Worst/Most Pointless Pokemon (overall: Competitive, In-game, etc.)

[ZACH ATTACK]

Basically what the title says. What do you think is the worst or most pointless Pokemon and why? The poll is region-based because otherwise I'd have to make a 600+ option poll. My vote is going to have to be Unown. It only learns one move and has horrible stats. This is my vote for worst, Dunsparce would get most pointless. That thing is just stupid (sorry to all the Dunsparce fans).

EDIT: Probably should have made this poll mutliple choice. Sorry if you have 2 different regions.

 

[Keldeo94]

My pick was Luvdisc, they had the chance to improve it with Alomola but they just chose not too. Dunsparce was close, although I didn't pick it because it was originally a counterpart to Yanma, and I don't see why when they made YanMEGA they didn't add Dun(SUPER?) or something like that.

 

[shadow1033]

Even though Unown are useless in battle, I'd say Hoenn. Luvdisc is the obviously most filler pokemon to the extremes. It was only useful for heartscales. Worse, DP came along and found them underground, which made luvdisc completely useless. Even in Heartgold soulsilver, they made it a swarm-only pokemon, so it's even more useless.

 

[Almonds]

Unown, of course, are pretty useless. But I have to say the majority of Johto pokemon are USELESS. I've played GSC and HGSS numerous times, and every single time I found myself solo-ing the region with my starter. The only other pokemon I caught were HM slaves, but I never even felt the need to catch them for BATTLES.

Unova pokemon were ugly, but at least a lot of them turned out to be useful.

 

[Blue Dragon]

I'm pretty much voting on the basis that some Pokemon were most likely created for contests more than battling and therefore are now difficult to use in competitive battle. Beautifly would be a good example, as it's poor stats and typing make it an easy target regardless of it's current supportive move-pool. It now has Quiver Dance, but other Pokemon like Venomoth, Volcarona etc. can pull this off much better.

All Pokemon can be good if you know how to utilize them correctly, but I think Beautifly is too much of an effort in my opinion. If I had a choice between this Pokemon and other Quiver Dancers it definitely wouldn't be my first choice.

 

[rubinek]

Male Combee.

 

[Kelleo]

Magikarp, of course. They're so useless, they can't even attack at all until they're lv. 15 (when they learn Tackle). The only thing they're good for is evolving into Gyarados. xP

 

[Pikapurple]

C'mon guys. It's gotta be luvdisc. The only stat it's good in is speed, which is useless considering throwing marshmellows at people packs more punch, and its only purpose is to give you heart scales. Which you can do anyways in the Sinnoh underground. Oh yeah and HM Slaving, but at least other water HM slaves can be somewhat useful. If any pokemon could use an evolution, it's this guy. If not, he just becomes another farfetch'd.

 

[ravenclaw1991]

I picked Hoenn because there are quite a few Pokemon there that I find useless. Luvdisc, Beldum is kind of useless until it evolves, I also find Illumise and Volbeat to be kind of useless. But there are other useless ones such as Unown, Dunsparce, I also find Smeargle to be useless. Theres some from every region pretty much.

@rubinek, I agree. Male Combees are so very useless. I remember my first Gen IV game where I caught a Combee. It was male and I didn't know anything about its evolution. I raised that thing up to level 40 or something and it never evolved.. I later found out only female's evolve. I was pretty mad.

 

[Pikapurple]

Well smeargle can be pretty cool since you can basically teach it every move in the game. It can be pretty useful if used correctly in online battling. But I see what you mean. Using a sacred fire smeargle may look cool, but it's prolly not gonna do much.

 

[Joshawott]

There's already a thread for Worst Pokemon.