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
Wait what is with Skyla’s trivia? xD
On the basis of listing favorites, what are your favorite villainous teams? Mine would have to solely be Team Plasma. Ghetsis, the mastermind behind Plasma was a genius, utilizing the love of Pokemon to meet his own twisted agenda and even going so far as to use his own adopted son to create a world in his favor. The idea of liberating Pokemon from their owners because they’re merely, “used as slaves” is the darkest theme Pokemon has ever dabbled with and it was done so delicately, with great finesse, care, and love and in a way that was not preachy. The Team Plasma grunts had back stories, they told the player why they joined the cause and weren’t just mindless puppets because no matter how influenced they were by Ghetsis, they still had a fiber of their own will to command their actions and opinions. N was a tragic anti-hero fitting of a Shakespearian play. His desires and then his realizations all played out on the great stage created by the man he thought loved him, but was simply his puppeteer. Although there were many plot holes and aspects that could have been fixed or drawn out to make more sense, Team Plasma were really well fleshed out and developed, so much so that they gain the title of best villainous team in my books. Admit it, you had goosebumps when Ghetsis first appeared and preached to the audience of Accumula Town.
Probably gonna have to agree with Team Plasma. They are the only bad guys we as the player could actually root for. That’s what makes a great villain in my opinion.
Nostalgia vote goes to Emerald Team Magma :p
I actually rooted for Team Plasma until Ghetsis showed his lil rear end and I lost my shiz.
Team Plasma no contest, for most of the same reasons as you so I won’t repeat. Second place for me would be Magma in ORAS.
A tie between Team Rocket and Team Plasma. Team rocket because they weren’t going after any legendaries or anything, they were just criminals and thieves, and were quite memorable in my opinion. Team Plasma because you could be sympathetic with their goals, as they only want to do what was right for Pokemon.
Since we are talking about Unova, what was your Pokemon team in BW and BW2?
Mine was:
(Black)
Emboar
Mandibuzz
Galvantula
Stoutland
Simisage
Golurk
(Black 2)
Samurott
Ampharos
Unfezant
Magmortar
Haxorus
Leavanny
B2 was my memory
Emboat
Arcanine
Lucario
Skarmory
Glaceon
Leafeon
yea my emboar became a boat
lol
Why two fire, two fighting, and two steel types? Seems excessive.
I can’t even remember mine. I think it was Emboar and Excadrill…..and dunno the rest.
My memory does not go back that far :0
It’s ok, it was sorta hard for me to think back about my Black team.
check your hall of fame XD
I’ve restarted the game many times, I don’t have my original hall of fame.
– Serperior
– Mandibuzz
– Eevee
– Lucario
– Lilligant
– Stoutland
By far the weirdest team I have ever had.
never evolved your eevee?
Nope. Didn’t evolve my Snivy until the E4 and by then it was a lil too late, but I did it for the stats…
I’ve played the game so many times..But my original team for White was:
Serperior
Unfeazant
Zebstrika
Simipour
Krookodile
Darmanitan
My current team on White 2 is:
Lilligant
Volcarona
Claydol
Zoroark
Swanna
Cincinno
White: Samurott, Liepard, Crustle, Reuniclus, Ferrothorn, Chandelure
White2: Golduck, Crobat, Flygon, Magnezone, Cofagrigus, Sawsbuck
hm I was thinking Ash wins the Kalos Leauge and wins a trip to Alola, Seeing the tribal challenge and decides to take it. seeing how mallow might be the new companion maybe this could be a first for the series, Serena joining Ash in Alola giving the anime the first 1 boy 2 girl group.
I wouldn’t get my hopes up for Serena coming along :/
well i just think shes a great character who still can be relevant since her feelings for ash.
I would like that, we could see more of Ash and Serena which would be interesting to see how this goes in Alola.
I have HIGH hopes for Mallow; strong female lead that helps Ash perfect his battling skills and is a blend of in-game Iris and anime Misty. She is a much more proficient (Ash is like a good singer who doesn’t always hit the notes perfectly, but when they’re on fire, they surprise you with their potential) battler and at first only acts as a tourist guide for Ash, but due to the villainous team and her wanting to stop them / act like a spy, joins Ash. I actually want to start writing a Sun/Moon fanfiction.
Mallow and Lillie could also work, Mallow being the new broke/Misty and Lillie being like the smarty pants of pokemon
Elesa? The only gym leader that matters. Everyone else (especially the triplets) can go
The triplets were actually cool… especially Cress <3 <3 <3
the only i like was Chili. Everyone else? keep them
I don’t know him… *sips tea*
Marlon of course <3
Elesa and Skyla are literally the only two options. I’m choosing Skyla for this. rf.
I don’t understand why Elsa has so many votes. She had a very robotic personality
Because she’s really cool? That’s why I voted for her.
Never really liked her. But fair enough.
You know those types of people you know NOTHING about but raduate an alluring aura? That’s Elesa, the one and only.
imo Elesa was the hardest gym leader, my non competitve mind battling that stupid emolga and zebstrika volt switching every single ground move. She had the best gym leader song and liked her personality. Plus she was a good character in the anime so props for that
That perfect speed IV, EV trained Tynamo… ?
I was using a ground type my run through I never really noticed. Honestly I only played both BW and B2W2 once and I used ground types, so her gym wasn’t the worst for me.
I hate Ground-types. Phanpy is the only one I like and maybe the Ryhorn line.
Ground types are cool. Excadrill and Mamoswine are probably my favourite. Diggersby is badass. Krokorock was awesome, Donphan, Steelix and of course the formidable Groudon, now known as the even more formidable P-Don
I guess it’s because of their cool/neutral coloring on most of them and I like warm tones with contrast.
Mamoswine is my favourite Ground-Type. It’s just a huge, fluffy woolly mammoth.
Diggersby…-barf-
Diggersby the G
Perhaps one of the ugliest pokemon ever created
dont say that about Quik Bunny the Nesquick Bunny
I think that honour goes to Druddigon.
Diggersby on the hand is a being of beauty
stunkfish would battle for that title
Druddigon is not a looker either.
qwilfish, stunfisk, pan trio, simi trio, thoh, sawk, djinn trio, tympole and…. ugh….. Palpitoad (vomits everywhere) say hi.
Ew tympole and Plapitoad are top 10
She’s confident and it shows. Tis nice
That tan thooo… *_*
On Skyla? Or did you mean to respond to jota cause I’m with you there.
Oops. Yeah, it was meant for Jota. Marlon is fineeee.
yeah I still need that card in my collection. hopefully my booster box of breakpoint has one in it.
hm quick question, since x/y and oras did it, you think we gonna get a event mon that launches with the game?
Probably gonna be Rockruff
well i hope that means rockruff is not common lol
But it also means literally everyone will use it in a play through
nooo 🙁
Pretty sure pre-orders get a QC code for Magearna
Thought of the Day: The change from Tynamo to Eelektrik is so glaring though…
Still no remoraid to octillery
Or Dragonair to Dragonite.
Magikarp to Gyarados
Feebas to Milotic O_O THAT GLO UP!!
Puberty is a wonderful thing
why can’t i vote
You’re probably a Woman living in the 16th century.
Sorry….bad joke
Did you just assume their gender?!
Sorry, bad 2016 joke.
Some browsers work, others don’t. Safari has worked for me, chrome doesn’t. Mobile is way easier though. Chrome works for me on that.
Thank’s Safari worked.
i can help you if you tell me who you gonna vote for :p
I’m voting Lenora, she’s awesome. also, whats up with Skyla’s trivia?
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
skyla is a transforming morphing lizard that can change her body into Volkner. Did you not know? Is on trivia in the pokemon manual
Sorry, I changed it!
I voted Drayden! Even though I am meh on this one.
I find Elesa 2.0 very hot but that is it.
No one really challenged me in the region. Really poorest region gymleader wise.
Wrong. That’d be Johto/Kalos.
i’d have to agree with you, Ultron (even if you did try to kill the Avengers). johto was a joke gym leader-wise, I mean, all their teams sucked (pryce, the 7th gym leader, had a weaker team than the 6th gym leader!) and the gen 6 gym leaders were so forgettable (love viola, however)
Yeah. Johto gym leaders were generally bland in terms of personality, didn’t do much story wise, hardly used Johto pokemon, and were generally weak! Kalos ones were forgettable and easy, at least Johto had Miltank.
I can’t be wrong cause it is my opinion.
Wrong again.
https://media.giphy.com/media/ToMjGpPu8bsNL7l0RqM/giphy.gif
LoL! I ain’t that awful. 😉
I’m going to steal this lmao
XY was worse in Gym Leader quality.
I liked that for the first the gym leaders actually helped take a stand against the evil team.
Even though they didn’t do much, it’s the thought that counts.
They are close in my opinion, but somehow XY’s were more appealing to me at least. Neither made me really stress out at any stage, except Clemont cause I hadn’t a grass or ground type at my side so it was a bit pesky.
Me giving Elesa all my votes
http://www.muumuse.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/xtina-computer.gif
Girl you know she doesn’t need em. She’s gonna win. I’ve been right about every region so far, except Kanto, but I bet that one was rigged.
coughs *Hoenn was rigged* cough.
Pfff we all know people only voted Flannery because of people objectifying her
Typing is hard.
I voted Wattson because I objectify him
LMAO!!
To be fair I objectify Steven, but he wasn’t in the Poll
Ewww
Ultron stahp being mean, not every1 can agree with furries ya know
Being mean is fun. Plus I usually do it in jest 😉
Cant wait for Kalos. I will make 100s of fake accounts to vote Wulfric. Kakuna’s signature move applies to me regarding Wulfric.
O god, he’s hideous.
Wanna string shot him
Ahh please stop.
Watch him whip and fall, tryna dial for life support
oml XD
Winona? Leg only. Ended careers. robbed queen that got her place snubbed by flops wallace and flannery.
Honestly though I never even hear people talk about her. Her altaria w/ dragon dance and earthquake are the only good parts about her.
i liked her team tbh. you had alot of different types in a monoflying team
She has a nice team, but Pelipper, Tropius, and Swablu (why did she have this?) were pushovers. Skarmory was a bit more bulky than the others, but not difficult.
Winona was good. Tough in Emerald cos you can’t get Ice Beam as TM beforeher, other than 10,000 coins from the Casino in Manville.
I used to skip ahead to Lillycove, buy Blizzard from the Store, and then proceed to miss against her Altaria
Not the worst gym leader in Hoenn, that’s for sure. I like her, but you need more than a decent team to get my vote. I chose Wallace because he had like triple the story that the other leaders had.
*in twitter voice*: juan is better. juan ended him. wallace who? flopallace
Juan is cool, but still is overshadowed by Wallace since he had like no part to play in anything.
Tate and Liza were the hardest for me in Emerald.
Juan (and Champion Wallace) were a simple Gardevoir CM/Thunderbolt Sweep.
Same, they were hard. I almost voted for them because they are a great challenge.
Yasss!!! I didn’t know Flannery had a career to end *sips tea*
Gurl u know Kanto wasn’t rigged, u just salty cause ur fave flopped down the leaderboard
Gurl… cringe
Why Natsu whyyyyy
O///O I’m sorry senpai!
Girl, Misty lost by one vote. That’s basically a tie.
i- i wanted to vote for misty but it didnt work so i ended her dreams
SEE. It’s a tie. I was still right.
That attitude is annoying
js
-_-
Btw, ur gifs give me life!!! X-tina <3
honestly as much as im a gen 4 fan. Gen 5 had the best gym leader designs
By the way do we get to do an E4 poll after this. And then the Champ one.
Champion is obviously between Steven and Cynthia.
But E4 will be good. Flint in probably my all time favourite.
Cynthia ended Steven. Point Blank and the Period
Steven let Cynthia win cos he’s a gentleman.
Plus her Garchomp would just wreck anything he got.
Nah. Garchomp gets wrecked by multiple Pokemon that Steven owns
None of them can match its speed. He has really slow pokemon. None of his pokemon even have a type advantage either. Aggron has dragonclaw, but would die from earthquake. It has sturdy, but couldn’t OHKO her Garchomp. She’d probs switch to Milotic anyway
Garchomp can be walled by Skarmory, Claydol or Craydily depending on the move set. Garchomp Is strong but it needs more than 4 moves to truly beat Stevens entire team.
I dunno if we are referring to in-game movesets or not, but Claydol learns Ice Beam and Aggron learns Ice Punch.
Mega Metagross is also faster and learns Ice Punch. Lives an EQ and Fire Blast from full health.
Craydily walls Milotic. Skarmory takes Roserade without HP Fire, otherwise again Craydily. The only real issue is Spritomb with Will-o-Wisp
Again I don’t know the in-game movesets. Just theorymonnong here. Depends on a number if factors but it’s a battle I want to watch In the anime
Yeah I was going off of movesets that they both use in game 😛 Garchomp probably couldn’t sweep all of them, but I guess it really ends up as who gets lucky with type matchups. I think if they battled in real life, Cynthia would have the advantage due to type coverage though 😛
In game I would probably agree. But the anime ignores type coverage for the most part. (See Hawlucha vs Slaking and Medicham vs Snorlax for the most extreme examples). It would just be an epic anime battle to witness. Cynthia might edge it, but keep in mind Stevens Mega Metagross takes Flare Blitz from Mega Charizard X and shrugs it off.
I guess it would also depend if Cynthia would use Mega Garchomp…and whether or not that’d be a good or bad choice.
listen, i wont start drama but everytime cynthia and steven battled in the PWT in my game, cynthia won so yeah thats the absolute proof
Lol. If that happens everytime, it’s programmed to be that way. Doesn’t prove anything.
lol i was being sarcastic. the only that usually wins on my pwt is blue ugh
Are we doing an E4 one? Is it just going to be a free for all with all of them in one big poll?
watch ugly bruno being twice and losing twice
He’s lame with his dumb Onix. I’d probably vote Seibold or maybe Malva. I like his character design a lot, and Malva’s side story. Karen is nice too, but I don’t like her team unless its her rematch one.
that’d be a shame, I love diantha, she’s my favorite pokemon character.
We might! I’ve heard more people ask about this, so why not 🙂
Drayden cause he’s a buff grand-daddy :/
I don’t usually like daddy types, but Drayden is FINEEEEE as hell.
His beard it too weird for me 😛
Too skinny for my taste, need them stocky buff daddies. Wulfric
To each their own O`.’o
guys i made bruxish look even more bad
http://i.imgur.com/O5BKJDz.jpg
I really hope it evolves to give it some appeal
Them purple lips thoo… they got Jeffrey Star’s lip line lookin’ over their shoulders
its color scheme is just really hard to work with.
I was only jk, it actually looks good. What software do you use?
photoshop. it gets pretty easy once you know what ur doing
I wanna flush Bruxish down the toilet
OML XD XD XD
The treatment plants couldn’t event treat this trash.
That’s actually kinda cool though. Maybe a lighter yellow?
the bright yellow is looks odd on it
I thought corocoro was supposed to leak today because it’s officially coming out the 12th .-.
well news are coming out the 12th too, we might just get 2 new pokemon again lol
Skiddooo long time no come to chat
It can technically leak any day…. There is no one day corocoro will leak.
okay LONGpokedex -w-
Wow zinger :O
I predicted tomorrow night
I’m so bummed CoroCoro didn’t leak last night. Maybe they didn’t find anything new? Joe said they might just cover last week’s announcement.
Ughh nooooo that’d suck! I want news before I go away tomorrow
Well Serebii Joe is wrong. Corocoro is covering southern Alola.
CoroCoro will be released on August 12th, the same day the Pokemon Company is revealing news. We’re likely going to see a CoroCoro leak tomorrow or on the 10th.
Yep. We could even get it tonight before it turns 12am. But we usually get it after midnight.
I have the hardest time telling the difference between Chaos and Ultron because I think of them as the same person. I honestly am confuzzled at this point. And here I thought I had everyone at gun-point (metaphorically).
Ohh I thought it was the same person too .-.
Ultron is chaos, but Chaos is not Ultron.
YOU CAN’T TAKE ME ALIVE COPPERS! props to annoying who remembers the Spongebob episode it comes from!
Is that the episode where spongebob gets his license and then Ms. Puff tries to steal his car? I’m blanking T-T
It’s the one that’s basically a dream sequence at the end.
The episode where Mrs. Puff and Spongebob crashed near the Senior Citizen Center into a fruit punch truck?
Noooo, it’s the box episode. Although I cheated. I’m cheating! I’m cheating! I’m cheating!
“NO JOHNNY DON’T DO IT”
The Idiot Box was always my favorite episode 🙂
chaos: lawful neutral
ultron: chaotic good
I’ll take it. My personality on here can be a bit bipolar as well.
and i used to be a goat
And then we sacrificed your mortal body and you ascended into the heavens to be reborn as a god.
so a skiddo become a god, thats new XD
I’m Switzerland
I voted cheren because in B/W 2 he becomes hot. Hidden power me daddy
I can’t decide between Skyla or Elesa dammit :/
let me pick for you: elesa
I think Elesa has more personality, although I like Skyla. Plus her gym doesn’t make you break your legs.
True, but Skyla is kinda hot tho I think I’ll go for her. Sorry thegreatcarbinkle.
Nooo that’s not how you vote
I dont remember any gym leader battles so I voted based on hotness c:
I remember my Gym battles and I still voted based on hotness too.
-facepalm-
-gets out spray bottle-
BAD!
Why is Elesa winning? She’s not even pretty and she’s supposed to be a model!
shes hot and has dem legs.
She’s a stick! At least Skyla has some thickness e.e
Cause straight boys have no taste. I mean, even I can see Skyla is hot.
Ikr! Scrawny girls are not hot! I want a girl with some kinda comfort, not a skeleton
…Her and Skyla have basically the same body structure.
VOTE FOR DRAYDEN
1) Electric type
2) Sweet gym, both times
3) Bianca moment
4) Gives off a cool aura
5) Challenging
6) Nice character design
i gonna give you another reason to vote for Elesa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pTFLxeg6tg
nah
yas
yes
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Fun fact: GameFreak used a similar soundfont to The World Ends with You’s “Dancer in the Street”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NtFBFDocCE
most of the comments were pointing that. it really a nice reference and i really like the beat
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