The Paldean Pokemon they WANT you to Forget! 🦩🐦🏗️
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Did somebody say they wanted a deep dive lore and design origin video about Flamigo, Bombirdier, and Squawkabilly? no? Well here's one anyway! Pokemon Scarlet and Violet continued the trend of making forgettable Pokemon, non-evolving bird Pokemon even. And we're gonna explain them!
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00:00 Forgettable Bird Pokemon...
01:29 Flamigo Explained!
13:43 What is Bombirdier?
20:56 Squawkabilly Explained!
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In this video we will hopefully answer these questions:
What is Flamigo based on?
Why is Flamigo Fighting Type?
What is Bombirdier based on?
Why is Bombirdier Dark Type?
What is Squawkabilly based on?
Why are there different Squawkabilly colors?
Why are there so many non-evolving bird pokemon?
What are the most forgettable pokemon?
Gnoggin, hosted by its creator Lockstin, is a show delving into the mysteries of Pokemon! (and other games sometimes too). Explaining everything there is to explain! Why is each Pokemon given the type it has? What are their origins? What is the lore of the Pokemon world and the design inspirations? And what does it all have to do with alchemy? Let's Go find out! 
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When’s Pokémon Legends Neo Ghetsis
DAMMIT😊
@@Ciph_CaesarCRIMINAL BOT
I literally commented before you could (from what I can tell, at least)
WRONG ! I think about Tranquil ! cuz its shiny is the prettyist of ALL the green shinys ! altho its evolution's shiny isn't green it sucks
If Flamigo has one fan, that fan is me. If Flamigo has no fans, I am no longer a part of this plane of existence.
I’m a flamigo fan, I’ve caught 13 and I will never stop
I’m a Flamigo fan, too. I used one in Violet, and it was a Titan Killer. It one-shot both Klawf and Orthworm’s first phases with Low Kick (which helps since they’re probably heavy) and two-shot their second phases. Then for Iron Treads, it was a two-shot and three-shot, respectively, while it was TWELVE LEVELS LOWER!
Flamigo fans unite! I caught it super early and used it for at least 2/3 of my playthrough. It's a doofy bird and I'm a doofy man and I love it!❤
If Flamigo has one fan, then one us no longer exist
We the flamigo fans must unite!! Flamigo shall rise!
Recently a Flamigo bugged me so much in the over world ( it followed me up a tower and even after running away from the battle it just kept going after me) that I decided to catch it and name it Annoyance.
Talk about persistence.
It wanted to join your team that’s so sweet 😅
@@susannahmitchell5558 I know! Also I was leveling up some Pokémon so I didn’t exactly have a good team on me. And it was level 50 or 60
Bombirdier also tends to annoy me. A shiny one even approached me lol
"Gasps! Lockstin noo!"
Meridia: "A new hand touches the beacon!"
I'll get a bit sad if Bombirdier gets remembered as a forgettable Pokémon.
I find so cool that, instead of taking the easy route and making a stork Pokémon based on the baby connection, they based it on bombardiers and the dark aspects of real life storks.
And it still has the baby connection
And it's a MAID too. bombirdier has layers man
I mean I don't feel like it's truly executed well. The inspirations are always great, but then you look at the design and ask "this thing is based on bomber planes... how?". It doesn't literally have to be a plane, but, like.. give it SOMETHING y'know? Otherwise it is just a basic stork, just like flamigo is just a flamingo.
@@MusicComet A lot of fans excuse bad design with "Oh, but you don't understand the hidden meaning behind it!", which is so redundant. Having a hidden meaning doesn't automatically make a design good, but it does make a bad design even more disappointing.
It’s flap is just so awful🥲
Flamigo actually became pretty memorable, not because of its design but because it's the singular best Pokemon for Scarlet and Violet speedruns.
It's WHAT
Also i say it's pretty memorable in general from the punny name to the hilarious design that works more and more the longer you look at it.
I can totally believe that. That bird is a freaking menace
Hawlucha and Flamigo, the duo that steal the spotlight in many speedrun categories of pokemon
Also its Costar ability gives it a unique niche in Doubles where it can wreck face when sent out next to something with a Belly Drum boost, Shell Smash, or a boosted Dondozo as made popular by the madlad world champ Wolfe Glick
True, crab titan down to red with just single low kick from flamigo 😂
If Flamigo could learn the move False Swipe, it would be the ULTIMATE Pokemon to use to help catch them all; with that ability Scrappy.
I’m serious, I’m kind of mad Flamiga my “shiny female Flamigo” can’t learn false swipe.
This made me curious. I found out that Hisuian Decidueye is the only pokémon with the combination of Scrappy and False Swipe. ^^
@@Hammerbruder99 oh yeah that’s right! Now I remember why I couldn’t wait for H. Decidueye to be available in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet!!! Thank you!🙏🏼
@@Hammerbruder99Same with Sirfetch'd, but sadly it's region locked at the moment. :(
Pancham line also have the false swipe & scrappy combo tho they don't have access to a status applying move that isnt badly poison, unlike Breloom.
16:00 Storks are associated with birth in Europe because they leave continent at fall and come back home at spring - the rebirth season to lay eggs and raise their children. As they make their large nests not in forest but often in villages and other human settlements, on roofs and chimneys there is clear connection. If a stork pair decide to build their nest on your roof, that means they bless you with fertility.
I remember going to Andalucía with my parents in summer and there were stork nests everywhere.
Chimney? Stork nest
Bell tower of a Church? Stork nest
House roofs? Stork Nest
I remember a friend from Barcelona telling me the workers at la Sagrada Familia had to make sure Storks didn't have time to set up nests in the towers
I actually quite like Bombirdier and the twist it puts on the stork story. I was expecting normal/flying Type, but it's dark/flying, which fits its joy towards rock flinging. Honestly one of Gen 9's greater designs.
Full on agree
and it’s ability that essentially adds a third type in rock is unique and cool in my book!
It’s genuinely one of my favourites this gen. Both its name and its fun twist of the baby-delivering stork concept legitimately made me laugh when I first met the Titan.
I think the smug evil grin on its face really makes the design work for me. That gives it a lot of character. Also, I just like how elegant it looks with its long neck, beak and robe. I may be a bit biased though, because I already like storks quite a bit as they are.
@@SchlegelSchlingelthe bottom half looks like an old timey bomb
I want a fairy/ground type Gnome pokemon, now.
That's actually a perfect typing for a gnome mon
i want a fairy/ground Ichneumon; the desert-dwelling burrowing mythological mongoose who kill dragons
maybe preys on diglett
@@TheLuckOfTheClaws I thought you meant the parasitic wasp
Watch it have remedial stats like Tinkaton and Mawile ☠️
Flamingo in Spanish is Flamenco, like the animal and the dance have the exact same name. Also, both names have different origins apparently, the bird one first meant "originary from Flanders", to later mean "pink skinned person", and the dance comes from the arabic term Felah-Mengus meaning "wandering peasant".
Interesting.
What no, flamingo is flamingo. Flamenco just sounds similar and it’s easy to confuse the two but they’re different
@@DarkPsychoMessiah It is flamenco, flamingo is an English word. If you have heard it, it was probably an anglicism not accepted by the RAE, or someone talking in Spanglish. Also Spanish is my first language.
@@alv1506 So is mine and flamenco is almost never used for the bird where I'm from.
@@DarkPsychoMessiah Where's that? That's probably just a non accepted anglicism. Unless you live in a latino community in USA or something like that where a lot of English speakers also live, then that's just learning a language by adjacency I guess 😂. But the word is supposed to be Flamenco.
Whether it was made to be important or made to be forgotten, all pokemon deserve love and are special in their own way!
Also let’s not forget that a Pacherisu, out of all pokemon, won a championship in 2014.
It was a smart anti-meta pick that was a perfect fit for the team but whatever...
Pokémon are just tools to make money long live team ticket
@@grunkleg.3110still a Pacharisu nonetheless though.
Once again it's name is silly and long and many people misspell Pachirisu
Except medicham, it deserves absolutely no love.
I almost got my whole team knocked out the first time I ran into a Flamigo because I underestimated the power and didn't know about the fighting type, so I had to catch it and it carried me through a bunch of the early game, so now I have a fondness for it that makes it unforgettable to me.
larrys flamigo was hard for me so i had to heal stall while brave bird recoil, sandstorm and burn killed it
Same. Carried it with me early game and was a good bird.
@@lillithtitaniaI mean Pink Dude, Mori Calliope's Flamigo, carried her through the entire game. He was basically her starter's right mon man. Just like Lucario is to Cynthia's Garchomp
I don't think they want you to forget Bombirdier. It's one of the titan Pokemon in the story and it was one of the first paldea Pokemon in Pokemon go
Since they did with dogs and birds, I hope the next gen will include other obscure animals not yet based upon.
Here's hoping they'll finally add a dolphin or an ostrich! 🤞
Palafin
@@kuks0453 We have Palafin and Espathra. But I don't mind if there are different species of the same family, class, or order.
I want a non starter Chicken
@@kuks0453have you even played Scarlet and Violet? 😭💀
We can always count on you to make seemingly boring pokemon slightly more intreasting (and frankly the flamenco flamingo thing is a better explnation for Flamigo's fighting type then most reasonings I have heard).
BRASIL MENTIONED
but one funny thing about this gen is how MANY of the pokémon here are straight up references to things in Latin America as a whole, you know, 'cause of all the colonizing... yea
we love our brasilian birds, like Quaquaval
Comfey isn't forgettable! It was a staple of competitive play and is a completely thematic and aesthetically pleasing design.
Like, in Gen7 Competitive or in the TCG. I'm familiar with Lost Box Comfey, but if it was actually useful in the games then I wouldn't know about it.
@@greengaleproductionsComfey is primarily used in Gen 7 NU and Gen 8 PU. It can be played as a defensive pivot with U-turn and Defog for hazard control or as a Calm Mind Draining Kiss sweeper, supported by its unique ability Triage (priority on healing moves). In Gen 8 Comfey received Stored Power to make its CM set more dangerous in general and effective against poison types.
In the context of Doubles, I know that it can act as a supporter: Speed control by using Tailwind or Trick Room, healing of teammates with Floral Healing in combination with Triage, removal of status with Aromatherapy and enhancing damage using Helping Hand.
How I feel about Chatot
Flamigo basically ran the first 5 gyms when i played through Scar and Violet.
Hes def Top 5 in Paldea
500 base stat total and has more bst and attack than a Tauros. And we get access to it immediately!
@kalythai right. Ngl its a crime he is available on early routes
Flamigo is def a after 5th gym route type Pokémon. And the fact it was a flamingo everyone wanted to use it and the fighting flying is a nice combo.
The shiny is a crime tho. That might be its downfall, shiny hunters wont have em on thier radar.
It's shiny is pretty though? It's a nice clear difference to It's regular form and it makes sense for the pokemon. It's nice pale color?
Squawkabilly is the only one who feels like a filler Pokemon. Bombirder is kind of cool and Flamigo is not bad.
I just wish Bombirdier held rocks with its tail or something instead of that weird bib
squawkabilly is awesome I love him.
I think Bombirder and Flamigo are ripe for a awesome evolution down the line.
They’re great concepts but its like they only tried once and went with the first draft
@@M_AlexanderIt's based on a stork who carries babies.
Flamenco is actually the Spanish word for flamingo. They're not just similar, they are the same lol
Also wanted to add that Sqwawkabilly may be partially based on the Monk Parakeet, or as known in Spanish, the Argentinian Parakeet. This is an invasive species here in Spain and that could very well be represented by its gangster vibes, and how each color colonizes different cities and villages, acting as invasive species.There has also been a close migration relationship between Spain and Argentina, so it would make even more sense.
As an spanish, I have to say they're literally everywhere, I'm not joking at all, so it isn't rare to have them as a Pokémon in Paldea
@@alvaroherrmowhat’s it like dealing with them? Do they act like typical waterfowl? With the whole “god let me live another day and imma make it your problem” attitude? Or are they a bit more subdued?
@@spindash64More subdued. They tend simply not to bother people
Flamigo really shines in its personality in game as this crazy murder bird. I remember exploring too far from the starting area, a lv 15 flamingo runs up to me, cant escape, no pokedoll to throw and kills my team. Almost as murderous as Veluza but with a crazy bird asthetic.
13:47 A new hand touches the beacon!
Finally a vid on the "it's just a flamingo" pokemon that is clearly way more than just a flamingo.
Preach
Whatever design is behind it they should have done more
Before reading this, know I have nothing against Flamigo. I do really like it as a Pokémon, I love pink and love birds so putting them together (both IRL and in game) can’t go wrong.
I can only really see in Flamigo is a flamingo with a body that’s slightly shaped like a boxing glove. I’m happy that it’s getting covered on the channel so the more interesting design aspects and hidden references are more apparent. The more reason to like it the better!
Wdym clearly more than just a flamingo. It’s just a cartoon flamingo on the outside
i genuinely for the life of me cannot see it as a boxing glove. it just has that weird little knot thing around its neck, which is hardly notable from up close, let alone from a distance. MAYBE I'd get what yall were saying if the wings evoked the idea of a boxer's glove but it just doesn't, they flap like a normal ass bird.
ironically the one time they could have gotten away with making it look lifeless so it could pass as a flamingo lawn ornament objectmon
Watching you swing that flamingo decoration around and having it break never gets old! XD
I also thought Bombirdier could have some Egyptian references. The top notch on the head and the markings around the eyes. Plus, storks are very common in hieroglyphics.
Quite a bit of the Ancient Egyptian abjad had animals representing their letters (there were no written vowels aside from their version of the letter "A"-a vulture-representing the glottal stop). Of the phonographs, six were animals: "A", "F", "J", "L", "M" and "W"; which were written as a vulture, horned viper, snake, lion, owl and quail chick respectively.
I think that there is a missing a piece of the puzzle on Bombirdier. Throughout Europe storks are known for occasionally nesting on people's rooves. They can then be a nuisance for passers by as they throw waste nest material and other objects off the roof onto the ground, which could hit somebody if they weren't careful.
Interesting lockstin forgot to mention that flamenco and flamingo, in spanish, are both flamenco
and the bird is one of the many theorized reasons the dance is called that
One thing that wasn’t mentioned about Squawkabilly that I think is really cool is that the type of parakeet that it’s based on is an invasive species, which ties into its rockabilly/Elvis look, as Elvis helped to popularize rock and roll, which was thought to be “invading” the culture of the general public at the time.
I love the finneon and lumieon line because they make such fun noises for cries. Unforgettable. 😊
Wepipipipipii
That bit about the mourning doves sending him into a nostalgia-driven depression spiral was so painfully relatable that it shocked me for a moment.
13:45 A new hand touches the beacon.
Edit: also, probably one of the funniest things I've ever seen was a company is selling USB powered pet rocks. They don't do anything but, it's a rock with a USB cable stuck in it. It was so dumb, I love it.😂
Flamigo is legit one of my favorite pokemon from the new generation.
@3:25-.-Wow, real life flamingos really look like something out of an alternative dimension. They're kind of trippy.
Squawkabilly is basically just a normal parrot with a pompadour. There’s a loud-ass flock of feral red crowned parrots that terrorizes my town, and they’re pretty common across LA and the American southwest in general
Honestly, if they wanted Flamigo to have more relations to dancing, then they probably should have shown that more, like maybe some longer feathers that are similar to a dress commonly used in flaminco sounds like at least a little bit more then what we got.
I'm pretty convinced it was more supposed to be a gymnast than a flamenco dancer, hence the focus on its flexibility.
Flamingo in spanish literally means flamenco, both the bird and the dance share word
Squawkabilly's design can be also based on a brazillian mascot called "Louro-José" from a famous TV show.
I like Flamigo. It’s so basic it’s hilarious, combined with high stats for how early you can get one. Love the thing😆
Flamigo is actually one of my favs from Generation IX! I used one on my playthrough team and even shiny hunted for another in the post-game😁💖
Bombirdier I think has a connection to Capsakid and Scovillain, birds are the main way peppers spread their seeds after all
Iirc, isn't Capsakid found around where the Titan is?
I mean flamigo was pretty decent in competitive with a dondozo strat in Reg A, which turn him into a monstrous sweeper, which is hilarious that literally just a bland flamingo was terrifying when dragons, an elephant tank and a robot warrior were rly good.
Flamingo + Fish
The scariest duo
I was ready for that "boulder" to start screaming into my earbud the moment he picked it up-
Me upon seeing the 'sponsor rock' that Bombirdier dropped: ANOTHER HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON
Still watching. But i think its important to remember that every pokemon is someones favoriite. Bombadier is one of my siblings favorite pokemon ever.
That thing with former criminals becoming taxi drivers is actually referenced in X/Y with the taxi drivers in that game using the Sandile line!
Bombirdier is one of my favorite Pokémon this gen. Stealth rock / parting shot stork. It just needs prankster to be perfect.
Imagine walking through Paldea after eating a sandwich and a pop up comes up in the game “your stomach hurts, you need to have diarrhea soon!”, so you have to fast travel back to the school to shotgun the headmaster’s toilet.
This game needed a diarrhea mechanic.
Weirdly enough, Flamigo gets a lot of side recognition due to its brokenness in Gen 9 speedruns (amazing typing, insane early-game stats + Scrappy) as well as its hidden Ability making it amazing in VGC.
Though I need to double check, I am pretty aware GF does have a design category they make known as "filler" Pokemon, the Basculin line was a part of this until Legends happened.
I unironically do like Flamigo because it is just funny to beat people with a living lawn ornament and I do hope one day they make a mon based on a decoy duck as well.
I also wish I had a shiny Meloetta like the one you showed in the dancer mon demonstration... I do have four normal Meloetta though, so a shiny would make the team look cool.
No idea why he used it, Meloetta's unable to be obtained shiny yet. He also used shiny Hisuian Lilligant, which I know that's it because normally its flow is pink like shiny Unovan Lilligant's
@@caiusdrakegaming8087 Yeah, not sure why he was using the shinies.
@@markguyton2868 For Lilligant probably because it likely was a shiny a lot of hunters went for. As for Meloetta, no idea. Like said, it's never been given out shiny yet so I have no clue why he chose to use the shiny Gen 9 model for it
It's interesting how Flamigo is called the Synchronize Pokémon despite not having Synchronize as an ability. Flamenco is part of its inspiration, yet it has Tangled Feet for an ability rather than Dancer. That said, I did enjoy hearing your explanation for it could be part Fighting type. Despite its plain design, Flamigo is a nice Pokémon.
For me, I think it’s the Co-Star ability that fits it. Flamingoes synchronise themselves to another. And Co-star gives them all the boosts the partner has.
Which is why it’s a fun duo with Oricorio.
Talking about a regional variant of Gardevoir i'm pretty sure that the Charcadet line is one of the new "convergent" pokemons for the Ralts line.
And if you ask why they don't have a Kirlia equivalent... the child soldier is forced to mature.
Hey lockstin I’ve been loving the newer vids keep up the good work
22:59 Well not quite the same, dekatora is an art style, not part of a delinquent lifestyle. In fact itasha would probably be closer just for the close association with a Japanese counter-culture, though in this case it's otaku (though some dekatora were apparently inspired by Gundam? But they're more than just that of course while itasha are not) ... In fact, there's another variation of motorbikes closer to dekatora known as dekochari, which have _nothing_ to do with Japanese delinquents.
13:47 I was absolutely ready for "A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON..."
I love Flamigo! I was excited when I saw them from the opening and as soon as I saw it in game, it was basically just a Flamingo with a knot around its nexk and my love for it just EXPLODED with just how dopey and simple it is but also by how surprisingly strong it was!
I'd like to think that Bombirdier might be inspired by Secretary birds too, hence its Dark type. It has the same black and white colors and even the same crest behind its head.
Secretary birds are also known as Killer Queens and once they kill a prey (which are mainly snakes) they start to dance on it, which is pretty dark.
Moreover, it is an African bird of prey and Bombirdier is not the only one based on African animale, think of Rabsca mainly based on the Egyptian God Khepri and Espathra which name comes from Cleopatra.
Bombirdier randomly giving you a rock sounds funny to me now that you said it out loud. It's like you're having a bad day and your pet Bombirdier doesn't know how to help so it gives you a rock.
"Here are some forgettable pokemon"
"This bird is a facist."
Nooo I love Bombirdier it has such a unique design and I love it
Anybody remember shuckle
Yeah! Shuckle!
@@aurawarrior1367 Another fellow Dorkly fan I see....
Dorkly reminds me of shuckle with every episode of their pokemon series.
don't fuckle with shuckle
I think everyone does?
I love flamigo and bombirdier. They are wonderful bird references and cool bird Pokemon. Both were a part of my team, I actually used the titan bombirdier. I especially love just watching flamigos walk around because game freak gave them the head flag animation as the walk.
I also think it’s cool that bombirdier has an ability that sort of gives them 3 stab types.
@Gnoggin So when Flamingos are doing their mating dances, they'll synchronize with one another. THATS WHY IT HAS COSTAR AS ITS ABILITY!
Flamigo hits like a f%$kin truck and being available early in game makes it a fantastic mon. Bombirdier is just majestically sinister and Rocky Payload gives her a Dhemise situation. Squawkabilly is at least more tolerable than Unfezant 😅
Flamigo rules! I had one on my team the entire game!
Bombirdier needs to drop a rock on itself.
Per the violet dex "Bombirdier uses the apron on its chest to bundle up food, which it carries back to its nest. It enjoys dropping things that make loud noises."
I assumed when you brought up how real storks gruesomely attack baby birds, you would say Bombirdier is meant to be a baby dropping menace. Thats the reason I assumed its dark type, it likes to deliver Early death instead of New life.
The more you talked about Flamigo, the more I wish they had given them long tail feather that look like the flamenco dresses. Kind of like Espathra.
Funny you decided to get do a bird trio recently becuase I had been thinking about a different trio recently.
Unova had introduced three 2 stage lines of Bird Pokemon, the Braiviary, Mandibuzz and Swanna lines. They are based off an Eagle, Swan and Vulture. I think they might be worth a deep dive as it seems a bit too deliberate (esp since two of them are version counterparts) and I think they might be based off a certain set of constellations comprising the Summer Triangle (though Mandibuzz's case is a bit more complex as it doesn't resemble the respective constellation at first. AFAIK Lyra is seen as a vulture in the Arabian world)
The Vulture/Eagle thing is actually ancient. The oldest depictions of Lyra are of a Vulture not an Eagle.
All the positive & noble attributes the Vulture had were transferred to the Eagle and negative Human superstitions arose around Vulture's eating the dead. Even various Bible translations changed Nasr to mean Eagle instead of Vulture.
The whole inspiration for Bombirdier, it all comes together.
Hey, I like Flamigo. One of it's TCG cards features the "United Wings" attack, which is a re-tread of the "Night March" attack, where it gets more powerful for every Pokemon in your discard with "United Wings". Also, on play, it can search three other Flamigos from your deck, perfect to discard to some cards like Ultra Ball. While it doesn't have the critical mass needed to be a true meta threat, Night March decks certainly were, so there's hope that Flamigo can be the face of a new deck.
Maractus became famous for being forgettable, ironically making it very memorable.
Unfortunately Flamigo will never be forgotten because my first encounter with it was a shiny…
I'm a little concerned about the origin of this thumbnail. Effective, though!
16:00 "do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down!"
With how much some of my bird enthusiast friends have talked about flamingos, I could very easily believe Flamigo being a Dark-type. One of my friends can attest that flamingos are assholes, and he normally gets along with all sorts of birds he comes across.
I’ve been binging your videos and am always glad to see a new upload! I don’t even play mainline pkmn games anymore, but it’s so fun hearing about the design origins.
A couple Pokémon that I forget about frequently are Heatmor and Turtonator. They’re cool, but seem kind of out of place for whatever reason. I never see fan art of them.
I love Flamigo. It's *so* powerful and goofy.
Samw
For real, what is an Elite Four Pokémon doing in the first area of the game lmao
13:47
“A new hand touches the beacon. Listen. Hear me and obey. A foul darkness has seeped into my temple. A darkness that you will destroy. Return my beacon to Mount Kilkreath. And I will make you the instrument of my cleansing light.”
surprised you didnt mention costar, it fits rlly well with the synchronize and flamenco motifs
I actually love Flamigo but I used it in game so that probably influences my love lol. Same thing happened with Butterfree so nothing has changed for me having some inordinate amount of love for at least one useless mon per generation lol.
Lockstin and Gnoggin, thank you for keeping me happy during these stressful times. Your videos are a great escape from all my work that I have to do during the week, thank you!
I will never forget what Flamigo did to my early game teams. never.
How can we forget Bombirdier when it's a Titan? It's also one of, what, two Pokémon that essentially have three types? It's Dark/Flying but gets a boost to Rock attacks. It's like that other forgotten fellow Dhelmise who's Ghost/Grass but gets a boost to Steel attacks. Also, a jerk stork? Now that's new. It's as new as the idea of a Fighting flamingo, or rather Flamigo. That other parakeet one...meh. Chatot is more memorable because of its signature move.
Flamigo is such a great design for letting the fan base fill in the all blanks for the designers 😌
I actually really like Flamigo and Bombirdier
They don't deserve the hate
I thought Comfey was good due to it's Triage ability.
For my Fakemon region, I gave Qwilfish a signature move, Detonate (Steel Type version of Explosion) and an evolution while knowing Detonate and holding a Metal Coat, Bloefish (Water/Steel Type with the abilities Poison Point, Aftermath, and Iron Barbs).
Similarly for Chatot, I gave it a Baby Form (Parapakeet) AND and Evolution (Jiverybill), each with it's own signature move Arpeggio (Normal Type merger of Refresh and Haze) and Blareblast (stronger version of Boomblast but would change all active Pokémon's abilities to Soundproof, i.e. it made them do deaf).
And for Finneon I also gave an evo to Lumineon while knowing Life Dew and holding a Kings Rock, Domineon (Water/Fairy with the abilities Swift Swim, Storm Drain, and Dazzling).
the only real dex filler is Pawmo. i'm convinced it only exists so Nemona can have a smooth stat increase for her non-starter ace
Personally, Bombirdier also reminds me a lot of Japanese/Asian cranes and how they're depicted... which, I'm pretty sure storks and cranes are closely related, so there's that, although I might be completely on the wrong track with that, since I don't think any of Bombirdiers traits really fit with Japanese tales about cranes, the only one I can think of is of the thankful crane, I think it was called "Tsurugaeshi-no-Onna" in Japanese, a crane whose life gets saved by a human, so unbeknownst to him she transforms into a human woman, approaches him and marries him, making beautiful dresses night after night to sell, while forbidding her husband from watching, only for him to eventually get too curious and watch her at work to discover she was a crane and for her to fly away. You can maybe attribute stuff like the bib to the story, or the dropping of rocks as a "return gift" of sorts, but overall that story probably plays no role in Bombirdiers design.
Hard for me to forget about Bombirdier when it’s my favorite Titan Pokemon
That background image for the Squawkabilly section is from a Park close to my home in México, so I found it prettt funny you were talking about Brazil in that part.
13:46 WAIT DON’T TOUCH THAT! ITS NOT A BOULDER!
“A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON!”
I like how because Paldea is an open world game and it encourages exploring a lot of the pokemon are influenced/inspired by traveling. Squawkabilly has the whole biker gang inspiration and is a taxi service, Koraidon Miraidon and Cyclizar are literal bikes, Spaniards traveled to Latin America. Heck the whole Area Zero story and all that, is about time TRAVEL
Flamigo is unironically one of my favorite Pokemon this Gen. i had no plans at all to use one on my team, but through sheer chance i started using it as a filler member, only for it to outperform most of the main team.
I actually used a Flamigo as my lead Pokémon because of its low kick move. It destroyed every gym leader and elite four pretty much by itself. I never expected it to be this good but it surprised me and is now my main mon for this generation! 😅😅😅
Nice video, when you mentioned that flamingoes colonies big dance and the synchronize pokémon it made me realize why its hidden ability is called Costar
I’ve always been into things that are simple and plain. So I actually quite like Flamigo 😊
I loved bombirdier since the titan battle, I love its fancy makeup and rock moves, and I had to change my planned team to try and fit bombirdier into it. Accidentally in love.
EDIT: Also I didn't know until this video it is meant to be a stork. I thought it was an albatross. We don't have storks or the myth of storks bringing babies in NZ and it looks a lot like an albatross.
Fun fact: I work as a telecom engineer for a Spanish company. Sometimes storks decide to build their giant 100kg+ nests on top of our antennas, basically blocking the microwave link and therefore shutting down the services, but here's the kicker. In Spain, storks are protected BY LAW. You're not allowed to shoo them or touch/move their nests, all we can do is wait till October when they migrate or install another antenna somewhere else.
P.S. I love flamigo. I believe the ability co-star could be also a flamenco reference (flamigo representing the role of the male dancer to a female lead, also a nod to the ''synchronize pokemon'')
I found a shiny white squackabilly in my first hour of playing so I was pretty disappointed when I saw it didn’t even have a evolution
Was I the only one who read Flamigo's name as FLAM- igo instead as fla- MIGO, putting more emphasis on the Flam part since it is a fighting type and Flam sounds like an onomatopoeia that would appear in a comic book when someone gets punched. IDK maybe I'm just weird.
See that’s everyone’s problem you go based on reactionary impressions
If you aren’t feeling the design you decide it sucks in the first five seconds of looking at it
Maybe if you sit down with the design you get used to it you get to know it you get accustomed and more comfortable around it you would come around to it
Don’t be afraid to let it grow on you if you don’t like it at first
That’s what I did when I first saw greninja in a leak
It was in its hunched over pose and it wasn’t at all what I wanted or pictured
But I stuck with froakie anyway and I grew to absolutely loving greninja
People should Stop dismissing starters or any Pokémon just because they seem like bad designs at first
They aren’t bad designs they are just so different than what you are used to and what you expected you just need time to let them grow on you
It’s literally an allegory for preserving nature
The franchise is about being kind to and respecting nature
I don't mind the flamingo pokemon, but I feel like it was a missed opportunity for a cute baby pokemon. Have you seen a baby flamingo, they are adorable!
13:47 A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON