A survey done on Pokemon Subreddit revealed the most favourite Pokemon.
The Pokémon franchise was founded in 1995 and since then it is evolving with a lot of new games, manga and anime series. At present, there are 809 Pokémon from seven generations in the franchise. With the release of new-gen Pokémon game “Sword and Shield”, the franchise will have its first three eight-gen Pokémon as starters.
In the past 24 years, Pokémon has made a huge fan base comprises from adult to children. As a result of it, Pokemon community is flooded with an endless debate on favourite Pokemon and if you read them then you might also indulge in them.
To get a little hint about the most favourite choice of Pokemon a Reddit user, u/mamamia1001 posted a survey on 14 June on r/pokemon subreddit with over 1.6m members. The survey was about to vote for the favourite Pokémon.
The post became much viral on Reddit that it got 6.0k upvotes with over 2.0k comment. As a result, the user collected 52000 unique responses. He also posted an exciting data related to the survey on June 16. Let’s take a look.
Most Favourite Pokémon Survey Result Summary
Among 812 Pokémon, only 4 didn’t get any vote.
| Pokémon | Votes |
|---|---|
| Silcoon | 0 |
| Gothita | 0 |
| Eelektrik | 0 |
| Yungoos | 0 |
As you can see, Silcoon, Gothita, Eelektrik and Yungoss are most unpreferred Pokémon but people like their evolutionary relatives.
| Pokémon | Votes |
|---|---|
| Wurmple | 12 |
| Beautifly | 2 |
| Cascoon | 2 |
| Dustox | 5 |
| Gothorita | 5 |
| Gothitelle | 16 |
| Tynamo | 6 |
| Eelektross | 49 |
| Gumshoos | 4 |
Among 52k responses, 8 people have a unique choice of their most favourite Pokémon.
| Pokémon | Votes |
|---|---|
| Exeggcute | 1 |
| Baltoy | 1 |
| Skorupi | 1 |
| Patrat | 1 |
| Sewaddle | 1 |
| Alomomola | 1 |
| Trumbeak | 1 |
| Cosmoem | 1 |
Alomomola is the only Pokémon whose evolutionary species didn’t get any vote so it is the least loved evolutionary or uniquely voted line.
Here are the top 10 list of most voted Pokémon in the race of most favourite Pokémon.
Top 10 voted Pokémon
| Pokémon | Votes | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Charizard | 1107 | 1 |
| Gengar | 1056 | 2 |
| Arcanine | 923 | 3 |
| Bulbasaur | 710 | 4 |
| Blaziken | 613 | 5 |
| Umbreon | 607 | 6 |
| Lucario | 604 | 7 |
| Gardevoir | 585 | 8 |
| Eevee | 581 | 9 |
| Dragonite | 551 | 10 |
Fire-type, Charizard with 1107 votes top the list having a difference of 500 votes from Umbreon who second the list.
Pareto Graph
The number of votes follow the Pareto principle, which states that ” roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. ” – In this context 80% of the votes should be for 20% of the Pokémon – which is roughly true (80% of the votes were for ~27% of Pokémon)
The user also provided a list of votes according to the generation.
| Votes | Gen | Average per Pokémon in gen |
|---|---|---|
| 18289 | 1 | 121.1 |
| 9115 | 2 | 91.2 |
| 9469 | 3 | 70.1 |
| 7531 | 4 | 70.4 |
| 4391 | 5 | 28.1 |
| 2154 | 6 | 29.9 |
| 1776 | 7 | 20.2 |
The results show a nostalgic side of people who are with the Pokémon since its beginning.
So, what do you think about Charizard being the most favourite Pokémon ?? Do you also like it or not ??
Source: Reddit
