Current Events > Best Pokemon Tournament: Round 38

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Here we go! After four months of preliminaries, we've narrowed it down to our final 128 -- now to narrow it down to the single best Pokemon.

You all know how this works, I've run enough of these damn tournaments. Vote for your favorite of the two Pokemon presented; the winner will move on in the bracket, the loser gets to stay in a PC Box for all eternity.

Rounds last 24 hours, give or take; sometimes I'm not always at my computer right on time, or have to post the next one a little early so I can move on to other parts of my day. It might also happen that I'm not able to post the next round on time at all, but I'll at least end the poll if I'm able to in that case.

If there's a tie that refuses to break, it will be decided with a quick Lightning Round. I'll go over what that entails if and when it comes up.

Round thirty-eight! Skeledirge vs. Flutter Mane!
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PREVIOUS WINNERS
Round 1: Chandelure beats Victreebel (68.66%)
Round 2: Houndoom beats Zeraora (63.49%)
Round 3: Charizard beats Toxtricity (72.15%)
Round 4: Alolan Ninetales beats Sandslash (60.94%)
Round 5: Zoroark beats Meowscarada (51.52%)
Round 6: Farfetch'd beats Hisuian Arcanine (50.67%)
Round 7: Alakazam beats Galarian Weezing (77.14%)
Round 8: Rayquaza beats Pidgeot (72.15%)
Round 9: Hydreigon beats Leafeon (52%)
Round 10: Volcarona beats Musharna (85.25%)
Round 11: Talonflame beats Incineroar (60.81%)
Round 12: Toxicroak beats Cinderace (62.67%)
Round 13: Gengar beats Yveltal (71.62%)
Round 14: Tyranitar beats Alolan Meowth (82.72%)
Round 15: Haxorus beats Braviary (61.04%)
Round 16: Donphan beats Scolipede (55.95%)
Round 17: Aegislash beats Diglett (73.02%)
Round 18: Scyther beats Altaria (73.53%)
Round 19: Blaziken beats Vikavolt (58.11%)
Round 20: Blastoise beats Ampharos (61.05%)
Round 21: Reshiram beats Sharpedo (55%)
Round 22: Lucario beats Mabosstiff (67.61%)
Round 23: Luxray beats Lycanroc (60.29%)
Round 24: Mareep beats Galvantula (59.02%)
Round 25: Cubone beats Mimikyu (52%)
Round 26: Mismagius beats Mightyena (60.87%)
Round 27: Tyrantrum beats Goodra (69.23%)
Round 28: Sirfetch'd beats Mudkip (53.57%)
Round 29: Mamoswine beats Tinkaton (57.35%)
Round 30: Flamigo beats Audino (60.61%)
Round 31: Crobat beats Bidoof (64.52%)
Round 32: Hisuian Typhlosion beats Bronzong (67.16%)
Round 33: Corviknight beats Gholdengo (76.12%)
Round 34: Nidoking beats Kommo-o (86.25%)
Round 35: Steelix beats Alcremie (77.92%)
Round 36: Umbreon beats Hydrapple (78.08%)
Round 37: Milotic beats Galarian Zapdos (65.71%)

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Both are great, but Skeledirge is a top tier design.

Flutter Mane

Skeledirge.

The other one looks fine, and I kinda wish it would replace Mismagius, but regular Misdreavus is slightly better. Also, I hate the Paradox Pokemon names.

Misdreavus is my favorite Ghost type, but I don't like Flutter Mane as much. Going with Skeledirge here.

i can't even tell what flutter mane is supposed to be. like it's confusing to look at

Choco posted...

i can't even tell what flutter mane is supposed to be. like it's confusing to look at

Misdreavus if it were a dinosaur

Skeledirge

Best final evo for a fire starter since Typhlosion imo. And while one of the better paradox forms to me Flutter is still just okay. So an easy vote for me.

Skeledirge

Kami_no_Kami posted...

Also, I hate the Paradox Pokemon names.

The robot ones are the worst. Literally every one is Iron ___

Flutter Mane sounds like a YouTube mumble rapper and it looks like Misdreavus wearing a scarf.

Versus a fucking metal-ass fire-skeleton-gator.

This should be an outright blowout.

Skeledirge's design is just a little too busy, but it's still fun. Croc takes it.

While I am usually all for Paradoxes and can also get behind the more Misdreavus-as-opposed-to-Mismagius theming, Flutter isn't it.

uwnim posted...

The robot ones are the worst. Literally every one is Iron ___

Make them out of something else, and we can name them differently!

I like Flutter Mane, but Skeledirge quickly shot up to be my third favorite Fire Starter (after Charizard and Infernape), and one of my favorite Gen 9 Pokemon.

Friendly reminder that Skeledirge is canonically friends with Hatsune Miku.

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