Pokemon Go: Full list of Pokemon available to catch, including region-exclusives and details on Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres

Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres are integral to Pokemon Go - but you can't catch them yet

Pokemon Go is its creator's dream made reality - but us average players of the new mobile app game are not so fortunate.

In a world of Pidgey pestilence and relentless Rattata, most of us can only dream of what wonderful Pokemon are out there in less mundane corners of this augmented reality.

So let's take a break from farming candy and accumulating items to dream, just for a few moments. Which Pokemon can we really catch in Pokemon Go?

News broke within weeks of the game's release that the world had already birthed a Pokemon Master - a trainer who has fulfilled the franchise's insistent refrain: "Gotta catch 'em all!"

The Pokemon Master's corroborative screenshots showed his full Pokedex - with 142 Pokemon catalogued there.

Aha! But the original game series on which Pokemon Go has thus far been based included 151 monsters - why couldn't this supposed Master catch the remaining nine? Have we been duped?

Well, no - but the game-makers are holding out on us.

Firstly, no legendary Pokemon are currently catchable. That accounts for the absence of five Pokemon - Mew and Mewtwo as well as the three birds of Articuno, Moltres and Zapdos, upon whom Pokemon Go's three teams are based.

That the legendary birds are so intrinsic to Pokemon Go's premise suggests that they will surely make an appearance in the future.  Nintendo have historically indulged in time-limited distribution of special-edition Pokemon for this game franchise in the past, so we could see the legendary Pokemon become catchable in this context.

Besides the five legendaries, there are the region-exclusive Pokemon.

Pokemon #150 - Mewtwo, not available yet on Pokemon Go

Mr Mime is exclusive to Europe, Farfetch'd can only be found in Asia, and Kangaskhan is available solely in Australia and New Zealand. Tauros is the North American exclusive.

Our aforementioned Master was from the US, and had thus bagged himself a Tauros - but had collected none of the others.

Now, before you go booking any flights, it's worth considering that the region-exclusives are still available everywhere via the hatching of eggs. You won't find a Kangaskhan hanging out in your back yard, but if you hatch the right egg you could still get your hands on the rare Pokemon.

The problem is that you could end up with a squadron of Pidgey out of your eggs, without ever getting a whiff of a region-exclusive.

The legendary Pokemon, Mew

That leaves Ditto - an oft-isolated oddity of a Pokemon whose primary use in previous series has been as a breeding partner (players could clone any Pokemon by pairing it with a Ditto, rather than enduring the difficulties of finding a good match among other monsters).

Someone did manage to hack the game and make Ditto appear, by changing the programming code of the Pokemon Go client - but when attempting to catch it, the game crashed repeatedly.

Perhaps Ditto is being withheld for some similarly unique use in a later expansion of Pokemon Go; we can only speculate.

So technically that fellow in the US was not a Pokemon Master - he is able to catch 145 Pokemon, but he'll need to get walking to hatch those eggs!

Here's the full list of available Pokemon - complete with details on which eggs could yield a region-exclusive and appended with the legendaries we expect will be added at a later stage in Pokemon Go's development.

You can catch all of these Pokemon wherever you are in the world

Pokemon Go: Available Pokemon, full list

  1. Bulbasaur
  2. Ivysaur
  3. Venusaur
  4. Charmander
  5. Charmeleon
  6. Charizard
  7. Squirtle
  8. Wartortle
  9. Blastoise
  10. Caterpie
  11. Metapod
  12. Butterfree
  13. Weedle
  14. Kakuna
  15. Beedrill
  16. Pidgey
  17. Pidgeotto
  18. Pidgeot
  19. Rattata
  20. Raticate
  21. Spearow
  22. Fearow
  23. Ekans
  24. Arbok
  25. Pikachu
  26. Raichu
  27. Sandshrew
  28. Sandslash
  29. Nidoran ♀
  30. Nidorina
  31. Nidoqueen
  32. Nidoran ♂
  33. Nidorino
  34. Nidoking
  35. Clefairy
  36. Clefable
  37. Vulpix
  38. Ninetales
  39. Jigglypuff
  40. Wigglytuff
  41. Zubat
  42. Golbat
  43. Oddish
  44. Gloom
  45. Vileplume
  46. Paras
  47. Parasect
  48. Venonat
  49. Venomoth
  50. Diglett
  51. Dugtrio
  52. Meowth
  53. Persian
  54. Psyduck
  55. Golduck
  56. Mankey
  57. Primeape
  58. Growlithe
  59. Arcanine
  60. Poliwag
  61. Poliwhirl
  62. Poliwrath
  63. Abra
  64. Kadabra
  65. Alakazam
  66. Machop
  67. Machoke
  68. Machamp
  69. Bellsprout
  70. Weepinbell
  71. Victreebel
  72. Tentacool
  73. Tentacruel
  74. Geodude
  75. Graveler
  76. Golem
  77. Ponyta
  78. Rapidash
  79. Slowpoke
  80. Slowbro
  81. Magnemite
  82. Magneton
  83. Farfetch'd - exclusive to Asia; hatch from a 5km egg elsewhere
  84. Doduo
  85. Dodrio
  86. Seel
  87. Dewgong
  88. Grimer
  89. Muk
  90. Shellder
  91. Cloyster
  92. Gastly
  93. Haunter
  94. Gengar
  95. Onix
  96. Drowzee
  97. Hypno
  98. Krabby
  99. Kingler
  100. Voltorb
  101. Electrode
  102. Exeggcute
  103. Exeggcutor
  104. Cubone
  105. Marowak
  106. Hitmonlee
  107. Hitmonchan
  108. Lickitung
  109. Koffing
  110. Weezing
  111. Rhyhorn
  112. Rhydon
  113. Chansey
  114. Tangela
  115. Kangaskhan - exclusive to Australia/New Zealand; hatch from a 5km egg elsewhere
  116. Horsea
  117. Seadra
  118. Goldeen
  119. Seaking
  120. Staryu
  121. Starmie
  122. Mr Mime - exclusive to Europe; hatch from a 10km egg elsewhere
  123. Scyther
  124. Jynx
  125. Electabuzz
  126. Magmar
  127. Pinsir
  128. Tauros - exclusive to North America; hatch from a 5km egg elsewhere
  129. Magikarp
  130. Gyarados
  131. Lapras
  132. Ditto - not yet available
  133. Eevee
  134. Vaporeon
  135. Jolteon
  136. Flareon
  137. Porygon
  138. Omanyte
  139. Omastar
  140. Kabuto
  141. Kabutops
  142. Aerodactyl
  143. Snorlax
  144. Articuno - not yet available
  145. Zapdos - not yet available
  146. Moltres - not yet available
  147. Dratini
  148. Dragonair
  149. Dragonite
  150. Mewtwo - not yet available
  151. Mew - not yet available