The Pokemon of our younger years – I’m talking generation 1 and 2 here – were all
inventive creatures.
Most fans of the games and series strongly renounce the later generations that follows.
And fair enough – while every now and then theres a great new Pokemon that comes along,
there’s always a slew of monsters that feel as if the creative teams behind them have
run out of ideas.
But there’s a slight exception to that rule in the form of Ghost Pokemon - they are the
only types of Pokemon from newer generations that seem to have any sort of real creative
thought put behind them.
Except that creative thought is straight up nightmare fuel, considering the concepts that
these Pokemon are based on.
So today, we’re taking a closer look at some of these spooky creatures with our list
of the top 10 horrifying Pokemon.
10 Mimikyu Starting off this list is a Pokemon who has
a lot of roots in Alola region legend.
But not for being profoundly powerful or incredibly rare, but for being more of an urban legend.
Mimikyu is a Pokemon who is of the ‘disguise species’ according to the Pokedex.
It lives its life completely covered by a cloth, with its true form always hidden.
In Alola, there’s rumours that anyone who sees what it looks like beneath its cloth
will be stricken with a mysterious illness.
This is taken even further with it’s Pokedex entries – Pokemon Sun states “Its actual
appearance is unknown.
A scholar who saw what was under its rag was overwhelmed by terror and died from the shock.”
In Moon, it states “it conceals its terrifying appearance beneath an old rag so it can get
closer to people and other Pokemon.”
Which is kinda sad, right?
But in Ultra Sun it states that if you try to look under its rag, it will become agitated
and resist violently, and in ultra moon, it just gets worse – a gust of wind revealed
what hides under this Pokemon’s rag to a passing Trainer, who went home and died painfully
that very night.
Yup, no thanks.
9 Phantump What’s worse than a Pokemon that can kill
you just by looking at it?
How about one that tricks you into getting lost in a forest?
Oh, and it’s a tree stump?
Phantump is a stump Pokemon who was possessed by the spirit of a child who died when it
got lost in the forest.
Despite how that may elicit a bit of sympathy in you, don’t be fooled – those stumps
are assholes.
In Ultra Sun’s pokedex, it describes Phantump like this: “By imitating the voice of a
child, it causes people to get hopelessly lost deep in the forest.
It’s trying to make friends with them.”
No word on whether or not it lures children specifically to starve them to death so that
they can become other Phantumps, but all things considered, that’s not too far of a leap.
8 Sliggoo Sliggoo is known as the soft tissue Pokemon.
It’s a dragon type, and it’s got a thing for being slimy.
Now, Sliggoo isn’t a Pokemon that you’d immediately be weary of.
Its Pokedex entry states that “it drives away opponents by excreting a sticky liquid
that can dissolve anything.
Its eyes devolved, so it can’t see anything.”
Sounds like a pretty decent survival skill considering it’s pretty much blind.
But then take its Pokemon Sun pokedex entry into account: “It has trouble drawing a
line between friends and food.
It will calmly try to melt and eat even those it gets along well with.”
If you want a better idea of what that entails, in Moon, its entry is “Toothless, it sprays
mucous on its prey.
Once they’re nicely dissolved, it slurps them up.”
Grossed out much?
Seems totally fine if you’re training one in a game, but in hypothetical land, if Pokemon
were real, how horrific would it be to raise and train a Sliggoo, build what you assume
would be a bond with it, and all of a sudden, one day out of the blue, it decides it wants
to dissolve your flesh and eat you?
7 Gourgeist Alright, a pumpkin Pokemon.
Seems harmless, yeah?
Nah.
Appearing in Pokemon X and Y, and Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, Gourgeist is a bit of
a sadist.
How so?
Well, here’s its two Pokedex entries from those games collectively – “Singing in
eerie voices, they wander town streets on the night of the new moon.
Anyone who hears their song is cursed.”
“It enwraps its prey in its hairlike arms.
It sings joyfully as it observes the suffering of its prey.”
I’m starting to really understand why there’s never a lot of people walking around the streets
of cities in Pokemon games, and why they all feel so sparse.
It’s because their world is a living death trap, with homicidal monsters like Gourgeist
strolling around every new moon to torment civilians.
How’s that for ruining your childhood?
6 Lampent It should be no surprise that Lampent is known
as the Lamp Pokemon.
A bit self-explanatory there, eh?
But what’s so scary about a lamp, you may ask.
Well, apparently it wanders cities, searching for spirits of the fallen.
According to the Pokemon White Pokedex, “It arrives near the moment of death and steals
spirit from the body.”
And “the spirits it absorbs fuel its baleful fire.
It hangs around hospitals waiting for people to pass on.”
If that’s not horribly morbid, I don’t know what is.
5 Banette Aside from having one hell of a snaggle tooth,
this Pokemon is a tad on the masochistic side.
It generates energy for laying strong curses by sticking pins into its own body.
When it first appeared in Ruby and Sapphire, these were it’s pokedex entries.
For Ruby, “This Pokemon was originally a pitiful plush doll that was thrown away.”
Sad, right?
But then for Sapphire, it read, “A cursed energy permeated the stuffing of a discarded
and forgotten plush doll, giving it new life as Banette.”
How many plush dolls get morphed by this cursed energy?
Cause these little guys definitely aren’t rare.
Is Banette the result of some sort of island of misfit toys gone wrong?
It only got worse in later games – Fire Red and Leaf Green’s pokedex entries say
that “strong feelings of hatred turned a puppet into a Pokemon”, while Emerald’s
states “They are said to live in garbage dumps and wander about in search of the children
that threw them away.”
Homicidal plushies.
And you thought your stuffed toys didn’t have feelings.
4 Froslass Froslass is actually fairly tragic.
An Ice Ghost pokemon, it first appears in generation 4.
According to the pokedex, I quote, “legends in snowy regions say that a woman who was
lost on an icy mountain was reborn as Froslass.”
This only got worse by the time Pokemon Sun rolled around, with this: “When it finds
humans or Pokemon it likes, it freezes them and takes them to its chilly den, where they
become decorations.”
Sadistic much?
That’s some crazy serial killer shit right there.
Froslass went from being a Pokemon we were sympathetic with to one that seems quite emotionally
unstable.
To add insult to injury, the Ultra Moon entry reads “It’s said that on nights of terrible
blizzards, it comes down to human settlements.
If you hear it knocking at your door, do not open it!”
Don’t have to tell me twice.
3 Drifloon C’mon now, how could a balloon Pokemon be
creepy?
This flying ghost type didn’t seem all that bad when it first debuted – it’s pokedex
entry in Diamond said “A Pokemon formed by the spirits of people and Pokemon.
It loves damp, humid seasons.”
Alright, not that spooky.
But as time progressed, and HeartGold and SoulSilver came out, it’s entry was updated
to say “It is whispered that any child who mistakes Drifloon for a balloon and holds
on to it could wind up missing.”
Even better, in Pokemon Sun, it’s entry reads “Stories go that it grabs the hands
of small children and drags them away to the afterlife.
It dislikes heavy children.”
Not only is it a child abductor, it’s a body shamer too.
If that doesn’t do it for you, perhaps it’s entry in Pokemon Moon will – “If for some
reason its body bursts, its soul spills out with a screaming sound.”
Lovely.
2 Cofagrigus (cof-fag-er-gus) Cofagrigus is a coffin Pokemon whose Pokemon
Black pokedex entry reads “It has been said that they swallow those who get too close
and turn them into mummies.
They like to eat gold nuggets.”
Aside from having a very expensive preference of food, this Cofagrigus literally eats anyone
that gets close to it, kills them, and turns them into mummies.
Do you know what mummification consists of?
It ain’t pretty.
What’s even better is the Pokemon White pokedex description, “They pretend to be
elaborate coffins to teach lessons to grave robbers.”
In other words, they’re doing this out of some sort of sick vindication.
Or to get their kicks.
Yeah, teach those grave robbers a lesson BY MURDERING THEM, TEARING OUT THEIR INSIDES
AND WRAPPING THEM IN BANDAGES.
So what’s creepier than a mummy machine?
How about the Pokemon it was before its evolution, Next up, in at number one,
1 Yamask A generation five Pokemon, Yamask first appeared
in Pokemon Black and White, with two similar yet equally terrifying pokedex entries.
In Black, the pokedex read “Each of them carries a mask that used to be its face when
it was human.
Sometimes they look at it and cry.”
And in white, the entry said, “These Pokemon arose from the spirits of people interred
in graves in past ages.
Each retains memories of its former life.”
So.
What have we learned from this?
Well, Yamask is a ghost pokemon that used to be human.
It died, was buried, then at some point SOMETHING caused it to rise from the grave in this form,
and attached to it was a mask that USED TO BE its face.
Its essentially forced back to life and has to carry around ITS HEAD, which it most definitely
does not like considering it sometimes cries when it looks at said head.
That’s some fucked up stuff, Nintendo.
Well, there we have it friends.
That felt increasingly bleak, didn’t it?
Makes you miss the days of just wandering around in tall grass where the worst you had
to worry about was being bothered by pidgeys and ratattas.
How do you all feel about these Pokemon?
Are there any in particular you like, based off their stats rather than their depressing
Pokedex entries?
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