Hello there and welcome to the world of Pokemon.
My name is Professor Jacob and thank you so much for attending
my lecture on Pokemon biology. Joining me here in the classroom
today as he always does is my wonderful teaching assistant mr.
Curtis, please, say hello to everybody, mr.
Curtis! Oh, thank you, Professor.
Thank you. I just finished getting all the
ground in cookie crumbs out of the floor.
Let me tell you what, it has been a week of scrubbing.
The principal penguin. Yeah, scrubbing and scraping and
vacuuming the principal would do.
This is a hardwood floor, its risks to sweep it up and she be
like, done my God. All right.
You listen Perry, sprayed some water around it.
Got mushy got down into the Cracks.
It is been there's last stomping and in the principal only gave
me a toothbrush so it was just a mess.
Principal really doesn't like you mr.
Chris is, of course, referencing the cookie party that we had to
celebrate our, our reviews on flap will podcast.
Which again, thank you. So much out there students for
for taking the initiative, you going ahead and letting letting
the world know how wonderful Pokemon biology is.
We truly truly, appreciate She ate appreciate it, you know who
else appreciates it? Very very much.
It's our trainer and training Corbin.
Say hello to everybody Corbin, are you okay?
Hey carbon is now did so professors time the last what?
Curtis, I'm clearly sick. Okay, I'm not feeling well,
right? Leave the sickness at the door.
Listen, listen, when you come in my classroom at your healthy, As
the perfect wish that were the case Professor.
Listen, as the professor just stated listeners students, we
celebrated fifth wheel, well, their listeners to their
students in listeners. Okay.
Listen now you listen professor your listener.
Now, you listen to me. Oh, hi Evelyn.
We hit 15 rate. Look at me flap.
I Am The Listener now. You are, we had 15 ratings on
flappable podcast, and it was a great achievement, and we had a
cookie party that lasted way into the late night last week,
and it was a good time. So much fun to be had.
And one point I think mr. Curtis forgot.
Whether which was the side up piñata, and which wasn't,
because I think mr. Curtis did actually smack Perry
the Psyduck once or twice with the stick.
If I remember correctly, you will asking for it, but it was
Paris. I was Perry's.
That, that looks exactly like himself course, here, he's the
one that made. He's the one that made the
pinata. Look, exactly.
Like, she's getting everybody's get me Tipsy off of cookie.
Cookie few months, what? I'm trying to get to.
He got here, he did step up on the desk and yell hit the
piñata. So, I mean, what was I supposed
to do? He doesn't that what he said he
got from dusk and yelled Psyduck.
Yeah, well, yeah, I mean, he was obviously yelling at me to hit
the piñata so that's right. Okay.
All right. Listen, listen, that's all
that's all after hours. That's all off the Record fun,
but you're on the record as me about to vomit.
I had way too many cookies. All right?
My mom made five dozen of them. Had four dozen.
I had four dozen myself and I am telling you, I am still feeling
sick. It's been a week.
I was gonna say that was a that was a full week ago.
Yeah, I'm still feeling it. Now still feeling today, I
admire your commitment to come to class when you're clearly
dealing with some serious. Some serious food poisoning here
that would make me think, maybe you're gluten intolerant, did
your did your mother use real Wheaton that so or flower or
what she used. I think it just had too many,
they're not bad. I just I had four dozen of the
5. Five, dozen myself, but I do
okay. But still a week Corbin, it's
been a week. It should have left your system,
one way or the other either from the top, or from the bottom.
I mean, it's just give me a buzz just in case here, I actually
have a bucket. I keep a bucket behind a desk,
just in case, I will be, I will be quiet as possible and keep my
moaning and noises guttural noises to myself throughout the
lesson, but if I happened to I'll keep quiet as As I can, I'm
not going to let anything come up, I promise.
Well, we seem so focus on last lesson.
I think it's Zimbra member who we talked about last time we
were all right. Yeah, it was Poliwhirl least
arameans. That today, we're learning about
Paulie just a toad. Oh, no.
It's the other one. It was probably wrath.
So, okay. Yes, you believe her.
Good point though, Corbin. Yes, there is so Poliwhirl can
involves the two different things.
It can either evolve into a Poliwrath by use of a water
stone or can evolve into a Politoed by giving it a King's
Rock and then like giving it to your friend real quick for a
second. I don't really know why that
process part of part of the process is necessary but it
needs that kind of like I guess I just to power a friendship.
Phelps that so C'Mon the kind of like act of selflessness to
really like, you know, get it, get it to evolve but no, we are
learning about Poliwrath day. So I actually was able to get my
hands on to a water stone. And I was able to evolve our
lovely blub into a Poliwrath as everybody excited to see.
Get a look at her and I'm ready. Just, I'm ready.
Yeah, I'm ready to see it. Yep.
All right. Well, here she is.
You are looking even bigger and better than did you.
That's that's that's the same. That's the same Pokemon as last
week. That's a foam roll buddy.
Yeah, look clearly. Clearly Poliwhirl and Poliwrath
are extremely different mr. Curtis, could you please
illuminate our her poor trainer and training here?
Yes, please blub. If you wouldn't mind can I have
another handshake please do so yeah.
A little more aggressive this time?
Bigger hands. She's watch.
Oh my goodness. She'll Really lift.
Mr. Curtis up by his arm. Oh my gosh.
All right, Bloom not even trying.
Oh crap. Okay, okay.
Well okay, you can visually might be similar but she's a lot
stronger now, that's right, that's right.
And then and then watch here. See how I can I can link
fingers. See ya, no, okay.
I mean, I do have all your fingers, you know, now that you
mention it, your fingers are really long mr.
Curtis, that's right fingernails to do.
Do you not have clippers? That's your house is better.
For grip anyway. So I'm catching getting ahold of
those spinner acts as right. Yes.
Yeah. But see look.
Yep, we've got some fingers, she's obviously much stronger
much, much stronger and and a little bit angrier I guess so
stronger and fingers or Club angry.
Never she's a swell. It just chic but looks angry but
her she looks woman. Looks a lot more determined.
Here's yeah Fierce and determined And I this is a very,
very small difference but the white part of the stomach is
bigger than it was before and ratio to the black spiral and
not quite circular, it's not, it's weird, it's like being
shaped almost now and he I think I should mention that we talked
a lot last time about the fact that Poliwhirl doesn't have a
mouth. Now we may have been wrong in
that and the the top of that white, White part might actually
be its mouth. Yeah, it probably is.
I'm not about to stick my finger there though.
Yeah, I'll try it. I'm not gonna like listen, we
gotta respect blobs privacy here.
So yeah so this is the main thing about Poliwrath.
Is it strong, right? It's got your muscles or days.
In fact it's almost 100% muscle. Yeah, like moisture muscles.
The percentage of body fat is near zero.
All right? Okay, like she's super strong.
Incredible endurance can swim near endlessly.
I can relate to all of this. Yes.
Do you want to do a quick arm wrestle with beloved?
See who comes out on top of core material thing?
I know that I'm strong for a ten-year-old boy, but I know my
limits and I really don't want my arm ripped off by that thing
to say think I might have at first glance said, hey, it's not
a big deal that Raph looks the same as Polly.
Well, you know what that tells me, that tells me that it
reached Peak Evolution at its second stage, it just gets
stronger. You're, you're looking at,
you're looking at Peak Evolution right here.
There was. Yeah, this is great.
Doesn't you may not like it but this is what Peak Evolution
looks like. All right, we're about this.
Curtis, why are you pointing at the professor?
It's right, right there. No.
Right there. In this right there.
In his in his sometimes. People do say, I am the Old form
of other professors. Sometimes that no one says that
you say that yourselves right there in his Bill Burr, told me,
I may have said it and then other people repeated it
incredulously being like wait, did you just mr.
Curtis just mr. Curtis is repeated, it that
doesn't count. I said like, I'm the evolved
form of other professors and they'll say something like your
the evolved form of other professors.
And I'll take that to mean is that they are agreeing with me?
I don't think that's what that means.
But anyways, continue continue. Right.
Okay, let's go ahead and put love back into our Poké Ball by
plugging along. Okay, I am super excited to talk
about these pokedex entry so, hey, let's get into it.
Let's do it. Let's jump in.
Let's roll Outlets ball in. Hmm, jump ball.
And Sherry, I don't know what that loud in class.
I'm ready. All of them.
Yeah, but you, if, you know it, you felt it and you went with it
and I like that. All right, starting with the
Kanto region. The first one says, an Adept
swimmer, at both the front crawl and the breasts.
Okay, I easily overtakes the best.
Human swimmers. Oh so it swims the same way as
humans. Do I, it uses some clearly like
some there named. Right.
So the front crawl and the breaststroke now, I think, I
know what the breaststroke is. It's like, you know, we're
moving. Both your hands at the same
time. Is the front fall when you're
like, you know, on your belly removing?
I don't, ya like it. Stifle so Nunes freestyle
freestyle. Let's say it's another word for
freestyle. Yeah.
Is it is that? Yeah for yeah, yeah, think so
mate. You can swim however you want.
No no no, no. Like you spin your arms in a
windmill pattern and yeah flipper.
Kick your legs in your head every so often catch a breath.
Mmm, what sort of me? I listen, listen I know this the
swim Strokes I've been swimming since I was a little boy.
I you know what? I get it.
It's not the freestyle that you're thinking of you don't
just freestyle, do whatever you want.
The free style is So the the crawl one, the front row lien
that seems weird to me. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Alright the next one here says it's swims powerfully using all
the muscles and its body it can even overtake Champion.
Swimmers now, do you guys remember?
There may have been a Pokemon that kind of had its Pokedex
entries. Had a similar kind of vibe
Golduck, Golduck. Yes, it had a weird Fascination
on how Golduck? Is a better swimmer than even
the best human swimmers. Which to me seems obvious
because it's a Pokemon that spends.
Most of it's life in water. Uh-huh.
Right. The same for Poliwrath.
Right? Sure.
Like sure. Yeah, of course I can swim
better than humans. It lives mostly in the water.
Of course, I said it's makes perfect sense.
The last stage is, I don't know why the Pokedex needs to point
that out. And like feels the need to say
that it's does. All right.
One says a strong swimmer, it is faster than a human champ in an
individual medley. I was that mean was, what was
that on? I don't think what is that?
What is Li? And like a vegetable medley or
something? Like what does that mean?
Let me bring out my Rotom laptop type in vegetable medley and see
what comes up. I'm getting hungry, you guys.
One vegetable medley is for lunch today.
Heaven hungry, that's whole time.
Medley is a combination of four. Different swimming Styles,
backstroke breaststroke butterfly and freestyle.
Okay, so you are you are right about the freestyle and that it
is usually am. Your grades would say, otherwise
Corbin. I believe I did better than
Curtis last week. Let's just say that.
That's not bring let's not bring back.
Oh yeah a lot of groveling. I heard it from the hallway.
So it seems like what I thought was the Is actually an
individual medley. So, okay.
Yeah. Okay, that's what, is that just
splashing around like a madman? And no, I just said it's it's a
combination of four different. So it's a comment.
Okay. Okay, okay, okay, breaststroke
butterfly and freestyle all at once all at once, all I want.
No, no, I like you go down. Doing the backstroke.
You come okay breaststroke butterfly, come up doing the
freestyle and you do it all while.
Eating a plate of vegetables, the veggie medley, I love know
there's this, right, food involved, because I remember you
should not swim less than an hour after you eat because they
don't get cramps and get eaten by a Sharpedo.
That's right. That's awful.
Yeah, I know, it's horrible to happen.
Happened to many of my students. Wait, what?
I'm sorry me to Corbin me too. All right, let's move on to the
Johto region. This strong and skilled swimmer
is even Capable of crossing the Pacific Ocean just by kicking
nice just like kicking. Wow.
Which one is the Pacific Ocean? And now the Pacific Ocean, I
don't the Pacific Kurt again, I'm not I'm not a geologist
geography, you know, geologist is as rocks.
That's rocker fist at geography geography, dude.
So I don't you really so dumb. You sound its Graph of ologist a
half of sorry, I'm not a geographic ologist.
So I don't know where the Pacific Ocean is, but I do know
that the feet of being able to swim across an ocean is
something that also eradicate could do.
So I guess, you know, maybe don't be so bright, but it's
Gotta use all four of its limbs. It's can't do it with just in
fact legs. You're right Poliwrath can do it
just by kicking. All right, the next one says,
although an energetic skilled swimmer that uses all of its
muscles. It lives on dry land.
All right. Oh okay.
So Poliwhirl lived in the water, but occasionally would come up
to dry land, however, Poliwrath lives on dry land and it
occasionally goes into water, you know, one of the reasons why
Poliwhirl stayed in the water was to be safe, but Poliwrath
ain't afraid of nothing. And he's gonna be Gotta chill
out on the dry land and just take whatever comes at it.
It's right willingly gladly willingly with a smile on its
face. Well I mean it's mouth is pretty
in perceivable so it'd be hard. Okay well with a spiral on its
belly, there we go. Fire a slowly undulating spiral
on its belly probably. Oh yeah, I don't know, I don't
know if Poliwrath spiral is subtly undulating, I don't know.
Let's keep reading and find out. Okay.
Alright, the last one here. From The Johto region says it
can use its well-developed arms and legs to run.
Whoa, well what it can use. Its well-developed arms and legs
to run on the surface of water for a split second.
Oh, that's not, that's crazy. I don't know like, how, how
would it be muscles quick? It's just fast, man.
I guess so, it's quick enough. To run in the top of watered for
a brief second I guess. Well hot diggity damn that's
pretty because run pretty quickly.
Yeah, apparently, yeah, okay. But that does it for the Johto
region? Let's move on to the Hoenn
region. The first one here says Polly
raths highly developed brawny muscles.
Never grow fatigued. However however much it
exercises, it is so tirelessly strong.
This Pokemon can swim back and forth across the Pacific Ocean
without Effort. No way.
If I didn't know any better, I would say that this is a
fighting-type Pokémon. Not water.
That's crazy. It is okay.
So it's a water and fighting-type Pokémon.
So. Wow.
What a surprise. I'm right again.
You, you are right. This time.
Yes, this is, I guess the second time in a row that you're that,
you're correct. Just I just, I can't, I can't
stop being right today. That's just, it feels good.
It's good feeling can't stop. Won't stop.
I won't last one here from the Hoenn region.
And I dipped swimmer, it knows the front crawl butterfly and
more way more than we will list and we will list.
I can learn more. I mean, why would you need to
know like everything in this in his, you know, pokedex entry.
And it finishes by saying it is faster than the best.
Human swimmers duh. Yeah, it's all muscle.
Of course it can. But is it better than a gold
doc? Probably, it's got more muscle
than a cold duck. It's got to be interesting
question. All right, moving on to the
Sinnoh region. The only one here.
I am believe. Yes, only one here says with
it's extremely tough muscles. It can keep swimming.
In the Pacific Ocean without resting.
Hmm, yeah, I guess that means I can they can keep swimming
forever. I mean I think that's might
maybe may be an exaggeration. I'm sure it's got a rest at some
point. Everything every living thing
has to rest, I'm almost like a very realistic needs to eat,
right? I mean this could be your brows,
it swimming eat on the go fast food, you know, I mean it still
breathes underwater. I don't think it can breathe
underwater, mr. Curtis I mean, you used to live
all of its time in the water. It can, it says a strong
swimmer. This is sorry.
This is from entry from the Kanto region that I already
read. It says a strong swimmer is
faster than the human Champion. The individual medley.
Actually, I may have, I may have forgotten to say this last part
because I was so focused on the individual medley part it
finishes by saying it can go far and fast with minimal breathing.
Oh animal breathing. Okay well that ain't that well
then it has to be. Yeah yeah.
It has to breathe, has to breathe long, history of.
It's got them, although would you call something with gills
breathing? Would that also be considered
breathing it just do it. Yeah.
Take him inside the water right. Well, it wouldn't say that if it
could just breathe while it was swimming, you know?
I mean like you would only say that if it hadn't come up for
air. Listen.
You, you heard mr. Curtis yelling at me after last
lesson. All right, here, you don't want
to assume anything from these products.
It's not explicitly laid out. All right, can't can't rely on
it. Okay, can't rely on the source
for all Pokemon knowledge. My question though, is, how is
it deal with all the lactic acid buildup?
But it's muscles that thing. It just it's great it drains it
from its body like the oils that it uses to stay moist.
Maybe although I mean again again, it doesn't say anything
about boys skin for Poliwrath that was Poliwhirl.
That's true, that's true. Skin are set.
It'll undulation true. That's a Poliwhirl straight, not
necessarily A Poliwrath trait, but let's continue reading here
that does that's all that we had for the center region.
And of course, there's nothing for the, you know, Barone
callous. I mean there is entries for the,
you know, Bank Kalos regions. It's just that they're literally
word for word repeats of, you know, the previous entries.
So not worth my time, not worth your time.
No. But what is worth our time is
the Ole Ola region, because I always try their best, and The
region. That's what I like you got
something. Yeah.
All right. The first one says Poliwrath and
the Lola region are strong swimmers that use the brush.
Stroke many children, learn to swim by imitating Poliwrath.
So they'll see like Poliwrath out on the beach.
Just, you know, just flying down the beach and just swimming
super quickly. And they'll be like, oh, maybe
if I do it same, then I will also swim quickly.
And then the kids try to run across the water to like they
see the Poliwrath doing. And it just doesn't like Mom,
Mom look I'm running on the water but they mean, they're
clearly under water. And it's like, and but as a mom,
you have to be like, oh wow, that's yeah, you gotta, you
gotta entertain the little, the little littl door.
Go young, great. Timmy will stork.
Yeah, idiots, idiots, children, idiot.
Kids God, yeah. Again, you are 10 years old,
their Corbin. So you are one of those idiot.
I am but I feel like I have the emotional Charity of a
forty-year-old. You know I mean this is a
college-level course. So so you are you do have some
kind of level of maturity maturity that you're able to
keep. I would like to think that I
there's the cookies from last week.
I think I might have to do a duty compressor.
I'm have to do a poo-poo doo-doo.
Oh but yeah I'll hold it for now but yeah I'm very he is a fupa
Doodle boy. That's your poo-poo doo-doo.
But yeah, I'm very mature professor.
Clearly. All right, the next entry here
from the Lola region says it's percentage of body fat is nearly
zero. Its body is entirely muscle,
which makes it heavy and forces. It forces its swimming prowess
to develop. Hmm.
So this is kind of like a like a, like a tour, chicken, the egg
scenario, right? Like which came first the
muscles or the swimming prowess? Whoo, right?
Because if it's heavy because it has a lot of muscles, it has to
work hard to swim. So we repeat that entry one more
time, okay? It's percentage of body fat is
nearly zero, its body is entirely muscle, which makes it,
which makes it heavy and forces it swimming prowess to develop.
Okay. Yeah.
So you're saying this body is entirely muscle, obviously
that's not true, because it has eyes and mouth.
Bones. So it's body isn't entirely
muscle in fact, it literally says, it's Bonnie percentage of
its percentage of body fat is nearly zero, which means that
there is some body fat in there. So it's body is not entirely
muscle, but it's a, it's an exaggeration which we love to
have in our scientific articles here, I know you love it.
It's so it's, so it's so great for looking back on.
It years ago, you can't get a precise numeric, you know,
observation of Pokemon. It's all hyperbolic.
It's all a Exaggerative, you know, you know how much I love
numbers. I love them so much, but they
rarely use them. Numbers are a poor man's game.
It's all about guesstimating in the Pokedex entries.
Guessing you want quantitative measurements best I can do is
qualitative. That's right.
That's all right. The next entry here says it's
quite a gifted swimmer even among water type Pokemon, but it
normally spends its time on Yeah.
Yep. Okay.
All right, I'm the last one here from the other reason says the
muscles that has developed. Wait the muscles it has
developed through swimming are thick and Powerful when it lands
a square punch, it can turn to Hugh.
Turn huge boulders to dust. Wow.
Yeah, wham bam. Massive now your dust damn.
Imagine. What do you do to a human head
at me nuts. But it never would because, you
know, Pokemon Pokemon. Love humans, we work together
and that's always the case. Did we just what?
What, what Pokemon was it that it's like, even if you're in the
area a little tack, you what was it was like a primate primate?
Yeah, it will stop it. So you're like dead.
Growlithe is also very territorial but they won't.
They'll just kind of bark. They don't really fight that
much. So that's not true Professor.
There were there were there are Pokemon that will eviscerate you
don't have gladly gladly without hesitation All right.
Let's probably reason why I don't work with scissors.
Well, you don't know. They are they are, they are all.
They all have a grudge against human.
I know. I don't like scissors.
Either Professor. You should probably keep those
in your drawer. The ones that are on your desk
right now because there's don't worry, these are safety tips
that you couldn't. You couldn't even if you want.
Ow, my hand. Oh, quick quick.
Here's here's here's some first aid kit.
Oh, okay. I thought you were going to give
me some of your spinarak web. I guess I'm.
Well, it is. It is a Box full of spinarak
when it's the first one says its body is solid muscle when
swimming through cold Seas Poliwrath uses its impressive
arms to smash through Drift Ice and plow forward that is metal.
Yeah. You know it's interesting
because a lot of these entries About Poliwrath swimming through
salt water through. See, right?
Yeah, yeah. All of the entries for Poliwhirl
and Politoed talk about how it is in fresh water like lakes or
ponds, or rivers or Creeks. Right.
I mean I guess you know, it doesn't live in water so that
whole kind of distinction between saltwater and freshwater
isn't as important but it's interesting.
I wonder when the transition occurs is that like it starts to
spend more of its time in salt water than it does in.
Do we know if Poliwhirl had gills and then Poliwrath doesn't
since probably world of didn't water and Poliwrath lives on my
end. I mean, I don't I don't think I
don't think any of them have gills.
I think they all have long, okay, okay, all right, so Polly,
what that? Lee world and Poliwrath, let's
go with that. Yeah, you know, I mean, I guess
it's not in the Pokey Century, so I can't say for sure, but
that's if I had think you would educated.
Guess a theory if you will, I would say that.
They all have lungs. I could dissect one in front of
you if you want now. Do you know what I'm going to
do? Yes, I'll get my scalpel.
Nope. Sit down.
No surgeries, no, no, no. All right.
The last Regional entry here, says Poliwrath is skilled at
both swimming and martial arts uses its well-trained arms to
dish out powerful punches. All right, so I think you like
trained fighter to like a karate or thinking like a like a, like
a judo Jiu Jitsu or Tri some Krav Maga if you will see ya,
Bob mcgrail. Yeah, this poly, this probably
wrap. Not only does Croft, McGraw.
It's out to kill it. Will kill you.
It will. Yep.
We'll go through our go for the throat.
Old-school, gentleman's boxing tension, but it can't.
It's it does bare knuckle, but it looks like it isn't
bare-knuckle because of the it's glove hands.
But that is technically bare-knuckle boxing that is
true. Slap fight still do slap fights.
Yep, it'll pinch you on the ear or something?
That's, that's rough. Pillow fights.
Yeah it's a master of those. Oh yeah.
Oh for sure. Should I should I move on?
Yeah, I think we've talked to him.
No. Yeah.
Alright. That does it for the regional
entries. I have one unique entry here,
which of course comes to us, from ashes Pokédex.
It says, Poliwrath the tadpole Pokemon.
That's right. Poliwrath is still the tadpole
Pokemon. Yellow mean, are you serious?
I don't think it's a tadpole anymore.
Polygraph is an excellent swimmer, and it's powerful.
All muscles make its attacks extremely effective.
Okay. All right, that does for the
Pokedex entries. Would anybody like to listen to
a unsourced uncredited article? I ya know what?
I think I would I'd be fine with that sounding.
Yes. I'm hearings.
I'll go ahead and read it. Poliwrath is a blue bipedal
Pokémon with a round body and muscular arms.
It has bulbous eyes that protrude from the top of its
head. And its belly is covered by a
white and black squirrel. There appeared to be white
gloves on its Hands. It has rounded digit list feet.
I mean, this is very similar to. It's almost exactly the same as
Polly worlds, right? Yeah, yeah, I told you Polly.
Yeah, I mean, you're not wrong, you're not wrong, Poliwrath.
Body is almost entirely muscle and the muscles in its arms and
legs and never Tire. It also has 0% body fat.
That's incorrect. That is incorrect.
It's nearly 0% body fat Market, wrong Arirang, your I'm taking
points off. Yep, I went swims.
A uses all of the muscles and its body and is able to swim
vast insys distances with minimal breathing is even
capable of briefly running on the water surface, you know, for
whatever good that does it. That's so epic though.
It can also smash through ice and plow forward using its
strong arms. Poliwrath is capable of out
swimming. Even world-class, swimmers
Poliwrath is also skilled at martial arts it can launch some
powerful Square punches capable of crushing Boulders into dust,
May children learn how to swim by replicating.
Getting Poliwrath movement. He is one of the most gifted
swimmers of all water Pokémon. It goes on to say that being the
result of an evolution via evolution stone Polly rap is
rarely found in the wild, when found is usually seen living on
dry land. Near Water's Edge, despite it
being an excellent swimmer, in a Lola, Poliwrath found weight in
a Lola. Poliwrath found are strong
enough to use the brush stroke while swimming.
I mean, all Poliwrath use the Stroke.
I don't ya all the same. We have the whole medley.
Yeah. The whole medley.
Which includes the breast stroke.
Yes. Right.
Okay. Weird.
Call out there article. All right.
So yeah, that does it for all the information that we have on
Poliwrath. So I think it's time to test
your knowledge and do a pop quiz.
Who's right? All right.
Yes. Let's brought it.
None of you already because because I see your pokedex entry
your Pokedex. So get him out of here.
Let's close it up. Don't and don't, hey, don't
bring out anything. Don't don't put a single thing
on your desk. All right.
I want you to send me the answers through your mind.
That's a, you forgot your right Tom left.
Out that. Where am I, how am I supposed to
take my dictation? 'S, if I can't have your, what?
Oh, that dictations. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry what I say? Zero, nothing, nothing nothing
on the desk, mr. Curtis.
Get it out of here, guys. Guys, I pranked you.
That was a prank, you just got to pray.
Got me, good, professor laptops, of course, I could just get a
quiz on, okay? Okay, okay.
Question number one, when in a lake or Pond will Poliwrath sink
or float, and why, okay, both of the answers are in.
I'm going to read Corbin's first this time.
Yeah, that's new. That's new and, you know, change
change the face. It will sink.
Because it is naturally very heavy so it had to learn to swim
to stay up. Okay?
Corbin getting answer. I'm going to ask you one
question real quick. Sure, why is it heavy?
Oh, because it's OSHA write that down.
Or should I say it out loud? Just, just just tell me right
now because it's basically, it's basically all muscle, okay?
All right. Thank you.
That's all I had to say, and mr.
Curry said sink, because it's all muscle.
So, yes. Okay.
Yes, you guys are both correct. It will sink because of its good
good muscles. And that's part of why it can
swim so. Well, is because I had to learn
to keep itself up. That's right.
I think that's what the Pokedex says, is a little bit unclear,
as, to the meaning behind that but yes, it will sink.
Yeah. It might not sink in salt water
because the density is, there will be a little bit different.
It might be enough to keep it afloat, but I'm not sure, right?
Definitely. No.
And fresh water. It's gonna sink.
Oh yeah. Alright question.
Number two. In the water, who would win in a
short distance race? Poliwrath gold duck or a human
in a short distance race, huh? And a short distance race.
Okay? So the answers for question,
number two are in the question is in the water, who would win
in a short distance race, Poliwrath Golduck or human corn
was responded with gold duck and mr.
Curtis responded with Golduck would win out of three because
while Paul Earth will be any human.
Golduck is still the fastest of the swimmers.
You are exactly correct. Yes.
You said if you're me, there you go.
Until we get any kind of further information proving otherwise we
have to assume that the fastest Pokemon in the water is Golduck.
Yes, because of the Pokedex entries.
So you guys are right Golduck. Would beat say there's only
wrath obviously more endurance with Poliwrath but Golduck takes
the cake with speed. Yes, All right.
Question number 3, where does Poliwrath spend most of its time
at your mom's house? Got him.
That's me don't say that. Okay both of the answers are in
Corbin responded with on land exclamation point.
Meaning of course, he knows that it's like he knows yes, got to
be the right answer. It's got to be summation, Mark
and mr. Curtis responded with on dry
land. Where it lives?
Yes, you're both correct. Boom.
Because even though it is a exceptional, No swimmer.
It spends most of its time on the land because I guess it
likes the danger. I don't know.
It thrives in it thrives. All right.
Now, for the last question, this is an essay question.
Ready for my true and false? Oh ok, NVM know.
So make sure you take your time with it.
Think about it. So, this go.
The question, is again, no, right or wrong answers here.
I'm just looking for what you guys come up with.
Okay, so Poliwrath, use almost Identical swimming techniques as
humans do meaning like, you know, the brushstroke the
freestyle, the backstroke, all those.
So assuming that this is not a coincidence, please come up with
a theory for why this link exists.
All right, I have both of the essay answers in.
Let me read Corbin's first. He says, Corbin says, there are
not many Polly. There are not many Poliwrath in
the wild. And we know that they evolved
from Poliwhirl to be land-dwelling Pokemon.
Most Poliwrath have come about via Waterstone.
Most likely introduced by a trainer once evolving.
They learn, they learn from humans how to swim, but because
of their natural water type aquatic nature and strength,
Poliwrath exceeded humans in every capacity, perfecting their
Strokes increasing their strength.
And because their water type they became the ultimate
swimmers. All right?
So you have like kind of a the Student becomes the master kind
of scenario. Basically.
Yeah. That's that's that's the tldr
version of that. Yeah, they learn from humans,
there wasn't very many of them waterstones.
I mean Poliwrath more than likely came about.
I mean, probably the early, I mean, I'm not going to sit here
and say that humans were the first to discover Poliwrath or
whatever. I'm sure Poliwrath existed
beforehand, you know, via water stone, but I think more of them
came about once humans, realize, oh, they could have all via
water stone and then once they were introduced, they try to
teach them how to swim. So, They're no longer aquatic
dwelling. And after that they they
basically, they basically just showed the humans up and said,
hey, I'm going to show you how to really do it and yeah, I'm
along my child. That's right.
You, I will now show you the new student, becomes the teacher.
That's right. Student becomes the master.
All right, let's see what mr. Curtis says, by appearance given
Poliwrath shape using a human swim style would be less than
ideal for Polygraph. But Poliwrath is a very
competitive, aggressive Pokemon. And it is by this very nature,
that polygraph intentionally uses, the sub optimal methods
used by humans, Poliwrath uses, these inefficient modes of
transportation to help it trains become more powerful by adding
unnecessary strain and to show off even more as it takes a
handicap and still defeats the best of human swimmers.
OK, I like that. That's a very good answer.
So it's right. It's a pride thing.
It's a Titian reason. Okay.
I mean I it isn't even a competition.
Right? Humans suck humans.
Can't even swim. Yeah I like it the a these are
both very very good answers. I will admit this is a little
bit kind I guess it's a little bit more of an abstract kind of
essay question. But you guys took it and you ran
or huh, swam know you ran across the water with it.
Briefly on top of the water for is how we did.
We sure did great. Great work all around and you
guys both got full. Full full marks on feels so
good. If I had more cookies.
I would let you eat them now, which actually I do have one
more Corbin was you? Would you like, you know, I've
been holding off on taking this know.
I've been holding off my cookies for a limited.
If you can show me cookies, I'm gonna look at it.
I voted here, could you please show Corman.
Wes like to eat a delicious cookie?
I'm good, I don't need to see that please.
If I see another look at him go really getting into it.
The bucket, the bucket, the bucket.
No, I'm good. How good?
How good it subsided. It's alright, let's end this
quick then so that does it for Poliwrath.
Does anybody know who we will be talking about next time?
It's a complete change of pace. I know this I know this it's
it's Politoed we're talking about no no for some reason some
of these do seem out of order. Order, we are not talking about
Polly toad next, even though it is also an evolved form of
Poliwhirl. Okay?
Yeah. Just like when we talked about
Violet Gloom and vileplume we didn't talk about bellossom, I
think it has to do with when these Pokemon were discovered
it. Did they just kind of like threw
them in there? I don't know.
It's it is very interesting that they're not behind another so
we're not learning about Politoed next.
Give me a hit. What type is it?
It is a pure psychic type. Is it sighs?
Oh my God. Is it Avril?
We are learning about abre. Yes, very next.
One job there for him. God is one of the cyclist
cyclist psychic is psychedelic like act Ives Avril.
Alex ladies. I'm very average a very, very
interesting Pokemon and I can't wait to talk about it.
But of course, you know me, I would go on right now and start
teaching you about a bro but I'm fortunately.
I must wait until next week. Until that time, if students, if
you have questions for me or for mr.
Cursor for Corbin. You can ask me or them via
Gengar mail or Gmail, he won't use a shorthand for it.
You can, it's wo Pokemon at gmail.com.
And if you don't have a younger male, you can also find me on
the bird, Pokemon themed social network site, which is, of
course, Twitter you can find me there at wo Pokémon as well.
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out as a professor and it lists all want to help out your
professor if we decided last week.
If we hit 30 ratings, we're going to have a field trip and
it's going to be awesome. We're going to go to like we're
going to go to like Mount Silver.
I'm crazy or like we're gonna cruise, I don't know.
I did that. I would talk to the principal
about that. Nothing was fully decided you
need to give the students an incentive to review.
I'm calling it. Now, we're gonna do a field
trip. How does this incentivize them?
Their virtual students? They wouldn't they get to hear
about us having fun? That's so they're going to have
fun by default. Everybody's favorite t-shirt
hear about somebody else having fun.
I mean, yeah, I get to have fun vicariously.
Exactly know what, we will cross that bridge when we get to it, I
think we're still pretty far away from from that happening.
But you know what, until next time class is dismissed, oh god,
I've made it through the entire class without throat.
Curtis, why did you take your shoes off?
Well, I can take your shoes off. Why, where did you take it?
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