Maushold is definitely not forgotten in competitive, considering Population Bomb. And its origin and is actually interesting despite its simplicity, so there's a lot of appeal there IMO

Won't stand for this Tandemaus slander. It's adorable, has a fun gimmick and isn't disgusting to look at like the Grafaiai line. Never gonna forget sending it out in battle only to think "wait a minute, there's four of them now- did they have babies in my back pocket!?"

Poor Flygon

I think Zarude needed to be hidden in the forest part of Galar, and be unlocked post game. I think that would have helped a lot more. Made it cooler and something to go find after the game was over

Flygon got it the roughest. Salamance just keeps getting every single new gimmick under the sun _after_ stealing the thunder of pretty much every other Dragon that existed at the time, Garchomp was pushed hard to steal its formerly unique typing while becoming the mascot of one of the most popular NPCs in the franchise, and it didn't even get to make this list. #JusticeForFlygon

I actually like the Pidove line so much more than the Pidgey line, but I can't deny it's overshadowed

I've loved Maushold from the very start, and it was one of my core members on my Scarlet playthrough team. Technician-boosted Population Bomb is a MONSTER and despite their simplistic design, I think they're adorable. Their shiny form is objectively terrible, with the light-blue switching to a pale yellow making it near impossible to see, but that's really my only flaw with them.

Hot take: i actually like the pidove line. I love pigeons and i actually like the designs for both unfezant forms. Plus i just really love birds.

I highly disagree with maushold being on here, sure its not found as an early route pokemon but it is pretty commonly found all around paldea. Also shroodle isnt a rodent its a shrew, shrews arent rodents And the pokemon company has now made a good amount of different tandemaus and maushold plushes. Also maushold is the first paldea pokemon that got a whole official merch line with maushold tissue boxes, socks, plushes, hoodies, etc. Maushold is clearly a favorite with all the merchandising that it got and im pretty sure it wont be overshadowed or forgotten later on

Sucks for Maushold and Jynx. Mostly because I like using them. Population bomb and king’s rock is evil. And Jynx works fantastically with Incineroar.

The problem with Unfezant is it's shallow movepool. I used one back in the Black and White days it's a physical attacker that only really learns air slash and air cutter levelling up so you're pretty much stuck with fly and quick attack as damaging moves

Honestly alot of gen 1-3 pokemon could use either a new Evo or just a stat overhaul just to stay on par with modern pokemon stat spreads

Flygon even got overshadowed in this video!

To me the biggest example of overshadowed Pokémon will always be Simisear. Imagine you come in a trio of pseudo-starters, a brand new concept and you're even the ace of a gym leader; but they made you a mid fire monkey. Not only you have to live up to the standards of Infernape, one generation before, but in the SAME generation, a few cities later, Darumakka and Darmanitan are available. You're not the best fire monkey introduced in your own generation. It's kinda like Zarude's situation, but I think it is worse because at least Zarude has a movie and is a Mythical. What Simisear gets is bottom of popularity pools. PS: I have no idea why Clobbopus and Grapploct aren't half water type. Honestly it makes no sense to me. And not in the way "oh, they do fish of different types now so it isn't boring". There were 2 other Pokémon with that typing when it was made and it is something that would absolutely be miserable outside of water; even its own dex entries are like "yeah it goes out of water but its quick to go back". I think it upsets me the most because it would be the only pokémon introduced ever maybe besides Poliwrath that would make any sense for Crasher Wake to use/have and it isn't a water type.

Imo the most overshadowed pokemon is Wiscash. Quagsire has the benefit of being the first water ground type, and has a cult following due to its adorable derpiness. Seismetoad had the advantage of debuting in the reboot gen so people who loved the typing gravitated to it. (Edit) Gastrodon is also a popular one and my fav. Not the highest stats but gen 5 gave it a niche with storm drain that directly overshadowed quagsire (who had water absorb) And not only is Swampert the most popular water ground type by a mudslide, but it was a *starter pokemon in the SAME GEN AS WISCASH*

I feel like it’s the case for all recent mythical Pokémon because they’re just handed to you and if they aren’t super good they get overshadowed and it’s a shame because recent mythical Pokémon are really cool

It's hard to find recent pokemon that don't remotely resemble other Pokemon these days sadly

I feel like clobbapus is kinda like a baby pokemon

I never thought I would see the day where someone is DEFENDING JINX

"Would you pick this bland mouse half way through your playthrough" Me having picked this mouse half way through my playthrough 😬

Furfrou. 1. Single stage normal type 2. Introduced in a more negative than positive light. 3. Main gimmick is cosmetic only 4. Main gimmick is temporary 5. Main gimmick must be bought in game 6. Snorlax, a well known powerhouse, is RIGHT THERE!! 7. Gen 6, the most overlooked of all, sadly

4:56 Or maybe having a fire/flying legendary in the same generation where there's the most popular fire/flying starter (which was also more powerful back in gen 1)?

Brute Bonnet is also a dark grass type, a starter, a legendry and a paradox form

If I had to add onem it would be Barraskewda. Even though it is a fast attacker that is good for playthroughs, people will think it's not interesting because it's based on a common fish.

Tentacruel. It’s so cool but it being in the same region as Gyarados and Lapras has to be tough.

The only reason I chose Pidove was because I wanted to switch things up for my second playthrough. But I only wanted a male because I liked its colors more on the final evolution. Edit: in Sword. Still don’t have the latest games 😅

I’m sorry but maushold is the only one with the funny pop bomb

To be fair, Stunfisk is hated, Jynx is something worse... CONTROVERSIAL

I'm going to have to give a shout out to Togedemaru here. It had the unfortunate luck to be Alola's designated Pikachu clone... in the same generation we got Mimikyu.

I want Flygon to get something, anything to give it a boost. Not because I'm a massive Flygon fan (I think its fine) but I'm so tired of hearing about how Flygon gets no love and all the complaining about it. Its gotten pretty annoying hearing about it all these years.

Moltres got completely overshadowed by Ho-oh...

Saying Tandemaus has a “needlessly complex evolution method” is one of the worst takes I’ve ever heard. It literally just becomes maushold at a certain level. It doesn’t even have an evolution screen

Zamazenta gif really overshadowed by zacian if that counts

maybe Zarude wouldn't be so overlooked if it was Zanice :)

I who forgets zeraura but remembers zarude

I don’t know about the Moushold one. I found one pretty early but I wasn’t super interested in using it so I kind of get what you’re saying. The entire Pokémon company and affiliates probably feel it best to not do anything with the Jynx line to avoid any future bad PR. They tried with Smoochem and that didn’t work so they gave up rather than reach further backlash.

I'm hoping they make Stantler able to evolve into Wyrdeer in the Indigo Disk dlc

In my opinion Whiscash and Siesmitoad are both overshadowed by Gastrodon and Quagsire as the weaker, less powerful water/grounds and I'm not even mentioning Swampert's status

I heard that Flygon was overlooked for a Mega Evolution because the design team just couldn't agree on a concept. Not entirely sure how true that is, though.

With so many Pokemon getting mega evolution, I'm still upset and angry that Dragonite didn't get a mega. It's the original dragon Pokemon line, and the first pseudo legendary. But it was shafted and ignored while Tyranitar, Salamence and Metagross all got their mega. Dragonite never got an alt form or region based form either.

Honestly I miss the old events. Even if you just cheated to activate them, at least the old mythicals were an event. Marshadow is cool, but it was just handed to me in a ball I don't even like. And most distribution events I do not even bother with. Didn't even know Zarude existed. Looks awful.

The fact that flygon hasn’t gotten a single new thing in 3 new regions with regional forms and two dlc

Wut. Tandemaus can be found on over half the map.

1:38 i almost said yes until you mentioned grafaiai. While they do have a rather bland design, i love their inspiration being those popular famillies of mice dolls and plus i can't lie their lack of a soul stares right into mine and their silly angry screaming animation does it for me but even with all that i did use grafaiai instead

So true about stantler. I used a Wyrdeer on my Arceus team and I still don’t care at all about stantler. When I was watching the video I couldn’t even remember if it was stantlers pre-Evo or not.

Counter argument for Zarude, it had its movie as a way to promote it, and I personally loved that movie. It was great.

Obviously flygon is the thumbnail but it's so well known for being overshadowed it's almost not anymore. But I agree jynx needs something... honestly I think it's overhated too, I've grown to like it for how good it is in Kanto games when you can't trade for an alakazam especially in gen 1 same for Mr. Mime tbh, but it should have gotten something in gen 4.... heck gen 7 would have been perfect for a hula dancing alolan form since it's already known for dance like movements. Oh well if Stantler and Girafarig can come back maybe some more old mons will get love in gen 10 or legends kyrem

I seriously forgot Mr. Mime had a regional form + a evolution. 😶

I do think you're being a bit harsh on Maushold, but the rest are pretty on point

“Making no noise and pretending she doesn’t exist.” Was that a Harry Potter reference?

Honestly, its for the best that Jynx stays in the background, given the history surrounding it.

I think the goldeen or seal lines could use some updates they've become overshadowed by modern water and ice types and could use regional types or new evolutions.

I love jinx it makes me sad that she gets no love.

For the regional bird, I’d prefer staraptor or talonflame, pidove evolutions are the worst designed regional birds

Maushold is not only found in the elite 4 area. Pretty sure I found mine around Midali

Tandemaus and Maushold are literally my favorite gen 9 Pokémon. A family of Sanrio mice were too good to pass up. I didn't know they spawned at the League so I searched forever around the region. Love 'em to death and back. Named them Jane, John, Johnny, and Janette. Also the poison mouse just aint it. It's unnerving.

Clobopuss is my favorite gen 8 mons and it sucks he's overlooked so often

1:43 I'm pretty sure Shroodle isn't a rodent

Honestly, feralligator is pretty overlooked. Typhlosion got their hissuian form, and meganium appeared in new Pokemon snap. It feels like the totodile line is just left behind.

I mean, comparing Zarude to the Gremlins franchise instantly makes it cooler.

Glaceon being overshadowed by both Leafeon and every ice type in Sinnoh. You can get a Leafeon as early as you get an Eevee in Platinum, where as Glaceon you get after three other gym fights at least, at which point you also have other much better ice types available like Mamoswine, Froslass and even Abomasnow. Not to say it's stats are nothing that impressive compared to the other eeveelutions that you ALSO HAVE MUCH EARLIER ACCESS TO. I never had any interest in using a Glaceon to begin with, but is very rough for the people that like this mon. I just looked at it's stats, and they're much better than I remembered, but still, Espeon is a faster special attacker with the same special bulk, Jolteon is faster than all the other eevveelutions and hits pretty hard too, Vaporeon has a much better typing and is arguably even bulkier, and Umberon and Sylveon (in later games) are the ones you should go with if you want a defensive eeveelution. Guess that only leaves Flareon for competition then... Guess they're both overshadowed eeveelutions then.

you can also find tandamous outside one the citys cant remember which but its no just befor the elite 4 i think its the grass city

No Pokémon is overshadowed when you replay theae games over and over

Hm, i see, i hope these Pokémon gets more chances in the future.

druddigon could totally go on this list. pure dragon, doesnt evolve, and iirc you cant even find them before victory road, where you'll also be running into the much more interesting axew and deino lines

Poliwrath is the forgotten child of the politoad family

I always wondered why Unfezant was so bad, then I recall randomly looking at it and seeing it's base attack stat of 115 and being shocked because that is quite good. It only learns special attacks by level up.

I don’t feel bad for Jynx it’s not only the most hideous thing I’ve ever seen, but also racist so serves it right

I don't think Maushold is overshadowed, since it has enough gimmick to stand out both in practicality and aesthetics. My pick for a gen 9 representative to replace it would be Bruxish. "But wait, Bruxish is from gen 7" you might say! And to that I say: I'm huge into Pokemon, so it's exceptional that it took two generations after its introduction before I even noticed the thing. And if there's any niche that's even more oversaturated than early-route birds and rodents, it's the underwhelming midgame fish used to populate the Surf routes.

#1 really has always made me sad. I love that pokemon and its super good and fun to use. But for some reason it's never ever seen love. :(

I agree on Zarude, and I would even add that "a monkey that is the King of the Jungle" was already Oranguru and Passimian's entire thing when Zarude was introduced. I also think Flygon should have been on this list, it had it really good when it was introduced with that awesome typing (never forget it was released in a generation where Fairy didn't exist so to resist Dragon you had to be Steel and if you're Steel you're weak to Ground) only to be replaced by the cool Pseudo of the following generation, who is arguably the coolest and most iconic Champion's ace of all time and does pretty much everything that Flygon can do (except Dragon Dance) but better.

I feel like Whiscash is unanimously ignored by the pokemon community. Introduced in the same Gen as Swampert and not obtainable until mid-game. Wooper and Quagsire’s iconography has pushed Whiscash out of the limelight before they even showed up.

I agree Flygon got done the dirtiest for such a loveable pokemon. First time a dragon line was introduced outside of the pseudo line, but outshone in power by Salamance. Also in a gen with 2 pseudos instead of 1 and still didn’t make the cut. And then outshone by Garchomp the very next gen with the same typing, better stats and more loved. Crazy

I don’t think jynx was ever meant to be part of a trio with magmar and electabuzz. She’s not next to them in the dex, has a dual typing, is not a version exclusive, and didn’t get an evo with them in gen 4. I think it’s just coincidence that she got a pre evolution in gen 2 and fans lumped them together

I unironically really like the Pidove Line, and its a shame it's so overshadowed, especially with its shallow move pool and mediocre abilities.

Videos like these miss something very important. It’s argued that sawsbuck replaced the deer niche, that’s it’s obviously better so why ever use stantler. Or that grafaiai is part poison so why ever use tandemaus. There’s a simple answer. Because sawsbuck doesn’t look like stantler. Grafaiai doesn’t look like maushold. A lot of people shoot for the design, not what’s technically better.

Video idea: Have you ever done a most hated or annoying feature/mechanic in a game? Example for me was the Rotom Dex in the gen 7 games.

Jynx deserved to be overshadowed, becasue it's ugly and no one likes it. I'm glad gamefreak choose to forget about it and not give it an evolution. I DON'T want Jynx to get a new evolution. It should just be removed from the game, and never return. Would anyone even miss her?

Yea i totally disagree. When i first saw the Tandemaus on the map on that first Pokemon Direct, i knew i wanted it on my team, and indeed i played through Scarlet with Maushold. And i use it in competitive...sooooooo yea, definitely not bland or overshadowed

Well, Maushold is a gimmick Pokémon involving having a few individuals acting as a single Pokémon...is what I would say if we didn't already have that gimmick as far back as Gen 1 with Exeggcute. Well, at least Maushold actually has a gameplay mechanic tying into that gimmick (with its signature move Population Bomb)...oh wait, Mega Kangaskhan.

I love Tandemaus, Maushold and Stantler though lol

Meltan and Melmetal are overshadowed, all the other mythicals have had main game distributions but they've yet to give them a main game distribution.

Once in a while I use stantler in heart gold and find it suprisingly decent. it has nice speed and usable attck and special attack, and with moves like return, zen headbutt, shadow ball and thunder its quite versitile

I was today years old when I learned that Zarude had a form change

I just realized bro kinda sounds like he's reciting Shakespear 😭

Maushold's taking the gimmick of combo 'mons in a new direction makes them stand out enough for me - I'd probably more compare it to exeggcute or falinks than any of the normal types you compared it to. As for shroodle, it's likely based on a shrew, which actually isn't a rodent, and instead a relative of hedgehogs and moles. Its evolving into grafaiai also might be inspired by tree shrews, which are closer to rodents than actual shrews are, but still aren't actually rodents, actually being offshoots of primates. I suspect by "rodent" you really meant "any mammal that's roughly smaller than a cat" but that's not what the word actually means, so I must nitpick when it's used that way. I do agree regarding pidove, it and pikipek kind of got the short end of the stick as regional birds, considering that there have been plenty actually strong regional birds like staraptor, corviknight and talonflame, while these guys ended up being pretty useless by comparison. And yeah, it didn't help unfezant that it got stuck not even being the strongest normal/flying type for the first gen since gen 1. I could pretty easily rattle off zarude's being from gen 8, probably helps that it happens to have the same first 2 letters of its name as the box art legends. It apparently is more likely based on a lemur than an actual monkey, which is pretty rare, so I guess it's got that, but I can't say I could recall what this legendary's legend actually is, so I guess it still falls flat that way. And I'll agree that its form change was pretty redundant, as I'd say most purely cosmetic form changes are. Though honestly, I'd probably remember this guy before zeraora, at least it's the 6th legendary in its gen in the dex instead of being stuck right in the end behind a cavalcade of ultra beasts and having one of the only 2 pokémon with a giga form from a gen besides 1 and 8 beat it for the final gen 7 spot. Didn't think of how girafarig overshadowed stantler before, but I guess it did in quite a few ways. I always saw girafarig as being kind of forgotten itself, and thought it was kind of cool it was remembered and given an evolved form in gen 9, but come to think of it, you've got a point of how it kind of one-upped stantler for a second time. I've heard you talk about clobbopus's being unavailable before its evolved form before, and do agree that was a bit of a weird choice to make it a de-facto pre-evolution when it was introduced in the same gen as its evolved form. That octopuses are my favourite animal yet I still often forget clobbopus exists really says something about how the developers botched this guy's publicity. I wouldn't say jynx is overshadowed, as no pokémon comes close to its level of infamy except maybe porygon, but c'mon, no one thinks there's any problem with porygon itself, it's the episode it happened to be in that's infamous. And yeah, Mr. Mime and the rest of its line are kind of uncanny, but they'll never truly fill the chillingly shudder-inducing shoes of jynx, no matter how they try.

I think Beartic pretty overshadowed or at least overlooked. Reshiram is also quite overshadowed too. I’m also pretty sure that Wyrdeer is extinct in the modern Pokemon world.

Another Grass Dark type that overshadows "Darude Sandstorm" is Cacturne

If Flygon wasn't Ground/Dragon it wouldn't be overshadowed by GarchompMega Garchomp. Flygon should've been Bug/Dragon. At least as Bug/Dragon would still have a ton of coverage for its weaknesses. Steel Wing for Fairy, Ice, and Rock. Rockslide for flying and ice types. Superpower for Ice and Rock and so on

A very overshadowed Pokémon is Magearna. It's overshadowed by Diancie with its mega. I just find out a few months ago that you can get a Magearna via a freaking QR Code. That doesn't make it feel special again. Also its movie with Volcanion I had to look up. Volcanion is also overshadowed but at least had that cool Water/Fire type

I love clobbopus and think it was done dirty. I also think it should've been part water

"Maushold" "needlessly complex evolutionary method" evolves at level 25, how is that complex?

Isn't maushold really good in competitive

TL:DR for my autistic verboseness and summing up an essay: Fan Artists making mega flygon art feel like an insult to the designers and artists of pokemon imo -but keep doing it plz to shame Sugimori's art block. We MUST make him learn his lesson.- Flygon should be much stronger stat-wise, maybe even a pseudo legendary to share the spot with Salemence and Metagross in the 3rd Gen. Give a better movepool to Flygon and make it more flexible. Give signature moves to Flygon that have a STRONG bias against the Garchomp Line but are still strong against other pokemon and play on buffed stats of Flygon. Buff Attack and Speed, give more SP. Attack, maybe turn it into a speedy glass cannon. Give Flygon Sandveil in addition to levitate as a choice, or a unique buffed hidden ability variant of Sand-veil that raises evasiveness to the flygon every turn it's in a sandstorm as well as ally krookodile lines. Keep finding trapinches and raise them to beautiful flygons and try for shinies for them. I am a certified Flygon-farming Maniac and will keep raising Flygons as if they were my own children. I love flygon to death. Garchomp sucks. Give us Mega or regional form plox.

Shadow Lugia from "XD: Gale of Darkness" and Shadow Mewtwo from "Pokkén Tournament"! Oh wait, wrong kind of "overshadowed"...

Nah, I used Moushold, it's so funny and creepy. I absolutely HATE Pawmi and Shrewdle.

Tranquil's shiny is fabulous what you talking about? Plus Braviary is unova's fearow imo. Not every region has one but unova was supposed to be a reboot, which sorta would imply its own versions of kanto mon. Also, Flygon was the pokemon that almost single handedly helped me beat pokemon white 2. Its teammates were vaporeon, zoroark, vulpix, servine, and braviary. But vaporeon and flygon really carried my team.

I really question gamefreaks logic with their evolutions. Like is Mr. Mime just more popular in Japan? It’s easily one of the most hated Pokémon and they decided to give it an alternate form and evolution. Also I hated seeing so many cool fake evolutions for dunsparce just to get a slightly bigger segmented dunsparce.

With all due respect how do you make mausholds design more complicated it’s a stereotypical family mouse it’s suppose to be simple enough

Flygon is my "Try to win with their favorites" Pokemon. In most cases there is a better Pokemon to choose--Garchomp, Krookadile, Excadrill--but Flygon is just amazing, and one of my all-time favorite Pokemon, so I'll choose it over the others if it's available. It is amazing to me, though, that for as popular as it seems to be in the community, Game Freak has given it absolutely nothing but a couple of moves since it was introduced.