Board 8 > Best Pokemon Generation by Type, DAY 30: Gen 3 Psychic vs. Gen 1 Flying

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I've done this style of poll contest once before, back in either Gen VII or Gen VIII, so why not try it again now? The rules are simple: each day, I'm going to post a poll for a given Pokemon typing, with each generation's roster of new Pokemon filling in that typing. You just need to look at what each generation had to offer, and select which generation you think brought the best new roster (for any reason; you could say that a single Pokemon was so good that it overwhelms everything else the generation spawned, or you could select a generation that may be more well-rounded that the one that created your personal favorite). At the end of the day, one generation will be crowned a champion (with potential tiebreakers if need be), and that generation will advance to a second round, where the eighteen winners, and fourteen strongest runner-ups will be sorted into a 32-entrant tournament to crown which generation produced the best overall roster of a single typing.

The tournament has now begun. The discussion topic is here: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80744044 and the bracket is here: https://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=478370

Gen I Fire won yesterday's match-up, so now it's time to determine its final opponent. Gen III Psychic has proven a force in this contest, spending the first two rounds of the contest narrowly beating out its own compatriot Water roster, and then going on to take out a potential champion in Gen I Water, both by a single vote. However, it's biggest victory thus far saw it easily besting three-seeded Gen III Dragon to advance to the semifinals. It's opponent, meanwhile, has had a relatively easy bracket in my opinion. Gen VII Bug was a wild card, and then Gen VI Flying was a roster it had already beaten in the preliminaries, before taking out two-seeded Gen V Bug in the quarterfinals. Now granted, Gen I Flying won over Gen V Bug by the same margin that Gen III Psychic beat its Dragon brother, but I think one is much stronger than the other. Will the underdog triumph, or will Psychic prove its dominance in the bottom half of the bracket yet again?

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