Gym Leader Showdown: The Results

Greetings Junglers, Evan here! I’m bringing you the end of the Gym Leader Showdown-series. I had a lot of fun creating this series and I hope you had fun reading it. If so, there might be another series coming…

So, let’s not skirt around it any further. I’ll give you the winner of the Gym Leader Showdown.

It’s Volkner! He won with 24,7% of the votes. He is a very popular Gym Leader among our community apparently!Sinnoh - Volkner

2nd place: Elesa (17,1%)

3rd place: Clair (16,4%)

4th place: Wallace (16,2%)

5th place: Sabrina (14,9%)

6th place: Valerie (10,7%)

Are you satisfied with the winner? Who should’ve won if you were in charge? Let us know!

X — EVAN

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896 thoughts on “Gym Leader Showdown: The Results”

  1. Why is Volkner liked? I thought he was known as a character who sulks? Can someone explain the appeal of Volkner?

    Personally, if I could decide I would have easily have Elesa as the winner, as a bit of a sidenote

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    • 1) Cool and simple design
      2) cool city with cool theme
      3) mains the beautiful beast known as Luxray
      4) electric type
      5) has a bit of story
      6) Flint dynamic

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        • Well his story is that he’s depressed and kind of lost interest in battling. And then Flint, his good buddy, stops you and asks you if you can help reignite his spark for battling! So then you get him to return to the gym and stuff and remind him why he likes being a gym leader

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          • Oh that’s quite awesome actually, I only seem to remember him being depressed…. I never disliked him, but I just never understood why he would be considered a favourite.. That clears everything up, cheers!

        • His story with Flint was good. It shows how a long term friend will always be there for you. Flint sees his friend going through a rough patch, and so sets off to reignite his passion.

          Volkner was shown as an incredibly smart and talented person who designed a lot of Sunnyshore city, with an emphasis on harnessing electrical energy (Sunnyshore Tower which is anime exclusive)

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          • Well i’m watching MandJTV’s Nuzlocke of Pokemon Platinum so I shall probably end up seeing this again for myself soon

          • I think the anime does more justice to him that the games. The anime allowed them to expand his story quite a bit.

          • It basically expanded on his Game story.

            Volkner had completely lost interested in challengers for his Gym Badge, that he just started handing them out for free. Flint seeing this tried his best to get through to his friend, realising the only way to do this was to have a battle against a string trainer (Ash) to reignite his passion.
            Volkner was shown to have built Sunnyshore tower which controlled all the electrical transport in the city. After Team Rocket attacked them during his battle with Ash, he realised the power was out due to his tower being damaged. He set to repair that immediately, posting his battle with Ash until he ensured his tower was repaired and electricity was flowing properly again.

            A lot of his backstory with Flint was shown in flashbacks as well

          • I think I kind of remember that episode, wasn’t Torterra quite prominent in the epiosde about Sunyshore Tower?

  2. I didn’t like any of these gym leaders. here’s my favorites.
    gen 1: Erika
    gen 2: Whitney
    gen 3: Roxanne
    gen 4: Candice (above all else)
    gen 5: Lenora
    gen 6: Viola

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      • see this would have made me inclined to vote. I actually like some of these. I cant see how the ones above actually one. (it doesn’t really matter and I’m not mad or anything I’m more kinda… surprised, because the ones that won are really boring to me.) i’d probably vote wulfric out of the ones you listed.

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    • Gen 1: Blaine
      Gen 2: Claire
      Gen 3: Winona
      Gen 4: Candice
      Gen 5: Skyla
      Gen 6: Corrine
      I really don’t understand the appeal of Volkner but to each their own

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    • Gen 1: Sabrina
      Gen 2: Morty
      Gen 3: Flannery/ Wallace (I love them equally)
      Gen 4: Volkner/Candice (Ditto above)
      Gen 5: Marlon
      Gen 6: Korrina

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  3. Just thought I would post this here because it’s the only place I can, I don’t think I’ll be able to continue with pokejungle because Disqus is too frustratingly glitchy on my phone and I don’t have another device to post with and my pokejungle forums account is broken, every time I try to do anything I get Error code: 2S119/1. Unless disqus gets less glitchy or my account starts working again I probably won’t see you guys around, as much as is saddens me.

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  4. I’m curious.. Whats the gen u started pokemon? And how old where u?

    Gen 2: age 10 (I started with Gold, later that year I bought Blue.)
    Gen 1: age 10
    Gen 3: age 12
    gen 4: age 16
    gen 5: age 20
    gen 6: age 22
    gen 7: age 25

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  5. Ok why the freaking hell don’t we have new info
    I’m severely pissy that we don’t have any new info or even a confirmed date for info

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  6. Random idea of the day: They need to make a Tarantula Hawk wasp Pokemon. Bug/ Poison. I want it to be just as deadly as fallouts cazadores as well!

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    • I want a trapdoor spider
      Trenchula
      Bug/Ground
      A very large black and brown Arachnid with a large pointed thorax, eight long hooked legs
      And a tri-hinged drill like mandible
      “They catch prey by constructing pit traps laced with sticky thread, Trenchula groom their fangs until unsuspecting prey stumble into their traps”

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    • Hopefully Solgaleo won’t be such a pain in the arse
      Lunala is potentially threatening but everyone everywhere can’t make a team without ST and Knock Off

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      • I started back in June, and I’m watching them on double speed since there are just so many. My hope is to make it to Unova by the time Sun and Moon come out.

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    • I might have to consider watching the anime again. I stopped watching after Sinnoh League Victors, just because things started getting stale and uninteresting. I’d like to at least get through Kalos before SM, just have to find that passion for watching again.

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          • I wish showdown and the meta boxed them
            I’m sooooo sick of seeing Keldeo, Landorus, Latios and Heatran on EVERY SINGLE TEAM

          • I don’t really like that you can use them in online battles. They should make a new battle mode for legends only (or does that already exist?) so that people who want to use them can battle with their own kind

          • well with S/M you will have the option to make your own tournaments with your own rules online so theres that

          • Well that means I have to make a bloody tournament every time I want to fight some random douche
            And besides actual online battles are even worse, at least Showe own blocks out the super ubers
            Pretty much everyone in ORAS was using Mega Rayquaza

          • you always complain about this but like I battle all the time in ORAS online and I never see like any of the pokemon you’re talking about, maybe you should try random battles instead of the rating battles?

          • I still don’t encounter as many of those pokemon as you make there out to be in rating, and its no more of a real battle than random

          • Doesn’t matter u can monitor battles for free and the last 4 I checked had at least one of the legends posted

          • I’ve tried to go on it before to see what it was, it doesn’t load on my computer, but heres the Tea Earthen, I’m not denying that people use legends, of course they do, it happens all the time and while I never see the ones you’re talking about I see tons of others, and guess what, I beat them easier than the normal pokemon that people usually have on their teams, so like, why do you hate them so much? they are not a big deal if you know what you’re doing, the only ones I will agree with you for being op are primals and ray, because of the weather effects, but like, landourus? latios? keldeo? not really all that powerful

          • heres all the pokemon I have that I frequently use:
            Clafable, sylveon, azumarill, granbull, M Audino, M Mawile, M Altaria, slurpuff, florges, whimsicott, aromatisse, jellicent and Goodra. I mean I also have a sun team but like I only used it like twice. And while using teams comprised of the pokemon I listed above I have only been beaten by a legend once, and that was Heatran, but I have also beaten it once too.

          • Mehhhhh those things beat legends because half of them are dragons and fighting types
            And things like Landorus are easy Azumarill bait so I am not impressed

          • That’s true! Although that doesn’t much help in terms of random battles (I’m assuming these custom tournaments are solely for friends/local)

          • no I don’t think so, I’m pretty sure its something like MK where you can give them a code or make them open or private, at least thats what I got from it, they never said it would only be local or just for friends

          • I wonder if you’ll be able to have presets for tournaments though. I also wonder how that’ll affect the time it takes to find a partner

          • hmm, maybe, we still know very little about it all, they only really mentioned it once, I expect they will talk more about it in October or November maybe

          • I’m really looking forward to all of these new features. Hopefully they stick around though since they’re notorious for not bringing back some of the best ones once they introduce them ;-;

    • I found a shiny Virizion in AS, but I had the shiny charm at that point. I was very pleasantly surprised because I wasn’t resetting at all!

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  7. I saw someone mention tournaments below, so I want to say two things on that topic:
    1. Did PJT ’16 already happen?
    2. We should do tournaments and Battle Royales every Friday or Saturday for a few weeks after SM release. We should have a weekly battle article where we set up battles.
    3. I thought of this just now, we should have a tournament two or so weeks after SM release where we only use the team that we logged in the hall of fame with the first time; essentially or in game teams.

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    • I believe we didn’t get enough participants for PJT ’16, so it was ultimately postponed. Moving was doing most of the work in terms of that, but if that’s something the community is interested in taking part in, we would be more than happy to start our search for people 🙂
      If that doesn’t work out, I will definitely pitch your other ideas to the rest of the staff.

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  8. Does anyone else have like an unhealthy obsession with getting the pokemon on their teams in the absolute perfect pokeball for them? I actually went back and caught a clefariy in a moon ball and a granbull in a love ball and transferred them up to ORAS just to breed them in that ball for my team.

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  9. Well, Pokenchi for this week has concluded with a rehash of old information–not even the Pokemon revealed at Worlds. Guess we’ll have to wait for more news!

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