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4th Gen Cynthia or Lance?

Lance or Cynthia?

  • Lance!

    Votes: 24 22.0%
  • Cynthia!

    Votes: 69 63.3%
  • I like both equally!

    Votes: 15 13.8%
  • I dislike them both!

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • Total voters
    109

DVK

Hack based-God
134
Posts
13
Years
Who can go past Cynthia. She has the best team from any champion, and was the most difficult champion to beat. Her personality is also better than any other champion(in both the anime and games)
She's my favourite character in the Pokemon franchise.
 

Totodilesteel99

Lord of Awesomeness
44
Posts
11
Years
OK, Here it is.
Lance!
*looks at avy just to make certain*
Yep! Lance!
I thought the 3 Under-leveled Dragonite were stupid but...
He felt like a Champion!
Cynthia... is good but doesn't feel like a Champion.
I beat Cynthia first try... with lvl 58 Pokémon... Lance... I had lvl 53 Pokémon and he took me 8 trys to beat.
Lance's Dragonites, have Fire Blast, Blizzard, Thunder and Outrage.
Get hit by one of those, and it's almost a guaranteed OHKO.
 

Draco Razr

Elite Dragon Trainer
219
Posts
14
Years
  • Seen Jul 26, 2013
They are both awesome in my books.

Lance. The leader of the Elite Four and dragon master! Oh it brings back memories whenever i see the quote "You know that dragons are mythical Pokémon! They're hard to catch and raise, but their powers are superior! They're virtually indestructible!"

Cynthia. Champion of the Sinnoh region's Elite Four. Beauty and power in one. Absolutely breath-taking.

They both are incredible in Pokemon Special too.
220px-HeartGold_SoulSilver_Lance.png
180px-Cynthia_BWS2.png
 

Reddo

Happy!
125
Posts
14
Years
Cynthia!

Her team are much cooler than a bunch of Dragonites (even her spiritomb deserves my appreciation). And you can really think of her as some player that explored the region and became Champion like you... Her appearance is also great.
Spr_B2W2_Cynthia.png

Must I say anything else?
 

Triston1zn

GYM LEADER
90
Posts
11
Years
Cynthia gave me the hardest challenge....both in Diamond and later on in black/2 and white/2....

Not to mention, shes hot and I'm a sucker for a blonde with an attitude...I swear I could lose to her and be happy about it LOL

Lance is pretty cool too...I would definately share a beer with that dude.....and he has a dragonite and a salamence...two pokemon I love....however, I'm going to give this one to Cynthia...because she stole my heart...and took my POKEmoney...
 

Elite Overlord LeSabre™

On that 'Non stop road'
9,875
Posts
16
Years
Cynthia wins despite Lance scoring major points for the cape. Her team is just so much more balanced, requiring more than just Ice Beam and Thunderbolt to take down - you actually have to be creative and flexible when facing her, and she put up a tougher fight than Lance ever did.

Plus she's the first female champion, so she earns extra points there.
 

Dying Light

Pegasus Knight
344
Posts
12
Years
Cynthia wins despite Lance scoring major points for the cape. Her team is just so much more balanced, requiring more than just Ice Beam and Thunderbolt to take down - you actually have to be creative and flexible when facing her, and she put up a tougher fight than Lance ever did.

Plus she's the first female champion, so she earns extra points there.
This.
Cynthia wins, hands down. Her team is more diverse than Lance's, and she's incredibly hot.
...and this especially.

I feel Lance is more of an over-praised Trainer who seems to like spamming Dragonites. Cynthia has a variety of Pokémon to suit multiple types of opposition. Lance, on the other hand, has mainly, only Dragon types.

Here, my statistics for beating each champion:
Cynthia: 4 tries, lots of Full Restores.
Lance: 1 try, taught my Red Gyarados Ice Beam. At Lv 40, it KO'd all of Lance's Pokémon by itself.
 

Sassy Milkshake

It's ok to cry.
371
Posts
11
Years
  • Age 32
  • Seen Feb 10, 2013
Lance is really just a Flying specialist. He's got what like a couple Dragonite and that's it? Real champions have more diversity, like Cynthia. Sorry Wallace, you're still a gym leader to me. ;P
 

Sableye~

Back to PC~
4,016
Posts
11
Years
  • Seen Jan 4, 2018
Cynthia :T
I'm a bit biased, though, considering Diamond was my first game. But really...Lance got on my nerves with his constant restoration of his Pokemon. D: Plus it's like he isn't even trying. Go out and get a real team; don't just train a bunch of overly powerful ones. If I had a decent Ice-type (and maybe a rock-type because if I remember correctly, he has a Charizard), I could rip through that team of his.
 

Captain Gizmo

Monkey King
4,843
Posts
11
Years
I prefer Cynthia over Lance. She got a versatile team that doesn't share the same weakness and her team was really high leveled and I had to level up so much to beat her.
Lance is just your typical very strong dragon trainer. It's like if he could own his own gym since he uses the same type of Pokemon like most gym leaders. And also, Cynthia is nice (and pretty) and cares about Pokemon. Whereas Lance, cares for Pokemon in the games, but in the manga, he's a total jerk and wants to destroy weak Pokemon trainers so the world would be one where Pokemon are free and only strong trainers are around. It made me really hate him when I read it haha.
 

Utzipher

30
Posts
15
Years
  • Age 31
  • Seen Feb 4, 2014
Cynthia, for the reason shared by many others - she actually gave me a hard time in battle. She comes out first in every category - impressive team and skill, shows more style and class, and she even has a better theme. And she's quite hot. Lance isn't even in the same league.
 

kj3400

Wants a Magneton for a Charger
53
Posts
11
Years
  • Seen May 11, 2014
I liked Cynthia's involvement in the game, but her team was an immediate turnoff for me. I officially hate spiritombs.
Lance was more meh, and his team was strong, but they were still easy to take down.

So... I guess...Cynthia?
 

Starry Windy

Everything will be Daijoubu.
9,307
Posts
11
Years
I personally like both of them. I like Lance's dedication of training Dragon Pokemon, and Cynthia because of her personality, and variations of her Pokemon.
 

blue

gucci
21,057
Posts
16
Years
Cynthia! She's always been my favorite since they first introduced her. I also like the fact that she's made a reappearance in every Game since her debut.
 

Cerberus87

Mega Houndoom, baby!
1,639
Posts
11
Years
Love the bias in this thread.

Cynthia uses the most powerful pseudo-legendary ever created, along with the annoying Milotic and a Pokémon that has no weaknesses (Spiritomb). But Lance, with four Pokémon weak to Ice, is the one who's called a n00b! Really, sometimes people amaze me.

I also think it's not fair to evaluate Lance based on his old team from GSC. In the rematch, his team is awesome, although the heavy Ice weakness remains, but Garchomp, Charizard and Dragonite can sort of maneuver around it. And usually his Dragons are strong enough to take a non-STAB Ice attack and retaliate with a powerful move. Also, if you let Gyarados set up, you lost.

Cynthia has a great team with a lot of unique Pokémon, but Lance is also a worthy Champion and the one I would choose as a favorite character. I didn't find Cynthia that unique TBH. I think the most unique Champion ever is Alder, because of his philosophy and how he helped Cheren develop into a different kind of trainer. Cynthia was like Steven, someone mysterious who helps you and has an interest in something (Steven looks for rare rocks, while Cynthia investigates myths). All of Cynthia, Lance and Steven are quite similar in their approach to the player.
 

Ace.

Love Yourself
324
Posts
11
Years
  • Age 25
  • Seen Dec 29, 2015
I prefer Cynthia. First of all, cause she's hot. I mean, look at her. Anyways, I didn't only pick her for that reason. I liked that Cynthia's team was mixed unlike Lance. His team only consisted of Dragon Types. It would be really easy to kill his team if you had a high leveled Ice or Dragon Type. While as Cynthia's team is mixed and contains a Spiritomb with no weaknesses. Oh and because Cynthia's hot.
 
160
Posts
11
Years
Cynthia because everyone in the game tells you to have a good team with mixed pokemon and types
And what about lance: he uses 3 dragonites, where's the logic?
 
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