Hi, everyone!

A few days ago, I talked about the Visual competition in a Pokémon Contest. The Dancing and Acting competitions are equally as fun but my post was too long so  I had to start a new post. Before I talk about the competitions, let me tell you what the differences between Pokémon Contests in the Hoenn region and the contests in the Sinnoh region are.

In the Hoenn region, when a contest has begun, the audience will vote on which four competing Pokémon look the coolest, most beautiful, cutest, smartest, or toughest, depending on which category the contest is in. The same thing happens in Super Pokémon Contests, except you can put accessories on your Pokémon to give yourself better chances of winning. One thing that you can do in both contests is give your Pokémon some Pokéblocks (Hoenn), or Poffins (Sinnoh) to increase your Pokémon’s amount of coolness, etc.. In the secondary phase, the Pokémon take turns appealing to the judges for 5 rounds. In a Super Pokémon Contest, however, there are only 4 rounds. Every move that a Pokémon can learn is put into one of the five categories, and adds up a certain amount of “red hearts”, or “black hearts”. Red hearts are good, the more the better. Black hearts on the other hand are a negative number of red hearts and may have a certain effect on you or the other Pokémon. A few effects on the other Pokémon include Jamming, reducing the other Pokémon’s number of hearts, making the Pokémon more nervous, and so on. For those of you who are wondering what “Jamming” means, I’ll explain. It basically means that an appeal can lower the appeal points of the other Pokémon in the contest depending on how many black hearts the move has. As far as I know, the maximum amount of black hearts a move can have is 4. Sometimes something can go wrong and it’ll backfire causing you to lose appeal points. In Pokémon Platinum, a move can only have red hearts, so you don’t have to worry about moves backfiring on you all of a sudden. Now that you have a brief understanding of some of the differences between the 2 Pokémon Contests, I’ll move on to the Dancing and Acting competitions in a Super Pokémon Contest.

For the Dancing competition, the name should already give away what you’re supposed to do. Dance! You’re not the one dancing, though. Your Pokémon is! Anyway, there are 2 types of dancers, the main dancer and the backup dancer. Each Pokémon gets a turn to be the main dancer once. Depending on how well the Pokémon matched the main dancers moves, the game will determine whether it was “Excellent”, “Good”, or a “Miss”. When you take the lead, you earn points when the other Pokémon mess up. If you want to win, you have to make your dance as complicated as possible. To do so, you should use all 4 castanets. The pattern can be as simple as you wish, but it will still help a lot. Pressing the castanets on the dark lines will also help make your performance more complicated to copy.

Finally, it’s time for the Acting competition! This is the final part of a Super Pokémon Contest. Pokémon perform moves for one of the three judges, Jordan, Dexter, and Keira. At the end of each round, the judges give extra points to the Pokémon: 3 points if only 1 Pokémon performed for them, 2 points if 2 Pokémon performed to them, 1 point if three Pokémon performed for the same judge, and none if all 4 Pokémon to them. After a round ends, the Pokémon who got the lowest score goes first, and the Pokémon who got the biggest score goes last. If you choose to make your Pokémon perform a contest-specific move (i.e. a cute move in a cute contest) to any of the 3 judges, that will cause their voltage to go up by 1. If you do the opposite of that (such as a cool move in a smart contest) the judges voltage will go down by 1. The Pokémon who fills the voltage meter gets a bonus 5 points, or 8 if it’s Dexter. When the 4th round ends, the results will be announced. If you won, you will receive a ribbon for the contest type and rank. You will also receive  an accessory the first time you complete a contest.

This is all you should really know about a Pokémon contest. I hope it helps! If there’s anything I missed, feel free to tell me.