Lurantis.
It requires a lot of effort to maintain Lurantis’s vivid coloring, but some collectors enjoy this work and treat it as their hobby.
Transcript
0:00Quick quiz, and be honest with yourself.
0:03What type is this Pokémon?
0:07Look at it, the blades, the stance, the mantis everything, and lock in your answer.
0:10Comment it right now before the reveal!
0:14Just go quickly and share your first instinct....
0:17No edits and no cheating!
0:21And now, what if I told you that whatever you just said, there's about a ninety percent chance this creature just fooled you, the same way it's fooled nearly everybody for ten years.
0:24This is Lurantis, and it is not a Bug type.
0:28Not even half.
0:31Lurantis is pure Grass, top to bottom, because it isn't a mantis at all.
0:35It's a flower.
0:38An entire flower, petals and stem and all of it, that evolved to look exactly like a mantis, one of the sharpest visual tricks in the whole natural world, borrowed from a real phenomenon, the orchid mantis story flipped inside out.
0:42And here's the beautiful part, the disguise isn't for us.
0:45The Pokédex explains the actual con.
0:48Real bug Pokémon smell its sweet flower scent and come looking for a meal.
0:52And when they arrive, they don't find a flower, they find what looks like one of their own, a big impressive bug-looking thing, so they relax.
0:55Guard down, right next to the blades.
0:59The flower dressed up as a bug, specifically to catch the bugs that come for flowers.
1:02That's a double-layered con running in broad daylight, in gorgeous pink, with its own built-in advertising.
1:06So it fooled its prey, and then it walked into our world and fooled millions of us with the exact same trick.
1:09Every type quiz, every casual glance, every kid who slapped it on a Bug-themed team.
1:13The con still lands, every single day, on people who own the games.
1:16Now scroll down and look at the comments, because they're full of people who locked in their answer before the reveal, exactly like you did.
1:20If you said Bug, congratulations, you're officially prey, like the rest of us.
1:23If you actually knew, prove you're not lying, name its one type advantage nobody expects.
1:27And follow so the next con doesn't catch you this easy.
Attack 105, Speed 45. Pick your poison.
Lurantis's base stat total is 480. The shape of a stat spread tells you everything about a Pokémon's role. Tanks lean defense, sweepers lean speed and attack.