The 10 Weirdest Pokémon

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Since the series’ debut, many have wondered what the weirdest Pokémon is. In the distant past, in 1996, Pokémon was created by Satoshi Tajiri as an amalgamation of the words Pocket Monster.

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Learning about their different types, abilities, strengths, and weaknesses consumed countless childhoods and still does now, almost 30 years later.3

TYPE: NULL Type: Null is weird in a lot of ways. Firstly, it’s synthetic. Secondly, it has punctuation in its name. Thirdly, it looks like that. Type: Null is a Frankenstein’s Monster of a Pokémon.

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LICKITUNG/LICKILICKY Lickitung has a tongue twice the length of its body, and it licks EVERYTHING new it finds. This isn’t acceptable, and we must also never forget its horrible CGI version in Detective Pikachu.

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MELTAN Meltan is a vaguely amorphous grey blob with a nut for a head. That’s it. Meltan looks like the result of someone forgetting they had to design a new Pokémon and saw a nut in some glue by chance and decided

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DRACOVISH With a massive fish head from which tiny flipper arms sprout, a perpetually hunched-over C-shaped body, and massive legs, Dracovish is actually quite a good Pokémon to have on your team.

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ARCTOZOLT A Gen 8 creation, Arctozolt is the product of randomly combining and resurrecting Pokémon fossils in the Sword and Shield games.

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BLACEPHALON This brightly colored Ultra Beast from Generation 7 and the Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon games, this towering clown-like creature is most notable for getting into what was essentially a dance-off with the other Ultra Beasts in an episode of the anime.

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The Ten Best Ghost Type Pokémon

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The 10 Weirdest Pokémon

Since the series’ debut, many have wondered what the weirdest Pokémon is. In the distant past, in 1996, Pokémon was created by Satoshi Tajiri as an amalgamation of the words Pocket Monster.

Learning about their different types, abilities, strengths, and weaknesses consumed countless childhoods and still does now, almost 30 years later.3

TYPE: NULL Type: Null is weird in a lot of ways. Firstly, it’s synthetic. Secondly, it has punctuation in its name. Thirdly, it looks like that. Type: Null is a Frankenstein’s Monster of a Pokémon.

LICKITUNG/LICKILICKY Lickitung has a tongue twice the length of its body, and it licks EVERYTHING new it finds. This isn’t acceptable, and we must also never forget its horrible CGI version in Detective Pikachu.

MELTAN Meltan is a vaguely amorphous grey blob with a nut for a head. That’s it. Meltan looks like the result of someone forgetting they had to design a new Pokémon and saw a nut in some glue by chance and decided

DRACOVISH With a massive fish head from which tiny flipper arms sprout, a perpetually hunched-over C-shaped body, and massive legs, Dracovish is actually quite a good Pokémon to have on your team.

ARCTOZOLT A Gen 8 creation, Arctozolt is the product of randomly combining and resurrecting Pokémon fossils in the Sword and Shield games.

BLACEPHALON This brightly colored Ultra Beast from Generation 7 and the Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon games, this towering clown-like creature is most notable for getting into what was essentially a dance-off with the other Ultra Beasts in an episode of the anime.

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The Ten Best Ghost Type Pokémon

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