Survivor Pokemon Gen 5

Survivor Pokemon Gen 5 is the third season of the Survivor Video Games Edition Series. It featured the tribes White and Black (based on the names of the Nintendo DS games). The season was different from the previous two, by adding in Redemption Island, removing hidden immunity idols, and increasing the number of finalists to three. Galvantula was the ultimate winner, with Excadrill as runner up, and Emboar as 2nd runner up.

Excadrill, Emboar, Gigalith, Serperior, and Ferrothorn returned for Survivor All Stars where they placed 1st, 17th, 6th, 25th, and 12th respectively.

Galvantula & Excadrill returned for Survivor Winners where they placed 16th & 19th respectively.

Haxorus returned for Survivor Second Chances where he placed 16th.

## Season Summary

On the White Tribe, Emboar and Haxorus both formed alliances early on but they weren't as solid as both expected.  Ferrothorn was head an alliance within Emboar's of himself, Galvantula, & Beartic, and they used Emboar as a front to keep the target off themselves.  Gigalith similarly held a tighter alliance with Golurk and Carracosta and used Haxorus as a shield.  Carracosta also acted as a double agent within Emboar's alliance.  Haxorus went right after Emboar initially, but Emboar, belieiving he had the numbers with Carracosta, took out Krookodile first percieving him to be a big threat.  Through acting as a double agent, Carracosta realized Emboar was really just a pawn, but took Beartic as the true leader over Ferrothorn, due to Beartic's big personality.  He voted alongside Haxorus and Gigalith to take him out next.  He tried to take Ferrothron and Galvantula under his wing, which Ferrothorn used to his advantage to discover Gigalith's alliance.  He used this information to get Haxorus and his close ally Braviary to vote with them and Emboar to blindside Carracosta.  The five stuck together in the vote between Gigalith and Golurk, which resulted in Golurk's elimination after Gigalith made the case that Golurk would be a better option over him to take down Krookodile at redemption island, who had won every matchup so far.

On the Black Tribe, Serperior strived for control over the tribe, but found himself quickly down to his rival Samurott after his ally Whimsicott was voted out over Samurott's ally Volcarona, the two weakest in the tribe.  However Volcarona, and his ally Excadrill, were not loyal to Samurott, while Chandelure and Zoroark played "in the shadows" going with wherever the numbers were as long as it wasn't them.  Volcarona and Excadrill both decided to betray Samurott after he persuaded Chandelure and Zoroark to work with him and Scolipede resulting in his closest ally and arguably the strongest member of the team, Conkeldurr, being voted off.  The tribe felt the loss of Conkeldurr losing the next two of three challenges, only winning one because the White tribe purposefully threw a challenge.  Serperior continued his control, successfully organizing Samurott's elimination, but became the target next by Volcarona and Excadrill.  However, Zoroark and Chandelure decided to make a move and send home Volcarona, both to strengthen team, and send home a strategic threat.  This put them in the crosshairs of Excadrill, but they remained protected by Serperior who chose to vote out Stoutland instead of Excadrill, wanting Krookodile to come back in the game and join his side, knowing Stoutland would be a weaker competitor then Excadrill.

Krookodile won his way back into the game and the tribes merged.  He disassociated himself from his old tribe and aligned with fellow outsiders Excadrill & Gigalith.  Serperior appeared to have all the numbers on his side but Ferrothorn persuaded Excadrill and his allies to vote out Scolipede, Serperior's closest ally, by pointing out Emboar's lack of numbers.  They followed his logic and voted with them, along with Chandelure and Zoroark who realized the vote was gonna come back a tie, and Scolipede was sent to redemption.  Serperior quickly rallied the numbers back to his side, by proposing Chandelure go next, which Excadrill was more then happy to do, and helped persuade the others to their side by exposing Chandelure's and Zoroark's untrusworthiness.  Excadrill's alliance wanted to take out Serperior next, worried he'd take control over the numbers again, but Ferrothorn and Emboar both decided to go after Krookodile again, knowing he wouldn't vote with them in the future.  They also pulled Haxorus and Braviary in, who wanted to keep the shield that is Serperior still in the game.  Emboar's side seemed to regain the numbers with Excadrill choosing to work with Ferrothorn, but Gigalith recognized and brought to light Ferrothorn's strong under the radar game, and sided with Haxorus and Serperior.  Zoroark found himself stuck in the middle, and ultimately decided to vote out Ferrothorn.  Serperior and Haxorus used their numbers to take out Excadrill next, before the two decided to target each other wanting full control of the numbers, with Haxorus coming out on top.  It didn't last long though as Gigalith and Zoroark chose to betray Haxorus and vote with Emboar.  Excadrill managed to win his way back into the game and redemption island closed down.  Although he was targeted early by Zoroark and Braviary, Excadrill managed to reestablish his relations with Emboar, Gigalith and Galvantula, and voted with them to send home Zoroark.  Braviary was the next in line to go, but Emboar, Gigalith, and Excadrill voted out Gigalith first, noting the persuasiveness he'd shown in prior tribals which could be dangerous in front of a jury.  The three stuck together and voted out Braviary, who became the final jury member.

At the final tribal council, several of the jurors questioned whether or not Excadrill deserved to win since he was voted out prior and had to rely on redemption to get back in the game.  He did recieve praise for his strategic game however.  Emboar recieved praise for making it to the end with a target constantly on his back, though some jurors felt that he was never really in control of any of the votes, and diminshed his status as a target by pointing out how he was often a pawn rather then a leader.  Galvantula recieved both praise and criticism for his overall gameplay, which leaned heavily on the social rather then the strategic elements of the game.  In the end, the jury awarded Galvantula the money, with Excadrill coming in second, and Emboar coming in third.