Welcome to Vol. 3, issue 42 of Johto Times! This week, we are revealing the results of our long-running poll to determine the fan favourite Pokémon! Which Pokémon has been determined the overall winner of the Johto Times Favourite Pokémon Poll 2025? Keep reading to find out! And as always, we have a recap of the latest Pokémon news!

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Pokémon Legends Z-A released worldwide today, on Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2

POKÉMON LEGENDS: Z-A

• The latest title in the Pokémon video game series, Pokémon Legends: Z-A, was released today on Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2. If you’re planning to pick it up, be sure to let us know what you think of it at our community forum!

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POKÉMON ANIME

• Pokémon Horizons Season 3: Rising Hope will be released on BBC iPlayer in the UK on October 27th, 2025, and on Netflix in the United States on January 6th, 2026.

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POKÉMON GO

• The new Weekly Challenges feature launched in Pokémon GO on October 13th, 2025. Players can join up to three other Trainers from across the world each week to complete a challenge, earn rewards, and increase their friendship levels with their group. A new weekly challenge will be posted every Sunday at 17:00 PDT.

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• Pokémon GO's new levelling system, which rebalances Trainer levels beyond level 23, is now rolling out as of October 15th, 2025.

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POKÉMON TCG POCKET

• A new Wonder Pick Event launched on October 13th, 2025, adding new Shaymin and Absol Promo-A cards, Wonder Pick missions, and items based on Professor Oak in the Wonder Pick Event Shop. This event runs until September 23rd, 2025.

Source: In-game news

• The Official Pokémon Youtube released a short trailer announcing new features to TCG Pocket, including a new card sharing feature, an increased range of tradable cards, an increased chance for players to find cards they don’t already own from Wonder Picks, and card Flairs being obtained automatically without consuming Shinedust.

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Feature: Johto Times Favourite Pokémon Poll 2025 (Final results)

The results of the Johto Times Favourite Pokémon Poll 2025 Grand Final are now in

It is time for the results of the Johto Times Favourite Pokémon Poll 2025! From May 22nd to July 31st, 2025, we asked our readers and the wider Pokémon community to vote for their six favourite Pokémon from each generation. The attention this poll received was significant, with 582,516 votes, far exceeding any expectations we originally had for it. You can check out the results of our preliminary vote here.

Once this first stage of voting was over, the top ten highest voted Pokémon from each of the nine polls we ran were taken through to the grand final, which took place between August 14th and September 30th, 2025. This time, we requested that Pokémon fans vote for three of their favourites. We received a total of 24,828 votes (from 8,276 participants) to determine an overall winner.

Please note: unlike the preliminary poll, we decided to acknowledge jointly held positions. For example, 4th and 5th place were a tie, so we gave both Pokémon a 4th place position, which we didn’t do for the preliminary polls. Because there were no ties in the top ten of each poll during these preliminary rounds, it didn’t impact the Grand Final.

I wish to thank all of the communities and individuals who shared our poll once again, most notably Bulbapedia (and Bulbagarden) and PokéCommunity. They were fundamental in helping us reach such a huge number of fans over the past few months, during the preliminary rounds and our grand final. Of course, I also want to extend those thanks to the tens of thousands of you who voted over the past few months and discovered our little project as a result.

While this poll has now ended, I hope that you will continue to follow the work Johto Times is doing to document and preserve the early era of Pokémon, and any future polls we may decide to run in the future.

With that out of the way, here are the results!

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The Johto Times Favourite Pokémon Poll 2025 top ten results, showing Greninja as the winner with 650 votes

Here are the placements of all ninety Pokémon, their rank, and total number of votes

1st - 10th place

11th - 20th place

21st - 30th place

31st - 40th place

41st - 50th place

51st - 60th place

61st - 70th place

71st - 80th place

81st - 90th place

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In an effort to give as much detail and clarity as possible, we plan to share the full raw data of our preliminary rounds and our grand final on our forum, exported from Strawpoll. They break down the votes in each poll by country of origin and even the exact time and date of each vote. I am sure a lot of cool facts can be extrapolated from these results, but that is a task too large for Johto Times to handle alone. Please note that the results contain no personally identifiable information. I hope that this poll has been fun and contributed some cool insight into the way that people feel about their favourite Pokémon.

Finally, I have a message to Pokémon fans who may be disappointed that their favourites didn’t place where they wanted them to be: our poll is just one of many that have been conducted over the years, and it won’t be the last. No poll can invalidate the appreciation you have for your favourite Pokémon. I hope that we can all keep that positivity and love moving forward into Pokémon’s 30th anniversary and beyond.