ultimate pokemon poll!

what's the best pokemon of all time? let's find out together!

[ultimatepokemontournament]

🏆 How This Will Work

Complete! Congratulations Mimikyu!

TOURNAMENT PROGRESS SUMMARY WEBSITE

For this tournament, we found the best of each Generation before moving on to our final Inter-Generational tournament consisting of our 9 Generational winners.

TOURNAMENT FAQ

Polls will be self-reblogged 12 hours after they were first posted.

Rematches were considered for each poll where more than two Pokemon were included. This was to make sure the results were as correct as possible.

The Pokemon included in each poll have been and will be seeded and balanced (which is to say, randomized with moderation to ensure the best possible experience).

OTHER LINKS

Influences Survey - What's impacting people's choices? [View Results]

Favorite Types Survey - [View Results]

Underdog Tournament Nominations

@ultimateunowntournament - Unown-centric spinoff tournament

#uptpropaganda - Participant-made voting propaganda tag. Posts won't be reblogged onto this blog. Propagandists are encouraged to link to the polls they want people to vote on.

I Voted Badges featuring our Generational winners

WHAT'S INCLUDED/EXCLUDED

Temporary forms will not be included separately. (Spring Deerling, Fan Rotom, etc. will be considered the same as Summer Deerling, Rotom, etc.)

Regional forms will be included separately and in the Generation they were introduced.

Mega evolution and Gigantimax forms will be considered temporary forms, but their images will not be included.

Shiny forms are not included in this poll. You may vote with shiny forms in mind (alongside any other reasoning you may have,

TAGGING INFO

Each post will be tagged with the competing Pokemon (ex. #alolan diglett) and the generation (ex. #gen 7), so you should be able to find what you need, and spoiler Generation 9 if you need to! Asks will be tagged with #inquiries. Self-reblogged polls will be tagged #12th hour reblog. Announcements tagged with #announcements.

CREDITS

@cursed-child-autumncookie helped out with some of the image-related work!

📌 Blog runs in the West Coast USA Timezone (Pacific Time/UTC-8)

If you have any feedback, please don't hesitate to send an ask! This event has been designed carefully, but it's impossible to predict how things go until you release them into the wild, and any comments you have are essential to the health and success of our time together!

And remember, don't forget to have fun, stay safe, and be kind! ❤️

[ultimatepokemontournament]

Just in case anyone did miss it, the Underdog polls are underway at @pokemonunderdogtournament.

I do still have that ask about surprising developments that I am VERY sorry I haven't answered yet. I really want to thoroughly go over everything and give it a long response, but I haven't yet found the time to dig into everything.

[ultimatepokemontournament]

wait did you do every single pokemon???

Yes, but for a more clear idea of what exactly that entails, you can check the pinned post. (For instance, temporary forms like Wash Rotom or Mega Evolutions or Gigantimax were not included as separate Pokemon).

[ultimatepokemontournament]

Do you know of, or would you consider running, or would anyone *else* out there consider running, a "best cat pokemon" tournament? I know you're a bird person but maybe one of your followers is big on cats? PS-- thank you for all your hard work, this is some fun stuff (even if I'm bummed that Bulbasaur lost XD)

I don't have plans for this myself. Eventually the Underdog tournament will hit the classification section (I haven't had time to sort Pokemon by classification yet) which will feature the Underdog feline Pokemon, but that's obviously not all feline Pokemon.

I'm also not familiar with anyone running that tournament, though if someone is or does start one up, please let me know!

[pokemonunderdogtournament]

Best Underdog Baby Pokemon 👶

Round 1 - Match 1

Pick The Best Underdog Baby!

Mantyke

Elekid

Voting ended onJul 26, 2023

Our Contestants:

[shinypokemonpolls]

Welcome to Shiny Pokemon Showdown! The poll greatly inspired by @ultimatepokemontournament and @favoritepokemontournament

Here I want to try something a bit different, by trying to find out tumblrs favorite pokemon via randomized 1v1 matchups!

I tried to include every unique form a pokemon could have with very few exceptions. I mainly didn't include: subtle gender differences, the different deerling/Sawsbuck forms, and the various cosplay Pikachus.

The polls will start very soon! The matchups will be posted throughout the upcoming weeks.

Happy voting! May the best shiny win!

[ultimatepokemontournament]

Would you do a tournament based on everybody’s favorite 3 stage evolutions? I feel like sometimes even though I love one Pokémon in an evolution line, I don’t always love their other forms. I think it would be interesting to see how all the 3 stage evolutions pan out as a collective versus an individual sense. Just a fun idea that I haven’t seen outside of a starters only sort of discussion. Example: Aron/Lairon/Aggron vs Rhyhorn/Rhydon/Rhyperior in voting

I currently have no plans to run any (Pokemon-related) tournaments beyond the ones I've already started.

What you're looking for is probably a little closest to what @which-is-the-very-best is doing. For each Generation, they get the favorite of each family before pitting those against each other. What this results in is that Pokemon basically serves as the representative for their family.

Definitely would be interesting to see if something exactly as you describe plays out any differently though!

[ultimatepokemontournament]

So I’m a little confused. Did mimikyu win the overall best top #1 Pokémon?

It did!

[ultimatepokemontournament]

Underdog Tournament

This is the final call for nominations for the Underdog Tournament! Roughly 24 hours remain. You can find the tournament here: @pokemonunderdogtournament and the nominations form here.

The form contains more information about what Pokemon can be nominated, but the original post for the nominations is located here.

Additionally, if you have any tournament ideas, those can be submitted to the underdog tournament blog. There is no strict window for when I will stop accepting new ideas, but the underdog tournament must end eventually. If you have any further questions, you can check out the pinned post on that blog, and if that doesn't cover it, you are always welcome to send a DM or ask!

[pokemonunderdogtournament]

About an hour left before the nominations form closes!

Also, can the Oddish brigade let me know through any means how many people submitted Oddish that many times or if it was just one person haha. As funny as it is, that many submissions for a single Pokemon in a row is, unfortunately, suspicious, and if someone, it doesn't matter who, doesn't just like, pass on a number, I'm just gonna count them as 1 altogether. If it was like 2-4 people or indeed they were all unique submissions then let me know. I don't want to short change you.

[ultimatepokemontournament]

Underdog Tournament

This is the final call for nominations for the Underdog Tournament! Roughly 24 hours remain. You can find the tournament here: @pokemonunderdogtournament and the nominations form here.

The form contains more information about what Pokemon can be nominated, but the original post for the nominations is located here.

Additionally, if you have any tournament ideas, those can be submitted to the underdog tournament blog. There is no strict window for when I will stop accepting new ideas, but the underdog tournament must end eventually. If you have any further questions, you can check out the pinned post on that blog, and if that doesn't cover it, you are always welcome to send a DM or ask!

[tortellini-time]

congrats to mimikyu for winning the pokemon tournament! @ultimatepokemontournament​

(art by me)

[ultimatepokemontournament]

Ultimate Pokemon Tournament!

Inter-Generational Tournament - Round 4 - Final Match

Pick The Best Pokemon!

Mimikyu

Umbreon

Voting ended onJul 17, 2023

★ This poll is part of a project to determine Tumblr's favorite Pokemon! ★

Our Contestants:

★ Go here for more info about the project! ★ ★ Consider reblogging so that others can vote too! ★ ★ Don't forget to have fun, be kind, and have a wonderful day! ★

[ultimatepokemontournament]

🎊 Congratulations to our Intergenerational Winner and Ultimate Pokemon, Mimikyu! 🎊

[ultimatepokemontournament]

if u haven't already been asked. fave mon from each gen! go! or if u have. if u had one chance in the contest to word of god spare a mon from elimination who would it be

Oh hands down I would've pushed Articuno to Round 2, but I completely forgot about Lord Helix, and I DID put them both together with Squirtle, who ended up winning that round, so alas for me, but such is the nature of these things.

And then for each Gen...

Articuno, of course. Special mention: Porygon and Magnemite!

According to the fave Pokemon picker, Delibird, which I always forget isn't actually from Gen 3. Special mention to Natu and Cyndaquil though!

Tropius!! Special mention: Beldum family, Barboach

Piplup has a permanent place in my heart, but Gen 4 has a strong nostalgia pull on me. Special mentions: Rotom, Empoleon,

I love Gen 5 Pokemon a lot period. I know it draws a lot of critique, but it's always worked for me. Picking Oshawott, Rufflet, Joltik, and Archen as my favorites, and Archeops, Braviary, Klink, and Tynamo as my special mentions.

Honedge, special mention: Bergmite

Rowlet! With special mentions: Grubbin, Minior, Pyukumuku

Snom Generation! Of course others include: Applin/Appletun, Sizzlipede, Hisuian Arcanine, Hisuian Samurott

Gen 9 is a bit of a hard call. I'll put it under a read more just in case for spoiler purposes.

I can't say which one is my favorite, but I have designs that really have grown on me, including:

Glimmet/Glimmora, Espathra, Fuecoco/Crocalor/Skeledirge. (Skeledirge has a cute little firebird on the end of its snout...I need to learn more.) Also Fezandipiti looks super cool.

[ultimatepokemontournament]

Ultimate Pokemon Tournament!

Inter-Generational Tournament - Round 4 - Final Match

Pick The Best Pokemon!

Mimikyu

Umbreon

Voting ended onJul 17, 2023

★ This poll is part of a project to determine Tumblr's favorite Pokemon! ★

Our Contestants:

★ Go here for more info about the project! ★ ★ Consider reblogging so that others can vote too! ★ ★ Don't forget to have fun, be kind, and have a wonderful day! ★

[furballfaggot]

congratulations to tumblr's collectively-assigned pokémon best friend we love you mimikyu

[catgirlmimikyu]

[Image ID: Pixel art of a mimikyu on a stage, wearing a crown, and waving shyly while blushing. The background and stage are different shades of purple. In the first image, rose petals surround it while they are omitted in the second image. End ID]

very excited to hear that mimikyu won the @ultimatepokemontournament :D

[ultimatepokemontournament]

whats ur main? (if ur comfortable giving it out)

My main reason was to avoid adding any bias from my end (and I did technically give a way to find it with the Snom Maker) so I don't really mind sharing it! You can find me here.

As a note, I'm not super duper active since I spend a lot of my free time on projects (these tournaments being some of them), and I honestly don't post or reblog a lot of Pokemon stuff. I'm a huge proponent of people curating their own experiences so if anyone does go look, please only follow if it's your kind of thing!

[ultimatepokemontournament]

Now that the polls are over, can we hear about your favorite Pokemon? Thanks for all the hard work you put into this!

Thank you, and yes!

Actually, when I first started getting these asks, I went back to the dragonflycave Favorite Pokemon Picker and got a big list! I'll give you the top 20 condensed down into groupings of how much I like them, since I'm a big proponent of spreading the love around ahaha

Articuno

Rowlet, Porygon, Snom, Oshawott, Joltik, Archen, Rufflet

Archeops, Appletun, Piplup, Applin

Decudueye, Rotom, Empoleon, Samurott, Braviary

Tropius, Klink, Honedge

It's actually past this point where my favorites start to get more funky lol.

But Articuno has been my favorite Pokemon since the start! And bonus fun fact: its Pokedex number is also my favorite number! And while I know Snom's final polls were pretty harshly divided between strong Snom fans and people saying Snom is overrated, I am actually genuinely a huge Snom fan. I made a whole dress-up game for it and everything.

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@arfbarkwoof0119 replied:

someone has a type. [birds]

Oh that's not even the half of it ahaha. I am a massive fan of birds, so much so that ornithology and aviation were things I was considering majoring in before I realized I struggle too much with biology or physics for either. I still carry my silly bird-based url on my main blog because it's just who I am at this point.