A talented Pokemon fan makes an impressive fake commercial for the ever-handy Potions that trainers can purchase at their local Poke Mart.
Highlights
- A fake commercial made by a Pokemon fan highlights Potions, essential items available at Poke Marts in the games' various towns and cities.
- The commercial showcases Basic, Super, and Hyper Potions, each with different healing capabilities.
- Creativity in the Pokemon community continues to shine through fan-made videos like the Poke Mart Potion commercial.
An imaginative Pokemon fan recently put together a fake commercial for the ever-helpful Poke Mart Potions. The Pokemon franchise is largely centered around elementally empowered creatures battling one another, and injuries and lowered health meters are just part of the job for any aspiring Pokemon Trainer. If a Pokemon’s health is depleted completely, it faints and can no longer be used to battle until it is restored at the local Pokemon Center, but there are luckily several portable Pokemon items players can use to keep their critters in top fighting condition.
The most common and widely recognized of these items are Potions, which take the form of plastic spray bottles and are used to refill a Pokemon’s health bar either during a battle or out in the field in both the mainline Pokemon games and spin-offs like Pokemon GO. There are many different kinds of Potions, each one capable of restoring a greater amount of health, and players gain access to the stronger ones as they progress through a given Region. Potions can be found out in the wild in Item Balls, but trainers will most often purchase them from Poke Marts in the various towns and cities they come across.
Reddit user Ghinks recently imagined what advertising would be like in the Pokemon universe with a brief, fan-made Poke Mart commercial they posted to r/pokemon. This impressive advertisement is centered around the Potions found at the local Poke Mart, showing off their healing powers and featuring three color-coded variants: Basic (which is purple and restores 20 HP), Super (which is held in an orange bottle and has an effect ranging from 50 to 100 HP depending on the game), and Hyper (colored pink and capable of restoring up to 200 HP in the first six Pokemon generations and 120 HP afterword).
Fan-Made Pokemon Potion Commercial Could Work As An In-Universe Ad
Creative Pokemon fans like Ghinks have crafted videos that envision what it might be like to live in the world of Nintendo’s ongoing series. One such example is PokeNational Geographic, a series of fan-made nature videos that follow certain Pokemon species in the style of a wildlife documentary. Others emulate found footage horror films, depicting chilling encounters with Ghost-type Pokemon like Gastly that the person behind the camera is lucky to escape unscathed.
Ghinks’ homemade Poke Mart Potion commercial is a quick, fun advertisement that could easily be played on in-universe televisions in the Pokemon games. Potions are among the most valuable healing items that a Pokemon trainer can have on hand during their journey, and Ghinks’ short video is another great example of the creativity that the long-running Pokemon franchise inspires in its ever-growing fanbase.
Created by Satoshi Tajiri
