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. So I have what I’ve written from the tourney fic thing, it’s all pre-battle stuff though.

    Monotype Madness
    Round 1, Battle I
    Brave the Default! Flying/Fairy!

    Jordan was bored, tapping his fingers against the railing and waiting for one of the combatants to appear on stage.

    Thankfully, the Unovan Tournament Association-known affectionately as the UTA-had decided to hold the the event at Nimbasa’s Big Stadium, rather than Driftveil’s Pokémon World Tournament Arena. This made one important difference: seating! And it looks like the decision came in handy, seeing as one of the competitors was running particularly late.

    “Will Jeremy from Sandgem please come onto the stage?” The announcer announced, annoyed. “Or else victory will be defaulted to Ava, of Ecruteak.”

    As her name was mentioned, Jordan looked down at her. You wouldn’t be able to tell from looking at this young, raven-haired girl that she was one of the most renowned Fairy-Type trainers in the world, but as a Fairy fan Jordan knew wiser.

    For someone who entered the tournament to win, it was immediately obvious that victory this way was not acceptable to her. Her green eyes were darting nervously, the girl scanning the whole of the arena for traces of her opponent from atop her podium. She was anxiously switching between throwing her Poké Ball up and down and fixing her beanie, the black mass slipping off her head from the amount of movement she was making.

    “If Jeremy does not step on his podium within ten seconds, victory will be defaulted to Ava.”

    At the declaration of a deadline, Ava stared at the announcer’s box as intensely as the Astral Body Pokémon on her tank top. It was obvious she was not going to take this default as an acceptable option.

    “Ten, nine.” The announcer counted down. Ava apologised to her Pokémon within its ball and returned it to the belt above her skirt, the purple veil shifting at the slightest touch.

    “Eight, seven.” The audience began to make a commotion as they looked towards the Warp Pad at the side of the field flaring up.

    “Six, five?”

    From the Pad burst Jeremy, his blue flannel shirt and black jeans and boots marred with cuts and what appeared to be Pidove feathers. Despite the atrocity of his attire, his poise and gait were quite calm as he simply stepped onto the podium closest to his entrance.

    “And it looks like our friend from the land of mountains has finally appeared!”

    Ava excitedly the her Poké Ball back into her hand and waved at her opponent, as he simply returned a wave and ruffled a few feathers out of the brown that adorned his head and chin.

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  6. So I’ve been thinking about my Emerald team, and I think I got to something:
    Sceptile
    Slaking
    Crawdaunt
    Grumpig
    Flygon
    Absol/Torkoal

    Thoughts?

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  7. Seeing all you guys who are so into writing and similar things as I am is getting me inspired! I used to be an avid writer but the lack of having any creative outlets or support hindered that but now I’m starting to think about ways to get back to it! So thanks to everyone here ?

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  9. The Mighty Earthinator is growing bored
    So lets get a ball rolling, i greatly want to establish a firm Weekendly Battle Royale Skirmish once Sun and Moon gets here

    But (this goes for Battle Royale Meta as well) i fear that it will be dominated purely by Solid tanks who cannot be scratched or simply overpowered sweepers who one shot things, and once one trainer is completely out the battle ends right there

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  10. Last question for my Emerald run for the day, but I’m stuck on who to choose: Absol or Mightyena. Absol has superior stats, yet I love dogs, so Mightyena.

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      • Because its not a fairy
        i’ll tell you what i told that chick in line to the 20th Anniversary thing in new york

        Absol is just some bad luck monster mixed in with a Bai Ze and has zero fairy like qualities whatsoever
        And as she responds with “but it has a fairy face and wings” and i gloriously snapped “Its just its fur standing up, and will never be one because of it”

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  19. Thought I’d share a bit of the fic to kinda let you guys get a taste of what I’m getting at style wise:

    Ava had now selected her Slurpuff to go onto the field, as the delightful Tart bounced into battle. He gleefully galloped over to where Samson was now landing, and booped him on the nose.

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  21. So I just caught a female Slakoth in Emerald and I have not the slightest idea what to name it. Does anyone have an idea for a nickname I should give it?

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          • I have 2.

            I never have more than 5, I can’t keep track of all of them well.
            Plus if I was keeping them open to just use them later, then I’d just bookmark it. 😛

          • I have too many bookmarks already.

            I don’t think any of the Firefox instances I’ve got open have less than about 6 or 7 tabs.

            I can still keep track of everything though, I have very good semantic and episodic memory.

          • The more you use it, the better it gets.
            My memory wasn’t very good until I took up programming. Having to remember all the namespaces, class names, member functions, syntax rules, semantic rules etc pretty much forced my memory to get better.

            I still suck at putting names to faces though.

          • It stresses me out to have more than three tabs open. When I do research papers for school I sometimes have more than 12 tabs open at a given time and it triggers my anxiety.

          • You just need more practise.
            The more you do it, the more you get used to it and the more you’re able to flit from one tab to another.

            That said, doing academic work probably doesn’t require that many tabs open, depending on what you’re actually doing. The only times I had high numbers open when doing coursework was in 3D modelling when I had various reference images and tips/tutorials open and in hardware where I had the specs of various different systems all open at once. Having the different systems open ahead of time meant I didn’t have to remember what I had and hadn’t looked at yet, because anything I was done with was closed and anything I hadn’t done yet was open.

          • Side thing I just remember: my programming teacher has literally hundreds of windows of a text editor program open on his desktop. It’s stressful to look at for me, I would NEVER do something like that. xD

          • Your teacher is doing programming right. Though most good text editors have tabs these days. Notepad++ and (I think) Sublime and the like.

            Especially when you typically have one file per class (or if you’re doing Java, which forces you to have one file per class).

          • By naming your programs and classes properly. Picking good names for things is crucial in programming, and many people believe it to be the hardest thing about programming.

            That and seeing the differences in the code. A class for a vector looks very different from a class for a matrix. The number of fields and constructors etc are good indicators of a class’ intention.

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