You can find the original page for the poll here.
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Royal Road does not support multi-question polls, so when creating this poll, I divided it into categories and did not restrict how many options people could vote for. This set-up is flawed, but it’s good enough for gathering a usable result. Initially, I was going to run a second version of this poll with specified categories and narrowed-down options, but the results gave me enough to work with when it came to deciding which idea I want to write next.
In total, there were five categories of choices, with one “floater” choice that didn’t quite fit into any of them. In order, the categories included in this poll were Background, Journey Focus, Team Build, Region, and Specialty. When making my decision, I specifically looked at the top few options. I’ve bolded and underlined the ones I’ll be looking at when writing next.
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Background:
General Isekai / Use of Meta-Knowledge - 6.75 %
Experienced Protagonist / Advanced Trainer Start - 6.40%
Criminal Background / "Evil" Team Membership - 5.22%
Local Trainer / Native OC - 4.67%
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Journey Focus
Alternative, less structured goal and/or Slice of Life - 5.19%
Post-Gym Focus - 4.89%
Classic Journey Focus - 3.27%
Contest Focus - 2.33%
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Team Build
Capture and Training of "Lesser" Legendary Pokémon - 5.56%
Solo-run (A single, exceptionally strong Pokémon) - 3.39%
A classic, six-member team - 3.08%
"Breeder" - 2.75%
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Region
Later Gen Regions (Gens VI+) - 4.06%
Unova - 3.63%
Early Gen Regions (Gen I - IV) - 2.82%
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Specialty
Machine / Technology Pokémon Specialist - 5.24%
Generalist / No Specialty - 3.62%
Dragon Type Specialist - 3.52%
Ice Type Specialist - 3.37%
Sandstorm Team - 2.97%
Psychic Type Specialist - 2.94%
Poison Type Specialist - 2.83%
Bug Type Specialist - 2.42%
Ground Type Specialist - 2.37%
Water Type Specialist - 2.15%
Flying Type Specialist - 2.10%
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Misc. Category
Double Battle Focus - 2.47%
(While Double Battles weren’t the most popular option, I want to write Double Battles. The “official battles” of the next long fiction will have a more VGC-style lean, but there’ll still be the occasional single battle as well.)
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As an image, I’ve included all of the results below, colored by category, and I’ve included a downloadable version of it as part of this upload (however, the color-coding and formatting seem to not have been saved).
I do not regularly use Excel / Google Sheets, so I can’t say this is set up in the best way possible. The “Estimated Voters” category is the Total Votes divided by the Estimated Average Votes, and the Estimated Average Votes assumes people choose half of the total options (13 out of 27). Realistically, I believe the actual number of individual voters is higher, but I can’t find a way to pull that information from Royal Road.
