I SOLVED The Oldest Pokemon Debate!
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🗓️ 9 October 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Join Game Theory Host MatPat as he finally solves one of Pokemon's OLDEST debates!
*Credits:* Writers: Matthew Patrick, Mike Keenan (The Pokémon Biologist) and Tom Robinson Editors: Dan "Cybert" Seibert, Tyler Mascola , Brandon_n_motion, Dom Sealion, Pedro Freitas and Shannon (Bomb0i) Sound Designer: Yosi Berman
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| 0:00.0 | Pokemon sizes make absolutely zero sense. |
| 0:03.0 | The fearsome charzard? |
| 0:04.5 | Yeah, it stands at a measly five foot seven inches. |
| 0:07.2 | That has a couple inches shorter than me. |
| 0:09.1 | The formidable Lucario? |
| 0:10.4 | He's just three foot 11. |
| 0:11.8 | It's not even tall enough to get on most Disney rides and for it you know the Pokemon that's based on a ferret is supposedly six feet long |
| 0:18.9 | Not sure I want that thing running up and down my pant leg. Anyway, I think you get the point. |
| 0:23.0 | The sizes listed in the Pokedex are all over the place. |
| 0:26.2 | But there's one Pokemon that takes the insanity |
| 0:28.6 | and turns it up to 11, the float whale Pokemon Waylord. |
| 0:32.8 | For two decades, this guy has sparked fan rage, |
| 0:35.9 | so much so that it's even spilled into the realm |
| 0:37.8 | of a full-on academic paper. |
| 0:39.5 | And all of it stems from one simple question, |
| 0:42.2 | is Waylord lighter than air? |
| 0:44.4 | Seems like a weird thing to be asking about your 47 foot long whale, right? |
| 0:48.2 | Wrong. |
| 0:49.2 | Once you look at the rest of the numbers, you see how this has become one of the most controversial |
| 0:52.4 | topics in all the |
| 0:53.6 | okay verse so today we're gonna be coming up with a definitive answer has the |
| 0:57.0 | internet hit rock bottom or is everyone else including this Pokemon full of |
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