A podcast about Pokémon! Every episode Will and Braden analyze and discuss all the Pokédex entries for a single Pokémon.
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Avast! Get ready for an exceptionally swashbuckling episode of Beyond the Ball as we welcome our first Sword of Justice to the show, Virizion! The Three Musketeers were swashbuckling, right? Is that what they did? Swashbuckle? Follow along with the entries below:
Black: This Pokémon fought humans in order to protect its friends. Legends about it continue to be passed down.
White: Its head sprouts horns as sharp as blades. Using whirlwind-like movements, it confounds and swiftly cuts opponents.
Black & White 2: Legends say this Pokémon confounded opponents with its swift movements.
Sword: A legend tells of this Pokémon working together with Cobalion and Terrakion to protect the Pokémon of the Unova region.
Shield: It darts around opponents with a flurry of quick movements, slicing them up with its horns.
BTB: This big, green deer is not afraid to stand up for justice. It has just phenomenal boots and a weird hat that is sharp?
Iron Leaves:
Scarlet: Many of its physical characteristics match those of a Virizion from the future that was covered in a paranormal magazine.
Violet: According to the few eyewitness accounts that exist, it used its shining blades to julienne large trees and boulders.
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4 Aug 2025
Beyond the Ball 268 - Forretress
From Pineco to giant, metal mystery egg, it's Forretress! It shoots, it spins, and holds secrets within! Follow along with the entries below:
Gold: Its entire body is shielded by a steel-hard shell. What lurks inside the armor is a total mystery.
Silver: It remains immovably rooted to its tree. It scatters pieces of its hard shell to drive its enemies away.
Crystal: Usually found hanging on to a fat tree trunk. It shoots out bits of its shell when it sees action.
Ruby & Sapphire: FORRETRESS conceals itself inside its hardened steel shell. The shell is opened when the POKéMON is catching prey, but it does so at such a quick pace that the shell’s inside cannot be seen.
Diamond, Pearl & Platinum: It is encased in a steel shell. Its peering eyes are all that can be seen of its mysterious innards.
Ultra Sun: When something approaches it, it fires off fragments of its steel shell in attack. This is not a conscious action but a conditioned reflex.
Ultra Moon: In the moment that it gulps down its prey, the inside of its shell is exposed, but to this day, no one has ever seen that sight.
Dark Forretress: It stays motionless in trees, driving away with flying armored shards from its hard shell any who come close.
BTB: There must be a way to find out what's inside its steel shell, but science is still too cowardly to face its incredible defensive capabilites.
The Big Egg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wubgAIiWpY&t=1s)
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28 Jul 2025
Beyond the Ball 267
In this episode Braden discusses their recent trip to Burger King and Will reminisces about his bygone hobbit feet days. That's right we're talking about Pineco! Follow along with the entries below:
Gold: It likes to make its shell thicker by adding layers of tree bark. The additional weight doesn’t bother it.
Silver: It hangs and waits for flying insect prey to come near. It does not move about much on its own.
Crystal: It spits out a fluid that it uses to glue tree bark to its body. The fluid hardens when it touches air.
Ruby & Sapphire: PINECO hangs from a tree branch and patiently waits for prey to come along. If the POKéMON is disturbed while eating by someone shaking its tree, it drops down to the ground and explodes with no warning.
Diamond, Pearl & Platinum: It looks just like a pinecone. Its shell protects it from bird Pokémon that peck it by mistake.
Ultra Sun: Motionless, it hangs from trees, waiting for its bug Pokémon prey to come to it. Its favorite in Alola is Cutiefly.
Ultra Moon: It sticks tree bark to itself with its saliva, making itself thicker and larger. Elderly Pineco are ridiculously huge.
BTB: It somehow eats other bugs and blows up. It enjoys becmoing thick to no end. There's a bug in there somehwere!
Marine Mamoswine (https://youtu.be/bSboTwZ3RtY?t=33)
Pokemon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch'd & Pichu (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om_7wKXw1XE)
The quintessential pinecone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conifer_cone#/media/File:Pinus_coulteri_MHNT_Cone.jpg)
Exploding Pokemon (https://x.com/PokemonArtFacts/status/1243063043694768128)
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