Current Events > Best Pokemon Tournament: Preliminaries, Round 107

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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 one hundred and seven 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%)
Round 38: Metagross (54.17%)
Round 39: Rayquaza (34.78%)
Wild Card: Breloom (29.41%)
Wild Card: Blaziken (25%)
Round 40: Bidoof (23.91%)
Round 41: Luxray (45.45%)
Round 42: Pachirisu (20.69%)
Round 43: Mismagius (32%)
Round 44: Bronzong (35.9%)
Round 45: Lucario (34.29%)
Round 46: Toxicroak (36.73%)
Round 47: Leafeon (21.05%)
Round 48: Mamoswine (22.64%)
Round 49: Giratina (35.19%)
Round 50: Darkrai (23.21%)
Wild Card: Garchomp (31.67%)
Wild Card: Empoleon (22.22%)
Round 51: Samurott (35.42%)
Round 52: Musharna (30%)
Round 53: Excadrill (52.83%)
Round 54: Audino (29.27%)
Round 55: Scolipede (36.73%)
Round 56: Krookodile (45%)
Round 57: Archeops (27.66%)
Round 58: Zoroark (47.06%)
Round 59: Escavalier (39.22%)
Round 60: Galvantula (35.85%)
Round 61: Chandelure (66.67%)
Round 62: Haxorus (43.4%)
Round 63: Braviary (24.56%)
Round 64: Hydreigon (52.73%)
Round 65: Genesect (27.08%)
Wild Card: Volcarona (32.5%)
Wild Card: Reshiram (22.92%)
Round 66: Greninja (45.83%)
Round 67: Talonflame (42.11%)
Round 68: Pangoro (30.19%)
Round 69: Aegislash (56%)
Round 70: Tyrantrum (40.68%)
Round 71: Goodra (25%)
Round 72: Noivern (26%)
Wild Card: Sylveon (25%)
Wild Card: Yveltal (21.74%)
Round 73: Rowlet (25%)
Round 74: Vikavolt (40.43%)
Round 75: Lycanroc (23.64%)
Round 76: Salazzle (40.74%)
Round

Including the two Wild Card rounds for this last generation of Pokemon, we're finally in the home stretch for the preliminaries -- only four days left, and we have our 128 finalists!

After the preliminaries are over, I'll be giving myself a short break, during which time I'll assemble the final bracket for the actual tournament. I'll go ahead and make a visual for it that you can all see, since that's commonly requested in these tournaments.

Final seeds will be based on their vote percentage when they qualified, as listed in the OP. To settle ties, higher priority will go to the Pokemon who appear earlier in the National Pokedex (so, for example, #274 would be seeded higher than #275, if they both had 30% of the vote in their round). Since some popular Pokemon like Charizard won their rounds with razor-thin margins, this means they'll get a lower seed, which could potentially make for some much more interesting early rounds than the other tournaments have had.

When I first saw it I thought Walking Wake looked dumb as hell, but it's really grown on me since then. Second place goes to Miraidon.

KajeI posted...

When I first saw it I thought Walking Wake looked dumb as hell, but it's really grown on me since then. Second place goes to Miraidon.

I really like both it and Iron Leaves and I really hate that they're both impossible to get now unless you find somebody willing to trade it away

They should have made them obtainable in the DLCs with the rest of their trios

I never played the dlc, but Okidogi and Munkidori have great names and goofy designs. Okidogi takes it for me.

TMOG posted...

I really like both it and Iron Leaves and I really hate that they're both impossible to get now unless you find somebody willing to trade it away

They should have made them obtainable in the DLCs with the rest of their trios

They're really both unobtainable now? That's fuckin dumb. They should at least be periodically reoccurring raids or something.

I guess the VeloSuiraptor.

Hambo posted...

They're really both unobtainable now? That's fuckin dumb. They should at least be periodically reoccurring raids or something.

Ok, I looked it up, and apparently the last time the raids with them were held were back in May of this year. So I guess it's still possible that they'll come around again, but probably not likely once the next game releases.

Bedtime bump

Morning bump

Hard choice between Koraidon and Walking Wake, but I went with Koraidon.

Munkidori has one of the worst designs in the series.

this is one of the worst groups yet lol

Walking Wake is horrible, the 3 cats paradox forms are all awful

Noon bump

Fezandipiti

Once again, for those new to SV lore, the Three Stooges are based on Momotarou.
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Momotarou, itself, is in the next batch.

I feared that this round would pit the cover legends against the DLC covers, but, apparently, not. My vote is for the best paradox, Paradox Cyclizar, Iron Serpent.
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As a concept, I was not entirely thrilled with the open world motorbiking upon announcement, but it grows on you quickly. The cover legends are quirky, inquisitive, and observant yet never annoying partners. Ride monsters will never be the same after these games, and I cannot fathom traversing a new region without my bike brother.

Bump, and also testing the display size of bracket sections for the full tournament.

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Miraidon > Koraidon

Miraidon looks better in motion as a ride pokeyman. Koraidon looks cooler elsewhere. I like its plumage.