Venusaur.
The plant blooms when it is absorbing solar energy. It stays on the move to seek sunlight.
Transcript
0:00So what if I told you the first fully evolved Pokémon ever put in the Pokédex spent thirty years being the one you never had to look at?
0:04This is Venusaur.
0:08Number three in the Pokédex.
0:11That puts it ahead of Charizard, ahead of Blastoise, ahead of every final evolution that came after it.
0:15When Game Freak wrote the list, this was the very first fully evolved Pokémon on it.
0:19And most of the world barely got a look at it.
0:23Be honest.
0:26When was the last time you actually looked at Venusaur?
0:30Not Bulbasaur, but, Venusaur.
0:34The finished version.
0:38Because for years, the franchise made it easy not to.
0:41Start with the cover.
0:45In Japan, Venusaur was on the box of Pokémon Green.
0:49When the games went to the rest of the world, they only brought Red and Blue.
0:53Charizard and Blastoise went on every shelf on the planet.
0:56Venusaur's box stayed in Japan for eight years.
1:00And here's the wild part that held true for YEARS If you picked Charmander in the original games, Venusaur did not exist in your world.
1:04Your rival took Squirtle, nobody else in Kanto had one, and you could beat the entire game without seeing it once.
1:08It was in there the whole time.
1:11You just never got to meet it.
1:15So tell us..
1:19Have you ever actually USED a Venusaur?
1:23Or did the game just never put one in front of you?
1:26Defend it in the comments, or admit you never gave it a chance.
Special firepower at 100.
Venusaur's base stat total is 525. The shape of a stat spread tells you everything about a Pokémon's role. Tanks lean defense, sweepers lean speed and attack.