is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. Magikarp is the most useless of all ...

Magikarp, the weakest of all the Pokémon, has a music video celebrating his flailing, flopping futility — and it's official. It's called "I Love Magikarp" (of ...

There are 135 Pokémon to catch in "Pokémon GO." The weakest, most pathetic one is undoubtedly Magikarp. The lopsided goldfish's very existence is even questioned in the game itself: "Magikarp is a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. It seems that a resourceful Japanese gamer has managed to beat ...

Worthless. Pathetic. Horribly Weak. Virtually useless. This is how Pokémon games' in-game encyclopaedias describe Magikarp, a hapless fish-creature that is widely regarded as the "worst" monster in ...

One dedicated Japanese gamer has bested Pokémon Sun And Moon using nothing but a Magikarp - a monster which has a reputation as being one of the most useless in the entire Pokémon series. According to ...

Ah, Magikarp. It feels like the huge flopping mess of the Pokémon franchise, but everyone knows that there's hidden power in those tiny aquatic disaster. Yes, it's common knowledge that Magikarp ...

People have been less than kind to Magikarps ever since the first Pokemon games were released in the 90s, but one of the creatures has finally had enough. The weak, water-type Pokemon has taken to ...

In Magikarp Jump, you fish out a fresh ‘karp and adopt it as your own tiny jumper. The goal is to feed and train it enough to make it strong enough to best other Magikarp in a flopping competition. It ...