10 Absolute Worst Pokémon - Ranked

4. Jynx

Garbador Trubbish
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Rather than scrub the racist connotations from existence by changing its skin colour, Game Freak could have done us, and itself, a solid by just deleting Jynx from existence altogether. Nobody would miss it.

For the same reasons that Mr. Mime triggers a sense of unease in all that look upon its putty-like facial features, Jynx fails to meet the criteria of a bonafide 'Mon because it has too many distinguishing human characteristics.

The bleached hair, disproportionately-sized hands and soulless set of peepers all coalesce to form a being that appears to have been made by committee, each part individually added by designers whose brief must have specified that they use Shelley's Frankenstein for inspiration.

Poor Smoochum, if only it knew the detestable form it was destined to evolve into.

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