Ranking All English Gold Stars - Results

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Original polling thread

The results are in and it turns out… e4 is very lukewarm on English gold stars. Perhaps a surprising result? Or maybe the standard of aesthetic is set so high in the current era of full arts.

Results below, grouped vaguely by set/pokemon. Each score is an average of ~107 votes each.

Gold Star Poll Results
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Here are the results ranked in order.

Gold Star by Popularity
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Poor Regis sitting with Greninja at the bottom. Kyogre and Groudon also got shafted. Most gold stars occupy a lukewarm position of 7.5ish. Lots of love for the gen 3 starters but Treecko appropriately recognized as a bit of an oddball. Of course, king Rayquaza sitting on top with an IMPRESSIVE 9 average rating.

Anything you find interesting?

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Suprised Pikachu is higher than Mew and Latias.

Not suprised everyone thinks Regis are piles of shit.

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I’m honestly surprised to see 6 as the baseline, thought it would be lower. Maybe people are like me too, and hardly answer 10/10 on anything. I love the gold stars but don’t think I gave out any 10s.

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This is regi slander

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Interesting to see Espeon rank higher than Umbreon, albeit not by too much. Always thought Umbreon was the more popular Gold Star of the two.

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Raikou as the lowest dog, hmm.

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Flareon :goldstar: rating that low is a hate crime

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Thought we were rating the art lol

Regis should not be at the bottom.

Some awful poses like Mew, Mewtwo, Gyarados, Latios, Jolteon and Vaporeon should all be lower.

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Considering the average scores, I am happy to see Metagross do well enough to be in the Top 10. I would have also like to see Alakazam in that list, over Mew or Mewtwo.

Great topic overall and some interesting results.

Cheers!

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I know we started talking about this in the other thread, but I still can’t get over Greninja being that low! Other than that, pretty happy with the order, though I feel like Charizard is carried by the hype and should be lower.

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Definitely a fun topic! Greninja bottom three?!! Shaking my head…so sad.

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Really didn’t think the Regis garnered enough hate to be below a lot of less appealing artwork! I do believe Groudon and Kyogre are rightfully seated in the lowest tier; they have wonky poses/proportions

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Blasphemy

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The cats above hoenn legends? What???

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These ratings are lower than I thought. I thought for sure more would be in the 8-9 range than this.

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Not too surprised, Regis are trash. Weird to see the original Eeveelutions not higher.

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Yep, my favorite GS is at the very bottom: Regirock. :rofl:
Although tbf, I can understand why the Regis are low, since unlike the Eeveelutions, Rayquaza, Pikachu, Charizard, etc. they’re not the most popular Pokémon. But I personally like the pose Regirock has in the GS artwork, making full use of the extended artwork beyond the artwork borders to give the artwork depth. :person_shrugging:

Not too surprised to see Rayquaza (my 2nd place) at the very top.

Greetz,
Quuador

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I gave Regice 10 (any sane man would), Registeel 8 (considered 9) and Regirock 6. Felt a bit strict really. It’s not because of the Regirock itself, it’s a brilliant illustration, I just don’t like the half-breed shiny colors (looks like a hybrid between regular and shiny) in combination with the very blue background. It’s purely a color issue for me, not illustration.

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Even among Regi GS enthusiastic I see my opinion is unpopular, since I ordered them as: Regirock 10; Registeel 10; Regice 8. :sweat_smile:

Ah ok, that makes sense. Some shiny Pokémon colors can be pretty lackluster indeed.

Greetz,
Quuador

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Regice deserves to be between Rayquaza and Torchic, at least

C’mon E4

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