Elite Four Showdown: Hoenn

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Greetings Junglers, Evan here! Sorry for the long wait, but here’s the next Elite Four Showdown. The winner of the Johto-round is Karen! She won with an amazing 50%! She’s followed by Koga (27%), Bruno (13%) and Will (10%) respectively.

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In the next round it’s between the Hoenn Elite Four members. Vote and let us know who you picked in the comments below!

Sydney716px-Omega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_Sidney

  • Encounter 1
  • Dark
  • Mightyena, Cacturne, Shiftry, Sharpedo and Absol
  • Name: Sinister, insidious or sadness
  • Trivia: Sydney is the only Hoenn Elite Four member who does not share a specialty type with a Kanto Elite Four member.

Phoebe718px-Omega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_Phoebe

  • Encounter 2
  • Ghost
  • Dusclops, Banette, Banette, Sableye and Dusclops
  • Name: Phobia or phantom
  • Trivia: She is the only Ghost-type specialist who does not use a Gengar at some point.

GlaciaOmega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_Glacia

  • Encounter 3
  • Ice
  • Glalie, Froslass, Glalie, Froslass, Walrein
  • Name: Glacial or glacier
  • Trivia: Glacia says she thinks her Ice-type Pokémon can be better trained in a hot region like Hoenn.

Drake

  • Encounter 4Omega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_Drake
  • Dragon
  • Shelgon, Altaria, Flygon, Flygon and Salamence
  • Name: Dragon
  • Trivia: Drake is the only Hoenn Elite Four member who makes an appearance in the anime.

 

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472 thoughts on “Elite Four Showdown: Hoenn”

  3. Trees are weird…

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    fmap _ (EmptyTree) = EmptyTree
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    main = print $ foldr (insert) EmptyTree [1..10]

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  4. Ok so I got a team in mind for Sun
    The Must have one on the team:
    Pyukumuku
    The ones that are a definite
    Rowlet
    Lycanroc
    Vikavolt
    Turtonator
    Ninetails/Pasissman

    And for the ones that I might consider:
    Alolan Raichu
    Sandslash
    Marowak
    Type: Null
    Jangam-O
    Solgaleo (even though I prefer not to use Legends, I love Solgaleo so much)

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  5. Would anyone here be willing to help me make a game similar to pokemon but very different at the same time? I want to make sure before making a forums post, I can see the interest in a pokemon fan game because this is a pokemon website, but this isn’t that. Anyone willing to try and help? Even if it’s just ideas?

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    • I said that a month or so ago and someone poo-pooed the idea.

      I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks she’s probably got Alolan connections.

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        • They just moaned that I was making assumptions based on her skin colour.

          To be fair I kind of am, her skin tone is very close to Hau’s.

          But don’t forget, only her grandparents have been seen, her parents could easily be Alolan, or at least one parent. She might be half Alolan, half Hoennian.

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          • It’s bloody idiotic to moan about skin colour when you have this clearly heavily polynesian inspired character and then a game set in Hawaii… I’m rooting for her to appear, it’d be great!

          • In all fairness, most of Hawaii’s population are asian, only 10% are native.

            But yeah, she’s the most polynesian character in all of the first 6 generations.

            And she comes from a region that introduced a pokemon that looks like a moai XD

            Damn, alolan Nosepass would have been good :C

          • In french games, Fantina is also English, just saying 😉 . If she’s supposed to be english in the japanese games, that might be the main headcanon, and it might just be the english version that’s the odd one out by making her french just so she was still foreign-sounding.

          • I know, but I didn’t want to confuse things and make people think I was implying she spoke more French in the English game than English 😛

            The English version probably is the odd one out, that’s what I’m saying. She wouldn’t turn up in Kalos because she’s not French.

          • Probably because the other language versions were localised under the same roof. I take the Japanese version to be most canon.

      • Maybe we get to battle her post game or findo out the village or island she came from. Now that I think about it isn’t one of the island guardians theorized to be a ghost type?

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  9. my least favorite E4. Imo design wise and character wise they didnt really did that. Drake is the only one that is kinda of memorable mainly because of Salamence. Plus their teams were just bad. Sydney team is really the only unique one

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  10. Finally an E4 I don’t mainly feel “eh” about (no offence to the previous leagues, tbh that’s generally how I feel about gym leaders etc, I think they’re perfectly well designed, but none of them tend to stand out too much), and I’m going for Phoebe because I just love her design, with Drake a close second.

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  12. Sorry guys, I’m actually not ready to try and make a completely new game just yet. I don’t know nearly enough about programming, but I’m going to spend my time learning. When I’m ready, if anyone is still interested I’ll let you know! Sorry for wasting your time, I’ve had a long day.

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  14. Ubisoft’s CEO has recently talked about the NX! Here’s what he said:
    “The new Nintendo [console] is a fantastic machine. It’s really a new approach, it’s really Nintendo, [which is] coming with something new again. We love it.”

    Ubisoft is confirmed to be working on a some new NX games and ports. Also, the NX will be doing something new. They’re already supporting more of the system than the Wii U. Nintendo needs to hurry up and show the system. Here is the link for a bit more information: http://nintendoeverything.com/ubisoft-says-nx-is-fantastic-also-a-new-approach-its-really-nintendo/

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  16. Phoebe because she’s a sexy young thing. lol. Also, it’s awesome to have a Ghost-Type Member! She impressed me a but of difficulty when I was younger. She’s always been my Hoenn favourite for a while!

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    • Says the guy who praised Bruno a few weeks ago, and let’s be honest, there’s someone who could probably used those words at you come the next least Earthen.

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        • Nothing at all. I like the guy, but at the same time it comes across as a bit like “the pot calling the kettle black” when you openly say that you love one character for your reasons, but then tell people to shut up for loving a character and assuming its because of lewd reasons.

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          • I have no intention of ever insulting peoples choices, but my general feelings are that in return you shouldn’t insult my choices either. Its more of a mutual respect. Disagree all you want, but don’t put words in peoples mouth’s or assume that everyone selects a character for the same reason. Star like’s a lot of ladies that are considered attractive, but at the same time that doesn’t mean every person who votes for one is simply judging off of appearances.

            As an aside, I actually really like the Drake memes. he was one of the few things I liked about Gen 3. Really I only wish that he wasn’t a dragon trainer, as he never really struck me as the dragon sort. More steel, or water, or something else. Just not dragon.

            Also again, comments were never directed at you pharap. you’ve always been cool in my book.

          • Ah, I took ‘you’ to be a specific case (me) rather than a general case. I thought you thought I’d been insulting Star’s choices.

            (I’ll admit my writings can come across as harsh at times, but are meant in jest 95% of the time. I’m used to harsher environments where people disagree with sharp tongues, but mean well in doing so.)

            I could imagine him as a Water trainer. I think the reasoning behind the Dragons is because he was inspired by famous pirates and explorers, a vast amount of whom are English (Edward “Blackbeard” Teach, Sir Walter Raleigh, Cpt James Cook, Sir Francis Drake) and England’s most treasured myth is that of St George and the Dragon.

            I’m glad to know I’m accepted/appreciated. Like I say, I have ended up in arguments here before (a notable one being with Fae, but given his leaving, I get the impression I’m not the only one he’s argued with).

  22. As much as I love Phoebe’s design and her personality, I have to go with Drake. I just like his personality a bit more, and his dialogue when I played through ORAS is kind of intense xD (I hardly remembered if he said similar things since back then, I never got to the E4)

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        • I’m pretty convinced of Akala, but the other two I’m unsure of. Logically it should be the desserty one, but logic hasn’t applied much this year.

          You can feel free to comment and add stuff now if you think of anything btw, I think it’s got enough content to get the ball rolling. It’s unfortunate that I waited so long, but tbh the last few trailers really helped pad it out.

          If you’ve got transcripts of any of the things you’ve translated so far to hand I could start some discussions for translations/transcripts and give you full credit. You could start them yourself if you want (just tag them with Serious and Evidence, or whatever else seems appropriate). It’s up to you though, don’t feel you have to retranslate stuff if you’ve lost your translations, it’s just if you kept your transcripts (I only managed one).

          As far as I’m aware, nowhere else has been keeping a map that looks into the locations, so that’s a unique selling point right there 😛

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          • I think I have the transcript of the Gladion/Aether FOundation trailer, because I saved it to Note to work on it since it wasn;t ready to for me to comment before I left for classes

          • If you find it (doesn’t matter if you don’t) you can either stick it in a discussion and we’ll tweak as and when we feel like it, or you can hold onto it in the hopes you’ll get round to having another go at it.

            I intend to let other people in as time goes by, but I want to make sure things stay reasonably on topic because I want it to be more of a resource to help people keep track of what’s been legitimately confirmed and to fill in the gaps that the official websites leave. The only reason I’ve got a few tiny bits of speculation at the minute (to the purposes of various locations) is because I need to bulk the pages out a bit.

            Hopefully more trailers will show more areas or give more hints.

            Also, if you want to practise your Japanese, there’s a miniseries of the Japanese youtube channel called something along the lines of “Battoru onii-san” (typically the videos have a single number prominent in the titles) which features a pokemon obsessed geek teaching two kids Pokemon battle tactics. There’s no subs, but being Pokemon related it’s fun to watch, and despite being in another language, the battles are easy to follow. If nothing else there’s a pokemon profile at the end of the episodes that’s good for teaching Pokemons’ Japanese names (today I learnt Snorlax = Kabigon). If you don’t like it, fair enough, but I’ve found it pretty handy.

          • I’ll probably have a crack at that myself later in the week. I need to get to bed now, I’m supposed to be trying to get back to normal human hours and it’s 3am here (I’m on UTC+01:00 because daylight savings)

            I know for definate you, me and Daniel had a go at the Aether and Skull trailers, so there will be stuff in those articles. Not sure about elsewhere. I might go back and translate some of the other stuff as well.

  25. I would pick Phoebee but she uses all the same Pokemon. Two dusclops, two bannetes, and then a sable eye. Big whoop. I chose Sydney because he’s the only one with a legit team that doesn’t include any copies

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