Two official fan votes compared

What this is

Two official fan votes compared: Greninja won both Japan's 2016 vote (6.4% of 562,386) and the global 2020 vote (2.1% of 6.6m); Pikachu came 4th, then 19th.

How it’s built

1. Took ranks and totals from press reports of the 2016 vote and from the official 2020 results.
2. Divided each winner's votes by the total and set the two sets of ranks side by side.

What we assumed

• The 2016 vote mainly reached Japanese fans.It ran through the official Japanese film site and was covered by Japanese press; this is inferred.
• Pikachu's fall from 4th to 19th is not a decline.The two votes had different voters and rules (2020 was global, in eight languages, eight votes a day), so they are not one series.

Sanity check

What holds in both: a newer creature won and the winner took a single-digit share. Per-creature 2016 counts beyond the winner's were not published in the press found.

Where it comes from

Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes:

• ReportedPokémon general election 720 full ranking published, 23 June 2016720 ranks
• ReportedPokémon of the year 2020 total votes, Pokemon of the Year 2020 (vote 5 February 2020 to 14 February 2020)6,608,215 votes
• ReportedThe top five in Japan's 2016 Pokémon General Election fan vote
• ReportedPikachu came 4th in Japan's 2016 Pokémon General Election fan vote, which Greninja won4th
• ReportedPokémon general election 720 rank, 20166 rank
• ReportedGreninja won the global Pokémon of the Year 2020 poll with 140,559 votes140,559 votes

Where it’s used

• StoryCharacters