

Ludicolo is that tio that hits the punch a bit too hard and is a little too into the festivities, and I love them for that. Sirfetch’d is an oddity that simultaneously delights and confuses me to this day, and for that alone, he’s up there. And then I’d have had to eat Murkrow, because you’d have been so implausibly right. You would grow to hate me and curse my bloodline. If you’d have told me that of all the Pokémon in the world, Farfetch’d would get knighted and become this gallant, suave heroic type, I would’ve openly mocked you. Pokémon Scarlet and Violet may be busted to the moon and back, but at least the monster designs seem like they’re getting fun again. (Sue me, I’m not playing something that busted.) Look at this guy. 2022, my editor’s original ruling was that it was too early to make any judgment on Pokémon from Scarlet and Violet, both because it just came out and because I actually haven’t played it yet. I hope some future form of them is even more monstrous.

Best of all is that when they Gigantamax, they basically become The Blob, enveloping airplanes, buildings, and even ships. But before then, Pokémon realized the greatest thing ever: a literal trash monster. There’s a point in time where I began to think, “Oh man, they’ll just turn anything into a Pokémon.” Admittedly, it was around the time Klefki was unveiled. The mask and cape really just make this one sing.Ĭramorant makes the list for one reason and one reason only: have you seen this thing swallow a Pikachu? What really makes Roserade, and what places them on this list, is their inspired Zorro aesthetic here. Roserade’s ambitions of winning an actual battle are a little suspect, even if I believe any decent trainer could make it work. So here are our picks for the best of the Pokédex: our top 150 Pokémon. Almost every Pokémon is worthy of love and respect, but obviously some are better than others, and after 2022’s release of Scarlet and Violet it just felt right to boost this list from a top 100 to a top 150. And since we originally created this list in 2017, a few hundred more have come out, pumping the official number up to over 1000. Hundreds of Pokémon have been released over the decades, and it was quite a challenge quantifying the value of each one. Spanning cards, games, movies, comics, and other miscellaneous forms of media, Pokémon is a cross-platform powerhouse that’s made an indelible impact upon pop culture.
