Plenty of the characters from Pokemon have different names in the English version than they do in the original Japanese.

A freelance writer with over 10 years of experience. His favourite games are Kingdom Hearts, Beyond Good & Evil, and Celeste. The worst Pokemon in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is easily Pichu. While it ...

Pokémon as a franchise has been around for more than 25 years, and in that time we've seen hundreds of characters introduced across the games, anime, manga, movies, and even the trading card game.

Andrea is an editor at Game Rant, where she has been writing professionally about video games for nearly five years. She became a gamer for life at 7, thanks to a copy of Pokemon Red and her Game Boy.

If you take a quick glance at the Pokemon subreddit or are in its Twitter fandom, you'll likely have seen lots of posts praising the return of Emma in the Pokemon Legends: Z-A box art. If, like me, ...