Best Holiday-Themed Main Series Pokémon, Ranked
Since Red and Blue released in North America in 1998, the Pokémon series has introduced its players to collectible monsters based on everything from common animals to more abstract concepts, including holidays. With all that can go into a single Pokémon design, holidays are a natural source of inspiration to pull from, with each carrying association with distinct imagery, seasonality, and folklore. There are a handful of holiday-based Pokémon, but a certain few stand out the most via their seasonal themes.
Holiday-themed Pokémon are likely familiar to many regular enjoyers of Pokémon spin-offs. The series' popular mobile game Pokémon GO holds regular seasonal events, including those for holidays. Meanwhile, the trading card game has a tradition of releasing holiday packs, with a recent leak revealing the Pokémon TCG's advent calendar planned for later this year. However, it's the main series that's primarily responsible for introducing new Pokémon with each generation, and so it's the main series that dictates which Pokémon those spin-offs have to choose from in tailoring encounter and card pools to a season.
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Pokémon with direct roots in individual holidays are quite few and far between. While it isn't hard to put together a group of Pokémon with a holiday theme in mind, that's largely thanks to broader symbolism and imagery. For example, Luvdisc is shaped like a Valentine's Day heart and represents romance by virtue of its basis on tropical fish like the kissing gourami, a real-life pink fish that appears to kiss members of its species when it comes across them. Stantler and its evolution, Pokémon Legends: Arceus' Wyrdeer, wouldn't look out of
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