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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4,158 thoughts on “Road to Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire: Pokémon Contests”

  1. Just had a Shiny Multi battle teamed up with Chico. Our Shiny Metagross and Milotic was like Steven and Wallace paired up in a Double battle 😀

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  3. @HeavyMetalFairy if your doing the Eevee friendly cup, then let me know when your team is finished. I wanna test mine out!

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  13. Good Evening ladies and gentlemen. Upon reflecting on B2W2, I remembered that Juniper can tell us how a pokémon in our party can evolve. It was foreshadowing that Non Eevee Cross Gen Evolutions would be obsolete. :'(

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  18. What if Iwata (or Masuda, I don’t remember) reveals AZ’s real name like how he revealed N’s real name on Twitter? O__O

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  19. I can’t bring myself to restart my White since I have done tons of stuff on it. Maybe I’ll buy and fire up someone’s used copy of B2 or W2 instead prior to ORAS and after I finish X again. Which one do you think is “better”?

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  22. anyone still woke? im a little bored and need calming down (just saw a spider idjdsoijsd) and thought a wonder trade pokemon battle would be interesting XD

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          • Gotta love that guy. Random change of topic but you did you see him dragging that guy on twitter like 2 days ago LOOOOL. He called him an inbred. I genuinly had tears rolling down. Garrett has a little potty mouth on him.

          • I reported him for harassment, even though Garret handled himself well. Homophobes should just die. Hell, saying you are homophobic doesn’t mean you are afraid of gays, it says you an asshole.

          • He was seriously disgusting. How can you just “@” someone on twitter out of the blue calling them all types of names just cause they’re gay. And when I clicked on his profile it damn near killed me to see that his bio said “Gay Hater”. Can’t believe this is still happening in 2014. He was clearly raised wrong. But I’m glad Garret put him in his place.

          • Say what?
            Yeah, people like that should not exist. I don’t understand.
            I was taught to love all people, despite who they are. Apparently, he didn’t watch the right stuff.
            We are all human beings. I just don’t understand these kind of people.

          • I agree. You can’t be born hating gays, you can only be taught to hate gays. So either his parents didn’t raise him right (well he is an inbred anyway) or he was watching all the wrong stuff like you said. Smh.

          • I wish you all were with me in real life because we could tell off my step dad because he is homophobic -_-

          • He needs help
            A ton of it
            Let’s just say he has a nephew who is gay and refuses to believe that he is apart of the his family

          • It is very mean, and this nephew just revealed himself last year (he is like 22 now) and so he basically putting 20 years of bonding down the drain

          • :O D:<
            I would have told him off.
            (Pardon my french) I would have said he was a fucking jerk and I will not deal with an asshole like him.

          • It hurts me to know that some people can’t just accept others for who they are. Why can’t we all love everyone for who they are? I hope he’ll be alright.

          • Exactly! 😀
            I can never hate anyone based on trival things like race/gender/who you like. It’s like hating a cake for being fatting. D:<

          • It also hurts me how they can’t allow gays to be married as well. They need to suffer like the rest of us (my gay uncle had a magnet that said that :3) But seriously, why can’t they get married? D:<

          • I know!
            Seriously, it’s not any different. It’s two people who want to get married and who love each other very much. Let them do what they want!
            It’s entirely bull.

          • What’s sad is that they quote the bible to defend their views on gay marriage, but the bible is against divorce too.

          • Yeah, if that’s not hypocritical, then IDK what is. The divorce rates are so high to begin with, yet, it seems to be brushed off regardless. Like spoiled candy.

          • I could NEVER prevent someone from marrying someone else if they really loved them
            I understand why it is such a big debate still what harm could happen? Seriously what harm could ever happen if Gays get married?

          • There is nothing wrong with it. The problem is that people are too devoted to traditional beliefs to accept new changes in our society. It’s most unfortunate.

          • I don’t know, why is it just so hard to accept who someone likes? It seems to be the easiest to accept, but we are in this age some can’t accept that. That is frustrating!
            And yea he is ok he did the best option, when my stepdad threated him, he said, “I don’t care how angry you are we are family and I love you.” And left. that guy is now one of my favorite people ever.
            I hope people can soon accept homosexuality soon because they won’t go away

        • LMFAO I had legit just finished an application, and entered Pokejungle in the url, and see Mawile’s comment, and respond like that XD

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          • Yes ;_; My brother put in a good word for me since a space is opening up, the timing of it isn’t ideal, but I want some $$$

          • Awesomeeeee!!!! My younger brother turns 15 in oct so I’m going to see if he wants to work as a Bagger at the local food market so he can make money to support his DLC/Call of Duty habits lol. Tired of him looking sad when I tell him i’m not buying him any DLC XD

          • Good luck!! 😀 And lmfao xD Time for him to buy his own games and stop mooching off your Pokedollars D:< xD

          • While that’ll be sweet, you should cherish being a free-teen a few more years haha. When I was like 12 or 13 Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire were JUST coming out LOOL. If I wasn’t playing those games I was out playing Hide & Go Seek at the playground with some friends haha. I didn’t start working until I hit 18, senior year in high school. Started off as a cashier at the food market, and now I’m 22 and working for the state ^_^

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