Yeah, my Tauros tore half her team apart. None of my team members fainted, while the Nemona battle (which I did after that) knocked out 5 of my team members!
lol truee i fought arven when my pokemon was lvl 38 and i thought welp it is inevitable that id lose then on my second try hes team was much more likable than that of the champions cause of how hes teams is made up from the team to use against the titans much more depth and bond for me though
I dont think anyone is willing to argue Cynthias team, especially pre-fairy, was terrifying. but for me it was Cynthias atmosphere, theme, design, and even the little bit of exposition throughout DPP all came together to make her intimidating before the battle even started. Blue, Lance, Steven, and Wallace, were champions. Cynthia was a fucking force of nature.
@@John-StarkCan someone please explain why people had such a hard time with Volo? I beat him with two pokemon around his levels. All I did was use the grit system.
@@MiriaJiyuu To me I least was every time I beat one of his pokemon the next one he sends could beat mine with one hit. We're basically trading pokemons. Beat only Volo was easy, but then Giratina appears and I have to fight 2 stages of her with only 2 pokemons and her move pools covers very well her weakness.
@@MiriaJiyuuI mean...that's basically what I did with Cynthia in both Pearl and Platinum. Guess some people just struggle less with certain fights than others.
I will argue it. Never lost to her once. Diantha terrifies me more as she was the only champion i lost to not just once but 3 times my first playthrought.
I think the idea behind her team was one pokemon for each area. Espartha- The desert Gogoat- Plains Veluza- Ocean Avalug- Snow Kingambit- Bamboo Forest Glimmora- Cave As a champion, representing each area of the region is a cool concept, but the execution is terrible
Definitely. Her team was such a huge let down and I was ready to face MY Cynthia since I didn’t play the original pearl and diamond (Leon was hard in swsh and so was the professor in alola btw)
Another gripe is that generally champions show off by having not only powerful but really difficult to acquire and master, either in-game (Metagross, Spiritomb) or lore-wise (dragons and dark-types are incredibly dangerous) and we see Cynthia sweet talking a very hostile dragonite, and I feel that Lance's entire schtick is his clan knows the secrets of dragon taming. Geeta by comparison seems like she did a Nuzlocke and has first encounter tier material.
I mean, her ace is Glimmora, a Pokémon that can only be obtained somewhat rarely until you go into Area Zero, which you do after you defeat her. Plus, Kingambit is canonically rare-ish to get (and a little annoying maybe) and I stan her for using the ever-so-neglected-after-X/Y Gogoat.
@angelicwarrior1182 Huh, I must be lucky then I got two Glimmoras Just stumbled on two of em and promptly caught I just used em for the Fairy base, then I quickly relegated them
Cynthia's team wasn't just strong, her pokémon weren't just iconic, they fit her character. Spiritomb required you to find a weird rock, to place it in a tower to fix a ruin, then speak to a bunch of people, which being the mythology and history buff, as well as personable character she is, we know Cynthia might well have done. Togetic is a pokemon that requires raising with love and care, and a rare stone on top of that, making it a mark of status to acquire for most trainers. Garchomp is a pokemon she raised from an egg, it's her most powerful, most trusted partner, and one of the strongest pokemon in that region. Milotic is a pokemon that evolves from the ridiculously rare Feebas, and evolves through maxing it's beauty, symbolising the care she took to raise it. Roserade again requires a rare stone to evolve, like Togetic, and is another rare pokemon, but it's a repeat from Gardenia that symbolises the gap between a gym leader and the Champion. Lucario, we only see Riley use aside from Cynthia, and that's the only way we can get a Riolu egg, so again, we understand what she went through to get her Lucario. We can relate to Cynthia and the difficulty she had cultivating this team, and it's a team that we could raise ourselves in game (which is a fun challenge I recommend). Geeta doesn't do anything like that for me. We see Geeta a few times in the main game, and I never got anything close to what I felt from Cynthia from Geeta. I struggled through the Paldean E4 on my first playthrough, and absolutely washed Geeta like she was nothing.
The headmaster was the one who scared me, I had to use Restores. Geeta, I finished her with 3 Pokemon in good shape, no restore needed. I think I one-shot her ace with the pom pokemon too.
Basically this. Her team showed that she did in fact travel the entire Sinnoh Region and did everything a champion should do, which is everything there is to do. The team felt like it was built through playing through the game. Having a lead with zero weaknesses and pressure was a power move if I've ever seen one.
I’ll never forget defeating her Kingambit as her first Pokémon, and her *last* Pokémon, Glimmora, as it scatters spikes all over the battlefield. What complete buffoonery 🤦🏼♂️
The funny part is it was the Glimmora that actually tripped me up when I first fought her. I hadn't seen one or a Glimmet before, so I didn't know what its typing was, and my Pokemon didn't exactly have an advantage against Rock/Poison. (Picked Fuecoco) Of course on the second round, I kicked her ass as easily as I should have the first time.
Spiritomb was especially unique due to the fact that the likelihood of you having seen Spiritomb before the fight with Cynthia is as good as 0. The feeling of something unknown and not being sure what to do is great to start the fight with.
Starting with Glimmora would also have the same effect because that pokemon is like super rare and it would cause a player to either hesitate, causing her to set up rocks or attack it and get watch in distress as it sets up toxic spikes.
I'd add that when Spiritomb was introduced, it had literally no weaknesses. So trying to figure out what to hit it with for a super effective move was futile.
Wrong I spent roughly 14 hours in the grand underground until I unlocked spiritomb ended up using It as it was shiny and a modest nature which I was happy with.
Arven was literally the only battle in the game that I lost to/had any difficulty with. Granted I was also 20 levels under-leveled, but still. It was so satisfying to finally beat him. I feel like gamefreak keeps making the battles easier to keep kids from getting discouraged when they lose, but personally I feel its better to help encourage kids to think outside of the box to defeat a tough battle and let them experience the joy of a true win. Cynthia is one of the most iconic champions for a reason, and its not because she was a pushover.
@@Randomd0g I think the thing about SV's open world nature is that there's going to be stuff you're overlevelled for... but also, if you want to, you can choose precisely what stuff you're underlevelled for or on curve for. If you're underlevelled for Arven, of course he's gonna be a tough fight. I don't remember much about the Arven fight (other than his very self-aware "we're going to have a battle to see if we're ready for Area Zero. Mostly to see if I'm ready" line and the bit about him using the pokemon he'd met along his journey to beat the Titans), but I also fought him after the Elite Four, Geeta and Nemona (fwiw I'd say he was tougher than Geeta, but a *lot* easier than Nemona). It's not a bad team though, and he's a good lad. Honestly both he and Penny could be Champions if it was what they really wanted.
Geeta is painfully easy for a “Top-Champion” but I always thought the reason why they made her easier is because the real challenge was supposed to be the final fight with Nemona. Geeta herself said something along the lines of “I could tell that she (Nemona) was holding back even while fighting me, so seeing you get to have real battle of equals with her almost makes me jealous.”
ya Nemona for me was the real champion. I mean the "Pokemon League" story doesn't end with Geeta and becoming champion, but with Nemona as she wanted to battle a rival at full power that no one else could. Cause she was extremely gifted trainer who dominated her way into becoming a champion. That Geeta is purposefully weaker of the 2 fights because Geeta is more of a Door Boss into Nemona.
Nemona was honestly pretty easy for a champion. In addition to farming off raids (which I did), the auto-battle feature grants you even more free exp. Doesn’t help that Nemona’s final team was pretty mediocre to say the least
@@legomagic007_YT Well, the game is gonna be a bit easier if you spend a lot of time grinding hp. I caused so many Chansey massacres that all my Pokémon were around 10-20 levels above Nemona’s, but I could still understand how certain fight could be tougher if A: You’re at the same or lower level or B: You’re in fact not great at Pokémon and don’t have an optimal team. My first time playing, I nearly wiped to Arven’s Greedant alone because my Pokémon were 5-9 levels below his. I had rushed defeating all the titans
@@TheLordWrappedInLight-yf3nz Ok first of all, “back in my day”? Give yourself some credit, the first games was only 27 years ago, and presumably you’re not even a senior citizen yet. Value your youth, friend. Go be wild, you’re only young once. Secondly I agree, newer Pokémon games have gotten alot easier. I’m actually pretty excited cause I found my old DSI with Pokémon Black 2, and it’s gonna be pretty challenging without the exp share that’s always present in the newer games. I’ll never have to train my Pokémon as hard as I will for a measly few levels in that game
@@ily2m803 Okay, there's a LOT wrong with what you just said, there. Firstly, 27 years IS a long time. There are people who work full-time jobs now, that weren't even born when Pokemon first came out. Secondly, maybe they were in their 30s when Pokemon came out and they're now in their 60s, you don't know this person. Everything after that, yeah I agree with you. The Pokemon games have gotten a lot easier.
Imagine if SHINY Kingambit was her ace…. PERFECTION. It totally matches her whole color scheme and it would’ve been super cool for gamefreak to make her the first champion to OWN a shiny mon. Side note, it also would’ve been cool if she had a Armarouge for the Violet players and Ceruledge for the Scarlet players to REALLY switch it up
I think Kingambit should've been her anchor. With Base Attack EV at 130, and Supreme Overlord Ability, it would've been the equivalent to Cynthia's Garchomp. With Espathra using Trick Room to set up for it, as well as Reflect and Light Screen, Kingambit would've been a problem with its ability and Swords Dance. I have a Kingambit with Maxed out Attack stat at 405 and Defense at 372. so you can imagine the damage if Kingambit had the chance. I also have a Glimmora. wonderful Special Attack Damage with a Metronome.
@@RedFeather349 Steven Stone did have a Shiny Metagross, but only in the demo version of ORAS to promote a Shiny Beldum with Metagrossite that was being given away. And it appears as shiny in the anime as well. In all other sources, it's a normal Metagross.
And if Geeta put Kingambit last, Kimgambit would get a 50% power increase due to its ability. And, her ace is one of the best SET UP mons, but its her LAST. GAMEFREAK. WHY.
The reason is obvious: they gave Glimora and Geeta matching designs and ace mons generally are used last by most trainers. It's not a hard concept to grasp.
I kinda assumed her Kalos pokemon combined with the fact she appears to care more about the spectacle was our hint she is from Kalos. This would also explain why why she isn't that great at battling as Kalos trainers train more to give a show rather than winning.
So the Pokémon trainers of the Paldea region are just so incredibly terrible at battling that a random kalosian trainer goes there and becomes champion? Gotcha. Diantha isn't such a push over either and has cooler Pokémon.
Her team in the Indigo Disk DLC has been upgraded, she now LEADS with Glimmora, has an Avalugg, Chesnaught, Espathra, Dragapult and her ace is Kingambit.
@@LuisFelipe-pq9lrI mean half of her team is fine but yeah, Avalugg, Chesnaught, and Espathra, using the AI to control them no less, that’s just rancid
Something that helped Cynthia be as memorable as she was, not just for her difficulty but as a character, is that she made herself present several times before you even challenge her. She aids you, she's tough and she's upstanding: we get to experience her before we experience her. Geeta? She doesn't even contribute to the story. And even if she was a lead into Nemona, it's still shameful that they did her so dirty.
I think if she has the second team he set up, we wouldn't have to meet her much. We know she's the Champion and her intimidating line of "I'm unable to hold back" would be enough when she's rocking that unit of a team
No wonder the gym leaders think very lowly of her, especially Tulip, the person who loathes her the most. Now I understand why. I sometimes wonder if they accidentally brought not only Spanish nature to the game, but also the nature of its politics. We know for a fact Spain is one of the most corrupt countries in Europe. This can be seen as a "take that!" on it.
@@PanamanianMan317 thats definitely not it. She's just a strict business woman thats a champion and heads the education department. That's unique from all the other champions. But i can see why ppl think thats boring. Gamers wont really connect with a character like that.
@@verxintRising I remember reading that line and going "Ohh is this gonna be a tough challenge for me then?" I never forgot what a farce that line was when other champions who didn't boast like that were far better in composition and difficulty.
By your definition, that's almost every Champion. I'm actually glad they don't shove the Champion in the main story. She doesn't have too. She can just do her own thing. She has to feel like a Champion though, that's why the Champion of Champion, Leon is so underwhelming, and annoying as a character as he constantly poses each time you see him. Geeta, personality and character wise is actually fine. What she needs is a stronger AI and team. Heck, every Champion from here on out should.
When I finished her fight, my immediate first thought was "Ok, someone at Game Freak REALLY screwed up the order of her pokemon". Like, seriously, it's as if they accidently pushed every pokemon up one slot causing Glimmora to go last and Kingambit second to last. I know this game is broken but this champion was actually inexcusable.
reason is that she needed the Rock tera and thats the Problem Game Freak Had 1 Type Missing with tera.. and that was Rock and glimmora is the only good offensiv Rock Type mon in that Game
And? What’s stopping Geeta from terrastilizing first? Every trainer up to this point has terastilized their final Pokémon, a strategy most people get used to very quickly. So, it would be nice if she could throw players for a loop by starting out strong.
@It's Yuh Boyyy tera ghost kingambit isn't worth it, you want the damage boost to its dark moves. Even scarier would be if her kingambit got sucker punch to make up for its speed.
Cynthia was honestly so cool, Just the piano solo whenever she appears on screen, and the big contrast of her outfit in the overworld, first time you see her, you are already wondering who she is. And her color palette is so different compared to all of the other characters we see. And also her helping us occasionally throughout the region creates good buildup to her, and we know shes the real deal and can get stuff done. Meanwhile modern game champions are just there, no buildup, " Diantha who? "
I saw a meme that had a "theory" that Geeta's team is actually a Nuzlocke team that she used: - Espathra: A Pokemon that is caught that you didn't really expect to be good - Gogoat: Early game death fodder that lasted surprisingly long - Veluza: A mid game encounter that never got replaced - Avalugg: A Pokemon that should probably have been switched out/replaced but the trainer got emotionally attached to it and wanted to use it - Kingambit: Pokemon that carried your team after the starter Pokemon died - Glimmora: The rare encounter that the trainer found in Victory Road and was used to replace a dead Pokemon
Let me fix it for you: Glimmora: matched her so she picked it as her main cos she’s simple. Also it beats the grass types and rock types that would counter veluza. Gogoat: Grass type core. It also beats the rock types that threaten scaling Veluza: water type core Pokémon with psychic to take out fighting types which threaten a lot of her team Kingambit: extremely op mom with high stats and op pros that outweigh the insignificant cons. Also it’s dark which counters the psychic types which threaten he glimmora. It’s steel which counters rock and ice which would threaten her gogoat and avalugg Espathra: High stat Psychic type to counter the fighting types that threaten her whole team Avalugg: nice bulky type that can hit most things for neutral damage and can take advantage of snow if the opponent uses it, also hits dragons that would easily threaten her team and counters grass ground and flying types that threaten alot of her Pokémon like 4x weak ground glimmora, 2xweak flying gogoat, and then veluza who’s weak to grass. Wow it seems like she has a team that tries to cover up for the weaknesses, but since she’s only fought weak Paldean trainers she hasn’t fully grasped the way to team build. Your stupid made up theory with no base is just annoying and lame. The actual theory is that she is not the actual champion of the region.
You know it's bad when you remember that Nemona held back against her. Almost made me think that Nemona became the best trainer in Paldea, not because of Geeta, but because of fricking wild pokemon.
The way I see it, the only reason Nemona isn't the champion is because until the player comes along, she holds back against EVERYBODY so that they can have fun battling her, which isn't a good mindset to have as the top champion.
Battling her was SO disappointing because I really liked her character design when she was first introduced. I legit thought to myself, "Damn, her team's probably gonna be insane when I fight her." And her team is literally just pokemon you can find anywhere (aside from Kingambit) 😭
@@discoshark7767 Same. The professors, director, and rivals all look better by comparison when it comes to design imo, she looks a bit better in 2D but still looks… meh compared to champions like Cynthia, Steven, even Diantha, who I wasn’t much of a big fan of either.
One other glaring issue I see with Geeta’s team: if you picked Fuecoco, you can sweep at least 4 of her 6 team members with Skeledirge (arguably 5 if you can out speed Kingambit or live it’s attack)
Quaquaval can too. Aqua Step murders Glimmora, Brick Break slaughters Kingambit and Avalugg, and Ice Spinner kills Gogoat. And I'm pretty sure it gets a Dark move meaning Espathra just dies
Leon should also be used as a mold, especially because, like Geeta, he's hyped up for the entire game and then lives up to the hype. Leon LEADS with a freakin' aegislash!
Leon was surprising. With how a lot of SwSd was I wasn’t expecting much from him but thankfully he was at least fun and had good enough Pokémon to be taken seriously as a champion
i just wish he had some more pokemon from his region, i really liked how half of his team changed depending on your starter, and its shame they couldnt had kept it that way or even at least made geeta have 2 diferent teams depending on version.
@@jacquelineking5783 who even has difficulty at any of the games champion battles lmao. Battle Leon post game at the tower instead, its more entertaining.
Glimmora as her ace was also watered down by the fact that there was a billion of them in the Great Crater. I mean sure it's rare outside the crater but after defeating Cynthia you didn't find Stark Mountain full of Garchomps. Sort of takes away from the impact it has as a CHAMPION'S ACE!
Glimmora as an ace is also a terrible choice coming off the fact it's ability is better at the very start, not as the last when everyone dead. Then she had a KINGAMBIT with Supreme Overlord not as an Ace... *Glimmora even if rare, was pointless as an Ace ;-;*
@@tyshawnstubbs9315 if she sent out Glimmora at the start and then ended with like Tera steel Kingambit, that would make her fight so much more challenging and fun
I've been thinking a lot about how terrible Geeta's team and literally just moving her Glimmora to the beginning and her Kingambit to the end would make her so much better. Glimmora having access to Stealth Rock, Toxic Spikes, its Toxic Debris ability, etc make it a phenomenal setup mon and it baffles me that it's her ace. It makes absolutely no sense
Like seriously you can use lower BST Pokémon well if you plan around it I kept a clossgire the entire time as a toxic spike it died quickly but you only need 2 layers to badly poison
@@Nosretep Why would you make this thing Terra. The whole point of Glimmora is to set up. Stealth Rock, get hit, Toxic Debris, and if you liv, you get Toxic Spikes x2 which is hella good. As well, you could possibly just toxic the lead to be safe, or set up something else that could be dangerous. It's a set up sack Pokémon.
Funny enough in the postgame one of the teachers Ms.Raifort correctly uses an intended strategy by sending out a Zoroark disguised as her ace Gengar (to trick you into using a super effective dark type move that'll get resisted or a psychic type move that won't even work) meaning Geeta incorrectly using Glimmora is completely intentional lol! I miss the days where important NPC trainers would actually switch their mons in battle, didn't save their ace for last and regularly used items too (it made the gameplay more immersive imo).
glimora was her ace just because of similarity with her hair. i mean i kinda accept it, but the rest of her team REALLY should had been better, i dont like the idea of kingambit as her ace, i think the champions ace being a mon from their region is better (i know theres leon and diantha, but one is charizard circlejerk the other at least was a mega. maybe diantha should have had diancie, i know its a legendary but still) however it really should be hardcoded to always come 5th, and her lead should had been a palafin that always flip turned imediately unless you had a water absorb/storm drain lead so she would just switch out manually. gogoat, avalugg, espathra and veluza all should go away as well and give her better mons, even if she doesnt have baxcalibur because the dragon E4 had one, she should have other better ones.
@@unkindled6410Kingambit follows your desires, as if it didn't, it would have the spot occupied by Bouffalant on the national Pokédex, and would also be on a _proper_ Unova Pokédex instead of an oceanic area The Pokémon Company called a part of Unova despite no indication that such is the case. Conclusion: Indigo Disk was the afterthought of the two DLCs, and it's logical to consider cross-generational evolutions, and regional variants for that matter, part of their debut region unless there is actual lore indication otherwise.
I was plowing through Geeta’s team without a hitch until she sent out Kingambit and proceeded to wipe out half of my team. It’s amazing how simply changing her team’s order would’ve made her more formidable. How did the devs screw this up so badly??
My Skeledirge easily destroyed most of her Pokémon because of her glaring weakness to Fire and Ghost, and it was around the same level as her Pokémon, while the Elite 4 actually fought back xd
@@Silux_Ray anyone who's played through Sinnoh can tell you: DO NOT underestimate Staraptor. Easily one of the best Normal birds out there, if not THE best
What's really dumb is the fact that all the Elite Four and Champion Tera their Ace pokemon into their type specialty. Which means Geeta was basically locked into having a Tera Rock type as her Ace since it was the only Titan type not covered by a trainer.
Honestly, they could have just made Glimmora and Kingambit like a pair of aces for her. Have Glimmora at the start of the party, way higher level than the rest of her team and she makes a remark like "I never did know how to hold back, so why should I keep my strongest Pokemon for last?". It goes down, sets up spikes and then Kingambit at the end of the party as the traditional ace pokemon.
I like the idea of her using Armorouge or Ceruledge depending on the version you're playing, but she should use the OPPOSITE one from the one you can get in your version so you can see the badass that you're missing by not having the other version.
@@Astral-Zed I did only minor changes for geeta. overall i improved her movesets and swapped avalugg for another pokemon from a older gen:Tyranitar(it would give her a pseudolegendary a champion never used before, except blue but only in his rematches... also his sandstorm ability supports kingambit and glimmora a bit.) and her veluza against Ceruledge/armarouge. Espathra is actually a annoying lead to deal with. with her special ability,Lumina crash and screens. I kept gogoat probably because i'm biased i like gogoat he maybe is a mono grasstype but acccording to stats one of the strongest non-legendary grasstypes and his ,moveset really isn't bad. Kingambit is obvious and always the second last pokemon. and glimmora still her last pokemon simply because i doesn't want to change her ace pokemon. at least i improved glimmoras moveset and gave it a lifeorb to make this thing hitting really hard!
I swear, they focused to much on nemona and clavell that they forgot to do something to la primera. And btw the best answer to the mismatch of Geeta having kingambit at the end because "dont match colors" was an easy option to make her more memorable. A shiny kingambit.
I would LOVE to see a Champion use a shiny Pokémon as their ace. That would be dope. Game Freak generally ignores the fact that shiny Pokémon exist in the plot
@@pokemontrainer8991 Well it’s been a point now ever since XY with Diantha and Mega Gardevoir and Leon and Charizard. (Not counting Sun and Moon since there’s no Champion) Geeta and Glimmora obviously continue that aesthetic trend now with newer games. Even though it’s a super bad ace Pokémon. =w=
I think espathra having the set that got it banned in OU would be good, give it speed boost and have it protect turn 1, then have it calm mind turn 2 and try to sweep you.
i personally prefer opportunist in this context as having it be a mon that punishes you for trying to mindlessly set up and sweep works better in a champion fight than a lead that 6-0's you, maybe replacing quick attack with substitute so if you attempt to set up you give the boost to it and it gets up a sub
In the context of PvE I think opportunist is better I only do nuzlockes and to me, memorable leads are leads you cannot set up against If you give it speed boost and code it to always T1 Protect, it becomes way too abusable with anything as common as Gyarados In competitive, Speed Boost can send even Blaziken to Ubers because as a human you can use Sword Dance instead of Protect and the game is pretty much won from that In PvE, the only AI you cannot abuse is random AI
I’m actually glad I’m not the only one who didn’t like Geeta. Her team and her suit (no offense Geeta you look great in it) feel very corporate, like her team is a corporate cop out to make the game easier. That’s NOT what you want in a top champion, I don’t want it to feel like I’m just battling another random trainer. You’re team switch outs have made her look that more intimidating and I love that for her. Thank you!
It’s really crazy to think they had 3 Pokémon that either had psychic moves or were psychic type for the champion, in a gen where two of the starters are dark and ghost
Geeta when she realizes there are 20 ghost type Pokémon in the Paldea Region and there are plenty of choices that can abuse the weaknesses of her team:
You know, they could’ve made lore about how her bisharp protected her from other strong bisharps thus causing it to evolve into kinggambit and becoming her first partner.
In addition to what you discussed in the video, I also find it interesting that, unlike most other champions Geeta doesn't use her gen's Pseudo-legendary pokemon. This isn't the first time. Lance didn't use Tyranitar in gen 2 for instance, but he still at least had Dragonite which was the Pseudo-legendary in Gen 1. Steven has Metagross Cynthia obviously has Garchomp. And while he's not officially the champion, Ghetsis had a Hydreigon in Gen 5. The next time the champion doesn't have their gen's Psuedo is Gen 7 with Kukui not using Kammo-o. Then gen 8's Leon has a Dragapult back on his team. So Geeta not having Baxcalibur on her team seems like a bad start to me.
The main problem with Geetas team is that well her Ace Pokémon is really meant for set up with its ability, honestly if her teams order was rearranged, and the AI was buffed, she wouldn’t be as much as a pushover as she ends up being. Now could that be by design because this game has alot of odd and weird things in it due to the “Time Machine” yeah, geeta has some odd choice of words as well which leads me to belive theory’s that the game is all a big wish. Either way I wish all the gyms and stuff were a bit harder, though you do get to fight them twice so that’s fun
They say that if you speak her name 3 times infront of a mirror, the air becomes cold, and sounds of a piano can be heard slowly getting louder. You can try to run, but a voice will tell you "You can't run from a Pokemon Battle"
As Lance once said: "You don't get to be champion of the Pokémon League without knowing how to spam FULL RESTORES!" So, as if it wasn't already obvious, dis bitch ain't no one's champion.
When I first fought Geeta, the second pokemon she sent out was Kingambit. If she simply led with Glimmora to set up traps, and had Kingambit as her ace, her difficulty would probably double. Still probably not that hard, considering her entire team folds to a single Lokix, but it is something. She is laughably easy.
On your first, "safe" team, I would argue that if you didn't use Arboliva, then she could also use Brambleghast as her Grass type - it's got some niche as a part Ghost, plus Wind Rider makes it immune to "wind" moves, such as Heat Wave and Hurricane
You know what would be interesting... Running a simulation of Geeta's current team and having it face against the different gym leaders and E4 to see if she could beat any of them.
AMEN for giving her a Gholdengo! There's a lineup of great new Gen 9 Pokémon like Gholdengo, and yet they opted to give her a GOGOAT and AVALUGG? Gholdengo's a special Pokémon not just because of its golden look but also since you have to do so much coin searching to get the amount of coins needed to evolve Gimmighoul into a Gholdengo. On top of the fact it's a machine in battle once evolved. It's a Champion-worthy Pokémon, and our golden string cheese boi deserves so much more. Also, if you're going to give Ceruledge and Armarouge to Geeta, you should make it so she uses the version that isn't in the game you're playing. That would give her team a bigger "Wow, I've never seen that before! She's a Pokémon whisperer!" factor since it's very possible the player may not know Charcadet had a different evolution.
A way you can keep Glimmora as her Ace but still make it useful is to have Palafin be her lead and program her to always first turn flip turn into it. Theoretically if it is a higher level than her other mons it will be more likely to survive a hit anyway (although we all know we'd still be overleveled and one shot them all anyway in reality). Even though it started at the back of her party it actually had use and will more than likely go down first setting up the monster of a team this video describes. Obviously finishing with Kingambit for a potential clean up for the unprepared.
I present to you the reason that Glimmora was the pokemon Geeta Terastalized: The Elite Four and Champion are the types of the Titans: Rika: The Quaking Earth Titan Poppy: The Lurking Steel Titan Larry: The Open Sky Titan Hassel: The False Dragon Tita Geeta: The Stony Cliff Titan Doesn't justify the rest of her team but that part makes alittle more sense now
Kinggambit really makes sense for her ace, most people won’t know it even exist as its evolution method is so specific so it’ll be a surprise, and thematically it’s a perfect pick too, Kinggambit is supposed to be the leader of the pack who according to the pokedex only the strongest of Bisharp get the privilege to become a Kingambit, just like a champion! Glimmora is definitely a cool pokemon but I just imagine how in promo art or in the anime the champions always look so awesome standing right beside their ace and then Geeta will be standing right beside a small ball of petal shaped spikes. Even Diantha which in my opinion is more forgettable than Geeta looks more iconic with her Mega Gardevoir than Geeta with Glimmora
Yeah, both are also very alike physically and personality wise, Geeta being the last trainer and boss of the bunch at the league also works super well with Kingambit, and Geeta's color scheme even matches shiny Kingambit
I wonder if it has to do something with the DLC. There seems to be something up with Geeta and her using Glimmora. Glimmora is only found in the wild in Area Zero and we even learn that it’s ‘petals’ are probably tera crystals. Maybe she’s an AI too?? Or something to do with the third legendary
@@Samarlaropa i think it more has to do with what the top comment says. Each pokemon in her team represents a part of paldea, and glimmora specifically represents area zero And yeah i do think glimmora will have to do something with the third legendary. It was already being hinted at that the third legendary is the reason behing the terra crystals in area zero
@@Samarlaropa I'm honestly not sure why GameFreak decided to put so much emphasis on Glimmora being in Area Zero because it very much appears in other areas. It can be rarely found in Alfornada Cavern and Glimmet can be found both there and most other caves in the game. It's rare but it does spawn. For some reason they made it seem like it ONLY appears there. It definitely has significance, it's just weird the way they went about pointing it out.
I did my own rework of Geeta's team a while back and ended up with this: Glimmora, Aqua Breed Taurus, Arboliva, Armarouge/Ceruledge, Hisuian Zoroark and Tera Fighting Kingambit as her new ace. Glimmora is built to stall and set up entry hazards, while the next three form a Fire/Water/Grass core like Blue's Champion team. Aqua Breed Taurus and Arboliva were chosen because the former has similar hair to Geeta and Arboliva has a similar presence/personality. Armarouge/Ceruledge were chosen because they're iconic and powerful pokemon, and Geeta would specifically have whichever one isn't available in your game. Hisuian Zoroark was chosen for 2 reasons: because I wanted to include Hisuian pokemon in my reworked versions of all the important trainers and because it forms a very sneaky interaction with her new ace. Because Kingambit is her last pokemon, Zoroark's Illusion will make it appear as Kingambit, baiting the player to use a 4x super effective Fighting move which won't do anything to the Normal/Ghost Zoroark. This grants it a turn to set up a Nasty Plot and start sweeping. Plus it's fuelled by resentment, like the resentment Larry feels towards Geeta for all the work she piles onto him. Finally, Kingambit was chosen due to it being powerful, having similar hair to Geeta, and being a perfect counterpart to Geeta herself. Geeta is notable as the most powerful trainer among all other Champion rank trainers, just like how Kingambit stands above all other Bisharp and can only evolve by defeating other equally powerful Bisharp.
I had more trouble with Penny than with Geeta. At least Penny had type diversity on her team, even if they were just her Eeveelution pets. When it came to Geeta, my Skeledirge wrecked her team without breaking a sweat
Also the fact that if you chose fuecoco, you steamroll 5/6 mons on her team with your stab typing. Really wish she wasn’t such a pushover, your changes would have made her definitely more memorable and challenging
If you teach meowscarda a decent fighting move its the same, only needing to switch for gogoat. Or ya know, just night slash. Cause it's gogoat. Dark for bird, grass(or dark) for fish or the ancient one, fight for samurai, fight for ice cube.
Quaquaval sweeps her team extremely easily you have fighting type moves that deal with half her team and also flying type moves to deal with the grass type the only mon that it has trouble with is espathra
When I was a kid playing gen4, unable to read english I had no pokemon under lvl70 and my starter was easily lvl100. But I *knew* the elite4 where something special. And when that piano kicked in I was ready for a brawl worthy of begging my grandpa to let me stay awake for a little longer (he did, and thats a core memory for some reason). I knew little of the story, was way overleveled and I had a team that near perfectly countered cynthia. But that feeling of an intense fight broke through the language barrier and kept me highly engaged regardless. A memory I still look back on fondly to this day. And I regret that kids today won’t get to experience that as I did.
After mentioning Arboliva as an option, I had this idea: what if we lead Glimmora, but we swap one of her Pokemon for Pawmot and it can Revival Blessing to bring back Glimmora as the ace? Then with Grassy Terrain it can take reduced damage from Ground moves
It's also worth noting that Dondozo has unaware which lets it try to shut down the ever-classic "I set up swords dance and proceed to one shot the entire enemy team" strat. I think it's great to give the champion something that throws a wrench in an otherwise virtually fail-safe strategy against an AI opponent.
Espathra ALMOST accomplishes that by having the Opportunist ability (I didn't realize this, so using shell smash against it wasn't great hah), but it is a special attacker so really only punishes you if you are trying to set up sp atk boosts I guess. Unaware Dondozo just does it better though, agreed.
Not only should kingambit have been her ace, but as a few others have pointed out here it should've been shiny. Matches her hair and makes it all the more memorable
I think GF just fears too much that players are so soft they'll quit if they fail at the end of Pokemon League gauntlet. That's why they won't put obvious last spot sweeper in the last spot or make champion significantly more challenging than elite four. I'm fairly sure they would just do away with the whole gauntlet design altogether if it wasn't so nostalgic and thus part of their sales strategy.
Volo from Pokémon Arceus was a difficult final battle for most people. Man used all of Cynthia’s team plus a legendary against your half dead team at the end. What a memorable fight it was. Game freak is capable of making difficult battles just don’t understand why they make Geeta so easy
That's perfect for lore too, In-game, we don't take her role as Top Champion, she's there to _test us_ if we're able to become a Champion-ranked Trainer. But if it's not true, she's getting the Leon Treatment in the Anime 100%.
Honestly, i've had harder battles in 3-4 star raids than Her. She should at the very least be on the power level of a 5-6 star raid... where if u don't bring the right thing u prolly are going to have a "tough" time... There should be some level of preparation and risk of failure... but gamefreak wants to protect the fragile egos of children and make things easy for them... we just have to remember these games are marketed and designed for children, and that we just happen to love and enjoy these children games.
if we really wanted to make geeta memorable and absolutely OP I would’ve made her team: 1. Glimmora with air balloon 2. Espartha with leftovers 3. Arboliva with grassy seed 4. Palafin with choice scarf 5. Baxcalibur with lum berry (or belly drum cetitan with sitrus berry) 6. Kingambit with life orb I would’ve rather had a champion that took multiple attempts for me to beat rather than one I could sweep with the first pokémon in my party
Another reason i Iike Kingambit being her ace is because you made it past all other challenges, but it isnt enough to simply plan. You sometimes meet a wall that is seemingly impossible to climb. In those times, you need strength and resolve to push through. With Kingambit being this powerhouse, it makes perfect sense. Plus he sits there like "you have my attention kid. Show me all you got"
I think the reason they made Geeta’s team awful is so that you can get over with the main story and actually get to the meat and Potatoes of the game, the Paradox Pokémon
All they had to do was a Leon battle, and reverse it. Have the battle be interrupted let you get to the meat than finally beat the champion and have it be somewhat difficult
I originally thought Glimmora should be her lead, but after you brought up Palafin I think a Palafin lead with an immediate Flip Turn into Glimmora would be a really solid opening here, allowing Palafin to transform as soon as possible and activate Glimmoras ability via a surprise that the player might not be ready for in one opening move.
I agree. Even base Palafin is nearly as strong as Veluza, but way more unique. You could also give it the Item Eject-Button to make the switch more reliable for the AI. But then they probably wouldn't always switch in Glimmora next. I think the Team I would have chosen for Geeta would be: Glimmora (Lead) Azumarill Eelektross Noivern Ceruledge (in Scarlet)/Armourage (in Violet) Kingambit (Ace/Dark-Tera)
@@smembino740 I think the point was to use more gen 9 pokemon as opposed to older pokemon like she already does. Secondly Hassel already has a Noivern.
@@smembino740 I honestly hate when they don’t give champions Pokémon mostly from their own region I’d keep espathra because I think people underestimate its signature move I honestly really like the idea for the final team comp in the video If we wanna get a little crazy kilowattrel is very fast and has decent sp attack
@@smembino740 they could make it a scripted move like how in gym fights after the terastylize the gym leader says a line after like the first turn and is forced to use a move of their typing
I genuinely think Kingambit was supposed to be her ace. The rest do set-up, hazards, stat reduction, and die pretty easily. You’re unlikely to have seen Kingambit because of its difficult nature to obtain, an unexpected evo to an old mon is wild, the idea of feeling like you’re steamrolling her only to get flattened by the final mon feels very fitting to the general concepts as executed in Paldea re: levelling, and her role as a noble ‘true king’ feels very reflected in this mon. And then I bet some executive meddling said ‘actually Glimmora should be her ace because of its Relevance To The Lore’ and that means it has to be the one to terastylize so has to be the final mon (the thing Kingambit needs to really function). Now why you wouldn’t retool the team after that judgment I don’t know, but then I don’t see why a database of appropriately levelled teams to be called so you can do the badges in any order is more than a day or two of work either.
@@catscanhavelittleasalami They cater to the lowest common denominator, 6 year olds who's idea of a team is "My starter is da best evar!1!!1" I'll give it to Gamefreak this time though, this was probably the single best story we've had for pokemon plot wise. An absolutely PHENOMINAL plot. It feels like something that could realistically happen to a main character, not dealing with insane "I'm the MC so everything revolves around me" where a kid of all things takes down a huge criminal empire... because he beat the villain and made him feel bad? Seriously, the kanto games should practically end the moment you reach Govanni. With a bullet in your head. (Obviously not what would happen because that would just be a bad ending to a game, but what realistically WOULD happen if some hopped up teen broke into a criminal base.) Paldea's Team Star though? A damn near perfect fit for a thing a kid would deal with, with believable reasoning for it to go down the way it ended up doing so. What goes down with the professor in Area Zero? A man/woman breaking under the stress, losing sight of his original goals while in an area practically cut off from human contact for an extended time? Or Arven's storyline, where he seems like an absolute ass and an easy main villain candidate, only for us to find out why he is acting the way he is because his parent has basically abandoned him for the pokemon that said parent had him give the pokeball of to you? Let alone all of the far more spoilery stuff I'm not gunna say here.
@@makinyoumad9498 He is way harder than geeta. As the first pokemon game I did (and I still replay it), he is a challenge. His team is so well built and sw/sh story impliments him in so well. Unlike the worst of all champions, geeta.
He was piss easy, and this is someone who struggled with the gym trainers and elite 4 along with Cynthia in BDSP and barely beat Steven my first playthrough of ORAS. Seriously I was shocked that people found Leon hard when I someone who can legitimately claim to suck at pokemon games, at least some of them, found him easy.
I feel like the only way you can have trouble with him is if you cycle teams or avoid fights. Playing normally makes it easy to sweep him because of the permanent Exp. Share.
I was actually scared of fighting Geeta at first. The only Pokémon I knew she had was Glimmora (because of spoilers) and I thought it WOULD BE her leading Pokémon, not her "ace"... My team was quite vulnerable to spikes. In the end she got swept no issues. Just sad.
@@celenatoppin9675 Or you know, NOT MAKE IT YOUR ACE. Some trainers can do that, specially in the 5th gen where you'll usually face Ghechis Hydreigon 2nd or 3rd... Now that I think about it, in gen 5 if you had a bad matchup against their Ace they did not doubted on sending it, because I remember Burgh sending Leavanny second against Drilbur, same for Shauntal sending chandelure 3rd to destroy my Lilligant. They PREFERED to send their ace last but it wasn't mandatory if that could force a switch due to a supereffective move... even though it could lead to ridiculous moments like Ghetsis sending Seismitoad against a fast grass type instead of their X-Scissor steel type (They should've put Eelektross as his ace).
First, I guess you didn’t see it terastalize in the spoiler, and second, the real kicker is that Kingambit is literally made to be an ace, and is on her team
the extremely complex strategy i used to beat geeta -shadow ball on espathra -torch song on gogoat -torch song on avalugg -torch song on kingambit -shadow ball on veluza -shadow ball on glimmora (not super effective but will ohko due to torch song buffs)
I have a weird theory that Geeta wasn't using her real team or her true strength. Imagine if the first fight was just the test to be accepted as a champion level trainer? Remember, in Paldea, there are multiple champions. What if there was a fight in the DLC with her where it's to actually take the crown of number one champion of the region? That's when we could see the real Geeta and I agree with you. Her Kingambit needs to go last and make use of Supreme Overlord. Especially if x5 of its teammates are fainted. That's a massive boost.
My biggest issue with her is that she’s still considered the “top champion” when she was canonically defeated by two children, and she outright admitted that Nemona wasn’t even going all out against her. Clearly, Geeta isn’t the top champion, Nemona is.
Fr. I defeated Geeta’s team without breaking a sweat. But Nemona absolutely DESTROYED my team at the end. I won that battle after losing every member of my team except my starter. The only reason as to why I won is because her starter was at disadvantage to mine otherwise I would have lost.
@@joress I still think it's a missed opportunity that Nemona doesn't terastalise her starter into a type advantage against yours (eg: if you picked Sprigatito, she turns her starter fire). Considering the starters have the type advantage against each other through Fighting, Dark and Ghost, it would give her a resistance to yours and moves to counter your starter.
@@LowIntSpecimen True, but remember, Nemona isn't looking to be the best because she's already CONSIDERED, one of the best. She wants a rival who can beat her in a pokemon battle without holding back. Also, it takes a lot of tera shards to change a pokemon's tera type.
I think the reason she's still top champion is cause top champion is basically a full time job of running the pokemon league so it'd be weird if a kid became top champion and just suddenly had to run the entire pokemon league for the nation
Speaking of memorable, Steven sending out his Metagross for the first time made a huge impact on me. The fact that you couldn't get it until after the battle really made it that much better. For Geeta on the other hand, I genuinely felt nothing.
You should have felt pity. A region with a dedicated trainer academy has a less competent champion than Alola, a region without a league or even like a damn supermarket, who didn't even have a proper champion but a stand in. Paldea and Kalos truly are worthy adversaries.
@@aprinnyonbreak1290yep which just make nemona seem even less impactful since she got the champion rank from this champion, at that point just make Gea the secret champion you can fight and have Nemona as the actual champion, and have her bust out her real team against you, she been watching you grow through the whole journey, even restarted her journey just to make sure that we become eligible to fight the champion which would be just a cool idea to think about, have a champion that literally restarted their journey and helped you grow to make you their perfect challenger for the end
@@aprinnyonbreak1290 I mean even though Diantha was super weak at the very least her team choice was filled with memorable pokemon that actually stood out. Instead of fucking gogoat.
I honestly really like your choices for her final team but with Armarouge and Ceruledge, I would have it where the one she has is opposite of what version you have. If you have Scarlet, she has Ceruledge. If you have Violet, it’s Armorouge. That way it still feels different bc you can’t get that evolution in your game.
@@barrybend7189I think like in the video Arboliva is a great choice. Can set up grassy terrain for heals, strength sap for healing and enemy attack drops, it can use screens, earth power for some coverage, decently bulky, great special attack, and it's also grass/normal like Sawsbuck
When I battled her I genuinely thought the point of her line up was to be sacrifices to boost her ace Kingambit after she sent it out. Meaning the reason they were bad was so that they could go down quicker. But then I realized she still had one more pokemon and got really confused why it wasn't Kingambit.
The biggest problem with her team is that I lead with Skeledirge, and literally her ENTIRE team is weak to Fire/Ghost until Glimoora. But by then it doesn't even matter because I already got off three Torch Songs and my Special Attack is through the roof. Zero challenge whatsoever. Imagine making the champion completely weak to the starter.
Even though i never played the og games cynthia was in, i remember playing pokemon black (my first ever pokemon game [that, frankly, made all pokemon games after that seem sucky]) and happened upon a strange lady dressed in black in a building by the beach. I talked to her and she was really mysterious and i remember being just really damn confused. Then i found out you can battle her, i saw her full model (immidiately fell in love), and realized she wasnt just a normal encounter. I promptly got my ass beat like 3-4 times before finally beating her with my wayyyy overleveled team Even with what little significance she had on the story of that game, she was someone i still remember to this day
@@markmagician2471i mean, Gogoat is cool. I’ve had Jumpluff on my final team for nuzlock reasons, but i wouldn’t be impressed if i saw one on a champion team. Jumpluff was more of a scout than anything else.
My theory is she doesn't even want to be the champion anymore. You think that's her true team? Something that even the gym leaders can beat? Fk that she wants you to take the title so she can retire.
I was like 5 levels lower than the elite four and didn't bring many healing items, and I genuinely struggled with them. Then, when the champion came around, I was quite scared only to realize she was the easiest battle in the whole game.
I am so glad I was such a scavenger or else I seriously wouldn’t have been able to beat them I didn’t buy a single item that wasn’t a pokeball or cosmetic my entire run
I was a little overleveled for the Elite Four and Rika and Hassel still gave me a run for my money (though that might just be because I lacked a Water type to deal with Rika, whose Ground typing silver bulleted my team hard as Abomasnow somehow always gets taken out easily when I use it, and Hassel quickly dealt with my Fairy and Ice types, who were Abomasnow and Tinkaton, leaving me struggling with Garganacl, who was only mostly managing), I was expecting a fight that might actually knock out my team, which hadn't happened all game, and then Skeledirge swept pretty much the entire team and I felt downright bored
Maybe her team should be a "if I get hit you get punished team" like rocky helmets, eject button palafin, the grassy terrain olive pokemon, toxic spikes glammora, Rage fist annilape, Then finally kingambit will be the ultimate punisher, punishing you for all the mons you have KO'ed. Would make the fight memorable because enough are getting punished for hitting her.
I had more trouble on Larry, who was using the FLYING type, a type he DOESNT even like USING and DOESN’T FEEL COMFORTABLE USING THEM… than the ACTUAL CHAMPION… like, how is that even possible
A team I made for her to be "close" to Cynthia's team is Palafin (F) @ Punching Glove Ability: Zero to Hero EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe Jolly Nature - Drain Punch - Ice Punch - Jet Punch - Wave Crash Glimmora (F) @ Focus Sash Ability: Toxic Debris EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 Spe Naive Nature - Earth Power - Mortal Spin - Spikes - Stealth Rock Espathra (M) @ Leftovers Ability: Speed Boost EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe Timid Nature IVs: 0 Atk - Calm Mind - Dazzling Gleam - Protect - Stored Power Annihilape (M) @ Salac Berry Ability: Defiant EVs: 252 Atk / 8 SpD / 252 Spe Jolly Nature - Bulk Up - Drain Punch - Rage Fist - Thunder Punch Gholdengo @ Choice Scarf Ability: Good as Gold EVs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe Timid Nature IVs: 0 Atk - Dazzling Gleam - Make It Rain - Shadow Ball - Thunderbolt Kingambit (F) @ Chople Berry Ability: Supreme Overlord Tera Type: Dark EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpD Adamant Nature - Iron Head - Low Kick - Sucker Punch - Swords Dance I made this team with the intention of making her team interesting. The battle will start with the AI switching Palafin into Glimmora (hopefully hit with a phy attack) and while its healthy its 1st move will be stealth rock and at least 1 layer of spikes. Then when it gets knocked out, Espathra is next and will immediately use protect and get the speed boost. Espathra will use calm mind and again protect and finally start attacking. Then when it gets knocked out, Annihilape will come out and use bulk up once and start attacking. And when it gets to low health and the salac berry is consumed, it will use drain punch and when its above yellow health spam rage fist to all except normal types. Then when it gets knocked out, Gholdengo will come out and use the move that isn't not very effective. Then when it gets knocked out, Palafin will come out again and punish those who got overconfident. Then when it gets knocked out, her ace, Kingambit will come out, tera dark and use swords dance. And if its still active, use sucker punch against all pokemon but if its any pokemon weak to fighting, it'll use low kick. And after all that, if you manage to defeat her, you can be proud of yourself that you took on and bested the lesser Cynthia.
Her Team needs to be improved: Glimmora Espathra Palafin (Zero to Hero) Chesnaught (Gogoat's Replacement) Baxcalibur (Every Champion has a Pseudo) Kingambit (Final Ace)
In a horrible bit of irony, _Diantha_ was more memorable than her. Even if her team was also kinda crap, I can actually remember it cause it was all new Kalosian Pokemon. The fossils. Hawlucha. Pumpkaboo. Goodra. Her M-Gardevoir. I haven't even played XY since 2014, and it's still more memorable to me than Geeta's whole thing. What's more, Diantha had incomparably better presentation. A radiant chamber of stained glass, inside what's still the coolest League building for me, a cathedral, with a theme I can actually remember. I remember nothing from Geeta aside from the fact that she's not Paldea's only Champion, and her Glimmora.
also Diantha's Gardevoir is iconic (partly due to the fact that its Mega Gardevoir) but also because Diantha herself is an Ok fight at least for me, I remember struggling against her a tad and wasnt steam rolling her like Lysandre
@@itsClaptrap Lysandre was harder in the USUM funnily enough because he had a fucking Gen 6 legendary. I will say that on my playthrough of XY, he actually caught me off guard because he carried Iron Head on his Mega Gyarados and KOed my Sylveon
At least Diantha is finally getting respect, although Geeta deserved to be so much stronger, yet was shafted because she wasn't the final boss. I agree Diantha was a memorable champion for the reasons you said, although I did remember Geeta's Gogoat & Kingambit.
The thing about Geeta is the structure of the game undermines her. Nearly every other champion is the last battle you have before the credits role. Geeta is the second to last battle in one of three routes that you need to complete all of to get to the last stage of the game. This means that they probably shouldn't push her too hard lest she overshadow everything that comes after her. Of course they could have given her much more than they did. It's unfortunate because I think Geeta's design is possibly my favorite among every champion.
that's backward. We shouldn't expect Geeta to be as hard of a fight as the other champions BECAUSE there are 4 harder fights level-wise. Hell, 2 of them are canonically stronger
I disagree. She could put up a good fight despite not being the final boss: Nemona is a total pushover anyway, Arven and Penny are decent but nothing special and Sada/Turo would still be the greatest obstacle in the game just because they have a team of 6 570 bs pokemon and the last one has the potential to set up and sweep. Also why the hell shouldn't her be a tough fight just because the story continues after her? That doean't fit thematically at all, she's the super champion or however she's called, but she's weaker than the last e4
I personaly believe that the reason why geeta is such a pushover is that she is supposed to be like a fifth elite 4 member (gamplay wise). The actual "Champion" which you need to defeat to become the strongest Trainer and end the normal pokemon journey is nemona. She is supposed to be the last big chalange you have to overcome, therby sadly making the top Champions Look like they only got the Job because of bribes or something
@@dollscentedhunter2514The more I think about it, the more the idea of Geeta being corrupt makes sense. I found it ethically questionable that she’s both the Pokémon League Chairwoman and the Top Champion. Especially in a region where the title of Champion can’t really be taken from you. The way she treats her employees also seems unethical in light of what Larry says about docking his pay if he chitchats with challengers. That didn’t seem to be a problem with the other Gym Leaders even in other regions. Also, I don’t like how she basically strong arms Penny to working for her for life. I know it’s setup as this magnanimous gesture that Geeta forgave her for stealing League Points, but it seems Geeta got the better part of the deal. She can get Penny to work for her and completely dominate the terms of her employment. And her personality seems, for lack of better words, very fake. Yeah, the more I think about it, the less I like her.
After Geeta gets a glowup after the DLC, I like the fan theory that her first team is just so you can battle Nemona at full strenght, rather than Nemona still seeing you as a "promising student".
I really hope the DLC redeems her but this is the team I would have given her: 1.Glimmora 2.Gholdengo 3.Cetitan 4.Armorouge/Ceruledge(depending on version) 5.Arboliva 6.Kingambit I'm still researching movesets but I feel it'd make her more interesting Edit:I just finished your video and I find it funny we had the same thought process lol
All champions should have teams like Cynthia and their FIRST champion battle team be region exclusive. The other fights can change with other region aces from time to time so they can seem like actual champions with IQs above 50. Like they are experimenting to overcome YOU.
@@donellebullock7404 Cynthia has a Milotic which isn’t Gen 4. As long as they stay within their Regional Dex and it makes sense for them to use, it shouldn’t be a problem imo…and the latter is Geeta’s issue lol
@@fruit3193 Milotic was also extremely rare in DPPT and fit with her team very nicely. She could have had a lumineon, but that would have been lame lmao
Tbh compared to even the most recent game where the champion Leon was so involved in the storyline, with an actual personality, iconic partner pokemon, boss, rival and family, Geeta really fell short for me on that side of things as well.
shit personality and a charizard, you mean? gen 9 has many characters with great lore and development, it's just that geeta isn't supposed to be very important. being champion, or rather top champion in this gen (that is, "leader" of the elite 4) isn't nearly as big as it was in past generations. SV is focused around other things.
ikr he might have been to hig about himself but he really had a memorable personality and team. I didnt like to that he had a lot of pokemon not from galar and even worse his ace is not from galar. Only galar pokemon on his team is his dragapult nad the starter u and hop didnt pick well depending on ur starter he also could have had mr. rime
Not to mention although it might not be the most memorable his team composition wise is one of the strongest in the series maybe even beating cynthia for top spot IMO. For those who dont remember he has ageslash haxerous dragapult his charizard and then a combo of 2 depending on your starter: cinderace and seismitoad if you chose rillaboom, inteleon and mr rime if you chose cinderace and rhyperior and rillaboom if you chose inteleon. If gen 8 in general had been harder this guy could have been the new cynthia
@@finnvaneekelen4966 Well said. Although Cynthia has that badass theme song on her side too lol. Though for Gen 8 the champion battle isn't meant to be some intimidating thing on a remote mountain, we know the champion, he's goofy and an entertainer. I enjoyed that the champion battle theme for Leon had the hall of fame tune being sung by the audience. It definitely had a different sort of charm. I played Geeta's battle only a few weeks ago and for the life of me, I can't remember anything about her theme song.
@@ARobinStory92 eh geeta’s theme is kinda cool imo as it uses leitmotifs from the other champion themes so far. Could have been great if getta actually felt important enough to get it
Im back because Geeta's team in the Indigo Disk is changed. My head canon is she is holding back to develope the courage of potential champions. Like literally Glimora is in her first pokemon to setup.
I would actually love to maintain the idea that her ace is Glimmora but her strategy change and make that a focus of her character being a fighter with a very different strategy, using her ace to drastically weaken her opponents team paving the way for the other five to crush. It would prove to be both memorable and exciting.
An ace being a support can be iconic. You will realize after getting defeated, that the first pokemon is always being switched in for buffs or debuffs making the fight harder. You will not realize it at first because it is commonly perceived that the pokemon with the strongest dps is a threat. For a first time player, it will look like the other 5 pokemons are very strong and the support will often be overlooked.
The pawnard family is obviously based on chess pieces. Which would make Kingambit all the better as a final out ace as the King in chess never sees any action until the player has no chose but to use it, meaning the King only typically starts taking pieces towards the endgame
Your video inspired me to make a team for Geeta, that has many tricks up it´s sleeve, beeing formidable, but not impssible to beat. Cyclizar @ White Herb Ability: Regenerator Tera Type: Fire EVs: 4 HP / 252 SpA / 252 Spe Timid Nature - Shed Tail - Rapid Spin - Overheat - Draco Meteor As a fast lead it can deal heavy damage or provide a save sub through Shed Tail. It also can function as a anti-setuper to clean entry hazards. Palafin @ Choice Scarf Ability: Zero to Hero Tera Type: Dragon EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe Adamant Nature - Flip Turn - Close Combat - Outrage - Jet Punch A save fast switch out through the choice scarf with STAB Outrage Dragon (if tera) to become a surprizing versatile foe. Tinkaton @ Red Card Ability: Mold Breaker Tera Type: Ground EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SpD / 252 Spe Jolly Nature - Gigaton Hammer - Stealth Rock - Bulldoze - Swords Dance Kind of a second lead pokemon, that can Swords Dance or stet up Stealth Rock. Red card is a bonus little disrupter, that could increase the chance of a good match up. Fairys nightmare. Oricorio @ Mirror Herb Ability: Dancer Tera Type: Fire EVs: 56 HP / 212 SpA / 240 Spe Timid Nature IVs: 0 Atk - Revelation Dance - Baton Pass - Quiver Dance - Roost This was kind of a fun one playing with the flamenco-style (and type resistances). If an opponent tries to boost their stats, Mirror Herb will do it too - or even Dancer if lucky. Quiver Dance as well as Baton Pass will help, make this a supporter that can bring doom if used right. Annihilape @ Leftovers Ability: Defiant Tera Type: Steel EVs: 140 HP / 252 Atk / 96 Def / 16 SpD / 4 Spe Adamant Nature - Drain Punch - Poison Jab - Protect - Rage Fist This is the Ace - it has to be a punching bag first, then effectively be reborn from Revival Blessing. (It doesn´t have to, if there are better answers to the opponent/ player). Tera Steel for defensive capabilities. Drain Punch and Leftovers for recovery. Imagine it getting a boost from Oricorio´s Baton Pass. Pawmot @ Focus Sash Ability: Volt Absorb Tera Type: Normal EVs: 152 Atk / 12 Def / 92 SpD / 252 Spe Jolly Nature - Nuzzle - Mach Punch - Wish - Revival Blessing Besides the obvious Revival Blessing, this mainly can deliver priority and para. Wish could be usefull when switching out or to stay a little longer. Tera Normal just for immunity. This team is really fast, so it makes a clean sweep difficult for the player. Effectively 7 Mon´s. The defensive synergy is great - offensive type wise it´s okay too, so it´ll be a formidable foe! What do you think? Tested it in Showdown Anything Goes Gen 9 and it´s fun!
