indigo_league | Badge Requests

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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Character: Dirk Strider |

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Badge/Gym Leader: Sabrina - Marsh Badge
Elite/Regular:Elite Team
Team: Yo.
Battle Details: The thing about Sabrina leading with Jynx is this. Obviously, Empedocles has her one turn to use Stealth Rock, which goes as usual. But Jynx, being relatively lightweight (in the literal sense) and also part ice.... is really weak to Heat Crash. This is great, because Jynx has a lot (and I do mean a LOT) of really disruptive move options. Moves like Lovely Kiss, and Wake-Up Slap, and Heart Stamp. But honestly, once Stealth Rock is set up, Empedocles only needs to be able to land a hit on Jynx once or twice, depending on how much Sabrina feels like trying to fight a losing battle against a strange new Pokemon she's probably heard about by now, since Dirk has been bringing her to every battle in Kanto.

When Sabrina sends out Wobbuffet, she's probably expecting Empedocles' traditional explosive exit. Maybe she even plans to Counter it, or set up a Destiny Bond. (Though let's be real: exploding on a Wobbuffet isn't going to take it out so easily.)

But Dirk has other plans: the first move Empedocles uses against Wobbuffet is Tar Shot.

Then the big boom.

See, Dirk's followup Pokemon is Acorn. And this is where things get... weird.

Wobbuffet is a Pokemon notorious for ending streaks. Let's just be honest. And Sabrina's been partnered with her Wobbuffet for how many years? Her prediction game is no doubt off the charts. So Dirk intends to make this as much of a nuisance as possible. Accordingly, if the Wobbuffet is female, Acorn's starting out with Attract. If not, he's leading with Fire Spin. The intention, of course, is to take advantage of Fire Spin's multiple turns of damage, now supereffective thanks to Tar Shot. More importantly, the consecutive 'end of turn' nature of Fire Spin means that it can't be Mirror Coated back at Acorn after the first turn it's used.

After that, Dirk's plan centres mostly on the use of Hypnosis, Flame Wheel, and Fire Spin to give Sabrina as hard of a time as possible predicting what she's countering. Wobbuffet's Shadow Tag means there's likely no escape for Acorn in the likely event of a final stand Destiny Bond, but that's all right. Two for two was pretty much the plan for this part to begin with.

It's at that point that things are going to get... tricky.

Sabrina's third Pokemon is generally Espeon, and Dirk's, accordingly, is PGP the Porygon2.

Yes, the "tricky" was a play on 'Trick Room.' Yes, the very next move is Conversion2--rendering PGP resistant to Psychic, if not outright immune.

In fact, PGP will continue to use Conversion2 until it lands a Ghost type. Not Dark, no. Ghost.

PGP knows Shadow Ball.

PGP also knows Recover, Magic Coat, and Signal Beam (in case Sabrina catches onto Shadow Ball and starts using Copycat.) Espeon is fast, meaning it's slow as dirt in a Trick Room, and against an opponent that resists everything it can throw (and moves like Swift and Last Resort rendered completely useless against the 'ghost' Porygon2), it mostly has the ability to screw around with PGP's stats a little and then faint... or Baton Pass out with whatever health is still has.

In either case, if Sabrina sends out Gallade or (uh, less likely) Alakazam, then PGP remains in play. Now a ghost, it's immune to Fighting moves, and Trick Room makes it faster than either opponent. This is extra good news against Gallade, since it comes with a lot of genuinely dangerous move options, like Night Slash. Magic Coat is not exactly useful against Gallade, though, meaning that after the inevitable Stealth Rock damage, PGP's strategy will be to hit it hard and fast (lol) with Shadow Ball for as much damage as possible, Recovering if it can... until, you know, Gallade crits with Night Slash, Hypnotises PGP to sleep, or else faints.

If Gallade is still around at that point, Dirk's strategy is to send out Gamehameha the Turtonator and Shell Trap Gallade into oblivion.

Once Gardevoir shows up, though, Turtonator is recalled immediately in favour of Pulse Train the Klinklang.

You know, the Steel type. With Electric Terrain to prevent sleep, Screech to lower Gardevoir's defences and Autotomise to boost its own attack and speed, plus Gear Grind to deliver the hurt, Pulse Train is Gardevoir's nightmare scenario. At best, Gardevoir can hope to Teleport out... to, uh, Espeon (if it's still around) or Alakazam, who can only barely hurt Pulse Train more than Gardevoir could.

And without Gardevoir, there's still Gamehameha. With her Body Slam, and Dragon Pulse, and Explosion.

And. Uh. Well. His Mega is still DeBeers the Sableye.... sorry, Sabrina.

In his defence, Psychic types really give him a headache.

Elite badge challenge approved!

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