10 Least Imaginative Pokémon From Generation I

Behold, the Genwunner - the special brand of Pokémon fan who only played the Generation I games and vehemently lambasts any Pokémon from any generation that succeeded it. Observe how superior they believe themselves to be as they condemn Klefki and the Vanillite line. "A key ring? An ice cream cone?!" they grumble with disgust to anyone who will listen. "Whatever happened to great Pokémon like Charizard and Pikachu?"

How soon we forget...

Look, most Pokémon fans understand that Generation I gave us some of the best and most nostalgic character designs in the franchise, such as Gengar, Jolteon, and Arcanine. But what about some of those other Pokémon; the ones that so few of us cite as we don our nostalgia goggles? You know, like Magnemite, the magnet Pokémon? Or perhaps we'll mention Mr. Mime, the terrifying clown man masquerading as a Pokémon? Or what about Jynx, the once-racist humanoid... opera singer? Thing?

Alright, nobody really knows what Jynx is.

Point is, for all the awesome Pokémon that we remember from our childhoods, there were plenty of lame or underwhelming ones as well. So, let's stick it to that haughty Genwunner from paragraph one and look at a few...

Exeggcute is lower on this list than some may have expected because it's a bit misunderstood. The reason for that is that there isn't a definitive consensus on what Exeggcute is supposed to be.

This ambiguity surrounding Exeggcute's identity dates all the way back to Pokémon Red and Blue, in which the Pokédex says that it is "often mistaken for eggs". Yet, in Ruby and Sapphire, it says that Exeggcute "consists of six eggs that form a closely knit cluster". While many of its Dex entries reference it having a shell (like egg), Pokémon FireRed was the first game to suggest that Exeggcute is actually "more like plant seeds"... with eyes.

It could also be based on coconuts (with eyes), as they are regularly hunted by Crabrawler in Alola and coconut crabs are a thing. It could also be a reference to eggplants (with eyes), even though they don't look anything like eggplants.

But regardless of what they actually are, Exeggcute is just a pile of six eggs/seeds/coconuts/eggplants with eyes, and that's a pretty unimaginative design.