#10: Milotic

Coming in at number 10 is the beautiful sea serpent Pokémon Milotic. Capable of calming their enemies by removing their negative feelings, Milotic are peaceful Pokémon that typically try to avoid battles. They appear to dislike conflict (altough the official art says otherwise, because Milotic looks a little angry), and they will even appear before arguing humans in an attempt to calm their minds. All this suggests that Milotic possesses empathetic abilities similar to some psychic-type Pokémon and that it is loosely based on sirens, mythical creatures who can hypnotize with their voice to make men attracted to them. It is said to be the most beautiful of all Pokémon, which is quite ironic giving the fact it evolves from the ugly fish Feebas. You're able to get a Milotic by maximizing Feebas' beauty with Pokéblocks in generation III and Poffins in generation IV, or by trading it with a Prism Scale in generation V. The latter is probably the easiest way to get such a beautiful Pokémon. Milotic is in many ways the counterpart of Gyarados: both are serpent evolutions of weak fish Pokémon and both appear in times of conflict, Milotic to becalm and Gyarados to wreak havoc. Both have base stat totals of 540 and both are tied with each other for the greatest increase in base stat total after evolving, with 340 points, as well as for the highest base stat total of any non-legendary water Pokémon, along with Kingdra. Milotic is definitely a beautiful Pokémon and that fact, together with all above characteristics, makes one of my favorite Pokémon with ease. I just had to put it in the top 10 because of that, although I never use it in the video games.

So how does it cope in the video games? Well, let's say that Milotic is not a bad Pokémon to use. It has a good special attack stat and an even better special defense stat, while having reasonable defense and speed. Just don't use its attack stat, because that stat is pretty lackluster. It has access to strong special-based water-type moves like Surf, Hydro Pump and Scald, as well as physical-based ones. Those I don't recommend. It can learn Ice Beam, Blizzard and Hyper Beam, too, but that's about it concerning special-based moves. Milotic is not really diverse, but it can hit hard with its water-type moves and a little ice-type coverage is not bad, either. It won't be the best on your team, but it's also not gonna do bad. I don't use it myself, but I won't try to stop you from using it, either.

Nah, Milotic is just one of my favorite Pokémon because of its beauty. And because of that, many pieces of pretty fan art have surfaced on the internet. Come on, people. I dare you. Just Google 'Milotic' and 'Shiny Milotic' (see image below for a shiny Milotic; click on it to enlarge, or drag it to another tab) and you'll come across some very nice drawings. You'll understand immediately why Milotic is one of my favorite Pokémon: its elegance, grace, beauty and fierceness make it one of the most amazing Pokémon ever. It's almost unbelievable and unbearable that Milotic evolves from that ugly fish Feebas. Feebas is super weak, super lame, super weird, super goofy, super dumb and super creepy and it's definitely one of my least favorite Pokémon. It's absolutely worthless, except for the fact it's the one Pokémon evolving into Milotic. I don't get it. It's kind of weird I don't dislike Magikarp as much as I dislike Feebas, other than the fact that in every game there is a trainer with six whopping Magikarp on his team. Luckily, we have Milotic once it's there. Gamefreak definitely has done a damn good job with creating this amazing Pokémon!