Most Popular Pokémon Crowned in Japan

ash-greninjaLong live the King. Although I stuck Dunsparce up top, the results collected in Japan for the most popular Pokémon out of all 720 where as follows:

  1. Greninja
  2. Arceus
  3. Mew
  4. Pikachu
  5. Sylveon

Court jester, ie: least popular Pokémon, went to poor Simisear. Results were perhaps unsurprising given the frequency at which Greninja and Pikachu appear in the anime and promotional goods, along with Sylveon. What do you think of the results?!

<3 PJ

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230 thoughts on “Most Popular Pokémon Crowned in Japan”

  1. Hey you guys. .. I posted this really late in another article but..

    I think we need a Signature flying Pokemon this Gen. Especially because some may prefer to fly from island to island if possible.

    Lapras is the Surfer, Gogoat you ride, both have special animations for this..
    Now we need a big Bird who does and has the same.

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  2. Watch, because the top 50 or so pokemon are bursting with legendaries, Gamefreak will be like, “They must want a ton of legendaries in the next gen! They’re all so popular! Let’s make twice as many more!”

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  3. I got an interesting idea for a gym, it will never happen, but here goes:
    The gym leader is a cop and the gym is a prison, you have to get to the cop by finding a jail key which one of the officers has, who are the gym trainers. You could put past villians in the series into the cells which will mention little blurbs of their life or teams. (Like the arrested Sages from plasma or Charion from platinum)

    He would be a steel type gym leader with these appropriate pokemon:
    Magnezone, Klefki, Aegislash, Lucario, and a new Pokemon.

    The cop turns out to, once you beat him, reveal some info related to an old friend who helped arrest all these criminals, revealing he was in fact Looker, except he would use his real name!

    This concept is entirely for fun, do not take any of this as fact, but feel free to leave your thought on the concept~

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  4. Alas we are but a mere week until E3
    So a better question remains, will Corocoro beat E3 to the punch with leaks

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  5. You know what I’m Really looking forward to.. .
    Those Epic Animation Trailers they’ve been making Since black and white…
    I think they skipped making one for X & Y but I’m sure they will fit these with all the Hype!

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  6. I finished Y version today and made a little review thing about it on the forums. But it was cool! I love that ending so much. I love AZ and his backstory and all that. I want more of him!

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  7. I can not understand for the likes of me how or why greninja has become anyone’s favorite Pokemon let alone voted the new most popular. It’s tongue is WRAPPED AROUND ITS OWN NECK. How is that apealing? Mind. Fucking blown.

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  8. Maybe Children have voted Greninja as the number 1 Pokemon in hope that Ash’s will become available, I mean there is a lot of event Pokemon on this list.

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  9. So I had a very obscure idea for a Fakemon
    i wanted to experiment with Pokemon consisting of multiple entities
    I.E. a small school of piranhas
    So basically three of the same ravenous eating machine that work with its triplets to take down much bigger prey

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        • My thoughts exactly imagine three feeding frenzy fish that just go wild, latching on to prey and quickly tearing off chunks of the prey all working together
          But the problem is writing the biology on how they always stay together

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          • Uhhhhhh that’s more of detecting objects
            I need more of a instinctive bond or unity

            My original concept was literally a stack of them, they would be conjoined at the top and bottom and they would just feed

          • Fish like the anglers for example use chemical colors, maybe they line up according to colors which mean different things. Like green means “ok, swim together” (idle), Purple Means “Scatter!” or Blue means “Defend us!” or red means “Attack!” and they could be markings more or less than Lumineon’s or Finneon’s.

          • Hmmmm maybe I’ll up the anti
            They would consist of three-four deep sea fish cross between a Piranha and a Fangtooth
            Dark green and grey coloration with bright white teeth, on top of their faces is dorsal fin tipped with a flashing lure, they communicate and send battle formations by flashing various colors
            They work together to take down their prey

          • If you want, i got some free time, i could design your fakemon if you can link me to the fish you wanna use and tell me how many of each.

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