Evolution of Pokemon Champion Battles (1996 - 2022)

This video showcases the Pokemon Champion battles throughout each game. Starting with Emerald, I nicknamed my Pokemon and they are also using held items to help them in certain situations. Which battle do you think was the best here, and what champion is your favorite? Let me know in the comments!
Timestamps:
0:00 Blue (Pokemon Red/Green/Blue, 1996)
4:09 Blue (Pokemon Yellow, 1998)
8:49 Lance (Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal, 1999-2000)
15:01 Steven Stone (Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire, 2002)
20:01 Blue (Pokemon FireRed/LeafGreen, 2004)
26:13 Wallace (Pokemon Emerald, 2004)
34:33 Cynthia (Pokemon Diamond/Pearl, 2006)
42:31 Cynthia (Pokemon Platinum, 2008)
47:56 Lance (Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver, 2009)
56:55 Alder (Pokemon Black/White, 2010)
1:01:29 Iris (Pokemon Black 2/White 2, 2012)
1:08:39 Diantha (Pokemon X/Y, 2013)
1:13:54 Steven Stone (Pokemon OmegaRuby/AlphaSapphire, 2014)
1:21:02 Professor Kukui (Pokemon Sun/Moon, 2016)
1:30:02 Hau (Pokemon UltraSun/UltraMoon, 2017)
1:39:14 Trace (Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu/Let's Go Eevee, 2018)
1:47:17 Leon (Pokemon Sword/Shield, 2019)
1:58:14 Cynthia (Pokemon Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl, 2021)
2:05:11 Geeta (Pokemon Scarlet/Violet, 2022)
2:12:54 Nemona (Pokemon Scarlet/Violet, 2022)
2:22:35 Outroduction (KZbin, circa 2009)
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[@LITTLE1994]

The Final Boss battles of the game are always the best part.

[@H0n35t]

9 Generations. More than 20 years. And Blue is still the fastest speedrunner.

[@LITTLE1994]

*25

[@maryannmcconnell1049]

Can we talk about Geeta real quick? I know shes weak but her team got a serious glow up in the DLC. She leads with Glimora and ends with Kingambit which is what fans wanted. Plus she replaced the useless gogoat and veluza with Chesnaught and Dragapult.

[@poixel813]

I can hear the red health beeping sound as soon as he got to cynthia

[@95kwa3]

I like that Leon’s not even mad that he lost and he keeps training in the battle tower

[@Jay7707]

I have the feeling that they used The Random Pokémon Generator to make Geeta’s team.

[@MudkipWithShades]

They even made her the first Champion that says, "I hope you will defeat me!"

[@Jay7707]

@@MudkipWithShades OK this is just making more sense.

[@MudkipWithShades]

@@Jay7707 With Nemona though, I got too over confident with my Tinkaton against her Quaquaval, who Terastallizes into a Water-type, cancelling her Fighting-type. My big mistake was definitely switching her over Meowscarada. We should be lucky her starter Pokemon don't use Hidden Abilities.

[@LandonTheToon]

This might be an controversy statement but I was stuck on geeta for 3 days because her team was hard to defeat I don’t know if it was because I had meowscarada as my starter I see people that beat geeta on their first try had quaquaval as their starter and some were playing violet I was playing scarlet can anyone reply let me know if you lost to geeta atleast 1 or 2 times.

[@Raf-my9km]

@@LandonTheToonhonestly it was so long ago that I don’t even remember, but it doesn’t matter now, because geeta’s team was updated and is a lot stronger now.

[@Robert_EO_Beanzwagon]

Cynthia's Spritomb still haunts me in nightmares. Her Milotic triggers my Frustration And her Garchomp...... her Garchomp....

[@NoktarYoutube]

Geeta’s team is just too bad, but having a "no one passes this test recently" from her and this glitch it seems to happen to you where the music is looping a part... I miss Blue and Steven era.

[@MudkipWithShades]

She's probably the easiest champion to date, easier than Lance. At least in HGSS, my team made him look strong despite having 3 Dragonite on his team. It's interesting to me now we have more than 1 champion to face.

[@FiftyBuckCrusader]

I hate on her team and everything because it really is anticlimactic for a champion.. but in all honesty, she seems to always get me down to 1-2 pokemon while for other champions I at least have 3 left

[@simeonr.1903]

Amazing how far the pokemon champion battles have progressed over time! Maybe one day we'll get an AR or VR version of pokemon battling to have an experience like none other!

[@MudkipWithShades]

Once Nintendo makes a VR-compatible console(that isn't a Virtual Boy disaster again), I'll live to see that day happen!

[@seanmuller7579]

And we'll see how much of a disappointment that will be

[@felipealvarado8801]

For me its kind of funny how they low cinthias pokemon level on platinum, cause after they saw what they done with her, it was like: "ok we kinda go too far with her team" I remenber as a kid arround 8 to 9 years old sooo frikking frustrated because cinthia pokemon had arround 10 levels over me and thats insane remenbering that the last trainers you see are arround 48 to 53 levels xd

[@MudkipWithShades]

They realized at that moment Cynthia was the hardest champion they created.

[@Zygarde-50Meme-Forme]

The nicknames of your Pokemon in the later games are hilarious. Watermonke, AngryUFO, 2Spooky4U, UGotKissed, etc xD

[@Royal_tyger]

1:56:58 Pov: if Lance beat Leon in the anime

[@MudkipWithShades]

Now that would make for AU, but Ash would still beat both Lance and Leon either way. :)

[@frederick_fritz_fazbearington]

I feel like not many people give a frick about Iris. Iris is a very well done champion, with a team that surpasses even cynthia's. That friggin haxorus with outrage and focus sash made me ragequit at least 6 times. And we don't talk about challenge mode. Oh damn that is absolutely the hardest fight ever.

[@MudkipWithShades]

I actually feel the same way and I like Iris. Her team was so strong, that if I remember, I had to redo her more times than Cynthia because one of my Pokemon faints from her team.

[@frederick_fritz_fazbearington]

I agree, but i really don't know the reason for archeops to be in her team. Aggron and Lapras maybe have similarities with the dragon type, but archeops? Fortunately in the rematch It goes away ti make space for salamence.

[@LITTLE1994]

I know, right. Iris is a WONDERFUL Champion. Underrated as hell.

[@koreanpopcorn18]

the music suits both her personality and the rainbow road background too

[@bonelessthincrust]

Man, looking back I didn't appreciate it then, but Sword and Shield really did have the best gym battles. The open air stadium with massive crowds cheering just can't be beaten. I didn't like dynamax but it's absolutely better than terastellzation. Ideally we would just have no gimmicks but at least dynamax was impressive.

[@kazap6690]

bw2 last good game 😢

[@dannyohare3645]

The Ruby and Sapphire team is my favourite. Wish I could see a video of the Elite Four battle and champion with that team. The others are pretty good too.

[@MudkipWithShades]

I was thinking about re-recording each for the whole league and upload them as separate for each game. :) I only started recording after defeating the Elite Four.

[@dannyohare3645]

@@MudkipWithShades That works perfectly.

[@dannyohare3645]

What about Mustard? He was the former champion before Leon. And you battle against Red too.

[@MudkipWithShades]

I might do a separate video for it, it'll also include Cynthia in BW and Peony, who was also the former Champion before his brother Rose became Chairman.

[@psychedelicartistry]

What emulator did you use on the first champion battle? The shading is better than I've ever seen it before.

[@MudkipWithShades]

I used mGBA.

[@SRedM6]

Can I ask you a question in Ruby and Sapphire at what point did you decide to add Metagross to the Team?

[@MudkipWithShades]

It was after I already beaten the game the first time.

[@markmitchell7508]

I have a question. How can we tell which Eeveelution your rival will have in Pokémon Yellow?

[@MudkipWithShades]

It depends on how you win or lose to your rival in the lab, on Route 22, or both.

[@markmitchell7508]

@@MudkipWithShades ok

[@princessdiancie9908]

Would Volo count as a champion, even if the leagues never existed for a 100 years?

[@MudkipWithShades]

I actually thought about Volo a lot. He might be related to Cynthia, but his battle might be saved for another video.

[@AdamDawson3]

No because Volo is the villain in Legends Arceus so he fits under the Villain category

[@Astralpaladin7955]

Now reply here what is your favorite champion battle that is not Cynthia ( mine would be either Steven ORAS Or Professor Kukui sun and moon )

[@MudkipWithShades]

Iris was a good challenge in B2W2 if you don't let any of your Pokemon faint at least once.

[@maryannmcconnell1049]

Yeah I love iris. Her theme is great and so are her choice of pokemon. On challenge mode she's one of the most powerful pokemon charecters. Also focus sash dragon dance haxorus on a champion team should be illegal.

[@LITTLE1994]

Definitely Iris for me.

[@SlimeBlueMS]

Anyone else watch this on 2× speed?

[@orretrainerjosh2319]

So the Geeta Theme here… is this an alternate theme? This is not the one I remember playing when I battled her the first time in Scarlet.

[@MudkipWithShades]

Her theme was bugged, it was recorded before they fixed it.

[@orretrainerjosh2319]

ok cool. I thought I was missing out on something @@MudkipWithShades

[@drunkdumpling]

Will u update this video🥺🥺Geeta's team got better and we have Kieran as well...

[@MudkipWithShades]

I was thinking about updating videos for each new generation. I only did a livestream of battling Kieran, but I'll look into Geeta too.

[@thehussiteking]

Wallace being the champion and not Steven in Emerald was so lame lol. I'm still made about it almost 20 years later.

[@murderman7265]

Iris best girl

[@Brageek-5421YT]

2:05:41

[@carsonsmith3728]

Why isn’t Kieran here? He was champion of the BB League..

[@MudkipWithShades]

Because this was made before the DLC’s.

[@carsonsmith3728]

@@MudkipWithShades ah I see…

[@user-lh5dc5cy1b]

If i had a nikel for every time a Pokemon game fooled me into thinking the final boss was the professor of the region, ill have two (Red and ultra sun) It isn't alot but its weird it happened twice

[@kkoz66]

gen 2 will always be the best.

[@Mario1985NES]

MudKipWithShades. IN GEN 2 CHAMPION. AMPHAROS HAD 6/10 THUNDER PUNCHS. ALWAYS MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ETHERS WITH YOU AT ALL TIMES, ESPECIALLY IN THE ELITE 4. :)

[@MudkipWithShades]

I have plenty of Ethers, but I thought it would be more challenging to not use them much against Lance. :)

[@Mario1985NES]

@@MudkipWithShades I feel you point