1 minute reviews of every Generation 2 Pokémon

[@Evan-mt7bc]

Girafarig is a giraffe because it's a pun in Japanese, it's Japanese name "キリンリキ" or "Kirinriki" is literally just the japanese words for giraffe and telepathy, it's a giraffe because it's name is giraffe telepathy because you can spell the word telepathy like giraffe backwards. This pun doesn't work in literally any other language so we're left with just spelling giraffe twice

[@ChrrolloDI]

Honestly, I think the palindrome that the English localizers came up with is more impressive, especially since it was an attempt to make something creative like the Japanese pun considering, as you said, the Japanese pun wouldn't work anywhere else.

[@TheKiddo2468]

Hoothoot actually has two legs, he just stands on one leg. There are certain animations in the games where it shows a hoothoot with its legs apart

[@JustButton]

i love the animations where you can see it switch feet as it hops! i think the pokemon stadium model did that

[@Stephen-Fox]

New Snap has a specific quest to get a photo of both legs, which is cute.

[@Valerkos93]

And nobody talking about skit in detective Pikachu first game. Pity

[@appelofdoom8211]

23:27 shout out to shiny catherine who is currently releasing daily shorts on trying to evolve shiny dunsparces into a three segment dudunsparce. She's at 169 2 segment dudunsparces at the time of this writing and her sanity is at the "creating a remix of gourmet race using her sounds dissapointment." Stage Edit: she got it 299 dunsparce in

[@namelastname8596]

I was gonna see If anyone talked about it

[@MHSchonberg]

Wow, these are excellent reviews, if only I knew what to do to see more shorts and where to go for longer, in depth videos…

[@VixstraLarge]

Give him your bank account 😊

[@disneydork100]

“I don’t know anyone who would be excited by hoppip” You don’t know the right people, I know people who are delighted by Hoppip.

[@callmeaprilroseorisha404]

is it u

[@christianwengert]

I have a degree in Horticulture and you’re telling me I JUST NOW learned the Hoppip line represents the Dandelion life cycle?!

[@ivybennett2274]

how... did you not see that? jumpluff is literally the puffball stage

[@swaanm]

@@ivybennett2274tbf I cannot think of the last time anyone acknowledged Skiploom’s existence

[@ChrrolloDI]

​@@swaanmmy 5683rd playthrough recognized Skiploom... Well Jumpluff but at that point I was just playing with mons I never used before.

[@nygmustheoriginal]

I want you to know that I caught the one-frame cut-in gag and it did make me laugh. Good one!

[@Iamthecrazyone]

Wait what, there was a one frame gag? I don't have the best eyes, do you have a timestamp?

[@juneparly]

@@Iamthecrazyone its a picture of barry b benson during the celebi section! i dont have the exact timestamp but youll be able to catch it

[@Iamthecrazyone]

@@juneparly I'll have to go back and find it

[@Iamthecrazyone]

@@juneparly Holy cow, I had to have blinked at the worst possible time. It seems pretty obvious now, but maybe it's just cause I was clued in lmao. Thank you though, I'm glad I went back to catch it, it's pretty funny.

[@thomasderosso5625]

I fell away from Pokemon about gen 4, so I had no idea that Galarian Corsola or Cursola existed until I watched this. Props to Pokemon for being that assertive with their environmental message.

[@jakobmoiirers_jmoii]

same, 100.

[@radschele1815]

They also have these smogmogs looking interesting

[@andreabosio6452]

As i am studying now for my master degree in marine sciences, i want to add a bit of info on corals after what skyen said in corsola section: not only is climate change, but with the heat there was an abnormal growth in the population of a little thing of nightmares called thorncrown starfish that, unfortunately eats A LOT of the coral polyps, speeding up the bleaching. Fun fact these nightmare fuel starfish are represented in pokemon by Mareanie and Toxapex

[@MissingLimbs42]

Yeah, this is happening in the Great Barrier Reef. Current research links fertiliser run off to outbursts of the Crown of Thorns

[@SundHerpaderp]

I'm completely obsessed with these videos. Thank you so much for making them. Also I love your voice and the way you describe the Pokemon and their designs. Please never stop making them, they make me feel so happy ❤

[@DevonCosmos]

*sees Corsola, immediately registers the imminent existential dread to come*

[@Beauregardx]

If I may about a huge missed visual opportunity for Galarian corsola. When coral bleaches, as the variant is meant to demonstrate, that doesn’t necessarily mean that the coral is dead and in fact can still have potential to heal back to its full vibrancy. However, and where I feel game freak missed out, what makes coral distinctly dead is when it’s covered in moss and algae, having expelled its symbiotic relationship permanently. The incorporation of a droopy hanging algae on the galarian variant would have made for a much more visually interesting design in my opinion.

[@benjypineapple2570]

I'm 100% sure the hoppit line was only designed to be background pokemon to fill up nature in pokemon movies THEY ARE ALWAYS THERE

[@BalthusHomewood]

I got the Muppet references. A Snubble could totally stand in for Waldorf 😁

[@halfpintrr]

Murcrow and Honchcrow are freaking amazing. Never has something so cute carried so much malice. Loved the voice you did for Honchcrow.

[@bandanaBrosDandB]

Hopip-Cat Skiploom-Dog Jumpluff-Friend :)

[@coreywright33]

I love them! ^ - ^

[@travisalexander6440]

Galarian Corsola and Cursola hits with the same energy as your Giovanni breakdown... I did not need you to go that hard, but dammit, does it work.

[@henrythatsall]

44:52 I swear I was haering things but no you actually used Godzilla by Blue Oyster Cult during Tyranitar's section, cool detail

[@Maddox_Clayne]

Unown being made to be some sort of semi-sentient psychic spirit pokemon with some relation to Arceus and some influence over space/time/reality is by far the biggest glow up of the games and media in general

[@DarkeLourd]

Yeah but it actually happened really fast. Of course Arceus didn't exist until gen 4 but Unown got their reality warping powers in the third movie between the original Gold/Silver and Crystal releases.

[@lukejensen1222]

You manage to pronounce almost every Pokémon name slightly different than how everyone else pronounces it. I swear every time I see what the next Pokémon you’re gonna review is I’m like: okay how is he gonna pronounce this thing’s name.

[@creed8712]

It’s truly an impressive feat for a series where every character literally shouts its name. For me it was woah-buffet as oppose to Waba Fett

[@SJT9791]

You’re so wrong. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@DatBrasss]

​@@creed8712 He seems to be a game fan more than the anime, and they don't say their names in the games, right?

[@gabrielbalderrama2002]

the reason gen 2 designs are that very simple is because of the anime in purpose to save the most money as possible in animation iirc. Later Sugimori on gen 3 would go all out on designs bringing more details to each pokemon's body

[@radschele1815]

That explains why they got the front legs of stantler so wrong🥲

[@CreepyBlackDude]

21:48 - Pineco is not actually a pinecone, it's a bagworm moth made to look like a pinecone. In real life the cocoon of an Evergreen Bagworm looks closer to Pineco than it does to Forretress, which is why I was always confused as to how they were related or why it became a steel-type in the first place (instead of, you know, a moth). In my opinion, they did it much better with Burmy (who actually does turn into a moth), and I think comparing Pineco and Burmy is a great way to contrast design philosophy from early gen Pokemon to later Gen when they had more to work with (i.e. designing for Game Boy Color vs. designing for Nintendo DS).

[@defeatstatistics7413]

also, i totally read Pineco's face with a big nose and a moustache, real grumpy old man vibes. I love Pineco.

[@PeridotEX]

6:04 this is something that I notice and appreciate. I'm incredibly afraid of centipedes, yet I like Centiskorch enough to have had it on Sword team (Scolipede is cool too). Im really impressed that Game Freak was able to do something like that

[@Jnxd184]

The chikorita slander continues 😔

[@Angelo_MS]

As it should (sorry Bayleef)

[@timothymclean]

@@Angelo_MS Bayleef deserves to be between a more distinct predecessor and a more interesting conclusion.

[@notthisnow589]

​@@timothymclean Lets hope the next Legends give her a proper form.

[@BJGvideos]

I'll always associate that line with Team Fourstar's nuzlocke of Souj Silver. They absolutely hated their starter so much...at first. By the end they loved that dumb dinosaur so much that one of them named his real dog after him.

[@connororiley1116]

I’m with you, it’s sad to see a world with so much hate

[@mas8705]

Two down. Seven to go. Would be eight, but we know Arceus is going to fly by pretty quick with us looking at the alt forms at the same time. Keep up the wonderful work as always Skyen. ^__^

[@Legend_7272]

We’ll just throw the Legends:Arceus into Gen 9

[@imimdanger9779]

Actually looking at the dex and the only thing in Arceus that could be covered is Enamorus and even then Enamorus could be put together with the other genies.

[@janjan-xr2qi]

Oh, hey! It’s all those shorts I’ve already watched. Time to watch them again

[@valentincotirlea4114]

I think the incorporation of the Jungian Shadow is a good angle to explain why Girafarig is based on a giraffe. In my opinion, Girafarig's shorter neck symbolizes immaturity, because Girafarig is at the moment unable to reconcile with it's shadow and only after incorporating this element into it's own persona, the Girafarig will reach mental maturity and become a much stronger pokemon(and individual)

[@ukuleledude9123]

Fun fact, Marill was meant to be the new mascot instead of Pikachu, as they wanted a new one every generation, but Pikachu became super duper popular, so the electric rat stayed.

[@Ivy64_]

Pikablue if they were real

[@dustinbragg1921]

I feel like Lugia deserved at least some mention of XD GoD's Shadow Lugia. That thing did what no other pokemon had done up to that point or honestly since, it was menacing and unnatural. Like "Cypher, what have you done to this majestic creature?!" It truly embodied everything that the games try to tell us is wrong with shadow pokemon without breaking genre conventions. This XD-001 the Edgehog monster is still clearly Lugia, it's still a pokemon, but damn if it doesn't look like it'll beat you up and steal your freight ship.

[@DelPlays]

26:48 That "just a little guy" line sounded awfully lot like something that the folk at Drawfee show would say.. Could there be a little hidden reference?

[@marche800]

I'm surprisd you didn’t bring up the fact that Granbull is definitely taking a page out of the stereotypical bully look. Which makes sense as its a bull dog. You get the impression that its trying it's hardest to look tough and intimidating which makes it's pink colourscheme and general doggy cuteness all the more noticeable.

[@Nopedropperperson]

TBSkyen idk if this will be seen by anyone but the design of Azumarill actually has to do with the moon believe it or not. Both eggs and rabbits are connected to the moon in Japanese culture. Specifically the fairy type seems to be based in being this sort of ethereal type of being connected to the moon. If you look at all of the previous gen Pokémon that got fairy upgrades, they tend to be either egg or moon associated (azumarill, clefairy, Togekiss). From my research this may be the connection between and the core themes of these Pokémon’s designs. Azumarill specifically is basically confirmed to be a sort of moon bunny (it gets the ability huge power, which essentially works as a deep-cut pun on the concept of rabbits making mochi on the moon, which is a popular Japanese legend), so it is quite likely that the egg theming is actually moon symbolism. This is probably also the case with the Togepi line. Basically: rabbits, eggs, fairies= weird mystical/supernatural beings from the moon

[@EskayRogue]

I am excited for Gen 3 of these, because it has the first generation I played as a kid, and the generation with many of my favourite pokemon, including my absolute favourite Grovyle

[@RadicalJawzFunnyMoments]

I love this but I’ll be forever sad you never reviewed Overqwil

[@drakekalluna8150]

HootHoot actually has 2 legs, according to its dex entry in Gold, Stadium 2, Leafgreen etc, "It always stands on one foot. It changes feet so fast, the movement can rarely be seen."

[@mrvoid4282]

I just realized the mareep line balck lines are probably a nod to resisters.

[@miasmi5992]

i still cannot believe the disrespect towards chikorita >:( ((((((((

[@Naietz]

Hoppip is cat-like because its Japanese name is sort of a pun: Hanekko, probably inspired from the word for jumping (haneru), and roots (nekko). Incidentally neko is also the word for cat.

[@coldcoma]

If they'd just kept the spacing between Skarmory's blade like wings and kept the red color of the lower wings the design could look really good in 3D I think.

[@BismuthBorealis]

I mean, the 'animation' of it just... hanging there... certainly doesn't help either. Needs more energy.

[@Mark-nn2ce]

Yes! I have been waiting for this. Now I can watch all of the first two gens all at once!

[@AmigoRoberto]

"Do not underestimate the unrivaled destructive power of the giraffe" -Square Ussop

[@iguessimhere2632]

Bonsly is actually pronounced “bonz-lie”, which is a play on words of bonsai and lie, a lie of a bonsai if you will. I feel that not many people pick up on that because it’s horribly spelled for it’s pronunciation. (Note that the pronunciation in the anime varies, I’ve seen clips of it being pronounced bahn-zlee and being pronounced bahn-zlie, I just think it makes more sense that the play on words one is the real one, even if the spelling doesn’t aid it.)

[@kcpopoo]

Chikorita is a pear🍐for me.

[@ViewtifulBeau]

The Chikorita line is perfectly designed. The last powder based Grass starter. Meganium has a gender difference. I like walking around with it. It might be the "worst" but it is my favorite starter of Jhoto.

[@Deoxys_Used_Mimic]

I guess Overqwil can get eff’d, then.

[@2halosani]

Yanma line is cool to me I think the mask on it and it’s curved in arms looking like a fighter pilot is cool, then it later evolves into a straight up helicopter

[@Nicholas86753]

I'm confused why he talked about Pokémon like Ursaluna and Sneasler during the Ursaring and Weavile shorts, but not Overqwil during the Qwilfish Short Also the mane of Entei is to look like the smoke that came from the Fire

[@Spoopy-Ryan]

47:59 ya like jazz

[@kroumkroum2063]

30:40 I think it's the coolest thing of all time that Volcano Snails genuinely are a thing ! They live on deep sea volcanoes and they're the only known animal to use fucking IRON in its exoskeleton (in this case, the shell.) Plus we only learned they existed after gen 2 released so it's just a coincidence !

[@Ataru320]

Gliscor isn't a Muppet. Not abstract and weird enough.

[@radschele1815]

39:50 they also learned how the legs of deers work here. Girafarig and stantler have their legs wrong and it hurts so much😭

[@mognum5136]

Ooh this edit is really cohesive, I love it !

[@denisevnbrdw]

I love the description of Totodiles line. Every Gen 2 run I picked Totodile. 2nd best Starter of all time and very friend-shaped!

[@pikucha4000]

Hey T B Skyen, if you see this i have one question. You manage to pack so much detail into each minute, and I'm curious: how long does it take on average to plan out each individual pokemon short?

[@TBSkyen]

An hour or so, usually

[@pikucha4000]

@@TBSkyen That blew my estimates out of the water! I was ready to be impressed by 10-20 minutes of dedication squeezed into 1/10th the time, but wow! Btw, thanks for all your videos, you are the only KZbinr that's managed to hold my attention throughout a series :)

[@Happy_Magician]

47:59 I saw what you did there... I almost couldn't pause it even going x0.25 but I got it! you just earned yourself a sub lol, is that The Bee Movie?

[@timothymclean]

0:42: If I don't see it next to Bayleef, I usually forget it's a stage 3 evolution. 10:55: I can think of some reasons a rabbit could be the mascot for the Pokémon generation that introduced breeding, but that's probably not what the designers had in mind... 21:35: If Pokémon ever does a "Persona for kids" game, it should star a Girafarig. 27:35: Which probably also explains why Pokémon is a game about catching _and then fighting_ weird critters. 34:40: Octillery is still the first octopus pokemon, and there are still only ~3 of those. So I am fond of this terrible Pokemon. (Remoraid...less so.) 43:43: I'd argue it works well in its role of a...surrogate dream dad? in that one movie. Mostly because of the moustache and "sideburns," which are the most defining design elements to me. Though, yeah, the spiky cloud things on its back are a bit...ill-fitting to that role. And most roles aside from its original one.

[@pn2294]

Nah, monkeys are the breeding fanatics in Japanese culture

[@HatredSonneillon]

I've always thought chicorita looked intentionally like a pair the fruit.

[@Green_Sentinel_3]

Meganium should have gained the fairy type & I always mourned the loss of the leaf blade tail that Bayleaf had. Sentret is better than Furret; cutest HM user. I always loved Sudowoodu; a nice balance of cool & cute I think. Skiploom is cute & would be an amazing beanbag chair imo. I love dragonflies & Yanmega is great. Glisor is the only acceptable scorpion vampire; very cool design. Octillery always appealed to me for some reason & the original design would be a cool evolution form; potentially giving it a complimentary secondary typing. Raikou will forever be my favorite Legendary Beast. Always thought it looked cool & it is my Favorite electric type Pokemon by far. Ho-oh over Lugia.

[@Brian-nv8ei]

I love how every short uses pokemon ost, EXCEPT Houndour. Only for that line, does the music change. And it changes FLAWLESSLY.

[@InoriVoid]

10:59 he knew where he was going with that one... lmao

[@RothurThePaladin]

Noctowl will always be one of my favorite bird pokemon.

[@doublemissmatt6728]

Rules for making successful design based on this video: Blob

[@A.Radwick]

It takes a true Pokemon master to use Dunsparce for more than the first gym. I think I got one into the mid-30s before I eventually gave up, and I consider myself quite the trooper for that.

[@starvoltnexus3139]

23:18 yeah definitely agree there my reaction to this thing when I first saw it was pour one out for Dunsparce fans especially when you’ve seen some of its other evolutions in fan games

[@ApexGale]

I've always loved Ho-oh's theme.

[@DMacB42]

Eevee: oh no we’re under attack! Pikachu: lol yeah you’re under attack!

[@Katiewithdaffodils]

Chickorita looks like a pear! 🍐I like it myself

[@lordsylph414]

26:53 oh yes. Shuckle. I used to play on a Pixelmon Server back in 2016, and I would troll new players with a lvl 100 Shuckle, telling them that if they beat it with their new lvl 5 Starter, they could have any lvl 100 Pokemon from my PC. Needless to say no one ever beat it

[@Gunsblazin94]

It truly is surreal hearing some of the pronunciations his brain comes up with

[@Cloudrim]

Excellent all-round, but was not expecting the Relm reference! What a great comparison.

[@barrykeays4633]

“Ha Ha, it’s your old pal Shuckle. Good old Shuckle”

[@doctorkimochi]

I like your professor OC

[@wastingsun]

Hey TB, i was wondering what your plan is for dexes like Platinum where you cover the "new evolutions" a few generations earlier like Gliscor and Magnezone! Do you think this will make those generations take less time overall?

[@thedapperdolphin1590]

He already covers future evolutions

[@robber233]

Unknown were pretty cool in the 3rd movie, and probably their best and most effective appearance.

[@dreeg1896]

In hindsight it’s actually shocking how much Spinarak and Ariados look like spiders and not insects. Like in describing their designs they are strictly insects but in reality they are pretty clearly spiders, and that is a testament to their clever designs.

[@Verolzy]

I will forever see weavile as weawile now and you're to blame.

[@jennyahumanowl]

Commenting for algorithm boost, I've really enjoyed these!

[@CinnaSwirls]

Ladien is based on Pulse Man, from a game of the same name that Game Freak also developed.

[@jonathanmaldonado2499]

Furret being 5'11 will always creep me the hell out.

[@HotDogTimeMachine385]

GLIGAR IS BASED ON A FACEHUGGER FROM ALIEN. You can see that in its concept art!

[@BrownsheepBF]

I was not at all ready for Galarian Corsola. It is midnight and I just got sucker punched in the gut.

[@DannHimself]

I dont know why but Octillery always was such a fun pokemon to me even though it looks like just an octopus

[@LeisaTheGreat]

listen, when i was a kid, hoppip and its line were THE SHIT. I used them every time bc they were so cute!!!!

[@manjackson2772]

Sudowoodo's baby form isn't pronounced "Bon-SLEE", it's "Bon-SLEYE", as in a sly and cunning mimic

[@Xylus.]

Imagine being the "L" Unown. The worst kind of pokemon, and then you're also a literal L. That's a double L. That's so much "L" it sounds like a "Y", like tortilla.

[@asia_crasia]

How come Overqwil was skipped over when all the other cross-gen and regional evos were covered?

[@lus-midhe]

I might be misremembering this, but the reason the designs in Gen 2 are so simple is that the designers were taking into account how easy the Pokémon would be to draw for kids, which is pretty cute

[@CopingContinuous]

“Woe-bufett”😂😂😂

[@xyznihall]

good stuff lookin forward to gen 3

[@andrearicci7759]

Hi Skyen, love your content both here and on your shorts channel. I am writing to ask your opinion on the video that introduces Swain, playing during the loading screen before logging into wild rift. I know is an odd and specific question but I find it very uncanny valley and quite weird and I would love to hear your opinion on it

[@JavaoftheLava]

Ive never seen thr alternate version of the coral pokemon before. My mouth was agape

[@neetenshi]

You skipped Overqwil, that guy helped me a ton during my PLA playthrough! I'm not huge on its design but I have a soft spot for it regardless.

[@BJGvideos]

I love Overquil. Named mine Dodoria.

[@robbiegrant927]

I would like to see how all the designs were rated - new video ranking them from F to S tier!

[@ethanbentley7057]

just want to highlight that the name bonsly is also a play on words. it’s tricking you into thinking it’s a bonsai tree. it’s Sly, hence bonsly

[@Espiritun]

do u plan on making reviews about the paradox pokemons? i mean, they are, designwise, a new look into the old designs. to me, it would make sense to also talk about flutter mane when talking about misdreavus

[@CreepyBlackDude]

44:50 - Inspired music chioce! Did you get hit with the strike for this? LOL

[@sloggynoggin7729]

TOTODILE SUPREMACY

[@sammychen6590]

This is a great video, of course it is. But that bee jumpscare.

[@nicklausnicholson2908]

Am listening to this as I sort my Pokémon cards.

[@Dricon1997]

Have you done a Generation tier list that you find more appealing and such?