I’m sure you have been asked about it before, but I’d love to see a list similar to “Top Ten Worst Pokemon Ever” in which you give your opinion of the best Pokemon ever, whether it be based upon flavor or actual battle usefulness (or both) is up to you. Presumably it would discount legendaries, because a top 10 best list of all legendaries would just be boring, especially if you’re basing this upon power alone… Anyways, just some food for thought when you’re coming up with future topic ideas.

I think I probably have been asked this before, but I don’t remember exactly.  The main reasons I’ve never tried to do it are because I don’t think I’d be able to narrow it down to ten, and even if I did, I don’t think I’d be able to put them in order.  I mean, really, choose a single “best Pokémon ever”?  Even my “worst Pokémon ever” was kind of a fake-out because I honestly do like a lot of things about the Unown; I just hate the way the games handle them.  The fact is, as much as I bitch about it, Pokémon has a lot more good designs than bad ones, and it helps that I was able to select my top ten worst ones from the relatively small subset of those who are also terrible at everything.  The other thing is that while I’m very sure that the weakest Pokémon contribute little to gameplay, I kind of believe that the very strongest ones are not necessarily a positive influence either – I love Kyogre as a Pokémon, but I would never have let players anywhere near something so powerful.  Even nerfing Drizzle only stops him from totally dominating all the other legendary Pokémon.  I’m not sure where I would draw my line, though – is it my contention that Blaziken is ‘good’?  What about Lucario, or Garchomp?  I’m not sure what the ideal balance point is.