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In celebration of Pokemon’s 25th anniversary, we asked YOU to help us decide which of the 200 most popular Pokemon is the very best. After thousands and thousands of 1v1 battles with matchups like Squirtle vs. Charmander and Pikachu vs. Mewtwo, the ultimate winner has been chosen.

So, who claimed the top spot in the battle for the greatest Pokemon ever? Drumroll please…

With a 86.3% win percentage, Charizard claimed the victory in 39,444 of the 45,726 battles it was in.

With Charizard being a mighty fire-breathing, dragon-looking Pokemon that evolves from Charmander – the starter Pokemon many began their journey with back in 1997’s Pokemon Red and Blue – it’s no wonder it took the top spot.

Furthermore, certain variations of Charizard Pokemon Trading Cards are some of the rarest and most valuable of them all, adding to its legendary status.

Mewtwo earned second place with a 86.0% win percentage, while Blastoise rose the ranks to third place with an 83.2% win percentage. Rounding out the top 10 were Dragonite, Lugia, Mew, Rayquaza, Gengar, Lucario, and Gyarados.

Seven of the top ten are from Pokemon Red and Blue, while Pokemon Diamond and Pearl’s Lugia and Lucario and Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire’s Rayquaza were the only Pokemon to breakthrough the everlasting popularity of the Kanto region.

Taking last place, with a win percentage of only 12.4%, was Pyukumuku. It just narrowly beat out the aptly named Trubbish for the last spot by 0.4 percentage points.

Rounding out the bottom were Alcremie, Snom, Bidoof, Whisicott, Tsareena, Lilligant, Appletun, and Goomy.

The bottom 10 were comprised of five generations, with Pokemon Sword and Shield and Pokemon Black and White accounting for three each. These least popular Pokemon include a goofy beaver, a Pokemon made of whipped cream, and a dragon-type that looks like an Apple Pie. Oh, and of course the previously mentioned Trubbish that that looks like… well… a trash bag.

Are you wondering where your favorite Pokemon landed, like maybe Pikachu? (It took spot #30!) For all the rankings, you can check out the full list of where all 200 Pokemon who competed in this Face-Off ended up.

For more on Pokemon and its 25th Anniversary, check out the announcements of Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl and the open-world Pokemon Legends: Arceus.

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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

Respawn has rolled out a small hotfix for Apex Legends, and it’s mostly aimed at squashing bugs, such as those affecting Loba’s tactical ability, as well as an audio bug affecting the new Heat Shield item. However, it also removes the Heat Shield from the game’s crafting pool. The patch also fixes several issues with the new Nintendo Switch version of the game.

The Heat Shield is a deployable item that lets players temporarily survive inside the game’s damaging circle, allowing you to resurrect downed teammates and the like. However, there were reports of some players using an exploit to survive infinitely inside the circle, which is probably the “rare exploit” the tweet mentions. Crafting was added to Apex late last year, and it allows players to use Replicators to build their preferred gear from materials they collect in the playfield.

Apex Legends’ Chaos Theory event has been live for the past few days, which introduced Heat Shields and gave players the option of solo queueing into Trios or Duos games. We also recently heard that Mass Effect items will be coming to Apex soon. Finally, as mentioned above, the Nintendo Switch version of Apex is now live.

Now that Microsoft has confirmed that the upcoming shooter Outriders will come to the Xbox Game Pass library on console, if you’re a subscriber who pre-ordered the game, you’re definitely going to want to cancel that. Publisher Square Enix recently posted a FAQ to Reddit that clarifies that people in this situation must manually cancel the pre-order in their Microsoft account in order to get a refund.

However, those who pre-ordered the game get the Hell’s Rangers DLC, which includes some guns and other content, which isn’t included in the base Game Pass version of the game. Subscribers will have to buy it individually, though they will receive the usual 10% discount for being a Game Pass member. If you can’t find the pre-order in your Microsoft account history–which is certainly possible, due to the vagaries of online storefronts–Square Enix says you should file for a refund on the Microsoft Xbox website.

Outriders developer People Can Fly and Square Enix released a big demo for the game in February. However, though Outriders supports cross-play across platforms, it does not support importing one save to another, meaning that if you played the demo on another platform, you’ll have to replay its first few hours. Also, it’s worth clarifying that PC Game Pass subscribers are once again out of luck, since Outriders is only coming to the console version of Xbox Game Pass and streaming on Android.

Rockstar will be implementing a fix to GTA Online‘s notoriously long load times, thanks to a modder who found the problem and made their own DIY fix. Though Rockstar isn’t committing to the 70% reduction that modder tostercx found in tests, the studio did acknowledge that they had correctly identified poor optimization that can be fixed.

“After a thorough investigation, we can confirm that player t0st did, in fact, reveal an aspect of the game code related to load times for the PC version of GTA Online that could be improved,” the company said in a statement to PC Gamer. “As a result of these investigations, we have made some changes that will be implemented in a forthcoming title update.”

The original mod fixed a bottleneck in the load sequence as it’s running checks, leading to the long load times. The modder tostercx aka t0st suggested that a relatively simple fix could be implemented within a day or so. Rockstar’s official fix will take a little longer, but it did confirm that it has been in touch with t0st and expressed gratitude for the find.

GTA V and the connected online game GTA Online have ballooned in size since release, due to steady releases in content and increased fidelity on newer platforms. It’s coming to Xbox Series X and PS5 later this year and Rockstar is also planning a standalone GTA Online release, following the lead of Red Dead Online. It has now reached 140 million copies which has led to market saturation, according to Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick. That’s at least part of what prompted the move to make it a standalone release.

New Store Bundles for Black Ops Cold War & Warzone:
— March 18: “Super Charged” Reactive Bundle
— March 21: “NecroKing Mastercraft” Bundle, featuring this Ultra “Ice Drake” Mastercraft AR: pic.twitter.com/IMTpbxHDcJ

— Call of Duty News (@charlieINTEL) March 15, 2021

Shadow Complex Remastered is now playable via backward compatibility on PS5, developer ChAIR Games has announced. According to the tweet, both the PS4 digital versions and the Limited Run Games-published physical edition of the game will now work on PS5.

Shadow Complex Remastered is a highly-regarded Metroidvania that was originally released for the Xbox 360 in 2009, breaking several sales records at the time. The game was remastered and published by co-developer Epic Games and released on every major platform in 2015 and 2016.

Fans have lobbied for a sequel to Shadow Complex for years at this point, but so far their pleas have gone unheeded. In a 2016 interview with GameSpot, ChAIR Games creative director Donald Mustard stated that Shadow Complex 2 already exists in a rough form, but will require at least “a year to a year and a half” of work to complete. Currently, ChAIR Games is working on Spyjinx, an espionage-themed strategy game for mobile devices. Since ChAIR is owned by Epic Games, the beta version of Spyjinx was taken off of the iOS App Store due to the ongoing legal battle between Epic and Apple over Fortnite revenue share.

The Outer Worlds has been patched to include next-gen enhancements for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. People on social media are reporting that The Outer Worlds received an update today, March 15, that boosts the game’s frame rate up to 60fps.

A video posted on Twitter shows that the 1.0.7 update makes The Outer Worlds look a lot smoother on PS5 with the higher frame rate. An Xbox user reported that the update is about 26 GB big.

Developer Obsidian has not released any official patch notes for a new update to The Outer Worlds, but we’ll report back with all the key details when they are released.

It’s going to be a big week for The Outer Worlds, as the game’s Murder on Eridanos expansion is coming to PlayStation, Xbox, and PC on March 17. This endgame-focused expansion centers around a classic murder-mystery on the planet Eridanos, with your character having to solve a complex and strange “whodunit” to uncover who assassinated the spokesperson for a new brand of space vodka.

The $15 USD expansion will mark the end of content coming to The Outer Worlds. For more on the game, be sure to check out our gameplay video above that showcases the opening sections of the DLC, along with a look at one of the side quests.