Pokémon Fans Have A New Least Favourite Monster

Legends: Arceus has been out for just over a week now, and for the most part, players are really enjoying their adventures in the Hisui region. Its fresh, semi open-world take on the franchise has been a real hit, and the internet is currently drowning in funny clips of people’s escapades out in the region's wilds.

It’s not just the gameplay that’s seemingly changed a known precedent for the franchise, though. In fact, Arceus seems to have completely altered people's perceptions on the Pokémon themselves, namely, which ones are completely intolerable. Veterans players will undoubtably have always held on to a hatred of Zubat, purely because of how they plagued our journeys through every cave in the games, but oh how the tables have turned.

It turns out that for some reason, Hisui's Paras population is just unreasonably aggressive. Who gave them the right? They’re one of the many wild Pokémon that are just out for blood, and will attack you with no remorse if you get too close. Unfortunately though, Paras can also inflict status effects on the player that prevent you from getting on a ride Pokémon to escape, prolonging the onslaught of pain. To make matters worse, these little bugs are everywhere - they make a not-so-welcome appearance in the majority of the game’s different areas, meaning you’re never too far away from being subjected to an unprompted attack.