Pokemon: Your Favorite Battle Theme?

[Stoodell]

I was watching one of my favorite Youtuber's gameplay videos to kill some time and suddenly, he did a "beatbox" of the Team Magma/Aqua grunt theme when he was trying to fight a "boss" . After that, I remembered that I wouldn't finish a certain Pokemon battle because I just wanted to listen to their battle theme.

 

Now, what is your favorite battle theme? Mine is Cynthia's theme in Pokemon Diamond/Pearl, and then followed by the Magma/Aqua grunt theme. Which ones are yours? Would love to listen to them as well as there's a ton of Pokemon battle themes out there that I might have forgotten about x)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXefFHRgyE0

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc44myRhNRM

[senshikoi]

Ok, so after re-listening to every battle music (wild, trainer, rival, gym leader, elite four, champion, villainous team grunt, villainous team boss, etc.), I have the following, (no so) shortlist:

• Generation I (RBY) -
  ,
  ,
  ,
  ,
  ;
  
• Generation II (GSC) -
  ,
  ,
  ,
  ;
  
• Generation III (RSE) -
  ,
  ,
  ,
  ,
  ,
  /Battle Chatelaine (ORAS);
  
• Generation IV (DPPt) -
  , Team Galactic Commander (Mars/Saturn/Jupiter),
  , Champion,
  ;
  
• Gen V Part 1 (BW) -
  ,
  ,
  ,
  , N (
  ),
  ,
  ,
  , Kyurem;
  
• Gen V Part 2 (B2W2) - Wild Pokémon,
  ,
  ,
  ;
  
• Generation VI (XY) -
  ,
  ,
  ,
  ,
  ,
  !
  

If I had to pick two, like you have, I think I might go for Lysandre and Legendary Pokémon (BW), because they've been playing in my head since I last listened to them, and well, Lysandre seems to remind me of Rayearth OVA soundtrack (listening to the soundtrack, the closest I could come up with was Disk 1 - Track 7: Menace), and Legendary Pokémon (BW) is just... crazy, as it's normal paced, then speeds up, and then slows back to normal pace!

 

Listening to the original versions (RBY/GSC) and the remake versions (LGFR/HGSS), it appears I prefer the originals, they're just punchier, that said, an exception is RSE/ORAS, as I feel the remake versions are quite close to the originals, so pretty interchangeable!

 

Speaking of RSE/ORAS, most of their battle music is pretty catchy, as the tracks have a backbeat to them, that you can't help clapping along to; some of those tracks I've listed above, however another that also has that backbeat is Rival (May/Brendan)!

 

All my GSC/HGSS entries are all Kanto themes, except for Team Rocket and Rival, which aren't region specific, that's not to say that I didn't like the Johto themes, they just weren't as striking - I say GSC/HGSS, however as mentioned above, I didn't feel like the remake versions of the tracks were as good as the original versions, so unless they grown on me, when I get round to playing HGSS, I will be thinking the GB soundcard can't come soon enough!

 

I think my favourite soundtrack has to be BW/B2W2, whilst my least favourite is XY, although in spite of that, the battle music is still strong, as I've still listed a similar number of tracks to Generations!

 

So honourable mentions:

• Generation II -
  ,
  , Gym Leader (Johto);
  
• Generation III -
  ,
  ,
  ,
  ;
  
• Gen V Pt1+2 -
  ,
  ,
  ,
  *1
  
• Generation VI -
  ,
  *2
  

*1 - Included the last two as thought they were songs from the Animated Trailer, although not 100% sure now!

*2 - The rival theme sounds like it's multi layered to me, hence why I decided to include it here!

 

[spoiler=Kyurem Video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKiaOed7UDg

 

The above is actually the same as the link further above, however the personification of Kyurem compelled me to embed the video !

 

 

So, lastly, I present a video that is both weird, and interesting, take a look at:

 

[spoiler=These Smooth Criminals]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeoiOR-vw84

 

It's like they're shooting some beauty commercial, (why?) because they're worth it !

 

 

EDIT: Turns out there's a limit to the number of videos you can embed! Who knew?

Edited July 31, 2016 by Guest