Pokemon that are over exposed

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What are Pokemon you think have received "over exposure" as in, Pokemon you think we've seen promoted too much?

Please be more creative than "Charizard" "Lucario" and "Kanto" thank you.
Lucari--oh. Oh. Well, the point still stands. Lucario needs to just...not exist.

Asides from the obvious starters, eeveelutions, and pseudos, I feel like Gengar gets an awful lot of exposure, even for a Gen I Pokemon. When there are many other ghost types with far more interesting designs, it makes me a little sad that it always seems to come back to Gengar. I don't dislike it, but it's far from being a particularly creative design.

People really need to get over Mimikyu, too.

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Pikachu. Stop making Pikachu clones already. The original was not that great anyway imo
Greninja. It's been in smash at least but idk how widespread it really is. Never liked the thing, it's design is unappealing to me.
Meowth - Did we really need a 3rd form for this? I'd rather have had them give some other mon a new regional form. Like Dunsparce.
(and then there's Charizard ofc... 😉)
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Charizard is a given but you're right d: Let's just leave it at that.

I don't think Pikachu is a problem; it's the mascot! It's fine to have it appear everywhere because for many, Pikachu = pokémon. It's iconic. And as far as mascots go, it's a pretty cute one too.

I don't even think we're overexposed to Eevee. Unlike Pika and Chari, Eevee is an actual interesting pokémon with plenty of fun evos, haha. It's been used in several games as the starter pokémon now but even so, we haven't seen too much of it imo. It's cute, but it's not THE mascot, and it probably looks a little bit too bland and has too few colors to stand out well in advertising materials anyways.

I can't think of many good suggestions beyond the ones in the first post tbh haha.
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Meowth is definitely overexposed, I agree. It really doesn't need two regional formes, and I hope Legend Arceus doesn't gives us more.

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Tentacool.

It's gotten better in recent gens but in 1-4 this thing single handedly makes me want repels.

So many water types and this thing appears all the time instead of any sort of variety.

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Greninja is just the zoomers' Charizard I don't make the rules :femme:

I think Eevee and some of the eevelutions (Vaporeon, Umbreon and Sylveon) are in way more things that they deserve. Eevee is pretty much a second mascot right now.

Also Machamp, Meowth and Gengar, which is crazy for the first one because I haven't met anyone that genuinely likes Machamp. It's just there so people remember it exists, I guess.

Mimikyu is kinda everywhere as well. It wouldn't be that bad if it had different costumes, but it seems like the concept is indirect Pikachu exposure more than anything.

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Greninja is the most BAMF of a Pokemon ever. He can't be overexposed
That doesn't make Greninja immune to people thinking it's an overexposed Pokemon, though. Even if they're a "badass mfer"... Honestly, I have absolutely nothing to say about Greninja. In a few years, it probably won't be the most popular Pokemon anymore.

I definitely can agree with Gardevoir. Gardevoir is pretty much...everywhere, to the point where it's like Gallade never even existed. Now, with Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl right around the corner, I'd imagine Gardevoir will be in the spotlight even more.
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That doesn't make Greninja immune to people thinking it's an overexposed Pokemon, though. Even if they're a "badass mfer"... Honestly, I have absolutely nothing to say about Greninja. In a few years, it probably won't be the most popular Pokemon anymore.

I definitely can agree with Gardevoir. Gardevoir is pretty much...everywhere, to the point where it's like Gallade never even existed. Now, with Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl right around the corner, I'd imagine Gardevoir will be in the spotlight even more.
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It's tragic that Gardevoir overshadows Gallade so much. I swear I used to think the former was the only evolution for Kirlia before I went deeper into Pokemon. I'm also sick of Mewtwo among the legendaries, and to a lesser extent Mew too. Like, why of all legendaries are those two the most used? Their designs are kinda meh compared to say, the Johto legends.

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Rotom. Like, what is going on with them thinking they need to cram him into as many things as they can in the most recent games? He's barely a Pokemon anymore because he's more of a power source or operating system for something.
"Technology is incredible" or something.

I can agree we've been getting far too much Rotom in the past two generations. Hoping in generation nine they don't give us another Rotom Pokedex, but from a game stand point I understand why Rotom is the way it is now.

Since Rotom is a ghost that can possess electronically powered objects, they can basically do... anything with it. Maybe that's why it's pushed in the games so much these days.

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"Technology is incredible" or something.

I can agree we've been getting far too much Rotom in the past two generations. Hoping in generation nine they don't give us another Rotom Pokedex, but from a game stand point I understand why Rotom is the way it is now.

Since Rotom is a ghost that can possess electronically powered objects, they can basically do... anything with it. Maybe that's why it's pushed in the games so much these days.
It was nice in the Alola anime and games with Rotom being a core character with its own personality. In the recent anime saga their rotom-phones have just kinda... been there though? And the professor just so happened to have two rare Rotom pokemon to populate their phones with. Isn't that lucky. yeH.
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While most people would pick the obvious Charizard, I think that the gen 1 starters as a whole are a little bit too prevalent as of the recent generations. They all got Mega Evolutions and they all got Gigantamax forms. Compare that to the gen 2, 4 or 5 starters, who basically got nothing for the last couple generations (the gen 3 ones at least got time to shine in ORAS+Megas).

Gyarados feels like it's basically everywhere, as well. Maybe it's because Magikarp is so easy to put into a game as that stereotypical weak Pokemon that gets really strong once it evolves?

There's the obvious Pikachu/Eevee craze, but that's most likely just marketing at its finest. Never would I have imagined Eevee becoming a series maskot, though...

I'd like to see some more gen 2 representation. Those Pokemon are historically very underpowered and a lot of them are very close to be forgettable, partly because of it.
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What are Pokemon you think have received "over exposure" as in, Pokemon you think we've seen promoted too much?

Please be more creative than "Charizard" "Lucario" and "Kanto" thank you.
But Lucario IS my answer. Asking me to be more creative when talking about something that has "over exposure" seems strange... Do you not want that answer because you like Lucario? I am not going to not give my honest answer lol. I don't like Lucario and I am sick of seeing it. It sucks, evolving by friendship from a baby Mon is a terrible idea and the furry-esque dog type bipedal Pokemon make me cringe.

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But Lucario IS my answer. Asking me to be more creative when talking about something that has "over exposure" seems strange... Do you not want that answer because you like Lucario? I am not going to not give my honest answer lol. I don't like Lucario and I am sick of seeing it. It sucks, evolving by friendship from a baby Mon is a terrible idea and the furry-esque dog type bipedal Pokemon make me cringe.
I just think saying Lucario is uncreative when there's plenty of other Pokemon out there besides it that are overexposed. I don't want this thread to just be people saying "Kanto. Lucario".

It has nothing to do with my feelings on the matter. I'm indifferent to Lucario, by the way.

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I just think saying Lucario is uncreative when there's plenty of other Pokemon out there besides it that are overexposed. I don't want this thread to just be people saying "Kanto. Lucario".

It has nothing to do with my feelings on the matter. I'm indifferent to Lucario, by the way.
That's fine but if it is someones opinion, it really shouldn't be discouraged either. For the sake of the discussion I will expand on Lucario though! I am going to say all dog-like Pokemon. I think it has been pretty played out since Houndoom. Arcanine, in my opinion, was the first and best dog type and everything after has really just been an attempt to sell mechandise to a specific group of fans.
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gen 3 starters....

landorous-t is everywhere in competitive

tyranitar now... its still one of my favorites