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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[cyan_maid]

Character: Jane Crocker | cyan_maid
Badge/Gym Leader: Jasmine for the Mineral Badge
Elite/Regular: Regular Team
Team: Dinah, Poirot, August, Bettina, Madeline, Ramsay (all lv 100)
Battle Details: Considering that Jane's entire team is at lv 100 and she will primarily rely on August the Delphox and his Fire typing, she'll only use the other Pokemon in emergency, likely Madeline against Skarmory or Steelix if needed. There's going to be a lot lot lot of fire going on. Gonna melt those suckers down.

[fuelthefire]

Character: Krieg | fuelthefire
Badge/Gym Leader: Glacier/Pryce
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Blaziken, Charizard, Muk, Electrode, Exploud, Aggron
Battle Details: It's Spark Ball's time to shine! The Electrode will be in charge of zapping the heck out of Dewgong and Lapras. If it needs help, Krieg will use Whisper Bunny as a backup, but given the type matchup, chances are pretty high SB's got this. When it's the Mamoswine's turn, Krieg will swap out Murder Chicken for that sweet, sweet 2x Fire/Fighting damage.

[meteorman]

Character: Stanford Pines | meteorman
Badge/Gym Leader: Storm Badge | Chuck
Elite/Regular: Elite
Team: Claudia, Roswell, Destroying Angel, all level 100.
Battle Details: This is it. Last one. Here we go.

Like a smart person, Ford is going to bring a Flying type to a Fighting gym. Like a dumb person, he is going to send Claudia the Crobat out against Chuck's Psychic Medicham. He's going to U-Turn quickly out into Roswell, who has both Flying type Hidden Power and Shadow Ball at her disposal. Then it's Calm Mind and Psychic to take out the Machamp, with a Recover thrown in if she needs it. He plans to keep going like that through the Hariyama as well, slowly boosting Roswell's Special Attack when he can and healing her when necessary. Her Flying Type Hidden Power should also cut through the Breloom and its low special defense like a wet paper towel, especially if she's had a chance to use a couple of Calm Minds by that point. If not, he has Claudia's many Flying type moves ready for the Breloom instead.

Chuck's Primeape is capable of learning several Dark Type moves that could make things difficult for Roswell, so he'll be bringing in Destroying Angel against it instead. It'll be difficult sacrificing Roswell's stat boosts, but she'll likely be low on Recovers by then and swapping her out will be for the best. Destroying Angel will set up an Ingrain and then use a similar strategy to the one Ford employed against Morty: Sleep Powder, followed by Dream Eater -- unless the Primeape has Vital Spirit. In that case she'll stick with Moonblast supplemented by Strength Sap to regain health when needed.

Because of the Ingrain she'll be obligated to stay in against the Toxicroak until she faints or takes it down, so Ford's strategy will be to continue to Strength Sap. It won't do any damage, but it will cripple Toxicroak's high Attack stat. Ford will get it as low as he can before Destroying Angel gets taken down, and given that both it and the Ingrain will be healing her he will probably be able to get it far enough that Claudia can come back in and destroy it with a Fly or two without having to worry taking much damage.

[shiro2hero]

Character: Shiro | shiro2hero
Badge/Gym Leader: Jasmine/Mineral Badge
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Roster
Battle Details: Leading off with his Incineroar, using both fighting and fire type moves for the majority of the battle, buffing her stats with his Gallade before a turn. Tropius, Aggron and Gengar will be present as backup, favoring Gengar's hypnosis and Aggron's power (plus his Sturdy ability) if the need arises. ... Tropius is definitely the last-ditch effort here.

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

LAST BADGE

[foolishwren]

Character: Heather Mason | foolishwren
Badge/Gym Leader: Blue / Earthbadge
Elite/Regular: Elite
Team: Roster Link. Heather will be bringing her whole #1 fully-realized battle team: Godzilla the Feraligatr, Alessa the Absol, Carousel the Rapidash, Tricia the Manectric, Val Jr. the Hitmonchan, and Sunny the Togekiss. All level 100.
Battle Details: THIS IS EXCITING. For the first time ever she doesn't have to stockpile a gym team based solely on having five Pokemon that all know Fire moves for no good reason! Now, Heather could go for a straightforward type advantage strategy-- she certainly has the type coverage. But this is the last badge. And for all that she's grown since arriving, she wouldn't be Heather Mason if she didn't have something to prove.

Rather than stack the odds in her own favor by pitting her fire against Blue's grass, electric against water, etc, she wants to prove she really is the very best, like no one ever was.

So against Venusaur, she'll be sending out Val Jr.-- while not weak to it, Fighting isn't particularly stellar against Grass-types. Val does, however, have Ice Punch and Fire Punch, along with some powerful Normal-type moves.

Against Charizard, it's fire vs. fire with Carousel. A land-bound Pokemon against something wings may not always be the best idea, but 1. Carousel can Bounce and 2. Heather happened to pick up a Wild Charge TM in Vermilion City for this very purpose. Enjoy your Flying Type with a side of a billion volts, you fake dragon.

For Blastoise, Godzilla will take the helm. Unlike Carousel, he doesn't know any unexpected super-effective attacks against his own type, but he is a pillar of muscle with strong offensive moves that will work just fine-- Crunch, Dragon Pulse, Shadow Claw, Superpower... Heather's confident that her croc can take on Gun Turtle and show everybody what a REAL water-type can do.

Pidgeot gets to face Sunny, whose versatile moveset has won Heather many a Gym-battle. She's not as agile a flyer as the Pidgey line is, but Twister will throw a monkey wrench into any attempts to Fly its way out of trouble, and Ancientpower should seal the deal. Why kill two birds with one stone when you can kill just the other guy's bird with many stones? Wisdom.

Against Jolteon will be another speedy electric canine-- like Zilla, Tricia doesn't know any moves that directly counter her own type. But she is fast, smart, and should Blue make the mistake of having Jolteon use any electric moves, her Lightningrod ability will soak them up to fuel her other special attacks like Signal Beam and Flamethrower.

Last but not least, Tyranitar will have the terrible good fortune of facing the dark-type Alessa. Since earning an Absolite last year, Heather honestly hasn't utilized Mega Evolution very much. It seems like a waste of energy to bust it out for every ye olde random battle on the road, and all the times it COULD have been useful seemed to happen whenever Alessa wasn't right by her side. But for her sixteenth badge? You bet she's gonna bust out that magnificent Mega Absol with a quadruple-effective Superpower attack to end the night with motherf***ing bang.

Badge x 2

[schachmeister]

Character: Armin Arlert | schachmeister

Badge/Gym Leader: Brock / Pewter City / Boulder badge
Elite/Regular: Regular team
Team: Boris the Dewpider (lvl 40); Gus the Shiinotic (lvl49); Bastian the Kingler (lvl 60);
Battle Details:

Rhyhorn (lvl 30) VS Dewpider (lvl 40)

Armin will start this fight off with Boris his Dewpider. Now, Dewpider does have a weakness to ground attacks, and Rhyhorn is partially a ground type, but Boris has a little trick up one of his six sleeves (spider pokemon don’t have eight legs. This is weird). You see, Boris’ ability is Water Bubble. This means any water type move is doubled in power. In addition to this, Boris knows the move Rain Dance. This will increase the power of any water type moves by an additional 50%. And as Boris is holding a Damp Rock, this will increase the duration of Rain Dance to eight turns.

So, that is the standard move damage + STAB damage (as he is a water type) + the doubled damage from his Water Bubble ability + the increased power of the rain. For eight turns.

Of, and this is on top of Rhyhorn’s 4x weakness to water type attacks.

I am sorry, this technique is vile and cruel and Armin loves it.

So, anyway. Boris will enter the field and immediately use Rain Dance. After that, the whole strategy will basically be to spam the most powerful water type moves he knows. This will be Surf and Bubblebeam until Rhyhorn goes down.


Golem (lvl 32) VS Dewpider (lvl 40)

Next up is Golem. Chances are that Boris will still be out (perhaps a little battered and bruised, but still there). If it is still raining, he will immediately go back to using power water type moves. If the rain stops, he will switch to using Rain Dance to bring it out again, before going back to the watery, watery destruction.


Onix (lvl 35) VS Shiinotic (lvl 49)

Now, it is possible Boris is still standing at this point. But as Armin is a big softy who doesn’t want his pokemon to fight to the death faint, he’ll withdraw him and bring out Gus the Shiinotic. Onix has a 4x weakness to grass type moves, and Gus is a grass type.

He’s also really kind of creepy with his long, long fingers and staring dark eyes and the fact that he doesn’t make a single sound, but hopefully Onix won’t be bothered by that.

Anyway, the strategy for Gus will be rather simple. It is called Giga Drain. Which he will basically us non-stop (well, five turns, at least) on Onix, both damaging it and healing himself. Should the fight last more than five turns, Gus will downgrade to using Mega Drain. And finally to Absorb should it come to that. Also, one important note: Gus’ ability is Effect Spore. This means that should Onix use any physical attacks against it, it may be poisoned/paralysed/put to sleep.


Armin will also be bringing Bastian the Kingler to this gym in case something goes terribly wrong somewhere.




Badge/Gym Leader: Blue / Viridian City / Earth Badge
Elite/Regular: Regular team
Team: Octavius the Dhelmise (lvl 75); Amadeus the Noctowl (lvl 100); Circinus the Voltorb (lvl 100); Pallas/Perses the Binacle (lvl 70);
Battle Details:

Exeggutor ( lvl 65) VS Dhelmise (lvl 75)

Going to start strong against Exeggutor with Octavius the Dhelmise.

Exeggutor is weak to ghost attacks. Dhelmise not only is a ghost type, but it is also resistant to grass type attacks, which covers one of Exeggutor’s types.

Armin will be focussing on Dhelmise’s ghost type attacks. This means he’ll mostly be using Astonish (30% chance of making its target flinch), Phantom Force (user vanishes on one turn before striking the next, even if a target protects itself) and Shadow Ball (20% chance of lowering spell def). He will stay on this strategy until Exeggutor goes down.


Machamp (lvl 66) VS Noctowl (lvl 100)

For the next match, Armin will withdraw his Dhelmise and instead bring out his Noctowl Amadeus.

Machamp is a fighting type and as such is weak to psychic type moves. Noctowl has no particular weaknesses to Machamp and knows several psychic type moves.

Armin will first attempt to put Machamp to sleep using Amadeus’ Hypnosis (60% chance of sleep). Once he is asleep, Amadeus will either us Dream Eater (if it has any lost HP to heal) or Psychic (10% chance of loving spcl def). If Machamp wakes up, Amadeus will switch to using Hypnosis again. Should Machamp deal any significant damage to Amadeus that he cannot heal just from using Dream Eater, Armin will order the Noctowl to use Roost to restore its HP. And then it is back to the ol’ Hypnosis -> Dream Eater/Psychic combo. He might also toss in a random Confusion (10% chance of confusion) or Extrasensory (10% chance of flinch) until Machamp goes down.


Rhydon (lvl 67) VS Dhelmise (lvl 75)

For this match, Armin will withdraw Noctowl and bring his Dhelmise back out again. Should Dhelmise be significantly injured from his previous match, Armin will use the first turn to heal him.

Now, for this match, Armin won’t be depending on Octavius’ ghost type attacks. Rather, Rhydon has weakness to steel attacks and 4x weakness to grass type attacks. Octavius is a Dhelmise, so he is part grass type. In addition, he has the ability Steelwork, which means his steel type attacks are boosted by 50%

For this match, Armin will first focus on having Octavius use his grass-type moves. This means Power Whip and Energy ball (10% chance of lowering spcl def). Additionally, should Octavius start losing HP, he’ll throw in a Giga Drain or two to replenish that. And he’ll keep it up until Rhydon goes down.


Gyarados (lvl 68) VS Voltorb (lvl 100)

For this match, Armin will withdraw Octavius and bring out Circinus the Voltorb.

This one is really a no brainer. Gyarados, the poor thing has 4x weaknesses to Electricity. Circinus, being a voltorb, is all electricity.

Armin doesn’t really have a fancy strategy for this one. The plan is simply to hit quick and hit hard. He’ll be using thunder on Blue’s Gyarados until it goes down.


Pidgeot (lvl 69) VS Voltorb (lvl 100)

Armin will leave Circinus into play for this match. Pidgeot might not be as weak to electricity as Gyarados was, but still, pretty weak.

Again, no fancy strategy for this match. Just hit the bird hard and fast with every heavy electric attack he can think of.


Arcanine (lvl 70) VS Binacle (lvl 70)

For the final match, Armin will withdraw Circinus (good job, buddy) and bring out his final pokemon: Pallas/Perses the Binacle.

Arcanine is weak to both Rock and Water. Binacle is a rock and water type. So not only does Binacle have the two types Arcanine is weak too, in addition, Binacle is very resistant to both Fire and Normal attack, which is most of Arcanine’s roster.

Seeing as this is the final fight, Armin is going to pull out all the stops, knowing he won’t need to face another pokemon after this. To start off, Armin will have his Binacle use Rock Polish to boost its speed. After doing this twice, he’ll switch to having Binacle use Razor Shell, hoping it will lower Arcanine’s defence. Once that is done, here comes the Clamp, With the boosted speed, he hopes Binacle will be able to get the drop on Arcanine, thereby making it unable to attack while it gets clamped down on. And with Arcanine’s lowered defence and weakness, he hopes for a good bit of damage from this. He’ll keep on using these attacks, along with Ancient Power and surf until Arcanine is defeated.

Should Arcanine manage to defeat Binacle, Armin will try to finish off the fight either with his Voltorb or his Noctowl, mostly depending on their superior levels.

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[indigo_league]

Both badges approved! Good strategy, Armin!

[rediscover]

Character:Anna | rediscover
Badge/Gym Leader: Whitney
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Whole team is here. Grace the Gothorita, Ginger the Houndoom, and Cheeks the Pachirisu
Battle Details: Anna was maybe a little lax in getting her badges while she was staying in Goldenrod, so when she and Chloe headed out of town, she decided to make a pit stop at the Goldenrod Gym and tackle Whitney on the way. She brought Grace, who evolved recently into a Gothorita, to take down Whitney's Girafarig, and Ginger the Houndoom for Clefable. They're closer in level, so even if Whitney's Pokemon burn through them, Anna still has Cheeks the Pachirisu to take down that Miltank with his higher-level moves.


Badge/Gym Leader: Morty
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Effie the Pumpkaboo, Grace the Gothorita, Ginger the Houndoom
Battle Details: Anna goes into battling Morty with a mixture of fear and confidence; she knows type matchups against Ghost and Psychic types can be tricky, but she's also pretty sure she's brought the right Pokemon for the job. She takes Ginger in first to go up against Haunter with his strong Feint Attack and Crunch. Grace gets to go up against Misdreavus, using her Ghost-type moves to wear the Misdreavus down before sending out Effie the Pumpkaboo if necessary. Effie will then go up against Gengar.

[exeggutorhead]

Character: Envy | exeggutorhead
Badge/Gym Leader: Earth Badge/Blue
Elite/Regular: Elite Team
Team: Chimera, Ouroboros, Xerxes, Lucky, Juliet, Izumi
Battle Details: This time around, Envy is much better prepared...and still to this day feeling spiteful over his previous loss. So while he has type advantages and a balanced team, and intends to play to that, he's also going to be an ass about making it the most frustrating battle for Blue possible. He'll open with Lucky against Venusaur, immediately slamming down Embargo, followed by Spite in case Venusaur did have a good move to use (and if so, continuing with Spite until that move is gone), and then a few Nasty Plots. Assuming that type advantage and speed will keep Lucky from being knocked out, he'll end it with a powered up Inferno. If that doesn't do it, he'll follow with Beat Up.

Against Blastoise, he'll switch to Xerxes and lay down Electric Terrain, and follow that up with Swagger and three Flashes, just to make sure that even if Blastoise isn't hurting itself it's still probably not gonna hit. On the last turn before the terrain fades, he'll use Volt Switch to pull in Izumi. If Blastoise is still standing, Izumi has any number of strong Grass moves to take it out with.

Izumi's Grass type is what he's hoping will get Blue's Charizard put out on the field, at which point Envy will switch in Juliet. He'll use Acid Armor to protect against the physical attacks that would do more damage, and Aqua Ring too. He'll use a Whirlpool to do some continuous damage...and then begin the Sand Attacks, replenishing Whirlpool when it runs out. If she takes too much damage even after the accuracy lowering, he'll have her use Rest and Sleep Talk. This should take Charizard out eventually. If Juliet faints during all this messing around, Chimera will be sent out to finish the job with Rock Slide.

Whether or not Juliet faints, Envy will use Chimera against Jolteon. Chimera's ability will automatically start Sandstorm, and he'll put down Stealth Rock as well before hitting Jolteon with Toxic, and a few Scary Faces to get that HP down and also slow it down to make it easier for Chimera to aim at. Because instead of a ground move, Envy actually intends to have Chimera finally attack and score a dramatic KO with an at this point maxed out Return.

Assuming Blue's Tyranitar comes out next, Envy will actually leave Chimera in briefly for the sake of a big green dino fight, using Rock Smash to knock some HP off. But Envy knows that he'll be weak to the Ground type moves that Blue will probably get a heavy hit in with before Chimera uses Dragon Tail to knock it out and drag in Pidgeot instead to get hit with Stealth Rock. Since Chimera likely did take a lot of damage even from the one turn, Envy will switch out to Ouroboros. Attract and Glare will make it difficult for Pidgeot to do much against her, and from there she'll wear it down with poison type moves. If Pidgeot does start landing hits anyway, he'll have her finish things with Thunder Fang.

When Tyranitar comes back out, it's Izumi's turn again, and Envy will tell her to go for it, which means no more messing around and straightforward Grass Knot--at this point, it should only take one of those to finish the fight.

[indigo_league]

Badge approved x2!

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[fuelthefire]

Character: Krieg | fuelthefire
Badge/Gym Leader: Clair / Rising Badge
Elite/Regular: REGULAR
Team: Blaziken, Charizard, Muk, Electrode, Exploud, & Aggron
Battle Details: LAST JOHTO BADGE HECK YEAH LET'S DO THIS!!!

Krieg will be leaning on type advantages where he can get them, as usual, but at least half of his strategy for this one will also be about avoiding type disadvantage. He'll be hitting Clair's Gyarados up with his Electrode's various electric attacks. He'll keep Spark Ball out to take on the Kingdra, with his Muk and Exploud in reserve for poison and physical damage as needed. Lastly, his Aggron will stand front and center for the fight with Dragonite and smack it around with rock-type moves. Slag Stack and Whisper Bunny will again be in reserve should it take more than one 'mon to get the KO.

[pikapikajankenpo]

Character: Yayoi Kise | pikapikajankenpo
Badge/Gym Leader: Whitney
Elite/Regular: Elite
Team: Current Roster
Battle Details: Starting off with Raichu and using Psychic as well as Thunderbolt to soften up the first few enemies. Depending on how things go, she'll also be swapping in Mimikyu with Thunderbolt, Wood Hammer, and Baby-Doll Eyes to maintain balance. And then, she'll try to sweep the rest of them with Mega Evolving Ampharos and blaze her way to glory. There's going to be a lot of thunderbolts here, from the entirety of her team, along with Rapidash's Flame Wheel.

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[maybeitsmabelline]

Character: Mabel Pines | maybeitsmabelline
Badge/Gym Leader: Pewter City
Elite/Regular: Regular Team
Team:
Little Dipper (lv. 40)
Jungle Jim (lv. 29)
Banjo (lv. 23)
Tabby Puss (lv. 34)

Battle Details:
FIRST GYM BATTLE EVER!!!

Mabel and her team are super excited and ready to throw down with Brock and his crew. (Which is why they're coming in with matching sweaters like bosses.)

As soon as the match starts, Mabel is going to bring Banjo out and have him use Mud-Slap first chance he gets followed by Mudshot the second round. (Assuming he manages to hold out. He's a tough little guy but he's much lower level than Brock's Pokemon.) If he makes it those two rounds, Mabel's going to pull him out and toss in Little Dipper who will use Swift first followed by Take Down on 'his' next turn! This will hopefully take the Rhyhorn out which means next up is the Golem!

Mabel's going to leave Little Dipper in to start, having 'him' use Swift again before having her best little buddy use Confuse Ray! This will be where she switches in Tabby Puss who is going to attack with Fake Out on his first turn which will cause the Golem to switch, sparing Tabby a hit the first round. From here he's going to attack with a one-two combo over the next two rounds using Feint Attack and Slash to hopefully put the Golem down, toughing out the onslaught of the other Pokemon's attacks because of his affection for Mabel.

And then there's Onix.

Saving her best for last, Mabel is going to have Jungle Jim take on Brock's last Pokemon because she knows that her Tropius has the advantage here! (She's been reading!!!) She's going to have Jim use Razor Leaf first before having him slamming the poor Onix with a Leaf Tornado--if it comes to it.

After that match, win or lose, Mabel has a present for Brock!!! She made him a sweater with a bunch of rocks on it that says "You ROCK!" on it. (She worked on it the whole way through Viridian Forest~) \o/

[lordofthefries]

Character: Sasha Braus | lordofthefries
Badge/Gym Leader: Falkner | Zephyr Badge
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Jean 2.0, Lemon and Sprinkles
Battle Details: Sasha's friendship with Sprinkles has grown strong enough to where he'll obey pretty well, so she's bringing him and Lemon for type and level advantage.

She'll start out with Jean 2.0, however, to throw down Leech Seed and get that passive HP draining going on. She'll then switch out and bring in Sprinkles to Thundershock their way through the battle. If things get a little dicey for Sprinkles somehow, she'll switch him out and bring in Lemon to chip away at the rest of the team.

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

And you bet he'll love the sweater, too.

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!