The color is a characteristic that can be easily recognized by sight, however, each Pokémon's color was made official with Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, where, in the Pokédex, it is possible to arrange Pokémon by this distinction.
This option was omitted in Generation IV, however it came back in Generation V and has been present since then.
Each Pokémon is classified under one color, even though it has more than one color in its body. In most cases, the Pokémon's color is the one that predominates over its body. It the Pokémon has multiple forms, each form has its own color and may be categorized under a different color if it radically changes the colors of its body. Shiny Pokémon do not have their own colors.
The colors used for the classification are red, blue, yellow, green, black, brown, purple, gray, white and pink.
Black
Blue
Brown
Gray
Green
Pink
Purple
Red
White
Yellow
Trivia
- The only Pokémon that changes its color depending its gender is Meowstic, the male being blue and the female white. Frillish and Jellicent change color as well, being blue while male and pink while female, however, in the Pokédex they're all white.
- The Pokémon that can be found in the highest amount of categories is Minior, thanks to its eight different forms.
- Minior's Meteor Form is brown.
- Minior's Red and Orange Cores are red.
- Minior's Yellow Core is yellow.
- Minior's Green Core is green.
- Minior's Blue and Indigo Cores are blue.
- Minior's Violet Core is purple.
- There is no orange category. Orange Pokémon are found in the brown, red and yellow categories.
- Certain Pokemon are often thought to be discolored or miscategorized:
- Despite Plusle and Minun having Red and Blue on their bodies and partly being based off of the opposites of Red and Blue, they are in the Yellow section.
- Druddigon's head is Red, while the rest of its body is Blue. Even then, it is categorized as Red.
- Munchlax, Snorlax, Murkrow, Honchkrow, & Sneasel are in the Black section even though their bodies are more of a dark Blue.
- Cosmog and Cosmoem are classified as Blue despite being more Purple.
- Alolan Meowth and Alolan Persian are classified as Blue despite being more Gray.
- Loudred and Exploud are Purple despite being in the Blue section.
- Exeggutor and its Alolan Form have a Brown body and Green leaves despite being in the Yellow section (this, however, is probably referencing their heads).
- Despite being clearly Blue, Jellicent's male variant is in the White section.
Notes
- ^ Before Generation VII, Elgyem was categorized as gray.
- ^ Before Generation VII, Conkeldurr was categorized as gray.
- ^ Before Generation VII, Wormadam was categorized as gray.
- ^ Before Generation VII, Castform was categorized as white.
- ^ Before Generation VII, Misdreavus was categorized as purple.
- ^ Before Generation VII, Burmy was categorized as gray.
- ^ Before Generation VII, Wormadam was categorized as gray.
- ^ Before Generation VII, Deerling was categorized as yellow.
- ^ Before Generation VII, Wormadam was categorized as gray.
- ^ Before Generation VII, Amoonguss was categorized as gray.
- ^ Before Generation VII, Arceus was categorized as gray.
- ^ Before Generation VII, Cubchoo was categorized as blue.
- ^ Before Generation VII, Vivillon was categorized as black.