Mascot Pokémon Showdown: Generation III

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Hey everybody, it’s time for a new Mascot Pokémon Showdown. But first, the winner of last time is Lugia with an amazing 50%!
Now we’re moving on to Hoenn. Generation III came out in 2002 in Japan and in 2003 in the rest of the world. This generation is home to three games: Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald. Generation III introduced some new and great aspects to the series, like weather, double battles and the Battle Frontier.

Pokémon Ruby Versionpokemon_ruby

Pokémon Ruby showed Groudon, the Continent Pokémon, on its cover. Groudon has the ability to stimulate volcanic eruptions to create land and convoke acute droughts to evaporate water. Because Groudon has these amazing powers, Team Magma is after it to create a giant landmass. However, it sleeps underground in a chamber filled with magma. When it awakens and encounters its rival, they will start a catastrophic battle.

Groudon’s signature move is Precipice Blades, a powerful Ground-type attack. In its primal form, Groudon is the heaviest Pokémon of all time and has the highest base Attack stat of all Ground and Fire Pokémon. It may be based on the Hebrew legends of Behemoth, an isopod or an ankylosaur. The name Groudon derives from ‘ground‘ and ‘don‘ (‘lord’ in Spanish).

Pokémon Sapphire Version

10425Pokémon Sapphire featured Kyogre on the cover, the Sea Basin Pokémon. It is a gigantic whale-like creature who possesses the ability to expand oceans. Kyogre is also able to control water and rain to drench withered places with water again—the reason Team Aqua wants to use Kyogre.

The signature move of this Pokémon is called Origin Pulse, a Water-type attack that was introduced in ORAS. When it is in its primal form, Kyogre has the highest Special Attack, Special Defense and base stat total of all Water-type Pokémon. It is based on the Leviathan, the Hebrew counterpart of the Behemoth. Its name comes from ‘kai‘ (海, ocean) and ‘orca‘.

Pokémon Emerald Versionpokemon_emerald_boxart_en-us

Pokémon Emerald featured Rayquaza, the Sky High Pokémon. This Pokémon is a snake-like dragon that lives in the ozone layer. It has an organ that resembles a Mega Stone, which enables it to Mega-evolve without an item. It is famous for soothing the other two of the weather trio.

Mega Rayquaza has the highest Attack, Special Attack and base stat total of all Dragon and Flying types. It is based on, again, a Hebrew legend, namely the Ziz. It’s an unconquerable master of the sky. Its name probably derives from ‘raqiya‘ (Hebrew for firmament) and ‘quasar‘ (a region surrounding a black hole).

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  5. Rayquaza will obviously win. And it’s deserved. But I hope Groudon gets second place. Kyogre is my least favorite of the trio.

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  16. Aww I really dont want to reset Y purely because I love how cute my character looks. I mean I have to finish Black 2 first anyways but blaaah I dont want to have to buy it all again! Hopefully clothes will be easy to access early game and will be cheap in SuMo

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    • I wanted to reset my X and do another play through too but my dex is complete. It’s only a little while longer! We will survive!

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    • I’m replaying X right now (trying to get through again before SM). I’m giving my Pokemon dumb nicknames this time to make the game a little more fun. xD

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  19. Gotta give this one to my boy Groudon. The beast of the land.
    Also it’s Primal is eons better than Kyogres.

    However I actually love all three of these guys.

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  21. Sorry for reposting this from the past article, but in my defense it was on an old article this morning when some people wouldn’t of been on:

    I don’t know if anyone has was interested in it is online right now, but if any of you see this, remember that tourney thing I was writing? Decided to change it up a bit by making it an all 3v3 round robin (so everyone can fight everyone) and let you all vote for who you want to win! 😀

    Sadly, this means that everyone who applied with their teams will have to reapply (and I’m removing my character from it in order to make it fair in case you guys vote for me to make the choice) and if the reapplication process leads to an odd number of applicants, I’ll have to remove one or wait for another applicant to even begin writing. Sorry for being a pain guys, but I feel that this is the way to make the most amount of people happy whilst also not ruining the surprise of people reading!

    There’s also two templates, for your trainer and three Pokémon. There’s also a few rules 😡

    1) Only one Gen VI Pokémon (minimises guesswork)
    2) No legendaries or mythicals (includes Silvally as for all we know only one or two were ever produced)
    3) For the luls, it’s a monotype tournament! However, types are allowed to be repeated.
    4) If you want to use a Z-Move, the name of it in at least one country and at least a big chunk of its animation must be present. Name of the Z-Crystal doesn’t matter as it’d be mostly inconsequential.

    And now, onto the template:

    Application Templates

    Trainer Name:
    Hometown:
    Type Speciality:
    Personality:
    Key Stone?: Yes/No
    Key Stone Accessory?: Describe or N/A
    Z-Crystal?: Yes/No
    Z-Crystal Accessory?: Describe or N/A
    Hair Colour:
    Eye Colour:
    Skin Colour:
    Skin Details*: (Freckles, Scars, Bruises)
    Height/Weight:
    Rough Clothing Details:
    Interesting Notes*:
    Starter Pokémon*:

    Pokémon (x3)

    Species:
    Name:
    Item:
    Mega/Z-Crystal Accessory*: Describe or N/A
    Behaviour:
    Ability:
    Moves:
    Interesting Notes*:
    Met*:

    *Unrequired field

    Again, sorry for the repost

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    • Trainer Name: Ava
      Hometown: Ecruteak City
      Type Speciality: Fairy
      Personality: idk mine i guess
      Key Stone?: Yes
      Key Stone Accessory?: Bow in my hair
      Z-Crystal?: No
      Hair Colour: Black or Purple
      Eye Colour: Green
      Skin Colour: White
      Rough Clothing Details: Gothitelle tank top with bright purple skirt and black leggings. Also a black beanie with pins on it.

      Starter Pokémon*: Buneary (from an egg)

      Pokémon (x3)

      Species: Lopunny
      Name: Cotton
      Item: Lopunnite
      Mega/Z-Crystal Accessory*: A matching bow in her little ear tuffs
      Behaviour: Playful yet competitive
      Ability: Limber
      Moves: High Jump Kick, Fake Out, Return, Ice Punch
      Interesting Notes*: Shiny, Female
      Met*: Hatched from an egg

      Species: Mimikyu
      Name: Lilo
      Item: Leftovers
      Behaviour: Timid
      Ability: Disguise
      Moves: Protect, Curse, Shadow Ball, Thunderbolt
      Interesting Notes*: Female and has a notch in her tail similar to pikachu
      Met*: Found alone in an ally way while vacationing in Alola a year before

      Species: Mimikyu
      Name: Lilo
      Item: Leftovers
      Behaviour: Timid
      Ability: Disguise
      Moves: Protect, Curse, Shadow Ball, Moonblast
      Interesting Notes*: Female and has a notch in her tail similar to pikachu
      Met*: Found alone in an ally way while vacationing in Alola a year before

      Species: Gothitelle
      Name: Estelle
      Item: Choice Scarf
      Behaviour: Calm
      Ability: Shadow Tag
      Moves: Psychic, Trick, Thunderbolt, HiddenPower Steel
      Interesting Notes*: Female
      Met*: Found during journey in Unova

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          • Species: Gardevoir
            Name: Kumotora
            Item: Gardevoirite
            Mega/Z-Crystal Accessory*: A necklace
            Behaviour: Calm
            Ability: Synchronize
            Moves: Calm Mind,Hyper Voice, Psychic, Focus Blast
            Interesting Notes*: Shiny, Female
            Met*: During journey in Sinnoh

            Species: Mimikyu
            Name: Lilo
            Item: Leftovers
            Behaviour: Timid
            Ability: Disguise
            Moves: Protect, Curse, Shadow Ball, Moonblast
            Interesting Notes*: Female and has a notch in her tail similar to pikachu
            Met*: Found alone in an ally way while vacationing in Alola a year before

            Species: Slurpuff
            Name: Tart
            Item: Sitrus Berry
            Behaviour: Hungry and Always Excited
            Ability: Unburden
            Moves: Belly Drum, Play Rough, Return, Drain Punch
            Interesting Notes*: Shiny
            Met*: Hatched from an egg

    • Trainer Name: Evan
      Hometown: Opelucid City
      Type Speciality: Dragon
      Personality: Amazing
      Key Stone?: No
      Key Stone Accessory?: N/A
      Z-Crystal?: No don’t need that to win ofc
      Z-Crystal Accessory?: N/A
      Hair Colour: Brown
      Eye Colour: Green
      Skin Colour: White
      Height/Weight: Don’t know
      Rough Clothing Details: Skinny jeans with blue shoes, white shirt and long dark blue coat
      Starter Pokémon: Axew

      Pokémon (x3)

      Species: Haxorus
      Name: Haxford
      Item: Life Orb
      Behaviour: Kind, but very protective over me and can get very aggressive
      Ability: Mold Breaker
      Moves: Dragon Dance, Dragon Claw, Earthquake, Iron Tail

      Species: Dragalge
      Name: Jaeger
      Item: Black Sludge
      Behaviour: Very classy and elegant
      Ability: Adaptability
      Moves: Draco Meteor, Sludge Wave, Scald, Toxic Spikes

      Species: Dragonite
      Name: Corona
      Item: Leftovers
      Behaviour: Caring, gentle and very competitive
      Ability: Multiscale
      Moves: Outrage, Extremespeed, Fire Punch, Earthquake

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    • Trainer Name: Jeremy
      Hometown: Sandgem Town
      Type Speciality: Flying
      Personality: Stoic and pretty calm, but during the heat of a good battle gets really excited
      Key Stone?: Yes
      Key Stone Accessory?: A lighter he uses
      Z-Crystal?: No
      Z-Crystal Accessory?: N/A
      Hair Colour: brown
      Eye Colour: hazel
      Skin Colour: light tan
      Skin Details*: (Freckles, Scars, Bruises)
      Height/Weight: 5’9
      Rough Clothing Details: black jeans, boots, blue flannel shirts, beard

      Species: Salamence
      Name: Zephyr
      Item: Salamencite
      Mega/Z-Crystal Accessory*: Brace around neck
      Behaviour: like trainer, calm mostly but gets a little crazy during a good battle
      Ability: Aerilate
      Moves: Return, flame thrower, dragon pulse, hydro pump

      Species: Staraptor
      Name: Clever Girl (Clever for short)
      Item: Life Orb
      Mega/Z-Crystal Accessory*: Describe or N/A
      Behaviour: patient and ruthless
      Ability: intimidate
      Moves: Brave Bird, Close Combat, Steel Wing, Roost

      Species: Gliscor
      Name: Samson
      Item: none
      Mega/Z-Crystal Accessory*: Describe or N/A
      Behaviour: prideful, yet kind and loyal
      Ability: poison heal
      Moves: Acrobatics, Earthquake, swords Dance, Protect

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    • Trainer Name: Wally
      HomeTown: Celestic Town
      Type Speciality: Dark
      Personality: Sweet but a bit mysterious
      Key Stone:Yes
      Key Stone accessory: Mega Scarf
      Z-Crystal: None
      Z-Crystal Accessory: N/A
      Hair color: Dirty Blonde
      Eye Color: Blue
      Skin color: White
      Height/Weight: 5″7 and 97.8lbs.
      Rough clothing details: A Green shirt with Mimikyu Face on it, Black shorts with a Light Green stripe, Green shoes, and Safariball cap, and a blue scarf
      Starter Pokémon: Sneasel

      Pokémon (x3)

      Pokémon- Weavile
      Name- N/A
      Item- Chople Berry
      Behavior- A Sweetheart but when needed to battle gets vicious
      Ability- Pressure
      Moves- Slash
      Dark pulse
      Icy Wind
      Metal Claw

      Pokémon- Houndoom
      Name- N/A
      Item- Houndoominite
      Mega Accessory- Mega Collar
      Behavior- Very Loyal and Cares for Sick and Weak Pokémon
      Ability- Flash Fire
      Moves- Flamethrower
      Howl
      Shadow Ball
      Payback

      Pokémon- Honchkrow
      Name- N/A
      Item- Dread Plate
      Behavior- Acts like a big shot but tends to all its allies needs
      Ability- Super Luck
      Moves- Night Slash
      Thunder Wave
      Haze
      Tailwind

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  24. Hmm, GameStop is getting their shipments this weekend, huh?

    Keeping my eyes peeled, I must avoid story spoilers at all costs (though if there are leaks I’m interested in hearing about the new Pokemon and post game secrets).

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