Most Pokemon are somebody's favorite. Six of the 15 on this list have a base stat total under 250, which is the sum of a Pokemon's six battle stats.
Here are the 15 worst Pokemon:
Metapod is encased in a sturdy shell, but the body inside is tender and it cannot withstand a harsh attack.
Metapod is based on a butterfly chrysalis, possibly that of the cabbage white butterfly, going by its pointed shape and green color. It is the Cocoon Pokemon, 0.7 m tall and 9.9 kg, and it evolves into Butterfree, which has a base stat total of 395.
Zubat makes its home in gloomy caves and scans its surroundings with sound waves, because its eyes have atrophied.
Zubat is based on a bat, particularly the vampire bats that bite other animals to feed on their blood. Its lack of eyes could refer to troglomorphism, the loss of eyes in animals that live in caves, and it may also draw on the false idea that bats are blind. It is 0.8 m tall and weighs 7.5 kg.
Only a female Combee can evolve into Vespiquen, and the male cannot evolve at all.
Combee is based on honeycombs and honey bees. The red spot on a female Combee, along with the fact that only a female can evolve into Vespiquen, may come from queen marking. Combee swear fealty to a queen Pokemon and work diligently to gather nectar, and each swarm produces a different flavor of honey. It is the Tiny Bee Pokemon, 0.3 m tall and 5.5 kg.
Rattata will chew on anything with its fangs, and one sighting means 40 more live in the area.
Rattata is based on a rat or a mouse and may draw visual inspiration from hairy-tailed packrats. Its thieving behavior and tendency to work in groups under the command of a Raticate are reminiscent of a gangster. Alolan Rattata is based on the rats that are invasive in Hawaii, and the mongoose imported there to control them explains Yungoos and Gumshoos. It is the Mouse Pokemon, 0.3 m tall and 3.5 kg.
Dunsparce lives in nests that are mazes of tunnels, and it never gets lost in them, because it can tell where it is by the scent of the dirt.
Dunsparce is based on the Tsuchinoko, a snake-like cryptid (an animal people claim exists without proof) from Japan. Its tail looks like a drill and may be modeled on the barbed tail of blind snakes. It is the Land Snake Pokemon, 1.5 m tall and 14 kg. Dudunsparce, its evolution, arrived in Generation IX and has a base stat total of 520.
Bibarel creates dams on rivers to live in, and its fur repels water and is a fantastic material for heat retention.
Bibarel seems to be based on a beaver. It is the Beaver Pokemon, stands 1 m tall and weighs 31.5 kg. It evolves from Bidoof, which has a base stat total of 250.
Caterpie's short feet have suction pads that let it climb slopes and walls tirelessly.
Caterpie is based on a caterpillar, perhaps the Asian, eastern tiger or spicebush swallowtail, going by its green body, yellow eyespots and red osmeterium. The osmeterium is a forked organ these caterpillars show to look like a snake. The tip of its tail resembles the horn that many hawk moth larvae have. It is the Worm Pokemon, 0.3 m tall and 2.9 kg.
Jynx is likely based on gyaru, a Japanese street fashion of fake tan and bleached hair.
Its pre-evolution Smoochum refers to the trend of gyaru-mamas raising their children in their image. Its earliest known design is in a biographical manga about Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of Pokemon. Galar Jynx often have beautiful and delicate voices. It is the Human Shape Pokemon, 1.4 m tall and 40.6 kg.
Charizard looks like a dragon, but it is a Fire / Flying type.
Charizard may be based on European dragons, which are heavily associated with fire in European folklore. That draconic look was later reflected in the Fire and Dragon typing of Mega Charizard X. It may also draw on lizards, dinosaurs and the mythical salamander. Its wings can carry it close to an altitude of 4,600 feet and it blows out fire at very high temperatures. It stands 1.7 m tall and weighs 90.5 kg.
Luvdisc makes its home in coral reefs in warm seas and especially likes sleeping in the space between the branches of Corsola.
Luvdisc is based on the discus fish and on other fish that appear to kiss each other, such as the kissing gourami. It is shaped like a heart symbol, and its Shiny coloration, a rare alternate color, may reference the idiom heart of gold. It is the Rendezvous Pokemon, 0.6 m tall and 8.7 kg.
Sunkern moves as little as it can to save the nutrients stored in its body for its evolution, and it eats nothing and lives only on morning dew.
Sunkern is based on a shooting sunflower seed. It is the Seed Pokemon, 0.3 m tall and 1.8 kg.
Pikachu stores electricity in its cheek sacs and roasts tough berries with an electric shock before eating them.
Pikachu started as a daifuku-like creature with ears sticking out, and its black ear tips are left over from that first idea. Satoshi Tajiri decided to base it on a mouse, and game designer Kōji Nishino asked for a cuter look, which is where the cheek pouches came from. It evolves from Pichu, stands 0.4 m tall and weighs 6 kg.
Bidoof has an unsophisticated face and is rarely flustered by anything, and Bidoof have sauntered into villages and gnawed on the houses without a single care.
Bidoof is based on a beaver or a gopher. It is particularly similar to the mountain beaver, a primitive relative of beavers that lacks a tail. It is the Plump Mouse Pokemon, 0.5 m tall and 20 kg.
Unown takes its shapes from the 26 letters of the modern Latin alphabet, plus the exclamation and question marks. It is hard to believe these strangely shaped Pokemon are living creatures at all.
They arrange themselves on walls in messages like hieroglyphs. Its weakness alone and strength together may come from the idea that a single letter cannot say much, while many letters forming a sentence can say nearly anything. It is the Symbol Pokemon, 0.5 m tall and 5 kg.
Magikarp is a feeble, pitiful imbecile of a Pokemon that is nonetheless very hardy.
Magikarp is based on the Asian carp, which is easily frightened by disturbances in water and can jump 8 to 10 feet in the air. Its Shiny coloration, a rare alternate color, may be a visual pun on a goldfish, and its permanently open mouth may refer to the koinobori, a carp-shaped windsock flown in Japan to celebrate Children's Day. It is 0.9 m tall and weighs 10 kg.
Ten of the 15 evolve, and every one of them has a higher base stat total after it does. Magikarp has a base stat total of 200 and Gyarados has 540. Magikarp's evolution may come from a legend in which carp that leaped over the Dragon Gate became dragons.
