The Science of Pokemon's Deadliest Attack! | The SCIENCE of... Pokemon

Very strong

Not enough for dinamax

That is a good theory, cause in pk sun and moon, Z-Attacks can do damage even if you use protect

strong? What does that mean in this context?

trueee, I'd love to see that

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@OwO hi OwO

@@zoppyarts568 that owo is fake

hah! see what happens when ur game is better than the show huh pokemon?

Nature is brutal!

@@thesuccessfulone true dat

@@thesuccessfulone so what I hear you saying is
Damn Nature, You Scary

@@thesuccessfulone suicides an alternative (to nature)

You remind me of someone on webtoon

I ruined the 69

@@WereCat56 noone cares

Yeah, I'm a sad boy now

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Goddamn these bot responses under game theory vids

That might be why I actually stuck around. To the end of this video. I ONLY watch matpat game theories and, typically, the second Austin's intro starts I immediately click off

I know, wtf. AUSTIN

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Every Pokemon game after 2011

The amount of bots here Christ

The first wave of robots have started, start fighting! **mann Vs. machine music starts to play**

WHY ARE YOU EVERYWHERE

That makes sense. I always thought they had specialized pores that allow the kinetic energy to be violently released.

Even make more sense if they shed their outer layer like feathers, furr or scales. Let say their outer layer is a thin sheet of metal, preferably one that's flammable like magnesium. When they short circuit them, all they did was actually connecting their internal batteries to the shell and explode. Should the Voltorb survive it'll just grow a new layer.

And if were just counting death, you could even just talk about bees. When they sting theyll die as well, but its for the good of the hive so its fine. Somehow wasps do survive, so bees defenitely made some evolutionairy mistake there

And there is an ant that blows itself up

@@mutsgarfield6887 Bee normally dont die actually. When fighting other insects, they can sting as much as a wasp. When it comes to larger animals with thicker skin, their stingers get stuck. If you get stung by a bee, and don't want it to die, you try to gently remove. It will hurt but if you really want it to live. Wasps stingers are more solidly attached so it doesn't rip off when they sting thicker skinned animals.

@@mutsgarfield6887 the difference is that wasps have a smooth stinger so they can safely pull it out, but bees have barbed ones so they do more damage, but die because their stinger gets ripped off.

Irl, there are also several species of exploding ants that cover predators in a sticky, mildly corrosive substance that's basically guaranteed death at the insect level

_Laughs in bombardier beetle._

Frogs when they get their bladder ripped out *sad croaking noises*

pokemon

@@GamerFromJump it squirt

*_[good question]_*

He went to therapist probably

He went to the therapist probably

Wait you're right this must be an imposter

Drugs

What about electrode?

@@vengefulkatana7613 Same thing.

@@vengefulkatana7613 flipball.

@@vengefulkatana7613 electrode looks the exact same as voltorb but flipped, they can do the exact same thing

doesn't really make sense when you remember how big they are though. I feel like a mimic would be the same size as a pokeball...

Nintendo fears the possibility of a golurk being accessible before an electric gym.

So the ants are using chemical warfare?

@@not_zyro yes

@@tabellebertrand2750 wow! I did not know us humans use the same tactics ants use...

Yeah it’s termites and only certain species

@@baumbeanwing6146 I know i watched that video from his name is complicated to write

Yeah.

So true especially if encountered near a door

Then there's hundreds of them behind said door

I like this theory!

I forgot if gengar could explode

how do they get the electric spark ? ^^

@@michaelmargadant3476 how do pokeballs get power anyway?

@@candlestone5397 likely a built in very long life battery

Sad lots of Bots

Baka bomb

DUDE SO MANT BOTS AAAAA WTH

It's like how Monarch Butterflies exist, when they're most known for getting eaten. An animal only has to make that mistake once, and then it and any surrounding creatures will never try to attack them again.

www.youtubeuis.com/watch?v=COzQiwDsaDqT

"voltorb don't make me mad or is say the words that hurt you the most!" so they're basically like hostages...

Explosion is a better move.

You just entered a building and lost one pokemon of the 6 you have and decide "you know what i'll sacrifice the 5 others in a vain hope to kill the unknow amount of pokemons"
5 encounters later you lost all pokemons to avenge just one, you put the needs of the one above the needs of the many and that's why the voltorb colony beat you both in combat and in morals.
This was my TED talk.

@@killiansonck6278 overlevel them too

that would only be possible if you have ghost types

It was me Austin it was me all along @Wojeciech kogut

It feels wrong without it

I was wondering why I felt like something was missing!!!

Definitely missing it

I legit think he just f*cked up in editing.

I certainly didnt know about that bug. So ur right

Not really

Big Facts

Ikr

Yeah

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True.

don't give terrorists new ideas

I wanna see Austin do the geodude line next. It's even more complicated considering that they're ground types.

that in one sentence not a theory

No, chain chomps only appear in Link’s Awakening, which [spoilers] is all just a dream

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Some rocks have moisture trapped inside them that causes them to explode when heated. Could be what gravler does by raising its body temperature.

If that were true, poor Mew

@@autumbreeze1129 I mean, if it has the ability to learn every TM and it's DNA (theoretically not sure if that's been confirmed yet) formed Ditto, is it not theoretically possible that if Mew used self destruct/explosion that it could recombine itself and 'walk it off' a la Wolverine or Deadpool? Not saying it wouldn't be painful, but given it can (I think) learn Recover, seems like it's a plausible way for Mew to handle the effects.

@@ben501st That makes a lot of sense, the way water seeps into cracks, freezes and then as temperature raises expands and in some cases fractures dramatically. Also plays into their weakness to Water/Ice even Grass as plants growing into rocks can cause the same effect, though generally less dramatically. Thanks for the insight :)

Anything steel or electric could use the same way as Voltorb if it felt like it and rock types may use a similar way to do it since rocks can have the metals inside them and then they just learn that they can weaponize the metals to explode for the rest of its trainer's team or it's family

But to the point where a revive or Pokémon centre visit is essential. Maybe very small exit holes in the body?

I was thinking this same thing! But then I thought 'maybe it has an exoskeleton of some sort where they heat up those gasses, which explode out instead of their main bodies, and in nature they regrow over time, whereas at a poke center they speed up that regrowth?

It could likely have weak points in the exoskeleton like the eyes which might result in an irregular pressure distribution and in a sense you could get it to health as it might have only lost a minor organ or an organ that is easily healed

It was in early gen

More than one problem. Voltorb are very recent Pokemon. They only came into existence when PokeBalls started being manufactured. So they didn't "evolve" any organs like he thinks. Since we don't have a definitive origin everyone believes it's a PokeBall possessed by something. At the very least it seems to be a PokeBall that has become sentient in one way or another.

He said blow up specifically. Like yes, Bees do kill them selves to save the Colony, many animals do, but they don't explode.

Pretty sure that Bees aren't guaranteed to die when stinging you. Their stinger only sometimes breaks off, but I don't think it's the intent.

@@109Rage Maybe there are cases when Bees survive but is rare. Basically the stinger is close to the heart sk when it stings you, the stinger breaks and ruptures the heart and releases the toxins. But that is because out skin, and the skin of most animals is to thick for it.
Like it just hurts us, it doesn't kill us. If a Bee was to sting an Insect I am guessing it would kill the insect easily and the stinger would remain in tact.

@@TheZebbga That was what I was getting at. Most of a bee's targets wouldn't kill it. It's just us larger animals who end up causing fatal damage to bees when they sting us, but it's far more likely to be stinging other insects instead.

@@109Rage Yeah. I agree.

Bees don't do it on purpose though, they only die if the barb of the sting goes in deep enough to snag and that doesn't happen with most common predators. Most other attackers are either too hairy/thick skinned to be penetrated by the sting or small enough not to need the full length but humans are that perfect blend of being soft skinned enough to sting deeply and stupid enough to mess with beehives

Except the bees have something to protect and sacrifice for. What would voltorb be protecting?

@@nuclear1071 The other Voltorbs. As Austin stated they are most commonly found in large groups. One dieing is far better then the whole colony dieing.

@@PandoraSlicer I hadn’t gotten that far yet 😅

@@PandoraSlicer I hadn’t gotten that far yet 😅

That would make sense. Then the harder inner layer grows weaker as a new hard layer grows beneath it.

Hey that does make sense.

Or regenerating the outer layer… but the blast probably *would* weaken the inner layer, so doing it that way makes sense.

@Redstones Lover Ok, but why? It’s not even, like, a Rick-Roll… it’s just random. It isn’t even funny.

It could be similar to a crab and the remaining inner shell would harden into the new outer shell and a new shell would start developing underneath. Or like a sea cucumber and it regenerates the organ lost?

What to use a Master Ball for:
-Legendaries-
Catching that Shiny Voltorb that knows explosion.

@@thealientree3821 That's how I caught a shiny Geodude while searching for Ponyta

This happened to me.
The master ball was surrounded by electrodes.
The one right before the masterball was shiny, and self destructed first turn.
All I have left is a shiny blue pokédex entry.

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@-AsianGrils- 🍎 good bot

Why are there so many bots?

@@larry_berry I know right?

why so many bots lately?

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I would have to do a double take if that happened

So many bots smh

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I am with you on this, except it is house chores in my case 😜

dont know who asura is but glad someone commented on the music choice

Thanks, i was typing stuff like "stressful classical music from Tom and Jerry"

Perhaps the rock types exploding is actually gunpowder...

My theory is that its body contains a special organ to store water, which is part of the circuit for the self destruction.
When the water vapor reaches critical levels, it opens its pores and releases the steam, creating an explosion without harming the pokémon too much. It's just thirsty afterwards and needs some rest.

Why So Many Bots?

@@killianobrien2007 Money.

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Flying Mines!!

Now imagine if there was suddenly a mass-evolution, resulting in hundreds of Electrode floating in a single direction, and people trying to save themselves.
Also, they're just far enough away from each other to not cause a chain reaction if one explodes, so any barricade set up will have to handle multiple explosions.

Interestingly enough, this extreme instability might be some sort of built-in reproductive mechanism, abit like Creepers from MatPat's Minecraft theory. Another comment suggested that Voltorbs can survive their explosions, using it more like a deterent than a suicide switch and with that in mind it would mean that it would be great for defense but following Creeper reproduction logic, perhaps diffuclt
Electrode would fix that kink, being excessively unstable so that it can basically go off as hard as possible and spread its children to the wind

@@starsilverinfinity I did consider reproduction as a possibility, especially with the volatility in later stages, but reproduction through explosion isn't really viable when the creature is super-heating in a shell and explodes with superheated gas and battery acid, so I dropped the theory.
Then again, I believe Voltorbs have metal shells, so other inorganic components may exist. Perhaps they release "spore" zygotes like some coral that could potentially have a silicone-based protective coating. IDK.

Thermal runaway is the phenomenon. A short circuit in an energy dense chain is one way to accomplish that. I think his explanation was fine for a non-engineer.

@@gogauze that's fair. It was just something that popped in my head when watching. Doesnt change how awesome his video is 😁

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They don't 😈 (I have no idea actually lol)

Like the sith, anger keeps them alive

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@@alfredocavaliere5746 I know this is madness.

And faints from that damage, imagine someone throws a grenade at you, you will take damage and probably fainting after the explosion

@@joshuaded1052 Still doesn't die though, all your bodily mass being scattered by your own self destruct explosion explosion doesn't sound survivable.

@@Xizilqou true, but we are talking about world where there a death that is a bird and life that is reindeer, ash literally turn to stone and come back,

Voltorb is clearly made of two segmented materials, red and white with a border in the middle.
Maybe they just sort of, open up, releasing the explosive material, and them close back up in hopes of healing?

Explosion's "condition," so to speak, is that it causes the user to faint; the method is semantics, Voltorb ceases to be able to fight as a direct result of using Explosion, regardless of how high its HP was. In effect, it dies by using Explosion.

Fainting is just what everything does when they dont want something to die, kinda like how on final fantasy being shot by a gun and then run through with a sword during battle makes you faint.

They aren't going to show its guts splattered all over the place now are they? It's a kid show with inconsistencies around every corner, not the best place to get your lore

@@agafaba thats great and all but they still canonically faint. You can't just selectively ignore canonical facts because you dont think it counts.

@@lenkagamine4145 canonically voltorb explodes by using explosion as well, no further explanation required, it just does. Explanations like that kind of make KRplus channels like game theory impossible to exist other than the story guessing videos.

was it not proven to be people smoking near combustible stuff?

@@killiansonck6278 and a lot of alcohol