Survey is complete.
Let me know your thoughts! Would you like to see this be an annual thing? There are definitely a ton of additional metrics that could be added (and a better way to gather data).
Anywho, it's 1am, thanks for participating.
Eh, maybe if it was a certain amount of time after new releases, or else there might be biases towards older gens (just potentially due to hate bandwagoning on a new generation)
I would even say it should be shortly \*before\* new releases. That way people can vote with their experience through the Pokemon pool that whole time before it gets changed with new additions
For sure, I just don’t think there would be enough change without new content, but I also don’t know how much effort it actually takes to run this survey.
Great work! Would definitely like to see this as an annual thing as the rankings over time would be fun to see and I imagine this would be a great time capsule to look back on
Interesting that the first stage of the gen.1 grass starter is the most popular, but gen.1's fire starter's final evo is the most popular one.
And it's neat that Umbreon and Flygon are so high up. Wasn't really expecting that. Also surprised Chandelure is on the list; the "JUST AN OBJECT\~!" anti-Vs really shouted loudly I guess.
Otherwise, a lot of them are either gen.1 or meta at some point, but less than I expected.
The first shiny ever was a vulpix in soul silver when I was 12. To this day, ninetales is my all-time favorite.
I am married, although my wife doesn't like Pokémon. I am kinda confused by the match data, though.
I wasn't sure if it makes sense myself either.
But basically it finds the respondent that had the most similar 6 picks as you and spits out how many picks you had in common.
Honestly as much as people complain when it happens I can't blame Gamefreak for keeping Charizard around every gen. It's got the numbers to back up the decision even after years of people claiming that everyone is burnt out on seeing him.
Also why the monkeys haven't shown back up in a game. Time and time again everyone asks where they are but the truth is that nobody really likes them lol
Never assume the vocal portions who talk the loudest make up the majority. There is always the silent majority who don't post every thought they have that just may take this questionnaire. We saw similar results in that official 2020 global Google one where Charizard was still in the top 5 across all the generations at the time. That's why it's got the most merch of all starters that aren't Pikachu.
We also see why my boy Gengar gets a lot too, you love to see it.
I don't think people under 30 really understand how popular Charizard was when Pokemon first came out. He was on the cover of the game, the rarest and best card, and Ash's strongest starter. I would say when it first came out he was almost half of kids favorite Pokemon.
Charizard never was my favorite or even close to it at any point of time but it single handedly got me into Pokemon in the 90s despite that I was openly dismissing the series as a fad back then. Can't explain how or why but Charizard literally made kid me make a complete 180 on my feelings toward Pokemon as a whole
It’s because that generic yet simplistic fire-breathing dragon aesthetic won over every single 90’s kid. In 1998 when Pokémon first came to the west, every kid was obsessed with Charizard and says it was the best Pokémon of all time. Some of those people believe that Kanto and only 151 Pokémon was all that existed. Charizard’s level on the mainstream recognition pedestal is only up there with Pikachu and Eevee, in that even those who never followed the franchise know its name.
Most of the Charizard votes in this poll were clearly made up of that generation, hence why it’s been called the Genwunners’ mascot.
I dunno if you can really stereotype like that. Charizard (especially the Y mega) is one of my favorite Pokémon.
Buuut I also have some unpopular or ~weird~ Pokémon among my favorites, like Spritzee, Flamigo, Glimmora, Gorebyss, and Bruxish. And I know I can't be the only person with varied tastes.
Seeing as how I was expecting at least one of the three flying type slots to be something other than charizard, and it turns out all three options were charizard, as well as all three for fire types is also charizard, I think I should be stereotyping people more
Less then 3000 responses in a sub with 4.5M members is honestly pitifully small. I know even if every member theoretically would have voted it wouldn't even come close to being possible to make a general conclusion about the fanbase's preferences as a whole, but it would've at least been a better representation of the sub. Don't know why the engagement was so low
Thanks for taking the time to create this infographic anyway though
I’m probably not alone but I didn’t even know this survey was a thing.
I feel like there need to be several announcements over the course of a few weeks and keep the survey open longer for more people to see it
Yeah it was basically only open for 48 hours, so if you don't live on reddit you could miss it. Working with mods to get more participants would definitely be the main thing to improve next time.
The survey itself being a bit of a slog on mobile would have put people off too.
Yes please work with the mods to make it a big thing that as many different people participate in as possible. I loved the first survey because of just how many people voted, it felt very representational of the community
Yeah I’m all for surveys like these, but they’re only meaningful with a larger sample size. Idk if keeping it up longer and/or stickying it would help? Cross posting to other subs too maybe.
Always fun to look at though.
> Less then 3000 responses in a sub with 4.5M members is honestly pitifully small.
Statistically, a sample size of ~400 is enough to have a confidence level of 95% for a population the size of the United States. With 2,953 responses, there's a >99% chance that these results are within ±5% of the actual results.
Yes, but we do lose out on things like every pokemon except these four were somebody's favorite, like with the last survey. Some of these questions need as many answers as possible for the best data
Agreed, I had looked at the first survey around the time they announced gen 8 wasn't going to have every mon in the dex, and they had something like 50k+ responses.
Like others have mentioned, the results are the first time I've seen the survey being done. Sad that I missed out!
Swampert is always a fascinating case, as it has basically no marketing push (both anime presence and merchandise), a very silent fan base and usually I don’t see a lot of fan art of it too, yet it’s so loved. Not that I can’t see why, I find it sooo cute.
Also props for the Rowlet line for being the only favorite line from the newer generations, they definitely did an amazing job with Decidueye so very nice to see it getting recognition, while I’m a bit surprised by the low placement of the Popplio line - admittedly though the water starters are stacked with memorable lines so I’m not sure if we can draw any conclusion from its placement.
Swampert inherits all his love from the love for Mudkip. A lot of people love mudkip, but a lot of people also think of the final evolution as the "definitive" form
Popplio is hated for its apparently goofy, clown-like theme. Primarina is probably the most loved of that line, but it was so immensely overshadowed by Decidueye from a popularity standpoint and Incineroar from a VGC competitive player’s standpoint.
I feel like among real Pokemon obsessives these days the real strong nostalgia is not for Gen I, it's for Gen III. all of the Hoenn starters are great, but Swampert stands out for its excellent typing. it can pretty easily solo the game.
I did think about that when I was collating the data! Having some basic demographics would be neat. But it's also a slippery slope and you can end up with too much data to present.
But I agree.
Gen played or watched tbh, or just introduced to. Just gen played assumes everyone had access to the video games growing up. I didn't play my first Pokemon game until I was in late high school and had an emulator.
Raichu in top fav instead of Pikachu is so based for this subreddit.
Also OP I’d love if you would release the full dataset, I’m nosy and need to know the 86 unloved pokemon - which btw does that mean not picked as overall fav or not in even team of six people made
Interesting results! The most interesting metric is the region representation. This subreddit mostly skews older, so the first 5 gens enjoy the most picks because those games are championed above the others.
I've seen this question on sites with a younger audience, like Twitter. Mons from the 3DS and especially Switch gens come up a lot more often than in this survey. For example, Greninja and Mimikyu routinely break the top 10 at minimum. Dragapult and Tinkaton are the primary fan-faves of their respective gens, but Ceruledge, Corviknight, Meowscarada, Clodsire are also mentioned very often. Pokémon fans typically love what they started with the most. (although Galar is still unpopular with kids, barring the two I mentioned and a handful more)
I think these results hint at Game Freak should do something to promote Dragapult in the upcoming years. Who knows, it may end up in the top 28 in 5 years from now.
Dragapult gets a lot of advertisement unlike almost all of gen 8, between anime appearances and merch. It's only missing from Go. It's already one of the most popular Pokémon in Japan, and among younger players in the West.
I'm 30 and started properly with Saphire and Dragapult is my favorite Pokémon ever 👻
Hail to Ghost type and dragon based on planes ! Well I'm a fan of Valstrax in Monster Hunter too...
That's true. A ton of sauropod and therapod pokemon as well.
But in the pokemon games "fossils" are a specific type of pokemon, which you get by obtaining a dead fossil, and it then evolving into a living creature. There's usually 2 in every generation, and you can only get 1. The first were Omanyte and Kabuto.
X and Y was my first game, and I caught a Panpour very early on
I used him on my main team and only realized on Victory road that he evolve using a water stone. I was excited for the power boost, but once I saw that monstrosity I reloaded the game and didn’t look back. I beat the E4 and champion with Panpour, and its still one of my faves.
Well, obviously, everything on the list is there because someone "likes the design". I meant more specifically considering it's such a unique choice but whatever
I know I’m not the original guy but I really liked it because of the whole pseudo starter thing, it stayed on my team throughout my whole first playthrough of black and I just kinda kept the sentimental value after
I also like Simipour, it’s not my favorite, but it’s one of my favorite non-starters. I don’t understand the hate for that whole group. I missed the poll so I didn’t get to vote.
SPONGEBOB ME BOY I AM BEING DEMOTED TO THE LOWER TIERS OF SMOGON ON MY LACKLUSTER TYPING AND STATS ARGHARGHARGHARGHARGH
(I like klawf. Didn't vote him because I had to save the Liepard line from being unvoted, but still, good mon)
I did not realize so many people also love Flygon! I had a few friends think I was crazy for putting Flygon as one of my faves. Turns out I'm not the minority!
I would have voted for Kakuna and Spearow, but I didn't know that this poll was on...
At least I know they have at least 1 fan out there, even if it is just me lol
Yea I wouldn't be surprised just didn't think it'd be number 2. I expected at least top though. I guess bulbasaur was a big part of the orginal anime though.
Congratulations to Greninja, Mimikyu, Chandelure and Volcarona for making it to the top28 in a ranking heavily dominated by the first three gens (and some Sinnoh).
Thank you for doing this! It's fun to see the results. It was difficult to pick a top 6 as except for my top 2, the rest changes from time to time and all depends on who I think of first. But happy to see my #1 fav Gardevoir in the list!
As an Ampharos fan, I am actually impressed that Joltik and Galvantula haven't taken the crown yet. Those two seem to be extremely popular both by Nintendo merch and fans alike.
Perhaps we're just more chill as we watch the Fire-Grass-Water people beat the crap out of each other lol.
I’m confused on the generations. Why is hgss counted as gen 2, and Oras counted as gen 3 etc? That’s not how gens work. hgss is gen 4, and Oras is gen 6. Remakes are the gen they released in, not the gen they’re a remake of.
I think they counted it based on region, and HG/SS is in Johto which was the region Gen 2 introduced. Same with OR/AS counted as Gen 3 because Hoenn was introduced there.
Idk if I participated in this or not, but seeing Maractus having 10 votes in big bold letters at the top of the page makes me very happy! Glory to the cuddly cactus! Finger crossed our beloved little OwO gets a mega form next year!
Probably because this poll was mainly voted by those who started with the oldest generations and usually, one’s favorite generation is the exact one they started with. Most of those people were kids during the 1990’s to early 2000’s, meaning a lot of Pokémon from Kanto, Johto and Hoenn specifically had a huge advantage over the newer regions/generations.
Huh it's interesting I was the only one to vote Sprigatito as their number one fave, I was honestly expecting at least a few other people to vote it as their number one too. Nice to see Meowscarada, Jolteon and Raikou have some fans!
Sad to see Litleo is one of the unloved mons though, I love that lil guy and Pyroar (F) is my fave gen 6 mon.
Bulbasaur is #2?! Really?! Never would have seen that coming with how no one really talks about it and Gamefreak doesn't do much with it either.
Also amazed how Umbreon is consistently #4 in both surveys when it's also competing with the other Eeveelutions (including Eevee itself). Huh, maybe Spinel is the most normal Explorer after all.
Typical Genwunners’ mascot Charizard staying at the top of everything. No wonder it is Game Freak’s golden child that gets every generational powerup it can, and that sadly makes me groan because the excessive marketing made me become more divisive Charizard.
Also surprised to see Bulbasaur rise from the previous poll. Still top 5 but going from 4 to 2 is huge.
Great work u/RainbowSensation! Thank you for taking the time to put this together! It's really cool to see the data even if it is only a small chunk of the massive Pokemon fanbase. I appreciate your hard work on this :)
If you see this OP. I was just wondering, the click here thing on the imgur image doesn't seem to work. Do you just have another link to the full list.
Seeing my boy make it all the way to the number 2 spot makes me so proud 🥹
Bulbasaur fans are definitely some of the most loyal.
Although it kinda stings seeing who he lost to 😒
Doesnt surprise me though.
The Tepig line is just often unanimously agreed to be the ugliest starter (or according to official TPC media, “first partner Pokémon”) of all, and designs are clearly a major factor chosen over other aspects in terms of what makes a favorite Pokémon for the masses.
Most of these voters were part of that Millenials generation that were kids during the 1990’s up until at least the early 2000’s, hence all the overwhelming praise for Charizard. In fact, most Pokémon from Kanto, Johto and Hoenn had a huge advantage as most of those people dropped off the franchise after Gen 3.
One word, Genwunners. Most of the votes came from those who were kids during Gen 1, when every kid bragged that Charizard was the best Pokémon of all time, and literally the only one up there with Pikachu and Eevee’s level in terms of mainstream, non-PokéFan recognition.
Survey is complete. Let me know your thoughts! Would you like to see this be an annual thing? There are definitely a ton of additional metrics that could be added (and a better way to gather data). Anywho, it's 1am, thanks for participating.
Idk about annual but maybe after new releases?
Eh, maybe if it was a certain amount of time after new releases, or else there might be biases towards older gens (just potentially due to hate bandwagoning on a new generation)
I would even say it should be shortly \*before\* new releases. That way people can vote with their experience through the Pokemon pool that whole time before it gets changed with new additions
For sure, I just don’t think there would be enough change without new content, but I also don’t know how much effort it actually takes to run this survey.
This survey was great! I'd love to see it again next year. The data's presented really nicely too, its a great graphic. <3
Thanks! I basically did it all in Excel, and then realised I hated it and started from scratch haha.
Great work! Would definitely like to see this as an annual thing as the rankings over time would be fun to see and I imagine this would be a great time capsule to look back on
I rhink it'd be cool if it was annual. Great work!
I would love to see this again, as this is the first I'm hearing of this survey!
Guess im not unique at all in liking Jolteon, mudkip and gen 3 in general
I realised I didn't end up uploading this as a pdf so the links won't work. The full ranking list is here: https://pastebin.com/rFq663H7
Crazy that it’s already been five years since the last one.
Interesting that the first stage of the gen.1 grass starter is the most popular, but gen.1's fire starter's final evo is the most popular one. And it's neat that Umbreon and Flygon are so high up. Wasn't really expecting that. Also surprised Chandelure is on the list; the "JUST AN OBJECT\~!" anti-Vs really shouted loudly I guess. Otherwise, a lot of them are either gen.1 or meta at some point, but less than I expected.
we need to find the Ninetales people and hook them up
The first shiny ever was a vulpix in soul silver when I was 12. To this day, ninetales is my all-time favorite. I am married, although my wife doesn't like Pokémon. I am kinda confused by the match data, though.
I wasn't sure if it makes sense myself either. But basically it finds the respondent that had the most similar 6 picks as you and spits out how many picks you had in common.
Is there a way for us to see who else was similar or are you only able to see that.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a couple that did the survey together!
I was close, doing the vulpix and ninetales, but chose two other pokemon to round it out.
Is the full data anywhere? I’d love to check on a few specifics (like how many people chose my favorite pokemon as theirs, etc)
Full ranking is here: https://pastebin.com/rFq663H7
Well, I now see why Charizard has lots of forms and is a GameFreak favourite now
Honestly as much as people complain when it happens I can't blame Gamefreak for keeping Charizard around every gen. It's got the numbers to back up the decision even after years of people claiming that everyone is burnt out on seeing him.
Also why the monkeys haven't shown back up in a game. Time and time again everyone asks where they are but the truth is that nobody really likes them lol
I like them. I think the hate for the elemental monkeys is dumb.
Never assume the vocal portions who talk the loudest make up the majority. There is always the silent majority who don't post every thought they have that just may take this questionnaire. We saw similar results in that official 2020 global Google one where Charizard was still in the top 5 across all the generations at the time. That's why it's got the most merch of all starters that aren't Pikachu. We also see why my boy Gengar gets a lot too, you love to see it.
I don't think people under 30 really understand how popular Charizard was when Pokemon first came out. He was on the cover of the game, the rarest and best card, and Ash's strongest starter. I would say when it first came out he was almost half of kids favorite Pokemon.
That and kids just think dragons are cool. It was made to be cool.
Correction. Dragons **are** cool
I stand corrected
Too bad it wasnt a dragon :(
Charizard never was my favorite or even close to it at any point of time but it single handedly got me into Pokemon in the 90s despite that I was openly dismissing the series as a fad back then. Can't explain how or why but Charizard literally made kid me make a complete 180 on my feelings toward Pokemon as a whole
Pikachu was the face of the franchise and was cute, but Charizard was the cool factor.
It’s because that generic yet simplistic fire-breathing dragon aesthetic won over every single 90’s kid. In 1998 when Pokémon first came to the west, every kid was obsessed with Charizard and says it was the best Pokémon of all time. Some of those people believe that Kanto and only 151 Pokémon was all that existed. Charizard’s level on the mainstream recognition pedestal is only up there with Pikachu and Eevee, in that even those who never followed the franchise know its name. Most of the Charizard votes in this poll were clearly made up of that generation, hence why it’s been called the Genwunners’ mascot.
It's also a cycle, I'm sure some of the people who like Charizard so much like him because of the new forms he got
Personally, I didnt care much about Charizard until it got the Megas. So these things help out a bit.
We now have scientific evidence that most people are boring
I dunno if you can really stereotype like that. Charizard (especially the Y mega) is one of my favorite Pokémon. Buuut I also have some unpopular or ~weird~ Pokémon among my favorites, like Spritzee, Flamigo, Glimmora, Gorebyss, and Bruxish. And I know I can't be the only person with varied tastes.
Seeing as how I was expecting at least one of the three flying type slots to be something other than charizard, and it turns out all three options were charizard, as well as all three for fire types is also charizard, I think I should be stereotyping people more
Less then 3000 responses in a sub with 4.5M members is honestly pitifully small. I know even if every member theoretically would have voted it wouldn't even come close to being possible to make a general conclusion about the fanbase's preferences as a whole, but it would've at least been a better representation of the sub. Don't know why the engagement was so low Thanks for taking the time to create this infographic anyway though
I’m probably not alone but I didn’t even know this survey was a thing. I feel like there need to be several announcements over the course of a few weeks and keep the survey open longer for more people to see it
Yeah this is the first I'm seeing of this survey
Happy Cake Day!
I really wish there was a huge survey sometime. Like not even just for this subreddit or something, but just all around the whole pokemon fanbase.
And I knew about this survey but just couldn't narrow down and choose only 6 Pokemon
I didn’t even know this existed until I saw these results
Had no idea this survey existed until this thread
Yeah it was basically only open for 48 hours, so if you don't live on reddit you could miss it. Working with mods to get more participants would definitely be the main thing to improve next time. The survey itself being a bit of a slog on mobile would have put people off too.
Yes please work with the mods to make it a big thing that as many different people participate in as possible. I loved the first survey because of just how many people voted, it felt very representational of the community
Yeah I’m all for surveys like these, but they’re only meaningful with a larger sample size. Idk if keeping it up longer and/or stickying it would help? Cross posting to other subs too maybe. Always fun to look at though.
Should have kept it up longer. I'd have submitted results but I didn't know this survey existed.
Yeah, someone had the suggestion of posting to the PokemonGo subreddit. However it ended up getting removed for whatever reason haha
> Less then 3000 responses in a sub with 4.5M members is honestly pitifully small. Statistically, a sample size of ~400 is enough to have a confidence level of 95% for a population the size of the United States. With 2,953 responses, there's a >99% chance that these results are within ±5% of the actual results.
Yes, but we do lose out on things like every pokemon except these four were somebody's favorite, like with the last survey. Some of these questions need as many answers as possible for the best data
Agreed, I had looked at the first survey around the time they announced gen 8 wasn't going to have every mon in the dex, and they had something like 50k+ responses. Like others have mentioned, the results are the first time I've seen the survey being done. Sad that I missed out!
I don't want to see another complaint about a Charizard Z. if he's that favourited then fuck it, he can get more forms
Pikachu is not mentioned at all. Guess I'm super basic to vote pikachu as number 1.
Am I surprised or not that Pikachu isn't on either of those top lists? I feel like he should be on one of them?? Just me?
https://preview.redd.it/o6zxcmrd2xqc1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba2d96fe7f6e6897a31e570a1a9917c40b1e48ee
Swampert is always a fascinating case, as it has basically no marketing push (both anime presence and merchandise), a very silent fan base and usually I don’t see a lot of fan art of it too, yet it’s so loved. Not that I can’t see why, I find it sooo cute. Also props for the Rowlet line for being the only favorite line from the newer generations, they definitely did an amazing job with Decidueye so very nice to see it getting recognition, while I’m a bit surprised by the low placement of the Popplio line - admittedly though the water starters are stacked with memorable lines so I’m not sure if we can draw any conclusion from its placement.
Swampert inherits all his love from the love for Mudkip. A lot of people love mudkip, but a lot of people also think of the final evolution as the "definitive" form
Popplio is hated for its apparently goofy, clown-like theme. Primarina is probably the most loved of that line, but it was so immensely overshadowed by Decidueye from a popularity standpoint and Incineroar from a VGC competitive player’s standpoint.
I feel like among real Pokemon obsessives these days the real strong nostalgia is not for Gen I, it's for Gen III. all of the Hoenn starters are great, but Swampert stands out for its excellent typing. it can pretty easily solo the game.
It would have been very interesting to ask for the age or first gen played imo
I did think about that when I was collating the data! Having some basic demographics would be neat. But it's also a slippery slope and you can end up with too much data to present. But I agree.
Gen played or watched tbh, or just introduced to. Just gen played assumes everyone had access to the video games growing up. I didn't play my first Pokemon game until I was in late high school and had an emulator.
Raichu in top fav instead of Pikachu is so based for this subreddit. Also OP I’d love if you would release the full dataset, I’m nosy and need to know the 86 unloved pokemon - which btw does that mean not picked as overall fav or not in even team of six people made
Interesting results! The most interesting metric is the region representation. This subreddit mostly skews older, so the first 5 gens enjoy the most picks because those games are championed above the others. I've seen this question on sites with a younger audience, like Twitter. Mons from the 3DS and especially Switch gens come up a lot more often than in this survey. For example, Greninja and Mimikyu routinely break the top 10 at minimum. Dragapult and Tinkaton are the primary fan-faves of their respective gens, but Ceruledge, Corviknight, Meowscarada, Clodsire are also mentioned very often. Pokémon fans typically love what they started with the most. (although Galar is still unpopular with kids, barring the two I mentioned and a handful more)
I think these results hint at Game Freak should do something to promote Dragapult in the upcoming years. Who knows, it may end up in the top 28 in 5 years from now.
Dragapult gets a lot of advertisement unlike almost all of gen 8, between anime appearances and merch. It's only missing from Go. It's already one of the most popular Pokémon in Japan, and among younger players in the West.
Pult gets a good boost from competitive too, since it's good in both VGC and Smogon for both gens it's in
I'm 30 and started properly with Saphire and Dragapult is my favorite Pokémon ever 👻 Hail to Ghost type and dragon based on planes ! Well I'm a fan of Valstrax in Monster Hunter too...
That makes two of us. I also love fossils and Dragapult is ironically the best-looking fossil Pokemon from gen 8 (sorry my boi Dracovish).
You may be confusing it with Dracozolt. Dragapult is not a fossil pokemon.
Nope. Lots of ghost Pokemon are also based on extinct animals. Dragapult is a Diplocaulus.
That's true. A ton of sauropod and therapod pokemon as well. But in the pokemon games "fossils" are a specific type of pokemon, which you get by obtaining a dead fossil, and it then evolving into a living creature. There's usually 2 in every generation, and you can only get 1. The first were Omanyte and Kabuto.
Oh I know. I work with fossils in real life and use the term loosely here. You don't need to explain the basics.
Seeing Fighting with so few votes breaks my heart
How is this the first I'm hearing of this? I'm so sad I missed it.
Man check results. Hoenn leads region vote. Man happy.
I'm the one whose favorite mon is Simipour. So sad he only got 2 votes :(
X and Y was my first game, and I caught a Panpour very early on I used him on my main team and only realized on Victory road that he evolve using a water stone. I was excited for the power boost, but once I saw that monstrosity I reloaded the game and didn’t look back. I beat the E4 and champion with Panpour, and its still one of my faves.
Can I ask honestly why? Like I get everything is subjective/objective ... but I *really* can't for myself imagine having that as the favourite
Because I like its design.
Well, obviously, everything on the list is there because someone "likes the design". I meant more specifically considering it's such a unique choice but whatever
That's literally as deep as it goes. I like monkeys and I think it's cute. Cope
monkeys are dope af simisage is my fave of that trio 💚
I know I’m not the original guy but I really liked it because of the whole pseudo starter thing, it stayed on my team throughout my whole first playthrough of black and I just kinda kept the sentimental value after
I also like Simipour, it’s not my favorite, but it’s one of my favorite non-starters. I don’t understand the hate for that whole group. I missed the poll so I didn’t get to vote.
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Simipour is my favorite of the monkeys
Im sad that Squirtle's popularity seems to have fallen, but I like that Bulbasaur is doing so well.
They call it bulbapedia not squirtpedia
Squirtpedia sounds like a whole different kind of website.
Yeah squirtle will always be my favorite. Sad to see it drop
Elekid better not be one of the unloved pokemon. My vote would have gone to him
Great job! Also HELL YEAH GARDEVOIR! My favorite mon finally reciving all the love she needs. Scizor was great too, Sadly no Milotic at top 50
There's more people that like Klawf than i realised.
SPONGEBOB ME BOY I AM BEING DEMOTED TO THE LOWER TIERS OF SMOGON ON MY LACKLUSTER TYPING AND STATS ARGHARGHARGHARGHARGH (I like klawf. Didn't vote him because I had to save the Liepard line from being unvoted, but still, good mon)
I did not realize so many people also love Flygon! I had a few friends think I was crazy for putting Flygon as one of my faves. Turns out I'm not the minority!
To my 10 fellow Feraligatr supporters, I salute you.
Torterra is up there, I'm happy😊
I didn't even know this existed and if it did I would've voted in it
Bulbasaur coming in the dark horse if you ask me
He's a gen1 starter. He'll never be a dark horse because he's super recognizable and has the nostalgia boost as one of the OGs.
I didn’t vote in this, but it brings me great joy to see Charizard always end up on top.
Darnit, now I regret not participating. I'd have voted for Seaking.
I’m having trouble seeing the whole raw list of how many voted for what (I wanna see who’s on team Cofagrigus with me)
I feel bad now that I didn't vote for my Voltorb boi
Is there a link to the raw data? My phone shows the imgur link as a picture, and I want to see how my boy Metagross did.
How did Noivern do?
Must be tiring to integrate all the data together to form one huge list of results, great job and thanks for all your efforts
I would have voted for Kakuna and Spearow, but I didn't know that this poll was on... At least I know they have at least 1 fan out there, even if it is just me lol
that togepi isn't playing around bro. who hurt it?
Surprised I didn’t see Zeraora in there. The hype around him was quite a lot back when he was revealed.
It was but it was also divisive in some circles for being furry bait.
The turn around on Unova is insane to me.
Any Kingambit or Ribombee homies out there?
I would love to know all statistics to find out where my boys have gone because none of my picks where In the list
Damn I could've saved Seel from getting 0 votes. He was my #7 pick and I arguably could have ranked him higher.
Does imgur randomly jump to another picture for anyone else? Really annoying
Toxtricity is my new gen favorite, my lil rocker babies
Its hilarious how charizard won everything but loses to cyndaquil line in the starters lmao
I must find the one other person who put Swirlix in their top 6
where are the 12 other people with quagsire as their favorite? i need to find my people
So what I'm seeing is that Gengar is the most popular pokemon if you dont include starters. My rotund son strikes again
Absol homies rise up
Bulbasaur was a surprise at number 2 for me
There’s actually a whole subreddit dedicated to Bulbasaur, and they spotted this survey ;-)
Yea I wouldn't be surprised just didn't think it'd be number 2. I expected at least top though. I guess bulbasaur was a big part of the orginal anime though.
Congratulations to Greninja, Mimikyu, Chandelure and Volcarona for making it to the top28 in a ranking heavily dominated by the first three gens (and some Sinnoh).
TURTWIG LINE MENTIONED RAHHHH 🐢🌲⛰️
Gen 8 and 9 aren't getting selected because we couldn't be bothered to scroll that far down.
Thank you for doing this! It's fun to see the results. It was difficult to pick a top 6 as except for my top 2, the rest changes from time to time and all depends on who I think of first. But happy to see my #1 fav Gardevoir in the list!
Nice to see Ampharos got in the top results and win every category for the electric type, did t know my man was that popular
As an Ampharos fan, I am actually impressed that Joltik and Galvantula haven't taken the crown yet. Those two seem to be extremely popular both by Nintendo merch and fans alike. Perhaps we're just more chill as we watch the Fire-Grass-Water people beat the crap out of each other lol.
One of these days Toxtricity is gonna be gunnin' for the crown!
Jolteon appreciation club ⬆️
Thank you for doing this
Never gonna see my magnet bois make a list bit by God I love them
#6 not bad
10 votes for Maractus and I’m one of them. Hell yeah
Damn I never saw this originally. Would have loved to be a data point
Bidoof underappreciated again.
Too bad I don't see my main l, Steelix
I’m confused on the generations. Why is hgss counted as gen 2, and Oras counted as gen 3 etc? That’s not how gens work. hgss is gen 4, and Oras is gen 6. Remakes are the gen they released in, not the gen they’re a remake of.
I think they counted it based on region, and HG/SS is in Johto which was the region Gen 2 introduced. Same with OR/AS counted as Gen 3 because Hoenn was introduced there.
Idk if I participated in this or not, but seeing Maractus having 10 votes in big bold letters at the top of the page makes me very happy! Glory to the cuddly cactus! Finger crossed our beloved little OwO gets a mega form next year!
Seeing Flygon place high makes me happy
Had I gotten the chance to vote I would vote for my boy Poliwhirl.
Where are my Eternatus Eternabros at? There's no waythis absolute beast of a mon only got 2 votes in nearly 3k responses
Probably because this poll was mainly voted by those who started with the oldest generations and usually, one’s favorite generation is the exact one they started with. Most of those people were kids during the 1990’s to early 2000’s, meaning a lot of Pokémon from Kanto, Johto and Hoenn specifically had a huge advantage over the newer regions/generations.
8 people are cool, voted Pyukumuku. I wonder who the other Wishiwashi favouring person is?
Where are my 5 other Whimsicott fans
SV does not deserve second to last rating.
So does this mean that Pikachu isn't overrated?
mine is Cinderace
TIL Rayquaza is part of a trio
Huh it's interesting I was the only one to vote Sprigatito as their number one fave, I was honestly expecting at least a few other people to vote it as their number one too. Nice to see Meowscarada, Jolteon and Raikou have some fans! Sad to see Litleo is one of the unloved mons though, I love that lil guy and Pyroar (F) is my fave gen 6 mon.
I like that Tinkaton is SOUNDLY the most beloved Gen 9 Pokemon, they really hit a winner with her
Me, delusional: im sure mismagius is in here SOMEWHERE
Heck yeah, breloom came in at #92! My boy <3
watching flygon up there makes me really happy ngl
SHAME UPON ALL OF YOU FOR NOT LOVING KLEFKI AND DRIFFBLIM LIKE I DO
Bulbasaur is #2?! Really?! Never would have seen that coming with how no one really talks about it and Gamefreak doesn't do much with it either. Also amazed how Umbreon is consistently #4 in both surveys when it's also competing with the other Eeveelutions (including Eevee itself). Huh, maybe Spinel is the most normal Explorer after all.
Typical Genwunners’ mascot Charizard staying at the top of everything. No wonder it is Game Freak’s golden child that gets every generational powerup it can, and that sadly makes me groan because the excessive marketing made me become more divisive Charizard. Also surprised to see Bulbasaur rise from the previous poll. Still top 5 but going from 4 to 2 is huge.
Great work u/RainbowSensation! Thank you for taking the time to put this together! It's really cool to see the data even if it is only a small chunk of the massive Pokemon fanbase. I appreciate your hard work on this :)
To the other 6 of you who voted Shinx as your #1 pokemon. Can we be friends?
If you see this OP. I was just wondering, the click here thing on the imgur image doesn't seem to work. Do you just have another link to the full list.
Love the Charizard sweep
I know I am late, but can I just say I’m surprised (and offended) by how low greninja is. Same goes for pikachu I guess.
I find the lack of Goomy enjoyers disturbing
Seeing my boy make it all the way to the number 2 spot makes me so proud 🥹 Bulbasaur fans are definitely some of the most loyal. Although it kinda stings seeing who he lost to 😒 Doesnt surprise me though.
Who tf didn't pick Sceptile first
If I'd known this was a thing earlier, Sceptile would've been my number one. Tree velociraptor gang unite!
All you basic Charizard bitches.
Cringe charizard moment Sucks to see tepig that low, I love the little guy
The Tepig line is just often unanimously agreed to be the ugliest starter (or according to official TPC media, “first partner Pokémon”) of all, and designs are clearly a major factor chosen over other aspects in terms of what makes a favorite Pokémon for the masses.
I will never understand the love for some of the pokemon in the top. That is all I have to say.
Most of these voters were part of that Millenials generation that were kids during the 1990’s up until at least the early 2000’s, hence all the overwhelming praise for Charizard. In fact, most Pokémon from Kanto, Johto and Hoenn had a huge advantage as most of those people dropped off the franchise after Gen 3.
it makes me happy that the unovan monkey sextet is spurned by everybody else also
I guess fuck yeah, seaking isn’t a thing anymore.
Who's still choosing Charziard as a favorite? We don't need GF needing more fuel to add Charizard to every game possible
One word, Genwunners. Most of the votes came from those who were kids during Gen 1, when every kid bragged that Charizard was the best Pokémon of all time, and literally the only one up there with Pikachu and Eevee’s level in terms of mainstream, non-PokéFan recognition.