Pokémon has been around for 23 years and has fascinated everyone with its simple yet outrageously fun gameplay. You fight the “pocket monsters” and catch any that you want to keep. If the Pokémon is cute, it’s yours. You want the Onyx because the thought of owning a giant rock snake sounds great to you? Nothing stopping you. Want to ca꧙tch Klefki because anytime you see a set of floating keys it makes you laugh uncontrollably? Bring on the laughter. However, there are some Pokémon who are certainly stronger than others, and not just in pure combat potential. Mew is definitely one of those Pokémon that comes to mind.
Mew is the 151st Pokémon introduced into the series and has stayed a mysterious figure ever since day one. It’s said to be the ancestor of all Pokémon, meaning that all known Pokémon can find their traces back to Mew. It was thought 🐭to be extinct, but it would seem that Mew is in a long game of hide-and-go-seek, due to their playful nature. Wh🦋ich can make catching a Mew that much more challenging.
Along with Mew’s mystery and pla🔜yfulness also comes their insanely overpowered abilities. This has o꧅ften lead to many decisions to make Mew incredibly difficult to find in-game, or to leave Mew out altogether to make sure the game stays balanced. From transforming into stronger Pokémon to being able to learn almost practically every single move, this list goes over some of the ways Mew is kinda overpowered.
25 Abilityಌ To Transform Into Any Other Pokémon
Starting this list off strong is that Mew has the ability to transform into any other Pokémon. In Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, we see 𓂃Mew change multiple times into other Pokémon.
Mew changed into an Aipom and played a bit with Ash's Pikachu. Not only is being able to change into other Pokémon overpowered, it’s almost cheating. You need to cut down that tree? Bam, Me🐎w changes into a Venusaur. Mew can do just about whatever you need them 🤡to.
24 Can Turn Invisi🉐ble 𝔍
Mew has the ability to make itself invisible at will, making it very challengi🔜ng if you’re are fighting it or simply trying to capture Mew. It is said that Mew only shows itself to those who are pure of heart, making many believe that it has gone extin🍰ct.
Mew has only ever been seen by a handful of people since it can selecti🔴vely choose who is able to see it, making it overpowered yet again.
23 🧜 Has A Camera Shield
In the classic Nintendo 64 game Pokémon Snap, Mew can be seen in the Rainbow Cloud🔜 level🔯. Only able to be snapped if their psychic shield is down.
The only way to get a picture of Mew is to throw pester balls at them until they leave the shield, then snag a photo.
Meaning that even on film and on video, Mew usually can’t be seen. This seemingly vampiric ability makes it impossible to ever get good visual ꩲevidence of the creature.
22 Can Breathe Underwater ꦛ
Not only is Mew ext🌜remely difficult to find, if they don’t want anything to do with you, they can dive inꦏto the water and swim away. I say swim, but I really mean float through the water as if it wasn’t even there to begin with.
Mew just turns itself inv⭕isible and either flies away, or swims away from you. Being able to fly through water is an incredible feat to pull off, but it just adds to the list of things that make Mew overpowe𒁏red.
21 Extremely Versa🤡tile
In the Pokémon games, all of Mew's stats start at 100, making it a total of 600 even-score when you add up all of its stats. On top of that, Mew can be taught any T🌜M, H🦋M, or move by tutoring it. Meaning that nearly every move in the game, Mew can learn.
Being able to learn nearly every single mo🃏ve and have very good base stats, means you can make Mew into whatever you need for your team.
20 Sneaking Its Way Into The Game 🧔
Although Mew is certainly a popular character within in the Pokémon franchise, it was added in at the last minute by Shigeki Morimoto as a prank. Morimoto secretly put Mew in the game as a Pokémon that only Game Freak e🦋mployees knew about.
This was used as a way to keep interest in the game high, with gamers looking for an invisible character.
Mew, intended not to even be a character, makes it in at the last second a♌nd becomes one of the most talked about characters eﷺver.
19 🥀 Contains All The DNA
The reason why Mewtwo was created in the first place was because of Mew. If youꦇ look at all the Pokémon in the game's world, they all have a trace back to Mew because of its DNA. This makes Mew the 🌸superior Pokémon when compared to Mewtwo.
Because of this, many scientists have debated if Mew was the original creator of Pokémon. It is unclear if Mew created Arceus, or if Ar🔥ceus created Mew and then 🍸others based off of Mew.
18 Can Learn Lots Ofꦐ Moves
As stated before, Mew can learn every TM, HM, and be tutored in evไery move available. This makes it a viable option on nearly every Pokémon team. It can even learn moves that aren’t within iꦿts affinity type, including infatuate, even though Mew is a genderless Pokémon.
Mew is the ace up your sleeve when fighting in Pokémon because Mew can be unpredicta👍ble with all the moves it can learn, adding to the list𒉰 of why Mew is overpowered.
17 🐽 Genesis Supernova
Speaking of every move, Mew is the only Pokémon able to perform the Z-move genesis supernova. It deals a massive amount of psychic damage as well as turning the battle terrain into psychic terrain instead. T🍌his boosts psychic moves by 50 percent, making Mew deal even more damage because Mew is a psychic Pokémon.
This move can only be used by Mew, making it one of those reasons as to why Mew is overpᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚowered, turning an already strong character into an overpowered one.
16 Willing To Save 🤡The World
In the movie Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, Mew decides it 🃏will sacrifice itself in order to save the Tree of Beginnings, only to have Lucario step inᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ at the final moment and sacrifice itself instead.
Mew is a selfless creature who only wants to help to better the world.
Mew has only ever wanted to help those in the world, not destroy itඣ; it certainly doesn’t want to create clones of Pokémon and take over that way. Looking at you, Mewtwo.