Throughout my childhood, I played all of the Pokémon games, even Pokémon Snap, a game before my time. A game that has been praised by children and adults alike, Pokémon has been one of the single greatest series of all times. The 5 Pokémon shown below are hiccups in the system, but also can be seen as disgraces to the series.
5. Lumineon
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What is this thing? Is it a butterfly? A fish? Dumbo? Who knows?! This
generation 4 Pokémon loses touch with all rules the creators of the original Pokémon laid. Apparently, it glows, hence the lumi- prefix. According to the Pokémon Pearl Pokédex, Lumineon "Avoids detection by predators, it crawls along the seafloor using the two fins on its chest." Why does it crawl instead of swim, like any other fish? This fish seems like it was that kid in middle school that the teacher made the mistake of telling them that they're very smart but too lazy. The smug look on this fish-thing's face clearly gives off an air of, "I'm too good to swim like a normal fish." Truly Pokémon creators, what did you do here?
4. Klefki
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This Pokémon is the ever so creative keyring! How joyous the occasion that you're walking on Route 113 in the tall grass and get jumped by a keyring! According to the Pokédex entries of Pokémon X and Omega Ruby, Klefki, the key collectors, threaten any attackers by "fiercely jingling their keys at them." You walk by and hear a large jingling of keys— you better sprint for your life! Here comes Klefki to wreak havoc! I don't see why this was a good idea.
3. Cacturne
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Cacturne is pretty cool, right? Wrong! He is a walking cactus that looks like a cowboy walking out of the saloon that you just looked at the wrong way. Not only that, but he also looks like a scarecrow. In generation 3, Pokémon Saffire, the Cacturne Pokédex entry says, "If a traveler is going through a desert in the thick of night, Cacturne will follow in a ragtag group. The Pokémon are biding their time, waiting for the traveler to tire and become incapable of moving." This cactus/cowboy/scarecrow Pokémon waits until you get tired to jump you. Pokémon seems to lose the touch of imagination every generation.
2. Probopass
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Pokémon, I'll keep this one quick— what is even going on here? Attack of Easter Island? By the time of the release of Generation 4, the Easter Island craze had been over, so why this rejuvenation of it?
1. Garbodor
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"Garbodor has the appearance of a pile of trash spilling out of a large, torn garbage bag." What's up with that? This Pokémon is literally a pile of trash. As a child that consistently played every Pokémon, the fifth generation confused me with a pile of trash that, in this GIF, is throwing a full trash bag. With so many Pokémon, one can see it would be tough to continue the creative genius, but this is anything but genius. This is trash. If this Pokémon could speak, it'd probably only capable of one line, "Time to take out the trash."
Thank you, Pokémon, for the endless hours of fun play. But please, get some new creators to keep the imaginative genius going!
