The Top 6 Most Over-Hated Pokémon 

This. Zubat gives you PTSD and by the time you get to Tentacool, you're just like "RepelRepelRepelRepelRepel"

Zubat also has Supersonic, and Confusion makes Zubat encounters last even longer along with taking more damage. Zubat is also much faster than Tentacool, meaning it has a greater chance to get off a Supersonic or another move before you OHKO and move along.

Plus, when you meet them, the zubats are close to your level. Whereas by the time you're surfing into tentacool, you are much higher levels than them. Also, experienced. Things that happen to you at the beginning are more memorable than things that happen in the middle. Especially when you will think of the tentacool as like the zubats from earlier.

I felt the same way about Zubat until I decided to keep it around and evolve it into Crobat. Now I actively have to stop myself from adding Zubat to my team whenever I do a playthrough where it's available.

@@skanaraki2161 Same here. I did a poison mono type playthrough in Leaf Green, and the Zubat line did work!

I still haven't used one, maybe next time I redo Black and White 2...

You know that person at school who gets bullied by everyone so you want to give him some love just to make him feel better? That's pretty much my bond with garbodor

There was an episode on the sun and moon anime where a team skull grunt was worried about his garbodor, because he wasnt feeling well. the gang was working at the poke center for some reason and helped them out and oh my god that boy's love and concern for his stinky garbage pile filled me with so much love and joy, it's held a special place in my heart ever since 💖

Makes me think of Dutchess from Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends

@@daan4095 Garbodor even looks sad in its 3D model. How could you _not_ feel this way about it?

Zubat stops being annoying when it's crobat

Unfortunately I only use shiny pokémon and shiny crobat is so ugly...

My neighbor asked me why my Golbat always evolves at rhe nezt level Because I love and care for my lil baby Zubat 🧡

Yes, optional, out of the way, a few generations later in one of the least bought Pokemon games to date, so as you said I didn't feel it was worth bringing up. Especially since by then Tentacool was given some relief with Wingull coming in...

Some of those are the coolest ones, like Breloom from Shroomish!

This is the issue with Dragonite hate. It doesn't look like Dragonair and IMO the two shouldn't have both been the same line, but should have both existed all the same...and personally since I started from seeing and latching onto Dragonite's design then looking for how to obtain it rather than starting with catching a Dratini and hoping it'd just keep getting bigger as it turned from that into Dragonair and then something else, my position was always more _confusion_ than anything.

Kingambit made me release him and raise a new Bisharp who will never evolve. I just really disliked its design.

​@@an3582 lame

@@an3582 your opinion for me I am a huge sucker for anything Japanese design and I love Kingambit’s Samurai Shogun design

I agree, Delphox is definitely one such Pokemon that seems to get more flak than is deserved, and the primary reason seems to be that people prefer it's middle evolution instead, which I find to be baffling given it's a starter Pokemon, which for many people, their opinions on them are made or broken by their final evolution. It has a fair number of redeeming qualities that too many people overlook just because it's pre evolution is perceived as being "cooler" than it for some reason, and also because of how wildly popular Greninja is that it overshadows most other starter Pokemon, especially those from it's generation

Bad HA, a limited move pool for what it's supposed to be, bad type coverage, the previous two forms before it have a better design, Greninja and to an extent Chestnaught both do their jobs better in-game than what Delphox's role is supposed to be. It needs a buff like Feraligatr or Serperior.

@@matthewkuscienko4616 I never understand people saying Braixen is better than Delphox. I think Braixen looks so awkward on it's 2 legs it will blow over in a weak breeze. I love how Delphox looks like a thiefy/sneaky wizard/witch.

Delphox is fire and psychic

Right!? That's a phenomenal name!!

See you can say that but when I say I like Pignite I get burnt at the stake

Ball

It’s one of the the fastest Pokémon around

Voltorb especially I never got; it's a clever mimic in the games! Electrode I could see an argument for maybe, but Voltorb is perfectly fine!

@@emperorcubone 👍🏻

I love the hisuain version

Oh I definitely hate Crabominable, but I do agree Delphox isn't all that bad, just not as good as its previous stage... Yeah, that guy has written some all-time Pokemon bangers!

I thought the song was actually real until I remembered the original near the end.

I still don't get the Delphox hate. I'm a hardcore grass starter trainer, but i actually really like Delphox's design, so I'm tempted to do a playthrough with it :P

@@emperorcubone Delphox "not being as good as it's previous stage" is quite literally the main problem that most people have with it, you realize. I personally have never seem it that way, and I honestly think it's cool; it may not be a starter Pokemon that I'm that fond of, but I don't have any negative feelings for it, especially none stemming from the subjective notion that it somehow gets worse by evolving

Delphox is honestly awesome. I love the idea of a fennec fox witch with a long red robe. The main thing I don’t like about it is how they could have so easily given it the fairy type. Because witches and wizards are associated with fantasy and FAIRYtales. And also fairy seems like such a more magical type. I also for some reason have a love for hated starter Pokémon. Incineroar is pretty cool. I know people hate it’s humanoid design and how it stands up. But I don’t care. The design is just a cool wrestling tiger who uses dirty tricks to justify its dark typing. I do see why some people would harbour resentment towards it however. As it was another case of the fire starter standing up. But I feel like it’s a very petty reason. Inteleon is also my favourite sword and shield starter. I’m absolutely obsessed with its spy or James Bond vibe it’s going for. I know people hate how thin and humanoid it is. And yes it was off putting to me as well. But overtime it came off to me more as it being able to squeeze through tighter spaces due to its thin frame. And it looks so confident! Like it would never break down and cry so easily like it’s previous stages. It looks like it’s grown into its own. And honestly good for inteleon. Also, WATER GUNS, what a cool concept. Being able to snipe your opponent with water. Absolutely love it.

It's easier said than done for most people!

Me too, Garbodor and Stunfisk in particular are two Pokémon I love that people don't like!

@@jakerockznoodles me too I personally don't like garbodor but trubish is so cute and barbaracle is very useful in battle too and it is one of the strongest regular pokemon in kalos.

Yeah, Chestnaught hate is seriously overblown. Grass fighting isn't that bad of a combo. Lots of types have 4x weaknesses. I honestly love chestnaught and chespins design. One of my favourite grass starter looks. Haven't used one really to give it a playthrough and competive remark.

@@Dusxio Plus Chesnaught knows good moves for coverage like Rock Slide

I don't understand why people dislike an entire line because of a single subjectively bad middle stage. Both chespin and chesnaught are pretty great. In understand quilladin maybe not so much but who cares.

Heatran feels even less legendary than the Kanto birds when you really look into it. - It doean't really have any lore (ok, it was said to have been "birthed from the boiling magma within Mount Coronet" according to legends, but that's a _very_ basic kind of legend), - It can be either male or female, implying there's more than one, as other legendaries with genders are always a single gender (like Latios or the Kami Trio), - It didn't have a movie assiciated with it - the closest it had was a mini-arc in Journeys, but it can be summed up as _"OK Team Galactic needs a big source of power; let's use this big thing and jack it up with the god's artifact",_ so it implies it wasn't even strong enough on its own, - There was a random guy in the anime who had it when legendaries/mythicals are usually reastricted to explicitly powerful trainers if they're given to trainers at all and aren't treated as unique.

@@robertlupa8273 1. I'll grant you that it's lore is a bit limited even in Platinum but at least it was a focus of the Stark Mountain arc in Platinum. 2. Multiple same species legendaries or mythicals existing is nothing new, and if anything it being capable of being male or female makes it unique compared to others. There's also no rule that says a legendary/mythical can't be more than one gender; if anything the Eon Duo were the first to show that they can even have genders in the first place & Heatran the first capable of multiple genders (Kubfu & Urshifu later sharing this distinction). 3. Actually Heatran did play a role as one of Marcus' Pokemon in Arceus & The Jewel of Life. Yes it wasn't the focal point of the movie but not all legendaries/mythicals who appear in movies are. It also appeared a few times during the DP anime as well as during the Hoopa's Surprise Ring Adventure short in addition to the Journey's mini-arc. 4. Heatran appeared as part of a random coordinator's team at the Lily of the Valley Conference yes, but it wasn't one Tobias used (he had a Darkrai and Latios).

Haha, fair enough. Zarude is like that for me!

@@emperorcubone See I forgot about that one too smh

I actually used a Jynx in Silver, and the Lovely Kiss/Nightmare combo I gave her helped me to catch Suicune shortly after encountering it for the first time.

I used one in frlg and it carried to help resist sabrina, destroy koga, and if there were problems, kiss goodnight. Also gave it some speed help with some vitamins since I really want to get some first turns. Also, when i did the run, i picked venusaur, so neutral damage to charizard helps than resisting. Also, getting freezes are fun.

Funnily enough, HGSS is actually one of the Jynx sprites I _don't_ like. My favourite one is definitely the Gold/Crystal sprite. She actually looks kinda cute in it. Little miss kissy. :* Even the black-skinned, Japanese version of said sprite doesn't look as good as the international, purple-skinned one.

But it's Defense is awful only resisting both of its type and having 6 weaknesses so it will die to any fast fire type

I only hate its name. Why can't the last syllable start with S like the other monkeys? Simisprinkle or pansoap sounds ok

I love simipour,an honor team member in black and team member in x

Eh the grass one is worse but the monkey mons were all 3 awful, anyone who likes them should be on a watch list lol

The monkeys in gen 5 were awful

It reminds me of a cartoon I used to sometimes watch as a kid. The main characters had yellow skin and similar proportions, although I'm pretty sure they weren't monkeys, but some other cartoonified animals instead. Plus, it's just pretty cute. :3

Tentacruel had an awesome first episode though while Zubat got stuck as a cameo in it's debut/capture episode. Still think it was the only offscreen capture made by one of ash's current companions.

I don't know, I guess because they're not starters but kind of act like it? But did anyone really expect to given another starter at any point? This ain't Kalos!!

I just think their ugly lol that’s it

Me neither sure the designs aren’t the best but they are a free perfect type coverage for your starter so you’d think they would be appreciated a bit more

Love that song, has brought a smile to face for years!

@@emperorcubone I had never heard it & made me LAUGH!

I just wonder what Wobbuffet did in Gen 2 before they even had abilities...?

@@emperorcubone nothing

Mt. Moon Rock Tunnel Rt 19 Rt 20 Rt 21 At least in Gen 1, that doesn't hold up.

I meant over the entire series except probably Hoenn

@@cobaltprime9467Counted these from Pokemon Database, so I might be off by 1-2 on some of these) R+B- Zubat: 4 locations / Tentacool: 9 locations (8 if we exclude the pond in Viridian city) G/S Zubat: 16 locations / Tentacool 20 (19) locations R/S Zubat: 6 locations / Tentacool: 34 locations D/P Zubat: 17 locations / Tentacool: 12 locations B/W Zubat: Is actually in B+W 2(Golbat/Crobat in B+W) / Tentacool: Absent X+Y Zubat: 1 Location. / Tentacool:6 locations S+M Zubat: 8 Locations / Tentacool: 9 locations Lets Go Zubat: 7 locations / Tentacool: 11 locations Sw+Sh Zubat: 3 locations /Tentacool: 9 locations Legends Arceus Zubat:7 locations /Tentacool: 3 Locations. So Tentacool only has less encounters in Sinnoh/Hisuei Edit: And Unova, since it's completely absent.

Porygon did nothing wrong!!

Does any Pokémon fan actually hate porygon for that reason? It seems to only be the anime creators who are really afraid of reminding anyone of that incident by not featuring the pokémon unlucky enough to be featured in that episode.

its just pokemon themselves that mistreated porygon, the fans generally like it

It's honestly a bummer that they didn't bring Tobias back in Journeys, only for him to be unceremoniously eliminated off-screen at some point.

Wait people don't like Erika or Tobias? I always thought Scentsation was well received for an episode, & even if that version of Erika was somewhat boring compared to her manga version, I never thought there was any hate. Tobias never should have been forgotten he was so cool & mysterious & he really should have beaten Cynthia. Porygon Family deserves to appear in the new anime series though, it wasn't fair for it to be almost entirely banned for 25 Years.

That's true, it's literally the only Psychic starter we've had so far!

Me took. From gen 6 starter is my favorite. I say there's a debate it should be ghost fire.

Let's not forget that Delphox broke the Fire/Fighting trend

@@Wildcatt1999 yeah just because they wanted a grass/fighting type which is even worse

Inteleon just reminds me too much of Greninja, who I don't like either, so nobody wins here...

Just hated because it a starter . I myself hate the 3 starter from galar. They could have been more creative in design.

@@emperorcubone Spies are basically just modern-day ninjas so I'm not sure if those similarities could be worked around either way... Even still I think Inteleon does plenty to set itself apart from its far more popular fellow Water starter.

I honestly have mixed feelings on Inteleon, personally. In the video games, I've never been too fond of it since it has a lot more physical options than special despite it being a special attacker, and I have always found it's design to be a bit off putting, not helping matters that Sobble is a crybaby. But as a fan of the tcg as well, it has made me warm up to it because there is a playset you can put in your deck consisting of it's evolutionary family that provides a lot of utility, mainly by searching for trainer cards, which is a very helpful effect; somewhat ironically, though, even though it's quite good, there have been players that are beginning to hate it for how often it's been played recently since this line was discovered

You'd literally be the only person in the world to use Sash Greninja.

Again, Chesnaught has Spiky Shield...

@@MegaShepardsPie To be fair, that can actually work. I watch a lot of Showdown content, and most people I've seen in those videos run either Specs, Scarf or Life Orb on Greninja. Focus Sash would catch people off-guard, and a lot of competitive battling hinges on being able to predict your opponent.

@@SuperGoker64 Thing is that Greninja can't OHKO Chesnaught with Ice Beam, even if it has full SpA investment and the Chesnaught has nothing in SpD. It'll deal a ton of damage and come close, but it'll fall short at a maximum of 92.3% which will leave it wide open to get absolutely rinsed by the opposing Chesnaught.

@@MegaShepardsPie Except in this case, the Focus Sash would then ensure that Greninja itself doesn't get OHKO'ed. And come the next turn, Greninja is faster. Now sure, Spiky Shield could then take out Greninja if it used a contact move like U-turn, but why wouldn't the Greninja player predict that and just use Ice Beam again?

Ooh, agreed; Stonjourner is plain embarrassing...

And technically Stark Mt. isn't even in Sinnoh, with that upper island being something else, maybe Hisui still? They don't really say...

Chesnaught is a woodchuck in samurai armour... how do people not love that?

Honestly you could probably say that about most games, since Electrode is always incredibly useful!

@@emperorcubone I don't think that most games have that many double battles. the main strategy with this pokemon was to give it choice band and have it explode on the very first turn, if you you get lucky you can kill up to both of your opponents pokemon(in orre collosseum both you and your opponent use only 4 of the 6 pokemon in your team). and if you get lucky forretress can kill the other 2 if they come later on. a kinda gimmicky strategy was also to combine it with hitmonlee who knew the move endure(which allows it to survive with up to 1 hp),the move reversal(a fighting move that does more damage the less the user's hp) and holds the item salak berry(which is eaten if the user getsinjured and raises speed by one stage).

@@emperorcubone also explosion got nerfed from gen 5 onward.

@@videakias3000 Hitmonlee is my favourite pokemon and if it has Limber with a focus sash, you get Full power Reversal, Bullet Punch/mach punch for priority/Rockslide/Stone Edge for fliers, and Poisonjab for the Fairys(if I have Bullet punch, I go with Blaze kick instead). Ghosts are really his only issue. Gale Wing Talonflames back in Early Gen 6 competetive was so bad and this was my only working solution at the time.

I will admit, I don't hate Bruxish as much as I did at the start, but I wouldn't say I like it just yet...

It'd be funny if jynx got an alternate fairy form that could evolve to balance out Mr. Mime.

@@jaschabull2365 exactly

Last I checked bulbasaur is pretty popular

@@lightdrgn20 Back then he was the ugly kid. Charmander was the cool dragon everyone wanted, Squirtle was for the others who didn't want to follow the dragon hype. Bulb was pretty much nothing before he became the loveable underdog.

I don't think tepig is hated it's just that it's evolutions are kinda ugly

Outside of Turtwig, it seems you choose starters that have unpopular evolutions. Gen 4 and Gen 3 being the gens with a balanced fan base for starters.

@@trikalabris - Charmander was who the hype kids chose (the kids who probably beat the game with just Charizard and maybe 1-2 others). - Squirtle was the choice for people who liked digimon (the cannon turtle design) - Bulbasaur was for the kids who wanted to beat the game. Once a kid showed up to school and he was 3 gyms ahead of everyone on monday, lots of people realized how good it actually was. Bad sprite designs in Gen 1 also cemented some pokemon as "terrible"

That's a you problem my friend, haha! There are plenty of other Flying types out there...

@@emperorcubone Yeah, but none of them are as good as Zubat.

True, Darmanitan didn't help it out much either...

Probably cause it's not really part of a trio and it's not a box art legendary

@@ph0to. Yeah like when I played Diamond for the first time and I got to where Heatran was, I had no idea what it was and kind of just left it aside. Heatran wouldn't get much recongzation in the anime besides being part of a Pokemon Ranger parter and one that was owned by Saturn during the Arceus Chronicles in Journeys.

Weren't Latias and Latios the first?

@@PinkKirlia281 They were for sure, but Heatran was the first (and still only one, if memory serves) to be able to be either male or female

I think Voltorb final Evo is hated because is lazy and not clever. It just flip upside down. Why evolve it then

That's a really good point that I'd never stopped to consider before. Modern designs are just so much more interesting than Kanto and Johto especially, where evolutions were rarely much more than "make it a little bigger and a little scarier".

@@Watch-0w1 And I'm the exact opposite. I like the more simple, naturlaistic styles and those are usually my favourite pokemon from the newer gens. I recommend checking out so art of Gen 1-2 pokemon done in the gen 6 style and the gen 5-6 mons done in the Sugimori 2 tone style.

It's a certified banger, never disappoints!

Nice! Then it worked for at least one person!

I can't say I blame you, it took me about two years to figure it out...

And don't you forget it!

Yeah, I came across that song years ago in college and it's made me smile ever since...

Most Pokemon just need a chance and they'll win you!

@@emperorcubone absolutely! It’s happened to me for several mons lol

I imprinted on Brock catching one off screen and was hoping he was going to do that in more encounters. It seemed like the last time he gave battles any dedication.

I didnt even know people hated it i originally found it to be one of the coolest legendaries

I was mostly indifferent to Heatran at first, but it always felt unique for a number of reasons, such as it's useful fire/steel typing and being the only legendary Pokemon I can think of that can be either male or female. But I remember getting my hands on a copy of Heatran gx in the tcg and playing it in my fire deck (this was when fire was still a good type in the tcg, the stuff that helped it has since rotated out), and I had fun being able to take a knock out with it out of nowhere thanks to it's ability and attack

Very true. Pikachu or Kadabra (for the Rock Tunnel ones at least). I think anyone who started with Yellow Version was able to skip the zubat hatred. ITs really the only way you can level Pikachu to fight misty.

I completely agree

Phione is a cuter mass production model weaker Manaphy, yet people hate on it because they think it should have legendary stats.

It's true though! I made a comment like that a few weeks ago saying, "Even Heatmor is somebody's favorite," and multiple people replied that it was true for them, or someone they knew!

It's such a goofy concept that it's really hard to hate them.

I just head cannon it as an Ice version of a bagworm.

*WE DON'T USE THE WORD ITS AS A PRONOUN IF THERE'S AN APOSTROPHE IN IT! REMOVE THE APOSTROPHE RIGHT NOW!*

@@Amelia4111 sorry if my english isn't that good, i'm not from EUA, don't need to be rude🙄

Is that just from the Gym leaders and such? Cause you're allowed to get 5 other Pokemon to help out with that... Chesnaught can still clean up most random trainers/wild battles you'll face.

@@emperorcubone yes, that is from all 8 gyms, the elite 4 and champion, along with rival battles. Chestnaught has more type disadvantages than the other 2 starters.

Meganium needs more love! Johto was just completely unbalanced against the adorable flower dino & its family!

Tentacruel also had an awesome first episode where it seemed as strong as a legendary.

I don't know, I mean maybe, but it seems a little busy to me. Like, pick a lane dude; palm canons? wrecking ball tail? orange armor? drill nose?

Thank you!! It's not that hard to make family friendly content, I don't know why people choose otherwise...

@@emperorcubone Because the edgy teens don't watch it nearly as much and they're a huge (and easy to attract) audience.