larvesta, you literally have to have Larvesta on your team until it gets level 59. Yeah. And I I don't I don't like I know there's much easier ways now to level Pokemon up than there were before, and I have done that in a pinch.

Becs:

But I really just like to organically, like, just do what I always do, just train and grind. That's tough when you're trying to get a Pokemon to level 59 to evolve.

Galutrad:

Yeah. It's also incredibly backwards for bug type Pokemon. Their whole shtick is that they evolve real fast, are strong in early game, and Wurmple. Yeah.

Becs:

Yeah. Totally.

Galutrad:

And then they're then they're basically irrelevant

Becs:

They're done.

Galutrad:

As far as, like, power goes for your team. But, yeah, Volcarona evolving or Largvesta evolving that late is impressive Yeah. And the having the the desire to level it up to get to that.

Becs:

I also said I I I wanna recognize I think that iron moth, specifically, I I don't I don't really like the the ancient. Yeah. It's kinda weird. It, like, becomes a caterpillar type

Galutrad:

of thing. Kinda back into it. Yeah. I think Which

Becs:

makes sense for ancient,

Galutrad:

I guess.

Becs:

I think iron moth looks really cool Yeah. But I just I prefer Volcarina. I prefer, like, the the normal the normal version. I've always been drawn to moths and butterflies too. I just wanted to say that.

Becs:

I think that that's part of the reason why I was, like, drawn to it. Because how cool is that? Like, you always think moth to a flame. It is a flame. Yeah.

Becs:

I this is the one. This is the spoiler that I was talking about earlier. I really want to shiny hunt it. I found out the shiny version has golden wings.

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

It literally looks like, together, they look like, like, autumn leaves. They're it's so pretty. So I think I might

Galutrad:

You should.

Becs:

Have to go shiny hunt a a larvesta.

Galutrad:

Yeah. And

Becs:

then my little fact for you that I think you'll appreciate. According to the Pokedex, it's considered the embodiment of the sun, and it's actually a danger to others not because of its heat that it puts off, because it robs the surrounding air of oxygen. That's why.

Galutrad:

That's intense.

Becs:

I know. It's not gonna hurt you because because you're it's you're gonna burn because it's too hot to touch. I mean, it is. It's gonna burn you because you're gonna not be able to breathe.

Galutrad:

Yeah. Yeah.

Becs:

Or it's gonna it's gonna hurt you because you're not gonna be able to breathe around it. Ain't that crazy?

Galutrad:

That is nuts. Imagine if how So I

Becs:

could not have had that on my

Galutrad:

team No. For life. Yeah. Imagine how different Pokemon would be if the Pokemon, like, power level was dictated by their Pokedex entries.

Becs:

Oh, yeah. For sure.

Galutrad:

There were the the best Pokemon would be such a different list.

Becs:

It would be well, and it even talked about I didn't I don't know why I didn't put it on here, but it even talked about, like, ancient ancient people feared

Galutrad:

Yeah. Velcarona.

Becs:

Yeah. They were afraid of it.

Galutrad:

There's one of my favorite instances of Volcarona is in the new Pokemon Snap. Mhmm. It's, it's one of the boss Pokemon itself.

Becs:

Okay. I haven't gotten to that yet.

Galutrad:

Oh, I'm sorry.

Becs:

No. It's okay.

Galutrad:

Okay. Wait.

Becs:

But it's We're gonna play through it, like I said, anyway.

Galutrad:

It's it's really pretty to watch or to, like, see

Becs:

in that

Galutrad:

game, though. But then also something interesting, and I I didn't mention this in my run up of fire Pokemon, but Volcarona along with Talonflame, and I think there might be another one, but I can't remember, have a unique ability called flame body

Becs:

Okay.

Galutrad:

Which I don't remember what it does in battle. That's not important.

Becs:

Make you burn? Doesn't it when you touch

Galutrad:

It might be contact, it makes you burn. What's more important is that if you are hatching eggs in Pokemon and you have a Pokemon with flame body on your team, specifically on the first, it makes the eggs hatch for

Becs:

you. Ask that. That's cool. Yeah. That's good to know.

Becs:

I wonder if I wonder if because I've had Volcar on my team so much, and I've been doing breeding and stuff. I wonder if it, like, has been doing it. I just haven't noticed.

Galutrad:

Yeah. Definitely. I prefer Volcarona over Talon flame for for that use. I'm just saying for that use. Yeah.

Galutrad:

Like, I like Volcarona for flame body versus Talon flame for flame body. But, yeah, that's a that's that's I would not

Becs:

have 5. Right?

Galutrad:

Solid 5.

Becs:

It goes downhill from here.

Galutrad:

Well, it should go uphill.

Becs:

It's a it it is going to go uphill for me.

Galutrad:

In a basic way.

Becs:

In a basic way. What's your number 5? What's your least favorite, most favorite?

Galutrad:

Yeah. So my number 5 fire type Pokemon is and this is this is recently due to what I've been watching, but it's actually Fuecoco.

Becs:

Fuecoco. Yeah. There you go, Shelby, if you're listening.

Galutrad:

Fuecoco is national dex number 909. It is the fire crock Pokemon, obviously, from Scarlet and Violet. It has a base power of 310, pretty standard for a a baby Pokemon. Mhmm. It levels up to Crocolore at level 16, and then finally, Skeleturge at level 36.

Galutrad:

Pokedex Sentries, it lies on warm rocks and uses the heat absorbed by its square shaped scales to create fire energy.

Becs:

Oh, cute.

Galutrad:

Its flame sack is small, so energy is always leaking out. The energy is released from a dent atop Fuecoco's head and flickers to and fro. So his little, like, hair is actually just his fire energy that he can't control. Oh. And

Becs:

it's just leaking out. But more importantly leak, but other than that, it's cute.

Galutrad:

More importantly, in Pokemon Horizons, which I've caught up completely on, which is available on Netflix. Fuecoco is is Roy's partner, and he sings. Yeah. He likes to sing. Sing.

Galutrad:

And Roy, they have, like, this really cute, like, anytime they have to get, like, really fired up, Roy's like, go go Fuecoco. And it it's a it's a silly song. Right? But it he's just so happy. It is, like, dancing around.

Galutrad:

I've really come to love Fuecoco as far because of that. Because he's just such a goof. He loves to eat, falls asleep all the time. Yeah. Fuecoco

Becs:

could restart, Scarlet Violet. Would you pick Fuecoco?

Galutrad:

I would. We talked about this a lot. So other than gen 4 where chat chose for me, they chose Turtwig. I've always picked fire type Pokemon. I picked Quaxly because I love Quaxly as far as, like, his, like, look and stuff, his style.

Becs:

Yeah.

Galutrad:

I do not care for his evolutions at all.

Becs:

Which is what sparked the we, like, dove into every final evolution of every

Galutrad:

star of the mind.

Becs:

Just to, like, just to kinda Just to kinda look at them all.

Galutrad:

Yeah. And,

Becs:

And the

Galutrad:

cursed middle. I like Skeleturge. I don't like Crocolore a whole lot. He's kinda but most of the middle stages are awkward.

Becs:

Bad. Yeah.

Galutrad:

I really like Skeleturge a lot, and so I wish I I what I my exact words to you were the next Pokemon game. If I don't choose the fire starter, remind me that if I choose a different starter because of its cute for basic form, I need to not risk it and just let it stay at that form because I really regretted letting Quaxly evolve.

Becs:

Well, you could always with the way that, like, the way that it's opened up to trading, like, because of the Internet

Galutrad:

Yeah. And the switch

Becs:

capabilities, you could always get a Fuecoco and just kick Quaxly's final to the curb. Yeah. Use it as a Pokedex entry. Move on.

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

But yeah. No. I I think that's a good that's a solid choice.

Galutrad:

Thank you. Yeah.

Becs:

It makes sense

Galutrad:

for you. I don't know. I think everyone I feel like everyone did. Maybe it was just me. A 100% thought that the square on his chest was a cheese square.

Galutrad:

It's I just makes me think of a Kraft Singles Mac and Cheese.

Becs:

You're alone. I guess, you know, tweet us or whatever and let us know if you also thought it was a cheese square. I personally

Galutrad:

did not

Becs:

Never thought of that.

Galutrad:

Like a cheese square, but

Becs:

it very much So you would think

Galutrad:

very much looks like a Kraft singles

Becs:

Oh, yeah.

Galutrad:

Cheese square. But yeah. So what's what's your number 4?

Becs:

My number 4 is also very cool.

Galutrad:

And Yeah.

Becs:

And then I guess it goes downhill a little bit. Because I I I I told you I played around with the order because I was, like, really thinking about what does my heart say. Yeah. And that was and it was apparently not this. But it's it's still it was the hype the hype is still strong even though it is not a new Pokemon anymore.

Becs:

But when it when I saw it, you'll understand why. Because it was, like, with the other with the other forms that were there, I was, like, okay. This is cool. This is cool. It's cool.

Becs:

Then I saw this, and I was, like, that's cool. My number 4 choice is Alolan Marowak.

Galutrad:

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Alolan Marowak is sick.

Becs:

Very cool. I love ghosty

Galutrad:

Yeah. Vibes. Yes, you do.

Becs:

And I really like ghost with fire typing.

Galutrad:

Yeah. It's a solid it's a solid connection.

Becs:

Keep that in mind. Truly. I felt like when I was when you know, because they when they released Sun and Moon, they put out a ton of content prior.

Galutrad:

Yes.

Becs:

Like, hyping up. It's the first time we've ever done different different types of Pokemon for the region. Yeah. And we've got all these Alolan versions of all these Pokemon. And, like, some of them were some of them were solid.

Becs:

Some of them were good. Some of them were complete clunkers, and I was just like

Galutrad:

Shout out to the Geodude line.

Becs:

Shout out to the Geodude line. Shout out to the Doug Diglett line.

Galutrad:

Diglett line is also very fun.

Becs:

Shout out to the giraffe executor.

Galutrad:

Yeah. I will say, though, I love that golem gets like a rail cannon on his back. I basically

Becs:

I I appreciate the ice forms.

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

And I, unlike you, I love Alolan Raichu, and I love, love, love Alolan Marowak, and that is it. Yeah. I don't I don't really care for any of others. But I've always really liked Marowak anyway, and I credit it truly to the Lavender Town story. The first time I ever cried Ever.

Becs:

Yeah. Ever. The first time I ever cried playing a video game

Galutrad:

Mhmm.

Becs:

Was playing Let's Go Pikachu

Galutrad:

Really?

Becs:

In Lavender Town. Never cried before during a video game. Never been moved.

Galutrad:

Opened the waterworks.

Becs:

Oh, it it must have because now I cry all the time over video

Galutrad:

games. Yeah.

Becs:

I don't know if I was wasn't playing the right video games. Maybe. But that was the first time I've cried over video game that I that I can think of anyway. And I've always been attached to it, but this just, like, this just amplified it. This made it this made it not only is it a is vengeful, it now vengeful with fire Yeah.

Becs:

And ghostiness.

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

And then just for you, I've looked at looked at the little pokedexiness about it. So it says, this is kinda terrifying a little bit, but it's but I really like it. Pokedex says that the bones it possesses belong to its mother.

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

And now it's carrying her vengeance and burdens. Oh. So it's like it's almost like it added fuel to the fire.

Galutrad:

Yeah. Get it? Yeah.

Becs:

Fuel to the fire? Yeah. It really it, like like, it was already a more of a a vengeance focused Pokemon, and now it really now it really is. And they can kick some major butt now.

Galutrad:

Isn't the fire green on it as well?

Becs:

Yeah. Yeah. And I didn't I I I didn't know if I liked shiny or not in the things. I don't the shiny is okay. I don't really care for it, but the but it is a if I could if you if you said, would you choose MerriWack, or would you choose a little MerriWack?

Becs:

I would

Galutrad:

use a little Marowak. Yeah. Yeah. I I'm a sucker for non red fire.

Becs:

That's true. Like, the mega evolution Charizard, the black and blue one.

Galutrad:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And not that white one. No.

Galutrad:

No. They're, like, pterodactyl one. No. Yeah. Just any time in in a video game or just in general, in any type of video.

Becs:

Blue flames.

Galutrad:

Blue flames, green flames, purple flames. Yeah. Yeah. I'm I'm a sucker for non red fire.

Becs:

I like it too.

Galutrad:

So that's a great pick. I I another one that I a 100% would not have thought for you.

Becs:

The aesthetic of it really fits

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

Into my, like, wheelhouse of things I enjoy. Like, I like all the creepy Pokemon. I like I like the phantoms and the Gengars and the the even the cute creepies like the what's a punkaboo?

Galutrad:

Punkaboo with gothatone. Yeah. Yeah.

Becs:

All of those. I like all of those, like, little witchy vibey Yeah. Pokemon. So I think it's cute. It

Galutrad:

is cute.

Becs:

That's very cool.

Galutrad:

That is very well, no. It's very hot.

Becs:

Alright. What's your number 4?

Galutrad:

Yeah. My so my number 4 my number 4 has is one of the ones that I think is probably always gonna be somewhere in my top 5.

Becs:

Okay.

Galutrad:

It's a little basic of me.

Becs:

Oh, you're coming to

Galutrad:

my side? Yeah. Yeah. So my number 4 is Ninetales. Cute.

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

I love Ninetales.

Galutrad:

I do too. Cute. National number 38, the fox Pokemon, obviously, from red, blue, and yellow, one of the original 151. Mhmm. Has a has a base power of 505.

Galutrad:

Ball's from Vulpix with a Firestone. Nine tails has always been one of those that is just like I think it I honestly think it probably start well, no. So a little backstory about me. My family goes back where we have a a last name of Fox. Mhmm.

Galutrad:

And so I've always like, I think because of that, I've always been fascinated by foxes in general.

Becs:

They're very cool.

Galutrad:

I think more so Majora's mask. Alright. And maybe a little bit Ocarina of Time, but it wasn't nearly as important in Ocarina of Time. But kitsune mask Mhmm. Made me, like, just really love not as much as otters, but I still like I really appreciate and love foxes, especially, like, mystical foxes like a kitsune, which is very much exactly what nine tails is.

Becs:

Top 5 normal world animals. Yeah.

Galutrad:

Otter, fox. So, yeah. I it just she's very elegant, very pristine.

Becs:

Yes. Looks She is the floof.

Galutrad:

Looks like she's out of, like, a Studio Ghibli movie. There's specifically, I'm thinking of Princess Mononoke and, like, the spirit in the forest, the spirit of the forest. And and I could easily see, like, travelers coming up on a nine tails and, like, stopping out of panic, and it just kinda looks at them and judges them and then walks away gracefully.

Becs:

Or like kinda like in in Yoshi.

Galutrad:

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And same exact same exact kinda concept too. Yeah.

Galutrad:

And oh my god. And the 9 tails shiny, all silvery. Oh, it's so gorgeous.

Becs:

It is pretty.

Galutrad:

Some Pokedex entries about 9 tails, very smart and very vengeful. Mhmm. Grabbing one of its many tails could result in a 1000 year curse. Legends has it that 9 tails came into being when 9 wizards possessing sacred powers merged into 1. So another weird entry about, like yeah.

Galutrad:

There's there's a couple entries that it's a human that became a Pokemon. Kadabra, I think, mentions, like, a kid with mystical energy just woke up one day and was a Kadabra.

Becs:

It's giving, like, like, Skull Kid

Galutrad:

a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. The Pokemon is so intelligent that it can understand human speech, and its coat is of this I really love this entry. This is from, legends Arceus.

Galutrad:

The coat of gleaming golden fur is quite magnificent. This species is said to store sacred power in its 9 long tails and live for a millennium.

Becs:

Okay. Yeah. I love that.

Galutrad:

I love that.

Becs:

Very cute.

Galutrad:

Yeah. Just super super elegant. Big fan. Big fan of 9 tails. But yeah.

Galutrad:

So that's that's my number 4.

Becs:

I I I 9 tails is great. I I feel like of the two lines, this is this I I don't think this is gonna be a victory bell oddish situation like it was last time. Of the two lines, I feel like Ninetales and Vulpix, I prefer over Growlithe and Arcanine, and I don't dislike either one. It's not a I did not really care for victory bell last time.

Galutrad:

Yeah. Yeah.

Becs:

But I think that they're both think they're both really good strong lines for being the gen one.

Galutrad:

Fire. There's also I mean, honestly so there's rapidash and ponytail in that as well.

Becs:

Oh, yeah.

Galutrad:

Oh my gosh. Of course. All all three of those lines are fantastic. They're strong. They're really yeah.

Galutrad:

And they they make perfect sense as far as, like, how they evolve. I don't

Becs:

get the horses.

Galutrad:

It's okay. Losing my mind. It happens. Yeah. Yeah.

Galutrad:

Really, really, really good ones.

Becs:

Yeah. Good choice.

Galutrad:

Thank you. What is your number 3?

Becs:

Yeah. We do you wanna do a number threes and then go to break after that?

Galutrad:

Yeah. Let's go go to break after number 3.

Becs:

My number 3

Galutrad:

Okay.

Becs:

Is Is? I'm so excited. I love this Pokemon so much. Yeah. This is very hard for me.

Becs:

Torchic. Oh. The baby starter from generation 3. Yeah. I precious baby chicken.

Becs:

I had so as you as you know, as I I think I've said on this show, actually, I had all 3 gen 3 games at one point.

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

I had Emerald Sapphire Ruby, but my first one was Ruby

Galutrad:

Mhmm.

Becs:

And the first gen starter I picked was Torchic. I I was like, yes. Give me that cute fire cheeky right now. Yeah. So the shiny, the shiny one is also cute.

Becs:

I did make a note of that. It's just it's basically just reverse coloring. Yeah. You know it's it's like dark orange with yellow. It's yellow with dark orange.

Becs:

Yeah. It's very cute. Yeah. I will say I had some influence, I think, in picking this as my favorite is part of my favorites from the anime. I loved Mei and Torchic's relationship.

Becs:

Mei, for those of you that haven't watched, Mei was the girl protagonist that ran along with Ash after Misty departed.

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

And she was not she was very green Pokemon trainer. Very new to it. Very unsure of herself. Very unsure of what to do. Got Torchic.

Becs:

Torchic basically ran all over her at first just like like you do. Pikachu did it

Galutrad:

With ash.

Becs:

With ash. And she was like, can't you just can't can't you just peck them or something? And she but she Torchic's like, what do you want me to do? Like, what are we doing? But I really liked I liked their relationship, and I was like Mei is one of my favorites any one of my favorite anime characters in Pokemon, anyway.

Becs:

So I really liked that. And what a great payoff Yeah. Towards the end.

Galutrad:

Oh, yeah.

Becs:

Blaziken is a powerhouse.

Galutrad:

Arguably the best. I think there you can make an argument for Marstomp or I'm sorry, Swampert. Yeah. But Blaziken is so good.

Becs:

I've I really I do really enjoy all 3 starters, which is why I ended up picking the other 2. Like, I literally matched it up. Like, Sapphire had Mudkip. Emerald, I had Trico.

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

I really like all 3, but there's no denying that Blaziken is just just and it and and for those of you that are upset like I am that every fire starter has become a firefighting type and stands on its two legs and blah blah blah. Blaziken was the first one to do it. Okay? Like, I know Quilava's stands up.

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

Or what's the Typhlosion stands up. Like, and and Charizard's already standing. Like, I know I know that. But, like, the fighting the fighting specifically,

Galutrad:

fighting, fighting. Firefighting.

Becs:

Has been done too many times. Pokemon, if you're listening, stop doing it. But Blaziken was the OG. You can't be mad at him.

Galutrad:

No. Yeah.

Becs:

He was there first. Yeah. You know? But I love Blaziken. And then, my little fun fact for you Yeah.

Becs:

Started with, can I pet that dog? Can you pet the dog in Pokemon? Can you pet the Pokemon in Pokemon? Because Torchic has a warm sack in its belly, and it continuously burns, which causes Torchic to feel warm when it's hugged. Oh.

Becs:

That's so cute. The best. This is literally I want to hug the nugget.

Galutrad:

You wanna hug the nugget?

Becs:

She's so cute. Yeah. I know it's I know that was basic, but I No. I I she's so cute.

Galutrad:

She's very cute. Did you did you know that Torchic has an interesting so you know how there's, like, gender differences?

Becs:

Yes.

Galutrad:

So, like, Pikachu explaining this for not for you, the people for the people listening, you might not know.

Becs:

Oh, the physical differences.

Galutrad:

Yeah. Gender, physical there's certain Pokemon will have physical differences to the way they look if they are male or female.

Becs:

Mhmm.

Galutrad:

Pikachu, for instance, will have a lightning bolt shaped tail if it is a male, and will have at the end will end with, like, kinda like it looks like the top of a heart. It's very cute. Torchic, much like with just regular chickens, the only way that you can tell a regular baby chick to be male or female is there's a there it has a little little spot on it, very small. And Torchic has one single black this is I don't know if this is true still true in the 3 d games, but in the 2 d games, it had a if it was a male Torchic, it would have a single little black pixel on its bottom to represent that it's a male.

Becs:

Well, now I need to find my Ruby version and see if it has it. Yeah. Because I I did not know that. Yeah. That's very cool.

Becs:

Yeah. And I I definitely I had a boy Yeah. Torchic.

Galutrad:

It's in reference to the fact that that's how you tell a chicken apart. Yeah. It's one of those things that, like, there's no reason for it. It's a single pixel. Yeah.

Galutrad:

It does not really make a difference, but it's a it's a fun little fact about chickens that they were like, yeah, let's do this.

Becs:

That's awesome.

Galutrad:

Yes. That's super cool.

Becs:

Thanks. What what is your middle ground number 3?

Galutrad:

So it may be my middle ground, but it has nothing to do with the ground. It is the fire flying legendary Ho Oh. Ho Oh? Ho Oh.

Becs:

Oh, lord. You win. I was like, I like little chickens, and you were like, I like big chickens.

Galutrad:

I like big chickens. Yeah. Famously chose Ho Oh because Lugia has hands. Go listen to episode 0 if you haven't heard that little fun fact, or check out our TikTok. We have a great fan made video of our of that bit from the episode 0.

Galutrad:

But, yeah, Ho Oh, National Dex number 250. It's fire flying, the rainbow Pokemon. Originally introduced technically in games in gold, silver, and crystal, but in the anime, I'm pretty sure I'd have to double check on dates, but I'm pretty sure it yeah. It was it was shown off in the anime. It's in it's not in the theme song.

Galutrad:

It is in the first episode. Yeah. It's famously it's in the very first episode of Pokemon. Ash sees Ho oh flying over and reports it back to professor Oak. And I think they think it's an Articuno or, like, they play it off like it's an Articuno.

Galutrad:

It's very clearly Ho oh, though.

Becs:

Doesn't doesn't it also doesn't he also see it at the end of Pokemon the first movie?

Galutrad:

He does at one of the remakes.

Becs:

Okay.

Galutrad:

Yes. Yeah. There's like a there's a there's a Pokemon the movie, Pikachu, I choose you. They made like a full movie out of it.

Becs:

Okay.

Galutrad:

And he sees Ho oh in that movie. Okay. So obviously Ho oh does not evolve. It's a legendary Pokemon. Base power of 680.

Galutrad:

Legends claim this Pokemon flies the world skies continuously on its magnificent 7 colored wings. It will reveal itself before a pure hearted trainer by shining its bright rainbow colored wings. It is said that anyone seeing it is promised eternal happiness, which another reason as to why I kinda love Ho oh so much is for the fan fear theory that the reason Ash never grew up is because he saw Ho oh

Becs:

That's cute.

Galutrad:

Right at the beginning and wished to be a Pokemon trainer for his life.

Becs:

I like that much better than other theories I heard.

Galutrad:

Yeah. Yeah. No. There's there's a lot of weird ones, but that's that's my that's my canon theory is that

Becs:

It also it talks about that in if when you're playing gold and silver and crystal I I think crystal, but I know for sure in gold and silver because you it's just flying until you get the rainbow feather and go to the the tower, and and then it then it shows up.

Galutrad:

Also blessed, the story goes from gold and silver, that in Johto, there is the burned tower where the legend goes that 3 Pokemon had passed away and Ho oh granted them life again, and they became Entei, Suicune, and Raikou. So it's commonly believed that those 3 Pokemon were Jolteon, Flareon, and Vaporeon. There's not really any real fact to that other than just to kinda make sense.

Becs:

Oh, that would be cool because the the isn't that an ecrutique when you find them in the the kimono girls are

Galutrad:

there Yep.

Becs:

With their with their eeveelutions?

Galutrad:

Yep. Very cool. I

Becs:

like that.

Galutrad:

The it's a it's a fan theory. It's never been confirmed, but it it it's very it makes a lot of sense.

Becs:

They're dog like, and then they're they're bigger dog like.

Galutrad:

There's there's a lot of argument that goes there's a lot of argument that goes over whether or not they're cat or dogs. I I don't really care personally.

Becs:

Raikyu Raikyu looks dog ish to me, but I think they're called in the in the games. I think they refer to them as the legendary dogs at some point. And they're also really fast.

Galutrad:

Yeah. They're the roaming trio. Yeah. They roam around the game, and and you just have to kinda come across them randomly. Yeah.

Galutrad:

But yeah. Ho oh. Love him. Love him to death. He's my favorite.

Becs:

No fit. No fingers on Ho

Galutrad:

oh. No no fingers on Ho oh's wings, which makes sense because he's a bird. So that should be the case. Yeah. Love him.

Galutrad:

Love love Ho Oh's, shiny form gets, like, a kinda silvery autumn look to him. Mhmm. Yeah. Yeah. Big big fan.

Becs:

Cool.

Galutrad:

Alright. You ready to go to break?

Becs:

I think I forgot Ho Oh was a fire type until this episode. It's okay. But, yeah, we can go to break, and then we will come back and do our final 2 each.

Galutrad:

Yeah. Absolutely.

Becs:

Go to break.

Galutrad:

Welcome back. So, Becks

Becs:

Yes. We we're

Galutrad:

talking fire types.

Becs:

Yeah. We are talking fire types. And so far, we have listed our our number 5, number 4, and number 3, which for me was Volcarona, Alolan, Marowak, and Torchic.

Galutrad:

And for me, it was Fuecoco, 9 tails, and Ho o.

Becs:

Good mix. Good mix

Galutrad:

of a good one. With surprising that there being so few Yeah. That we haven't even had lines crossed yet. No. I think we're about to.

Galutrad:

No. No. No. No.

Becs:

I, I feel good Yeah? About the decisions that I have made still to this Okay. Moment.

Galutrad:

Good. Excellent. Great. Well, speaking of those decisions, what's your number 2?

Becs:

I no longer feel I'm just kidding. My number 2 favorite. I'm so happy. This has been one of my favorites since I saw it. Okay.

Becs:

And I very much still just I love it, and I don't even know why it's very simplistic. We're about to get into it, though. Number 2, favorite fire Pokemon for me, Bex, the co host of this podcast, is Chandelure.

Galutrad:

Chandelure? Yes. Okay. It's, matches with your spooky vibes.

Becs:

Matches did I mention I like spooky? Because it didn't just match it with a spooky. No. It it it very much does. It very much makes sense.

Becs:

Genuinely, I really just the whole evolution line for Chandelure, Litwick, and Lampent, and then Chandelure, I think are just so good. Like, I I can't I can't explain it. Like, normally, when a Pokemon is based on an inanimate object, I'm like, did you did you run out of ideas? Did you did you look around your house when you were picking a design? You're like, oh, yes.

Becs:

A trash bag. I think I will make a Pokemon based on that. Or, oh, this ice cream cone that I'm eating, let me make that a Pokemon. I I get it. Normally, not great.

Becs:

There's something very aesthetically pleasing about a lamp chandelier Pokemon. I don't know why. The candle to the chandelier makes sense to me. It's a pretty Pokemon. It it is it is solid throughout.

Becs:

It is not like those starter mid evolutions where it loses its its charm

Galutrad:

Mhmm.

Becs:

As it evolves. I think it's a solid trio. Shay and Allure, though, has been something I've I have gravitated towards since I saw it.

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

I don't have a lot else to say because I think it speaks for itself why I like it so much, but I did you know, I I looked up some things, and I was gonna say until I looked up some things that I think it would be cool to just have a chandelier in my house. No.

Galutrad:

It's not.

Becs:

It's not cool. Yeah. Because apparently, there's a legend that if your home is lit by a chandelier's light instead of, like, a lamp or a overhead light,

Galutrad:

Funerals are a constant occurrence. Yeah.

Becs:

Scary. I

Galutrad:

mean, they stick to their ghost typing.

Becs:

They do Yeah. To a scary degree. I was like, oh my gosh. That would be so cool to have this in my house. Like, that would have been a great what Pokemon do I want in real life option Yeah.

Becs:

If I could go back in time and choose it. No. Not a good option. Choice. No.

Becs:

If I want light, I will I will have Volcarona stay 800 feet away from me so I can still breathe, and let its sun shining brightness guide my way. Chandelure, you will stay much further away. If we were in the house, you're in your Pokeball. That's how that works.

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

Yeah. That was my that was my number 2 pick.

Galutrad:

I love that. It's a great name because it lures people to

Becs:

Litwick and Lampent and Chandler.

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

Just chef's niece.

Galutrad:

The vibes are good.

Becs:

Bolding. The vibes are good.

Galutrad:

Yep. Yep. Yep. That's awesome.

Becs:

Thanks. What is your almost favorite?

Galutrad:

My almost favorite, my skin

Becs:

But not quite.

Galutrad:

My number 2 is Raboot, who is the middle evolution for Scorbunny.

Becs:

I thought you were gonna say Quilava.

Galutrad:

No. Yeah. I really, really like Raboot. So Raboot is national number 814. It is a fire a pure fire type Pokemon.

Galutrad:

It's the rabbit Pokemon, which I'm pretty sure actually, Scorbunny might be the bunny Pokemon now that I think about it. That would make a lot more sense.

Becs:

Yeah. Cute bunny

Galutrad:

and then rabbit. Yeah. Rabbit came sword and shield, generation 8. It has a base power of 420, evolves from score bunny at level 16, evolves into cinderace at level 35. I really like it because it just it's it's like the perfect middle evolution for me.

Galutrad:

Score bunny is like the cute little kid that is into soccer and running around just energetic and like, I've got so much energy. And then Raboot is like the cool, yeah, I'm a I'm a teenager. I don't I don't care about anybody else, but, you know, I'm just here doing my own thing. And I still love soccer, but, like, I'm cool about it. You know?

Galutrad:

It's I'm not it's whatever. And then Cinderace becomes the honorary soccer professional.

Becs:

MVP.

Galutrad:

MVP. Yeah. But I just yeah. I really love Rabu. He looks like he's wearing a hoodie.

Galutrad:

I mean, literally, his, like, his fur, he can put his hands in, like, a, like, almost kangaroo, a hoodie style pocket on his body, and he has, like, this, like, muffler thing that, like, blocks his the front part of his face. He's wearing a little sweatband.

Becs:

I did say that middle evolutions and starters kinda drove me nuts because I feel like they were not as cute, obviously, as, like, the first ones, but

Galutrad:

they're very cute. The awkward face.

Becs:

The awkward face. Yeah. But but as far as middle evolutions go, it Raboot is cute.

Galutrad:

He is.

Becs:

It's very cute.

Galutrad:

Yeah. And and there's others. Bayleaf, of course. But, yeah, Raboot, it was a was a I I kinda questioned whether or not I wanted to evolve him into Cinderace, but I really like Cinderace as well. I just Raboot is really, really cool to me.

Galutrad:

Some Pokedex entries for Raboot. It's thick and fluffy fur protects it from the cold and enables it to use hotter fire moves.

Becs:

Okay.

Galutrad:

It kicks berries right off the branches of trees and then juggles them with its feet, practicing its footwork.

Becs:

That's cute.

Galutrad:

Yeah. I like that. He's yeah. I don't know. I just I think he's really neat.

Galutrad:

He's he's like like I said, he's like the the cool teen soccer rabbit. Yeah. That is like, I'm too cool for you.

Becs:

That's cute. Okay.

Galutrad:

Alright. That brings us to our number one.

Becs:

Oh, I'm so scared. I'm afraid.

Galutrad:

So what did you pick for your number 1?

Becs:

My number one favorite fire Pokemon of all time is Vulpix.

Galutrad:

Oh, okay. So we had a little bit of crossover.

Becs:

And that's why I said I'm I am good with my choices. I had, at first, very just initial, I made my list. I was looking at it. I was like, shouldn't nine tails be who I pick? I'm like, it's she's really not.

Becs:

I did always have Vulpix and nine tails on my team. Mhmm. I did always evolve Vulpix. I was always drawn to them, not for the same reason as you, but I just I've always loved foxes and and and wolves and cats and all fluffy creatures of all kinds. But I always had a Vulpix and a Ninetales when I could.

Becs:

I always had them in my team until if I didn't have a fire starter, basically.

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

Like, I would have them on my team,

Galutrad:

period. Yeah.

Becs:

I ended up choosing Vulpix because even though Nine tails is all of those things that you described, majestic and and and very, like, powerful, clearly highly intelligent, I just I'm I'm just more, I think I am more drawn to the smaller, more

Galutrad:

Yeah. Version of it.

Becs:

Much like with Torchic, I was I was actually pretty influenced by the anime or this choice as well as as like a kid, like forming my my love of this Pokemon. So in the anime, the Vulpix that becomes Brock's Vulpix was originally owned by a trainer named Susie, and Brock looked up to Susie. They formed a connection through an episode, and Susie realized because Vulpix I don't wanna say stuck up, but Vulpix was very particular about the people that it would it would share its time with. Mhmm. And Vulpix really loved Brock and loved Brock's homemade food.

Becs:

I can see it, like, even the little the little food that

Galutrad:

Brock makes for both

Becs:

ones. Yeah.

Galutrad:

Pellet things.

Becs:

Yeah. And it it was super cute. But, yeah, Susie was like, oh, I think I think Vulpix would be better traveling with you than being here with me. And it was a very sweet episode, and it just really warmed warmed my heart seeing Vulpix, like, bond with Brock and and the food. And so I've always, like, you know, a little kid imagination, I'm like, I really I think having a Vulpix would be really cool.

Becs:

Like having that bond with just that one Pokemon, and they they don't really care about other it's like having a cat.

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

They don't really care about other people, but you, There's a loyalty there that's very strong for Vulpix and Ninetales both whenever they've attached to someone. So that's part of why I have always liked Vulpix was the anime. But just just having her on my team always, and then this is what I kinda talked about earlier. I'm not really a huge fan of the ice version of Vulpix, but it's it's solid. It's not it's cute.

Becs:

It's not bad. I just it I'll I'm so attached to the original. But I also mentioned I don't wanna dig into this further because you talked about it quite a bit extensively, but I also mentioned that it is based off the kitsune

Galutrad:

Mhmm.

Becs:

Fox spirit. And then I mentioned too, just briefly, that it already has, like, paranormal abilities that kinda it kinda gets its power from its tails, just like Nine Tails does, that grow. They they expand as they get older and wiser, which is when they That

Galutrad:

makes a lot of sense.

Becs:

You know, become Nine Tails. Yeah. I also saw and I don't really like this, but I wanna share it anyway. I didn't write it down, so I'm gonna paraphrase a little bit. I saw a couple of the entries in some of the games mentioned, like, Vulpix being born with only one white tail at first, and then it, like, it splits tails as it gets older.

Becs:

And, like, it clearly has to, like, evolution wise, it has to do that a little bit because 9 tails has 9 tails

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

And Vulpix has 6. So it it clearly does have to grow or split its tails to evolve. I'm not digging the the imagery of a one tailed Vulpix for some reason. It's, like, it's so full, like, almost like a peacock spread behind it that, like, I can't picture it as, like, one tail.

Galutrad:

It's similar to the battle stance that we had kinda talked about earlier is, like, how different would the Pokemon games be if Pokemon's abilities were dictated by the Pokedex? But like Pokemon themselves kind of make a joke about this with breeding in the games where it's like, oh, we don't. How does this Pokemon egg get here? We have no idea what happened. It just it just appeared.

Galutrad:

It'd be weird to think about like a Pokemon being born like any other animal and and like that, like, having starting off different.

Becs:

If there was, like, a little tinier Vulpix pup with a little tail

Galutrad:

Like how they gave a lot of the Pokemon. Like, Magmar got Magby and Electivus got eaten.

Becs:

Yeah. They're I guess that's true. I guess that's true. But I always think Magby and Vulpix are the same. Yeah.

Becs:

I I see 2 of my way to you. Go or you go mid and then go up.

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

I don't unsubscribe. I unsubscribe to one tailed, especially white one tailed Vulpix.

Galutrad:

Unless the whole body was white, maybe, and then

Becs:

One white tail? Why would it be white then go to red then go back to, like, a gold and white later?

Galutrad:

I guess that going back to doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but, like, flamingos

Becs:

are Unsubscribe. Okay. Unsubscribe. I hate it. Hate it.

Becs:

Hate it. Hate it. But cute. Cute. Cute.

Becs:

Cute. That it's paranormal, and then it's and then it's smart. Yeah. It's such a smart Pokemon, and then it gets it gets, like, regal and wise when it's one of your favorite Pokemon. Yeah.

Becs:

I like that a lot. It's very cool. Yeah. Anyway, sorry.

Galutrad:

No. I mean, that's that that fiery passion was fantastic.

Becs:

Yeah. Fire. Speaking of fire, what is your when you look at Gallutrad, the fire starter expert that you are, the the the the preference of fire Pokemon.

Galutrad:

The preference of fire starter Pokemon.

Becs:

What defines Gallutrad? What is the number 1 fire Pokemon?

Galutrad:

So

Becs:

Now now you're gonna be like, it's this dumb one.

Galutrad:

Well, my favorite fire type Pokemon and has been since it came out in gen 3 was Torkle. Torkle?

Becs:

Little turtle, Flannery's Pokemon. Yeah.

Galutrad:

Torkle is the 300 and 24th Pokemon in the national dex.

Becs:

I thought you're gonna say it was 324 years old.

Galutrad:

No. Like a Fortis? I mean, yeah. Probably. It probably

Becs:

could be.

Galutrad:

It is a purifier type. It is known as the coal Pokemon. Mhmm. Mentioned this already, but came out generation 3, Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald. It has a base power of 470, so very decent for itself being a Pokemon that does not evolve.

Galutrad:

Some Pokedex entries, Torkoal digs through mountains in search of coal. If it finds some, it fills hollow spaces on its shell with the coal and burns it. If it is attacked, this Pokemon spouts thick black smoke to beat a retreat, and it burns coal inside of its shell for energy. You can often find them in a bunch of them in abandoned coal mines.

Becs:

Okay.

Galutrad:

I've got a little Torkoal. He's one of the first sitting cuties that I purchased when I decided to start collecting them.

Becs:

I didn't I I didn't know. I even that did not tell me that you loved Well,

Galutrad:

I mean, I like, I don't have a Sunflora update. Sunflora is my favorite grass type Pokemon.

Becs:

Are you, like may I ask, are you are you drawn to, like, turtles, like, turtle Well Pokemon?

Galutrad:

I really like the idea of, like, the world turtle. We talked about this in a previous episode, when with mentioning not for that reason, really truly just because I you know what? I never noticed that though. But truthfully, the reason that I like Torterra is because of my bond. Like I'd mentioned in the grass favorite grass type episodes, my bond that I have with it with my community for Galatrade.

Galutrad:

Yeah. Torkel, I just I I don't know. I I like really goofy guys a lot. Sunflora, Torkel, especially Torkel, again, similar to Vulpix for you, partially because of the anime.

Becs:

Mhmm.

Galutrad:

Because in the anime, when Torkel gets all, like, steamed up, it sounds like a choo choo train.

Becs:

Oh, cute.

Galutrad:

It's like it's like a it's yeah. It it sounds like a choo choo train in the anime blowing steam. It's it's got a great move set as far as, like, competitive goes, but I don't know. He's he's just he's just a little dude. He's cute little turtle guy.

Becs:

I will say of the and I can of course, I can only think of 3, for some reason, but of, like, the slugma and the nuumul and torkle. Torkle is much cooler.

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

Yeah. And Numel's fine.

Galutrad:

Well and I like camera. I like camera up. Slugma is in Magcargo. Yeah. They're they're okay.

Galutrad:

They're alright. They're cool. Well, they're hot. But, yeah, I just I don't know. I like Torkoal a lot.

Galutrad:

I like it too. He's a cute little dude. And he's always he looks his eyes are always drawn where they're like squinty. Yeah. As a competitive Pokemon, he's a pretty good one.

Galutrad:

He's a pretty good choice.

Becs:

Yeah.

Galutrad:

With his with his ability to bring out the sun and and, I forget the name of the move now. Unfortunately, my brain is failing me.

Becs:

Sunny day?

Galutrad:

Well, no. No. No. There's, like, I think it's called explosion, but I I honestly can't remember what

Becs:

type of Self

Galutrad:

It's literally just like a eruption maybe is what it's called. I

Becs:

can't might be erupt or

Galutrad:

something. Yeah. Can't remember it, but it's a classic Torkel move Yeah. As far as, like, competitive and stuff goes and just just playing the game

Becs:

in general. But it's tough. Like, Flannery was, you know, is known for, like, not being a very confident gym trainer. Like, we talked about it because she's my favorite. Mhmm.

Becs:

But I remember, like, Torko gave me a little bit of a hard time. Yeah. And I I'm pretty sure

Galutrad:

that pushover.

Becs:

Type advantage because I had I always had, Azeril on my Mhmm. On my team in Holland too. So yeah. Yeah.

Galutrad:

Yeah. Not a not a pushover by any No. Sense of the word. But, yeah. I don't know.

Galutrad:

I just I I love him.

Becs:

He's cute. I like him. He's cute.

Galutrad:

And he I like

Becs:

Is he? You said he's just fire.

Galutrad:

Yeah. He's pure fire. But I

Becs:

don't know why. I know I know Numel and Kamript are I always think he's, like, ground too, and I think it's the coal element.

Galutrad:

Yeah. Yeah.

Becs:

Yeah. The rock or whatever.

Galutrad:

Yeah. No. It makes a lot of sense. And, like, in later generations, they introduced like, in Sword and Shield had that whole rolycoly line that

Becs:

Which I became I like that, but it's not as it's not as fun as

Galutrad:

a Is it fire turtle?

Becs:

Coal furnace turtle. Yeah.

Galutrad:

Yeah. Totally. He's he's super he's he's neat. Yeah. So yeah.

Becs:

Oh, I love that. So just to recap before we get

Galutrad:

into the moment,

Becs:

you heard it here first. The official another Pokemon podcast top 10 fire Pokemon are Volcarona, Fuecoco, Alolan Marowak, Ninetales, Torchic, Ho Oh, Chandelure, Raboot, Vulpix, and Torkle.

Galutrad:

Yeah. Yeah. That's a good list.

Becs:

I I think we did a better job this time of appreciating each other's lives.

Galutrad:

Yeah. No. I do

Becs:

too. I genuinely I not that we ever do a bad job. I feel like we're always very respectful to each other's choices, but I genuinely I feel like you that's a solid list for both of us.

Galutrad:

Yeah. It's a great list.

Becs:

Other than me forgetting Ho oh had fire.

Galutrad:

No. That's that's that that's okay. It's Lugia is also the I mean, we talked about Lugia is not a water type Pokemon.

Becs:

I don't even know what Lugia is.

Galutrad:

It's psychic flying.

Becs:

Okay. Yeah. I'm like, it's legendary.

Galutrad:

It should be a water type Pokemon when it's not. Yeah. So honorable mentions.

Becs:

Yeah. Tell me.

Galutrad:

I mean, obviously, I feel like we could probably just both get this out of the way, maybe. But, like, Charizard is you don't have a Charizard as honorable mention? He's It's I mean, it he is the favorite. I know. Right?

Galutrad:

But that's the idea is,

Becs:

like, he's Yeah. You're right. I mean, I picked Charmander.

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

That was my first starter Pokemon ever. And I do I think that's I think that's what it is, and and it should probably should have been on here. Charmander, I love. Yeah. I got I I'm I'm over Charizard.

Becs:

I'm over it. Yeah. Alright. Sorry.

Galutrad:

No. That's that's fair. I just think I think that, you know, respect where is due where it's due, and he's he's much like Pikachu. He's he's just been a constant.

Becs:

He is a

Galutrad:

big he's a big name for the cards, for the games, for everything.

Becs:

Yeah. I mean, I made

Galutrad:

a loves a Charizard.

Becs:

I made a joke saying that my favorite fire Pokemon, my number one was, Pikachu dressed as Charizard.

Galutrad:

You did. Because I had

Becs:

the stuff to have all of that.

Galutrad:

That's right. Yep. A couple others for me, Victini, the victory Pokemon. Yeah. The only mythical Pokemon that I've never got in game.

Galutrad:

It's just cute. It's a cute it's a cute little little dude. Yep. And then Centiskorch, the

Becs:

Oh, yeah. That's a scary looking Pokemon. Very cool.

Galutrad:

Yeah. And especially its Gigantamax version or it's it's I think it's that's the Gigantamax version, but where it just gets, like, insanely long and twisty. Terrifying. Yeah. And but it's it's also it's just a little dude in reality.

Galutrad:

It's just a little guy.

Becs:

That looks scary and the,

Galutrad:

And I love that he has a mustache.

Becs:

That was scary, and the, like, the skyscraper Pokemon looks terrifying. Gigantamax. Yeah. Very scary.

Galutrad:

But, yeah, those are those are my those are my,

Becs:

Like, quick honorable mentions?

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

Well, I know this will shock you, but one of my honorable mentions was Nine tails. We don't have to talk about why. I it's pretty, and I loved it, and it was hard for me at first, but then I was like, I don't know why that made that hard for me. I I love Vulpix. That's the end.

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

I also honorable quick shout out to Ponyton Rapid Ash line just be even though I forgot the one I was talking earlier. But just because I I do think Ponyton's adorable, and Rapidash is just so majestic and pretty.

Galutrad:

Yeah. Yeah. And I love the fact this is I think this is only in the anime, but I love the fact that it's part of its, like, lore is that it its flames won't burn you if it if it trusts you.

Becs:

I think that's cute. Yeah. I like that. I remember when I got to the the Pokemon fan club in Vermillion, I remember, like, the president, like, gushing over Rapidash. And I was like, that's really I this is cute.

Becs:

Also, quick side note, 1st alpha Pokemon that I encountered in Legends Arceus

Galutrad:

Really?

Becs:

In that field Yeah. Terrifying. Yeah. Terrifying.

Galutrad:

Get Rapidash.

Becs:

It's already Ninetales and Rapidash kinda have, like, a majestic everyone's beneath us vibe. Mhmm. Giant Rapidash with red glowing terrifying eyes and the scary, like, dun dun dun alpha music. Mhmm. No.

Becs:

Yeah. Nightmare fuel. Anyways, Fennekin. I added Fennekin to my honorable mentions. When I saw the x and y starters, I was like,

Galutrad:

huge Foxes. Yeah. Yeah.

Becs:

I mean, another baby FireFox. Yep. Like, it's a good pick. I'm surprised let me get let me get one out of the way. Scorbunny, I added 2 Mhmm.

Becs:

For for obvious reasons.

Galutrad:

Yep. Yep.

Becs:

I'm surprised these 2 weren't on your actual list.

Galutrad:

Okay.

Becs:

Salazzle, I thought you loved I love Salazzle. It just didn't make it to my list.

Galutrad:

Yeah. No. I I kinda just don't really I think it's cool that it's I think it's cool that number 1, shiny. Fantastic. Number 2, it's really cool that much like Kombi, it only evolves if it's a female.

Becs:

Yes. Yeah. I mean, that's cool too.

Galutrad:

Other than that, I'd I'm not it's like it's just kinda there.

Becs:

Okay. Yeah. I just I think I I've always really liked snake and lizard Mhmm. Like, type Pokemon. Yeah.

Becs:

Salamander Pokemon. So I think I'm I'm drawn to it anyway, but it just it has the same, like, vibe that I like. It's got, like, it's like a darker, like, more mysterious. It's not ghosty. No.

Becs:

But it's it's it's like it's like very it's very mysterious, but also, like, fabulous.

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

Like, I love her, and I that shiny

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

Is my favorite shiny that I have in Violet other than my melodic that I suffered for.

Galutrad:

Yeah. Yeah. You did. Oh my gosh. That's the best.

Becs:

And soon my I'm manifesting this. Soon my Volcarona with my yellow wings. Anyways but, yeah, I loved her. And then, very shocked this was on your list. I I I need you I need you to tell me if you forgot about it.

Galutrad:

Okay.

Becs:

Because I'm so shocked. Ceruledge didn't make your list.

Galutrad:

So, first off

Becs:

Ceruledge didn't make your honorable mention.

Galutrad:

First off, I did forget Armorouge for my for my honorable mentions.

Becs:

Okay. Okay.

Galutrad:

But Sarulej is

Becs:

Or Armaruj. Yeah.

Galutrad:

One of the few Armor Armaruj, I prefer Okay. Over Sarulej. And I'm sure he's very cool. Yeah. He's a little bit too what's the word?

Galutrad:

Edgy for me.

Becs:

I like

Galutrad:

him.

Becs:

He's like a purple space knight.

Galutrad:

Yeah. And He's cool. He's very cool.

Becs:

And like, especially with the Horizons. Like, he's the Horizons baddie.

Galutrad:

Yeah. I like him. Or I also

Becs:

I like that Pokemon.

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

Yeah.

Galutrad:

I feel like they got gypped because their shinies are just that their eyes turn a different color. Terrible. Yeah. It should have been because everyone saw them or and were like, oh my god. It's Mega Man and 0 from the Mega Man series.

Galutrad:

And then it could have been that truthfully if they had swapped colors. Like, that would have been really cool. Yeah. But they didn't.

Becs:

I I I really like too when the versions have they have a a common first Pokemon. Mhmm. But then, like, the Evos are are specific to

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

Yeah. One whatever game you're playing. So, like, I I've always really liked and they and, you know, they started doing this back in, like, gen 2 with Gloom. I I've always really liked when a Pokemon has a choice.

Galutrad:

There's a split on

Becs:

each other. One way or they can evolve another based on an item, like we were just talking about with with Cerulege or based on like with Umbreon and Espeon, like based on the time of day it evolves. Like, I I've I've always really liked that kind of, like, which way will it go? And it makes it fun because then you if you're like me and you're determined for some reason every game to catch them all, like, I'm Ash catching over here.

Galutrad:

Yeah. Yeah. I I really like split evolutions a lot. They're very cool.

Becs:

Yep. But

Galutrad:

yeah. That's our Great.

Becs:

That's our top list. Yeah. Yeah. Great. Top 10 great

Galutrad:

on what it is. Really surprised that we only had a crossover and that we included the entirety of the Vulpix 9 tails line, but it wasn't it wasn't. We each picked a different one.

Becs:

If you think about us and what we enjoy outside of Pokemon, it makes sense that we're both drawn to that line. Mhmm. It also makes sense why we pick different ones because, like, as soon as you mentioned spirit Studio Ghibli, I was like, oh, he's thinking of Princess Mononoke. Yeah. Immediately, I was like, that's why he's drawn to it.

Becs:

And mine, of course, I'm drawn to the cute little foxy baby. Like, it's just that's what I'm drawn to anyway. Absolutely. So no. I really I really enjoyed this, as always.

Becs:

Looking forward to the inevitable fairy type topic.

Galutrad:

Yeah. So, next up will be water type Pokemon.

Becs:

Yeah. Fine.

Galutrad:

But Maybe she Then we'll then we'll start branching off into the more unique types.

Becs:

Into the 12 fairies.

Galutrad:

So, yeah, if y'all want to leave us a comment or tell us about your favorite fire type Pokemon or maybe Or

Becs:

hate mail.

Galutrad:

Or hate mail as to why we didn't pick your favorite fire type Pokemon or why our picks are wrong, you can reach out to us at another pkmn pod on our social medias, which include x, Instagram, blue sky, TikTok, or you can leave us a comment on this episode or leave us a review for this episode at a Apple Podcast 5 star review. We'd really appreciate that. And especially if you let left a written comment, you know, feel free to leave 1 per episode. Leave comments about what you liked about the episode or or, you know, any feedback that you have. We'd love to hear it.

Galutrad:

Becks, if they wanted to reach out and send you hate mail specifically.

Becs:

Yeah. I'd like to take a moment to apologize for lightly hating on Charizard. I do like Charizard. It's I just I'm I'm tired of Pikachu. I'm tired of Charizard.

Becs:

I'm getting a little tired of Eevee, but we're not gonna talk about that yet. But, yeah, if you want to criticize me, you can find me at rebility, which is my username on almost everything except for Instagram. Unfortunately, I'm more present on Instagram and x than I am anything else. But my Instagram handle is i_am_rebellity. So pretty easy to find me.

Galutrad:

Yeah. And I I think if you search Rebellity, both your old account that for whatever reason you can't get access to anymore and your new account. Yeah. I think they both show up.

Becs:

You can find both. I won't answer the old one, though. So if you if you do find both, I I am ReBeliti is the one that I'm at now.

Galutrad:

Sure am. Awesome.

Becs:

And what about you? Where can they find you? Yeah. Specifically?

Galutrad:

You can find me everywhere on the Internet at Gallutrad. That's g a l u t r a d. I am I've been streaming

Becs:

Yeah. You're a Twitch streamer.

Galutrad:

Yeah. Mostly stream on Twitch. I am trying to branch out another content. We won't go down that rabbit hole right now, but stream on Twitch. I do this thing with a friend of mine, Luneta Dawn.

Galutrad:

We do Tonberry Tuesdays, which are we play Final Fantasy 14 on Tuesdays Mhmm. 8 PM CST to 11 PM CST. And then yeah, I'm usually playing some Nintendo game otherwise.

Becs:

Yep. Pokemon when it's when it's new.

Galutrad:

When it's new, Pokemon will will be featured for quite a while. Yeah. Check me out there and and subscribe and and show your love for another Pokemon podcast. We really love doing this and our again, we I cannot say this enough. You'll hear it probably every episode, but we love the community that we're building up and we love y'all and it literally makes I mean, Bex was saying earlier, it literally makes us stop our day.

Becs:

I get giddy.

Galutrad:

Yeah. We get really excited when we hear from y'all about the

Becs:

I giggle.

Galutrad:

Even little even just simple comments of, like, this is my favorite Pokemon. Like, it I'm like, yes. Thank you. I love your Pokemon. Like, that's so good.

Galutrad:

So

Becs:

Especially if your Pokemon is my

Galutrad:

Pokemon. Yeah. It's true. Especially if your favorite Pokemon

Becs:

is also Espeon. I kick I'm I get so excited that Guy Chad had to point out to me that our listener feedback, the favorite Pokemon was Espeon Yeah. Which is my favorite. Like, I was just like, I didn't even notice we had the same favorite. I was just so excited to hear from another human being.

Galutrad:

Yeah.

Becs:

No. I was we we giggle. We get giddy. We kick our feet like rabbit juggling berries. Yeah.

Becs:

It is it's a good time over here.

Galutrad:

Y'all make our day.

Becs:

We you do. You do. And no feedback is bad feedback. So truly, if you disagree with us, we wanna hear that too.

Galutrad:

Yeah. We

Becs:

love opinion. Hate us. Love us. We wanna hear you.

Galutrad:

Absolutely.

Becs:

That's right. Well, thank you. Thank you so much for

Galutrad:

Being here.

Becs:

Being here. Yeah.

Galutrad:

Yeah. And sharing in our love for fire type Pokemon That's right. And why we have the best list around. We'll see you in 2 weeks for the next episode.

Becs:

Okay.

Galutrad:

Alright. Bye.

Becs:

Get out of here. Leave. I hope you all had cake.