The Pokemon Effect

A self-hatedom. A phenomenon seen in fan communities, in which people who play it the most hate it the most.

Named for the Pokemon community, because nobody hates Pokemon like Pokemon fans.

“There’s people online who hate Pokemon, but still play it a lot.”
“That’s The Pokemon Effect.”

by violetcide February 22, 2023

Pokemon

A game by nintendo that got turned into a beautiful anime

Guy 1: i FUCKING LOVE POKEMON
Guy 2 : anime or game
Guy1: BOTH

by Goofy ah user February 18, 2024

Zoomer Pokemon

Any pokemon after Gen 1

I love how all the zoomer pokemon (meaning anything after 151) are all zoomer pokemon, am I right?

by PokemonBoomer August 12, 2025

Pokemon GO

A game where you throw pointless balls at animals. Many times this game gets you in jail or killed

Okay I found this Mewtwo on the tracks in Pokemon GO! Lets catch it! *gets hit by train*

by UltraEnergyFlows September 2, 2018

Starter Pokemon complex

When an ex-Pokemon player , Plays just about any game or has to make life choises, While also getting the choice of picking something to begin with , But at the same time given an option to ditch that same pick at almost any given time.

Often times people who suffer from Starter Pokemon complex , Will also have an unusual , Unobjective And some times straight off delusion reasons to keep their pick. It is primarily driven, from the bond that ashe katchen had with pikatchu in the Pokemon series, Which people try to mimic that to fictionally feel closer to that level of intimacy with a pokemon (Pick).

Tim : "*Picks reksai, At the first carousel in team fight tactics*"
Tim : "*Doesnt't sell that 2 gold cost unit , And keeps strengthening that champions throughout the game*"
Dennis : " Hey tim why didn't you sell that reksai ? "

Tim : "Reksai is a strong champ" (Reksai is not a strong champion at all)
Dennis : " You sooo got "Starter Pokemon complex"

by MrHangetsu July 20, 2019

Pokemon

The highest Grossing media franchise, Probably because of fantastic looking characters they made such as: Pikachu, Mewtwo, Charizard, Blastoise, Heracross, Gengar, Scizor, Sceptile, Infernape, Garchomp, Rayquaza, Ho-Oh, Metagross, and Not Jynx or Milktank. If you were a kid from the late 90s you pretended not to like it but really you were opening card packs, watching the anime, and playing the games everyday. Now Fake Pokemon Fans exsist complaining about a tree in sword and Shield and How the Brilliant Diamond and Shining Perl Characters are Chibi even though almost every other pokemon game is Chibi.

Nintendo: "Gamefreak you need to make more Pokemon Games to give us money because we're loosing to Sony."
Gamefreak: "Sure just don't make us do it on Hardware that's 11 years old."
Nintendo: "Ok, well have you develop it for hardware that's 11 year sold but in Color!"
Gamefreak: "So what Kind of Pokemon should we make?"
Random Gamefreak worker: " How about a rhino beetle because it's very popular with the Kids in Japan."
Gamefreak: "What should we do with the types?"
Random Gamefreak worker: " We should add types to make psychic bad."
Gamefreak: "Also Let's Make the Poison Type Trash!"
Random Gamefreak worker: "Oh so Like a Poison type that's based on a Pile Of Waste?!"
Gamefreak: "No but I'm going to think about that for about 10 years."

by Bruhman2408 March 19, 2021

Pokemon

Enslaved creatures beat into submission by trainers.

Ash: Let's have a Pokemon battle I'll use Pikachu

Ash: Pikachu go against that Rhyperior .

Pikachu: Im level 2 that things level 100

Ash: DO YOU WANT THE POKEBELT WITH THE POWER OF LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP WE CAN DO THIS

Pikachu: I have a wife and kids dont do this

Ash: To bad for you go Pikachu!

by Pokemon battles May 23, 2019