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笔辞办é尘辞苍’s new Girafarig evolution is going to give me nightmares

It’s hard to make heads or tails of it

 A tall giraffe-like 笔辞办é尘辞苍 named Farigiraf. It has a Chain Chomp looking thing around its head, which used to be its tail. Image: Game Freak/The 笔辞办é尘辞苍 Company, Nintendo via Polygon
Nicole Clark (she/her) is a culture editor at Polygon, and a critic covering internet culture, video games, books, and TV, with work in the NY Times, Vice, and Catapult.

A 笔辞办é尘辞苍 Scarlet and Violet trailer that debuted Thursday gave us new reasons to look forward to the upcoming games. You can picnic with your 笔辞办é尘辞苍! You can build unappetizing looking sandwiches (why did they put cherry tomato on tomato?).

The trailer also introduced Girafarig’s evolution — years after the psychic type 笔辞办é尘辞苍 was introduced in Generation II — in the form of Farigiraf, a truly headass (complimentary) design. In this evolution, the cute giraffe 笔辞办é尘辞苍 becomes a night terror, as its tail is worn like a helmet over its face, in a Venom symbiote kind of look. It is the Uno reverse card of 笔辞办é尘辞苍.

“The head of its main body and the heads from its tail have become one,” according to Farigiraf’s official description, which reminds us that this now-terrifying giraffe has two brains. “Both of Farigiraf’s brains are connected through thick nerves, increasing its psychic energy.” Is this the last thing you’d like to see before you die?

I have some questions. Why is its tail eating its face? And why does it have teeth? (No, don’t answer that.) It looks a lot like wearing a Chain Chomp as an astronaut helmet. Or like one of these:

The antennae look a lot like feet, and fans have posed their own questions about how these might be used.

Not to mention Farigiraf is much taller than its predecessor. A whopping 10’6’’ to be precise. (Seems like a good time for this 笔辞办é尘辞苍 to update its dating app profile.) It’s hard to find a precise measurement for Girafarig, but Bulbapedia puts it at a humble 4’11’. The body goes, roughly, from pony to giraffe — so I’m thinking the height is in the neck and legs.

It’s a design scheme that I’m sure Wiglett — the new Paldean garden eel that is not related to Diglett but sure looks like Diglett — can appreciate. Wiglett is, essentially, all neck. And though its height is listed just shy of four feet, Wiglett’s true length is unknown and possibly unknowable.

This Girafarig is just one of many new, exciting, and positively primordial 笔辞办é尘辞苍 of Paldea. There’s Smoliv, Lechonk, Pawmi, Grafaiai, Fidough, Paldean Wooper, Cetitan, Cyclizar, and of course Wiglett — along with new starters Sprigatito, Fuecoco, and Quaxly and the motorcycle looking Legendary 笔辞办é尘辞苍 Koraidon and Miraidon. What a time to catch ‘em all.

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