I realize that Ghost is physical in Gen 2, but keep commenting about it. ;) Shadow Ball as a move specifically just sticks in my mind as special... Luckily Venomoth gets access to it so it will be very useful when I do that run in generation 1.
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"Shadow Ball as a move specifically just sticks in my mind as special... " It reducing Special Defense for some bizarre reason is probably why (this is really a thing in Gens 2 and 3, bizarrely), and it being used by the very high Special Attack Gastly line.
"Headbutt is actually a really fitting move for Girafarig after all" ... just casually making such a smart joke without even the slightest noticable intention of poining it out. Love it !
Unsurprised Girafarig did well; while not high tier, it essentially has no issues. Sort of sad this one gets forgotten, it has a fun design and is perfectly serviceable. I do feel Girafarig would win a Stantler v Girafarig race pretty handily, though. Excellent video as always.
@Odith Yir the classic era: gen 1 and 2 are the best and most pure design's... Even the ugly ones still follow the ethos of "pocket monsters". Gen 3 was the last generation I liked as a kid, but they were a little watered down and some of that monsterness was gone . I knew something was Different as a kid. The franchise felt different. As an adult I learned Satoshi left after crystal, which explained everything......
@Jacob PerryI'm gonna keep going...lmao.... I really don't care if I'm wrong or right..... But that FACT is that the franchise changed after gen 2. When Satoshi Tagiri left, and Nintendo, Masada took over, the franchise immediately felt different. Even the tcg got weird after skyridge. Just like how star wars feels different without George. Sequals suck, Mandalorian is good, but all this new content feels empty..... I can tell it's not Georges voice anymore....... Wether you like it or not, or if it's the best or worst, the TRUE pokemon story is what Satoshi created......
I can see why Girafarig is forgettable nowadays, but it had a unique typing in Gen 2 which made me remember it for that reason alone. It was the only Normal/Psychic type at the time, and only has 2 weaknesses (Bug and Dark). Bug was still a really bad type in Gen 2 with only a few good members. That's probably why GameFreak didn't make it super strong. But power creep over the generations hurt it a LOT. It needs an evolution or a Mega if it is ever going to have a chance in competitive play.
@Odith Yir Gen 2 mons sucked a$$ (not to mention it is one of the worst generations) they were slow and a lot of them got screwed over by the physical and special split not being a thing, in fact, so much so they had to give a lot of gen 2 mons evos in gen 4 just so they can be great oh and also gen 4 had the better mons
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I think this video of Girafarig clinches it for me, this is my favorite Pokemon Challenge channel. The commentary is good, the multiple layers you go through for the races and the challenges are good, and the chart is a nice reminder of the runs you've done. It all wholesome and I enjoy the video break.
Thanks so much! I'm glad you're enjoying the content. It's really fun to make these videos and I can't wait to add more Pokemon to the chart at the end over the next few weeks :)
Girafarig is my favorite Gen2 mon, so I searched for it on the channel on a whim (in 2024). It's really cool seeing how far you've come! Love my little Horse.
To be fair, and I might’ve commented this before, this rival isn’t the synergy-focused dude that Blue/Gary is, his team has some pokemon that are either friendship evolutions or trade evolutions, some of which only come into focus in Gen 4, but it really highlights how his lack of caring for friendship hurts him.
Girafarig is one of my favorite johto pokemon for its design, unique typing, and it's movepool. I'm using them on a team in a rom hack called Crystal Clear, in which the team is made up of pokemon with unique type combos. Girafarig is a world destroyer on my team.
Man it is funny watching your old playthroughs. Rules like only saving outside the Elite Four (simliar of like how Jrose does his runs), see what level you can beat red, and not knowing your Hidden Power and IVs Be interesting to see how your videos will change in years to come.
Yeah, I’ll continue adjusting things. One day maybe it will be dialed in a way that feels perfect to me. (I also used to play gen2 and 3x speed; that was painful….)
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IIRC, one of Girafarig's Dex entries state that the tail has a mind of its own, and it thinks up of nasty plots, so your quip of it possibly stealing your soul isn't all that far off. Girafarig's one of my favorite Gen 2 Pokémon too, it makes me sad that they made it so outclassed compared to newer Normal types, a problem it shares with its' shared Johto resident bee farting elk.
I'm still blown away by the quality of your videos every time. I can't comprehend how your channel hasn't skyrocketed yet. I've been watching Pokémon challenges on different channels for almost 2 years now, and in my opinion there is no better one than yours. Starting with your voice and personality over the screen layout to the level of intelligence you prove by learning so quick on how to improve your runs. Please keep creating such amazing content, it brings so much joy to me and hopefully a lot more people now and even more in the future. Much love from Germany!
Thanks Jan. Despite how far I've come I still think I've got further to go in developing my consistent and production. Maybe the channel can wait to skyrocket until I'm a bit more polished haha. I'll keep improving and making this content! I enjoy it so much.
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon I'm so glad for everyone who is able to turn their passion into their job ! Hopefully you will get there (but also know how to invest your money so you can live from the return once you end your YT career)
you really are the real deal of where it comes to pokemon training it would been cool if they made an old school pokemon stadium like competing , who would win !!!!
At 12:08 you mention special def in relation to shadow ball. As a ghost move its physical in gen3 and before (still drops Spdef for some reason) great vid tho
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon this could be a big brain strategy to get us to comment about it many times to increase the algorithm. If so, it worked, because this video was recommended to me today, resulting in a new subscriber lol. Chess, not checkers
3:49 Had you learned Agility and used it, you could have out-sped Miltank and flinch it with Headbutt. Flinching does not work if you are slower than your opponent. Also, I think Confusion would have worked well too because you can still get STAB from it (with a chance of confusing it and ending its Rollout) and Miltank has lower SP. Def compared to Defense. Great play through as usual 😀
I've been excited for the release of this video and am happy to see that Girafarig not only did well, but that you're considering a vs. run with it and Stantler. That should make for a great video! Thank you again for your great work Scott!
I'm so excited about all of those future uploads! Donphan, the legendary dogs, 3 way hitmon race, and ESPECIALLY Heracross rerun are all things I've been really really hoping to see
So glad to see love for my favorite Pokemon of all time. I always use Girafarig when I get a chance, which is unfortunately very rarely due to how few games it's in
Scott, love your content! Keep it up! Personally would love to see a race between the starters, evolving as you play along, in either gen 2 or gen 3 :)
I would LOVE to see a three way battle between the Johto starters. Gen 2 is one of the few generations where I've used all three starters in playthroughs. Love them all.
That whole "Headbutt" joke went so far over my head, it looped around and kicked me in the butt. Seriously, it took me 3 whole minutes before I loudly went "OOOOH, because of the... yeah... oh that's clever." Love the content, especially the gen 2 stuff, keep chugging through with these forgotten pokemon I'm really enjoying it. Cant wait to see a smoochum vs magby race! JK that would be exhausting and take forever.
Girafarig is a solid example of what makes Normal Type my second favorite type, they're often cute and cuddly looking, and they tend to be versatile enough to find success against pretty much any enemy. Sure they're not really the best at any one thing, but there's something to be said for being solid at a bit of everything, especially in a solo run.
I saw this vid in my reccomended and I liked it. Being able to compare to all the other gen 2 pokemon makes it stand out from the other pokemon solo challenges for me.
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon yes the tier list at the end is cool to me. Jrose (who I love too) does a similar thing, but I find it more intresting for Gen 2, as the balance for the newcomers in that gen with it being so reliance of gen 1.
12:30 Actually no, Earthquake has 100 power coming off of Girafarig's only slightly lower attack stat and targeting Muk's lower defense stat while Psybeam, while being stab and coming off of the higher special attack stat, it targets Muk's higher special defense stat and has 97,5 power with stab.
I'm so glad you're making all of these Gen 2, no Evo runs. So many forgotten mons. Fun fact, girafarig was in the beta version of the Gen 2 games, it had two full heads. It also had a pre-volution Tsuinzu (twinz) , which was a conjoined ghost-like pokemon. Kind of disappointing that they let a Pokémon someone was clearly invested in fall into obscurity. It would've been cool to have a galarian form or something.
Another great video, by one of my top favorite Pokétubers! Honestly, these Gen 2 playthroughs are my favorite. I started with Gen 1, but Gen 2 is definitely the one I played more. And brings back the most nostalgia. I honestly can't wait to finish drawing Gen 1 and move onto featuring Gen 2 screenshots like I did with Stadium and Blue for my comic (obligatory comment reference ;). That doesn't mean I'm not hyped for any more Gen 1 content you got in the works. As always, can't wait for your next video, and I wait patiently for the Gen 1 starters versus! GLHF with your next one!
@@MK-yg2np Right, if he wanted to either continually reset for the perfect Girafarig or force a specific option the same way he changes the starters. But he could do that with every Pokemon he does a run with, either for ideal stats or for optimal Hidden Powers. He intentionally doesn't to make it feel more natural.
I gotta say, pretty impressed. As much as I love Stantler and believe its incredibly underrated, I'd assume it would probably lose a race against Girafarig after this showing.
All hail the Dome! And man I hate Return as a move. It makes almost all Gen 2 races by every YTer look nearly identical. Without Return, Crunch could have been a serious option, or another TM move (I didnt look at the options), but its Gen 2 so its Return. So unlike Jrose and MDB who have always ignored this request, would you perhaps stop using Return unless you REALLY need it? A non return gen 2 run would be such a treat.
I've been think about moves that almost every Pokemon learns. Substitute, Mimic, Double Edge, Double Team, Return. Not sure how I will deal with them yet but I do like the idea of doing a runs without them. It may seem like I ignore this request over the next few months, but I am deeply considering it.
Girafarig is one of my favourite pokemon, with Miltank being my no. 1 fav, so i was gonna suggest a miltank vs tauros run but you're already doing it!?! genuinely can't wait
It's planned but I don't know when I'll get to it... I was hoping to release twice a week because I'm doing nothing other than this channel at the moment, but production is taking way longer than I initially expected, especially as quality rises... Hopefully I'll get to the fire snail in September or October.
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon Thanks, and get ready for PAIN, two 4x weakness, very slow. Its moveset is actually good, but its offset by pitiful physical attack stat.
Some fun facts about Girafarig: -It was originally supposed to be dark/normal type, and have a full-on head behind it instead of the baby head -Its name is a palindrome -The babie head stays awake while Girafarig sleeps to keep it safe. It is incapable of independent thought, only reacting to stimuli. We love this giraffe babie
@@j2398 1. I'm pretty sure without looking it up that a palindrome is a word that is spelled backwards and forwards at the same time, and after looking it up, I'm right, though new information is learning that this also applies to phrases as well 2) I haven't played Gen 2 original, only remakes, and either way, yes, I don't recall ever using our sweet Horsey here. However, I do remember liking the design and concept as a kid.
I know I would love to see a vs run. Yes you are showing to get better with each run but it's interesting how they stand up to each other. Even just different types of the same pokemon. Either way thanks for another entertaining video and cheers to the horse of gen 2
I think the only suggestion I have would've been to replace shadow ball with crunch- they have the same base power, super effective coverage, and secondary effect (which is actually useful for crunch since it is a special move) and girafarig has a higher base special attack. The only thing is that shadow ball is neutral against fighting (which doesn't matter since you have stab psychic coverage) and crunch can also hit normal types. Return + EQ is always going to be better than a physical ghost move. Good job though always love your videos! Edit: I guess it really didn't matter you deleted it for Karen
Interesting. I've never really used Girafarig. Usually, I catch it and it goes into the storage PC never to be used. It's design is whatever to me, and I never really thought about using it on a playthrough. I appreciate your videos because they provide information on mons I don't conventionally add to my team. Much love, Scott! Looking forward to your next run. And watching the run I suggested a while back.
Girafarig is my favourite Psychic type so this video has me particularly excited. It's design and final move really suggests it should be a Psychic/Dark rather than Psychic/Normal. Glad you had fun with this Growl loving Pokémon with a penchant for miss-clicks against Venasaurs. By the way, loved the little team analysis about Blue/Gary's team.
Ah, Girafarig. I have plenty of memories of running into them in the Safari Zone in Pokemon Emerald, my first ever Pokemon game. Because of that, it's right up there with Corsola for Pokemon that I constantly forget didn't come from Hoenn.
I'm new to this channel and I really like it, interesting gameplay, good commentary, good audio setup (it's clear, it doesn't have any audio errors, it's loud enough; that stuff is important), good pacing of the video (maaaaaybe a bit too fast, I personally wouldn't mind up to 30 minutes of this, but that's just a personal preference). And you seem to have quite the active community, judging from the amount of comments and likes, which is cool and a content creators dream. Keep up the good work, mate.
Thanks so much Enrico. Regarding length, I totally hear you, I personally love longer videos too. This one was a shorter video than I usually make just because the run was pretty easy and uneventful. Normally my stuff is longer!
I really love Girafirag, had one on my team when I did Platinum Nuzlocke and it stayed with me till the Elite four, it fainted at Will, but really helped me take out some of his mons. Also, getting HP Ground on this run, nice! I wonder if its time would be less than Scizor if HP was something else 🤔
Such a good (and surprising) run!! I LOVE your content. OK since you love early childhood Pokemon stories - when playing through Blue the first time, I had only the basic awareness of type weakness/stats. So as a result, I figured that Psychic was weak against Normal, as those moves did a lot of damage. Oh how naïve
Don't judge a book by its cover! My kids love this & look forward to call backs to Girafarig when you do a Sawsbuck run in future. Also, my poor teenage son didn't realize Girafarig was a palindrome until the end of this video!
4:15 I just imagine Scott thinking “I’ve still got a chance” then Miltank, with a sinister sickening smirk raises a glass of milk and he’s like “Ugh god this is hopeless”
I am 100% on board for Stantler v. Girafarig. I like both but rarely used them, I know Girafarig can improve time using confusion instead of you being confused :p. Looking forward to the next race.
WOW!!! This guy is great at the game. He really has a good thought process around the game and he puts together really intelligently done videos. The data and the methodology and stuff is rigorous and we trust his results.
Girafarig is great. I had one on my Emerald nuzlocke team. I named it Racecar because it's a palindrome like Girafarig and because I needed to use agility and baton pass the speed boost onto Crawdaunt so it could set up a swords dance and one shot all of Glacia's team with brick break. That was the only battle that went exactly as planned in that league run. And I couldn't have done it without Girafarig. thanks buddy.
I always appreciate Girafarig, his face is cute, his back is cool looking, he has a great combination of typing, he has a very large move pool, he is definitely not in my forgotten Pokémon list because I know that he always been a strong giraffe ehm ehm sorry a strong horse 😂 Good job Horse you did a wonderful play through even if your trainer did some mistake here and there 👍🏼 (Scott don’t forget Corsola, he really need some revenge)
Unless you get stone walled in the Elite 4 for some reason and have to level up to 100 most pokemon with good starting moves tend to do well. You save so much time having moves like Confusion for the first half the game, or normal types that get the huge bonus from Body Slam/Headbutt.
Before I watch the video I have to say that Girafarig is in a nice spot for a solo challenge. I have used it in regular playthroughs and it never disappoints, except if you need more than a single Psychic TM. Balance in stats is always a solid option for versatility. I bet it can solo Red at level 80 or below easily. Return and Psychic alone are strong options.
Despite it being a decently effective pokemon, I always felt it should have gotten an evolution at some point. Rhydon and Magneton got evolutions but not Girafarig? Why!?!
@@JM-tj5qm Maybe in Gen 12, when they remake X and Y, they'll bring mega evolutions back and add a bunch more. Until then I can still hope for it to get a proper evolution someday.
Man, all the Pokémon mentioned in the intro + Girafarig NEED evolutions, regional forms, or etc. They’re so much fun, and if Aipom can become a good Pokémon, so can they
In my head, I knew HP Ground or Fire were the best options against Jasmine without grinding. I was pleased you got HP ground so you didn’t have to grind
Not sure if it will be interpreted as a compliment or not, but I’ve been a really big fan of jrose11 from his beginning, and these videos are extremely similar in style, which I love. This was in my recommended, and I immediately subscribed lol, now I’m going to binge the rest of the videos on your channel
seeing aipom in the list of 'forgotten gen 2 pokemon' makes my heart hurt... i never forgot ab that lil monkey he's one of my all time faves :( (misdreavus too! is she seriously forgotten?! am i going crazy?!?!)
Fun fact: Girafarig is what is called a pallendrome, which is any word that is spelled the same when read right to left or left to right. This is why it has two heads: it is supposed to be two halves mirrored. An earlier concept of it made this obvious in that it was literally two giraffe front halves together as one, but I guess they changed it because it looked so bizarre.
I realize that Ghost is physical in Gen 2, but keep commenting about it. ;)
Shadow Ball as a move specifically just sticks in my mind as special... Luckily Venomoth gets access to it so it will be very useful when I do that run in generation 1.
Did you know that ghost is physical in gen 2?
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Shadow ball is a Gen 2 move though?
"Shadow Ball as a move specifically just sticks in my mind as special... "
It reducing Special Defense for some bizarre reason is probably why (this is really a thing in Gens 2 and 3, bizarrely), and it being used by the very high Special Attack Gastly line.
"Headbutt is actually a really fitting move for Girafarig after all" ... just casually making such a smart joke without even the slightest noticable intention of poining it out. Love it !
I was at 10:50 through this video till I realized the joke.......
Took me a day to get the joke lmao. Cause its got a head on its BUTT.
Personally I liked “I don’t think the tm for swagger being next to him (Dennis) is a coincidence”
Giraffe's also swing their heads like clubs when fighting
@@Anonymous_Eyeballs that's where I thought he was going with it lol. Too much casual geographic on RUclips I suppose haha
Unsurprised Girafarig did well; while not high tier, it essentially has no issues. Sort of sad this one gets forgotten, it has a fun design and is perfectly serviceable. I do feel Girafarig would win a Stantler v Girafarig race pretty handily, though. Excellent video as always.
A mixed attacker with decent speed, a Psychic with immunity to Ghost Attacks? What's not to love?
@Odith Yir the classic era: gen 1 and 2 are the best and most pure design's... Even the ugly ones still follow the ethos of "pocket monsters". Gen 3 was the last generation I liked as a kid, but they were a little watered down and some of that monsterness was gone . I knew something was Different as a kid. The franchise felt different. As an adult I learned Satoshi left after crystal, which explained everything......
@Jacob PerryI'm gonna keep going...lmao.... I really don't care if I'm wrong or right..... But that FACT is that the franchise changed after gen 2. When Satoshi Tagiri left, and Nintendo, Masada took over, the franchise immediately felt different. Even the tcg got weird after skyridge. Just like how star wars feels different without George. Sequals suck, Mandalorian is good, but all this new content feels empty..... I can tell it's not Georges voice anymore....... Wether you like it or not, or if it's the best or worst, the TRUE pokemon story is what Satoshi created......
I can see why Girafarig is forgettable nowadays, but it had a unique typing in Gen 2 which made me remember it for that reason alone. It was the only Normal/Psychic type at the time, and only has 2 weaknesses (Bug and Dark). Bug was still a really bad type in Gen 2 with only a few good members. That's probably why GameFreak didn't make it super strong. But power creep over the generations hurt it a LOT. It needs an evolution or a Mega if it is ever going to have a chance in competitive play.
@Odith Yir Gen 2 mons sucked a$$ (not to mention it is one of the worst generations) they were slow and a lot of them got screwed over by the physical and special split not being a thing, in fact, so much so they had to give a lot of gen 2 mons evos in gen 4 just so they can be great oh and also gen 4 had the better mons
Giraffe Exists:
Scotts thoughts: I'm so Proud of you my Little Psychic horse.
Giraffe: 😐😑
Venomoth: First Time?
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I've called the police several time already so they can put him in jail. They won't return my calls anymore
I think this video of Girafarig clinches it for me, this is my favorite Pokemon Challenge channel. The commentary is good, the multiple layers you go through for the races and the challenges are good, and the chart is a nice reminder of the runs you've done. It all wholesome and I enjoy the video break.
Thanks so much! I'm glad you're enjoying the content. It's really fun to make these videos and I can't wait to add more Pokemon to the chart at the end over the next few weeks :)
Girafarig is my favorite Gen2 mon, so I searched for it on the channel on a whim (in 2024). It's really cool seeing how far you've come!
Love my little Horse.
To be fair, and I might’ve commented this before, this rival isn’t the synergy-focused dude that Blue/Gary is, his team has some pokemon that are either friendship evolutions or trade evolutions, some of which only come into focus in Gen 4, but it really highlights how his lack of caring for friendship hurts him.
Scott: "Stantler did surprisingly well, let's try psychic variant."
The psychic variant did surprisingly well, BATTLE ROYALE
Girafarig is one of my favorite johto pokemon for its design, unique typing, and it's movepool. I'm using them on a team in a rom hack called Crystal Clear, in which the team is made up of pokemon with unique type combos. Girafarig is a world destroyer on my team.
Man it is funny watching your old playthroughs. Rules like only saving outside the Elite Four (simliar of like how Jrose does his runs), see what level you can beat red, and not knowing your Hidden Power and IVs Be interesting to see how your videos will change in years to come.
Yeah, I’ll continue adjusting things. One day maybe it will be dialed in a way that feels perfect to me. (I also used to play gen2 and 3x speed; that was painful….)
'headbutt is a really fitting name.`' gg for that joke
The funny psychic giraffe will have his day in the sun at last!
It will!
> will
> Psychic
It's even better xD
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon Have you ever been to Maine?
How dare you call that poor Giraffe "HORSE".
He was confused, because Venomoth is HORSE type, and they both learn confusion by levelup.
It literally tells him it's a giraffe twice 😂
Horsesroh, not sure what this Girafarig thing is.
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@@connie605 of course; I meant no disrespect to the Moth.
Please inform me of the nature of my offense, so I may avoid repeating it in the future.
A Giraffe and his Chain Chomp speedrun Johto
I'm so glad someone is doing 2nd gen runs. Keep them up.
IIRC, one of Girafarig's Dex entries state that the tail has a mind of its own, and it thinks up of nasty plots, so your quip of it possibly stealing your soul isn't all that far off. Girafarig's one of my favorite Gen 2 Pokémon too, it makes me sad that they made it so outclassed compared to newer Normal types, a problem it shares with its' shared Johto resident bee farting elk.
I'm always surprised to see how good these pokemon I never used being younger because they simply didn't look bad ass enough to look strong
@Jacob Perry can you even read? Chill down dude
@Jacob Perry wtf lmao
I'm still blown away by the quality of your videos every time. I can't comprehend how your channel hasn't skyrocketed yet. I've been watching Pokémon challenges on different channels for almost 2 years now, and in my opinion there is no better one than yours. Starting with your voice and personality over the screen layout to the level of intelligence you prove by learning so quick on how to improve your runs. Please keep creating such amazing content, it brings so much joy to me and hopefully a lot more people now and even more in the future. Much love from Germany!
Thanks Jan. Despite how far I've come I still think I've got further to go in developing my consistent and production. Maybe the channel can wait to skyrocket until I'm a bit more polished haha. I'll keep improving and making this content! I enjoy it so much.
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon I'm so glad for everyone who is able to turn their passion into their job ! Hopefully you will get there (but also know how to invest your money so you can live from the return once you end your YT career)
you really are the real deal of where it comes to pokemon training it would been cool if they made an old school pokemon stadium like competing , who would win !!!!
At 12:08 you mention special def in relation to shadow ball. As a ghost move its physical in gen3 and before (still drops Spdef for some reason)
great vid tho
That's what I thought as well
Yup. Rip.
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon this could be a big brain strategy to get us to comment about it many times to increase the algorithm. If so, it worked, because this video was recommended to me today, resulting in a new subscriber lol. Chess, not checkers
XD that headbutt pun had me cracking up. love your vids man.
3:49 Had you learned Agility and used it, you could have out-sped Miltank and flinch it with Headbutt. Flinching does not work if you are slower than your opponent. Also, I think Confusion would have worked well too because you can still get STAB from it (with a chance of confusing it and ending its Rollout) and Miltank has lower SP. Def compared to Defense.
Great play through as usual 😀
I've been excited for the release of this video and am happy to see that Girafarig not only did well, but that you're considering a vs. run with it and Stantler. That should make for a great video! Thank you again for your great work Scott!
I'm so excited about all of those future uploads! Donphan, the legendary dogs, 3 way hitmon race, and ESPECIALLY Heracross rerun are all things I've been really really hoping to see
i love this series, continue with the amazing job!!!
So glad to see love for my favorite Pokemon of all time. I always use Girafarig when I get a chance, which is unfortunately very rarely due to how few games it's in
Girafarig felt like a cheat code against Morty.
It really did.
Scott, love your content! Keep it up! Personally would love to see a race between the starters, evolving as you play along, in either gen 2 or gen 3 :)
Definitely starting watching your vids since last week & enjoy them all! Keep up the work! Your love for doing this is very inspiring!!!
Glad you’re enjoying :)
The beta design had another Girafarig on the bottom instead of that chain chomp tail. Just image that looking at you the entire time
I saw that but the the original design made more sense because Girafarig backwards is girafariG
I would LOVE to see a three way battle between the Johto starters. Gen 2 is one of the few generations where I've used all three starters in playthroughs. Love them all.
That whole "Headbutt" joke went so far over my head, it looped around and kicked me in the butt. Seriously, it took me 3 whole minutes before I loudly went "OOOOH, because of the... yeah... oh that's clever." Love the content, especially the gen 2 stuff, keep chugging through with these forgotten pokemon I'm really enjoying it. Cant wait to see a smoochum vs magby race! JK that would be exhausting and take forever.
Girafarig is a solid example of what makes Normal Type my second favorite type, they're often cute and cuddly looking, and they tend to be versatile enough to find success against pretty much any enemy.
Sure they're not really the best at any one thing, but there's something to be said for being solid at a bit of everything, especially in a solo run.
They're the best at Return though ;)
12:03
Shadowball is physical in Gen 2 because all ghost moves are :)
I saw this vid in my reccomended and I liked it. Being able to compare to all the other gen 2 pokemon makes it stand out from the other pokemon solo challenges for me.
Glad the tier list at the end is a stand out feature :)
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon yes the tier list at the end is cool to me. Jrose (who I love too) does a similar thing, but I find it more intresting for Gen 2, as the balance for the newcomers in that gen with it being so reliance of gen 1.
So happy to see this pokemon in a challenge!!! Great Job as always my guy!!
12:30 Actually no, Earthquake has 100 power coming off of Girafarig's only slightly lower attack stat and targeting Muk's lower defense stat while Psybeam, while being stab and coming off of the higher special attack stat, it targets Muk's higher special defense stat and has 97,5 power with stab.
I would mention the unintentional non glitchy badge boost but psychic and ground moves don't get it before the league, only Normal and ghost do.
@@N12015 it's in gen 2 as well??
@@ShadowtheRUclipsr523 I assume they mean the type boost. When you beat a gym your moves of the gyms type are boosted by 12.5%
Oh right
I'm so glad you're making all of these Gen 2, no Evo runs. So many forgotten mons.
Fun fact, girafarig was in the beta version of the Gen 2 games, it had two full heads. It also had a pre-volution Tsuinzu (twinz) , which was a conjoined ghost-like pokemon.
Kind of disappointing that they let a Pokémon someone was clearly invested in fall into obscurity. It would've been cool to have a galarian form or something.
Another great video, by one of my top favorite Pokétubers! Honestly, these Gen 2 playthroughs are my favorite. I started with Gen 1, but Gen 2 is definitely the one I played more. And brings back the most nostalgia.
I honestly can't wait to finish drawing Gen 1 and move onto featuring Gen 2 screenshots like I did with Stadium and Blue for my comic (obligatory comment reference ;).
That doesn't mean I'm not hyped for any more Gen 1 content you got in the works. As always, can't wait for your next video, and I wait patiently for the Gen 1 starters versus! GLHF with your next one!
Very well done Girafarig though hidden power ground helped a lot time wise against Jasmine as her steel types resists normal & psychic types
Couldnt you select the type of your hidden power at the beginning of the game? Isnt it depending on your dv distribution?
@@MK-yg2np Right, if he wanted to either continually reset for the perfect Girafarig or force a specific option the same way he changes the starters. But he could do that with every Pokemon he does a run with, either for ideal stats or for optimal Hidden Powers. He intentionally doesn't to make it feel more natural.
I better see those hooves crushing everything in your path
I gotta say, pretty impressed. As much as I love Stantler and believe its incredibly underrated, I'd assume it would probably lose a race against Girafarig after this showing.
All hail the Dome!
And man I hate Return as a move. It makes almost all Gen 2 races by every YTer look nearly identical. Without Return, Crunch could have been a serious option, or another TM move (I didnt look at the options), but its Gen 2 so its Return. So unlike Jrose and MDB who have always ignored this request, would you perhaps stop using Return unless you REALLY need it? A non return gen 2 run would be such a treat.
I've been think about moves that almost every Pokemon learns. Substitute, Mimic, Double Edge, Double Team, Return. Not sure how I will deal with them yet but I do like the idea of doing a runs without them. It may seem like I ignore this request over the next few months, but I am deeply considering it.
I love watching you grow every challenge you make
Erica giving you that sloppy double hand giga drain
Girafarig is one of my favourite pokemon, with Miltank being my no. 1 fav, so i was gonna suggest a miltank vs tauros run but you're already doing it!?! genuinely can't wait
Honesty, Girafarig is a good pokemon. Decent stats, Good TM´s, Great coverage and, well, its my favorite Gen 2 Pokemon.
Should've called your Girafarig Horsesroh 😉
Magcargo next?
Totodile for the rival, of course.
It's planned but I don't know when I'll get to it... I was hoping to release twice a week because I'm doing nothing other than this channel at the moment, but production is taking way longer than I initially expected, especially as quality rises... Hopefully I'll get to the fire snail in September or October.
@@ScottsThoughtsPokemon Thanks, and get ready for PAIN, two 4x weakness, very slow.
Its moveset is actually good, but its offset by pitiful physical attack stat.
@@et34t34fdf it's the weigh up between Hard Stone and Quick Claw. But honestly Mags is a beast against the things it isn't weak against
Dunsparce is not forgotten. He is becoming a demi meme lord
Dunsparce is the drill that will pierce the heavens!
I really love your layout have the current move set and all moves that can be learned is awesome and helpful
Some fun facts about Girafarig:
-It was originally supposed to be dark/normal type, and have a full-on head behind it instead of the baby head
-Its name is a palindrome
-The babie head stays awake while Girafarig sleeps to keep it safe. It is incapable of independent thought, only reacting to stimuli.
We love this giraffe babie
@@j2398 1. I'm pretty sure without looking it up that a palindrome is a word that is spelled backwards and forwards at the same time, and after looking it up, I'm right, though new information is learning that this also applies to phrases as well
2) I haven't played Gen 2 original, only remakes, and either way, yes, I don't recall ever using our sweet Horsey here. However, I do remember liking the design and concept as a kid.
@@j2398 3. You love to make assumptions.
I know I would love to see a vs run. Yes you are showing to get better with each run but it's interesting how they stand up to each other. Even just different types of the same pokemon. Either way thanks for another entertaining video and cheers to the horse of gen 2
I've been enjoying these challenges. Keep up the good content. I'm looking forward to the rest of Gen 2.
I love the Johto Runs, easily my favorite gen
11:08
Sandslash is not fast, though.
Dude it is
It was one of the fast attackers of Gen 1
@@snapbug3272 Absolutely not.
@@MrEnte3000 ok whatever, say what you want
@@snapbug3272 It has a base speed of 65, you idiot.
After playing with Omastar, Golem, and Snorlax in gen 1 it feels fast haha
When you have your own Tail for a good conversation, you don't need that many friends ;D
I love how you leave the important things on screen like base stats and tm list, amazing video 🙏😌
Scott: "Headbutt is actually a very fitting for Girafarig after all"
Me: Because it is a gira... OH. I legit laughed to that. Great video!
Thanks man :)
I think the only suggestion I have would've been to replace shadow ball with crunch- they have the same base power, super effective coverage, and secondary effect (which is actually useful for crunch since it is a special move) and girafarig has a higher base special attack. The only thing is that shadow ball is neutral against fighting (which doesn't matter since you have stab psychic coverage) and crunch can also hit normal types. Return + EQ is always going to be better than a physical ghost move. Good job though always love your videos!
Edit: I guess it really didn't matter you deleted it for Karen
I'm being perfectly honest here when I say I completely forgot this was a real pokemon.
Interesting. I've never really used Girafarig. Usually, I catch it and it goes into the storage PC never to be used. It's design is whatever to me, and I never really thought about using it on a playthrough. I appreciate your videos because they provide information on mons I don't conventionally add to my team.
Much love, Scott! Looking forward to your next run. And watching the run I suggested a while back.
Heck yeah I'm Grimer in the credits. Brings me back to the episode where Ash caught his Muk!
Girafarig is my favourite Psychic type so this video has me particularly excited. It's design and final move really suggests it should be a Psychic/Dark rather than Psychic/Normal.
Glad you had fun with this Growl loving Pokémon with a penchant for miss-clicks against Venasaurs. By the way, loved the little team analysis about Blue/Gary's team.
Ah, Girafarig. I have plenty of memories of running into them in the Safari Zone in Pokemon Emerald, my first ever Pokemon game. Because of that, it's right up there with Corsola for Pokemon that I constantly forget didn't come from Hoenn.
I'm new to this channel and I really like it, interesting gameplay, good commentary, good audio setup (it's clear, it doesn't have any audio errors, it's loud enough; that stuff is important), good pacing of the video (maaaaaybe a bit too fast, I personally wouldn't mind up to 30 minutes of this, but that's just a personal preference).
And you seem to have quite the active community, judging from the amount of comments and likes, which is cool and a content creators dream.
Keep up the good work, mate.
Thanks so much Enrico. Regarding length, I totally hear you, I personally love longer videos too. This one was a shorter video than I usually make just because the run was pretty easy and uneventful. Normally my stuff is longer!
Great video, looking forward to the eventual Delibird/Smeargle run
And Raikou/Suicune down the road
I really love Girafirag, had one on my team when I did Platinum Nuzlocke and it stayed with me till the Elite four, it fainted at Will, but really helped me take out some of his mons. Also, getting HP Ground on this run, nice! I wonder if its time would be less than Scizor if HP was something else 🤔
Such a good (and surprising) run!! I LOVE your content.
OK since you love early childhood Pokemon stories - when playing through Blue the first time, I had only the basic awareness of type weakness/stats. So as a result, I figured that Psychic was weak against Normal, as those moves did a lot of damage. Oh how naïve
ChristieCat, I thought the same thing! Against Alakazam I was convinced that Strength, Slash, and Cut were the best options!
Don't judge a book by its cover! My kids love this & look forward to call backs to Girafarig when you do a Sawsbuck run in future. Also, my poor teenage son didn't realize Girafarig was a palindrome until the end of this video!
I used one of these for the first time on my recent play through of Silver and was pleasantly surprised! Really fun and versatile team member.
4:15
I just imagine Scott thinking “I’ve still got a chance” then Miltank, with a sinister sickening smirk raises a glass of milk and he’s like “Ugh god this is hopeless”
I know the "horse" thing is a joke, but Girafarig is actually based on the okapi, which is a short-necked member of the giraffe family.
Okapipako
Prediction: Scott beats Pokemon Gold with only a Girafarig
I am 100% on board for Stantler v. Girafarig. I like both but rarely used them, I know Girafarig can improve time using confusion instead of you being confused :p.
Looking forward to the next race.
I really enjoy your content man. Keep up the excellent work 👍
WOW!!! This guy is great at the game. He really has a good thought process around the game and he puts together really intelligently done videos. The data and the methodology and stuff is rigorous and we trust his results.
Girafarig is great. I had one on my Emerald nuzlocke team. I named it Racecar because it's a palindrome like Girafarig and because I needed to use agility and baton pass the speed boost onto Crawdaunt so it could set up a swords dance and one shot all of Glacia's team with brick break.
That was the only battle that went exactly as planned in that league run. And I couldn't have done it without Girafarig. thanks buddy.
I always appreciate Girafarig, his face is cute, his back is cool looking, he has a great combination of typing, he has a very large move pool, he is definitely not in my forgotten Pokémon list because I know that he always been a strong giraffe ehm ehm sorry a strong horse 😂
Good job Horse you did a wonderful play through even if your trainer did some mistake here and there 👍🏼 (Scott don’t forget Corsola, he really need some revenge)
Unless you get stone walled in the Elite 4 for some reason and have to level up to 100 most pokemon with good starting moves tend to do well. You save so much time having moves like Confusion for the first half the game, or normal types that get the huge bonus from Body Slam/Headbutt.
I really love how close you are to your audiance. You're the only YT'er who I believe when they say they read ALL the comments
It's really fun chatting with everyone about Pokemon! :)
shadow ball is physical in gen 2, just so you know, you might have forgotten/commented wrong
I mean the fact that it can lower special defense can be misleading
Since Girafarig is a special attacker, in this case Shadow Ball is useful.
Crunch would have been better, since it does hit Normals, unlike Shadow Ball. Plus, Crunch is Special before PS Split.
@@iantaakalla8180 Shadow Ball doesn't use Sp.Atk until Gen IV
@@iantaakalla8180 "horse" seems more like a mixed attacker with thoes stats
Before I watch the video I have to say that Girafarig is in a nice spot for a solo challenge. I have used it in regular playthroughs and it never disappoints, except if you need more than a single Psychic TM.
Balance in stats is always a solid option for versatility. I bet it can solo Red at level 80 or below easily. Return and Psychic alone are strong options.
"Stomp does excellent damage, and ofcourse, metapod gets hard"
Made me spit out my coffee dude
Hopefully your computer is still safe.
Girafarig vs. stantler could be amazing.
Despite it being a decently effective pokemon, I always felt it should have gotten an evolution at some point. Rhydon and Magneton got evolutions but not Girafarig? Why!?!
They could gice it the long neck it deserves :o
@@JM-tj5qm Maybe in Gen 12, when they remake X and Y, they'll bring mega evolutions back and add a bunch more. Until then I can still hope for it to get a proper evolution someday.
Well guess what: girafarig used to be an evolution of a Pokémon called twinz
This aged well
Yep plus Dark was special Gen 2-3 so Crunch could be a option
I figured he was gonna trade Shadow Ball in for it since he had EQ and Return for Physical moves. Oh well.
Jasmine was more of a stump than anything else and even Jasmine wasn't that bad. Great run.
Man, all the Pokémon mentioned in the intro + Girafarig NEED evolutions, regional forms, or etc. They’re so much fun, and if Aipom can become a good Pokémon, so can they
"...and of course Metapod gets hard." Lol. You sneak these little innuendos into alot of your videos.
In my head, I knew HP Ground or Fire were the best options against Jasmine without grinding. I was pleased you got HP ground so you didn’t have to grind
Giafarig was my childhood-favourit in Gen 2! my favourit starter was chikorita and i also loved corsola.
Not sure if it will be interpreted as a compliment or not, but I’ve been a really big fan of jrose11 from his beginning, and these videos are extremely similar in style, which I love. This was in my recommended, and I immediately subscribed lol, now I’m going to binge the rest of the videos on your channel
Certainly a compliment. He was one of the reasons I started making these videos in the first place.
Definitely want to see the Stantler vs Girafferig.
3:43 - If you would have learned Agility, you coulda have out sped the Miltank and probably flinched it :)
seeing aipom in the list of 'forgotten gen 2 pokemon' makes my heart hurt... i never forgot ab that lil monkey he's one of my all time faves :( (misdreavus too! is she seriously forgotten?! am i going crazy?!?!)
Loving your videos, man!!! Sending love from Argentina
Bro your videos are great, it's a must to subscribe and like! Also you inspire us to play again old gen games with pkmn which we would never choose
Glad you're enjoying :)
2:54 - “Stomp does excellent, and Metapod gets hard.”
I’m amazed at how immature I am sometimes. Because, I laughed. I sure did 😂
Fun fact: Girafarig is what is called a pallendrome, which is any word that is spelled the same when read right to left or left to right. This is why it has two heads: it is supposed to be two halves mirrored. An earlier concept of it made this obvious in that it was literally two giraffe front halves together as one, but I guess they changed it because it looked so bizarre.