50 Dumbest Decisions Pokémon has Made 

“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”

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...

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

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

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"

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

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

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*

51: not giving Castform a Sandstorm form.

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

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.

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

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

#51: trading a Haunter that holds an everstone

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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)

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.

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

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”.

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

Haunter with a gosh darn everstone in a trade

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

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

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

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*

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

Just forgetting that Megas existed, then blatantly removing them

I wanna see the inverse. Show me their smartest decisions

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

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

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.

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.

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

Game Freak should ad an ability to Typhlosion, that if its HP is in yellow, he has a sort of Battle Bond that there comes fire out of his body and his attack and special attack raises.

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

I honestly thought having Misty Terrain decrease the power of Dragon type moves instead of boosting Fairy type moves was gonna be on here. Like that's a really stupid decision. Like Fairy Pokemon can't be hurt by Dragon moves, which I also think is a really stupid decision too.

51: Not letting Pokemon evolve till postgame in the Mystery Dungeon games. Seriously, what the hell is up with that?

Most gen 2 playthrough teams are: Johto Starter + 5 Kanto mons There were only 100 new pokemon to begin with, and obtaining some of them so late was really ridiculous. That's why I only play randomizer when I replay a Gen 2 game.

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

I actually liked the tournament in Sword and Sheild, it would've been cooler if it was original and unique trainers, but the idea of "it's a tournament" made it feel more real

Not adapting and combining all the games they have released is a billion dollar mistake

One dumb mistake in my opinion: Making Luxray slow. (Honestly, Luxray looks faster than just 70 base speed)

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

Gamefreaks dumbest Decision ever is literally rushing their mainline games rather than taking their time and finishing polishing their “improve graphics”.

2:50 that's how typhlosion is supposed look like, it only erupts fire when it's attacking. This is also the case in older 3D games, like stadium 2,the GameCube games, and battle revolution.

5:50 Isn't it pretty obvious they're talking about furret's length though?

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.

Poor little Snom. He didn’t ask for any of this 😂

Another dumb decision: removing moves like Dragon Rage, Frost Breath and Flame Burst. And now a personally dumb decision: dragon types not being able to learn fire type moves naturally. Specifically Ember, Incinerate, Flame Burst, Flamethrower and Fire Blast. Salamence was the ONLY one, he could naturally learn Ember and Fire Fang. And he had it best in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire because now he can learn *Flamethrower,* a move that is very much expected for a dragon to learn (Incinerate and Flame Burst are also good choices). Yes, Reshiram and Turtonator can learn fire type moves by leveling up, but they're also fire type, of course they can. Therefore, they don't count.

I believe that the reason Nidoking and Nidoqueen can't breed is because it's incredibly difficult to breed Rhino's in captivity.

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

How the difficulty settings in gen 5 were implemented.

Honestly, for number 1, I actually really like that decision. I think it made them feel more like they focused on the Moves being their respective types while allowing their teams to be more balanced. Personally, I'd rather have a gym leader that actually seems like a competent trainer with a balanced team than an entire gym where you only fight 5 evolutionary families because that's all there is for that type (Canalave City Gym, where you literally fight 6 magnemites and a magneton, assuming you fight all the gym trainers) -don't even get me started on Opelucid Gym in BW-

I feel like you actually could make a part 2...i was really expecting roaming legendaries

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

The dumbest thing Pokémon has ever done Remove megas

So a furry ferret is taller than a fire dragon How unimaginable

Not having mega evolutions in sword and shield wtf

3:11 I just realised this

Someone needs to hire this man for his great ideas.

“Not including an elite four in sword and shield” I personally liked the tournament, fit the lore of gym leaders being professionals sports players

The battle royale thing frustrates me to no end, you come up with a fun new way for people to fight pokemon, and then ruin it by cutting it short

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

I actually kinda liked how they changed the elite 4 into a tournament. I do love the elite 4 but having something like what they had in the anime is pretty dope.

How about an updated list of your favorite tracks from Pokémon?

Commenting this beforehand. I'm going to guess Dexit will be on here. Edit: I was wrong. Not mad about it because I actually didn't mind the dex cut.

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

Let's not forget how the Sword and Shield starters final evolutions don't have secondary typings

That snom bit had me rolling