Screw ‘gotta catch em all’ — some Pokemon are clearly better than others, and I ain’t boutta carry around no lame-arse pocket monster around with me. You know?
The things that make a Pokemon superior aren’t always cut and dry, though. Sometimes, it’s the design. Sometimes it’s the Pokemon’s combat usefulness. And sometimes, the Pokemon is just too silly or ridiculous not to love.
Don’t worry. We’re experts. These are the best 50 Pokemon, ranked from worst to best.
50. Cubchoo
49. Marill
48. Milotic
47. Probopass
46. Scizor
45. Slowking
44. Wailord
43. Excadrill
42. Snivy
41. Smoochum
40. Combee
39. Flygon
38. Gogoat
37. Psyduck
36. Gigalith
35. Nidoking
35. Espeon
34. Lugia
33. Drifloon
32. Cubone
31. Duskull
30. Latias
29. Empoleon
28. Gyarados
27. Tyranitar
26. Wobbuffet
25. Charizard
24. Infernape
23. Thundurus
22. Garchomp
21. Magikarp
20. Entei
19. Metagross
18. Yveltal
17. Porygon-Z
16. Litwick
15. Rotom (all forms)
14. Spiritomb
13. Luvdisc
12. Togekiss
11. Ludicolo
10. Vanilluxe
9. Shuckle
8. Slakoth
7. Scrafty
6. Darmanitan
5. Reuniclus
4. Chespin
3. Elekid
2. Trubbish
1. Gengar
Notes:
- If your favourite Pokemon is not on this list, it is not among the top 50 Pokemon.
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There are only a few Pokemon from gen one here….hmm.
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Comments
29 responses to “Pokemon, Ranked”
No Chandelure or Conkeldurr is a goddamn travesty
Really?
agreed
Its a combination between trash and rubbish. GENIUS!
Needs more explanation on why each mon is where it is.
(I know I’m feeding the click-bait here, but hey)
Nope, no Wobbuffet
Number 26.
ah damnit, i thought i checked pretty throughly too
He should be #1. Imaginative design, hilariously silly and unfathomably strong.
Is Wobbuffet still banned?
Encore got nerfed in BW, so it lost its Uber ban from OU, and then fell down to UU since no one liked him anymore. Then it got banned from UU to BL. So basically no one uses him anymore.
Poor Wobbuffet. He had his reign.
Some numbers, in depth analysis, any justification really, would have been nice to read. Not ‘here’s a list of 50 names’ – what have I gained from reading this?
This whole post is a deliberate troll. It’s just here to incite a reaction from us.
Squirtle> all other pokemon
Raichu!
A pokemon that wears sunglasses = no competition.
Gengar at 1 I can totally agree with, but all the weak unevolved pokemon? Elekid at 3? Really?
Smogon’s OU tier is probably a better indicator of the “best” Pokemon.
Interestingly, there are 12 or so Pokémon that are on both lists.
Welp, I recognise a grand total of 17 of those. Images and/or indices woulda been nice. And no Miltank? I still remember a Miltank at one of the gyms beating the crap out of me, and that was 12 years ago… freaking Rollout.
But, I suppose these are based on final stats at max level after EV training for competitive play, not circumstantial gym battles.
Nope, most of these are just Pokémon than the author thinks look cool. Some of them are even from the new game, where all we know is what they look like.
Okay, then. In that case, and at the risk of playing into the goal of the article, it’s immediately invalidated by having no mention of Mew.
In other words, “I just want to put together a list of 50 Pokemon and call it a day”. Good work, Patricia.
It’s just troll bait.
Gengar is pretty fuckin’ sweet though.
Scyther needs to be on this list.
Quality Hernandez article.
where the hell is zubat HUH
Needs more Swinub
1. Blaziken
2. Snorlax
3. Salamance
4. Rayquaza
5. Charizard
6. Tyranitar
7. Infernape
8. Metagross
9. Lucario
10. Marowak
11. Latios
12. Wailord
13. Milotic
14. Dragonite
15. Gallade
16. Wynaut (because of its name XD)
This list is BS.
21. Magikarp, a Pokemon with 1 move that does nothing.
28. Gyarados, the reward of a particulary bad arse pokemon for raising a damn Magikarp.
If it’s the best 50 Pokemon how does Magikarp rank higher than it’s evolution.
what about Abra and his evolutions? he was badass