Thread: THEORY: Team Aqua/Team Magma's Backup Plan

Makes sense actually. However, either Team only has use for one Regi.

Regirock helps Team Magma. It makes a bunch of rocks come together and create new lands above the sea, and/or bury the sea below them.

Regice helps Team Aqua. It creates a bunch of icebergs and glaciers, which then melt due to Hoenn's high temperature. This creates a lot of water.

The player can then go for Registeel to stop both Teams. As a Steel Type, Registeel is strong against both Regirock and Regice, and resists their attacks as well.

It could actually be a pretty decent plot overall. Unfortunately, it doesn't really fits well with the way Emerald lays out the plot, as Team Magma never steals the submarine. It could work if both Team Aqua and Team Magma team up to take revenge on you or something, which usually seems to be the case in most comeback plots.

I say it's not a bad idea...

The only problem with the revenge plot is that both Archie and Maxie see the error of thier ways after the legends awake and cause chaos. The admins could team up for revenge though, Tabitha looked evil enough.

Never thought of it this way. When you look at it, Regigigas could be useful to either team. Surely a Pokemon capable of towing continents could also destroy parts of them? The large chunks of rock and earth getting dumped into the sea would raise the water level. As for Team Magma, Regigigas could easily do the opposite, taking underwater rocks and stuff and using them to add onto the landmass.

With a mustachegigas.

Originally Posted by Missingno. Master

Never thought of it this way. When you look at it, Regigigas could be useful to either team. Surely a Pokemon capable of towing continents could also destroy parts of them? The large chunks of rock and earth getting dumped into the sea would raise the water level. As for Team Magma, Regigigas could easily do the opposite, taking underwater rocks and stuff and using them to add onto the landmass.

With a mustachegigas.

Archie: "Oh, I'm sorry, did Johto just get submerged underwater? My bad, Regigigas is a bit clumsy after all these years"

Originally Posted by Missingno. Master

Never thought of it this way. When you look at it, Regigigas could be useful to either team. Surely a Pokemon capable of towing continents could also destroy parts of them? The large chunks of rock and earth getting dumped into the sea would raise the water level. As for Team Magma, Regigigas could easily do the opposite, taking underwater rocks and stuff and using them to add onto the landmass.

With a mustachegigas.

It's a conservation of land and water. The reason the sea level would rise in other places is because a new piece of land was just dumped into the sea. Regigigas isn't going to do anything

I was about to say that regigigas is pointless -- either you create some sort of pangaea -- one giant landmass, but then your net change in land/water is zero.

w/r/t the regice and regirock, if magma uses regirock to "bury" the ocean, it'll just increase the height of the water... it's almost counterintuitive.
if aqua uses regice to create icebergs, and whatnot, what good does it do? water expands as it cools, so as it melts, it gets smaller... and how much ice would regice have to make? a lot. and where would the water come from? would regice create it out of the water in the air? or would it borrow it from the ocean, balancing everything out?

I still contest that this theory is just that -- a theory. I highly doubt that the two teams had such backup plans, as they seemed overly distraught when kyogre/groudon ran away, more distraught than they would be if they had a backup plan.

still quite implausible.

Originally Posted by hurristat

I was about to say that regigigas is pointless -- either you create some sort of pangaea -- one giant landmass, but then your net change in land/water is zero.

Remember that this is Pokemon we're dealing with - the same series that violates so many laws of physics it's not funny. And that Team Magma are the same group who thought causing a volcano to erupt would ultimately create more land somehow instead of just ruining the land already there. And that Team Aqua planned to deactivate that same volcano and presumably expected rainwater to fill up the crater within a matter of weeks at best.

Originally Posted by System Error

Remember that this is Pokemon we're dealing with - the same series that violates so many laws of physics it's not funny. And that Team Magma are the same group who thought causing a volcano to erupt would ultimately create more land somehow instead of just ruining the land already there. And that Team Aqua planned to deactivate that same volcano and presumably expected rainwater to fill up the crater within a matter of weeks at best.

Hence why they were the worst villains, not only were they not actually "bad" guys out to hurt Pokemon, just extremists whose actions inevitably does anyway but they were extremists with very little education even at the higher ranks.

If they were to revisit the old RSE plot and expanded it with the Regi-Trio, I guess it would make perfect sense for the team to be as non-sensical this time around as they were with their initial plot, but I'd really hope they weren't. Having to play through something that stupid again....

Now that I think about it, while a completely impossible method, it is a completely plausible idea to actually occur within the game's canon considering how little research Team Magma and Team Aqua put into Plan A. Why should we expect Plan B to be any better?

Originally Posted by Outrage

Hence why they were the worst villains, not only were they not actually "bad" guys out to hurt Pokemon, just extremists whose actions inevitably does anyway but they were extremists with very little education even at the higher ranks.

I believe that applies to almost every extremist group. Both in fiction and in real life.

Fanaticism always clouds the mind of people.

Originally Posted by Outrage

Hence why they were the worst villains, not only were they not actually "bad" guys out to hurt Pokemon, just extremists whose actions inevitably does anyway but they were extremists with very little education even at the higher ranks.

If they were to revisit the old RSE plot and expanded it with the Regi-Trio, I guess it would make perfect sense for the team to be as non-sensical this time around as they were with their initial plot, but I'd really hope they weren't. Having to play through something that stupid again....

Now that I think about it, while a completely impossible method, it is a completely plausible idea to actually occur within the game's canon considering how little research Team Magma and Team Aqua put into Plan A. Why should we expect Plan B to be any better?

This also assumes that they're smart enough to create this "plan b", lol.

Originally Posted by Outrage

It's a conservation of land and water. The reason the sea level would rise in other places is because a new piece of land was just dumped into the sea. Regigigas isn't going to do anything

Not that Teams Magma and Aqua would know that. They're stupid, remember?

Also, this is Pokemon. Where logic and common sense are optional and the laws of physics are more like guidelines.

With a mustache.

I like this idea, but it seems somewhat to much for the teams. It looks more like they just have the resources to do it.

I think this makes sense. D8 Maybe a remake can touch up on that? A crazy plan needs an even crazier back-up plan like this. Not sure what the Regis would do, but it's still awesome.

Who says they need to use the Regis themselves? With Regigigas and his minions'(I love that word) power they could recapture Groudon/Kyogre and start their plan again. Besides, what couldn't they do with the Regis? There are other things to help the land and sea besides expanding them, and the Regis could do that.

Just wanted to let you guys know, I am using this idea for a fanfic over at Serebii...

I only say this because if anyone thinks they deserve credit, I will give it.