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: Joey Wheeler |

infernofireblast
Badge/Gym Leader: Elite Four - Karen
Team: "Charizard - LV100", "Dragonite - LV100", "Bisharp - LV100" , "Ceruledge - LV100", "Feraligatr - LV100", "Wailord - LV100"
Battle Details:
As a standard opener, regardless of who he goes up against, Joey would bring in his Bisharp, Legendary Knight Hermos, and throw down a Stealth Rock to start the match off. Depending on what Pokemon his opponent opened with he would then switch-out to it's corresponding counter (With the possibility of Bisharp remaining on the field, of course, should luck of the draw have his preferred matchup come-up first). While this means it might take a hit on the way out it also would mean that just about any subsequent Pokemon Karen might send out will be getting around a quarter of their health knocked-off on-arrival. With his opener delivered, though, Joey would then change his active Pokemon to reflect the following matchups:

VS WEAVILE
Against Karen's Weavile Joey would use his Ceruledge, Gearfried the Iron Knight. With Weavile being able to exploit Ceruledge's vulnerability to Dark and Ceruledge able to do the same through Fire the match essentially devolves into a battle of super-effectiveness. Opening with Flare Blitz would do massive damage to Weavile while Ceruledge's Flash Fire ability would both negate the regular recoil and activate its boost to Fire Moves. After that, rather than doing Swords Dance, he would just go into a barrage of Bitter Blades. With both Pokemon landing super-effective damage it would be a race to see who could take the other out without falling themselves, and the boosted damage of Bitter Blade would mean that Ceruledge was functionally able to fully heal itself every turn. With a massive edge like that it would only be a matter of time before his opponent fell to attrition and Ceruledge grabbed the win.

VS ABSOL
Against Absol Joey would deploy his Feraligatr, Alligator's Sword. Possessing no inherent vulnerabilities to Dark-Type moves and the ability to make use of punishing Fighting-Type attacks like Superpower the scales would already be tipped in Feraligatr's favor right from the start. Combined with the combo of Dragon Dance, Sheer Power, and Life Orb it would honestly be surprising if Absol lasted for more than a single hit. Despite the fact that Superpower lowers the user's attack value with every hit the sheer damage being dealt would be sufficient to all-but-ensure that it only took one-to-two moves to put his opponent in the ground.

VS SPIRITOMB
Against Spiritomb Joey would send out his Bisharp, Legendary Knight Hermos. While not able to do super-effective damage against the Spiritomb Bisharp has resistances to both Dark and Ghost, putting himself in an advantageous place defensively. Using Sword's Dance and Iron Head to put out solid damage while being able to shrug off most everything he receives in-turn, Bisharp would be poised to claim the win.

VS HOUNDOOM
Against Karen's Houndoom Joey would use his Wailord, Fortress Whale. With resistance to Fire and only normal damage from Dark Wailord wouldn't be at particularly large risk defensively, and would be able to make good use of his high health pool to stay in the match. With his Choice Specs Held Item and the STAB bonus bolstering his already-powerful Water Spout move, too, each and every attack he would send towards Houndoom would be devastating. Tough opponent or not, the sheer Typing mismatch should make this matchup a wash.

VS HONCHKROW
Against Honchkrow Joey would make use of his Dragonite, Baby Dragon. With weaknesses to neither Flying nor Dark and his Multiscale ability halving the damage of whatever the opponent might open with Dragonite is in a decent place defensively, but the ability to put out super-effective Electric Damage every turn is where things truly tip in his favor. With a Dragon Dance to boost his offensive power even higher a barrage of Thunder Punches would quickly widen the gap in damage output between the two Pokemon, with the 1/10 chance of paralyzing the opponent only serving to sweeten the deal. Blow-for-blow Dragonite would beat his opponent down, and come out the other side with another win for Team Joey.

VS UMBREON
Against Karen's Umbreon Joey would send-in his Charizard, Red-Eyes Black Dragon. Though neither Umbreon nor Charizard have a weakness to the other's Typing, Charizard is able to put-out a strong Fighting-Type move that allows him to exploit Umbreon's vulnerabilities and deal major damage. Using the flat damage output of Seismic Toss Charizard would be able to not only deal solid physical damage despite his normal roll as a special attacker, but the damage done by seismic toss bypasses defensive stats as well. With Umbreon's low health pool and it's weakness to Fighting-Type moves it should be a quick and clever win for Charizard.

CONTINGENCIES AND AUDIBLES
As a standard closer is the idea that plans can certainly go in ways differently than the planner intended and, in cases like these, it’s important to have your ducks-in-a-row so that you’re able to respond accordingly to how the battle goes. Like he always does in these League Battles Joey would have a stockpile of restorative items like Hyper Potions and Full Restores ready-and-waiting to use on his team should they fall low health. With the majority of his matchups favorable towards his team, too, any of his Pokemon that might be unfortunate enough to be knocked-out prior to defeating their assigned opponent would have their matchup subsequently taken-on another of Joey's Pokemon. With the majority of victories looking like they would tidy victories any of the Pokemon tapped to serve as a "Round 2" would almost certainly be in better condition than their opposition. Even if things went quite badly attrition would be Joey's friend, as each Pokemon his opponent lost would tips the scales further and further into his favor. Once the proverbial walls began to close-in on his opponent Joey would be able to control the match more-and-more, making victory all-but-assured.

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