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!
if u guys think we are gonna get another gen with alot of new Pokemon your surely setting yourself up for disappointment
Why?
it far more easier to make sprites for concept art compared to 3d models https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/508060ff705cb60ec5fdee13938489ff9fc6aec4d7864e840eb6cc49bd476481.jpg
Maybe at least more than Sun Moon, the Switch could easily handle it
Yea maybe a 100 top but dont expect what gen 3 and 5 brought
And I hope some of them are cross gen evos/prevos
Cross Gen evos should only be added in larger regions and ‘expansion pack’ regions tbh, they’re less hypeable
Well, a cool evo for a pretty popular pokemon could work for the first Switch game, same with a marketable Cute prevo.
Prevo are considered useless sometimes
They’re marketable, but I agree they’re kinda useless. Only prevos that work for me are ones that come together with evos (like Budew and Roserade in gen 4)
if we get like 120 new pokemon i could some cross gen
Unless it’s dunsparce
Which is why an open world pkmn game is never happening because of this very reason, but some people are blind to acknowledge that
Well I wouldn’t say never, but certainly not next gen. Maybe not even gen 9 even. Maybe one day it’ll happen
If the next Nintendo console uses PS4/X1 hardware then i can see it potentially happening
BotW and Odyssey worked
Those games dont have 850+ fully animated 3D models
True, but it’s not all the Pokemon models would be rendered out at the same time. Games have a lot of back end space to allow for assets to just sit around until they’re ready to be used. Otherwise open world games would be a total mess anyway.
Which will never all be loaded at the same time
Well it also depends on whether GF even wants to do something like that. In that very same interview they said they didn’t really think Pokemon would be a good fit for open world (obviously it is tho) so maybe they don’t think they’re ready for such an undertaking yet anyway.
God I expected that for SM
Never again
I HOPE for over 100, but I doubt we will be seeing that again. Even forswitch, but if they look as good as they do in Alola or or as good in battle like Kalos then it doesnt matter to me if it is less than 100. (though kalos had the ugliest mons to me)
Kalos has both great mons and bad mons
I hope for more than Kalos had at least
Yeah that’s for sure. They’ve been trying slow down the growth of the dex for sure and releasing less Pokemon per gen will do that. It sounds like they’re nervous about hitting the 1000 Pokemon mark. It certainly is a quite a lot of Pokemon.
Is there anything more frustrating than accidentally getting sucked into a regular wormhole just as you see a double ringed one appear?
Having that happen with a legendary wormhole
Eh….legendaries can be found in any ringed wormhole. The thing is I find shinies show up more in double ringed holes. So not getting to that wormhole hurts…..lol
Or a guzzlord hole
Can you tell it’ll be a Guzzlord hole tho? I just thought all the UB holes were white and it’s just random
Guzz has a legend effect on a white hole
Oooooh gotcha
Guzzlord can show up in less impressive holes too, it’s just that it’s only a common site in those holes
I have an idea for how cross gen evos could work for gen 8. For evos, some popular not so strong mons (Dunsparce, Delibird, Chatot, Pyukumuku, Spinda etc) + eevee
For prevos, I’d say gen 4-7 mons, mostly gen 4, they could be implemented in the plausible Gen 8 Sinnoh remakes.
no
why?
I’m fine with those
I don’t think there should be a delibird evolution, it seems like it would ruin the gimmik
Gen 8 will roughly have the same amount of mons as 7. So around 75-80?
Prolly. That seems to be their new range for new additons
Quality>quantity anyway. Im not fussed about it personally
Yeah all in all the majority of the Pokemon they’ve been putting out in recent years have been pretty great. I’m not sure there’s a single gen 7 mon I straight up hate (altho I know that’s the not the same for everyone) There are some gen 6 Pokemon I’m not a fan of, but overt all the Pokemon have been pretty great imo.
At this point I’d like to see what happens if they did quantity over quality
I mean some are bound to be good IM NOT GOING THROUGH ANOTHER GROUNDLESS GENERATION SERIOUSLY WE NEED SOMETHING TO KEEP UP
Aahahahahhah
try being ice :3
Ground was spoiled in Gens 4 and 5. Consider it a cool down
I had the hardest time make a team not super weak to ice..
Simple! Use a fire… oh…
Yeah but.. creating a team that has all u want isn’t super easy.
3 new Pokémon and its just a line of Fire/Fighting starters
Ok come on now…..This is the second time now that I’ve missed a double ring only to be thrown into a single ring hole and find a shiny. The first time was a pleasant surrpsie as it was an Abomasnow and I didn’t have one yet. This time however it was a Stunfisk. I now have 3 shiny Stunfisk……I wonder by the time I get tired of Ultra Warp ride how many shiny Stunfisk will I have????
You have my luck. Was trying to get every other shiny in the blue wormhole buy I always get a shiny Stunfisk.
I still haven’t seen a Shiny Stunfisk, I just need that, Hippowdon and Sigilyph
I have an extra Hippodown and Stunfisk if you want to trade ( I have like three, I don’t need them that much)
I fear I’ll end up with a whole box of em haha
Well this day isn’t shaping up so well
Bitter cold with howling winds, feeling like shite via head cold and the house is a mess and home alone
I really feel like digging out some Gamecube classics it’s not like anything is happening today
Has an Articuno landed nearby?
Some Sugimori artwork in the guidebook. http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1513135906722.jpg http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1513145723455.jpg http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1513151556573.jpg http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1513147301968.jpg http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1513151485577.jpg http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1513134354089.jpg
Still annoys me to this day that Vespiquen isnt Bug/Dark
Why would it be? It is by no means malicious or evil in any way
Because i want it to be bug/dark. I dont have any logical reasoning for it lol
Then get out of my sight, if you cannot provide any reasoning for a type change without proper reasoning other than pure desire then you can go sit and spin
*Lanturn used Scald*
*Rhyperior fainted!*
Its an OHKO!
Focus Sash
Metal Burst
I praying for Bug/Dark spider
THIS THIS MAKES SO MUCH SENSE, talk of biology and physiology,
Yupe
NAGA IS AMAZIN
So what are our chances of Ultra Mystery Dungeon still being on the 3DS or just move everything to the Switch
moving everything to Switch is just better
Pokemon is moving to the Switch so MD most likely will as well
What are the chances it’d actually be good?
That’s based on the individual user
Some may hate it some will like it some will just tolerate it
The same as the last 2, 50/50
Every mystery Dungeon since Sky sucks so
I liked Gates to Infinity tho
And Super Mystery dungeon is only fun if you aren’t under leveled like I was (I got stalled right before the big plot twist so I never got to the good part)
Gates to Infinity is boring and overly simplified. I think the only thing I like is the short cut to select attacks. And when Hydreigon literally gets fucking murdered
And Super Mystery Dungeon’s story moves so slow. Oh wow school, I’ve always wanted to go to school. I never even finished it either because the difficulty curb just ramps up towards the end
Hydreigon dying was the saddest part of my year that year 🙁
Still a little pissy that the final bosses are no longer Pokémon but other entities
That’s my main grievance. Yveltal would’ve been a kick ass final boss but NOPE. We get a motionless sphere
And God Cryogonal XD
And before too
Super Mystery Dungeon?
Yes.
The gameplay is superior to the previous ones tho
Sure but it’s weighed down by everything else
And they’d have to try with a new game in order to change that
I mean, sure I guess. It could just be that I’m a cynical teenager now and it just doesn’t charm me as much.
I do wish they kept the sprites tho
Same! I’m all for keeping the sprites
How do I get my Photo Club pictures on my laptop?
Put your 3DS sd card in your laptop and copy paste them into a folder
Idk how to do that. Why do they not just have them load onto Global Link with GameSync like they did in gen 6?
Is it a new 3ds? Then I can’t help as they don’t require SD cards they are built in
It’s the XY edition 3DS XL.
I actually know where the SD card is I’m just not sure I have a slot on my laptop and I’m worried about removing it from my DS.
Don’t worry about removing it
If it’s out all downloading things are stored on it so all you have to do is put it back in to restore it back to normal
There should be guides on YouTube but
In your 3DS is an SD card. There should be a little slot on the sides you can open up and take out the SD card. Make sure your 3DS is turned off while doing this
Depending on what kind of laptop you have you should hopefully have an SD card slot on the sides. If you do then put the card in.
Access the SD card on your laptop and open it up. Poke around in the files until you find the 3DS photos.
You can proceed to copy paste them into a folder on your own computer
Thanks, I’m not sure if my laptop has a slot.
You can also use the 3DS web browser to access imgur and upload the photos on there and then go to the link on your computer but that’s kind of a tedious process
When do you think the last game for the 3DS will be released/3DS will be discontinued?
Early 2018
That’s too early…
It’s too late. They should’ve killed it after Samus Returns came out.
no?
Sorry
After Mario and Luigi
The only things that will come out for it now are those already in development, most of which will be mostly done by now.
Fam it’d be out for six years by then
Plus it’s getting outdated.
Mid 2018, only a few small titles will get released i think
After the Live action Pokémon movie when we get detective Pikachu
No we get that long before the movie.
Shout out to Samus Returns for being the single best game on the 3DS
I saw an amazing Samus cosplay earlier this year, but when they took the helmet off it was a guy.
lol that’s rad
Funny way how to spell Kirby Triple Deluxe?
Kurusu pls, Kirby can’t hold a candle to Metroid, it’s probably one of the best Videogame franchises tbh
Wrong
http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Best_selling_Nintendo_games
I was talking about quality not sales :p
Quality wise I still think its better than almost every other franchise
Except Pokémon
That’s… naive? Like I love Kirby too but at the end of the day it’s just a simple platformer targeted towards beginners
hello I dont think we have met yet. my name is Govnah and I run the Saloon in these parts.
Sale == quality
The Metroid games are some of the best designed games ever made
Kurusu. It’s Kirby. Please.
Kirby is my second Favorite franchise seconded only by Pokémon
Funny way of spelling Mario party the top 100 XD LOL I MADE A JOKE
That’s a funny way to spell Smash 3DS
Oh my god, Nintendogs has more total sales than Metroid
Smash U is better
That’s a funny way of writing Metro Federation Force.
Did that Sushi Ninja/whatever game release? I thought it looked funny.
I totally forgot about it
For fans of Arrowverse:
The live action Titans tv series (that probably will become a part of the Arrowverse) will probably have live action Wonder Girl and its own Batman which got me hyped as f*ck!
I hope it sucks
Batman will barely appear like Superman in Supergirl ( I think, I stopped watching that). I want the same line-up as the cartoon but I know we aren’t getting it. Black Lightning is next, I hope it’s good.
Titans? As in this giant monsters and a wall?? Wtf dies that have to do with boring wonder girl and arrow??
Hey guys I made a new regional varient while working on my Christmas art (My region is all new so feel free to use it if you want)
Sandygast- Ice/Ghost
Earthen I know what’ll you’ll say, but here me out
It’s where a colony of Sandygast were left in a snowy mountainous valley (how they got there is to the imagination of the user) and they didn’t thrive, but they did survive, but slowly lost sand and mass, but after a few generations the Sandygast started thriving suddenly, Why? Because as there ancestors lost mass the sand was left in the snow and sank in after so long and as that happened the spirits inside them started to be capable of building snow bodies
So it still has sand remnants in its system that it uses, but also has snow added in as well
The idea came as a Sandygast made of snow will be in my art
I think it works because of the Ghost part tbh. I wonder, what happens to their head shovel?
That part stays the same, yet I wanted to make it looks more like a snow shovel
That makes sense, maybe it become more apparent as it evolves. Perhaps Palossand becomes a different type of castle, with spiral turrets or something.
That’s sounds like a good idea
Thanks!
Might try to do the art thing, Sophocles dead in the snow is sounding good right now.
?..
The best Nintendo series is F-Zero. it got so many games in the last couple of years
It truly is
they r hinting towards a Sinnoh remake. http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1513180791522.jpg
I wouldn’t call it hinting as much as I’d call it “STOP WHINING YOUR GAME IS COMING IN A COUPLE YEARS TAKE THIS AND SHUSH”
Maybe that’s right
This makes me nostalgic for gen 4 Pokémon cards
it does not mean anything at all
Just as Ash’s collar doesn’t
The whole DP merch promotion is SOOOOO weird. There’s no way the Switch game is a DP remake and all this seems WAY too early. It’s like they accidentally sent out a memo that was meant for like 4 years from now when the remake was meant to come and now they kind of have to deal with it.
Well can’t wait to see how they upgrade the starters.. all games with an update so far have given the starters something new . Maybe infernape will beat Blaziken now
I like the anime.. and Pokemon.. and the game was… Ok. But why it’s so special I do not know. Maybe cuz I didn’t play platinum. Personally I’d rather see how Unova looks on the switch ?
Wtf is up with Girtina’s face?!
Have you heard? It’s its new form.
Also that Dialga is broken af!
It’s GX move skips the opponents turn so you get to have two turns in a row
Photos of my journey so far:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/10a808229c2ba7d00f4b9e532e5825cb3f0c895ceb2779b0c620d28da20d4728.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/92038c9bb4c654fd36faee367cf92b497fe3e8ae705383b31b017819adc25f1c.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5340753b1380d7d084bcf4c2e82ddae7fede534134b5879ae48563575cc4c8e2.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/99f4805ee0fdabc4f0215e99c9f74d91f4ca46daa1d29c558778ce35b2264ac9.jpg
I was looking down for Incineroar
Not there yet.
Octoling pearl
https://images-ext-2.discordapp.net/external/n3IyyYIFjlF_3oAKr8DGBHVQG4sHvRW8rXaUkWjGdm8/https/pbs.twimg.com/media/DQTLYA_VQAAkzq1.jpg?width=960&height=828
I love her
Looks like Octoling Plumeria more to me.
The color pallet is the same I guess?
Plus the clothes.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/7jegp5/if_a_trick_is_useless_but_looks_cool_then_its_not/
Das hawt
Ugh, I lost my earphones, and I just got them last week
My request for next gen: Ice to actually get mons
yea one more would do
Would anyone mind like ten? It would catch them up to the other types like fairy that have more despite only coming out a gen ago
Ice needs a buff and more Pokémon so I’m fine with this.
I want there to be tons
There are so many concepts and ideas they have never done relating to snow and ice
I require new type combos, Ice/Poison for one.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7761391803065a2ce52d46f4d4a18cf6890f6b508adf5d71267d37a13a3c22aa.gif
Where’s D4C Love Train when you need it?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0TDN2qKjtck
If you were in the world of Pokémon, what would be your greatest goal?
Beat the League and become Champion
Survive in a world where every animal can kill me easily
Probably not too different from my real life lol.
Try to be happy and to not die
Except the not die part is way harder
Ash’s Mum.
Have some cute Pokémon that I love