10 Worst Middle-Stage Pokémon

1. Cosmoem

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Picture this - you've worked your way through most of the Alola region and you've caught your game's mascot. For your efforts, receive a Level 5 Cosmog, which you likely nickname "Nebby". It's a Psychic type and it only knows Splash, but surely it learns some awesome moves later on, right?

Wrong.

The only other move it learns is Teleport, which it doesn't learn until Level 23. So, you slowly switch-train and Exp. Share your way up 20 more levels from there, not learning a single additional move along the way. Suddenly, your Cosmog starts to evolve. "Yes!" you exclaim. "This has to be something good!"

Wrong again.

Instead, you get Cosmoem, this diminutive, Nerf football-looking thing. It learns one extra move upon evolving - Cosmic Power, another non-damaging move. And now that you're at Level 43, the already-slow process of leveling this no-longer-adorable thing up is going to be even slower.

After painstakingly advancing this thing up ten more levels, once again learning nothing new along the way, you finally get your "light at the end of the tunnel" - a Solgaleo in Sun or a Lunala in Moon. But does this undo the absolute slap in the face that was Cosmoem?

No. It doesn't.

So just settle for the Solgaleo or Lunala that you catch prior to getting Cosmog and save yourselves the trouble.

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