Today I’m bringing you a new Cover Pokémon Showdown. Perhaps rather unsurprisingly, Charizard won Generation One with 37% of the total votes!
Now it’s time to move onto Johto.
Generation II came out in 1999 in Japan and featured three games, namely Gold, Silver and Crystal. This generation introduced many new features such as Shiny Pokémon and the Dark and Steel type.
Pokémon Gold Version
Pokémon Gold featured Ho-Oh, the Rainbow Pokémon. Ho-Oh is often named the “guardian of the skies”.
Ho-oh is a bird-like Pokémon which resembles a phoenix, leaving a beautiful rainbow behind when it flies. It has a mythical power to resurrect the dead, which can be seen in one of the episodes of Pokémon Generations.
Its signature move is Sacred Fire, a strong damage-dealing move. Ho-oh was the first Generation II Pokémon that was seen in the anime, which was a sign that the franchise would continue after Generation I. Its name comes from ‘Hōō‘ (鳳凰), the Chinese word for phoenix.
Pokémon Silver Version
Pokémon Silver showed Lugia, the Diving Pokémon, on its cover. It is often referred to as the “guardian of the seas”. It’s also the trio master of the Legendary birds.
Lugia is a Pokémon that is able to control the weather, especially cause and stop storms. Because it knows it has that power, it hides itself underwater to prevent itself rising storms.
Its signature move is Aeroblast. Ho-oh and Lugia are the only Legendary mascot Pokémon that are not seen clashing with each other in the anime. Its name may come from ‘lutetium‘ (a silver element), ‘lugeo‘ (‘I lie dormant’ in Latin) or ‘luna‘ (‘moon’ in Latin).
Pokémon Crystal Version
Pokémon Crystal covered Suicune, the Aurora Pokémon. Suicune 
is the only Legendary beast to appear on a box art.
Suicune has the power to purify water with one touch. It travels the land searching for water to purify.
It is thought to be based on the Qilin, an Eastern legend that has traits of Chinese dragons, unicorns, deer and big cats. Its mane, however is said to resemble the northern aurora. Suicunes name is derived from ‘sui‘ (水, water) and ‘kun‘ (君, monarch).
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X — EVAN
Definitely Ho-oh, but I’m afraid it won’t win 🙁
Dang hat art is freaking majestic.
Lugia, and Rayquazza, are my favourite legendary
My boy Lugia! Almost went with Suicune, but alas. Lugia is too awesome. Have you seen Pokémon 2000? Shit was cray.
Best Pokémon movie
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I agree though will admit the epic fan service battle in the Hoopa movie gives it a run for its money.
Only because of the massive pairing theme
So our choices are the Phoenix -Peacock, the Killer Whale-Eagle, or the Leopard-Dog.
Hard to choose but I’ll put my money on Suicune or Lugia
The killer whale eagle lmao
It’s kinda what it is when you think about it
I know. That’s why it’s funny lol
Lugia is a nightmare in Uber
probably lugia for shure
Suicune is good tho
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These version mascots always have that one under appreciated one that we all still love.
I love Lugia. I love it in The Power If One too because it’s just this massive flying beast
I vote Ho-oh because Gold was my first game ever + it farts rainbows
You would lol
Suicune… though we all know Lugia’s going to win lol
Ok but Ho-oh did get the better cutscene
and the better battle music imo
Gen 4 and 5 is gonna be the tightest competition IMO
1000 years Giratina and Reshiram. No contest.
Lugia all day every day, I fucking love Lugia. But I always liked how Ho-oh is such a mysterious Pokemon.
I’m going with Suicune because Crystal is one of my most prized possessions. I bought it about 7 yeas ago at the mall for only like $30 in preparation for HG/SS 🙂 Other than that, I’d have to go with Ho-oH. It literally brought 3 creatures back from the dead. What has Lugia ever done?
After 3 whole weeks i finally got shiny vulpix
Nice!
Look at my son! SO proud of you, kiddo.
I was half expecting Ho-oh to be first, and even though I voted Lugia I’m surprise by the huge lead it has
Always voting Ho-Oh cos a banded Sacred Fire wrecks shit in Ubers. Especially paired with Groudon’s Drought.
Right? That combo is lit. Like, literally lit. 😛
This is a difficult decision……both Ho-oh and Lugia are so awesome! It’s hard to choose one over the other………I suppose Lugia probably draws me in more than Ho-oh, but only a little bit more hahaha
I always preferred Silver/Soul Silver, and for the longest time I loved Lugia more. But in the last year, I’ve come to actually love Ho-Oh more. Voted Ho-Oh.
Voted ho-oh….. Poor ho-oh
Uh-oh
Damn it I want GSC to hit Virtual Console
The roms I am too tempted to use the throttle and all physical copies never save
How about a weird suggestion: un-bind the turbo button?
Discussion point: what Pokemon did you dislike until you had one on your team?
For me, Garchomp. I was thoroughly salty about it wrecking Flygon’s tier placement and didn’t like it at all… but then I did an S tier run of Platinum and dang did I fall in love with it. Now I’m just hoping they show up in Alola.
Oh I thought honedge was the worst thing in the universe and now aigeslash is literally one of my top ten favorites of all time.
Ghost Sword! >:D
Greninja for me
Lilligant. Claydol as well, although mainly because it helped me defeat the dreaded Lisia
I had never used Lilligant until my current replay of Black where I did the Cottonee/Petillil trade and holy crap is my little grass dancer a HP-draining beast.
I loved Lilligant. I actually swept the ICE gym with it
Nice. I tried to see what my Volcarona could sweep and it did fairly well for most things lol.
Klinklang. ITS SO GOOD
Only if you get Gear Shift in
Otherwise it’s preyed upon by its common weaknesses and Gear Grind’s laughable accuracy
Gear Grind is a really good move tough. I gave it a wide lens when I used it in Black
One day I will use it. Today is not that day.
Infernape. Never liked monkeys that much but when I decided to use it on Platinum and saw how powerful it was, it eventually became one of my favorite starters. The anime also helped.
Lucario, really hated the design and always felt GF was forcing as being way cooler than it was. Ended up using it twice in Pt and BW2 eventually after getting over it.
Also Crobat up until BW2. Heres why:
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That… that is horrific. That is not what my lil Bat Boy looks like oh no.
Quagsire.
Until I caught a Shiny Wooper, then I felt I had to train it.
In-game: Crustle and Simipour are underrated Unova beasts; I got the chance to use them in White and X, respectively, and they’re surprisingly good.
In competitive: Mandibuzz was a surprise awesome pick for me in Gen 5. At least I can say I used it before Overcoat was buffed, and now Mandibuzz is in OU to stay.
I chose Lugia because in all honesty ho-oh was never given as much time to shine as Lugia. And I never understood why suicine was allowed to be a cover art Pokemon and not entei and raiku. Why make a legendary TRIO and then only give certain members of the trio various degrees of screen time? But this is primarily due to the fact that the franchise was young and they honestly just didn’t know any better