The Worst Gen 3 Pokémon

Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire brought so many great things to the Pokémon franchise, and is easily one of the most favorited generations thus far. The newly introduced Pokémon have a lot to do with why, as they are some of the most fawned over. However, as always, there's a few Pokemon that don't quite hit that mark of even being considered "good". In this video I'll be going over what I consider to be the worst Pokémon in the Gen 3 games.

[nightmare]

Poor Plusle and Minun. They were practically engineered to be used for double battles, and yet they are so terrible that you can't even really effectively use them in a double battle.

[syah]

Spinda has 60 in each stat because that makes its stat total 360, and it is always spinning around 360°

[Alienldr]

To make matters worse for Feebas, each pokemon has a "sheen" status when it comes to eating pokeblocks. If their sheen is maxed out, that pokemon can never again eat another pokeblock. If Feebas's beauty stat wasn't high enough by the end of that, which is easy if your feebas was the wrong nature or you didn't give it exclusively decent pokeblocks, then your Feebas can never evolve, period.

[Firescizor]

Clamperl is deffo a special mention here, lmao. Clamperl is a Pokémon that you can only find by diving, aka you need not only one, but TWO water related HM's to find it (Surf and Dive). By the point you can find Clamperl (after the freaking 7th badge of the game) you've most likely found/trained your main Water type of the Team. Mudkip being the most popular starter in Hoenn already puts every candidate for the water slot in a tough spot, so, amidst the one million other options you get earlier in this game, imagine how bad and unlucky it must feel to be Clamperl (like... all the gyms that a Water type helps you defeat have already gone by!).

After the dreadful task of finding this "outstanding creature", you learn (supposedly) of it's spliting evolutions. Said evolutions, that require you to go through a side quest involving more surfing, more diving, a lost Scanner in the Abandoned Ship, and trading it to Cpt. Stern for just ONE of the evolutionary items. Man, I sure do love split decisions about Pokémon I couldn't care less for...

So, you finally did it. Let's say you want that sweet, pink, alluring Gorebyss (for God knows what reason). You have your Clamperl. You have your DeepSeaScale. It's finally time to use it and... oh... Clamperl is... a trade evolution... ahn? Wow...
Like, it's baffling the hoops you have to go through to unlock the final evolutions of this pokémon. People nowadays talk a lot of crap about modern evolution methods like Galarian Yamask, Inkay or Hisuian Basculin, but you cannot convince me that the particular case of CLAMPERL wasn't bullshit already back in Gen 3!

[xRaymond]

I got so mad trying to get a Milotic (last one needed for the Pokedex) that my dad literally called Nintendo to say this evolution method was dumb.

[Mijzelffan]

I love the rare pokemon in hoenn, makes the region feel a lot more unique. A lot of these pokemon aren't even used by any npc trainers either

[bennconner]

It’s also possible to mess up febas’s evolution if you max out it’s shine before you get it’s Beauty stat high enough.

[noraslob]

I had that feebas horror story thing with Murkrow in Fire Red. I hadn't caught Slowking yet, so there was an open spot behind it in the dex, and I was *convinced* Murkrow should evolve. Tried all sorts of thing. Was like level 65 at the end.

[brachy]

So here's my Feebas horror story, a few years ago i downloaded an emulator in my phone and chose to finally raise a proper Feebas into a Milotic, went great, Milotic is such a fun pokemon to use but the evolution process is very tedious, all great there. Later on, i wanted to do another run but in my computer, so i downloaded the game, went throught the hell that is catching a Feebas and surprise! If the internal battery of the game has run out, time won't progress, berries will not grow and you wont be able to raise its beauty, so there i was, frozen in time with a Feebas that would never evolve.

[ZebNyan]

For me it's rare pokemon like Chimecho that make these games really interesting (when trying to find them). It would be really boring if every pokemon would be as strong as Salamence. Some pokemon just make the world more diverse and interesting to explore.

[DangerousPython]

Masquerain should definitely be here if it wasn’t for intimidate

[Arvenyte]

Just a small correction. You don't need to max out Feebas' beauty stat at 255. Instead you just need 170+. You can get it easily with 5 kelpsy berries and 5-6 oran berries on the 1 npc blender. You get 6 kelpsy in the area above the exit of meteor falls, while you get oran everywhere.

[armorbearer]

Nosepass was the one that drove me crazy. I kept checking the the pokedex for the location and it kept telling me that it is on the island. I kept searching the cave, but young me never thought of smashing the rocks in the cave.

[MrCheeze]

You were concerned about players having a Feebas but having no idea how to evolve it... but let's be real, nobody's catching a Feebas without a guide in the first place.

Anyway, of the Pokemon you brought up, Chimecho is the one that I think adds the least to the game. The others, even when they aren't very useful in battle, still have memorable characteristics of their own. Nosepass as a reward for those who DO go back and mess with the rock smash mechanic, for example. And certainly Luvdisc matters a lot for non-combat reasons. Chimecho is just kinda... there and forgettable. Fun fact, it's actually the last Pokemon by index number, after Deoxys, which means it may have been a late addition to the game.

[JohnPD]

Not quite a horror story, but I remember hunting for feebas for 3 hours on my little gameboy adv with the purple spiral night light thing attached to frustrating but taught me patience as a lad!

[MediaByADF]

Feebas thrived in that early 2000s space where not every piece of information was immediately available online at your fingertips. I don’t think I ever caught one legitimately by fishing in gen 3.

[shadowslash]

So happy Sableye wasnt mentioned as it is my favourite from gen 3 and my favourite overall. Even Mawille is pretty good. They just have such cool lore and designs. I remember using one as a kid as it helps a lot during the early game and then its hard to box as you grow attached

[benamisai-kham]

Funny story about feebas: i didnt know it evolved into milotic as a kid (got the game when i was 6) and my older brother convinced me you could take the rocket to the moon to catch milotic and spent longer than i want to admit trying to figure out how to unlock space travel to catch a milotic because it looked so pretty.
He also started a decade of me despising oddish through that exact copy of ruby, he gave me a completed copy, dex filled but with almost every box filled with Oddish that he gamesharked in.

I had friends make fun of me for believing my brother but c'mon WHAT SIX YEAR OLD IS GONNA SEE FEEBAS AND SAY OH YEAH THAT EVOLVES INTO THIS BEAUTIFUL MILOTIC??? I didn't have Internet or any way to fact check this for nearly a decade after this. I only knew what I played and what others told me.

[Grt_Sge]

Sharpedo and Crawfaunt mainly because they are massively held back by their typing. Two physical attackers but with no stab physical moves as their both special types 😂.

[purpleomlet]

"An update to Pokemon storage."

Man, this was one of the most important changes made to the Pokemon series, potentially the most important. If you didn't play through red/blue and silver/gold before playing any other games in the series you just cannot comprehend the immense QoL upgrade this was.