Admit it, we all have them, Pokèmon that we have seen in the game, that we have come to love based on critter design, concept or just because they make us go “How Clever” but when it comes down to over all game play they are just not that useful. We all have at least one, so I have decided to create a list of my top ten Favorite pokèmon, that i will never use in battle.
10 
Absol: , I know this is a hugely popular pokèmon, and its easy to see why, with a sleek design and the soon to be potential mega evolution its a great pokèmon. However lets face facts people, since the introduction of dark pokèmon in the second generation this has become a decent size category with a lot of different dark types to choose from. For me having one pokèmon that’s purely dedicated to dark, just doesn’t make sense to me in my team. Doesn’t mean i do not appreciate the creature and its design and concept. I do look forward to what becomes of it in the future, this is a pokèmon I would love to see another step to besides mega.
9 
Surskit: This one is just adorable as a child who spent most of her time admiring the bug world, the bugs that glided along the water were always interesting to me. While i am not terribly fond of its evolution, i do love the design and concept of the little glider. Admit it, there are a few of you out there who just a tad bit disappointed at its stats. It just wasn’t built for battle but as especially the third gen pointed out there can be more to the game then just fighting.
8
Magnemite: This guys suffers from the same fate as poor Absol, there are just too many better options out there to make picking it just not a smart move. I however have fondness for this guy, being one of the only pokèmon I can successfully draw and it still look like original pokèmon. Believe when i say i really don’t have many drawing skills, But if on occasion you find a little sketch of this little guy.
7: 
Natu: Poor Natu, there are just so many bird pokèmon out there, that are just so much better then this little cutie. On top of that it happened to come out in the same generation as the games Ultimate Psychic Flyer Lugia. Thus making this pokèmon pretty easy to ignore. But I have always loved its design and colors, admittedly always found it a little cute too. Its a shame really it couldn’t be better in battle.
6
Kecleon: This one for me isn’t on here for its design, so much so as its creativity. for those of you not familer with this guy, he comes with the ability Color change, that when hit with an attack changes its type over to the type of the attack it was just hit with. For instance say i hit it with a fighting move, it then switches over to a fighting type, Because of this however i had great fun taking it out, using the change to my advantage. I still have to admire the thought that went into him. That is why he is an easy pick for my top 10.
5
Joltik: Man is this little guy a little cutie, I just love the concept and design of him, as you might be starting to pick up I love bugs, and loved running into him. This one also has the added bonus of scaring the crap out my other friends who are not quite as fond of spiders and bugs as i am. It is just too bad that like so many before it there are just better bugs, and eletric pokèmon out there otherwise you better believe this would be on my team. Sorry cutie I just don’t want you to get beaten up.
4: 
Ditto: Combat wise, this pokèmon has always been more of a novelty then anything else. Able to transform into its opposing pokèmon seems like a great idea, however it never copied the stats of that pokèmon making Ditto very useless. However in the second generation they added the concept of breeding making Ditto very, very useful. Ditto can breed with anything, any gender and even some genderless ones. (try not to think to hard about that one) making ditto both incredibly useful outside of battle. I now make sure any new game i start there is a ditto on stand by ready to send over, or use it to breed some new baby pokèmon, like what i did with Denio so that new baby could be raised along side some of my others. I have also been known to just throw ditto in a breeders and just leave it there as i swap out pokèmon for it to um…do its thing with. Ditto is incredibly useful for breeding, but sadly not for battling which makes it number 4 on my list.
3 
Yanma and Yanmega: I love Dragonfly’s ever since I was a little girl i would catch and release them. In fact as i am typing this i am wearing a dragonfly necklace around my neck. Imagine my my utter delight to see Yanma (then later generations its evolution.) Then imagine my utter disappointment at its stats…its just to weak to be competitive in any arena. While its new evolution improve things slightly, it still was just a disaster on the field. However it will continue to get my love as being pokèmon’s only tribute to dragonfly’s.
2 
Mantine: I love this pokèmon, and if it wasn’t for Lapras there is a strong chance this one could end up on my team. I love the fact they made a stingray pokèmon, what i love even more was adding the little remoraid to its wing. This is a great example i think of the creators of the games concept and design follow thru. This pokèmon is well designed and well thought out. Even the eventual addition of Mantyke stayed true to Mantines good design. What keeps this little guys off the team is its duel weakness to electric which is just to bad because it has nice balanced stats. Don’t worry little one I still love you.
1
Krabby: This water pokèmon stole my heart in the anime and i continue to love it. The picture of it here is actually my favorite picture of it, i mean who amongst us are not that happy having our favorite treat in our hands. Krabby falls under the same trap as so many others on this list, just too many better options to make using him plausible. As you have noticed probably, i love my water types and i love my bug types and honestly crabby is a bugish water pokèmon. Admit it crabs look like bugs too. Seeing how this little guy was probably the first of my the pokèmon i really loved but just couldn’t not find a place for it seems fitting he should take the crown.
There you have it my top ten.
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Next time: My journey into the handheld world.
Wobbuffet: Talk about useless, I am still not sure what they were thinking when creating this purely defensive pokèmon. It learns four moves..that is it no more, no less. It is designed to be a punching bag, and other then some admittedly funny moments in the anime it really doesn’t serve much of a purpose. For me however my time with it comes down to a pokèmon stadium moment when you are using rental pokèmon and so is the opposing player, I am forced to send out out a wobbuffet and so does the opposing player leading to a headache inducing moment. since neither one can attack it leads to me having to reset the game. Now i know why it it is always holding its head, because it causes so many headaches
Exeggutor: Ugly…that’s all I will say. What you say that’s not enough…fine. Keep in mind I came into the pokèmon world in my high school years, and I found the whole concept of a walking tree, that evolved from eggs to be a little ridicules. On top of that the widely popular bird pokèmon could easily turn this guy into scrambled eggs. I just could never get past its designed and found it on the verge of useless to me. Strangely enough Sudowoodo doesn’t earn my ire as much has Exeggutor only because I have to tip my hat to them on creativity, I mean it is a tree, that is rock type so players not knowing what is can have to birds with some very sore beaks…but Exeggutor..ug.
Miltank: I know Miltank was created to be a female version of Tauros…so why does it look…so disturbing. On top of that if your going to make a male and female version of something you need to either A: Have a pre-evolution for the two that makes having male and female make sense, or B make a joined final formation. This doesn’t give other and to be honest brings down poor Tauros just a little for being associated with this. On top of that, lets talk briefly about players first encounter with Miltank, and that is Whitney in as far as i can remember (and i can have a bit of a short memory) the only real normal gym. Her Miltank was was a difficult beast, flattening a good many of my Pokèmon, but if it wasn’t for that Miltank and the other two starting gyms my appreciation for Geodude would have never grown…so I guess I ought to thank that cow…
Durant: My hatred for this pokèmon actually doesn’t really have much to with the critter itself, I am actually quite terrified of ants. Yup that’s right I like most bugs, and even spiders don’t bother me, (I actually have a small soft spot for Spinarak and Joltik) But i just cannot do ants in any form. I think it goes back to when i was little and attacked by a swarm of fire ants *Shudders*. So I don’t care how good this pokèmon is or isn’t, you will never see it in my team. It is going into the box as far away from me as humanly possibly. *gets out her Blazikin for protection*
Cofagrigus: There is something very wrong about a pokèmon in the shape of a coffin, I know it made sense to someone out there, but for me having a floating living casket just does not seem right. It is also a pain in the behind to take out. When first encountering it in the Elite four there is a small huh..that’s a bit weird oh well lets just kill it. *twenty minutes pass* how the heck did that just take out half my team? You think by now i would learn not to underestimate elite four pokèmon…sadly its a lesson I have yet to learn.
Mesprit, Uxie and Azelf: God do I hate these three. I have never been a big fan of the roaming pokèmon, I prefer them to just sit still and do into the ball, but i hate it even more when there roaming and useless. Pearl and Diamond had about four different roaming pokèmon in the game Cresselia and these three obnoxious roaming morons. Yes I know gold and silver had started the roaming, but at least they are useful in combat. So were Latios, and Latias but these guys. When I caught the three I subsequently named them Pain, In The, Ass. and threw them into my box to sit and sit.
Ludicolo: I encounted this pokèmon a lot over the years, but it is because of Pokèmon XD does my hatred grow to a burning ember with this guy. Those who read my previous entry, My Top 10 Favorite Pokèmon know that Umbreon grew as one of my favorites during this game, him along with Espeon battled loyally along my side though out the game, however it was this pokèmon that would spoil my fun, along with its disturbing dancing in the game and admittedly powerful move sets this made my two little guys easy pray for this *Lets out string of swear words* pokèmon.
Jynx: I have never really been fond of human shaped pokèmon, Mr. Mime, Magmar, and Electabuzz just never did it for me, but i never hated them, I just didn’t really like them. So what did Jynx do to piss me off so very much. My first pokèmon game that i played was Yellow, so my partner pokèmon was Pikachu, my very first run at the Elite Four I watched my beloved little electric rat repeatably get taken down by this ugly horrible pokèmon, not only that I watched it take out my Zapdos, my Dugtrio even Lapras go down to it. Admittedly I know a little better now to send those types in against an ice type now, but yellow was my first pokèmon game and Jynx was standing between me and my final victory. I have never forgiven this pokèmon for those early defeats, and I probably never will. So say hello to the ice box Jynx because you are not moving any where for a long…long time.
The Regi’s: Just looking at these four makes my blood boil, the amount of time put in to catching these horrible bastards…ok. *takes a second to breathe.* You might be asking yourself, how could you possibly hate these guys, there legendary pokèmon. I have been playing this game for years now so i know pokèmon I like and ones i don’t. I cannot tell you the amount of hours I spent trying to catch these rotten pokèmon, they would have 1 hp be paralyzed have 0 accuracy due to me flashing the crap out of them and they still would not go in to the freaking ball, and all four of them were like this. I would go though countless timer, dusk, and ultra balls trying to get them to go in. I would be sitting there an hour after I should be in bed begging with them to just go into to the pokèball and they still refused. When i learned recently i would have to recatch these horribly stubborn pokèmon again in black 2, I think I started to cry a little bit. I don’t think there is any other pokèmon out there on this list that makes my blood boil with the passion of a thousand red suns then four guys. I can’t tell you the small joy i get in taking these suckers out with one of my Top 10. So Regi’s go into the box and think about what you have done!
Gamerwoman 