Although Game Freak undoubtedly works very hard on the designs of each and every one of the Pokemon of the series, the truth is that there are going to be some less loved ones in the great catalog of more than 900 copies that exists at this moment.
Not all Pokemon they may be just as loved and adored as Fidough, and some are destined to be unpopular and forgotten in time. However, it is precisely those types of Pokémon that YouTuber Thomas Game Docs is interested in, who has recently tried to find out which Pokémon is the least popular in the franchise.
To do this, Thomas Game Docs bought advertising space on Google to access Google analytics, which allowed him to see how many times each Pokémon was searched on Google. The lower the number of searches, the less popular the Pokemon.
For example, Pikachu, of course, is the most popular Pokémon on the Internet, with about 4 million search results per month. If you’re a Gen 5 fan, you might want to look away, as the next few paragraphs won’t be a pleasant read for you.
In fact, out of all ten Pokemon less popular, eight are Black and White, with Pokemon like Vanillish, Duosion, and Whirlipede ranking 10th, 9th, and 8th, respectively. The same goes for the most unpopular Pokémon in the series, as number one is the poor angry meerkat ‘Watchog’, with just 8,100 Google searches a month.
Not too surprising considering Watchog isn’t that useful competitively and is too ugly to be lovable. The ugly yellow lines running through Watchog’s eyes seem to be the thing that scares Thomas Game Docs fans the most, which is totally understandable.
His angry facial expression is also something that will probably put a lot of people off, but we guess if you’re officially the least popular Pokémon in the series, then you have something to be angry about.