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.

<b>Character:</b> CHARACTER NAME | <user name="JOURNAL"> <b>Badge/Gym Leader:</b> NAME OF THE BADGE OR GYM LEADER YOU'RE CHALLENGING <b>Elite/Regular:</b> ELITE TEAM OR REGULAR TEAM <b>Team:</b> LINK TO POKEMON ROSTER <b>Battle Details:</b> MISCELLANEOUS DETAILS ABOUT YOUR TEAM/CHARACTER THAT'LL HELP YOU IN THIS BATTLE (recommended!)

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[indigo_league]

Badge approved x2!

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[indigo_league]

Badge approved x2!

[quizzak]

Character: Romelle | quizzak
Badge/Gym Leader: Falkner, Zephyr Badge
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Here! Bibarel (Level 36), Litwick (Level 32), Ampharos (Level 34)
Battle Details: Romelle's going to lead with Lieutenant the Bibarel, in which he'll lead with Yawn to put Falkner's Noctowl to sleep on its second turn. Noctowl will be able to get a hit in on Bibarel in the meantime but fall asleep immediately after. Romelle will use that opportunity to Rollout that Noctowl up until it faints.

Romelle will let Captain, her Litwick, get his chance to shine next. He has a speed disadvantage though, so Honchcrow will be able to get a good hit on him with Pursuit. It's STAB and super effective, so Litwick's health will be...notably chunked. Litwick will manage to get a Will-O-Wisp on it though before Honchcrow effectively knocks him out.

That's when she'll send in Juniberry the Ampharos, who will (combined with the burn) take out Honchcrow with Electro Ball. Juniberry will also face off against Pidgeot and tank the first hit while also Electro Ball-ing it to victory.

[lioness_rampant]

Character: Allura | lioness_rampant
Badge/Gym Leader: Faulkner / Zephyr Badge
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Here! ⇨ Altaria, Rattata, and Pachirisu
Battle Details: This is Allura's first gym battle so she's nervous but excited!

She starts off with her best boy Blaytz the Altaria. We start the show with Mist to obscure the field and protect against status changes, as well as Perish Song. That gives Noctowl an opportunity to strike. Blaytz will follow up with Ice Beam until Noctowl is knocked out by either the ice or the Perish Song countdown.

Klaizap the Rattata takes the field after this to face down Honchkrow. She's hopefully still covered by Blaytz's Mist, and opens up with a Quick Attack, then Focus Energy. After that, she'll use a combo of Super Fang and Return, which packs a punch based on Allura's strong friendship.

Last up is Trigel the Pachirisu, who is slightly underleveled but has the type advantage. She takes a hit early, but comes back strong with Thunder Wave to paralyze Pidgeot. With Pidgeot unable to move, Trigel is free to Electro Ball it to her little heart's content.


Badge/Gym Leader: Bugsy / Hive Badge
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Here! ⇨ Raboot, Altaria, and Rattata
Battle Details:

Gyrgan the Raboot is first on the field, Growling at Pinsir to lower its attack and then following that up Ember to keep its distance if it can, since Pinsir is a very physical attacker. Flame Charge comes next, which increases Gyrgan's speed. If Pinsir uses a Fighting type move, Allura counters with... Counter, which doubles the damage done to Pinsir. Gyrgan has the type advantage, so even if he gets scuffed up, he should come out on top.

Next it's Blaytz that takes center stage. Blaytz is higher leveled, and his Flying type puts Heracross' Bug/Fighting at an extreme disadvantage. He comes out of the gate with Perish Song, and follows that up with Aerial Ace until Heracross drops.

Blaytz remains on the field for Scizor, using the same strategy as before, but if he gets knocked out, Gyrgan will come back out to deal a wicked blow with his Flame Charge. Klaizap is here to serve as backup if necessary.

[marmoron]

Character: Keith | marmoron
Badge/Gym Leader: Storm Badge/Chuck
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Doublade, Mimikyu and Skarm
Battle Details:
Against Hitmonlee, Doublade will take the field to take advantage of an immunity to fight type moves. There'll be a quick turn to set up with Swords Dance to boost its attack while Hitmonlee goes for some non-STAB attacks, and Doublade will be attacking with Aerial Ace and following that up with a quick Shadow Sneak to score the KO. Doublade will be staying in against Hitmonchan to take advantage of its attack boost and getting a hit in with an Aerial Ace, but won't appreciate a probable Fire Punch. This is where Friend (Mimikyu) takes over. Also having a handy immunity to fighting and a STAB fairy type move in Play Rough to dish out a good pummeling means Friend gets the upper hand fairly easily. Poliwrath is also getting a good old Play Rough to the face. Skarm will be there to finish the job with a massively overleveled Air Slash if Friend needs to be switched out.

Badge/Gym Leader: Mineral Badge / Jasmine
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Greninja, Doublade, Houndoom
Battle Details:
Against Skarm, Keith's going in with Doublade and adopting a similar strat of using its defenses to tank resisted flying and steel stab attacks from Skarmory while boosting up with Swords Dance. After using Swords Dance twice, Doublade will be going on the offensive using Sacred Sword to score strong but neutral damage on Skarm until the birb goes down. It'll be launching a sacred sword at Magneton as well, but considering Doublade's lower special defense, it won't be doing as good of a job tanking powerful electric moves. Greninja will clean up with a priority water shuriken to deal the rest of the damage to Magneton. Against Steelix, Greninja will be hitting Surf to take advantage of steelix's lower special defenses. But considering Greninja's pretty frail too, this one probably comes down to the wire with another priority Water Shuriken to help secure the KO. Houndoom is largely there for moral support and will only be switched in to unleash a massively unnecessarily overkill Inferno attack if things are going south.

[notyourgoddess]

Character: Maya | notyourgoddess
Badge/Gym Leader: Plain
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Nimble | Shiny!Mienshao (Lv. 100), Rakkbat | Golbat (Lv. 100), Phasekey (Kiki) | Klefki (Lv. 100), Corrode/Corrie | Golisopod (Lv. 66)

Battle Details:

Maya is going to go after the strongest first and will send Nimble her fighting type against the Miltank. She will be using her fighting attacks to get the pokemon out as quickly as possible.

Next, Maya will set Corrode/Corrie on the Girafarig as she has both bug and dark attacks.

This leaves the Clefable who will be attacked by Rakkbat with poison attacks.

Phasekey/Kiki is there for back up if any of the others go down as she as a few tricks like Draining kiss and Imprison to use.

[onebetter]

Character: James Griffin | onebetter

Badge/Gym Leader: Fog Badge
Elite/Regular: REGULAR TEAM
Team: here
Battle Details: Lillipup is sitting this one out as far as possible because a normal type Pokémon in a Ghost gym only gets you so far. Meowstic is likewise taking a backseat, putting James at some disadvantage. Staraptor will lead the offense with flying type moves instead. He outlevels the gym leader's team by a good 30 levels and should be able to do some good damage. Next is Datrix moving in with a spam of Brave Bird. The finishing performance goes to Dedenne who likewise is leagues ahead of the gym in levels. Lillipup and Meowstic will only pinch hit in emergency with their non-disadvantaged moves.

Badge/Gym Leader: Mineral Badge
Elite/Regular: REGULAR TEAM
Team: here + 8 levels because this happens early December
Battle Details: Lillipup is back in the action for this and combined with Staraptor, James has a highly trained combination of Pokémon with a ~30 level advantage. That should do a lot of good with brute force alone. Meowstic will see strategic use in this battle by being switched in to cause Confusion in the opposing Pokémon. Dedenne and Datrix are on back-up as usual with a preference for Datrix because she's not a fairy type.

[indigo_league]

Badge 1 approved, badge 2 denied. :(

The in-game announcement that the Gen 8 starters could begin to battle, level up, and evolve only came out on November 21st- up until this point, Gen 8 starters could not earn levels, and thus there's no way that Allura could have a Raboot at level 30. At most, we're willing to say that they could start to battle and level up on the same day that Pokemon Sword/Shield came out- the 15th- but even then the highest level Allura's Scorbunny/Raboot could possibly reach is 19 if it was captured at level 3 and earned all 8 levels a week!

Feel free to resubmit a request for the Hive badge once you've taken this change into account!

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[indigo_league]

Badge approved x2!

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[indigo_league]

Badge approved x2!

[lioness_rampant]

That makes sense! I think what I'd prefer is just to keep the strategy detailed in the above application and wait for Raboot to be sufficiently leveled, if that's okay!

pretend i didnt forget to submit badge requests for several months oops

[pkemeter]

Character: Egon Spengler | pkemeter
Badge/Gym Leader: Boulder Badge
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Faraday (Trevenant, Lvl 100), Miller (Cradily, Lvl 65), Doc Holliday (Clawitzer, Lvl 62)
Battle Details: We're just going with simple type match-ups, people. Grass and Water vs. Rock makes for a happy Egon. Well--perhaps happy is a little extreme. Also, his team is...significantly overleveled for this gym because Egon doesn't really have too many babies with him. Sorry, Brock.

Badge/Gym Leader: Cascade Badge
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Faraday (Trevenant, Lvl 100)
Battle Details: Egon's going to be trying something a little different for Misty. He tried doing the one-Pokémon thing with his Shuckle for a few gyms--why not use his starter Pokémon, his pride and joy and beautiful daughter, Faraday?

It's unfortunate he doesn't know about Ford's whole thing with Ninetales--otherwise, he'd probably try something a little different.

Faraday's a grass type, so hopefully that'll give her an advantage. Not to mention that she's, um, literally Level 100, but any Pokémon can be worn down over time. His main strategy is to have her use draining moves such as Giga Drain or Horn Leech so that she'll be able to sustain herself throughout the battle. Hone Claws will be used in tandem with Protect to buff up her attack power so she'll be able to take her enemies down with ease.

[indigo_league]

Badge approved x2!

[breakyourlife]

Character: Steve Palchuk | breakyourlife
Badge/Gym Leader: Fog Badge (Morty)
Elite/Regular: Regular!
Team: Here! (Skuntank [lvl 55], Swampert [lvl 59])
Battle Details: Stink Bomb the Skuntank will be going up first, facing off against Haunter. He'll be using dark type moves, and with his higher level and resistance to ghost type moves he should be able to take care of Haunter without much trouble. He'll also be battling Misdreavus using the same strategy.

Buttsnack the Swampert will be taking on Gengar in the final battle, and if necessary finishing off Misdreavus.

Character: Steve Palchuk | breakyourlife
Badge/Gym Leader: Mineral Badge (Jasmine)
Elite/Regular: Regular!
Team: Here! (Arcanine [lvl 63], Swampert [lvl 59], Donphan [lvl 53])
Battle Details: Steve is starting to get the hang of some of these type match ups (kind of), and so Blaze the Arcanine will be the star of the show here. He'll be using fire type moves against Skarmory and Magneton.

If anything goes wrong against Magneton, Buttsnack the Swampert will once again be finishing it off, but ideally he'll be saved for the finale against Steelix.

In the event that doesn't pan out, then hopefully Steelix should be low enough on health that Ellie the Donphan should be able to end it despite the level discrepancy.

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[quizzak]

Character: Romelle | quizzak
Badge/Gym Leader: Azalea Town, Bugsy
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Here! Lampent (Lv 64), Bewear (Lv 74), and Ampharos (Lv 66)
Battle Details: Romelle's Pokemon are slightly overleveled for this, so she's going to let Captain the Lampent lead this battle. She's going to Will-O-Wisp all of Bugsy's Pokemon first before Captain goes in for the knock outs. Lampent is going to use Inferno on Pinsir and Heracross, though he misses once or twice, allowing Pinsir and Heracross to do some damage. Ultimately though Lampent is able to knock them both out. Scizor's 4x weak to fire though, so Romelle skips the Will-O-Wisp and goes straight for the KO with Overheat.

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[lioness_rampant]

Character: Allura | lioness_rampant
Badge/Gym Leader: Bugsy / Hive Badge
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Here! ⇨ Cinderace, Altaria, and Rattata
Battle Details:

Gyrgan the Cinderace is first on the field, Growling at Pinsir to lower its attack and then following that up Ember to keep its distance if it can, since Pinsir is a very physical attacker. Flame Charge comes next, which increases Gyrgan's speed. If Pinsir uses a Fighting type move, Allura counters with... Counter, which doubles the damage done to Pinsir. Gyrgan has the type advantage, so even if he gets scuffed up, he comes out on top.

Next it's Blaytz that takes center stage. Blaytz is higher leveled, and his Flying type puts Heracross' Bug/Fighting at an extreme disadvantage. He comes out of the gate with Perish Song, and follows that up with Aerial Ace until Heracross drops.

Gyrgan gets swapped in to deal with Scizor, dealing wicked blows with his Flame Charge and peppering Scizor with Embers. Klaizap is here to serve as backup if necessary.

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[marmoron]

Character: Keith | marmoron

Badge/Gym Leader: Bryce / Glacier Badge
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Aegislash, Mimikyu, Archeops, Haunter
Battle Details: Against Bryce, Keith's relying on a beatdown strategy using his high levelled pokemon to deal as much damage as possible. Against Dewgong, he sends in Mimikyu who will take a turn to set up a Swords Dance while Dewgong breaks the disguise. Then Mimikyu will go for a powerful Wood Hammer to deal super effective damage. Mimikyu will stay in to Wood Hammer the Lapras too, but the recoil from the move will force Keith to switch out. Aegislash will clean up with a combination of super effective sacred swords and shadow sneaks. Against the Mamoswine, Haunter will deal play out a grind game with a combo of hypnosis, dream eater and nightmare to help whittle down the mighty beast while taking advantage of a ground immunity thanks to levitate.

Badge/Gym Leader: Clair / Rising Badge
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Greninja, Archeops, Mimikyu, Skarmory, Haunter
Battle Details: Against Gyarados, Haunter will start things off with a Will-O-Wisp to cut the pokemon's attack and then go on the offense with a combination of shadow balls and sucker punches. In a pinch Archeops will be switched in to finish things off with a super effective Rock Slide. Against Kingdra, Archeops will stay in to throw off one super effective dragon claw, but will need to be switched out on account of defeatist activating after taking a hit. Enter Mimikyu who'll promptly smack Kingdra with a super effective play rough. Against Dragonite, Mimikyu will stay in on the Dragonite switch in dealing another play rough to the face. Greninja will be there to throw off a quad effective ice beam to help close out the match.

[indigo_league]

Badge approved x2!