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Pokémon: Gotta Catch 'Em All!. r/pokemon is an unofficial Pokémon fan community. This is the place for most things Pokémon on Reddit—TV shows, video games, toys, trading cards, you name it! Founded 2008 · 4.9M members

4.9M members. The best post we have captured here reached 152.2K upvotes, which works out to 31 per 1,000 members.

31peak upvotes per 1,000 members
4.9Mmembers
152.2Kbest post
76.6Kmost comments
1.5Kposts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

36% 23% 18% 14% 9%
Image 36% Text 23% Gallery 18% Question 14% Video 9%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Discussion 574 Art 441 Image 111 Misc 80 Video/GIF 72 Craft 58 Meme 51 Media 22 News 19 Tool/Guide 14

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

If I get 100 upvotes, I'll buy everyone who upvotes a copy of Sun and Moon

↑ 152.2K 💬 76.6K text 2016

[OC] Just a regular image of Ash, please don't zoom in

↑ 92.7K 💬 1.5K image 2020

[OC] Did you think he was alone? (This time there is a real twist)

↑ 91.1K 💬 857 image 2021

It's a little sad to think that we'll never see another official Pokémon game like this again. Farewell, 2D sprite era. You'll always have a special …

↑ 86.8K 💬 2.3K image 2020

My latest little animated project

↑ 83.1K 💬 693 image 2022

Mhm

↑ 79.2K 💬 1K image 2019

The entire first arc of the Pokemon anime summarized in one GIF

↑ 73.7K 💬 782 image 2019

If this post gets 100 upvotes, I’ll buy everyone who upvotes a copy of Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon

↑ 73K 💬 26.5K text 2017

I made Darumaka hot chocolate bombs

↑ 72.3K 💬 1.1K video 2022

My Animatronic Pokémon were a hit!

↑ 68.5K 💬 818 gallery 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/pokemon, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/pokemon?
r/pokemon ("Pokémon: Gotta Catch 'Em All!") describes itself this way: r/pokemon is an unofficial Pokémon fan community. This is the place for most things Pokémon on Reddit—TV shows, video games, toys, trading cards, you name it. It was founded in 2008 and has 4.9M members.
How many members does r/pokemon have?
r/pokemon has about 4.9M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.5K of its posts; the biggest reached 152.2K upvotes, which is 31 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/pokemon?
"If I get 100 upvotes, I'll buy everyone who upvotes a copy of Sun and Moon" reached 152.2K upvotes and 76.6K comments in 2016, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/pokemon.
What subreddits are similar to r/pokemon?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/awfuleverything, r/interesting, r/JustGuysBeingDudes, r/freefolk, r/awesome.
What kind of posts do best on r/pokemon?
Of the posts we hold, 36% are image posts and 23% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/pokemon?
Across 1.5K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 11:00 UTC (38.5K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 11:00 UTC (23.4K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 22:00 UTC (19.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/pokemon?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/pokemon has 61.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 351 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/pokemon, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.