Objectively the best (and worst) Pokémon designs 

I should have kept rerunning the data until Enamorus was at the bottom again

I can, but I don't agree it's the worst. Close, but not the worst. ☺️

It might be close to the average if you consider only Gen 1 Pokémon. I didn't do these calculations for every region individually. But considering how Pokémon designs have changed over the years, I'm not surprised Larvitar is closer to the average.

ENHANCE!!

Nothing, that's the problem

Lol I'm sorry, Alolan Sandslash just doesn't work for me!

@UmbreonLibris I'M UNSUBSCRIBING RIGHT NOW... nah, I won't. But both Sandslashes are just so perfect... in my opinion. Cute face and small body but still with big cool claws and spikes. The Alolan variant having hooked claws is such a perfect detail to distinguish it from its equally perfect Kantonian counterpart.

I'd say it's probably just because it's extremely artificial, humanoid and not conventionally cute, which goes against most Pokemon hence the high divergence using this method. Doesn't make it bad though, just different :)

Ratings are ongoing! You can take as long as you need :) Well, your session does reset if you are inactive for a year (meaning the site "forgets" which Pokémon you already rated, so you start over), but any less than that and you're good!

Make one Bug/Fire and the other Bug/Electric and they are instantly more interesting.

Yeah Wooper’s been a constant presence in the Top 20 Most Popular for a long time

I'm an idiot this is called worst lol Awesome video

and Iron Valiant is basically Gallade or Gardevoire

Check out ratepkmn.com/data#top20 and sort by Most Popular. It'll always show the most up-to-date data

Who?

I'll take standard Sandslash over Alolan every time

Thank you! I would love to see someone with more knowledge of data analysis take a crack at the data and see what patterns they can find.

@@UmbreonLibris is the data open source?

@@quinnduclos Absolutely! You can download it from ratepkmn.com/data#download

Yeah but it's _supposed_ to be ugly!

​@@UmbreonLibris Well it's a total success then, if you make an ugly pokemon and a lot of people dislike it for being ugly because they prefer pretty mons you hit the mark with the design

@@EliteTrainerLin 😂 People should like it for being ugly though 😞

@@UmbreonLibris I do, I'm right here!!!!

AND ILLUMISE? WHAT IS WRONG WITH POKEMON FANS

Gonna be honest, Volbeat just looks kinda gross to me, never really liked its stance or it's face. I find Illumise somewhat charming though.

​@@castform7Yeah I don't know why they made it look so awkward in the face. I think they're pretty forgettable too, compounded by their relatively unwarranted rarity and generally weak movepool and stats making them really useless in a playthrough.

As an enjoyer of nearly all Bug types Volbeat and Illumise may just be the only exceptions

The bigger question is how do you end up liking so many of the "least popular" pokemon charon lol

I absolutely agree, the legendary beasts are incredible and will never be topped

As much as I love Gen 2-a fantastic set of designs-IMO the peak of Pokémon designs happened between Gen 5 and Gen 7.

@@UmbreonLibris Any mons in particular?

What do you dislike about Mimikyu so much?

@@UmbreonLibris it's kinda a convoluted mess of subjective reasons First of all, many people in Pokemon community are angry at Charizard for being a love child of Pokemon franchise and receiving too much love, but I don't feel this way about Charizard. Pikachu on the other hand I somewhat dislike for special treatment it gets. Pikachu shoved down our throat in every Pokemon aspect possible - dozens TCG cards, hundreds different costumes and hats for Pikachu in every single game including mobile spin-offs (Shuffle and GO), Gigantamax form, two Z-moves, partner variation for Let's GO, cosplay Pikachu for ORAS, pikaclones every generation... and in generation 7 it gets way overboard - not only Togedemaru, but also Mimikyu! So the first reason why I dislike Mimikyu is because it is an extra unnecessary attention and special treatment given to a Pikachu. Then, it 's not only looks like a cheap copy of a Pikachu, but it's also looks like a very bad drawing of a fakemon done by a small child. Generations 6, 7 and 8 were the golden era of both real and fake Pokemon leaks, I was religiously monitoring 4chan /vp board waiting for a pieces of new Pokemon information. Some Pokemon like Greninja, Hawlucha and Bruxish were causing some heated debates over them being real or fake, but usually strong design always indicate real leak and fake leak are recognisable because they are go against Pokemon design and style philosophy. And when I've seen a scan of CoroCoro magazine with Mimikyu for the first time, I was dead sure it's a blatant fake and not a real Pokemon, because at a time GameFreak creating a worse copy of already existing Pokemon was unheard of, a nonsense. And Mimikyu sure was (and still is) just a badly drawn grey Pikachu with a stick for a tail. Nowadays of course GameFreak could easily make ten "Iron Something" Pokemon who are just worse versions of already existing Pokemon, but Mimikyu was made around 7 years ago. And finally, I hate Mimikyu because of its explanation and reason to look like it looks. Apparently, according to a pokedex lore, Mimikyu is a lonely Pokemon that is jealous of Pikachu popularity and success, and makes Pikachu costume just because it wants to be loved and appreciated... but that is just super straightforward way to make people well in love with it. And yet it somehow still worked on millions of Pokemon fans! For me personally it was more like a reverse psychology trick - its Pokedex entry says it's dressing like annoying yellow rat because it wants to be loved? well thanks, then I hate it instead! If I were to redesign a Mimikyu, I'd make it disguise significantly less like a Pikachu and more cute, like an old plush toy, and not like a piece of dirty rag. But then I'd make its busted form more like a truly terrifying monster, with more parts of the black something being visible, and overall looking like something that can make you die when you look at it. I think those tweaks might save the Mimikyu as a Pokemon concept for me.

​@@Kostyurikthose are some actually not bad reasons to dislike it. Ppl still find Mimikyu to be cute despite not knowing what its real body looks like.