Back for more…
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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Yay Disqus is bak!
How come only Japan got Shiny Genesect? ._.
Because its Japan
True. Do you think they’ll ever release it elsewhere?
Everywhere in Not-America
I wish I could complain to Gamefreak! xD I totally would
If you do game freak could delay the ORAS release date a week like Europe
gamefreal hates Europe as much as Ud
I’ll tell them I live in Europe then! (unless they can tell where I really live) They can’t delay it another week…right?
Idk maybe maybe
Europe can suffer
Sorry moving Wyvern and star and timo
Well.. technically its out elsewhere. Not by distribution.. but by trading with players around the world (which is what they want us to do)
Forget that. Probably costs 3 arms and 5 legs
I got one :3
Lucky!
It’s provably a clone but it’s still cool it’s from the Japanese event witht the ribbon
Hopefully this doesn’t mean that diancie isn’t a japan only event too
Nah, at least not for long. They revealed it worldwide and said they’d release it I think.
probably cause their movies see a theatrical release while ours is straight to DVD lol.
Well the Victini movie did come to theaters. But generally yeah, straight to dvd. Lame.
0_0 what??? What city you live in? Cause I haven’t seen a Pokemon movie get a theatrical release in the US since Entei’s movie.
I went with my friend to see it in New Jersey
Just checked. It received a “limited” theatre release LOL. XD not a WW one like the first 3 movies.
Yeah it was amaZing to have in theaters and finally meet other pokemon nerds
Maybe I saw tc :O
And they gave away a giant Victini pokemon card and stickers and a download code. It was super sweet.
I live outside of Cincinnati. But yeah, it had limited release I guess
Should I give Carracosta Stone Edge or keep Knock Off?
Well wynaut both
Aqua Jet
Stone Edge
Shell Smash
Knock Off
I included Waterfall, though… but I guess your set is better.
Dude, take it from a battle with Cas
If i chose Aqua Jet i would’ve won but didn’t
So and besides you’ll have Shell Smash and Stab it’ll hit hard plenty
If GameFreak does indeed make Mega Altaria, I’ll be the happiest person on Earth when its announced xD That’s the one Mega I want most right now since Sceptile was revealed
I wonder what they could add to it’s design. Because it’s a pretty simple pokemon. But it would be nice to mega evolve my shiny altaria
I mean, there HAS to be a reason they gave that thing Moonblast! Either
A. They were strongly considering re-tryping Altaria to be part Fairy somehow.
B. It’s getting Fairy type upon Mega evolving
Or to help it kill other dragons since it’s not that great. Idk. Dragon/Fairy would be cool and would fit Altaria.
I’d like to say both A and B lol!!!
Can I use your shoulder to cry on when/if we get one?
Hug me too while you’re at it xDD Altaria is love, Altaria is life <333333
590 Base Stats, The End-All of All Dragons (being Fairy/Dragon)
I’m really curious to how they’ll distribute it’s stats, cause Mega Altaria has the potential to be the staller equivalent of Mega Kangaskahn lol
999/999/999/999/999/999
JK XD I hope they don’t make it a Physical Attacker. If they’re gonna give anything to offense, give it to Special Attack xD Especially since they gave it Moonblast xD Increase Speed 10 points, add bulk, and a little more Special Attack. Holy cow O_O
I’d be incredibly underwhelmed if they don’t increase its sp atk stat lol, but still happy nonetheles that it got a mega. But they better do this right! Don’t mess it up GF
It may have to do with Constellations
then again they must just gave it just for fun
Like Skuntank learning flamethrower or Slurpuff learning Energy ball
Still waiting for Mega Rhyperior…..
Something for the world’s first Pokemon’s evolution
Mega walrien
Mega Nilotic
Mega meta gross
Too 3 must need megas
Should I keep Hammer Arm on my Darmanitan or replace it with Power-up Punch?
Probs power up punch. Hammer arm is good but you do sacrifice speed.
That’s what I was thinking. Darmanitan’s speed is really good for a physical attacker, so I don’t want to lose that.
easy, PuP makes u turn even more powerful when he needs to escape
Gimme Mega Plusle & Mega Minun. With the stones being version exclusive. Make them look Multiplication/Division-based, and maybe even have a little plusle/minun running around the mega form ^_^
I can see them having new abilities for double battles.
YES PLS!!!! I love Minun xD Imagine if they got Prankster tho :OO
Ahh that’d be pretty neat 0_0
great movepool to take advantage of Prankster.
But they seem to kind to be pulling pranks lol!
I want an ability that makes them OP af and have everyone using Minun!! (don’t worry, we did it before it was cool ^_^)
SPECIAL ATTACK HUGE POWA D:<
JESUSSSSSSSSSSS YES
If it actually makes them good then yes. I really don’t like them as of now.
I sweeped a whole team with a Minun’s Thunderbolt after two nasty plots. Kid shouldn’t of let me set up XD
At least they have access to that. That’s a plus….hahaha. See what I did there?
Seeing as a lot of new Megas so far have been made it seems with the intent to counter strong metagame threats at the moment, I wonder what Ability a Mega Metagross would get. I know it’s probably not the popular opinion, I mean, I’d LOVE Iron Fist. But I can see it getting Levitate. There aren’t a whole lotta counters to Mamoswine. I mean, that thing is beastly XD Mega Metagross with Levitate however…
Maybe something that will make ghost/dark types deal 50% damage to it since it became a lot weaker this gen.
I once commented that I can see it getting Levitate since Steven’s Metagross can fly in the manga ^_^ But that or Iron Fist would be really fitting.
And you’re right. I agree! It seems like when they first introduced mega’s it was just for popular poke’s, but now it’s like they’re observing the metagame and want it to change drastically. I mean… RIP to rotom so Mega Sceptile was def a game changer LOL. I’m glad the online scene will be changing.
Cynthias Garchomp can also fly but no levitate. Then again, it’s not weak to ground so it has no need for it.
It’s a dragon.. and has wings.
And all Garchomp’s can fly (as seen as the one in Lumiose episode with Ash)
Kind of….They’re just scythes. I mean it’s a shark for god sake, dragon or not. Dragon doesn’t necessarily equal flying
Well they become scythes during it’s mega but it’s normal form their actually wing-spans. Just sharply designed.
All garchomp’s can fly, not just cynthias.
Well yeah I know they can all fly, hers was just the first to show it. I still don’t get why it can though, it doesn’t flap it’s wings or anything, it just kinda takes off. All well, pokelogic I suppose
lmfao i remember that episode it was so random
I know, I was like wtf? Why can a land shark fly? xD
http://www.serebii.net/anime/pictures/shinou/565/DP227.jpg NOT EVEN FLYING TYPES CAN BE SAFE FROM GARCHOMP
It doesn’t even look like it’s flying XD It’s like floating through the air, not giving an ish. Garchomp does whatever da hell it wants
I had a good laugh watching it fly around Lumiose wrecking stuff in the XY anime
That guy did say ORAS will change the battle environment! 😀
rotom wash deals with mamoswine, immune to EQ and resistant to IS he can or hydropump to OHKO or WoW to cripple it
I used to hate megas. Now I can’t get enough.
I’ve been nicknaming my shiny Pokémon after Egyptian deities. ^_^
batman
Thor!
Hercules!
Shovel!
i think you mean shovel knight!
Nope just an ordinary Shovel
Although i do treasure my Spade that my Grandmother “gave” me
Implied that you stole it?
Well no, she passed away in a Car Accident and my entire family were disusing about selling the house since my Grandfather passed so everyone took some of the furniture and tools and everything to get ready
So i took her favorite gardening spade
meanwhile i put them ridiculous nicknames like flappybird and ponytails because WYNAUT
So i just met Uxie in PMD
gettin’ excited!
when mega milotic finally get announced chico reaction will be like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j54yGxuk0yo
If it gets announced
My reaction will be 2,000x greater than this. :3
be like dookieshed and record your reaction
Will do if possible! :3
That is kind of a useless talent, but amazing, nonetheless o____________o
She’d be a good waitress.
I would leave her a tip for that xD
And with that, I’m finally done with my shiny Pokémon! Babies, they are no longer. I can finally get back to MM.
Wait, crap. I still need to evolve Gligar! I need the Razor Fang!
…Off to the Maison I go, unless someone has one, that would help me save time.
Nobody has a spare razor fang
What about Pokemon Bank and just pour tons of Pokemon and you’ll earn Battle Points
My Pokebank is expired and I haven’t purchase the pass. (And weirdly I don’t get BP for transfer Pokémon when I did.)
Well you better put on your fighting gloves and hit the Super Singles Boy
http://pikanewsnetwork.wordpress.com/2014/06/23/what-does-diglett-really-look-like/
New article written by me on Dicie’s website – PNN 😮 For those who love Ground Type Pokemon *Cough* @BigGuyI:disqus and anyone who is interested. It covers the concept of Diglett’s appearance under the dirt ; Talks about what Diglett is based on ; Uses dex entries to provide evidence and examples ; Uses facts about the animal that it is based on and explains why Diglett can use certain moves ; it also Uses evidence from Mystery Dungeon and includes many images.
I’d like to contribute these. (refresh)
I already used the first image xD As for the second image, http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/293/b/c/real_diglett_by_inkclone-d6r7efq.jpg
Hmmmmmm Diglett and Ground Types…..
Seems Legit
Very interesting.
As much as I would like definite answer, I know we most likely won’t.
But I agree. It would moleish. I always thought it looked like a mole anyways and would have paws, feet, and claws.
Moles are odd looking but cute. It’s a shame that it can’t be out in the sun D:
Nice work as always
it reminds me of all the Digletts and Dugtrio’s i’ve trained and worked with in my numerous FireRed replays
Maybe i’ll look into breeding a Lightning Fast Dugtrio
with truant durant, dugtrio is amazeballs
Hmmm i’ve always felt its lower stats would easily be Focus Sashed for Stealth Rock and basically it
Thank you.
You should really consider it – considering it has access to Toxic.
Everything that learns a TM has Toxic
Yes but it’s not really predictable on a Dugtrio. It could run Stealth Rock and Toxic.
lookin good 8)
Tanks :3
Omfg I just found out the milotic can float.
The real question is, what can’t milotic do?
NOT beat a ground type.
Totally agreed! 🙂
It can’t be a Fairy!
Well, it can be a fairy type
But you said what it can’t do
And it cannot be a fairy type
legitimately
Well, its mega can.
Could but don’t get too upset when it doesn’t get the type or the Mega
*if
Why you gotta hate so much? My Milotic will sweep your team by itself.
I hate Milotic for a number of reasons
Because it’s so good.
ROTLMFAO THIS WAS THE BEST COMMENT OF TODAY
being fugly
Only when it’s a baby 😮 (Feebas)
feebas > magikarp
http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/2/23/Ursula_Plusle_Minun_Helping_Hand.png/500px-Ursula_Plusle_Minun_Helping_Hand.png
I’m going to assume their mega evolutions will be similar to the Lati@s megas. (Mega Plusle and Mega Minun looking the same for the most part).
SS4 Mega Plusnun
Omfg metagross can fly too??????
Damn >>
a meteor on the ground and in the sky
So I just found out these are actually lileep’s eyes 0_0
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb14/Azemoph/Pokemon%20252-386/Lileep.jpg
My life is a lie.
I always knew that XD
It was cradily’s that surprised me XD
Omg I’m never going to look at Cradily. I can’t take this deceit..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfzEHlK8rJY
*Crad!ldo
Once you see it, it never goes away.
gear grind that cradily
your not the only one i always thought them rings were the eyes until Black and White
I thought the rings were the eyes up until about 10 mins ago when I decided to MM one… stumbled upon an article talking its real eyes.. I’m done with life.
We all gotta learn the hard way
And as for Life
I’m just waiting patiently for that massive stroke i know i’m going to have
I don’t understand why it looks up all the time though. What good does that do>
It’s searching the stars and wondering where it’s Primal is.
Because its function in life is to anchor itself to a rock and snatch prey and eat it
I’m terrified.
anorith and armaldo have fake eyes too
I always knew they were eyes 😀
But then there’s Diglett.
You didn’t know Diglett had eyes?
Ew.
Ew no go away
And obviously I knew I’m talking about the nose mouth thing.
Um no.
Get out while I party wit hurrn.
*has hurrn party*
I forgot the address the irony of Dugtrio q.q
Diglett and Dugtrio are based on moles – According to Wikipedia:
“Moles are solitary creatures, coming together only to mate. Territories
may overlap, but moles avoid each other and males may fight fiercely if
they meet.”
Also, for anyone who has played Animal Crossing and forgotten to save their game: http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/241/f/a/drilbur_resetti__what__by_sunnyblob-d3byno1.png
Mr. Drilsetti!!!
who doesnt hate resetti. he is the reason i stop playing WildWorld
But this isn’t Resetti.
It’s Drilsetti!
Why did you keep quitting without saving XD
because he never forgived my apologies
Forgave
That’s cause you forgot to save D: Ur a bad boi
I WAS A KID:(
YOU WERE A KI
WE WERE ALL JUST KIS
a kiwi
U should’ve referenced Naked Mole Rats
They always live in extremely populated underground homes
They often piled up on one another and maybe that’s why Diglitt split into 3 separate
did u just
http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/f9VGKRAoqMU/hqdefault.jpg
Actually, the naked mole rat is in the order “Rodentia”. The mole is in the order “Soricomorpha” the only relation is the name
and the fact that they’re both mammals.
Well that is true but they are still subterranean rodents
But not the Point
The Point i’m saying is that NMRs are often clustered together due to their eusocial way of life and they’re always traveling together and passing and touching one another which could be why Dugtrio is a single entity with three “heads” since Mole Rats travel together and are very close with one another
Good point. One explanation is logical, the other is ironic.
Is anyone else realizing that this is a Drilbur except me lmao.
Yes.
Ew go away
Ew not funny.
Let’s dis-clude him.
You sound like,
Every person ever.
You sound like you fell down the stairs this morning.
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view7/2974369/life-alert-lady-o.gif
Someone needs Life Alert.
Did that by chance come from a video called “Old Bitch falls down stairs”?
Maybe >.>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1L4CXUK6HY
To the window. To the wall. Damn, she took a fall!
Sad fact about dug trio
A dug trio ha the same base speed as a sceptile -___-
2Fast4U
not until we mega >:3
If only it learned X-Scissor then it could even the field
there are enough handless pokemon who can do hand related moves XD
No because if it does manage to either do 50% + damage then its done since of Sucker Punch
“coming together only to mate”
I guess that’s what those Diglett are doing when they combine…
Quick Claw in the Battle Maison is super duper cheap. The opponent got to move first 3 times in a row. >:(
Lol
Sexy needs the XY to make sense
Orgasm needs ORAS
O____________________________________O
My exact reaction.
Yep XD
Goodnight sexy spammers!
Including djja
Hoenn is the only region with two evil teams
Umm. Old Plasma and new Plasma 😮
http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130721133725/villains/images/c/c0/Grunts_of_Plasma.png
In the same game
Well then. I suppose you don’t count Team Rocket and the Illuminati? 😮
I do not count them XD
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7834813440/h50679527/
Triangle.
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/138/e/f/pokemon_unown_eye_chart_by_ephydria-d5088jg.png
Eye.
http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/f/f8/563Cofagrigus.png/250px-563Cofagrigus.png
Egypt.
Illuminati Confirmed.
Inb4 how do I fight the illuminati?
😉
With circles.
Technically, Old Plasma wasn’t evil when New Plasma came out…
He didn’t say currently evil. Old Plasma was evil once. New Plasma was evil. Both were in the same region.
Oh, good point! But then again they’re both only factions of the same team.
Forever alone……
We all iz
i loved hOENN’S CONTESTS,
I’m sure u do
As sure as I am that mega milotic will be water/fairy
In your Hoenn Plagued dreams
It isn’t a plague if its beautiful
when regi or NL challenges me to a battle https://v.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/A47301E9861081402518501728256_2134146318f.0.3.761461056922631974.mp4?versionId=sFNgJeBaRqQNRoz4KtCU1izfMcxiVxbJ
Nl sux @ battlin
have you battled him in doubles?
He wasn’t goood @ all
oh mai regret that
Mean Djja is mean 🙁
We’ve all been there dude
#banned
He’s scary in doubles but I managed to beat him 🙂
i will edit the comment and put you on the list