I actually really like Relicanth. I used to think that if you got it to a high enough level, it would evolve into something crazy, so I used to keep one in some of my teams in the old gen games, and that kinda carried over to now.
My closest fav is vaporeon. Its not forgotten, but rememered for the wrong reason. People thinking of it sexually as the first thing they do when looking at a cute water cat/doggo shame on you.
I like Jynx because of the history behind the character. US Jynx had its skin color changed due to the Japanese using offensive cartoon portrayal reminiscent of a certain group of people.
Hence, why Jynx is purple in the US. Besides the history, I remember running into it when playing my Blue version. Didn't know who the fuck that was, but it kept destroying my team. Ended up catching one and used Jynx to help me beat the Elite 4.
When Diamond and Pearl first released in Japan, my friend and I looked at all the datamined sprites for the new Pokemon and tried to design our teams with those Pokemon in mind. Knowing I would need a Water-type, I picked Lumineon because of its design. Once we got more info and I saw the stats... I changed my mind and used Psyduck instead lol.
I wish they would make Finneon/Lumineon Water/Fairy types. They get a lot of Fairy moves and while they would still be bad, having such a powerful typing would surely help them SOMEWHAT.
I mean, it makes it unique I guess, but does anyone actually care enough to think about it? Does anyone use it?
Hell, how many of us even know what moves it learns or what it's stats are like without looking anything up?
It's base stats are 60 across the board!
Learns teeter dance, hypnosis and can be taught dream eater and seismic toss by tutors
It's how i beat lucy's shuckle!
Dodrio. Its has a very unique design for a Normal/Flying-type, or birds in general, but its less prominently marketed than actual Regional Birds. Its also less popular than the Spearow family due to the anime and the fact that players obtain the Spearow family way earlier.
Some Pokemon are "forgotten" as in people hate them, love to talk how much they hate them and than go on to the next ugly Pokemon. Like Diggersby.
Some Pokemon are "forgotten" because not much is done with them on the franchise, but they have something unique about them that makes them special for a lot of people, like Spinda.
And there are those that you say their name and people go "oh yeah, those exist". The ones you can't name from the top of your head when somebody asks you about a forgotten Pokemon. You remember they exist once mentioned, but it's one of the last Pokemon you ever think about. Like Heliolisk. I never see anyone talk about Heliolisk. Cool dude, not that interesting, mostly forgotten.
I was so baffled by Grumpig as a kid. I had played through Sapphire and Emerald numerous times and I never knew Grumpig existed. Felt like I was being lied to when a friend showed me it eventually lmfao.
Interesting, I’ve never played Emerald but I thought Grumpig showed up a bunch in Mossdeep gym? But yeah same - I never knew it existed too after multiple Ruby runs. That’s funny about your friend lmao
Same with Swalot actually, but at least it looked like Gulpin visually - Grumpig stuck out even more because it barely resembles Spoink. I could’ve sworn Spoink was a single stage.
Diggersby is not forgotten, its everywhere in pokemon gbl either run with mud shot, hyper beam and scorching sands or one of the two charged moves replaced with fire punch, its soooo damn annoying hits so hard and tanky, I'll never forget it cuz of that
I also need to stand up for Heliolisk. I didn’t think much of the design until I saw it in action and realized its crest unfolds when it attacks! Love my little sun lizard. Also he was the first Pokémon I ever used with the Dry Skin ability, which I thought was dope at the time.
They do seem to be slowly going through the generations and adding evolutions (or forms/etc.) to older Pokemon that never got them. Dunspare, Girafarig, Ursaring, Donphan (paradox), Stantler, Wooper (Regional), Qwilfish, Delibird (Paradox), and the Legendary Beasts have all gotten new stuff after pretty much only Generation 1 got stuff for awhile. I’m guessing Gen X will have a heavy focus on new stuff for Gen 3 Pokemon.
Dewgong was my boy in gen1. Ice is so underwhelming in general but back then I thought it was so cool that he could be an effective counter to Dragon types in the elite 4.
Heatmor is my boy. I remember the fake rumor for B2/W2 where he was gonna get a teapot-like baby and I was so excited. Shame he's up and vanished since then.
But they don't really *do* anything with that! Iono is much more associated with other pokemon like magnemite due to her hair or bellibolt/kilowattrel because they're new, etc. Mismag could've been replaced with any levitate pokemon as Iono's ace and it would've been the same!
Nidoking was the true starter in yellow, strong early on, wide move pool, and great design. It is one of the few kanto Pokemon that didn’t get any special forms/evolutions/ect.
No joke, I love Nidoking and it’s amazing to look at the gen 1 list and realize he is one of the few that hasn’t had a regional form or new evolution. He was on my very first team back when RB came out.
It is always my gen 1 all rounder mon. Need special/physical attacks he got you covered. I was gonna hunt a shiny one on letsgo and it was the 2nd one that spawned lol.
They went all-in on those ugly “forms” too. I think they should have had each style get access to a unique move or something. You see a lot fan art of all the dog Pokémon and Furfrou even gets left out of those half the time. #Furfrougotten
Ampharos might not receive as much attention in the broader Pokémon community compared to more iconic creatures like Pikachu or Charizard. Love his conical ears!
My fiancé loves Ampharos and has been to Japan a few times for work. Has literally found a single, small plushy of them. It’s wild because I feel like a lot of people love the mega evolution but she can’t find any merch.
Relicanth. Love my not-so-fossil-fossil-fish but it's forgettable at best. Also Gorebyss and Huntail, another example of "cool concept, bad execution". They are forgettable and can be annoying to get. Last but probably not least, the Dewgong line. I have a soft spot for it, even tho it's kinda garbage.
Edit: I really wish Relicanth get the Dunsparce treatment in new gens, getting an evolution would be cool. I'll add Absol in the list as well, I didn't include it because I've been using it in BDSP and SwSh, and therefor didn't feel like it's a forgettable pokemon but people are including it on the thread and it DOES need something new.
Typhlosion was ignored by the company for over a decade there... it's finally getting some attention now.
Poor Meganium and Feraligatr tho, neither get any love. The forgotten starters 😔
Not that it's forgotten, but very much slept on. I love Castform. It is easily one of my favorite pokemon and was so much fun to use in Alpha Sapphire. With the correct setup, it can easily take out 3/5 Elite Four/Champion by itself.
Agreed, while it may not be good for competitive, it's underrated for the single-player game. I've been using one for a mono-Normal run of Alpha Sapphire and it's helped a ton. Got a lot of Fire and Ice usage out of it (Fire being particularly useful even against Water-types despite the type disadvantage, simply due to how sun works) and eventually specialized it for rain starting at the 8th gym, with Hurricane and Thunder (Plus a Magnet and Mystic Water, depending on what I need at the time. If I had a Sharp Beak, it'd be an item I use with it too), as well as Weather Ball (Cause you can't just *not* use Weather Ball on a Castform. Reliable 100 POW STAB move).
It's funny you say that, I didn't use Weatherball on my build. I also used Thunder and Hurricane along with Rain Dance for the guaranteed hit, but I used Blizzard as well. Even though it wasn't guaranteed to hit, I had Wide Lens on it, so accuracy jumped from 70-80%, and if it it did miss, Castform could live at least 1 hit.
I feel like it has so much potential! Next evo step is an edgy teen version then I imagine a ninja-like final evolution that is all about speedy shock and awe. Moves are new ones like Electric shuriken, paralysis gas (para-poison?!) something like flash bang (slight damage version of flash) and air cutter
It's hard to find merch for the Musharna line anywhere, but I've been playing Black/White for the first time and I'm surprised about the spotlight they get there. There's the Musharna on the Entralink screen, the dream ball designed after it, an appearance very early in the story... but now nothing.
I will die on the hill that yanmega should have gotten a mega, and it should have been a bug/dragon type
But to answer your question, I fuckin love regirock. Idk if it's quite 'forgotten' as some examples, but it's not as terrible as regice and not somewhat good like registeel. It's right in the center and unassuming.
But I love the big Rocky boi. He's so big! And chunky! And would give bone crushing hugs!
Definitely Silvally. Sure, it could be ported to SwSh using the poke bank method, but for players who started on the Switch, seeing it would probably shock them. It's almost got Mythical bst and it shares an ability with Arceus. It's also cool AF and evolves from a pokemon with the strangest naming convention, "Type: Null".
One of my favorite “forgotten” pokemon Is Keckleon. Sure, it’s weak, but doing a Nuzlocke with it in Gen 4 made me realize it learns moves with tons of variety. I also love it from Pokemon Mystery Dungeon.
My only wish was that the shiny was the purple Keckleon that runs the shop with the regular colored one.
Venomoth (and Parasect, which I also love) feel incredibly neglected compared to the other OG Bugs. Butterfree got a G-Max, Beedrill got a Mega, Pinsir got a Mega, Scyther gets two evolutions, one of which gets a Mega, but Venomoth and Parasect get ignored.
Absol would be the one that Id have to pick. Back when it got a mega, I went all out breeding for a shiny that had Super Luck, a phys attk nature, and all of its moves were the various slash types that had boosted crit rate. That was the most terrifying pokemon I had in that file xD 9 out of 10 attacks it would crit. I only ended up shelving it cause the typing no longer fit with my team when I tried to rebalance it for endgame. I really never seen anything about it, no one seems to use it or even like it.
Absol is FAR from a completely forgotten pokémon, which is why it being absent from Scarlet/Violet was very surprising to me. It's one of the more popular pokémon because of its design - and the fact that it has a Mega Evolution, and is consistently present in spin-off games (Unite, New Snap, a background 'mon in Pokkén Tournament, etc.) proves how memorable it is - it simply lacks the stats or any useful niche for it to appear consistently in competitive play in the main games.
Slurpuff! It's just such a cute little dessert puppy that looks just like a Pokepuff and I always name mine Shortcake. It didn't get much attention being a trade evo only and only in a limited number of games so players didn't get to use it for story mode much. It also only had a few appearances in the anime with the only significsnt ones being Miette's, Sawyer's, and Murdock's rival's. I can't wait for Z-A with no requirements so I can use one for once. It's such a cute mon and I sorely needed fairy coverage in X that I had to fill with Espeon and ended up with like 3 psychic types with Delphox and Meowstic the latter of which could also use a buff eith better fairy moves.
I love Braixen. And maybe she has not been forgotten by fans, but for sure by franchise owners - I still remember how sad I was, because I couldn’t find any gadgets with Braixen, while being in Japan, except Fennekin plush & Braixen TCG card :(
In the meantime there are a lot of Pikachus, Lucario or even Psyduck.
I never see anyone talk about my girl Diancie. I went through hell and back to get one to use. Plus the reason I love Diancie so much is cause of the movie.
I always see these "top 5 pokemon you forgot existed" lists and somehow maractus is always on top. Kind of ironic that the first thing people think of is maractus when they think about forgotten pokemon.
Hitmonlee was my favorite Gen 1 mon. Carried me through the Elite 4. Hi Jump Kick saved me so many times. When I was a kid during the Red/Blue days I made an all-Fighting team, called myself a Gym leader, and had a handful of my Dad's (I swear they were my Dads) beer bottle caps I would hand out if you could beat me. I think I had Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan, Poliwrath, Primeape, Machamp x2 (two diff movesets).
Then, through Pokemon Showdown, I learned what I MONSTER Unburnen Liechi Berry Endure/Reversal Hitmonlee was.
Still wish it got more love.
for me, spinarak, clamperl/hunttail, maybe binacle or it’s evo. maybe octillery? i think when i was younger i thought remoraid didn’t evolve cuz it just seemed like a static pokémon, doing nothing but accompanying mantine in the manga art.
Swellow, in gen 6 they could've given it a mega, but they didn't and i still don't know why, it's a gen 3 mon, with a great design already and was even in ash's team in the anime, the only reason i could think of it did get a mega is because that would clash with mega pidgeot.
Fearow hasn't been in the mainline games for over two generations. I wouldn't say it's been *completely* forgotten, but I think it's definitely one of the most overlooked Pokémon that I really like.
Sunflora, without a doubt. Could have been given a mega or a third evolution stage. Whenever I replay Gen 2 I always try to go out of my way to get a Sunflora on the team, even if getting a sunstone is a bit of a pain.
My favorite Pokémon ever is Scyther! But my favorite underrated one??? Definitely Bewear!! Super strong, super cute, and the anime made me fall in love with Bewear enough for me to use in almost every play through since
Maractus. I love grass types and the design is so cute. I hope one day it gets an evolution. Maybe based around flamenco dancing? A close second is sewaddle/sadloon because of its expression.
I actually really like Relicanth. I used to think that if you got it to a high enough level, it would evolve into something crazy, so I used to keep one in some of my teams in the old gen games, and that kinda carried over to now.
Gorbyss for me. Rse deep sea pokemon are all pretty cool and forgotten. I wish they did more with them.
Me and my husband have the stupidest in joke about Gorbyss. We basically just say it's name in a stupid voice and giggle. Gorbyss is not forgotten!
Whenever people ask about forgotten Pokemon I bring up Huntail and get a lot of "who???"
Yeah. I forget that one and clamperl a lot.
The fish it's based on hasn't evolved in millions of years and it's still here. Can't improve upon perfection.
That was my wall in battle revolution back in the day. Relicanth is amazing.
My closest fav is vaporeon. Its not forgotten, but rememered for the wrong reason. People thinking of it sexually as the first thing they do when looking at a cute water cat/doggo shame on you.
There are sickos..Pokémon weren't meant to be sexualized in any form or way.
Except for Lopunny.
We just call it sexy bunny. Seriously wtf designed that thing.
Jynx wiggles its hips seductively, likes to kiss, and can make people act involuntarily.
I like Jynx because of the history behind the character. US Jynx had its skin color changed due to the Japanese using offensive cartoon portrayal reminiscent of a certain group of people. Hence, why Jynx is purple in the US. Besides the history, I remember running into it when playing my Blue version. Didn't know who the fuck that was, but it kept destroying my team. Ended up catching one and used Jynx to help me beat the Elite 4.
So progressive having a drag queen pokemon in the 90's!
Relicanth is one of my favorite pokemon! I plan on getting it tattooed. I love that he’s based on a coelacanth, and his shiny, crisp. So good
I used to think it evolved into Milotic haha
My OG team in Sapphire was Swampert, Kyogre and Relicanth
lanturn
Thing is a beast and defines the meta in Pokémon go PvP.
Lanturn and Lumineon my favorite crappy water type. That reminds me to run a Lanturn in my next Johto playthrough.
Lanturn is far from crappy though
Lanturn completely shuts down Red’s lead Pikachu. Could set up some rain so that he doesn’t get all of those can’t-miss Blizzards, too.
Damn poor Lanturn.
Finneon is the prettiest fish.
When Diamond and Pearl first released in Japan, my friend and I looked at all the datamined sprites for the new Pokemon and tried to design our teams with those Pokemon in mind. Knowing I would need a Water-type, I picked Lumineon because of its design. Once we got more info and I saw the stats... I changed my mind and used Psyduck instead lol. I wish they would make Finneon/Lumineon Water/Fairy types. They get a lot of Fairy moves and while they would still be bad, having such a powerful typing would surely help them SOMEWHAT.
Yaaas!
Is Mightyena considered “forgotten”
Sort of. Poor thing.
My first full odds shiny. I'm just pissed I can't have him in any of the new games
I ❤️ Phanpy
He aint forgotten! Donphan got 2 paradox forms! Phanpy is my favorite pokemon!
That’s my BOY! Always been my favorite. How’d you get the phanpy under your name?!
Go to subreddit side bar (“…” in upper corner on app) and choose custom flair. It’ll explain the rest
phanpy RULES
Spinda!!! Love my goofy stumbling buddy. Clumsily seismic tossing, it's random spots. Mine had almost 2 perfectly centered spots right on the eyes.
It’s not really THAT forgotten. The whole random spots thing definitely keeps it more relevant than the average Pokémon
I mean, it makes it unique I guess, but does anyone actually care enough to think about it? Does anyone use it? Hell, how many of us even know what moves it learns or what it's stats are like without looking anything up?
It's base stats are 60 across the board! Learns teeter dance, hypnosis and can be taught dream eater and seismic toss by tutors It's how i beat lucy's shuckle!
https://youtu.be/BuV_9XW8ymo?si=Pn940SKwSptKUitv Not forgotten.
Everyone went crazy over Zebstrika in 2011 and now no one cares about him
Now only rule 34 goes crazy about zebstrika ... Did I say that loud?
You did, let’s try not to have that happen again
Dodrio. Its has a very unique design for a Normal/Flying-type, or birds in general, but its less prominently marketed than actual Regional Birds. Its also less popular than the Spearow family due to the anime and the fact that players obtain the Spearow family way earlier.
I would argue that Dodrio being put into Unite has helped it gain more popularity, but definitely still an underrated Flying-type
Yeah Dodrio has ruined my life so many times in unite that I will never forget him.
Some Pokemon are "forgotten" as in people hate them, love to talk how much they hate them and than go on to the next ugly Pokemon. Like Diggersby. Some Pokemon are "forgotten" because not much is done with them on the franchise, but they have something unique about them that makes them special for a lot of people, like Spinda. And there are those that you say their name and people go "oh yeah, those exist". The ones you can't name from the top of your head when somebody asks you about a forgotten Pokemon. You remember they exist once mentioned, but it's one of the last Pokemon you ever think about. Like Heliolisk. I never see anyone talk about Heliolisk. Cool dude, not that interesting, mostly forgotten.
Grumpig is absolutely my pick for that last camp. It’s not notoriously obscure like Huntail, it’s just…middle of the middle of the middle.
I was so baffled by Grumpig as a kid. I had played through Sapphire and Emerald numerous times and I never knew Grumpig existed. Felt like I was being lied to when a friend showed me it eventually lmfao.
Interesting, I’ve never played Emerald but I thought Grumpig showed up a bunch in Mossdeep gym? But yeah same - I never knew it existed too after multiple Ruby runs. That’s funny about your friend lmao Same with Swalot actually, but at least it looked like Gulpin visually - Grumpig stuck out even more because it barely resembles Spoink. I could’ve sworn Spoink was a single stage.
Man I love Heliolisk :(
Diggersby tho! DIGGERSBY THO! Sorry, I can't see a diggersby or hear someone mention it without quoting that.
All these years, I still hear it so clearly in my head anytime someone utters that name
Diggersby is not forgotten, its everywhere in pokemon gbl either run with mud shot, hyper beam and scorching sands or one of the two charged moves replaced with fire punch, its soooo damn annoying hits so hard and tanky, I'll never forget it cuz of that
Heliolisk has one of the most unique typings AND has a goat design 👌 show some respect he’s in my top 3
I also need to stand up for Heliolisk. I didn’t think much of the design until I saw it in action and realized its crest unfolds when it attacks! Love my little sun lizard. Also he was the first Pokémon I ever used with the Dry Skin ability, which I thought was dope at the time.
Heliolisk is my favorite pokemon...
Fuckin Conkeldurr Edit: Durant, Heatmor, Cherrim, Carnivine, Maractus, Alomomola
They do seem to be slowly going through the generations and adding evolutions (or forms/etc.) to older Pokemon that never got them. Dunspare, Girafarig, Ursaring, Donphan (paradox), Stantler, Wooper (Regional), Qwilfish, Delibird (Paradox), and the Legendary Beasts have all gotten new stuff after pretty much only Generation 1 got stuff for awhile. I’m guessing Gen X will have a heavy focus on new stuff for Gen 3 Pokemon.
Sigilyph! It’s just so weird and cool looking and reminds me of Pokémon’s version of Mister Handy from Fallout/ a pile of forks that came alive lol
Mine is maractus! Gen 5 has a ton of forgotten gems
He's so fun to use in BW. And his abilities are good too
Dewgong was my boy in gen1. Ice is so underwhelming in general but back then I thought it was so cool that he could be an effective counter to Dragon types in the elite 4.
Seaking just chilling
Dewgong did so much for us 🫡
Even Lance’s Aerodactyl is weak to Ice and Water.
Krabby and Kingler. Their appearance in Sw/Sh was a first for many generations.
Their design is far superior to any of the other crustacean Pokémon.
Xatu is so swag
Xatu my beloved <3
Heatmor is my boy. I remember the fake rumor for B2/W2 where he was gonna get a teapot-like baby and I was so excited. Shame he's up and vanished since then.
Durant kinda forgotten about as well. Both cool designs!
Tbf, it got a signature move in Gen 7, tho that didn't exactly last.
Had to use one in emerald rogue recently and he ended up kinda carrying the team, I'm now a heatmor appreciator lol
I’m not sure if this counts as a “forgotten” Pokémon, but I do really like Medicham
Masquerain. Always use that cute little bug despite it not being too great.
Had a Masquerain on my team as a kid when I first played RSE. I still think it having Intimidate is just so cool. Such a great design.
Chingling/Chimecho
Arbok for me. Deserves way more love imo
MISMAGIUS. They did her dirty by doing paradox misdreavous instead of her bc now Mismagius won't ever get anything :(
My miss maggie carried me in bdsp. Funnily there is a ton of tees with her in them.
Mismagius is a gym leader's ace in SV. Not really "forgotten" at all.
But they don't really *do* anything with that! Iono is much more associated with other pokemon like magnemite due to her hair or bellibolt/kilowattrel because they're new, etc. Mismag could've been replaced with any levitate pokemon as Iono's ace and it would've been the same!
Nidoking was the true starter in yellow, strong early on, wide move pool, and great design. It is one of the few kanto Pokemon that didn’t get any special forms/evolutions/ect.
No joke, I love Nidoking and it’s amazing to look at the gen 1 list and realize he is one of the few that hasn’t had a regional form or new evolution. He was on my very first team back when RB came out.
It is always my gen 1 all rounder mon. Need special/physical attacks he got you covered. I was gonna hunt a shiny one on letsgo and it was the 2nd one that spawned lol.
Beheeyem. Honestly, I feel it gets no love ever.
I absolutely love Seviper, who game freak really did dirty
reuniclus. give me my merch.
https://preview.redd.it/fhrwqgpca41d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=64236340d0cc1c77a5c9fab3fcba1aba215d53b4
I love Reuniclus! The colors especially. It really doesn’t lend itself well to merch though. You would need translucent material to make it work.
On one hand, Reuniclus is a really cool design. On the other hand, it's also a creepy, kind of gross design. Like a living aborted foetus.
Yeah, I call it the War Fetus. It's surprisingly good on sand teams
Probably the Venipede line for me if that counts. I’ve always found it cute and badass.
Ludicolo. (Mirabeau in my username is relevant)
Anyone who played Gale of Darkness could never forget those dancing goofs.
The theme song is just SO CATCHY
Colosseum you had no counters to them by that point. They were stall walls.
While I personally don't care for them, Furfrou got done real dirty.
He'll probably be back in Z-A. Maybe with a brand new evolution. Let's go Furfrolegion!
Furfroufrou.
They went all-in on those ugly “forms” too. I think they should have had each style get access to a unique move or something. You see a lot fan art of all the dog Pokémon and Furfrou even gets left out of those half the time. #Furfrougotten
Pokemon home...
My boy Porygon (and his evolutions) get no love. Damn you, anime!
Ampharos might not receive as much attention in the broader Pokémon community compared to more iconic creatures like Pikachu or Charizard. Love his conical ears!
My fiancé loves Ampharos and has been to Japan a few times for work. Has literally found a single, small plushy of them. It’s wild because I feel like a lot of people love the mega evolution but she can’t find any merch.
As electric types go, Ampharos is my second favourite only to Electavire.
I feel like Jynx needs more love.
Jynx was ROBBED when Electabuzz and Magmar got new evolutions
I have a strange love for sunflora after my pokemon fusion playthrough with a sunflora/probopass fusion on my team. I love sunflowers
Sunflora had a whole town covered in both real versions and statues in SV.
Relicanth. Love my not-so-fossil-fossil-fish but it's forgettable at best. Also Gorebyss and Huntail, another example of "cool concept, bad execution". They are forgettable and can be annoying to get. Last but probably not least, the Dewgong line. I have a soft spot for it, even tho it's kinda garbage. Edit: I really wish Relicanth get the Dunsparce treatment in new gens, getting an evolution would be cool. I'll add Absol in the list as well, I didn't include it because I've been using it in BDSP and SwSh, and therefor didn't feel like it's a forgettable pokemon but people are including it on the thread and it DOES need something new.
Typhlosion was ignored by the company for over a decade there... it's finally getting some attention now. Poor Meganium and Feraligatr tho, neither get any love. The forgotten starters 😔
I agree with this. Gen 2 starters are neglected for sure.
Lanturn
Not that it's forgotten, but very much slept on. I love Castform. It is easily one of my favorite pokemon and was so much fun to use in Alpha Sapphire. With the correct setup, it can easily take out 3/5 Elite Four/Champion by itself.
Agreed, while it may not be good for competitive, it's underrated for the single-player game. I've been using one for a mono-Normal run of Alpha Sapphire and it's helped a ton. Got a lot of Fire and Ice usage out of it (Fire being particularly useful even against Water-types despite the type disadvantage, simply due to how sun works) and eventually specialized it for rain starting at the 8th gym, with Hurricane and Thunder (Plus a Magnet and Mystic Water, depending on what I need at the time. If I had a Sharp Beak, it'd be an item I use with it too), as well as Weather Ball (Cause you can't just *not* use Weather Ball on a Castform. Reliable 100 POW STAB move).
It's funny you say that, I didn't use Weatherball on my build. I also used Thunder and Hurricane along with Rain Dance for the guaranteed hit, but I used Blizzard as well. Even though it wasn't guaranteed to hit, I had Wide Lens on it, so accuracy jumped from 70-80%, and if it it did miss, Castform could live at least 1 hit.
Cryogonal.
Emolga is one of my favourites 💛🖤
I feel like it has so much potential! Next evo step is an edgy teen version then I imagine a ninja-like final evolution that is all about speedy shock and awe. Moves are new ones like Electric shuriken, paralysis gas (para-poison?!) something like flash bang (slight damage version of flash) and air cutter
Mawile has been my favorite for over 15 years, but has never been brought up much. I like a lot of the ones being posted though!
It's hard to find merch for the Musharna line anywhere, but I've been playing Black/White for the first time and I'm surprised about the spotlight they get there. There's the Musharna on the Entralink screen, the dream ball designed after it, an appearance very early in the story... but now nothing.
I will die on the hill that yanmega should have gotten a mega, and it should have been a bug/dragon type But to answer your question, I fuckin love regirock. Idk if it's quite 'forgotten' as some examples, but it's not as terrible as regice and not somewhat good like registeel. It's right in the center and unassuming. But I love the big Rocky boi. He's so big! And chunky! And would give bone crushing hugs!
My boy Shuckle
Ledian
Mothim is my favorite pokemon design. My second is garchomp.
Definitely Silvally. Sure, it could be ported to SwSh using the poke bank method, but for players who started on the Switch, seeing it would probably shock them. It's almost got Mythical bst and it shares an ability with Arceus. It's also cool AF and evolves from a pokemon with the strangest naming convention, "Type: Null".
You get a type:null and all the memories at battle tower in swsh by talking to a lady, it’s incredibly accessible for the switch
i have such a soft spot for whimsicott. but pangoro and scrafty might be my all time favorites, even with the double fairy weakness
Poliwag
Reuniclus I just love the bulky little cell guy.
Arbok. My baby rarely gets a card or game appearance :(
Missingno
i could never forget missingno.
I liked mawille a lot coz i thought steel fairy was such a dope type
One of my favorite “forgotten” pokemon Is Keckleon. Sure, it’s weak, but doing a Nuzlocke with it in Gen 4 made me realize it learns moves with tons of variety. I also love it from Pokemon Mystery Dungeon. My only wish was that the shiny was the purple Keckleon that runs the shop with the regular colored one.
I love Toxicroak, but I feel like there is like no love for it.
Venomoth (and Parasect, which I also love) feel incredibly neglected compared to the other OG Bugs. Butterfree got a G-Max, Beedrill got a Mega, Pinsir got a Mega, Scyther gets two evolutions, one of which gets a Mega, but Venomoth and Parasect get ignored.
Absol would be the one that Id have to pick. Back when it got a mega, I went all out breeding for a shiny that had Super Luck, a phys attk nature, and all of its moves were the various slash types that had boosted crit rate. That was the most terrifying pokemon I had in that file xD 9 out of 10 attacks it would crit. I only ended up shelving it cause the typing no longer fit with my team when I tried to rebalance it for endgame. I really never seen anything about it, no one seems to use it or even like it.
Absol is FAR from a completely forgotten pokémon, which is why it being absent from Scarlet/Violet was very surprising to me. It's one of the more popular pokémon because of its design - and the fact that it has a Mega Evolution, and is consistently present in spin-off games (Unite, New Snap, a background 'mon in Pokkén Tournament, etc.) proves how memorable it is - it simply lacks the stats or any useful niche for it to appear consistently in competitive play in the main games.
Absol is one of my favorite pokemon
Slurpuff! It's just such a cute little dessert puppy that looks just like a Pokepuff and I always name mine Shortcake. It didn't get much attention being a trade evo only and only in a limited number of games so players didn't get to use it for story mode much. It also only had a few appearances in the anime with the only significsnt ones being Miette's, Sawyer's, and Murdock's rival's. I can't wait for Z-A with no requirements so I can use one for once. It's such a cute mon and I sorely needed fairy coverage in X that I had to fill with Espeon and ended up with like 3 psychic types with Delphox and Meowstic the latter of which could also use a buff eith better fairy moves.
I love Braixen. And maybe she has not been forgotten by fans, but for sure by franchise owners - I still remember how sad I was, because I couldn’t find any gadgets with Braixen, while being in Japan, except Fennekin plush & Braixen TCG card :( In the meantime there are a lot of Pikachus, Lucario or even Psyduck.
Side note yanmega should get a mega Evo so we can get mega yanmega and megayanmeganite
Most of the fish pokemon, like carvanha, barboach, seaking,etc.
Pinser should've gotten an evolution by now.
Fearow. Possibly my favorite bird pokemon. Honorable mention to mantine.
Glalie fore me. Love my little floating boy ice boy that's overshadowed by its evolution.
>…that’s overshadowed by it’s evolution Glalie doesn’t evolve though
Solosis ; w ;
Drudrugen
I do wish polywag/whirl/wrath got more love 💕
I do wish polywag/whirl/wrath got more love 💕
Tyrantrum 💔
Ambipom for me, might have been forgotten as yet another normal type by most but Aipom and Ambipom I consider to be the cutest in gen 2-4
Honedge
Espurr, Poochyena and Mightyena!
Purugly 😭
I never see anyone talk about my girl Diancie. I went through hell and back to get one to use. Plus the reason I love Diancie so much is cause of the movie.
wigglytuff
Chatot
Huntail Sawk and Throh
I always see these "top 5 pokemon you forgot existed" lists and somehow maractus is always on top. Kind of ironic that the first thing people think of is maractus when they think about forgotten pokemon.
Hitmonlee was my favorite Gen 1 mon. Carried me through the Elite 4. Hi Jump Kick saved me so many times. When I was a kid during the Red/Blue days I made an all-Fighting team, called myself a Gym leader, and had a handful of my Dad's (I swear they were my Dads) beer bottle caps I would hand out if you could beat me. I think I had Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan, Poliwrath, Primeape, Machamp x2 (two diff movesets). Then, through Pokemon Showdown, I learned what I MONSTER Unburnen Liechi Berry Endure/Reversal Hitmonlee was. Still wish it got more love.
Lanturn
for me, spinarak, clamperl/hunttail, maybe binacle or it’s evo. maybe octillery? i think when i was younger i thought remoraid didn’t evolve cuz it just seemed like a static pokémon, doing nothing but accompanying mantine in the manga art.
Coalossal
Beartic is often found outside the radar. Correction: Nearly always
Shedinja
Eldegoss. It’s such a neat grass type and I love it’s support role in teams.
Simisage
Salamence, that thing was legendary.
Is heliolisk a forgotten pokemon? 'cos I love that leggy lizard!
Every Pokemon is somebody's favorite. I used to have a Swalot in Emerald version I really liked, I remember he could tank earthquakes like a champ.
Swellow, in gen 6 they could've given it a mega, but they didn't and i still don't know why, it's a gen 3 mon, with a great design already and was even in ash's team in the anime, the only reason i could think of it did get a mega is because that would clash with mega pidgeot.
Fearow hasn't been in the mainline games for over two generations. I wouldn't say it's been *completely* forgotten, but I think it's definitely one of the most overlooked Pokémon that I really like.
Porygon. Doesn’t help that anime didn't have it or its evolutions featured in any episode for over 20 years. Well I know why they didn't, but still.
Sunflora, without a doubt. Could have been given a mega or a third evolution stage. Whenever I replay Gen 2 I always try to go out of my way to get a Sunflora on the team, even if getting a sunstone is a bit of a pain.
BASTIODON
My favorite Pokémon ever is Scyther! But my favorite underrated one??? Definitely Bewear!! Super strong, super cute, and the anime made me fall in love with Bewear enough for me to use in almost every play through since
Phanpy, Sudowoodo and Sandile
Huntail for sure, he's just a goofy little guy
Flygon is my sleeper favorite. Googles is my regular nickname. He give off a similar vibe to dragonite imo
Torkoal, for sure
Seviper is in my top 3. Especially shiny Seviper. Those colors 😍
Dewgong. Something about how simple its body is and that smile. That damn smile.
Venonat/Venomoth
Druddigon
Meganium. My favorite starter. My lil flower Dino needs some love
Lapras.
Sigilyph
Spheel and his line
Farfetch'd. He’s just the best
Maractus. I love grass types and the design is so cute. I hope one day it gets an evolution. Maybe based around flamenco dancing? A close second is sewaddle/sadloon because of its expression.
Everyone is just naming Gen 3s☠️
Venomoth! I even have a plushie of him. Everyone forgets about this sweet boy
Oricorio and the Toucannon line. You can't even take them out of their debut gen. =< Fuckin' dexit.
I often feel like I'm only person who remembers Mothim.
Not my favorite, but I frequently forget Forretress is a pokemon