There’s a lot of criteria that can be considered for this. With the total number of Pokemon in the Pokemon universe totaling over 800, I thought it best, mostly for my own sanity in deciding to keep the list of comparisons for the Detroit Pistons to the original 151.
Since Pokemon Red and Blue were released in 1996, the video game series has sold over 340 million units, as of March 2019. The card game has sold over 24.7 billion cards. Detective Pikachu was a box office hit. The mobile game Pokemon Go was all the craze when it was released in July of 2016.