Elite Four Showdown: Sinnoh

Greetings Junglers, Evan here! The winner of the Hoenn Showdown is Phoebe with 43%! The others got less votes: Drake got 36%, Sydney 11% and Glacia 10%.

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Onto the next round: Sinnoh! Who is your favorite? Vote and tell me in the comments!

AaronDiamond_Pearl_Aaron

  • Encounter 1
  • Bug
  • Dustox, Beautifly, Vespiquen, Heracross and Drapion
  • Name: Arachnid
  • Trivia: Aaron is the only bug-specialist in any Elite Four.

BerthaDiamond_Pearl_Bertha

  • Encounter 2
  • Ground
  • Quagsire, Sudowoodo, Golem, Whiscash and Hippowdon
  • Name: Earth
  • Trivia: Her female Hippowdon shows male coloration in the TCG and anime.

FlintDiamond_Pearl_Flint

  • Encounter 3
  • Fire
  • Rapidash, Steelix, Drifblim, Lopunny and Infernape
  • Name: A kind of stone used to set fires
  • Trivia: Flint is the only Elite Four member who uses a starter.

LucianDiamond_Pearl_Lucian

  • Encounter 4
  • Psychic
  • Mr. Mime, Girafarig, Medicham, Alakazam and Bronzong
  • Name: Illusion
  • Trivia: Lucian is the only Sinnoh Elite Four member whose Pokémon are all of his specialty type.

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267 thoughts on “Elite Four Showdown: Sinnoh”

  1. Finally someone to vote for
    Bertha is the first Female Ground type specialist along with the first Elite four to specialize in this type

    And not for nothing she tells it like it is in the anime and personally taught me to observe everything

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    • ground type fetish. 😉 lol. Bertha is cool though. She’s similar to Agatha! It’s neat having some older members of the Elite Four.

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  2. flint is terrible, that had to put his entire team under the knife for platinum (unless maybe it was trash in order to give platinum an obvious advantage dex wise), how is his ronald mcdonald ass winning

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      • just my opinion you don’t have to agree, but to be honest out of every pokemon character I have ever seen he is by far the most unappealing in terms of designs for me, like of all time including every character in the games. And his story was minimal at best so it cant really sway me.

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  3. All of the shinoh elite four members pretty much suck…
    Flint has no fire types
    Bertha is nice but still a little boring
    Lucian seems like a rehash of every other psychic specialist
    Aaron is cute and I like his team so that’s who I voted for

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    • Turned out it was a translation error and the Riddler just meant we’d hear news pertaining to the Z ring soon rather than a specific day. I would assume he meant the 4th.

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  4. I chose Flint. Although I don’t particularly like his design (Aaron’s is the best of these 4 IMO) he has some things that edge him ahead of the others for me. Infernape being one of these things. I also actually liked his more varied team in Diamond, I didn’t expect it (I didn’t know the full ‘dex beforehand), so he kept me somewhat on my toes. I remember having a pretty scorching battle between his Infernape and mine, mine was around 6 levels below his but knew Earthquake. His HP was low enough for me to finish it with a Blaze boosted Fire Blast, which I thought was fitting. I still have my Infernape from back then 😀

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      • Yeah, I get you, I’m gay, but I’m not choosing the characters I want to fap to in the slightest, it’s just not even in my mind, I choose who I liked the look of and who had a good personality.

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  5. For some odd reason I couldn’t stop thinking about potential moves for Salandit
    I figure
    Quick Attack
    Toxic/Poison Gas
    Flame Burst
    Poison Tail
    Attract (I honestly see it more as a female species)
    Poison Fang
    Fire Spin
    Mean Look
    Flatter/Swagger
    Clear Smog
    Inferno

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          • When do any of the flavor text end up playing a severe role
            I say Salandit won’t have gender based evolution because already Salandit produce a noxic fumes from their tails but Females have a pheromone effect which plenty of females produce naturally

        • Most defensive/support Pokemon are capable of learning a few good attacking moves of their stab Types while levelling up

          Alomomola learns Hydro Pump
          Bronzing learns Extrasensory and Heavy Slam

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    • I feel it will learn Thief and/or Will-O-Wisp naturally, and maybe Knock Off. Glare will most likely be an egg move. Tail Whip/Leer and Scary Face may be in there somewhere too. Of course most of it will depend on it’s evolution.

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    • My only fear about sandlit is that they will pull a helioptile. It’s an awesome design that can really be expanded upon with an evolution but I’m scared they’ll give it one Evo and then just stop. Wasting all its potential in the process.

      Side note, why doesn’t helioptile have a third form 🙁 everyone thought it would become this huge electric dragon lizard beast and… Nothing

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      • well in that case i hope it is borderline useless and will be constantly abused by EVERYTHING
        it can’t survive without a Air Balloon
        weak to scald and earthquake AND Stealth Rock/Rock Slide and Psyshock which is competitive 101
        requires a shit ton of carrying so it doesn’t die in one shot

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  6. Turns out Mars, Jupiter, and Charon are on the Team Galactic theme! You just have to scroll. The theme is really cool, btw. Would totally recommend.

    Side note: It always bothered me that they localized Pluto’s name to Charon. I’ve seen speculation that it was to denote his subordinate status, but Pluto is already a dwarf planet and was even not considered a planet for a while. That’s subordinate enough for me.

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  7. Hi, my name is Flint and I should have been a Gen I Elite Four BECAUSE I DON’T KNOW WHICH POKEMONS ARE OF THE TYPE I SPECIALIZE.

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  8. It’s time. It is time. I can finally pick Lucian 😀
    Lucian is my pick cause of a lot of reasons. He’s suave, classy, has glasses, reads books, personality amazing, and he has an Espeon and specializes in my fav type.
    Probably not the most popular choice so far, but hey, still love him anyway 😉

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  9. Can someone explain how the power items work when I’m breeding for IV’s? If I have a 5IV and a 6IV together should I be giving the 5IV a power item to lessen the time? But then that raises my next question: Do I have to couple it with the destiny knot? And if yes, then if I get rid of my everstone won’t it be hard to transfer the nature?

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    • The Power Items Guarantee the IV in the stat it boosts transfer to the offspring from the parent holding it, so Power Lens would ensure the exact Special Attack IV passes. You can couple it with Destiny Knot but I think it will still copy Random 5IV’s from each parent, which could include the Power Item IV. You would also lose the Everstone’s Nature passing effect. Hope this helps, I can try and explain with examples if you need them.

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        • Only if you have say 1 parent with XX/XX/XX/XX/XX/31 with Power Anklet attached and another with XX/31/XX/XX/XX/XX with a Power Bracer. The offspring would be guaranteed XX/31/XX/XX/XX/31. Destiny Knot is better pretty much after that.

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          • You use it after, with the offspring and a Destiny Knot. I personally just use Destiny Knot instead of the Power Items, thanks to Friend Safari and DexNav it’s generally better.

          • You don’t really need them when you have a 6 IV ditto. Without it, it’d have advantages, but a ditto helps a lot.

          • For most people that’s hard to get. I recently traded for a 3IV Japanese Ditto I can be certain is legit which I will Hyper Train in gen 7. I currently use a 5th gen RNG 6IV Ditto, it’s in English though.

          • I just got mine from someone here years ago who duplicated it. I’ll make a legit one in gen 7, when it’s actually able to get one without cheating or getting ungodly lucky.

    • ok here’s how it works as simple as possible, I think this will be the most satisfying answer.
      Power items: passes the holders IV with the corresponding stat (power weight passes the holder HP IV for example), and 2 random IV’s from either parent.
      destiny knot: Passes 5 random IV’s from either parent. now, it CAN choose the same stat from both parents. for example: mom’s ATK, Dad’s ATK, mom’s speed, dad’s hp, dad’s DEF. when I did this, my parents often had similar IV’s, so I’m not too sure which parent’s IV is passed. hope this helps.

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  10. Flint is easily the best because he did stuff outside the E4.

    And for those talking about his team, that’s because of the serious lack of fire types in D/P/Pt. I actually like his team in D/P though.

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  11. Ok, so I don’t remember where I heard this, I think it may have been a gamexplain analysis or discussion, but I think I heard somewhere that Alola is also called “the islands closest to the sky”. Am I just making this up in my head or has anyone else heard this? I hope it’s true, because giving the region a subtitle sounds cool.

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  12. If the toucan pokemon is real, I may have three birds on my team. I really like Rowlet, so I’m definitely using him, and I can’t pass up Oricorio, and toucans have been my favorite animal since I was 6, so of course I’d use that. It doesn’t matter though, flying is my favorite type anyway. xD

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  13. Make a team for a fictional character!

    Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe)
    Manaphy
    Vaporeon
    Azumarill
    Frillish (Male)
    Amourous
    Kirlia

    Midna (Zelda)
    Darkrai
    Weavile
    Gothita
    Lycanthroc (Midnight)
    Litten
    Golurk

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    • Hmm. Link
      – Cutiefly (Navi)
      – Turtonator (Bombchu)
      – Aegislash (Hylian sheild and master sword)
      – Delphox (Fire rod)
      – Rapidash (Epona)
      – Rowlet (Owl teacher guy, plus a little green guy like link)

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    • See! You called it Lycanthroc! This is why I feel like it should be Lycanthroc and not Lycanroc. It rolls of the tongue a lot better too.

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        • It’s all in the pronounciation of Lycanthrope. It feels choppy to cut of the thrope (lol, choppy/cut). It confuses me on how exactly to pronounce it.

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          • I know, but when I see/pronounce th, it’s kind of a stopping sound, so it becomes Lycanth*pause*roc, while Lycanroc is fluid and there’s no stop.
            It’s probably why they went with it.

          • I agree about pause.
            It’s because to have an ‘r’ follow a ‘th’ forces you to emphasise the ‘th’ sound to get into position for the ‘r’ like in the words “throng” and “thrush”. Being followed by a harsh ‘o’ (like in “rock” and “ox”) on top of that makes it very harsh.

            I don’t think Lycanroc is fluid either though, the ‘n’ and ‘r’ don’t flow – ‘n’ is a very terminal letter unless followed by another vowel. I can’t think of anything better off the top of my head though.

    • Luna Lovegood:
      -Beheeyem
      -Vivillion
      -Wigglytuff
      -Swanna
      -Braviary
      -Klefki

      Daenerys Targaryen
      -Shiny Charizard w/ charizardite Y
      -Flygon
      -Dragonite
      -Bewear (Jorah Mormont)
      -Kangaskhan (Khal Drogo)
      -Rapidash (Her Silver)

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    • More:
      Andrea (Walking Dead *comics* -she sucked ass on the show)
      -Kingdra
      -Octillery
      -Drapion
      -Barabaracle
      -Beedrill
      -Ariados

      Cause they all have the ability sniper and she’s a BA sniper… 😛

      Ahsoka Tano
      -Pyroar
      -Granbull
      -Noivern
      -Sceptile
      -Slowking
      -Gallade

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    • I’m just doing all the (main) Gravity Falls characters because reasons.

      Dipper (Gravity Falls)
      – Snover
      – Gumshoos
      – Stoutland
      – Umbreon

      Mabel (Gravity Falls)
      – Minior
      – Spoink/Swinub
      – Togepi
      – Espeon
      – Floette

      Stanley (Gravity Falls)
      – Carvahna
      – Farfetch’d
      – Liepard
      – Shiny Magikarp
      – Tangrowth
      – Slaking

      Stanford (Gravity Falls)
      – Aerodactyl (Only because his condition is called Polydactyly)
      – Alakazam
      – Metagross
      – Klingklang
      – Xatu

      Soos (Gravity Falls)
      – Unown ?
      – Munchlax
      – Chansey
      – Bibarel
      – Ludicolo

      Wendy (Gravity Falls)
      – Bergmite
      – Bibarel
      – Timburr
      – Kecleon

      Bill (Gravity Falls)
      – Rotom
      – Darkrai
      – Haunter
      – Siglyph

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    • Garnet (Steven Universe)
      – Alakazam
      – Xatu
      – Sigilyph
      – Deoxys-D
      – Darmanitan
      – Bisharp

      Amethyst (Steven Universe)
      – Machamp
      – (assumed) Litten3
      – Hawlucha
      – Tangela
      – Ferrothorn
      – Jynx

      Pearl (Steven Universe)
      – Farfetch’d
      – Virizion
      – Keldeo
      – Honedge
      – Sawk
      – Pikipek

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  14. oh this league of legends,
    Aaron: His Platinum team got me shook. Literally one of the best monotype teams ever. Every single pokemon were amazing
    Bertha: Agatha is shaking on her booties. The amount of times i lost to this legend? whew
    Flint: One of the few E4 member that is outside the E4 and helps you. A fun character!
    Lucian: Gallade and Espeon? iconic. And do not forget his Bronzong. Oh and his anime appearance? the best

    im so torn on who to vote

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  15. coming here to vent about splatoon lag cuz I trust you all. here’s my situation:
    me: mini splatling, fully charged, I see another mini splatling user who doesn’t see me. I unload every shot onto him/her. they don’t die. I literally do it again, thanks to the mini’s incredibly short charge time. nothing.
    him/her: sees me after I unload 2 fully charged rounds into him. he simply looks in my direction, and I die. my camera pans to my assailant for a couple seconds.
    this is by far the worst case of lag ive seen on this game, but its not the only case. almost always happens against Japanese players. really wish they would separate the servers for everyone. it doesn’t happen every match thank goodness. I highly doubt its my internet that’s the problem, I’m more than sure its the server being in japan. arg, just arg. I don’t mind losing, I enjoy preforming well more than winning, but both are a little hard to do when sometimes the Japanese have such a huge advantage that I cant really do anything about it. its really frustrating. sorry to go off topic I just needed to vent.

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