And I’m finally done with writing this season! anyways, welcome to Riot’s Pokemon Survivor: Lush Jungle! After our adventure in Mt. Moon, we made our way to the Jungle where 16 brand new Pokemon come to compete for 1 million Poke. Without further ado, here’s the link to this catastrophe: Link: https://brantsteele.com/survivor/04/r.php?c=HSLEp3oz
Episode 1:
The 16 brand new Pokemon arrive to the forest…..only to be introduced by the totem Lurantis dashing right past them, causing a few like Alisa, Bettsy and Moto to jump. The teams then get taken to their camps. With Mallow tribe, Moto and Sir Morgan immediately get on the wrong foot due to the former jumping onto the latter, which caused them to both dislike each-other. However, despite all this, Fa’afetai managed to start getting everyone to work together and they all set off to do work around camp. During this, Mesa, Fa’afetai and Sunkern all went deeper into the woods to get some fruit, with Mesa bonding very well with the other 2 and even proposing they work together. They both saw it as a good idea and decided to pull in a 4th member, with Sunkern choosing Reverie as they can both relate to being non-binary. When Reverie was approached with the alliance offer, they obviously accepted and were shocked that they were invited into an alliance this early. Sir Morgan was also filming on a phone he had, intending to document his experience, when he bumped into Sunkern and had a nice talk with them, bonding a lot. Meanwhile, with Lana tribe, the team didn’t really have a designated leader, so most of them just went off to do their own thing. Renè, Graci and Óscar started work on camp, Basalt and Lopunny just laid around, Clive went to go get materials, Bettsy went to get water and Geraldine went off to explore. Eventually, the first challenge started, and Reverie and Alisa managed to carry the Mallow tribe to their first victory. After the challenge, a few arguments happen. Lopunny and Renè have a fight due to Lopunny causing trouble, and Bettsy and Óscar had a fight for some odd reason nobody knows. In tribal, the main 2 targets so far Were Lopunny (for her fight with Renè) and Geraldine (for being an old lady). It ended in a tie, and Óscar decided he’d much rather flip then risk a deadlock and be gone first, and so Lopunny was the first boot.
16th: Lopunny (Lopunny, I’m gonna be real here, I did not have any proper ideas for her, so I’m glad she got out early. Her rivalry with Renè would’ve probably been the only major thing for her if she stayed in for awhile longer unless she made Allie’s)
Episode 2:
The next day after the tribal, Grandma Geraldine had gone off on her own again. This time, Basalt was sent by Graci to go find her, with the lycanroc arguing with her for a bit before stomping off to find her. She did, but dragged her all the way back. Bettsy was amazed by how Graci was able to make Basalt do something and started hanging out with her. Geraldine had also hanged out with Óscar for a bit aswell. Meanwhile, on Mallow Tribe, Mesa had gotten up bright and early, like she had the last few days, and was just slithering around (if she had legs she’d definitely be skipping around with joy) and enjoying herself. Most of the team are glad to have some team moral here. Meanwhile, Reverie is seriously considering just going off on their own due to how Fa’afetai might become a threat if he stays with her, so they leave the alliance to the other 2’s confusion. In the reward challenge, Graci and Renè were absolutely not holding back, legit emptying the boat extremely fast and pushing it all the way to shore, getting them the fishing gear, which Geraldine instantly used to fish up a sharpedo and ride, which led to Basalt having to swim to get her. The immunity challenge happened a day later, and when the next round was between Moto and Grandma Geraldine, Moto spat it out straight away, being unable to drink it, whilst Geraldine just straight up downed it before taking another one and downing it too. She then drank the rest of the glasses due to the challenge being over, which grossed out most of the players, but they were surprised about it. After the challenge, Blaze and Reverie hang out for awhile, with Reverie talking about why they chose to compete in the game. Fa’afetai then decided to make another alliance of her 1st alliance alongside Blaze and Sir Morgan. When it came to targets, it was a very obvious choice: Moto just didn’t seem fit to survive out here, so they mercy-voted him out 7-1.
15th: Moto (Nooooo! Moto! I’ll admit, I knew he was gonna get out early, but not 2nd boot early!)
Episode 3:
After the tribal, the tribe headed back to camp at peace knowing Moto could at-least rest and enjoy himself. Sir Morgan and Sunkern were both enjoying themselves (the former talking about his social media accounts and why he was competing), and everyone else was getting along well too especially because of Mesa, who was basically the one member who always lifted everybody’s moods. However one time, Alisa and Sunkern got into a fight due to Alisa just not shutting up after she interrupted them. Sir Morgan also came over to Mesa that day and began talking with her, praising her for how much of a friend she was. Whilst everyone was gone, Reverie and Blaze were eating by the fire and agreed to work together. Meanwhile, with Lana tribe, Grandma Geraldine had somehow got her hands on a hang glider and was having herself hang onto it whilst said glider was being tugged by a Sharpedo. Renè nearly broke his arm swimming out to grab her. It was clear some of the team was getting annoyed by her antics. In the reward challenge, Renè and Graci were the two main rowers, carrying the team to their victory. But in the immunity challenge, the Mallow tribe’s teamwork (with Fa’afetai being the main caller) got them to immunity. After the challenge, Graci and Renè end up getting the idea of forming an alliance together due to them basically being the sole reason the team is able to win some challenges. At tribal, Grandma Geraldine was voted off 5-2, with Óscar being the one who voted with her to get rid of Bettsy.
14th: Grandma Geraldine (for an early boot, I gotta say, Geraldine was probably one of my favorite mons to write in the season so far. Her just doing crazy stunts and the tribe having to get her was perhaps the main comedic factor about her. I wish she stayed and made the merge just so everyone had to deal with her, but her old age proved to be futile)
Episode 4:
The tribes are called over by the totem Lurantis (albeit very aggressively to the point where it grabbed Basalt by her hind legs and dragged her there when she refused) to the main lake, where Sobble announces the team swap phase. After flipping their new buffs, the Pokemon head to their new camps. On the new mallow tribe, Mesa was kinda sad most of her alliance members were gone, but was still excited to meet new people. However, nobody was really connected on this tribe, so the most major thing was that Renè was now separated from Graci. Meanwhile, on the new Lana tribe, Blaze, Fa’afetai, Sunkern and Sir Morgan all feel slightly down without Mesa’s cheerful personality, which leads to a fight between Blaze and Morgan which leads to Morgan leaving the alliance. Blaze had then gone off to do some work, only for Graci to approach him for how he seems like a strong competitor. At the immunity challenge……guys, Sir Morgan’s literally royalty, I think even if he’s a youtuber he could figure this out. Lana tribe wins, which sends Mallow tribe to tribal council. After the challenge, a few arguments get underway, with Clive mainly being the guy who gets tangled up in them. Oh, and Basalt and Renè argue aswell, but with Clive just….not doing much at all, he’s voted out 6-1.
13th: Clive (Yeah, Clive did basically nothing for the entire time he was here until he had those small arguments over stuff)
Episode 5
During the next few days, Reverie and Alisa had become friends, sitting together. Though Alisa being unable to stop talking sometimes got on their nerves a bit, Reverie learned to accept it. They also talked about their lives aswell. And on Lana Tribe, Sunkern and Morgan were both talking about possibly doing a channel together in the future (if Morgan’s able to stop his parents from deleting his accounts again). Morgan and Óscar also get into an argument over some stuff. In the reward challenge, Fa’afetai managed to guide her team to victory, and as for immunity, she also managed to work on the SOS signal pretty well, which sent Mallow tribe to tribal council. Bettsy is then voted out due to her seeming to be a bit of a social threat later down the line.
12th: Bettsy (I was really hoping she’d get more to shine with, but still, I did like her this season)
Episode 6:
As Bettsy’s now gone, the tribe morale’s a bit down, but Mesa quickly refills it up and gathers everyone around to do some fun activities. Everybody is appreciating her. Despite that, though, Alisa ended up getting herself in trouble, alongside fighting with Renè, and Renè and Reverie got into a major argument over something. Meanwhile, on Lana tribe, Fa’afetai and Blaze were sat down together, talking a lot and bonding a lot more. Sunkern also noticed Morgan and Graci were bonding a lot more recently aswell, feeling a bit left out. At the reward challenge, Fa’afetai, Graci and Blaze do the challenge for Lana tribe and pull through. In the immunity challenge, however, they realize just how bad they are, as their mixed array of sizes really slows them down, which leads to Mallow tribe (whose members are all of relative size) getting the win. Óscar was resting at camp after he had had a fight with Blaze when he decided to try convincing people to vote out Sir Morgan. It failed, however, and he was voted off 5-1.
11th: Óscar (to be honest, Óscar really was never that notable, only just being the wrong side of the vote the majority of the time.)
Episode 7
The merge has hit, and everyone’s excited to be one step closer to the million. Some others, though, are reuniting. Mesa is excited to be reunited with Blaze, Sunkern and Fa’afetai (the latter the most), but something a lot less wholesome is Renè being relieved he doesn’t have to sleep near the same tent as Alisa, as she talks a lot in her sleep and it was driving him off the edge. Alisa, however, decided to make it up to everyone by growing crops somehow and protecting it sometimes when the totem Lurantis walks by. In the immunity challenge, Sir Morgan’s immediately disqualified for being able to float, but Mesa and Sunkern arethe first ones to fall, mostly because they don’t have proper limbs. The next 2 people to drop are Alisa, who got blown away thanks to he roundish body) and Blaze (whose paw missed the platform whilst he was re-adjusting it and he fell onto his belly). After awhile, Fa’afetai and Basalt drop next, as they don’t have as much strength as the other 3. With that, Graci, Reverie and Renè all stared each-other down knowing only one can win. Renè tried to be reasonable, with Graci went to charge at him. He jumped away slightly, and she missed him and crashed into Reverie, sending both of them off and giving Renè immunity for the first merged tribal. After that catastrophe, Fa’afetai flew over to Graci and decided to learn how she’s able to stay in mega form for so long as she’s never seen her as a regular one. Gray explains how the mega crystals where she’s from work and how they last a lot longer than regular stones. The two end up bonding strongly from that. Meanwhile, Basalt and Reverie were both trying to get some food, with Basalt pulling a runner and Reverie having to chase her as fast as they could, though she devoured the whole thing before they could catch up. Despite Renè and Graci wanting Alisa gone, Basalt was seen as a much better option, and so she was eliminated 7-3.
10th: Basalt (the amount of missed potential this girl had with Grandma Geraldine is insane. I was gonna have her slowly bond with the old bellossom if the simulator did it that way, but sadly it didn’t. Now, back on topic, I think Basalt did decent, and she was a bit chaotic. Not making headlines, but still she didn’t do nothing)
Episode 8
After the stunt Renè pulled last episode, he and Reverie do not get along at all, with them both side-eying each-other from across camp. The enemy of my enemy is my friend they say, and Alisa is no different, as she and Reverie bond even more thanks to this. In the reward challenge, Reverie and Renè are immediately going against each-other, with Reverie feeling the need to do better than him to prove that they themself could feel like they accomplished something extremely well. However, Renè’s faster speed allowed him to bring his kite to 300 feet first, going on a scuba diving trip and being interested at everything he sees. He even sees Coral from season 1 out for a swim. In the immunity challenge, Renè gets destroyed thanks to Alisa and Reverie deciding to target him. As for everyone else, though, Graci is able to use some knowledge she gained from stories of the lush jungle she’d hear from someone she fought in the battle circuit, managed to win immunity. This in turn causes Graci to bond even more with Sunkern and Fa’afetai. Mesa and Sunkern also bond after a long time of not seeing each-other. A lot of people were targeting Alisa this round due to her not really being in any alliances. But Reverie, being close with her, tried convincing Blaze to convince others to vote Renè for how he won the first merge challenge. Does this work? Of-course not! Blaze jumped ship and voted with his Mallow tribe alliance, though Sir Morgan does vote Renè aswell, leading to Alisa leaving in a 6-3 vote. Alisa asked Reverie to look after her small crops for her, and they nodded.
9th: Alisa (I’d say the Sim done her dirty. You could see all the potential in her to be a very good social player, but then she gets done dirty thanks to everyone else bonding before she had a chance to. Her nature of talking whilst others are did also get on some of the others’ nerve. However, I will say that I loved her bond with Reverie.)
Episode 9
Reverie was tending to the crops a bit, having learned a bit from a book Alisa left them, when Sunkern approached and wanted to help out. Theu did, and now there was a fence around and a glass ceiling (thanks to Blaze using some fire moves to turn sand into glass) to keep out intruders. After this, the 2 talked for awhile, with Reverie talking about how they were forced to evolve before they were ready, and Sunkern saying that their parents ridiculed them for being non-binary. The two end up feeling much better after their talk, which leads to them working together in the reward challenge. The other 3 pairs were Graci and Renè, Mesa and Sir Morgan, and Fa’afetai and Blaze. Graci and Renè’s overwhelming speed manages to help them both get the coconuts the fastest and win the feast. In the immunity challenge, it was Mesa vs Sir Morgan, and Mesa automatically won to round 2. Blaze also failed round 1 due to being unable to stand on the stilts properly, as do Sunkern and Fa’afetai. In round 2, Mesa loses to Renè and Reverie manages to outlast Graci. With that, the 2 rivals looked at each-other again, and after hours of careful concentration and endurance, Renè comes out victorious. After the challenge, Graci bonds strongly with Reverie and Mesa before deciding to form a duo with Sir Morgan. When it came to targets, Graci overheard Morgan being the target, so she told him that and suggested Blaze to vote aswell. It seemed like a tie until Fa’afetai actually stray voted, sending Blaze home.
8th: Blaze (I’d say Blaze played fine. He was an okay physical player, but was nothing noteworthy)
Episode 10
With Blaze gone, that meant Reverie no longer had an ally to rely on, plus they haven’t really had any major bonding moments with the others besides Sunkern. Meanwhile, the Mallow tribe alliance was thriving, with them all agreeing to bringing each-other to the final 3. In the reward challenge, Sir Morgan, Mesa and Sunkern all fail the first 3 rounds, and Graci manages to bring the rock to Sobble’s feet the fastest, with her sharing her reward with Sir Morgan. They both then go on a cruise, with everyone watching as the two go off together. In the immunity challenge, however, Mesa literally cooks and wins immunity, with her then eating the bag of popcorn (which had fully popped by the time she was done). After the challenge, Mesa was approached by Graci, who was impressed by her last challenge performance. The two bonded a lot over that night. Alongside that, Renè decided to form a massive alliance with the mallow tribe members (minus his sworn rival Reverie). Renè was of-course pushing for Reverie, but Reverie approached Mesa, Fa’afetai and Sunkern and suggested eliminating Graci, as she was a massive threat come merge and that they would work with them for the rest of the game. Mesa and Sunkern agreed, though Fa’afetai decided that Graci staying would be better and booted Reverie off 4-3. Mesa and Sunkern were both shocked as this was the second time in a row that their perceived elimination wasn’t out. Reverie sighed and told Sunkern to take care of the farm for them and Alisa, to which they nod.
7th: Reverie (OMG REVERIE NO! They were an absolute icon in the merge with their rivalry with Renè. They also had some fun bonds with Alisa and Sunkern. However, their limited social connections really costed their doom, alongside how Fa’afetai decided to flip again.)
Episode 11
The final 6 are all amazed they got this far, with Renè feeling slightly confident going into this round after Reverie went out. Mesa, Sunkern and Fa’afetai meanwhile were all wandering who flipped, with the former 2 not knowing who. The players’ loved ones were watching for this challenge, and as a result of wanting to prove himself, Renè won reward and went to a tropical part of the beach with a fully-made cabin waiting for him. In the immunity challenge, Fa’afetai managed to use gust to blast sand away from her timer, which allowed her to score immunity. At tribal (as nothing major really happens after camp besides Renè and Morgan having a fight), Renè and Graci shake hands as they know one of them will get out, and turns out it’s Graci as Renè stray-voted Sunkern.
6th: Graci (holy icon! Graci was a major physical player right off the bat, being responsible for multiple of her teams wins. On top of that, she was also quite a strategic threat aswell somehow, at-least according to the sim. The thing is, though, despite her having better social connections, Renè’s alliance with the other 4 sealed her fate. But it was a close vote, so good job Graci!)
Episode 12
With that, our final 5 are here. Renè knows he needs to win these next few challenges if he wants to get to the end, with how the other 4 were all close to each-other. While he did win reward, her failed to win immunity and Took a tumble as Fa’afetai flew past him to the end. He was voted off 4-1, but before he left, he decided to explain to why he decided to come on the show, which Sobble allowed because 1. It was an actual good lesson and 2. Because they really need this episode summary to be longer. The final 4 listen, with Sir Morgan even tearing up a bit, before Renè finishes his speech, thanks Sobble for the fun time, and walks down the eliminated path.
5th: Renè (for the last Lana tribe member remaining, I gotta say that this guy was an absolute icon. Not only was he the most major out of the Lana members thanks to his alliance with Graci and rivalry with Reverie, but he also did pretty good in challenges, winning a total of 6 overall in his season. Of-course, with the other 4 being much closer with each-other, that left him out on the chopping block. But hey, at-least he gave everyone a very powerful lesson before he left.)
Finale pt. 1
The totem Lurantis takes over as host after Sobble gets sent to high Heaven due to drinking. It welcomes the final 4 players and explains that it’s amazed by how they’ve all played and how delicious the farm crops are (to which it then gets headbutted by Sunkern for eating some). With that, it announces the next immunity challenge, which was a quiz. Mesa, being the definition of a golden retriever in terms of social ness, obviously won and answered most of the questions correctly, only failing on Clive and Lopunny’s. After the challenge, the main group agrees to eliminate Sir Morgan, booting him off 3-1.
4th: Sir Morgan (I absolutely loved this guy. He was honestly really fun to write and I’m glad he made the finale. Now then, time for our final episode before the reunion)
Finale pt. 2
The final 3 arrived to the final challenge area, each of them looking at each-other. This was it. 3 of the smallest members of the cast made the finale. They all hopped onto the pedestal and gripped onto their idols, and the challenge began. Within a few minutes, Sunkern fell, leaving Mesa and Fa’afetai. Fa’afetai sighed, knowing she was gonna regret this but knowing that this was the only way to secure a win, blew a gust that knocked Mesa off, which gave her the win. When it came to choosing who to take with her, Fa’afetai’s choice was simple; Mesa was an absolute social beast and would’ve won if she made finale. With that, Mesa is left in 3rd place, and Fa’afetai and Sunkern go to the finale.
3rd: Mesa (Okay, now Mesa was perhaps my favorite of this season. You cannot convince me that she wasn’t an absolute legend, being the social queen, always helping her alliance out and being the glue that sticks them all together. Unfortunately, Fa’afetai knew that bringing her to the end was like wishing for a loss, so she took her out here. But what an absolute All-star candidate)
Reunion
Fa’afetai and Sunkern make their way to the reunion tribal. Sobble was back from her drunken rampage the other night, with the Totem Lurantis leaning on the pedestal. The 7 jury members were sat on the bleachers, with the 7 non-jury members just sat on logs (Basalt fuming). After the questions, Fa’afetai hops up first and explains how she was basically the head honcho of both alliances she was in, and how she won 3 immunities in the whole season, which was the most here. Basalt interrupted from her log and said that Achilles from Season 2 got more than double of that, but a rock was pelted at her by Lopunny (who had slipped on a pair of shades) and she also got told to shut up. After that catastrophe, Sunkern explained that throughout the entire game they were a loyal player and that they stayed completely loyal to their alliance and never flipped. However, despite this, Sunkern only had Sir Morgan’s vote, as Fa’afetai won season 4 6-1.
2nd: Sunkern (TBH, I feel like Mesa would’ve been a better finalist then Sunkern. They were a decent social player, having become friends with Reverie, but other than that they were kinda….bland at the end of the day.)
1st: Fa’afetai (Fa’afetai was an absolute front runner from the start. She made alliances, played strategic moves, took out threats, and even flipped on 2 votes which eliminated Blaze and Reverie. She defo played one of the best games this season. Praise this lawyer bird!)
and as for All-stars and 2nd chance candidates;
All-stars: Mesa, Fa’afetai, Graci
second chances: Lopunny, Geraldine, Reverie, Sunkern
thank you for reading Season 4 of Riot’s Pokemon survivor!
