50 Dumbest Decisions Pokémon has Made 

*You still can't evolve mid battle, it would make it feel so much more epic.*

i said it many times and i'll say it again game freak: "this flute seems too complicated for kids" also game freak: "yo let's make these kids learn braille"

The fact that we didn't get a dolphin pokemon in Alola.

Ash having an ash Greninja: (loses league) Ash being goofy now: (Wins the league) edit: hi everyone, this was just a joke, I didn't think people would take this so serious so my bad on saying that edit 2: yes I know he's always been goofy, I seen the anime. edit 3: I've seen the anime.

“Making Lugia, the guardian of the ocean, not a water type”

Gamefreak: removes Azure Flute cause they think it’s too confusing Gen 3 Regi Puzzles: “heh”

"The fact that you can't take your hat off in X and Y." Me: *angry exhale at the reminder*

The fact that you cannot remove your huge ass backpack in Sword and shield.

51: not giving Castform a Sandstorm form.

people thought ash losing in the kalos pokemon league was bad bruh i thought the sinnoh one was worse because the writers literally realized how good ash was so they had to make a trainer have full on legendaries to make him lose...

For those who don't know, the reason you need to go somewhere specific to forget HMs is so that you don't softlock yourself on an island without Surf or something. In fact, if you try to release your last Pokemon that knows an HM move, it'll come back to you with the message, "______ came swimming back! Was it worried about you?" Which is actually really wholesome.

The fact that Litten didn't get a cool sabertooth quadruped final evolution.

Don't do my boy snom like that, He's trying his best!

"He lost in Kalos, because the writers decided he should." I- I got nothing, this is fact.

The "needs to be traded in order to evolve" thing always bugged me as a kid. It still bugs me as an adult, but at least getting more than one version became easier as I got older. As a kid, unless you had a sibling who also loved Pokemon, or some really generous parents, you had to rely on a friend also having the game. Also totally with you on Ashs league losses. Johto and Hoenn are the only ones that don't leave a bad taste in my mouth. With those, Ash just lost to a standard trainer who was better. Sure introducing a pokemon from another region days before the battle could be considered a bullshit move, but Ash battled well against it, and the battle kept the pokemon from competing in it's trainers next match.

Lillie's retcon in USUM was absolutely disgusting. SM had her leave to become a trainer and USUM had the opportunity to follow up on that, maybe have Nebby on her team instead of being given to you and have Lillie comment at first that Nebby wouldn't obey her in battle, but later on she challenges you as a champion and Nebby is on her team, showing that she grew so much that a high level Solgaleo/Lunala chooses to follow her as a trainer. But no, they cut the whole trainer thing and Lillie just helps with a few RR goons.

#51 - Wooloo cannot learn rollout, even though it literally rolls EVERYWHERE!!!

In game freak's eyes Azure flute, an item that describes the place its meant to be used at: *Too Complicated* The Regi ruins, in which you have to learn braille: *Normal*

5:49 I feel everyone fails to understand that some pokémon are measured differently. Furret is measured from head to tail whilst Charizard is measured from head to toe (standing up). I’m pretty sure if Charizard was measured from head to tail it’d be at least 8’0”.

I went from being 2 to 102 years old while waiting for Blissey to faint

#51: trading a Haunter that holds an everstone

51: ash saying he wanted to catch em all but he misses litterally so many of them

Tepig's evolutions being humanoid. He was so cute and you ruined it!

Trainer: *Went too far away from his Pokémon* *Toxtricity has learnt the move 'Teleport'*

#51: Not doing Pokemon Z or anything else to explain the mysteries of Zygarde and everything else in X and Y.

My boy typhlosion really went from “WHO TOOK MY-oh nevermind i found it guys sorry”

I know it's just me, but when I was a kid (and not speed running) I loved the slow nature of losing HP. It added alot of suspense for me and when a Pokemon would clutch it on 1HP it felt so special.

1:12 "too complex for kids." says the people who implemented the gen 3 regi puzzles.

Lowering Dark Void's accurancy because of Smeargle even though he cannot learn it anymore RIP Darkrai's viability

What I found sad about Flygon not having a mega was that EVERY Dragon type Pokemon introduced in Gen 3 (Salamence, Altaria, Latios, Latias, and Rayquaza) got a mega evolution except Flygon.

0:37 - Volkner and Flitn having teams that weren’t mono-types was actually a little cool imo.

“ making Lugia the guardian of the ocean not a water type” Kyogre be like: W H A T

*Lillie carries Cosmoem in her bag* What are you talking about it’s not that heavy?

In defense of Cosmoem's weight, he is based of a neutron star which is a huge amount of mass compressed in a little space

Great list! One thing that really bothers me is how you can't choose which pokemon to send out at the beginning of a battle like they do in the show. Instead you always send out who's first in your party.

I wanna see the inverse. Show me their smartest decisions

As a shiny hunter, the shiny locks are incredibly annoying and just plain stupid

Just want to mention, that I had downed a 1 liter water bottle before Blisseys HP reached 0

I think, that giving nidoqueen and nidorina "undiscovered" egg group, which makes them unbreedable at all, like legendaries and mythicals, is the most pointless decision ever made

WELL, with Nidoqueen and Nidoking the answer is straight: The moonstone makes them seemingly infertile. 🤣

51: Giving mega evolutions to pokemon that were already good (Lucario, Metagross, Salamence, Garchomp, Gengar, etc) instead of bad pokemon that could deserve more.

Game Freak: sorry flygon but our artists have no brain to draw a cool mega maybe future Flygon: ok *years later* Game Freak: ok we give up your never gotta get anything Flygon: *uses earthquake*

4:03 I love how Theres the video music, the game music, a jumpscare slowly appearing and the hp going down

The lack of fire options in sinnoh, the two dark types not appearing in johto and the GS ball are among the worst in my opinion.

4:32 Blissey Hung on its Focus Sash Blissey Uses Rest

Haunter with a gosh darn everstone in a trade

Gamefreak: We dont wanna include the azure flute in DPP because it's too confusing for kids The regi quest as a whole: Hold our braille

Here's some of mine 1: Giving Whitney's Miltank a lum berry in Heartgold and Soulsilver. 2: Giving Charizard two megas and only giving one to Venusaur and Blastoise. 3: Not adding evolutions like Crobat, Steelix, Electivire and Magmortar in Let's go Pikachu and Eevee. 4: Making Pokémon evolve so late in the game (examples: Deino, Pawniard and Larvesta) 5: Making certain shiny Pokémon look the same as their original 6: Not giving a mega to Flygon but giving it to Garchomp who didn't need it. 7: Making Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl extremely buggy 8: The walking with Pokémon feature in sword and shield 9: The Y-Comm in sword and shield 10: Making Molayne's Klefki constantly spam thunderwave if your Pokémon isn't an electric or ground type 11: Lack of fire types in diamond and pearl 12: Pokémon like Zekrom can't use earthquake but a Pokémon like Drilbur can 13: Making the Moor of Iccirus a useless location (if you don't have the event Keldeo in Black and white) 14: Typhlosion's 3D model 15: Not giving the Kalos starters mega evolutions 16: Giving Greninja a special form while Delphox and Chesnaught get nothing 17: the GTS in the sun and moon games. (Whenever I go on there and there's a hacker, my game crashes) 18: Making Diamond and Pearl incredibly slow 19: The level cap in Heartgold and Soulsilver 20: Shiny Pokémon not appearing in the overworld in Sword and shield 21: Learning Braille in the Hoenn games 22: The requirements to get Regigigas in Omega ruby and Alpha sapphire. 23: Shiny locking the starters and main legendaries in Sword and shield 24: Not being able to turn off the Rotom dex which constantly gives you the same advice. 25: making Galarian Articuno psychic\flying instead of ice\psychic. Galarian Moltres Dark\flying instead of Dark\fire and Galarian Zapdos fighting\flying instead of Fighting\electric. 26: Roaming legendaries 27: Making Sceptile a special attacker instead of a physical attacker 28: Hop stopping you every 5 minutes just to fight you 29: not being able to skip cutscenes in the sun and moon games

Typhlosion and Arcehops: Yo, our Gen 5 sprites are some of the best, I bet they will become cooler in the next gen- GameFreak: Hello? I can't hear you properly.

Pokemon idea : the diamond and pearl remakes should have us punish that mindy trainer for trading us that haunter with an everstone we can all agree that she deserves for what she did to us in our childhoods

Hop being made into Pokèmon Professer Assistant rather then a Trainer who works harder and trains to beat us someday. That still hurts me how stupid it is.

3:11 I just realised this

I don't care what you say, Charizard with one horn is the most cursed thing I've ever seen.

The fact that you can breed for Cubone and they are born with the skull on their heads lol

Honestly the azure flute looks very easy compared to the fricking puzzles to unlock the Regis in gen 3 with you needing to learn a language for blind people and carry two Pokemon in certain spots of your team

I’m upset they removed charmander being able to learn metal claw. I didn’t play through the OG labor games so my first experience was FRLG and I thought it was so SO cool that lil Charmy boii could beat up BROCK. I get they probably just added that SO charmander had a fighting chance against Brock, but like. Come on. It’s not even that powerful of a move! It’s just nice coverage 😭 I wonder what happens if you trade up a charmander or it’s fam with metal claw.

Pokemon logic: Mom: Ima send my 10 year old kid out to travel the world and fight monsters and adults Adults: Oh a kid with a pokemon! I'ma fight him and beat him Adult: *loses* Adult: I was sure i could've beaten you but i guess I'm not strong enough, but can i have your number 10 year old kid: *gives number to random adult he beat in battle* Gamefreak: yea that's cool

Game Freak scrap the Azure Flute event so you cannot get Arceus, yet you can still collect all its plates scattered around Sinnoh.

The fact that Ash didn't catch Nebby :( Nebby literally loved ash and would follow his command and even came to meet him frequently.

51: charizard gets 2 megas while the other starters get 1.

The saddest part from the Unova League is that Cameron would've never been in the tournament if Ash didnt show him where the registration was. (My first Pokemon game was Black 2, I know this)

50% of the video is just snom coming towards you. LoL

I’m 2 year’s late to seeing this but literally THANK YOU for mentioning the exp share, that forced share literally aggravates me to no end&while I understand&accept that some people like it I personally do not

"Getting rid of ball seals" NOT ANYMORE!!

"diamond and pearl is so slow" Me: laughs in emulator

Dumbest decision in my opinion: Filing false DMCAs against fangames that DOESN'T make any money and ignores bootlegs/knock offs!

In typhlosion's defence, the dex says about cyndaquil: "It is timid, and always curls itself up in a ball. If attacked, it flares up its back for protection" so he is just on fire when he is about to attack

In Flint's defense, there was a critical error in making a Fire type Elite 4 member in Sinnoh in the first place.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who loves triple/rotation battles.

How was wailords weight one of the worst decisions? It's ingenious! It's the "Float whale" pokemon, because it's density is actually lower than air, so it floats in the air! It's one of my favorite tidbits of the gen3 dex

7:04 And don’t forget Cameron thought only 7 medals were required to enter the League

i thought it was excitingly stressful how slow diamond and pearl were

Pokemon: *Decides to make a dragon master in a region with basically no dragon type* Pokemon: *Does the same thing in Johto* Pokemon: *Decides that the same thing should occur with the fire type in sinnoh when NOW theres heaps of dragons*

Game Freak getting rid of the VS Seeker after Generation 4, and pretty much eliminating the option to re battle trainers after Generation 6.

I found a random shiny skarmory when I was 7 and traded it to my brother thinking it was a gender difference

To be fair to the tcg, poison in gen 1 was represented by grass and in later gens poison was represented by psychic for some reason. But there are some stupid typing errors in the tcg. Namely Lugia

Sakurai actually said he didnt want to include shiny alt's for the pokemon, as he didnt want players to pick the alt just because its shiny.

51: Deciding it would be a good idea to remove return and frustation

I think the tournament style at the end of Sword and Shield was one of the coolest things they’ve done in awhile. I think it’s more realistic than having an Elite 4

Title: Pokemon's worst decisions Me: Ash releasing Greninga

here's my list of mistakes: - giving pokemon who didn't need a mega, a mega - constant gen 1 pandering - gen 4's bullshit love affair with HM's - how slow DPP is - gen 6's pathetic difficulty - how bad certain shiny's and pokemon look with their 3D model - the god awful shiny's - Nidoqueen not being able to breed - Ash losing to a Snivy that was lvl 5......FIVE!!! - pandering towards Charizard (seriously....stop it already) - the current EXP Share - height and weight on pokemon making 0 sense - the entire gen 5 anime - Crabominable - Jynx - Not giving Dunsparce an evolution - Nidoqueen's shiny not being pink

I disagree on the Hyper Potion nerf. Before nerfing it, Max Potions were useless during the main story unless you had a Pokemon with gargantuan base HP. Pokemon rarely reach 200 or much higher than 200 by the Elite Four. Money comes easy in most Pokemon games, especially later gens which is when the nerf happened, so I don't think it's a big deal.

I actually disagree with tge first one. Id love to see more gyms and elite fours with a more variety of typing while still remaining them themed, instead of beating Giovanni with an underleveled kingler flawlessly.

Triple battles were LIT. I tested so many strategies in the battle tower and subway, that I eventually carried to pikmin

Pokemon Anime intro episode 1: "I wanna be the very best, like on one ever was!" Pokemon Anime end of season: "I failed in the most humiliating way possible." Clearly the writers were preparing us for real life.

Anime Logic makes Absolute ZERO sense. I agree. How can Metagross or Scizor be damaged by weak Poison Pokemon if they're immune to poison?

Pov: Playing dp hoping your pokemon doesnt faint for a whole minute 🤞🤞

When I saw they took the flames off Typhlosion my world just crashed

There are many brilliant designs, moves and mechanic pokemon has done but there are also some dumb ones made as well.

They couldn't come up with a cool enough design for Mega Flygon and yet they made the atrocity that is Mega Manectric

Can we just take a moment to say that this lv54 Heracross just ohkoed a lv95 blissey at 675 hp

That picture at 7:13 of all those badass pokemon and then Pikachu just sitting there smiling is actually amazing 😂

Where did you come from? *Yes!* *No!*

Just forgetting that Megas existed, then blatantly removing them

I am indifferent or agree with most points, though I strongly disagree with Pokemon camp speeds. I absolutely love seeing a realistic speed for each Pokemon; Snom ever so slowly crawling up to you is freaking adorable. I'll wait as long as it takes to give it a pet.

My honerable mentions: "Not making Ultra Megalopolis explorable and have accesible buildings" "Not making Ultra Necrozma Necrozma's normal form and not having Ultra Necrozma permenantly" "Not releasing news on Legends Arceus and BDSP for 6 months" "Removing sertain moves and Pokemon in Pokemon SwSh"

The dumbest dicision was to make Sobble's evolution look like a stick

Charmander: *has claws* But can't learn *metal claw* *I think it's very clear that someone don goofed*

Making Purrloin stand up on two feet looking humanoid instead of its cat-like original stance.

I think the HP bar In Platinum adds more suspense, I don't mind actually