The 10 Pok?mon Least Equipped To Actually Survive In Nature

Despite the bull motif of its name, Tauros is essentially the Pok?mon equivalent of the North American buffalo. When trainers first encounter the thrice-tailed beast, it’s been relocated to a park for endangered species called the Safari Zone. The reason for this is because the pioneers of Kanto thought Tauros was delicious and liked to wear its fur. Although the Pok?dex states that Tauros have a violent nature, the species’ stampedes are probably more out of the frustration of genetic inferiority than anything else. Just think, hundreds of years ago, there were likely Tauros roaming free across vast prairies. Now, they’re hunted for sport in captivity. Poor Tauros.

8) Kakuna

Pok?mon are creatures largely dependent on their cuteness for survival. Like all domesticated animals, becoming a pet is a sure way to prosper. That’s why the less than cute Kakuna takes the heat for wasting everyone’s time learning how to harden while its cocooning cohort Metapod basks in popularity. When Kakuna takes the evolution plunge, it looks like a member of Marvel Comics’ AIM terrorist organization and eventually turns into a wasp. Metaphod, however, takes the form of a cuddly, unripened banana and hatches out a butterfly. Since fickle picnickers determine which bugs live or die, Kakuna should rethink its appearance.

7) Milktank
 

Pok?mon’s straight up animal analogues have it rough. Just like Tauros, Milktank looks a whole lot like food. Even though Milktank is actually a fairly useful Pok?mon, its finer attributes are overshadowed by its capacity for feeding people. With its special “Milk Drink” move, it’s pretty safe to assume that the folks at Silph Co. have found a way to monetize Milktank’s PP for the nourishment of the Johto and Kanto prefectures. How else were Team Rocket’s Jesse and James supposed to feed Meowth? [Ed’s note — don’t ever Google image search “Milktank.” You have been warned.]

6) Combee

Combee is one pitiful bastard. As doomed worker drones in their hive society, the smiling, three-faced oafs exists purely to collect honey and build hives from their own bodies. With only two of the weakest Pok?mon moves at its disposal (including the perfumatory “Sweet Scent”) the male Combee must content itself with its miserable fate as only the female of the species evolve into the useful Vespiquen. Perhaps the most depressing aspect of the Combee’s existence is that they don’t even seem to make their own honey, rather they collect it from trainers. If there’s such a thing as evolutionary justice, when the Combee starts to go missing, trainer’s will know it isn’t global warming that’s killing them, it’s the collective disgust of players everywhere.

5) Ditto

Here’s Ditto in a nutshell. It’s a purple (or pink) little dude who transforms into imperfect copies of its foes in an attempt to “fight fire with fire.” Given that the rock-paper-scissors mechanics of Pok?mon battles (water types beat fire types, fire types beat grass types, etc.), Ditto’s imitation skills don’t give it much of a strategic advantage, especially when it’s defenses don’t increase to match those of its opponents. That makes Ditto and its transforming powers a novelty at best, and novelties are only valuable in gift shops. Is Ditto in a gift shop? No, it’s in the jungle baby, and if it doesn’t develop some chutzpah quick, it’s gonna die.

4) Smeargle
 

Smeargle marks its territory by painting sketches with its tail. That’s cute, but where does all that funky green paint it uses come from? The answer to that question is also the answer to why Smeargle made this list. Gross.

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