Current Events > Best Pokemon Tournament: Preliminaries, Round 16

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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.

Anyway, with that out of the way, here's round sixteen 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%)

GEN 1 WILD CARD NOMINEES (21/20)
Ninetales - 28.17%, 20 votes
Butterfree - 23.88%, 16 votes
Magneton - 22.58%, 14 votes
Vaporeon - 22.06%, 15 votes
Blastoise - 21.79%, 17 votes
Pikachu - 21.43%, 15 votes
Beedrill - 20.9%, 14 votes
Haunter - 20.83%, 15 votes
Snorlax - 20.63%, 13 votes
Scyther - 20.59%, 14 votes
Hitmonlee - 17.81%, 13 votes
Vileplume - 16.67%, 11 votes
Venomoth - 16.67%, 11 votes
Marowak - 16.44%, 12 votes
Starmie - 16.18%, 11 votes
Tentacruel - 15.63%, 10 votes
Eevee - 14.71%, 10 votes
Machamp - 14.29%, 11 votes
Meowth - 14.29%, 8 votes
Golem - 14.06%, 9 votes
Slowbro - 14.06%, 9 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.

Feraligtr. I used to prefer typhlosion but I honestly think it's kind of generic if you take the fire away

Since this round will end Gen 1's part of the preliminaries (after Mew has a final score locked in), tomorrow there will be two topics. The first topic will be Round 17 as usual, and the second will be the first Wild Card round. You can, obviously, vote in both.

The Pokemon in the Wild Card category will be broken up into two groups of ten, and one Pokemon out of each group will win and make it through to the final bracket. I'll alternate placing each Pokemon in their group from top down, so as it currently stands, the Gen 1 Wild Card sets will be:

Set 1 (5/14): Ninetales, Magneton, Blastoise, Beedrill, Snorlax, Hitmonlee, Venomoth, Starmie, Eevee, Meowth
Set 2 (5/15): Butterfree, Vaporeon, Pikachu, Haunter, Scyther, Vileplume, Marowak, Tentacruel, Machamp, Golem/Slowbro

...but these lineups might shift depending on if Mew scores high enough to place as a Wild Card, unless of course it wins this round and ends up on the bracket automatically.

Feraligatr was an absolute unit.

Shocked that Mew is dominating. I always thought his design was kinda lacking, while Cyndaquil and Typhlosion are 2 of my favorite designs from any gen.

Mew has a rich history of mythology behind it in the main series, spin-offs, cross media, and fan culture. The Johto starters just cannot compete.

SV ran an event where it distributed Mews with random Tera types that got a bonus fighting a special Mewtwo raid. What practically happened was that everyone changed their Mews to Tera Bug, but it was fun experience to raise one's own Mew for this reunion battle.

Feraligtr is my all-time favorite starter.

Give Feraligatr his crest.

When held by Feraligatr, this item causes it to have increased priority (+2 priority bracket) on attacking moves during its first turn after being send out. Additionally, it boosts the holder's biting moves (e.g. Bite, Crunch) by 50%.

Meganium cuz it has a big purty flower. Shame the grass line gets bodied by all of Johto.

Also am I the only one who likes Croconaw the best out of the water line? I like the rascally face and cavemanish pattern. Feraligatr has a weird, stiff shape that doesn't click with me. Totodile is very cute with a good shape too, though.

Let's go Feraligatr!!

When I was a kid, I had a dream once about being the one to befriend/tame the only Pokemon in the world, a Chikorita. It's been my favorite Johto starter ever since~

Cyndaquil

Feraligatr has a dumb name with a dumb spelling and looks dumb!

Going with Typhlosion here.

TendoDRM posted...

Feraligatr has a dumb name with a dumb spelling and looks dumb!

If it weren't for character limitations at the time, it'd be "Feraligator" (that's how it's pronounced, even).

But I guess they don't want to correct this.

Solar_Crimson posted...

If it weren't for character limitations at the time, it'd be "Feraligator" (that's how it's pronounced, even).

But I guess they don't want to correct this.

The misspelling is what makes them proper feral.

Kami_no_Kami posted...

Shocked that Mew is dominating. I always thought his design was kinda lacking,

Really? I for one love its design. I love the gen 2 starters too (especially Typhlosion), so it's really unfortunate they're up against mew.

Totodile by far, possibly my favorite first stage starter of them all. Mew would be my runner up though so not too saddened by the results.

Morning bump

Snorlax was robbed!

HighSeraph posted...

Snorlax was robbed!

He fell asleep right before the finish line.

Noon bump

Afternoon bump