Pokémon designs draw from all sorts of real-life animals, be the foxes, frogs, or in this case, fish. After all, our world is mostly water, so it’s only fair that so many Pokémon are styled after sea creatures. Below you’ll find our list of every fish Pokémon, ranked from the worst up to the absolute best. This isn’t based on the competitive scene, but rather on just how ‘fishy’ each Pokémon is, its place in the world, and in some cases, how clever its name is.
Related: Every Cat Pokémon in the series, ranked from best to worst
Dracovish / ArctovishThese misshapen weirdos are really just here on a technicality, hence taking the worst spot on the list. Sword and Shield gave players the ability to mix and match fossils to create four different Frankenstein Pokémon. Dracovish (left) is a result of fish and drake fossils being combined; Arctovish (right) is what you get by combining a fish fossil with a dino fossil.
LuvdiscLuvdisc is a very specific kind of fish: the kissing gourami. The problem is, it just looks like a floating heart. There’s barely any resemblance of a fish here.
AlomamolaAlomamola does a bit better, with its horizontally symmetrical design. However, it loses big points for not being an evolution of Luvdisc, which it clearly should be. Black and White did this a few times, with Bouffalant being another example — Tauros was robbed.
RemoraidRemoraid is a pretty plain Pokémon, and it doesn’t even evolve into a fish — how this thing becomes the octopus Octillery is a mystery. It gets bonus points for being an important companion to Mantyke and Mantine, but we’ll get to them later.
StunfiskJust look at that face. You know Stunfisk has gotten so many swirlies at Pokémon school. You might think that’s no
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