Showdown is back and better than ever! For those that don’t know what our Showdown series is, or need a reminder: Showdown is where we hold a series of polls on our site and ask readers to vote for their top choice until we found our champion.
Voting periods will run for one week at a time and new rounds will begin on the following dates:
Round I: Leaders — December 2nd
Round II: Grunts & Admin — December 11th
Round III: Plans — December 16th
Round IV: Overall — December 23rd
Winner Announcements — December 30th
The results for Round I: Leaders are in! We’re happy to announce that the winner of the first round of our latest Showdown is… Cyrus, Leader of Team Galactic! Cyrus ended up with only a slight 2% lead over Giovanni of Team Rocket. Full results can be found below!
Note: Ghetsis and Colress have been combined into one percentage and will be counted as such for final vote counts.
In Round II everyone will be voting on their top Grunts and/or villains of teach team. Grunts are often some of the most commonly met trainer types in our Pokémon adventures. Admins provide support to Team Leaders and can prove quite a challenge in battle. Remember you’re voting for your favourite overall choice and a vote for Team Magma counts as a vote for both Third Generation and Sixth Generation iterations, for example.
Team Rocket
Admin members: Archer, Ariana, Petrel and Proton
Team Rocket’s admin staff are classified as Executive Trainers. These trainers all do their best to stop trainers in their attempts to foil the plans of Team Rocket, with challenging battle and no limit to the execution of their plans.
Grunts of Team Rocket are often considered fairly easy opponents, with a limited set of Pokémon used on their teams they rarely pose a true threat to trainers. Rocket Grunts seemed to have their appearance based on that of a typical cartoon criminal.
Team Magma
Admin members: Courtney and Tabitha
The two Admin members of Team Magma both play large roles in assisting Maxie to achieve his plans for Team Magma and the Pokémon world. Team Magma Grunts and Admin are mostly themed around the colour red, with no other obvious influences.
Team Aqua
Admin members: Matt and Shelly
Matt and Shelly play the same roles as Courtney and Tabitha: assisting their team leader in achieving their goals. The entirety of Team Aqua has their aesthetics themed around pirates, particularly their outfits.
Team Galactic
Admin members: Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Charon
Admin members of Team Galactic fall under the Commander trainer class. Each Commander of Team Galactic is named after an object within our solar system. All members of Team Galactic wear outfits that are visually like spacesuits, this results in people who unaware of the team to refer to them as spacemen.
Team Plasma
Admin members: Seven Sages, Zinzolin, Shadow Triad
Team Plasma is the only villainous group to have two groups of individuals who act as the higher members of their team. Both groups are loyal to their leader. Plasma member are themed around two distinct themes: in Black and White they appear to have had their appearance influenced by Medieval Knights, whilst in Black 2 and White 2 they have strong classical pirate influences.
Team Flare
Admin members: Aliana, Bryony, Celosia, Mable, Xerosic, Team Flare Admins
Team Flare Admins are extremely relentless in their attempts to halt the player in foiling the plans of their leader Lysandre. Each of these members are likely named in reference to classification of solar flares. All members of Team Galactic are seen as highly fashionable and well dressed.
Team Skull
Admin members: Plumeria
Plumeria is the single admin member of Team Skull and the only character with the Team Skull Admin trainer class. Team Skull is formed of members who failed the Island Challenge in the Alola region. They are the only villainous team to now have a distinct goal other than causing trouble.
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There is it! The second round in our Villainous Teams Showdown has begun Get voting for your favourites and be sure to comment below with your thoughts and opinions only who deserves to win! Remember you’re voting for your favourite overall team here (admins and grunts combined)
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Be sure to check back next week for Round III: Plans and stick around for more content as part of our ongoing Advent event!
Guys this is so adorable
https://kotaku.com/the-kids-are-all-right-1821235736/amp
Speaking of Ash’s team, i stand by this:
Pikachu
Incineroar
Dartrix
Lycandusk
Golisopod
Passimian
Nooope
Maybe Jangmo instead of passimian
Passiman more likely than Goli. A Pokemon that switches with every hit!? Very stupid.. not catching. I doubt even Guzma will use it for battle in anime much
Nvm i totally forgot about Guzma. I just theorized he’d get Goliso cos he befriended a Wimpod in the treasure isle episode
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Pikachu – 100%
Incineroar – Considering the lacklustre ability of the current anime team to make something good occur, this is at a low 40%.
Dartrix – Same reason as above.
Lycanrock – 100%
Golisopod- Same reason as Incineroar and Dartrix
Pas simian – Same reason s above.
No. Incineroar is 100%. It leaked before the anime even premiered.
There is concept art of Ash and Incineroar so unless they’re doing a 360 turn, he’s getting it.
I rly thought it would be Ash and Decidueye at first tho
Ah ok. I REALLY hope Lana and the other girl (forgot her name) evolve their Pokemon as I’d LOVE to see Brionne and Primarina.
Ash needs a Gen 8 Pokemon. See.. the problem with so few Pokemon… And a majority legends and ultra beast.. even the creators struggle fitting Ash with pokes that actually Suit him.. imagine how we feel making Our own teams.. ://
This is why they need to mix Quantity = with = Quality
Or he ends up with 3 flying Pokemon again.. :///
“If the United States of America, under the heavy iron-fisted rule of Donald Jackson Trump Esquire and his elite family, repeals the popularized net neutrality law, it would place it amongst the New Russian Empire and the People’s Republic of China as worst internet freedoms. It would also be considerably lower than other countries including Tunisia and Turkey. Many fear this will spark the commencement of the slow desecration of internet freedom of the U.S.A. It is imperative the nation strikes back against its increasingly authotatarion and iron-ruling government before it falls.” ~ Me
Wow this is so true
But how can we appreciate Donalnezer Trooge in the first place?
He thinks he’s all that even though he only made money because he was born into money and probably swindled his way to the top
We can cut off his finances.
I honestly think any one president from the past would be sad and disgusted at who’s president now
He literally has been office a year and has done not one single thing that anyone can agree with
Deportations, the wall, net neutrality? All terrible
It all starts with these kind of things. Then it grows and grows so that you are not aware of what is even going on anymore. You end up getting used to it as there is nothing you can do about it. You will become enemies with someone passing down the street. Not because you wanted to but because you are forced to segregate. People will have no tolerance for others. You will find yourself feeling the same too. It all starts with one push, then the rest falls like domino stones. I’m not being pessimistic. I know it, I lived it. However, I still hope the same will not happen for you.
I honestly have to say this may be the beginning of the end of America or even the Planet for that matter
If we do live past Trump (I 100% guarentee he will never get reelected by any smart/sain person), it probably will be a world of ruin then
I wonder why they make so many legends per gen now… I mean.. most people don’t use them unless noobs. I dunno.. maybe I’m wrong. But I think we’d all enjoy more regular Pokemon first. They thinking about merch an storyline more I guess. All these legends and ultra beast.. minus a few.. are F*** useless!
I do prefer ‘mon I can breed and train from an early stage tbh.
Me too makes it more memorable
Yasss
Wait.. isn’t the Aeither foundation the True enemies?
Just Lusamine and Faba really.
I never understood that.. so what was everyone attacking us? Just following orders? We’re kids!
I dunno, whatever lie Faba told them I guess.
Depends on the game
What u mean.. I ain’t finished ultra yet… But I feel they behaving the same thus far.. just saw her go through hole
Cuz the Nether Foundation is already the enemy.
https://twitter.com/zackfox/status/940584035155365888
Wow I wasn’t expecting that one
Omg.. all y’all. REMEMBER. Ash Kalos team was Not 4x weak to Electric. Y’all need to know your typings better.. just because he had 3 flying.. his team was actually well balanced. Noivern is Not weak to Electric.. it’s part Dragon. That how it works.
Talonflame, Hawlucha, Greninja.
Nooo
I mean 4.. 3 is technically ok.. ask any team building website
Yeah I forgot Dragon resists electric.
It’s coo… Everyone hear does when it comes to Kalos lol. Which is why I rly like how the new moves selecting area shows advantages. Cuz I forget too..
Omg.. bringing back Noivern.. who was a total failure in XY.. would be so cute and fast for his current team. Won’t happen tho
True, but thats technically 2… no 3 Ice weaknesses
cI think Ash should own a Pyukumuku.
I wish Arceus would come and fix are mess in America
Come on just use Judgement! It would really help
I’d rather the Phantom Thieves come and fix it
Anyone here gonna watch Pitch Perfect 3
Star Wars is out, there couldn’t be a worse time to release that.
Not like Star Wars is good.
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Eh, it feels like a rip off of Turkish Star Wars.
gtfo with that low bidget sh*t
Yeah, GO AWAY Lucasfilms!
??
I also have no interest in the Pitch movies, not even sure why it’s a trilogy but OK.
Yeah if you’re 9 years old
Uhhhh.
Lol. They don’t really compete with each other tho..
They kind do though. They’re both intended to be blockbusters aimed at young people. It’s a bad time. Expect PP3 to make the least out of the trilogy
That’s what they said about Toy Story 3.
Well whoever said that was quite literally mentally challenged
To a race?
Nobody said that.
How do you know? Are YOU friend with all 7.5+ billion people in the world? Do YOU know what they’re all thinking ’bout? Huh? Do ya? Do YA?
Just like how you know what ‘they’ said.
Lol.. what have I started.
I no cuz I have the ability to mentally steal people’s minds, like a Mega Hypno.
They do, they compete for box office, unless you’re saying people who like Star Wars can’t like those films too.
I just feel like.. if someone Really wants to see one of those.. or both. They will see both. I guess you mean opening week sales
Not everyone has the money to do that.
Probably? But I also don’t have any plans to watch it.
I’m gonna watch it cuz they were sponsored in this game and has gotten my interest piqued. Also i saw a trailer with that girl wearing a “Make America Eat Again” hat.
After while yes I will
A Trumpmas Carol
Donalnezer Trooge a pompous president who loves to say “Bah Humbug types” is visited by three spirits the Ghost of Mexico’s President, The Ghost of Putin and The Ghost of Jong Un to show him that Net Neutrality should stay and not follow the paths they have
Hopefully this story is truthful and Neutrality stays
But he wants to be Dictator Trump, that’s why he’s jelly of Jong Un.
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FCC be like on Christmas:
I’ll chew on their ankles and snap their feet off with my big a$$ teeth
I will then throw them in the chipper and use them to fertilize a Christmas Garden for the poor
Chipotle Needs to Drop the “Queso” and Add Shrimp!
I just realized something
Since just about the entire country is steaming made over the Net Neutrality thing, what if its gotten rid of, but so many rebel and start anarchy that they are forced to repeal their decision? Heck prohibition was repealed back in the day this could too
It’s possible.. Never give up.
Strength in numbers and persistence
They’ll have to worry because I’m getting an ax and my first destination is the FCC headquarters.
Earthen we’ll lead, I’ll be the backup with Star, Alex and Seraph
Lol.. you’d better stop.. their watching ?
Nah at this point the world should know I can’t pull through alot of the time…
I will do something drastic like wear a shirt that says “I’m unhappy. Why because my freedoms have been taken away by my government because they feel like it” for a week straight
It’s been pretty quiet ’round these parts now.
Yeah I wonder why with the decision being so close why more people wouldn’t be here writhing with anticipation and hope that we the people show the upper class who’s boss
I have two finals tomorrow
Well good luck with that then! Take your time studying hard and furiously.
Thank you! I’ve finished studying though. Gonna just chill out now before hell gets unleashed upon me.
Good luck with that my friend hope you do well
Thank you! I’m fairly certain I will — I’ve been doing pretty well on my practices.
Yea for a lot of people still in school this is the time where it is the end of the semester and finals are about to hit. I have been so busy that I haven’t even gotten to Poni Island in UM.
Dude pls. I haven’t even beaten Akala island yet I’m that far behind
And I’m only in 11th grade
Remember the Magic Islands that Go From New York and the Atlantic to The Kanto region of Japan in the Pacific which both have coasts To the South
I’ve decided I will have hope and faith in our Government that they will choose in favor of the people. There’s no reason to sicken myself so close to the Holidays with worry and grief when I can believe we will claim the internet as ours once and for all!
Just tell people they’ll lose their porn, that’ll get their attention.
So true, I guarentee the first shot fired over this will be from a guy who lost all his subscriptions to porn because of it
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Enjoy your last free hours… ✊?
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Let’s Go! XD
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>Tries to enjoy last few hours
>Power outage occurs
Don’t worry I actually devised a solution to that
Find pictures on Google images and use imagination
Me and my imagination are fighting…
Lol.. Exactly.. Everytime I see those people at the rallies..all I can see is a little blurb popping out of their head…
?”Leave my porn alone!” ?
It’s what defeated previous internet restriction bills, probably.
And it can do it again I guarentee
Surely a holiday miracle must happen, you need to believe in the spirit!
Believe in them!
Lord Helix, Joey’s Rattata and Arceus give me strength!
Lord Bartre, give me a miracle
So the best thing about the Pokemon Switch game I’ve heard that’s giving me hope its going to be good is an interview where they said they split their team up at Gamefreak, with many vets working on the new project, and a lot of the newer team members working on USUM. So even if a switch game gets announced or released in late 2018, the game will have had a lot of work put into it regardless of release date.
I bet it will be great regardless.
Also USUM being made by a newer tea says alot about my likes… As this is literally favorite in game team to date
It has some of my more favored but unused by most Pokémon, it’s original and fun
I agree (though I didn’t play USUM, only played SM) that these games are the most innovative, colorful games with the most heart to date. For me, GF nailed their region/ pokemon with RS, plot I hear was great with BW, mechanics (such as the ride pokemon) and graphics were best with SM and have really improved with each gen (though we need the dexnav again). Each game has succeeded in a different area than previous versions.
I can’t shake off what will happen tomorrow
But I do know that there will be hellfire if the FCC get their way and that will set things back in place eventually…I hope
Yeah I guarentee hell will be unleashed
I just get soooooo excited to check out a new gen! New pokemon, mechanics, type combos, landscapes, EVERYTHING. Gen 8 can’t come soon enough!
Well goodnight folks I’ll get on before 10 to be here for the big announcement
See you tomorrow
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MjyGL0go60
Well, to lighten the mood here, here’s this. Easily one of the highlights of Deadpool (Besides the entire movie)
I’m so tired