Which Pokémon Character is the Best? (Poll Results) 

Cynthia also appears in gen 7, in the battle tree, so the top 6 is basically alola and N

Bro- Alola dominated the top 10 like sheesh

Player characters when?

funny how people say alola region has loved characters, yet the games were the ones that other than the switch gen, railroaded the player the hardest. Proof that players prefer not to have a choice despite what we say. Not saying that's bad, it's just when the story can be predicted, characters can be properly written. You know what the player has and hasn't seen yet, and can properly have the world react around that without needing to put in TONS of "if player has X gym badges insert Y text Else insert Z text" code in the game. As much as I love open world, the characers from sword and shield and Scarlet and violet are by far the most forgetable to me. It was "go here, defeat this person, go here" I think a mix of the graphics of Switch games, The difficulty of Ultra sun and Ultra moon (as well as maybe mix in some gen 1 ruthlessness), and the brutality of sinnoh's champion. With Ultra sun and ultra moon's story structure. Would be a truly memorable game.

I love the top 6 in the video it is perfect!

Yet these 2 according to fans are the worst gens. Truly suspicious :)

@@SpecialZimble That opinion on Gen 5 has changed since like 2018 though. Gen 7 however, is still pretty fuckin easy, with the only real exception being Ultra Necrozma, though it does redeem itself somewhat with its’ plot and characters/ designs.

@@generalsynnacle23 Really? I thought it’s the most challenging generation, of course by Pokémon standards, totem battles made battles like Cynthia look like baby battles

@@perritoshido5845 Only because Totem battles were forced double battles, which are obviously more difficult than single battles. If Cynthia was a double battle, you’d change your mind in an instant.

@@generalsynnacle23 The thought of facing that flinchlocking Togekiss with Milotic/Roserade/Garchomp makes me want to puke.

Not even just top 10 but even top 5. That's pretty big and admire the chosen characters all the more for it.

Not all characters are memorable in Gen 7 but it has a bunch of characters that are extremely memorable and it is not surprising for being the most consistent.

i love gen 7

@@_Isuuck.Draws_ OLIVIA IS BEAUTIFUL!

I only started playing when gen 7 came out (I know I’m a fraud of a Pokémon fan how dare I) but it still holds a special place in my heart as being what got me into one of my favorite things Although I’ve been interested in Pokémon for like 9 years and know a lot about the older games despite not having played them The reason I haven’t been playing for that long was because I wasn’t that old when they came out, and i’m not that old now as I’m still a tween

I really thought N would get number one. I think my issue with Cynthia is she has no development compared to other characters. Don't get me wrong, she's strong and cool-looking, but there's other characters that I think are better than her, in terms of personality and development.

I agree, cynthia is overrated. N is probably the overall best character but he is not my favourite.

​@@bread3088 I love Leon, but N is so good he defenitly on the second place. Cynthia not in the least of good characters she overatted

I am somewhat disappointed cynthia won when she comes from an era where pokemon characters tended to be even flatter than they are now. Which was not helped by Generation V following it up. Though I get it. I love Iris and Hilbert. Hilbert in most pokemon media, being a non-character. Iris having a solid but simple development in the games and considered an annoying brat in the anime, (Though I found it cute dunno 'bout you folks). But like Zinnea, Red, and N are cool, I'm not tasteless

As much as I like Cynthia, she is vastly overrated. An S rank character in SSS kind of overrated. Even non pokemon fans know her, and she's not a gen 1 character. At this point I always give up on my vote when I see her in some kind of pokemon poll.

True, most of the characters chosen were either the most popular in a certain category or second in line.

He deserves #1 tbh

@@thewingedcheetahwolf2615 Ghetsis A Better Person Than N , Not To Mention He’s Stronger & Is The REAL BW Champion ! 💯

Lillie and Marnie! 😍😍😍😍😍

Same when I was like who beat N then he said Cynthia and I just went ooooh yea she’s a person I love Cynthia she’s great

Gen 7 has problems that I can not deny but it will always be one of my favourite gens because it gave me so many amazing relatable characters. No, conquer the world bullshit just simple family and overall social problems that you see happening irl .

I got legitimately sad after Lillie left at the end of Sun/Moon during my first play through. The handholding and cutscenes can be annoying sometimes but you do get attached to the characters because of it.

Bro commented a day ago when this came out 19 seconds ago…

@@ZuskV1 I was going to say he’s subscribed to his patron, but then I realized that this was the point of your comment

Yes!

Bro time travelled back in time to comment this!

Fortis people who dont know heb is a member or patreon(idk) and gets the videos a day earlier

Everybody loves Professor Oak! He's the OG!

I am an avid gen 5 fan and I was legit so happy to watch this vid

@@ellomypeeps9126frfr

Indeed , good for Guzma - but I find him one of the most amusing and well designed, too...

Imagine a movie about the gen 5 or 7 story that you can watch in the cinema

​@@SpecialZimble shut up and take my money

Well no doubt he is, this is a pretty miniscule sample size relative to all of pokemons fanbase, just a fun experiment amongst a youtubers community,not reflective of the objective thoughts of all pokemon players. Many factors at play with this kind of thing as well like audience age, recency bias, what games they've managed to play, if they managed to meet all the characters in said games etc.

Wasn't the point of the final Top 25 to rank the winners of each category?

I have just finished the alola anime and let me tell you now i am so fond of lillie and gladion even more than when i play the game. Despite that i think lillie story even in the game is one of the best!

@@maGiCpinkBear Just in case you did not know, the Lillie story arc continues in Pokémon journeys 111, and is currently ranked as one of the best Pokémon episodes ever :3 - Also episode 112 about Alola is amazing

Actually I think Volo has a lot of screentime in that one game and has more plot relevance than Cynthia ever did in all mainline games she appeared in.

@@yangwenlifangirl well he has low screen time because he has a single appearance in the series. People are gonna pick their favourite based off of everything, not just the games. And your right about plot relevance lol Cynthia does nothing significant in the core games.

Low screen time? Volo has more screen time than some of the characters around him on the list!

@@TopOfAllWorlds he has low total screentime because he has only been in 1 game. We are talking about the entire franchise including the anime and pcg. Taking all that into acount, Volo has the least screentime

@@lxxdccvii4805 it doesn't matter if he's in the anime or if he's in one game. He made an impression on people despite that. So that should tell you something. He had a lot of screentime in the one game he was in so people remember him. It's not hard to comprehend

Yeah and Hop’s character arc was incredible. Honestly imo the game’s only issues were the following: -Rose’s plan -Routes between gyms felt too short -Mouse cursor in credits But otherwise SwSh was a good game

@@amiiboguy7288 Personally I feel like them being short isn't too much of an issue. A route can be pretty short to move through but still have lots of content. It's just that Galar's routes are essentially hallways with grass/encounter spots in them

@@amiiboguy7288 honestly, roses plan was good but they really needed to explain it a bit more. Which could have happened of they just *didn't rush the end of the game*.

@@amiiboguy7288 Hop’s character arc can be condensed as “I wanted to be like my brother but found out I suck at his profession so I’m going to stop battling altogether the end”

@@emblemblade9245 What's funny is he doesn't even suck, he beat all the gyms and got to the semifinals of the challenge objectively making him i think top 3 in region. But we got the Protag privilege so he just recognized and went to be the assistant for the hot older girl down the block. If anything, he truly won...

I was so happy when Emmet made it

The twins were popular before hisui but yeah ingo made both more recognizable to the general public.

@@christianvazquez1835 Popular in Japan but yeah

By virtue of them being on screen and doing things, it makes them more memorable. If the design and personality are good, being relevant is essential to being a popular character. Maybe not so much to being a popular *gym leader* but it certainly helps.

Its funny cause sinnoh started the "gym leaders outside the gyms'' thing. Few were PLOT relevant, but looking back every single one of them aside from i think Byron has a scene or 2 outside of their boss battle just living their lives. But i guess ppl preferres story importance after all

Ghetsis Is DEF A Champion Too !

Love your pfp

Everyone who played a Hoenn game would experience both teams, but you would experience them in different ways since they're villains in one version and help you in the other. But yeah, people's perspectives on them would definitely depend on which game they played!

Yeah depending on which team you ran into it could drastically effect your perspective on them. If you see team magma and they're the bad guys then naturally your opinion would be skewed based on that. There's probably still people that haven't experienced both games which only gives them the one sided perspective

same here :>

and yeah kalos less bc of dianthe

I Agree , Not To Mention Ghetsis Is The REAL Unova Champion Considering He Was STRONGER Than N . 👍🏽

The anime did not help unova at the time either.

I feel like this is also the same with alola

@@jawad.p It’s Not , Alola Is BETTER Than Gen 5 As A Whole ! 👍🏽

@@melvondrewhite2674 idk about better and stuff cuz its been a while since ive played either but the Alola games are my personal favorite

They've been popular for years in Japan so it's nice Legends Arceus made them loved over here as well. Even if it means that they're seperated and we may or may not see them reunited.... yeah I don't wanna think about that

White was my 2nd ever mainline game and i just saw them as those cooky subway twins for years. But i guess one of them being in arceus carries hard

@Eclipse I said that

I think the reason Emmet became really popular is because the fact that Ingo is in Legends Arceus. Since the two of them are inseparable twins, fans like to think that Emmet is now a tragic character who’s trying to find his brother or gone completely insane with him not around.

If this poll was taken before Legends Arceus he would have been way lower though

Ingo and Emmet is very popular in Japan before PLA is a thing. In their polls, Both of them places 2nd and 3rd after N.

If Ingo's popular, then I guess it would make sense for his twin brother to be loved as well. I'm proof of that. Emmet's my favorite Pokemon charcter now.

Yeah surprised they were so low too. I guess its moreso N simping overtook any gen5 attention in the rival department but it's weird cause they're easily the best written of the ones that aim to have significant development imo. But i guess folks did say that factor wasnt super important

I think people's issue with him is that he's not Blue. No one thinks of Trace as Trace, they think of him as Blue's replacement, but they're just not worth comparing personalities...

Well comparing his replacement in Blue to him it's easy to see why people don't like him. If they'd done a better job of making him a better character then he wouldn't be the replacement that he is. Comparing the 2 and you can see just how big of an impression Blue left and how little if any Trace made

Not sure if you count it be the anime recently did some background on Cynthia and it was actually pretty cool :).

@@1rkhachatryan It really was! I certainly count it to an extent but it wasn't really a lot of info. Still ,what we did get was both nice and of course, super adorable. Smol Cynthia is so precious.

@@ajanis95 I second that. The brief backstory in the anime was good but it wasn't enough! We need a fully fleshed out history.

Ghetsis Was The Gen 5 Champion In The Original BW

Yeah I'm positive ages of the ppl participating would be the biggest factor as it'd influence what games they've played and by extension what characters theyd have gotten attached to. Would've been interesting to see how many here played anything before switch era, if they took any breaks from the series, they've only played a couple titles, WHEN in their lives they played a given gen. Lots of interesting influencing factors

I'm happy Emmet managed to make it. I was a little worried he woudn't.

The Alola games are super overHATED in my opinion and I'm SO glad that most characters placed super high here

Nah, she's overrated. Her team is fine, as is her design, but her role in the games could have been improved.

Yeah maybe bdsp helped give a slight boost but i always liked Galactics admins. Still crush hard on Juniper to this day. Yeah, i know she beat and mocked our childhood friend while he was trying to help save a legendary pokemon from her and she's a part of an evil organization but i love me my mean gorls in fiction. And those thighs dont lie 👀

Ikr, I’m coping

Yeah, but Johto doesn't have very interesting characters.

If it weren't for Cynthia existing, we would've also claimed best character overall.

If we saw a glimpse of him during his training with Opal rather than suddenly appearing as a changed man, it would have made a deeper impact. But we literally see him being taken by Opal and the next second, he has a changed heart. I would have appreciated a little more if we caught him on his break and maybe be a little hesitant in his stance and where his heart lies, or something. Really would have hit his character development deeper.

He's the best rival in that game, and nothing can convince me otherwise

I completely agree with you about Magnolia, her design is wonderful, but maybe Elm's shows off more personality?? My issue was Elm was that he was kind of useless especially when Oak showed up so early in the game. I also thought Laventon would've scored higher but oh well. I'm also surprised with how low Klara scored, maybe people didn't really play the DLC? She's a lovely character I never played USUM (i know, i know...) so when I think Lusamine I always think of mother beast! The Flare admins have names but I would not be able to tell them apart if my life depended on it. I vaguely remember fighting two of them in the poke ball factory... I think both Erika and Pryce should've scored higher based on the manga. I personally find most of the gym leaders to be forgettable, so the manga really helps me to form a personality for them and makes them more likeable. Brycen is awesome. One of the best designed ice-type trainers imo Once again, since I never played USUM, I was pretty upset with her trial in SM. Makes her very forgettable, and there are other fairy-type trainers I like better than her. Sinnoh E4 was the most forgettable for me, but I remember Lucian the most out of all because his battle was challenging for me. Trace had bad luck to begin with, he was put into Blue's shadow, so people expected him to be a little mean. Definitely why he scored so poorly Gen 5 NPCs were a little forgettable for me too, though their designs slapped. I could never get Curtis to call me but after looking it up right now there's specific tiles you need to stand on?!?! Besides that, Mr. Briney is a buff old sailor, so that's cool. And he has Peeko!! And for protags, I think Rosa would be pretty high too up ever since her pokemon masters debut.

the team flare admins have names. But then there are also the team flare admins without names, who are just upgraded versions of the grunts

Me too even if the popularity gap between the two is 13%

@@Jessica_Schweser I wish Emmet was as popular as Ingo he’s always been my favorite 💪

@@detectiveveevee Mine too if he's in Scarlet and Violet maybe that'll help

He personal one of my favorite rival.

I hated him until half way through the game when I started reading all of his actions and dialogue through the lens of him having a huge crush on my character and my character being oblivious. He was still annoying but it made his actions easier to stomach

@@lillipup_tamer1148 Well that’s a new one!