Road to Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire: Pokémon Contests

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Over three weeks ago we brought you the first entry to the Road to Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. A little later than we initially intended (due to issues with my internet) I am pleased to bring you the second episode, focusing on Pokémon Contests.

Once again this article has been written by the fantastic, close friend of mine, DefensiveBastiodon (who takes both full credit for it and once again my lovely profile.) Expect more from him in the future. Little does he know that I despise passing my ideas for article series on to others, but I can’t deny that he has does an excellent job thus far!

Road to ORAS: Pokémon Contests

The third generation of Pokémon introduced a series of mini games called “Pokémon Contests.” In these contests, a Pokémon was scored based on their condition on moves. They were held in Contest Halls scattered across Hoenn. In the show, characters would flaunt their well groomed monsters and take part in battles to show off fancy move combinations to win the hearts of the Judges. The original contests were eventually expanded in Sinnoh into Super Contests. It added three categories for the player to partake in: Visuals, Dance, and Acting.

Focusing on Hoenn, categories of the contests included Pokémon Conditions: Tough, Cute, Smart, Cool, and Beauty. You could improve the condition of a Pokémon by using Poké Blocks. Poké Blocks were created using various berries scattered across the region. Throw them in the Berry Blender and take off! The better you were about pressing the button on time, the smoother the Block would be. Poké Blocks also introduced new evolution method for Pokémon; Milotic could only be obtained by maxing out a Feebas’ Beauty condition and leveling it up. (This being after you find one of the elusive demons.) Aside from Blocks, scarves were also available to the player to boost the condition. You could receive these in Slateport City from the Pokémon Fan Club President.

The secondary portion of the contests was partially based on your results from the first round of conditioning. The more hearts you received, the higher the chance you had to be first the next round. Secondary judging focused on attacks. Different attacks had different levels of appeals from the audience. To go along with that, some of them even had secondary effects, such as lowering the appeal of other Pokémon or earning extra hearts for yourself. If you use a move that is in the wrong category, such as a Smart move in a Cool category, you’re not going to appeal to the audience well at all. This will lower your score.

There were four ranks to Pokémon Contests: Normal, Super, Hyper, and Master. The rank, of course, controlled the level of difficulty for each contest. You couldn’t move up to the next rank without collecting the ribbon from the previous rank. In Ruby and Sapphire, ranks were scattered (as previously mentioned) throughout the region; this, however, was changed in Emerald to where all four ranks were in Lilycove City.

The final feature of contests were the multiplayer options. Players could connect their copies of Ruby, Sapphire, or Emerald to compete in the competitions. This was one of the big features of the third generation; the capability to play with three other players.

Seeing as Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire are getting closer and closer each day, and we are seeing new Megas appear. I would personally love to be able to use different Megas in contests for a boost in appeal. (Mega Milotic being better for Beauty, as an example.) To add to that, having online multiplayer for contests would be great too! I’m pretty sure that will happen considering they were a spectacular addition to the original games. If anything, they should make the contests more like the show: allow us to use different move combinations in battles for special effects! We already have the pledge moves, but to utilize that feature with contests would be amazing. I can see it being kind of like Super Training in all honesty…. What changes would you like to see in the contests for Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire? What are your thoughts about contests being revived? Leave any comments and discuss them!

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Once again we now hand over to our readers to get discussing the hopeful comeback of Pokémon Contests and the ideas shared by DefensiveBastiodon in the article.

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  7. 2/4 pokemon trained for Eevee friendly cup! Im planning on IV breeding Eevee though. IV’s in Defense and speed(or sp.def) Then

    Eevee @ Eviolite
    Ability: Anticipation
    Shiny: Yes
    EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spd
    Impish Nature
    – Work Up
    – Baton Pass
    – Return
    – Protect

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    • If you’re running Eevee, I’d recommend Adaptability over Anticipation. Gives Eevee a stronger STAB move in Return.

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        • True xP Never hurts to have a little extra power however 😉 Of course if you plan on evolving it afterwards, don’t change the Ability because its the HA and you can’t get Anticipation back xD

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          • But all it will tell you is if it has a fighting type move, which is unlikely with eeveelutions.

  12. WOOOOOW so it turns out that the phantom gate thing trademarke dis the name of the next tcg package for mega gengar -____-

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          • Not the point
            If it weren’t for my losses against them they would have never been made
            Ergo every one of those damn memes is a humiliating reminder of said losses

          • Excuse me?!? I just said I am sorry for how you feel and you just gonna call me that. Earthen nobody is even referring to you in these memes, I could understand if maybe we weren’t calling you out on it, but we ARE NOT. You hate sableye so what, and you get reminded of that lose so what. This is pokemon a game, you are gonna lose to some pokemon and you are gonna hate some pokemon, and people are gonna love pokemon that you hate. How can a Simple loss hurt you that much! Okay I admit we were talking about you the first day, but not anymore. Not one person is referring to you. Sorry to tell you this but i don’t think the Sableye posts will not stop. It is like the meme here. Nobody purposely trying to post those to annoy you. Wyv is posting those to make us laugh, and it is working for me those memes are funny. Somethings just won’t be stopped, even it hurts you.

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