Rhydon.
Protected by an armor-like hide, it is capable of living in molten lava of 3,600 degrees.
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0:00What if I told you the very first Pokémon ever created wasn't Pikachu, wasn't Bulbasaur, wasn't any of the ones you'd guess?
0:03It was Rhydon.
0:05Before there was a Pokédex, before there was a number one, the artist Ken Sugimori sat down to design a creature that would prove this whole idea could even work.
0:08The thing he drew was Rhydon.
0:11Rhydon is patient zero.
0:13Every Pokémon that came after exists because the first one worked.
0:16And you can still see Rhydon's fingerprints all over the original games if you know where to look.
0:19Its internal index number in the first games is 001.
0:21Not 112, where it sits in the Pokédex.
0:24001.
0:26The system itself still remembers it was first.
0:29When those old games glitch and try to load a Pokémon that doesn't exist, the creature they fall back on, the default, the thing the game becomes when it doesn't know what else to be, is Rhydon.
0:32The statues standing guard outside every gym in the original games were Rhydon.
0:34When you used the move Substitute, the little doll that popped out to take the hit for you was built from Rhydon's original design.
0:37It was the stand-in.
0:40The placeholder.
0:42The shape the game reached for whenever it just needed to say the word Pokémon.
0:45Rhydon was everywhere.
0:48It just was almost never the one anyone was looking at.
0:50Some of you have lived this exact life.
0:53You were first.
0:56You were the one who showed up before there was a system, before there was a road, before anyone knew if the thing was even going to work.
0:58You built the place that other people later got to be the stars of.
1:01And somewhere along the way you became the foundation instead of the face.
1:04The one holding it up instead of the one standing on top.
1:06Here's what being the original actually means, though.
1:09The newer ones get the spotlight.
1:11You got something quieter and bigger.
1:14You're in the bones of the whole thing.
1:17Nobody who came after you would exist the way they do if you hadn't gone first.
1:19You're not the statue because you got passed over.
1:22You're the statue because you're what the whole place was built around.
1:25If you've been the original in your family, your job, your friend group, comment below.
1:27Then send this to the person who was first, who never
Attack 130, Speed 40. Pick your poison.
Rhydon's base stat total is 485. The shape of a stat spread tells you everything about a Pokémon's role. Tanks lean defense, sweepers lean speed and attack.