Least Favorite Pokemon by Type

With every Yin there must also be a Yang. With every rose there must be the thorn. And with every cliche opening there must be acknowledgement of it's status as such. So yeah, I'm going to go through the types and pinpoint exactly which of the hundreds of creatures are the worst in Pokemon. Let's just jump right in.

Bug - Wormadam

Alright, starting off the list we have Wormadam as the worst bug type Pokemon. I'll be honest, looking at the list of bug types I realized that I don't actually have any particularly strong negative feelings toward a single one. Even Weedle and Metapod, two of the most frustrating from the first gen, I have nostalgia for and can't bring myself to dislike. Wormadam ends up here mainly for its stupid gimmick. Basically, wherever its' former stage evolves decides what secondary typing it will have between grass, ground and steel. Combine that with a lackluster movepool in gen 4 and just an unappealing look and I just don't care anything for it. You know what doesn't help? It's just the female evolution, the male evolution, Mothim, looks cooler and becomes bug/flying (admittedly not an original typing) which to me just works better. I don't know, I don't really hate it but there are far better bug types to use.

Dark - Skuntank

Similar problem to the last type, I don't really hate any dark types. They're all pretty cool. But Stunky and Skuntank just are unpleasant looking Pokemon. I mean, they're skunks, and no one wants to get into a close encounter with one of them. Stunky and least has some pretense of being small and cute-ish, but Skuntank is just a big unpleasant looking skunk and I just don't want much to do with it. I guess there's not much more to say.

Dragon - Kingdra

Oh hey, a Pokemon I legitimately dislike! I'll admit, this choice comes from purely how much Kingdra irked me as a kid playing Gold and Silver. The last gym leader Claire had this freaking thing on her team and none of my Pokemon could take it down without getting wrecked. Electric attack? Nope, second type removes super effectiveness. Grass? Same thing. Ice? Nope! Dragon? Get taken down before getting an attack in. So so so so so frustrating! Granted, I would be more forgiving if it was easier for me to get as a kid, but it's another Pokemon you have to trade to get! It doesn't even look that cool. I think that evolutionary line nailed it with Seadra but Kingdra just looks weird.

The runner up was Druddigon by the way. It barely missed out on this pick because it's pure Dragon which makes it more manageable, but it's still a pain when you encounter one in the wild. Not to mention it just looks ridiculous.

Electric - Electrode

I'm a little surprised at how many electric types I dislike. Obviously there's the Pika-clones including Pichu, but we gotta go back to the original generation to find the worst of the batch. Magnemite and Magneton got steel typing which helped them out considerably, but Voltorb and Electrode have not improved in any way since the original games. They're practically useless, just balls that look like pokeballs and explode! That is the worst, there is no use for a Pokemon whose main gimmick is suicide. Electrode is only worse than Voltorb by a small margin, mainly because it just reversed the colors and smirks at you. Just terrible design, both visually and gameplay-wise.

Fairy - Spritzee/Aromatisse/Swirlix/Slurpuff

This is kind of a cop-out, but Fairy type is new and I don't really have anything against the pre-existing Pokemon who got it added to them. It's not like fairy typing made them worse. But the new Pokemon with the type they introduced just don't do anything for me, and these four represent a couple of things I don't like. They are newcomers in the trend of Pokemon you gotta trade to make evolve, and I really despise that method of evolution. It doesn't make any sense to me why a Pokemon would get more powerful from being abandoned by its trainer (holding an item or not) and handed off to a new person. Anyway, not one of them looks good either. And I'm not saying that because they look cutesy or whatever they're bad. I mean even if you argue they're supposed to be cute THEY ARE UGLY! Every single one just looks terrible. I can't even think about them anymore.

Fighting - Tyrogue

This little twerp is frustrating to deal with. Tyrogue evolves into one of three Pokemon: Hitmonchan, Hitmonlee and Hitmontop. It's evolution depends on its stats, which means you gotta manipulate those in order to get the Pokemon you want. The first two aren't hard, you just got to get one stat over another, but Hitmontop is the hardest to get because two stats have to be equal when it evolves. So screw Tyrogue and the Hitmons, I'll take my Blaziken and be on my way. Plus, Tyrogue just doesn't have an appealing look.

Fire - Torkoal

I was tempted to just skip over this type but I'll be fair. There are a couple of Fire types I'm not very fond of but Torkoal is by far the least interesting. I think most of my beef with it comes from the fact it has no evolutions. There are lots of ways to make an interesting fire tortoise line but apparently they thought they struck gold with this one and didn't do anything else. It's slow, mostly defensive which doesn't gel with my desire to offensively burn the world around me and Flannery's could be a pain to get through with a Grovyle starter so yeah, this is the lamest fire type and it can only be saved by some new evolved forms.

Flying - Farfetch'd

There are plenty of flying types I'm not particularly fond of, but Farfetch'd is the worst simply because it is useless. It is weak, the only unique thing about it is a held item which barely does anything for it and worst of all they made it rare so getting one is a hassle if you're a completionist. There's no other reason to have it and in the first generation you could only get one with a stupid nickname. There are no redeeming qualities here, moving on.

Ghost - Gourgeist

I'll be honest, I had trouble choosing any Pokemon for this category. I just don't dislike any ghost type apparently. I can't even remember one that gave me trouble that I don't also have nostalgia for. So in order to be fair I chose Gourgeist because it's one of those trade to evolve mons and Trevenant can be found in the wild while Gourgeist can't so it comes on here because that's the fairest I can be here.

Grass - Cherrim

There were a lot of contenders for this category. Maractus, Foongus/Amoongus, Quilladin, Tangela, etc. But Cherrim has the distinction of being the worst Grass type because you don't even get to see it most of the time! 99% of your exposure to it will be with it withdrawn into it's petals covered up like a doof. It only reveals its true form when exposed to sunlight, which means you gotta have sunny day on hand or you will never see it. It's not like it's a powerhouse or even particularly good in battle anyway, so there's literally no real reason to use it over any other grass type.

Ground - Diggersby

Gastrodon was going to be the choice for this (mainly for it's appearance gimmick and unpleasant design) but then I remembered this ugly bugger and knew there could be no real contest. Bunnelby is cute enough but Diggersby is awful. It's like they realized Lopunny looked a little too good so they need to balance it out by having an ugly rabbit to go along with it. As com mons go, it's not the worst but it's nearly there. The last three gens have struggled making these guys appealing and this was just a bad try.

Ice - Cryogonal

No, I don't have a problem with the ice cream Pokemon. They have a distinctive design and look more or less cute and I can see the appeal. Cryogonal is just a mess. It's a snowflake that I can't even tell if it has a face or not and it's another one of the no evolution mons so there's no chance for a better form. It's a pure ice type so you'd be better off with something that has a dual type or can just learn ice type attacks, pretty any other ice type would be preferable than this anyway. I just can't believe what a disaster this Pokemon is.

Normal- BIDOOF

I don't even need to look at a list of Normal types to know that Bidoof is the single greatest mistake in Pokemon history. It looks like a stupid little beaver and it's cringe-worthy how un-cute it manages to look. Not to mention you couldn't go five steps in Diamond/Pearl without finding one! Words can't do this justice, I hate Bidoof so much.

Poison - Swalot

Another in this long list of awfully designed Pokemon, Gulpin at least managed to be small and round so it has a bit of a break. Swalot is just this huge blob and it has a silly mustache that just doesn't go with the rest of it. Not to mention it has this weird move gimmick of swallowing stuff to either restore health or spit it up at an opponent. No thanks, this is just too much ick for me to deal with.

Psychic - Unown

If only I could list more Pokemon, there are plenty of bad Psychic types I'd love to complain about but I'd be here for a while and I still have other categories to get to. Unown is infamous even among gimmick Pokemon so chances are you know why this one sucks. Nearly 30 varieties based on the alphabet and punctuation but completely useless. It only learns one move that does barely anything. Novel at the time they first showed up but quickly proved to be uninteresting and they've just never made any progress on making them worthwhile.

Rock - Graveler

Unpleasant design. Right out of the gate, I think it looks terrible. Geodude and Golem both have solid designs, even if Geodude is silly. Graveler is the awkward puberty stage that you burn all the pictures of and pretend never happened. Yeah that is shallow and I don't really mean it as harshly as I'm saying it. But Graveller is terrible because of a certain combination. Namely the ability Sturdy and the move Self Destruct. For crying out loud! X and Y filled Victory Road with these fuckers and grinding in there was almost impossible as a result. How are you supposed to grind when every time a Graveler shows up, survives your attack that should have KO'd it in one hit and then blows itself up anyway? It's the Electrode problem again, but made worse! By far one of the most irritating Pokemon in the wild.

Steel - Bronzong

Probopass nearly made this one for being a terrible looking Pokemon, but Bronzong has the distinction due to Gen 4. In D/P fire types were scarce, so Bronzong, being Steel/Psychic had very little to be afraid of, each type cancelling nearly everything else out. And while this wouldn't have been too big a problem normally, it seemed like they were freaking everywhere! Running into it so often made it quite a frustrating part of that gen, and for that it holds this dubious position as the worst steel type Pokemon.

Water - Luvdisc

Luvdisc is a useless Pokemon. There is no reason to use it. It's weak, performing terribly in all stats. It doesn't evolve or learn any particularly great moves that other Pokemon can't. The only reason to catch on is for it's held item, a heart scale which can be used for something, learning moves I think. Similarly, Alomomola is a runner up for similar reasons, but it at least looks a little more impressive than Luvdisc. It's the nadir of water types and quite possibly the worst Pokemon in the games.



So that ends my list of least favorite Pokemon by type. I thought this might be difficult but honestly most of these choices were easy to make.

Going by Gens, Gen 1 has 3 Pokemon on this list, Gen 2 has 3, Gen 3 has 3, Gen 4 has 5, Gen 5 has 1, and Gen 6 has 3. Surprisingly it's pretty even for the most part, with Gen 4 having a couple more and Gen 5 having only one. I guess it goes to show that each gen has for the most part introduced some stinkers. I mostly dislike unappealing designs coupled with bad movepools or lack of evolutions, and gimmicks. Also trade evolution.

I know my way isn't the usual metric by which Pokemon are judged and I'm curious to see if I've listed and really well-liked Pokemon and if I may have overlooked others that can be worse.

-Subtle

In Defense of Korra and Asami's Relationship

So I've discovered that I'm a coward because I wrote a long fucking YouTube comment on a video about Korra (yeah what else) and decided not to post it because it's been over six months and it's in defense of the ending relationship. I realize I've already talked about that here but I already spent too much time writing the comment and I need to put it somewhere. Nobody reads my blog anyway so I can just treat this post as a rebuttal. Maybe that makes it more professional. Anyway, the video was by BlackCriticGuy and here's the link so you have context if you want it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8womOTSkNqU

"Thing is, you're not wrong about their friendship being strong. It's just not on a binary scale, where Friendship /= Romance. I think there are plenty of people who would say that their significant other is their best friend. It's just this mindset in the video that it can't possibly be romantic in any form because it's based on a friendship that frustrates me.

I'm not too judgmental of people who didn't like it or see it coming, one of the bigger problems of the fourth season was rushed writing and Asami on the whole suffered from it (along with several other characters). That said, I don't know why people seem to think they were supposed to have been in love or a relationship the whole season. The way I viewed it, they developed that friendship in the third season very well, and then spent three years apart, during which time Korra was severely depressed and Asami was pretty busy. Suddenly they come back into each others' lives and rekindle that friendship, but there's something different going on and they don't really understand it right away. More importantly they've got an immediate threat on their hands so it's not until Kuvira's dealt with that they're able to sit back and enjoy each other's company, and the first thing they do is slip away to be alone.

The points about the vacations girls take: I honestly thought that you might just be trolling at that point because it sounded ridiculous. But even if I accept that as a common occurence, in a TV show you have to accept that some things are focused on for a reason. It is very weird if Korra and Asami just take a friend's vacation in the spirit world alone together. Thematically it would have been better, if they were going the friend route, to involve the other two friends in the group, end the show with all four on another adventure. The entire mood of the last scene was giving me romantic vibes, I really have struggled to even see how anyone else could miss it. Again, the importance of focusing on their hands and gaze, in a show that means something.

I feel like the points about putting a label on their relationship and asking why the Avatar has to be in a relationship just don't matter. You might as well ask why Aang needed to have a relationship and why could he and Katara just have been close friends? After all, Aang was a monk and if any character could be expected not to engage in romance it would be the 12 year old bald monk. You can ask those questions sure but it doesn't really help the conversation any. You can ask them about any couple. They could have done that but they didn't, the answer is because they wanted Korra to have a relationship.

It bugs me when people try to devalue the relationship or make excuses for why they're only friends. Criticize how its done all you like, it's definitely not written particularly well, but the creators confirmed the relationship as romantic. In my personal opinion it feels like it's just starting, not in full swing and I don't know why more people don't even seem to consider it.

I know this video is six months old and practically no one cares anymore, especially in the wake of Gay Marriage being legalized. I usually like your videos BCG and I think you're a swell guy, but stumbling upon this video just hit my buttons and I felt obligated to retread my defense of Korrasami. I understand where you were coming from but I just felt a bit insulted while watching."

I legitimately do feel like BlackCriticGuy was kind of insulting to people like me in this video. It's not that Korra and Asami weren't good friends or that they always had romantic interactions, but just denying that anything they did together could be romantic in some way just bothers me. The denial that there just wasn't any romantic subtext at all and I'm just reaching to draw a conclusion that just is not substantiated by the show at all, when it's been confirmed by the creators that I'm correct is just crazy and maddening. Hell, claiming that he believes the creators were merely trying to stir up controversy in order to get more exposure is far more guilty of reaching than any Korrasami speculation from season 4. Even at the end of the video when he's saying that it's okay to have different opinion or interpretations just felt like covering himself rather than sincerely believing it.

One point I left out of the comment as well was my exasperation with trying to find ways around Korra and Asami being together romantically. I mean, shippers always go crazy whenever their favorite pairing isn't realized (exaggeration, don't get your pants in a knot) but just the amount of people who suddenly ask why Korra just can't be single or why their can't be just a strong friendship between her and Asami is irritating. Nobody was asking why Aang got in a relationship. Maybe it's just that I don't see it much, but it really does feel like people were just trying to deny a homosexual relationship instead of legitimately wanting Korra single with a friend. Would most of those people still have asked that it she had ended up with Mako? Was anyone asking that in the first season finale when it looked like that might be the end of the series?

Obviously I really enjoy this pairing, enough to spend a few posts writing about it, and it really irks me that people just try to undermine it any way they can. I don't want to be harsh but the fact is that Korrasami is a romantic relationship and trying to deny it is pointless and irritating. Again I say, criticize it if you don't like it, and if you hate it because you're a homophobe at least come out and freaking say it if you're going to talk about it. Write or read fanfiction if you really need an alternate version or something but denying romantic Korrasami is factually wrong. Hopefully the upcoming comic will make it so obvious it can't be denied anymore.

Boy, how embarrassing would it be if this whole issue had settled down already and people had already come to terms with it and I'm just stupidly stoking the embers to a conflict I wish was dealt with? Well, in that hypothetical, there would be no one to read this anyway so it's almost like it couldn't happen.

-Subtle