10 Best Pokemon You’ve Probably Never Bothered Catching

WC - “Gotta catch ‘em all”; even in Generation Five, and with over 600 of the little buggers in existence, those words will forever serve as the ultimate goal for players of the Pokemon games. In reality, though, most players of the popular series of handheld games will never even consider this a viable target and will settle instead for simply building up a team of six that they believe are capable of conquering any region in the Pokemon world.

[Relientk77]

I dont think they are the "best" but I'll say Tauros and Kangaskhan from Pokemon Red and Blue because they were in the Safari Zone, and such a pain to catch. Oh, and rare.

[Nimblest-Assassin]

10) Lanturn
9) Tentacruel
8)Bisharp
7) Milotic
6)Kingdra
5)Jirachi
4)Heracross
3)Flygon
2)Medicham
1)Froslass

There... this is one of those 10 split on 10 pages

Also, some of those pokemon are hard to get... Milotic was something I wanted to have, but getting a feebas and then boosting its beauty is hard as hell

[ItsTrue]

You saved me from all that clicking. Thank you!

[NastyLeftHook0]

froslass was a good pokemon.

[Gaming101]

Which Pokemon did I not bother catching? All of them, because Pokemon sucks! Grow up you babies!

[Nimblest-Assassin]

@gaming101
Oh watch out guys.... we got a badass over here

[hkgamer]

I always caught them by using some sort of glitch. Had to go to safari zone, then fly out to the tiny little island and run/swim up and down. Then you would see every pokemon from safari zone. You can actually do that for any area to be really honest.

[TrendyGamers]

Heracross is always a good choice.

[Relientk77]

Yeah, he's actually like the only one on this list I actually had. However, I pretty much only played Blue, Yellow, and Gold/Silver

[ChunkyLover53]

Bu..bu.bu...but you gotta catch'em all!

[Relientk77]

I believed that for Pokemon Blue and Red. Then they started added Pokemon, like 100s lol. My Pokemon Blue file has all original 151, but I dare not try with Gold/Silver or any of the later entries

[WildArmed]

Like-wise, before I believed "This is it, 151, must get 'em all, or crap out my game boy trying"

Then a few years later, you have 600 pokemon.. it just doesn't matter anymore. They are going to add another 300 whenever they feel like it.

Your collection will never be complete. I think it really hurt once they decided to keep increasing the Pokemon. I loved Red/blue/yellow, heck even Gold/Silver was awesome, 100 new pokemon? I can deal w/ that. Then they just kept doing it again and again.

Never touched a Pokemon game since :(

[SuperLupe]

Same here, Pokemon lost its magic to me when they started adding Pokemons left and right.

[AnimeAvenger]

LOL

So most of you are saying you gave up on Pokemon games after gold/silver because they just kept adding more Pokemon? Sounds like I'm one of the few who still like the Pokemon games since the original.

[jghvhv]

None of those Pokemon are even in the top percentage.I'll stick to my Rattata,thank you very much.

[Swiggins]

You give me hope Youngster Joey, you give us all hope!

[LAWSON72]

flygon insapphire/ruby was amazing eventhough it took an effort to get him to evolve because i thought his first two forms sucked

[MGSmarioPRO]

I catch all of them in yellow, gold and this year in black. If i look to what people use in metagame this 10 are overlooked because they just don't have space in the good teams (even if i put out the legendaries). The only exception is Heracross because he was very used before the last gen.

[wnek9]

magikarp does splash attack!

[Lock0n]

10) Lanturn
9) Tentacruel
8)Bisharp
7) Milotic
6)Kingdra
5)Jirachi
4)Heracross
3)Flygon
2)Medicham
1)Froslass

I've caught every single one of these, except froslass and bisharp.

[ApolloTheBoss]

Most of these I've never even heard of. 1st generation will ALWAYS be the best.

[Relientk77]

This is so true, and I havn't heard of like any of the list either

[jghvhv]

Lanturn-Gen 2
Tentacruel-Gen 1
Bisharp-Gen 5
Milotic-Gen 3
Kingdra-Gen 2
Jirachi-Gen 3
Heracross-Gen 2
Flygon-Gen 3
Medicham-Gen 3
Froslass-Gen 4
Gen 1 is Red,Blue,Yellow.
Gen 2 is Gold,Silver,Crystal.
Gen 3 is Ruby,Saphire,Emerald.
Gen 4 is Diamond,Pearl,Platinum.
Gen 5 is Black,White,Black 2,White2.
Just in case you were wondering which games these new Pokemon came from.

[Sigh]

like most of you, I do LOVE the first generation and still think it's the best pokemon roster out of all generations out there. But in Diamond/Pearl's generation, Vespiquen I personally liked. Loved her enormous defence and special def when you buff her with this move I forgot... loll.. I think only Vespiquen can learn though. Havnt played pokemon in 4 years loll.

[GenericNameHere]

More power to you for liking Gen 1 Pokémons. I've played all main Pokémon games, and I've never let nostalgia cloud my judgments and stop me from liking the newer Pokémons. ALL Pokémon generations have had shitty and awesome Pokémons. Here are mines (only some, not all)
Gen 1: Charizard good, Geodude bad
Gen 2: Tyranitar good, Sunkern bad
Gen 3: Rayquaza good, Whismur bad
Gen 4: Giratina good, Bidoof bad
Gen 5: Hydreigon good, Trubbish good
I don't mind more Pokémons, as long as the games are as fun as they were over a decade ago.

[HonestDragon]

This was very well thought out and very well written. I'm impressed by this article. I've never seen a top Pokemon list quite like this one either. I was actually just discussing this with some of my friends the other day.

I've always seen that having a Grass, Water, and Fire type in your team is very necessary, but that's just me. While it might handicap you to using up three known spots, it leaves you with three other spots for various types and strategies. In terms of the game's adventure without facing other players, I've always employed Grass, Water, Fire, and Flying so I get that balance of type advantage and getting around easily with Surf and Fly. Then I can have two other types of my choosing for whatever strategy I'm aiming for.

Still, this is a very good list. The only one out of the ten I've ever used in a main party was Heracross. Not in competition with other players, mind you, but the main adventure.

[goldwyncq]

Butterfree is underrated.

[BlaqMagiq24]

I played in every gen of Pokemon including BW (dont know if ill play BW2) but my two favs will always be Charizard and Typhlosion.

[Jirachi]

10.Munchlax Because munchlax has some egg moves that it can learn snorlax is a beast with
9.Ditto Even before imposter ditto i loved using ditto
8.Blaziken Before it got speed boost
7.Latias Because for some reason latios is more popular
6.Froslass Really this pokemon's typing alone is a good reason to get,imo yet nobody does because it's not high tier

5.Jirachi Jirachi maybe be popular compared to no legendary/uber pokemon but among legendary pokemon jirachi Isn't that popular even though it has good stats,move pool and typing
4.Alakazam sure Alakazam is high tier but compared to pokemon like gyrados it's not very popular
3.Empoleon(see alakazam)
2.Gengar(see above)
1.Scizor Again it may be high tier but it's not very popular among within it's tier.

[Hazmat13]

i've always hated Pokemon, never liked it one bit the show was eh but after like 10 shows and 5,000 games its complete shit.

[helghast102]

What part of "Gotta catch 'em all" don't you understand?