The top ten Dark Pokémon, ranked

Ah, Dark Pokémon – the biggest edgelords to ever grace a Nintendo series. While Pikachu and Charizard are off doing meet-and-greets with toddlers, these little legends are sat in the dark listening to Fall Out Boy as they apply the sixth consecutive can of hairspray to their concrete fringe. We’re not saying that as if it’s a bad thing, by the way. We had concrete fringes, too.

You see, we’ve always been particularly fond of Dark Pokémon, which makes the herculean task of collecting and ranking the top ten ‘mons of this type… well, even more herculean! Fortunately, we’re experts in all things Pokémon and are professional enough to set personal biases and affinities aside in the name of plain, hard science. 

As is always the case with our Pokémon rankings, each evolutionary family can only be represented by a single Pokémon from it – if Greninja is here, Frogadier becomes illegal by default. To be honest, Frogadier wouldn’t come anywhere near the top ten anyway, but it’s still a good example to demonstrate what we mean. 

Before we move on to the official top ten, let’s go through the usual round of honourable mentions. 

And now for the real deal – here are the ten best Dark Pokémon of all time, ranked from worst to best.