Choose Your 9 Favorite Pokémon

Find Pokémon by name or type

Start typing any species name — Pikachu, Charizard, Garchomp — and the picker matches it against the full national Pokédex, from Bulbasaur at #1 to the newest generation. Results arrive with the Pokémon's real number, its official artwork and its actual types, pulled live from PokéAPI, the community database of record for species data. Every entry on this page is a Pokémon species — the character itself, not a card. If you want to arrange nine specific trading cards with their sets and numbers, the My 9 Cards grid is the tool for that; the two pages never mix their data.

Under the grid, the suggestion panel takes type and generation instead of making you remember names: tap Fire, Dark, Gen 2, and real species from the curated seed rise to the top. Duplicate protection works on species — one Pikachu per grid, but Pikachu and Raichu are different Pokémon and both are welcome. Artwork letterboxes on the cell instead of cropping, so nothing ever slices through a tail or a horn.

Pick your favorites by generation

Every Pokémon belongs to a generation — the cohort it debuted in — and for most players a generation is a chapter of life. The suggestion panel's Generation row lets you skew your nine toward Kanto nostalgia, the Johto evening playthrough, or the newest Switch era without judging you for it. Type works the same way: build a full Fire lineup, a Ghost-and-Dark spooky shelf, or the six-types-that-can-be- friends arrangement nobody agrees on.

The generation filter also settles arguments. "Original 151 only" is one tap; "every generation but mine is wrong" is, respectfully, also one tap. However you choose, the center slot remains sacred — the one Pokémon you would pick first in every game, every time, without hesitation. Most people know theirs before they finish reading this sentence.

Create a nine-Pokémon collage

1. 1. Choose your nine. Search by name or tap your type and generation preferences and add from the suggestions — or open an example grid below and remix it. Drag species into position on desktop, nudge them with the arrow buttons on mobile.
2. 2. Style the poster. Six themes — paper, dark, cream, vinyl, neon and red — recolor the whole composition; a title, subtitle and your handle finish it. Official artwork floats letterboxed on each cell, so the full character always shows, silhouette to shadow.
3. 3. Export and share. Download a 1080×1080 square, a 1800×2100 poster or a 1080×1920 story — rendered in your browser, free, no watermark, no account. The share link encodes your exact nine Pokémon so friends can open it, swap your sixth pick for theirs, and export their own grid in under a minute.

Your draft saves automatically in this browser, separately from every other nine-grid you build here. Come back tomorrow and your Pokémon team poster is exactly where you left it.

Pokémon examples you can remix

These example grids are real, live posters built from actual Pokédex entries — not mockups. Tap Use this grid on any of them and the editor opens with all nine species loaded, ready to rearrange, retitle and export as your own.

What belongs in a nine-Pokémon grid

There is no wrong lineup, but the grids people share tend to follow a few shapes. The starter party keeps the first partner in the center and builds around it with the team that carried the story. The type squad commits to one energy — nine Fire species glowing together — or one species per type as a personal Pokédex highlight reel. The generation shelf holds the nine that define one game, and the fan-favorite mix ignores all structure and simply posts the ones that make the heart rate spike.

A few quiet rules the tool enforces for you. Each slot holds one species identified by its Pokédex number, so the Base Set Pikachu question never arises here — that is a card question, and cards live on the My 9 Cards page. Artwork comes from the official illustrations published with each species, shown complete. And nothing uploads anywhere: your grid, your draft and your exported poster stay on your device unless you choose to share the link or the image.

Data sources & credits

Species names, numbers, types and artwork references are provided by PokéAPI, a community-maintained Pokémon database. Pokémon and the official artwork of each species are trademarks and copyright of Nintendo / Creatures Inc. / GAME FREAK inc. This is an unofficial fan tool with no affiliation or endorsement — artwork is shown so you can assemble a personal grid, and all rights remain with their owners. When you are done with species, the trading-card grid and the full nine-grid template directory are one click away.

FAQ about the Pokémon grid maker

More nine-grid templates

My9Albums makes more than Pokémon posters. Build the nine albums that made you from real album covers, pick your nine favorite anime, arrange a Pokémon card grid, or browse every nine-grid template on the site — same editor, same themes, same free exports.