Ranked by what it does to your child’s energy
The 10 Best Pokemon Videos, Scored and Ranked
There's no Pokemon TV episode in Piko's reviewed library right now, so this list is the next best thing: ten Pokemon-themed videos, drawing tutorials, craft projects, colouring timelapses, a yoga session and one measured trading-card-game watch, ranked by overall fit. That's Piko's measured settle, lift and meltdown-recovery scores, combined with what each video actually asks a child to do, since a felt-tip drawing tutorial and a card-game commentary need very different things from a 'best of' ranking.
The top scores here cluster tightly, most of these hit a settle score of 90 or 95, so the real differentiator is meltdown-recovery and lift, plus the small print in Piko's own verdicts: presenter style, how instructional the pacing gets, whether it's genuinely calming or just steady. A couple of these ask a child to sit and follow along with a pencil, one asks them to get up and move, so pick based on what your child actually needs to do, not just the numbers.
One quick channel note (Cartooning Club How to Draw and Art for Kids Hub between them made most of what we reviewed here): we've capped each channel at two picks so this doesn't turn into ten near-identical drawing tutorials with a different Pokemon stuck on the front.
Pikachu Colouring Pages: Pikachu from PokémonWordless and unhurried, Pikachu built up stroke by stroke over ten minutes with a calm, focused soundtrack and no presenter at all. It shares the joint-highest meltdown-recovery score on this list at 85, alongside a settle score of 95 and comfort at 90.95/100 Wound-up → Settled
Pikachu Caught Ash's LegBilled as art therapy, and the data backs that framing up: the same meltdown-recovery score of 85 as the colouring video above, plus an ASMR-style soundtrack and a presenter annoyance score of zero. Piko is upfront that it's a weaker fit for a child wanting high-action adventure rather than a slow drawing timelapse.95/100 Wound-up → Settled
Saturday Morning Yoga: Pokemon YogaThe only entry here built around real physical movement rather than sitting still, breathing and mindfulness poses mixed into a Pokemon theme over forty-four minutes. It still lands a settle score of 95 despite being an active video, and carries the highest lift score in this whole list at 90.95/100 Wound-up → Settled
Diy Pokemon Cake for BeginnersBaking rather than drawing for once: Red Ted Art's calm presenter talks a first-time baker through a Pokeball pinata cake with a pacing score of 85. Regulation numbers are strong across the board here, settle score 95 and lift score 80.95/100 Wound-up → Settled
How To Draw Absol: Pokemon, Ep 3This is the rare Pokemon pick that holds its settle score of 95 right through from six years old to ten or eleven without ever getting flagged as babyish for the older end. Educational value scores a full 95 too, genuine drawing skill underneath the Pokemon subject.95/100 Wound-up → Settled
How to Draw Growlithe (Pokemon)Growlithe gets the full step-by-step treatment here, delivered in a patient, unhurried style throughout, educational value 95 and shots holding for a slow 12.5 seconds on average. Rated calming despite the high instructional content, which isn't a given for how-to videos in this data.95/100 Wound-up → Settled
How to Draw Mega Mewtwo Y (Pokemon)Unusually for Pokemon content, this one peaks for older children rather than tailing off: Maker play hits a perfect 100 at age eight to nine and Independent play climbs to 95 by ten to eleven. Meltdown-recovery sits at 75, solid, and it isn't flagged as babyish for the over-8s at all.95/100 Wound-up → Settled
3D Poke Ball Diy - Pokemon Go - Collab with Carly TofflePaper mache and paint rather than pencil and paper, a properly hands-on craft that still scores 90 for bringing a wound-up child back to settled despite a presenter talking throughout. Educational value sits at a strong 90, and it's flagged safe across every SEN category we check.90/100 Wound-up → Settled
Pokemon Trading Card Game Online (#3)Card-game content, and a genuinely calm example of it: strategy and card-play explained at an unusually settled pace for gaming, settle score 95. It skews oldest of the ten, aimed at age ten to eleven, so it's the pick for a Pokemon fan who has outgrown drawing tutorials.95/100 Wound-up → Settled
How to Draw ArticunoShots hold for around twelve seconds each here, giving little hands time to actually keep up with the pencil rather than just watch. It settles a wound-up child, settle score 90, without tipping into a sleepy bedtime video, the presenter keeps a steady, alert pace throughout.90/100 Wound-up → Settled
Parents also ask
Are there actual Pokemon TV episodes on Piko?
Not in our reviewed library at the time of writing, no. Everything ranked here is Pokemon-themed instead: drawing tutorials, craft projects, colouring timelapses, a yoga session and a calm trading-card-game video, all scored the same way as everything else in Piko's library.
What's the best calming Pokemon video?
By Piko's data, Pikachu Colouring Pages and Pikachu Caught Ash's Leg share the top meltdown-recovery score on this list at 85, both wordless colouring timelapses with no presenter to manage. If your child needs to move rather than sit still to settle, Pokemon Yoga is the one built around real physical movement instead.
Are Pokemon drawing tutorials good for autistic children?
Several score very well for exactly that. How To Draw Absol holds a settle score of 95 right through from age six to age ten or eleven without being flagged as babyish for the older end, unusually consistent for this kind of content, and every video on this list clears Piko's autism, sensory, PDA and anxiety checks.