Gym Leader Showdown: Hoenn

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Greetings Junglers, Evan here! It’s time for the results of last time. The best Gym Leader in the Johto region is… Clair! She won with 26% of the votes! Second place goes to Jasmine (22%), followed by Morty (21%).

GLS - Clair

This time we’ll have a look at the Hoenn Gym Leaders. Tell us who your favorite is and let us know why in the comments!

RoxanneHoenn - Roxanne

  • Gym Leader 1
  • Rock
  • Geodude and Nosepass
  • Rustboro City
  • Stone Badge
  • Rock Tomb (Gen 3 and 6)
  • Name: Rock
  • Trivia: Roxanne is the only female Rock-type specialist.

Hoenn - BrawlyBrawly

  • Gym Leader 2
  • Fighting
  • Machop and Makuhita
  • Dewford Town
  • Knuckle Badge
  • Bulk Up (Gen 3 and 6)
  • Name: Brawl
  • Trivia: Brawly is a Fighting-type trainer that likes water, while Crasher Wake is a Water-type trainer that likes fighting, plus they both wear blue, black and orange clothes.

WattsonHoenn - Wattson

  • Gym Leader 3
  • Electric
  • Magnemite, Voltorb and Magneton
  • Mauville City
  • Dynamo Badge
  • Shock Wave (Gen 3), Volt Switch (Gen 6)
  • Name: Watt
  • Trivia: Wattson is the founder of Mauville City.

FlanneryHoenn - Flannery

  • Gym Leader 4
  • Fire
  • Slugma, Slugma and Torkoal (or Slugma, Numel and Torkoal in Gen 6)
  • Lavaridge Town
  • Heat Badge
  • Overheat (Gen 3 and 6)
  • Name: Flame (omg that rhymes)
  • Trivia: Flannery is the only Hoenn Gym Leader whose team changed between originals and remakes.

NormanHoenn - Norman

  • Gym Leader 5
  • Normal
  • Slaking, Vigoroth and Slaking
  • Petalburg City
  • Balance Badge
  • Facade (Gen 3), Retaliate (Gen 6)
  • Name: Normal
  • Trivia: Norman is the only known father of the protagonist in the games.

WinonaHoenn - Winona

  • Gym Leader 6
  • Flying
  • Swellow, Pelipper, Skarmory and Altaria
  • Fortree City
  • Feather Badge
  • Aerial Ace (Gen 3), Roost (Gen 6)
  • Name: To winnow, wing, wind
  • Trivia: Winona’s Gym battle can be skipped until the League in Gen 3.

Tate and LizaHoenn - Tate and Liza

  • Gym Leader 7
  • Psychic
  • Solrock and Lunatone
  • Mossdeep City
  • Mind Badge
  • Calm Mind (Gen 3 and 6)
  • Name: Levitate
  • Trivia: Tate and Liza are the only pair of Gym Leaders. Tate is also the only male Psychic-type Gym Leader.

WallaceHoenn - Wallace

  • Gym Leader 8
  • Water
  • Luvdisc, Sealeo, Seaking, Whiscash and Milotic
  • Sootopolis City
  • Rain Badge
  • Water Pulse (Gen 3), Waterfall (Gen 6)
  • Name: Water
  • Trivia: Wallace uses his Champion team from Emerald in the Delta Episode.

JuanHoenn - Juan

  • Gym Leader 8
  • Water
  • Luvdisc, Sealeo, Seaking, Crawdaunt and Kingdra
  • Sootopolis City
  • Rain Badge
  • Water Pulse (Gen 3)
  • Name: Pronounced similarly to water
  • Trivia: Juan is the only Gym Leader without a VS-sprite

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756 thoughts on “Gym Leader Showdown: Hoenn”

  1. Time for one of the best leagues (Emerald not RS). I loved how Emerald made this league.I have so many choices in this too Wattson Flannery Liza and Tate and Juan all are really.
    Roxanne 2/9: definitely the weakest link of the hoenn league but still pretty decent
    Brawly 3/9: Very hard gym leader Bulk up and Vital throw no bueno, but still not that cool
    Wattson 8/9: Something about his super happy face is just awesome and his team is amazing Especially having mantric he gave me trouble
    Flannery 7/9: You would think anybody that would have torkoal as their ace was bad but I was sorely mistaken!
    Norman 4/9: Cool dad thanks for never coming back home sometimes, ;~;
    Winona 5/9: So majestic, I love it
    Liza&Tate 9/9: These guys honestly have made me cry before many times
    Wallace 1/9: He was cool until he took Steven’s spot now I hate him! He is the worst part of emerald
    Juan: 6/9 Now he’s the cool guy here. And he’s fabulous
    TL:DR Im voting Liza&Tate

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    • Another thing I loved about Hoenn (Emerald) league is they actually used strategy!
      Omg Bulk up Makuhita, You’re only the second gym stop setting up!!
      Paralysis is a amazing strategy on its own and having Magneton AND Manetric Calm Down Im ten
      Flannery Having Attract Sunny Day, AND Overheat AND White Herb. This isn’t a wifi battle!
      Winona having: 5 pokemon/ Skarmory and Dragon Dance and Earthquake Altaria. Predicting most mega altaria sets since 2005
      Liza And Tate: EQ and flying/leavitate. Light Screen. Sunny Day and Solarbeam. Satan comes in two forms…
      Juan: Resto Chesto, Double team and ONE weakness (and you probably don’t have a dragon type thats not weak to its ice beam either) Just so scary.
      Emerald is hard, I have trouble every time I replay it. I love it!

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  3. I took inspiration from Tate and Liza for my own gym.

    Its a set of elite trainers both knights of an old castle, who are gym leaders who use Psychic and Dragon type Pokémon and they are the final gym leaders in my region. My regions gyms are decently levelled and the elite four is starting at lv 65+

    Alakazam (Mega) lv 60
    Starmie lv 56
    Metagross lv 55

    Garchomp (Mega) lv 60
    Kingdra lv 56
    Haxorus lv 55

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    • Not a bad idea, but I’m a stickler for traditions
      Why not dual Steel with one with Aegislash and the other Bastiodon or Double Dragons

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      • My 6th gym is actually steel 🙂

        Magnezone lv 44
        Scizor lv 45
        Aggron lv 45
        Excadrill lv47

        Magnezone is used to paralyze everything and excadrill is then able to sweep is the idea.

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        • Jeez just remember they’re here to test trainers not shove their face in the dirt laughing maniacally (Granted I’d do the same but then again I’m crazy)

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    • Lol, that sounds HARD! TWO megas?! For a gym leader?! Goodness, that’s one tough gym. Are you making a fangame?

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      • Yeah it’s just a bit of a laugh for myself really 🙂 My idea for the two megas is because it’s technically 2 trainers haha so they can get away with it.

        My elite four and champion have disgusting teams haha

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    • reminds me of me and my friends’s idea. Since one of her favorite types is fire and one of mine ice we said we would do a Fire Ice gym Where you have to melt some ice to get to us

      Her
      Talonflame 40 (Brave Bird/ Flare Blitz/ Roost/ Tailwind)
      Volcarona 42 (Heat Wave/Bug Buzz/ Fiery Dance/ Energy Ball)
      Blaziken 44 (HJK/ Flare Blitz/ SD/ Protect)
      Me
      Abomasnow 40 (Blizzard/ Wood Hammer/ Ice Shard/ EQ)
      Lapras 42 (Whirlpool/ Perish Song/Freeze Dry/ Light Screen)
      Froslass 44 (Shadow Ball/ Blizzard/ Reflect/ DDraining Kiss)

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  5. Signature Pokemon according to PWT

    Roxanne- Probopass
    Brawly- Hariyama
    Wattson- Manectric
    Flannery- Torkoal
    Norman- Slaking
    Winona- Altaria
    Tate- Solrock
    Liza- Lunatone
    Wallace- Milotic
    Juan- Kingdra

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  6. Roxanne for sure, especially after the redesign, in those leggings you can tell she has… Actually, on second thought im going to keep that thought to myself.

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    • Wow! A Roxanne fan! I’m surprised there are so few of you out there tbh. She’s really adorable :3

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      • I wouldnt say “Fan”. I like her dont get me wrong but im a huuuuuge fan of Candice, shes by far my favorite character in all of pokemon, With viola ad a runner up.

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        • I really just ment as far as Hoenn gym leaders go. My favorite gym leader from Hoenn, Wallice, nowhere near my over all favorite gym leader.

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  7. So this is kinda off topic but today I finally finished my new D&D joke campaign
    The Danger Rangers
    A renegade group of….”heroes” who savagely protect the innocent whether they want it or not, led by their obnoxiously heroic leader Biff Studley a vain over zealous paladin who leads the rangers in a path of truth and possibly scoring on the rebound, Trax Travers the weak wimpy engineer whose constantly abused by his teammates but he repairs the Ranger’s steam powered vehicle “The Badwagon”, Baron a hulking feral beast man who only communicates in growls grunts and bodily noises the DR found him in the woods and “adopted” him; lacks all forms of intelligence and acts like a dog, and lastly Roberto the team’s spy; a sultry charismatic bastard who steals anything not nailed down
    These idiots are a small village’s only hope for saving and I’ll be first to tell them….they are screwed

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  8. I voted Tate and Liza because they were the first and I do believe only gym leaders to use double battling (as well as their being two of them) double battles will always be my fav type of battles and I really hope we see another gym with two leaders and double battles in the future. ^_^

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  12. I voted for Tate and Liza who are actually my favourite gym leaders of all time 🙂 I find them super unique. As a child I actually used to hate them because they would beat me every time and I had to grind a lot in order to defeat them haha.

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  14. I’m done at the beach I caught
    3 Magikarp
    Tentacool egg
    Eevee
    Nidoran male
    Mankey
    2 sandshrew
    Gastly egg
    Execute
    Magmar on the freakin ocean in a boat!
    Bulbasaur
    2 Duduo
    Goldeen
    Koffing
    Pinsir

    Still looking for Psyduck and I saw over 20 pasted me and missed all of them and a Sandshrew pic.

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  18. This old guy is just living right now, I swear
    him: “Holy cow my sanic songs still getting the kids and the ferries bumpin out their seats, I’m so cool”
    Him: “Im the sanic hero the world needs”

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  19. Well I think tomorrow I’m going to either be replaying Sonic Adventure 2 or Robotnik’s Mean Bean…..don’t ask let’s just say I was really good at it

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  20. Along with Sonic Mania coming to PS4 and Xbox One in Spring 2017, Sega just announced “Project 2017” for Holiday 2017 on the PS4, Xbox One and NINTENDO NX! I just happened to tune into the stream right before that was announced. I was almost certain Mania was it! I really need to play Colors now, at least. Sorry, I’m not even a big Sonic fan but this really excited me for some reason. Back to your regularly scheduled Pokemon website.

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  25. Here are some points from the Famitsu Interview with Shigeru Ohmori & Junichi Masuda:
    – Reconfirmed that Ohmori is the director of the game since Masuda wants to pass down the torch of game development to key employees.
    – S/M will have no grid restrictions, they revamped the trainer’s line of sight (with the new animation seen in the E3 footage), they’ve received a lot of positive feedback about the UI and look of the game.
    – The sea and sky could be easily seen on land, they worked on displaying proper time progression from day to night, you could hear the sounds of waves when you walk near the ocean!
    – They used a new visual engine in the game, which is different from X/Y, it allows them to represent things more leisurely and show trainers in battles.
    – Solgaleo and Lunala govern over nature. While designing Pokemon, the team tries to deeply understand their movements (like Rowlet tilting its head 180 degrees).
    – Pokemon S/M has a mature presentation by incoperating breathing and living environments.
    – Battle Royal was created to have battles more closely. A strong trainer cannot always win the Battle Royal as others could team up on them.
    – Rotom PokeDex was created because the team thought a living PokeDex would be cool, so they stuck a Rotom in it.
    – Characters will have more animations ans expressions in cutscenes to make the cutscenes more immersive in the story.

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