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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.

NOTE: Since it's been happening pretty often lately, I just wanted to add that although the official cutoff time for these polls are 24 hours, I'm not always able to update them right on time or even the day they're supposed to. Things get busy with me sometimes in my personal or work life and I'm not always around to post a poll on GameFAQs lol. But I do try my best to keep things rolling as consistently as possible, and when I'm able to I give advance notice if a round change will be happening early or late :)

Anyway, with that out of the way, here's round thirty-eight 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%)
Round 4: Nidoking (30.99%)
Round 5: Diglett (19.7%)
Round 6: Arcanine (50%)
Round 7: Alakazam (46.75%)
Round 8: Victreebel (17.19%)
Round 9: Farfetch'd (29.03%)
Round 10: Gengar (51.39%)
Round 11: Cubone (20.55%)
Round 12: Rhydon (34.33%)
Round 13: Gyarados (29.41%)
Round 14: Lapras (23.53%)
Round 15: Mewtwo (33.33%)
Round 16: Mew (36.92%)
Wild Card: Blastoise (26.42%)
Wild Card: Scyther (31.91%)
Round 17: Crobat (45.1%)
Round 18: Mareep (28.21%)
Round 19: Ampharos (38.46%)
Round 20: Umbreon (39.39%)
Round 21: Steelix (39.66%)
Round 22: Scizor (39.68%)
Round 23: Houndoom (31.03%)
Round 24: Donphan (27.42%)
Round 25: Tyranitar (32.86%)
Wild Card: Skarmory (30.77%)
Wild Card: Feraligatr (32.2%)
Round 26: Mudkip (26.67%)
Round 27: Mightyena (30.19%)
Round 28: Ludicolo (41.18%)
Round 29: Gardevoir (45.76%)
Round 30: Shedinja (24.56%)
Round 31: Aggron (56%)
Round 32: Sharpedo (49.12%)
Round 33: Flygon (48.89%)
Round 34: Altaria (30.77%)
Round 35: Milotic (47.17%)
Round 36: Absol (43.64%)
Round 37: Spheal (26.79%)

GEN 3 WILD CARD NOMINEES (20/20)
Breloom - 30.51%, 18 votes
Zigzagoon - 26.42%, 14 votes
Dusclops - 23.64%, 13 votes
Walrein - 23.21%, 13 votes
Zangoose - 23.08%, 15 votes
Blaziken - 22.22%, 10 votes
Wailord - 22.22%, 10 votes
Roselia - 21.05%, 12 votes
Crawdaunt - 20.75%, 11 votes
Ninjask - 19.3%, 11 votes
Glalie - 17.86%, 10 votes
Relicanth - 17.86%, 10 votes
Pelipper - 17.65%, 9 votes
Tropius - 16.36%, 9 votes
Sceptile - 15.56%, 7 votes
Swampert - 15.56%, 7 votes
Nosepass - 14.04%, 8 votes
Sableye - 14%, 7 votes
Whiscash - 13.85%, 9 votes
Shiftry - 13.73%, 7 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.

Evening bump

Espeon and Umbreon!

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s0nicfan posted...

Will it matter? Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon together couldn't push units and Microsoft will never be able to get that kind of industry clout together again.

Those games may not have been top sellers when initially released (the JRPG audience wasn't buying 360s, they were buying PS3s) but they've built up enough positive reputation in the years since then that they could probably perform even better if they received remasters.

Technically I'm currently playing multiple games right now, including Powerwash Simulator, which has no failure/death states and can only be finished by achieving 100% completion anyway.

Checkmate, wizard.

Fingers crossed that Lost Odyssey is finally released from 360 purgatory

It always bothered me a little how much Wheel of Fortune insisted on "proper pronunciation" for a puzzle, even when it was crystal clear that the contestant knew what the answer was.

Kind of felt like a way for them to weed out people with accents or speech impediments, tbh.

Solar_Crimson posted...

Gen 3 had a number of clones of Gen 1 Pokemon, because at the start of the generation, most of the old Pokemon were flatout unobtainable unless you used a cheat device (since unlike nowadays, they were still fully programmed into the game), so they needed new Pokemon to fill those niches.

IMO Gen 5 was much more obvious with the "cloning Gen 1" design philosophy. Even if the Pokemon didn't visually resemble their predecessors, their tone, feel, and function in the game absolutely did.

That's not to say that Gen 5 didn't have some really great Pokemon, but a LOT of them are pretty obvious where their Gen 1 inspiration came from.

Afternoon bump

pegusus123456 posted...

Eternals kind of made Strange's divination more interesting because it means that Strange needed to find a future specifically where Thanos would win and then lose.

Now I wonder if Strange saw a timeline where the Eternals decided to get off their asses and help with the fight, resulting in a win against Thanos but then the Earth gets destroyed because half the population isn't gone for five years.

If Doctor Strange knows that the Eternals exist and what they are/what their intended purpose is, that could have made things very interesting if they didn't decide to just ignore the characters from this point on..

Is there anything Scotty has ever watched, read, or played that he actually comprehended and understood past the surface level?

Bump

Heavy_D_Forever posted...

Now he's biogted and a piece of shit?

...Are they mutually exclusive in your mind?

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Evening bump

I also forgot they did a live-action Pinocchio lol

Afternoon bump

Giacomo_Hawkins posted...

I loved the remake of Pete's Dragon. I had low expectations going in since it wasn't a musical, but what they did with the characters was great.

Oh yeah I forgot about this one, haven't seen it yet

Beveren_Rabbit posted...

I don't remember Hank being a racist. Working for the police or DEA does not make you a racist.

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We let the first one die, what the hell :(

I've seen all the live action ones except Mulan and so far the only one I was honestly disappointed in was The Lion King. Every scene and line in that movie reminded you why it needed to be a (non-CGI) cartoon in the first place.

Blitzball confirmed

ROBANN_88 posted...

Has Rick and Morty had any effect at all apart from that sauce debacle?

There's the Pickle Rick meme that absolutely overstayed its welcome. Also "Show me what you got"

Easily MLP. Rick and Morty has a lot of memes around it, but MLP created a larger and more rabid fanbase that all create their own characters and a shitload of art and fan projects.

Also, I'd like to tack an additional question on to this topic: Would you rather be locked in a room full of MLP fans or Rick and Morty fans? You're not allowed to leave the room for at least three hours.

Rexdragon125 posted...

Yeah, my uncle asked me why I wasn't voting Trump, and I cited my reasons like him wanting to be a dictator, exterminate his opponents, his worshipping of dictators, his plagiarizing Hitler speeches, his weird threats toward Jews, etc

He just said something like "Maybe we should put you on the trains"

I knew my family was conservative, but not straight up Nazi. I was kind of close with my uncle as a kid too. I'm not sure what to do with this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DrAxyHmc_k

EDIT: Well for anybody who doesn't want to follow the link it's a video of a burning bridge lmao

StealThisSheen posted...

"Time and a place" would make sense if he died or something, but he's just retiring. Acting like people are only allowed to say nice things about somebody who is retiring is pretty silly.

It's also pretty silly to act like you're only allowed to say nice things about somebody who died, tbh. If somebody was a complete and total shitheel who dedicated their lives to making other lives around them worse, they don't deserve a nice memorial.

And yes I know that would be a bit hyperbolic if applied to Pat Sajak but there are definitely some people alive today who would deserve a Munchkin Land-style funeral when they croak.

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YES PLEASE I didn't realize how much I want this until reading this post

Yeah but at least they had actual giant robots in this one and not a bunch of fucking SUVs

Also this was back when they were still superheroes with secret identities and not just a quintet of cops wearing spandex

Ever notice how it's always the bigots who complain about "cancel culture" lmao

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Berserk

That's how cool Clint is, though

Only one new hero (well, anti-hero) started doing shit during the Blip, and it was him

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

I'm one of those guys who like Falcon, which you didn't know was even a thing, because it's not, because I'm literally the only one.

Wrong

I am also a Falcon enjoyer

Avengers: Clint is there = good guys win
Age of Ultron: Clint is there = good guys win
Civil War: Clint's team accomplishes their goal at the airport, so technically they "win" that fight
Infinity War: Clint isn't there = bad guys win
Endgame: Clint is there = good guys win

You can't argue against this

Umbreon posted...

He blocked me for pointing out two of his alts so nothing I can do there.

Please let me know who those alts are so I can block them as well

I loved Digimon Survive but was disappointed to learn that the good ending was locked behind New Game +, and I really didn't want to play it a second time in a row (and don't really like NG+ in games anyway)

Just throwing it out there that topic derailment and sealioning are both forms of trolling and that it would be a shame if somebody who didn't have him blocked were to mark Gob's posts

You know, just as a hypothetical

Let's look at the observable facts here

Avengers: Clint is there = good guys win
Age of Ultron: Clint is there = good guys win
Civil War: Clint's team accomplishes their goal at the airport, so technically they "win" that fight
Infinity War: Clint isn't there = bad guys win
Endgame: Clint is there = good guys win

You can't argue with that math

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Are we just ignoring the fact that he took down Vision and made it look easy?

AceMos posted...

gob bawls his eyes out anytime we criticize his beloved washed up comedian

Or his beloved washed up children's book author

I think some responsibility also falls on Clint for not even showing up in the first place, and retroactively the Eternals for the same reason.

Of the poll options I'd say Star Lord. Peter definitely fucked up by not sticking to the plan and losing his cool before they finished getting the gauntlet off Thanos' hand.

Although I always wondered why Strange didn't just portal his hand off while he was sedated.

And of course you can't ignore that Thanos is literally responsible for everything that happened in the first place.

Interesting thought experiment occurs

If you had access to time travel, would you use it to kill Hitler early so the Holocaust/World War 2 never happened, or to prevent him from killing himself so he could stand trial for his crimes against humanity?

Is anybody else finding it hard to stop laughing at Gob of all people saying "sometimes it's okay to just shut the fuck up" without a hint of irony?