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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So I’m using Volcarona on my play through of White 2 (somehow never used it on an in game team) but its move pool is really bad since it’s not supposed to be evolved yet..does anyone know where I can teach it a decent fire move? All I’ve got is fire spin, which I hate because the accuracy is not reliable whatsoever. Luckily I found a move tutor with signal beam though.
Can you reteach it Fiery Dance? You can TM Psychic and move tutor Giga Drain also
Unfortunately fiery dance didn’t become a base move for volcarona until gen 6. I also am not at undella town yet, so can’t teach it psychic. Giga drain maybe, although I have lilligant too so it might just be redundant 😛
Curse gen 6 for spoiling us lol. Flamethrower close by? I don’t remember where items are obtained very well.
I don’t think flamethrower is until around the seventh gym, which isn’t too too far.. there’s also heat wave as a move tutor but that’s not until the eighth gym town…fire blast also isn’t until right before the seventh gym. So I guess I’m stuck between ember and fire spin. I might just go with ember lol. The accuracy is better and does 5 more damage
I made of list of pokemon that potentially could be rode in sun and moon based on if they are quadrupeds and are bigger then a person https://docs.google.com/document/d/17F-FI9Id31x6BtvB_eT2wiFHE-50LTXkZOgDgkQR4Dg/edit?usp=sharing
Holy Bejesus that’s a LOT of Pokemon hahaha
Can I ride Magikarp?
I want to ride Trubbish.
well I mean garbardor is bigger then a person so you potentially could
And contract several diseases…..In your ass
Why would Ditto be rideable just because it transforms doesn’t mean he would be rideable
Well my shitty theory is that it can transform into ridable pokemon you have in your pokedex except with a ditto face ¯_(ツ)_/¯
That would look hilarious
I know this is way off the subject of the article but remember when some thought that the first Island would be all of Alola and then Amazon.com said this in the description for Sun and Moon “Embark on a new adventure as a Pokemon Trainer and catch, battle, and trade all-new Pokemon on the tropical islands of a new Region and become a Pokemon Champion!” Key phrase is “become a Pokemon Champion!” This makes me somewhat less worried about the Chinese leaker.
There could be more than one way to become a champion. Like I said a few articles back on the Nintendo minute during E3 they said that the way to become champion was to complete the “island trials”. I wouldn’t be surprised if Alola has a different kind of league than we’re used to. I imagine it’ll be more ritualistic and ceremony based rather than an organization based league this time around.
It’s possible. But it still makes me a little bit less worried.
I’m still not sure why people are “worried” there wouldn’t be the typical gyms in the games. As if they would just leave it blank and give us no other reason to travel the region. They wouldn’t take out the gyms and not replace them with something else. That’d be dumb. I’m confident that with or with out the typical “gyms” we’ll have a somewhat similar journey. The only difference is it’ll be more interesting (hopefully) and will be a fresh new thing for us to do. there’s only so many time I can become the Champion by the same means before it gets boring lol
Mabey a Orange Island theme of battle?
Mini-games before the gym leader perhaps? 😛
Yes that sounds terrific
Sorry, missed this, what did the chinese leaker say?
He said “No Gyms or League in Alola. You have to make your own.”
I believe the correct way it was said was there are no traditional gyms. I think they more or less mean the same thing, but it doesn’t mean the games will be completely devoid of purpose. I could see it being like I said with it being more ceremony based and then by the end the league becomes more of an organized fashion like we know. Thus you “create” a league in the game. Either way I’m not sure it’s worth getting worried about until we get further info from actual news sources lol
Yea. I’m guessing that Gyms will return or there would be a new way to become the Champion!
Remember when people were hating on Pokemon GO, and now it’s a worldwide phenomenon .
Ahhh when people are wrong…good times.
Yes yes good times. I remember when people made fun of me for being excited for this game and playing Pokemon. Now they’re playing Pokemon and I’m making fun of them XD
Why are you so against change in the series? We need it to keep it fresh, it may get stale. Besides that, maybe you are the champion because you made the league?
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“Mongo”
Oh no
It says I’ve voted for Whitney, but I know I haven’t; I hate Whitney, and she’s my least favorite Gym Leader. Ever. Had I been able to vote, I would’ve said Morty. Bummer.
Not very productive yet, lol. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a284339db90922d124040dc5cfc609c6c11cf7992aaea68b5703877d5c687585.png
Well because Go was released in all of Europe today, servers have crashed and I can’t even get on the app. You would have thought they they would’ve learned from when it was released in America but no!
Sad thing is that I did loads of walking today and none of it will go towards my eggs haha
Damn same thing happened to me.
I have 2 10km eggs. I did plenty of walking all day, but none of it counted as my app was dead.
Started working again as soon as I got home.
Toss-up between Falkner and Pryce (I like the color “blue” and ice is nice), so I went with Morty, the coolest spook.