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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[armoredsoul]

Character: Alphonse Elric | armoredsoul
Badge/Gym Leader: Falkner for the Zephyr Badge!
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Eddie, Helios, and Beryl
Battle Details: Eddie will be heading the charge here, obviously, due to both type and level advantage. Helios and Beryl are on standby to run interference with status moves and stalling tactics in case Eddie takes some really serious hits.

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[callbacks]

Character: Dave Strider | callbacks
Badge/Gym Leader: Jasmine
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Wiglaf (Dedenne L:96), Gigantor (Golurk L:85), Wart (Gallade L:100), Streex (Garchomp L:100)
Battle Details: Dave actually did his homework for this one and asked the people around the MooMoo Farm and Olivine proper what Jasmine's Pokémon are and how to target their weaknesses. While Dedenne aren't the most powerful fighters around, he's banking on Wiglaf's much higher level and type advantage to take out her Skarmory and relying on his Gallade's Fighting-type moves to take out her Magneton. That leaves Golurk and Garchomp's powerful Ground-type moves to wipe out her Steelix.

Character: Dave Strider | callbacks
Badge/Gym Leader: Chuck
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Breeze Nuts (Altaria L:97), Ronzoni (Dragonite L:70), Turkey Leg (Braviary L:60), Wiglaf (Dedenne L:96)
Battle Details: In the interest of giving Wart a break after such a grueling battle against Jasmine, Dave's focusing on Chuck's weakness to Flying-types rather than Psychic. He leads with Altaria in order to knock the first Pokémon quickly and then lets his Braviary get some experience in, since he doesn't often have him on hand. Then it's up to Dragonite, with his sturdy build, and Dedenne to take out Poliwrath.

[indigo_league]

Badges approved!

[coolskeleton_95]

Character: Papyrus | coolskeleton_95
Badge/Gym Leader: Falkner for a Zephyr!
Elite/Regular: Regular Team!
Team: Right here!
Battle Details: Papyrus wants to rely on Thunder Fang and Ice Beam for most of the battle. His frustration with his previous loss and Falkner's utter DISRESPECT for puzzles has him on a bit of a warpath. He feels Herculanum is at a high enough level that he can fall back on him if some critical hits get in.

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[mttbrandlegs]

Character: Mettaton | mttbrandlegs
Badge/Gym Leader: Falkner
Elite/Regular: Regular Team
Team: The comments to this post contain his team!
Battle Details: Since Mettaton's pokémon don't have type-advantages, he's trained them for cunning, endurance, and power in this batttle! He'll use Silky as his tank for as long as he can, relying on an opening Bide and then switching to Dragon Breath for possible paralysis and Sp. Attack damage.

If Silky is KO'd, then he'll switch to Blooky, his Shellos, as a buffer, using its generally buffed HP and Sp. Def to help him hang on and pick at Falkner's defenses just long enough...

When Blooky inevitably fails due to his low level, out will come Frisky, his Espurr. Frisky's well rounded statwise and while underleveled at 27, still dishes out strong moves in the Special category (Psyshock and Psybeam). Mettaton will forgo defensive play for an all-out assault at this point in a mad break for victory!!

Mettaton's main focus play here is to KO Falkner's Honchkrow before having to send out Espurr. Things'll go belly-up if he fails, since there's a type disparity there.

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[dashdash]

battle ready next week, let's do this!! (๑و•̀ω•́)و

Character: Mafuyu Kurosaki | dashdash
Badge/Gym Leader: Zephyr/Falkner
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: scroll down to week 7/25/16-7/31/16
Battle Details: Her battle team consists of a Granbull (Burun;lv40), Growlithe (Anko;lv30), Raticate (Kora;lv32), and Dratini (Kao;lv10).
Raticate will be backup for all three battles if needed, chipping away at HP with crunch, hyper fang, and sucker punch.
Growlithe will handle Noctowl since they're the same level, leading with agility to increase speed, fire attacks such as flame burst and flame wheel in the middle of battle, and reversal at low HP for a last-ditch effort to knock out the opponent before she is. This will probably be a close battle since there are no clear dis/advantages on either side, so it's one where Raticate may step in.
Granbull will take on Honchkrow with her intimidate ability lowering its attack on the first turn, and relying on level and type advantage with ice fang and thunder fang. Since Honchkrow has several dark-type attacks which Granbull is resistant to, Mafuyu is expecting her to pull through with a good amount of her HP intact.
Against Pidgeot, Mafuyu will send out her Dratini first and try to get in a thunder wave to paralyze the bird as insurance, before her Pokemon is inevitably knocked out during the next turn. Regardless of if that works, after Dratini is taken down, she'll send out Granbull again to reactivate intimidate, and from there it's a barrage of ice/thunder fangs until the end of the battle.

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[armoredsoul]

Character: Alphonse Elric | armoredsoul
Badge/Gym Leader: Brock for the Boulder Badge
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Vulcan, Alder, Beryl, Helios
Battle Details: Al is leading with Vulcan, having the better defensive typing of his two main offensive choices. Liberal use of Scary Face and Bullet Punch here. If Vulcan is taken out, his next choice is Alder; rather than tanking through hits, he's aiming for a quick end to each fight with the STAB-boosted grass-type attacks. Beryl and Helios are here on standby, Helios being the very last resort should all else fail.

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[exeggutorhead]

Character: Envy | exeggutorhead
Badge/Gym Leader: Brock for the Boulder Badge!
Elite/Regular: Elite Team
Team: Chimera, Juliet, Izumi, Samus, Aristaios, Leah
Battle Details: Envy's going to be relying heavily on type advantages and speed here, and he's going to be trying to cover every kind of type advantage against Rock that he can in case there are move surprises from Brock's team. He'll be leading with Izumi, his most aggressive fighter. If she goes down due to her flying type, then the next is Juliet who's faster and sneakier. Aristaios/Izumi and Samus would be his go-tos against Kabutops and Omastar. Leah and Chimera are mainly his backups in case the others go down, since they're both heavy hitters with a Ground type advantage and some water-type moves.

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[foolishwren]

Character: Heather Mason | foolishwren
Badge/Gym Leader: Brock / the Boulderbadge
Elite/Regular: Elite!
Team: Here!
Battle Details: HEATHER WILL BE BRINGING: Godzilla (Feraligatr), Val Jr. (Hitmonchan), Alessa (Absol), Carousel (Rapidash), Sunny (Togekiss), and Arty (Furret), all level 100!

When it comes to fighting Rock types, Heather's frontrunners are naturally going to be Godzilla and Val, her resident Water and Fighting types. Zilla in particular, she's hoping will be able to hold his own through most of the battle with his tough, super-effective attacks.

But she doesn't feel safe bringing two Pokemon to a full team of Level 100's, so Alessa with her Superpower attack is third in the line-up.

After that, her final three are largely there in case worst comes to worst and her first three are knocked out of the battle. That's not to say there was no strategy in her choices, though-- Carousel and Sunny, despite being vulnerable to Rock attacks, both know Sunny Day and Solar Beam. In a pinch, Heather will bank on Carousel's high speed to set up Sunny Day and allow both her and Sunny to pummel Brock's Rock/Ground and Rock/Water types with quadruple-effective rays of sunlight.

... Aaaaand Arty's there if shit hits the fan and nothing but a pissed-off ferret spamming Surf will save the day.

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[wing_attack]

Character: Tobias | wing_attack
Badge/Gym Leader: Morty for the Fog Badge!
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: General roster, but starring Wrecks, Amy, and Angel
Battle Details: Operation: Bite Everything. No, seriously, he's going to have Wrecks bite all the ghosts possible. Should he go down, Amy can come in to clean up with Hyper Beam and Angel with Moonblast. Regal (his Braviary), Bruce (his Noivern), and Pamela (his Clawitzer) are available for general cleanup, but hopefully it won't come down to them.

... He doesn't have anything that's super great for ghosts, unfortunately.

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[indigo_league]

Badges approved! ...Though you'll definitely make Whitney cry, oops--

[monge]

Character: Komasan | monge
Badge/Gym Leader: Plain Badge, Whitney
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Noko, Komajiro, Chairo
Battle Details: Komasan's starting with his own normal-type because why not? If Noko can't flinch hax her way to victory, there's Komajiro who can sponge Clefable's fairy-type moves and use crunch against Girafarig, or Chairo who's just an awesome Pokemon in general. They are all at level 100.

[indigo_league]

Whitney will definitely be in tears, but badge approved nonetheless!

[melodlies]

Character: Kaori Miyazono | melodlies
Badge/Gym Leader: Zephyr Badge/Falkner
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Aria (Jigglypuff, l:56), Kousei (Chatot, l:50), Spike (Pikachu, l:40), Charlie Brown (Eevee, l:29), Aisu (Lapras, l:32)
Battle Details: Jigglypuff will try to Double Slap her way to victory after putting Falkner's pokemon to sleep with her Sing. If sheer slapping won't be enough to take any of them down, she'll use a similar strategy but with Chatot: Sing first, Chatter later. If singing won't get her the badge, she has an ace up her sleeve, namely her Pikachu and Lapras that would use their electric and ice moves respectively. Eevee is just...sorta here, ready to Quick Attack/Tackle anything.

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[hashtagafreakingghost]

Character: Ashley | hashtagafreakingghost
Badge/Gym Leader: Plain Badge
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Beatrix (Nidoqueen, lvl 35), Jadis (Froslass, lvl 42), Arwen (Sylveon, lvl 46), Bram (Crobat, lvl 56)
Battle Details: SO LET'S PRETEND THIS BATTLE HAPPENED LIKE LAST WEEK OOPS

This is usually where I do a detailed blow-by-blow of the battle but I've been on hiatus for a month so please take pity on me. BASICALLY Ashley thinks that this battle will be easier than it is and brings in an under-leveled Nidoqueen! She's got some nice Fighting moves, so this'll be a breeze hahaha no, Girafarig is a problem and Ashley immediately just calls her back and resorts to some old faithful favorites, meaning Arwen (her Sylveon), Bram (her Crobat), and Jadis (her Froslass). Switching between the bunch of them, especially Jadis when she remembers the whole Normal-attacks-don't-effect-Ghosts thing. She'll bring Beatrix the Nidoqueen back out to try and give some of her honor back against Clefable, but basically it's those three entirely, with a heavy emphasis on poisoning for Miltank.

[indigo_league]

We'll pretend you got the badge like last week then, too!

[in4apounding]

Character: Penny Polendina | in4apounding
Badge/Gym Leader: Fog Badge - Morty
Elite/Regular: Regular Team
Team:
Aegislash, "Junior" - lvl 60
Aegislash, "Teale" - lvl 86
Blissey, "Taffy" - lvl 66
Vaporeon, "Precious" - lvl 91
Metagross, "Iris" - lvl 100
Galvantula, "Amber" - lvl 100

Battle Details:
The default strategy here is Aegislash setting up with Autotomize and Swords Dance before spamming Night Slash or Shadow Sneak. The weaker of the two against Morty's Haunter and Misdreavus, swapping out for the stronger of the two against his Gengar.

Blissey is there as an emergency Normal/high-SpDef wall in case things go badly, and can attack with Flamethrower if necessary. Vaporeon, Metagross, and Galvantula are essentially present as last-ditch backup in case Penny just needs to steamroll everything with an over-leveled Pokemon.

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[mttbrandlegs]

Character: Mettaton | mttbrandlegs
Badge/Gym Leader: Hive Badge/Bugsy
Elite/Regular: Regular Team
Team: My Roster! MTT will be relying on, in order: Superstar, Silky, and Blooky.
Battle Details: (This should be a bit backdated, because before the festival event, MTT and his travelmates were around Azalea)

The star of the show is Mettaton's Pidgeotto, Superstar, who will most likely wreck with the type advantage she has, despite not being on fully equal level grounds. Superstar supports herself with Roost and shells out Gusts and Quick Attacks until she ultimately faints.

From there, Silky will probably take the rest of the battle, and if he doesn't, then Blooky will tank and whittle down the HP of whatever Pokemon withstood Superstar's assault.

Someone came type-prepared this time. ;)

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[indigo_league]

Badges approved!

[in4apounding]

Character: Penny Polendina | in4apounding
Badge/Gym Leader: Mineralbadge - Jasmine
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team:
lvl 33 Magneton, Quicksilver Screwball
lvl 65 Aegislash, Penny Jr.
lvl 88 Klefki, Bianca
lvl 91 Aegislash, Teale
lvl 100 Metagross, Iris
lvl 100 Aggron, Chroma
Full roster here.

Battle Details:
Against Skarmory, Penny's going to start off with her Klefki - opening up with Imprison to block Skarmory from using their shared status moves, then layering on Metal Sound and Spikes, alternating between them until they've been used three times each, if possible. At this point she’ll use Heal Block before switching out for her Magneton; it's underleveled, but Penny is counting on Skarmory being able to deal neutral damage at best. Magneton will use Thunder Wave, Electric Terrain if possible (if Skarmory’s initial attack was either a non-damaging move or didn't do much damage), and then spam Thunder Shock until either Skarmory faints or Magneton is too hurt to continue safely battling.

Jasmine’s Magneton and Steelix will be met with Penny’s two Aegislash, using Rock Smash and Sacred Sword. The lack of Pokémon following Steelix will be met with mild surprise and disappointment.

Metagross and Aggron will be held in reserve in case any of the above tactics go badly, and will use any super-effective moves available if called in.

Character: Penny Polendina | in4apounding
Badge/Gym Leader: Stormbadge - Chuck
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team:
lvl 54 Gyarados, Sapphire
lvl 65 Gligar, Lavender
lvl 79 Charizard, Rory
lvl 91 Aegislash, Teale
lvl 100 Florges, Ruby
lvl 100 Galvantula, Amber
Full roster here.

Battle Details:
Gyarados will get sent out first against Hitmonlee, setting up a couple Dragon Dances and then using Ice Fang, Aqua Tail, or Strength. Hitmonchan will be met with Gligar, who’ll use Sand Attack at least once before using Sky Uppercut and Acrobatics, using U-Turn to retreat and send out Charizard if necessary. Penny will at least attempt to use Charizard against Poliwrath, hoping for superior speed and high damage from Air Slash. Failing that, Penny will send out Aegislash and use Aerial Ace.
Galvantula and Florges are emergency fallbacks.

[indigo_league]

Badges approved!

[mon_dieu]

Character: Antoine D'Coolette | mon_dieu
Badge/Gym Leader: Zephyr
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Doublade, Diggersby, Pachirisu, Xatu, Weepinbell.
Battle Details: Weepinbell and Xatu are on 'confuse/sleep/paralyze/poison the enemy/weaken the enemy stats' duty, using Pachirisu to finish them off. When it comes to the 'big enemy', Pidgeot, he'll use Doublade mostly for pride. Diggersby is the back-up in case any of the others faint unexpectedly.

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[armoredsoul]

Character: Alphonse Elric | armoredsoul
Badge/Gym Leader: Misty for the Cascade Badge!
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Alder, Vulcan, Celeste, Beryl, Helios
Battle Details: Alphonse is leading with Alder as the obvious choice, going for a defensive strategy against Golduck and Starmie to blast his way through them. Lapras might give him a bit of trouble with those ice-type attacks, though, so he has Vulcan along to break that wall. The rest are mostly here as backup, with Helios as the clear last resort, though Al doubts it will come to THAT.

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[harlequinhater]

Character: John Egbert | harlequinhater
Badge/Gym Leader: Falkner for the Zephyr Badge!
Elite/Regular: Regular Team
Team: Roster! Main player in this battle is Little Foot, with Blue for backup
Battle Details: John's charging in with a Rock/Ice Pokemon that's a good 20 levels above its competition and has STAB Ice Beam. John would have to work at losing with that combination, and he wants to win. (He also has nothing with just spamming Ice Beam until the battle is over - or switching to spamming Avalanche if that runs out of PP.) Even if through sheer bad luck Little Foot goes down, Blue is a good 25 levels above Falkner's strongest, and she's armed with some powerful dragon and flying moves.

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[wing_attack]

Character: Tobias | wing_attack
Badge/Gym Leader: Jasmine, for the Mineral Badge.
Elite/Regular: Regular.
Team: Roster
Featuring Regal, Marco, Pamela, Riley, Max, and Rachel.
Battle Details: Regal is up against the Skarmory, spamming Heat Wave against the Skarmory. Marco takes on the Magneton, using fighting moves - with Rachel as backup if he goes down. Pamela is in for pure water power against the Steelix, with Riley and Max as backup. Rachel's also on general cleanup crew, taking down anything that the others weaken but can't take out.

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[sneezelikeakitten]

Character: Dipper Pines | sneezelikakitten
Badge/Gym Leader: Zephyr Badge
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: here
Battle Details: Even if at a type disadvantage, his first Pokémon on the field will be his Lucario. When/If Lucario falls, after that will be his Eevee, followed by his Seaking!

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[exeggutorhead]

Character: Envy | exeggutorhead
Badge/Gym Leader: Cascade badge
Elite/Regular: Elite team
Team: Here!
Battle Details: Envy's going to be challenging Misty with Xerxes (Luxray), Izumi (Tropius), Samus (Lucario), Aristaeos (Serperior), Melissa (Kecleon), and Lilith (Zoroark). He'll start out with Melissa to lay down a Stealth Rock and land some hits with Thunderbolt and stat changing moves, then after that play to type advantages with his electric and grass types. If necessary, he'll bring in Samus against Lapras with fighting type moves, and Lilith against Starmie with dark type moves.

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[foolishwren]

Character: Heather Mason | foolishwren
Badge/Gym Leader: Misty / Cascadebadge
Elite/Regular: Elite
Team: Here!
Battle Details: HEATHER WILL BE BRINGING: Tricia (Manectric), Hazel (Pikachu), Sunny (Togekiss), Alessa (Absol), Godzilla (Feraligatr), and Arty (Furret)! All except for Hazel are level 100 (Hazel is level 93).

The obvious choice in a Water-type gym is to bring your best Electrics, so Tricia and Hazel are the main forerunners of the team. With both strong lightning attacks as well as Signal Beam, Heather figures that they can handle most of Misty's team on their own, even that pesky Starmie.

It's the Quagsire and the Lanturn that will really be the problem, given that her only major counters to Water are Electric Pokemon (after six whole years, no Grass-types?! Really, Heather?!). Fortunately, for the Quagsire, she's bringing Sunny, whose Sunny Day + Solar Beam combo worked like a charm against Brock. Gotta love those 4x type weaknesses. As for the Lanturn, since she doesn't have anything in particular with a type advantage, she's hoping that either Tricia or Hazel can win by virtue of their other, non-Electric attacks, but if that fails, she has Alessa.

Zilla and Arty round out the team as failsafes-- Godzilla's got Fighting-type moves for the Lapras and his Crunch will serve well against Starmie if the others get knocked out too early. Meanwhile, Arty's got Thunder, U-Turn, and a few other tricks up her sleeve if worst comes to worst.

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!

[brocrux]

Character: Dirk Strider | brocrux
Badge/Gym Leader: Zephyr Badge / Falkner
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: CHARON (Lapras LVL.30), PENTHOS (Weezing LVL.68), ANNE HATHAWAY (Mime Jr. LVL.87), HATTORI (Riolu LVL.46), JOAN LIVINGSTON (Wingull LVL.35), & NICOLAS FLAMEL (Starmie LVL.75)
Battle Details: This is his first gym, so Dirk took it super seriously and probably went a little overboard with the prep. His strategy counts on CHARON taking the helm and relying on her ice moves to do a lot of damage. He'll aim to see how far he can get with just her but she doesn't have the same level advantage or speed as his others. PENTHOS would come out after her to disable. Everyone else is back-up.

[indigo_league]

Badge approved!