Greninja won the global Pokémon of the Year 2020 poll with 140,559 votes

How it’s built

1. Read from The Pokémon Company International's results page for the vote held 5–14 February 2020.

What we assumed

Nothing. The figure is used as published.

Sanity check

A Japanese games site reports the same count. That is only 2.1% of the 6.6m votes cast.

Where it comes from

The line in the source

1 | Greninja | 140559 | votes

Where it’s used

• StoryCharacters
• Chart · CharactersIn the 2020 worldwide fan vote the winner took 2% and Pikachu came 19th

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