It’s really hard to top the Pokemon of Generation One.
They were creative, endearing, intriguing and ultimately, groundbreaking when it came
to a collection of characters that sucked in a whole demographic of eager gamers and
anime fans alike.
Over the years, Game Freak and Nintendo have strived to produce new pocket creatures just
as swell as the ones that debuted in 1996, and while Generation Two definitely had some
hits, some of the Pokemon that made the cuts in later years are, well, questionable at
best.
So today, we’re taking a closer look at that rag tag group of unfavourable creatures
with our list of the top 10 dumbest pokemon ever created.
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Alright, now on to the dumb Pokemon!
10 Bidoof GOD BLESS BIDOOF.
There’s a lot of reasons to dislike Bidoof.
It’s not overly strong, it’s evolution isn’t all that great, it’s range of attacks
are meh at best, and it pops up WAY too frequently.
Now that could be said of a lot of other common normal type Pokemon as well.
But something really stuck with Bidoof when it came to the Pokemon community insulting
it.
Maybe it’s because it looks like a slow inbred beaver hamster hybrid.
Maybe it’s because trainers felt insulted that Bibarel wasn’t anything special, and
therefore training bidoof was a waste of time.
Maybe it’s because it’s EVERYWHERE YOU TURN AND YOU CAN NEVER ESCAPE THE CEASELESS
ONSLAUGHT OF BIDOOF.
Or maybe it’s because there’s no way in hell that anyone could argue that a Bidoof
would survive very long in the wild, thanks to natural selection.
But whatever it was, Bidoof has become beloved in one sense; as a hilarious meme.
And hey, that’s at least somewhat of an accomplishment, isn’t it, Bidoof?
Regardless, people love to hate Bidoof, and if you’re one of those people that don’t
mind it, well, bless your soul young trainer.
Bless your soul.
9 Purugly Purugly’s name literally has the word ugly
in it.
It’s a disdainful hefty looking cat.
It’s a weird evolution too.
It’s first form, Glameow, is arguably a glamerous cat Pokemon with a whimsical tail.
It’s like Glameow started off with high expectations for how its life was going to
turn out, but then it lost sight of those aspirations, let itself go, and packed on
some thickness and some stress, which I’m going to assume is clear to everyone based
on the condition of its whiskers compared to its predecessor.
A generation 4 Pokemon, Purugly is kind of an asshole.
It’s pokedex entry in HeartGold and Soul Silver reads “It would claim another Pokemon’s
nest as its own if it finds a nest sufficiently comfortable.”
But fear not, Pokefans.
Purugly also does not give two craps about what you think of it.
It’s proud of it’s beefiness.
In Pokemon Pearl, it’s pokedex entry reads “to make itself appear intimidatingly beefy,
it tightly cinches its waist with its twin tails.”
I just want to know the progression of its story, really.
How it can go from glam to ugly.
It’s like an inverted cinderella story, people.
Moving on.
8 Jinx Jinx is the only generation one Pokemon you’re
going to see on this list.
And this is simply because of the controversial impact the character has made.
Now, to be fair, when we say controversial, we’re saying that lightly; she debuted in
1996 in the initial Japanese Red and Green versions of the game, and was considered as
the ‘human shape’ Pokemon.
But rather than have a rack that made young children across the globe giggle in their
pre pubescent glory, this Pokemon got a lot of heat for the colour of her skin.
In the original Japanese game, her skin is black, and based on her other characteristics,
it’s not a far stretch to say that she looked a whole lot like a caricature of black face,
which was highly offensive makeup used by white performers to make them appear as if
they were black, and was often paired with horrible blown out of proportion stereotypical
features.
While Jinx was said to have her inspiration based on the Japanese mythic icy ghosts known
as Yama-uba, her similarities to black face are undeniable.
Now the North American release of Red and Blue caught on and made her skin purple instead,
but that didn’t stop many from thinking she was politically incorrect, with some noting
that ever her name, which is a variation on the word jinx, has connotations to bad luck
and negative implications.
Plus the name also suggests a link to doctors and voodoo, practices that originated in African
religion and have a long history of being mocked by Wester culture.
And to top it all off, her whole schtick was that she’s a Pokemon who, according to the
Pokedex in Pokemon Red, “seductively wiggles its hips as it walks”, which some read as
furthering the racial stereotype of black women being ‘simple minded’ and ‘sensual
sexual objects’.
All in all, Jynx is one of those pokemon who probably would’ve been better left on the
cutting room floor.
7 Foongus Foongus is what happens when Mario fans demand
crossover fanfiction with Pokemon.
Or at least that’s what I’d like to believe.
Foongus is a generation 5 Pokemon, aka, you already know there’s an 80 percent chance
of it being a half baked idea of a Pokemon.
Foongus is a mushroom with a Pokeball design on it’s head.
For starters, I’d like to know the evolution process in terms of how this Pokemon came
to be in the wild.
Once you take a look further into Foongus, it becomes clear that like our last number,
it is also, in fact, an asshole.
The reason why it has a Pokeball on the top of its head is to TRICK PEOPLE.
According to its Pokedex entries, it lures Pokemon with its pattern that looks just like
a Pokeball and then releases poisonous spores.
But what confuses me is why Pokemon would be attracted to Pokeballs, If anything, wild
Pokemon would AVOID those, especially if its not owned by a trainer because then they’d
get stuck in one for god knows how long, until someone stumbled upon them and released them.
It’s a flawed idea.
The only people who pick up Pokeballs in the wild are trainers.
So, with that logic, Foongus has either a really terrible means of survival, or its
trying to lure trainers and poison them.
Either way, that makes for a dumb Pokemon.
6 Luvdisc First off, zero points for creativity when
it comes to this one’s name.
It’s as if someone drew up a rough sketch of this thing, tossed it in front of one of
Game Freak’s execs and was like “yo, what do you see here?”
And they were like, it’s a heart disc.
And then they were like, nah, heart disc is too on the nose.
LET’S GO WITH LOVE INSTEAD, BUT SPELL LOVE IN AN ALTERNATIVE WAY SO IT MAKES MORE SENSE.
Insert maniacal laughing here.
Luvdisc does take after a fish though, so luckily it does have that going for it.
It’s a generation 3 Pokemon, who, in every game it’s appeared in, has a Pokedex entry
that is some sort of take on how it’s a symbol of love.
Aside from that, it’s kind of all it has going for it.
5 Vanillite I’m sure after Gen 1 and 2 came out, there
were a ton of people out there who were like, gee, you know what would be swell?
If there was a Pokemon shaped JUST LIKE MY FAVOURITE ICY DESSERT!
YES, THAT WOULD BE A FANTASTIC IDEA!
Game Freak, please do that!
Yeah, absolutely no one thought that, but GUESS WHAT STILL HAPPENED ANYWAY!
It’s AN ICE CREAM CONE POKEMON.
It’s evolutions are no better either.
Vanillish and Vanilluxe are highly overrated ice cream cones that look like they were birthed
from a hipster ice cream shop that’s trying to resurrect the ice cream food trend and
do crazy sh*t with its cones in hopes that people will come buy their product and post
ridiculous on their Instagram with ALL THE HASHTAGS.
Vanillite just feels as if the designers behind Pokemon were running out of ideas, and starting
brainstorming every day objects that could be turned into a pocket monster.
4 Honedge If you ever thought Magnemite evolving into
three magnemites was dumb, meet honedge.
Honedge is a sword.
It’s a Pokemon that is literally just a sword.
And it evolves into TWO SWORDS, CALLED DOUBLADE.
YEP.
A generation 6 Pokemon, surprise surprise there, this is one of the weirdest cop outs
in the Pokemon franchise.
So essentially, it’s a sword that resembles a sword from the medieval era.
When it’s unsheathed, it straight up just looks like a plain sword.
That ain’t even a Pokemon.
C’mon.
And to make it worse, it’s also an asshole.
Because it sucks the life energy out of anyone who dares to grab it by the hilt.
Which is super crappy, because it LOOKS LIKE A REGULAR SWORD, NOT EVEN LIKE A SENTIENT
POKEMON.
That’s just cruel.
At least its creators offered up some sort of explanation as to how it came to be.
It’s Pokedex entry for Pokemon X reads, “Apparently this Pokemon is born when a
departed spirit inhabits a sword.”
So it’s a haunted sword.
Gotcha.
3 Klefki IT’S A KEY RING.
IT’S A GOSH DARN KEY RING.
Klefki is one of the worst of the worst when it comes to Pokemon that are clearly just
inanimate objects.
Upon first glance, you probably wouldn’t even KNOW it’s a Pokemon.
I mean, at least Vanillite tries to be a Pokemon.
You know how many trainers must’ve mistaken these for their key ring and then was like
UGH MAN, SCREW OFF KLEFKI, I JUST NEED TO FIND MY KEYS DUDE.
Hypothetically speaking, that would be incredibly frustrating.
Klefki is a Generation 6 Pokemon, aka the bottom of the barrel of ideas, and it’s
a steel and fairy type.
Steel, because duh, fairy, because they had to give it SOMETHING to work with.
Here’s some of my personal favourite Pokedex entries about it.
“These key collectors threaten any attackers by fiercely jingling their keys at them.”
Oooo I’m shaking in my boots.
“This even tempered Pokemon has a habit of collecting keys.
It will sneak into people’s homes to steal their keys.”
And perhaps the best, from Pokemon Moon, “it inserts its horn into chinks in metal, absorbing
metal ions.
For some reason, it collects keys.”
FOR SOME REASON IT COLLECTS KEYS.
THEY DON’T EVEN KNOW WHY IT COLLECTS KEYS.
UGH.
ITS SO TERRIBLE.
2 Binacle Binacle is a generation 6 Pokemon, OF COURSE,
that makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER.
ITS TWO CLAWED HANDS.
COMING OUT OF A ROCK.
Binacle seems like its more so the product of an unfortunate drug trip rather than a
Pokemon that’s an asset to the franchise.
WHAT IS IT EVEN?
It makes Diglet look like it’s a genius creation.
It’s one of those Pokemon that you look at and you’re like... really?
This is an actual Pokemon?
So what’s Binacle’s deal, friends?
It’s a rock water type, so immediately it’s a paradoxical monstrosity.
Even its Pokedex entries are comical.
According to Pokemon X, two binnacle live together on one rock.
When they fight, one of them will move to a different rock.
Can you blame it?
The only silver lining to this Pokemon is that at least it evolves into Barbaracle at
level 39, which is a significantly better design, and makes me ponder whether the creators
of this Pokemon thought up its evolution first and tried to boil it down into a previous
form after the fact.
Which would actually make a lot of sense, all things considered when you look at this
monstrosity.
1 Trubbish Trubbish is the epitome of no sh*ts given.
It’s a generation 5 pokemon, and its slumming it in the creativity department.
Just look at it.
Trubbish is a bag of garbage.
And that’s not even an insult, it’s literally a bag of trash.
Naturally, it’s a poison type.
In the anime, Ash’s Pokedex declares that Trubbish is a trash bag Pokemon, and that
they prefer to live in dirty places like garbage dumps.
It is said they were born when a chemical reaction occurred between an abandoned trash
bag and industrial waste.
Which begs to differ what kind of environmental disasters are going down in the Pokemon world
for this to come into fruition.
They also follow people who litter, because they always want more garbage in their life,
and they belch gas that’s supposed to make you sleep for a week.
God knows what owning one does to a trainer’s immune system.
According to ultra moon, if a young Pokemon or child breaths in the toxic gas that Trubbish
belches out, it could be a life threatening situation.
There we have it friends!
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