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[Ryu Kaiba]

They say every Pokemon is someone's favorite Pokemon, but I say some people are as dumb as these designs are. Due to Negligence, ignorance, or sheer indifference, these creatures were mistakenly allowed into the fold.


My intent here is not to eliminate a Pokemon simply because they don't appeal to me, because trust me there are plenty I wouldn't waste a Pokeball on. I'm just pointing out the ones that shouldn't have been greenlit.

There are a few that escaped my chopping block simply because they were categorized as ghosts, and I'm willing to give ghosts a bit more flexibility. However, I did have to draw the line somewhere.

The Official Pokémon Website

Pokédex

www.pokemon.com

Side Note: This site is very nicely organized and even has the corresponding episodes for each pokemon appearance available to watch for free under the Pokemon's description.

 

[Jooxed]

Appletun is the best boi. Get out of here you!

 

[Jack Videogames]

Really, no Trubbish?

 

[skit_data]

Surskit should be retconned. Everytime I see that name I feel offended.

(Surskit literally translates to "Sour feces" or "Angry shit/feces" in swedish)

 

[Cert.in.Death]

The bevy of questionable designs, arguably, began in the Pearl/Diamond era. But we're lying to ourselves if we thought this would never happen.

 

[Ryu Kaiba]

Really, no Trubbish?

I gave it some consideration and decided it's a Pokemon that eats trash and takes the form of trash, and that can be justified.

 

[Banjo64]

Klefki is great so how 'bout no.

Spikes, Thunderwave, Toxic, Play Rough.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

You dare disrespect diglett?

The nerve!

 

[kingpotato]

You forgot one OP:

Just kidding, my list would have been 3x longer, only one I like from your picks is Dugtrio. Solid choices overall.

 

[Ryu Kaiba]

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Appletun is the best boi. Get out of here you!

Klefki is great so how 'bout no.

Spikes, Thunderwave, Toxic, Play Rough.

You dare disrespect diglett?

The nerve!

It's an apple that evolves into a pie, Pokemon that are objects like a set of keys, a lamp, a cup of tea...
Pokemon that are simply a collective of 3 or more pokemon and are somehow identified as their own pokemon...
They gotta go!

 

[peronmls]

Some of them look like some kind of spore design. Most of them look uninspiring.

 

[GymWolf]

Eggsecute and dugtrio are legit, smh.

 

[The Wheel of Fortune]

Fuck off, Chimecho and Klingklang are two of my favourite Pokémon alongside Blaziken. As ridiculous as it sounds, every Pokémon out there is at least somebody's favourite.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

I love Trubbish and Garbador.

Knew the ice cream and sand castle was coming. Pleb filters.

 

[openrob]

Magneton is a great Pokémon and should stay.

Throw the rest in Room 101

 

[GymWolf]

Yeah i forgot magneton.

So to sum up, save all the first gen pokemon and i don't care about the others.

 

[Birdo]

Wait.... There is a Pokemon that's a bunch of fucking keys?......

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

Pokemon that are simply a collective of 3 or more other pokemon and are somehow identified as their own pokemon...
They gotta go!

How can you hate on such gentle creatures

 

[kanjobazooie]

Don't retcon the three worm-things digging in the dirt because I like them.

 

[Gifmaker]

That might be my favorite first sentence in a thread ever. But you forgot Mega Blastoise, OP.

 

[Zannegan]

Eh. I can live with all of those (except maybe the ice cream cone). I only really like the nature inspired ones. Things based on artificial objects are passable. Pokemon with a humanoid shape or artificial/human accessories (flesh ribbons) can die in a fire. Mr. Mime can go to hell.

 

[Soodanim]

You need to lay the fuck off Chandelure, that fire ghost is respectable. I'll take him over some of the other shit you didn't mention

 

[Captain Toad]

Every Pokémon should be retconned. I'm sick of cleaning up Pokémon cards my kids keep leaving all over the house.

 

[Danjin44]

The only type of Pokemon design I don't like are the ones that look like man made objects.

Then again I never once played any Pokemon games, I was always much more attracted to Demons designs in SMT.

 

[Fahdis]

I would suggest erasing all of them outside the first 151.

 

[worldwithpyramids]

I agree, OP, we should kill all the Pokémon.

 

[Raonak]

Everything after gen 3 had been subtraction by addition

 

[Spukc]

Fuck all after gen3

 

[Spukc]

Surskit should be retconned. Everytime I see that name I feel offended.

(Surskit literally translates to "Sour feces" or "Angry shit/feces" in swedish)

SKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIT

 

[YukiOnna]

Naw i like them

 

[Victor Omega]

Side note: People eat pokemon meat, does that mean they sip tea out of that teacup pokemon?

Fyi I'm the type of guy who defend these type of question from non pokemon fan. But sometimes if hard not to ask...

 

[Diddy X]

Where is agumon

 

[ebevan91]

I agree with a lot of those but Vanillite is kinda cute tho.

 

[Roufianos]

Gross. And a good number of them were made by the guy who led on Sword & Shield's designs, no wonder that game had the lamest Pokémon yet.

(In my opinion of course)

 

[Kholinar]

Pokemon games ended at Unova for me.

 

[LRKD]

Weird no mention of Voltorb, the pokeball pokemon.

 

[jshackles]

Thought this was going to be a thread about Jinx.

Then I realized I'm on NeoGAF and not Resetera. Carry on.

 

[Hoppa]

I like the sarcophagus and the orange armored rhino but the rest could go. Diggersby too

 

[Solarstrike]

The hell is going on in here

 

[Ikutachi]

Steel beam is cheating.

 

[-MD-]

Some of those are actually pretty good, there's loads you didn't include that are just absolutely trash.

There's like 3 pokemon that are just swords.

 

[Danjin44]

Steel beam is cheating.

 

[Ryu Kaiba]

Weird no mention of Voltorb, the pokeball pokemon.

I think its more like a neutron or proton or something, its a simple design but I think it still has character.

 

[Ryu Kaiba]

Some of those are actually pretty good, there's loads you didn't include that are just absolutely trash.

There's like 3 pokemon that are just swords.

Those are some of the ones I let slide because they are ghosts and can kind of work but I wouldn't fight to keep them.

I agree with a lot of those but Vanillite is kinda cute tho.

There are many many cute ones left, that one is just so forced. It can go back to being a mascot for Ben and Jerry's

 

[Gormless Noodle]

Klefki is great so how 'bout no.

Spikes, Thunderwave, Toxic, Play Rough.

Klefki is the GOAT, those keys open the door to my heart

 

[ArtemisClydeFrog]

No they shouldn't

 

[e&e]

Anything that is based off man made objects should go.

But maybe in the Pokémon world they would say the design of the man made objects came from those Pokémon …

 

[TheDreadBaron]

First gen are immaculate and inviolable, they define what pokemon even are. Everything else is whatever

 

[Zannegan]

First gen are immaculate and inviolable, they define what pokemon even are. Everything else is whatever

Jinx and Mr. Mime beg to differ.

 

[Closer]

Retcon everything except maboi Butterfree. Everything else f off snorlax can stay he's cool too