There are over 1,000 different Pokemon now, each based on different animals, creatures, household objects, or none of the above. With each new Generation, players once again debate if the new cast looks and feels like Pokemon, or wheth🍒er they're to🌊o simple or too complex.

Pokemon have always been based on animals or other types of fantastical cre📖atures, but sometimes these connections just don't make any sense. Below, we'll take a look at several Pokemon w🐲hose Pokedex category seems like it should be for a completely different Pokemon.

8 Snivy

Grass Snake Pokemon

The Pokedex describes Snivy as the Grass Snake Pokemon, which is a species famous for its lack of limbs. Snivy, however, has two arms and two legs, and doesn't even really look like a snake. Grass snakes, in particular,🐻 are typically grey or brown, not the bright green that Snivy𓆏 appears as.

If you take the Pokedex categorization slightly less literally, you could reason that it's describing Snivy as a Grass-Type snake, which is why the Pokemon has a big leaf on its tail. But, it's more fun to think that whoever categorized Snivy had never seen a snake before, and didn't realiz𒐪e they don't have limbs.

7 Mudkip

Mud Fish Pokemon

In a similar vein, Mudkip's Pokedex describes it as the Mud Fish Pokemon, which in our world is a more general classification for a type 🥀of fish found in New Zealand and south-eastern Australia. These fish have almost nothing in common with Mudkip's appearance, which is more closely based on an axolotl.

Again, this is probably a case of the Pokedex categorization combining two terms that loosely apply, but t෴hat also happen to be a real-world animal. Mudkip does indeed like the mud, and I suppose it's part fish, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's a Mudfish.

6 Diglett

Mole Pokemon

If you were describing Diglett to someone, I don't think you could convince them that this Pokemon 🎃is based on any type of animal, let alone a mole. This mysterious Pokemon's lower half is perpetually buried underground, and we still have never gotten a good look at it. Red and Blue Rescue Team hint that Diglett has some form of feet, so that's something, I guess.

Still, regardless of the feet situation, ꦓDiglett is a brown round cylinder, and looks nothing like a mole. It doesn't even have whiskers, claws, or squinty eyes!

5 Goodra

Dragon Pokemon

Of the eight Pokemon that have received the Dragon classification, why on Earth is Goodra one of them? The whole classification in general𓂃 is kind of a mess, since the Seadra 🌟line is also included, but Goodra makes even less sense. If anything, Goodra is based on a shell-less snail.

And another thing, why isn't Goodra half Water-Type? It's Dragon-Typing already doesn't make a lot of sense, but considering it only evolves💟 in the rain, why wouldn't it also gain Water-Typing? Whoever designed Goodra, we need to talk.

4 Bidoof

Plump Mouse Pokemon

Bidoof's Pokedex classification is baffling. It's described as the Plump Mouse Pokemon, wh♛ich is fine in its own right if Bidoof didn't look almost exactly like a beaver. In fact, its evolution, Bibarel, is given the Beaver categorization, so what gives?

Even if you take plump mouse to just mean a mouse that's fat, where are the similarities to Bidoof? Mice definitely don't have massive buck teeth or bushy tails like Bidoof do, and while I📖 don't know him personally, I've never known Bidoof🎃 to have a craving for cheese.

3 Vigoroth

Wild Monkey Pokemon

The entire Slakoth evolution line's Pokedex categorizations don't make that much sense. Slakoth is fine; it's very clearly meant to be a sloth, but it evolves into Vigoroth, who is described as the Wild Monkey Poke𓃲mon. However, Vigoroth retains some of its sloth-like characteristics from its pre-evolution, like its two-clawed hands and ringed eyes.

But, sloths are a completely different species from monkeys, so that doesn't really fit for Vigoroth. Things get even stranger when you consider Slaking, who more closely resembles an ape, which♐ is again a comไpletely different species from both a sloth and a monkey.

2 Slowbro

Hermit Crab Pokemon

Unless a hermit crab is just any creature that has a shell attached to it, something might be wrong with Slowbro's Pokedex classification. For starters, Slowbro doesn't have a single crab-like feature; it's more closely ꦰrelated to a hippopotamus like its pre-evolution Slowpoke, and even then, the relation is tenuous at best.

Secondly, Slowbro doesn't use its shell to protect itself like hermit crabs do, and it's not like it could fit in there, anyway. If there were ever a case that Pokedex classifications are based almost entirely on vibes, Slowbro is defini𓄧tely the strongest evidence.

1 Toge🤡demaru

Roly Poly Pokemon

Togedemaru is Generation 7's entry into tꦫhe electric rodent series that began with Pikachu. Pikachu's Pokedex classification is already suspect, seeing as it looks nothing like a mouse, but that'♋s a rant for a different time. What I want to know is why Togedemaru is classified as the Roly Poly Pokemon.

Roly Polys are black insects that roll into balls—even if you draw the connection between these two creatures in that they both look like balls, it still doesn't r🌱eally make sense. Roly Polys roll into a ball, while Togedemaru is always one. In fact, Togedemaru's agitated state makes it even less ball-like, as the spikes on its back stand up.