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%).
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!
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.
Brawly
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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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X — EVAN
I was listening to BW/BW2 soundtrack, gosh do we have to wait like 10 years for remakes if there is going to be one…
Actually I don’t want any remake, instead I want Black and White 3 to continue the legacy of an amazing story.
Why stop there? Just make the rest of the franchise expand upon Unova. Black and White 9 would be great. :p (This is sarcasm, by the way, but I do like the idea of BW3)
I think B2/W2 properly closed the story. I don’t think there is a need for a sequel. Yet, I would love a remake!
There could always be a way. Instead of playing the same story again, we can have a story that at least continues on from what we have left in terms of time. That’s what suits Generation 5 “remakes”.
I thought BW closed the story at the time, but BW2 came around and changed that. A story can always be continued.
I DISAGREE! B/W left the story open with N leavimg, Ghetsis’ believes and wants, and the future of Team Plasma. B2/W2 closed all the story threads!
Ghetsis still lives though, he just lost his “heart”.
Well I believe N left again (correct me if I’m wrong), we still don’t know a thing about the Shadow Triad, and in hindsight I believe Colress could have potential ties to mega evolution (unlocking a Pokemon’s full potential? Megas.) Either side of this argument has plenty of evidence so it could realistically go either way.
This comment inspired me to sit around and listen to Pokemon music for an hour lol
an underrated bop from BW2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUY5KjHwczY
I think BW/b2W2 used actual official composers thats their music was so amazing, if GF was to do that again with improed sound fount it wold be amazing
370 SR’s/run aways, really surprised at how fast I got it!
https://67.media.tumblr.com/2d9a5e701db39f71683baba5c9dc3e11/tumblr_inline_oasntxzRRv1tszemp_540.jpg
Kill it now
Too late
It’s never too late
But Lonely nature is the worst for it so that’s a plus
Get ready to have Knock Offs and Crunches thrown your way with that thing around
No way I’m battling with it, I just like shiny huntng
Another reason I don’t care for Shinies
If they ain’t usable they’re pretty much collecting dust or being sold to the highest bidder
That’s why I like pokemon, there’s not just one way to play! You can be a competitive battler, or a shiny hunter, or really play however you like.
Never ever caught a shiny in my life. Besides gyarados. 🙁
I only got events and my brother and I have seen in Wild
Me: Weedle, Gulpin, Krabby
Brother: Zigzagoon, Geodude
Sadly He beat Geodude and I lost Krabby in a trade to get it out of a game I was restarting
Gulpin and Zigzagoon are in Ruby and Emerald
Weedle lives happily as a Beedrill in ORAS but was caught in SS
Um, EXCUSE you?
Bug off I stand by my assumptions
me
Fellow shiny hunters unite! 😀
Nice to see another one around! There’s surprisingly few of us in the community.
Full-odds one here! 🙂
nicely done bro! I got a shiny horror story and a shiny success story for you as a reward.
there I was, I naïve kid of 11 playing pokemon sapphire. I looked on the internet machine to find out how to get things called “regis”. I got regirock, and was on my way to get regice. my traditional GBA was almost dead, so I saved infront of it, and decided to see what it looked like before I changed my batteries.. and I see stars fly by it. I fumbled for my master ball, but before I could even open the bag, the battery died…..
fast forward 12 years, pokemon alpha sapphire comes out. I had just beaten the game, and wanted to test out hoopa’s rings while soaring. I stopped on an island, and I was curious as to what pokemon the game was describing (it said an electrical current fills the air or something or other.) I guessed raikou. but when the blue eyed beast that was shiny zekrom came out of that ring, I nearly dropped my DS, I couldn’t believe it! I chucked my quickball and captured it because legendaries are too easy to catch nowadays.
Amazing I have only gotten as best shiny catch Weedle is SS or Gulpin in Emerald
Wow, first try? That’s insane!
Regardless if this a shit or not I enjoying reading this. http://boards.4chan.org/vp/thread/27333646/sunmoon-info-provider#p27334478
The most interesting part and kind logical “There are gyms but not in the traditional way. After you defeat the evil team the gym leaders can finally open up their gyms again. So they allow you to face all 8 of them in a row and they each give you a gem of their type after you beat them. The only gyms I know is dark, normal, and poison. They all use synchro moves”.
Of course there’s a dark type gym, a bit of a red flag at this point tbh.
same. i read rumours for fun not for actually overanalyzing and make my mind suffer
true ….but I like mind suffering sometimes.
That is actually the best I’ve heard I would like these or mabey we could become a gym leader our selves in a way!
As much as I loved the aesthetics of XY, you can’t deny that Sun and Moon blows it out of the water.
http://pokedream.com/games/pokemon-xy/images/geosenge-korrina.png
This looks like trash in comparison
lucario looks so funny i cant
Sun and Moon will most likely be my favorite game while that will go down as my least favorite region
Yeah, X and Y look very jarring after seeing so much promotional material for Sun and Moon.
It’s interesting to know that they used a different engine to make Sun and Moon then they did for Gen 6. That aside While chibi characters are fine I think what’s most jarring is that they kept going back and forth between full sized models and the chibi ones. It always felt odd to me
It’s kinda obvious their using a new engine with the graphics and all. Also, the Pokemon series has always used a full representation of the character in battle. I’m assuming your talking about cutscenes? Nothing felt “jarring” to me.
Idk it was just kind of weird to em going back and forth. In the other games the sprites made your full character look small anyway, but now in full 3d the difference is way more noticeable.
I’ll always love X/Y for trying its best on the 3DS. GameFreak was obviously getting aquanted with the system during that time. S/M is their full achievement of the hardware. It’s funny how so many fans have 180-ed, while we thought X/Y looked amazing back in 2013. It’s wonderful how much the game improved in a short amount of time.
X and Y looked good for the most part. It looked great in top down-perspective, which the gameplay spent the most time anyway. However, overworld cutscenes where the camera actively changes were one of the Gen 6 games weakest points, the Chibi models just aren’t made for cutscenes. It is great to see GameFreak improve so much in such a small amount of time, good on them!
Agreed. The scene in Team Flare’s secret HQ showed the texture issues. The devs said that S/M will have improved facial expressions and animations! So far, it seems like they’ve done it! rf.
Not only that, some textures on the pokemon models were messed up too, blurry, pixelated, or poorly crafted. This was really apparent when zoomed on in the camera for everything, but dang, the water in X and Y was still kinda pretty, even if it looked tiled in certain places.
Regardless though. Comparing x and y to any of the other games makes it look beautiful! I mean, compare it to red and blue. It’s gorgeous! Sun and moon will obviously be the best yet but we can all appreciate x and y as a good effort, pretty polished game, that was a huge leap in the right direction.
@XY after sun and moon got announced
https://media0.giphy.com/media/CsyFeRxyH0um4/200.gif
That’s so funny hahaha
seeing pics now and remembering the gameplay after 2 years have passed make you change your mind about XY alot.
Yeah I remember thinking it was pretty decent…..well for Pokemon anyway lol Now it’s crap no matter what hahahaha
You are a Champion of Memes! 😉
i try my best lol. thank you!!
Guys, apparently the starter final evos with the Archer, Wrestler and Siren were proven fake ? I read it in some YouTube comments. Does anyone know more about this? I know Joe Merrick aka Serebii thought they were fake.
Really? If you could find the Youtube or Joe Merrick’s comment, do post an image. I liked Rowlet’s and Poppilo’s evolutions. Litten’s need a serious change. Nobody wants Tony the Tiger to be the final evolution. I just want a Fire/Dark or Fire/Ground quadrupedal Pokemon.
I dont like either of those type combinations but anythings better than another fire fighting! If there is one someone should seriously hold a petition or something. The only pure fire we’ve had is typhloshion, they’re all bipedal… If there’s another fire fighting bipedal then GAMEFREAK are either really stupid or they’re trying to wind fans up.
Please do confirm these as fake PLEASE! I need a source
Me I don’t care I’ll deal with any
Oh please! Prove them fake!
Hey, Wes, I told you that I could trade yesterday, but I can’t right now. We’re visiting Detroit right now so I can’t trade until Monday. Sorry.
I actually can’t trade on weekends anyway, so Monday’s good. I might make a new comment here (or on whatever is the newest article) tomorrow, but after that I’ll move over to the forums.
Ok
gotta take a break from splatoon.,.. my hands are seriously aching. I’m not even joking, I gotta move so fast in that game. I’m kinda afraid if I don’t take regular breaks I will end up with carpaltunnel (spelling lol)
Is anyone up to help me trade some master balls from xy to oras?
Sure
I CANT VOTE WHYYYY
Just do it on mobile. That should work
Like it fucking matters, everyone is just going to vote to the one they jerked off to the most anyway
Who u talkin about?
Anyone
‘one they jerked off to’ what does that mean?
Are that blind
I wanted to vote Norman
Good Morning Jungle and Question Why can’t I find the Pikachu meets the Pichu brothers short on YouTube? I see every short except it!
SO. We recently moved to a new chat system and we want some of you guys to come chat with us! We’ve got some nice features with even more planned.
Come join us and we’ll love you forever!
http://pokejungle.net/chat/
So me posting here on this is pointless now cause everyone will move their
Nah people will always be around the comment sections of the articles lol
Not at all! A lot of our readers prefer to comment rather than use chat. 🙂
Ok yay!!!
Personally I like the old one better. I can’t use this on mobile without downloading the app.
Unfortunately we’re working on that. No promises. The app is great though! 🙂
I’ll consider downloading it. I like using disqus more, and I never really used chat much to begin with, but I might give it another try.
I HATE THIS
Change happens, unfortunately for you.
This day gets worse and worse by the minute
Isn’t every day worse than the last for you?
Everyday is a bad day for me
Plus, just sign up. People actually want you there.
I fucking can’t my stupid iPad is a bitch when it comes to downloading
Then find a way. 🙂
I fucking can’t, I don’t even have any other devices, just my iPad since my laptop is dead and my phone
Can’t you use the web version on iPad?
What web version
The link is making me install the app
Urgh. Hmm. I’m not sure. I can take a look for you. Just try to fix that.
Apparently if you request the desktop version of the site in Safari it SHOULD work. 🙂
How can I do that when I’m on mobile
https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/request-desktop-site-ios-9/
That, I think? I haven’t used iOS in year, so I can’t remember how.
Still not working,
What’s it say?
They’re still telling me to download the app
https://discordapp.com/login
use this to make an account. then click this link after you’ve made one: https://discord.gg/tCsF8
I doubt it will work properly, but it’s worth a try.
O.k I have the account but thing still is making me download the damn app
Really? It should work if you click the invite link after you’ve made an account and logged in through the first link. At the very least you should be able to get in, but to a broken page. I recommend trying to get the app.
I can’t install things on this thing
Technology just hates me
Mind telling me why you cant install things on an iPad? that seems rather odd.
My Apple account is on the fritz, ever since my dad’s credit card hack all of my family’s apple products can’t download without permission
Ah, seems like you might want to create a new account. I can help you out on chatango if you want. Doesn’t feel the same without you :<
I would rather be on Chatango
I would rather be where I was at the start of the year. But I am not. Let us help and then you can join in.
I’ve been trying this stupid discord for over an hour
But today has just been extra bad, chat’s gone, an insane amount of losing today, a throbbing headache that has been paralyzing me since 5AM and I’m home alone for the third day in a row
This is why you need to let NL help in Chatangooooo, so you can join our madness :)))
T_T are you even listening….
Chatango works it’s this stupid discord whatever that doesn’t, but apparently Chat is dying or whatever deleting messages or something
I am listening. I’m telling you that we’re not switching back to Chatango. But Chatango is where you can get help. 😛
SO COME.
Trust me, this is better. I know it sucks right now that you can’t access a web version on mobile, and that there’s no embedded version that we can put http://www.pokejungle.net/chat, but the different channels makes it so easy to only follow what you want to see. You don’t want to come to chat and just see people talking about PAD, or other games you don’t care about, do you? Please, remaking and setting an account isn’t hard, I can help you.
GUYS!!!! Remember the concept art about the water mansion/gym/museum whatever? Well i was thinking about it an it came to me that the lady in the art was actually lillie
It’s definitely a possibility, but she doesn’t appear to have her large-brimmed hat. I could be wrong though, as it isn’t the clearest image.
anyone have a high-ish level pokemon with spore they can trade me? I can offer something similar in compensation
So Breloom or Amoongus
sure, yeah
I have a shiny Lv.100 Breloom with Spore. I got it from a trade though, so I don’t know if it’s legitimate. I’ll give it to you free if you want it. 🙂
oh wow, thank you! I really appreciate it! I’ll need a second, my FC is 3325-2367-3567
No problem! My IGN is Wes; just go ahead and initiate the trade whenever you’re ready!
Thanks so much!
You’re welcome!
280 CP Starmie 😀
I cant get over how much fun this game is
I hatched an Abra last night whats funny every one complains they got a 2km eggs yet i have gotten all 5km and 2 10km eggs!
My friend still hasn’t gotten a 10 km egg while I’ve had 3 so far 😛
It’s something I playfully hold over her
Nice! What level are you at? I just hatched a slowpoke which gave me enough candy to get a slowbro!
Only level 7. I just went back out after a break and hatched a voltorb then found 2 bulbasaurs and a lickitung!
The game is so much fun. I was recently in a place where there were 4 Pokestops in close vicinity and all had Lure modules all the time. Got so many good and rare Pokemon
Coming home sucks however, the nearest stop to me is a 10 min walk away into town and it sucks that Niantic aren’t accepting anymore requests for now
Still a good way to pass the time however
What I think for the the evos. of them all that have not revealed evos. yet
Comfey- two
Komala- one
Rockruff- one
Mudsdale- none
Wimpod- one
Bounsweet- two
Salandit- two
Drampa- None
Togedemaru- None
Bruxish- one or none
Mimikyu- One or two
Beware- ???
Cutiefly- Two
Comfey – none, too gimmicky looking
Komala – one, because it reminds me of pancham
Rockruff – one, it looks too complex to be a first of three stages
Wimpod – two, each stage getting more confident, and they couldn’t pull it off in one stage
Bounsweet – one, like cherubi or cottonee. I also don’t know how they would pull of two evos for it, it’s a fruit
Salandit – one, believe me I want two but I think the design will be nearly complete after one stage and I don’t think they will over complicate it
Drampa – none, it’s too complete, but also doesn’t look like it needs a prevo
Togedemaru – none, regional pika and all that
Bruxish – none, like alomomola or basculin. Some say that it is like magikarp or feebas, but it is too complex and confident looking to be that, plus it has a dual typing already which doesn’t work in its favor
Mimikyu – one, either a Raichu evo or something completely different, but I doubt that it is a one stage Pokemon at this point
Bewear – prevo, they are hyping it up to be super powerful, so no evo, but it looks too big to be a one stage non dragon Pokemon
Cutiefly – one, like combed or something. The regional bug spot is filled, and not too many other bugs have three stages. Plus idk what they’d do with it
Mudsdale (whoops forgot this one) – prevo, it is complete design size, but I just have a gut feeling that it will be a two stage. My only evidence is that it looks like you’d catch him on the farm on island two, which is too dearly in the game for something that can total a car with one kick.
While I agree that Bruxish probably won’t get an evo (based on its typing & design), I’d like for it to get a pre-evo! It gives my Finneon/Lumineon vibes for whatever reason.
Plus the whole “ugly ducking” trope has already been fulfilled multiple times (Feebas/Milotic, Duckling/Swanna), and so I don’t think that’s an adequate basis to demand an evo.
Similarly to bellosom and froslass, if you were to give an already existing Pokemon a split evo, what would it be?
Combee->Vespiquen would be really cool!
Deerling->Sawsbuck might be interesting? [Does don’t have antlers iirc]
I think Tropius deserves an evolution in general, possible have a split evo but idk into what
Eevee, ofc 😛
Stingking
Deerling already has 4 forms it could never pull off a branched evo
And I had an idea for both a prevo and mega tropius
It would be a ruddy sauropod with a banana on its head like those weird head thingy
And Mega Tropius would have a bigger body, a thicker banana bushel on its neck, antlers with berries, it’s back would have small palm trees with coconuts, larger broad leaf wings, and lastly at the very tip of its tail a pineapple
I like the Tropius idea! I was thinking for Sawsbuck that the split evo wouldn’t have the seasons gimmick (seasons aren’t even in the new gens anyways), so all the Deerling forms would evolve to have the same coat.
Hmmmm
Everything is already pretty awful
The only thing I can think of is Pancham, since Pangoro is born from a Pancham led astray, I feel that Pancham could evolve into a Fighting/Psychic Type and focus its energy into state of zen and perfection
Vigoroth. Although Slaking is very powerful, the Tuant ability sucks… alot. I think it should evolve into a glass cannon. Unlike Slaking, Enerking (I suck a names) cannot take as many hits, but can dish out more damage than Slaking due to it having Vital Spirit instead of Truant. Slaking has Legendary stats (670 base stat total) but it has a bad ability. I think with the Hidden ability Moxie, Enerking (with enough momentum) could sweep teams if it out-speeds most of the opponents Pokemon. I think it’s spread would be similar to Vigoroth’s, having: 90 HP, 130 Atk, 80 Def, 50 Sp.Atk, 60 Sp.Def, 105 Spd, and a BST of 515. It has similar stats to Garchomp in regards to it’s speed and attack, but it can outspeed a Garchomp that isn’t scarfed. I bet someone is going to say it’s broken… and I don’t care. (Also it is pure normal)
The only reason they let Slaking have that power is that it has a clear defined drawback
Like I said “Slaking has Legendary stats (670 base stat total) but it has a bad ability” Mine will only have 515 Bst, 670 with Truant=515 (I think)
I stopped listening halfway through
Well here:
Enerking
Ability: Vital Spirit (HA: Moxie)
Base stats: 90 HP
130 Atk
80 Def
50 Sp.Atk
60 Sp.Def
105 Spd
BST: 515
Warhog: the Macho PKM
Ground/Fighting
Ability Guts/Sheer Force HA: Anger Point
HP 120
Attack 145
Defense 100
Sp Atk 20
Sp Def 95
Speed 70
Bst 550
I what way does warhog have anything to do with this question!?
Because Warhog is clearly better
Sure a little slow but one hell of a bruiser
Has nothing to do with the question tho. Save your fakemon boasting for a separate thread and try not to be rude to the people who post thoughtful responses to other’s questions.
But your stats are too high, I could easily raise mine to 580 (Legendary bird status) but I need it to be believable.
Oh please Arcanine has a higher BST then Warhog
The best part is this thing have sp atk that is basically nonexistent
Stop being a lil you know what here, and try what NL posted to you in chat.
T_T
Psyduck, and male combee
With recent happenings in the Undertale fandom, just felt like I should remind people that when you talk to someone on the internet, there is a human being there. Harassing them and bringing them to misery is not okay. I’m thankful that Pokejungle is such a wonderful, friendly and healthy community. Never change that.
Up yours chump
<3
What happened in undertale?
http://whimsuun.tumblr.com/post/147839572030/seems-an-undertale-blog-committed-suicide
Absolutely tragic. My heart hurts.
It’s so sad to know that people will just go to those lengths for people that disagree with them/their ships. My heart goes out to whoever they have hurt at all, including antifontcest.
Excuse my language, but WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THOSE HATERS!?!? IF THEY LIKE SHIPPING TWO BROTHERS SO MUCH, AND THAT’S THEIR OPINION, WHY CAN’T THEY JUST RESPECT SOMEONE ELSE EXPRESSING THEIR OPINION TOWARDS IT?! Sorry. I don’t like haters….
i never thought the sentence “i found a cubone in the noodles and company bathroom” would make sense to me and yet here we are
What if Salandrit learned a brand new Poison attack
Meltdown
Poison
Damage: 60
The user sprays a concentrated acid onto the opponent. This move is super effective and usable on Steel types
Why hasn’t there ever been a double battle gym since Liza and Tate? I can’t believe more fans are as upset over this as Ian. The gym battles and leaders have gotten extremely stale, especially in gen 5 and 6. It’s like they’re not even trying anymore.