Current Events > Best Pokemon Tournament: Preliminaries, Paldea Wild Card Set 2 (FINAL ROUND)

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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 the second Gen 9 Wild Card round, and the final round 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 77: Golisopod (36%)
Round 78: Mimikyu (54.35%)
Round 79:

Can we just give it to Lechonk instead?

Clodsire and thank you for organizing this bracket.

Scovillain 4 Lyfe

My boi Cetitan the giant ice bollock.

KFHEWUI posted...

Can we just give it to Lechonk instead?

Or this.

Cetitan

KFHEWUI posted...

Can we just give it to Lechonk instead?

Actually this is my vote.

It's probably not gonna win, but I gotta vote for Lokix. I love this silly Kamen Rider bug.

Out of respect for Lechonk, I am abstaining from voting.

Pawmot

Bedtime bump

Morning bump

Shotgunnova posted...

Scovillain 4 Lyfe

This.

All great Pokemon except Goldengho

The monster crescent

imagine seeing this selection and voting gholdengo. jesus christ

Hey, the string cheese man is silly. Also I guess he solved high level tera raids for a while, and anything that makes those less painful is a good thing.

The only one in this group that I dislike is the stapler bug. The design is weird and they're way too aggro in the wild.

Roaring Moon!

Oh no is this final round going to end in a tie

The second I see one of these Pokemon take the lead this poll is over

TMOG posted...

The second I see one of these Pokemon take the lead this poll is over

Quick, someone vote for Gholdengo

A three way tie lol. Think we can get enough folks in to make a ten way tie?

TomClark posted...

Quick, someone vote for Gholdengo

Go ahead, pull some cheese

Thx hambo. My condolences for lechonk

LeCh0nk posted...

Go ahead, pull some string

cheese

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