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Most Useless Pokemon

Delibird for being trolled. It has both Vital Spirit and Insomnia.

Wobbuffet but that might be only because I have not taken the time to discover any potential they may have?

Encore/Counter/Mirror Coat/Charm. Switch into an attack, Encore, Counter/Mirror Coat it to death.
 
To clarify on the last point, Magikarp takes forever to train and does practically nothing (maybe Tackle also) until it finally reaches Gyarados, which makes it almost worth it.

Meanwhile, Metapod on the other hand, is only not as bad if you train it from a Caterpie. I caught a Caterpie in Yellow, and once it became a Metapod, it still knew Tackle and String Shot (a wild Metapod would not know these). After it became a Butterfree a few levels later, it could use Confusion, which came in handy, as it was an extremely powerful move for my team.
 
Arceus is useless because no one has one. (except maybe those Action Replay jerks)

Farfetch'd isn't useless, you need it to fill your pokedex!

In fact, you need all pokemon to fill your pokedex so that means no pokemon is useless.
 
Jirachi/Celebi/Deoxys.
Never went to events & I have a strict no-cheating policy so I could never finish the Dex' );
 
Dunsparce, obviously. Magicarp evolves into gyarados, but Dunsparce dosn't evolve into ANYTHING.
You clearly have never used one before. Dunsparce are glorious.

Anyway, I believe the most useless would have to be Ledian. 4x Weak to Rock, Stealth Rock murders it, it has such a low defense, and it can't hit anything.
 
Purrloin. It has the speed but no attack or defense and it's hard to train and therefore easy to be taken down in ANY kind of battle...guts me to say this because I usually like the cat-based pokémon in the series but this is either a contest pokémon or just a flop.
 
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