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comicfire posted...

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Girafarig and the Remoraid Line were also cut

Remoraid is gotten late enough (after 7 badges) losing it doesn't hurt that much. Suicune owns the Water/Ice slot on your Team hard in Crystal, so unless you are actively choosing not to use it, you wouldn't be using Octillery long-term...and Lapras is still overall better and can be gotten earlier.

As for Girafarig...not sure why that change was made. It was my sister's favorite Pokemon in Gen 2, and was kind of a jack of all trades attacker, with pretty good normal and psychic moves as well as a late game Crunch for other psychic Pokemon. It faces competition from Kadabra/Alakazam and Espeon on the Psychic side and more competition on the Normal side.

Neither omission hits as hard as losing the Mareep line though, as you get it so early and it does help out with lots of threats all the way until Red in Gold/Silver.