[Poll] Vote on your favourite Protagonist! [Finals: Round 3!]

[bobandbill]

Vote on your Favorite Protagonist!​

Hello and welcome to a new multi-platform event, that will last several weeks!

In this event, your objective is to vote for your favorite Pokémon protagonist across a series of polls. To begin, we will start by region*, and see who is the favourite protagonist from each area**. Afterwards, the winner will form a tournament round, where we will do 5 sets of up to 4*** winners, and then take the winners and 3 best-second-place protags from there into 2 sets of four, then a final poll.

Where can I vote?

You can vote for the first set of people in this thread at the top - the Kanto nominees! You can also vote on our social media pages: Twitter (will use its own poll system), Bluesky (a Google poll), Instagram (a Google poll) and Facebook (a Google poll). Yes, it's better to not go around voting multiple times, but we won't be monitoring things that closely. But don't cheat, that's just boring. This means the winner of each poll will be from all polls (here, Twitter, Google poll) added together, not per platform.

Polls will run roughly 4 days, and be posted every week as a new thread (or on social media, as a new post). We may speed things up for the spin-off regions.

Meanwhile, share some propaganda for your pick each week! Take about why you're voting for your character, and make fun of the others (respectfully, of course). We'll also use the results and input for a Daily article summarising the whole event once it ends.

* Hisui will be treated as separate to Sinnoh.
** Spinoff games will also be considered! Orre will feature, while we will also consider the Ranger games' regions separately, but lump the Snap/New Snap regions (and hence protagonists) together.
*** We may see what the Legends: Z-A protags look like before we hit the tournament phase... pending TPC(i). If so, we'll do a poll on them! Otherwise, one set of 4 polls will have less options... Or we can consider a second chance for the losing protag with the most amount of votes!

Rules

1. No Trolling - This includes things like voting on behalf of other users, inputting joke responses in the Google Forms, using bots or creating alt accounts to try and game the voting system, and other dishonest activities. Please don't do that stuff.
2. Have Fun - We all love Pokémon, and we hope that you derive enjoyment and have a good time with this event!

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding this event, feel free to contact bobandbill.

Previous Polls

By region/game:

Kanto: Red, in a narrow win over Leaf! Chase and Elaine were well behind.
Johto: Kris, in another narrow win over Gold! In fact, Gold won on the forums, but not in the other two platforms. Lyra was a distant third.
Hoenn: May, in the first clear victory in these series of polls. Brendan and his hat were no match.
Sinnoh: Dawn, who basically murdered poor Lucas in the polls.
Unova: Hilda, in a very narrow victory over Rosa (only 2 votes as the difference). This time third place had a respectable turnout (Hilbert), while Nate did okay but was comfortably fourth.
Orre: Wes won out - Michael got some votes especially on Twitter, but couldn't keep up with the cool teen.
Kalos (XY): Serena. It was even on Twitter, but everywhere else, especially on the forums, she ran out comfortably.
Alola: Selene won on each poll convincingly. Chicken hat too powerful!
Galar: Gloria was the victor... over Victor. Every poll was won.
Fiore (Ranger 1): Solana won by a couple votes, after the polls all together were tied! Lunick was so close there.
Almia (Ranger 2): Kellyn wins, and breaks the streak of female protagonists winning!
Oblivia (Ranger 3): Summer won across all polls - close on Twitter, but on the forums pretty one-sided.
Hisui: Akari won with a bit over twice the number of votes overall.
Paldea: Juliana won by a similar amount over Florian.
Snap games: Todd Snap wins! The OG won out over two others with no obvious name available.
Legends: Z-A: Paxton wins! It was tight, but he did come ahead in every poll, even if in two of them he won by 1 vote.
Conquest: Hero won after a slow start! Heroine did win the Twitter poll by 1 vote however.
TCG 2: Mint won with twice the votes on the forum, although Twitter's poll was tied.
PBR: Cyndy won by a mere two votes! It was tied on Twitter and the Google form.
Masters: Scottie won by 2 votes on Twitter, and was tied on the forum poll in the lowest turnout.

Finals:

Round 1: Red won by 4 votes over Hilda in a tight affair, despite Hilda winning on the forums. Will she make the semi finals? Paxton came third and Kellyn had... a few votes, actually.
Round 2: Dawn had a comfortable victory over Gloria, who did worse than Hilda in 2nd place. Summer upset Juliana for third place, proving nobody really cares for school uniforms.

Thanks to PoryKid575 and Arcaneum for CSS.

 

[bobandbill]

Here they are! We have two Genius Sonority designs in Cyndy from Pokemon Battle Revolution and Wes from Pokemon Colosseum, May from the main series, and an unnamed Hero from Pokemon Conquest.

 

[Yellow Bommen]

May is my favorite!

 

[Alex_Among_Foxes]

I'm personally unfamiliar with 3 of them and I'm not fond of May's design. It's tough to not pick Wes, but I moreso like his look on Yume's comic protag than I do on him.

Gonna go with Cyndy despite her name being rather odd lol. She reminds me of the Crystal protag.

 

[Explorer of Time]

May > Cyndy > Wes > Hero

I like all four designs here, but May's my current number two choice to win the whole thing, and Kris isn't in this round.

 

[Palamon]

I'm going with Wes here. While I've never played Collo, I think he's an interesting character. He left his evil team and instead of catching wild Pokemon, he has to snag Shadow Pokemon which is far more interesting than any of the other characters here. May might be iconic because she was in the anime, but honestly, she's not nearly as iconic as Dawn in that department. Also, in the games where she's a rival instead, she's not very good at all, so that sours her for me a bit. Like, they couldn't even give her a final evolution of her starter in the original Hoenn games, what the hell?

I have nothing to say about Cyndy, I never play PBR. And while Hero is great, I wouldn't call him a favorite at all.

 

[Rock_Salazar]

Wes has the coolest Pokemon protag design of all time. Why would I not pick the coolest trainer? Though I'll admit I wouldn't be upset if May wins. Both Wes and May represent gen 3 so that is a win for me no matter what.