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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Stupid Mega Milotic arguments…honestly what makes things like Gardevoir and Mr. Mime Fairy?
Game Freak can do whatever the hell they want with Mega Milotic…Including completely changing its typing to Dragon if they really wanted do.
It will probably remain Water type only. I would laugh if that happen.
I’m just saying its all in TrollFreaks hands, and they can do anything…
Gardevoir, guardian Pokemon… self explanatory
Mr. Mime… I don’t know 😀
We all look for links in the most weird places…when bottom line is nothing is ever confirmed except dex entries…
Fairy could stretch to a lot of things.
Gardevoir is based on a guardian angel. Angels could be Fairies.
And Clowns and mimes could be tricksters and mischeivous.
I dunno, that’s all i got.
Tricksters, Mischevious are traits of Dark Types…
Dark type is more like cheating and dishonesty.
TBH, I could care less about the typing. I’m excited for the increased bulk that comes with more base stats. She’s gonna be a nightmare to take out. I was just pointing out the obvious that comes with her design.
Man I am getting lost down there with all this to be fairy or not to be fairy
That is the question.
Look you all know i personally dislike fairy types but seriously i’m fighting out of logic that this Pokemon has nothing to do with Fairy Types
Everyone is just so convinced that this Pokemon will have access to Mega Evolution and is guarantied to have a type change
but you know something we don’t have any authority of what will happen
I say not a fairy because it has nothing to do with fairies as it being a Ugly Fish that seen as truly beautiful then became beautiful but nothing more
while the rest just hastily call for fairy typing because of Looks and is being supposedly based on Sirens which can be classified as Fairies but really nothing else
We don’t even know if they’ll even give it one, its their game and they make the rules not us
Mega Milotic
Water/Dragon – Multiscale
Water/Fairy – Serene Grace
one of the two will happen ^_^
Wynaut Both
Or both, Alpha and Omega. XD
Serene Grace so it can spam InstaBurns with Scald & InstaConfusions with Water Pulse, Multiscale so she can be Lugia’s matchup lol.
Add one of those to my unique stat changes :>
HP: 95
Atk: 60
Def: 109 (+30)
SpA: 130 (+30)
SpD 155 (+30)
Spe: 91 (+10)
It will be ultimate
Are those changes good or bad? I like it but i wanna see what you think
Milotic would be more bulky, so speed would be lowered. +50 SpD, +40 Def +20 SpA -10 Speed
He knows his bae!!!
I know my bae so muchhhh. xD She’d be so bulky, it’s not even funny. Add a burn against physical opponents, access to recover…. GG everyone.
Ability and Typing?
Marvel Scale/Serene Grace , Water/Fairy
I never used Milotic competitively so I’m sure Chico might know if he see’s this.It looks good to me.
Anyone thing that the PAX from augest 29-September 1st will have a ORAS demo??
i mean XY had one so it does seem sorta likely
I sure hope so. For some reason I jumped when I seen your comment I thought it was going be about that special sneak preview when I saw “ORAS demo” XD
hyoe has consumed us all it seems XD
Finally fully EV trained 3 shiny Pokémon, a bunch more to go. ;^;
I’m definitely looking forward to 3D Contests 😀
They will most likely make them Wifi compatible too, which will make them even better. I think Mega Evolutions will increase your hearts depending on each Pokemon snd category, e.g. Mega Alakazam for Smart, and Mega Sceptile for Cool 😉
Ooooo yessss I forgot about Mega Alazakam for Smart contest! Man these contests are going to give me so much LIFE like I can feel it. This might be the thing that breaks me away from MM’ing XD
and the battle frontier
OMG YES THAT TOO
Same! XD MM’ing is literally all I do on X lol
Milotic, Fairy or no Fairy?
No:
Milotic, although a beautiful creature has yet to showcase any capabilities of learning Fairy-type moves. If it does turn out to be a Water/Fairy, it has to either have a revamped move-pool or be able to learn Fairy-type moves through move tutor or TM’s. Unless this becomes a reality, it’s secondary typing will be all but useless except for the Dragon-type immunity. Beauty and healing prowess does not always equal a Fairy-typing as seen with Celebii, Jirachi, Blissey, Audino, etc.
Yes:
Milotic’s origins can be traced back to sirens, beautiful creatures capable of enthralling victims to a murky death. It can also be said that because of this Milotic has a genuine “Fairy” gene. However, the only support for Milotic’s supposed Fairy typing when it Mega-evolves is because of it’s vague origin.
I would say there’s a minimal chance Milotic get’s a Fairy-typing when it Mega-evolves. However, you never know with TrollFreak.
I believe it will.
Milotic can have a revamped movepool. You never know.
Water/Dragon would fit as well, because it’s based on a sea dragon, but I really want it to be Water/Fairy. It’s not vague. Sirens can be considered Greek fairies. They don’t have much else in their mythology that is considered a ‘true fairy’.
Nymphs were more like fairies than sirens. Nymphs were nature spirits, similar to fairies.
*Applause*. This was a beautiful read. I seriously enjoyed it. Def gave us some food for thought.
Now this is the kinda facts i listen too
I don’t want to be public enemy #1 just because i poo-poo the Fairy Type
But i just want some facts and logic to be present in a way that both parties can agree to
So now can you stop saying it won’t become fairy?
I mean you get mad us when we kill your joy, why do it back to us
Nawwww……i’m much con-fairy at this point until some facts are officially revealed
Sometimes you gotta be firm with your opinions and beliefs
Sorry but i gotta be assertive with this one pal
fine we will show no mercy back
I wouldn’t have it any other way
That comment made me laugh so hard. xD
I want fairy for those added resistances. An immunity is nice too. :3
Don’t forget the fact that milotic has a dragon egg group
people want fairy for defensive reason not for offensive, sure milotic has decent SpAtt but her HP/SpDef is what shines for milotic
It CAN happen. Milotic can become water fairy and have a new ability that makes normal type moves fairy types. Like refrigerate. Idk. I think thats a possibility.
O no! I just realized that ORAS comes out the same day as Mockingjay part 1! ;-; Which midnight release do I go to? 🙁 I might be able to go an 8:00 showing but that means I’ll be like last in line to get ORAS. UGH. First world problems. Anyone else have this problem? Just me? Okay.
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this means I have to go to a 7 or 8o clock showing so I can get to gamestop around 11ish then because that line is going to be rediculous
God I know! The gamestop I got X & Y at (which is the same one I will also be getting ORAS at) did a thing that if you got there early they put you into groups or time slots so that at 11:50 they line everybody up in the group number they got. Which means I won’t be getting ORAS at a decent time since the line will probably be hella long..
Yup my gamestop did the same exact thing lmfao. So I plan to get their early this time.I’m gonna come back and live comment & spoil everything lol
With Screenshots! >:D Mwuhahaha
… ORAS OF COURSE! MOCKINGJAY PART 1 CAN WAIT, KATNISS HAS ENOUGH TIME TO REBEL AND GO SCHIZOPHRENIC!
Well I would, but it’s kind of a tradition for me and my friends to go the midnight showings of the franchises we all like and it’s one of the only times we’re all together. 🙁
(Shhh, I might be missing it too to go see Mockingjay Part 1! You can learn so much from Katniss and you have to be ready because the government is already corrupted lol!)
(I didn’t even like the book Mockingjay but I’m betting the movie will make it better than it was for me :o)
All I want is to hear her sing the song Hanging Tree, that’s it.
NONONONONO Mockingjay part 1 comes out november 21 DX
I know! D:
I’m not concerned with seeing an early showing of Mockingjay.
I’m not to into the series like Divergent.
If it it was Insurgent, then we’d have a huge problem.
Then again, it would give me an excuse to go to a midnight release for a game. Never done that before.
I usually don’t. I’ve only done it for Halo 4 and X & Y. But I have to for ORAS….even though I will have class at 9:00 the next morning Dx But I don’t have to play it necessarily… I guess I can just get it and then when I get home from class I’ll already have it! >:D
xD I’ll just wait until I get up. I might do it if my Gamestop does it. I dunno, I’ll figure it out.
For Tentacruel, should I invest in Defense or Special Defense?
SpD
Defensive nature, but invest in spD
It’s Timid.
So HP and Special Defense?
Or HP and Defense?
If I may ask, what’s the point of timid on Tentacruel?
Hmm.. I might invest in Speed and Special Defense after all.
I don’t know, I’d like it to be different.
Fast Toxic Spixer.
I always wanted to get a timid one to baton pass tail glow into and slay lol. It’s quite fast.
And Fast Rapid Spinner
Ahh yup!
Interesting. I just don’t really understand the point of making it speedy if it can tank a hit or two anyways, so why not invest in the Def? But then again, I’m nowhere near a great competitive player.
I would do
248 HP
244 Def
16 Spe
So Defense it is, then.
OMG XD im listen to one of my favorite youtubers who has a huge collection of all music and click mario kart 8 sunshine airport
as i scroll through the comments and find a person with a jordin avatar
i found Archeops127 on youtube XD
Mega Milotic will probably be revealed in CoroCoro with updated Contest info. They’ll probably connect the two when talking about Pokeblocks and their flavours. Then go into Feebas’ unique evolution method, and finally Mega Milotic.
yup. a whole trailer dedicated to mega milotic and contests. they might even toss in mega jynx while they’re at it.
Holy crap i forgot
I must restart/Re-watch the entire Series of Korra before Season 3/Friday
I finally watched the finale a couple of days ago. (I kept forgetting to watch it).
I’m all ready to go.
Mega Tropius, Grass/Flying
Full Harvest, immune to Grass type + Harvest
HP: 99
Atk: 78
Def: 103
Sp. Atk: 102
Sp. Def: 107
Speed: 71
But it has to hold the Mega Stone…
I’m stupid…
Harvests the mega stone and uses it again.
Continuous Mega Evolution chain…
Yeah harvest makes no sense
I’ve remember faintly that i caught tons of Tropius in the day but were too weak to be any use….
So a Mega Tropius would be cool
I can it growing long long legs similar to tree trunks and a big fruit filled cluster of tree branches and leaves on its back, maybe a Pineapple club like a Ankylosaurus
and more fruits!
:O That sounds cool!
Wait, if you have harvest on it then you can’t hold a berry because of the Mega Stone. How does this work?
Scroll up buddy, scroll up. 😀
Is princessofgenovia here??
What’s up?
There you are!!!! I saw you like two days ago and wanted to say hi!!! I haven’t talked to you in forever!!
Hey, yeah it’s been a while!
When I get ORAS at midnight I’m gonna come here and live comment spoil everything. ^_^
lmfao no im jk I’m gonna enjoy it to myself
I thought you said you was gonna do that
XD
Full Harvest: Mega-Tropius does not need to hold a berry to gain back health. The amount of health regained back is also doubled.
But what if I wanted to Harvest Lum Berries
ROTLMMFAOOOOO XD
The berry is automatically Oran Berry… OR MAYBE YOU CAN CHOOSE THE BERRY! :O
I just want a banana. Screw these berries.
Tropius becomes a berry tree, and whatever type of berry it grows is the one you continuously use….I am a genius
And then suddenly
it gains just Chlorophyll
Next up: Defense EV train for shiny Koffing, Tentacool, Gligar and Phanpy.
Go get those Geodude
And Durant! >:D
I will flood cave Terminus!
Oh great. Time to get the water types we are turning terminus cave into a hot spring XD
Nice!
Milotic War, how a pretty, calm Pokemon can divide a whole nation… wait, I’ve read that somewhere before… what is it XD
Whole nation??
Its more like, one person lonely drifting off
You mustn’t be so harsh to the Capitol! President Snow maybe be listening!!! Hush!
As i said to him “no mercy
Then everything changed when Mega Milotic typing wars attacked.
Percy and I found the typing but it will take a long time before we can convince anyone (meaning one person).
But I believe Water/Fairy can save Milotic.
Am I the only one who hopes that they don’t change Milotics evolution back to what it was…? And if they do make it pokeblocks again, also keep the prism scale as an alternate method? Ooo, what if they gave Milotic a split evolution and it evolves into two different pokemon depending on which method you want to evolve it with.
Lol I remeber the fact that the internal battery broke so no milotic for me XD. I also remember finding a feebas it was the greatest feeling. My brother wanted one and then later learned how hard it is to find one XD
lol you should’ve bred one for him!
I did XD
Doesn’t really matter to me, I don’t plan on rebreeding a feebas when I have the perfect Milotic already.
UNLESS IT BECOMES PHYSICAL ( DUN DUUUUUUUN)
Jk ily :X
For me I think design wise milotic should be fairy type. And yes there are many different ways you can think about it. My argument is that she is in the dragon egg group but her design can not be for dragon tbh. But who knows absol grew wings for fur and he’s still dark type only
Wait u lost me
So saying pro fairy or con fairy?
But this is what i’m fighting so hard about, that everyone is going by either Looks or its siren origins (when originally it was damn fish) (and mostly by looks)
Also Absol doesn’t have wings its just the fur standing up
You do know what a Siren is, right? It’s not a fish.
Duhh i know what a siren is
Its a said to be a beautiful maiden that used its breath taking looks and enchanting singing to lure wayward sailors to their unknown doom by either killing them by eating them or leading them into harms way and in some cultures that were regarded a mythic beings such as fairies, nymphs and witches
And then Milotic came from a ugly fish named Feebas
I’m saying Sirens are sirens and Milotic is a Ugly fish that got lucky
That is like the base of the Feebas line
That something so Ugly can evolve to the most beautiful Pokemon
MILOTIC IS PRITTI.
AND FEEBAS TOO
Don’t hate on the Milotic beauty, LOL. Yeah, the enchanting singing? You’ve heard Milotic’s cry right? Sirens are mythological, hence fairies. Bang.
They why doesn’t it learn Charm or Sing
the only moves it can learn that a siren would learn is Attract and Captivate
Not even Dazzling Gleam which could’ve been a dead ringer for them lovely rainbow scales but they don’t
Sirens were actually not beautiful. They appeared to be due to their enchanting voices. They cast a spell on them to make them see beauty when really they look like harpies (they are related to them).
Sad you can’t appreciate the true beauty of a pokemon. Ily Feebas.
Wooohoohohooh
Did you call Milotic Ugly?
I am sorry but can you not notice it has been called the most beautiful pokemon for YEARS
Like A full Decade
I am not calling any Pokemon Ugly or Beautiful
Its just everyone calls Feebas Ugly (pokedex wise)
The second to last line says
“Milotic is an ugly fish”
that got lucky
Im saying that Feebas was tattered and old looking Pokemon that no trainers took a second glance at so they disowned its looks and deemed it “ugly” but then it evolved into this breath taking beauty
I am saying that there are many ways to look at it I am neither I will love milotic either way
Um A Siren is not a fish XD
I’m going by origins, because it is a likely candidate. It might not happen, but it could based on being based on sirens. I have logic here too.
I also said it likely could be Water/Dragon because it is based on a sea dragon.
Either way, GF can do what they want. I’m jjust saying it most likely will be this, based on origins.
What if they blew away the water typing with the Mega evolution and made it Dragon/Fairy!!! Dragon immunity!
That would be so cool! I am actually waiting for the dragon/ fairy or fairy/dragon pokemon
The writers of Avatar the Last Airbender and Legend of Korra team up to make Pokemon Movie #18! :O FANGASM X2!
Say whatttt? I might watch just because of that, if it is true.
You ARE THE GREATEST
Movie #17: features Diancie, Xerneas, and Yveltal
Movie #18: features Hoopa
Movie #19: features Volcanion
Movie #20: features random Generation 7 Pokemon
Special Movie: Primal K. and G.
Zygarde??
Zygarde should be featured in movie #20 with the random Gen 7 Pokemon.
I could see maybe Zygarde appearing in a movie with Primal G and K. It does awaken with natural disasters or something like that…
Ooo I like you!
hehe thanks :3
Then they make a primal Zygarde, cause he needs some loving.
Complete with its new Thousand Moves
Perfect way to introduce his primal mega! :O
My thoughts are:
Movie 17: Diancie/Xerneas/Yveltal
Movie 18: Zygarde Movie With Volcanion Appearance (tied with new Zygarde mega & game for promotion)
Movie 19: Hoopa & a New Pokemon
Maybe it’ll be like Gen 3 where they debut a few Gen 7 Pokemon in each movie… 😀
Did they do that 0_0
Jirachi Movie: 0
Deoxys Movie: 1
Lucario Movie: 4
Manaphy Movie: 3
With Mega Lati@s, I’m hoping for a Pokémon Heroes Sequel (as slim as it may seem). Also, ever since DP, there’s always been at least one shiny pokémon in the final movie for the series. XY’s final movie may have a shiny as well.
Just another reminder for the avatar fans. Friday June 27 korra season three starts. First three episodes then July 4 no new episode and July 11 I believe starts the one episode a week
Teen Wolf starts tomorrow for anyone who cares…
I wonder if they’ll tease Movie #18 at the end of the Diancie movie…
I’m sure they will.
No one would have expected Diancie to mega evolve in this movie (besides I of course LOL) so I’m really anticipating future Pokemon movies now. We never know what new mega or new Pokemon they gonna just toss in their and that keeps me hype ^_^
*slow clap while nodding*
Blah blah you’re so cool blah blah
You’re an Alakazam blah
Heavy = psychic confurmd