Web scraping pipeline for collecting Pokémon data from Serebii's Pokédex, with official descriptions from pokemon.com and artwork from Bulbapedia. This dataset is available at Kaggle under The Complete Pokédex Dataset
The dataset covers every released Pokémon — all 1,025 species from Gen I (Red/Green) through Gen IX (Scarlet/Violet and its DLC), #0001 Bulbasaur to #1025 Pecharunt.
The output imagesets can be found in the images folder and includes the following .png files
- small_images: Official artwork for all 1,025 primary forms with 215 x 215 pixel dimensions
- large_images: High-resolution artwork for all 1,025 primary forms ranging from 300 x 300 to 1280 x 1280 pixel dimensions
- alt_images: Variant-form artwork (regional forms, Mega Evolutions incl. Legends: Z-A / Mega Dimension, Gigantamax, etc.) ranging from 215 x 215 to 1280 x 1280 pixel dimensions
pokedex.ipynb— the reproducible scraper that builds the dataset and imagesets.notebooks/pokedex_eda.ipynb— a starter exploratory analysis (type distribution, base-stat distributions, legendary comparison, generation trends, stat correlations, type-defence profile) ready to fork on Kaggle.
The dataset ships in two identical files: data/pokemon_utf8.csv (UTF-8, comma-separated — loads with a plain pandas.read_csv(), recommended) and data/pokemon.csv (the original UTF-16, tab-separated format, encoding='utf-16', sep='\t'). A tidy long-format of the base stats is in data/pokemon_stats.csv. Each contains all 1,025 pokémon from Gen I - Gen IX with the following fields
- national_number: The entry number of the Pokémon in the National Pokédex
- gen: The numbered generation which the Pokémon was first introduced (I–IX; #899–#905 from Legends: Arceus count as Gen VIII)
- english_name: The English name of the Pokémon
- japanese_name: The Original Japanese name of the Pokémon (romanized)
- primary_type: The Primary Type of the Pokémon (primary form)
- secondary_type: The Secondary Type of the Pokémon (primary form; blank for mono-typed Pokémon)
- classification: The Classification of the Pokémon as described by its most recent Pokédex
- percent_male: The percentage of the species that are male (blank if the Pokémon is genderless). Exact species ratios — always a multiple of 12.5
- percent_female: The percentage of the species that are female (blank if the Pokémon is genderless)
- height_m: Height of the Pokémon in metres
- weight_kg: The Weight of the Pokémon in kilograms
- capture_rate: Capture Rate of the Pokémon
- base_egg_steps: The number of steps required to hatch an egg of the Pokémon (hatch cycles × 256)
- hp: The Base HP of the Pokémon
- attack: The Base Attack of the Pokémon
- defense: The Base Defense of the Pokémon
- sp_attack: The Base Special Attack of the Pokémon
- sp_defense: The Base Special Defense of the Pokémon
- speed: The Base Speed of the Pokémon
- abilities_*: Four features that denote abilities that the Pokémon is capable of having (up to three regular abilities plus a hidden ability)
- against_*: Eighteen features that denote the amount of damage taken against an attack of a particular type (pure type-chart multipliers for the primary form; defensive abilities such as Levitate are not factored in)
- is_sublegendary: Denotes if the Pokémon is sublegendary
- is_legendary: Denotes if the Pokémon is legendary
- is_mythical: Denotes if the Pokémon is mythical
- evochain_*: Seven features that indicate the evolutionary chain and triggers
- gigantamax: Form of Pokémon if gigantamax capable
- mega_evolution: Form of Pokémon if mega evolution capable (includes the Mega Evolutions added by Pokémon Legends: Z-A and its Mega Dimension DLC)
- mega_evolution_alt: Alternative Mega form for Pokémon with two Mega Evolutions (e.g. Mega Charizard Y, Mega Raichu Y, Mega Absol Z)
- description: Pokédex description from official Pokémon website
- Added the 127 missing Pokémon: #899–#905 (Legends: Arceus) and #906–#1025 (Scarlet/Violet, The Teal Mask, The Indigo Disk), collected from Serebii/pokemondb and cross-verified field-by-field across sources
- Renamed misspelled column
against_psychict→against_psychic - Fixed 27 rows where a regional variant's type had leaked into
primary_type/secondary_type(e.g. Rattata was typed normal/dark from Alolan Rattata; Ponyta fire/psychic from Galarian Ponyta). Types now always describe the primary form, consistent with theagainst_*columns - Normalized
percent_male/percent_femaleto the exact in-game species gender ratios (the previous values mixed several rounded display conventions, e.g. 88.14/88.1/87.5 for the same 7♂:1♀ ratio) - Added the missing
Gigantamax Appletunform - Added the Mega Evolutions introduced in Pokémon Legends: Z-A (2025) and its Mega Dimension DLC to
mega_evolution/mega_evolution_alt— 87 species now have Mega forms - Updated
evochain_*for species that gained new evolutions in Legends: Arceus / Scarlet/Violet (Stantler, Ursaring, Basculin, Qwilfish, Sneasel, Scyther, Dunsparce, Girafarig, Mankey/Primeape, Pawniard/Bisharp, Applin, Wooper and Duraludon families) - Rewrote
pokedex.ipynbfor pandas 2.x, added the Scarlet/Violet Pokédex as the primary scrape source with a Sword/Shield → Legends: Arceus → Sun/Moon fallback chain, and switched theagainst_*columns to exact type-chart computation - Completed all imagesets through #1025: small_images (official artwork, 215×215), large_images (high-resolution artwork, up to 1280×1280) and new alt_images for the Legends: Z-A / Mega Dimension Mega forms plus the Gen IX alternate forms (Ogerpon masks, Terapagos forms, Palafin Hero, Bloodmoon Ursaluna, Squawkabilly plumages, Koraidon/Miraidon modes, etc.)
- Backfilled alt_images the pre-Gen VIII curation had missed: all Hisuian regional forms (Growlithe, Arcanine, Voltorb, Electrode, Typhlosion, Qwilfish, Sneasel, Samurott, Lilligant, Zorua, Zoroark, Braviary, Sliggoo, Goodra, Avalugg, Decidueye), Paldean forms (the three Tauros breeds, Wooper), Origin Dialga/Palkia, and other variants (Eternamax Eternatus, Gigantamax Appletun, Cramorant Gulping/Gorging, Pumpkaboo/Gourgeist sizes, Furfrou trims, Eternal Floette, etc.)