So the other day, I was watching GameTrailers' Top 10 Pointless Pokémon video, which they open up admitting they weren't about to poke at Vanilluxe and Klefki, saying those Pokémon are awesome. Instead, their video was about what they felt were the top 10 most pointless Pokémon, that nobody would remember if they were completely retconned from the series. It was one person doing the count, and he had some valid points, but #5 was a surprising one: Arceus.
The guy who picked that top ten said that Arceus, while not weak, is not great as a deity and a "spiky no-face horse god that shaped the universe with its thousand arms and sits in a Poké Ball in your PC between Grimer and Bidoof all day". He thinks Game Freak went a little too far in trying to make something like that.
Some people may think that based on the fact that the Azure Flute was never even released in Generation IV, or for some other reason. But what about you? Do you think this Pokémon that formed in an egg that shaped the world from nothing has no purpose or was it necessary to begin Pokémon life as it stands today? Discuss.