IF THE POLL ISN’T WORKING CORRECTLY FOR YOU: Firstly, I apologize and secondly I want you to know I’m looking for a fix but I have not found one yet. Sorry!
Greetings Junglers, Evan here! I’m bringing you the winner of the Showdown of Sinnoh, somewhat later than planned. The winner of the Sinnoh Gym Leaders is… Volkner with an astonishing 36% of the votes. There hasn’t been a Gym Leader who was so popular compared to its region’s Gym Leaders yet! The runner-up is Candice (15%), followed by Fantina (13%).
This week: The Unovan Gym Leaders. There are a lot more options to choose from this time, so I reckon it’ll be somewhat harder! Good luck and let us know your pick in the comments!
Cilan, Chili and Cress
- Gym Leader 1 (BW)
- Grass, Fire and Water respectively
- Lillipup, Pansage, Pansear and Panpour
- Striaton City
- Triple Badge
- Work Up
- Name: Spices
- Trivia: Their Trainer title in Japanese is “Triple Trouble”
Cheren
- Gym Leader 1 (BW2)
- Normal
- Patrat and Lillipup
- Aspertia City
- Basic Badge
- Work Up
- Name: Ceren, Bulgarian for black
- Trivia: Cheren is the first rival to become a Gym Leader within a generation.
Lenora
- Gym Leader 2 (BW)
- Normal
- Herdier and Watchog
- Nacrene City
- Basic Badge
- Retaliate
- Name: Normal
- Trivia: Lenora is the only Unova Gym Leader whom Ash had to rebattle to earn the badge.
Roxie
- Gym Leader 2 (BW2)
- Poison
- Koffing and Whirlipede
- Virbank City
- Toxic Badge
- Venoshock
- Name: Toxic and rock music
- Trivia: Roxie is the first Poison Gym Leader after Gen 1.
Burgh
- Gym Leader 3
- Bug
- Whirlipede, Dwebble and Leavanny
- Castelia City
- Insect Badge
- Struggle Bug
- Name: Bug
- Trivia: Burgh is the only returning Gym Leader in BW2 that only uses Gen 5 Pokémon.
Elesa
- Gym Leader 4
- Electric
- Emolga, Emolga and Zebstrika
- Nimbasa City
- Bolt Badge
- Volt Switch
- Name: Electric and Tesla
- Trivia: Elesa is the only female Electric-type Gym Leader.
Clay
- Gym Leader 5
- Ground
- Krokorok, Palpitoad and Excadrill
- Driftveil City
- Quake Badge
- Bulldoze
- Name: Well, I guess clay
- Trivia: Clay is called the Underground Boss in Japan.
Skyla
- Gym Leader 6
- Flying
- Swoobat, Unfezant and Swanna
- Mistralton City
- Jet Badge
- Acrobatics
- Name: Sky
- Trivia: Skyla’s grandfather was a legendary pilot.
Brycen
- Gym Leader 7 (BW)
- Ice
- Vanillish, Cryogonal and Beartic
- Icirrus City
- Freeze Badge
- Frost Breath
- Name: Ice
- Trivia: Brycen is the only Ice-type specialist whose team only consists of pure Ice-type Pokémon.
Drayden
- Gym Leader 7 (BW2) or 8 (B)
- Dragon
- Fraxure, Druddigon and Haxorus
- Opelucid City
- Legend Badge
- Dragon Tail
- Name: Dragon and den
- Trivia: The only differences between Drayden’s and Iris’ teams in BW, are all the genders and the abilities of Haxorus and Druddigon.
Iris
- Gym Leader 8 (W)
- Dragon
- Fraxure, Druddigon and Haxorus
- Opelucid City
- Legend Badge
- Dragon Tail
- Name: Flaming dragon iris (a flower)
- Trivia: Iris is the first Champion to keep her Japanese name.
Marlon
- Gym Leader 8 (BW2)
- Water
- Carracosta, Wailord and Jellicent
- Humilau City
- Wave Badge
- Scald
- Name: Marine
- Trivia: Because of Marlon’s addition in BW2, there are two Water-type Gym Leaders in Unova (the first one being Cress).
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X — EVAN
If it had been Cilan, Chili, OR Cress I would’ve voted for Chili, but because I dislike the other two I voted for Marlon.
Im that way except about Cilan
Good to know that Volkner is the only Sinnoh Gym Leader to use single-types. I’m learning so much about Skyla.
Haha I thought the same thing
Sorry hahaha I changed it 🙂
I honestly forgot about Marlons existence, tough choice for me between lenora, Iris or Roxie but imma say Iris because she’s my fav female companion that ash traveled with, she called him out when he was being an idiot, which is always
Misty did it first <3 ?
misty is my second fav, only because she annoyed me because when she called out ash it was super aggressive and I don’t like that, Iris just said what she was thinking and moved on
She’s just passionate 😉
it still gives me anxiety
He threw some shade back so it’s all in good fun
fair enough, Iris will always be the better companion in my eyes though 😛 and Im thankful they never got shipped, I hate shipping in pokemon 😛
There were totally some moments that hinted at ash and misty though
babe Marlon
I’m gonna repost here what I said but is on the other page and it is
What Pokemon do you think should get an Alolan form? Mine are
Primeape-Fighting/???
To make it in tune with the Jungle like Mankey’s are!
Seel/Dewgong-Water or Water/Fire
After currents moved them to Alola they had to shed their need of cold water and went for tropical waters as Fire types
Clefairy/Clefable- Fire/Fairy
Maybe instead of praising the Moon they praise the sun (exclusive to sun version)
I would like to see Staryu/ Starmie get an Alola form, but the typing switches to Water/Ground with the ability Regenerator. The change is it gains camouflage abilities and builds up better defensive qualities so that it is better protected from the Alola predators in the water. Where it gains better defense, it loses speed as a result.
But if a part of the body is cut off excluding the core it regenerates but I still like the idea!
The idea was sorta like how starfish are hard and have a tough exoskeleton, so I thought it would be cool if Starmie changed defensively rather than offensively
Oh that makes sense I take back what I said
It’s perfectly fine
I would love forms for those two. I always liked them
Farfetch’d could become Ground/Fighting. It doesn’t look like much of a flyer and it already has a grass sword.
Ekans and Arbok could become dark-type snakes.
Those sound good
Skyla because she owns a fuckin airport :bd and she takes you to the Nature Preserve
That Marlon is scorching
Had to vote Elesa. She can be one of the more difficult gym leaders from Unova, especially on challenge mode and without a ground type (probably the greatest gym battle I’ve ever had, only won because I stalled out a leech seed.) So I have mass respect for her and I also just like the presence she gives off. It’s not superiority, but confidence. Her design is nice too and I also appreciate how she helped out Bianca. It’s unfortunate that she’s one of the “sexy” gym leaders of this region though, and people will look past her other good qualities when voting.
Waiting for corocoro to leak and we get this .-.
But I vote Drayden cause he’s a GRAND-daddy :*
Clay, because smexy.
@Haxford Will you be doing an Elite 4 + Champion addition as well?
If I see that people want it I might 🙂 how would you like the format then?
I actually like how you’re doing it now with the gym leaders. Maybe the Champs can be it’s own entity throughout all the generations. Maybe do a final pick between all the voted winners for a grand champion?
Why you all should watch the XY anime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiW6_H6SXN4
Im too lazy
Nice new profile pic EastGovnah
Thank you.
I’m not in the mood to torture my eyes right now, but if I am, I’ll remember this.
Quick summary: Best Wishes was very cringeworthy, but they got rid of most of the staff who worked on it, and replaced them with the core team from Guilty Crown, which in turn makes the XY anime more story and character focused, rather than boring us to hell with filler episodes (like a handful of them in the entire XY and XYZ arc)
BW was horrible, and that makes me skeptical to watch this. I’ll just read the synopsis, and if he wins I’ll watch.
Fair enough. But as I said, XY has almost no filler episodes and its very much focused on story and character development. Like Ash has really grown as a trainer ánd a person
XY and Z has been a good series so far, I can guarantee it’s better, some of the battles are really good. I would recommend to watch it in English Sub because it sounds better.
XYZ animation have set a new standard for future anime series imho. Its just incredible.
I have actually started watching it since the beginning of XY and Z because Zygarde ties into the story, so I went ahead and watched it. I gotta say, XY and Z is pretty good, way better than the torturous BW saga which made me stop watching the series till now.
I non-stop watched the anime till Sinnoh. Then I suddenly just lost interest and didn’t watched B/W at first. I got back into it because I enjoyed the gen 5 games and I just assumed the anime would be equally good. I did finish the whole of Best Wishes, but it is something I’m still trying to forget, it was so incredibly bad lol
I could talk all day about the negatives of the garbage that is BW.
Lol ikr? Even Ash’s team (bar Krookodile) was just fucking pathetic. There’s 1 episode in the entire B/W series I genuinely enjoy and thats the Charizard v Dragonite battle.
Ash’s team sucked ass. Most of them weren’t even fully evolved, save for Leavanny, Krookodile, and Unfezant. In the past they made us care about his team, like Charizard, Infernape, and Gliscor, while in BW most of them were bland and didn’t even had backstory, they were just there for Ash to use. Tepig’s backstory was pathetic because it was essentially Charizard’s backstory all over again, and then they just dropped Tepig’s story after he evolved for some reason. Only one on his team I liked was Oshawott, he was fine. And it was so stupid that Ash’s Pikachu, the one who defeated Tobias’s Latios, gets knocked out by a level 5 Snivy a few episodes later and a newly evolved Lucario in the League. At least he has Ash-Greninja now.
Unfezant is the crappiest bird ever, so I dont even count it as a team member
That true
Sinnoh was good in my opinion, I liked some of the battles, the characters were solid, and Ash’s rival is good.
whenever you get here ultron i finished my idea
Estoy aquí
above
This is a toughy lol I’m torn between Elesa, The three brothers, Cheren, Roxie, and Marlon hahaha I can’t choose!!
I gotta say it is hard to choose because of how great the character development was in gen V but i have to go with Marlon, there is something about his laid-back personality that makes him stand out from the rest
and his elevator music
Ah yes thats the best part lol
Sigh.. How much longer till the next floor?
Hey I had this idea yesterday and didn’t want today it until next day’s discussion, but what if after we beat the SM game, we could host a Pokejungle competition (since we can host our own competitions now) where we can only use the team we used in game. The competition could be held after 2 months of the game’s release.
@Ultron6:disqus here ya go my evil idea http://i.imgur.com/GITqM1B.jpg
my alola team currently 🙂
I like that 🙂
Lol the trainer was fun to edit lol, eyepatch is back too,
You should be able to wear eyepatches in the game 😮
oh u know i would wear it all the time
Although I must ask, whats with the derp face on Rowlet? xP
its a insdie joke, I added sanic face to rowlet one time and it just stuck to me
O god xD At first I thought you just meant Sonic and then I googled “Sanic”…kinda regret it
sanic is a meme lol
Yeah, sorta like spoderman haha
Sanic the Hegehog?
yep Rawlet
Took me a while to notice Komala. XD
Honestly if i wouldnt have done that it would been a miss opportunity XD
Rowlet is the best part of the pic lol
Damn it I want to make a trainer portrait now
I will put u in dirt XD
It would just make me stronger
Now this is the one I’ve been waiting for
It was during my battle with Clay is when my Drilbur evolved,
Blow after blow each of our Pokemon fell, but it finally was down to the main event Drilbur versus Excadrill
Drilbur was clearly outmatched by every one of Excadrill’s attacks, whatever Drilbur did Clay’s Excadrill did better, things began to look grim as a powerful Metal Claw sent Drilbur flying and crashed into the wall
After a insulting show of words I decided to throw the match, but as I tried to recall Drilbur he was nowhere to be found; befuddled the room began to shake the ground started to crack open, blinding white light escaped from the fissures, the tremors got even more violently until Drilbur bursted out in evolution!
Now standing before me was my very own Excadrill, a look of determination was painted on his face knowing he still had something to prove! The two duked it out without nary a response from their trainers, With Excadrill’s moves being enhanced he finally perfected Rock Slide which buried Clay’s Excadrill allowing him to land the finishing blow
Earning me the Quake Badge
Chapter 1 in Earthen’s upcoming novel ”My journey to Ground Greatness”
This is chapter 8 of book 5
Silly Ian, Pokémon don’t evolve mid-battle. Your story fake af tho
You know how f-ing amazing that would be in the games?
Well of course they don’t, but Drilbur did evolve after the match
But if I want to write it like this it is my own choice
i liked it
You should read the one about my Krokorok going rogue for a day joining a renegade group of thieving Scraggy
you should read the day i got my eyepatch
Didn’t I do that?
no
Cool story
bro.
Well what I mean is it’s a okay one
Marlon’s name is also based off a swordfish.
Off of some comments below about the show who is your favorite companion of Ash’s and who’s your least mines gotta be Brock or Serena for favorite and I hate Iris with a passion a close second is the fruit Cilan though
Iris and Cilan were annoying af, BW anime was terrible to begin with,
TOO MANY RIVALS THE ANIME
Also Team Rocket wasn’t funny. That was weird.
mostly the the anime had so many characters but no development, Serena got more development in her first few episodes then iris ever did
Iris’s team sucked
“Oh I’m a dragon master wannabe”
“What is your team?”
“An op Axew, a bratty Emolga, a Excadrill with trust issues, and an Angry Dragonite”
Basically a teenage hormones team
I think other Ash’s Pokemon it sucked
Yeah, it was good they weren’t in every episode but when they showed up they were SO BLAND!
That’s the reason I am losing likeness of the show cause team rockets too serious now and not funny they are more like terrorists than thieves anymore.
Not to mention Ash’s Pikachu, the one that beat a Latios, lost to a level 5 Snivy and a newly evolved Lucario. Really?
Misty the best, everyone else can buzz off. Except maybe Brock but only because he was in the original 3
eh misty was ok.
She is 3rd for me
Misty was sassy, determined, passionate, compassionate, kind, and more. She’s great.
Opinions.
Facts. 😉
Actually it’s pretty much the same like yours lol. Only thing different is that I did like Bonnie a lot, she was funny, mischievous, and somewhat refreshing in my opinion.
Misty, May, Dawn, Clemont because I ship Clemont and Alan (i hate that name for heartbreaking reasons), and Serena.
You ship Clemont and Alan? For any particular reason or just because?
No reason. The pairing between a strong, quiet type and a nervous, geeky, and easily embarrassed type is just cute to me… I don’t know why…. O///O
thats how me and my ex were, I miss her so much and her mma fighting ways 🙁
Story of my life: When you’re gay af, but like straight dudes and not other gay people…….. It doesn’t make sense.
most the girls i like dont notice me
Story of mine too :/
We live together, we suffer together.
We Pokejungle together.
I can see that, but something makes me ship AshxClemont more… I mean Clemont is always trying to impress Ash and stuff…
… I ship them too! Clemont is sooo cute though!!!
“they both wear blue” lol jk
In order mine goes
Brock
Serena
Misty
Dawn
Bonnie
Clemont
May
Max
Tracey
Cilan
Iris
My vote goes to Elisa, she’s really cool and helped Bianca with her dad, having one of the better little gym stories in Unova.
How I miss the Black and White / Black 2 and White 2 games / eras. My vote will have to go to Elesa due to several reasons: I chose Oshawott as my starter and due to my hatred for Ground-types, did not catch any Ground-types and that little, pesky flying squirrel called Emolga Volt Switched me to death. She, along with Lenora remain the only gym leaders in Black and White I had to re-battle. However, I grinded my Swadloon to the bitter ends and she eventually became a Leavanny and battled the trainers to the east of Nimbasa City and evolved my Dewott into a Samurott. Additionally Elesa has one of the best gym designs and puzzles ever! If they ever include gyms in the Pokemon Park, her gym should be No. 1 in the priority list, Lastly, her overall design, character, and gauntlet for the trainer were all great aspects of what truly made her stand out.
Honorable Mentions: Iris, Cheren, Lenora, and Drayden because he gives off daddy vibes.
You dont have the gen 5 games?
I do, but I mean miss as in like the hype train leading up to the release, the realization of the plot, the characters, the story, the plot, EVERYTHING! I want BW3, BW4, BW5… and so on.
Didn’t know that Skyla’s bit of Trivia is that she’s also a Sinnoh gym leader, haha
I enjoyed Gen V as a whole, the plot was really involving of the gym leaders and they actually had a role which was nice. None of them caused me problems however, even on the hard mode of the game
Hahahaha, I didn’t read the article too closely and didn’t even see that.
I thought it was amazing in BW that the gym leaders were helping out to fight Team Plasma, they cared about something happening to the region.
Yes that was good too yet wasn’t the Striaton brothers not their to notify the police I forgot
Yeah I believe so, so glad everyone participated.
Yup they still helped in a way
when they were rumored to be the shadow triad was also cool
That would have made them the most interesting Gym leaders
Only Lenora caused problems…. Everyone else was essentially easy
can we all agree that BW anime openings were just terrible?
Yes theme and animation sucked
I remember every friggin lyric to the first opening and that damn chorus, “It’s not always black and white” -_- It’s like my guilty pleasure song.
BW anime in general was rubbish.
It’s sad, cos it started so well.
it did, then iris came with her annoying Axew, only thing I liked was Oshawott
I hated that stupid Axew SO MUCH 🙁 I couldn’t stand it when they tried and failed to make it cute with that horrible voice….
I didn’t care about Axew. I found Dawns Piplup in DP infinitely more annoying
I never watched DP, I found piplup and Dawn insufferable.
May is still my favourite companion of Ash’s. And she had a beast team, through Hoenn and the BF.
I always liked her with Blaziken, it just suited her so much
it made me hate the pokemon
I like it up to the first Don Battle Tournament. I thought it was a cool idea and would allow them to throw in more official battles and reduce the number of fillers.
Boy was I wrong, not only did they not do them enough, some of the later ones limited Ash to only use 1-3 Pokemon….when he was rotating around 8-9 Pokemon.
because heres the thing. After they werent allowed to use team plasma. it was filler
Team Plasma could have been really cool. I remember that double episode they were supposed to have in Castalia which essentially got cancelled because of an incident. It went to complete shit after that.
its annoying in a way that it never aired
It started with Ash suddenly being a weakling lol Very bad sign from the start imo
True, he had waaay too many unevolved mons
I didn’t have a problem with that. I enjoyed the fact that they tried doing something different. Ash catching more than 6 Pokemon, darker team rocket, don battle tournaments, Ash actually training his Pokemon …. But then they just reversed everything and I never understood why.
Feels as though the writers have a coherent plot and idea of what they want to do up until the 2nd gym and then everything is rushed and written in a few hours or so. Good thing the XY plot and characters have been handled much better.
This is exactly how I feel. It felt it was going somewhere up until the Lenora battle, then it just sort of…stopped
Its thanks to Best Wishes that a lot of people lost faith in the anime. Which a real pity, because they have redeemed themselves with XY and XYZ.
Can confirm, I used to watch the anime religiously. I stopped around when Ash battled Skyla, and only watched a few here and there afterwards.
I fully watched the Best Wishes series, because I am the kind of person who finishes something, even though its really bad. And yes it was dogshit, but as I said they redeemed themselves with the Kalos arcs. Also a interesting sidenote is that they replaced the team that worked on Best Wishes, so none of those writers are still present.
Ugh, that battle was so stupid, when I watched the show I actually skipped the Gym battles and tournaments because they were super boring…. Unlike X and Y where battles are all dynamic and exciting!
I’m gonna be to go for Clay. Ground types are cool and his Main was Excadrill, one my favourites from Gen 5