>>43280241Not that anon, but you're effectively also assigning the same weighted value to every single pokemon in that gen, which is very dishonest because there are orders of magnitude that need to be taken into account, even within the gens. For example, nearly all gens share the same voting patterns, like the Top 10 of all gens containing around 60% of the entire votes. By Gen, percentage of Votes the Top 10 pokemon got was:
>Kanto63.96% (466,966 votes in the Top 10 from a 731,203 vote total)
>Johto58.01% (386,505/666,184)
>Hoenn59.82% (398,324/665,819)
>Sinnoh62.47% (402,461/644,209)
>Unova54.55% (288,921/529,559)
>Kalos66.10% (407057/636,377)
>Alola64.63% (386,246/597,601)
>Galar59.13% (344,070/581,865)
The percentages are staggeringly similar except for the outlier Unova that has to split its votes more evenly because of its lack of standout pokemon. .Also, in every single Gen, by the 30th place you're already talking about 4 digit votes, so in Gens with more pokemon, you can expect dozens of different pokemon with only a couple hundred votes and over 85% of the total votes going to each gen's Top 30.
What matters is not the amount of competition, but rather the quality of it. I don't think the poll is perfect either, but it is both the biggest one we've ever had by a wide margin and also a very reliable source of data. Definitely not invalid
