Holy Butts! So I never got this as a kid, and had no idea
until just a bit ago while doing some research for another video. But I always thought that pokemon evolution
by trading was stupid. And this is ESPECIALLY the case for shelmet
and karrablast. You specifically have to trade the two of
them in order for them to evolve. The rest of the trade evo’s you just have
to trade whatever! But recently I found out that there is actually
a VERY good reason why these two being traded to evolve makes sense! And maybe you already knew this, that's fine- Go whine about it in the comments smarty,
I’m sure your parents are proud of your pokemon trivia knowledge!! But I figured that if I didn't know about
this until just now, maybe there are plenty other that don't either. So here we are! so, the evolution in question, shelmet to
accelgor, and karrablast into escavalier. Just by looking at them you can sort of see
what happens. Karrablast borrows elements from shelmet and
gains the armor, if you look close you can see a sort of karrablast body in there. So I originally figured when trading they
were also trading elements with each other, karrablast gets the armor element from shelmet
and shelmet gets the…. High speed from karrablast? But karrablast isn't super fast or anything,
but it is known to explode? karraBLAST? And exploding is fast? Idk, that's what I originally thought. But its actually way deeper and cooler than
that. So shelmet is based on a snail, it is the
snail pokemon and its got the classic snail curve behind the medieval helmet. When it evolves into accelgor, you can tell
it still has snail elements because of the name, accelgor, from both accelerate because
of its speed, and escargot, french for snail. Escavalier also has escargot in its name,
along with cavalier. So does the beetle become a snail? You can still see the beetle parts in there,
so clearly not. But look at whats happening here. You trade the two pokemon, and suddenly the
beetle gets shelmet's snail shell, and the snail grows big and gets wrapped in bandages. Typical fighting ninja fashion sure, but maybe
something more. It looks like karrablast stole the helmet
from shelmet while they were in the process of being traded. Which would make sense actually! Karrablast is sort of a generic beetle, kind
of a scarab, kind of a rhinoceros beetle… but notably in this case, this interaction
with shelmet points also to Carabus blaptoides blaptoides, commonly known in japan as the
snail-eating beetle. This beetle hunts out snails, and empties
their shells entirely, and then may use the shell as a small hideout. So that's what happened here! While in the vulnerable state of whatever
goes one while being digitally traded, karrablast steals the shell off of shelmet, perhaps in
an attempt to eat the shelmet, but because trading is so fast, the opportunity passes
after karrablast removed shelmets protection. And now just carrying around a sturdy snail
shell, it can make armor out of it, becoming an escavalier. Meanwhile, the shelmet just got its armor
ripped off, and not having to carry around big heavy medieval armor means now it can
go fast! But it also has a big hole in its back, so
it wraps that up. And so it becomes accelgor. This interaction is a fascinating example
of co-evolution, or y'know in the case of pokemon, co-metamorphosis. This is when two or more species adapt and
change over generations because of the actions of the other. Like flowers becoming bigger and brighter
to attract more bees, and bees getting better and better and spotting flowers. Or in the case of predator and prey like these
pokemon, its cheetahs, getting faster and faster as time goes on, while gazelles do
the same thing. Its quite fascinating. And I hope you found this to be fascinating
as well! I certainty do! So until next time please remember to never
stop using that Gnoggin! And be sure to check out these other awesome
videos. thanks!
Gonna save everyone the clickbait video.
Karrablast is based on a beetle that eats snails by ripping them out of their shells.
Shelmet is a snail.
Their evolution is a more friendly version of the Beetle eating the snail, but the Beetle stealing the shell from Shelmet.
It just so happens that this is actually mutually beneficial for both Pokémon.