Best Pokemon Tournament: Preliminaries, Round 4

Let's be honest: Things are looking pretty bleak for CE and GameFAQs as a whole right now, somebody's got to step up and be a hero. So against my better judgment/free time, it's time to start up the Best Pokemon Tournament.

Here's how this one is going to work. It's still going to be 128 Pokemon in the final bracket, but obviously with 1025 Pokedex entries, that's going to be a tight fit. So we're going to whittle that number down bit by bit, choosing one Pokemon out of each group of 10 to make it. The groups will be sorted in Pokedex order; this is to help keep things orderly and prevent a Pokemon from slipping through the cracks, but also to make sure that each generation is represented proportionally with how many of the little bastards were added in each set of games.

For Pokemon with alternate forms under the same Pokedex entry, such as Unown, Rotom, Wormadam, or Deoxys, all of those forms will be counted as one entry for the sake of keeping the proportional representation intact (and to make sure there aren't too many of a single species on the bracket). Megas, Gigantamax, and any other alternate forms that are only seen during battle are also considered as part of the base species. Regional forms, such as Alolan Exeggutor or Galarian Weezing, are considered as being separate, and will be part of their respective generation's set. Legends: Arceus is considered as "generation 8.5" for the purposes of this tournament.

That brings things to a grand total of 1080 Pokemon that qualify for bracket spots, which will break down to a nice even 108. The final twenty bracket spots are "Wild Card" positions, and each generation will have two more chances to get a representative on the bracket. The top 20 non-winners from each generation will be split into two further groups of ten, and those Pokemon will then compete for the remaining spots.

I know it might seem confusing when it's all written out like this, but trust me, it will work. I hope.

But, as I mentioned in the opening of this topic, these are dark times and the future is uncertain. I'm going to do my damndest to keep up on this so we all have something to look forward to, but I'm going to need everybody here to help out with that by voting. When I ran a temperature check the topic got up to about 50-60 votes, which I felt was fine, but since CE's numbers are only going to dwindle moving forward I will end this tournament early if I feel like the engagement isn't high enough for me to bother putting the time and effort into it anymore.

So, please, vote.

Anyway, with that out of the way, here's round four of the preliminaries! Here's to a (hopefully) great fourth tournament, everyone!
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PREVIOUS WINNERS
Round 1: Charizard (25.64%)
Round 2: Pidgeot (28.36%)
Round 3: Sandslash (25.71%)

GEN 1 WILD CARD NOMINEES (21/20)
Butterfree - 23.88%, 16 votes
Blastoise - 21.79%, 17 votes
Pikachu - 21.43%, 15 votes
Beedrill - 20.9%, 14 votes
Raichu - 12.86%, 9 votes
Bulbasaur - 11.54%, 9 votes
Charmander - 8.97%, 7 votes
Caterpie - 8.97%, 7 votes
Pidgeotto - 8.96%, 6 votes
Sandshrew - 7.14%, 5 votes
Venusaur - 6.41%, 5 votes
Squirtle - 6.41%, 5 votes
Metapod - 5.97%, 4 votes
Wartortle - 5.13%, 4 votes
Weedle - 4.48%, 3 votes
Spearow - 4.29%, 3 votes
Fearow - 4.29%, 3 votes
Nidoran F - 4.29%, 3 votes
Ivysaur - 3.85%, 3 votes
Rattata - 2.99%, 2 votes
Raticate - 2.99%, 2 votes

In the event that more than 20 Pokemon are in the Wild Card category at the end of a generation, I'll use a randomizer to decide which Pokemon tied for the lowest qualifying score make it onto the polls.