Our favourite Pokémon wallpapers

Pokémon wallpapers are a great way to show off your love for the legendary franchise that spans Nintendo’s consoles, from the GameBoy to the Nintendo Switch.

Pokémon wallpaper showing Ash, a boy with a red cap, big eyes, blue jacket, and scruffy brown hair, with Pikachu, a yellow electric rat, sat on his shoulder, both looking happy, superimposed onto a mango yellow background.

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Pokémon wallpapers are near-infinite in their creativity, so it can be a little hard to find the one that’s just right, the one and only image to take pride of place on your phone’s lock screen. Well, if your taste is anything like ours – and we suspect it is – maybe we can help you out.

So, head below for a myriad of meticulous Pokémon wallpapers to celebrate your love for the wonderful enslavement of pocketable monsters. Once you’re done there, check out our guides to ground Pokémon, fighting Pokémon, and bug Pokémon for more critters. Or, for a different place to play some creature-catching classics, we’ve got a guide to the best portable gaming consoles on the market today.

Anyway, here are our favourite Pokémon wallpapers…

Pokémon wallpaper showing Gengar, a purple ghostly creature with a giant tongue sticking out of a wide toothy grin, in an arty swirl of purple and colourful light.

Gengar Pokémon wallpaper

There are a bunch of excellent wallpapers on the Pokémon website, and our favourite is the Gengar one. Look at that guy, tongue out, looking all fierce. What a sight.

Pokémon wallpaper showing a large four legged creature all enshrouded in gold light and golden bone structures on an astral background.

Arceus Pokémon wallpaper

Weirdly enough, there are two different official pages for Pokémon wallpapers. The second website has even more on offer, and we love the Arceus wallpaper. Better yet, the site lets you download them in various sizes to fit whatever device you need them for.

Pokémon wallpaper showing the silhouette of Pikachu -- basically a yellow rat -- on a black background.

Minimalist Pikachu Pokémon wallpaper

Over at Wallpaper Flare, there are countless Pokémon wallpapers, and the most common site is our old friend the electric mouse, Pikachu. Why not keep things simple with a classy silhouette? Oh, you discerning Pokémon fan you.

Pokémon wallpaper showing many creatures crowded around a man in a red hat. There's a red dragon, a turquoise tortoise, a giant green and white panda-like bear, a turtle with cannons on its back, and more.

Classic Pokémon wallpaper

Over on Reddit, user PoisonType shared a load of wallpapers they’ve collected over the years. The best in our book is the classic first-gen wallpaper with a bunch of fan-favourite critters adorning the screen.

Pokémon wallpaper showing a litany of different creatures -- a yellow rat like thing, a brown pointy eared dog-like Eevee, and yellow version with harsh eyes, a black version that looks ethereal, a purple version that looks sleepy, a blue version with gill-like tendrils looking jelly, and a bunch more similar.

Eevee Pokémon wallpaper

Another good place to look for Pokémon wallpapers is Pinterest, where there are a bunch of options, like this celebratory collection of creatures – mostly Eeveelutions. Look how cute they are!

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Where can I find more Pokémon wallpapers?

Other than the places already mentioned above, a great place to look for Pokémon wallpapers is the subreddit dedicated to them. It has more than one thousand members, and it has been active since 2012, so there’s a large archive of gorgeous backgrounds for you to choose from.

There you have it, friends, a bunch of Pokémon wallpapers. Fun! For more, check out our Pokémon Go Eevee evolution guide, Pokédex of all Pokémon, and Pokémon Go promo codes for even more Poké-action.

As a big Nintendo fan, Ben always insists Splatoon is the best shooter ever. You'll find him playing Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Xenoblade Chronicles, Civilization, and Overwatch 2 almost every month, and maybe even a little bit of Roblox, too.

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