Elite Four Showdown: Kanto

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Greetings Junglers, Evan here! I’m here this time with a new Showdown-series! This one works exactly like the last one. So pick your favorite and discuss them in the comments!

LoreleiFireRed_LeafGreen_Lorelei

  • Encounter 1
  • Ice
  • Dewgong, Cloyster, Slowbro, Jynx and Lapras
  • Name: A siren whose voice lured sailors.
  • Trivia: Lorelei is the only Kanto Elite Four member who doesn’t use two Pokémon of the same species.

BrunoFireRed_LeafGreen_Bruno

  • Encounter 2
  • Fighting
  • Onix, Hitmonchan, Hitmonlee, Onix and Machamp
  • Name: Brawn, bruiser or brunt
  • Trivia: None of Bruno’s sprites have ever shown him standing up.

AgathaFireRed_LeafGreen_Agatha

  • Encounter 3
  • Ghost
  • Gengar, Golbat, Haunter, Arbok and Gengar
  • Name: Aghast or ghost
  • Trivia: Although she is a Ghost-type specialist, all her Pokémon share the Poison-type.

LanceFireRed_LeafGreen_Lance

  • Encounter 4
  • Dragon
  • Gyarados, Dragonair, Dragonair, Aerodactyl and Dragonite
  • Name: A lance used by knights
  • Trivia: Lance’s grandfather is the elder of a famous clan of Dragon Masters.

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968 thoughts on “Elite Four Showdown: Kanto”

  2. I hope the previous leaker who claims to have seen this month’s reveal trailer isn’t lying. Bring on the boxing lobsters!! *Amanda Show theme song starts playing*

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  3. Tomorrow is going to be awesome. First, Pokemon news. The demo *might* be announced, but I seriously doubt that. I expect that in late October. What I want in terms of new Pokemon is a couple Alolan forms (Abra line, Krabby line, possibly Electabuzz and Magmar? There are lots I want to see). For new Alolan Pokemon, I’d love more Ground, Ice, and Steel representation. New type combinations are also a must. I’m sure we’ll all be blown away by one or two designs. After the Pokemon news, I can’t wait for 10do to be obliterated and ridiculed off the Internet by angry Nintendo fans. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t worry about it.

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  5. Hey ShinyXatu, you can have your sunstaring, this poor deerling tried it, and wanted to cry as the pain radiated from my poor cutesy eyes…

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  6. I have a idea for a evolution methods involving the 3ds like how inkay was turn it upside down
    What if to evolve Grubbin and/or Charjabug you need to have your 3ds charger plugged in
    And for Komala you need to put your 3ds in sleep mode In a certain area.

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  7. I’m most excited that tomorrow will finally clear up some of these leaks…. Hopefully. So much was leaked that it would be almost impossible for them to not show at least one pokemon that proves misproves these alleged leakers!

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    • Yeah I think tomorrow will likely make or break many of the rumors/leaks we have to date. It’ll definitely help clean tings up a bit going forward lol

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  8. Pokemon X and Y gave us kanto starters with megas I think we will get Johto Starters and their megas this time and when the Diamond Pearl remake comes out we should get the gen 4 megas just like what happened with ORAS

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    • Well, since Megas are likely not returning this time (sorry not sorry), I think Alolan forms are much more likely. Wouldn’t it be clunky to have Mega Evolution, Primal Reversion, Alolan forms, and Z-Moves in all games going forward? That’s my opinion, at least. It has to be partitioned to give each game some uniqueness.

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  12. So anybody point out
    Torchic event in X/Y with a mega stone then we got ORAS remakes?
    Munchlax event in SuMo with a Z-Crystal= D/P REMAKES :D?????????

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      • I wouldnt be suprised I kinda noticed something
        Gen 3= Gen 1 Remakes
        Gen 4= Gen 2 Remakes
        Gen 5= None
        Gen 6= ORAS
        Maybe a pattern will be formed?

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        • Wouldn’t be surprised if DP remakes were the Pokemon games to be released on the NX next year. Game Freak is kicking patterns out the window, Sparta-style.

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          • Honestly given a lot of things have put the rumors into question, and almost every rumor since the hybrid rumor has been built on that idea, I’m willing to guess its a fake. Its more people buying into things that sound convincing without really understanding the market in the slightest and why things are done the way they are.

            Honestly the only thing I would even take a wild guess at is that they would base the controllers off of the 3ds and allow you to use one as a controller. They already tested the idea back with smash and it worked well enough. It would cut down on the controller market issue, and they could easily incorporate the idea of capturing 3ds games through the console for recording, since people have already shown that the 3ds can record without a capture card with the right software, which is a bit glitchy and in its current form can brick your 3ds, but leave it to nintendo to figure out a way to make it work right.

          • The software probably does screwy things with the backbuffer. The reason capturecards are used is because the extra hardware gives a speed boost unobtainable by using a software implementation unless the hardware already has components designed for video caputre.

            Compare it to a computer GPU, where Nvidia have actually invested time and money making sure their GPUs have the circuitry to do proper high speed video encoding (i.e. Shadowplay). The GPU in the 3DS probably doesn’t have that or probably only has it in limited form because it would be expensive otherwise. Like how when they made the NES they used an abridged version of the MOS 6502 (I think it was made by Ricoh) that didn’t have Binary Coded Decimal support because they deemed it unnecessary.

          • Well it might not be. It could be a separate handheld and console based on more trusted sources. I think EuroGamers and Emily Rogers are detailing the handheld.

          • That could be, but their have been a few red flags about it. FOr starters, Emily Rogers has lost a lot of credibility between saying that Links gender could be chosen in breath of the wild, saying mother 3 would be announced at E3 and saying the NX would be a high powered console, before immediately retracting her previous statements ans supporting the popular rumors.

            As for Eurogamer, I do recall people bring up that the chip sets, or something like that, that were said to be developed by Nedvia were false and Nedvia openly stated that they weren’t making anything of the sort that was described by Eurogamer. As well, Eurogamer has nothing to lose in stating false rumors as they never named their source, and can simply pin all of the blame on their source, if it even exists.

          • That makes more sense.
            Nvidia and Nintendo working together sounds too good to be true. Though it could be true given that many people were expecting them to switch to AMD for their GPU like Sony and Microsoft.

        • I wouldn’t count on it. On the batter, not the DP remakes. The DP remakes are all but confirmed with the colors, and the fact that the starting island has areas based on Diamond head and Pearl Harbor.

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          • Oh wow, I never even thought about that. They’re going all out. This can’t possibly be hinting at Gen 8 remakes, this is 2017 material in my eyes.

    • Personally I was hoping for a Piplup with Empoleonite on it, but I’m still happy with this. Here’s hoping though that they give us a little surprise like the champion having something like that. One day though I’m certain we’ll have a flying penguin.

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          • Yeah, very classy.

            But back to what I was saying, I could see them giving empoleon like a water jet pack or something and making an ability that’s like a super levitate, giving him immunity to ground and giving him back his resistance to fire. Though that might be a bit too much. I think at that point he has only one weakness, being fighting.

          • Fighting and Electric.
            Empoleon is OP enough already though.

            I think it’s more likely they’d make its flippers larger so they act as shields and give it a defence boost.
            Though making its crown larger and giving it lighting rod would change its Electric weakness into an immunity.

          • That would be pretty cleaver as well, and wound make sense to a degree. Thunder snow is a thing, and I can see them going for something of a god emperor vibe with its design.

            But yeah it is pretty op.

          • Part of my thinking was a villain from anime/manga series One Piece who controls electricity and once reformed his golden staff into a trident.

            http://i.imgur.com/lojC3T1.jpg

            But also the way Empoleon wears it I can imagine it acting as a sort of Faraday cage and drawing the electricity away from its actual body and into its metallic parts.
            Would also make crossing the ocean in stormy weather easier.

            One thing that has always disappointed me about pokemon is that it almost never rains over the oceans. I liked in Mewtwo Strikes Back how they had the massive storm cutting off sea travel.

          • Oh yeah. God, or what ever his actual name was. The sky island ark was a pretty fun one back in the day. And yeah that would make a good deal of sense. Here’s hoping that fans and creators might be on the same page when it comes time for them to think of the design’s for the Sinnoh starters.

            And yeah that does suck, though I imagine its more for balancing then anything. The extra damage would be really punishing as almost everything you would fight on water would get boosted from the rain, if not having their abilities activate as well. Though it would be a great way to show off the power of rain to players. So who knows.

          • God was his epithet.
            His name was Eneru (nobody can ever agree on how to romanise it).
            Skypeia. Which I think got reduced to missing half of Jaya (dubbed ‘Upper Yard’ by the inhabitants) after the Eneru incident. On the bright side, he did actually make it to the moon in the end.

            I think that’s precisely why they should do it – to add some extra challenge. They could set it up so that the player is either prevented from travelling completely because of the storm – i.e. it’s a way of preventing the player from going to a part of the map they can’t reach yet, or the player could be warned against travelling across the water but has to do so anyway for the sake of reaching the next area or something to do with a legendary. Besides, you’d be fine if you had a few Electric pokemon since Thunder becomes a sure-hit move in rain.

            Weather is really underused. The ocean should be rainy, the volcano should be sunny, it should snow on the icy mountains and there should be sandstorms in the dessert. None would be safe.

  14. I have only three more mainline Pokemon games left until my collection is complete: LeafGreen, Ruby and Sapphire. I’m really determined to complete my goal for Gen 7 of completing this collection (spin-offs don’t count, I’m WAY behind on that). It might be a costly endeavor, but I want to get it all done at once. Then, I can focus on the future 😀

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  16. alright guys it’s time we start the countdown for more information on Pokemon Sun and Moon! 😀 Victor if our promises are not coming through, me and earthen are going to use you as firewood! >:)

    Victor: O-O;;;;;

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  17. I was just double battling a passerby in ORAS. It really looked like they were going to win – they had a Charizard Y and a Guts Swellow left, and I had a Blissey on low health as well as a Darmanitan that could easily be OHKO’d by Swellow’s Brave Bird…then my Scarfed Darmanitan used Rock Slide and the whole thing was over xD They DCd immediately after.

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  18. and so the countdown for more Pokemon Sun and Moon info begins!

    I’m going to watch a pokken tournament game movie to pass the time along. 😀

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