Pokémon The 5 Ugliest Fire-Type Pokémon & The 5 Cutest

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Pokémon The 5 Ugliest Fire-Type Pokémon & The 5 Cutest

Fire-type Pokémon come in all shapes and sizes. Some are cuddly and cute, while others are just downright ugly. When fans discuss the franchise, they often start in a place where they talk about their favorites. Some people prefer Pokémon based on their typing, others on how cute or cool looking they are. If you as a fan can find a Pokémon that's both visual and strategically appealing to your tastes, it's like you've found a hidden treasure. For Fire-type lovers, who are the best and worst of the bunch when it comes to design? Let's take a look at the 5 ugliest and 5 cutest Fire-type Pokémon through . THEGAMER VIDEO OF THE DAY

Cute Growlithe

Is Growlithe a feline, or is it a canine? This is a question that has stumped fans of the Pokémon franchise since 1998. For the most part, Growlithe comes across as a puppy, but it happens to have the markings of a tiger and the mane of a lion. The great thing about Growlithe's design is that it is welcoming and friendly even though it evolves into a large elegant creature meant to be owned and trained by pure royalty. Originally Growlithe was going to be a pseudo-legendary but plans changed, but thankfully it stayed adorable as ever.

Ugly Charmeleon

If you're looking to quickly find some of the ugliest Pokémon in the franchise the safest place to start is with the middle evolutionary forms of the starter Pokémon. It often goes that the base forms are adorable, the final forms are cool and/or intimidating, and the middle forms are awkward. Despite having the most popular base and final form of the Kanto region, Charmander's middle form named Charmeleon is the worst of the bunch. It comes across as a teenage dragon going through puberty.

Cute Tepig

In real-life pigs are interesting creatures because as babies people find them cute, but once they start to grow into adulthood people lose interest due to how large they grow. Tepig follows suit with this line of thinking as the adorable little pig wins the heart of almost anyone who manages to glance in its direction. It happens to have a tiny springtail and these large endearing eyes. Due to the coloring of its body, it also happens to look like it's wearing a dark brown diaper, making it feel even more baby-like.

Ugly Combusken

We covered Charmeleon and how the middle evolutions for starter Pokémon are often the ugliest. The 3rd generation of games are no different with the being the ugliest of the bunch. Combusken, Torchic's middle form, is the weirdest chicken-based design you'll likely ever see. The body of the creature is fine, but the offputting nature of the design lays in its face. It's supposed to have a beak or bill of some sort but instead, the design makes it look like it has neither and in its place is a single upper lip.

Cute Charmander

Charmander for the longest time was easily considered the cutest starter Pokémon, and depending on who you ask it still is or was passed by Litten of the Alolan Islands. No one ever thinks about reptiles or dragons being cute as they often find their strongest followings due to how cool, weird, or ferocious they are. Every kid who grew up in the 90s remembers watching the heartbreaking episode where Ash saves the Charmander left in the rain by its terrible trainer. That broke hearts and endeared an entire generation to the baby dragon.

Ugly Pyroar

Most kids who develop an interest in animals will tell you that lions are cool. They're large and powerful beast who hunt in packs and are the subject of numerous animated stories. Pyroar somehow took the perception of lions and threw it in a garbage can. Some designer thought the right move was to make it mostly look like a lion, but make sure its mane was an obnoxious combination of red and yellow. If people were upset about the legendary dogs in they should take a look back at how bad Pyroar's design is.

Cute Vulpix

The red version of Vulpix everyone met in the Kanto region was already quite adorable, then they had to go and give it an Alolan form in the 7th generation of games. Just when Pokémon fans thought Vulpix couldn't get any cuter, they went and made it irresistibly charming. Not only did they make its puppy dog eyes larger, but they also gave its mane a makeover and turned its elegant tails into a large poof of fur. You can't go wrong with either form, but if we're being technical the Alolan form isn't a Fire-type.

Ugly Magmar

Magmar was largely considered the worst design in the first generation of games alongside the Ice-type problematic opera singer Jinx. Both its baby form named Magby, and its evolution Magmortar, have done a good job at giving Magmar more personality, but it didn't make it any less ugly. Part of why it is so unnerving to look at is because it's unclear what its design is based on. Some of it feels very human-like, whereas its face resembles a duck's face but with a much smaller bill on the front.

Cute Litten

For the longest time, the crown for being the cutest starter Pokémon in the franchise rested comfortably on the head of Charmander. Once the 7th generation of games were announced and Litten was revealed, the crown changed heads. This little kitten embued with fire may turn into an intimidating professional wrestling feline, but in its base state, it's one of the cutest Pokémon designs regardless of typing. Many of the other cats have weird coloring or design accents, but Litten's is perfectly kitten-like in every facet.

Ugly Heatmor

It may be unfortunate that Heatmor lands at the top of the list as the ugliest in the entire franchise, but there is a silver lining. Heatmor's existence doesn't really on appealing to humans so it makes sense that it wouldn't have had its appearance chance to better help it survive. Also, humans will still appreciate Heatmor no matter how hard on the eyes it is simply because it can control the population of Durants, the giant Steel-type ant Pokémon that view Heatmor as their one true predator in the wild.