The 15 Worst Pokemon Designs & Why the Evolved Form Takes the Blame

Most Pokemon are drawn from an animal. Some are drawn from a garbage bag or a pile of sludge.

Here are the 15 worst Pokemon designs:

Worst Pokemon Designs

#15

Rhyperior

Rhyperior combines a rhinoceros, the kaiju genre (Japanese giant-monster films), several dinosaurs, bullet-resistant body armor and cannon artillery. It also seems to allude to a miner with a drill, a wrecking ball, a safety vest and a hard hat.

Its rocklike hide can withstand a blow from a masterwork sword with nary a scratch. It evolves from Rhydon, is the Drill Pokemon, 2.4 m tall and 282.8 kg.

#14

Mr. Mime

Mr. Mime is based on a mime artist, specifically the act of pretending to be trapped in invisible boxes. Its bright colors recall a clown and a court jester, and the blue growths on its head resemble a fool's cap. Its jerky animations make it resemble a jointed puppet or doll.

Its behavior reminds one of pantomime, and it creates invisible walls using a force emitted from its fingertips. It evolves from Mime Jr., stands 1.3 m tall and weighs 54.5 kg.

#13

Voltorb

Voltorb is based on the idea of a living Poké Ball and is often mistaken for one. Its design may also come from gashapon capsules, the toy capsules sold in Japan that have a white half and a bright colored half. It is similar to a mimic, a monster in role-playing games that pretends to be a treasure chest.

It bears a resemblance to a Poké Ball, and when excited, it discharges the electric current stored in its belly and lets out a great, uproarious laugh. It is the Ball Pokemon, 0.5 m tall and 10.4 kg.

#12

Garbodor

Garbodor is based on a garbage bag that is bursting with garbage. Its gray Shiny coloration may refer to dust bunnies, the clumps of lint under furniture, and it might also be based on tsukumogami, objects that come to life when spirits possess them in Japanese folklore.

The toxic liquid it launches from its right arm is so virulent that it can kill a weakened creature instantly. It evolves from Trubbish, is the Trash Heap Pokemon, 1.9 m tall and 107.3 kg.

#11

Bidoof

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 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. It is the Plump Mouse Pokemon, 0.5 m tall and 20 kg.

#10

Weezing

Weezing may be based on a floating naval mine or a living meteorite. It is also based on smog and other forms of air pollution, and the symbol under its larger face is the skull and crossbones, a hazard sign for poison. Its fused heads may also be based on conjoined twins.

It evolves from Koffing, is the Poison Gas Pokemon, and stands 1.2 m tall and weighs 9.5 kg.

Milotic

Milotic is based on a sea serpent and a mermaid, going by its hair-like fins, pale upper body and scaly lower body. It is also similar to an oarfish, and its tail fin resembles a hand fan. Its colorful scales resemble stained glass, and its feminine look may draw on Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty.

A glimpse of Milotic and its beauty will calm any hostile emotions you are feeling. It is the Tender Pokemon, 6.2 m tall and 162 kg.

Golbat

Golbat is based on a bat, particularly the vampire bats that bite other animals to feed on their blood. Its Poison type may come from the anticoagulant properties of vampire bat saliva or from the fact that bats are infamous for spreading diseases such as rabies. Its gaping maw could be a caricature of mythological vampires.

It sinks its sharp fangs into other creatures and slurps up their blood, and its fangs are hollow and akin to straws. It evolves from Zubat, stands 1.6 m tall and weighs 55 kg.

Magmortar

Magmortar is a buffed-up version of the Karura that inspired Magmar, a birdlike, fire-breathing creature from Japanese Hindu-Buddhist mythology. It also has features of a duck or booby with a mythical salamander, and its arms can transform into cannons.

The fireballs from its tubelike arms are hot enough to melt an iron pot in an instant. It is the Blast Pokemon, 1.6 m tall and 68 kg.

Feebas

Feebas is based on a bass, possibly the largemouth bass, and it also resembles the marine hatchetfish. Its change into Milotic may be inspired by The Ugly Duckling, a fairy tale in which a small, feeble cygnet is treated as an outcast until it grows into a swan.

It is a shabby and ugly Pokemon that is still very hardy and can survive on little water. It is 0.6 m tall and weighs 7.4 kg.

Nosepass

Nosepass is based on the Moai statues of Easter Island and on a compass, which makes it the Compass Pokemon. Its nasal compass may refer to the expression follow one's nose, or it may be a pun on the English words nose and north.

The people of Hisui learned that its red nose always points north and relied on it greatly when traveling afar. It stands 1 m tall and weighs 97 kg.

Muk

Muk is a pile of living sludge. It may also be based on the fear that heavy pollution from toxic waste could create new and undesirable life, or on Dorotabo, a one-eyed, three-fingered yokai (a monster from folklore) that rises from the mud of neglected rice fields.

It smells so awful that it can cause fainting, and its nose has degenerated until it lost its sense of smell. It evolves from Grimer, stands 1.2 m tall and weighs 30 kg.

Purugly

Purugly may be based on an overweight tabby cat and a stereotypical ugly woman, or on the nekomata, a cat yokai from Japanese folklore. The way it binds its stomach with its tail is similar to a corset.

It is impudent and difficult to tame but popular for its fur, the beauty of which surpasses even velveteen. It evolves from Glameow, is the Tiger Cat Pokemon, 1 m tall and 43.8 kg.

Jynx

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.

Probopass

Probopass is based on the moai statues of Easter Island and a compass magnet, with iron filings attached to it to form its mustache. Its red hat may be based on the pukao that once sat on many moai, and its open eyes may refer to the white coral eyes that important moai originally had.

It controls the iron sand that forms its luscious mustache and uses it to form hard stones. It evolves from Nosepass, stands 1.4 m tall and weighs 340 kg.

Feebas Becomes Milotic

Eleven of the 15 evolve from another Pokemon, and Feebas and Milotic are both on the list. Feebas is a shabby and ugly Pokemon, and it grows into the beautiful Milotic, which is the story The Ugly Duckling tells.

Worst Pokemon Designs FAQ

What is the worst Pokemon design?

Probopass is the worst Pokemon design.

Which of the 15 is the heaviest?

Probopass weighs 340 kg, and no other Pokemon on the list is above 282.8 kg.

Does Probopass evolve from Nosepass?

Yes. Probopass evolves from Nosepass, and both are on the list.