A Vicious Circle

With everyone posting lists of pokémon, be that their most loved or hated pokémon, I decided to do something rather different. Not a big fan of bandwagons, so this is rather different, yet still in the same vein as the other in one way. I went through the National dex, splitting up the generations to see what generation's pokémon I liked the best. I based it on a simple, yes/no-system where I either approved of a pokémon or did not. This was mostly based on visual design, with little to no focus on battling skills. Of course, I could have made things a little more complex by replacing the yes/no-system by percentages and then calculating the average percentage of each generation, but I'm not in the mood of ranging every pokémon by a percentage score right now. I could also have made it even more complex by factoring another were I rate their battling skills as well, but that would have been a too much waste of time. Pokémon with multiple formes have been evaluated more like an average, for instance when evaluating Rotom, I take into account that it has multiple formes to use.

After compiling the list, it was a simple matter of finding the percentage of pokémon I liked in each generation.

- Generation I
60/151
39,74%

- Generation II
41/100
41,00 %

- Generation III
30/135
22,22 %

- Generation IV
25/107
23,36 %

- Generation V
31/156
19,87 %

Not really a surprise that gen II ranked highest here, it's my favorite for a bunch of reasons, the pokémon it introduced was a big factor. Pokémon like Politoed, Feraligatr, Bayleef, Scizor and Ampharos are pokémon I really like. Still, less than half passed.

Second is gen I. There's plenty of critique to be had in gen I, but I think that a lot of pokémon still stand out strong. Would they if they weren't gen I? I don't know. Regardless, there's plenty of good pokémon here

I'm a bit surprised that gen IV was before gen III actually. It's not a wide margin though, so it doesn't really matter. There is, however, a sharp and notorious drop from gen I/II down to a level that's mostly the same for gen III/IV/V. What does this mean, that I'm a genwunner? That everything has went downhill from gen II?

Of course not. While there's quite a few pokémon I really couldn't care less existed (goes for older gens as well, for that matter), the pokémon I do like are very ... visible amongst all the other pokémon. For instance, let's take Hoenn. You've got Aggron, Flygon, Gardevoir, Grovyle and Sharpedo, not to mention my favorite legendary pokémon, Rayquaza. So they are very memorable, even though I don't feel the same for the other pokémon. The same goes for Sinnoh and Unova.

The biggest issue with Unova was probably Water pokémon. There is not a single Unovan water-type pokémon I like at all. While gen IV was a disappointment for me as well, I could at least like Empoleon. I really like Water-type (another reason to why gen I/II did better, I like their water-types for the most part), so it was quite a letdown. Still, Axeface, Blitzle, Krokorok, Eelektrik and Volcarona is still very much awesome, so everything isn't dark.

Another thing is that most of these percentages is simply bias from my side. Of course it's subjective, but there's always a chance of me downvoting a pokémon just because I didn't like that generation. It's rather hard to compensate for this though. Plus/minus two percent perhaps?

However, I wouldn't want to change any pokémon if I got the opportunity. At least not visually, stats on the other hand...