Greetings Junglers, Evan here! First of all, you can see I changed the name of the series, because it’s now part of the ongoing Showdown-series. Without further ado: the winner of the Kanto Gym Leader Showdown is Sabrina! She won with a stunning 22% of the votes. Apparently the Psychic-type Gym Leader is a popular choice among our community. Our very, very close runner-up is Misty, also with 22%, followed by Blue (15%). One vote made the difference between Misty and Sabrina!
I’m presenting to you: our next round of the Gym Leader Showdown series. This time it’s Johto’s turn. Who’s your favorite Gym Leader? Vote and let us know why in the comments!
Falkner
- Gym Leader 1
- Flying
- Pidgey and Pidgeotto
- Violet City
- Zephyr Badge
- Mud Slap (Gen 2), Roost (Gen 4)
- Name: Falconer
- Trivia: Falkner is the only male Gym Leader that specializes in the Flying-type.
Bugsy
- Gym Leader 2
- Bug
- Metapod, Kakuna and Scyther
- Azalea Town
- Hive Badge
- Fury Cutter (Gen 2), U-turn (Gen 4)
- Name: Bug
- Trivia: Because Scyther knows U-turn in Gen 4, Bugsy is the only Gym Leader who sends out his signature Pokémon in the first turn.
Whitney
- Gym Leader 3
- Normal
- Clefairy and fucking Miltank
- Goldenrod City
- Plain Badge
- Attract (Gen 2 and 4)
- Name: White
- Trivia: Whitney is the first Johto Gym Leader that uses a Gen 2 Pokémon, which only half of the Johto Gym Leaders do.
Morty
- Gym Leader 4
- Ghost
- Gastly, Haunter, Gengar and Haunter
- Ecruteak City
- Fog Badge
- Shadow Ball (Gen 2 and 4)
- Name: Mortis (Latin for death)
- Trivia: Morty is the only male Ghost-type specialist.
Chuck
- Gym Leader 5
- Fighting
- Primeape and Poliwrath
- Cianwood City
- Storm Badge
- DynamicPunch (Gen 2), Focus Punch (Gen 4)
- Name: Chuck Norris
- Trivia: Chuck’s and Pryce’s lowest leveled Pokémon are both level 27.
Jasmine
- Gym Leader 6
- Steel
- Magnemite, Magnemite and Steelix
- Olivine City
- Mineral Badge
- Iron Tail (Gen 2 and 4)
- Name: Mine or mineral
- Trivia: Jasmine was the first Gym Leader that appeared outside of her home region in the games.
Pryce
- Gym Leader 7
- Ice
- Seel, Dewgong and Piloswine
- Mahogany Town
- Glacier Badge
- Icy Wind (Gen 2), Hail (Gen 4)
- Name: Ice
- Trivia: Pryce’s middle name is Willow, which is his Japanese name’s translation.
Clair
- Gym Leader 8
- Dragon
- Gyarados, Dragonair, Dragonair and Kingdra
- Blackthorn City
- Rising Badge
- DragonBreath (Gen 2), Dragon Pulse (Gen 4)
- Name: Lair
- Trivia: In Gen 2 she owned another Dragonair instead of Gyarados.
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X — EVAN
I’m getting sick of them taking so long to reveal CoroCoro Pokemon worldwide. I don’t want another Komala and Rockruff situation.
I wouldn’t be so surprised that they are taking this long if they didn’t have a trailer for them as well as the new mechanic stuff. That’s what seems suspect to me lol
Ikr like whats the purpose of showing them at a magazine and then making the rest of the world wait? Its not like its 2009 anymore
Exactly. They were so good about it during XY reveals. They never made us wait past the official CoroCoro date for a worldwide reveal.
Why does it really matter? You know the pokemon exists
Well at least the Chinese leaks still are at the same chances they were at before!!! lol
Which ones were those again? I keep mixing up the two.
They were the ones that the actual picture of the starter pics came from. They mentioned a Poison/fire Pokemon too
Theres not much proof but it is more likely now that they are fake
How are they more likely fake now? They weren’t ever connected to the other now fake leaks and are still in a way very viable lol
Well they basically said the same in different languages but who knows they might *cough* not *cough* be real 😉 haha
But the Chinese leaks came first. Sure they could very well be fake. I’ve never said they were 100%, but it’s not like other leaks being fake lessen their ability to be real. either way I guess we’ll just have to keep checking to see if any of the info from them come true and if they do or don’t then we’ll know whether to trust them or not lol
which one is ur favorite ?
haaaaaaaa! that’s evil look! wat he’s looking at ?? ……I am not sure it’s P.Zygarde.
It could be normal zygarde because the episode is called zygarde at prism tower buuuut i have a feeling that the episode might get banned as it will probably show zygarde attacking lumiose city and that might get controversial with the recent terrorist attacks in france
Unless Zygarde commandeers a truck, they should just air the darn episode.
What about the eiffel tower fire?
I didn’t know the Eiffle tower caught flame.
Idk if it was real but i saw it all over the news saying that they couldnt link it to the truck incident but that islamic poster showed the tower on fire so they were investigating but i havent heard anything else since
It’s a really sad world we live in.
Mhm sometimes i wonder how such a violent species like us humans got to be the dominant species in the planet smh
unfortunately, I feel your question answers itself.
Hey i looked it up and apparently the fire at the tower was accidental and was just unfortunate enough that it happened around the time of the truck incident
Thank goodness.
Only humanz did that.
I meant that unless the episode involves people getting mowed die they should just sit it
I know wat u mean….I meant only humans did these terrible things pkmn r not.
oh dam that make ppl talking about Illuminati shit.
Oh my gosh you’re right. I hope they delay this episode honestly… It is a very touchy subject right now so I hope they hold it off until the sadness and controversy dies down….
I can’t click on the vote button for some reason. Anyone else have the same problem?
I have that problem. I always thought it was because I’m on Chrome and using adblock lol
I bet many of us .
I wonder if it skews the vote at all.
*raises hand*
I’m on mobile and it works for me.
I might try on mobile afterwards.
Does anybody else not really have a favorite johto gym leader?
I’ve never played any of the Johto games, I just pick Falkner or Jasmine because of looks.
You should definitely play. In my opinion HGSS were the best Pokemon games ever…. It definitely is the popular opinion…
I definitely don’t hate them, but I really feel HGSS didn’t fix any of the problems with the originals.
Maybe, but it added lots. And who doesn’t love TWO FREAKING REGIONS!!!! But I totally know where you’re coming from….
oh yes, if there’s something I can say they did better, it would be kanto. it was vastly improved over the originals and very well done.
whitney cuz normal types. other than her (and barely her, mind you) not really.
I like Jasmine cause of the sidequest with the lighthouse.
id just take a minute to appreciate how wonderful soda is. it burns my throat and tastes great. carry on.
I guess we should just all have a lesson in providing relevant and conversation adding comments not just earthen
lol my apologies, things are rather slow right now, im just trying to start conversation.
actually, before I forget there’s one thing ive been wanting to ask you, cascoon. when I first joined pokejungle almost 4 years ago now, there was a user named IntimidatingWurmple. was that you? and if it was, when will you evolve into a dustox?
I was that wurmple yes, but I evolved. I thought I gathered enough training to evolve when battle frontier was announced in ORAS, but that never happened, so I guess nobody knows when I will evolve next. Not even I
well I certainly hope you reach lv. 10 soon my friend.
I’m more of a water guy lol XD
hey man waters good too! nothing beats a ice cold water during the hot summer days.
True, but soda is also very good during the summer (not as healthy as water but really good and refreshing XD) I like how we’re talking about soda on Pokejungle lol
So does anyone anything about the Magearna movie???
I cant stand the anime, but im curious as well.
I know I just want to know what role Zygarde had or if it did nothing.
No reviews as of yet, but I’ll keep a lookout! 😀
I hope those leaks are fake and litten becomes either fire/poison (darn you salandit) or fire/electric. it seems unlikely at this point. I love litten but I really hate that leak…
Alain could use one of Alola pkmn against Ash his full team didn’t reveal yet.
NU…NU…NUUUUUU
YYYYYYYYYY ?
Sorry, my attempt at making sound affects by typing it miserably failed..
Well I see earthen already mentioned this, but it does greatly irritate me half of these gym leaders don’t have johto pokemon, and if they do it’s just their ace. Kalos didn’t bring many new pokemon but all the aces at least were kalos pokmeon. Anyway I replayed hgss only using the same amount of pokemon the gym leaders used and they all honestly gave me a challenge then. Other than that, Whitney Clair and Chuck gave me a challenge. But I will give my review for each
-Faulkner 3/8: Not very memorable, replace Pidgeotto with Noctowl please. I have a thing with anime characters with blue hair though so that’s a plus.
-Bugsy 2/8: Scyther is the only thing reasonable on his team lol (which should be heracross) only memory backing him up is I thought he was a girl until i saw chuggaconroy video.
-Whitney 4/8: She’s whitney. The end.
-Morty 7/8 : He’s actually pretty cool replace a haunter with misdreavous then he’s golden.
– Chuck 6/8: Nice bod. Only gym leader with two pokemon that ever gives me trouble.
-Jasmine 5/8: You’re cute girl, but you have no challenge whatsoever. But you have a heart. I like that.
-Pryce: 1/8: Definitely the worst gym leader from Johto. Boring and easy too.
Clair 8/8: Finally a gym leader that has some cool personality, and a unique theme and blue hair. She’s pretty awesome!
TL:DR Im voting Clair
Box Office Update: Pokemon 19 Fails to Take Off as Disney Continues to Swim in Money With Finding Dory
– Tracking for Pokemon XY&Z: Volcanion and the Mechanical Magearna (Pokemon 19) has begun and the film is running 9% behind last year’s film in pre-sales and is currently trailing 11 – 12% behind last year’s film in terms of admissions. The film is seeking to bring in Y375 million or $3.6 million during its opening weekend (Japanese box office opening weekend consists of Saturday and Sunday as opposed to Friday-Sunday) and roughly Y550 million or $5.3 million for the 3-day weekend boosted by Marine Day. Unless strong word of mouth and great reviews propel the film forward, it is very unlikely to pass the Y3 billion mark which SHOULD be a cake-walk for a franchise such as Pokemon, but has now become a huge milestone.
Every other franchise has been on a consistent increase with each film with the exception of Pokemon: Detective Conan opened to Y1 billion or uber-blockbuster (only a handful of films have done this in Japan and would be on par with an animated film opening above $200+ million which no animated film has ever achieved in the U.S.), the Doraemon franchise just had its HIGHEST grossing film of all time in its history and that franchise has been around for much longer than Pokemon, the Crayon-Shin franchise aimed at an audience younger than Pokemon’s opening weekend is on par with Pokemon 19, and YoKai Watch just released its second Y5+ billion grossing film and that film opened to Y1+ billion. What does this mean for the Pokemon anime franchise? Huge changes must be made if it has any hopes of surviving the current box office environment. Moreso than the games, the anime has been keen on repeating the same formula and is relunctant to change anything or tweak anything more than its needed. However, if things do not change, the box office slump of the anime franchise will continue on.
Additionally, YoKai Watch is intent on killing the series: on multiple accounts since its debut, a new YoKai Watch game is released the same weekend a new Pokemon film is released and a few weeks later and sometimes on the same weekend as a new Pokemon film’s release, pre-sales for a new YoKai Watch film go on sale. What are the positive sides to this? Opening against Finding Dory and a film starring one of Japan’s most beloved celebs could mute the opening weekend enabling stronger legs and better word of mouth. Fingers crossed!
we’ve no fear of yokai watch killing off pokemon. its not hugely popular anywhere outside japan due to its huge Japanese culture based characters. pokemon aims to and successfully caters to fans of all areas of the world.
After the newmovie finish they show teaser trailer about the three starters of the Alola Region.
Clair by a far mile. Jasmine and Morty come as a close 2nd.
2017 movie teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuQ5VW4oXT4
I cannot believe they seriously used that music. One of my favorite Pokemon songs of all time.
Since i have no audio, what song was it?
oh wow I agree with you thats pretty good music, what song is it?
Hmm, It does sound vaguely familiar, pretty, but I can’t quite place it, what was it from?
I’ve gotta say that after being very skeptical about Pokemon Go, I’m having lots of fun catching and evolving while I’m on vacation in Greece. Sure, there’s bugs and more features that could be added, but it’s a much better game than I expected.
DICIE! *way too strong bear hug*
Haha, good to hear from you!
On the topic of the new bear, I’ve gotta say that its design has definitely grown on me. We have quite the unique roster for SM, don’t we?
so far, so good (assuming the starter leaks were fake)
I’m in the suburbs and there’s almost nothing. Took my family downtown, with to the park and dropped a lure and incense – boom! Diversity + everybody and their mamas showed up (my brother dropped a lure, too)
looks like we got a choice: it’s either A.we’re going to see some cool info today or B. we’re going to see some cool info tomorrow.
a choice? as in, I can directly influence the outcome of future events? leaks all day every day
Well let’s hope the 16th will give us something.
doubtful we’ll get any news anytime soon
alrighty guys its like 5:30 am here, I gotta sleep haha. see ya’!
Claire is my fav cus she’s hot! I agree with Earthen, I hate how Johto gym leader’s signature Pokemon aren’t native Johto Pokemon.
I’m really glad seeing all these nice comments about the series 🙂
My favorite is Clair, because she’s just amazing and I love Dragon Pokémon
How the hell do you move your character in GO?
. . . you walk.
walk around in real life
Is that the only way?
well you could mess with the GPS and make it think your walking around but other then that or strapping your phone to a drone ¯_(ツ)_/¯
That would be amazing
people have done it, pretty sure you can find videos of it on youtube
And as quickly as I got it my 1.5k rating is fucking destroyed by three consecutive bad matchups
https://youtu.be/qgTR_UdWktg?t=162
when you can’t pronounce kiteruguma
His voice is sooooooo annoying
he wins in the voice of a douche contest
Oh btw I just remembered
Some sap wanted a female Thick Fat Piloswine in a Dusk Ball
Does this sound familiar
$10 dollars Clair wins because half of the people here are gonna pick the “OMG HAWTEST” one like last time. Stop Leader abuse, pick chubbier Chuck Norris.
How come the vote thing never works for me?
Literally no idea. It doesn’t work for me either, only on mobile.
I guess we’re not cool enough.
I don’t know, claires is ok, but not that hot in my opinion
Her hair is a hot mess. But not in a good way
OK guys, I want to do a post on it, but thought I’d ask here before I do. Would you guys be interested in a PokéJungle podcast? If yes, what would you like us to feature in it? If no, why?
I would love one! I dunno if you heard of Japan Time SSB4 Podcast, it took place between 2013-2014 and reported news and had discussion about the news for Sm4sh. I would want it to feature news discussions. But not just the news, just a segment of the podcast would have it.
I think if you did that, you should have a guest on each podcast be a regular here.
I was considering something community based. Having a set team (me and whoever else), but bringing in some of our commenters to chat with us.
It would sort of depend on the length of the podcast.
No more than half an hour. 🙂
I’d probably give it a go.
Will you listen if I talk in a sexy voice?
O yeah, baby 😉
Consider it done! 😀
I think that would be really neat
Absolutely. Rumors and general discussion about GO/SM would be great.