Name any Pokémon

November 3, 2026 · Daily Dive #111

Explore 1,025 recorded answers and their points for question 4 on November 3, 2026.

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1,025 recorded names on November 3, 2026, 513 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Scan the full national dex rather than the first names that come to mind — the roster runs past a thousand entries, and the scoring rewards the corners most players never visit. Any creature that appears in the official national dex counts, including evolutions, regional forms and legendaries; fan-made species, nicknames and creatures from other franchises do not.

1,025 recorded answers513 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion2100 pts
  • Deep Cut51185 pts
  • Rare42260 pts
  • Schooler8130 pts
  • Plankton910 pts
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Recorded answers

1,025 recorded answers

How to approach it

Treat this as a breadth test rather than a recall test. The scoring bands tell you that the middle of the dex is where the value sits, so resist the first three or four names that surface and instead work through the roster generation by generation, listing species you have never used on a team. A useful filter is familiarity: if a creature appears on lunchboxes or in a cartoon opening, it is probably crowded. If you only know it from a dex screen, a trade evolution or a post-game route, it is likely to sit in a thinner band. Commit to one name rather than hedging, and pick the one you can spell and classify confidently, because a misspelled or misremembered entry may not register at all.

Get a hint

Start from the sheer size of the roster: more than a thousand creatures have been catalogued across the generations, so the obvious household names are only a thin layer at the top.

A little more

Move past the starters, the box legends and the mascots that appear on merchandise, and think about the species that only show up in one generation's regional dex or in a late-game area.

One step further

Aim for something you recognise from a dex listing rather than from a cartoon episode — a single-stage oddity or an awkward middle evolution whose name you have read far more often than you have heard it spoken.

Reveal answers 1,025
  • MunnaDeep Cut85points
  • MusharnaDeep Cut85points
  • NacliDeep Cut85points
  • NaclstackDeep Cut85points
  • NaganadelDeep Cut85points
  • NickitDeep Cut85points
  • NihilegoDeep Cut85points
  • NincadaDeep Cut85points
  • NoibatDeep Cut85points
  • NumelDeep Cut85points
  • NuzleafDeep Cut85points
  • NymbleDeep Cut85points
  • ObstagoonDeep Cut85points
  • OctilleryDeep Cut85points
  • OinkologneDeep Cut85points
  • OkidogiDeep Cut85points
  • OranguruDeep Cut85points
  • OrbeetleDeep Cut85points
  • OricorioDeep Cut85points
  • OrthwormDeep Cut85points
  • OverqwilDeep Cut85points
  • PalafinDeep Cut85points
  • PalossandDeep Cut85points
  • PalpitoadDeep Cut85points
  • PanpourDeep Cut85points
  • PansageDeep Cut85points
  • PansearDeep Cut85points
  • PassimianDeep Cut85points
  • PatratDeep Cut85points
  • PawmiDeep Cut85points
  • PawmoDeep Cut85points
  • PawmotDeep Cut85points
  • PawniardDeep Cut85points
  • PecharuntDeep Cut85points
  • PerrserkerDeep Cut85points
  • PetililDeep Cut85points
  • PheromosaDeep Cut85points
  • PhioneDeep Cut85points
  • PidoveDeep Cut85points
  • PikipekDeep Cut85points
  • PiloswineDeep Cut85points
  • PincurchinDeep Cut85points
  • PoipoleDeep Cut85points
  • PoltchageistDeep Cut85points
  • PolteageistDeep Cut85points
  • ProbopassDeep Cut85points
  • PupitarDeep Cut85points
  • PurrloinDeep Cut85points
  • PuruglyDeep Cut85points
  • PyroarDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

The reveal covered 1025 recorded answers, and the shape of the scoreboard is unusually flat at the top: 919 entries cleared 60 points, with 527 of those landing on 85 and just one reaching 100. That single perfect pick, Shedinja, is a species most players know only as a strange, shell-like evolution with a one-hit-point gimmick, so naming it looks like a genuine act of recall rather than reflex. The 85 band is packed with the dex's quiet middle — Abomasnow, Accelgor, Alomomola, Amoonguss, Anorith, Applin — creatures that are real and memorable to anyone who has played through a given generation but rarely the first name on anyone's lips. The 60-point tier, by contrast, is where the crowded picks live: starters, box legendaries and cartoon mascots that hundreds of players submit at once. Rarity is the whole mechanic here, so the further a name sits from the franchise's marketing surface, the more it is worth.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 3 Nov, 09:15 UTC

Names and scores reflect the linked dated reveal. The original game makes the final decision on live acceptance. Editorial policy