Poll: What's Your Favourite Gen 5 Pokémon?

Gen V, the generation when the Pokemon started to look over-designed, but still have plenty of fan favorites like; Samurott, Haxorus, Volcarona, Chandelure and Zoroark. But Zekrom is a legendary dragon and is ALL-BLACK! Perfect for Pokemon edgelords.

Winners:
Gen 1 - Charizard
Gen 2 - Umbreon
Gen 3 - Rayquaza
Gen 4 - Lucario
Gen 5 - tbd

Chandelure. It's cute and mysterious.

Gen 5 is an extreme version of hit-or-miss imo - everything is either exceptionally good or quite mediocre, with not much in between. I don't think it has to do with the number of expys either, as I like several of those.

Anyway, Chandalure is da bomb.

The aura of Chandelure cannot be replicated

@Nintendo4Sonic hilarious coming from a Sonic fan. what are you doing in this post then?

@UpsideDownRowlet
I'm also going with Chandelure. It's cool, it's cute, it's amazing to burn people and then Hex them to death! 😂

Love to see a Vanilluxe standby btw! I've loved the ice cream line since I first saw it (online) back in 2010.

Ah, finally arrived at my favorite Gen. A tough choice because I have soooo many favorites in this one, but I'll choose Haxorus.

I have to give it to Gigalith, since he was my first shiny (named Heisenberg, of course).

My boy from Gen 5, SAWK. 😘

Great starter Pokemon this generation, mostly tedious otherwise, and just awful legendaries.

Oshawott is a close second, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say Beeheeyem.

I notice a lot of comments saying stuff about Chandelure. That one's a cool dude too, I gotta admit.

Serperior. One day it will get Earth Power and actually have Coverage for its Leaf Storm spamming. I'm not coping you're coping!

Gen 5 has so many great Pokémon! Krookodile always finds a spot on my in-game teams because its typing and stat spread are consistently useful. But Chandelure, Volcarona, Hydreigon, and Ferrothorn also rock

I used to dislike Gen 5 designs but over the years I've warmed up to them a lot. Woobat is freaking fantastic and probably my favorite. Throh and Sawk are so bad they kind of loop around back to being great, I like the goofy elemental monkeys, Scolipede is great, just in general this gen's got some awesome bug types.

It does help that Black/White happened to be some of the best mainline Pokemon games.

Pokemon fans: Pokemon as real world objects like Ice Cream is stupid.

Chandelure.

No. That doesn't count. Don't be silly.

Ive never played black and white. This is the only gen I totally missed! But Im a cat lover, so I like Liepard.

Really want to play these games though, if only they weren't so expensive.

As cool as Zoroark is, for me its easily Zorua.

Oshawott is perhaps my favorite of this generation.
Other Gen 5 favorites of mine: Stoutland, Axew, Scraggy, Gothitelle, Krookodile, Zoroark, Chandelure, Vanilluxe (yes, I'm not kidding), Leavanny, Lilligant, Reshiram.

Would've loved to see Hydreigon with the original military theme, though.

With that said, this was the last Pokémon generation I played,. I may not objectively participate on the rest since I'm not familiar with all the Pokémon, except for Galar/Scorbunny.

Worst generation of Pokemon. A consequence of limiting the deck to new Pokemon only was that they ended up making a whole bunch of cheap knockoffs of gen 1 Pokemon. It has the biggest dex but most Pokemon feel bland and uninteresting.

Anyway I'm picking Genesect.

I played black back when it came out but this definitely when I started to lose interest in pokemon. Looking back though there's some good designs. Have to go with sandile as crocs are my favourite animal and I like a ground type. I have a soft spot for crustle and drillbur as well

Volcarona. Whilst I enjoyed playing gen v and the fact that they decided to use all new mons, I'm not particularly in love with any of the critters.
Volcarona has a pretty cool design so I guess it wins by a lack of any other challenges.

Snivy is my fave Pokemon and will always be my fave! It sucks that it never gets any merch. Lilipup is my second fave Pokemon of all time because it's so cute. Weird choice I know lol

I went with Zekrom, though it was a very close contest between it and Haxorus. Other runners-up are: Axew, the entire Sandile line, Snivy's line, Emboar, Zekstrika, Hydreigon, the Muskedeers, Bisharp, Chandelure, and Zorua/Zoroark.

While I think it's admirable GF wanted a regional dex of all new 'Mon, it feels like they were going for quantity over quality with many of the Gen 5 designs IMO. Some Pokemon feel wholly unnecessary. I passionately dislike the elemental monkeys, for one.

Probably Snivy, though a dark horse I'm fond of is Sigilyph.

I knew that Chandelure was generally more liked than it can sometimes sound online, but I didn't expect it be so far ahead in the poll! I'm so used to Genwunners smack-talking it that I thought it would lack some poll presence or at least have some competition. Good to see some justice for my boi!

Gen 5 is my first and favorite gen of Pokemon, I know everyone used to say "Why do they have such stupid designs as a trash bag and ice cream! It was so much better in Gen 1!" when those same people forget to mention the likes of Muk, Voltorb, and Magnamite. Not say they are inherently bad Pokemon, but more so that I feel like it was always kind of a bad faith argument. Actual Pokemon wise this gen has some of my favs. Victini, the Zorua line, Scraggy, Liligant, Whimsicot, Cofagregus, Axew, Stunfisk, Genesect, Meloetta, Munna, Kyurem, so many amazing designs, although my heart will always belong to Snivy and it's line, my first starter Pokemon with one of the most charming designs imo. It'll always at least be top 3 for me probably.

My favorite is Zorua

Scraggy. I love its animation in Gen 5.

Unfezant! My favorite of all the bird Pokémon for being a true New Yorker

Gen 5 was so good.

Personally many of the designs are ugly but I still loved this gen so much. It was an incredible experience. And it has my 2nd favorite legendary reshiram so thats my pick lol. There's just something majestic about it and it's shiny form is subtle but adds so much to an already amazing design

My 2nd favourite Gen and lots of faves in here for sure.

Bishop is my out and out face but others like Excadrill, Golurk, Galvantula, Mandibuzz, Gigalith, Leavanny and particularly Scolipede come very close.

Gen 5 has the strongest dex imo. I remember the pokemon magazine hyping up new pokemon and being so excited.

Eelektross for this Gen. Became one of my fave competitive mons, it caught a lot of people out with having levitate and no weakness, bulking it's defense, and a super versatile array of special attack options.

Second place goes to Volcarona. On top of being cool as heck, it's still my fave nickname I've come up with for a Pokémon, naming this fire bug Promotheus.

Why is nobody talking about the baby mushroom FOONGUS? He's adorable!

There's quite a few I like from gen 5, with Darumaka and Ducklett being just two. But, I think the win for this generation has to be Roggenrola. I just love the little rock. I am absolutely not biased by the fact it was my first random shiny in Shield. Not at all.

One of my favorite gens aside from gen 2 and 4 there were quite a few pokemon I like but none more than zoroark, It got a movie, and had an in game event to get! My other favorites would be Victini, Samurott, Beartic, Zebstrika, and Haxorus

Making me pick between Chandelure and Zebstrika was a crime. But I'll have to edge it out to Chandelure.

Ok, I thought I was an oddball choosing Chandelure but how wrong I was! What can I say, to quote Brick from Anchorman, "I like lamp!".

Krookodile my king!

Volcarona for me. Love the design and Quiver Dance usage.