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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I’m really excited that we are making Badges for the league!
I’m excited to take you nerds DOWN.
I’m not going to lose to SomeGuy. Lol
Must earn. PokéJungle League. Badges.
Help I have artist’s block.
A bird?
Hey, at least you are artistic. I love how it seems like everybody is artistic here. (Except me)… well with a computer sort of.
I’m not artistic in the slighest. I like drawing, but I’m awful at it.
Ah. I feel like I’m the inverse. I feel slightly artistic, and I’m good at it in some ways, but I don’t like it.
Talon Badge? Make it a three clawed talon with feather jutting out through the negative space?
Not sure how I could do that, but it’s a good concept!
Yeah, and each feather could be a different color to match your team, perhaps? Make it really personal!
I’m sure Star could help you out! She’s quite talented!
Are you thinking for a specific type?
Flying
Ideas:
Whirlwind badge, air badge, null badge, tempest/typhoon/monsoon/hurricane badge, Boreas or other names for wind besides zephyr
Hold on; why the “Null” badge? O_o
Eh, just brainstorming. Not necessairley normal type because I meant air.
Ozone badge sounds very weird.
It’s kind of a stretch, it’s just I like minimal things.
Yeah, I get what you mean.
A cool sounding wind name is Föhn
It’s not so much a name I need, that’s not the hard part IMO.
Ok, well all my suggestions would be minimalistic. Those are the things I like to draw. I am very anti-skeuomorphic
If you all want the badges to be drawn in the style of D/P/Pt, I know how to. So just show me the design and I’ll work on it!
I’m going to display your all’s badges in a special notes section on my phone so they better be awesome looking.
So just a quick question but anyone got any ideas what type Alolan Diglett and Dugtrio will be?
Fab/Lous
Oh… U. 😛
Fantastic
Dragon/ground. Logic: Mega Ampharos.
I agree with the logic, but I think it’ll be part Fairy.
Lol No doubt. I just think at this point Fairy is overkill, but GF balance. XD
Yea Fairy is cool. I legitimately like the type a lot. But the fact there are more Fairies then some types that have been around since the beginning is a little sad lol
Mhm. Lol I mean I get it, but look how dark and steel were compared to fairy. It’s a little crazy lol
Honest guess: Ground/fairy. Their hair seems similar to some Polynesian fairy’s in some folklore that either lived underground or were driven underground. Something like that. Their are also three key one’s in folklore, so it seems like it has some legs to stand on.
Oh ok, that makes the most sense. It was very hard to determine what type it would be based on it’s hair
as long as its not fairy I’m good
I’m hoping Fire for fierce lol
Ground/water since they are obviously surfers (they showed up at the beach after all)
With Sap Sipper? 😛
I can’t believe it took me this long to realize I can’t actually choose Love AND Awesome in the same post… *facepalm*
Me after it turns out the dex leaks were complete: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iIPOs0eZmP8
Owned. Lol I never liked Lucina
The joke is on the quote though. xD
I know 😛
Okay then
How do we know its complete exactly?
We don’t; this is a hypthothetical.
If it were complete, I wouldn’t be here, I’d be off crying for a few days.
I’m at such a loss for a unique design that I just googled “sky things”.
._.
Ok, let’s see
Take your favorite Flying type Pokemon and take a design element from that for your badge?
Oooh, I’ll combine the “Seraph Badge” idea with a togekiss theme! 😀
There you go 😀
Cloud with Slash line through it?
A cloud
A cloud shaped like a PokéBall
A cloud shaped like a bird
Seems sorta plain IMO, I’m trying to avoid clouds.
One idea I stole was angel wings with a halo, that I dubbed the “Seraph Badge”. I really like that idea, but I can’t draw at all. Plus I wanted to include the aurora borealis colors somehow
🙁 it’s minimal. I would do a cloud
Seraph is a cool idea, but I think finding a non-religious based badge would be for the best. Certain cultures find the depictions of angels as offensive to their divinity.
Eh, I’m not looking that much into it.
I know, I’m just saying it, because Pokejungle is so diverse and full of different types of people from all over the world. Like Leo for example is Brazilian studying abroad in France right now. (Which is an awesome experience. Sort of jealous. :P)
Wish I could double upvote this. I have seen many cultures and I would hate to see anyone offended because of this
I’d hate to see someone offended as well. Sometimes we live our life so comfortably we forget about other people. I, for one, don’t want to do that to anyone. 🙂
I’m a badge! 😀 XD
An airplane, a tree bending,
You can go the peacock route. Make the center an eye and then have feathers for the eyelashes.
A compass? Kind of a stretch
A windmill
Airplane, Spaceship, A Fan, A bird, A balloon would be cute
You could do a cloud intersecting a mountain or a bird and do some cool negative space things.
A sad attempt to help you out
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Yay! We suck! Lol Though I love your twister. 🙂
A quick sketch of the talon badge I mentioned earlier! Though the two talons should be on the top.
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What about a trapeze? Maybe with some kind of added flair like a ribbon or something?
Sailor moon is so 90’s vibes like omg
Oh, Bianca. Lol smh
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What da hell is she pokin’? I’m slightly disgusted.
Throh or sawk whichever the blue one is lol
Sawk. Oh okay, That poke looks nasty how it goes in like that. Ew.
Lol I never use fighting pokemon.
The only Fighting types I like are M-Lopunny, Gallade, and Mienshao. The rest are all too bulky for my liking.
Gallade and Meinshao are two I would definitely use.
Blaziken doesn’t bulky to me. And he’s one of my favorite Fighting-types despite being my least favorite type.
Bianca put the poke in Pokemon.
You know, looking at its head now, I think I’ll name mine’s…
Saitama. >:D
So this is pretty off topic, but its kind of fascinating and depressing at the same time since a lot of us here love anime. No idea how accurate it is, but it’s still interesting.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwR0GWYUkAAMCWU.jpg
I’m confused about what’s depressing.
how animators are paid less compared to just voice actors i think
Eh. A skill that can be learned will always be valued less in the market place than top talent who’s names alone bring in an audience and who’a talents are perceived to be irreplaceable.
yeah. sad but is true, you can replace animators but you cannot replace a voice that is recognized nation wide
Supply and demand my friend. Such is the way of existence.
literally just got #triggered cause i have a microeconomic test on friday and i am not ready
Micro was my favorite course in college.
…. is so hard lol
Yea it is lol My professor was hardcore. His Micro course was the hardest of all the upper level courses cause he expected you to reproduce everything from scratch. But damn did I enjoy it.
mine is a 200 level class and is just so hard. I understand the concepts but putting them on practice kills me
More so Animators are payed less then part-timers. It’s understandable that an A-class actor get’s payed a lot.
What’s a “Part-Timer” mean outside of work hours in this case?
Yeah the production teams really don’t make a crazy lot. Plus they work ungodly hours. This chart is quite interesting, but I find the whole industry interesting including international dealings. In Japan voice actors can make a killing as they also tend to double as idols as well as actors. However, in the US and many other countries voice actors often make much less. Similar to where that chart puts part timers. Unlike live action actors, voice actors rarely get what they deserve. Which is why there are so many movements to make equal pay and compensation for them and the production crews in the US and other such countries. And don’t even get me started on manga artists lol
With all this badge talk I decided to make my own. I call it the Duality Badge. I would be a Dark gym leader. Since the Dark type in Japanese is referred to as the “evil” type. I’d play on this with the saying “Evil is a point of view.” and ying and yang being represented in my badge’s design. It’s a bit simplistic, but I love it. What do you guys think?
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The concept is neat, but I can’t help thinking Psychic when I see an eye symbol.
Well, I’m going with the eye as the judge of good and evil.
I understood that, but because Psychic is so often affiliated with eyes, it’s kind of confusing without the explanation. I really like that it looks rather serpentine though. I don’t know if that was intentional, but it’s awesome.
I have bad eyes and that effected the drawing. I was trying to have the black and white have the 50/50 ratio. Lol I understand your criticism, though!
But, psychic is also related to the eye as the representation of the mind’s eye or third eye so I understand your reasoning 🙂
i love this. especially that white and black effect
Thanks! 😀
I’d defeat you
Been MIA from the internet for a while so I’ve gotta ask: Is the hope that the Alola Dex is incomplete dead or alive?
Last I checked, it’s still up in the air. It can realistically go either way at this point.
imo: 80% dead 20 %alive
Just a question…
Should I go for Landorus, Metagross, or Gigalith?
I plan to doing something pretty nasty competitively…
well, landorus is pretty good same with metagross. Gigalith is meh
I’m going based off the attack stat in either form for Landorus, and not Mega Meta.
all depends what are you planning to do. Landorus have access to u turn. meta have bulk and gigalith has expolision
They all can learn Block/Explosion >:D
The play here is trap and destroy. No more hints.
trap and destroy go meta
I’ll tell you anyway.
Also, I want to be able to use Octillery competitively with other items beside the Life Orb and Choice Specs. I was thinking either Weakness Policy or Assault Vest.
It will have no choice but to be on a TR team.
Landorus
Block/Explosion Lando? Therian or Incarnate?
Hmmm hard choices. I haven’t really used it enough competitively to have a valid opinion. But Therian form looks cooler lol
And slightly higher base attack than Incarnate, on par with Mega Meta’s attack. So far, Gigalith is ruled out then.
Normality is relative. What may seem strange or unusual to one person may be perfectly ordinary to another. It all depends on what you perceive to be normal.
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Cool! Normal badge?
You bet!
Awesome! I like that!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. shook what does your team looks like
Well I’ll have to see what I can work with for the first few months without Bank. But with my full team, expect plenty of surprises – including, of course, Kecleon 🙂
use the porygon line
Oh of course, it’s my favorite evolutionary line. I may even use both ‘2’ and ‘Z’.
YES
Woot!
Totally agree!
Eviolite Porygon2 is my worst nightmare.
😛
eviolite pokemon are my worst nightmare
Hands down one of my favorite Pokémon to use competitively 🙂 (Along with many other Normal types)
How did you make your badge? It looks so professional- like something you’d see in an actual game.
Thanks! It took an embarrassing amount of time on Photoshop 😛
If it’s any consolation, I’ll probably be spending an even greater amount of time on MS Paint when I make mine.
Pffttt I’ll probably just take real images and paste them in Paint, cause I can’t draw at all
That’s more or less what I did in photoshop 😛 I took vector images, arranged them to make the basic shape, and then recolored all of them. What took me so long was tweaking the design and effects (thickness of lines, beveling, gradients, etc).
I struggled in Paint trying to make a not-so-artisitic version of it. Oh boy. xD
Percy are you the psychic leader? What’s your badge concept? 🙂
Look above, I made the badge using real images 🙂 It’s crap but it’s the best I can do for now
I probably have to refresh lol
is there any more spots left for the pokemon league?
Just join me in taking all their badges!
I’ll join SomeGuy in conquest! 😛
lets goo!
lol try it
The moment I lose too many times I’m just gonna make teams specific to winning each badge lmao But I’ll try earnestly to win with a type balanced team of Pokémon I just like a lot.
Star! Have you come up with your badge design yet? I’d love to see it!
I have some ideas but haven’t designed it yet! I’ll probably have one tommorow though!
Cool! 😀 I look forward to seeing it!
Naww man, the tournament to become a gym leader has come to a close. About time too, it took like two months xD
On the bright side, it really helped to pass the time!
That it did!
oh it was a huge tournament? lol well looks like i gonna battle 18 people then
Hey, I was just thinking about the new mechanic to host your own tournament, and I was wondering, from the scope we are all familiar with, what kind of tournament would you all host?
I will host a LC league, and if I can set the level cap, it’s 20.
Meh, going to bed, college in the morning.
LC is generally all Level 5. I actually have a fully-bred LC team on Alpha Sapphire! I used them to battle my friend’s UU team and beat him with it xD
While we’re waiting for the Bank to be available for Sun and Moon in order to really get the League going, we should kill time doing a lot of PokéJungle Battle Royals. It’d be especially cool if someone here was able to stream.
The League should happen before Bank becomes available so it’s more fun, and everyone has the same amount of time to prepare.
Well they’re gyms. It’s not a tourney. You challenge whenever you’re ready. They created the league for others to voluntarily challenge. They said in the forums they’ll likely take challenges before the bank comes out but it’ll be smaller than 6v6 since they have less Pokémon to choose from for each type until they have access to Bank and therefore the national dex. I personally have no intention of battling them until the Bank is open. You can choose to challenge sooner.
Since the Forums just got to see it, might as well show it to the Jungle. Now just imagine it to be prettier than it actually is, ok, cause just doing this gave me all the struggles.
It’s called the Clairvoyance Badge (just guess what my typing is 😉 )
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So a brain/eye combo? I like that! Guess we both like eye designs for badges? 😛
I’ve always wanted to do a ‘mind’s eye’ kind of thing for my badge, except calling it ‘Mind’s Eye Badge’ seemed too long, so I went with Clairvoyance since it goes with it nicely.
Clairvoyance Badge is a great name! I find the ‘Mind’s Eye’ fascinating. 🙂
p neat
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I am so waiting for a Courage reboot, just so they can feature my abomination 🙂 xD Nothing else, just to scare kids away from the Internet
I loved that show so much! Lol
Based on what they did with Teen Titans and PPG, I really hope they don’t.
True, but can we at least have one episode so it can show Courage being afraid of my Paint image? 😀
RAMSES!
For anyone who IS interested.
THE CUBS WON THE WORLD SERIES!!!!!!
The curse is over???
Is it like, they gave the “longest championship drought” title to their opponent? HERE, HOLD THIS CLEVELAND.
I can’t believe the Cubs broke their World Series curse but Ash still can’t break his Pokemon League curse. ;~;
Here’s to another 108 years until their next one! 😉
Nah
Darn, I was hoping the curse would stay.
No.
It was a great game!!!
Woo
Where my Brits at? 😮
not brit but hi
Yass
How is Lugia winning aaarrrrgh the world really is ending
Anyone have any ideas of a dark badge?
I can’t come up with anything
http://www.ufointernationalproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/a23.jpg Maybe something like this?
A picture of Lana Del Rey could make a good gym badge. ;P
I don’t think a “depressing” type exists haha
lol Lana would totally be a Dark trainer!
I can see her with an Umbreon
Something gambling related like the four suits of a card deck
I was thinking an Eclipse would be cool, but I do like Leo’s idea from below.
A black circle.
I’m super creative trust me.
I actually think that would make a great minimalistic badge. Not a black circle but a black ring like this would certainly be cool:
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Imagine the silver part in the middle emit a white light.
I came up with this one last night. I call it the Duality Badge. Since Dark = Evil in Japanese. I took the concept of ying and yang and the saying “Evil is a point of view” to represent its design.
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hi
Hello! :3
Did you sleep well?
No! I left the window open and froze slightly lol
I freeze here even with the windows closed haha
Well, I’m sure you’re used to warm temperatures like I am. I’m cold in 60 degree weather.
I like cold weather but it’s not cold enough for me to turn on the heat (or else I’ll start sweating) but at around 6 am it gets cold af
I hate cold weather. The only saving grace is that I get to wear cute jackets lol
I live for guys in cute jackets
Who doesn’t!? Mmm
Lesbians
How about you?
I walked 30 miles in the last 3 days + my friend came over with weed so I slept like a log
30 miles in three days isn’t too bad. 😀
Walking all over the city, I wasn’t hiking or anything x)
Lol Yeah, I figured. I used to walk over 60 miles a week for a job I had a few years ago. I had the world’s sexiest legs. lol
I already walk up 6 flights of stairs every day so. I just have to eat more bcuz I’m losing the little muscle I had gained x)
6 flights? Do you take two steps in one stride? If you do your butt will look amazing. Lol
It already does haha
Lol How do I know?
You can keep wondering 😉
Lol! I wasn’t asking to see it. ?
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Girl, you better stop! Lmao
Make me
There.
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Ok I shut up
Lol 😛
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Cazwell 😛
Deleted it because not everyone would enjoy the sight
It’s understandable lol
Ohh that’s why there are no dark leaders
I hope Dark gyms make it one day!
Guzma should be the 8th dark type leader. I mean he’s a rejected trial captain and people think that the SEVEN trial captains will become gym leaders sooooo
Yeah, I hope they don’t break the 8 gym tradition.
For real though you could do like a silhouette of a person with evil eyes maybe?
Well, I’d try to polish this look a bit more since I love how simplistic it is. I don’t like the crazy Kalos badges.
Okay, straight question, straight answer
Favourite type and why?
Dark. Why? I love the dark. I find it soothing. Plus as a teen I was a goth. I used to go to Cemeteries and bask in the environment and bring flowers to graves without them. I guess my reasoning is odd, but meh.
Ground because I worship the Earth Element, the Earth Element is everything to me, been that way for as long as i can remember
sure this applies to Rock and to a lesser extent Steel but Ground just works better
its just who i am, Deel with it
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Women are funny. Deal with it.
You like to shake the booty to the ground
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Damn it, Leo! Lol XD
dayum
Fairy because cute and magical
XD
Also they kill dragons and that’s awesome
Dragon. I’m that incredibly average white guy with nerdy interests and juuust above average intelligence. I’m an average height of 6 ft. I have average looks. I’m not fit nor fat. And I think I perceive Dragon type to be a tier above the rest. It’s better, faster, stronger, cooler and I’m attracted to the idea of being more tomorrow than I am today.
Dragon valley prospered until one day. From the hills came a fairy army and in their wake: utter destruction! Lol
Dragon. They just have the best designs (Haxorus, Dragalge, Dragonite, Hydreigon) and its for me the most mythical type there is. I like my strong-looking beastly Pokémon.
Hydreigon is awesome. I hope it gets a mega one day.
Steel.
Can take whatever you throw at them and dish it out then the time is right.
Dark, largely in part to Honchkrow, who was my favorite pokemon before Volcarona came around. Dark pokemon are also really nicely designed (except a certain new one) and I also relate to the mysterious side of them.
Fairy, many reasons, too tired to list
Water or dragon, lots of reasons
They screwed up double slap in the translations so bad. Like I get it has the animation slapping twice but it can hit more than twice
You double the double slap! 😀
+1 lol
Gotta love Lugia gonna win this round for sure!
Well, it was pretty obvious 😛
Yea lol
Actually I thought Ho-Oh was a shoe-in. It’s prettier. I just voted for Lugia cause I played Silver as a kid and cause of Pokémon 2000.
Lugia’s fanbase is larger than Ho-oh’s. Although I like Ho-oh more, but I voted for Suicune. Lol
Lugia is the master of all walls, really one of the best legends ever, this thing can face whatever. It deserves to shine. Ho-oh is just meh, suicune is good.
BTW I missed the Pikachu demo event ? does anybody know if he gives you an item for helping him celebrate?
I think you get a balm mushroom. Not a big deal
Random thought: I’m really happy I’ve put the accent above the “e” enough times manually that auto correct puts it there for me when I type “Pokémon.”