Most Underrated Pokemon

The Top Ten
1 Raichu Raichu, known in Japan as the same name, is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon franchise.

Everyone likes Pikachu too much... Game Freak is giving too much stuff to Pikachu. Who get's the light ball? Pikachu. Who get's to change outfits for contests in ORAS? Pikachu. Which Pokemon gets to say their anime cry in XY? Pikachu. Which Pokemon can you find with a low level in the grass even though it has a pre evolution? Pikachu. Which Pokemon did Game Freak choose to almost KILL Giovanni in the anime with their electro ball? Pikachu. Game Freak should stop and think about Raichu. Did you know that Clefairy was originally going to be Ash's first Pokemon? If the mascot was Clefairy then would Clefairy get all of the praise? I bet it would. I know that people say 'If you hate Pikachu then you hate Pokemon! ' but you don't have to like a 10 year old's first Pokemon. Even though Pikachu may be the mascot, I will always love Raichu, no matter how stupid Game Freak will make him look.

How many times have game freak given things to Raichu? Well, it got an Alolan form and a Z move, so that's 2 things. What about it pre-evolved form, Pikachu? It has multiple games staring it, the light ball which only works with Pikachu, 6 stupid clones of it, being the only Pokemon who can say it's own name, being able to wear different outfits, and it's own Z move... about 12 things. I understand he's the mascot, but most players, like me, don't give a damn about Pikachu and are sick of having the thing shoved in our face! I actually have a tradition whenever I start a new Pokemon game if I have a Pikachu I evolve it the second I get a thunder stone. Sweet relief.

Raichu is actually a lot better than Pikachu. Not only does it have an Alolan form (whereas Pikachu doesn't), but it has more powerful moves. Pikachu's best move is Focus Punch, a 150 power move. Raichu also has Focus Punch, but Pikachu only has one 150 power move. Raichu has three 150 power moves: Giga Impact, Hyper Beam and Focus Punch. Personally I think it is cuter, too. Pikachu is an evolved form of only one pokemon, whereas Raichu is the evolved form of two. Raichu will always be my favourite electric type pokemon. Pikachu can be third, after Jolteon in second. So no matter how overrated Pikachu will be, even if it takes over 1st place in the overrated pokedex (Charizard in the lead), Raichu will always be one of the best; in my mind, at least.

Game Freak gives too much for his pre-evolution, Pikachu. Raichu can be very well used in battles, also for story and competitive. It has such a nice design, it's one of my favorite electric types. Pikachu has a GAME for himself! (Now two, sadly) Every generation has a pokemon based on him! Pikachu has everything! I'm glad they gave a evolution for it, but it didn't change anything. Pikachu will keep being the most overrated pokemon EVER. This is a awesome pokemon to be the top 1 on this list.

2 Venusaur Venusaur, known in Japan as Fushigibana, is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon franchise.

Venusaur is underrated. Everyone picks Charmander or Squirtle, while Bulbasaur sits there on the desk feeling lonely. No one picks Bulbasaur, they always pick Charmader. But if you had brains, you'd pick Bulbasaur. It has a head start in the first few gyms. It evolves into Venusaur, who's actually pretty good, unlike Charizard. Who gets all the love? Charizard. Who got TWO mega evolutions? Charizard. Who does everyone pick? Charizard. Who was one of Ash's best pokemon? Charizard. Who got one of the best typings in the game when they mega evolved? CHARIZARD AGAIN! I wish people would start to pick Bulbasaur and notice how damn overrated and overpraised Charizard is

Venusaur is the most overrated pokemon I have ever seen in my life.
I've done so many polls, and pretty much all of them end with the venusaur win. I like venusaur, but he is EXTREMELY overrated. I don't get how people actually think this thing is underrated...
Its really annoying. I don't know anyone (I'm being serious) that doesn't think venusaur is the best gen 1 starter. I'm not kidding. So be quiet and think about it.

Charizard is awesome, Blastoise is my homie but Venusaur is one of the coolest Pokemon. Sure, grass is one or the weaker types, but Venusaur needs a chance to shine? Ivysaur was my best friend and even though I did't have the original game I begged my friend to let me have one of his. Bulbasuar is one of the cutest starters. Why the heck is it not at least #2? I understand Chestnaught. I never heard of someone against Raichu and Magmortar is more forgotten then underrated.

The fully evolved Kanto starters are all equal, however they all ended up like this:
-Charizard is overrated
-everyone else thinks that Blastoise is better because Charizard is overrated
...and in the whole mess, everyone forgot about the green reptile monster with a big flower on its back.

Venusaur is as good as all the other fully evolved starters. Do not forget about him

3 Vanilluxe Vanilluxe is an Ice-type Pokémon introduced in Generation V. It evolves from Vanillish. It is the final form of Vanillite. It is known as the Snowstorm Pokémon.

I myself love the design, it looks very fun and unique. People hate Vanilluxe for the fact that it is based off of ice cream, but let me say this- by your kind of logic, my good sir, Charizard can be called "just a dragon" and Eevee can be "just a fox". Popular Pokemon such as these are based off of creatures you see in just about EVERY other monster related game EVER, but let me ask this, how often do you see a two headed ice cream monster?

Hey genwunners- here's some food for thought. If Vanilluxe was a Gen 1 Pokemon, everyone would love it! Also, it's good in battle. Google it. Vanilluxe is my fave ice type. It's also fine if it gets 50 percent decapitated, and who doesn't love a good Coney Island icicle cone.

Wait, I should rephrase that...

VANILLUXE for the win!

People hate it just because it's an ice cream and it looks "unoriginal" but most Pokemon are based off real things. People can also say that Butterfree is just a butterfly, Pidgey is just a small bird, Meowth is just a cat with gold on his head and much much more but nobody complains about the gen 1 Pokemon or the other generation Pokemons. People complain mostly about Unova's Pokemon because Unova is new and they didn't grew up with it like they did with gen 1 and 2 so they hate on the "poorly designed" Unova Pokemon. I personally really like Vanilluxe's design and I like many other Unova Pokemon better than some of the gen 1 Pokemon (Maybe because I grew up with Sinnoh and Unova but I still watch other seasons of the anime and play the old games)

People hate it because it's apparently "a sign that game freak is running out of ideas". And it's ICE CREAM, who doesn't love ice cream?

4 Porygon-Z Porygon-Z, known in Japan as the same name, is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon franchise.

Porygon-Z is super underrated. Because of the porygon seizure incident, the whole porygon line gets all hate and no love. Everybody forgets about porygon-Z because it never appears in the anime, but it is a pretty powerful Pokémon to battle with. Porygon-Z needs some love!

Has amazing abilities, amazing special attack, and an amazing look, but gets hated on due to Porygon 2 being smoother than it. Base 135 Sp Attack and 90 speed make it a great sweeper, but people never give it a chance.

This is a very forgotten Pokemon and I wish he appeared more in the games and the anime. Wait he never appeared in the anime ;-; He deserves better than this

It has a unique design and is very good in battle! Give the poor glitchy duck a chance.

5 Blastoise Blastoise, known in Japan as Kamex, is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon franchise.

Blastoise is overrated!

Blastoise is not that underrated but if you compare him to Charizard, yes he is very underrated

6 Banette Banette, known in Japan as Juppeta, is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon franchise.

Underrated ghost. As a ghost trainer, I have a Banette with a mega stone (or a Mega Banette, if you want) and it's incredibly good! It may not be the best even with the Mega Ev., but it's worth having it in your team. Banette is my second favourite pokemon, Mismagius being first, and Chandelure being third. It also has a creepy and cool backstory. Not spoiling it, see for yourself! I highly recommend catching a Shuppet if you haven't alredy, but don't make this overrated please.

Banette is awesome! I make sure I pick up a Shuppet when I can in and game. People prefer the hideous Dusclops over Banette. The backstory behind it is creepy, but interesting. It will always be one of my favourite Pokemon. It's mega isn't that bad either. It has a great design and ability. Normal Banette is kind of cute too.

Okay, first how is this cute thing so underrated.. but I'm glad its underrated because if it was meta people would be using my favorite pokemon and I wont have a purpose in liking it.. It's mega its perfect, looks amazing, and a decent prankster user. I love banette and I think its best of underrated

This underrated Pokemon is very lethal in the right hands. With it's mega form having one of the highest attacks in the game with decent stats and a good moveset makes it vial-able in tiers like OU.

7 Reuniclus

Yes this is a great Pokemon with an interesting design! Why doesn't anybody give Reuniclus or his pre-evolutions attention. They all deserve better. Also Reuniclus is a powerful Pokemon

Cute jelly boy needs more love.

8 Floatzel Floatzel, known in Japan as the same name, is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon franchise.

A great pokemon with moves like aqua jet and pursuit. also Buizel could straight up replace Pikachu.

Floatzel can one hit KO a mega rayquaza, mega slsamence and with adament nature a mega garchomp and then dance in the rain saying "can't touch this.

He is pretty good especially in rain but he can't one shot mega ray or mega salamence, and the likely result if you tried to fight them with a floatzel would be losing your floatzel

The most fabulous of the 800 or so species of Pokemon.

9 Drapion

I love Drapion, But I will admit, its not the best pokemon ever considering that it doesn't learn too many good moves. But it has a good model, decent stats, and its only weakness is ground. I think this pokemon needs a mega.

Favorite poison type and around second favorite pokemon. Awesome design and good stats

No one likes Drapion for some reason. I like him!

Drapion needs a mega evolution.

10 Luxray Luxray, known in Japan as Rentorar, is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon franchise.

How is it underrated... It is overrated. Somebody said it is the best electric Pokemon.. Why? I mean he said it has a limited movepool, which is true, but he still think it is the best for like no reasons. The only good thing about luxray is 120 attack, intimidate and hidden ability of guts, ok coverages and that's it. It has a terrible speed of 70 and 80/79/79 isn't too good. As a bulky Pokemon it also lacks a recovery move. Why do people think it is underrated

Oh luxray, I love luxray and think it needs more appreciation. It's design is so cool! I understand that it has a bad move pool and stats but they can fix that with a needed mega evolution!

Why on earth did manectric get a mega besides because you doom got one, it would be way better if luxray had a mega with strong jaw and added dark type for stab crunch.

Luxray isn't overrated compared to Pikachu. Not only because of its badass look, I personally like it because it's only weak to ground like other electric types

The Contenders
11 Sharpedo

Actually I think he's neither underrated nor overrated.

Shark head is best boi

Love at first sight

12 Smeargle

I like its paintbrush tail. The idea is really cool, and I think he deserves more love.

It's very fun to use Sketch on a foe!

No he's overrated

13 Aerodactyl Aerodactyl, known in Japan as Ptera, is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon franchise.

I'm an Aerodactyl main and need to see it more often. Totally underrated, even though it is one of the best pokemon in Gen 1.

Because reasons. It got a mega evolution but it wasn't really all that good so...

14 Chesnaught Chesnaught, known in Japan as Brigarron, is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon franchise.

I don't understand why Chesnaught doesn't get a lot of attention. Lets ignore the fact that I find that chesnaught looks very, that he's good in battle or that fighting is like the best type ever and instead tell why people dislike this pokemon: It doesn't look like his preevolves forms. Firstly, why is this important? Second, if its important, why does Dragonite, that ugly dragon, is popular, knowing that his preevolution is a water snake. There's other popular pokemon like that but I think Dragonite is an enough good example.
It's unfair that we don't see a lot of him in the anime.

I can't believe someone could hate on adorable creature like chesnaught. But yet love a ugly grown up man in a ugly dress with disgusting ear hair and greninja's toung scarf is disgusting and terrible. Chesnaught is also way more powerful than that overrated ugly delphox that can't even take special attracts. And have you seen greninja without the stupid scaf just ewww.

I had no regrets choosing chespin, I do admit his second evolution Quilladin was quite hideous to look at, but chesnaught is a beast! He smashed most of the gym leaders, the elite four and diantha's pokemon, it's very underrated and deserves so much more. It barely made an appearance in the anime

I love all grass types, but Chesnaught has to take the cake. I play a Pokemon imitation game, Pokemon Brick Bronze. My Chesnaught is a boss with spiky shield, seed bomb, rollout, and pin missile. Defeated a grass type gym!

15 Zoroark Zoroark is a dark type Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game freak's Pokémon franchise. It evolves from zorua at level 30.

Since Black and white zoroark has been my favorite pokemon. His ability is amazing and with proper use he can can destroy teams. He's kind of a glass cannon, but if you smack specs on him. Destruction insues.

Overrated, no one uses it in showdown but it is op as F***! This is my 2nd favorite pokemon and it has an extremely good move pool. It just needs to have a mega and be a dark psychic

This is actually a very good pokemon but nobody bothers to get it

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17 Garbodor Garbodor, known in Japan as Dustdas, is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon franchise introduced in Generation V. It is categorized as the Trash Heap Pokémon.

Garbodor is an awesome Pokemon with an awesome idea for a design. A Pokemon that eats up garbage to add to its body? Hell yes! In fact Muk/Grimer is very similar, and they're just piles of goop, but they don't get the hate that Garbodor does.

I love garbodor! Even though it's trash it's awesome! The pre evolve is adorable as well! They both deserve more love

I honestly like this pokemon. I started to like it because of the way people kept hating it… I felt bad for it. So I caught a wild garbodor, and guess what? It's awesome!

18 Gothitelle

It's really low in speed and attack, but psychic doesn't need it. There are some psychic moves gothi can learn to increase its speed, and most psychic moves are special.

People don't like her design, which I find very cool, she has great stats except in speed and attack (which she doesn't need 'cause is phychic type ) and can learn good moves too, definitely the best V generation Pokemon for me and one of my favorites

It helped Se Jun Park win VGC 2014, along with Garchomp, Pachirisu, and Mega Gyarados, those were the highlights of his team.

This poor pokemon is never talked about, even though it's good!

19 Serperior Serperior, known in Japan as Jalorda, is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon franchise.

I chose tepig as my starter, and I was happy when evolved into an funny (yet cute) looking Pignite, and then to a powerful Emboar. Serperior, though, has a really awesome design! It looks so fancy and slick. Like teach it Energy Ball, Dragon Pulse (if you have ORAS), Glare (through breeding), and Leech Seed! Or Leaf Blade, Coil, Aqua Tail (ORAS tutor), and Leech Seed! This pokemon is pretty underrated in my opinion

This is my favorite Pokemon for nostalgia reasons, but I don't think it's underrated. In fact, I've never met anyone who hates Serperior.

Guys, really, look at serperior's ability, its OP, all ya got to do is give it a leaf storm and its just gonna get stronger, oh yeah, sure, go on and leer/growl or lower its stats, its gonna do the opposite, along with its pretty decent speed, this thing can SWEEP, definitely needs to be a uber or something

Actually extremely overrated gets everyone thinks it and its evolutions are so cute. They're as ugly as heck.

20 Delphox Delphox, known in Japan as Mahoxy, is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon franchise.

My favorite starter, many people hate Delphox because of his/her design. "Oh ew, it has some horrible ear hair," "This Pokemon has issues" "I like Fennekin and Braxien, but Delphox, just no." That's what people say about him/her. But Delphox, it's my fave starter. It's strong, majestic, cute, and cool. No one picks Delphox OR Chesnaught. That damn stupid overrated Greninja hogs everyone's attention and care, and no one takes time to appreciate Delphox. I really love Delphox, and I'm definitely picking Fennekin in X/Y

21 Rampardos

Dang 150 attack? That's all I have to say

He has potential!

22 Magmortar

Raichu is underrated, but nobody cares about Magmortar except me and 1 friend of mine. I mean come on, this guy is so powerful, looks like he's from the Incredibles, and even though he is fire type (which I am not a big fan of), he is just underrated by all means.

Actually one of the best fire type Pokemon out there.

Well, who doesn't like a flaming bird? He and blaziken are among my favz

In RBY, Magmar was pretty epic in the anime, but later on, nobody knew about Magmar.

23 Vileplume

For some strange reason, Vileplume is forgotten as a Pokemon, but is my second favorite...

24 Samurott Samurott, known in Japan as Daikenki, is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon franchise.

SAMUROTT YA! Even though I like Dewott's design better, I would really like to use this thing in a Pokémon Black and White game someday!

The most underrated Water-type starter in the Pokemon franchise

25 Slaking Slaking, known in Japan as Kekking, is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon franchise.

In double battles any slaking will rule the competition when teamed up with a pokemon who knows gastro acid. Slaking has been my companion in every game since diamond. Damage that makes gods look like ants. Lord knows that one shot potential is mad.

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