I’m almost tempted to have a ‘rematch’ with Garbodor, just to explain more eloquently why I still don’t like him. Almost. Anyway. Hmm. There will, naturally, be some overlap here with my Top 10 Worst Pokémon Ever list, but not too much, I hope.
Grass – This is still Sunflora. She’s just so unforgivably bland – I mean, really, a plant creature that likes sunlight? How long d’you think it took them to come up with that one?
Fire – This is actually really hard; there are quite a lot of Fire-types with really weird, interesting designs, like Magcargo and Heatmor… for lack of a better answer, I’ll go with Simisear for this one.
Ground – Um… dunno. There aren’t a lot of Ground Pokémon I strongly dislike. I guess probably Sandslash, for reasons of generic-desert-creature-ness.
Poison – I was going to go with Weezing, but then I remembered that Amoonguss is a Poison-type, and my reasons for disliking Weezing are kinda petty anyway, so let’s pick Amoonguss.
Electric – Hands down, this is Manectric, whose flavour is pretty much “whoo, look at me, I have electrical powers.” Well done, Manectric.
Water – Probably Kingler, for reasons recently discussed.
Rock – And I can’t say Probopass? Fine, um… probably Gigalith, for being Golem 2.0.
Flying – …I have to pick just one? All right, all right, uh… probably Unfezant, mostly because he’s just the freshest in my memory.
Ice – Beartic, again for reasons of blandness. He’s one of those Pokémon where you could probably just stick the equivalent real-world animal into the game in his place and no one would even notice.
Normal – Again, just one? Erm… Let’s see… I’m allowed to pick one that just plain bugs me, right? Lickilicky.
Bug – Don’t even ask.
Ghost – This is a tough one… there are so few Ghost Pokémon, and I just think the type itself is inherently interesting, so it’s hard to pick one… probably Banette, but don’t read too much into that.
Fighting – Conkeldurr, for being Machamp 2.0.
Dragon – This is another tough one because there aren’t really many Dragon-types that I dislike, but I can get out of it by saying Rayquaza, for whom I have irrational hatred.
Psychic – Can I say Chingling? Not for any reason specific to Chingling, necessarily, but because it was obvious to everyone that Chimecho needed an evolution, and Game Freak decided to mock him by giving him a baby form instead.
Dark – Mightyena, because “this Pokémon is good at team work and will only obey skilled trainers” is pretty much the whole story with her. (And because I know someone will bring it up, yes, I’ve read this article, no, I don’t care)
Steel – Hmm. I sort of have a vague mistrust of Steel as a whole because I think it screws over the game balance so badly, but there aren’t many specific Steel-types I have serious problems with. Um. Genesect kinda bothers me, for a variety of reasons, one of which is the whole ‘mecha’ thing which I still feel a little guilty about because I know it’s very subjective, but what the hell, this is about my least-favourite Pokémon; I can be as subjective as I want.
Y’know, there are rather a lot of Unova Pokémon in there. I suspect this is, more than anything else, because I invested so much energy into hating them. Probably warped my mind a little bit. Hmm. Oh well.
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