Red13n ranks ALL 493 Pokemon

red13n ranks ALL 493 Pokemon is one of the larger lists on Board 8. It consists of a ranking of all 493 Pokemon, from the Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow (Kanto), Gold/Silver/Crystal (Johto), Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald (Hoenn), and Diamond/Pearl/Platinum (Sinnoh) games, including write ups. If printed, the 51-493 rankings would be 96 pages long, and contain over 46,000 words.

The list
Rank #493: Blissey

Yes, I'm starting off the list with one of the most overused Pokemon. Why? Because it singlehandedly(Or rather, with a partner) destroyed a generation. We had GSC, promised to bring us a new metagame with less luck involved, a mix of offense and defense. And what did we get? Blissey. An evolved form of a Pokemon that was already more than worthwhile to use in RBY. It takes any special attack and laughs, it brings heal bell, and goddamn it has more HP. Why did they do this. I dont know. But it made GSC completely not-fun. Its also another big pink thing, we already have these, we had chansey, we didnt need another, more powerful chansey. The only thing Blissey accomplished was adding a Pokemon that I'd love to stab with a very sharp knife. There is no Pokemon I enjoy seeing die in battle than Blissey. It isnt last just because its an unnecessary Pokemon, its last because I hate it with a passion.

Rank #492: Golbat

Oddly enough, my favorite generation brings one of the most annoying Pokemon ever. You start out a Pokemon game, you enter a cave full of Pokemon too weak to ever survive in a cave, and almost always are accompanied with Zubat. Thats fine, these are early caves, sure. Whatever. You move on in the game, and these Zubat evolve. Do they evolve into anything cool? No. They evolve into Golbat. One of the weakest Pokemon in the game. Its got a terrible type, terrible stats, and wtf is it? It looks like a giant mouth with wings. And its EVERYWHERE. Once they turn into Golbat, all you run into in the caves, are Golbat. Golbat after Golbat after Golbat. You hate their sound, you hate their look, you dont want to capture any because they have no use. One capture for the Pokedex, then a hundred or so times of putting your head down in disgust at the amount of Golbat in the game. They are irritating, useless, and definitely one of the worst Pokemon ever.

Rank #491: Unown

"Hey lets take Unknown and drop 2 letters and then make them look like various letters for no reason". With every generation now cutting off the areas of the old worlds, they are now almost obligated to throw us an area involving these little bastards. They are black, look like letters, and can use a single move. And they dont evolve, and you need to fight far too many if you ever want a specific letter. They are irritating beyond believe. Have no use, and serve only one purpose, a timesink for people that are willing to obsess over really crappy Pokemon. I think there was some new gimmick for them in DP, I stayed away. Far away, and I'm never going to do it. I may be an obsessive bastard, but I'm not about to obsess over sickeningly crappy Pokemon. Unown are a sickeningly crappy species.

Rank #490: Solrock

So, Solrock. I dont really have much to say, but I cant stand it. It looks just absolutely awful, it comes in a "sun and moon gimmick" and is just completely useless.If you want a sun/moon gimmick, it better look slightly interesting. Solrock is just a rock, in a sun-shape. Exactly as its name says. Its lame, its useless, its pretty damn awful looking. It has absolutely no redeeming qualities, and even had a terrible episode of Pokemon to go with it. I cant even remotely not-hate this Pokemon. I just want to see less of it.

Rank #489: Lunatone

No surprise here. Like Solrock, but moon-shaped. I guess he looks slightly less lame than Solrock, but suffers from exactly the same problems. Neither of these pokes deserve to exist. They are definitely some of the worst creations for Pokemon ever. Its generally accepted that RSE was the worst generation in terms of new Pokemon, and Solrock and Lunatone are the prime examples of this lack in quality.

Rank #488: Glalie

Hey a giant snow-face with horns. Thats an idea! Right? No. WRONG. Absolutely wrong. If theres a Pokemon that makes me go "WTF is that" Glalie is that Pokemon.Its a snowball face with horns. Snorunt was this weird looking had thing that made me chuckle. Glalie is...a snowball face with horns. Why they had to make this thing. I dont know.

Rank #487: Purugly

And with this, a DP Pokemon makes its debut on the bottom of the list. Glameow was this neat looking cat Pokemon with a swirly tail. It looked like it had potential to evolve into another bigger cat thing involving a neat swirly looking tail. Instead, we get Purugly, a Pokemon that is everything Glameow isnt. It is as its name implies, ugly. Why? I dont want to look at an ugly looking cat. If I want to use a bigger cat, I'm turning to Persian and getting things slashed up good. But Purugly? Never.

Rank #486: Probopass

If you want a Pokemon where my reaction upon seeing it was "Holy crap", this is that Pokemon. What the hell. If you were to tell me this thing was a Pokemon and I didnt know it, I'd say you were lying. What the **** is this thing. Seriously. Its a nose with a mustache. a NOSE. A GIANT ROCK NOSE WITH A MUSTACHE. Whoever created this thing, should be fired. Immediately. Oh, apparently I've just now learned its a steel type too. Ok, whatever. Seriously, I can only put my head down into my hand and shake my head at this thing. It has no place existing. Worst of all, its an evolution. If anything, this thing made me like nosepass more.

Rank #485: Chingling

Ok heres an idea for a Pokemon that I have no idea how it made it through. You take an already small Pokemon in Chimecho, one that has very little use, and make it even smaller by giving it a pre-evo. A pre-evo that looks line a very tiny bell. At least Chimecho had some anime scenes to save it. this thing, its just inferior and useless. It has no business being a pokemon. Why not evolve Chimecho into a big giant bell if you wanted to make a line out of it? But nope, just a really crappy pre-evo. Terrible excuse for a Pokemon.

Rank #484: Relicanth

Well, I got to begin by saying that I'm not a big fan of conflicting dual-types like this(Rock/Water), though I dont necessarily hold that against most Pokemon. But relicanth is an ugly swimming rock.Its got what is clearly an inferior type combination, and just doesnt have much to redeem itself. I guess "Relicanth" is a pretty decent name to look at. I like the name, to say something positive. But thats a very small like. Everything else about it just makes me question its existence. Bad pokemon from a bad generation, thats all.

Rank #483: Venomoth

I'm going to get killed here, I really am. I know you guys are going to hate me for this, but if theres a forgettable evo line from RBY, this is it. I even tried about 6 months ago to name every RBY-generation Pokemon while I was outside on an exercise bike for an hour. You want to know which Pokemon I forgot? 2. This line. And only this line. They were forgettable, terrible stats, inferior to other similarly bad Pokemon, an awful type, and Venomoth just looks unoriginal compared to its pre-evo, hence being lower on the list. Both useless, but Venomoth is definitely a bit less appealing. And yeah I'm aware you guys arent going to like them this low on the list, but I just dont like them very much. If I had to cut 2 Pokemon from RBY, this line would be the 2.

Rank #482: Venonat

Well its a Venomoth pre-evo, one of the worst lines ever. I said my thoughts on the line previously. At least Venonat looks different than any other Pokemon out there, but still, its pretty damn unappealing and then it goes on to evolve into Venomoth. I just cant bring myself to like this line at all.

Rank #481: Spheal

You see, when you already have a Pokemon, one that has existed since the first generation, with its NAME and LOOK based off a seal, you DONT make another Pokemon, with an eerily similar name. Seriously, wtf. What a crappy Pokemon. I cant describe how terrible this line is, and to just outright disrespect Seel like this is disgusting. Seel isnt a great Pokemon by any means, but to completely ripoff the name, its irritating and inexcusable.

Rank #480: Swalot

Terrible RSE line alert. Swalot looks almost like a Muk, but its called Swalot and doesnt look nearly as cool. Very lame. The name is lame, the pokemon looks lame, and its just useless. Just another Pokemon to show how bad RSE was with new Pokemon. I cant say enough about how much I question this things existence. Dont have much to say, this Pokemon just irritates me.

Rank #479: Gulpin

One of the common things you'll find with much of my list is that many pre-evos actually fall higher on the list than there evolutions. This is usually to the final Pokemon of the line being particularly lame. You expect your lower level Pokemon to evolve into these cool things that you want to take out and own things with. But when the evolutions fail, they are just disappointing. Its not the pre-evos fault they got crappy evolutions. Gulpin is part of a terrible line, but at least it deserves to be ahead of its evolution. Oh, and it had a pretty decent episode involved with it(Giant Treecko ftw).

Rank #478: Zubat

Yeah you guys dont like these guys being this low do you? Well thats too bad, its my list. When I am annoyed, I am annoyed. And Zubat are quite annoying. They are the goddamn zerg of Pokemon, but they ruin the whole point of zerging by only coming at you 1 at a time. I think we've all at a time wanted to throw our GameBoys at the wall for giving us that 15th or so Zubat in a row. I have, many times. They are small useless things, that evolve into an equally terrible thing. But at least Zubat know their place, they arent the sickeningly weak Pokemon to appear in the last dungeon of the game(I dont think they do? Right?). They also dont look as wtf as Golbat, so thats a definite plus. But still, they are very irritating.

Rank #477: Pelipper

I'm almost thinking I should have had this line lower, but the more I think of it I see that it was just a good idea gone horribly horribly wrong. I mean, a Peliccan Pokemon seems cool, its just, why did they do what they did with it. Instead of making it a Pokemon you'd see in certain water areas, its a line that turned into the water Zubat. I think Pelipper and Wingull are very close to each other in ranking, I had a hard time deciding which to put on the bottom, but I figured I'd give the pre-evo the benefit of the doubt. Zubat-line of the water. So annoying.

Rank #476: Wingull

The true Zubat of the water. A real testament to the crap that was RSE. These things are everywhere. If theres water outside, you can be damn sure you'll find a Wingull. I dont know why they cant figure out that people dont like encountering the same Pokemon over and over again, but its been 2 generations of this, so I dont expect them to figure it out anytime soon. Good idea used horribly horribly wrong.

Rank #475: Huntail

This evolves from...Clamperl...Seriously. It stuns me to this day. How do you go from Clamperl, to this. And yes, they did it not once, but TWICE. But this, this is probably one of the more wtf Pokemon ever. Its so wtf I find it slightly hilarious, hence it being a bit higher on the list. Huntail is also a pretty cool sounding name, if only it had a cool look to go with it. Instead they gave us, whatever the hell this is. One of the more wtf Pokemon out there. There, Huntail, hope you guys are happy.

Rank #474: Barboach

You'd think I'd associate another Pokemon to go along with Huntail, but nope. When I think of a Pokemon to associate in the area of Huntail, its Barboach. Its again, a big ugly long fish. And rather than be a wtf-evo, its a wtf-pre-evo. Big long ugly thing with another weird face. I could probably confuse it with huntail based on the looks alone, simply because both are so forgettable.

Rank #473: Seedot

Umm its a big seed with eyes. It doesnt have a whole lot going for it. Its sole purpose of anything is to sit on a tree and then fall down in failure. Its a Pokemon I want to not rank so low, but I just cant. Its just such a useless Pokemon. The evolution line would have been helped if it began with the much cooler Nuzleaf, which is a pretty awesome looking Pokemon. But it starts out as Seedot, one of the most uninteresting Pokemon in existence. Almost ranked it higher for its evo line, but I just couldnt look beyond how such little effort was put into Seedot.

Rank #472: Happiny

I'm not a huge fan of most "baby" Pokemon or whatever you want to call them. But by the time Happiny came around, my opinion on Blissey was already well-set in stone. Happiny is an annoying small pink thing that is just absolutely terrible. It just doesnt have a place. It also has already appeared in the anime for some stupid reason, as Brock's pokemon no less. Its annoying and irritating and taking the place of what should have been a better Pokemon. Luckily, its probably destined to evolve at some point(Or not evolve, either way) and be left with a Nurse Joy sometime. It cant stay forever, I just dont see it happening.

Rank #471: Meditite

Yeah, heres another one of those conflicting type things. Meditite at least evolves into a bit more interesting of a Pokemon, but as he is, hes pretty lame. Fighting in general is a pretty neglected type, I guess its hard for them to come up with decent ideas. Meditite just isnt appealing, it has a weird-shaped body and what could only be described as a piece of an onion for a head. Just no appeal to it at all, a Pokemon that when I look at it makes me want to box it the PC and never take it out.

Rank #470: Baltoy

Want a psychic/ground clone of Meditite? That would be Baltoy. Psychic/Ground is a weird enough type combination as it is, but again we have the screwy body shape a wtf head. Its got a not-very-intimidating spike and screwy red markings. Its eyes also seem to be perpetually closed. I guess being a psychic it knows where its going, but why even have eyes in the first place. Its just a weird RSE Pokemon, definitely one of my least favorites out there.

Rank #469: Whismur

Bad play on a word, check. Ugly, unappealing, recycled look. check. RSE, check. That is Whismur. Its a small generic normal type with stubby feet, random ears, the absolute weirdest eyes ever. How do you describe those. It has a dotted + sign for eyes, is the best say I could put it. It has litlte mini-hands that couldnt possibly have any use, and look at its mouth. Seriously. What the hell. It opens so...oddly. Theres a Pokemon of a similar shape, similar look, but that does it all better and still involves sound. And is infinitely cooler. Whismur just fails.

Rank #468: Taillow

Yeah you guys are either going to love me or absolutely hate me for some of the Pokemon coming in the 400s. A lot of them are going to be the generic bird/bug/etc Pokemon that we get in every game. You find them at the first route and if you actually bring them to the end, they are inferior to just about anything you could have captured. Taillow is no exception, and the name seems to have an uncanny resemblance to two first-generation bird Pokemon. Taillow is the definition of the generic bird, and definitely the least likeable.

Rank #467: Finneon

You know, we had a whole line of Pokemon with a gimmick of eon at the end, we have a fire-starter evo with an eon in the middle(And maybe some other Pokes I'm forgetting), was it really necessary to make the completely non-related and unimportant finneon? Even worse, it is the definition of the generic fish. Absolutely unnecessary. Its a fish, it doesnt even look like they attempted to make it a Pokemon. It looks like someone went and drew a fish and said "hey lets give it a name and call it a pokemon". I dont even know what to say, its the generic of the generic fish. Only reason its not lower is that its not stupid looking and Finneon is a decent sounding name.

Rank #466: Wurmple

Ok, we had Caterpie. We had Weedle. We had both of those at the same time. Whats the logical thing to do? Make ANOTHER one, one that looks nearly exactly like the previous two, follows the exact same gimmick, and has no redeeming qualities over the other two. Its a small stupid bug. It even has a horn on its head like Weedle, but its not as sharp. Generic bug, generic of the generic bugs.

Rank #465: Combee

See, we had this bee pokemon already. It was Beedrill, it was useless, but it looked cool and is one of the better running gags in the anime. Combee brings us a very lame name, a very lame look, and was the subject of quite possibly the worst mini-arc in the anime ever. Its apparenly 3 of the things stuck together, but its a single Pokemon and there is no pre-evo of the thing as a single bee. I expect they'll remedy this in the next generation giving us an even crappier pokemon.

Rank #464: Burmy

Its a Seedot covered in leaves and it comes in 3, yes 3 versions. Definite win right? No not really. Neither is particularly interesting. There a big ugly crowd of plants. Now, I dont want to seem biased against grass pokemon(In fact, I'm not at all), but a big lump of leaves with eyes isnt the most impressive pokemon out there. Its got a really weird split evolution too, I dont think I could even describe it here. And yes, I understand the irony of complaining about a Pokemon covered in leaves. Dont bug me about that. Rank #463: Swellow

Swellow hmm...We definitely have had this name pattern before. One of the least creative Pokemon ever. At least some of the other generic birds didnt rip their name pattern from a previously created and better looking bird. This is just a terrible pair of Pokemon based off a pair of Pokemon that already wasnt particularly great. And lets face it, Swellow is just a big fat Taillow. Not the coolest evolution out there, by any means.

Rank #462: Mantyke

Want to know a surefire way to make a terrible baby Pokemon? Take the existing evo, make it smaller, change 2 letters in the name to make some pun on small. Mantyke isnt the worst looking Pokemon out there, but it is severely lacking on creativity. It just seems like its a small Mantine and not a pre-evo. Its just completely unnecessary. There was plenty of room to give Mantine some sort of cool evolution, instead we got a useless pre-evo.

Rank #461: Starly

Generic bird. Generic bird. Generic bird. Seriously. What the hell is Starly. Its just the most generic bird in existence. It only lists so high because its evolution line has a bit more promise over its other generic bird counterparts. Starly however, is a tier 1 Pokemon with little upside. It looks small and totally unappealing, only benefiting from having a decent sounding name.

Rank #460: Budew

Yeah, these poorly designed grass types just confuse me. I cant really tell what exactly Budew is supposed to be. I initially associated it with Burmy and had no idea it evolved into Roselia. Roselia is a pretty cool Pokemon, Budew is not. Budew is small and lame and unappealing like many of pre-evos. Even trying to see the small resemblance to Roselia, I just cant see the need for Budew at all.

Rank #459: Wormadam

Another pokemon that makes me just say "What in all hell is that". Seriously, I have no clue. Its a weird looking bug type and I have no idea what its based on. I've never seen a bug that looks like that. Not even close. I dont know what it is. Its got 3 markings on it, a thin a long nose or mouth or whatever that is, and then 2 eyes that just seem to stare at you. Definitely a weird thing. It gets a small bonus types for the massively screwy method of choosing its secondary type.

Rank #458: Vespiquen

Yeah, the evolution of Combee, an evolution I find particularly odd. Combee was a pretty small pokemon, 3 simple honeycomb things put together. Then you get a huge evolution straight to the "queen" or whatever. Its kind of a big leap, I guess. Nothing entirely wrong with it, but I find it a bit odd. Also again, Vespiquen isnt a terrible Pokemon, but the bee arc in the anime makes my opinion of them fall much more. That combined with the fact we had a Bee pokemon before, one with a much better evolution line. Vespiquen also looks like its going to snap in half at any moment, its body gets really, really thin.

Rank #457: Drifloon

Oh look its chimecho, but purple, and with strings and a more balloon shaped head. Seriously, balloons are basically decorations for parties, they float and look nice. Drifloon floats, looks ugly, isnt involved in any sort of parties, and even if it were, balloons arent something I want to take and throw out into battle. Drifloon just isnt a very interesting Pokemon, its plain and weak, and it looks as useless as it is.

Rank #456: Bronzor

Kind of just dawned on me that I have all these DP Pokemon clustered together right here. Odd how that works, and it doesnt stop at Bronzor either. But to Bronzor, hes here because hes just not very interesting. Hes a nearly-flat steel hexagon with eyes. Thats the only way to describe it. And I wouldnt be able to guess its part psychic either, it looks pure steel if I had to take a guess at it. This still doesnt make it interesting, though it evolves into something properly at the very least, so its got that going for it.

Rank #455: Staravia

Starpartialgenericbirdword continues the string of DP Pokemon, being the evolution of Starly, it looks like, a bigger Starly. Not quite as terrible looking, at least, which is why its slightly higher. Still, a not very creative name, a generic bird look, its just not a very exciting Pokemon. It always looks pretty angry too, I dont want an angry generic bird.

Rank #454: Mothim

Burmy is a pretty weird Pokemon, with the weirdest split of evolutions ever. But they are all pretty unappealing, and Mothim is no different. Moths are pretty annoying, and Mothim looks pretty damn inferior to other flying varieties of bugs that are already in existence. Hes simply something we've seen before, and doesnt stand out at all to make him any better.

Rank #453: Cherubi

Despite having a neat sounding name, Cherubi is one of the more plain pokemon in existence. Its got a leaf on its head, and then has a big pink ball face and a little pink ball face. Seriously, it has -two- complete faces. And the poor deformed face in the back is so small, you have to wonder whats wrong with it. Is it some sort of defect cherubi? But all Cherubi have it. What the hell. What is wrong with them, seriously? That second face, poor thing.

Rank #452: Sunkern

Well, we got another leaf on head Pokemon(irony, I know, dont kill me). Its an ugly yellow color and just a face on a whatever the hell it is. I'd never guess it evolves into Sunflora(Aside the Sun in its name). It looks as useless as it is. Have you seen some of the pokedex or whatever it is things? Sunkerns goal is literally to not move, at all. It just sits there looking stupid.

Rank #451: Politoed

Ok what did we need this guy for again? We had an awesome looking line from Poliwag, all which made sense. Then they split the evolution for Politoed, which looks almost nothing like its predecessors and nowhere near as cool. Its a weird green looking thing, not a cool blue thing with a neat looking swirl. Well, it has a swirl, but it doesnt look anything like the rest of the line. This is a total wtf evolution that was completely unnecessary.

Rank #450: Snorunt

.Its a little hat thing. The fact that it evolves into glalie kind of hurt it in my book, gave me a more negative opinion of the thing. Its also a little werd, its got giant teeth and really little eyes. And then some hands which seem to come out of nowhere. I'm glad they decided Glalie sucks and gave it a better evolution, at least.

Rank #449: Tyrogue

Why did they make Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan part of the same evo line? I'll never know this. And then they did it worse, by making a third and more terrible version of them. Tyrogue is simply lame, he looks like someone took a knife to a hitmonchan and took off a thin layer of skin. I'm not a big fan of most fighting types(Irony I know again stfu), and Tyrogue just happens to be a very lame pre-evo fighting type.

Rank #448: Hitmontop

What else could I possibly follow Tyrogue with but his equally lame and new evolution, Hitmontop. I initially thought this guy was some pre-evo to hitmonlee, and that tyrogue was a pre-evo to hitmonlee. Why he is a third seperate evolution of Tyrogue, I have no idea. These two shouldnt even be associated with the original Hitmon's. They just dont fit.

Rank #447: Phione

The massive amount of legendaries in DP kind of made most of them lose their legendary status. Aside from a few of them which are still cool, a good majority of them, many of which most of us will never attain, kind of lose their iconic status. Phione is one of these Pokemon. Its a baby version of a new legendary, except it looks nearly exactly the same and cant evolve. Its a really, really lame excuse for a legendary. We should be breeding Mewtwo and getting Mew, not breeding crappy legendaries and getting even crappier legendaries.

Rank #446: Cloyster

Here is where people start getting mad at me again. I just dont like Cloyster. Its a big giant shell with a face inside. Its also got defense like nobodies business, and a nasty little type. Its not like it kills you or even puts up much of a threat. It just doesnt die and then it blows up. I've never cared to use it, its not very nice to look at, and its done nothing but annoy me in battle. This earns it a reasonably low spot on the list.

Rank #445: Gible

Yes now I'm bringing up another Pokemon line people probably like. Sure Garchomp is the big cool dragon in DP, but he starts particularly lame. Gible is a giant mouth. Literally, I dont know how to describe it others. Its a giant mouth. It cant even reach its arms out in front of its big giant mouth. Its not even a cool looking mouth either, its just big and huge. "Gible" sounds pretty lame, too.

Rank #444: Manaphy

As I said with Phione, lot of terrible legendary/unobtainable Pokemon in DP. Manaphy is pretty much the highlight of these. Also to add the crappiness, movie 8 was one of the better Pokemon movies, set good standards, then we got movie 9, highlighted with Manaphy. The movie was...terrible, at best. And thats being kind(Luckily movie 10 looks awesome if it ever gets over here). Manaphy himself was annoying and awful, and doesnt look very legendaryish. Its just a pokemon with pretty low standards. Cant stand the thing.

Rank #443: Bonsly

Yeah, theres not many Pokemon that get stuck as main-trainer pokemon in the anime that I dont like a lot, but Bonsly is just annoying. Start with the fact I'm not a big fan of Sudowoodo, I'm not going to like Bonsly ever. Its a face, with 3 balls of green on it. A big face, at that. Not a big fan of the face-pokemon, as you can tell.

Rank #442: Drifblim

And drifloons evolution is...just as weird. Its a drifloon with the name meant to add part of blimp on the end, I guess. But Blimps are outdated, you dont see them anywhere, not even at most sporting events where they used to always be. They are dead. I havent seen one in forever. And Drifblim, hes small, he looks like drifloon but not nearly as appealing. Not a great set of Pokemon for sure.

Rank #441: Swinub

I cant help but feel bad for Swinub...I mean, we dont even know what it has under all that fur. It could just be a blob like a ditto with a pig-nose for all we know. I mean, its just a small pathetic looking blob of fur with a pig nose and eyes. Eyes which it never seems to open and it looks like its permanently depressed. Pokemon that look permanently depressed arent exactly something you want around very much.

Rank #440: Sealeo

As I said with Spheal, I'm really hung up on the injustice done to Seel with the name. At the very least Sealeo starts to look slightly less like a seal than its predecessor. It also benefits from a better look and a better sounding name. Still, the fact that they couldnt yet drop the Seal part of the name, it really bothers me. Enough to stay low on the list.

Rank #439: Shellos

A Lapras pre-evo? Thats what we thought when we first got a glimpse of this guy. We were wrong. It was part of a terribly lapras-like set of Pokemon. And it comes in 2 colors. The fact that Lapras looks like these guys but is infinitely more awesome, it causes Shellos to look pretty bland and terrible.

Rank #438: Piloswine

I'm really not a fan of evolutions where the Pokemon gains nothing but getting slightly bigger. Take Swinub, grow him a little taller, add tusks, cover eyes. Unfortunately Piloswine looks even more depressed than Swinub, mainly due to the covered eyes. The tusks are a neat addition, but other than that its just a grown Swinub a little bit. I do like the name "Piloswine" though, hence why hes a few spots up on his unevolved form.

Rank #437: Mamoswine

Holy crap cover it up. Cover the damn face back up. Goddamn. What the hell. Just when you wonder why Piloswine and Swinub dont show their face, Mamoswine is revealed. The ugliest face ever. What the hell is wrong with it, seriously? I rank it above the other two only because they had the absolute right idea with him. He doesnt look depressed anymore, and hes bigger with cooler tusks and shows his face. But whats wrong with it? Now you know why Piloswine and Swinub were so depressed, they are ugly as all hell. Rank #436: Gastrodon

Take Shellos, make bigger, make the slug-shape more apparent. Not quite as Lapras-like as its younger evolution, it still suffers from the same problems. It adds a ground type for some small uniqueness, but therea re better choices for that out there. Its still as unappealing a Pokemon as its predecessor, with little improvement.

Rank #435: Sudowoodo

Yeah, its a rock with 3 whatever the hell those are hanging from its arms. See, Snorlax used to block our paths. It was annoying, but it was a Snorlax. He was the cause of jokes, many deaths in battle, and was a pretty original Pokemon. Sudowoodo, hes a rock that somehow blocks our path...Yet hes not even that big. It makes no sense. Hes not big enough to block our path, why do we have to move him out of the way?

Rank #434: Zigzagoon

Just what we need, a Pokemon with brain damage. Seriously, Zigzagoon are one of the more useless Pokemon in battle, and outside of that, they are literally limited to running in zigzag patterns. Theres got to be some massive loss in productivity caused by this. I'm sure someone could do the math and figure out just how much longer they take to get from one place to another than if they went in a straight line, but I dont personally feel like doing such a thing. It just cant be very fast, and its got to be a sign of something mentally wrong with them. Not a bad looking Pokemon, but useless and clearly suffering from mental problems.

Rank #433: Rotom

While not officially a legendary(Coming before the set of 3 is grounds for being Dragonite-level, but not legendary), its still a one-time encounter, and I believe the music comes in legendary-fashion. Rotom is pretty lame. Its motor spelled backwards, and its job is to make things not work. Thats not cool. I imagine the Pokemon world has enough problems with rogue electric types making machines die. It doesnt need Rotom existing specifically tom ake things not work. Its small and has a weird type combination, and its almost-legendary status is pretty undeserved. Weird loking thing, too.

Rank #432: Mankey

Monkey with an A wow. One of the weirder RBY Pokemon, and definitely one of my least favorites from the generation. Its an odd looking face with a pig-nose and a monkey tail. Its also a very useless evo line witha arguably the worst type of the RBY generation. If I had to run down a list of RBY Pokemon from my head, second to Venomoth and Venonat, the Mankey line probably gets forgotten next. Weird pig monkey fighting thing, odd to say the least.

Rank #431: Nincada

What a weird looking bug, seriously. I dont have a whole lot to say about Nincada, but it has a weird name and is a pretty unappealing bug pokemon. It has a prety odd color scheme too, makes it seem pretty dull. It has one of the weirdest evolutions ever, to be quite honest. I have no idea what the logic is behind that.

Rank #430: Aron

Another fairly unappealing small Pokemon. Its part of a reasonably cool evolution line, but its not a great start. Aron has oddly proportioned limbs, with a giant head containing giant eyes. Both of which are charactistics I believe it loses a bit when it evolves, which is a welcome change. As it stands it looks pretty pathetic, almost making me feel sorry for it.

Rank #429: Mantine

I guess my big problem with Mantine is just that its not pokemon-ish enough. Its obviously not great in battle, and it just looks like a regular animal slightly bigger. It doesnt really have much to distinguish itself but its face, and thats all. Its just not very creative. I dont have any huge problems with it, it just simply doesnt have anything to make it stand out. Could definitely benefit from having an evolution.

Rank #428: Cherrim

Cherrim reminds me of some weird combination of Delcatty and Skitty. I'm serious, whenever I look at, I go "wow someone took Delcatty and mixed it with Skitty". Delcatty and Skitty are ok, I am perfectly fine with both of them, but why combine them? I dont know. I know Cherrim has no relation to either of them, but its something about the color scheme. Wasnt a big fan of Cherubi though, and its evolution doesnt have a big enough upside to get recognition from me.

Rank #427: Deoxys

You know a legendary isnt great when it stars in a Pokemon movie and the best character in the movie is an epic hotdog machine(Epic hotdog machine is awesome, btw, too bad its not a Pokemon). Deoxys however, is an unobtainable Pokemon from a generation with pretty terrible unobtainable Pokemon. Deoxys is obviously some DNA thing, but its not very cool. Its weird looking, not very legendary-like, and generally just unappealing. Pretty terrible legendary is all I could really say, I guess.

Rank #426: Beldum

Beldum is pretty dumb, seriously. Its an odd shaped flying thing of steel. I dont even know what its supposed to be...It isnt shaped like anything I could put my finger on. Its just a randomly shaped steel Pokemon that evolves into Pokemon that actually make some sense. But Beldum? I cant figure out what hes supposed to be on looks alone. Its not particularly cool looking, and its just too randomly shaped for my liking. And it has a dumb name, which they apparently admit to.

Rank #425: Spearow

The original of the generic birds. You had Pidgey, you had Spearow, both birds, both found early, both pretty useless. But for whatever reason, Spearow only evolved once, though both evolution lines would prove completely useless. I've said it a few times already, but Pokemon that look consistently angry are a real downer. Spearow is one of those Pokemon. Always angry, never with a nice face. Its a step above many generic birds, but still is the original generic bird.

Rank #424: Surskit

Generic water-hopping enemy from -insert game considering generic enemy here-. I can think of at least 2 popular series that have featured an enemy that looks exactly like Surskit. I dont know what its supposed to be otherwise, but it reminds me of the generic 4-leg water enemy you'll find in various games. Not very creative, not very useful, a pretty unappealing Pokemon. Its got a weird thing on its head too. It doesnt look sharp, it looks kind of useless.

Rank #423: Castform

The weather gimmick Pokemon, seriously. Its good in principle, but the problem? Weather is useless. Rarely do you ever encounter weather effects, so actually using a castform to do cool things like change with the weather is made pointless by the fact that weather doesnt really vary. Play through the game, 97% of the time the weather is normal, maybe 2% of the time its raining. And then somewhere in there is some other random weather effect. Its a failed gimmick. Weather plays such a little role in the game castform becomes useless. You cant use him in competitive battle, and you cant even have fun with him because weather never varies. Good idea for a gimmick Pokemon, but weather just isnt varied enough to have any use.

Rank #422: Masquerain

Obviosly the way to fix Surskit is to completely drop the water type and make it a geneiric flying bug. Really, Masquerain is pretty lame. The only thing it really maintains from Surskit is the weird thing on its head, but its now a white color. Could have been much cooler, but its not. We've seen bug/flying before, many of which are much more interesting.

Rank #421: Spinarak

Its a generic green spider bug yay. Its also a poison type, I guess. It also has a horn on its head, which isnt very useful for a spider I'd imagine, considering it has 2 fangs in front of its eyes which I'm sure are much more apt at stabbing things. I have no problem with them making a spider-like Pokemon, I guess it was necessary, but Spinarak still isnt particularly likeable.

Rank #420: Jirachi

Max's only friend. Max's only friend. Max's only friend. Seriously. I could leave this whole writeup as that, for like 6 lines. But I figure I'd stop at 3. Jirachi starred in what is without a doubt the worst Pokemon movie. I dont even remember anything about the plot except that it was really really Max heavy and that Jirachi is his only friend. Its pretty failure. It had potential to be just a regular unobtainable like Mew and Celebi, but it became failure with that movie. Its not nearly as neat looking as the previously mentioned 2, either.

Rank #419: Magcargo

Cant say I'm a fan of this line, at all. And yeah, I think Naye is about ready to kill me, so I should probably make this quick. Its a slug, with a shell that looks pretty lame added, it was better as a slugma. Its still a bad type and a not very appealing Pokemon.

Rank #418: Slugma

Yeah its a string of Pokemon Naye is going to find a way to kill me over the internet for. Seriously, I can feel the angry death thoughts all the way over here. Slugma unfortunately evolves into Magcargo, a bit lamer pokemon than Slugma. It should evolved into some bigger giant more badass fireslug. Instead, it remained pretty lame. Slugma looked better without the shell, though.

Rank #417: Spiritomb

One of those lame single encounter Pokemon that isnt a legendary. The conditions for getting him pretty lame, too. Luckily, I have no desire to ever have one because I dont even know what its supposed to be. Its a pretty generic ball of ghost. I dont even know how to describe it other than a ball of ghost. Ball of ghost arent cool. I dont like poor gimmicks for obtaining Pokemon, and I dont like poorly designed Pokemon.

Rank #416: Hoothoot

See, when we first got generic birds, they were fairly unique, unlike the recent early bird Pokemon. Still, hoothoot wasnt particularly, and the name was pretty terrible. It was a good try at least, and it earns him a spot higher than many of the early generic birds. If only it were a bit more useful and didnt suck so terribly from the start, it would have had potential.

Rank #415: Skarmory

And here we are finally, Blissey's partner in ruining a generation, Skarmory. Skarmory gains points for having a pretty cool type, and a neat look. Unfortunately, its type also matched up perfectly with Blissey, making one of the evillest combinations ever. The damn things just wouldnt die. I cant see a Skarmory without wanting to bang my head in the wall. That said, if Blissey werent as powerful, Skarmory would have been considerably weaker. Blissey was the main cause of the problems, so Skarmory is slightly forgiven. Also I saw pr0n of it, and liked it, and while this makes me want to bang my head into a wall even more, I cant get this fact of my head. Still doesnt get it very high on the list, though.

Rank #414: Remoraid

Until a few months ago, I was entirely unaware that this thing evolved into Octillery. Seriously, completely 100% unaware of it. It makes no sense. At all. It goes from generic ugly fish to Octillery. If someone can explain that, I'd be interested. But yeah, generic fish with probably the most wtf standard evolution process ever. Octillery isnt generic at all, but Remoraid is just your average fish with a perpetually opened ugly mouth.

Rank 413: Beautifly

Yeah, I dont have anything particularly against Beautifly. Its at the end of the line of the most worthless split evolutions ever. Everyone knows the bug Pokemon we grab at the beginning of the game will evolve in 10 minutes, get entered into our pokedex, and then gradually become more and more useless. Beautifly is no exception. Again, unoriginal bug evolution, already had Butterfree, didnt really need Beautifly.

Rank 412: Snover

Grass and Ice. Seriously? Wow. Yeah I was aware of it, its still one of the weirdest combinations out there. Snover, while part of a rather crappy line looks like part of a tree, which becomes part snowish, with hands of grass thingies. And then it has a weird looking mountain-of-snow-head. Seriously. Its creative but, its really weird looking.

Rank 411: Dustox

Gaining a few spots above Beautifly for being a tad more creative, having a cooler name, and just generally being slightly less crappy. It doesnt look like a butterfree, or a beedrill, so thats a definite plus. Again, the end of one of the most pointless split evolution ever, though. Thats a real downer. Cool pokemon should get cool evolutions, not crappy bugs that we throw away once they evolve and give us their pokedex data.

Rank 410: Spinda

Take the inside of Poliwhirl's swirl, put them on the eyes of a teddiursa, and then stick a new color scheme on it. This is what I see of Spinda. And despite looking like a weird low-evo Pokemon, the thing never evolves to gain some sanity. I almost feel sorry for the thing, it really could use an evolution. As it stands, it just reminds me of better Pokemon.

Rank 409: Magby

Poor Magmar, seriously. You have 2 of the cooler Pokemon in RBY(Magmar and Electabuzz), but they just sucked. Magmar even had an epic Pokemon episode to go with it. Unfortunately, in the games, they were just absolutely terrible. So what was the logical solution to making them better? Give them a pre-evo of course. Seriously, it took them 3 generations to finally give them an evo. Unfortunately, Magby was part of a terrible set of baby Pokemon. It also looks like a redesigned charmander, with a redder color and no fire tail, and then some weird thing on its head.

Rank 408: Elekid

Same story as Magby here. Couldnt put Magby without keeping Elekid next to him. You take a Pokemon you already couldnt use and give it an even crappier pre-evo. Elekid looks a bit cooler than Magby, so it gets to go ahead. Still, such a terrible idea.

Rank 407: Bibarel

Being an HM whore can only get you so far. While Bibarel might have been able to guide us through anywhere we wished, it just looks, stupid. I have no idea how to describe it. Just look at its face. Really. Its just a useless Pokemon in DP, outside of an HM whore. And it didnt win a GFAQs contest match, so that automatically makes it fall much lower than Bee-doof.

Rank 406: Luvdisc

Its a heart-shaped disc. Seriously. What the hell kind of a Pokemon is this? It wouldnt be so bad, but its one of those forgotten Pokemon that is ultimately pretty useless, but never gets any sort of an evolution despite clearly having room to evolve. It gets up on the list because I have pretty much nothing against it. Its just a plain pokemon that got ignored once it was created.

Rank 405: Pidgey

The original, original, generic bird. Seriously, its a Pidgey. You encountered it early in RBY, and maybe even used it for quite some time, maybe even to the end of the game, because at that time we didnt know any better. We didnt know that Pokemon had vastly inferior stats to the better options, we didnt know that some types were just pretty crappy, and we certainly didnt expect our pokemon to grow useless. Sure, we probably ditched it along the way when we eventually realized there were a bunch of cool Pokemon we could use that we were encountering, but it was probably the first damn bird you caught. Still though, it is a generic bird.

Rank 404: Pidgeotto

Drop a letter, add some syllables. Setting standards for generic birds everywhere, Pidgeotto takes a Pidgey and grows bigger. It grows some hair, I guess. Pidgey had some hair-like thingy though, but it wasnt very noticeable. So I guess everything about Pidgey just grows considerably. Still, a bit better evolution than many generic birds.

Rank 403: Skiploom

The middle of a mediocre but usable line, Skiploom is just a real downer. Its a big ugly fat plant thing. Its got a swurvy mouth when closed and stubby hands. Literally, its hands have to be the most pointless things ever. Still, its fat and ugly with a flower on its head. Definitely the worst its in evo line.

Rank 402: Geodude

Remember back in the earlier generations when Geodude was that cool rock pokemon with the cool name. I mean, seriously, the name is Geodude, how could it possibly go wrong? It also evolves into Golem, which for a generation was the premiere Rock/Ground Pokemon. Well, I'll tell you how you go wrong. You turn it into the Zubat of...EVERYWHERE. Seriously, in DP, I wouldnt have been surprised to fish up a Geodude. the damn things, were everywhere. Cave? Geodude. Grass, geodude. Snowy place, thats right, Geodude(Actually those were Graveller, but you ran into Geodude on the way to the snowy area and it still makes no sense). There were the damn Zubat of everywhere. You couldnt escape Geodude. You didnt want to see another Geodude. You didnt even want to use a Geodude. It was disgusting.

Rank 401: Clamperl

Ahhh, the beginning of one of the most wtf and forgotten evolution lines ever. We had a shell-like pokemon, it was shellder, it had weird looking eyes and tongue. Clamperl is, as its names implies, a clam with a pearl-face inside. Its not nearly as cool as Shellder. Why do these terribly uncool Pokemon have split evolutions, I dont know. Its a bad trend, I guess(Someone is going to kill me one of these days for these opinions, I know). I still dont understand how the evos come from Clamperl, at all.

Rank 400: Cleffa

More unncessary baby Pokemon. Cleffa is literally just a smaller clefairy, not much distinctions from its evolution. Of course, its got about as much distinction as clefairy has from clefable, I guess. They mostly just grow bigger while getting small changes in appearance. Clefable should have gotten another evolution, seeing as how it was borderline usable in RBY, give it another evolution and it might have been useful. Too bad that might never happen now.

Rank 399: Igglybuff

Drop the J replace the p? Seriously, terrible name. I also odnt think an Igglybuff singing wouldnt be all that comedic compared to a Jigglypuff. Goes above Cleffa only because Jigglypuff is pretty awesome. Other than that, standard baby pokemon. Into the 300s we go.

Rank 398: Kricketot

A weird looking bug Pokemon, thats for sure. Not so generic, just weird. It has a small round head and is another pokemon with those really short stubby hands which cant reach out and be useful for anything. Bug is a type over the years we've learned that, well, it sucks. So when we all so Kricketot was a bug, we added him to our Pokedex and that was the last of him. Weird bug is all I think of when I see him.

Rank 397: Slakoth

I'm not a big fan of Pokemon that intentionally look stupid. Slakoth is, well, stupid looking. It does nothing but sleep and do absolutely nothing while putting on an absolutely idiotic looking face. Its a decent line with a usable tier 3, but Slakoth is just not particularly great.

Rank 396: Shuppet

Generic ghost Pokemon. Is that even possible? I guess it is. Shuppet is about as generic as I imagine a ghost Pokemon getting. And, to be honest, he ranks quite low because I dont like his name. Something about "Shuppet" just doesnt roll off the tongue very well. Its a generic ghost-colored cloth thingy, is the best way I could describe it. Most of the ghost Pokemon fall into a similar color, its odd. It has very cool looking eyes, though.

Rank 395: Wailmer

Wailmer isnt near the bottom of the list for one reason. Looking at it makes me laugh. Wailmer is I guess supposed to be a whale. Its big, its fat, but I dont know what the hell they tried to make it look like. Its got mini dots for eyes that I cant imagine see anything, it looks longer from fin to fin that it does from back to front, and it has the most oddly proportioned fat body a whale has ever had. And it is forced to smile 100% of the time because its face can never change. Its pretty funny.

Rank 394: Shaymin

Well, DP went crazy on legendaries, crazy on obtainable legendaries, and crazy on unobtainable legendaries. Shaymin falls into the unobtainable category, and its not one of the more impressive legendaries. Its a white hedgehog with grass on its head, I guess. Not exactly legendary material. I doubt we'll ever be able to get ahold of one anyways. No real reason to deserve legendary status, but it has a decent and unique look to it, so it gets ranked up fairly high. Hope they make it reasonably obtainable someday, but I'm not counting on it.

Rank 393: Lumineon

Evolved generic fish. It gets ranked a bit higher because it has a cool name, but it still is a generic fish. It barely looks like a Pokemon at all, it just looks like a fish. I wouldnt expect this thing to be fighting randomly or anything, I expect it to swim and be a fish.

Rank 392: Exeggcute

Its a bunch of eggs, with faces. A pokemon that is a bunch of eggs, with faces. They are perpetually angry, and one of the poor eggs is cracked. I think you'd be angry if you had 6 faces, all that were eggs. It must suck to be an exeggcute, especially considering that only 3 of those eggs will survive. I guess thats why they are so angry.

Rank 391: Vigoroth

Evolution of Slakoth, with a crappy name. Seriously, "vigoroth" is just a terrible sounding name. It grows an out of proportion mouth, it stands up, and it waves its arms around wildly. It maintains the stupid look, while adding a bit of crazy to its list of features. Doesnt get it very many points over its younger evolution.

Rank 390: Silcoon

Generic cocoon. We had Kakuna, we had Metapod, did we need Silcoon? No. We didnt. Its only up this high because of the hilarious anime episode involving this thing. Other than that, generic bug cocoon. And its a pointless split evolution, too.

Rank 389: Cascoon

Generic cocoon. We had Kakuna, we had Metapod, did we need Cascoon? No. We didnt. Its only up this high because of the hilarious anime episode involving this thing. Other than that, generic bug cocoon. And its a pointless split evolution, too.

Rank 388: Pupitar

Generic cocoon. We had Kakuna, we had Metapod, did we need Pupitar? No. We didnt. Its not up this high because of the hilarious anime episode involving this thing. Other than that, it evolves from what is arguably a king. And then it evolves into T-Tar which has destroyed more things than I can count. So yeah. Its the lamest of its line, but its part of a good line.

Rank 387: Azumarill

Turn Marill into a big walking egg with rabbit ears and random white egg-spots on it. I dont understand the evolution. Marill was a Pokemon that lived on making you be unable to hate it when you looked at it. It just wasnt possible. Azumarill just loses everything that made Marill likeable, and looks a bit weird. Not the most creative set of names, either.

Rank 386: Seel

Pity for Seel can only go so far. While I prefer him to his attempted failure replacements, hes still just a seal with a horn on its head. He'd have been cooler if he started out part ice type, definitely. A seel that shoots ice > a seel that doesnt shoot ice. Even though Seel is still capable of shooting ice, its not as important without the ice type to go with it.

Rank 385: Kricketune

His crazy bug-eyes and randomly fat body with a wtf head are pretty strange. Hes also got some scyther-like hands, I guess. Hes a weird redish black bug. Wouldnt catch me using him on a team at any point. Too weird of a bug, and I'm not entirely sure how the tune part of his name fits in.

Rank 384: Abomasnow

So its called "AbomaSNOW" yet its part grass type. Really, if they wanted to go with the snow name, where the hell does the grass type fit into this? Add to that the fact that once it evolves from Snover, it loses ALL of its physical traits that make it look at all like a grass type. It has slightly green hands, I guess, but they dont look very plant-like. It looks like a big angry snow-thing, but I guess it was a reasonable idea for a Pokemon, so its worked its way up the list. Decent, although unfitting name, as well.

Rank 383: Infernape

So you start with Chimchar, then you get a Monferno, then you get random angry monkey that caught its hair on fire. Seriously, they were monkeys ok, not my favorite, animal, but I could live with that. They had randomly flaming tails and a different color surrounding their eyes. They were reasonably ok for monkey-things. Then you get infernape and he emos out with a permanently angry face and permanently awkward positioned limbs. And his tail is no longer on fire but his head is randomly on fire. Its odd, and he looks crappy, and has a reasonably failure type. He pretty much sums up my opinions on the DP starters, to be honest. Outside of the Piplup line, I didnt care a whole lot for them.

Rank 382: Makuhita

Yeah people are going to hate me for this section of the list, but Makuhita is pretty odd. Hes got a circle for a head, with literally lines for his mouth and eyes. Lines. Not even any sort of attempt to have eyes/mouth. He just has lines. For whatever reason he has colored cheeks. There are a few electric types with colored cheeks, a few other random pokemon with colored pikachu-cheeks, why does Makuhita have colored cheeks? Its a bad gimmick for a fighting type. Not a type I typically like to use either.

Rank 381: Smoochum

So its a Jynx pre-evo, obviously. But its not one of the ugliest Pokemon in existence, and it looks somewhat normal. Thats a definite plus. Unfortunately, its still a baby Pokemon, and ultimately that makes it useless, wasting space that could have been used for a better Pokemon.

Rank 380: Stantler

One of the most useless and least creative Pokemon. Its got a very uncreative name to go with it, and looks pretty bland. Only reason its up this high is because of its gimmick. Its, seriously, the hallucination Pokemon. Stantler shows up, person hallucinates, happened a few times in the anime. Its pretty damn hilarious. Its apparently caused by looking at its antlers, and they always, always look.

Rank 379: Slowpoke

As I've said a few times, I'm not a fan of intentionally dumb looking Pokemon. Slowpoke is this pink and white dumb looking thing, with a giant mouth and dots on his eyes. Hes got an eyeball, but its just got a dot on it. It also apparently in the anime wants to have its tail bitten by a shellder. Thats got to be abnormal somehow. I'm still curious how Nintendo ever got away with Slowpoke tails as a plot device though. Thats pretty disgusting.

Rank 378: Onix

One of the biggest of the original Pokemon had some of the worst stats in the game. It was a ground/rock type that was just massively inferior to other ground/rock Pokemon. You know, he has less HP and attack than Geodude. Geodude. A first tier, much smaller rock Pokemon. Onix is just massively inferior to the weakest of Pokemon. Luckily they corrected this by giving him an evolution, but Onix was just disgustingly terrible.

Rank 377: Anorith

Bug/Rock, thats an interesting type, to say the least. Except Anorith looks mostly bug, I guess it has some weird looking wings on hte side, and it almost looks like it has 2 sets of eyes. One set being what I think are its actual eyes, which are simply a patch of red color on its face. The second set is to set of eyeball looking things poking out from its face, but I think they have a different purpose. It has a cool looking evolution, at least.

Rank 376: Qwilfish

Big fat angry fish with spikes. Seriously, whats not to like? Well, it sucks in battle, and is permanently angry, so thats a couple of things. Its also got one of the ugliest faces ever, complete with slanty eyes so you know its evil. Its a good idea for a Pokemon, definitely, but its not useful and its pretty damn ugly. Necessary spiky underwater Pokemon though, but it needs an evolution.

Rank 375: Whiscash

Banned forever everywhere, literally. The only Pokemon to have its episode banned not only here in the US, but in Japan too. Never aired anywhere due to the idea of earthquakes being massively upsetting, apparently. Its a water and ground type, massively contradicting itself. I know it causes earthquakes, but I really dont know how that works otherwise. Unlike Qwilfish before, Whiscash is always smiling and completely not-evil looking, but its ugly and has massively weird eyes.

Rank 374: Claydol

Its a...clay doll, I never would have guessed. looking little like its predecessor Baltoy, Claydol maintains only its roundish shape. Complete with an excessive amount of eyes. Its "arms" if you want to call them that have become little round stubby things which are probably even less useful than it was before. It does however gain feet, but those look terrible too. Its big and fat and has a completely new color scheme. All these changes, and its still not a very interesting Pokemon.

Rank 373: Cradily

It umm...Has a hand with only 2 fingers as its legs and feet, as far as I can tell. And then it has a wierd face and if it has eyes, I dont know exactly where they are. I guess its also the final evo of a fossil, so I suppose thats where the rock in the rock/grass comes from. But damn is it weird. Its a big round head with a hand attached to it that it uses to walk.

Rank 372: Nosepass

Its ****ing NOSEPASS. Seriously, the name is NOSEpass. And its a giant blue face with a giant red nose. I dont know how you create that. Its a face, with a nose. Seriously, what the hell. Its a Pokemon, that is a face, with a nose. I am still astounded by this creation to this day. Whoever came up with this idea, should be fired. How the hell, when you have all these possibilities for cool new Pokemon, is one of your ideas, a face with a giant nose? Seriously, they, made, Nosepass. How do you do that. I dont know. And then they managed to give it an evolution, which makes the NOSEPASS creation even more hilarious.

Rank 371: Bidoof

Up this high for one reason only. It won a GFAQs contest match. With Link in the same match, no less. Not that it had any real competition, but when your a Nintendo character paired with Link and you are also one of the dumbest looking Pokemon ever, its a real accomplishment. Bidoof winning was awesome, because it showed Pokemon as, well, awesome, no matter how bad the Pokemon. Bidoof has a dumb name, looks dumb, and has no use other than evolving into an HM whore, but he has his victory.

Rank 370: Lileep

Unlike its evolution, it walks on a christmas tree stand, and it has eyes. Its aslo a weird purpleish color. It looks horrible, its color makes me think it should have been part poison instead of grass, but I understand how it is somewhat grassy. I will confess, the only reason its up this high is because Lileep is an awesome sounding name.

Rank 369: Metang

A huge improvement from Beldum, to say the least. No longer a plain looking metal little-thing, Metang is much, much better. However, it still isnt particularly great looking. It has, for whatever reason, a giant nose. Its not nearly as stupid looking as Beldum, but it still has a somewhat oblivious look to it. While its not horribly different from its evolution, its not nearly as cool looking. Not even close.

Rank 368: Phanpy

Phanpy gains a lot of bonus points for its evolution being pretty cool, and for being surprisingly likeably when he got randomly thrown onto the main team in the anime. Its got a neat little red-light blue color scheme going. I also give it props for doing exactly what lower evos should do, they should look like nice things that you want around, and then evolve into something with a more badass look to it. he does it properly. Start of a reasonably good evo set, so yeah.

Rank 367: Delibird

Long forgotten in the anime, Delibird had a few awesome sequences involving TR's hilariously large debt. Would have been cool to keep the gimmick going, but it was just kind of forgotten. Other than that, Delibird is a bird that brings presents, I guess. It carries around a sach. Its supposed to be a santa-bird I guess, by the color scheme. The color scheme has been reused and made better by Zangoose, making Delibird a bit less likeable. It only learns Present naturally, which always brings up bad memories(Present was horribly horribly glitched in GSC). I had no idea its sack was actually its tail, though, thats interesting to say the least.

Rank 366: Hoppip

Unlike its first evolved form, Hoppip isnt fat and ugly. Thats a definite plus. It is however, a very simple grass type. Its pink and has a couple leaves on its head, and then small limbs, all of which is complete with a rather giant mouth. It also evolves into a Pokemon that gave my team quite a bit of trouble in GSC, oddly enough. It did what it was supposed to though, evolve from a small happy creature into a bigger and more usable creature. Though Jumpluff isnt particularly impressive as far as looks are concerned, and I'm sure usefulness has dwindled as the generations have passed.

Rank 365: Shroomish

While it has a cool look evolution, Shroomish is pretty lame. Its an oddly shaped mushroom with a very plain color scheme. I'm just surprised they didnt throw a leaf on its head to signify its a generic grass type. It also is permanently sad-faced, literally. Its mouth is permanently in a sad expression, for whatever reason. This is fixed when it evolves, much like everything else about Shroomish. Bonus points for a cool evolution, again.

Rank 364: Kabuto

One of the original fossil Pokemon, a terrible gimmick that has somehow stuck through the generations(Though finally changed in DP). We always knew that inevitably early on we'd have the choice of 2 fossil Pokemon, and then the other would become unobtainable without trading. Kabuto was this small brown thing with red eyes that seem to come out of nowhere and then little mini-feet that I imagine can stab things. I could just see a Kabuto going headcrab on us and trying to eat someones face, scary thought. A very plain start to an ok evolution, though.

Rank 363: Lotad

The leaf on head Pokemon. Seriously. Its a blue thing, with a leaf on its head(Which I guess holds water on top. Its got some hilarious evolutions as well, complete with hilarious anime episodes. Water/Grass is an interesting type, as well, though somewhat contradicting, its very understandable how it works out. Also I've apparently learned that Lotad has 6 legs, that is weird.

Rank 362: Rhyhorn

Another generation that got a needed upgrade in DP, but Rhyhorn is your standard starting point to an evolution line. A weak looking Pokemon that grows gradually more and more awesome(Though Rhydon is still the coolest looking of the 3). Rhyhorn just doesnt look very interesting, hes just a standard rock type thingy. Hes got a small horn on his head and at a glance, he looks pretty unintelligent. But he evolves properly, as all Pokemon should.

Rank 361: Forretress

Forretress is a Pokemon that when it first came out, I got massively confused. I for the longest time thought that Pineco was Forretress and that Forretress was Pineco. Why? Because Pinceco looks tougher. Forretress looks like hes stuck inside a shell and is scared to come out because hes weak and pitiful, meanwhile Pineco is a badass looking Pinecone that looks like he'll spray spikes everywhere and piss you off. And yeah, people used Forretress a lot, so I bet people hate me for having him this low. But honestly, hes a damn staller, he sets up spikes, a move designed for stalling, and often refuses to die on my terms. I dont have facing him in battle as much as some other Pokemon, but enough that he gets a reasonably low spot on my list.

Rank 360: Shellder

Its taking me a bit longer for writeups now for some pretty simple reasons. The Pokemon from this point on are genuinely likeable. Its easy to rag on Pokemon that arent so great, but I find myself conflicted by the Pokemon coming up that I have to talk about, seeing as we're still on the bottom of the list. I've found myself wanting to shift Pokemon I'm about to write about up the list, and bring others down, but its hard to figure out just where I want them. I figure the middle of the list, which is what we are getting into, is the hardes to sort out. Shellder starts a good trend I guess, its your basic shell, but its got a giant tongue sticking out. Its plain, small, and looks like its supposed to. It also evolves into a bigger and more usable Pokemon, even though I don't particularly care for Cloyster. In the anime, they also have an affinity for eating Slowpoke, which is pretty funny.

Rank 359: Hippopotas

Not a bad Pokemon by any means, its a little mini brownish hippo with odd markings. I think its head is about the size of the rest of its body, and its eyes look like they are in a bad spot for combat(I imagine it getting in the eyes wouldnt be pleasant). Still, its a decently cool looking Pokemon. It loses points because the females have an ugly color scheme for whatever reason. Its evolution has the same color problem, too.

Rank 358: Paras

Its a little crab-lobster thing with mushrooms on its back. Paras was unique back in RBY, carrying the all-powerful Spore while also being one of the worst types in the game. Poor evolutionary line has been pretty much forgotten in-game since then, gaining little to improve its value. Still, its a pretty cool looking mini crab thingy, and one of the more unique Pokemon out there.

Rank 357: Ledyba

A forgotten line from GSC this time, though nowhere near as unique and usable as the Paras line once was, still has never gotten any bumps up higher with another evolution. A bit more visually appealing than the Paras line, thats for sure though. Its got 6 legs and giant eyes, and is very clearly a bug, though its also a flying type, I cant see it flying as efficiently as others of the type.

Rank 356: Shieldon

Its a yellow thing, with a shield on its head. And its name is shieldon. That is, not particularly creative, to say the least. Its the inferior of the DP fossils, being massively inferior to the Cranidos line. Still, not a bad fossil line, considering how little I liked the fossil Pokemon aside those from the original two. And, well, having a shield for a head is interesting.

Rank 355: Numel

Its a permanently drugged Camel with fire growing on its back. Seriously, google image search, its eyes are permanently rolled back like its on some sort of crazy drug. Unfortunately, this line suffers from what I would consider to be an absolutely terrible type combination. You have ground and fire, both weak to what is arguably been the most common special type(water, yes I know this means less now), and the most common physical type(excluding normal, with RSE I remember noticing one thing, earthquake(ground) is learned by EVERYTHING). Nasty little type combination, thats for sure.

Rank 354: Camerupt

Take Numel, turn him red, make him permanently angry instead of permanently drugged out, and then add another hump. Keep the same terrible type and the suck, and you have Camerupt. I really couldnt justify doing anything but keeping them together on the list. Camerupt has pretty crazy hair too, I suppose.

Rank 353: Torkoal

Continuing the trend of moving in order of the Pokedex, Torkoal is a fire-turtle thing that constantly is blowing smoke everywhere. Torkoal for whatever reason got some screentime in the anime, but it didnt have very many moments of glory, and was inferior to the rest of the cast at the time, so it doesnt push it up much. Constantly blowing smoke everywhere has got to suck too, I'd imagine.

Rank 352: Tangrowth

Now, there is no denying that Tangela needed an evolution. It was an inferior grass type with inferior moves, and inferior type, and inferior stats. But why, make it a Tangela, and give it arms. Tangela was a big thing of vines, make Tangrowth a bigger ball of vines, or give it thorns or something cool. But they gave Tangela long arms and kept everything else intact. Tangrowth is in fact less intimidating in appearance than Tangela, which is just weird. Tangela should have gotten a line where we could continue to make light of the many uses for its vines, not an evolution that grew arms. Everything has arms, you cant make comedy option comments about those. Good idea gone wrong.


 * 1) 468 Rank 351: Gardevoir

I'm not going to lie to you here. Gardevoir is this low for one main reason. There is too much porn or it. Seriously. Too much porn of it. And yes, now you guys have to be all "wtf red thinks theres too much porn of a Pokemon? wtf wtf" and continue that for a long time. Although, I'm not sure my distaste for Gardevoir was all that unknown. I dont find the Pokemon to be particularly attractive, really. I'm serious, not very attractive at all. Gardevoir is this white and green thing with a big head and long thin arms. I guess its got a humany face, but its still not very appealing. And as I said, I dont find it attractive, and its wasting porn that could have been spent on better Pokemon. And yeah, someone is really going to try to kill me now, and I've got no idea how many people this someone includes.

Rank 350: Walrein

No longer ripping off the Seel line, Walrein is much improved over its previous forms. Its got a better look to it, and again, not ripping off the Seel line is a massive improvement. Its got cool looking tusks and is appropriately big and fat. Its a good evolution, for sure, though not the most useful Pokemon, I approve of the end of the line. Oh, and I've survived a day after ranking Gardevoir low, I'm surprised.

Rank 349: Granbull

The forgotten Heal Beller of GSC, totally crappy compared to the other two in battle, though of course, its not going to be ranked down there with Blissey. Only real characteristic it inherits from Snubbull is the ears, as far as I can tell. Granbull seems to grow its jaw too big and it no longer fits in its mouth. It is pretty plain looking compared to Snubbull as well, thats a disappointment.

Rank 348: Lickilicky

Another Pokemon evolution in the style of Tangrowth, and like Tangrowth, its a good idea gone horribly wrong. You take Lickitung, something with a GIANT TONGUE as its timmick, and you fatten it up and shrink the tongue? What the hell is that? It should have grown an even more exaggerated tongue. Instead, they gave us another big fat ping thing with a slightly oversized tongue. Its lame. Good idea to give an unusable Pokemon an evolution, poor execution.

Rank 347: Togekiss

Another evolution gone bad. Take arelatively unique looking evolution like Togetic, and make it a generic bird. Its literally the eggshell colors on a generic looking bird thing. Now, it was definitely a good idea for an evolution, but again hits the problem of not following up with a decent look to back it up. Togekiss is just way too birdish for me, and ruins what was a relatively unique line of Pokemon.

Rank 346: Pineco

As I said earlier, I used to always get Forre and Pineco mixed up. Pineco just looks a bit cooler. Hes a big pinecone with a spike on his head. I just have an easier time picturing him laying spikes all over the place and then blowing up on his own terms. Forretress on the other hand isnt hearly as intimidating, and looks like he should have been the first in the line, not Pineco. Names should have been switched, of course, but Pineco just looks like an evolved Pokemon compared to Forretress.

Rank 345: Dunsparce

So, its a normal type. It looks like a first generation generic bug, it has stats that are just terrible, and its reasonably small as well. You'd think its got to evolve right? Nope, never. Its always Dunsparce. Seriously, what the hell were they thinking with Dunsparce. Its got to be one of the most leftover Pokemon ever. Its just kind of there right in the middle of the GSC set of the Pokdex, and it cant really do anything. Its sole purpose is to be Dunsparce for its entire life. So why is it up this high if its so terrible and a normal type generic bug? Because its Dunsparce, obviously. I need no other reason.

Rank 344: Duskull

Its a Shy Guy in ghost form. Seriously, thats exactly what I imagine Duskull to be. Its about the same size, small body, big skull, kind of square-like face, got to be a Ghost Guy. Fairly similar sized arms too, I suppose. Still, Duskull is just, well, a floating/walking skull, I'm not sure exactly how it moves around, since it does sort of have feet, but I assume it floats since its a ghost. Its not an altogether impressive ghost, though.

Rank 343: Skorupi

I think its a scorpion guys. Seriously, not the best name ever. I'm sure the upi has to do with something, but I'm really not sure(Someone fill me in on this?), so I'm not sure on then last part of the name. But its a scorpion made of a bunch of sphere-like shapes. Literally, its whole body is just a collection of circles when you look at it. Head, arms, tail, eyes, fang-things. All circle-like. Its also got crazy eyes which rise from its face. Its got one of the weirdest mouths I've ever seen. Literally it looks like someone took a pen and just scribbled from the left to the right, because it has no shape to it. Least they made a bug that isnt generic, but the bug part doesnt last.

Rank 342: Glameow

Yeah its a generic cat Pokemon, but it had a neat looking swirly tail with promise. Then, it evolved, and all our hopes of a good Pokemon were crushed with Purugly. What in all hell were they thinking. Yes, this sounds like an extended Purugly rant, but thats because Purugly brings Glameow down so much, because its so damn terrible. Glameow has this neat little swirly tail with a little ball on the end, all with a rather unique look to it. Then they go and ruin it with Purugly.

Rank 341: Minun

You guys happy now? Seriously, its another Pikachu-look alike, but outside of the generation. Plusle and Minun were basically a gimmick to add when giving us double battling. I'm personally not a big fan of double battling, but I imagine enough people emailed nintendo begging them to let us have it that they finally caved and threw something together rather quickly. They were meant to show off helping hand, teaching all of us everywhere that its, well, useless. Still, they are eye-pleasing in an odd sort of way. As for Minun, that blue color, while a cool color, looks a little on odd on that shade of yellow. Thats why hes lower.

Rank 340: Plusle

+ > - ? Seems so. Actually, I just like the color scheme better. I doubt I shocked anyone with this next one. Oh, and dare I say it, there is too much porn of them. Seriously, too much. Wasting time/space that could have been spent on better Pokemon. I dont know how this fact escaped the Minun write-up. Oh well. No shock here. Damn crazy gimmick Pokemon.

Rank 339: Volbeat

Yeah, people always mention Plusle and Minun. But they forgot, immediately after them came the exact, same, gimmick, in bug form. They are slightly more original and have much cooler names. However, they are big fat flying bugs. Fireflies, to be a bit more exact, which are cooler than Plusle and Minun, but follow exactly the same damn gimmick. And yeah, people kept asking where Plusle and Minun were, but no one mentioned these two. Way to forget guys. The gimmick came twice. Only difference is one is female, the other is male. Volbeat is the male, but damned if I remember that off the top of my head.

Rank 338: Illumise

I like the name better, in this case. This is the female it seems, blah blah blah blah blah. Gimmick part 2.

Rank 337: Shelgon

Generic coccoon Pokemon. Seriously, who the hell would expect that in the Salamence line? Especially after Bagon was so unique and admittedly suicidal. Its literally just a big hard shell, and its not even part steel or rock, which would have made some sense. Its got legs, but supposedly rolls around instead of walking, seeing as its legs are so small they have to be useless. Its a weird middle generation Pokemon, never would have seen Salamence coming.

Rank 336: Wailord

There was some sort of joke about Wailord and Skitty that reached just about everywhere. I have absolutely no idea where it came from, but its been everywhere, and I dont quite understand the funny behind it. Wailord itself as its name implies, is a giant whale. Its not nearly as dumb looking as Wailmer was, but its still just a whale. It doesnt even have any particularly noticable features, its just a giant blue colored whale. It barely qualifies as a Pokemon.

Rank 335: Stunky

Its a skunk pokemon, obviously. Except, its a suicidal Pokemon. Not only does it learn Memento(What a stupid move btw), but it follows that up with explosion. So we got a damn suicidal skunk. That is, quite a random Pokemon, to say the least. I actually somewhat understand the poison/dark thing, and its moves match up outside the whole being suicidal thing. The bidoof'ish face kind of hurts it in my midn, too.

Rank 334: Chimecho

Being one of James' Pokemon can only take you so far, particularly when you've been replaced by a new and even better(much much better) gimmick Pokemon. Its umm, a wind chime Pokemon, or so it says. Its not very big, not very powerful, and doesnt ever evolve. Except it has a pre-evo, for whatever reason. Chimes are meant to be hanging somewhere making noise, not somewhere being Pokemon.

Rank 333: Swablu

Another Pokemon getting bonus points because I like its name. Swablu is a neat little bird Pokemon with clouds for wings. Its anything but a generic looking bird, which gets it bonus points. Its also got a neat color scheme, though its not a Pokemon I'd consider bringing out to battle, its got a reasonable evolution and gets massive uniqueness points.

Rank 332: Skuntank

The suicidal skunk evolves into a bigger suicidal skunk. Or rather, he just grows fat and his tail covers most of his body. He also learns flamethrower randomly, in addition to keeping its suicidal moves. Its a strange Pokemon, thats for sure. Doesnt look terribly different from his unevolved form and isnt particularly great either. Oh, and I've seen porn of this line, but it wasnt particularly memorable. Just to note.

Rank 331: Poochyena

Yeah, its a generic dog Pokemon, but its a cool looking generic dog Pokemon. It also evolves into Mightyena, an even cooler looking Pokemon. That bumps it up quite a bit. Its also a pure dark type, which is rather surprising considering how "normal" it looks, not tom ention its spot in the pokedex. Oh, and you'd be surprised how much pr0n there is of this line too, although, I think maybe surprised isnt the right word.

Rank 330: Gabite

I think I say see a name pattern here, yeah. Actually, Gabite reminds me of an inferior looking Cranidos line too, same basic shape and theme going there, I guess. Evolution is much improved though, of course. Seems like they tried to make the second gen look cool, and then just fell a bit short. Better second evo for this line than say, Shelgon, I suppose.

Rank 329: Lairon

Yeah a small little set of middle evos here. Lairon also turns his line into Rhyhorn/Rhydon version 2. With a new type of course, since they made Rock/Ground complete crap from GSC on. Same basic shape as Rhyhorn, but a bit cooler looking. Much improved with the steelish look, thats for sure. Reasonly decent pokemon, but hurt by the lack of originality.

Rank 328: Mareep

A line I absolutely approve of because its both done properly and its final evolution(Ampharos) is awesome. Mareep is a yellow electric sheep, I dont think there is anything to dislike there. So yeah, unevolved pokemon that evolves properly, I approve, and I greatly approve of its evolutions, so that makes it even better.

Rank 327: Sunflora

It would be lower, but Sunflora-Meowth makes me laugh. If your unaware, in the anime, on multiple occassions, meowth has dressed as a Sunflora. They were quite hilarious, and reflect positively on Sunflora as a result. Otherwise, its a Sunflower Pokemon. It looks like a Sunflower, its colored like a Sunflower, and not much seperates it from a sunflower. Oh, and for the longest time I had no idea it came from Sunkern.

Rank 326: Grumpig

It evolves from Spoink, but doesnt keep the pearl gimmick(Which was pretty cool) very well. It gains small black pearls I guess, but nothing like Spoink balancing a pearl on its head for its entire life. Not the best Psychic type out there either, could probably use another evolution. Only thing it really inherits from Spoink is the tail, but it doesnt even use it to stand on, and its probably too big to do so. But if your wondering how it got this high, I indeed saw porn of it, and it was oddly well-done. That made me laugh.

Rank 325: Girafarig

Forgotten Pyschic(And lolnormal too) type from GSC. Girafarig just kind of sits there in the middle of the Pokedex with mediocre stats. Definitely could use an evolution, but I wouldnt count on it ever being remembered. Its got a tail with an evil mini-head attached to it, literally. It looks like it'll chew off anything that gets near it. It was a reasonable Pokemon, I think, they just didnt go anywhere with it.

Rank 324: Natu

Natu is, well, its the cult bird. Thats why I think of when I see it. You look at Natu and it just kind of stares like its part of some crazy cult. The anime furthers this point, they are weird and culty. But they are rather unique looking. I'd say Psychic/Flying is a rather unique type, aside the obvious. It evolves into an even bigger cult of a pokemon too, which makes me laugh.

Rank 323: Hitmonlee

Yeah, original set of 2 RBY Pokemon finally makes an appearance. hitmonlee kicks, I guess. But hes a fighting type, with crappy stats, that doesnt evolve. Oh, and he got a pre-evo to make it even more useless. But still, the punching and kicking Pokemon were a good gimmick with a reasonable gimmick name. And no, Hitmonchan isnt next. Hitmonlee is lower because of an inferior appearance and being inferior in general..

Rank 322: Graveler

Again, like Geodude, greatly hurt by Diamond and Pearl. Once it got to a level where it was reasonable to encounter evolved Geodudes, not only did you encounter those Geodudes, you encountered Graveler too. These damn things are everywhere. Going to a beach? Expect to find some graveler. A cave, expect to find a LOT of graveler. On your way to a snowy cold place which should be a ground/rock nightmare, yep, you are going to find some Graveler. It was quite irritating. Luckily Golem was spared this problem.

Rank 321: Bastiodon

Evolved from a small dinosaur with a shield for a head. Bastiodon is a bigger dinosaur thign with an even bigger shield for a head. Its also got some mean looking spikes on it. While a bigger shield, its still the far inferior DP fossil Pokemon, so that holds it back. The giant shield is cool, though.

Rank 320: Clefairy

See, the problem with Clefairy is that in the anime, they kind of set it up as the metronome Pokemon. When in fact, just about every Pokemon was capable of learning metronome. It also got a bunch of really annoying scenes, that were, well, irritating on the ears. It gets up a bit because Clefable was a cool underused Pokemon in RBY to use.

Rank 319: Loudred

Loudred is loud. But it isnt red. I dont quite get the -red at the end of the name. Its loud, its big, and its purple. Not any sign of red except maybe a tongue. Its pretty off on proportions, as far as anyhting normal is concerned, its face is bigger than the rest of its body combined. It also evolves, but as far as in-game is concerned, I cant see ever using this line.

Rank 318: Ralts

Umm, its a small Gardevoir, I guess. This line never really changes that much, but it gets bigger and reasonably stronger, so its a proper evolution. It isnt as low as Garde because the internet isnt overloaded with porn of the damn thing, so thats a definite plus. Funny thing about this line to ruin much of the internets fantasies, 50% of these are male, so half the time, its a trap. I laugh.

Rank 317: Bronzong

Its...a floating bell...with EYES. Eyes. And its a big giant bell that looks like its coming to kill you. Its also a Psychic type, which I assume is to explain the fact that its a giant floating steel bell. Makes sense, I suppose. Its also got what looks like its got a mouth between its eyes as well, which is weird. How a giant bell has a mouth, I wouldnt know.

Rank 316: Grotle

See, we already had a starter mid-evo grass type with a plant on its back. It was Ivysaur, and it was awesome. Grotle has, well, a boring name, is a turtle with grass on its back, and just isnt as cool as Ivysaur. Grotle is just so plain looking and I cant help but compare him to Ivysaur, which hes just plain inferior to.

Rank 315: Wooper

Now, yes, Wooper is cool, I guess. I actually dont have much opinion on him, he looks ok and unique, but the game is just so overloaded on water types I prefer tons of Pokemon to this line(And wooper, specifically). I actually picked up a Wooper and used him for a bit when I first got Silver, but I never became particularly attached to the thing. And yeah, someone is going to hate me for commenting on the overload of water types due to massive irony, oh well.

Rank 314: Ambipom

Its, an Aipom, with two hands. Literally, it looks exactly like Aipom and gained another hand. I do not know what they were thinking with these evolution, its neither cool nor useful. Aipom was cool, this guy is just an Aipom with 2 hands, thats not a very cool evolution. You'd think they could have done better, like make Aipom's hand huge or something, not just double the hands.

Rank 313: Fearow

Generic useless bird evolution. But it was one of the original generic bird evolutions. And "Fearow" is a good name, you'd think it'd be attached to a stronger bird though. Fearow isnt exactly going to put much fear into anything. If you saw a Fearow in battle, you'd be like "lol fearow" and then unload one of the two common types(Ice/Electric) onto it.

Rank 312: Weepinbell

Its another bell Pokemon, but a grass bell instead of steal. And I totally didnt make the bell connection until today, oh well. I made it with Victreebel, but not Weepinbell. Weepinbell is the weirdest of this evolution, its got a giant mouth and two circles for eyes which never look properly proportioned. It looks like its forever confused and lacking sanity, to say the least.

Rank 311: Slaking

Snorlax version 2. literally, its a normal, its fat and lazy. But its not Snorlax, I doubt it will ever dominate like Snorlax. Its another monkey-like Pokemon, its not particularly cool, and even looks a bit less appealing than its younger generations. I guess its somewhat usable, but its not a Pokemon that I'd prefer to have around.

Rank 310: Vileplume

One of the worst grass types of RBY. Its a bigger Gloom, but without the cool name(Oddish is a cool name too). Vileplume is just kind of big, and lame. I think they might have actually realized this, hence the splitting of Gloom's evolution. I'm pretty glad they realized their mistake, but it still doesnt fix Vileplume. Its not particularly visually appealing and was probably the worst grass type to actually use in RBY.

Rank 309: Magmortar

See, the problem here is, Magmar was pretty cool looking, and always has that epic battle with Charizard to go with it. Magmortar, hes a big and fat ugly unappealing Magmar. A necessary evolution to an unusable Pokemon, but still not particularly great, and totally a downer as far as looks are concerned. He looks like he belongs in some sort of Mega Man game, if I had to pick him out for something.

Rank 308: Corsola

A forgotten Pokemon, if it werent so heavily featured in the anime. I think once Misty got Corsola it was in just about every episode, though this period probably wasnt as long as I remember it. Its oddly enough part rock type(in addition to water), which had been done before, and its not particularly useful. But its kind of been forgotten, and its not too bad at all really.

Rank 307: Chatot

Chatot is absolutely hilarious. That gets him up a hundred or so spots over some generic birds. But funny can only carry a generically generic bird so far. There really isnt much to Chatot aside being a generic bird after that.

Rank 306: Hippowdon

Why do these things always seem to be attached to a big pile of sand? I dont think that sand is actually part of their bodies, though I'm sure it comes from them. But they are always covered in it, thats got to be frustrating. And the females are still pretty damn ugly.

Rank 305: Ariados

Its a big red spider with a spike on its head. But spiders are a necessary Pokemon, and Ariados fills that role pretty well. Its gets about as high as a generic bug can get without being original and likeable, I suppose. Not usable at all, and still just a spider-bug.

Rank 304: Rapidash

Despite the name, its not particularly fast. Its also got one of the most unusable types, as well as an inferior look to Ponyta. Its flaming patterns just look a bit odd and out of place compared to Ponyta. Not a terrible idea for a Pokemon, but it wasnt particularly well-executed.

Rank 303: Dewgong

Meh, Dewgong isnt that great, but I have an affinity for some of the original ice types. Because back in RBY ice was clearly awesome. So dewgong gets some awesome points for its type. Not so keen on the name Dewgong though, that probably hurts it a bit. Reasonable improvement over Seel, but still not close usable in battle.

Rank 302: Goldeen

Its a generic fish, that somehow got in both smash games over Magikarp. It makes no damn sense, except its funny. It does what magikarp does, but doesnt look like magikarp, I laughed. Not as terrible looking as some of the later fish, but its still a generic fish.

Rank 301: Chimchar

I've made no secret I dont like this line, and Chimchar begins it pretty badly. Hes a monkey-thing with a big head. But hes inferior to aipom, and hes got a fire tail while being inferior to Charmander. So hes clearly an inferior starter.

Rank 300: Omanyte

Some crazy water/rock thing. Really, Omanyte is a blue thing in a shell. Yeah, its a crazy blue tentacle thing inside a shell. Of course, cant forget to mention that its one of the original RBY fossil Pokemon, starting what was clearly a bad "choose 1 never get the other" fad. Not a particularly good thing.

Rank 299: Kingdra

Yeah, they made a totally unusable line usable. Thats great. I'm appreciative of the Dragon type too, but Kingdra just doesnt look as cool as Seadra. Seadra had this awesome look to it, and then Kingdra just looks like an evolution between Horsea and Seadra, it doesnt look evolved. Its also got to have the oddest looking eyes. They are so dull and plain looking, its pretty depressing to stare at.

Rank 298: Rattata

RBY had quite the overload of mouse Pokemon...Or well, it had 4 of them. 2 of the electric variety and 2 of the normal variety. Oddly enough, both lines were reasonably usable in the right situation. Rattata had a good color scheme and was a reasonable early Pokemon to collect. Nice evolution line too, so I approve.

Rank 297: Trapinch

Eventually evolving into Flygon can only carry you so far, especially considering Trapinch looks nothing like him. I was totally "wtf'd" the first time I went looking for the Pokemon that evolves into Flygon. I had to double/triple check, and then recheck my mass checkings because I couldnt believe it. Hes some sort of ant thingy that lives in the sand, it doesnt make much sense. But yeah, he evolves into Flygon, thats worth a hundred or so extra spots.

Rank 296: Linoone

Yeah, I got to confess, I like the name. I hear people yell at Linoone sucking all the time, but the name makes me laugh. Hes also a big improvement over the clearly brain-damaged Zigzagoon, even if hes still useless. He gets credit for fixing his brain slightly, and not looking as dumb. And yeah, I like the name.

Rank 295: Hitmonchan

Again, this line was cooler before they ruined it by making it an actual line. They were a useless pair in RBY, but they were reasonably cool, considering how terrible their type was anyways. Now they are just part of a bad line, and thats not good. Hitmonchan is cooler than Hitmonlee in my eyes, at least.

Rank 294: Kangaskhan

Most commonly misspelled Pokemon name. I think. It reminds me of a Rhydon, but brown and based on a completely different animal. Unfortunately for Kanga, it sucks, and is unusable, probably badly needing an evolution too, but I doubt they ever bother.

Rank 293: Jumpluff

Ever wanted to have the easiest way of beating the game ever? The Jumpluff line is for you. Early access to sleep powder and leech seed and a really fast final evo in Jumpluff. Not that they've been particularly obtainable since GSC, but the line gets the job done. Jumpluff looks closer to an improved Hoppip than Skiploom's failure, so thats a definite plus as well. This thing irritated the hell out of my team back in the GSC days though.

Rank 292: Lombre

Someone is going to hate me for this, probably. But Lombre is one of those Pokemon that is permanently depressing to look at. Eyes permanently rolled back and the like, and hes got a giant oversized leaf on his head. Ludicolo is pretty hilarious, that saves this guy a bit.

Rank 291: Monferno

I dont like the line, but Monferno is clearly the best looking of the bunch. I like that blue color scheme on his face a lot too, and his tail looks a bit more proper. Not nearly as lame as Chimchar and Infernape. Too bad the rest of the line is probably my least favorite bunch of starters ever.

Rank 290: Magnezone

Take a Pokemon that was cool looking and finally starting to be usable, and give it a totally wtf evolution. Instead of doing the cool thing and merging more magnemites to make a 6-magnemite or something cool evolution, they made Magnezone, which is just a strange looking giant magnemite with magnet hands. Totally ruining the evolution line.

Rank 289: Turtwig

Continuing with the DP starter hate, I really dont like them much. Piplup even in the anime is quiet and doesnt do much to be very likeable. You have Piplup and Chimchar in the anime pretty much destroying the lab, and Turtwig is sitting there looking dumb. Hes just a lame turtle when compared to most other starters, there are better out there. Much better grass types out there as well.

Rank 288: Drapion

Its a purple colored accordion-armed scorpion-thing. Its got to have one of the ugliest faces for a Pokemon ever, to be honest. I cant even tell whats going on there. But something about it I dont quite hate, and its a bit of an improvement from Skorupi, so I approve slightly. Not terrible.

Rank 287: Carvanha

I like the name, and the fins on top of its head are pretty cool looking. It was a reasonable idea for a water Pokemon, so I approve considering how terrible some water types can be. While having a bit of a crazy color scheme, I think they pulled it off quite well. So its not a terrible Pokemon, though with the amount of water types out there I dont see myself ever actually using one.

Rank 286: Shuckle

I get a kick out of Shuckle. Hes an old forgotten bug/rock thingy with massive defenses. After that, it has nothing. But he makes me laugh, his job is to refuse to die, except he doesnt really do anything productive while attempting to do so.

Rank 285: Exploud

Whis->loud->loud? Why not come up with a third word for Exploud. I dont quite get why they stuck to the previous gimmick on the name instead of being a bit original. Hes still a giant mouth, but now hes an angry giant mouth. But he looks a bit cooler than Loudred, so thats why hes a bit higher.

Rank 284: Kirlia

Yeah, people like this line, but its not that great. And theres still too much Kirlia porn out there. Kirlia is an imporvement over Ralts, but I doubt I'd ever really bother with one. If I wanted to run in the game with a psychic type, I'd cheat and grab the abra line. Staying away from these, though my main problem is the irritation at the amount of porn.

Rank 283: Ponyta

Much better looking than Rapidash, its still a fire Pokemon that is topped by other fire Pokemon by a lot in every area, so it cant really go up too high. Its got a good scheme of fire going on it though, unlike its evolution. Too bad they botched that, Ponyta could have evolved much better.

Rank 282: Dusclops

One of those RSE ghost Pokemon I wouldnt touch. But hes got one big red eye on his face and nothing else. I was surprised at first that he wasnt like Ghost/Rock, since he looks like a rock. He got a reasonably cool evolution in DP too, though he already looked decent.

Rank 281: Hariyama

Big fat fighting Pokemon, but I'm just glad they ditched the yellow cheek gimmick. It gets most of its spots for being a proper evolution, an improvement over its younger evo while still looking similar. And it looks reasonable for a fighting Pokemon, I suppose. Not one of my favorites of course, but I'm ok with it.

Rank 280: Snubbull

I like the look and the name a lot better than Granbull. It just seems, well, unique. Its not particularly great, but its a reasonable Pokemon. A good start to an evo line, though unfortunately its never improved upon. And yeah, this part of the list is very hard to make, even now I find myself shuffling things around.

Rank 279: Sableye

What a weird Pokemon to have stuffed in the middle of the Pokedex, seriously, its like between Mawile and Delcatty. Its a weird little spot for a ghost/dark Pokemon. It gets some spots on my list for its name being cool, like a few Pokemon have before it. Its got a gem gimmick going with its eyes, which is pretty unique. I'm surprised it didnt get an evolution.

Rank 278: Doduo

Weird 2-headed bird from RBY. It gets a bunch of spots for the coolness of Dodrio. A pretty original Pokemon, though I guess the head gimmick actually got done like 3 times in RBY. But its a bird, and its reasonably original, and its got a cool evolution, so that gets it somewhere. Original birds are hard to come by too, though the birds in RBY were generally pretty cool.

Rank 277: Croconaw

First GSC starter line Pokemon to appear on the list. Thats for good reason, as I generally really liked the GSC starters. They were pretty unique and all evolved pretty nicely. Croconaw just kind of strikes me as the odd one out, and its got to be part of the least favorite of the GSC lines for me. It just doesnt look very cool, and its kind of stuck in the middle of the line being crappy.

Rank 276: Torterra

Again, not a big fan of these DP starters for the most part. Torterra is a big turtle with a tree on its back. Its not the most interesting final evolution, and as before I prefer Venusaur's giant flower thingy to Torterra's giant tree. Its not a very exciting looking Pokemon either, kind of bland, its just, a turtle, with a tree. Better grass starters out there.

Rank 275: Altaria

Yeah, I'm shifting my list around as I go. This is difficult to say the least, particularly this little spot I'm in right now. I finally decided Altaria fit the best here. Its a flying cloud thingy with a blue body. Dragon type added, of course, instantly adding to its value. I think if I want a blue body dragon-thing in this shape Dragonair is probably tops, though, so Altaria falls down quite a ways.

Rank 274: Armaldo

Its a rare thing to see a bug get this big, though I still am not seeing the rock type. Still has crazy looking eyes, and I still have no idea if those are actually its eyes or not, they are so flat and red. Pretty original bug, I suppose, though I'm not thrilled with him by any means.

Rank 273: Arceus

Its a legendary, and its supposed to be some sort of god. Yeah, thats not going to last. Its got crazy stats and all that stuff, but its unobtainable and being a God didnt even get the first or the second of the DP-pokemon movies. Yeah, pretty pathetic for a god. I mean, hes pretty cool looking, and would make an ok standard unobtainable legendary, but not much else. And yeah, unobtainable legendary most of us will never see in-game, thats not good.

Rank 272: Murkrow

Its a dark looking crow that was completely useless and forgotten forever. But it was a cool looking crow, and they finally gave him an evolution. Though the evolution isnt much, its something for damn crow bird. Fairly original looking bird, and he looks like hes wearing a cool hat, which is actually part of his body. That gets him plenty of spots up the list.

Rank 271: Exeggutor

Everybodies RBY starter makes its appearance on the list, bringing its 3-headed ugliness along with it. Its, I guess, evolved from a bunch of eggs, so it gets 3 faces again. Its a plant, it sleeps you, then it blows up. It doesnt do much else. It also was the Pokemon featured in one of the worst Pokemon episodes ever, so thats not helping it out. Still, I savor the day my Jolteon ****d the hell out of an exeggutor in GSC to start a 5-1 comeback to a 1-0 win, so it brings up good memories. I didnt use him in RBY of course, hes irritating.

Rank 270: Jynx

Jynx has been lynched. She was the Prostitute. Seriously though, potential Pokemon Mafia roles aside, couldnt have Eggy without Jynx. Jynx was everyone elses starter in RBY. It slept things, and then it went for a lucky freeze. Its use kind of fell off over the last 3 or so years, and you probably wont see very many no matter how many RBY matches you play. Jynx is weird, and it got a pre-evo instead of an evolution that it now needs due to complete uselessness. Its also gotten a few color changes over the years to its crazy looking face.

Rank 269: Heatran

An obtainable legendary from DP, and damn were there ever a lot of these. Actually, I kind of liked that about DP, it felt like there was a lot to do after chewing up the E4. It made the legendaries a bit less memorable of ocurse, but the game itself felt kind of interesting. I just wish they'd have made them a bit tougher to get to, seemed kinf of short. Heatran himself is kind of weird looking though. Its like some weird spider-like rock that has fire.

Rank 268: Carnivine

What a weird non-evolving grass type this is. Its umm, got a giant head, vines for legs as best I can tell, and some leaves for arms. But yeah, giant weird looking head. It also is a standalone Pokemon, no evolution at all. These days, thats weird, considering DP was all about giving evolutions to everything. Its a Levitating grass type too, even weirder.

Rank 267: Lopunny

"too much porn of it". Seriously, yeah. Thats my first thought when it comes to Lopunny. Luckily Lopunny arent quite as unappealing as the previously mentioned "too much" pokemon, but still too much. Also Lopunny really irritated me when I was playing through DP, was damn annoying to kill. Luckily, there hasnt been much Lopunny pr0n recently, and more of much better Pokemon, so I cant complain as much. Also I think the 50/50 male/female ratio blew the internets mind, funny stuff. I do wonder how it walks with those giant ears.

Rank 266: Bellossom

Awesome bell? Mess with the name, and it sounds like that. And yeah, one of the few Pokemon hurt my its appearance in an SSB game. Its just not a great Pokemon to have pop out, easy to avoid and easy to break out of if you dont. Not great in the Pokemon games either. But its friendly and happy looking, so its not too bad. Also a correction on a previous mistake, as Vileplume was just an inferior Gloom. Though I'm still rather fond of the first two Pokemon in this line.

Rank 265: Seadra

Yeah, now this list is a pain. Why? Because I approve of every Pokemon from this point on. Quite greatly. Poor Seadra is awesome looking, but comes from a type with a lot of cool Pokemon, and it isnt useful at all. It got an evolution that sucked, but its cool looking itself. It has a better look than Kingdra, cooler spikyness. Too bad Seadra was disappointingly unuseful and then they ruined the look with Kingdra.

Rank 264: Slowking

You know, hes been around for awhile, but the only real memory of Slowking I have is from movie 2 really. But thats a good thing, because that was a really awesome movie. While hes never really had a place in the game like Slowbro once had, he makes up for it slightly by looking a bit less dumb than his other 2 counterparts, though you have to question wanting to have a giant shell on your head as Slowking does, but I think thats probably an improvement from wanting one on your tail.

Rank 263: Azurill

I'm thoroughly convinced its impossible to hate the first two in this line, seriously. Nice color scheme and a sickeningly happy looking face any everything, along with a neat little ball tail thing. Impossible to truly hate, seriously. Baby Pokemon, but I cannot bring myself to hold anything against it. Of course, Azumarill somehow loses that appeal, which I cant explain entirely, but it does.

Rank 262: Skitty

Another unhateable Pokemon, actually. Funny how that works, and yeah, ranked like that intentionally of course. Also I'm surprised they had the guts to go the cheap route and name it Skitty. Not the most original name out there, of course. There were some interesting Skitty-related anime moments too, as well as all the internet Skitty jokes.

Rank 261 Delcatty

Could I really split this two? Seriously, no. Delcatty is a bigger Skitty, but its not all that different. Pretty much exactly the same opinion on the thing. And I'm still wondering how they got away with such a simple name for a Pokemon. But I still cant not like it.

Rank 260: Beedrill

Loses points for being a Bee, seriously. I dont like Bee's, I see them IRL and I tend to try to stay away. Sure, they probably wont sting me, but the prospect is irritating. Beedrill unfortunately, despite looking like the fighter of the final bug evolutions in RBY, is excessively crappy. Butterfree will kick all kinds of ass through the game(Mainly due to sleep powder), but Beedrill, enjoy carrying some suck with you for the whole game. Its the inferior RBY bug, only carried by its hilarious anime gag.

Rank 259: Marshtomp

Marshtomp is well, kind of weird. Its got tiny eyes and and most of the white on mudkip got replaced by orange. Its also got 2 spikes or whatever they are sticking out of its head. Not one of my favorite start-line Pokemon, but better than a few of them I listed already. Still, its no Mudkip.

Rank 258: Noctowl

One of the old GSC birds that we all ended up using just because of the crapload of Hoothoot we were forced to encounter and probably ended up using just because. But yeah, interesting name, kind of cheap, when I think about it. Its a reasonably unique bird though, however useless. Better than many of the generic birds out there.

Rank 257: Marill

And Marill's appeal ends here. While its a nice Pokemon and I have absolutely nothing against its, its just a slightly improved Azurill. So, its not that great. Its also got the fact that people were calling it Pikablu for a long time going for it. Thats pretty funny. One of the first GSC Pokemon revealed, and stuff. It also manages to woork its way into a lot of movies and shorts too, which is interesting. I suppose its a likable Pokemon, so not a bad idea.

Rank 256: Grimer

RBY and Poison didnt mix well. Grimer's line was, well, terrible. Disgustingly so. They also appeared fairly late in the game if I recall, or at least at a point you'd never consider using them. Its a purple pile of sludge with eyes and a mouth. And some sort of arms, but not really things you could call hands. Its weird, to say the least.

Rank 255: Machop

He uhh, is a fighting Pokemon. Also, am I the only one who thinks that Bagon stole Machop's hair-thingy? I dont know if thats hair, but the thing on top of his head. It looks nearly exactly like Bagon, only Machop isnt so suicidal. Also it will eventually evolve and grow more arms. That is, weird. Fighting type in RBY was a d efinitely downer too, though its line got some value in GSC.

Rank 254: Omastar

Evolved fossil gimmick Pokemon. It grows spikes on its shell and gets longer tentacles, including 2 tentacle hands and feet sort of. Also a mouth. Weird Pokemon. Its the special-based of the RBY fossil's, I prefer the damage of Kabutops(Physical damage, believe it or not. Omastar is just a slightly improved Omanyte.

Rank 253: Shiftry

Seedot was weird, Nuzleaf was cool. Shiftry is...a big ball of hair with leaves for arms. Thats weird. Hes got a huge pointed nose to go with his other weird features. kind of weird. Nuzleaf deserved better, it was cool. Shiftry, while having a neat name, fails in the looks department. I guess its probably somewhat useful, but whatever. Its just an ok Pokemon.

Rank 252: Medicham

A huge improvement over Meditite, but still a bit on the weird side. A psychic and fighting type, thats kind of weird the more I think about it. The most physical type possible with possibly one of the least physical types. Odd, to say the least. Medicham has a weird looking head, but its still a definite improvement over the crappy Meditite.

Rank 251: Octillery

They named a Pokemon Octillery. Is it possible to hate a Pokemon named Octillery at all? Its got to be an awesome sounding name, even if you dont know what it looks like, its carried on name alone. Also and this is a fact, for years I had no idea that Octillery evolved from Remoraid. I learned this a few months ago, it blew my mind. How the hell does that work out. Got to be the most mind-blowing evolution ever.

Rank 250: Sharpedo

Yeah, spot for Pokemon with cool sounding names and not much else. This type for whatever reason is a dark type, its kind of random. I guess I understand it somewhat, but I dont see much of the dark type thingy in it. Its carried by its cool sounding name, and crazy lookinge eyes, though I'd never see myself carrying one of these around.

Rank 249: Sentret

And back to the unhateable Pokemon spot. Sentret like, stands on its tail, which is awesome looking, and its brown/light brown color which looks cool. Not a fan of those giant ears, but its unhateable none-the-less. I do wonder what is up with the giant target on its chest though.

Rank 248: Roserade

Roselia evolution, though to be honest it doesnt look all that evolution-like. It looks like Roselia redesigned, but not so much evolved. Its flowers for whatever reasons have holes in them, I'm not really sure what they are based off of, or what they are. I've only seen a purpose to them once, and I'm certainly not going to say that on GFAQs. The first time I heard Roserade pronounced in the anime, I was kind of shocked. 2 syllables, crazy. I'd definitely prefer pronouncing it with 3 syllables, though Rose-rade has kind of grown on me.

Rank 247: Toxicroak

Croagunk is an established hilarious Pokemon. Toxicroak is umm, some weird frog thingy that evolves from a now established hilarious Pokemon. Thats seriously how it gets up higher on the list, because we know Croagunk is probably going to evolve someday for comedy options. Poison/Fighting is a strange combination, particularly when you consider what a psychic does to this guy.

Rank 246: Krabby

Its a crab, and its named Krabby. Its kind of weird looking, but a necessary crab Pokemon. It for whatever reason worked its way into the anime, where it evolved and did awesome things in its few appearances. Too bad its useless, but still, obligatory crab Pokemon.

Rank 245: Feebas

Magikarp #2. Literally.though he evolves into a totally different Pokemon, the very awesome Milotic. Feebas just sounds crappy, but hes not as funny as Magikarp. Magikarp will always be extremely classy, Feebas will just be the dumb thing that evolves into Milotic. But Milotic is really awesome, so it gets a lot of credit for that. And it can be nearly as funny as Magikarp at times.

Rank 244: Gastly

Its a ball of Ghost with a face. I dont know what else you can actually make of Gastly. Hes had some interesting appearances, and was part of the only ghost line in RBY. Then GSC added another ghost, but not much. So yeah, pretty leftover type that they obviously struggled to do anything with for the longest time. But Gastly has more than had its moments. Though I really wish in certain towers you could encounter things other than Gastly. Seeing him over and over again gets old. Also I'm kind of disgusted that they gave this line levitate(Or that levitate exists at all), it annoys me.

Rank 243: Magnemite

Its Magnemite, hes a flying Magnet with an eye in the middle. Standard electric type Pokemon, and take 3 of them together and they somehow evolve and get stronger. They also evolve again now of course, but no one cares about that. Also one of the very few Pokemon(Only Pokemon? What else changed type? I think its the only one) to get a type change over a generation. Thats pretty neat. Nothing to really dislike about Magnemite.

Rank 242: Giratina

Interesting name, to say the least. One of the many legendaries you got to chase after once you finished DP. But again, I did like that gimmick, it felt like there was plenty of stuff to do after beating up on the E4. Just kind of wish the areas you had to crawl through were bigger and had a wider variety of Pokemon, but oh well. Its got a bunch of legs, and wings. Pretty unique looking, and definitely legendary-looking when you walk up to it. I think its going to be a featured Pokemon in the next movie too.

Rank 241: Buneary

Unlike its evolution, there isnt too much porn of Buneary. Its also not as annoying as its evolution is in the game, and then it has already had its interesting moments in the anime(Hopefully the thing never evolves into a Lopunny). I like it better than its evolution, definitely. Takes away all the things I really didnt like about Lopunny.

Rank 240: Dusknoir

Remove the legs of Dusknoir, change the color scheme, and add a crazy-face on its chest. I dont know if thats actually its face, or if just a design. If it is actually a face, it has 3 eyes. I imagine its just decoration, but it looks cool. A reasonable addition to DP that I certainly didnt see coming. and a definite improvement with the new color scheme.

Rank 239: Wynaut

Wynaut's only real role is to be a pun. But outside of that, hes pretty inferior to Wobuffet. I generally dislike pre-evos(There are a few exceptions) and Wynaut gets some hate from me because of that. But still, its already had its anime moments, and its got an interesting name. Also evolving into Wobuffet, who has more than had his moments, is a definite plus.

Rank 238: Rayquaza

I totally forgot to get Rayquaza in just about every 3rd generation playthrough ever. Hes out of the way, forgettable, and just not that memorable of a legendary. Luckily for him, hes in Brawl, and hes awesome. If it werent for Brawl, his ranking would be down a bit. But hes a really cool boss fight, so yeah. Hes also in a movie, hes a big long green thing and uses hyper beams or whatever the move is on things. Thats his only role in anything it seems.

Rank 237: Spoink

SPOINK. Awesome name, seriously. Hes got a big nose and he stands on his curly tail, all while balancing a pearl on his head. Hes had 2 anime episodes I think, and hes always awesome. Spoink's gimmick is just, well, fitting. Its ashame they didnt do a whole lot with his evolution, but Spoink was cool. A unique Pokemon with an awesome name.

Rank 236: Nuzleaf

Poor Nuzleaf, hes trapped in the middle of two inferior Pokemon, and it hurts him badly. Hes got the massively plain and uninteresting Seedot before him, and then evolves into the weird crazy looking Shiftry. He deserved better. Nuzleaf is cool looking, but the rest of his line just cant compare. He gains a dark type to go with the coolness, for whatever reason. Just loses all his appeal when you realize he evolves into Shiftry.

Rank 235: Poliwrath

Poor Poliwrath, its such a terrible Pokemon. Water and fighting with terrible stats and stuff to go with it. Its also not as cool looking or sounding as Poliwhirl, and really are just the bottom of the barrel of what could have been a really cool line. Poliwhirl was so crappy they had to split Poliwhirls evolution. An evolution that was so stupidly terrible I am particularly glad for Poliwrath's existence. And yes, Poliwrath is one of the few Pokes that is up higher on the list because his pre-evo's make him cooler.

Rank 234: Chansey

The main reason Chansey is up this high? Its not Blissey. Seriously, Chansey in RBY was fine, Chansey in GSC would have been fine. But what did they do? They buff Chansey to hell while inventing Heal Bell. Seriously? There was no logic in that. Chansey was our established Nurse Pokemon, we didnt need Blissey. This even became a 3-tiered line with Happiny for whatever reason. It was just so needless. Chansey was a perfectly fine pink thing with an egg that it carried around. It appears in the anime, says "Chansey" and heals things. It was fine.

Rank 233: Horsea

Unhateable water type, Misty had a Horsea in the anime, I think it may have been one of the least seen Pokemon of the main characters early on. Guess they arent particularly good at fititng in water Pokemon on land, probably. Horsea gets massive bonus points for evolving absolutely properly, Seadra adding to it with coolness factor. Still, tons and tons of water types, so it cant be up too high. And yeah, I'm at another spot in my list where things need to be swapped around due to varying things I'm unhappy with, so I'm not rolling off updates as I'd like.

Rank 232: Oddish

One of the basic plants in RBY. Of course, as I mentioned before, they screwed up the end of the line and attempted to fix the mistake. Oddish is cool though, and its name is Oddish. It also evolves directly into Gloom, who is also cool, so that helps. Its got a blue face thingy with leaves on its head, about as basic a grass type as you can get, but its still a relatively unique Pokemon with cool evolutions.

Rank 231: Gligar

It is a flying ground type. Seriously. Flying ground type. What in all hell makes sense about that? Is it somehow a ground type when its flying? How is it a flying type when its in the ground? It makes, no sense. Whatsoever. But Gligar has a cool and unique look to him, so hes ok. Also they finally remembered he existed in DP and gave him an evolution after they seemed to have forgot they put him in GSC. I do believe hes permanently sticking his tongue out, but that red could be something else I guess.

Rank 230: Yanma

I cant believe the new voice for Yanma. If Yanma still had his original voice in the anime, he'd be about 100 or so votes higher. I -loved- the original Yanma voice, then they went and ruined it. I dont even care anything about Yanma other than his original voice was awesome. Hes an oddly colored flying bug, and they finally remembered he was a small bug in need of an evolution, which is cool. But they ruined his voice.

Rank 229: Gliscor

A needed evolution for Gligar, but he kind of lost the cool look that Gligar had. Now hes more vampirish and less awesome looking. Up a little higher on the list for being a necessary and good idea, but losing a lot of spots for not looking as cool as Gligar. I still dont understand how that type thing works.

Rank 228: Voltorb

Despite being much larger than a Pokeball, these guys are somehow confused for a Pokeball in the games and fight you when you try to pick them up. This has always bothered me somehow, but they are indeed colored to look like a pokeball. Voltorb have one job, explode while staring at you with slanted eyes. This is all they do. Its a fair gimmick I suppose. They evolve into Electrode, though this line lost its usefulness once the RBY generation was over.

Rank 227: Magneton

Its uhh, 3 Magnemites, but it makes sense considering they are magnets, so its ok. Its better than its evolution, thats for sure. Also it was finally becomming usable itself, after being pretty useless for a couple generations. The type change helped, I suppose. Again this is the only line to change types over a generation, thats still neat.

Rank 226: Feraligatr

Somewhere, someone forgot a vowel. Or more like they ran into a 10 character limit and never bothered to fix it, I dont know. Either way, he ranks as the lowest final evo GSC starter, Hes just doesnt look as cool as the other two, and his makes him look like he still needs to evolve once more. Doesnt look particularly intelligent, definitely inferior to Totodile, though hes a step up from his evolution. Being a starter-line Pokemon gets instant bonus points in my mind though, I suppose.

Rank 225: Ledian

For whatever reason, people associated my name with Pokemon and wanted to call me Redian or something along those lines, in relation to Ledian(I think a few people made this connection out of nowhere, I have no connection to the name). They were weird. Ledian is cool looking, awesome looking eyes and head in general. 4 appropriate looking arms and is just reasonably cool looking all around for a generic bug/flyer. Not useful by any means and I've never actually used one for any purpose, but cool looking to make up for it.

Rank 224: Clefable

A fun underused Pokemon to pull out in RBY, but not much else. It had T-Wave and could take some hits decently, but it wasnt much in serious play. I'm not a huge fan of this line really, plain looking with terribly annoying episodes in the anime. They dont look like a big improvement over Clefairy, and they really arent.

Rank 223: Haunter

People like this line, for whatever reason. I bet they wanted him higher, but hes a purple triangleish thing with a mouth and eyes. He continues to have a giant tongue, and he has arms totally not attached to his body. The arms are the weirdest thing, when I think about them. Haunter isnt exactly the most original name either, to be honest. But this line is always memorable for being the only ghosts of the original generation.

Rank 222: Electrike

I really wish this line were more useful, they are a couple cool looking electric types. Electrike not nearly as cool as his evolution, but a decent start. Odd color change though. Electrike is primarily green, an odd color for an electric type. Hes nice and spiky though, something they've done with a few electric types, at least the two Pokemon that pop in my head first(Not counting the chu's, as if they are the first to pop in my mind anyways). Good look to him, though hes much improved on that with his evolution.

Rank 221: Mr. Mime

Yeah, Mr. Mime. Hes some sort of Mascot Pokemon randomly living in Ash's house. It makes little sense as to why hes there, but hes umm, a mime. Pretty inferior psychic type, doesnt have much use. Also his pre-evo has topped him in awesomeness, by far. Mr. Mime is just, well, a mime. Also half of them are female, but get no change in title to the Mr. I think someone would kill me if I went through the whole Mr. Mime writeup without mentioning that.

Rank 220: Electabuzz

I'm not sure exactly what Electabuzz is, hes an electric type that umm, yeah. What is he? Hes got a bolt symbol on him and all that stuff, and looks like, I have no idea. Hes been around since RBY and I've never really thought about it until now. Hes also been glued to Magmar like crazy, both getting pre-evos and evos at the same time. Like Magmar, hes been pretty much useless his entire existence as well, and I've personally never used one. A reasonable electric type with a cool name, though I have no idea what he actually is.

Rank 219: Tropius

One of the few single-pokemon lines out there these days. Tropius kind of looks like a Bayleef or a Meganium, kind of like a Flygon. But hes just his own Pokemon sitting in the middle of the Pokedex, its quite weird. As is the grass/flying type, his wings are leaves I guess, which is pretty cool. Tropius is a pretty cool name too I think, but I still find him to be unique in his role in Pokemon, hes kind of big and tucked away in his own little spot. Odd how he has no pre-evo or evo, it really is.

Rank 218: Aggron

I initially totally spaced out and wrote Rhydon up there. It should be obvious, but I may as well say it, Aggron is Rhydon 2. Hes previous evolution even looks like Rhyhorn. Just drop the now inferior ground/rock(a RBY staple) for Rock/Steel, and you've got a Rhydon turned into an Aggron. Also add another horn to aim for with Aggron, as hes got an extra. I cant fault them for the remake really, and its got a cool look to it.

Rank 217: Drowzee

Oh hey look at that name, I wonder what gimmick that pokemon has. Yeah, he makes things sleepy. Thing is, there was a non-psychic Pokemon in RBY with an even better gimmick than Drowzee, so he goes down quite a bit. His face is part elephant, though hes not particularly large in that animal sense, but hes rather unique looking. I was rather fond of his evolution in RBY, a few people(Not me) used him, he was surprisingly effective. Kind of underrated, he had plenty of uses.

Rank 216: Kyogre

While the event at the end of RSE was cool, Kyogre doesnt have much going for him. Hes rather plain looking for a legendary, especially one with so much importance in the game. We already had a water legendary with less importance to a game, and it was much cooler than Kyogre. Outside of actually being a legendary, Kyogre just doesnt stand up to some of the better legendaries out there.

Rank 215: Crawdaunt

Evolution from Corphish, but Crawdaunt will never be as cool as Corphish. Corphish was awesome, Crawdaunt doesnt have any of the anime-awesomeness to go with him. Crawdaunt gets some weird colors on his body, and gains a dark type for whatever random reason. Dark/Water after being Corphish is interesting, but nothing really special. Massively inferior to his pre-evo, but gains some standing with me due to the awesomeness of Corphish.

Rank 214: Machoke

One of the biggest problems typical with most of the fighting types is there just a bit too plain. This is kind of the fact with Machoke, though its improved a bit with Machamp. Still, I have a certain bit of respect for this line, mainly due to the fact that it bounced back from being absolutely terrible in RBY to useful in GSC, so that bumps them up a bit. Machop is just, kind of in the middle.

Rank 213: Yanmega

A badly needed evolution of Yanma. Thats nice. For whatever reason, they decided to turn Yanma evil. Just look at those eyes, and his whole body. Yanma was one of the happiest-looking Pokemon ever, then they turn him into Yanmega. Yanmega looks like hes going to go on a killing spree, he just looks, evil. But yeah, I like the line, and I'm glad they remembered Yanma existed.

Rank 212: Banette

One of those RSE ghosts they threw in to try and give this type some definition to it. Shuppet was so plain looking, Banette is just a huge improvement. Its got fairly large teeth and cool looking eyes. Outside of that, they kind of threw the ghost type together. But I cant blame them, they've kind of struggled to make ghost types. Inferior to the better ghost types, but not terrible.

Rank 211: Vibrava

One of those lower tier Pokemon that is up here because its evolution is really awesome. And Vibrava, unlike its previous evo, actually starts to look something like Flygon. Needless to say, those wings are really cool looking. Different colored eyes too, but definitely starting to look like the beginning of Flygon, something you'd never guess earlier in this Pokemons life.

Rank 210: Quagsire

It has dots for eyes and a line for a mouth. Stubby feet and arms too, but Quagsire is likeable. Kind of liked wooper's look a bit more, but Quagsire doesnt look terrible. Ground water, kind of an odd type, but it makes sense. Again, Quagsire is a victim of there being so many water types out there, many of which are really awesome, so hes a little bit forgettable to me.

Rank 209: Xatu

Oh this list is a pain, I feel Xatu should be higher but I just cant fit it in. One of these days I'm going to host a game of mafia and be able to balance a cult leader into the mix. Xatu will be that cult leader. Xatu is the cultiest of culty Pokemon. Just look at the damn thing, staring at you. He wants to convert you to the cult of Xatu. There was even an episode of Pokemon where people were worshipping Xatu pretty much. Its really difficult to list Pokemon when so many of them are awesome, Xatu is the awesome cult Pokemon.

Rank 208: Ninjask

One of the most unique evolutions in Pokemon that I had no idea about ever. They are still weird bugs, but they have cool names and some of the cooler evolutions out here. Ninjask is umm, fast. Thats all. Also, he looks like a robot-bug. Could totally fit as a generic bug-robot enemy in various game series.

Rank 207: Shedinja

The other part of the evolution, it blew my mind when I found out you got this guy. You evolve a Pokemon, and you get 2 Pokemon? that makes no sense on any level, but its pretty cool. Shedinja is another reasonably cool name, too. I do wonder how many people get their Ninjask but dont get a bonus Shedinja. I know I'd never find out about that evo on my own, I've always got a full 6 Pokemon on my team, so I'd never find it if the internet and other places didnt tell me these things. Cool split evo thingy, definitely.

Rank 206: Bagon

An interesting start to the line with one of the most deadly Pokemon out there. Bagon is, to say the least, suicidal. Very very suicidal. He has no wings, is small, and has a big head. So whats the logical thing for Bagon to do with his life? Run off cliffs and land on his head while attempting to fly, thats what. This is what Bagon's do, they repeatedly jump off cliffs, and live. They are hilarious, to say the least.

Rank 205: Seaking

One of the old useless RBY water types. Seaking is a goldeen that changed colors, but its got a cool name. Although, its odd how Seaking and the Seadra kind of parallel each other. Not to mention once they threw Kingdra into the mix. You'd think the lines were messed up somehow. Seaking has a cool looking horn, also it worked its way into an internet fad when I wasnt looking. That really came out of nowhere.

Rank 204: Pachirisu

Another Pokemon in the comedy line, but slightly forgotten, one of the few forgotten DP Pokemon. A single-line Pokemon that is destined to get an evolution come generation 5, Pachirisu has some of the worst stats for a final evo in the game, and is another electric pokemon with colored cheeks, this time a white-blueish Squirrel. His only real purpose has been to fit in as a comedy option in the anime. A Pachirisu worked his way onto Dawn's team real quick, being a hyperactive electric Squirrel that follows Pikachu's gimmick of shocking everything. Pretty funny, actually. Its too bad Pachirisu was so disappointingly bad in-game, so wasteful. On the plus side, I cant let this writeup go without noting that Pachirisu do look good with Floatsel doing not so good things to them.

Rank 203: Misdreavus

Pretty much had one-use when it came out in GSC. When it walked into the fight, you knew Perish Trap was coming. Everyone knew it. It was an interesting little break in the fight where if you wanted to kill it, you took a 50ish% risk of failure. It didnt really do much else all that effectively, not anything Gengar could do better. They gave Misdreavus a much needed evolution in DP, luckily. Of course, GSC continued the trend of Ghost's being neglected, you pretty much had 2 lines, one a single Pokemon, so Misdreavus was pretty special. Looks exactly like a ghost Pokemon should, as does its evolution.

Rank 202: Crobat

Making up for the terribleness that was Golbat, Crobat looks a bit more, normal. Well, he still looks like a poison flying bat, but normal for a Pokemon. Golbat was just weird and annoying, and I guess you could say Crobat gets a little bit of class. Golbat and Zubat have long been irritating us in caves with random encounter rates that are just ridiculous, but Crobat has never done this to us. Hes never had massive random encounters, and that automatically makes him better than his pre-evos. No more giant mouth or crappyness, just a reasonably cool looking bat.

Rank 201: Cresselia

Believe it or not I like those little chasing thingies in the game, you know the ones. The ones that annoy you as you walk up and throw a ball and pray you catch the Pokemon after chasing them around the map for an hour. Yeah, those. I liked those. I've mentioned it a few times, but I liked the DP endgame, felt kind of rewarding. Could have lasted a little longer, but it was good overall. Cresselia went up on my list after being in Brawl, then went down after it killed me in Brawl a few times. But it can really make Spear Pillar interesting when its out there, kind of fun. Best if you stay in the lower level if you dont want to get lucked out though. Cresselia has cool looking rings though, definitely legendary-looking.

Rank 200: Slowbro

Dumb looking Pokemon, yeah, I know. I've complained about them a bit on this list, but Slowbro is cool. He actually was very usable in RBY, bringing amnesia and **** if you didnt deal with him quick enough. I used to justify havinga Venusaur just because it made dealing with Slowbro entirely less painful. Slowbro supposedly have a Shellder on their tail, I have absolutely no idea how that works. I bet no one really does, to be honest. Either way, Slowbro was a classic RBY Pokemon with a good purpose. They split his pre-evo off into two evolutions instead of making Slowbro evolve though, I dont really get that.

Rank 199: Staryu

Another RBY water type, this time the younger evo of the staple starter of my RBY and GSC teams. Staryu was, as its name implies, a star. Its gotten plenty of screentime in the anime, and is just pretty cool looking. But best of all, it evolves into Starmie, an even more awesome Pokemon. So it is really awesome just for that. Also wow, 199 to go including this one, gotten pretty far once I put that all together.

Rank 198: Rhydon

Aim for the horn. Seriously, could I start this writeup without that? Yeah, the Pokemon anime has had some weird moments. They've improved a bit with the type thing, nothing really terrible aside from thunder armor, but I suppose that was awhile ago now too. Rhydon used to be the staple ground/rock of RBY when I first came around to the internet. I never bit into this, I stuck with the faster and more versatile Golem, who is still quite a bit more popular to this day. Though generally people dont use either a ground or electric type anymore, so its usually not much of a problem for them. Rhydon unfortunately lost all his usefulness after RBY, having a now useless type and mediocre stats to go with it. Glad they decided to give him an evolution. Hes only carried now by his aim for the horn moments and reasonably cool looking appearance.

Rank 197: Staraptor

Best generic bird they've made in awhile. Its got a cool name, and believe it or not, is actually useful. Decent moveset learned naturally and a cool look to go with the cool name. Not bad at all. Last thing I expected them to do was to make a generic bird this generation that didnt suck. The red thingy on top of his head looks cool, too, totally surprised by this bird.

Rank 196: Miltank

First pokemon I've used on a team to make the list, Miltank. GSC alternative to Blissey, unfortunately not as beefy and thus not as popular. I stuck Thunder on him, specifically because Skarmory was pissing me off to hell. Everyone knew I had thunder, so it wasnt much of a surprise. But it stopped Skarmory from annoying the hell out of me as much. Miltank otherwise is, a cow. Yep, first Pokemon from one of my main teams to make the list, spot 196.

Rank 195: Metagross

Heres where someone starts getting mad at me for listing one of their RSE+ Pokemon above 100. Yeah, Metagross is a big flying metal thing, also part psychic. Hes also got a big white X on his head, in addition to being weird looking. But yeah, hes really strong, gets some respect for that. However, he dropped about 40 spots after being in Brawl, for being another one-hit KO item thats nearly impossible to avoid. Yeah, I didnt like the Pokemon in brawl. Rather then adding fun, they just kind of one-hit killed you and were impossible to avoid. Cresselia is possible to avoid and doesnt count, btw. Not to mention it has some tells for its attacks unlike the pokeballs which just kind of pop and sit in the middle. Not to mention it doesnt hurt its owner, making it much more powerful. So yeah.

Rank 194: Kakuna

Not all of the list is based on awesome looks or moves or personality. Kakuna was part of the original set of sickeningly useless Pokemon. It could, when captured as a Kakuna, Harden. It could do nothing else. Its purpose was to sit there and harden while you killed it, it would not fight back, it would only make itself harder to kill. It was a pretty hilarious concept, you laughed at Kakuna when you first ran into it. Then you captured it, then you turned it into a Beedrill because you knew it wouldnt take much effort. Then you boxed it and moved on. But it was a good memory you will remember forever.

Rank 193: Metapod

Metapod vs Metapod. You joked about it. Your friends joked about it. Everyone joked about it. Classic moment. Metapod is like Kakuna, but it evolves into something that actually has some use, be it inferior to osme other Pokemon. It also didnt poison you if it came from its lower form. Nothing not to like. It also had a cool shape and color to go with it. And yes, everyone totally saw Metapod coming next.

Rank 192: Poliwag

Yeah, a tier 1 Pokemon up this high, I just feel bad for this line, they are pretty awesome looking, have a cool swirl gimmick going, and just end up completely useless. Then they went and split the line. But Poliwag is exactly what you expect from a tier 1 Pokemon, and theres a few tier 1 Pokemon that I like(Quite a few to come), Poliwag is one of them. Mainly becaause this line follows a proper pattern of evolution. Even if its end is kind of disappointing, I like the first two Pokemon in this line.

Rank 191: Pidgeot

The original tier 3 generic bird. Pidgeot has hair which rolls down its back, and for whatever reason actually drops letters off the name of its evolution. Pidgeot wasnt very useful in-game, in fact, its probably best if you get the more accessible though nearly as crappy fearow if you must use one. But Pidgeot was the first available bird, so I'm sure a lot of people used it. Only bird I ever used playing through RBY was Articuno though, never touched the early birds. Also Pidgeot had the shortest anime stint ever. It evolved, and then Ash gave it up. It was quite possibly the biggest mistake they ever made. Well, maybe not. But it was up there.

Rank 190: Smeargle

"Holy wtf he just spored me". That was my reaction the first time I ran into Smeargle. I knew the gimmick, but it totally blew my mind to see a Pokemon outside the paras line using Spore. Smeargle has a really cool looking tail, if I must say. I approve. As odd as Smeargle is with its crazy moves, I think they actually balanced him out nicely. In addition to the cool looking tail, Smeargle looks reasonably awesome in general, so I approve.

Rank 189: Bayleef

My first playthrough of Silver, I took the Chikorita line. While its not my favorite of the GSC lines anymore, I've still got the memories of that first playthrough. And of course, I was still reasonably young, so I whored over my starter like nobodies business. Bayleef is the middle of the line, probably the most forgettable just for that fact, but still part of the line of my first GSC Pokemon. That makes it reasonably important, to say the least.

Rank 188: Gallade

What is so good about Gallade? Well its not Gardevoir. Thats a massive plus. If theres one thing I can say, its that I dont care much for Gardevoir, it irritates me, and people liking it so much irritates me. Its not a bad Pokemon, just not appealing to me. Gallade, is not Gardevoir, its got cool looking blades on its arms, really cool looking blades. Definitely a much more awesome look than Gardevoir, a split evolution I greatly approve of.

Rank 187: Nidorina

I'm not going to lie to you, theres a little stretch of Nidoran- coming here. They were those Pokemon you found early in RBY if you went exploring around Viridian city a little bit. You eventually leveled them, they didnt learn anything good quickly, and then you boxed them. But they were early RBY Pokemon, that gives them massive bonus points. Nidorina are a cool blue color, but they are missing the awesome looking horn their male counterparts carry.

Rank 186: Nidoran M

Yeah, theres not actually an M there in the name. Its actually a male symbol. Its the start of a cool line, but of course, hes far below Nidoran F due to contest reasons. Dont think anyone here is going to argue otherwise. However, he has a cool horn, thats something Nidorina is lacking. Also a bit of a cooler look overall, and the males are definitely the superior line combat-wise.

Rank 185: Nidorino

Nidorina, but a different color and a cool horn. Also a spikier look to him, which is also cooler. A definite improvement over its female counterpart, and it will evolve into the very cool Nidoking. Not much else to say.

Rank 184: Wartortle

The first RBY starter to make an apperance, Wartortle just has an awkward unappealing name, loses the coolness that Squirtle has and is clearly inferior to Blastoise. He just kind of looks like a middle Pokemon, his ears look odd, his tail isnt really fitting, and everything about him just isnt as cool as Squirtle. I like all the RBY starters, but Wartortle is clearly the most inferior of the group.

Rank 183: Honchkrow

Its a bird, with a hat. A HAT. Is there anything not to like about that? Seriously, Honchkrow looks cool, also for whatever reason they felt the need to pun crow with a K, I dont know why. Also I was just glad they remembered Murkrow existed, he was a lone and crappy bird that needed an evolution. Honchkrow probably isnt usable, if I had to bet, but I appreciate them remembering some forgotten Pokemon, especially when they give them a cool hat.

Rank 182: Porygon

The seizure Pokemon. There is no other way to describe Pokemon. Hell, we all probably heard about the Japanese seizures before we even knew what Pokemon was, but thats what Porygon will always be to us. The pokemon that made all those Japanese kids have seizures from watching Pokemon. Oh, and he was useless despite looking cool back in RBY, but he got an evolution with the most unoriginal name ever. Actually, recycled unoriginal name, now that I think about it, haha.

Rank 181: Magmar

A Pokemon that lives on 1 battle for its coolness. Magmar vs Charizard was the first really epic battle in Pokemon, and theres been quite a few(Many of which involve Charizard). Magmar fought in the volcano, lived through lava, and survived a bunch of cool looking crap. It was probably the highlight of the Kanto gym battles, many of which were pretty terrible or nonexistant. Despite this, Magmar was pretty terrible, and got a horrible looking evolution to go with it, which was disappointing. Always been paired with Electabuzz, which is a pretty random pairing too. Magmar definitely looks a lot cooler than his evolution at the very least.

Rank 180: Mismagius

A needed evolution, and with a cool hat. Definitely looks like an upgrade over Misdreavus, and appropriately so. A tad different shade of color, and an awesome looking hat. Seriously, its a Misdreavus with a hat, and I'm pleased. As I've said earlier, I'm really glad that with DP they gave some attention to some Pokemon that they had left to be forgotten, it was one of the better things they did most of the time.

Rank 179: Groudon

Groudin is a big red thing and the plotline legendary of Ruby, but hes kind of odd looking. Hes got spikes all over his body, a weird looking tail, and is permanently hunched over. Only thing he has going for him is that I always thought the little plotline sequence in the middle of those games was kind of cool. Also, he does look cooler than Kyogre, who was rather plain looking for a legendary. Overall, they both are lacking some of the finer details that make some of the better legendaries, but their plot importance saves them slightly.

Rank 178: Torchic

Its a little mini fire bird. Unfortunately, Torchic dropped in the list a bit after Brawl. The damn thing uses fire spin, and when you get hit by it, its nearly impossible to get out. Maybe as well be a one-hit KO because your opponent is going to unload massive damage on you and then finish you off. This is a start Pokemon doing this. This is where Brawl really went wrong. But Torchic still has a very proper evolutionary line that improves as it goes along, a reasonably fitting starter Pokemon, though far from the best of them.

Rank 177: Shinx

One of my favorite evolutionary lines in DP, but I cant exactly justify putting all of them at the top, especially since I think the line greatly improves as it moves on. Shinx is like a smaller cuter looking Luxray, and I greatly approve. This entire line has an awesome looking color scheme, an awesome looking tail, and just gets more and more awesome as it moves on. Once I saw a Shinx in the wild in DP, I knew damn well I was going to keep the guy on my team to the end. Was very pleased with it throughout the game.

Rank 176: Darkrai

An unobtainable legendary that actually gets mentioned in the game? Thats pretty strange. A lot of legendaries, Shaymin for instance, are pretty much unmentioned everywhere, but Darkrai is there screwing with peoples heads. Of course, Nintendo never gives us an easy way to obtain these guys even though with wifi they clearly have the means. Its pretty disappointing. The Darkrai movie also aired reasonably recently, it was pretty much lacking any sort of plot that made any sort of sense. A lot of Pokemon movies have been really good, that last one, was not. Was just an excuse to show off some legendaries, but they've shown off legendaries with good plots before. Darkrai is pretty cool looking though, I suppose. Definitely looks like a legendary.

Rank 175: Rhyperior

One of those Pokemon that moves up on the list mainly due filling the need to improve a forgotten Pokemon. While Rhyperior isnt the greatest, Rhydon had aged terribly, becomming less and less useful every generation. On the other hand, Rhyperior is weird looking. Hes big and fat and has weird limbs to go with it. But trying to evolve a Pokemon like Rhydon, which always looked fully evolved, probably wasnt an easy task. I give them a lot of credit for attempting to do so. Also Rhyperior was an interesting name choice,to say the least.

Rank 174: Froslass

Snorunt is weird, his evolutions make no sense. They look nothing like him, at all. But at the very least. Froslass isnt as dumb looking as Glalie. Froslass has some, well, character to it. Its got awesome look arms, a cool looking red thingy on its body, all while keeping a v ery clearly ice-type look to it. Mainly, its up this high because Glalie is irritating to look at, and Froslass isnt. The fact that Snorunt of all Pokemon gets a split evolution is kind of weird, though.

Rank 173: Hypno

Hypno was a huge tank back in RBY. He could take hits from anything and his HP would still be well off. Hardly used though, mainly because the ability to recover or other features found on the better Psychic types. Hypno, of course, has a gimmick togo with his name, carrying a little pendulum thing with him all the time. Massively pointly looking face, and odd yellowish color to go with him, but he was a decent Psychic type. Bet no one remotely thinks of using him these days though, and hes been mostly left alone.

Rank 172: Poliwhirl

Poliwhirl is just a pretty cool Pokemon stuck in the middle of an unusable line. ITs got a cool name, a cool looking swirl in its chest, one thats switched directions, its cool. Poliwrath just looks a little screwed up, while Poliwhirl has those awesome looking hands and stuff. Cool looking eyes and feet too. Poliwrath just looks like hes eaten too many donuts or something, Poliwhirl looks cool, the coolest of his line for sure. When people see those swirls and this lines basic shape, they think of Poliwhirl, not Poliwrath or Poliwag.

Rank 171: Kecleon

One of the first RSE Pokemon to appear, kind of blew my mind watching the Pokemon anime last year and then seeing Kecleon appear so early in Johto. I literally said "wtf we're nowhere near RSE" because it dawned on me Kecleon werent supposed to exist yet. Kecleon are pretty cool looking, but they are really gimmicky and useless otherwise. Still, they were one of the first RSE Pokemon to appear, and that was pretty cool.

Rank 170: Primeape

One of the shortest-lived anime appearances ever, Primeape came him, he beat up some Pokemon, and then he got given away. It was a pretty memorable sequence. Unfortunately, all the fighting type Pokemon in RBY were just terrible, and just about all of them have been left alone and not improved. I can only really think of one exception, and then outside of that they've just screwed over all the original fighters. Primeape itself is a much improved Mankey, on looks and everything else. Could definitely use an evolution these days, though I wouldnt expect it to ever happen.

Rank 169: Electivire

While Magmar and Electabuzz seem to be eternally linked, Electabuzz didnt evolve into something that totally ruined him like Magmar did with DP. Electivire looks like not only was it a needed evolution, but he looks reasonably cool. He is a bit of a stretch from Electabuzz, an already established cool-but-useless Pokemon, but the resemblance is there and hes not sickeningly ugly like Magmortar. A needed evolution pulled off properly, definitely.

Rank 168: Heracross

Ahhh yeah, someone is going to kill me here. Heracross is GSC's powerhouse bug(also a fighting type for whatever reason). Essentially, he became what Pinsir should have been(And should have been turned into), and got Megahorn, a new move that Pinsir somehow didnt get despite having giant horn-thingies. He pretty much was capable of destroying my entire GSC team if coming in at the right moment, he hit hard and had decent speed. It was irritating. Hes still just a bug type with a horn, despite all the love he gets. I see the appeal, but hes not a great Pokemon to me. Wouldnt catch me using one, thats for sure. I have been annoyed by him far too many times. Also he was introduced in the anime just to sit in Oak's lab for the remainder of the series after only appearing in a few episodes, that was odd.

Rank 167: Steelix

This is probably suicide posting 2 of these loved GSC Pokemon here. But anyways, Steelix is Onix, but hes part steel instead of part rock. This makes him a more fitting tank for the coming generations, where the Rock type becomes obsolete due to Steel being a better tank(And most of the time neither type is particularly offensive). Unfortunately for Steelix, his purpose as tank was pretty much made obsolete by Skarmory's superior type and stuff, so he didnt get used much. So using Steelix was essentially gimping yourselves. Still, got to love how they realized they had to improve what was possibly one of the worst single-stage Pokemon of RBY.

Rank 166: Gorebyss

Most forgettable Pokemon ever? Not anymore. If you used to tell me the name "Gorebyss" I wouldnt be able to attach a Pokemon to it. I knew it was a Pokemon, but look, type, evolution, pre-evo? Anything about it? Not a clue. It was just a Pokemon out there that seemed completely wasteful. And to be honest, it is. Gorebyss probably has the least fitting name of any pokemon. You see Gorebyss and you think a Muk-level styled poison type or something, not Gorebyss. But after awhile, it kind of dawned on me, I kept forgetting Gorbyss. Finally, Gorbyss stuck in my head as the Pokemon no one remembers. I mean, it evolves from Clamperl, an evolution, split evolution, which both make absolutely no sense at all. I have no idea what any of these 3 Pokemon have to do with each other at all. Now, I get a huge kick out of Gorbyss, I make it a point to not forget it, and now its got a good spot on my list as well.

Rank 165: Bellsprout

Yeah....Stupid Bellsprout. You guys were too young for that fad, probably. But it was all over the Pokemon board, they'd get it. I laughed, its funny. Bellsprout is a little unevolved Pokemon with almost no body, roots for legs, and then 2 leaves for arms. Of course, his head is shaped likea bell, I suppose, hence the name. Not the smartest looking Pokemon out there, and his got dots for eyes. But he'll evolve into giant bells, including Victreebel, one of my favorite underused RBY Pokemon that I liked to throw on teams.

Rank 164: Palkia

Yeah I played Pearl over Diamond(Have both), but it wasnt for the starters. Palkia just doesnt look as cool as Dialga. They are both the standard legendary that was setup in RSE, a fight your forced into in order to proceed with the plot. For whatever reason though, they are bugged or gimped out on us, as despite being these huge overpowered legendaries, they can and have been caught by people opening up the fight with a Poke Ball. Thats just crazy, what the hell is that? Legendaries should be Pokemon we struggle for an hour or so to sleep/paralyze/freeze and then get them down to 1 HP just for the chance that they might not break the ball. Catching them at 100% HP with a Poke Ball? Thats just wrong. Palkia has a weird looking head and Dialga just looks a bit cooler, so Palkia gets to go lower.

Rank 163: Dialga

Yeah, see the Palkia writeup, same thoughts. Dialga has a cooler blueish look to him, definitely. Also they have the gimmick of starting with the first letter of their generation name. Thats totally unnecessary. They also had no plot connected to them in the last movie, they just kind of fought because they could. I dont even know if they attempted to explain it, that was odd. Still, being part of a very cool set of endgame sequences gets them some spots on the list.

Rank 162: Ekans

Ekans is Snake spelled backwards guys. Actually, hes just a cool purple Snake with a yellow stripe and some more yellow. Of course, no one remembers him for that, everyone remembers Ekans as Jessie's original Pokemon. Course he'd soon evolve and eventually be given away, but he was one of TR's first Pokemon. Hell, I doubt anyone even used him in the game, he was a bad type with few moves and easily outclassed on every level. But did this bother anyone? No, it didnt. Ekans would be awesome regardless.

Rank 161: Regigigas

Have I mentioned that I liked the DP endgame enough times yet? Well, I did, and Regigigas was part of it. If it werent for him, I'd have never gone and gotten the Regi's out of Sapphire,a s they were a rather tedious quest themselves. But I wanted everything I could get out of DP, and that included Regigigas. A bit weird to have a normal type as a legendary, thats for sure, but I understand it. This isnt to say he isnt weird looking though, and the Regi's themselves have topped him by having an awesome role in an awesome movie. So he sits below them on the list.

Rank 160: Registeel

Lacking the cool intro of Regirock and not looking as cool as Regice, Registeel gets to the be the bottom normal Regi. Hes got long arms, and then a giant body liek the rest of the Regi's. Its a pretty standard look, though these werent the most creative set of the 3 legendaries out there. The birds and dogs were a far superior set of 3, though the Regis get a good bump on the list because they were pretty awesome a movie. Regi-type is a pretty lame name gimmick I must say though.

Rank 159: Flaaffy

Nope, we're not getting a string of 3 regi's here, next up we have Flaaffy. Flaaffy isnt quite Ampharos just yet, but has an absolutely awesome name and the beginnings of the look that makes Ampharos so awesome. Still has a very sheepy look to it, and definitely looks like a middle evolution, partially dropping some of Mareep's features while still keeping their basic qualtiies. I love the look of that tail though. Oh, and did I mention that Flaaffy is a really aweosme name, I cant stress how awesome a name that is.

Rank 158: Gloom

GLOOM. Easily the best Pokemon in its line, poor Gloom was ruined by Vileplume in RBY. Gloom looked like a cool improved Oddish with a still-cool name. Then they turn it into Vileplume, a Pokemon with a flower on its head thats too big for its body, a crappier name, na dit just didnt look all that different from Gloom. Gloom was cool and they screwed it up. Luckily, they remembered their mistake come GSC and gave us Bellossom. Bellossom still wasnt as cool as Gloom, but much improved over Vileplume, thankfully. Gloom is another cool middle Pokemon with an awesome name.

Rank 157: Tentacool

An army of Tentacool is a dangerous thing, it seems. They are Zubat of the water in RBY, but that doesnt make them any less cool. They only have a couple tentacles to go with their name, and then some crazy red things on their head, which oddly are not their eyes. They arent very useful, but they were part of an awesome early anime episde that was really memorable, so bonus points for them. Also, they had the guts to name them Tentacool, that was awesome.

Rank 156: Tentacruel

Mind controlling Meowth, destroying a city, Tentacruel had one of the weirdest and most "holy crap" episodes of Pokemon ever. I dont think any other episode has really shown a single non-legendary/huge Pokemon doing so much damage. It brought an army of Tentacool, took control of Meowth for communication, and just went to town on the, well, town. Definitely a memorable episode. Its also the owner of another cool name, though this line was technically a sea-zubat for a time, its still not close to that level to be hated for it. For a Pokemon that isnt remotely usable, Tentacruel is a good Pokemon.

Rank 155: Combusken

Like a few Pokemon recently named, Combusken is one of those obviouys middle of three Pokemon. Its gained a fighting type, which is pretty evident in its general demeanor, not to mention its arms and legs. However, its still on the small side and still missing that big awesome look of a final evolution Pokemon. Oddly he loses a bit of the fiery look, seeming more along the lines of a fighting chicken than a small fire breathing chick. The mix of types is much more apparently with Combusken's evolution. I kind of underappreciated Combusken for awhile, but while its not one of my favorite Pokemon, it isnt a bad Pokemon by any means. Decently fitting middle Pokemon.

Rank 154: Meganium

I first used Chikorita in Silver, ended up turning into a Meganium that kicked all kinds of ass against the E4+Champion. That said, Meganium, while still gettinga bunch of credit for a being a starter, and a starter I used in particular in my first playthrough, still was kind of disappointing. It looks nearly exactly like Bayleef but the flower on its neck now has color, and the leaf on its head doesnt look as cool. Bayleef already wasnt the most interesting Pokemon to look at, and then Meganium just didnt evolve very much. Not much of a change for a starter, definitely could have been done better.

Rank 153: Cacturne

An evolution line that had 2 mainish characters carrying them around, but oddly neither was evolved with them(Its possible Cacnea will reappear evolved I suppose). Cacturne however, was property of Harley, one of the RSE contest rivals who were, to put it correctly, pretty awesome. Harley also dressed like a Cacturne, so it was kind of a mascot Pokemon. I dont quite understand why its a grass/dark type, I'm just not seeing things outside the grass, but it doesnt matter. Cacturne, like Cacnea, is pretty cool looking. He also has a crazy looking hat-like thing. Wouldnt see me ever using one of these guys, but they are cool Pokemon regardless.

Rank 152: Roselia

Speaking of anime contest-rival Pokemon, we got another one. Roselia belonged to Drew, another of the RSE contest rivals. Both of these guys made RSE quite entertaining to say the least, so a Pokemon belonging to them automatically gets some points. As for Roselia, its quite an odd Pokemon. Not only did Roselia get an evolution with DP, but it got a pre-evo to go with it. Quite the chain of Pokemon they made. Its a neat looking grass type, though I dont really see the Poison type that also comes with it.

Rank 151: Donphan

Seeing as the first generation has 151 Pokemon, I guess I consider this 151 to kind of be a magic number. Kind of like a final generation to run through, thats pretty cool. Even though none of the generations ever came close to having 151 new Pokemon, it was kind of a start, thats cool. Its kind of like if there was a single generation of Pokemon with 151 in it, I'd want the next 151 to be a part of it, thats kind of cool when I think about it. Though I'm sure if a game actually existed with such Pokemon, some of the things in my list would need to go, as they just dont work without some of their evolutions, either way, its cool.

And of course, 151 begins with Donphan. Donphan is a really cool looking GSC ground type, with awesome looking tusks and a cool wheel-like look to the top of his body. Hes meant to go with the move rollout, but of course no one ever actually uses rollout, so hes your standard earthquaking ground type most of the time. He was also one of the early GSC Pokemon to make their debut, showing up at the beginning of the first movie. I remember being all jazzed out seeing Donphan fighitng with Bulbasaur. Course Bulbasaur made quick work of him, but it was still cool. Donphan rolling up into a ball and trying to trample over things looks pretty cool. Too bad ground as a type became pretty terrible, but Donphan was pretty awesome none the less. Good Pokemon to sit at 151.

Rank 150: Regice

Yeah the Regi's are split up on the list, mainly because they have some bigger differences than a few of the other similar-and-grouped Pokemon I've got on the list. Unlike Registeel, who was kind of plain looking, Regice is a cool looking ice regi. And yeah, in general I've got a thing for ice, I think its a cool type, and Regice is a big ball of Regi...ice. That totally sounded better in my head than typing it out, but whatever. Hes also got a better cooler voice in the movie, so thats a plus. Regirock of course has the best movie role, but that doesnt make Regice terrible.

Rank 149: Weezing

And winner of most unoriginal name in Pokemon, well, close. Weezing is clearly well, not one of the more creative efforts out there. Still, like some of the Pokemon on the list before it, it no longer matters because Weezing became iconic as a Team Rocket Pokemon. Sure its an unusable Pokemon with a pretty terrible type, but it was the evolution of TR's original Pokemon, so that gives it a lot of memories. Of course, it was never particularly successful at battling, mostly showing up and throwing smokescreens around, but that didnt matter either. Hes basically just a bigger distorted kind of splitting in half Koffing, kind of cool.

Rank 148: Houndour

And the start of a very cool 2-pokemon line. While not as cool as Houndoom, Houndour still has a cool name and the basic cool look to it. The bone-thingies on its back are cool looking and the color scheme is just really cool. And of course, it will evolve into Houndoom, a cool looking Pokemon, so thats a deifnite plus. Fire types for whatever reason all have a very unique look to them, one of the better types out there, though it doesnt have a wide range of selection, what is there typically was done very well, the Houndour line is no exception, and Houndour is a nice start to the line.

Rank 147: Swampert

I must confess, my first run through Sapphire I chose a Mudkip, and then I caught like 20 Pokemon and didnt level any of them. Swampert ended up my only real Pokemon, and I kind of regretted it. While Mudkip is a cool looking starter, Marshtomp looks a little bit on the dumb side, and then Swampert looks like a middle evolution. The line is still good, and Swampert isnt a bad Pokemon, but something about his face and general look just says "middle evolution". Kind of lacking when compared to say Blastoise and Empoleon, Pokemon that look clearly fully evolved. The little patches of orange on him are kind of weird looking, as well.

Rank 146: Dratini

Did anyone not level up a Dratini to have an awesome Hyper Beaming Dragonite at one point or another in RBY? I know I didnt. It was up at the end of the Pokedex, that automatically meant it was going to be awesome. Not to mention being the sole dragon type, even if you didnt know Dragonite exactly was coming, you knew something Dragony was about to come. Dratini doesnt quite have the sleek and awesome look of a Dragonair, but it will eventually evolve into it, and thats always good. It was a plain small little pokemon that outside of its ears was more of a snake than a dragon, but that doesnt matter either. Dratini was an awesome little dragon, and it evolves into two of the best Pokemon out there.

Rank 145: Gengar

Ahhh yeah I'm going to get killed again for putting Gengar this low. However, I've never had any desire to use a Gengar. Sure hes a cool looking Ghost Pokemon, but hes also terribly irritating. I ran into a few situations in RBY where I had a Persian all ready to go ***ing entire teams. Then I find out they've hidden a Gengar as their last Pokemon. Damn if that didnt ruin my plans. Gengar was terribly underused in RBY early on, but in recent years its finally been getting the usage it kind of deserves. Its got nice stats, an exceptional movepool, and evades the all important normal type. Unfortunately, they did worse to it. They gave him Levitate in RSE, removing the all-prominent earthquake from being able to hurt him. In-game Gengar has always just been so unpredictable, and its really pissed me off way too much to get a higher ranking. Its still a really cool Ghost Pokemon, but damn if he didnt annoy the hell out of me.

Rank 144: Muk

Muk, another Pokemon on the list of "things that annoyed red but are cool". Oddly enough, another Poison type, though I tend to think of Poison as kind of a secondary type for Gengar, its still technically true. Muk was a defensive bastard in GSC, he just wouldnt die like everything else in the game. Just I was especially annoyed that it was Muk that was doing it to me, I guess, such a crappy Pokemon in RBY turned unkillable. Muk is still however, exactly what I'd expect out of a poison type, an evolved onea t that. He looks like a much enlarged and cooler grimer(With a giant hand and everything. Essentially, hes a big slimey thing of poison sludge. It makes sense for a Poison type, and I can definitely accept that.

Rank 143: Tauros

Hey look another Pokemon that managed to annoy the hell out of me. Yeah, totally coincidence they are all bunched together, I'm sure. Nah, not really. Tauros was just a really good sweeper in RBY, fast, good attack power, normal type for STAB and all that fun stuff. He was also a pain to capture in RBY, as well. Unfortunately after RBY hes been a whole lot of suck, but thats ok. I think I was wondering where the hell Ash got a Tauros from way back when, since the episode kind of got skipped over here and stuff, but meh, so did a bunch of other people. Kind of weird thing to remember. Also for whatever reason Tauros has 3 tails, they dont really have much purpose.

Rank 142: Abra

Ahhh Abra, how many people have you helped to power their way through the game? Too many, probably. We all have walked into the grass, gotten an abra, tossed our ball variant and prayed the thing would stay captured before it could TP. Then we leveled Abra, it turned into Kadabra(Never Kazam due to trading), and eventually it'd have Psychic and Recover and the whole game would roll over to you. It was fun, in a sickeningly overpowered sort of way, and Abra was the beginning of the fun. Sure it could be a pain to capture, but the reward was a game where you didnt have to worry about doing anything.

Rank 141: Tangela

Poor Tangela, they finally give you an evolution and they gave it ARMS? Seriously. Tangela is a big ball of vines which I'm sure could have already functioned better than arms anyways. Tangela was always this cool looking ball of vines with eyes and red feet. All they needed to do was make it bigger, not give something with a crapload of functional arms 2 real-looking arms. Its an evolution that didnt make sense, Tangela was so awesome and then they ruined it. Tangela wasnt just vines either, it was a bunch of blue vines, that was awesome too. Also it was actually usable in RBY, though it had to rely on sleeping something and then throwing some Growth's up, it wasnt terrible. Oddly enough its evolution got "growth" thrown into its name, which was an equally bad name to go with the bad Pokemon. Despite its evolution sucking, Tangela has always been cool and awesome.

Rank 140: Pinsir

An unfortunate Pokemon that has been totally forgotten game after game. When Gold and Silver were coming out, we all saw Megahorn, this big all powerful bug move. What Pokemon did we have that was a bug with a big giant horn? Yeah, Pinsir. Did he get Megahorn, of course not. It makes no sense to this day. Still, Pinsir was one of my favorite underused Pokemon to throw out there in RBY every now and then, capable of throwing out an S-Dance and getting some crazy attack power. Had a reasonable look to him for a bug Pokemon too, but the poor guy will never get his dues. Hes never going to get an evolution and never going to be improved.

Rank 139: Kabutops

Another underused RBY Pokemon with S-Dance and an interesting type. Actually, not so much interesting as Rock/Water is kind of weird, but I understand it. Kabutops has crazy sickles on his arms, they look like they hurt, and apparently they do as Kabutops had decent attack, though missing a better movepool to go with it. Regardless of this Kabuto had one thing over its partner in Omastar, that ius that it looks like its evolved from Kabuto. Kabuto was a plain looking rock with eyes, and Kabutops is huge. Omastar was just an Omanyte with some tentacles, not huge differences. Its quite a contrast, and makes Kabutops quite superior.

Rank 138: Regirock

Boop boop boop *Random explosion*. This was Regirock in movie 8. It was hilarious and awesome. It kind of came out and started ***ing stuff just for the hell of it(Well, it had plot purposes, but it essentially came down to that). It had the most prominent voice of all the Regi's and had a cool look about its business. So yeah, having the best Regi-role in the movie gets Regirock a bunch of places over its brother legendaries. It also still has a better look to it than the plain looking Registeel, though Maybe Regice has the coolest look to it. Regirock simply is the Regi that has provided the most awesomeness.

Rank 137: Ursaring

Well, it doesnt have the awesome anime episode like Teddiursa, but Ursaring is still cool. Its still a bear walking on two feet witha circle on its chest, though for whatever reason they dropped off the crescent from his head. Ursaring still has a pretty cool name too, though it definitely isnt as likeable a Pokemon as Teddiursa, and can be kind of plain looking compared to some other normal types. Definitely not as cool as Teddiursa, but still an awesome giant bear-thingy.

Rank 136: Luxio

Middle Pokemon to what is by far my favorite 3-pokemon evolution line in DP. Luxio, as expected, looks exactly like a middle Pokemon. Drops a bit of Shinx, adds a bit of Luxray, is about mid-sized compared to the two. These change in features of course are very welcome, mainly because Luxray's awesomeness is, well, very awesome. The black, light blue and yellow look is just awesome, cool looking tail, and the almost-luxray look to him. Definitely an awesome Pokemon, and when my Shinx evolved, I knew better was coming. Knew I wouldnt drop this line off of Pearl once I had my Shinx, and Luxio helped confirm this.

Rank 135: Tyranitar

Tyranitar used Ancient Power! Tyranitar's attack went up! Tyranitar's defense went up! Tyranitar's special attack went up! Tyranitar's special defense went up! Tyranitar's speed went up!

Repeat that 3 times. In 3 turns. This was T-Tar in GSC to me. It was capable of repeatedly pulling this crap and then rolling over the rest of my team. T-tar was meant to be the Dragonite of GSC, but for whatever reason they thought a Rock/Dark type was a suitable replacement for an awesome Dragon Pokemon. Massive failure as Dragonite will still be way way cooler than the T-Tar line. Hes still at the very least a massive improvement over Pupitar, who was a terrible Metapod-like Pokemon for what was supposed to be the GSC Dragonite replacement line? It didnt make sense. T-Tar in this spot still doesnt make sense. Still, hes got an awesome look to him, and has always been very usable, so he gets a spot reasonably high on the list. Oh, also I've apparently gotten into the habit of permanently calling him T-Tar, I cant remember the last time I typed the full name(See what I didnt there), and yeah the full name spelled out up top is a copy/paste so it doesnt count.

Rank 134: Latias

The Lati-s had some of the more epic single moments in Pokemon movie history. To be honest, before seeing the movie, I didnt think particularly highly of either of them. But while their movie wasnt the best Pokemon movie(Or second best even), it was still good, and both the Pokemon had a few very epic moments between them. Latias didnt quite have the epic moment of Latios, nor close to as good of a single moment, but still was cool in the movie. Not to mention an epic and totally unexpected kiss with ash, which just mind****ed everyone at the end of the movie. One thing that definitely bothers me is that I had no idea how to get them in RSE, at all. Never did, and until 5 minutes ago when I checked I had no idea that they were encountered randomly in the wild. Good to know.

Rank 133: Pichu

My Melee Pokemon, seriously. Jigglypuff was always a bit too floatyish and odd to me, and then Mewtwo was, well, terrible. Pikachu had been my character in SSB, he was made of win and stuff, but in Melee he just seemed so slow and laggy, I couldnt pick him up at all. Pichu at the very least seemed a bit quicker than Pikachu and not so far off from SSB. Still nowhere near as good and I didnt main him by any means(Fox was my main), but if I had to play a Melee Pokemona nd win with one, Pichu was my dude. Pichu of course is another baby Pokemon, odd that there were so many Pikachu around and then all of a sudden theres a Pichu, but they've kind of fit them in nicely over the years, and it seems like just about every line is going to end up 3 Pokemon, so its kind of necessary. Also I really like the chu line, believe it or not, and if they started out with Pichu-Pikachu-Raichu I'd probably have no complaints at all(Baby Pokemon in general are kind of a downer, but some are better than others). Raichu for SSB4 would be pretty cool(Leaving this here and out of the other two writeups, because those probably wont focus on SSB much).

Rank 132: Lickitung

You know, I havent made a porn-related comment in awhile, but I guess I have to here. I am shocked that the internet isnt flooded with images of Lickitung. I mean, its a Pokemon with a giant tongue, and stuff. But they have been pretty good about leaving the thing alone, not much out there at all(They exist, mind you, but not very many). You'd think people would make them for shock value or something, but they dont. Lickitung actually got an evolution in DP too, that totally came out of nowhere. Amazed they didnt give him a pre-evo too to make a full line of 3. Lickitung also had a short stint with Team Rocket in the anime too, to add to his coolness. Never the most useful or popular Pokemon, but I bet everyone at the very least likes Lickitung somewhat.

Rank 131: Scyther

One of the cooler looking bugs, probably one of the cooler looking Pokemon in RBY, but also one of the crappiest. Scyther was given probably the crappiest types and moves they possibly could give a thing with big scythes for arms. Its quite odd. You'd think Scyther would have some crazy moves to go with its look, but nope they screwed him up. Of course, they gave him an evolution in GSC real quick to make up for this, one of the few bugs to get a nice little fix in GSC. Never really used a Scyther at all, but hes still one of the cooler looking pokemon.

Rank 130: Togetic

Gah, first writeup I've had almost done, left for a bit, and then broken notepad and lost it completely. Thats not good, to say the least. Togetic, unlike its weird and completely without-sense evolution Togekiss, looks like a proper evolution of Togepi. Its got the basic egg now more integrated into its body, a cool and happy looking head, and then better arms and some feet. And wings too, of course. Definitely an improved look over Togepi, though it doesnt have nearly the memories Togepi provided(Essentially first GSC Pokemon introduced, Togehax scenes, etc), so its still a bit lower. It had one of the unfortunate moments in the anime though, being a main character Pokemon that was taken away as soon as it evolved, which kind of sucks when they pull it. Still doesnt change that its got a "cooler Togepi" look to it though.

Rank 129: Entei

Poor Entei, hes pretty much the forgotten of the GSC set of 3 legendaries. Yeah he was in the 3rd movie technically, but to be more specific that was just some crazy illusion from Unown and not Entei at all, so hes never had a real anime appearance. Hes also not nearly as cool looking as Raikou, and definitely not close to Suicune on the awesomeness scale. Still a cool legendary, but not so much as some of the really top-deserving legendaries. For whatever reason his type isnt obvious on looks alone either, the thick-furred look seems more fitting of an ice type, not a big fire-controlling legendary, which is pretty odd. He still looks cool, but hes still definitely the worst of his set.

Rank 128: Aerodactyl

A pokemon that has become so engraved into my mind that I am no longer able to spell its extinct animal counterpart(Considering I could probably spell it in early elementary school, thats odd). I cant even remember it without thinking about it(And now that I really have, its come to my mind, but I'm not going to attempt to spell it), so Aerodactyl has really taken over. And hell, its probably more important for me to remember things about Aerodactyl than some other dumb uncool thing. Also of note with Aerodactyl, he had a really huge event(Single episode) where an old "extinct" Pokemon awakens and it seemed kind of like a big weird thing(With Ash clinging onto it and all), and I thought it was cool that they re-referenced it in a later episodes. In typical TV-fashion, episodes that were kind of standalone like that with big unimportant events tend to be thrown off to the side forever, so I thought it was cool it got mentioned again. Aerodactyl is a cool flying Rock, who can argue with a Flying Rock? Hell, hes way cooler than the flying steel bird, thats for sure. Also he was pretty terrible in RBY just because his type was weak to 3 of 4 common special moves, but hes definitely gotten better as the generations have progressed.

Rank 127: Weedle

Ahhh these bugs had to show up sometime, they werent very useful, they were weak, but damned if you didnt catch them anyways. For whatever reason I originally had Weedle above Caterpie, but as I was doing the writeup I realized Caterpie was superior and swapped them both and started writing up Weedle. Weedle was simply a bit more irritating, poisoning us on our first trips through Viridian Forest, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who used to high-tail it back to a Pokemon Center after being poisoned. Despite this, -everyone- caught a Weedle, probably everyone evolved it. Though I bet not many kept it once it hit Beedrill, regardless of this, Weedle let us have an awesome Kakuna with Poison Sting. Game just wouldnt be the same without the little bugs crawling all over the forest.

Rank 126: Caterpie

Ahh the old RBY bugs, what would the game have been without you. Caterpie sat in Viridian Forest, it tried to kill your started, and then it failed miserably. But damn if you didnt laugh at it, and damn if you didnt catch one and level it up into a quick and easy butterfree. You had the option to start with a Metapod, a higher evolution, but damned if you wanted to get stuck hardening things to death. Caterpie provided the option for your Metapod to go tackling things to death for a few levels before being an awesome Butterfree. And of course, unlike Beedrill, Butterfree could be useful for most of the game, making Caterpie an essential part of most peoples in-game teams. Caterpie was also pretty cool when he had his short-lived anime appearance.

Rank 125: Uxie

Yeah after the RBY bugs, there is indeed another string of 3. These 3 legendaries are so similar that they are obviously grouped up. I dont really know what happened with the legendaries, we originally had the 3 birds, then the set of 3 in GSC, and all of a sudden in RSE the set of 3 all looked really, really similar. Then we get to DP and they all look almost exactly the same. All 3 have the same body, arms, legs, and tails, just a different looking head. Regardless of this, as you no doubt expect me to say, they are part of the DP endgame, which I liked a lot. They also have a neat little storyline to go with them involving the Dialga/Palkia sequence, which is pretty cool. As standalone Pokemon, ignoring that they all look pretty much the same, I like the general look to them too. Uxie's yellow head kind of looks the weirdest and definitely least awesome, so Uxie is on the bottom.

Rank 124: Mesprit

Mesprit has a pinkish-red head, and it definitely looks cooler than Uxie. Mesprit also is the owner of the coolest name of the trio. I'd probably have Mesprit and Azelf in a tie on the list, but I cant actually do that for listing purposes, it simply doesnt work. Mesprit is the runner of the group, as well. Also I didnt mention it in the last writeup, but the amount of porn with all 3 of them is pretty hilarious. Not really overdone, but theres quite a bit out there.

Rank 123: Azelf

Last of the 3 to make the list, Azelf has the blueish head. If you cant tell, I like blue-ish colors(Tealish are preferred, but Blue is still awesome), so that was ultimately the deciding factor to break the essential tie between these last two. Coolest looking head-shape too, if I had to pick one at the moment. So many pure psychic legendaries in one game, massive overload.

Rank 122: Ludicolo

CHEESEBURGERS. Seriously, one of the more wtf lines in the anime, but it was pretty hilarious. Ludicolo is a huge crazy looking thing that I couldnt possibly describe to save my life, and he has a giant motuh and a hat-thingy. Unlike the Lotad/Lombre evo, which wasnt huge, Ludicolo has, well, gotten huge, as a final stage evo should. Also apparently it dances randomly. Aside from that, Brock had one for a time, but it never actually made a huge impact really. Its best anime appearance was clearly the lone episode with the cheeseburgers, where Ludicolo was just hilarious. Was a totally random and awesome set of lines, and pretty much blocks out all my other memories of Ludicolo.

Rank 121: Farfetch'd

Its a bird with a stick. Its got to be impossible to hate Farfetch'd. Farfetch'd just looks awesome carrying around his stick, theres nothing to possibly not like. Hes not even remotely useful, never gets an evolution and never really can do anything. Despite being crappy, hes never even obtainable early enough that you'd want to consider using him. The fact of the matter is, its hard to improve on a bird that carries a stick, so they'll just continue to just throw him in the games randomly and keep him left alone. Hell, can they even make an evolution with a name like Farfetch'd? I doubt it.

Rank 120: Nidoqueen

The inferior final form of the Nido's, Nidoqueen is lacking the cool horn of Nidoking, and overall looks like the weaker of the two. Nidoqueen, while still a good Pokemon from a set of two reasonably good lines, is just far more plain than its male counterparts. For a queen name, Nidoqueen is just a big Nidoking-like shape with many of the cool features removed. Lacks the movepool that made Nidoqueen such a versatile Pokemon, and with the lack in looks, Nidoqueen just isnt a Pokemon you really want to carry around. Still, the end of what was a very cool concept back in RBY, two similar Pokemon with different genders. Of course, this line is probably what inspired several common Pokemon elements in the future, so they get a lot of credit, and Nidoqueen, while the inferior of the two final evos, is still cool.

Rank 119: Butterfree

Butterfree, pretty much everyones first fully evolved three-tier Pokemon. I suppose some people got a Beedrill first, but too bad for them, as Butterfree was the clear winner of the two. Butterfree was one of two "Easy mode" Pokemon people commonly took with them in RBY. Butterfree may not have been a powerhouse, but Butterfree was an early available Sleep Powder, and with the trainer AI the games have had, that was a very powerful ability. Maybe not as great as the game went on, but I bet a good majority carried a Butterfree for legendary capturing and everything. Butterfree unfortunately was also one of the first Pokemon to leave from the anime, sad as it was also the first Pokemon captured on the as well. Also for whatever reason a rumor got spread out that Butterfree died after leaving, which as far as I've read is totally false. Butterfree is still one of the coolest bugs in the game, available early and with a fitting role. Not usable in serious battle of course, but still one of the more respectable bugs.

Rank 118: Blastoise

My first fully evolved Pokemon in RBY, with Squirtle as the most appealing early Pokemon at the time. I knew Brock was the first gym, and I'm not sure I was totally aware of the fact that grass was super effective against water. I think at the time I liked Squirtle as the better of the two, so I went with him. Unfortunately, Blastoise, while still a cool fully evolved Pokemon from RBY off a starter, and the Pokemon I took to lvl 100 first, is the most inferior of the final 3 RBY starters. Still cool looking, but not as cool as the other two from RBY, and definitely the least useful of the 3. There were just so many good water types from RBY that Blastoise just isnt really necessary. And yeah, I had Blizzard, Surf, Hydro Pump, Fissure on my first ever Blastoise. It froze a bunch of lvl 100 Mewtwo's. I had no idea how Fissure worked, either. I was such a newb, but oh well. Only Charizard has really gotten a reasonable amount of anime glory as well, and I'm not sure but I think Blastoise may have less appearances than Venusaur, though both have had few.

Rank 117: Seviper

Evolution of Arbok! No not really, but a classic blunder here, I'm sure we've all seen it. Seviper however is better known as a Team Rocket Pokemon, and its been around for a good while. Not sure if its going to stay forever, I think its been so long that its time might be coming to an end, but maybe not. Not any snake pokemon to replace it, so it might just stay another generation. Seviper are an interesting little snake, though where their name comes from is even more obvious than Arbok and Ekans(And unfortunately doesnt bring the same ring as when people realize where those two come from). The best part about Seviper might be the few moments in the anime where they recognize the epic rivalry between Zangoose and Seviper. Put a Seviper and a Zangoose in a locked room, and they will fight to the death. Seviper hate Zangoose, just because they are Zangoose. It is impossible to stop the rivalry, and its a pretty cool fact that has been kept consistently. Also Zangoose are a really awesome Pokemon, so having such a rivalry is definitely a plus for Seviper.

Rank 116: Ho-oh

Back in the early days of GSC people considered the fact that they might have balanced the top-tier legendaries to the point that they would be usable in competitive play. Early days of the GSBots, I stuck a Ho-oh on my team. Everyone else was running with them too, along with Mewtwo, Lugia, more Ho-oh, Mew, and Celebi. Needless to say, they ran all over the place, and they destroyed. The ban removal didnt last long, and we had to remove them. Still, I unloaded a lot of Sacred Fire and burned a lot of Pokemon, along with throwing some Sunny Day's all over the place to add to the destruction. Things obviously didnt take these well. Ho-oh also has the distinguishing fact of having appeared in the very first episode of the anime, though in a shadowy unclear image that was later fixed up to look better in a future episode. That was pretty much Ho-oh's best moment in the anime, as its other appearances havent been particularly notable. A fitting legendary to pair up with Lugia, though it ultimately isnt as memorable of a Pokemon as the previously existing flying/fire legendary.

Rank 115: Sneasel

One of the early appearing Pokemon of their generation, I believe(Maybe that was Weavile?). Either way, for the longest time I couldnt tell much difference from Sneasel to Weavile, they never really differed much, and were about the same size, with the only difference being their headpiece. I was aware of both Pokemon's existence since forever, since they had a pretty recognizable appearance compared to most other Pokemon, but still they were very similar to each other. Also after a few instances of Meowth impersonating a Sneasel in the anime, my opinion of them is on the rise, its just absolutely hilarious(much like Sunflora-Meowth). Also for whatever reason, Sneasel sneak into a lot of pr0n. Usually not the main subject of interest, even, but they sneak in their somehow. Its a neat little fact you guys probably hate me for, haha. The line has a cool look to it that I cant really ignore, to be honest, I like their general look, and think they have a cool name to go with it. Wouldnt see my using them in-game, but I still like them.

Rank 114: Prinplup

Middle evolution of the Piplup line, and obviously so by the name. And the look too, at that. The Piplup line were the clear winners of DP, an easy choice of starters. Chimchar was an ugly monkey and Turtwig was just so boring looking, but the Piplup line came through with awesomeness. Also, despite Dawn being stuck with a Piplup(An awesome Piplup, though), unlike other starters they've thrown Prinplup onto a rival trainer. This is a welcome addition as they are very clearly giving us a bit more of a glimpse at the DP starter lines. Prinplup, while still a middle Pokemon and least cool of its line, is still awesome. I'm just really thankful for this line I suppose, because I really didnt think terribly highly of the other two lines when I saw them, so its a welcome addition to have a good starter to fall back on. Prinplup might actually look a bit more like an Empoleon than a Piplup, though its still clear that hes Piplup's evolution.

Rank 113: Machamp

Many-armed fighting type from RBY, Machamp was one of the more memorable fighting types out there, though I'm sure not many people actually obtained one in-game due to the trade gimmick required for obtaining him. I know I never obtained one, nor did I use one ever. But Machamp was a very proper fighting type from RBY, a look much bigger than his two counterparts, and was implied to be very strong. Of course, a terrible type and a lack of a good movepool in RBY made him pretty useless, but its amazing what a generation can do for a Pokemon. In GSC he brought a move I can only associate with Machamp, Cross Chop. The damn thing hurt, was a type that wasnt easily defended in GSC, and had a higher crit chance to go with it. Machamp's popularity did die down quite a bit due to not being particularly defensive in a defensive metagame, but he still had his moments.

Rank 112: Porygon-Z

Porygon...Z? I totally didnt see that coming. When we first saw this guy, everyone proclaimed Porygon3. Hell, he may as well be called Porygon3, thats essentially what he is. Still, despite not being particularly original, I cant help but like these Pokemon. They are just so, fitting for a Pokemon, I cant really put my finger on it. If I had to put my finger on it, I'd say its because Porygon was this cool looking and unique backstory Pokemon back in RBY, but was totally useless. Then we go a few generations down the line and now we have 2 interesting and playable Pokemon out there. And to be honest, I'm just kind of shocked they were able to think up another evo for Porygon, I mean, its, well, look at it. Especially with the precedence set by Porygon2. I'm not really certain on how useful Porygon-Z is in the game, but I appreciate this lines, well, uniqueness, particuarly for a normal type. They are all like, weird, type-dittos. And well, they make for interesting Pokemon Mafia roles as well.

Rank 111: Porygon2

Yeah, I dont have much choice but to associate these two together, but Porygon2 has a few more lasting memories for me. We get a new generation, and an evolution for an old Pokemon. It was very much appreciated, though I never used one myself. This line has a reasonably versatile movepool, and they added to it by adding a unique little status-effect gimmick to tri-attack. It wasnt the most reliable move, but it was pretty interesting to see the results. Before GSC became so defensive, games could be made or broken based on how tri-attack decided to work. It was an interesting time, and it was nice to see an old Pokemon be given new life. Still kept such a distinguishing look to it, as well.

Rank 110: Riolu

Ahhh a pre-evo to a non-existing Pokemon? Thats unheard of, as far as I can tell, but they did it. We all knew of Lucario, since, well forever. We saw him before movie 8 was released, we saw him in movie 8 before movie 8 was released, we saw him all over with movie 8 released, but Riolu? Nah, we didnt see much of him. The amount of people who cant tell Lucario from Riolu is kind of scary, too. I've seen plenty of Riolu refered to as Lucario, it makes me laugh in a Ninetails sort of way. Riolu is interesting, hes a cool looking pre-evo, and definitely can see how he turns into a Lucario. The problem here lies in the fact that Lucario was so awesome its impossible to care about a Riolu. I simply dont want a Riolu, I want a Lucario. And yeah, I seem demanding, I pretty much am. Lucario is by far one of the most awesome Pokemon, well, ever, and as such Riolu just gets kind of overshadowed. I cant like him too much, because, well, he just makes me think of Lucario. Granted, this is a good thing, but mostly for Lucario(Though it sure helps for Riolu).

Rank 109: Koffing

KOFFING. Did anyone not have Koffing's voice stuck in their head after some early Pokemon episodes. I know I did, I'm sure some of you did. Koffing was well, a poison type in RBY. That wasnt very helpful, and well, Poison still doesnt help much today either. Regardless, Koffing always has a place as one of Team Rocket's original Pokemon. Not the most successful battler out there, Koffing had his best moments throwing up Smokescreens to make some quick escapes. Granted, this always ended in failure, but it was what Koffing did. Koffing has also snagged some memories with me recently, as I've been quite pleased with Pokemon Mystery Dungeon 2, and a Koffing has played an interesting rival-team role. Koffing is simply a Pokemon that everyone knows, and despite never being useful, is so memorable to just about everyone. Hes pretty much a Pokemon icon, which is very good for a poison type.

Rank 108: Blaziken

Ahhh Blaziken, how you ruined Ash, poor thing. In one of the more BS battles in existence, Ash looks like he is going to go far in the final rounds of the Johto league, down to just a Blaziken in a match, the damn thing refuses to die. It brings out some of the biggest non-Pikachu anime hax out there and gets to win every battle just because its a new RSE Pokemon revealed. Once everyone saw the Blaziken come out, everyone knew what was going to happen in the episode. New Pokemon dont get revealed so they can lose, and Blaziken didnt lose. I wasnt a real big fan of the Torchic line, but Blaziken is a surprisingly cool end to the line. Still not one of my favorite starters out there, but an interesting end to what was a very bland line to begin with. Also he is one of the few Pokemon who is a pretty clear 50/50 split on both his types, he looks like a fighting type, and looks like a fire type, both very clearly. Its one of the better dual types out there that isnt a bird-variant.

Rank 107: Gyarados

Gyarados sure is a big ugly water/flying type. Odd he wasnt a dragon type, given the move hes often featured with is dragon rage. Of course, Gyarados most unique quality isnt any of this, its that he was, surprisingly, the evolution of magikarp. Magikarp was, well, a stupid fish. It could do nothing but splash around. No one wanted a Magikarp, and wow was everyone surprised I'm sure when they looked at Magikarp's evolution. This big, huge, water dragon thingy. Of course, he happened to be a water/flying type, which made him totally useless in RBY and GSC. Still, the only thought in peoples mind would be "Holy hell he evolves from magikarp." Of course, this took a considerable amount of work, though this was probably the best Pokemon to obtain using the day care center considerable. I'm not a huge Gyarados fan, though the scattered moments of rampaging angry gyarados are interesting. Also of note, red Gyarados is still the -only- shiny Pokemon I have ever seen.

Rank 106: Victreebel

My RBY underused grass type of choice. Didnt quite top Venusaur in my mind to make my main team, but whenever I made underused teams I tended to make Victreebel one of my staple Pokemon. It was a bit of a slower Venusaur that traded the Speed to gain Stun Spore or some interesting S-Dance usage to go with its high attack. I've considered swapping out Saur for Victreebel a few times, but never gone through with it. Though its not really workable now, Victreebel was an under the radar Pokemon that was very capable of handling itself in standard-pokemon RBY battles. It also holds the honor of sneaking its way onto James' roster(How/Where, I have no idea), and throwing us the gimmick of Pokemon having an affinity for eating James' face. Definitely some of the more memorable anime moments.

Rank 105: Garchomp

DP T-tar, essentially. Garchomp does what he looks like he does, he hits hard and eats things. I've found him not as good at this as say, Salamence, but hes still made to do this job. I'm not a big fan of the name gimmick either, carrying along variations of the word bite. Its just, well, kind of lame. He looks cool, but not really as prestigious as some of the other Dragon types out there. He still looks as if hes one of the more powerful Pokemon in DP, but he just doesnt have that unique look to really make him awesome. I definitely think hes a cool Pokemon to sit towards the back of the Pokedex, but he has a weird look to him, almost like hes some sort of middle Pokemon even though hes fully evolved. Just doesnt look quite fully developed.

Rank 104: Weavile

Like Sneasel, we've known of Weavile since forever. They were in the 8th movie early on, dont think they popped out much later in the movie, but they were very prominent in an early scene. Like Sneasel, I like their name, it just sounds really awesome. But for whatever reason, they look almost exactly like Sneasel, except they have more than just a feather on their head, getting a big huge headpiece to lug on their head(It looks kind of heavy). Like Sneasel, I like the look of Weavile, I think its a cool looking pair of Pokemon, even if the evolution doesnt look terribly different. Also like Sneasel, Weavile are kind of a background Pokemon. Never really the main feature of things, just always off to the side so other pokemon can be shown off. Also when I think of Weavile, I cant help but think that they make Houndoom look good, but I guess I'll leave that at that. I think I've forgotten to mention it, but Ice/Dark is an interesting and fitting type, as well.

Rank 103: Manectric

Poor Manectric, you were such a cool Pokemon in RSE, but they just didnt give you anything. I loved my Manectric, leveled it up as soon as I got it, but I knew it wasnt great when it hit up to the higher levels. Poor movepool and all that, but its still one of the cooler looking Pokemon in the game. Unfortunately for Manectric, a much much cooler electric type was released in DP, so I'm not so attached to it anymore. Manectric, in addition to looking very cool, have a bit of a dignified look to them, they look pretty important and stuff. I love the blue and yellow color scheme too, very awesome. As I said, Manectric would have been way higher on the list if it werent for DP, but theres another electric type that kind of replaced them on my list, so it dropped a bit. And yeah, I'm really starting to feel bad with every Pokemon I list now, I really like them alot now. Also one of the more forgotten Pokemon out of RSE, never gets much attention anywhere.

Rank 102: Mudkip

Ahhh, I'm not going to say it, no way. But seriously, Mudkip is a giant internet fad. I cant even associate Mudkip with Pokemon. I heard Mudkip and I expect the internet to start exploding in fad. Mudkip is an interesting little Pokemon, he just kind of stares at you in a Mudkipish way. Seriously, I've been looking at these google Mudkip pics. Mudkip is constantly either staring blankly at you, or wide-mouthed and staring happily at something. Its always, always staring. And yeah, my first playthrough of Sapphire, I chose Mudkip. I'm not sure why, I didnt read up much on Ruby/Sapphire before getting into the games, I guess I wanted to be a bit more surprised by what was coming. I also naturally chose a water type, for whatever reason. My first choice for 3 of 4 generations was water, so I guess it works out that way(I have a thing about liking Water types, I dont know why). Not a bad choice, I guess. And yeah, I ended up getting really lazy my first run through Sapphire, so I pretty much leveled up my starter to hell. So I saw a lot of Mudkip. Not my favorite starter ever, but still a reasonably cool little starter. Starters were one of the better things in RSE, I guess, and Mudkip was cool. Also yeah, I cant ignore the internet fad thing. I get a total kick out of the internet going nuts over a Pokemon, I approve.

Rank 101: Chinchou

One of the surprise Pokemon out of GSC. I kind of totally missed the Lanturn line for like 2 months after release, didnt see them at all. And I owned a bunch of guides and was still insanely into Pokemon and stuff. I found them when we finally got an online GS battler(The gsbots). I needed a Pokemon. I for whatever reason wanted ANOTHER water type(My GSC team had 3). Soemone suggested Lanturn. I went "what?" "Evolution of chinchou, electric type, blahablah" was the response. I heard electric type, it fit, on we went. I approved. Looked a bit more at Lanturn, approved more. Lanturn was, well, really awesome. So Chinchou, evolving into Lanturn, is really awesome by default. Chinchou looks like a smaller Lanturn, and you can see Lanturn coming from them. I approve. Things that remind me of their evolution are good. Also, Chinchou has the awesome eyes. You cannot deny their awesomeness. Also its been awhile, but we're down to 100 to go.

Rank 100: Larvitar

Rounding out our triple digit line we have Larvitar. Yeah, hes up here because hes a massive stickam fad. I dont think theres been much mention of Larvitar there lately, but hes still there. Larvitar is how the T-Tar line should have started, even though they really screwed up his middle evolution(Then fixed it up a bit with T-Tar). Larvitar is also the winner of the most emo sequence in the anime ever. Literally, he had a whole set of episodes devoted to him being emo. I laughed, admittedly. Also it starts out as a traditional rock/ground, a now really dead type combination, kind of interesting how when they get to the end of this line they go and change it. And yeah, I'm a real sucker for internet fads, no matter how small the community they happen to be apart of. Only when they involve Pokemon of course, but Larvitar has some sort of king-status to stickam, so it works. Larvitar also has some of the more interesting eyes out there, I cant help but go right to them when looking at Larvitar.

Rank 99: Diglett

Beginning our double digit run is the Pokemon not on a main character team that appears the most in the anime. That, would be Diglett. He is everywhere. Theres several episodes related to Diglett, hes in like every movie at some point, and Diglett just make cameos everywhere. They appear in so many anime episodes its just absolutely hilarious. They are the zerg of Pokemon, there are just so many of them. Hell, in RBY they got an entire cave dedicated to them. Aside from that, Diglett are a roundish face wwith a big nose, and then they dig somehow. People have guessed what they look like underground, since they cant exactly just float, but to be honest no one knows. They are always seen attached to the ground, hell, that little bit of ground that is always around them could very well be apart of their body. Diglett also have one of the more memorable voices in the anime, and even in the newer episodes they manage to sound exactly the same for the most part, I cant count the amount of people I've heard say Diglett to mimic their voice. Lots of people have done it. Goes for their evolution too of course, but we arent there yet. RBY was pretty good about having interesting ground-only types, and Diglett is one of them.

Rank 98: Growlithe

One of the things RBY really had a knack for, was cool fire types. Growlithe is the beginning stages of a very cool fire type. Growlithe is, well, a small Arcanine. Much smaller and a bit less dignified looking, its still very clear what Growlithe is going to turn into. Growlithe is also the established cop-Pokemon, in the anime always hanging around with Officer Jenny's, and I believe they are in possession of a few NPC's in the game of similar stature. They are the small cuter version to Arcanines big strong version, of course, which is exactly what beginning stage Pokemon should be. And as I mentioned, RBY was very good at making the fire types all look cool, and Growlithe is a good example of this. Simply an awesome look to the line, like all the other fire types. Not my favorite type out there of course, but one that was dealt with very well in the original generation. And yeah, we can already see how dominated this list is going to be with original Pokemon from this point on, they are simply more established and I've got tons more memories of them to go off of. Also I'm finally reasonably happy with the list again, had to make some tweaks again, but I'm ok with it. Though honestly, I feel bad listing every Pokemon from this point on because they are all so very awesome.

Rank 97: Cacnea

Poor Cacnea, we had to get a recurring character to come back in the anime just so Cacnea could get written off. Still, Cacnea will always be remembered for popping out and spiking itself onto James' face. In fact, if it werent for that, I'm not sure I'd be able to pull Cacnea's name off the top of my head. Regardless, being one of James' Pokemon, especially one that did awesome things, instantly gives tons of credibility. Cacnea is of course, a little ball of cactus with arms. It also has a crown on its head, for whatever reason, that looks pretty spiky too. Either way, Cacnea snuck its way onto James' roster, and was awesome. It also evolves into Cacturne, another Pokemon which got itself into the anime. Interesting enough how it gains a dark type when it evolves, I wouldnt exactly expect it to change types. Cacnea and Cacnea are both cactus Pokemon, nothing really dark about them. I cant remember even seeing a Cacnea in-game, though I'm sure I have at some point. Wouldnt use one, but a Cactus is pretty much an obligatory plant that had to get into the game at some point.

Rank 96: Parasect

And one of the few Pokemon in RBY that could legitimately solo Mewtwo in RBY, Parasect was for awhile the only Spore user in the game. Spore, pray, Swords Dancex3, Leech Life. It wasnt the most reliable method for Mewtwo, but it would work many times. Of course, this never actually played out in serious play as Mewtwo was banned, and no one would leave their Mewtwo out to be slept in 6v6, but there still werent very many Pokemon out there that could stand up to Mewtwo(And depending on the set Mewtwo might still have a nearly 100% win). Parasect is a big lobster thingy with a giant Mushroom on its body. Also of note, Paras had -2- Mushrooms growing on its back, I guess one of them dies when it evolves, poor mushroom. Either way, Parasect is a pretty cool evolution to Paras, though both have a somewhat clueless look to them, its a bit misleading. A lot of Pokemon can throw up spores and powders, but this line does it with 100% accuracy. Pretty cool move to carry around, though its not so useful these days.

Rank 95: Togepi

And one of the first GSC Pokemon to ever make an appearance. Togepi was here long before we had any idea of what GSC would bring. We got this weird egg in the anime with some crazy markings on it, I think everyone pretty much knew a Pokemon was inside, but did anyone really know it was Togepi when they first saw it? I doubt it, I certainly didnt see it coming. Was a very weird surprise. Togepi's first appearance was absolutely hilarious though, complete with Meowth getting some rare battles in. After this, Togepi just kind of hung around for awhile, and didnt really do anything. Then, it learned Metronome, or whatever the hell it was. The term "Togehax" pretty much is more fitting for the move. Little wave of his hands and random massive explosion. Definitely some of the more awesome anime moments out there. Togepi of course would be one of those Pokemon that would evolve and be ditched in the same episode. Not a big fan of Togepi's evolutions either, but Togepi is still one of the more memorable Pokemon out there.

Rank 94: Mawile

Poor Mawile, one of the most forgotten Pokemon ever. Not many anime appearances, a version exclusive in-game, and overall not usable in battle anyways. Still, Mawile is one of my favorite Pokemon on looks alone. A cool looking mouth-thingy on top of its head and just a very cool awesome look to it overall. The poor thing just has terrible stats, is a pure steel type, and a lacking movepool. Mawile has a lone moment of glory in the anime, and that was pretty much all the attention they've given Mawile. Mawile also has one of the better Pokemon names out there, it just rolls off the tongue so nicely. I really wanted to put Mawile higher on the list, but I honestly just dont have enough memories of the thing to justify putting it higher. Its one of those "If they'd just do more with it I'd really love this Pokemon" type of things. Poor thing just isnt found anywhere. No anime, no games, no pr0n, no anything. Well, a little of all of those, but not very much.

Rank 93: Furret

Another awesome-looking awesome-named yet has very little to offer in terms of appearances and usefulness Pokemon. I thought Furret was a big improvement from Sentret, I thought Sentret was "ok", but that fatty body stubby limbs weird ears thing was kind of weird for a token normal type that we'd never use. Furret fixes this, thinning out, getting longer, and having much sleeker looking limbs. Pulls off the brown/light brown color scheme much better. Like Mawile before it, Furret suffers from a total lack of appearances anywhere. It is just a tad more prevailant though, making more appearances in just about everywhere. Still, not to much, and still useless. However, staring at the face of a Furret makes no one able to hate the thing, I'm almost certain of this. Quality normal-filler Pokemon.

Rank 92: Totodile

A Pokemon that jumped a few spots on the list just because I randomed him in my first playthrough of PMD2. I really liked the game, so I kind of got attached to him a little bit. However, not many spots, Totodile was a cool start to what was a rather disappointing line. Totodile was no Squirtle when it came to starters, but it was still cool looking. Turns out to be my least favorite of the GSC starters, but mainly due to the fact that his evolutions are just, well, terrible. Totodile however is exactly what you'd expect from a starter Pokemon, a small little thing that is just well, awesome. Small little crododile starter that will bite on everything. Dont think theres much to hate, outside the crappy evolutions.

Rank 91: Charmeleon

First of the Char line to make the list, Charmeleon is another oddly unfinished middle evolution. Far off from Charizard, Charmeleon is an angry looking Charmander. Probably the weirdest thing about Charmeleon, however, is that he undergoes some strange color change to a deep red color. Charmander and Charizard both sharee the same orange color, but the bridge between them for whatever reason turns to a deeper red. It doesnt make any sense. Charmeleon also has a crazy looking growth on his head, it doesnt appear to server any real purpose. Still, hes part of a very cool line, and looks rather cool himself. Still a middle evolution, but one of the better ones out there.

Rank 90: Munchlax

Its almost hard to believe that Munchlax is a DP Pokemon. Munchlax has been around since forever. I think everyone pretty much saw a Snorlax pre-evo coming. It was a hilarious thought, and it ended up pretty hilarious in execution. Munchlax umm, he eats everything, I suppose. He appeared in movie 7 with awesome hotdog machine of epic hotdog machining. It was awesome, and stuff. Got a lot of time outside the movies too, for more comedy optioning. Not a whole lot of good pre-evos out there, but Munchlax was simply one that made a lot of sense. One odd thing is, with all the Torhic, Piplup, and other lowbie Pokemon of doom out there in Brawl, Munchlax really sucks. He does nothing. I expected them to have him turn into Snorlax after eating so much or something, but he just doesnt do anything.

Rank 89: Nidoran F

Do I even need to explain why Nidoran F is up this high? This is the damn contest board after all, its probably self-explanatory. But Nidoran F was, well, the defining female character of the 2006 character battle. There was no character that was so distinctively female other than Nidoran F. Nidoran F's future is defined by the sole fact that it is female. It may be a Nidoran, but its turning into a Nidoqueen, just because its female. No other character could say that their future forms were decided because they were female. They were just female, just because someone decided it. But Nidoran F is, well, Nidoran F. Pokemon get massive bonus points just for being in the contest, and not only did Nidoran F get in the contest, but up against massive SSF, she put up a good 18%. It was an epic, epic match that has come to define Nidoran F in my mind. The Nidoran F line may not be as cool as the Nidoran M line, but that was simply too epic of a match to ignore,

Rank 88: Chikorita

My first ever starter out of GSC, Chikorita was pretty cool. Unfortunately its evolutions didnt differ much from each other and we're ultimately quite inferior to the Bulbasaur line before it. Still, cant fault Chikorita like that, even though its kind of the defining generic grass type. I havent said it in awhile, but the generic grass type, light colored body, leaf on head, yeah, thats about Chikorita alright(And yeah, someones still going to kill me on this later). Chikorita's best appearance was probably in the anime, where it became umm, a tad overattached to Ash, to say the least. Yeah, totally out of ways to say that in which I wouldnt be edging myself on the TOU. Starters are Pokemon that aside one or two of them, are all very memorable. Chikorita is one of the better starters out there, not the best, but still good.

Rank 87: Quilava

Yeah, another fire type middle evolution, though unlike Charmeleon Quilava doesnt look weird for its line. My only issue with Quilava is that it really isnt all that different from a Cyndaquil or a Typhlosion. All 3 are extremely similar, with only a size difference between them really. Probably one of the least feature changing lines in Pokemon. Quilava is pretty much Cyndaquil with a longer body, and another patch of retractable fire. Still, this line has quickly jumped up quite a bit in my opinion, I've kind of grown quite a bit fond of it as the years have gone by. Quilava kind of reminds me of a fiery furret, for some reason. Longer arms, though. Also Quilava is an awesome name, as well.

Rank 86: Sceptile

And now a final evolution that looks like a middle evolution. Sceptile just has leaves and parts of his body going all over the place. Grovyle was nice and sleek and cool looking, Scpetile is still cool and awesome, but hes really going all over the place. He looks like hes a middle evolution for some other line, kind of unfinished. Treecko and Grovyle definitely had a one-up on Sceptile, his face in particular looking just a tad out of place. A few Pokemon on this list get a bunch of bonus spots just because they bring up memories of their evolutions, Sceptile is the complete opposite. His previous evolutions were really awesome, and he gets some bonus association with them, good for him. Starters are generally cool, Sceptile could have been better, was still good though.

Rank 85: Raikou

Raikou could have given me nightmares back when I was playing GSC regularly. There was only one thing I could say about Raikou back then, the damn thing hurts. A fairly strong type back then with the standard legendary stats and hurt. Also had a decent, though sometimes a tad weird anime special to go with him. Unlike a few of the other legendaries, I kind of think of Raikou as like, old. Even though the other legendaries are pretty old for the most part I'm guessing, Raikou just kind of has an old face to it, old looking and stuff. Raikou has some little cloud thingies on his body, a lightning bolt-shaped tail which for some reason isnt yellow. Its like, blueish. Its cool looking,but odd that they changed the color for it. For the most part I liked the GSC legendaries as well, not quite as much as the original legendaries, but they were all still pretty good. Raikou the second of the GSC set to appear on the list.

Rank 84: Latios

As I said with Latias, I knew nothing of these two for the longest time. I knew they existed, I knew what they looked like, but after that I had no clue about them at all. I learned that they were actually obtainable in their generation long after DP was released, to give you an idea of how long I was absolutely clueless about where the pair came from. However, I did see the movie with them in it, and its definitely one of the better Pokemon movies out there. And while both of the Lati-s had some epic scenes in the movie, at the time Latios had pretty much the most epic scene in any Pokemon anime thing ever. It wasnt just a randomly legendary appearance in a movie, it went and broke just about every rule of Pokemon ever. No Pokemon had ever done what Latios did. Latios went and died, in epic fashion. No revival, no cheesy cop-out to bring him back. He went, saved a big city and thousands of people, and died. While Latios is no longer the only Pokemon to die, the way in which he died was really epic, and made for a totally unexpected and welcomed ending to a movie. Also, the blueish color is way cooler than Latios, but generally, hes up this high for an epic unexpected scene at the end of the movie.

Rank 83: Golduck

A Pokemon I used to use on a bunch of underused RBY teams. A reasonably powerful watertype in a different metagame. Wouldnt have a chance in standard play, but I used the hell out of him in underused. Another Pokemon that gets some benefits from memories of its previous evo, Psyduck getting a lot of screentime in the anime of course. Golduck by himself is a pretty cool looking blue duck. Despite the obvious Psychic abilities, hes a pure water too. Its one of those crazy mysteries out there in Pokemon. Golduck even have a jewel on their head, which of course is a prominent feature on many psychic Pokemon. Pretty cool looking Pokemon by himself too, not as stupid as Golduck. Not all that powerful looking, but I always thought Golduck looked reasonably cool.

Rank 82: Floatzel

Another evolved water type along the lines of Golduck, though a bit more proper type distribution with the water-only here. Floatzel is also another Pokemon that benefits from his pre-evos awesomeness. Buizel hasnt been around long of course, but what little hes shown up in the anime so far has been awesome(And in a few episodes will do some really awesome stuff). So Floatzel is again another awesomeness by pre-evo awesomeness association. Its cool how that works. Of course, because theres a million or so water types out there, its not the most usable Pokemon out there. Pretty fast, though, to say the least. Love the overall look to this name, very sleek and everything. Nice color scheme and all too, one of the better looking DP Pokemon. And I mentioned it earlier, but thanks to the internet, Floatzel are forever linked to Pachirisu in my eyes.

Rank 81: Cubone

One of many unevolved Pokemon in the top 100, Cubone is just, well, insanely classic. At a glance hes the emo Pokemon, constantly hiding his face in a skull and moping over death and stuff. Still, they are one of the cooler looking Pokemon out there. The skull and bone club look, is just, well, pretty awesome. Its fitting. Oh, and it goes without saying, Cubone is an absolutely awesome name. It just rolls off the tongue so well. Theres no way anyone could find the name Cubone unfitting. One of the more memorable lines in RBY, I'm sure. Also got one of the more pokemon-specific items in GSC, with Thick Club, turning a side-thought line in RBY to one of the better Pokemon in the next gen. And yeah, the ground types in RBY were generally really awesome.

Rank 80: Raticate

Another one of my underused RBY Pokemon. I think, in a metagame with a fixed focus energy, he could be pretty damn mean. A single move guaranteed to drop a Pokemon to 50% HP and then critical hyper beams. Poor guy was cursed with a god-awful 292 speed instead of the standard 298, which made no sense. Still one of the really underestimated Pokemon from the first generation. Also, due to the massive amounts of rattata out there, I think just about everyone used a Raticate for at least a short time. Raticate was an odd looking crazy rat with giant fangs. Hasnt actually had many appearances at all once RBY was gone. Kind of been replaced by all the other random early normal types, which is somewhat understandable. Still, the thing was one of those things you just couldnt bypass in that first generation.

Rank 79: Electrode

Another of my RBY Pokemon, except he was my original opening Pokemon for my team. Used to be a totally different metagame back before DT/Minimize got banned. An electric type actually played into the game a bit better than it does in the current setup. And Electrode had the honor of well, being the fastest Pokemon in the game. Yeah, a round ball with eyebrows was the fastest Pokemon in the game. On a hill this is probably practical, I'd hate to think how he actually manages to go that fast up a hill though. Also one of the more practical SSB/Melee/Brawl Pokemon. It does massive damage, of course, but its still pretty hilarious. It pops out of the Pokeball, and then it does what all electrode should do, they explode. Its a hilarious little gag with this line, and its definitely fitting and awesome. Of course, its also a giant Pokeball.

Rank 78: Kadabra

A pokemon that always seems to be available early, and is always a Pokemon that, well, turns the games into easy-mode. Kadabra is the choice over kazam due to the trading requirement for evolution, so most people never run through the games with an Alakazam, but a Kadabra, sure. Crazy high special attack, crazy high speed, Psychic, Recover, do you need anymore? I dont think so. Kadabra is the easy mode Pokemon, you get an abra, struggle a few levels of teleport, then you get your kadabra, randomly overpowered psychic moves, and the whole game rolls over for you. Kadabra is also one of the more psychic-looking Psychic Pokemon out there, and of course, its one of the original Psychics with a jewel on his head. Of course, its got a classic spoon and then it just looks psychic'ish. One of those rare middle evolutions that makes a good impression.

Rank 77: Arbok

Arbok evolves into Seviper! Well, no, not really. But its a hilarious anime screw-up stuck in all our heads forever, and it certainly helps Arbok. Of course, we're all blissfully unaware that Arbok is Kobra spelled backwards, of course. With a K, to make it sound better, even. Arbok of course will always be most remembered for being one of the original TR Pokemon, well, evolved of course. But Arbok had an awesome voice to go with it, and of course, was a pretty cool looking snake. Its also got a crazy face-like marking right below its head. Of course, with Seviper out there Arbok has pretty much been replaced, but that doesnt change that it was one of the more memorable of the original Pokemon.

Rank 76: Moltres

And the first of the Legendary birds to appear of course is going to be Moltres. The original birds, are just, well legendary. They have more of a legendary-set feel to them than the later versions, kind of like they are more important. Yeah, I guess the GSC trio was ok too, but they werent as important or apparent as the birds. Not to mention they were reasonably similar to each other, while all 3 birds really had their own look to them. Moltres is a big yellow bird with fire going everywhere, but its just not quite as cool looking as the other two. This isnt to say its bad though, as the original birds were really, really awesome anyways. And of course, the James the Moltres episode in the anime was an instant classic, awesome awesome little episode. Moltres does seem kind of sickly-thin to me, for whatever reason. I guess the other birds just have a bit of a side advantage on him, but I still think Moltres is a cool Pokemon, and very fitting to the set of 3. And of course, the birds are the first real emphasis that we will -never- have a pure flying type.

Rank 75: Psyduck

And Psyduck, an extremely dumb looking yellow duck with a constant nagging headache. Got to feel sorry for the thing, sometime. But outside of that, Psyduck went on to become one of the more memorable Pokemon ever. It was just totally out of control, could come out of its ball at will, and be absolutely useless, usually totalling ruining a situation. It was a running gag that lasted, well, as long as they kept Misty around. Of course, this wasnt forever, and there hasnt been a Psyduck sighting in awhile, but it had a really decently sized set of appearances. Of course, the headache gimmick wasnt just for pain and suffering, after taking enough damage to his head, Psyduck would pull out his hax, randomly destroying things that were usually Team Rocket related. And of course, Psyduck evolve into Golduck, reasonably cool Pokemon as well.

Rank 74: Wigglytuff

A Pokemon that jumped way up on the list after I played Pokemon Mystery Dungeon 2. Wigglytuff leads the guild in the game, complete with a Wigglytuff-head guild entrance, and Wigglytuff tents out on the missions. Wigglytuff in the game is, well awesome. Wigglytuff just seems so unfitting at first yet kind of fits in perfectly. A really, really awesome character in what is a surprisingly good game. Havent finished it yet of course, but I expect plenty of Wigglytuff awesomeness to come. Wigglytuff is the evolution of one of the more memorable Pokemon out there, and while dropping the round look just a bit, is still rather unique looking. No longer relying on a sing gimmick to hold it down either, though I'd be interested in seeing them try to pull off a Wigglytuff song. I'd laugh, thats for sure. Was a cool Pokemon to throw out in underused play in RBY, as well. And I must say, Wigglytuff have awesome looking ears. An angry Wigglytuff is one of the cooler looking things out there, too.

Rank 73: Teddiursa

A Pokemon that gets its popularity and place on this list for a single reason. Quite possibly the most hilarious and awesome standalone anime episode, Teddiursa is, well, awesome. He goes in, acts cute, gets everyone to do everything for him. Then he stabs them in the back and steals their food. Then he makes the other Pokemon take the blame. But its done in such a way, with a Teddiursa face, that is just so completely unexpected. He just cons everybody and makes you laugh the entire time. Hes pretty much the reason an entire forest is feared by travellers, if I recall. Everyone fears a single, evil Pokemon, and that just happens to be Teddiursa. If you havent seen the episode, you should watch it. Instant classic. To go with the hilarity, the ep title is "UnBEARable". And yeah, Teddiursa become Ursaring, but I cant bring myself to care after seeing the Teddiursa episode.

Rank 72: Croagunk

One of the more recent anime characters, Croagunk has kind of become a staple for any episode. Brock goes nuts over random girl of the day, we hear a Croa sound, Brock is jabbed, and then hes calmly dragged off while subdued. Croagunk has just become quite an enjoyable part of the DP series, which has actually been surprisingly good and oddly not following the usual formula as exactly as it had been previously. Croagunk could have been a totally forgettable and terrible DP Pokemon that I wouldnt have liked at all, but they've actually done something to make him likeable. Granted, its not the best looking line out there, nor the most interesting, but the little gimmick they got going is very entertaining. Too bad his evolution is rather lame, and we may be destined to have it make an appearance in the anime as well someday. Hopefully not, but I'm not counting on that.

Rank 71: Kingler

Giant enemy crab? Yeah, even Pokemon has one. Kingler is,well, a giant crab. hes got giant badass looking pinger things, and of course, hes named Kingler, one of the better names out there. Also had a few anime moments after evolving from Krabby, and for whatever reason despite never being used ever proceeded to pretyt much destroy everything it faced. It was Kingler, it didnt need a reason, it won just because it was there. Also one of the Pokemon out there with a move basically designed for them in Crabhammer, I mean, how many crabs are there? Just Kingler, of course, and the giant claw thingies were meant to be, well hammers I guess. Interesting little thing to note. Also one of the Pokemon people just seem to like, for whatever reason. Never seen anyone not like Kingler for any reason.

Rank 70: Snorlax

Want a Pokemon that pretty much was on 95% of teasm in GSC? that would be snorlax. Before we had Skarmbliss, and even after, we still had tons of curselax. The damn thing was everywhere. The amount of matches in GSC I've seen come to a Snorlax vs Snorlax stallout would probably be 4 digits long. The damn things were everywhere, and one of the best counters for a curselax was, oddly enough, another curselax. Snorlax was just well, the perfect curser, with reasonably high special defense, and sickeningly low speed, the move just had no real detriment and turned Snorlax into an even bigger monster. Snorlax is a pretty well-known and liked Pokemon, but damn if he didnt help to stale a generation out. He could have been irritating in RBY too, though he wasnt a huge problem, and probably wasnt used as much as he should have been. Snorlax also have a habit of sitting in roads, and just, well, not going anywhere. They are huge, fat, lazy, and do nothing but eat and sleep, it seems. Its a good gimmick. Also, they are in like every SSB game, and they well, hurt. Pretty classic Pokemon to say the least, I'm sure a lot of people out there can recognize Snorlax.

Rank 69: Typhlosion

This fire type line from GSC, as I've said once before, was pretty cool. The only issue here is that they dont really differ quite enough, but that doesnt make Typhlosion not be awesome. A bit bigger of a step from Cyndaquil to Typhlosion, though quite similar to Quilava, Typhlosion is a bit angrier looking, but its still cool. Its more of what you would expect from a final evolution, though still a tad too similar to the rest of the line. Luckily, I actually like the whole line, mainly because they all have awesome names, and are reasonably cool looking. Also if you couldnt tell by now, starters are just naturally higher on the list than similar Pokemon, just because they are starters. I considered putting Typhlosion a tad lower on the list, but I just couldnt. Probably my favorite GSC starter line on the whole now, even though it wasnt one of the first, or even second that I used. Really grown to like this line over the years, Cyndaquil is the most appealing of the 3 starters, and Typhlosion is the coolest final evo. Could have differed from each other a bit more, but Typhlosion is still one of the more awesome Pokemon out there, definitely.

Rank 68: Empoleon

Big steel awesome looking Penguin? I'm sold. But seriously, this was the only starter line in DP I really cared for. Turtwig line was an inferior Bulbasaur, Chimchar is a weird monkey, and then the Piplup line is just awesome. Of course, this is another one of those starter lines where the actual starter ends up the highest on the list, but Piplup is simply one of the better looking and more memorable starters ever. Empoleon, well, hes cool, but DP is still rather young, and we havent really seen much of Empoleon outside of our in-game usage. Still plenty of memories of the thing to build in the future, and he is a leigitmately awesome looking Pokemon. I'm sure a good 60% of people chose Piplup too, so I'm sure many ended up with Empoleon. This is simply one of the better starter lines period, and Empoleon is an appropriate looking finish to the end of the line.

Rank 67: Dodrio

I just got a big kick out of Dodrio back in RBY. Not just the 3-headed angry bird thing, but also in-game. Jynx used to be a rather popular opener for a lot of teams, and Dodrio had this nice little ability to one-hit KO him with a hyper beam. thats a lot of early damage, even if your opponent decides to switch. Wasnt the most practical thing ever, but it was a cool little fact. Unlike the dumb looking heads of a Doduo, Dodrio has gained an extra one,a nd they all seem constantly angry, and have to share the same two legs. thats got to suck, and I could just see the heads trying to chew each other to pieces. Still, one of the more original RBY Pokemon, credit to whoeever decided to make a really fast 3 headed almost-bird thing. One of the more overlooked Pokemon out there, but I had a lot of cool memories of dodrio.

Rank 66: Dugtrio

Yeah, I just had to put these two together. They just kind of, well, both have 3 heads. And yeah, theres a 3rd Pokemon in RBY that has 3 heads, but Exeggutor just isnt cool enough to hang out with these two. As I mentioned with Diglett, this line just has a tendancy to pop in the anime everywhere, never making it onto anybodies team. They just have random cameos all over the place. Its a neat little fact that I always have to make a note of. They simply appear more than any other non-trainer team Pokemon ever. Its pretty funny how often they pop up. Also back in RBY, before people went and banned OHKO's, Dugtrio was a pretty big gamble with them. The thing couldnt take a hit to save its life, but it was pretty much faster than anything, so you always had a chance to throw out a one-hit KO and get lucky. It was balanced by the fact that Dugtrio sucked anyways and their team was pretty gimp by using him, but people banned one-hit KO's anyways. Meh. Also "trio trio trio" I am sure has been stuck in everyones head many times. One of those Pokemon you just cant forget about.

Rank 65: Celebi

One of two unobtainable legendaries that I actually, well, like quite a bit(Though as I've said, I think Shaymin's new form is cool). The first two totally unobtainable Pokemon were kind of special, they looked and felt like they actually meant something. They were the most powerful looking things out there, but you just kind of got the feeling that they were really important. So important that getting them just wasnt practical. Celebi had a pretty cool movie too, wasnt the biggest as far as plot was concerned, but had a really cool little twist to it at the end. Celebi has an awesome looking face and really just a good design for an extra legendary, I can live with them being unobtainable when they are rare and well-thought out. They also have some crazy time-travelling thing that gets referenced every now and then. Not the best legendary out there, but one of the good ones.

Rank 64: Breloom

Seriously, the first time I faced a Breloom in competitive RSE, the damn thing blew my ****ing mind. I was absolutely stunned. The thing had spore, not terribly low speed, and then crazy attack. All this combined with a new and really unique type made Breloom absolutely nasty if you werent used to the metagame. Screwing with my mind aside, I was absolutely stunned to learn this guy evolved from Shroomish. Shroomish was one of the least interesting Pokemon in the game, but Breloom is just absolutely one of the cooler looking Pokemon in the game. Low on the list purely due to a lack of exposure, Breloom is still one of the cooler Pokemon. When I see a Breloom, I think "Awesome Breloom" because, well, Breloom is awesome. Awesome looking tail, cool looking color scheme, appropriate mushroom hat. I am a bit amazed at the lack of Breloom pr0n, you'd expect mre from a more humanoid shaped Pokemon, but theres not much out there. As I implied, if Breloom were featured anywhere just a bit more, he'd probably climb this list quite a bit.

Rank 63: Zapdos

In traditional spiky-yellow electric type faction, Zapdos is a big yellow spiky-feathured bird with a really sharp beak. To be honest, I'm sure its not a surprise which of the 3 birds ended up ahead of the others, and I think Zapdos fits in this spot nicely. Its a cool bird, very memorable, and as I've said, the original legendary birds were about as legendary as they get. Very cool, very memorable, and just very awesome. Zapdos is the angriest looking of the 3 birds, with a face that just looks like he wants to go and start shocking everything, though I guess thats actually what Zapdos does. Also, for whatever reason hes probably the last legendary people grabbed in RBY, despite clearly being meant to be the second. Most people I'm sure didnt even realize the power plant existed until well after the elite 4. I sure didnt. I just knew something was missing because there was a big empty spot in the Pokedex right at the end, perfect for another bird. Not one of my favorite favorite legendaries out there, but one of the higher ones on the list, and part of the best set Pokemon has had so far. Also I have to note, Zapdos with Hidden Power annoy the hell out of me. That definitely cost Zapdos some spots on the list.

Rank 62: Cranidos

When I got through the first gym in DP, I'd seen Cranidos. I dont remember where I said it, but I know I said it somewhere. "Cranidos. Want. Now." The damn thing just looked absolutely awesome, a little Dinosaur thing with a big round head and just an absolutely awesome overall look. A neat overall shape, a few spikes on his, awesome looking eyes, and simply one of the better looking DP Pokemon period. Cranidos simply looked cool, and I wanted one. I immediately took one of my crappy boxed Pokemon, put him on the GTS, and asked for a Cranidos in return. The plan was a huge success, as some random nice Japanese person sent me a Cranidos, and I was happy. The thing stayed on my team til it evolved and even that stayed til the end of the game. It might have been just a pure rock type, which isnt ideal, but Cranidos was simply cool, and by far one of the more appealing Pokemon DP has to offer. A line that I will probably appreciate more as the years go by, and probably a victim of being a newer Pokemon with fewer memories to go with it.

Rank 61: Salamence

Here is where somebody is going to kill me. Want a Pokemon that replaced the Snorlax of GSC when RSE came about? That would be Salamence. The damn thing was on everybodies team just about. And for pretty good reason, the damn thing hurt. It was fast, it had high attack, a dragon type, and some cool new moves to go with new items that could just absolutely destroy anything. Even in DP, Salamence is pretty much the answer for all. He just hits too damn hard, its very hard for a Pokemon to walk into a Salemence, hes just too damn mean and hes got a great movepool. Still, hes not as cool or epic looking as Dragonite, though seeing a Salemence still brings up "oh **** Salamence epic crap" that we can associate with some of the stronger Pokemon out there. Still a few dragon type Pokemon that I definitely like a lot better than Salamence, even if they cant compete on a competitive level. Salamence is still one of the more memorable Pokemon out there, even if it is for his competitive dominance.

Rank 60: Grovyle

Marking the end of team badass in the hoenn region. Since early on in Hoenn, we had Treecko, and we had Corphish, they were badass, and we were happy. Then Treecko evolved, we got Grovyle. Kept the same personality as Treecko for the most part, but wasnt put at the center of the stage as often, and simply didnt have the feel of a Treecko/Corphish rivalry. He was, well, just a bit bigger, and it wasnt as cool to see a Grovyle attempt to be badass as it was for a Treecko. Treecko pretty much made the Hoenn seasons pretty awesome, Grovyle not so much. Grovyle has the standard grass type leaf on head, but its an awesome long leaf on head, and it just looks really cool(See first pic on google image search for the example of coolness, I'm not joking). Also love the leaves on the arms too, very very awesome. Too bad he has to evolve into Sceptile too, a pokemon that looks more a middle evolution than Grovyle. Still, one of the highest middle evolutions on the list.

Rank 59: Ditto

Ahh Ditto, in RBY he was nothing but a gimmick for the move transform, a big purple blob that would turn into another Pokemon but with funny looking eyes. Nowadays of course, we all know exactly what ditto is used for. Ditto now uses transform for more umm...interesting ways, to say the least. Ditto these days now uses transform for a single purpose, to trick other Pokemon into having sex with it. Seriously, do you think these Pokemon would willingly sex up a little purple jello thing with eyes? I wouldnt bet on it. Trainers these days are using their dittos for not particularly noble practices, of course, tricking their Pokemon into making more pokemon. Ditto of course, exist only to breed other Pokemon, and I'm sure many of us have a ditto that has churned out thousands of Pokemon. Ditto is seriously just the breeding Pokemon these days(Has been since GSC), one of the stranger facts about Pokemon. And this game is played by little children everywhere, funny thing to think about.

Rank 58: Aipom

A Pokemon that would have ranked down in towards the middle of the list had the anime not saved him. Even a pretty terrible evolution hasnt stopped anime aipom from being pretty awesome. Aipom opened up his appearance with one pretty awesome gimmick. Epic hat steal. Aipom has pulled this off better than any Pokemon ever. Steal hat, run away, keep hat away, Aipom just made this hilarious. Aside from that, he was a totally random Pokemon to hop on the main team, it made absolutely no sense. No sense until we realized he was getting an evolution in DP, of course. Aipom was just a strange little purple monkey with a big head and a hand for the tail. Seriously though, a 3-fingered hand for a tail? What kind of use does that have? Its like, a really odd place for a hand, to say the least. Not much practical use, to say the least. But the anime came along, and Aipom was awesome. Always obsessed with contests while battling for Ash. It was an interesting little personality, and when he got traded for Buizel it was totally unexpected before they started making it obvious it was going to happen. Too bad they evolved him into Ambipom, a Pokemon that seems to have no charisma whatsoever so far. Really too bad.

Rank 57: Mime Jr

Another Pokemon totally ranked up this high due to anime awesomeness, hell, dont think I've ever seen a Mime Jr anywhere outside the anime, for that matter. One of the first DP Pokemon to appear of course, getting into Lucario movie and first showing off a gimmick that would carry into the current times. Mime Jr is more of a mimic than a Mime(Like Mr. Mime), mimicking the actions of various people or Pokemon around. It just is one of the more awesome things that can happen, and its usually very subtle. Sometimes in places where its not important, Mime Jr will just pop in and start mimicking facial expressions and hand gestures, and its just one of the cooler and underlooked things out there. It also helps of course that a Mime Jr snuck its way onto James' roster, something thats always a plus. James typically brings about some of the best anime moments out there, and Mime Jr just fits in with him perfectly. Unfortunately, Mime Jr hasnt had many appearances in recent DP episodes after tagging along for a really long time, so its time may be coming to an end at some point. So yeah, I definitely get a real kick out of Mime Jr just about every time it appears, I just think its an awesome little thing.

Rank 56: Charmander

Heres another place I fear for my life, as in fact, Charmander is NOT my favorite fire starter. Yeah hes still cool, and he of course eventually turns into Charizard, a Pokemon that has had more of its share of epic moments just about everywhere, but Charmander still isnt my favorite fire starter, definitely not. In fact, I chose Charmander in RB(And remakes/spinoffs/whatever) far less than I chose Bulbasaur and Squirtle. Charmander compared to the other two is just a tad plain, an orange lizard with a fire tail. I mean, its still original for its time, of course, but its not my RBY starter of choice. Charmander of course also got the least amount of anime screentime, and lets face it, Fire in red/blue was pretty much suicide early on. We all knew the rock gym was coming, then a water gym. I'm sure our first playthroughs, most of us feared picking a Charmander because it would mean early struggles. This wasnt really a deterrent later, but I still dont find Charmander to be on the same level as the other two. Still one of the more memorable Pokemon ever, but not my favorite fire type starter.

Rank 55: Lugia

An epic Pokemon in an epic movie, that is pretty much Lugia. The second movie was really, really good, and it really showed off its 4 bird legendaries very well, and Lugia of course got to be the rare talking Pokemon that went and kicked all kinds of ass. It was very memorable to say the least, even if he didnt have the same kind of status as Mewtwo did before him. This of course was caused by the legendaries in GSC being a pair of birds, rather than a single overpowered Pokemon. Lugia of course was a nasty Psychic bird with Aeroblast, and while not quite Mewtwo, pretty much broke the game. Banned, etc. Unlike its counterpart Ho-oh, Lugia had neither a weird name nor a weird look. Ho-oh always had the angry face and angry destructive looking feathers. Lugia on the other hand brought a more peaceful and meaningful look with him. An awesome looking tail, some blue markings near his eyes, kind of longish body, and some sleek looking wings. Lugia was just the much more appealing of the two, and one of the better legendaries Pokemon has to offer.

Rank 54: Rampardos

Another victim of a lack of spotlight. Unlike Cranidos, Rampardos wasnt quite a first impression and not so much of an "oh **** must have", so its not entirely up high on the list for its looks, of course. Moreso that after I evolved my Cranidos, my Rampardos went and kicked all kinds of ass. A wide variety of moves, some which show off that physical/special split, though Rampardos is slow and notthe most defensive Pokemon ever, but good enough to knock out some of the NPC pokemon, and still look cool while doing it(Whats the point of kicking ass if the pokemon you are using isnt cool). One thing I have to say, Rampardos has to win for the stubbiest arms in Pokemon. I'm not even sure if they actually are the stubbiest, but Cranidos had reasonably proportioned arms, and then you get to Rampardos, and they are just even smaller than Cranidos' arms, but Rampardos is at least twice as big. It just doesnt make any sense, and the poor thing probably cant use them. A pokemon, and set of 2, that will probably climb this list as they settle in as memories in my head, but for now, they'll just have to settle as some of my favorite DP Pokemon.

Rank 53: Ivysaur

A RBY Pokemon, starter no less, who has a new memory that first pops in my head. Ivysaur was the -first- character I used in Brawl. Yep, the first. Unfortunately, I was learning on the fly and only had a wiimote and nunchuk to work with. Not cool. I still kicked ass and had some cheers from the crowd for being the only Pokemon Trainer user in GameStops fun little tournament, but ultimately I couldnt knock out the enemy chu and lost in sudden death. Still, Ivysaur has a pretty awesome look to it, and I do believe it has the distinction of second highest middle evolution on the list. The highest middle evolutions awesomeness is really hard to deny of course, and Venusaur still suffers the problem of not looking finished, which keeps him down just below the top 50. A flower now blooming out of a Bulbasaur's back, but it definitely hasnt grown big enough to be a final evolution. Still, even though I'm still not really good with Ivysaur at all in Brawl, hes my favorite of the Pokemon Trainer trio to toy around with. Oh and of course, the Bulbasaur line was probably my favorite in RBY, as well. "Ivysaur" also rolls off the tongue very nicely, definitely cant go without mentioning that its a really awesome name.

Rank 52: Magikarp

Being the ultimate in Pokemon comedy options can only get you so far. In this case, all the way up to 52. But hey, if there were a card deck featuring all of red's favorite Pokemon, Magikarp would make it in there. Probably as a lonely 2 of hearts or something, but Magikarp would be in there anyways, thats good enough right? Magikarp was so hilarious that he had his own personal "magikarp guy" in the anime, who would repeatedly fool people into buying the magikarp for a crapload of money and then run off. Of course, none of these people realized that with a lot of hard work they could actually have a GYARADOS under their control to go and destroy whatever they chose. Too bad for them, especially James who in the first episode with Magikarp guy kicked his magikarp into the ocean and made us all laugh as Gyarados decided to destroy them all. Fun had by everyone, of course, awesome and memorable episode. Unfortunately, Magikarp guy has traded in his karp for Feebas, which isnt quite as nice. For whatever reason they decided to give Magikarp a new move in one of the newer generations, even though it still sucks, and its still going to take you a good while to level it. For the most part by now, I think everyone has figured out that you catch a magikarp early, stick it in the daycare, and then take it out sometime near the end of the game, level it, and then enjoy your gyarados. However, I'm probably not the only one who actually painfully leveled a Magikarp back in RBY for Pokedex completion, rather than use the daycare for easy leveling. That was, well, quite a task, to say the least. There was just no way to not have Magikarp high on this list, the damn thing is about as legendary as it gets. I dont think anyone hasnt joked about Magikarp multiple times in their life. Its just such a classic Pokemon that you cant help but have so many fond memories of it.

Rank 51: Sandslash

One of those original RBY Pokemon that just doesnt make very many appearances ever. One of the strangest things too, I just dont get why Sandslash hasnt been around more, its one of the cooler looking Pokemon in RBY, and "Sandslash" is an awesome name to go with it. Sandslash is just one of the more naturally badass Pokemon out there, hes got cool looking claws, and an equally cool spiky looking back. I'd imagine he can roll up into a ball just like Sandshrew, but a lack of appearances really limits the memories here. Sandslash is also stranglely hurt by an abundance of ground types that are all eerily similar in use and stats, making it unlikely for Sandslash to get a serious upgrade in any later generations. Sandslash is also one of the more proper evolutions out there, taking a Sandshrew and adding just the right amount of necessary changes to be a much stronger looking Pokemon. Poor guy just hasnt gotten enough attention over the years.