Pokemon Company for those who don't know was put in charge of handling the Pokemon franchise by Nintendo. Anyways they recently did a poll in Japan to find out which Pokemon was Japan's favorite. The poll's results might suprise you Pika Pika never even made the top three.

And the top five Pokemon in Japan are......drum roll....

#5. Mew

#4. Pikachu

#3. Deoxy's

#2. Darkrai

#1. Arceus

So as a reward Nintendo is giving Arceus away to players of Pokemon Black and White in Japan. Man I'm suprised other then Mew and Pikachu all the favorite Pokemon are not origional (150). What do you think do you agree with this poll? Which Pokemon do you think would be most popular if the poll was conducted in North America or Europe?

I think it was a vote for pokemon handout, hence the legendaries.

Japan just wanted Arceus from the Dream World..

It's not the most popular Pokémon.

The actual question was, Which Pokemon would you want to meet. The polled individuals had no clue Nintendo was going to handout the Pokemon. If they did why would anyone have voted Pikachu to begin with? He's not that uncommon in most Pokemon games sure he's hard to find but why choose him over Mew for example?

IMO Tyranitar > All

Back in primary school, we all used to shorten them to T-Tars, and I had one called MrT-Tar.  And the name has stuck every since

lol my fav to. It was my first one I trained to 100 <3

Good times...

You're named after a pokemon?

*removes MrT-Tar from the cool list*

PIIIIIIIIIIIIPPPLUPUPUPUPUPUUPPUPUP

is my favorite , also i got tired of the original pokemons, the new ones are more fresh and colorful to me (and i still watch the anime btw, love it, though i wish they change team rocket a bit,they're the same always!)

Squirtle/Blastoise are the best.

puh-lease  @ arceus

Any poll like this where Pikachu, Dragonite or Charizard doesn't win is false!