10 Absolute Worst Pokémon - Ranked

Forget the meticulous breeding procedures and sleepless nights training the perfect squad with which to spank the Elite Four, the magic of Pokémon lies not in those tried and tested traditions but the mystery of discovery.

Venturing off the beaten path, you're so gleefully unaware of what it is that's going to meet your gaze. A winged, fire-breathing beast? Perhaps a mouse that has command over the elements? Maybe, just maybe, you'll encounter the most mythical of all things in the untamed wilderness.

Or you know, it could just be a bag of uninspired garbage. Literally.

Credit where it's due, with an 800-strong growing roster of Pocket Monsters, Game Freak's created a universe filled with more diversity than most could hope to achieve, but with the ecosystem so large there's bound to be a bunch of stinkers hiding out there in the tall grass, willing Trainers to hurl a Poke Ball their way out of pity.

In a world replete with variety and creativity, making room in your storage box for these duds just ain't worth the effort.

Neither Voltorb or Electrode's existence make a lick of sense.

Keep in mind that Pokémon - excluding a handful of notable outliers like Mewtwo - are naturally occurring, not artificially engineered, creatures, so how it came to be that a living being adopted the form of a man-made object, and one that provides the most illogical form of camouflage imaginable, no less, boggles the mind.

It's okay, though, your Trainer's Pokédex has the answers:

"It was discovered when Poké Balls were introduced. It is said that there is some connection."

Uh huh, and what connection might that be, Game Freak? One deliberately left obscure so as to justify a lazy design choice?

Wherever you find yourself while reading this, survey your surroundings and pick out the most basic inanimate object in view, slap a pair of eyes on it and voila, you just designed a Pokémon more imaginative than Voltorb.

If you're having trouble thinking of an evolution, don't sweat - turn the pre-evolution on its head and give it some gnashers. Sorted.