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Who is the least iconic Pokemon?
- Thread starter Phediuk
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Oh hell no, this is responsible for the only good episode of Best Wishes.This motherfucker
Semisear, as he was the least voted on the last pokemon popular poll. Graveler is also a good contender, as despite having a head start he still fail to escape from the bottom twenty placing.
What is with the obsession with the fucking ninja frog?
It was done in peak XY anime popularity
The large number of legends/mythicals at the top are also because the winner of this poll got a giveaway event.
So it's not really accurate to anything other than "who was in the Anime when this was taken" and "who does Japan want released as an event Pokemon"
It's not a very good poll to use for anything.
At least this has a gimmick.
Also this guy.
Imagine being the pre-evolved version of this, without the only thing that makes it distinctive.
It's cool, it's a starter, it was in the anime, and it's in Smash.
Also this guy.
They screwed up with Cherrim. You never see it in its sunny day form.
*Ahem*
I've been playing Pokemon since red and blue. Greninja is my new fav. As a ninja fan, of all sorts of ninjas, Greninja fits the bill perfectly. His design with the tongue scarf is brilliant. It looks awesome because ninjas with scarves are dope. Shout out to Hotsuma. It also makes sense as a froggo. The color blue is my favorite. Dark Pokemon kick ass. His hidden ability protean is remarkable and so damn powerful. Glass cannon's are my jam. Speed and power for life. His shiny color is also badass. Black and red baby. Greninja is just everything I could want in a Pokemon, in regards to looks and utility. Even in doubles the Mat Block was awesome. Sorry Scyther and Scizor, you two have been dethroned.
It is, as it it is our only official data when it comes to pokemon popularity. Yes, some people will skewed towards legendaries, but that doesn't mean the rest of the data is wrong. Look at the top 100, and except for Archeops and Archen, I doubt anyone would disagree that they are popular. Also, a poll with more than half a million votes isn't something to just ignore, and forget.
I still have no idea why it has a pre-evolution
There's no point. Gimmick Pokemon never get evolutions/pre-evolutions.
Those half a million people were voting on which event Pokemon they wanted. That's it. It's not a proper popularity poll
It's also outdated and missing an entire generation
What about it's other hidden ability? You know, the one that makes it weak to fire-types?
Please tell me what the Defining Design Features of Alolan Graveler is compared to Regular Graveler. No looking it up in advance.
Hope you said Iron Filings on it's arms and eyebrows. Along with assorted Yellow Spots.
Please note I am not saying Graveler is forgettable, too many have Self Destructed in your face to be the case for that. I'm specifically talking about the Alolan Variant.
Now the reason Alolan Graveler is so Forgettable, it is an In-Game trade that you are very likely to take on, that immediately evolves into Alolan Golem.
Like it or Dislike it, you will remember Alolan Golem instantly with it's Shogun inspired design and what is essentially a Rail Gun on it's back. Alolan Golem design alone has made you forgotten what Alolan Graveler's was for the 10 seconds you had it before it evolved. You probably thought Alolan Graveler had additional features to make the transistion between the two more noticable, but no.
It get's the yellow dots at various points of the body, that is it. And when people say "Graveler", they will think of the Original Kanto one, not this Alolan Electric Type one (Yeah it's electric type as well, thought it was Part Steel or something with those filings? Nope.)
Hope you said Iron Filings on it's arms and eyebrows. Along with assorted Yellow Spots.
Please note I am not saying Graveler is forgettable, too many have Self Destructed in your face to be the case for that. I'm specifically talking about the Alolan Variant.
Now the reason Alolan Graveler is so Forgettable, it is an In-Game trade that you are very likely to take on, that immediately evolves into Alolan Golem.
Like it or Dislike it, you will remember Alolan Golem instantly with it's Shogun inspired design and what is essentially a Rail Gun on it's back. Alolan Golem design alone has made you forgotten what Alolan Graveler's was for the 10 seconds you had it before it evolved. You probably thought Alolan Graveler had additional features to make the transistion between the two more noticable, but no.
It get's the yellow dots at various points of the body, that is it. And when people say "Graveler", they will think of the Original Kanto one, not this Alolan Electric Type one (Yeah it's electric type as well, thought it was Part Steel or something with those filings? Nope.)
Big lol at the people dismissing entire generations or even Pokémon that are well known for being "bad" or less appealing. They're still iconic you know.
The least iconic Pokémon are those random mons no one remembers that can be found in every generation except for maybe the first one, depending on your age.
The least iconic Pokémon are those random mons no one remembers that can be found in every generation except for maybe the first one, depending on your age.
Greninja, a starter, still won it. It shows how freaking popular he is to beat the legendaries.
It's Worth keeping in mind that it was also advertised through the anime and Greninja had a ludicrously heavy focus in the anime at the time. I honestly don't think the poll is representative of much at all
Yet, Greninja won in the end. Also, I doubt all of the half of million of fans were alll focused on just voting for legendaries, and fill out their ten choices as just that. Pokemon like Charizard, Meowth, and Lucario in the top twenty shows that it wasn't just legendary bias, and the next hundred pokemon being well known pokemon, or memes, further prove this. As for your later point, we need to wait another four years for the next poll.
Lumineon is that weird case where it was so unmemorable it became an icon for unmemorable Pokémon lol
1% encounter rate on one spot killed it.
Oh wow, what a novel take.:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/DigimonMeme01-56ca564c5f9b5879cc4ca48b.jpg)
Most of this thread tbh.
Gen 5 will actually be a decade old next year, a decade of these amazing gen-5 specific hot takes.
But it's supercute!
An unnecessary pre-evolution for an already obscure 'mon (I guess the anime brought Chimecho more to the spotlight, though) .
borat voice my wife
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It's funny how everyone makes a big deal about Qwilfish as The Forgotten Gen II pokemon, but I'm probably the only person who still loves Corsola
Ironically a lot of the top Pokemon got there because choosing a Pokemon was done alphabetically so you got a lot of Pokemon whose Japanese name begins with A.
It's why Arbok (same), Beautifly (Agehunt), and Armando (same) are so high.
I think Maractus is a pretty good pick. It's not the ones immediately grabbed at for this title like Finneon and Basculin, ironically making them iconic in their forgettable-ness. It doesn't have a notable role in competitive, the anime, movies or TCG to my knowledge, and main campaign-wise it's only been available in the BW games so it's not a Pokemon a lot of people even get to see.
Everyone knows stantler from that singular patch of grass in gscHeatmor has an amazing shiny so it can't be him. Finneon's pretty popular in Pokemon Go because of its rarity so it can't be him. I say...
Archen, and Archeops are the go to lazy options, as both of them are the first two options when picking pokemon. Arbok is actually quite popular in Japan for some strange reason, but a possible reason could be because it was Jessie's first pokemon in the anime; Ekans being in the 102 spot further support this.. Either that, or alot of people have a kinbaru fetish.
Beautifly has always been popular, and it was one of May's signature pokemon, so it makes sence for it to make the top 100.
Edit: Never mind about Ekans and Arbok, as I forgot about their Japanese names.
I want to say that going by the question posed we could focus on the least iconic pokemon that was pushed to try and be iconic (so a case of the Zoroark I guess)
Otherwise it's just a case of looking for forgotten and redundant pokemon with no real hook to their existence.
Some of these somehow manage to be remembered for that exact reason though (Basculin being like the one river dwelling fish in Unova with two forms makes it at least somewhat notable to me)
As much as I'd like to say the Burmy line, even then that's a split evo with one of them having multiple typings dependant on outside factors.
So now I'm really just gonna pluck some perfectly acceptable nothing-mon...
It's not something that leaps out as incredibly divisive, so you wont have people remembering it like the dope as all heck Trubbish and Vanilluxe.
It's only got the one gen to its name so far so it hasn't really had time to cement itself, it's not exactly seen much in its own games, it retreads a well worn pokemon concept and its design isn't really strong enough that I can imagine it having many fans.
At least Finneon and Lumineon got meme'd as the forgotten mon, this guy with a name I don't even know how to pronounce may well be THE ONE
Otherwise it's just a case of looking for forgotten and redundant pokemon with no real hook to their existence.
Some of these somehow manage to be remembered for that exact reason though (Basculin being like the one river dwelling fish in Unova with two forms makes it at least somewhat notable to me)
As much as I'd like to say the Burmy line, even then that's a split evo with one of them having multiple typings dependant on outside factors.
So now I'm really just gonna pluck some perfectly acceptable nothing-mon...
And this would be a good choice.
I forgot this Pokemon existed until I saw its pre-evolution in the Detective Pikachu trailer
It's Shiinotic, a Pokemon whose name I had to look up because I literally could not remember it. It's also terrifying looking.
It's not something that leaps out as incredibly divisive, so you wont have people remembering it like the dope as all heck Trubbish and Vanilluxe.
It's only got the one gen to its name so far so it hasn't really had time to cement itself, it's not exactly seen much in its own games, it retreads a well worn pokemon concept and its design isn't really strong enough that I can imagine it having many fans.
At least Finneon and Lumineon got meme'd as the forgotten mon, this guy with a name I don't even know how to pronounce may well be THE ONE
Correct, and I guess a quite amount of people only care about their favorites, and don't care about filling out the whole poll. But I'll still argue that Beautifly is more than just a filler space, and that it does have some popularity backing it up.
"Things"??? Go look up for the inspiration behind these beauties then come back please5 pages in and people haven't got the right answer yet?
It's clearly these 2... things...
I forget these things exist for years at a time.
Also Era seems like a Prehistoric cave with all those genwunners
I don't know the worst, but the best gen in my opinion is Gen 1. Simplicity, but nice !! Love Gen 1!!!
I'm pretty sure it was intentional in this case. It has that "what the hell" factor when it shows up for the first time in the elite four, especially since its typing is a bit puzzling to find out first hand.
Spiritomb was an exceptionally more extreme example that threw off first time champion battlers in DPPt, but it quickly gained infamy for various reasons (its strange design, its rare typing, its unusually malicious nature, and its far more extreme method of capture).
I loosely follow pokemon now a days and recognize almost everything in here. But this....is perplexing.
The absence of soul
I feel compelled to submit another candidate. Who can name this thing, honestly? Totally missed seeing it on my first run through the Gen in which it first appeared, only later discovering its existence when checking a full Pokédex Wiki weeks later.
I'm so disappointed they didn't do more with Dhelmise because the idea of the seaweed posessing an anchor would be awesome if they featured a ghost ship area where the entire ship was just controlled by Dhelmise.
I need that area in SWSH.
I need that area in SWSH.
The oddity of learning Attract despite being nongendered
I feel compelled to submit another candidate. Who can name this thing, honestly? Totally missed seeing it on my first run through the Gen in which it first appeared, only later discovering its existence when checking a full Pokédex Wiki weeks later.
Can't think of a specific one, but it's either a Pokemon with no evolution (e.g.,Luvdisc, Dunsparce) or the first evolution of a Pokémon with two evolutions (e.g., every starter post Gen 1, every single Pseudo-Legendary).
I can't think of a single Pokémon where the second evolution is less known than the first, except for those whose second evolutions were added after the fact, like Magmortar, Electivire and Magnezone.
I can't think of a single Pokémon where the second evolution is less known than the first, except for those whose second evolutions were added after the fact, like Magmortar, Electivire and Magnezone.
I was going through this thread like "I remember this...and this..and this." But this is the one. I had to look this one up. Couldn't even remember what gen it showed up in.
Also had a hard time remembering Gogoat.
I feel compelled to submit another candidate. Who can name this thing, honestly? Totally missed seeing it on my first run through the Gen in which it first appeared, only later discovering its existence when checking a full Pokédex Wiki weeks later.
Cryogonal? I remember this because he had a sweet name like Cryogonal.
I just have to say that this thread is an utter revelation - I'm simply not recognizing most of these Pokemon posted that came in Gen V upwards. And a lot of these designs are just baffling.
It does feel somewhat isolating, it means that there's a lot of things in a series that was a great big part of my childhood that're now completely alien to me.
It does feel somewhat isolating, it means that there's a lot of things in a series that was a great big part of my childhood that're now completely alien to me.
What? Cryogonal is in Brycen's team, no way you missed it lol