The Best and Worst Gimmick Pokemon
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Published 2023-01-20
Some Pokemon only have one purpose, and that purpose is to be mildly annoying at best.
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(0:00): What IS a Gimmick Pokemon?
(1:38): Kanto
(3:11): Johto
(7:02): Hoenn
(9:22): Sinnoh
(10:08): Unova
(10:32): Kalos
(11:00): Alola
(13:03): Galar
(13:45): Paldea
All Comments (21)
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I love that in the Pokemon 3 movie, the Unown have the power to warp reality, and in the games they're unbelievably useless.
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Unknown makes sense in that it takes thousands of them to do that as you need thousands and thousands of letters to make a story, but that single letter by itself isn't very useful.
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I’m surprised Plusle and Minun weren’t considered gimmick pokemon
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Eevee was 100% a gimmick pokemon at the beginning. It's a one-of with three potential evolution lines to require trading, shows off the elemental evolution stones as soon as you're able to buy them, is literally named after evolution just to drive the point home. There have been alternate evolution lines since then, but in context it's totally unique.
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I feel like Luvdisc should have been mentioned in gen 3, it’s only purpose is to give out heartscales
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Fun fact: Chatot was actually banned in tournaments for one reason, chatter. With the mike feature you can record slurs to your opponent, hence they banned it. Rly funny ngl
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I'd argue Mimikyu is also a gimmick Pokemon, in that it has a signature ability unique to it and falls in line with its concept.
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I feel like no one talks about how Gen 3 introduced so many gimmick pokemon just to be counterparts in double battles. Plusle and Minun, Volbeat and Illumise, Zangoose and Seviper, Solrock and Lunatone, arguably Latios and Latias, and I might be forgetting some. Heck you could argue it's the reason there are two regional birds, two pseudos, and two evolutions of Wurmple
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Ditto has also become surprisingly useful in competitive battling as well! With impostor copying any stat changes of the opponent, it now functions as a great answer to set up sweepers, especially in high powered meta games like Ubers: It equips a Choice Scarf and then uses the opponent’s boosts against them by out speeding and KOing, sometimes even leading to a reverse sweep.
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The downside to Furfrou is that if you change its Trim in the Kalos games, it automatically reverts to its base form if you deposit it in a box, meaning that, at this point in time, the only way to obtain the other trims is to trade with other players around the world since the Furfrou Trims are region-locked in different parts of the world in Pokemon GO. It took me quite some time and a lot of extra legendaries from the Dynamax Adventures to get them all.
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Komala is the only Pokemon to just have a baseline status condition baked into it's ability treating it as permanently asleep being able to use moves like Sleep Talk innately, being unable to be status conditioned and dealing double damage with moves like Facade.
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I’d argue that Gen 5 does have a gimmick Pokemon in form of Zorua and Zoroark. Their illusion ability is their gimmick and I personally like it a lot even if it’s not very good.
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Kind of surprised Vivillon isn't on the list. Collect every region Vivillon was an impossible gimmick.
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They retroactively gave Unown a connection to Arceus, that bumps it up a bit I'd say
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i'm surprised sawsbuck not mentioned here, i think it's kinda gimmicky how it change it's appearance every season
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Wobbuffet was my very first shiny Pokémon, and I actually used it, to some mild success. I think the needing a Pokémon to not evolve is a bit much of a restriction. If you rule that out, that opens up Cherrim in Gen 4 and Deerling/Sawsbuck in Gen 5.
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Lore wise the Unown are linked with Arceus in some capacity, whether it be little tools of his or an extension of him directly. In game they are terrible, but if we could carry more than 6 at a time, it can be assumed they’d be greater in power. There’s the legend of Arceus shaping the universe with his 1,000 arms, which could very well be the Unown.
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My favorite gimmick pokemon is rampardos for the strat of destroying or getting destroyed, zero in between
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For gen 7 you forgot meneor. The cute meteor pokemon that loses its shell when taking damage but gets faster and hits harder (while taking more damage)
