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Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 15:59:49 No.19734092 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>19734106 >>19734156 >>19734210 >>19734309 >>19734311

Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but are the Gen 1 gym leaders most memorable?

I don't think I remember the names of any of the other gym leaders in any of the other gens and I can't even remember what a lot of them look like. I often wonder if it's nostalgia on my part, but I have a lot of nostalgic ties to gen 2 as well and I still can't remember all the gym leaders from that game either.

Can we all agree the most memorable gym leaders are Kanto's?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:01:06 No.19734106 Report

Quoted By: >>19735785

>>19734092
Kanto and Unova's I'd say are the most memorable. Kalos' are the most forgettable.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:06:08 No.19734156 Report

Quoted By: >>19736062

>>19734092
Well, they've been in more main series games than any other, for one.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:10:29 No.19734203 Report

Quoted By: >>19734339 >>19734404 >>19735785

That's called nostalgia, OP.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:11:15 No.19734210 Report

Quoted By: >>19734261 >>19734327

>>19734092
As whole group of gym leaders I think they are, with Unova ones (probably BW2 Unova).

Being the first generation leaders is already a plus for this status, while somehow Unova did it through sex appeal, a decent ammount of leader position changes and gym designs. However I still think that Kanto's Blaine and Lt.Surge are the most forgettable of the group. While when you think about Giovanni and Koga you first remember them as villain leader and E4 and former Poison Gym leader.

Third place goes for Hoenn, having the first double battle twins, a jolly man, three hot ladies and the last gym being somehow involved in leader changes and main plot, gym puzzles and difficult of some leaders were also a plus.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:15:14 No.19734261 Report

Quoted By: >>19734293 >>19734312

>>19734210
Really? Surge and Blaine are two of the most memorable for me. I find the least memorable for Kanto are Brock and Sabrina.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:18:14 No.19734293 Report

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>>19734261
>least memorable
>sabrina

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:20:09 No.19734309 Report

Quoted By: >>19734342

>>19734092
Most people remember them because they watched the anime. They're not any more memorable than other GLs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:20:14 No.19734311 Report

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>>19734092
Don't forget that Gen 1 gym leader are in a lot of games (10 of the main games) so that help.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:20:17 No.19734312 Report

Quoted By: >>19734336

>>19734261
IMO both Brock and Misty were pretty forgettable, but them being so prominent in the anime kind of reverses that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:21:34 No.19734327 Report

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>>19734210

I completely disagree about Surge. If anything, I find him the most memorable.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:21:39 No.19734329 Report

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I think its because theyre the most NORMAL. I mean look at the first 5 faggots in BW, the 3 waitercocks, the nigger and- oh, look, a faggot.
I don't even know their NAMES.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:22:16 No.19734336 Report

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>>19734312.
If ash had different or no companions, I doubt anyone would give a shit about these two. Well except maybe misty because you interrupt a date in gen 2.

They don't really have much to them.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:22:19 No.19734339 Report

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>>19734203
/thread

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:22:36 No.19734342 Report

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>>19734309

OP here.

I actually missed a lot of the anime as a kid and only watched it later on.

Even then, I could still remember the gym leaders of gen 1.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:22:56 No.19734343 Report

Quoted By: >>19734456

OP I feel like it's a matter of what starter you picked as a kid or what game you played first like I remember Erika the best cause she kicked my squirtle starter based team's butt like 5 times before my dumb 8 year old self figured out i needed to sick a bug or a fire type on her. I barely remember the gym leaders from most subsequent games because I know what type matching is now and none of them have posed a memorable threat to continuing game play.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:24:23 No.19734356 Report

Quoted By: >>19734372 >>19734450

Gen 6 were the most forgettable.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:25:35 No.19734372 Report

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>>19734356
Gen6 Kalos region is forgettable by itself.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:29:11 No.19734404 Report

Quoted By: >>19735856

>>19734203
No, it's not. Just because something is/was more memorable and famous, doesn't make it "nostalgia"

I suppose it's just "nostalgia" whenever someone opens a history book, right?

To answer OP, the first of anything is always more well known. That's why.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:31:23 No.19734420 Report

Quoted By: >>19734447

Giovanni was the most memorable to me. The leader of Team Rocket is also the a gym leader? Damn, what a tweeeeeeest.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:31:31 No.19734422 Report

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Its nostalgia and the fact that they've been around the longest and were main characters in the show while you were still young enough to watch it.

Replay the old games today. It'll seem weird and unfinished and almost dead without knowing all your friends are actively playing it, you won't be able to trade at school the next day, you aren't looking forward to another episode about Ash beating Surge, etc

Just remember Op everything is nostalgic for someone.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:32:46 No.19734432 Report

Quoted By: >>19734457

Well, it was the beginning of the Pokemon craze and their names were in your face constantly. The card game, anime, manga, comics, stickers, posters, all of that shit.

I can remember the names of the first 151 Pokemon for the very same reason, with further generations I only recall the names of Pokemon that I like or that stand out for some reason, but there's shitloads where I'd just go "uhhh, no clue".

Shit gets irritating too.

>studying for a coming test at my uni
>can't get the necessary facts to stay in my head, even after hours of studying
>useless info like Pokemon names is still there, can't get it out even after years of trying to
T-thank you, GameFreak.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:34:54 No.19734447 Report

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>>19734420

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:35:50 No.19734450 Report

Quoted By: >>19734461 >>19734671

>>19734356
It's because you walked into town with no knowledge of them, beat them and never see them again.I think the grass gym leader was the most forgettable.

Also the whole region was pretty bland.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:36:23 No.19734455 Report

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Eh...all the gym leaders are the same to me. We just know these more because we've known them for longer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:36:36 No.19734456 Report

Quoted By: >>19735664

>>19734343
>sic a buck on her
>Gen 1

kek

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:36:38 No.19734457 Report

Quoted By: >>19734493

>>19734432

This is why I don't understand why people got so uptight at the lack of new Pokemon in X&Y. At least there's more chance of being able to remember them all.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:37:16 No.19734461 Report

Quoted By: >>19734516

>>19734450
no i loved old man whatshisface

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:41:29 No.19734492 Report

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Yes but thats because we all saw them watching the cartoon when we were younger

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:41:30 No.19734493 Report

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>>19734457
And I'm pretty sure if you add the mega, you have a gen like gen IV, with not a lot of new pokemon but with a lot of evolution of older one.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:43:55 No.19734516 Report

Quoted By: >>19734615

>>19734461
>not liking the old man who has a Spanish sounding name in a French area

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:51:28 No.19734615 Report

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>>19734516
>not liking the old man who could get through his gym with ease
>the same gym that you have to climb and swing on ropes to get to the top, mind you

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 16:55:32 No.19734671 Report

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>>19734450
One of the Kalos leaders I remember the most because of how shit his team was, having unevolved Pokemon when the gym trainers had the third stage evolved Pokemon either by level or via stones.

This being said, I'll make note he was one of the least forgettable leaders of the most forgettable leaders.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 18:56:56 No.19735664 Report

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>>19734456
He's not wrong. I just played through Red, and even though there's only 1 non-shit Bug move in the game, Beedrill is a bastard with Twinneedle. In Gen I, it's super-effective against Poison types, so you can take out the entirety of Erika's gym with ease.

In fact, hitting Poison and Psychic means Beedrill can decimate the Celadon, Saffron and Fuschia gyms, as well as all of Team Rocket. Beedrill is a very respectable in-game Pokemon in Gen I.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 19:09:14 No.19735785 Report

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>>19734203
This guy gets it. That's because they were the first leaders that you remember them.
>>19734106
Personally I think that Joto's are the most forgettable.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 19:14:41 No.19735856 Report

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>>19734404
>To answer OP, the first of anything is always more well known. That's why.
T-that's called nostalgia.You remember the gen 1 leaders the most cause they are your "first" however a child whose first pokemon game was in Gen 5 or 6 will remember the gym leaders of those games since they were their "first". I'm just confused how you said it wasn't nostalgia and then said it was nostalgia

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 19:28:38 No.19736011 Report

Quoted By: >>19736270

Gym Leaders are obstacles more than anything. Why anyone would want to become attached to a mid-boss is beyond me. Here's hoping they abandon the concept of Gym Leaders and provide something more free-form.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 19:36:11 No.19736062 Report

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>>19734156
I believe four times each? Not to mention that Misty and Brock were main characters in the anime, and Giovanni was the head of Team Rocket.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Jun 2014 19:59:55 No.19736270 Report

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>>19736011
gym leaders are waifus

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