Facts About EVERY Pokemon Champion!

sorry no funny thumbnail this week, they’ll be back next week I promise

"And Blue's name is Green" We Pokémon fans are special for being able to understand and disect this sentence without having an aneurysm

Maybe not everyone knows this, but another fun fact for Steven is that he actually specializes in Mineral-based Pokémon. His Steel-types and Ground-type Claydol are obvious, but he also uses the two Hoenn Fossil Pokémon, Cradily and Armaldo, as well as the Unova Fossil Archeops in the PWC in B2W2. Man puts his passion for rocks even in his team as a gimmick and still manages to be very threatening, gotta give him props.

More Trivia for Diantha Her team covers movie genres; Action ( Hawlucha) , Historic( fossils) , Horror (Gourgeist ), Fantasy ( Goodra) and Romance ( Gardevoir) All her pokemon specialise in one stat; speed, attack, hp, defense, special defense and special attack Finally, all her pokemon represent different fairytale roles knight (Hawlucha), king (Tyrantrum), queen (Aurorus), witch (Gourgeist), dragon (Goodra) and princess (Gardevoir)

Damn, RIP Trace 💀

I think you need to clarify that Nemona is the only Champion fought multiple times while having the title of champion. Cause we all fought Blue a *lot*, but he wasn't champion until the last one. Still, great factoid.

Another interesting note about that double battle is that Steven's Metang actually gains experience during the battle and if you hack the game, you can actually make the Metang evolve.

While Geeta's team is definitely bad that little fact is kinda cool, I hadn't realized that about her team. Now if only she could keep that theme while improving the team itself.

The Thumbnail is a bit missleading for those who don't know Cynthia well enough. Cynthia's family is without a doubt from Sinnoh, and this is hammered on in Legends Arceus that to this point that Cynthia's bloodline is likely from a ancient group of people native to the region long before named Hisui to Sinnoh. Cynthia says her home is a secret, so we really don't know if she's just messing with the trainer or not.

Thanks for not pulling a HoopsandHipHop and making this thumbnail clickbait😊

0:30 In the Let's Go games, Professor Oak reveals that originally, Trainers who beat the Elite Four were recorded as Champions. However, starting with Trace (and presumably Blue in the original games), the rules were changed so that the Champion was now established as part of the Pokémon League challenge, meaning that the Champion also needs to be beaten now in order for one to become a new Champion. I'm surprised this information seems so obscure. 3:30 I didn't know that. That's clever game design. 4:55 Don't forget Ash beat Iris earlier in the same series. 6:05 I've seen theories that Alder's ancestor is the ancient hero spoken of in Hisui's legends.

The Kanto/Johto Champion changing hands the most actually makes sense when you consider The Champion and Elite 4 members have to compete with trainers from both regions. I'd imagine that makes for a very competitive league, and it also make sense why Lance is predominantly a raw power trainer in the anime. He has to deal with lots of different kinds of trainers and Pokémon from two regions, and raw power may cover the most ground. As for Steven and Wallace, this is actually touched on in the Adventures manga, but Wallace stepped down as champion in order to take over the Sootopolis Gym after his master Juan stepped down, and also because being Champion would take away from him being with his girlfriend, Winona (still a shame Lisia isn't their daughter). Also, in the manga, every Elite Four member is a former champion. I always felt that Cynthia's region wasn't so much a secret, just that she doesn't tell anyone where she currently lives. Her home is a secret to everybody, not that the region's actual location is a secret. That's just me though.

Another fun fact about Steven is that he is the only champion that has died and come back to life in any official pokemon media (unless there's some stupidly obscure piece of pokemon media where like Alder kicks the bucket and comes back a zombie because of a Sensu Oricorio). As in the Pokemon Adventures manga during the Ruby and Sapphire arc after using the Regis to try to quell Groudon and Kyogre he literally drops dead after the battle and gets revived because a Celebi did it.

Leon's Voice Actor in the English Dub is actually KaggyFilms or Cyu or whatever you wanna call him. He also voiced Shallot in Dragon Ball Legends and Roark in Masters. There are other roles he's played but you can look that up yourself.

Overall great vid, always love things like this. Though in the Nemona section you talk about her being unique as both a Rival and Champion, and being the only one fought several times throughout the game, when Blue exists. I assume that's just a situation of forgetting to clarify you meant "Battled multiple times throughout the story while they are currently the champion" since technically Hau also counts for this.

I believe Iris lost to Ash in JN before Wallace

One thing he forgot to say about Lance is the Gym Leader Clair is actually his cousin.

So uh Wallace isn't actually the first champion to lose to Ash in the anime. The episode where Ash and Wallace battle off-screen was Journey 105 "Reuniting for the First Time!" when the episode focuses on Chloe and Serena in Pokemon Contests. The actual first champion who loses to Ash is Iris. In Journey 65 "Thrash of the Titans!" Iris already claims the title of Unova champion and loses to Ash in a dragon-type-only battle.

Fun fact about Cynthia she is the first female champion

I feel Trace is more likable than many think because of the fact he implements Mega Evolution, the use of the Cubone orphan, & isn't a Blue/Gary clone. What holds him back is the game where he is Champion. The Let's Go games are more for those wanting to get into the main games from Pokemon Go, not the experienced trainer.