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What's the least popular Pokemon

MantisboyN

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    I posted a thread with the same topic several years ago (back when there was only four generations) and received some interesting answers.
    So I once again pose this question: What is the least popular Pokemon, or in other words, what is the most forgettable Pokemon?

    I personally had no idea that Mothim was a Pokemon until I was forced to use one in a Nuzlocke. I seriously didn't even know that it existed before seeing it. I'm not saying that I'm an expert and know all of the Pokemon by heart, but I can recognize most of them, and I seriously would not have even thought that this was a Pokemon if someone showed me an image of it. I'd just never seen it before.

    I guess you could probably interpret this as two separate questions, depending on how you look at it. So what do you got?
     
    Mothim, sadly, is a candidate. I like its looks a lot actually, but as I never played much 4th gen games, I haven't used it. For some reason, Burmy showed up more in the manga than Mothim did, I don't recall seeing Mothim at all there. Or in the anime, for that matter? But that, again, might be because I haven't watched much Sinnoh anime xD

    Also things like Delibird, Girafarig, Spinda, Huntail and Finneon are candidates for least popular pokémon, I think. I don't personally dislike them, I just never hear people acknowledge them.
     
    Probably Girafarig and Basculin. I haven't heard a single thing about these two at all. Took me long enough to acknowledge Basculin's existence, while I found out about Girafarig (and made notable memory of) from Elite Four Lucian in Diamond.
     
    Definitely Qwilfish. I think its the true forgotten Pokemon no one ever remembers.
    It has mediocre stats, not that big of a movepool and no evolution or anything.
    If GF were to remove this Pokemon, im sure no one would ever notice
    [PokeCommunity.com] What's the least popular Pokemon
     
    Basculin and maybe Luvdisc- or pretty much any pokemon that doesn't have an evolution :(
     
    Basculin was mentioned above but I personally have a hard time forgetting something that appeared just about everywhere in Gen 5.

    Here's a few that I do find to be forgettable:

    -Finneon and Lumineon (didn't even remember they existed until seeing this thread)

    -Slugma and Magcargo

    -Corsola
     
    I think it's hard to determine one Pokémon as everybody will have different opinions. Every Pokémon is somebody's favorite.

    My personal least favorite Pokémon? Delphox. That thing is ugly and just overall really stupid. Sad due to the potential of Fire/Psychic.
     
    What about Magikarp? He is pretty useless unless you want to take the time to level him to Gyarados.
     
    Azire said:
    I think it's hard to determine one Pokémon as everybody will have different opinions. Every Pokémon is somebody's favorite.

    My personal least favorite Pokémon? Delphox. That thing is ugly and just overall really stupid. Sad due to the potential of Fire/Psychic.
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    The question is about least popular or otherwise most forgettable, not least favorite. Judging by the amount of Delphox fanart you can find on Google Images, it's a fairly popular pokémon. XD

    It's hard for me to make a call on most forgettable pokémon because I have all of them permanently ingrained in my memory banks, but Stantler seems to be a huge candidate for most overlooked pokémon.
     
    Timbjerr said:
    It's hard for me to make a call on most forgettable pokémon because I have all of them permanently ingrained in my memory banks, but Stantler seems to be a huge candidate for most overlooked pokémon.
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    Pretty much took the words out of my mouth. I know all the Pokemon pretty well, but Stantler has always stood out to me as a completely forgettable Pokemon. Especially once Deerling and Sawsbuck came about.
     
    SGHighCharity said:
    What about Magikarp? He is pretty useless unless you want to take the time to level him to Gyarados.
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    I dunno, it's kind of famous for being one of the worst Pokemon ever. :P

    There's a lot of "straight to the box" Pokemon I caught just for the sake of completing the Pokedex and never considered using, but I'll have to go with Binacle here.

    Also, maybe it's just because I didn't really get into Black/White, but I did not know Alomomola was a Pokemon.
     
    Hmm... maybe Stantler. It's a really happy-go-lucky Pokémon and all, but you just rarely see him anywhere, whether it be websites, message boards, when battling online, you name it. If it's gotten some form of an evolution, then I'm sure it would have been able to become more popular. d: Along with that, another would be Delibird. It's supposed to be Pokémon's Christmas mascot, apparently, but they rarely promote it anymore.
     
    I agree stantler is pretty boring but its still kinda famous.
    I think Basculin is underrated way too much.
     
    Dunsparse? And that fish Remoroid or w/e, from Johto. I can say I know 6th generation Pokemon better then those 2 Johto ones sometime.
     
    I hate to say it, but it always seems like Johto Pokemon are the ones forgotten about the most, as evidenced by those that have said Delibird, Girafarig, Qwilfish, Slugma/Magcargo, Corsola, Stantler, Dunsparce, Remoraid and Sunflora. I might even throw Smoochum in there as well. I always remember that Magmar and Electabuzz had prevolutions added in Johto, but Smoochum always throws me off guard when I see it.
     
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