The journey to becoming a Pokémon Master involves defeating the Champion of each region, which requires you to conquer the eight Pokémon Gyms and defeat each member of the Elite Four in battle before you can even knock on the Champion's door. The eight Gym Leaders are usually a pushover as you can leave and heal up for 🧔free after defeating their minions, but the Elite♒ Four are way more difficult to fight as you are expected to defeat them sequentially without taking a break before you're allowed to face the Champion.
All of the Pokémon League's have their own unique Elite Four and they have all been interpreted in different ways across the various forms of Pokémon media. The Pokémon video games have used them sparingly and you rarely meet any member of the Elite Four outside of their room in the Pokémon League, while the Pokémon anime and various manga series have used them as everything from staunch allies to vicious enemies. The inconsistent tone of the various members of each Elite Four has sometimes made it hard to take them seriously due to how they can go from being comedic characters to serious Pokémon trainers. We are here today to learn the amusing tidbits of the Elite Four – from the martial artist with the illegal Exeggutor to the dragon master that stocked up on rare candy. Here are 20 Ridiculous Things About The Elite Four That Everyone Forgets!
20 ♕ Bruno Isn't A Fair Fighter (In 📖Pokémon Stadium 2)
Bruno specializes in Fighting-type, Ground-type, and Rock-type Pokémon, yet, he uses a Grass/Psychic-type Pokémon in Pokémon Stadium 2 during the second battle in which you face him.
Bruno uses Exeggutor in Pokémon Stadium 2 that knows both AncientPower and Explosion at the same time, which was impossible at that point in the series as the former was an Egg Move and the latter could only be learned using a TM in Pokémon Red & Blue.
19 ๊ You Can Get Trapped In Lorelei's Room 🧜
The artificial intelligence used by trainers in Pokémon Red & Blue was designed in such a way that the enemy would always use a move that was super effective ag💃ainst the type of Pokémon that you were using. It's possible to trap yourself in Lorelei's room forever, though it takes a bit of work as you need to enter the room with a Fighting-type or Poison-type Pokémon that only knows Rage and lacks any items that can teach you moves.
If you have saved in the room, then you cannot escape as your Pokémon will endlessl💙y use Rage and Lorelei's Pokémon will endlessly heal itself with Rest, since Rage doesn't deplete PP and enemy Pokémon never run out of PP for their moves.
18 Lance Was Defeated By Twitch Plays Pokémon Fans (Due To A Glitch) 🎐
The flaws with the AI in Pokémon Red & Blue can be wielded against the Elite Four, as the audience of Twitch Plays Pokémon discovered. The thousand♎s of players who were online during were expecting the tide to turn against them as they were left with a level thirty-six Venomoth that had to face a level sixty-two Dragonite.
The fact that Venomoth is a 🧸Bug/Poison-type Pokémon caused Lance's Dragonite to just spam Agility and Barrier over and over again a♔s it slowly succumbed to poison damage.
17 The Elite Fo♊ur's Name Is Way More Dramatic In Japan
The Elite Four's name tells you everything you need to know about the group, as they are Elite Pokémon trainers and there are foཧur of them. However, their original name in Japan was far more grandiose as they are referred to as the Four Heavenly Kings in the original version of each game.
The Four Heavenly Kings is🍨 a name given to four gods from Buddhist mythology that rule over each of the four directions. Unfortunately, it doesn't really make sense to call them the Four Heavenly Kings as most iterations of the Elite Four have two men and two women in their ranks.
16 🍬 Mis𒊎ty Almost Joined The Elite Four
The Indigo League Elite Four changed drastically between Pokémon Red & Blue and Pokémon Gold & Silver, with Agatha & Lorelei leaving, Lance becoming the new Chaꦜmpion, Koga being promoted from Gym Leader, and Karen & Will joining.
The of Pokémon Gold & Silver has revealed what the original plans for the Elite Four was supposed to be, with Bruno, Lance, and Lorelei remaining on the team, and Agatha being replaced by... Misty. The original plan for Pokémon Gold & Silver was ♛that you would travel across Japan, so you wouldn't have been able to challenge Misty as a Gym Leader again, which may be why she was promoted to the Elite Four, as it allowed the developers to keep her in the game.
15 💙 The Anime Version Of The Elite Four Is A Lot Harder To Challenge ꦉ
In order to be able to challenge the Champion in a Pokémon video game, you first need to defeat the eight Gym Leaders in order to earn the right to face the Elite Four. The Pokémon anime has a different set of rules, though, as conquering the eight Pokémon Gyms only earns you t🐭he right to enter the local Conference, which is a tournament that involves all of the trainers in that region who also defeated the Gym Leaders.
Only those who winﷺ the local Pokémon 🃏League Conference can earn the right to face the Elite Four of a region, which is something that Ash Ketchum has yet to accomplish.
14 Phoebe Keeps A Ghost In Her Room ﷽
The Pokémon games that appeared on the Nintendo 3D🌄S included several moments involving ghosts and supernatural characters that seemed to only exist to pro♔mpt the creation of more creepypastas around the series.
Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire updated Phoebe of the Elite Four's room so that it now featured a creepy ghost. Phoebe is t♉he Ghost-type specialist of the Elite Four, so it makes sense that a can be seen for brief moments duri൩ng the intro and victory cutscenes in the battle against Phoebe.
13 ജ Some Types Haven't Been Represented By A Member Of The Elite Four
The members of the Elite Four are similar to that of the Gym Leaders that appear in each region as they specialize in a single type of Poඣkémon, which leaves the Champion free to use a mixtu⛦re of types in their battle.
There are still several Pokémon types that have yet to be represented by an Elite Four member, which include Normal, Electric, Grass, and Fairy. It isn't just the Elite Four that have yet to represent all types, though, as there still hasn't been a Dark-type Gym Leader in the Pokémon series.
12 The Kanto Elite Fou🧜r Were Criminal🧔s In The Pokémon Adventures Manga
The Pokémon Adventures manga is notorious for being darker than the anime and the video games, with several Pokémon meeting violent ends during battle. The version of the Kanto Elite Four that appears in Pokémon Adventures is made up of an organization who believes that the human race ܫshould be wiped out, save for those who are kind to Pokémon.
Lance's plan to wipe out humanity involved summoning Lugia, as he believed Lugia was the onl🐓y one with the power necessary for the task. However, he was eventually defeated by Yellow and her allies.
11 1Lorelei's Name Had To Be Changed ꦦ
Ash was never given the chance to battle the Elite Four during his first Pokémon adventure, but he would go on to meet them in different capacities as he met Bruno d💖uring his training period before the Indigo Conference, Lance in Johto, and would meet Agatha when she took over as the Leader of t🐼he Viridian Gym.
Ash met Lorelei during his adventures in the Orange Islands, but you may not have known this as a child as Lorelei's name was changed ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ. The reason Lorelei's name was changed was due to it having too many mouth movements for the voice actors to accommodate since she was originally called Kanna in Japan.