1 minute reviews of every Generation 2 Pokémon

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…

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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)

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

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

Hopip-Cat Skiploom-Dog Jumpluff-Friend :)

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. ^__^

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).

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

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

“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.