20 Rare Pokémon You Shouldn't Catch 

i like that sound of that XD

That's actually the cannon reason for most of them being rare. Farfetched specifically was eaten to near extinction. By humans.

A NATIONS STRENGTH. The actual Combined Level or Power or Something of a Pokemon-Region and therefore its actual theoretical Military Might. This is literally something i see non-covered by all of the Poke-Tubers. Its not covered on RU-vid?? Same for 'Goverments - do they even exist in Pokemon?'!

@@slevinchannel7589 Based on Sword and Shield, they do. However, it seems that the government is either run by a company or the champion, depending on the region. For example, the League seems to run Johto and Kanto, but Rose's company runs Galar.

That explains Farfetch'd

RIP

so… um…. were you able to catch a delibird??

@@george9371 you can..be kinda like abra most of the time they just gonna flee away,try using different types and pokeball and pray to Arceus that you manage to get it,i once catch them for pvp in my school but turns out it is the first to faint

@@KetoCommander I've been FireRed on my phone and I take advantage of the GBA apps quick save feature whenever I'm trying to catch a rare or prone to fleeing pokemon. If things go wrong I just reset back to my last save point.

The Fast Ball Works Better On Pokemon That Can Run Away In Johto.

I wish kanto farfetchd could evolve into sirfetchd

​@@henrykrebs6367no

far fetch’d crits pretty much every slash he shouldn’t be made fun of like that

the duck comes bearing onions

@@henrykrebs6367why it’s basically useless to have the galarian form if that were the case

*santa*

Robot santa

@@sans_ut Evil Santa

Deliborg

Iron bundle.(actually there is a robot delibird)😅

Farfetched in yellow is actually strong cuz it has swords dance i used one and my farfetched was OP

IKR. I had a hard time watching Pokemon Journeys because Ash was just left out. Ash never got a chance to catch anything until Episode 10.

Lol

He specifically said that it was ok catching them for the Pokedex, which is Goh`s goal

I used a farfetched in a random gen 1 team in pkkemon showdown, it was pretty good

I really don't get how gen 2 is so beloved with these glaring issues

@@AD-tj4jc Exactly i hate gen 2 so much it is not worth playing at all. It is basically kanto but easier and more weak pokemon

@@pikasup1696 get 2 remakes r awesome

@@AD-tj4jc I think the pokemon fans love the Remake, Not the original Gold and Silver. Pokemon Heartgold and Soulsilver are a fun games well for me. After i beat the elite four and the champion, i didn't know there was a Postgame. And also I love Heracross.

Maybe it's because I did not grow out with HGSS, but I don't feel the same. The remakes don't fix any of the problems from the originals. Level curve is still horrible and half the new pokemon are in Kanto.

pppp

Dude ur luck is GODLY

I shiny hunted via masuda method for a delibird when I was a kid and I got one.

😯😯😯😯😯

I got Shiny Giratina through internet

Just as stupid was it that you got next to no evo items in GSC aside from I think the bug catching contest and in crystal, specific trainers calling you.

Oh No Anyways

Oh well

Does anyone know why grunty boi looks like Mikey

@@fernandabomfim27Congratulations you won the stupid award

That's what Bulbasaur says when Squirtle interrupts the intro

yep, at the top of mt pyre

I thought chimeco was a gen 4 pokemon!

@@Dingobabee what I don't get is why it got a baby form. I made my own fake Pokemon before and made a fake chimecho evolution called winchime. I made it gain the steel type because of the design concept was a windchime🎐.

Imagine it being found at the Victory Road.

@@hunterpikachu1763 that's an interesting concept actually. Idk if steel would be the best fitting (kinda trespassing on bronzong's shtick) but maybe Farie type instead to emphasize its musical, magical abilities? Would become interesting in having Levitate giving it 2 immunities, good stab and interesting utility.

I forgot about that way to go Dux!

Sword dance mfers

hi

Yup

Why do I feel like it will

How are did you make it here so fast but true

Click off before it's too late

He only did that cause he loves it one of his catchphrases is “Hail Yea” and that’s just “Hell Yea” but with the word hail, why hail? Castform Hail Form.

Sadly Castform doesn't get much love

Also Pokémon Challenge players: Beats Pokémon with any Pokémon on this list

Makes a lot of sense since it is a challenge

Hericy.

I headcanon that Johto was once a colony of Kanto, and was called "New Kanto".

My original teams on HeartGold & SoulSilver were all Johto Pokemon HeartGold Feraligatr Noctowl Ampharos Magcargo (obtained as an Egg in Violet City from Primo and hatched into Slugma) Ariados Steelix SoulSilver Typhlosion Noctowl Ampharos Politoed Hitmontop Sunflora

Its probably because GSC were gonna be the last games in Pokemon

Very true Though I NEVER EVER see people defending Diamond, Pearl or Platinum but when obvious flaws about any other Generation are pointed out jump to the rescue...🤣🤣🤣 Physical Special Split, Stealth Rock, Toxic Spikes, making useless unevolved Gen 2 Mons finally usable (Gligar -> Gliscor; Yanma -> Yanmega; Murkrow -> Honchkrow; Misdreavus -> Mismagius) Still, it's all good, hating on Gen 4 seems to be a past time for most people...🤣🤣🤣 Anyways, yes they actually planned to discontinue the franchise or game series with and after Gen 2 so what you're saying makes a lot of sense! Gen 2 has MANY flaws but that's why we love it and Pokémon❤❤❤

But if people get that and why Hoenn has so many water routes... Then why don't people get Sinnoh not having many Fire Types as the very cold northernmost region of Japan, Hokkaido...? People really hate on Gen 4 a lil too much.

I’d still use them in HGSS. I like Misdreavus more than Mismagius and Murkrow is perfectly fine on its own even before the evolution.

The best part is that the dusk stone is in Cerulean cave. A place you can't access until you beat all the Kanto leaders.

Surely you can use Pick Up?

Most stones are really difficult to get in Johto. My last SoulSilver game, I beat the league with a vulpix and a weepinbell. HG/SS are great games, but their flaws are kinda annoying.

@@Fizzypopjimmi you can also get one in the Pokeathalon Dome once you beat the league. Still annoying but not THAT annoying

Stolen

Micheal has got the advancement *careles hoenn baby that talks to himself*

Zuko watching a Pokèmon video

That's rough buddy

Grunty Boi: *exists* Me: Oh no. _le king krimson_ Anyway.

Same, I used Cherrim in my Pokémon BDSP Soul Link Nuzlocke with a friend of mine (he played Brilliant Diamond, I played Shining Pearl) paired with his Roserade (we nicknamed them both “Blossom”) and she actually put in work despite me already also using Torterra (paired with his Empoleon, our starters)

I thought it was when I was younger

@@Repook we all did

Agreed

There are two reasons why alomomola isn’t the evolution of Luvdisc. First, the out-of-universe meta explanation, which is that Gen V was dedicated as a sort of soft-reboot of the series and has lots of design counterparts between it and the previous four generations, such as Trubbish and Grimer/Koffing (Trash/pollution), Jellicent and Tentacruel (jellyfish), and Purrloin/Meowth/Skitty (cats but make them feral). Luvdisc and Alomomola both play into the same archetype of sunfish. In-universe, they evolved convergently. Convergent evolution is when a single trait (e.g. wings) appears in multiple unrelated ways (insect wings vs bird wings vs bat wings). Clearly Alomomola and Luvdisc both derive some sort of ecological benefit from being pink and heart shaped in their environment. The obvious conspiracy response is that they forgot Luvdisc existed when they were designed Alomomola.

@@eledile8766 you are so smart thank you!

Wobbuffet is STILL good in singles. Mikeys wrong on this one, but he usually considers this stuff for playthroughs only .

Not competitive, but I remember Wobbuffet being my MVP when I first faced the E4 in SS, despite it being 20 levels lower than the rest of my team. I will always respect Wobbuffet.

@@cillianstewart9441 yeah it’s insane and super underrated

@@ColgatetheTogekiss Well, Wobuffet is a double-edged sword. It can be very useful in Nuzlocke but it is also very hard to use and, definitely not for the people who are impatient Im on the same board as Mikey cuz while Wob is fun for competitive, it's not fun for playthrough and really worth if you just want to do a regular playthrough unless you want to mess with it for fun

@@cillianstewart9441 Respect the 'fet.

Pikachu clones really could use them. It’s stupid they don’t considering Raichu has been there since the beginning.

Well... u got ur wish

in scarlet and violet, pawmi, the pikachu clone for the gen can evolve. got ur wish :)

Panda is exceedingly rare and difficult to breed, but they’re completely competitively outclassed by the more common Bear types Grizzly and Polar.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Blobfish are extremely rare animals, only found in deep waters near Australia & New Zealand. But are extremely weak and easily outclassed by nearly every other fish in the area.

Even with the law of infinite universes, I highly doubt that.

Red pandas are very rare but they are a bit worse than their much more common racoon variant

Beedrill: “I was bad!“ Mega Beedrill: “But now I'm good!“ Mega Beedrill is one of the few good things about Game Freak's constant pandering towards Kanto...

Butterfree being one my favorite Pokémon. *Sniff sniff* I’m not mad.

@@rileymcgowan6490 I just wish that Butterfree's Gmax form would be a Mega Evolution instead. Like a special counterpart to Mega Beedrill! Instead of an offensive ability Mega Butterfree gets a defensive ability for example to avoid damage of Stealth Rocks. :-)

I freaking love Beedrill and Butterfree

I don’t like many gen one Pokémon to make a full team, but Butterfree is one that makes the spot >:)

*THERE SHOULD BE ONLY ONE E IN FARFETCH'D!*

Tbh johto dex deserves to br trashtalked. Especially the cindaquil line. Their stats are 1:1 copied from the charmander line (I still love cindaquill and johto, but the region oberall is incredible weak, you have countless better kanto options in the game, the gym leaders mostly dont even use jotho pokemon and the level curve is terribly designed)

JOTHO = JOHTO

Micheal being a competitive player to a casual player for 28 minutes

The dex was generally garbage. One of the core cool things in Pokemon is to work up a guy and evolve. See what you get. This gen had so many random no evo guys that had no point. I think babies did (and still) have no point. Just dumb gen

Jo tho

That also means that when Meowth says "Meowth ! That's right !", he's agreeing with him.

That makes so much sense when I remember some dialog in the show.

99% sure it actually means "That's the way it is" as a reference to a Japanese comedian.

In german its name is Woingenau which translates to" where exatly?"

Also, in French his name is Qulbutoké, which is a joke with a Culbuto and Oké, so he just always answer ok.

"Amazing [player], your ditto and it's poor tuckered dong have singlehandedly brought [pokemon] back from the brink of extinction. You deserve a reward." [player] received one full heal. "Ah [player], there you are. There's no time to explain, your breeding effort has been too effective. We need to reduce the number of [pokemon]. I have three methods." "So you would like to choose the brick on a chain?" "So you would like to choose the baseball bat with a nail in it?" "So you would like to choose the prison shiv?"

@@andrewince8824This is the greatest comment I have ever read!

EXACTLY what I was yhinking

@@andrewince8824 the prison shiv--

this is what happened with lapras

So does it useful 50% of the time?

So, the accuracy of finding these rare Pokemon is 50%, and everyone just gets unlucky all the time

@@14akamaru that's for the overall pokemon, mikey said wobbuffet is useless *99%* of the time

@@jennyrazon9582 when did I actually talk about the usefulness of the Pokemon? I was taking about the chance of finding them.

@@fishbakeditself1213 or its usefull 50% of the time

I wanna laugh but I can't cuz i would do the exact same thing lol

@@st0ne559 you should laugh, it's funny. We're laughing together not maliciously

Damn I did that also I cried when i finally got it to lvl 100 and it didn't evolve so I looked it up online and that's when I found out also did the same thing with Shuckle sadly.... my childhood was filled with 😞

Mannn I just caught one last night

Catcher of base form pokemon? Very swag

Castform is honestly pretty fun to use compared to literally every other Pokémon on this list. I legitimately put a Castform on my Hoenn team and it helped a lot.

Exactly! That just goes to show that a person’s favorite Pokémon is too rare to justify their rarity and isn’t worth using if you don’t care about that Pokémon.

Good news, you may actually have lol. The Moon and Ultra Moon entries state that due to protective measures and people cherishing them, the Lapras population has risen dramatically. 😊

That legit is so kind with kid logic

Gotta catch some of them

Gotta catch a few

How dare mikey go mean on truegreen7

Gotta catch all but a few

No. No it wasn't 😡

@卍 SUPPORT MAP PRIDE! 卐 dude, you are disgusting

Lol. To be fair, Mikey put in Castform too, his own favorite.

@@anafu-sankanashi8933 Reported him 5 times and counting

I swept a mans team with a dunsparce. It being on this list hurts on a whole nother level

No raichu is.

More Fun Fact: Ash's pikachu is a ditto

@@jhin0413 what?

Fun fact water type Pokemon are good at being water type Pokemon

@@kaebriejones5643 In other news,water is wet.

or just evolve them, instead of trying to find an evolved pokemon in the wild (idk if theres any evolved pokemon on the list, im saying this before watching the video)

@@FlareToga76 most of these pokemon can't

Lmao very true

I just started my first Pokemon game and its platinum cuz sinnoh is my fav , and i found only 1 very rare Pokemon and its a shiny gligar

I feel like thats smushed in my brain

Why wasn’t it a honchkrow you can get a dusk stone before you can even obtain it

Makes sense

Eh, In HGSS maybe, but in regular Gold and Silver there's a button you can click called "Run".

There were no abilities in gen 2 tho

you get a free wynaut in gen 3, which evolves to wobbuffet

It's also got banned from OU and went to Uber tier because of one single broken ability. Shadow tag. Which locked your opponent out of the game and with mirror coat and counter shengains it could do some serious damage if you got trapped. Possibly costing you the match. It deserves to be rare.

Yeah, it doesn't have any evolution at the time so you would have literally no idea what you were missing, and it wasn't hinted in the game either since it's literally the last Pokemon added in the game even after Jirachi and Deoxys.

@@RGC_animation now imagine that it was only found at the victory road.

@@ethantreadway9478 It is literally only found in one single patch of grass lol.

@@ethantreadway9478 Victory road would've been better since that's a place you'd look for a possibly strong, rare pokémon. It's in a single patch of grass, out of the main way, on the top of that mountain you go *once* to for story reasons for like 10 seconds and have zero reason to visit again, so unless you notice that patch of grass, you don't even know there's something you missed. Meaning you'd have a missing pokémon like no trainer uses, with only one location you might not even notice exists. It's honestly insane that Emerald Tate and Liza use 3 psychic types with levitate, but instead of using the fourth one to have give the player an inkling that that pokémon exists, they used Xatu instead. And there, they don't even have the excuse of "programmed like 3 seconds before release" because it's the third version glow-up. If I were to fix Hoenn gym leader teams, replacing the Xatu with Chimecho would be one of the changes.

Chimecho is friend-shaped.

So she was a Wobbuffet?

OMG I did exactly the sameee

I have a Lapras with Perish Song!

@@mizukittyakinyama Is it in frlg?

@@Pokechrome well, it's actually in Sword, but I just wanted to point it out

He better be, because I want to avoid him, though it seems like he tends to swarm often.

I have a concern about your spelling not being rude tho

@@microwavestealer9998 I fixed it👷‍♂️

@@ethantreadway9478 Not sure what you changed but it's grunty, not granty

A wild Grunty Boi appeared!

Yeah, in competitive. It's still stupidly rare, and it's stats don't justify that. Also, it only fit on stall teams, so yeah.

@@verximama828 I don't get why the rarity of a pokemon should be determined by its stats. If a Pokémon is rare, it's rare, no matter what.

@@verximama828 in all fairness though, generation 2 was THE stall generation, most competitive teams used curse sets and rest/sleep talk sets.

@@finmat95 But you generally assume that if it's rare it's worth it. Would you want to spend 6 hours waiting for honey tree pokemon only to then find out that they suck, again excluding Munchlax.

@@MultiWilliam25 Very fair

(He can walk!)

Lol i thought about that too😂

Idk why gamefreak would give Dunsparce the ability Serene grace.. it doesn't even evolve which sucks ,__,

*Accumula Town theme intensifies*

@@poninefreak3321 Other Pokemon can fly Majestically through the sky But i can walk (They can walk) Other Pokemon can dig A hole that's real deep and big But i can walk They can walk!

I liked dunsparce for rollout. I think I also had a belief at the time it would have a dragon evolution.

@@reelement8032 Well 💀

My Dunsparce steamrolled Whitney with Defense Curl Rollout, and then Lance and his team of all Flying types@@reelement8032

@@reelement8032 that didn’t age well

no they stupid because they just mean customers quit the game which means games need to be more pay to play to make profit

@@natstar7864 Ain't that just the way

Same. It's a cool enough design and I like the Normal types. It really deserves an evolution.

It should've been a baddass Normal/Dragon type pseudo legendary. Shame it stayed as a meme.

Same here! I also caught Yanma and tried to evolve it in Pokémon crystal. Before a evolution existed…

It does in uranium and Dunseraph is awesome.

@@1squeamishneophyte yeah, I played Uranium and as soon as I heard Dunsparce evolved I immediately got one. Dunseraph is very cool. Very cool game but the last time I played it through was when it stopped after the 7th gym. Couldn't get in to it after it "officially" launched.

Farfetch'd might not be worth it in gen 1, but in gen 6 it is an awesome team member. It gets Air Cutter at a low level, which in Kalos let's you get berries off trees. It also learns False Swipe by level up for easier catching, and can be used as your Fly Pokémon. Also is not hard to find. Definitely a good choice for any Kalos team.

"A duck comes bearing bunched onions" is the translated expression, and Farfetch'd's Japanese name, Kamonegi, is a shortened version of it.

@@spectralwiitch7544 thanks for clarification

Also lore wise, Farfetched's backstory is actually pretty sad, it was common a while ago but because it was delicious people hunted them to almost extinction.

@@xannyo12321 Exactly

@@slevinchannel7589 can you stop spamming

More eeveelutions

@@Twinklethefox9022 Y E S

What's a pokefan? I have only heard of pokéfan.

Yeah

@@foxeh9238 It was a joke lol

And the answer to that is a resounding “yes.”

But... present sucks and is hardly worth using.

Present has a chance to heal your opponent and it's not a stab move

@@fishbakeditself1213 And this pretty much makes it its gimmick.

Hail yeah you are.

lolll

*ShadyPenguinn would also like to know your location*

I would also like to know……… Nah, I’m only just joking…

@@Gatchaman2154 he likes prinplup more

@@rohitwankhede9153 Huh. I could have sworn that Delibird was the mascot in his channel.

is the spearow name kenya?

@@spongebobpopsicle5783 possibly, I really hoped it was, but in the episode the trainer called his FarFetch'd DUX, but the other trainer just said Spearow unfortunately

Well now you have a fighting type farfetchd and it’s evo

@@spongebobpopsicle5783 nah it was spearey or how ever you spell it (pronounced spear-e)

Farfetch'd I think is made for that purpose. I remember using it only for the hm cut and fly.the early bibarel

I don't watch PokemonChallanges, why would he be snickering?

@Squidward Oh I thought it meant he loves gen 2.

@@robertlupa8273 he's got a whole 24min video showing A LOT of reasons why he personally thinks gen2 was by far the worst generation in pokemon history and brings up a lot of valid points with proof regarding balancing, stats and so on. It's basically a meme like Michael's "hail yeah"

😂 truuu

Past forms of Farfetch'd will be hunted as boss battles in legends Arceus.

He's used to Grunty boi's shenanigans

You are one of the luckiest people to play a Sinnoh game. I would usually just get the guaranteed Snorlax in HGSS, breed it, and trade the egg.

Yes

Or being mass hunted down by humans for profit

That actually makes sense

@@Chriscraft-ug3sz or because we're destroying their natural environments.

Ah yes! Siberian tigers, the *weakest* animals!

Your comment is literally a shiny hunter justification statement

@@Moonstriker2514 I don't really know what that means or has to do with my comment

@@mackojacko I just meant that is why people shiny hunt

@@Moonstriker2514 I think that a 1/100 chance of finding a rare pokemon like a dunsparce is a lot more reasonable than something like a 1/8192 Pidgey, but fair enough, I suppose

Not really when a lot of people don't know the pokemon even exists not really special just stupid to do to weak pokemon without a special ability to make up for it.

You absolute madlad.

@@robertlupa8273 I hunted them when I was 9. Stopped when my PC couldn't hold anymore pokemon

They're not the same rarity, you can still get more than 1 beldum per game, wich is more than mewtwo by default, Beldum is just absurdly hard to catch and using a masterball for it is honestly fair

@@An_Entire_Lime wtf- i used a pokeball on it on the first turn and that's it- it got caught... Also if zekrom is so hard to catch how the hell did i catch it with a pokeball on the first turn in black 2 just an hour ago?- MY LUCK!

Well you can get a freaking Metagross(Or Metang) in The Rustling Grass of Giant Chasm in BW2 and its spawn rate is higher than a beldum in those games

@@AnonExistence Zekrom and Reshiram have a catch rate of 45 in Gen V. In Gen VI onwards, that's 3.

@@haydenlaw1484 c o o l

This

I loved that minigame! 🐧

There are more mons that get Cut and are more useful, and available at the time,,like Meowth(especially in FRLG because of Pickup) and then Persian is pretty okay if you don't have a Normal/Flying type, and until Snorlax...

That’s true, but I think that farfetchd is that weird because it represents a Japanese saying that is said when something really weird happens but it ends up being helpful. The saying was something like “as useful as finding a duck carrying a leek when you’re hungry”.

@@AlldaylongRock Meowth can't be learn Cut in the Original games. The only mons that can learn Cut in those games are Bulbasaur, Charmander, Oddish, Bellsprout, Sandshrew and Farfetch'd. Considering Bellsprout and Sandshrew are Blue exclusive, you are pretty much boned if you chose Squirtle in Pokemon Red, since then the only options are Paras, Oddish and Farfetch'd. But considering Paras has an abysmal 5 and 10% encounter rate, you might not even stumble upon one.

Luck?

Sameee, i always use a pokemon with frisk (to find the heart scale) and thief to steal it. Of the pokemon doesn't have a scale i just run

but he speaks the truth

@@THEWolfBlade3622 It's signature move is it's gimmick.

Mikey doesn't know delibird has hustle.

@@jaydenc367 I mean it's a gimmick, it's just a really bad one that you can barely call it a gimmick. It's like how unown's only gimmick is that it only learns hidden power, and it doesn't have the stats to make use of the move properly. A gimmick that just isn't possible in gen 8 due to the move cut.

@@michaellarose4913 Well it's easy to call it a gimmick since it's it's signature move. Wait really? They cut the move out? That's surprising, did they cut Delibird itself out then?