- Greetings Pokefans! Michael here, and now
that the Isle of Armor is out for Pokemon
Sword and Shield, players are looking for
things to do within it after they complete
the main story of it. After all, that story's
only a few hours long, and the DLC came out
almost a week ago as of the day I'm
posting this video, so I assume most of
you that got the DLC have already finished
that main story. So what can you do to
amuse yourself now? Well, there's of course, completing the Isle
of Armor Pokedex, there's hunting down and
finding all of the Digletts, There's restricted sparring,
which is a kinda cool, almost Battle
Frontier type facility you can do within the dojo, and then there's shiny hunting. But what if I told you there
was another kind of hunting that you could do to have
fun in the Isle of Armor that is superior
to shiny hunting? That, my friends, is
called mark hunting. I mentioned it on
Twitter a few days ago, and I was surprised to see
that I got several replies asking me what the heck
mark hunting even was. After all, mark hunting has
been in Sword and Shield since the games came out, so why don't people
know about it? Also, why is it something that is specifically good
to do on the Isle of Armor? In this video, I'll be answering
those questions and more. I'll be going over
what marks are, how to hunt them, and
why you should do so, including why it's
superior to shiny hunting. So don't forget to
subscribe to my channel, tap the bell for notifications,
you know the drill, and let's dive into my
spiel about mark hunting. First off, what are marks? Well to explain that, I
first need to give you some background information
about how ribbons work in Sword and Shield. Ribbons have been in
the main series games since generation three, and Pokemon can receive them
for doing various things. The most common examples
are being in the party when the Pokemon
League is defeated, but they also are awarded
for contest performance, Battle Facility wins,
and other random things like having max effort values
or just being gifted one by talking to the right
NPC at the right time. Ribbons are stored in a
particular Pokemon's data throughout its transferal
through the generations. So a Pokemon that received
a ribbon in generation three will still have
it if you move it all the way up to gen eight. For all the previous
generations, ribbons were just
nice things to look at in a Pokemon's summary. They didn't impact
the battle performance or anything at all
about the Pokemon other than what its ribbon page
looked like in its summary. They were cool to collect,
and cool to show off a Pokemon that got ribbons
throughout multiple generations, but they had no functionality. But then Sword and
Shield came along and gave ribbons some
kind of a functionality. Pokemon titles. If you go into your
Pokemon's list of ribbons in its summary, you can
view all of its ribbons. However, if you select
one by pressing A, that ribbon will
cause the Pokemon to have a title that is
displayed when it enters battle. For example, take my
Tyranitar named Colossus, a formerly shadow Tyranitar
in Pokemon Colosseum that I purified and brought all the way into
Sword and Shield. By the way, if you
want to see a video of how I did that, you can click up in the cards. Colossus has the
National Ribbon, which is given to Pokemon that are purified
in Colosseum or XD. If I select the ribbon, it is given the title
of The Triumphant, meaning that when I send
it into battle, any battle, it says I sent out
Colossus the Triumphant! Which is absolutely
the coolest thing ever, are you kidding me? Colossus the Triumphant? That is insanely cool,
absolutely worth the effort of moving that thing
through all the games. So ribbons that a
Pokemon has earned can give them titles in
Pokemon Sword and Shield that will be displayed when
a Pokemon enters battle, and therefore make
it more unique than other instances
of that species. However, ribbons
aren't the only way to give a Pokemon a title. The other way is
if it has a mark. Marks are basically
built-in ribbons. The Pokemon is found with
the mark already on it, and like ribbons, there's no way to transfer
it to another Pokemon, or pass it down to an offspring. Speaking of offspring, hatched
Pokemon cannot have marks. In fact, only wild Pokemon can
be found with marks on them. Not hatched Pokemon,
not raid boss Pokemon, not gift Pokemon, only wild. There are quite a few marks
that a Pokemon can be found with and I'm going to
list all of them. The first batch of marks
are ones that can be found only under specific
circumstances, for example, the time of day. The Lunchtime Mark
is for Pokemon caught in the middle of the day, and it gives the
title of the Peckish. The Sleepy-Time Mark is for
Pokemon caught at night, and it gives the
title of the Sleepy. The Dusk Mark is for
Pokemon found in the evening and gives the title of the Dozy, and the Dawn Mark is for
Pokemon found in the morning and gives the title
of the Early Riser. There are also some
that only show up if the Pokemon is caught under
a certain type of weather. When it's overcast, you
can get the Cloudy Mark with the title of
the Cloud Watcher. When it's raining, you
can get the Rainy Mark with the title of the Sodden. When it's thunderstorming,
you can get the Stormy Mark with the title of
the Thunderstruck, which might I say is probably the most badass mark
title of all of them. When it's snowing, you
can get the Snowy Mark with the title of
the Snow Frolicker. When it's heavily snowing,
you can get the Blizzard Mark with the title of the Shivering. When there's harsh sun,
you can get the Dry Mark with the title of the Parched. When there's a sandstorm, you
can get the Sandstorm Mark with the title of the Sandswept, and when it's foggy, you
can get the Misty Mark, not that Misty, with the
title of the Mist Drifter. And then there are two
other catch scenario marks. Pokemon fished up can
have the Fishing Mark and the title of the
Catch of the Day, and Pokemon that
come to your camp after you cook curry
can have the Curry Mark with the title of the
Curry Connoisseur. But then there's
a lot more marks that can be found on
any Pokemon at any time under any catch circumstances as long as it's a wild Pokemon. However, these have
a substantially lower
chance to show up. The Uncommon Mark with
the title of the Sociable. The Rare Mark with the
title of the Recluse. I believe this mark is
the rarest of all of them. So if you have a Pokemon with
this mark, very nice job. The Rowdy Mark with
the title of the Rowdy. The Absent-Minded Mark with
the title of the Spacey. The Jittery Mark with
the title of the Anxious. The Excited Mark with
the title of the Giddy. The Charismatic Mark with
the title of the Radiant. The Calmness Mark with
the title of the Serene. The Intense Mark with
the title of the Feisty. The Zoned-Out Mark with the
title of the Daydreamer. The Joyful Mark with
the title of the Joyful. The Angry Mark with the
title of the Furious. The Smiley Mark with the
title of the Beaming. The Teary Mark with the
title of the Teary-Eyed. The Upbeat Mark with the
title of the Chipper. The Peeved Mark with
the title of the Grumpy. The Intellectual Mark with
the title of the Scholar. The Ferocious Mark with
the title of the Rampaging. The Crafty Mark with the
title of the Opportunist. The Scowling Mark with
the title of the Stern. The Kindly Mark with the
title of the Kindhearted. The Flustered Mark with the
title of the Easily Flustered. The Pumped-Up Mark with
the title of the Driven. The Zero-Energy Mark with
the title of the Apathetic. The Prideful Mark with
the title of the Arrogant. The Unsure Mark with the
title of the Reluctant. The Humble Mark with
the title of the Humble. The Thorny Mark with the
title of the Pompous. The Vigor Mark with the
title of the Lively, and the Slump Mark with
the title of the Worn-Out. And then there's one more
mark, the Destiny Mark, with the title of
the Chosen One. Ooh. However, this mark is
not currently available. No one knows how to
find a Pokemon with it, it doesn't appear to be
actually possible right now, so I assume that it will be
on some future event Pokemon. Now some of you will
immediately feel the same way as I do
about these marks, that they're extremely fun! The potential to
have your Pokemon have some kind of wacky subtitle that shows up when
it enters battle, it's so fun and enticing, and is enough alone just
to make you wanna do it. However, I know there are
some of you that are wondering why this even matters? Why should we care about
these silly little words that will just show up
next to the Pokemon's name when it enters battle,
and then that's it? Well, to answer that, I would argue that you should
care about marked Pokemon because it makes the
Pokemon more memorable. Far more memorable than
even a shiny Pokemon. Aaron Traylor, a VGC player who won the Dallas
regionals this season, used a Whimsicott
on his winning team that had the Angry Mark, and therefore the
title of the Furious. Therefore he fantastically
named it The Fast and, resulting in this
Pokemon being sent out as The Fast and the Furious. That title, and the creative
nickname alongside it have made it so I am never
going to forget that Whimsicott, and I bet a lot of you are
not gonna forget it either, now that you've seen it. But if that Whimsicott
had been shiny, with no other unique factors, then I wouldn't have even
thought twice about it. It's just another
shiny Whimsicott. I've seen people use many
Whimsicotts in battle, and therefore have
seen several shinies. Shiny Pokemon simply are not
as valuable as they once were, because you can transfer
them in from previous games, or they could be hacked, or they could be found with
the higher Masuda odds. Having a shiny of a
particular species is not as crazy as it once was, unless it's a species that's exceptionally
difficult to shiny hunt, for example the
gen eight fossils. But even then, if I see
one in an online battle, my first assumption is going
to be that it's hacked! But with marks, they're
far less common. Now that's not to
say the chances of finding a Pokemon with a mark are lower than the chances of finding a Pokemon
that's shiny. Definitely, you're more likely
to find a Pokemon with a mark than a shiny Pokemon
of the same species. But the thing with marks is that there's a ton of them, so your chances of
getting one specific mark that you may want on
a particular Pokemon are much lower than finding a shiny of that
particular Pokemon. At least, if it's one of
the rarer personality marks. The weather and time of day, and like the uncommon,
the Sociable mark, those are relatively
easier to find. So if you and someone else
both have shiny Whimsicotts, the Whimsicotts are the same. You can't really notice
anything unique about them, unless they have
different nicknames. However, if you and someone else both have a marked Whimsicott, the chances of those
two marks being the same are very low. So yeah, you both have
marked Whimsicotts, but they're still unique. Finding marked Pokemon,
of course, has the perk of giving your
Pokemon fun titles, but it also shows that
that Pokemon is unique. Far more unique than
any other Pokemon of that particular species. Plus, thanks to all the strides that Sword and Shield has made in being able to modify
any given Pokemon to make them
competitively viable, any marked Pokemon
you find in the wild can be made
competitively viable, with the exception of
needing the hidden ability. That's the one drawback, 'cause no wild Pokemon have
their hidden abilities. So if you want a Pokemon
that's exceptionally unique that someone else is unlikely
to have in the same way, then you should
try mark hunting. All right, so I've convinced
you to do some mark hunting. How, how do you do it? Well, the first
thing I recommend is completing your
Isle of Armor Pokedex. Showing your completed 'dex to the researcher in the station results in her giving
you the Mark Charm, an item like the Shiny Charm that makes finding
Pokemon with marks easier. Based on some tweets I've
seen from dataminers, The Mark Charm
triples your chance of finding a particular mark, just like the Shiny
Charm triples your chance of finding a shiny. However, different marks
have different odds, so that's something
important to keep in mind. And then you begin your hunting by simply catching wild Pokemon, because you have to
catch the Pokemon in order to know
if it has a mark. So stock up on quick balls, and get a Gallade with False
Swipe and Thunder Wave, that's what I use,
and it's very useful. Catching these Pokemon will
fill up your boxes quite a bit, but thankfully if you
have Pokemon Home, there is the mass
release function which allows you to release
100 Pokemon at a time. So, if you don't have Home,
I absolutely recommend it. If there's a particular time
or weather mark that you want, those you can target by hunting
during a certain time of day or going to a place with
that particular weather. So if you want the
Thunderstruck mark, look at your map, see
where it's thunderstorming, and go catch Pokemon there. Then if there's one of
the personality marks that you want, that can
be found at any time, then just catch Pokemon
wherever you want! Also, this is purely anecdotal, so I don't have
data proof of this, so take this with
a grain of salt, but I personally have
experienced finding more marked Pokemon on the
Isle of Armor than elsewhere. Prior to getting the Mark Charm, I checked my boxes to see how
many marked Pokemon I had, and I had eight in total. But four of them were
caught on the Isle of Armor in one day, the day before, so like I said,
this is anecdotal, I do not know this for certain, but I think the Isle of
Armor has higher mark chances than mainland Galar. Also, another beautiful
thing about mark hunting is that you're shiny
hunting at the same time! If you encounter wild Pokemon over and over and
over and over again, you are shiny hunting
with the full odds, or the Shiny Charm odds,
if you have those odds. I think this is excellent, because if you do
happen to find a shiny, then it's extra exciting, because it's basically
a random one, with the lower odds. Also, if you find a
shiny marked Pokemon, oh my God, you've
found something that very few other Pokemon
players will ever find. So there you have it,
that's mark hunting. What it is, how you do it,
and why you should do it. So go on, head off
into the Pokemon world, catch some Pokemon,
and find some marks. Thank you so much for watching, and an extra special thanks
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