Best Reasons to Hate Pokemon

The Top Ten
1 The fan base

Almost half of the list is wrong. Very wrong (I didn't put in the reasons for the anime as I just started on it, please add it in).

The fan base:

What? So you hate a franchise because of its fanbase? Take Rosalina from the Mario Franchise. She is a good and well developed character who is very well received by fans and critics alone. However, her fanbase is cancerous. Is it her fault? No! So you cannot hate something because of the fanbase. And you cannot choose your fanbase to begin with.

It sparked the creation of more animes:

Pokemon wasn't even the first anime. Anime has existed way before even the Pokemon anime was created. Oh my biscuit...

Its overrated:

Holy biscuit! You hate it because it is overrated? Similar to the Rosalina case, the over popularity of a character is not the fault of the character. Again, you cannot choose whether you are popular or not, whether you are a fictional character or a normal human being.

The fans ...more

I'm playing a new game called yokai watch. It's really fun and funny while at the same being bonkers! But every time I hear something bad about, it's because the fans are bias, even they admit. Sure you catch monsters... but they want to join you, in Pokemon you force them to join you. They even still complain about digimon! Seriously, digimon and yokai watch are both really good games, but the fans are bias, disgusting, and gross.

I despise this depressing fanbase. I have been cyberbullied to no end and as a result I gave up Pokemon completely. I cannot even play the games without thinking about all the times I have been told to kill myself for liking one Pokemon when some people like another. I used to love Pokemon, but now all I can see are the cyberbullying circles that have nearly killed me. This is why I don't like Pokemon anymore.

The Fan Base is literally filled with Uneducated people sure there are some educated ones in it that I appreciate The PokeTrolls that's-what I'm calling them will say mean things to you for sharing a ' opinion I've seen a lot of people receiving hate comments for sharing a opinion on YouTube!

2 Boring

Pokemon is the same every year, even in 2019 "oH tHeRe ArE nEw Pokemon aNd MeGa EvOlVInG! " Oh shut up, Pokemon bores the hell out of me and has annoyed me all my life.

I've been told "I have no since of quality" because I like Angry Birds an not Pokemon, OH MY GOD. There is no such thing as a "since of quality" if you like the Emoji movie better than Avengers Endgame, THAT'S YOUR OPINION! (I don't care for the emoji movie my self)

Since it's repetitive and it never bothers to change the storyline people who have a good taste in television know that this show got old in 1998 and it shouldn't still be on.

Beating one game is fun, and then you look to all the others because the first one was fun.
...all the games are litterly clones of each other

Anime plots for each season are IDENTICAL

Tl:dr they clones the original, slap a new name on it, and sell it as a brand new game

I swear, Bakugan season 1 was better than Pokemon will ever be

Yeah pokemon sucks all it is is just a stupid japanese rat saying "pika, pika" whenever it comes out of a ball. Either that or it's a rerarded weird red dragon A overweight turtle, or a damn ugly fatass plant.

3 It's overrated

I can agree, on this.

With not enough ideas, like maps to generate your own content, (such as custom gyms, where you get to create your own trainers, as opponents, that borrow and use pokemon YOU caught) I feel that the series is beginning to lack imagination; I'm worried that the upcomming game for the "Nintendo Switch" may end up a big disappointment, as well.

It's not overrated, it's popular for a reason. Because it's pretty good, while I'm not obsessed, I think it's pretty good.
I can understand if the fandom is a problem, but then again, every, and I mean EVERY fandom has some terrible people.

I also hate free stuff because it's overrated! Sorry? just because something gets too much attention that doesn't mean you should hate it. This is one of the dumbest reason I've come across

Yeah, I agree. Literally everyone likes Pokemon. My friend was so addicted and desperate that he asked me if he could play Pokemon on my DS at school

4 It's stupid

The old anime was decent. And for a while every episode was not based off of team rocket. But now it's the same thing and ash is a horrible trainer. He doesn't catch any Pokemon. And his gym badges are just handed to him. And his pikachu is sometimes a badass and sometimes its like a metapod. The anime nowdays just sucks

Not to be rude to Pokemon fans but it's just plain STUPID I watched one episode of it and I hated it, it wasn't interesting, there was no emotion, and there wasn't anything that made me fangirl, love the show, and it just made me feel like I was dead and had no emotions.

Did everyone else forget that they made Jessie and James like that for the entertainment? They aren't real and Pokemon RULES.

I think we can agree on one thing, and that's Pokemon is horrible!

5 Awful voice-acting

The voice "acting" is horrendous for this show. Everything is badly dubbed and the voice "actors" put no emotion into anything they say, like most animes.

We have to still remember that it is a kids anime. Honestly I could care less about it. I have Assassination Classroom!

Who keeps adding this stupid item? The voice acting in TPCI's dub isn't even bad. Get lost, 4Kids fanboys!

This is something wrong with the anime though this is in the games category... clearly this is everything wrong with the games, but everyone immediately assumed anime.

6 It sparked the creation of more animes

Another anime hate-list. And one thing, Pokemon didn't spark the creation of more anime. Anime has been being made from 1970s, and I don't see why a Kids anime show would spark the creation for more anime. And second thing, why would creation of more anime be considered as something bad? That's dumb.

It's a bad thing because we now have more anime fans who mostly consist of complete retards. Pokemon may have not been the first anime but it was the one that popularized it. Pokemon started the anime fad and that's what I meant by that.

Sure, pokemon being an inspirational and loved anime Wich has lots of games is totally a bad thing. Give it a break and (for number 9) if ash ages then it wouldn't be liked by the targeted age group, kids. If ash was a teenager or just not a kid most of the fans will be lost

I'm so sorry if this offends anyone but anime to me is very strange. Whenever I see a bit of one, it makes me feel awkward.

7 The fans have no lives

Most Pokemon fans dress up in Pokemon costumes and lip sync the Pokemon theme song. The Pokemon fans see it and cheer him or her on and then saying that this is the greatest thing on YouTube. They also get mad when people dislike those videos or when people dislike Pokemon in general.

True that... I was honestly obsessed with it for a couple months when I was like 7 and I once saw how many 20 and 30 year olds actually still liked this crap. It's fine when your young but you have to mature at some age.

And what have you done in your life that's so interesting. Pokemon is fun.

The reason this list has so many dislikes,its because the pokemon fanboys have been here.

8 Genwunners

You don't have the nostalgia to remember how BIG Pokemon used to be. Ravenfang if you leave the fandom, it's better for the fandom to die its outdated.

One aspect of the Pokemon fanbase that barely even exists anymore shouldn't ruin the entire franchise.

So people can't like Gen 1 or think Gen 1 is the best generation and think that 151 was enough.

This is the only good part about the fanbase.

9 Ash doesn't age

Yeah because the fanbase is for ten year olds and not for older people so the anime isint gonna be so great and deep obviously.
He stays ten because that's the age the fanbase is and they did that so the kids can relate to him its obvious it doesn't take a genius to realize that.

Why are you complaining about that? , in lots of shows characters don't ages for more years than Ash. Also isn't ash 11 because in the anime they said he had a birthday?.

I'll be honest, the show and real life, time does not work the same way, but ash should be at least be 18 years old right now, considering the time that was rounded up.

Let me get stuff straight, maybe each episode is a day in the Pokémon universe, and also I noticed ash's voice change from a little kid to a 14 year old.

10 Fosters stupidity of human race

Why would the pocket monsters talk and why would they yell out their name. Charecters are shallow and one-dimensional ( I understand it's a cartoon), the games are good collection games but they are based on the cartoon so the story remains shallow. So we all agreed to go down to the lowest denominator instead of trying to raise people up, to me that fosters human stupidity.

1997 is the year when kids just got really stupid. Pokemon just came out then and for some reason most kids loved it. It made the kids who watched it brain dead with the bland animation and the stupid plot with the unoriginal design and names for the little monsters.

Um, I think you are the rebelious kind of person who will never watch /read / play the series no matter what I say. I guess you would have loved it if you had went with the flow.

Games are not based off cartoons! :( The anime sucks, but the games are good, and have many types genres.

The Contenders
11 Every game is the same

At the below comment, the new Sun and Moon games are completely different from the games preceding them

12 It killed hand-drawn animation

After the focus of animation was being focused on animes, American cartoons had animation provided by flash or CGI.

Actually, that's the princess and the frog.

13 It's just plain dumb

That is because in the Pokemon world, every body depends on Pokemon. It is just their way of life so leave em be. And by the way not all Pokemon say their names. Ever heard the team rocket Meoth, Togepi etc etc.

First of all Pokemon only say there names.Its gets tired of hearing pika pika pika! Secondly it doesn't make sense:Mom:Ok honey have fun with that living flamethrower that could kill you bye!

You must have put a lot of thought and effort to putting that reason.

Yeah... Th names of some pokemon are not well thaught of like green ninja... I mean, it doesn't fit in w/ frokey nor froggadear...

14 It's story line sucks

The only thing the hero does is fight gym leaders, elite four, and villainous teams; basically, just fight differently designed and named trainers. WIth no variation whatsoever. They shake it up once in a blue moon with black and white, but are too lazy to build on it and go back to the same old gym leader plot.

15 Animal abuse

They aren't animals but if they were for example Lilipup would be a dog and wouldn't forcing it to fight be cruel? And just stuffing it in a ball if it loses is cruel too! Also why don't the idiotic ugly Pokemon have genders? They should be able to tell! And if they represented animals their would be a real nurse about to give them shots and their collars and their tags. But no all they do is sit there until the monsters are dead then they throw them away and get new ones.

I love pokemon but this is a pretty good reason. Look, pokemon get burned by huge flames ( example: Flamethrower by other pokemon), get poisoned (poison sting),get crushed by rocks (rock throw) and earthquakes, frozen (ice beam) and so on.

16 People have their Pokemon fight for them

Look, just give the kid a katana, teach them how to use it, and give them a Pokemon, and they will be fine. Chaz from fantasy star iv was able to kill Dark Force (A badazz version of Dark Matter) even thougb he was only a few years older than the Pokemon protaganist! And don't give me no crap like "he had Elydsion", or "He was being helped by a cat-girl, a wizard, a robot, and someone else", because that's what in talking about! I don't expect an 11 year old to go balls to the wall against Arceus, but I AM saying to get powerful Pokemon to help!

But what about the wild encounters? If this ten-year-old kid didn't have a Pokémon to protect them, they'd be dead.

17 Because it copied Magic: The Gathering

I absolutely agree. I don't understand people who compare this show with digimon either.

Are you talking about Pokemon card game? I don't think it copied MTG. That's like saying Yu-Gi-Oh! copied UNO

18 Never ends

It's probably one of the longest shows to exist so far and will go longer. I mean its 20 years old and nothing changes, and it's always becoming more retarded the longer it goes.

Other anime ends but Pokemon keeps on going on and on. It's so ANNOYING. It's probably because it needs to get more fans.

I second these!

I thought Pokémon sun and moon were going to be the last but some idiots like it it si stupid.

19 It makes yo-kai watch look bad

People REALLY need to stop thinking Pokemon is an actually original concept.

Shin Megami Tensei is a monster-collecting RPG video game that existed FOUR YEARS before the first Pokemon games.

So Pokemon is a Shin Megami Tensei ripoff.

Yo-Kai Watch borrows WAY more concepts from Shin Megami Tensei than it does from Pokemon anyways.

Meanwhile a huge list of things from Pokemon Sun and Moon can very easily be argued as being ripped off from Yo-Kai Watch from Totem Pokemon to the Rotom Dex.

This is the first time I've heard that someone actually thinks yo kai watch is being ripped off by pokemon. Honestly the most retarded thing I've heard all year. Yo kai watch is clearly trying to go up against one of the best rpg games and its best rpg games for 20 years (and counting) so if any thin is ripping something off then its yo kai watch ripping off pokemon

Plus, Pokemon fans are retarded if they think Yo-Kai Watch is a rip-off of Pokemon. Ironically, Pokemon is the one ripping Yo-Kai Watch because 1) One of the new characters from Sun and Moon is a blatant knockoff of Otohime from Yokai Watch 3 and 2) The new Pokemon Anime is ripping off Yokai Watch's plot.

Only good reason here

20 It's a Minecraft mod now

Some jackass though it would be a good idea to make a Pokemon mod in Minecraft. They did and now it's even more popular. It also doesn't help it that Minecraft YouTubers always reference it because it was there childhood. Please, Pinky And The Brain was out during that time too yet you choose to reference a piece of overrated garbage

Not everybody did. I am 100% sure on that. And let me get this straight. You hate Pokemon because Minecraft made it more popular?!? Oh ya, just for the sake of it, why not we mention the People who Eat Tasty Animals also? (PETA)

There are Minecraft Mods for even just adding Doritos, at least is not Pokemon Brick Bronze Roblox Version.

Pointless argument. Aside from the fact that you probably don't like Minecraft either.

21 Ash never wins a league.

Because then the show would end because then ash's journey will end.

Is this a bad thing? so he's not the best out of 8 billion people. take into consideration the real difficulty winning theleague in the anime is

Yeah, wonder why.

22 Legendary pokémon encourage transsexualism

What proof do legendary pokemon encourage transsexualism? And how is this a bad thing?

They also get only caught in your masturballs and that's creepy, I don't think children should be able to play abusive games like this

23 Pokemon Go!

Pokemon Go is an extremely overrated game! I don't know why many people likes to play this game! I don't know why my comments here are not showing! Tsk! I'm not a Pokemon fan... I only like it until Generation 2 or 3... Mega Evolutions sucks!

I love Pokemon Go! That's the only thing I love about the Pokemon franchise!

Because misha sing it

24 Gives kids the wrong idea

If they see that their favorite character is going on a big journey, won't it just encourage them to run away?

Every hater sucks

It's plain dumb

25 It has no character development

Ashes father isn't even seen EVER. Also there are too many people in the games, books, movies, T.V. shows, etc. and don't even get me started on the numbers of Pokémon there are ( it's more than 9000 ( anime reference there anyone ) ).

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