Badge Requests

[indigo_league]

 What does it take? It changes for each gym! Normally, the games increase in difficulty as you progress, but that wouldn't be any fun if characters could just as easily take on the Gyms that are supposed to be for top trainers only. THEREFORE, the gym leaders aren't going to be pushovers like in the games! In order to win a badge, the mods will take into account your current roster and the attacks and advantages to see whether your pokémon is strong enough to win a badge or not.

Each gym leader has a Regular Team of pokemon and an Elite Team of pokemon you can challenge. It's up to a trainer to decide which team to challenge, but if you take on the Elite Team of six level 100 Pokemon, you'll receive double the prize money. The items, however, are not doubled. Excellent for trainers looking for the extra challenge or those looking to make money fast.

!!! Badges must be mod approved. To earn a badge, please comment on this post. Please don't ask for more than two badges to be approved at once!

JOHTO
Violet City Badge: Zephyr Leader: Falkner Team: Noctowl (L: 30) Honchkrow (L: 32) Pidgeot (L: 35) Rewards: [P10,000] TM Roost Can use Fly outside of battle Elite Team: Pidgeot, Dodrio, Swellow, Xatu, Staraptor, Pelipper	Azalea Town Badge: Hive Leader: Bugsy Team: Pinsir (L: 35) Heracross (L: 37) Scizor (L: 40) Rewards: [P12,000] TM U-Turn Can use Rock Smash outside of battle Elite Team: Scizor, Venomoth, Vespiquen, Yanmega, Galvantula, Heracross	Goldenrod City Badge: Plain Leader: Whitney Team: Girafarig (L: 40) Clefable (L: 42) Miltank (L: 45) Rewards: [P14,000] HM Rock Smash TM Attract Can use Strength outside of battle Elite Team: Ursaring, Granbull, Blissey, Exploud, Tauros, Snorlax	Ecruteak City Badge: Fog Leader: Morty Team: Haunter (L: 45) Misdreavus (L: 47) Gengar (L: 50) Rewards: [P16,000] TM Shadow Ball HM Strength Can use Surf outside of battle Elite Team: Drifblim, Spiritomb, Dusknoir, Mismagius, Gengar, Chandelure
Cianwood City Badge: Storm Leader: Chuck Team: Hitmonlee (L: 50) Hitmonchan (L: 52) Poliwrath (L: 55) Rewards: [P18,000] HM Fly Elite Team: Medicham, Machamp, Hariyama, Breloom, Primeape, Toxicroak	Olivine City Badge: Mineral Leader: Jasmine Team: Skarmory (L: 55) Magneton (L: 57) Steelix (L: 60) Rewards: [P20,000] HM Surf HM Whirlpool Elite Team: Metagross, Bronzong, Skarmory, Steelix, Magnezone, Empoleon	Mahogany Town Badge: Glacier Leader: Pryce Team: Dewgong (L: 60) Lapras (L: 62) Mamoswine (L: 65) Rewards: [P22,000] TM Hail Can use Waterfall outside of battle Elite Team: Abomasnow, Dewgong, Glalie, Froslass, Mamoswine, Walrein	Blackthorn City Badge: Rising Leader: Clair Team: Gyarados (L: 65) Kingdra (L: 67) Dragonite (L: 70) Rewards: [P24,000] HM Waterfall Can use Whirlpool outside of battle A reusable ticket for the SS Anne* Elite Team: Aerodactyl, Charizard, Kingdra, Salamence, Garchomp, Dragonite       *For defeating the Elite team only. Three week paid cruise vacation to be taken whenever and as many times as the holder desires. Boat can be caught from Olivine or Vermilion.
KANTO
Pewter City Badge: Boulder Leader: Brock Team: Rhyhorn (L: 30) Golem (L: 32) Onix (L: 35) Rewards: [P10,000] TM Rock Slide HM Rock Smash Elite Team: Rhyperior, Rampardos, Golem, Omastar, Kabutops, Onix	Cerulean City Badge: Cascade Leader: Misty Team: Golduck (L: 35) Lapras (L: 37) Starmie (L: 40) Rewards: [P12,000] TM Water Pulse Can use Surf outside of battle Elite Team: Quagsire, Lanturn, Floatzel, Lapras, Milotic, Starmie	Vermilion City Badge: Thunder Badge Leader: Lt. Surge Team: Electabuzz (L: 40) Magneton (L: 42) Raichu (L: 45) Rewards: [P14,000] TM Thunder Can use Strength outside of battle Elite Team: Manectric, Electrode, Pachirisu, Magnezone, Electivire, Raichu	Celadon City Badge: Rainbow Leader: Erika Team: Jumpluff (L: 45) Tangrowth (L: 47) Bellossom (L: 50) Rewards: [P16,000] TM Giga Drain HM Strength Can use Fly outside of battle Elite Team: Shiftry, Jumpluff, Victreebel, Bellossom, Roserade, Vileplume
Fuchsia City Badge: Soul Leader: Janine Team: Crobat (L: 50) Ariados (L: 52) Venomoth (L: 55) Rewards: [P18,000] TM Toxic HM Surf Can use Rock Smash outside of battle Elite Team: Crobat, Weezing, Toxicroak, Drapion, Arbok, Venomoth	Saffron City Badge: Marsh Leader: Sabrina Team: Espeon (L: 55) Mr. Mime (L: 57) Alakazam (L: 60) Rewards: [P20,000] TM Psychic HM Fly Elite Team: Jynx, Wobbuffet, Espeon, Gallade, Gardevoir, Alakazam	Cinnabar Island (Seafoam Islands) Badge: Volcano Leader: Blaine Team: Magcargo (L: 60) Magmortar (L: 62) Rapidash (L: 65) Rewards: [P22,000] TM Fire Blast HM Whirlpool Can use Whirlpool outside of battle Elite Team: Torkoal, Camerupt, Magcargo, Houndoom, Magmortar, Rapidash	Viridian City Badge: Earth Leader: Blue Team: Exeggutor (L: 65) Machamp (L: 66) Rhydon (L: 67) Gyarados (L: 68) Pidgeot (L: 69) Arcanine (L: 70) Rewards: [P25,000] TM Hyper Beam A reusable ticket for the SS Anne* Elite Team: Venusaur, Blastoise, Charizard, Tyranitar, Pidgeot, Jolteon       *For defeating the Elite team only. Three week paid cruise vacation to be taken whenever and as many times as the holder desires. Boat can be caught from Olivine or Vermilion.

The Elite Four is now distributing Keystones and Mega Stones to promising trainers! Any trainer who has defeated all eight gyms of a single region will be granted a Keystone and one Mega Stone of their choice. No player will be able to have more than one Mega Stone at a time, and those looking to switch theirs out may do so once every four months. Mega Stones may be used in any casual trainer battle, but as far as gyms go may only be used in Elite battles.

The Indigo Plateau is now open to challengers! To qualify, trainers must have all sixteen badges from Johto and Kanto. Every Pokémon they face will be level 100, and the Elite Four and the Champion have heaps of talent and experience. As such, we will be reviewing Indigo Plateau challenges with more scrutiny than we bring to badge requests. A higher level of strategy is required to win on this field. Show us what you've got!

ELITE FOUR
Bede Team: Mawile (L: 100) Sylveon (L: 100) Galarian Rapidash (L: 100) Primarina (L: 100) Tinkaton (L: 100) Hatterene (L: 100) Rewards: [P30,000] TM Draining Kiss Life Orb	Koga Team: Skuntank (L: 100) Venomoth (L: 100) Toxicroak (L: 100) Swalot (L: 100) Crobat (L: 100) Muk (L: 100) Rewards: [P35,000] TM Venoshock Expert Belt	Bruno Team: Hitmontop (L: 100) Hitmonlee (L: 100) Hitmonchan (L: 100) Hariyama (L: 100) Machamp (L: 100) Lucario (L: 100) Rewards: [P40,000] TM Power-Up Punch Protective Pads	Karen Team: Weavile (L: 100) Absol (L: 100) Spiritomb (L: 100) Houndoom (L: 100) Honchkrow (L: 100) Umbreon (L: 100) Rewards: [P45,000] TM Snarl Ring Target
Lance Team: Salamence (L: 100) Gyarados (L: 100) Garchomp (L: 100) Altaria (L: 100) Charizard (L: 100) Dragonite (L: 100) Rewards: [P60,000] TM Giga Impact A Dragon-type egg with one egg move and one TM move of your choice The League Certificate qualifying the winner to create and lead their own Pokémon "Gym." This Gym is part not of the Indigo League, but the Aurora League.	Aurora League Gym Leaders may choose their own battle specializations, as well as. design their own unique Gym (which will take one month to build from the time of request) and Badge (which will be available as soon as the Gym opens). They will be compensated for their work as Gym Leaders with a stipend that will cover building costs, labor (the Leader's and any Trainers they may employ), and rewards for victorious challengers. We ask that Aurora Gym Leaders think carefully about the location of their Gym and the difficulty level they wish to present challengers. We also ask that they create their own Badge Request page like this one so that others can request battles with them. To officially request an Aurora League Gym, fill out the provided template and comment here.

Please use this form to request a badge or a showdown with the Elite Four! Post your request as a comment to this post. Badges will generally be processed once per week, on either Wednesday or during the weekend. Please try not to PM or IM mods about badges (including elite challenges) unless your request has gone unanswered for more than a week.

!!! Please request badges as your character is actually in the general area of the gym!

!!! To preserve the spirit of the game, obtaining badges using recently-inherited Pokémon (ie, Pokemon received from dropped characters) that massively outlevel your own is discouraged. If this happens, you may be asked by the badge mod to revise your team. Inherited Pokemon that your character has had for a while and are the same level as the rest of your character's team are fine to use!

!!! Remember that you must fight all four members of the Elite Four and Champion Lance in a row. You may heal your Pokémon between battles and take a short break, but you cannot leave without ending your challenge.

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[strings_theory]

Character: Jolyne Cujoh | strings_theory
Badge/Gym Leader: LET'S PUNCH SURGE
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Here using specifically Ermes, Emporio, and Primeape
Battle Details: THIS IS THE GYM WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR. Ermes is going to be the fun thing to be using the majority of the time given she's straight up a ground type and will be laughing at everything Surge's team tries to do. Plus the fact that Ermes has stamina that raises her defense if Surge is stupid enough to use physical attacks against her. Which, uh, given the non-electric attacks most of these pokemon have? Is gonna be hilarious. And a lot. She's primarily going to wreck their shit via earthquake and superpower on the magneton.

For funsies she might just use Emporio or Primeape against the Magneton. Probably Emporio who will just kind of use fire blast or inferno to make quick work of the steel type.

Primeape is literally just there for backup on the magneton.

Character: Jolyne Cujoh | strings_theory
Badge/Gym Leader: Erika
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Here and using Jotaro, Emporio, and Stone Free
Battle Details: HEY LOOK, HAVING A TON OF FIRE TYPES HELPED.

The primary MVP here will be Jotaro, who is an angry-ass fire bird that does not appreciate this crap what-so-ever. If Erika won't hit him directly then he'll hit them directly via acrobatics and flame charge to abuse the ability he has with flame body to burn these suckers.

Emporio is there for fire support backup, primarily with usage of fire blast or inferno.

Stone Free is back-up specifically for tangrowth and bellossom if needed since bug types seem to have fun against them which means ample use of swords dance and x-scissor.

Jolyne didn't come to play.

[breakyourlife]

Character: Steve Palchuk | breakyourlife
Badge/Gym Leader: Boulder Badge (Brock)
Elite/Regular: Regular!
Team: Over here! (Squirtle [lvl 36], Totodile [lvl 38])
Battle Details:

Most of Steve's current regular team are either too weak or noooooooot that great against rock types. He finally seems to be getting the idea that sometimes a good type match is better than having those extra levels, so he guesses this is a good time to try out some of his water types he hasn't had much chance to train yet.

His Squirtle is his main bet here since he has a wider pool (ha!) of moves. Hydro Pump is going to be his primary move, but if the lower accuracy it proving to be a bit too problematic there's also Aqua Tail.

If taking out all three by himself takes too much then Steve's Totodile is on standby with Water Gun.

[strings_theory]

Character: Jolyne Cujoh | strings_theory
Badge/Gym Leader: Janine
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Here and using Jotaro, Butterball, and Emporio
Battle Details: Jolyne is on a tear, man. And by tear I mean abusing type advantages for funsies.

For the most part, Butterball will be taking the center stage since he's now a Slowking and raring to prove himself properly. He will mainly be slapping things down with psychic because he's an asshole, though this will be after boosting the hell out of his special attack with nasty plot. This team didn't come to play.

Backing up Butterball will be Jotaro who will be primarily abusing brave bird, acrobatics, and flame charge. Emporio will also be there if needed and would be using fire blast and inferno.

Character: Jolyne Cujoh | strings_theory
Badge/Gym Leader: Sabrina
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Still here and using Stone Free, Lilith, and Lil' Bastard
Battle Details: OH SHIT POKEMON SHE HASN'T USED BEFORE OR IN A WHILE.

So the primary damage dealer is absolutely going to be Stone Free who with her bug typing will laugh at two thirds of Sarbina's team. She will absolutely be using sticky web to slow these idiots down, swords dance to up her attack, and then murdering people with x-scissor.

On the backup is Lilith who will be kindly using crunch as much as humanly possible to be a dickhead.

Now, the problem Mr. Mime is precisely why she brought Lil' Bastard with her. Weak to poison types? Hell yeah, seviper. He absolutely will be abusing coil and swords dance before going for the kill via poison jab.

[insidescoop]

Character: Carly Nagisa | insidescoop
Badge/Gym Leader: SOUL BADGE
Elite/Regular: REGULAR TEAM
Team: Let's Go- ...With Aegislash! ...And also Kyusei.
Battle Details: Not too long after arriving in Viridian, Carly needs a distraction. Is it hypocritical to seek distraction in combat right after her talks with Connie? Maybe So. But she's here and Janine is going to have to deal with it.

This is basically an All Red Buster Show. Steel types can't get poisoned unless Corrosion is involved, and Carly is fully aware of that advantage- beyond that, it's time to make use of what the sword has. Headsmash ought make Extremely fast work of Crobat, and while it means Carly will be using a hyper potion, Red will be using King's Shield the immediate first move after doing so just to be safe.

If Crobat still hangs on, it'll be as simple as a few ghost and steel moves, both of which won't have any troubles going in.

From there it's the two bugs. Aegislash luckily has Aerial Ace- not very strong, but effective enough. It also has retaliate, along with Stabs in the form of Iron Head and Shadow Sneak- and if it looks like it's tight, they'll break out Destiny Bond.

From here of course, that's why Kyusei is around. Ground moves will hit the two remaining pokemon on the team hard, and with his abilities and defenses he should hold his ground pretty great.

Character: Carly Nagisa | insidescoop
Badge/Gym Leader: MARSH BADGE
Elite/Regular: REGULAR TEAM
Team: Let's Go- ...With Aegislash Again! But also Gourgeist.
Battle Details: What, like Janine would be the last one? Definitely not!

And Red Buster?? YOU AGAIN??

Red Buster is kind of painfully perfect for this fight. Dark and Ghost moves, the latter of which are of course STAB moves, will make solid work of Espeon and Alakazam- Shadow Sneak and Night Slash of course being the primary options here. But when Mr. Mime comes out there's even More opportunities-

Because now Mr. Mime is displaying a Steel Weakness. Iron Head will be putting a heck of a dent in the clown, and beyond that if Red seems to be in a spot they have plenty of stat boosting moves alongside a shielding move.

And of course, with all these ghost weaknesses, Boo is here to carry the backup- if Red Buster goes down, they'll be right here to tank it out and land some phantom forces.

[strings_theory]

Character: Jolyne Cujoh | strings_theory
Badge/Gym Leader: Blaine
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Here using Ermes, Butterball, and Goldie
Battle Details: I'm so sorry, Blaine.

Ermes with be the one primarily used here because, good lord, everything is weak to ground. Her main target will be the magcargo with the four times weakness to ground and as always taking advantage of stamina. As for moves, breaking out the tried and true mixture of earthquake and high horse power.

Butterball is the primary backup in case it becomes necessary, using a combination of nasty plot to raise his special attack before using water pulse.

If Goldie is needed then she'll just be using waterfall. It's fine. This is fine.

Character: Jolyne Cujoh | strings_theory
Badge/Gym Leader: Blue
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Here and using Stone Free, Butterball, Dickhead, and Gum
Battle Details: 'SUP, HERE TO YELL OBSCENE THINGS AT BLUE BEFORE/DURING/AFTER BATTLE.

Stone Free will be one of the biggest players here as she'll be taking on the Exeggutor and Rhydon. Primarily by being an absolute dick and abusing sticky web, swords dance, and x-scissor. This familiar yet?

Dickhead is here to be an absolute asshole as usual and has since learned rain dance to boost both Butterball's later water type shenanigans and thunder the hell out of both the pidgeot and the gyarados.

Butterball is handling things by using nasty plot and then using psychic on the machamp while using water pulse on the arcanine.

Gum is here primarily as back-up and healing stuff as needed via life dew consistently and healing wish if it becomes necessary.

[scaly_monsters]

Character: Diego Brando | scaly_monsters
Badge/Gym Leader: Plain|Whitney
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Chary, Clara and Catch a Wave
Battle Details: First of all, this is back dated to March 27th, sorry for such a delayed submission, rosters are only updated to that date!

Secondly, Deigo is going to approach the fight rather tactically, using a mix of direct attacks with some addition of stat reduction moves and some status moves, though he is going to focus on mainly brute force. He will be using Chary, the Primarina, to offset the issue of Fairy here. In battle his directions are firm and commanding, but he is not needlessly harsh on his pokemon and will offer them praise for well timed moves and express consternation at any exceptionally large damage to them as well.

[conniemaheswaran]

Character: Connie Maheswaran | conniemaheswaran
Badge: Zephyr
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Chandrahas the Aegislash, Naga the Dragonite, and Nemean the Luxray
Battle Details: Despite the level disparity between her own Pokémon's and Falkner's, Connie is taking this match dead seriously. (She needs to show off to Akane, after all.) First, she'll bring out Naga the Dragonite and have her use Safeguard, since Noctowl's Hypnosis could be a major setback for her team. She'll then switch out Naga for Nemean the Luxray to avoid Noctowl's Synchronoise, and Nemean will use Charge, upping his Special Defense to weather Noctowl's primarily Special-based moveset then go for a one-hit KO with Thunder Fang due to Noctowl's low Defense. If that doesn't work, Nemean will continue Charging then Thunder Fanging to try and outlast Noctowl through constantly-increasing Special Defense.

After Noctowl's taken care of, Connie will bring out Chandrahas the Aegislash and use her King's Shield to block Honchkrow's first attack—Falkner's second Pokémon has a surprisingly formidable Attack, and Connie would rather be wary than have one of her Pokémon taken out unexpectedly, and King's Shield will decrease Honchkrow's Attack by a lot. Afterwards, Connie will command Chandrahas to use Swords Dance while she's in Shield Forme, powering up while it's in a state that Honchkrow's reduced Attack will find difficult to scratch. She'll then pull out all the stops: a Head Smash at super effectiveness with an even more titanic Attack stat than Honchkrow's while powered up by Swords Dance. If Honchkrow is somehow still standing after the Head Smash, Connie will call back Chandrahas, bring out Nemean again, use his Intimidate ability to bring down Honchkrow's Attack further, and finish the bird off

(While Chandrahas is using Swords Dance, Connie will take out a training sword and begin going through a sword form in perfect synchronization with Chandrahas's own dance, ending with a stroke with enough force behind it to snap the training sword in half when Chandrahas uses Head Smash. She has to show off, after all.)

For the final sortie, Connie will bring out Nemean to bring down Pidgeot's Attack with Intimidate and to use Electric Terrain before switching him out for Naga, who will take advantage of the Electric Terrain setup to do some slick acrobatic maneuvers, take to the sky, and being ORAORAORAORA-ing Pidgeot with a series of Thunder Punches. With a huge disparity in power levels and Electric Terrain, this shouldn't take long, but Connie's a firm believer in finishing a battle with style.

[asmywitness]

Character: Tyler Huang | asmywitness
Badge/Gym Leader: PLAIN BADGE
Elite/Regular: REGULAR TEAM
Team: These kiddos - specifically Caltrops, Teller and Football (with a side order of Isis)
Battle Details: AIGHT SO, Isis is technically his Service Pokemon, so he'll be keeping her out of her Pokeball the entire time, but she won't be an active participant in battle. Until later; we'll get to that.

Teller will be opening the show, theoretically versing off against Girafarig but openly against anyone. He will be in psychic contact with Tyler for his commands, and so neither will openly indicate what attacks will be incoming. They'll open with Future Sight, to work out where their opponent will be, and using that knowledge to step into a position where Teller can slam down a Headbutt before using Hypnosis to knock them out, and spamming them with Nightmare until they either faint or wake up; if it's the latter, then he'll wail on them with Pound, Headbutt and Psybeam to get some space back between them to try and hypnotise them again.

Caltrops will be switched in as soon as that Clefable comes out, and thanks to her intense physical defences, will probably manage to tank a hit or two; just for long enough to quickly use Autotomize twice, as well as Magnet Rise, which will make her a zero-pound, four-foot cannonball, and use Rapid Spin to launch herself off the ground, across the stadium at mach speed and fire Mirror Shots and Zap Cannons wildly at her target; if she happens to run into it, then she'll use Self-Destruct with no warning. And if Clefable survives, she'll dive in and do it again >8D

Football is technically somewhat overlevelled, as he's a stolen Pokemon and disobedient to boot; but that's not Tyler's problem. He's going to use Isis to Psychic-ally control Football remotely against Whitney's Miltank and going full-tilt physical attacks with a focus on Low Kick, Dual Chop and Seismic Toss, and Revenge when the Miltank gets a hit in first. (Notably, these will not be as expertly performed as if Football was using them himself, and the Machamp will look notably distressed about this situation at all times.) This may or may not be illegal, and Tyler doesn't care.

[notyourgoddess]

Character: Maya | notyourgoddess
Badge/Gym Leader: Fog /Morty
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Cataclysm | Meowstic (Lv.100), Knowledge | Beheeyem (Lv.100), Eridium/Eri | Sableye (Lv.100)

Battle Details: A team that is mostly weak to psychic pokemon? Yes please. Type advantages where she can use them.

Maya will set Cataclysm against the Gengar. Not only does she have psychic attacks but also one or two ghost and dark attacks to use to switch things up.

Next is the Misdreavus. She'll throw Eri who will use her ghost and dark attacks.

Lastly, Knowledge will go after Haunter with her psychic attacks.

[breakyourlife]

Character: Steven Palchuk | breakyourlife
Badge/Gym Leader: Earth Badge (Blue)
Elite/Regular: ELITE.
Team: Over here! (Swampert [lvl 100], Skuntank [lvl 100], Pidgeot [lvl 100], Arcanine [lvl 100], Miltank [lvl 100], Donphan [lvl 100])
Battle Details:

So it turns out even Blue's regular team is too much for his current party as things stand, and if he's going to break out his level 100s he might as well go all out, right? Heeeee's probably not ready for this, but he's spent a few days stressing over which of his 100s would be good against which of Blue's 100s. He more or less knows what moves he wants to use. There's much more thought here than he usually puts in. He even tried to turn his arm into cheat sheet only to sweat it off. So, uh... sorry. He's turned up extremely stressed, sweaty, and covered in ink.

More practically, he's invested in four Hyper Potions he'll be using as needed. This excludes those who already have their own healing moves!

Beaky the Pidgeot will be facing Venusaur first. She'll mostly be using Fly since Hurricane has a nasty habit of missing. She'll also be using Roost to regain health, and maybe a few Sand Attacks if Venusaur is causing her too many problems. If her health gets too low, Steve will have her use U-turn to switch into Stink Bomb the Skuntank. If it comes to that, then hopefully it won't take more than a Flamethrower to finish Venusaur.

Next up, it's Blastoise vs. Miltank. In the strong chance that this Blastoise is a boy, she's going to use Attract, and Toxic because he's learned it's handy to have poison in play. After that she's going to be using Thunderbolt and Seismic Toss to try and take the Blastoise down. She has Milk Drink if things start looking a little rough for her.

When Charizard makes an appearance, it's time for the unfortunately named Buttsnack to make his appearance. Mega Swampert is probably unnecessary here, but since Mega Stones are allowed in Elite matches he's gonna go for it anyway. Surf's up, plebes. And by surf we actually mean Hydro Pump. I'm going to take the liberty of assuming this is a rather short battle, but later, rinse, repeat as needed.

Buttsnack's staying out for Tyranitar, with Earthquake and Hammer Arm being his favored moves. If staying out for two Pokémon in a row proves too much even with Hyper Potions then it's time for Skuntank. This is not ideal since Tyranitar has resistance to literally every single one of his moves, but hooooopefully he can finish it off with Explosion before his own weakness to ground type moves causes problems. If not, Bessie is the backup-backup plan with Surf (actual surf this time) assuming she's got enough health left. Ellie the Donphan does have Earthquake in absolute worst case scenario. Hopefully it won't come to that though since she's needed later.

Good Boy Blaze (Arcanine) is going to come out against Pidgeot. He has Howl to raise his attack, and Thunder Fang for those super effective hits.

Finally, if they manage to make it all the way to Jolteon, it's Ellie the Donphan's time to shine. The plan here is basically try and knock it out as quick as possible with Earthquake. Nothing fancy here.

[scaly_monsters]

Character: Diego Brando | scaly_monsters
Badge/Gym Leader: Morty | Fog
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Clara, Catch a Wave and Blackmore
Battle Details: Diego is going to start out with Clara, his Drampa here, trying to focus on Extrasensory to take advantage of her massive special attack when up against Haunter. Against Misdrevus he will keep with Clara using Glare to try and paralyze, as well as light screen for defense, while using twister and fly to attack and keep out of range as much as possible. Once Clara is getting low on health, or if she faints, he will swap out for Catch a Wave, his Lapras, and focus on moves to either confuse or put his enemy to sleep, then attacking, while using life dew to keep Catch a Wave going. He'll follow the same trend for Gengar, if Catch a Wave is still doing well. If she gets low, or faints from a hit, he will bring out Blackmore, a Dragonair, to hopefully mop up the last of everything. Blackmore isn't his strongest pitch for this fight, so if he's being pulled out things are tight, and will use Thunder Wave to paralyze Gengar and then use Outrage to try and end the fight... and will try to keep it up as long as he can. As before he will be free with praise for all of his pokemon when they land critical hits, and express concern when they are hit, or especially if they are knocked out.

Character: Diego Brando | scaly_monsters
Badge/Gym Leader: Falkner | Zephyr
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Silver Bullet
Battle Details: Diego knows he's got a leg up for this gym, and he's not ashamed to show his pride, as he brings out Silver Bullet, his Zebstrika, and hands out Sparks, Discharges and and Shock Waves like they are candy and it's Halloween. He throws some other moves in for flavor, like Stomp or Flame Charge. All in all he knows he has the upper hand and he's going to use it. He's just as noticeable in his praise to for critical hits, and still worries when serious damage is taken, but with his level of confidence here the latter are less obvious as before.

[standless]

Character: Jonathan Joestar | standless
Badge/Gym Leader: Morty
Elite/Regular: REGULAR TEAM
Team: With Scylla, Bruford, and Guinivere! Notably, no one on Jonathan's roster has been updated beyond the date of the challenge.
Battle Details: wow hes gonna gym,

An odd choice of first gym, but here he is about to face Morty! While Scylla is the first listed, she won't be the first Out however- instead that honor goes to Bruford. Much as none of his moves will be STABs in this fight now, he does have Power Trip- which is especially handy against Haunter. Depending on how things go- as naturally, Hone Claws is being used repeatedly to buff up that particular move- Bruford may well stick it out the whole fight...

But just in case; against Misdreavus, Scylla is up should Bruford fall. She has no official bonuses to add, but she does have a decent amount of strength- and Sing, for that matter. Sing will be the first thing she uses if Bruford falls before Gengar's turn as well- it's easier to fight from the lower level end when your opponent is counting mareep.

And of course, with that in mind that's why Guinivere is here! Another pokemon with no particular advantage, the Noivern is nonetheless pretty solid for the battle; it helps that she has Moonlight, which is definitely going to keep her healthy in a pinch- between that and a few good Bites, she should be all good to wrap this one up!

Character: Jonathan Joestar | standless
Badge/Gym Leader: Falkner
Elite/Regular: REGULAR TEAM
Team: Eudyptes! Ursa!
Battle Details: And now he goes from Morty to Falkner???

Not that he Needs badges, but he Does need cash, especially if he wants to not put those earnings from the farm to waste. Jonathan naturally opts to bring out his two Ice types for this fight- who are, tragically for Falkner, a wee bit overleveled for the match. Ice being Ice, and Flying being Flying...

Well there's not much to be said. Sorry Falkner, but Jonathan really wants to be allowed into that Sprout Tower.

[strings_theory]

Character: Jolyne Cujoh | strings_theory
Badge/Gym Leader: Whitney
Elite/Regular: Regular (I swear not curbstomping)
Team: Here using parasect, Nunes, and sirfetch'd
Battle Details: HEY, WE OUT HERE IN JOHTO NOW.

Jolyne's bringing in some new heat and that is going to be fun to see. Her tactics in yelling things that are not attack names will continue.

Parasect is the primary go-to for girafarig and will be abusing effect spore to cause either poison, paralysis, or sleep on contact if this thing decides it's a good idea to physically attack it. As far as moves he'll be using mostly fury cutter and giga drain. Also will be making liberal use of aromatherapy if status conditions pop up on the rest of the team.

Nunes is mostly there to deal with clefable but is also back-up for miltank if need-be. For the former she will be abusing toxic to the max stages it can go, and poison jab. If needed against miltank there will be copious usage of revenge as well as max levels on toxic. Hell, she'll have Nunes use toxic on the miltank either way.

Sir Fetch'd is only there for miltank. It will take advantage of steadfast if miltank happens to flinch. Other than that we do have a swords dance set and an iron defense set that will lead into brick break.

Quick side-note: I'm putting this in early because otherwise I'll forget, she won't be going after Whitney until Friday. sjdlfkej

[sleepallthewayhome]

Character: Newt | sleepallthewayhome
Badge/Gym Leader: Rainbow/Erika
Elite/Regular: Elite
Team: Ripley | Arcanine (Lv. 100), Hicks | Midday Form Lycanroc (Lv.100), Flame | Charizard (Lv.100), Pyre | Blaziken (Lv.100), Sleepy | Munna (Lv.100), Reliable | Rapidash (Lv.100)

Battle Details:

Newt's first elite battle so she's going with the team that is weak to fire. Fire is a great confidence boost for her. She's also made sure to pack a few spare hyper potions and revives just in case. First Elite battle and all that.

Against the Shiftry, Newt will send out Ripley. She will use Extreme Speed first of course. The plan is FIre attacks, lots of Fire attacks. Flamethrower is a great move and Newt will use it a lot, mixing it up with Fire Fang and a few uses of Take Down. When the Shiftry gets to a lower health level, Riply will start using her one Fighting move, Reversal. Shiftry is also weak to fighting moves so hopefully the use of this will take it out.

For the Jumpluff, Newt will breafly switch tactics and bring out Hicks. The Jumpluff is weak to Rock as well after all so Newt will be using her one Rock pokemon for this. Hicks will of course start with Accelerock to make the first attack. Hicks will mostly be focusing on damage dealing Rock attacks such as Stone Edge and Rock Tomb, the later also hopefully reducing the speed of the Jumpluff. However he will also be using Dark and Normal moves such as Crunch or Rock Climb, lowering defense and hopefully confusing the target.

Next against the Victreebel Newt will be going back to the kill it with Fire plan and be bringing out her Charizard, Flame. Flying/Fire and they have a weakness to both? Yes please. As it is her favourite move, Flamethrower will be used a lot. However they will also be throwing in Air Slash to mix things up as well as as many Fire attacks they can get in there. Inferno and Heat Wave and hopefully the other pokemon gets a few burns to help the process along.

Against Bellossom is Pyre who again...fire but they also have some Fighting attacks and the Bellossom is at least damaged normally by those so that's okay then. Newt will be be using a lot of Blaze Kicks and Fire Punches, steering clear from the attacks that can damage Pyre as well, unless totally necessary. Luckily they also have some tricks up their sleeves like Mirror Move and Normal attacks like Slash. If she does need to though, Newt will pull out Flare Blitz and/or Brave Bird but only if the other pokemon is at low health themselves.

For the Roserade, there's another switch up as Newt brings out Sleepy. So we've heard you're weak to Psychic attacks? Hello. Yawn and Dream Eater are going to be used together throughout the match to gain back HP and also damage the appointment. The rest of the moves will be things like the move Psychic, Zen Headbutt and also Psybeam, hopefully this last one will cause confusion. Also Future Sight to hit them two moves after. Just a lot of Psychic attacks here today. Sleepy is a lot more dangerous then she looks.

Lastly for the Vileplume next is going back to fire and bringing out Reliable. She will start with Quick Attack first, get things started with a bang. As well as using Fire attacks such as Fire Blast and Inferno (which Newt will no doubt be using quite a lot), they also have some other type of attacks. Since the Vileplume is damaged normally by Bug and Poison, Reliable will use her Megahorn and Poison Jab attacks. Hopefully the opponent will be poisoned by that last one. Flame Wheel will also be used and really Newt is going to try and take this last opponent out with as much fire as they can possibly get away with. It's kind of her thing.

[wonderland_vogue]

Character: Lydia | wonderland_vogue
Badge/Gym Leader: Falkner
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Here using Lussios, Crystal, and Disas
Battle Details: Lydia's bored, might as well try her hand at this mess.

So this is a battle she doesn't really care about, but she might as well try. Because extra cash is good, she guesses.

Crystal is going to be the primary here mostly because of her secondary ice typing, but also being primary bug typing isn't great. But she can probably be fine by using tailwind to make sure everything can out speed the birds, aurora veil to lower damage from moves, infestation on every single pokemon to cause damage, and copious amounts of blizzard and aurora beam. She's mostly there for noctowl and pidgeot.

Lussios is for honchkrow mostly and will be using calm mind to up special attack, double team to not be hit, confusion to be a dick, hypnosis to further be a dick, and moonblast to actually damage.

Disas is just there as back-up given will-o-wisp will lower physical damage, and for some reason she knows thunderbolt.

Character: Lydia | wonderland_vogue
Badge/Gym Leader: Whitney
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Here using Crystal, Eclipse, Edward, and Nova
Battle Details: This is going to be less easy.

Crystal is out here for girafarig abusing tailwind to speed the team up, aurora veil for damage mitigation, infestation on every pokemon she can, and then hitting with bug buzz for major damage.

Eclipse is the best strategy for the clefable. While she's a good few levels lower, she does at least have a poison subtype to deal with clefable even if she has no poison moves. She'll primarily be using confuse ray, hypnosis, and night shade. If or when the clefable is dealt with, Eclipse will stick around to inflict curse on the miltank. And, hey, if she doesn't die from using curse then she'll also abuse perish song and see how that goes.

Edward is here for crowd control and the miltank. He'll be coming out as Nova given how illusion works. But it'll be quick to see he's not the arcanine. Embargo will be used if the miltank has a held item or to keep Whitney from healing the damn thing. Hone claws to up his attack, leer to lower miltank's defense, foul play to damage. The special thing about Edward, however, is he will be using torment the second rollout begins to happen. One full use of rollout is enough, Whitney.

Nova is here if things get dire since he has a good level advantage. Intimidate will pop to lower physical attack. Burn up will actually be used to do damage and also change arcanine's typing to typeless which will be key in not taking extra damage from rollout. After that there will be copious amounts of flare blitz, flamethrower, and extreme speed.

[insidescoop]

Character: Carly Nagisa | insidescoop
Badge/Gym Leader: BROCK
Elite/Regular: REGULAR TEAM
Team: ZERO, BABY! GO! Local Quagsire and Gourgeist on hold,
Battle Details: WE HAVE YOUR NUMBER BROCK

WE HAVE IT WE'RE COMING FOR YOU,

Carly was worried about if she'd end up with no choice but to curbstomb Brock, but it turns out by the time she reached Pewter, dear Zero was just leveled enough to be ready for the Rock Type Gym!

How appropriate given their origins. As it stands, the curious thing is ready for their TV Debut- Carly taught them a few HMs to roud out the move pool more seriously, which means that thanks to things like Surf and Whirlpool, the battles should go rather nicely. And if things look tight, that's what Protect is for!

And well, if Brock makes the mistake of taking out the Dracovish thennnnnn Carly has curbstomping type advantages ready in the form of Boo and Kyusei. Whoops.

oh god oh boy here she go

[insidescoop]

Character: Carly Nagisa | insidescoop
Badge/Gym Leader: Blaine
Elite/Regular: REGULAR TEAM
Team: AAAAAAAAAA anyway she's using Kyusei.
Battle Details: Ahhh Blaine... With a team of level 70s it's already looking tight, but Carly only needs One to handle this fellow.

Namely Kyusei. Sure, Red Buster or even Evey could probably step up as necessary, but are they? Kyusei has water. And earthquake.

Also, Carly probably just breezed through whatever nonsense quiz he threw up there, with a few tricks of her own, so-

Character: Carly Nagisa | insidescoop
Badge/Gym Leader: Blue
Elite/Regular: REGULAR TEAM
Team: AAAAAAAAAA anyway she's using everyone Except Zero.
Battle Details: Ahhh but Blue! Blue is where the tricks come in!

With a full varied team, Carly considers this to be if anything practice for the E4- sure, the E4 will probably have a singular type deal going on themselves, but the fact is they'll probably all be clever enough to work around this.

So this? This is a test. Exeggutor being first up, it's actually Boo who will be coming out to begin with. The first trick of the day is Trick-or-Treat, to get rid of any STABs the pokemon could launch out. From there, ghost was already going to be especially effective- but now it's even handier! Particularly since if Boo starts flagging, Red can be sent out to handle the rest.

And speaking of the rest- while Boo and Red both have their own ways to handle fighting types, Evey is the one being brought out to deal with Machamp. As a fairy type with plenty of same-type moves, the little milcery deserves the chance to show her stuff- slipping and sliding all around the poor muscle 'mon until it falls under the chaos and sparkles.

The switching doesn't stop here either- Rhydon is a perfect target for Carly's quagsire, and it'll only take a few runs of surf (thank you, HMs) to deal with.

Of course, once Gyarados is out the same switcheroo method of battle is needed. This time, it's nothing Blue hasn't likely seen though- as Boo goes out, they start off with Trick-or-Treat yet again, continuing the 'remove stabs, add weakness' goal. As Boo is fairly tanky, she should be able to handle at least a few hits from the gyarados as well- but worst case, Red is coming right in there to clean house.

And for that matter, Red's sticking around for the Pidgeot as well! Red's ghost moves might not mean anything, but Substitute, Snore, and a good number of Swords Dances will even those odds mighty quick- using Head Smash is a risky move, but at this point there's only one pokemon left in Blue's team, and Red wouldn't be facing them anyway.

No, that's all Kyusei for the Arcanine, and what a Kyusei moment it'll be. Pretty near anything Kyusei can do will smother the pooch, making the final battle for Blue's team a cakewalk.

E4, here she comes! (After prom, after,)

[strings_theory]

Character: Jolyne Cujoh | strings_theory
Badge/Gym Leader: Morty
Elite/Regular: Regular, I am so sorry
Team: Here using Butterball, Lilith, and Ermes
Battle Details: God, this is going to be a massacre.

Butterball will be taking point on the majority of this nonsense. Butterball is simple and straight forward by using nasty plot to raise his special attack all the way up and then just blast everything with psychic. He's not here to play. Also has heal pulse if he needs to, because of course he does.

Lilith is primarily backup due to her dark typing. If she should be needed she'd be using crunch primarily and embargo to laugh at Morty forever.

Ermes is here for one reason and one reason only and that's the damn gengar. Iron defense will be liberally used along with earthquake, which should make the gengar hilariously easy to take down.

She had to do it to ya, Morty, sorry.

[fingersandteeth]

Character: Steven Durante | fingersandteeth
Badge/Gym Leader: LET'S BEAT MISTY (I mean we're in Cerulean already might as well stop at the Gym on the way home)
Elite/Regular: JUST REGULAR THANK YOU
Team: Fangorn the Phantump (Lvl 50), with Charlotte the Galvantula (Lvl 41) as emergency back-up
Battle Details: Honestly? This is Fangorn's fight to win or lose. He's got all the type advantage plus 10-15 levels on Misty's. Charlotte's mostly just here in case he needs to get switched out temporarily to heal--which he might, because even though he's definitely making use of HP-draining moves to keep healing throughout the fights, he's also going to use Wood Hammer to end fights fast--and because she also has type advantage and is about the same level as Misty's.

ANYWAY. Steven wants to be able to control who he's facing, so whenever Misty's pokemon enter battle, Fangorn will be using Ingrain to keep them there, the seed them with Leech Seed for that sweet, sweet slow HP drain. His basic strategy here is to use Wood Hammer to stomp hard on his opponent and then use Horn Leech to restore even more HP from it.

Since Golduck is a straight-up water poke, he won't be deviating much from the basic strategy outlined above. With Lapras, since it's vulnerable to Fighting moves, he'll likely throw in some Rock Smashing on its shell, thanks to Armin very kindly letting him borrow said HM. With Starmie, since it's vulnerable to Ghost moves, he'll likely toss in a bit of Phantom Force as well.

HOPEFULLY Charlotte won't need to sub in, but if she does, she'll be using Electroweb and Electro Ball in tandem, with some Bug Bite against Starmie if needed.

Character: Steven Durante | fingersandteeth
Badge/Gym Leader: hitting up Erika in Celadon while he's still in Kanto
Elite/Regular: dear lord just the regular team plz
Team: William-the-Bloody the Woobat (Lvl 35) and Charlotte the Galvantula (Lvl 41)
Battle Details: Okay. I know what you're thinking. Aren't William and Charlotte a wee bit underleveled for this battle? And it's true. They are, especially William. But here's the other thing: they're both resistant to Grass and this is a Grass gym. So we're going to try this anyway! Also, all of Erika's team is vulnerable to Flying and two of them are vulnerable to Bug, so these two crazy kids should have a fighting chance. And honestly, Steven just wants to get cleared for Flying out of battle.

SPEAKING OF FLYING, William is going to do a lot of that specific move to avoid getting hit as much! Thanks to Armin lending Steven his HMs, he's got that one now--he's just not cleared to use it out of battle. Which, you know, is why we're here in the first place. With fifteen uses of Fly, that averages to five per gym 'mon, although he may use more on Jumpluff for reasons we'll get to in a sec. He'll also be spamming his other flying moves as much as possible: Gust, Air Cutter, and Air Slash. If any of them are female, he'll also use his Attract to make them more reluctant to attack him.

If at all possible, William will be the only one of the two facing Jumpluff, since Jumpluff ain't vulnerable to bugs although thankfully it isn't resistant either. But once we're on Tangrowth and Bellossom, then Charlotte will switch in whenever William needs a moment to rest and get healed, so she can use her Bug Bite and the X-Scissor that Steven got at the Goldenrod department store for her to inflict damage against them too, as well as her Sticky Web to lower their speed.

Steven's brought some potions, so hopefully through regular switching out coupled with their type advantages, William and Charlotte will ultimately carry the day, despite the 10-15 and 4-9 level gap. It just, you know, might take a while and be a little bit grueling. IT'S FINE.

[breakyourlife]

Character: Steve Palchuk | breakyourlife
Badge/Gym Leader: Thunder Badge (Lt. Surge)
Elite/Regular: Regular!
Team: Here! (Dubwool [lvl 55], Alolan Meowth [lvl 55])
Battle Details:

Fluffbutt the Dubwool is coming out first, mostly using Headbutt against Electabuzz. He'll be having her use the same strategy against Magneton, switching to Double Kick if that resistance to normal type moves gets too annoying. When her health starts getting low then he'll have her use Reversal up until the point she faints.

Whether it's against Magneton or Raichu, once Fluffbutt faints he'll be sending out his Meowth, Cheshire. He'll use Toxic before anything else before switching to Dark Pulse and Foul Play.

Character: Steve Palchuk | breakyourlife
Badge/Gym Leader: Rainbow Badge (Erika)
Elite/Regular: Regular!
Team: Here! (Braviary [lvl 85], Galvantula [lvl 68])
Battle Details:

Brave Buddy the Braviary is going to be his main play here. No special strategies. He's relying on type and level advantage. He might use Hone Claws a few times, but mostly he's going all in on Fly and Sky Attack. If things to start looking bad for him at any point, Steve will have him use Brave Bird with the intent of dealing a big chunk of damage even if it does mean Brave Buddy has to faint.

Six Eyes is here as back up since Galvantula has bug for its primary typing. Hopefully Toxic and Bug Buzz will see them through anything that's left.

[strings_theory]

Character: Jolyne Cujoh | strings_theory
Badge/Gym Leader: Pryce
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Here using Joan, Laila, and Lilith
Battle Details: FUCK THIS GYM.

But no, really, this is probably the one gym she'll actually have issues with since ice is a pain for her overall.

But Jolyne will be primarily using Joan to abuse the fighting weaknesses that all three of Pryce's team has. Joan will mostly be using swords dance to up her attack, iron defense to raise her defense, and then using meteor assault and brick break.

Laila is there as back-up for fighting moves as well and would be mostly using close combat and stomping tantrum as needed.

Lastly there's Lilith who would only be used against mamoswine. Nasty plot would be used to raise her special attack before abusing inferno to put it into the ground.

[shiro2hero]

Character: Shiro | shiro2hero
Badge/Gym Leader: Vermillion & Celadon | Lt. Surge & Erika
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Roster here
Battle Details:

Lt. Surge
As he told Armin, earlier, Shiro leads off with his Marowak, and its ground-based moves. He's relying on Marowak's resistance to electric attacks more than its offensive abilities, to wear down Surge's pokemon more than anything. He also has the Tropius on standby, holding an apicot berry he picked up while talking to Allura at prom. Using that, and Natural Gift to give her a ground type attack, she's the second go-to for this fight. If that fails, the rest of Shiro's team isn't particularly strong or weak against electric attacks, so it's brute force ho!

Erika
Shiro promised Krieg he would use his Incineroar here. And that's what he's going to do. Letting the big muscle cat burn her way through her opponents, or supplex them into submission. He figures she can probably hold her own against Erika's pokemon, but if not, he defaults to his combination of his Gengar and Gallade for status-changing moves, most likely hypnosis and light screen, before bringing out his Aggron to clean up the crowd.

There's a theme here. Use type advantages, and if not, steamroll with your lvl 100 Mega Aggron.

[fingersandteeth]

Character: Steven Durante | fingersandteeth
Badge/Gym Leader: TIME TO MILK BEAT WHITNEY
Elite/Regular: oh my god just regular plz
Team: Charlotte (Galvantula 49), Fail Whale (Wailord 56), and El Diablo Verde (Hawlucha 43)
Battle Details: OKAY SO. Steven had planned to wait until next week to milk face Whitney, to give El Diablo time to learn Flying Press but UNFORTUNATELY his boyfriend is being a six foot toddler and so Steven's challenging the Gym this Friday to take his mind off what a bitchy baby Handsome Jack is being.

Now, because Whitney is a damn dirty cheater her Normal gym regular team is actually two thirds full of dual type pokemon whose other typing counteracts Normal's only real weakness: Fighting. Which means that Steven has to be strategic about this. So! We'll just go in the order the team is listed under the badge and explain Steven's plans for dealing with each one of them.

For Girafarig, whose other typing is Psychic, Steven uses Charlotte, the plucky spider who helped him get through Misty and Erika's gyms through her Electric and Bug attacks respectively. It's the Bug attacks that he'll be using today. She starts by spinning a Sticky Web around the battleground (which should also cut the speed of Clefable and Miltank if they go later since I believe it remains for the next opponent), then uses String Shot to further immobilize and lower Girafarig's speed so that she can hit it with Bug Bite, Fury Cutter, and X-Scissor.

Clefable's got Fairy, which is a Problem because Fairy's vunerable to Poison and Steel and while Steven does have Pokemon with those typings, said Pokemon are also the ones he does crime with. He doesn't want to risk them being recognized if they end up on TV. But what he does have is one huge asshole of a whale with a single Steel attack and in the end? That's really all he needs.

That's right, we're pitting Fail Whale against Clefable! Our favorite whale comes in first with a Noble Roar, which he then follows up by filling the gym with Mist. After that? Well, it's time for Fail Whale to Heavy Slam himself against little Clefable. Given that he's ten times the weight of the little pink guy, it's sure to do a lot of damage. And he'll repeat that move as many times as necessary.

And then. Finally. That damn Miltank with Rollout. Now it's finally El Diablo's chance to shine. He does a Sword Dance to raise his fighting spirit! Then Rock Smash (thank you Armin) to punch, Low Sweep (thank you Celadon Department Store) to kick, and Submission to grab the Miltank and drive it to the ground. And, of course, Roost to recover his health from what he lost with Submission and any damage Miltank did. Lather, rinse, repeat as often as necessary. Hopefully that will be enough, even though El Diablo is still technically a handful of levels below Miltank, but if not, Fail Whale also knows Rock Smash (thanks again, Armin) and can jump in smash Miltank as well.

And... hopefully that's enough! If not, HE WILL BE BACK. He lives here. He can challenge the gym any time.

[asmywitness]

Character: Tyler Huang | asmywitness
Badge/Gym Leader: Storm Badge
Elite/Regular: Regular-ass team
Team: Team here! Specifically using Isis, Teller and Jester.
Battle Details: Tyler might be at a somewhat severe level disadvantage, but he has the type advantage here, using two psychics and a ghost to take advantage of Chuck's limitations, and he's hoping that plus strategy will be enough.

He'll be opening with Isis against the Hitmonlee, spamming Leer and Confuse Ray to dizzy and weaken the Hitmonlee before she blasts it repeatedly with Psyshock, and slams it into the ceiling and walls with Psychic. If it gets too close, she's good enough at Teleporting that she ought to be able to escape any incoming attacks. She'll be withdrawn immediately once the Hitmonlee faints, or she does. Either way.

Against the Hitmonchan he'll be using Hypno, and spamming the hell out of Future Sight to look swag as fuck while he avoids the speed punches. As soon as the Hitmonchan is close enough to get a proper view of it, Teller is Hypnotising it and Zen Headbutting it into the ground, using Nightmare and Wake-Up Slap until it's awake, then repeating that until it faints.

If Teller survives, he'll continue that against the Poliwrath. Otherwise, Tyler will be bringing out Jester who will immediately use Curse, before hiding in Shadow Sneak - while the attack itself can't hurt Poliwrath, it's perfect for setting up Will-O-Wisp, Disable and Thunder Punch until Poliwrath faints of its curse.

Character: Tyler Huang | asmywitness
Badge/Gym Leader: Zephyr Badge
Elite/Regular: Regular team
Team: Team here, but he's mostly using EVA, in its Frost Form, with Dexter for back-up.
Battle Details: After spending three and a half days travelling here from Goldenrod, he's not wasting time on strategy. There's no style here, he's just spamming Double Team so he can fire off Blizzards and Thunderbolts until this is over. If he really needs to he'll bring out Dexter to go bird-hunting with Thunder Fang and Inferno.

[strings_theory]

Character: Jolyne Cujoh | strings_theory
Badge/Gym Leader: Clair
Elite/Regular: Regular team
Team: Here using Gum, Dickhead, and Demon
Battle Details: So this gym is going to have the fun of Dickhead being out and being the usual asshole he is. By that I mean setting up rain dance against the gyarados (that seems a bad idea) before spamming the fuck out of thunder. Screw that.

Now, the star of the show here is going to be Gum who is here to deal with the other dragons. There will be copious amounts of cosmic power, minimize, and sing to cause the most awful garbage on the face of the Earth before just moonblasting everything.

Demon is here to come out before Gum to set up misty terrain and as back-up. In the case of the latter he would be using charm, sand attack, and also moonblast.