Who's the MOST popular Pokémon?

There are over 1000 Pokémon, but which one is the most popular? And which one is the least popular? To find out, I collected over 1.6 million votes from Pokémon fans in order to find out once and for all which Pokémon is the best!

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CHAPTERS
0:00 - Intro
1:08 - Part 1: The method
3:24 - Part 2: The bottom 20
13:25 - Part 3: The top 20

[ThomasGameDocs]

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[ricksandstorm]

Us snorlax fans were asleep during the poll.

[SJrad]

let's be real pikachu is the mario of pokemon. most people know pikachu, but not many would say it's their #1 favorite pokemon

[stuffingtonjfluffypantsiii]

Irony that Mimimkyu is higher on the list than the Pokemon it's impersonating to get more love Pikachu

[TachyonKing]

I kinda love that the least popular Pokemon is literally the one that pushes around poo

[apersonwhomayormaynotexist]

i do wanna mention as a stat kid some of the drawbacks of your polling method. 1.5 millions is a large sample size but theres also a few clear biases (in stat biases are just ways your polling method may lead to inaccurate results). first of all, theres a clear volunteer bias. only people who actively go out to find the site will be voting, meaning youre missing some key demographics such as casual pokemon fans who play the games or watch the show but dont go looking for pokemon media outside of that or on the internet, and younger kids who dont have access to the entire internet because of parental screen time restrictions.

theres also definitely a slight response bias, aka a bias inserted by the way a question was posed. by doing a 'this or that' format you leave the ability for all sorts of errors, such as somebody not knowing one of the pokemon and thus actually just voting for which one is more well known, not more popular

Id also like to question if those 1.6 million responses are individual people or individual answers to a single question. because if its 1.6 million answers, that can add a huge amount of bias as individual people have an outsized impact if they do it an outsized amount of times, which really can skew the data.


none of this means your data or conclusions are wrong, but when running statistical analysis, its important to address possible sources of inaccuracy in your data.

[moodle]

that chandelure placement is a pleasant surprise

[maskedfoxx]

I was really shocked Gardevoir wasn't in the top 20 so I checked the website and she was ranked 21 lol.

[sodakuwun]

can imagine him seeing vaporeon in the top rankings and feeling a sense of dread knowing hes gonna have to review it and pretend he doesnt know why its there while everyone watching nods in discomfort like. yeah. vaporeon. very nostalgic.

[injuringchip]

I don't think Capsakid's unpopularity is related to it's newness. Smoliv, Annihilape, Clodsire and Tinkaton won over tons of fans, like Wooloo did last gen, and Mimikyu did before that.

[Peepimus]

“It’s not Pikachu.”

Fans: Oh no… aNyWaY—

[Kanji]

That’s only part of the pun. Capsakid is also a pun on Kappa which he really does look like a baby Kappa. I was very upset when he evolved and lost that entirely

[Sylvieboy]

A couple of notes to take away from this video. #1 Greninja not being in the Top20 is freakin hilarious to me LOL. #2 Leafeon being that high brought a Big smile on my face! #3 Five, count em FIVE eeveelutions including Eevee itself in the Top20 is proving that the entire family will forever be beloved.

[Sigmund_Froid]

I'd actually be kinda cool if we could see in the list how many matchups a Pokémon won vs how many it lost.

The amount of votes is actually kinda low compared to the amount of possible matchups. 1, 608, 153 looks like a lot of votes (because it is) but there are 1, 050, 625 possible matchups, meaning there are matchups that didn't even show up twice.
So I'm kinda curious how much of a bias was introduced through that, how big the margin of error is.

[jmporkbob]

You always gotta wonder if Vaporeon really woulda been that popular, or are people just voting for the memes? Back in the day, everyone I knew viewed it as the most lame of the original 3 eeveelutions.

[randomgem]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN NO ONE LOVES SMOOCHUM? SHE'S ONE OF MY FAVORITES 😭

[JustAGoomba]

BUDEW FANS WHERE WE AT?!

I AM A PROUD GEN 4 SUPREMACIST

[kurukuroni]

I remember when Chandelure was very unpopular in the fanbase. Glad to see that the Pokémon fandom have since warmed up to it, I always thought it was pretty cool.

[SeanGaunery]

Me before watching bottom 20: Bruxish here we come!

Rellor is a worthy no.1 though imo. Its nose looks kinda cursed in its usual upside down pose lmao

[maximillianoss]

People hate FLITTLE? Its literally just a cute little guy