Top 10 Most Overrated Pokemon Characters

The Top Ten
1 Serena Serena has proven to be a kind and polite girl but she can also be openly rebellious towards her mother, Grace. In Kalos, Where Dreams and Adventures Begin!, she refused to wake up when Grace ordered her to, and gave a sassy response to her mother's call to watch the news. This tumultuous relationship was best demonstrated when Grace made her practice Rhyhorn riding, an activity Serena had hated doing... read more

Serena is easily the most overrated. I can at least see likable traits in characters like Red (who is also overrated), but I don't see much good in her. I cannot comprehend why everyone outside of this site loves her so much. She is just there for shipping purposes and fanservice purposes. As someone who could care less about romance in Pokemon, this character and all the "AmourShipping episodes" centered on her really rubbed me the wrong way. All others PokeGirls have a more interesting character than she does, they don't revolve their life around a boy. And, while I didn't HATE watching the Showcases (but hated how sexist it was), I loved the Contests or even few battles of Misty or Iris way more than watching her and her Pokemons dancing in "cute" outfits... I don't get what's so interesting or special about her. She only has her obsession over Ash, and in my opinion this isn't a likable trait. At all.

2 Alain

Is he, though? He might have been at the time XY&Z and Mega Evolution was still airing, but ever since the Kalos League, I've seen Alain receive large amounts of hate because he defeated Ash Ketchum and was an ally to Team Flare.

I don't hate Alain, I just dislike the fact that he overshadows Sawyer, one of the most original rivals to Ash I have ever seen. Name one person, except me, who prefers Sawyer over Alain.

3 Charizard Charizard, known in Japan as Lizardon, is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon franchise. Created by Ken Sugimori, Charizard first appeared in the video games Pokémon Red and Blue and subsequent sequels. They have later appeared in various merchandise, spinoff titles and animated and printed adaptations of the franchise. Shin-ichiro Miki, the actor who voices James in the original... read more

Not bad at all, but indeed overrated. Mostly because of nostalgia again, and even so the two other starters from Gen 1 get shoved on the side to make Charizard look good. I love this Pokemon, but it had too much hype in my opinion.

Remember the worst climax of any anime/cartoon was courtisy of charizard. that's enough to put him top 5

It should be First!

4 Cynthia

Oh yes, Cynthia is so overrated, game and anime.
She has no personnality, her only role is to be "badass" and "sexy" but she does nothing memorable. "But Cynthia gave you a Togepi and the medicine for the Psyduck(s)! " Almost every character gives you something, this isn't impressive at all. In the anime they try to make you think (her) Garchomp is unbeatable, but man it is not. They make her look so strooong, smaaart and flawless that it becomes boring.
The worst thing is her fanbase. Always saying she is the best girl, the best battler and champion (really? I defeated her on my first try in Pearl), the prettiest and always comparing her to Diantha for no reason at all! Both aren't good characters (I don't like Diantha's lines) but all the hate Diantha receives from Cynthia fans makes me sad.

I like Cynthia, but really. Favourite champion discussions are extremely boring because it's always Cynthia. Sinnoh is overrated in general. First female champion? So what? We were going to get one eventually. She plays a role in the story. What other champions play a major part in the story? Let's see...Blue...Lance...Steven...pretty much all of them. She's strong? I have no argument against that besides you can build a team to perfectly counter hers. She was difficult because the level jump in Sinnoh was EXTREMELY stupid. Any champion can be difficult. It just depends on your team.

5 Red Red is a Pokémon Trainer from Pallet Town, Kanto. He is the first character to be playable in the Pokémon series and his initial appearance is set in the Generation I main games. He has since then made various appearances in Pokémon media, including the Generation III remakes of Red, Green, Blue, FireRed and LeafGreen.

Red is also overrated by Genwunners that can't move on from the First Gen. The playable characters don't even have a personality anyway, so I don't see what's special about him that sets him apart from the others? Except maybe his design. There are things to like about him though, such as his battle against Gold, and he generally never did anything to make me see him in a negative light personally, but in all honesty I don't understand such a strong hype.

He's a mysterious dude who is mean to his pokemon and kinda sucks. And so he's better then ash because the internet likes mysterious people.

Put this guy at #1 right now! I don't hate him, but if you say 1 more thing on hate towards ash, I am going to punch the heck out of you.

6 Drew

I feel like he is both underrated and overrated.

Overrated because everyone worships him for being May's prince charming.
Underrated because, due to all this shipping crap, people do not acknowledge Drew as his own character, but rather just as "May's love interest".

He receives large amounts of love for what he frankly isn't (Who the hell marry the person they had a crush on at 10 years old anyway? Yeah barely anyone, those relationships don't last. They're too young. Plus, Pokemon isn't centered around romance any way), and on the other side, he doesn't receive praise for his likable traits and generally likable character, those aspects of him get overlooked in favor of shipping... Though to be fair, the anime itself forgot the good aspects of Drew to make him centered around ContestShipping, heck he wasn't even May's rival at the end, Harley took over that role and he was relegated to May's love interest... Ugh. Drew deserved better.

7 Misty Misty, known as Kasumi in Japan, is a character in the Pokémon franchise owned by Nintendo and created by Satoshi Tajiri. She’s the gym leader in Cerulean city & specializes in water Pokemon. In the games, she’s known as ‘the tomboy mermaid.’

In the anime, she’s ash’s first traveling companion. She had three older sisters who did nothing but belittle her, and sick of it & wanting... read more

Serena is overrated. I will give you that. But Misty is the epitome of overratedness (in Pokémon). Overdone nostalgia and eccentric genwunners make up about two thirds of her fanbase. Also people seem to hate Iris, who has literally almost the exact same personality as Misty. Why not give her the same respect? It makes no sense. If not for how annoying the "little kid" stuff is, I would say she is just as good as Misty.

Why is she considered the "best PokeGirl" just because she's the first? Like Red, she's mostly liked because of nostalgia. Had Iris been the first female companion and Misty came at a moment around now, they would've loved Iris and hated Misty.

I've watched Pokemon since the very first season and for some reason, I never loved Misty the most, even if no other female companion existed. I can't explain why. I just never did.

8 Mallow

Haha, okay which salty Serena fan put Mallow here? Her character receives large amounts of hate for petty reasons such as her friendship with Ash, because apparently he isn't allowed to tie any friendship with any girl since stalker Serena obsesses over him. Or because of her "sex appeal" which characters like Misty, Dawn and Serena have way more. And what's wrong with people wearing what they want? (I was not bashing Misty, Dawn or Serena for their outfits, I was calling out the hypocrisy of people). Besides, Mallow lives in a hot climate so her outfit makes sense.

Wait a minute. What the heck? She's the most hated Sun and Moon female if I recall.

9 Dawn Dawn is a character from Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon franchise. In the games diamond, pearl, and platinum version she was one of the playable characters you can choose from. She will be an assistant for professor Rowan if you choose her male counterpart, Lucas.

Dawn has also appeared in the anime as the first and only co-star like character in seasons 10-13 . Dawn also appeared for a... read more

I'm not sure about her... People seem to praise her for her deep bond with Ash. While she does have one, and way deeper than Serena's (not in a shipping sense), Ash's bonds with the others female leads and even male leads shouldn't be overlooked in her favor.

Dawn only exist just to shill that stupid Piplup.

A pokeshipper added her here.

10 Pikachu Pikachu (Japanese: ピカチュウ) are a species of Pokémon, fictional creatures that appear in an assortment of video games, animated television shows and movies, trading card games, and comic books licensed by The Pokémon Company, a Japanese corporation. A mascot of the Pokemon franchise, it's considered to be the most iconic character of all Pokemon species, as well as a major character in Japanese... read more

I completely agree with Pikachu being one of (if not) the most overrated in the entire Anime. 'Hey guys, I beat a Lugia.' That would of been impressive if Ash's other Pokemon didn't weaken it first. What about the time it lost to a level 5 Snivy? Pikachu is the equivalent to if every single human being in real life were to bow down to a yellow rat.

I love Pikachu, but it overshadows the other mice pokemon (including its evolutions) far too much. Upsetting that Pikachu's stayed the mascot through regions that it isn't native to. I'm glad Mimikyuu got a little more focus.

I love Pikachu, but it makes me sad when other Pokemon do not receive much positive attention because they are overshadowed by Pikachu (namely, Raichu, Porygon, etc).

The Contenders
11 Tobias

The definition of an Asspull character. The writers only made him to make Ash lose again. I wouldn't say he's overrated though. If anything he is just an ingredient of stupid writing in the show.

Is Tobias overrated, though? Most people I've seen hate him...

Underrated. people hate him for "hacking" completly oblivious to the fact that hacking doesn't exist in the anime

12 Bonnie Bonnie is created by game freak & Nintendo. She was in Pokemon X and Pokemon Y, as Clemont's (the electric type gym leader of Lumiose City) younger sister. She gave out quizzes to trainers who came to challenge the gym, who if they get it wrong would have to challenge a trainer.

Bonnie also appeared in the Pokemon anime in seasons 17-19. She wasn't old enough to have a Pokemon, as she was younger... read more

Nah, I don't think so. Bonnie has the small percentage of the exposure to the fans from this character and I think she's quite underrated to her statistics of her life and also to her personality and her type from other companions she cherish with among the others. And by the way, she's minimally flawed which Bonnie may considered to be by far the most well-developed character on the XY/XYZ series on Pokémon among side to her appearance, not to mention the ''Zygarde Arc'' is when she have the serious side on her own self because of her best friend Squishy that is been tested and controlled by Team Flare. Sure, she may be annoying, but that's the part of her personality, she loves to tease her brother and actually supported the others from help.

To the previous comment: Please calm down. What's "overrated" and what's "underrated" are merely subjective terms.Maybe she wasn't a Mary Sue, but I did find her a bit annoying. I was just expressing my opinion. Also, please don't use disability as an insult.

13 Lillie Lillie is a fictional character introduced in Pokémon Sun and Moon. She serves as one of the player character's allies and traveling companions during the course of the game.

WHY is she not at number one? And why is Serena & Bonnie (aka ACTUAL good female characters with hardly any writing flaws) way above her!? Lillie is the most overrated female character of all time and SHE deserves to be at number one on this list! That's how stupid of a pokegirl she is. Anime Lillie SUCKS! Period!

Lillie has next to no development. Oh, she crossed a bridge. She spontaneously gained the confidence to stand up to her mother and then went back to being shy waifu bait. BRILLIANT character development. Genius.

Really? Like Mallow, she received large and unfair amounts of hate just for being in the same anime as the boy Serena obsesses over.

14 Professor Oak
15 Ash Ketchum Ash Ketchum, known as Satoshi in Japan, is a fictional main character in the Pokémon franchise owned by Nintendo. Ash is training to be a Pokemon Master, with his buddy Pikachu. Ash tries to stop the evil Team Rocket from stealing his Pikachu.

He isn't overrated. He is the definition of underrated. People hate him for the stupidest things. They say that he sucks because he's never won a league in 20 years, but everybody who beats him is either older or the same exact age: EIther having been a trainer for just as long as him or even longer.

The odds have neve rbeen in his favor. Just because he isn;t the very best, doesn't mean that he sucks. your implying everybody except for the very bes tis bad, in which that means that there is only one person who is not bad.

There's so many Ash fans who keeps saying the TRio appears too much, this makes me hate Ash because those people are such hypocrites. Just because Ash is the main character doesn't mean he has to be overfocused on, a lot of shows has proven against that and varying on character focus keeps a show refreshing. The TRio actually needs more screentime, so Ash fans are spoiled selfish brats considering all the screentime he gets yet says that about the TRio.

16 Gary Oak Gary oak appeared in the anime series in seasons 1-5 . He was ash's rival and childhood friend . Though they had a dispute once they fought over a rusty pokeball they wanted for luck, which broke after they fought over it . Gary was the grandson of professor oak . He had cheerleaders & his own car. There where a lot of things he did to irritate ash, such as write things addressing ash, to picking... read more

Okay maybe he has a bunch of fangirls wanting to marry a ten year old fictional character, but outside of that he isn't really THAT liked. Fangirls don't like him for his character but rather just because he's "handsome" or "cool" or "cute". So he would be both overrated and underrated, but mostly underrated as I said for Drew.

Though the portion of fans who don't like him solely for his looks tend to claim he was Ash's best rival. He was not. In Pokemon, the interest of having a rival is to battle them. Ash and Gary barely battled. Sure he might be the less bad compared to Trip (final battle was really underwhelming), and definitely more likable than Paul (Paul was intended to be a douche, but the show trying to justify his methods kind of made me sick), in fact Gary as a character is ok. But, as a RIVAL, he lacks. But of course, since he's from Gen 1, he has to be praised...

They claim he's better than ash. get with the program people: ash already beat him.

Gary has only beaten ash in one on one fights against his pikachu. but in a straight up six on six fight, you guessed it! ASH! KETCHUM! WON!

And his charizard had a type disadvantage and still won, so Ash>>Gary.

17 Youngster Joey

But his rattata is even stronger than Arceus...

Just kidding.

It's a meme, I don't think he's overrated in a literal sense.

Why is rattata a meme

18 Greninja Greninja is a Water/Dark type Pokemon introduced in Gen 6. It is the evolved form of Frogadier and the final evolved form of the water starter Froakie. Aside from the usual Torrent ability all Water starters have (Which raises the power of its Water moves), it also has the ability Protean, which changes it's typing to the latest move it used. In Sun/Moon, Greninja also has the ability Battle Bond,... read more

XY fantards like to believe ashninja can defeat charizard or peakachu. Uh, when the f did ashninja defeat a legendary Pokemon? Oh right, NEVER. Oh ashninja got mega gardivar sweating & on her knees? Who knows if diantha was even taken the battle seriously. She went along with the battle to see what ashninja was capable of. Ashninja may be strong, but no it's not ash's strongest Pokemon. It's about as strong as blazefernape minus the low hp hazard.

19 Jessie
20 May May is a female companion to Ash in the generation 3 anime. She was also the female character in Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, Omega Ruby, and Alpha Sapphire. May (anime) debuted in the 275th episode, "Get the Show on the Road!" She was going to be a trainer, but wasn't excited about it. After meeting a contest coordinator, she decided to do contests instead of gym battles. She has a younger brother named... read more

Totally overrated. Not talking about those who love her because she's sapphire's counterpart. But these May-sheepers. (Hoennshippers and contestshippers aren't rabid when it comes to criticise May. They only defend their shippings when insulted ) it's the May fanboys aka AshXMay shippers. Downright disgusting they are. If any Misty or Serena fan criticises May they just bash over them as if May is some sort of God who can do no wrong. Ow hello! If Dawn had been introduced before May came, then May would be as forgettable as Iris.

" May is so cute! "

Oh yeah! Burning Ash off with her Torchic in an episode and then also insulting him in front of everyone by yelling at him in a latter episode even after he saved her ass multiple times. Face it blind May fans, she was physically and verbally mean to Ash. Dawn was nicer.

Way to overrated. Especially her advanceshipping fan boys are so annoying, they drool over her boobs and thinks Ash has interest in her when he simply isn't interested in her. I am considering misty fans to be in the same place with May's advanceshipping fanboys.

21 N
22 Paul

Hating a character just because he/she abuses is pokemon is laughable. Of course to make a show interesting you must give characters a variety of personalities and ideals not all of them have to be goody two shoes. Yeah I know it's a show about Pokemon but what makes them so special that there shouldn't be Pokemon that were abused in the story? And yet people hated the nicer rivals in the new games and asked for meaner rivals. Is this some kind of hypocrisy? To be fair he's written to be like that. That what makes a good Pokemon rival. At least a better rival than Trip and Sawyer. And if that wasn't enough he got development at the end of the series.

He's cruel and a jerk. This was his character purpose, however I don't think he's that overrated? No one sympathizes with him, some people might claim him as the best rival because antagonistic rivals are generally more interesting than buddy-buddies rivals.

23 James
24 Whitney

Very overrated she is one of the worst gym leaders. if your not some 8 year old then sweeping her is easy

25 Cilan Cilan is one of the three Gym Leaders of Striaton City's Gym, known officially as the Striaton Gym, in Pokemon Black and White. In the anime, he is classified as an A-class Pokemon Connoisseur and traveled with Ash Ketchum in the Unova region. He first debuted in Triple Leaders, Team Threats!.

For real? He's one of the most hated characters just because he replaced Brock and was in Gen 5, which generally gets hated for little to no reason.

Your typical "The cafe is on me, guys! " all year long.

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