The Pokémon Splatfest Results Have Been Confirmed

YES! POPULARITY DON'T MEAN ANYTHING sorry full caps likes to do that, what was I gonna say? oh yeah WE NEED A NINTENDO DIRECT

a lot of kids playing Splatoon weren't even alive when the Game Boy en vogue >_<

Words don't describe how gutted I am. I was on a demolition run for about 5 hours yesterday. I mean, I DESTROYED out there. I thought there was no way Team Red would lose. Blood, sweat and tears went into this Splatfest, only to have it cruelly taken from me.

That's still 0 Splatfests won for Mr A-Game. lol

I was #TeamRED, gutted I only lost a few matches, thought we had a chance of winning! Oh well, really enjoyed it regardless!

I was on team red and got my ass handed to me for all but one game. Yeah I'm a little rusty having not played for a couple of months, but still didn't think I played that bad. Yet I'd go on a good run, get a positive KD ratio, splat a load of turf right up to the enemy's spawn, then die with 30 seconds to go, look back down at the gamepad map and see the rest of the map inked all inked in blue...

I had Pokemon Blue in my original Gameboy so of course I had to represent it in Splatfest. I was a wrecking ball yesterday. +22 rating

Still it doesn't differ that much if you have leveled up to King/Queen. 24 sea snails for the winner, 18 for the loser.

Boom, Team Blue! I really am curious, why does the less popular team ALWAYS seem to win? That happened for the last few splatfests and it can't just be a coincidence.

This was a really fun Splatfest! I was Team Blue, had a 9 game win streak, lost a few games. Team Red played well though!

As always, pick the one that's least popular!
Also, yay Team Blue!

Ha ha! Of course, Team Blue won. I didn't get a +41 vibe rating for nothing.
Marie takes all!

The Pokemon Green I've always wanted, won. Yippeee

I was on team Pokemon Red, since that was my first ever Pokemon game as a kid. Gutted we lost, I didn't lose a single game against team Pokemon Blue, so I'm surprised that we were thrashed so badly on the win percentage.

I know this is completely off-topic, but i feel like we really need this to happen

I won the majority of my games on Team Red, even though I was trying out new weapons to normal.

It appears that Europe is adopting the US pattern of the less popular team winning. That didn't use to happen so much in Europe, but it's been like that for the last few Splatfests.

No! Charizard is SCIENTIFICALLY BETTER!!!

My mate went with Blastoise for the sake of Charizard being unoriginal or overrated or some crap or somethingnelse scientifically disproven.

I was in Team Blue, and in my way to Queen I just lost like 6 matches. I knew we'd win

Not like everyone always pick the blue version when there's Blue vs Red.

Most people picked Sapphire over Ruby nad most people picked X over Y.

All is as it should be! Excellent work Team Blue/Green/Charizard is boring.

Marie won the full sweep. She obviously cheated

@MitchVogel I thought about this and the best I could come up with is (and is probably wrong): it seems one team will immediately become more popular as soon as Splatfest is announced. Some people just react to what they like more. Does this style of voting get translated into the way people play the game on a macro level? Eg, a person impulsively votes for Red and is more likely to rush headlong into a 2 on 1 fight or not consider chokepoints, etc costing their team matches. Obviously not all Red voters are these kinds of players, but on a macro level? Idk... that's my .02

Aw, that sucks. I was Team Red, and I found an AMAZING team, and we won so many matches together. I really thought we had a chance.

Same on RED team and won probably 90% of our matches against BLUE. Thought we would win (even though I had doubts when matched against own side a few times (pointing to RED being more popular).

Yay! I barely had time to play, so I only made it to Defender and was hoping that Blue (I just like that colour) would win. Glad to hear that I will at least have 10 sea snails waiting for me when I'm back home.

EDIT: sorry for the quintuple post, had a bad connection here on the motorway.

@MitchVogel I think all the younger players get drawn towards whichever is aesthetically 'cooler' (fire breathing dragons over fat turtles and dino-plants, or stealthy ninja over ugly barbarians), and then that teams ends up getting trashed as a result. Given the degree to which the popular teams are losing, I'm actually starting to think that the x6 bonus for wins is a bit much. x4 seemed about right.

Or maybe I'm just sour because I think fire breathing dragons are cool.

HA HA Team blue takes the win

I did good at first but kept losing until my win/loss ratio was about equal, so I only made it to Defender. Super glad that Marie and Team Blue/Green won worldwide, though I hoped to get more than a measly 10 Super Sea Snails. Oh well!

How come team red always had more supporters, but still lost the Splatfest in all regions?

I was on Team Blue. Didn't really get in a winning groove until later in the day. Team Red fought HARD! Didn't honestly think blue would win. Overall I thought it was an exciting Splatfest! Great job everyone!

Dang... I only plays a few matches in the Japanese Splatfest, but I couldn't seem to win any matches. Made it to the third rank with only three wins for team red...

Dang... I only plays a few matches in the Japanese Splatfest, but I couldn't seem to win any matches. Made it to the third rank with only three wins for team red...

Team Red here. Only had a chance to play a handful of matches. Did poorly in all except for the last one where I became a one squid splatting machine. But then a family emergency happened & I had to drop out mid-natch to rush to the hospital. What timing... >.<

@MitchVogel I have a feeling it's got something to do with the extra matches the popular teams have to play against their own side, maybe they have a detrimental effect somehow? It really bothered me the last time I had to play against my own side and sometimes I thought I was winning but I hadn't realised it didn't count...

As always in NA, most popular side loses. Why? The younger players choose the 'coolest' side and they will lose because most aren't quite skilled. Doesn't matter if you and your team go on a winning streak in the grand scheme, if you're on the majority side then their loses will override your wins.

@Lizuka Right. I was on blue too. Felt like red just wrecked us and last night I was on an awesome team that I played with for over an hr. and was undefeated. So much fun for my first splatfest.

Not surprised really - played a number of matches against bad Team Red players yesterday. Well done Blues!

@Stine Same thing happened to me. I went all the way to Champion level and only lost two matches. When trying for Queen status, we got murdered.

Team blue here. I was drunk and still dominated. Was red even trying?

I was on Red and we started out OK but then got killed the rest of the way. Not surprised to see these results. Was still a lot of fun though and I did get to Champion.

Commiserations to Reds, but certainly here in the EU, the Reds were variable at times. There were some absolutely amazing teams that gave us a close run (One game went to a 0.5% victory), particularly later on, but equally some rather weak teams that we spawn camped.

I guess it's mainly down to where the majority of weaker players go that decides it. People on here are generally fairly strong, so lengthy win streaks on both sides are to be expected.

@King_Octorok

It's simple: the popular teams always have more noobs.

I would have loved to help out red team, but I was plagued by constant disconnects. I rarely get booted on a regular day. Splatfests, on the other hand...
Out of the fifteen or so matches I tried, ten were cut short.

I picked a really good time to have my best night. I was up 23 at one point, & I made it to a Pokemon Blue queen.

Charizard... how could you lose, that is because I don't have this, otherwise the story would be other, no matter, red will sell more next week.

This was the first splatfest that I actually made it to Queen status. Go Team Pokemon Blue!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CbtlGLXXIAAfDf9.jpg:large

Congrats Team Blue! We did amazing! I'm happy Marie finally won a Splatfest in North America, even though I like Callie better.

Well, it makes sense. Water is super effective against fire.

This was actually the first Splatfest I got to participate in (things kept getting in the way or I would simply forget) and I have to say it was a lot of fun. I'm glad I chose Team Blue. At one point we had a team of 4 that was unstoppable and we stayed together for a long time. Good fun. It reminded me why Splatoon is awesome.

I see lots of people stating that because Red is popular there are more poor players, but it doesn't explain why the opposite could also take place - Red is popular and therefore more better players jump on board. This is why I think it is more about reactionary voters could make for reactionary players - the kind that get destroyed by a good player.

Go team blue! Been on the winning team for the past 3 Splatfest

I don't play Splatoon, but I did play Pokémon Blue back in the day. So I wanted to see blue win.
Glad to see that splatfest isn't just a popularity contest.

Popular always loses, why? I don't know why so many people are confused over this.
It's obvious - most noobs and mid-level players will choose the most popular. Especially the naive ones - not saying they aren't experts that choose popular ones.
Most of the hard core players see this and join the least popular. That's why we always win. Not that we're the best, but that the popular siders has more noobs or "just got the game" players than the least popular. X6 weight makes it even more clearer.

Obviously.

I was only able to get on for about an hour mid-afternoon and blue was getting crushed, though my daughter won in a match 80+% to 1+%. I'm very surprised to see blue ended up winning the thing.

More popular = more kids saw Charizard on the Black & White anime and chose him

I was just a wee child when the games were first introduced in Nintendo Power, and eventually released in North America: I didn't know too much about either version, except that blue is my favourite colour so I wanted Pokemon Blue. However, due to popular demand, Blue was sold out everywhere (and I mean, EVERYWHERE) so I had to get Red - best twist of fate ever!

Comparing some of the exclusives:
Growlithe/Arcanine (R) vs. Vulpix/Nintetales (B)
Scyther (R) vs. Pinsir (B)
Electabuzz (R) vs. Magmar (B)
Vileplume line (R) vs. Victreebel line (B)
Ekans/Arbok (R) vs. Sandshrew/Sandslash (B)
Mankey/Primeape (R) vs. Meowth/Persian (B)

I liked all of the Red exclusives more than the Blue exclusives. However, that doesn't mean I don't like the Blue exclusives. I think I thought all Pokemon from Gen I were well designed and fun to use (although totally broken; i.e. Overpowered Psychics, etc.)

I should mention that Scyther/Scizor are my favourite Pokemon.

Worst Splatfest team ever. Red was playing like we had no functioning brains.

Not surprised. A lot of the people on my team(s) couldn't have been very old, considering they'd stand around the spawn point and shoot randomly at the walls.

Not to brag, but my Blue team completely crushed everyone in our path. I made two Splatoon friends on miiverse as a result, lol.

Remember when people complained that the popular teams kept winning over teams with more victories?

Anyways Team Blue because it was the first pokemon game I received and lately ka has put me on the path of the turtle.

This is odd, according to Game Theory Red has a psychological advantage over Blue & in both real life sports & popular games, Red actually wins more often no matter how 50/50 the chances are.

What color were the inks used in the matches? If the Inks themselves were Red & Blue, then Red should have had the advantage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X31K6jammH0

Blue Master Race.

What we all can learn from this - The unpopular team will always win.

Go Blue!

YES I WON MY FIRST SPLATFEST

Victory to the Squirtle Squad, I guess we did have the type advantage.

@MitchVogel its because there is less chance for them to lose and since the more poular 1 is filled with more people it also means highier chance of less skilled people going against blue people. sadly this is the only splatfest that i have ever lost and because i accidently clicked red when i meant to click blue >.>

I didn't really care which one, but I was on Blue, so yay I guess. This was my first Splatfest, not sure it was really that exciting.

I certainly expected for Red to win at least one of the battles.

Go Team Blue!

It seems like the least popular choice always wins these splatfests though? Doesn't seem very balanced at all.

So glad I let my daughter decide what team to be on this time

@MitchVogel I've noticed that too! only thing i can think of is that possibly 2x team red matches could also be counted in the final tally which could skew results?

I feel like I haven't been on the winning team for so long. But I was Blue this time. I now have 123 sea snails.

Didn't play as much as I'd have liked, but I did end up on the winning side. Blastoise: the best Pokemon, now and always.

Another f*ck up of a Splatfest. Nintendo need to sort out the scoring system, it is beyond a joke. This is partly why I don't play Splatfests anymore. A clean sweep for the less popular team. No surprise there, it's the same every time.

Aussie Team Blue 🎉
I don't think I've picked a wrong team in splatfest yet. Should probably go buy a lottery card.

I would have chosen team blue if I hadn't been working all weekend. I still havent been in a single splatfest yet.

@Riderkicker I hope everything is okay now! :-/

Team blue! Woot!

@thehoppypoppy Yeah, all good now. It's why I can whine about a game now. ^.^

I was on Team Pokemon Blue. It was one of the most interesting Splatfest I had yet since it's the first one in a while I chose my side before the event start, and for most of the morning I fought other Pokemon Blue teams, well at least 5 from 10am to 1pm.

Thb I thought that Pokemon Blue would win popularity because of that (and lose wins aka in general) but I guess either the Reds wasn't on as much at the time or people stalking the web for side info/recon picked the least popular team to win overall (and the kids' excuse) but in a ironic twist made it the popular team.

I was on Team Pokemon Red and only won a handful of battles. The rest of the time, I would have noobs-intermediates on my team, meanwhile, Team PK Blue had vets around Level 35 - 50! I JUST got to level 16!!

Either way, it was pretty fun, but not without it's flaws. My PK Red team will form, but some battles will stall due to connection errors. Can't wait for the next one!

Take THAT, Red! True blue all the way! WOO!

This is rig!

Kinda weird how Pokémon Red is the most popular overall, yet Nintendo-Life is full of Pokémon Blue supporters (hell even the poll for this Splatfest was won by Pokémon Blue with 10% more).

So this Red Vs. Blue battle has nothing to do with the popular vote.

Is this Nintendo's parody of the Electoral College system?

Woo! Go Team Blue! (I've never actually played 1st Gen but I prefer Blastoise )
But I do think that the win multiplier should be decreased from x6 to x4. When it was x2 the wins barely even mattered but now it seems the popularity doesn't even matter anymore.

@Sligeach
It's better than popularity wins all the time. Plus Europe had a couple of Splatfests where the popular team won. They need to lower the multiplier from x6 downto x4 like the guy above me said.

Team Blastoise owned! I chose the right side.

I gotta admit, I was a little bothered at how many times my generally low-leveld team got matched up with 4 high-levels... With that said, I feel like there wasn't complete domination by Blue, so it all seems pretty fair. Fun times! Wish I won, but I still get snails, so it's no biggie.

Of course Blue won. That's why I picked it.

Hope I remember to pick up the Sea Shells by the Seashore this time, I forgot the last time I actually participated.

Yeah, this seems to be the norm in the U.S. splatfests. I think it's because the more popular group has a disproportionate amount of teams made up wholly of weak players. So, an all-star team from the less popular group may battle against a string of weaker teams from the more popular group before they encounter a team that matches well with them.

It seems the most popular side has religiously lost in the past several Splatfests, which is extremely annoying. It's a mighty annoying coincidence, since I have lost every one of them under this new system, and it's bizarre that the popular team always gets slaughtered by less popular team, which is just such an odd coincidence.

@MarioPhD My theory is that the popular choices have a high population of younger players which means their skills will be lacking compared to the older crowd. I always had this in mind since the beginning and I've always chosen the side I think would be less popular. I've won most splatfests. The exception of course was the first splatfest(cats/dogs) where dogs won popularity and games.. because everyone loves dogs.

Anyone else didnt get their sea snails? I loged in yesterday but the news didnt say anything about the splatfest.

@MrZelda Yeah, I started to realize that was the way things were when the Pirates Vs. Ninjas one happened. I already saw the trend emerging, and thought "Crap," because I knew I didn't want to pick Pirates, but almost did, exclusively for the purpose of winning. I don't want to deliberately pick a team I don't like, but I'm so sick of losing. I won the first, like, 5 of them, and now, nothing. Ugh. It really saps my enthusiasm for Splatfests.