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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1,771 thoughts on “Mascot Pokémon Showdown: Generation III”

  1. Guys, for the tourney fic I’m wanting to have the battlefields change each battle. Should I have:

    1) Randomised battlefields
    2) Randomised two battlefields (arena consists of a battlefield split down the middle with two different biomes)
    3) Randomised fused battlefields (like rainy desert, volcanic tundra, etc)
    4) Split Battlefields of each combatant’s specialty type (half desert, half forest, clearly divided as an example)
    5) Fused battlefields of the combatant’s types (for example, a desert with random patches of vegetation)

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    • Examples of the typed battlefields:

      Dark: Graffiti’d ruins, with plenty of shadows and cover from ruined stone walls. AOE attacks will break the ruins and do more damage doing meaning quake/surf/wave away!

      Fairy: A forest where the trees block out the sun, and illuminated with sprites and will-o-wisps (both are actually just light projections). Has a large amount of toadstools, solo and as Fairy circles. This causes problems for Flying Pokémon and minimises area of affect attacks such as Surf and Earthquake, but fire attacks threaten to burn it to the ground.

      Grass: An open field of tall, tall grass that’ll obscure most Pokémon, with a few oak trees. Weakens Earthquake and Surf but strengthens Fire moves, however AOE attacks can be used to locate the foe.

      Dragon: A craggy mountain peak, with plenty of rocks to stand upon and fire from, and dodge attacks behind. Boosts the power of seismic attacks.

      Ground: A desert with some deep patches, which activates sandstorm based abilities but weakness seismic attacks whilst also giving them the ability to summon miniature sandstorm affects.

      Flying: A canyon with air drafts, if the Pokémon falls down it they do not faint but automatically return to their Poké Balls if they fall to the bottom. The drafts make flying a breeze.

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    • If you have so many frustrations with it why would you torture yourself by writing a review?

      Which reminds me I downloaded Black 2 on my computer and really want to play it through again

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      • I like being able to organize my thoughts with reviews. I’ve only done it once but it kinda helps me figure out exactly what I dont like about it and why and I get to share my thoughts

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  3. Just going to say it now for my Fanfiction It will not be fully based on the plot of the games knowing I probably will start Monday after my Homework cause I have off and will get that done quick so beginning will be shaky but in the end will have similarities

    And it’s not a sexual Fanfiction … no nudity scenes will be there

    I hope more of us join in and I can make this a terrific Fanfiction I may post it all somewhere but for now I’ll just wright and create

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    • So far the characters

      Alex(me)- The hero (Popplio)
      Evan- Rival (Rowlet)
      Devon(My brother)- Rival (Litten)
      Ava- Researcher that admires Cynthia
      Leon- Proffesor Kukui’s other assistant
      Jordan- A trainer who plays a bigger role than just being once and done
      Belmad- A Florists daughter who has issues but will play a bigger role

      Alright anymore or must I create people to fill spots in the story?

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    • Oh right and many may wonder what about the Battle tree?
      This may surprise you but here’s some that will appear

      Wally
      Cynthia
      All 19 of my original Fanfiction characters (my characters name from the original was changed to Red)

      May be there: Cyrus, N, Any of the E4 members, ect.

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  5. Kyogre is my favorite of the three, followed by Rayquaza. So notstalgic. One of the last Pokémon games i last thoroughly enjoyed exploring because we didn’t have internet access. I just had rainy days at school and a handful of friends.

    On a side note, I started a Pokémon channel because some Twitter peeps wanted to hear me talk… I’ll only be doing TCG until things slow down after Christmas and I get a new phone for recording and ideas for videos. Check it out and subscribe or something if you’re interested. Or ignore you just want to hear me talk that’s fine too.
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfbyZDjAuNexdtfg9e3bgxA

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  6. So apparently the first time you talk to your mother in the beginning she says to remember when you defeated the Indigo Plateau. So now we are like Ash? We abandon pokemon when we have to move…(well not exactly like Ash. We have defeated the Indigo Plateau).

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    • I think that is a misunderstanding.
      I think the mother actually talks to Kukui – we already know that he challenged the league in Kanto (that was revealed in several reviews for the 2 hour demo)

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  7. So I know I’d say I’d start tomorrow but I at least want to make a start even though it’s still open!

    Vote for who you want to win Round 1, Battle 1 of the Written Monotype Tourney!

    Ava (StarStorm), the Fabulous Fairy user, or Jeremy (SassyChespins), the Fearless Flying user!

    https://goo.gl/pG9vAd

    Here’s their Bios

    StarStorm

    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.

    Pokémon

    Species: Gardevoir (F)
    Name: Kumotora
    Item: Gardevoirite
    Mega/Z-Crystal Accessory*: A necklace
    Behaviour: Calm
    Ability: Synchronize -> Pixilate
    Moves: Calm Mind/Hyper Voice/Psychic/Focus Blast
    Interesting Notes*: Shiny
    Met*: During Ava’s 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 alleyway while vacationing in Alola the previous year.

    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

    SassyChespins

    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?: Lighter
    Z-Crystal?: No
    Z-Crystal Accessory?: N/A
    Hair Colour: Brown
    Eye Colour: Hazel
    Skin Colour: Lightly Tanned
    Skin Details: Beard
    Height/Weight: 5’9
    Rough Clothing Details: Black jeans, boots, blue flannel shirt.

    Species: Salamence (M)
    Name: Zephyr
    Item: Salamencite
    Mega/Z-Crystal Accessory: Brace around its neck.
    Behaviour: Like his trainer, calm mostly but gets a little crazy during a good battle.
    Ability: Aerilate
    Moves: Return, Flamethrower, Dragon Pulse, Hydro Pump

    Species: Staraptor (F)
    Name: Clever
    Item: Life Orb
    Behaviour: Patient, yet Ruthless
    Ability: Intimidate
    Moves: Brave Bird, Close Combat, Steel Wing, Roost

    Species: Gliscor (M)
    Name: Samson
    Item: Toxic Orb
    Behaviour: Prideful, yet kind and loyal.
    Ability: Poison Heal
    Moves: Acrobatics, Earthquake, Swords Dance, Protect

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    • Maybe if you do this, you should just put: Name, hometown, type specialty, maybe hair and eyes, and Pokemon with names, otherwise its pretty hard to overview it

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    • What I might do is have shortened bio, so those who want background and those that want quick data can both be satisfied:

      StarStorm

      Name: Ava
      Type Speciality: Fairy
      From: Ecruteak, Johto

      Pokémon:

      Species: Gardevoir (F)
      Item: Gardevoirite
      Mega/Z-Crystal Accessory*: A necklace
      Ability: Synchronize -> Pixilate
      Moves: Calm Mind/Hyper Voice/Psychic/Focus Blast
      Interesting Notes*: Shiny

      Species: Mimikyu
      Item: Leftovers
      Behaviour: Timid
      Ability: Disguise
      Moves: Protect, Curse, Shadow Ball, Moonblast

      Species: Slurpuff
      Item: Sitrus Berry
      Ability: Unburden
      Moves: Belly Drum, Play Rough, Return, Drain Punch

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      • SassyChespins

        Name: Jeremy
        Type Speciality: Flying
        Hometown: Sandgem, Sinnoh

        Species: Salamence (M)
        Item: Salamencite
        Ability: Aerilate
        Moves: Return, Flamethrower, Dragon Pulse, Hydro Pump

        Species: Staraptor (F)
        Item: Life Orb
        Ability: Intimidate
        Moves: Brave Bird, Close Combat, Steel Wing, Roost

        Species: Gliscor (M)
        Name: Samson
        Ability: Poison Heal
        Moves: Acrobatics, Earthquake, Swords Dance, Protect

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  8. HOW DOES ANYONE TAKE B2W2’S PLOT SERIOUSLY?? The more I play this game the more frustrated I become. I felt this way when I had a replay marathon a couple years ago but seriously. He wants to… freeze the world? Why? How are you ruling a world if everyone is a freaking Popsicle?

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      • Yeah really. B2W2 had a great post game, pretty good dex, great gym battles, (Up until Marlon at least)
        The story is pathetic honestly after how good Black and White’s story was. It gave good context to your actions and really made you feel like a hero. The end had no battles in N’s Castle because the grunts understood it was you and N who had to fight. That is awesome. But now that Plasma has been watered down into a bowl of evil, there is nothing like that and it is a bunch of repetitive boring battles.

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    • The plot that irritated me the most is your friend/rival in the game… but the worst thing about b2w2? The visor the male protag wore…ew.

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      • FINALLY SOMEONE SPILLED THE TEA. NOT THE VISOR BUT THE MALE PROTAGONIST HAS EASILY THE WORST OUTFIT IN THE ENTIRE POKEMON HISTORY. HE WAS A MESS HEAD TO TOE,

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          • kalos was lame, plain and boring, but it wasnt ugly. let me just start with nate aka BW2 protagonist, first of all his hair? dandruff lives there, he does not even use shampoo probably, heck he just wakes up, takes a shower, gets his hair wet, grab his towel and pass through it hair three times, and say looks good! His vizor? oh lord have mercy. Who in the hell uses vizors these days. Boy you aint playing golf you catchin pokemon wtf. And what is going on with that wetsuit. Boy you dont know about underwear? And who the hell buys short sleeve jackets. Like what is the purpose of a short sleeve jacket. Looking cool? cause it aint a cool look for you. And them ugly wide basketball shorts that makes his leg looks like chicken legs. And those shoes? Those shoes started the “what are does movement”. Nate really needs to get it together

  12. UHG, how dumb is it that N just gives you the freaking Dragon. he is just like “oh i know I’m the chosen hero but you can have it because we need to satisfy your power trip with a legendary

    ….
    I don’t think I like these games very much

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  19. Well I think I’m just going to move onto Y version tomorrow. The end of B2W2 just took all the fun out of finishing it I don’t even want to do the E4. I may come back to it after I beat Y but I am just so frustrated with these games I don’t want to bother with Victory Road.

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      • oh my god

        Ok so like, it starts out really good. I love Asperita City, I love the variety of pokemon early on, it has alot going for it. Then there is Hugh who rants about rescuing a purloin stolen from his sister, not even him, 5 YEARS AGO. He would be at most 11 then. But what ever right? Bianca is there and she has awesome character development over those 2 years and the same with Cheron. The game is great up until the 7th gym I’d say. Because after Drayden, there is a huge terrorist attack on Opelucid City, a major city in Unova filled with people and it is followed up with… battling Team Plasma grunts? So then you go to Humailu City and then you have to FIGHT THE GYM LEADER RIGHT AFTER?

        Then Marlon is questioning if Team Plasma is evil because he is two years late and in the game where instead of being morally ambiguous they literally just froze an entire city full of civilians. Worst gym leader imo

        Then you have to go on the frigate and do the button press thing to unlock the gate, what ever. Then you have to go BACK onto it and fight a bunch of them to get this key card and the code, fight Zinzollion 5 times while all of this is happening, fight Colress. Then you fight the shadow triad and a really anti-climactic ending to Hugh’s Purrloin sublot. Then the worst legendary encounter ever happens. (Until XY that is)

        So the pacing has already been ruined by boring repetitive battles against grunts that just work fro Ghetsis so he can take over the world. A huge step down to the thought provoking N from BW. And I know he was kinda like this in BW but he was also opperating in the shadows and was interesting with his interactions and influence on N and seemed to just want power more than total domination.

        N comes in on his Deus ex Machina dragon. (Who never appears before this moment and your player character has no idea who this is. Oh yeah also they shouldve just done the previous characters but thats a different rant) then you fight Black Kyurem without being able to catch it, I killed it with two non-stab focus blasts, then you fight a much easier Ghetsis. Then N clumsily trys to talk to his father which could’ve been a good moment if executed better then he just leaves and that’s it.

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        • My main gripe with the games were just how painfully in your face everything was and it was full of plot devices, but the ending was still alright in my opinion. It’s the cheesiest game in the series, that’s for sure.

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          • It really lacked any kind of central theme too. Black and White had truth and ideals and it really shined conveying that. No one side was right. Plasma’s message had some truth in it, but it was their ideals that made them take action. Unlike in Black and White 2 where Ghetsis wants to take over the world and grunts follow him just.. because?
            Questioning if the things you do in the game are right is a great idea from a design stand point. I mean at this point pokemon has had 5 generations. Looking at what you are doing and if it is right is a fantastic idea and the player can still draw their own conclusion from that. Even if they ignore it and play anyways. I can go on for hours about how Black and White did so well.

        • BW2 are actually my favorite games in the series imo. I just love how it ties BW together with the memory link and actually made me feel like I was exploring a living place.

          (I actually do like the story, even though BW was better)

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  20. Trying to stay positive today. Just found out something very depressing last night.

    So name a pokemon you absolutely love from each gen, megas count separately!

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  21. Playing on Showdown.

    Guys sets up turn 1. Loses the Pokemon without killing anything.
    Sends out second Pokemon, sets up straight away again…while I have a Pokemon that can hit him super effectively

    Rage quits

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  23. Almost done with my marathon of Pokémon games. SS, Pt, OR, B and B2 have been finished. No post game except for soulsilver.
    For those curious my teams were
    Charizard, Golduck, Scizor, Tyranitar, Wigglytuff and Hitmonlee for SS
    Torterra, Gyarados, Heracross, Probopass, Gengar and Altaria Pt
    Sceptile, Tentacruel, Grumpig, Masquerain, Skarmory and Hariyama OR
    Seismitoad, Sawk, Unfezant, Beartic, Gothitelle and Escavalier in B
    Hydreigon, Durant, Lilligant, Gigalith, Reuniclus and Jellicent in B2

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