History WebAnimation / StarterPokemonBattleRoyale

* YourSoulIsMine: Hisuian Typhlosion gathers all the souls of the dead (including the Torchic that acted as Skeledirge's firebird) to power itself up. Unfortunately, Charizard manages to shove it into the pit created by Torterra, Swampert, and J-Typhlosion before it could do anything.

* AttackAttackAttack: Unovan Samurott prefers to defeat its enemies in one decisive blow, allowing Infernape to catch it off guard when it dodges its assault. ''Hisuian'' Samurott, by contrast, ''does not stop attacking until its target is defeated'', meaning it kills Infernape when it briefly stops punching. However, this also proves to be Hisuian Samurott's undoing, as it keeps attacking Infernape even after cutting the fire monkey in half, leaving it open to Emboar and Blaziken ambushing it and finishing it off.
* BoomHeadshot: This is how Inteleon takes out Feraligatr and Blastoise while the latter two were busy grappling each other.

* CripplingOverspecialization: This is what leads to Partner Eevee losing despite having the same buffs as Partner Pikachu. Because Eevee's gimmick is evolving into a better version of itself, it spends the entire battle searching for a means to do so on its own, since three of its evolutions need a Trainer and the other five need an item. Plus, it doesn't get STAB from any of its signature moves except its SecretArt [[spoiler:and in fact has a type ''dis''advantage against one of the two finalists, Blaziken]].

* DarkhorseVictory: [[spoiler:Narrowly averted, the Partner Pikachu from ''VideoGame/PokemonLetsGoPikachuAndLetsGoEevee'' manages to fry Charizard, and stands up well against Blaziken through a combination of friendship mechanics from its home game and pure stupid luck [[note]]Being a straight-up stronger version of Pikachu helps its case[[/note]]. Unfortunately for it, its luck eventually gives out, and it finally falls to Blaziken's repeated strikes.]]
* DavidVsGoliath: [[spoiler:The final matchup is Blaziken and Partner Pikachu. Blaziken is a very powerful starter, having a STAB advantage on most of its attacks and gaining speed over time thanks to its Speed Boost, but despite Partner Pikachu's unassuming appearance it is capable of surviving fatal blows and dishing out critical hits like candy if RNG looks upon it well enough. Blaziken's relentless onslaught of strikes wears out Pikachu's luck until it can't hold out any longer and collapses, meaning the Goliath wins this bout.]]

* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler:Partner Pikachu tanks many, many, MANY hard hits from Blaziken and manages to hit nothing but critical hits when it gets a chance to attack because of its friendship mechanics, striking harder and toughing it out for the trainer. Unfortunately for it, this doesn't last as it eventually falls over dead after a long enough beating.]]

* FeedItABomb: Meowscarada dispatches Torterra in this way, as a ShoutOut to Dodongos from ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda''.

** It's incredibly obvious that none of the pre-evolutions or middle-evolutions will win. At the very least, some of them manage to not just win fights in-between themselves, but even occasionally snipe down a fully evolved Pokémon. Sobble manages to last the longest just by hiding and staying close to Swampert.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Hisuian Samurott is known to keep slashing with its seamitars relentlessly, regardless if it won or not. This means that, even after Infernape was cut horizontally in half, Hisuian Samurott wasn't paying attention to its surroundings and gets ganged up on by Blaziken and Emboar.

** The moment its summoned, Grovyle quickly pulls out a [[VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers Time Gear]] and time travels away, in reference to its most famous representative.

** [[spoiler:Blaziken subjects Partner Pikachu to one to beat out Pikachu's RNG-based endurance. It takes a lot of doing, but Blaziken finally wins.]]

** Charizard's flames were hot enough to melt [[WebAnimation/PokemonBattleRoyale the sturdy Blastoise in the first royale]], and against the [[FragileSpeedster faster but frailer Greninja]], they're enough to make its resistance to Fire moot.

** Incineroar decides to hightail it when he spots all three of the Fire/Fighting final evolutions duking it out. Considering that Incineroar is weak to Fighting due to being part Dark type, it was a wise decision.

** Floragato uses voice clips of Puss in Boots from the ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'' series. Its line just before it feeds Torterra a flower bomb, however, is the Joker from '' Film/TheDarkKnight'' saying "How about a magic trick?"; in both cases, the trick kills somebody.

** There are a number of factors explaining why all the final survivors were going to be mostly Fire-types.

** Since at least three fully l-evolved starters are Fire/Fighting, a type combo that is generally accepted as one of if not the best in terms of offense, Empoeleon, Greninja, and Hisuian Samurott are actually at a disadvantage; Empoleon's Steel-type means it takes neutral damage against Fire-type attacks instead of resisting it while also having a weakness to Fighting-type moves just like the Water/Dark-type Greninja and Hisuian Samurott.

** It's incredibly obvious that none of the pre-evolutions or middle-evolutions will win. At the very least, some of them manage to not just win fights in-between themselves, but even occasionally snipe down a fully evolved Pokémon.
** There are a number of factors explaining why all the final survivors were going to be all Fire-types.

*** Almost all Fire-type moves can apply a DamageOverTime effect that also cuts the physical Attack stat ''in half'' that only other Fire-types have innate immunity to, with some moves even guaranteed to apply it[[note]] Abilities like Water Veil and Water Bubble can still be suppressed, and a Pokémon with Magic Guard can still get hit with the attack drop from burns.[[/note]].

* FantasticNuke: Typhlosion can create explosions as powerful as volcanic eruptions by rubbing its fur together. As such, Charizard tying to launch one into orbit using Seismic Toss somewhat backfires on it, and dropping it from several miles up decimates the island like a meteor strike.

* ForegoneConclusion: As Lockstin says, it's incredibly obvious that none of the pre-evolutions or middle-evolutions will win. At the very least, some of them manage to not just win fights in-between themselves, but even occasionally snipe down a fully evolved Pokémon.

* NoSell: Meowscarada tries to stop a charging Chesnaught by lobbing flower bombs at it, but fails because Chesnaught's Bulletproof ability renders it immune to bomb moves.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** It's not shown what happened to Chesnaught after it uppercuts Meowscarada into space. It's implied to have died off screen, possibly due to the many fire types still hanging around at the time.
** Espeon vanishes from the narrative after fleeing from the other Eeveelutions.

** Floragato uses voice clips of Puss in Boots from the ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'' series.

** Blaziken yelling WhyWontYouDie while [[spoiler:continuously punching Partner Pikachu]] is taken from the NPC voice clip from ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion''.

** One would wonders what happened to Espeon after avoiding Jolteon attacks.

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** Despite Hisuian Typhlosion powering up by consuming the souls of the deceased Pokémon, Charizard kills it with a single blow.

* ForegoneConclusion: As Lockstin says, it's incredibly obvious that none of the pre-evolutions or middle-evolutions will win. At the very least, some of them manage to not just win fights in-between themselves, but even occasionally snipe down a fully evolved Pokémon.

* KryptoniteIsEverywhere: Swampert's high base stat total and excellent Water/Ground typing makes it a formidable Pokémon in this fight, but it doesn't change the fact that it is quad weak to grass in a battle royale where a third of the Pokémon competing are grass type.

* WhyWontYouDie: During the [[spoiler:final beatdown between Partner Pikachu and Blaziken, Pikachu continuously endures Blaziken's barrage of punches to the point of Blaziken furiously shouting the trope, which elicit a crazed laughter from Pikachu.]]

* WhyWontYouDie: During the [[spoiler:final beatdown between Partner Pikachu and Blaziken, Pikachu continuously endures Blaziken's barrage of punches to the point of Blaziken furiously shouts the trope, which elicit a crazed laughter from Pikachu.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's not shown what happened to Chesnaught after it uppercuts Meowscarada into space. It's implied to have died off screen, possibly due to the many fire types still hanging around at the time.

** Rillaboom uses Donkey Kong's memetic "Now you die!" voice-clip from the ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'' when dragging Swampert into the chasm.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: As soon as the Eeveelutions are done posing after they're sent out, Espeon looks around in a panic and bolts just before its brethren turn on each other.

** Intelleon headshots Blastoise and Feraligatr with its water-gun finger pistols while they're distracted grappling with each other.

** Partner Pikachu fries Intelleon with a single Thunderbolt, and later subjects Charizard to the same fate.

** Sobble one-shots Cinderace with a single Water-Gun.
** Swampert kills Incineroar and Skeledirge in one hit by burying them with Muddy Water.

* DavidVsGoliath: [[spoiler:The final matchup is Blaziken and Partner Pikachu. Blaziken is a very powerful starter, having a STAB advantage on most of its attacks and gaining speed over time thanks to its Speed Boost, but despite Partner Pikachu's unassuming appearance it is capable of surviving fatal blows and dishing out critical hits like candy if RNG looks upon it well enough. Blaziken's relentless onslaught of strikes wears out Pikachu's luck until it can't hold out any longer and collapses.]]

''Starter Pokemon Battle Royale'' is the 7th entry of ''WebAnimation/PokemonBattleRoyale'' collaborated by Creator/JeremyChinshue and Lockstin from WebVideo/{{Gnoggin}}. Simulating Earth once again, all the starters (including pre-evolutions, middle-evolutions, Pikachu and (most of) the Eevee line) are sent out to fight and determine which will be victorious.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: The reason Sylveon is missing from the group of Eeveelutions is because in all the games Eevee is a starter, Sylveon didn't exist yet or Eevee was unable to evolve. This is also the reason why Partner Eevee couldn't use the Fire Stone to evolve.

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* AttackAttackAttack: This is what allows Hisuian Samurott to beat Infernape where Unovan Samurott could not. As Unovan Samurott's fighting style prefers to defeat the enemy in one decisive blow, Infernape is able to catch it off guard when it dodges its assault, but Hisuian Samurott by contrast ''does not stop attacking until its target is defeated,'' meaning it kills Infernape when it stops to attack. This, however, also proves to be Hisuian Samurott's undoing, as it keeps attacking Infernape even after cutting the fire monkey in half, leaving it open to Emboar and Blaziken ambushing it and finishing it off.

** Alolan Decidueye, Unovan Samurott, and Infernape have their mini-royale from the first battle royale yet again, with the exact same results. The twist is that after Infernape wins, Hisuian Decidueye and Hisuian Samurott then step up to challenge Infernape. H-Decidueye ultimately suffers the same fate as its Alolan descendant, but H-Samurott differs from its Unovan descendant in that it will ceaselessly slash again and again, allowing it to put down Infernape.

** Partner Pikachu fries Intelleon with a single Thunderbolt.

** Charizard reduces Chespin, Chimchar, and Sobble to ashes with Flamethrower.

** Swampert kills Incineroar in one hit by burying it with Muddy Water.

** Swampert kills Incineroar and Partner Eevee in one hit by burying them with Muddy Water, with the latter being finished off by a stomp from Blaziken.