Pokemon has remained at the top of its game for over 20 years🏅 at this point and there doesn't seem to be an end in sight. Between the super-popular video games and long-standing television anime, the franchise is gaining more new fans than it is losing in any given year.
With all of this turnover, as well as the ever-expanding roster of Pokemon, which creatures are getting lost along the way? It's time to look at 10 Pokemon from Pokemon Red & Blue that people forget exist in a post-168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon Sword & Shield world.
10 Seel
Pokemon fans love to catch Pokemon and they love to take quizzes in which they try to name creatures from their favorite franchise. A cursory glance on Youtube watching people attempt this for the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Kanto region will quickly reveဣal how many people forgot about Seel and Dewgong. The two white puppy-like sea creatures are adorable and in terms of typing offer a unique strategic purpose, but for one reason or another they tend to be in the handful of Pokemon people struggle with naming when it comes to those internet quizzes.
9 Spearow
If 100 Pokemon fans were placed in a room and asked to answer as fast as they can "Name a bird Pokemon from Kanto?," they'd almost unanimously name a Pokemon from Pidgey's evolutionary line or one of the three legendary birds. It'd be pretty unlikely that someone said Spearow or Fearow. On top of only being a 2-stage evolution, Spearow also had the least interesting of the two early-game Normal and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Flying-type Pokemon and was mostly used♛ as cannon fodder i൩n order to level up more beloved creatures.
8 Persian
Persian in many ways ended up dealing with the same issues that Raichu did. The Pokemon anime made their base forms, Pikachu and Meowth, so popular and iconic that most gamers opted to keep the base formಞ instead of evolving them.
Some might argue that Persian is more wide𓂃ly remembered than some other Pokemon, but most of that has to do with Persian being the notable pet of Giovanni, the leader of Team Rocket. Persian's Alolan form makes♒ the large cat Dark-type and also has it feeling like a villain in a Studio Ghibli film.
7 Exeggcute
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon Sun & Moon did a lot when it came to introducing the concept of regional forms, those being special forms of pre-existing Pokemon that changed the creature's design as well as its typing. In the Kanto region, Exeggutor was always seen as a pudgy coconut tree, but on the Alolan Islands, it became a staggering foe. It💙 adopted the Dragon-type and was immediately a desired battler among fans. The same could not be said for its base form Exeggcute which remained as a pile of eggs that fell out of a carton.
6 Tangela
For years the coolest thing about Tangela was its trading card that was part of the Jungle set in the Pokemon Trading Card game. It eventually received an evolutionary form that didn't do much for it in terms of mass appeal, but it did manage to give the creature a bit more to itself. Not only did it increase the overall stats of Tangela, it managed to make the weird collection of vines come across a bit more formidable and capable. It still doesn't mean anyone remembers it when selecting their team's 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Grass-type, but it's progress.
5 Seaking
Pokemon as a franchise has set a standard in which every new generation of Pokemon games needs to b🎐e packed with a brand new roster of Pokemon of all varying types and designs. A crutch the company often leans on to deliver this is the introduction of at least a dozen fish-like Water-type Pokemon that are seen as roster filler. Seaking was the perfect and original example of this as a Water-type Pokemon in Kanto trainers used to level up their Grass and Electric-type Pokemon such as Pikachu and/or B⛦ulbasaur.
4 Tauros
With the introduction of regional forms and new evolutions, it's hard to come across a Pokemon that doesn't evolve into or from some other creature. Tauros is one of the few remaining cases from the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Kanto region and fans are still waiting for the dayꦓ in which it gets a second lಌife.
Bouffalant was a new Normal-type introduced in the 5th gꦇeneration of games and fans had assumed it was the Tauros evolution they had been waiting for. It turns out it was just another buffalo-inspired Pokemon everyone would forget about in a matter of years.
3 Venomoth
The best thing about Venomoth is that it is the subject of one of the Pokemon franchise's biggest mysteries🅘. By looking at the evolutionary lines for both Venonat and Caterpie it is clear as day that Venonat was originally meant to evolve into Butterfree. Outside of this ongoing conversation among fans, the Bug and Poison-type is often avoided at all costs in favor of more appealing and effective Poison or Bug-types. Every year sees new Pokemon fans enter the fold, and thus allows new iterations of the Butterfree/Venonat mystery.
2 Pinsir
Not only is Pinsir a bit difficult to look at, the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Bug-typing and lack of any evolutions make it quite forgettable to ꦐthose who have fallen off the Pokemon bandwagon. When looking at the Pokedex, Pinsir lines up with the other single form Pokemon Tauros, which was talked about earlier in this list. Pinsir has yet to receive any additional love when it comes to a pre-evolution or a new regional form. In order for it to get back ♏into the minds of fans, it needs a facelift and some positive marketing on the internet in the near future.
1 Victreebe🅠l
Reading this Pokemon's name might have fans trying to recall exactly what this is. On the off chance that someone remembers Bellsprout, a Poison and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Grass-type from the Kanto region, best case scenario they also remember that it evolves into Weepinbell. A creature infamous for the rather distasteful memes surrounding its overall design. Bellsprout actually has a third form passed this named Victreebel which is the Venus Flytrap Pokemon most people mistake Weepinbell as being, when in reality it's nothing more than the awk𒊎ward middle form.