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SonansuMan

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Hi guys, it's me, SonansMan! I have created this thread to discuss which Pokemon in the XY Series (hell just go with all series) on the main casts team that barely got any love.

I consider these Pokemon the most underated so far as of XY105:
Citron's Horube (before XY083) - He would usually just stay in his Pokeball because Citron always sent out Harimaron instead of it
Satoshi's Fiarrow - He actually hasn't gotten his own filler episode in contraire to the other Pokemon.

Musashi, Serena, and Kojiro are fine since their Pokemon actually have shown some personality throughout the episodes.
Those are all I could think of in XY so far, try to think of some!
 
For XY: Fennekin before it evolved, Serena hardly used her Pokemon at all until showcases. Also Talonflame I agree with is very underused. I only watch the Dub, so I'm way behind, but to my short sighted perspective Noibat is super under used. Dedenne doesn't ever battle, but of course we still see it waaaay too much and it gets introduced in every episode. Clement's Luxray honestly appears less than Bunnelby and of course way less than Chespin, and it would be nice to see more of because it is a good battler. In general Kalos seemed to go through a stage where the whole team but Pikachu was underused for a while, but that has gotten better recently.

There are of course many other options throughout the series. Kind of like Serena and Fennekin, May's Torchic hardly got used at all until after it evolved. Ash's Glalie hardly got used. Gible, of course, never got a full adventure, but it still did get a lot of development when it was with the team. Most of the Unova team that wasn't the main five were pretty under developed. Most of Brock's teams were under used, especially his Vulpix from original series. Of course not all Pokemon can be featured all the time (I am one who wishes there were even more filler episodes so we can see more of everyone, but I think I am in the minority on that), but certainly some are over used compared to others.
 
One underrated Pokemon that comes to mind would be Ash's Noctowl. It was very underdeveloped for a regional bird, despite the personality it displayed during its debut. Despite that, it almost singlehandedly won Ash his battle against Morty after Pikachu fell with astonishing ease, Cyndaquil taking out a roadblock in the form of his Gastly. This was in its first every Gym Battle, it took Pidgeot 4 of them to turn the tables in such a fashion.
There was also Noctowl showing up in the Sinnoh League in all its shiny glory and throwing out not only an Air Slash, but also the frankly unexpected Sky Attack and Extrasensory, both of which we can agree are very exotic moves for one of Ash's Pokemon.
 
Don't forget Dodaitose/Torterra! Suffered a similar fate that Yorunozuku
had. I felt as if Musashi's Beroringa was very underused too. Arbok got way too much attention instead of the poor thing.
 
I'm not going to really talk about the original series, because there are so many Pokémon belonging to main characters that never really got a lot of attention then. Golduck, Staryu, Horsea, Geodude, Onix, Tauros, Heracross... you get the idea.

In the way of other series, I'd have liked to have seen more of Ash's Torkoal. Torkoal's shining moment was in my opinion the battle against Brandon's Registeel, but even then it lost eventually.. It was kind of just there most of the time. Sinnoh, I think, did the best job of truly focusing on each and every one of Ash's Pokémon so far, although Kalos is doing pretty well with that too. Still, I want to see an episode really and truly focusing on Serena's Pancham. We haven't really seen one of those yet.
 
Aggron989 said:
I'm not going to really talk about the original series, because there are so many Pokémon belonging to main characters that never really got a lot of attention then. Golduck, Staryu, Horsea, Geodude, Onix, Tauros, Heracross... you get the idea.

I want to see an episode really and truly focusing on Serena's Pancham. We haven't really seen one of those yet.
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Yep. Those were some dark ages...
Now that I think of it, there hasn't actually been an episode that focused on Yancham on it's debut, despite its highly focused attention on the cast, remaining in the high tiers with characters like Pikachu, Nyarth, Harimaron, and Gekkouga.
 
All of Misty and Brock's Pokemon, aside from Psyduck and Croagunk, could go on this list.

Its especially noticeable how back in the OS both Misty and Brock hardly ever battled, and whenever Misty tried to battle it was always interupted by Psyduck coming out. She did start battling a bit more in mid/late Johto, but by then it was fairly late in her run.

Most of the time you would forget that Misty or Brock even had pokemon aside from a few.
 
SSJ said:
All of Misty and Brock's Pokemon, aside from Psyduck and Croagunk, could go on this list.

Its especially noticeable how back in the OS both Misty and Brock hardly ever battled, and whenever Misty tried to battle it was always interupted by Psyduck coming out. She did start battling a bit more in mid/late Johto, but by then it was fairly late in her run.

Most of the time you would forget that Misty or Brock even had pokemon aside from a few.
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I'm curious to why they needed to make Kasumi have both a Hitodeman and a Starmie when Hitodeman could've had a development episode to evolve in.
 
Well they gave Misty and Brock the same team from the games at the time, and she had both Staryu and Starmie in the games so it was the same for the anime.

Brock's Zubat/Golbat/Crobat barely got any screentime and was barely seen. Vulpix hardly did anything outside its capture and goodbye episode. Pineco/Forestress did...nothing but blow up? In AG, Mudkip got the short end of the stick compared to the other Hoenn starters. Lotad/Lombre was alright but as a Ludicolo it only appeared in like 3 episodes. Geodude was OK but was forgotten about for most of Johto. Onix was Brock's most used pokemon before Croagunk.

As for Misty pretty much more than half her pokemon went underused. Aside from Psyduck, her Poliwhirl was the only one to get some decent screentime and development.
 
Poor Takeshi was actually featured less then Rocket-dan tbh. So his Pokemon weren't really going to be there.

I liked him in the OS but got stale near the end of AG and forward on in DP.

That or I just don't got TPCI's play on him. 4Kids made him remarkably funnier with some of his lines, such as the frying pan joke and inadvertently made him a laughing stock with jelly filled donuts (obviously a donut duh).

I liked Haruna's Eneco's personality, but it sadly got shafted pretty quick.
 
Luxray is just a Swift machine. No personality, just a capture and evo episodes, nothing done with its past, no interaction with other Pokemon,nothing at all. The same applies to Iris's Excadrill.
 
Right now... I'd say Ash's Talonflame and Clemont's Luxray. Hoping Luxray gets a Mega Evolution and Clemont uses it more.

OS: Ash's Primeape. Misty's Goldeen, Staryu, and Starmie. Brock's Geodude, Zubat-Crobat, Vulpix, and Pineco-Foretress. Jessie's Lickitung. Tracey's Venonat, Scyther, and Marill. (I don't remember Tracey's Pokemon getting any episodes at all.)

AG: Ash's Torkoal and Glalie. Brock's Mudkip-Marshstomp, Foretress, and Lotad-Ludicolo.

DP: Ash's Gible. Dawn's Togekiss. James's Mime Jr. Brock's Bonsly-Sudowoodo and Happiny.

BW: Ash's Palpitoad, Unfezant, Leavanny, and Boldore. Cilan's Stunfisk. Iris's Excadrill. Jessie's Woobat and Frillish. James's Yamask and Amoonguss.

Just ones off the top of my head. I think I might be wrong on some.
 
Tuoko said:
Right now... I'd say Ash's Talonflame and Clemont's Luxray. Hoping Luxray gets a Mega Evolution and Clemont uses it more.

OS: Ash's Primeape. Misty's Goldeen, Staryu, and Starmie. Brock's Geodude, Zubat-Crobat, Vulpix, and Pineco-Foretress. Jessie's Lickitung. Tracey's Venonat, Scyther, and Marill. (I don't remember Tracey's Pokemon getting any episodes at all.)

AG: Ash's Torkoal and Glalie. Brock's Mudkip-Marshstomp, Foretress, and Lotad-Ludicolo.

DP: Ash's Gible. Dawn's Togekiss. James's Mime Jr. Brock's Bonsly-Sudowoodo and Happiny.

BW: Ash's Palpitoad, Unfezant, Leavanny, and Boldore. Cilan's Stunfisk. Iris's Excadrill. Jessie's Woobat and Frillish. James's Yamask and Amoonguss.

Just ones off the top of my head. I think I might be wrong on some.
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Ooh, quite accurate! I found Musashi's Dokucale pretty underused by appearance, having barely any appearances.
 
Snorunt still appeared in every episode after its capture leading up to Glalie in the league. So even though its disappointing Glalie didn't stick around for Battle Frontier, it still got proper showing when it was there.

I think Misty's Horsea is the biggest offender. After its capture episode you do not see it AT ALL until the Eevee brothers episode where it lets out ink on the floor to let the gang follow TR. After that you again don't see it at all till they return to Cerulean Gym and Misty leaves it with her sisters, and that was only around 60 episodes into Kanto. And that's it.

I think Horsea only appeared for 3 episodes in its entire run. My god.
 
I checked and it actually appeared 5 times after The Battling Eevee Brothers before The Misty Mermaid. Therefore you're incorrect.

In my opinion, I think Musashi's Beroringa is the hugest offender, just because in the 90-ish episodes it had been with her, it had only appeared 17 times. Man, it had such potential to have great potential, but was sadly put to such waste.
 
Horsea appeared in 5 second background shots letting kids play with it, its not a big deal. There are also a lot of scenes in the various sagas where the gang let's all their pokemon out at the same time during picnics to eat food, etc...but that doesn't mean they're getting any decent focus. They're just there.

Pineco/Foretress was Brock's longest lasting pokemon in the anime. It was captured in early Johto and lasted all the way till the end of AG. That was over 300 episodes...and it barely appeared in all that time.
 
SSJ said:
Horsea appeared in 5 second background shots letting kids play with it, its not a big deal. There are also a lot of scenes in the various sagas where the gang let's all their pokemon out at the same time during picnics to eat food, etc...but that doesn't mean they're getting any decent focus. They're just there.

Pineco/Foretress was Brock's longest lasting pokemon in the anime. It was captured in early Johto and lasted all the way till the end of AG. That was over 300 episodes...and it barely appeared in all that time.
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Personally I don't think it actually appeared that often until it evolved into a Foretos, which was the point where it appeared fairly throughout the episodes.
 
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