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: Jotaro Kujo |

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Badge/Gym Leader: Volcano
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Zahand the Hisuian Samurott, Ono the Dracovish and Chomp the Drednaw
Battle Details: Look, if a strange, old man approaches you on the beach and demands you to battle, you beat the shit out of him.

Unfortunately for Blaine, Jotaro loves Water Pokemon and coming out of the ocean means he’s just trained some of his trusted aquatic companions.

To start this beatdown, Jotaro is going to send out Zahand, the Hisuian Samurott. Preferentially, Zahand will fight Magcargo (Since Magcargo struggles to hit Zahand and is even out sped by it) but it’ll stay in even if Magmortar is sent out. Zahand will open with a Ceaseless Edge to dissuade switches from Blaine. If Blaine keeps Magcargo in and if the first blow doesn’t put Zahand in danger, he’ll follow it up with a Swords Dance. Then, it’s Aqua Tail time. If it’s still Magmortar, Jotaro will send out Chomp, one of the main Pokemon he’s been training on Kanto journey.

Magmortar is the bulkiest creature in Blaine’s arsenal so to deal with it Jotaro will want Ono to deal with it. However, Ono is not a fast Pokemon (Oh no!) and Jotaro will want to take advantage of the special ability of Fishious Rend, which doubles the move’s base attack when Ono goes first. That’s why Chomp’s job is to lower the speed of Magmortar with Rock Tomb. Once Chomp harshly lowers that speed and does some good damage, Jotaro will switch him out and send out Ono. Between STAB and Ono’s dangerous attack stat, Blaine’s bulky Magmortar will likely go down.

If Blaine sends out Rapidash, Jotaro’s going to send out Chomp again and have Chomp use Jaw Lock to stop it from switching out, since Rapidash is the only one of Blaine’s team that has no way to hit Chomp for Super-Effective damage (Steel is neutral on water/rock). To slow down Blaine’s Rapidash, Chomp will use Rock Tomb to make life miserable for it, and then follow up with Liquidation for both power and a chance to knock it out. If Chomp goes down, Ono gets back into the fray and does more Fishious Rends.

Jotaro’s water Pokemon hit hard. With some smart and good switches, hopefully JoJo will turn the tides of this beach showdown in his direction.

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Character: Jotaro Kujo |

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Badge/Gym Leader: Earth
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Kakoyin the Ariados, Ono the Dracovish, Zahand the Hisuian Samurott, Crimson the Armarouge, Jerry the Pikachu, Natsumi the Pawmot
Battle Details: Jotaro’s team has done a lot of growing and Jotaro’s much more confident in his battling skills – so it’s time to kick ass.

Despite being weak to 5/6 Pokemon, Jotaro will send in Kakoyin the Ariados first. Kakoyin is usually more one for showing off in a contest but he’s more than willing to spin a yarn for battle - That yarn being Sticky Web! It’s Kakoyin’s job is to lower the speed of all of Blue’s Pokemon, giving Jotaro’s heavier hitters much better chance of taking out Blue’s team. If somehow Kakoyin isn’t immediately knocked out, he’ll also set up a Toxic Thread to lower Blue’s Pokemon and poison it too.

Once set up is done, Jotaro will start the brawl with Zahand. Regardless of what Pokemon is sent out, Zahand will use Ceaseless Edge to set up a layer of spikes. If the opponent is Rhydon or Arcanine, Zahand will keep fighting, else he’ll switch (although, if the opportunity arises, he’ll use Encore to lock Blue’s Pokemon into a non-advantageous move). The strategy for Rhydon and Arcanine (which are both bulky and defensive Pokemon, with one having access to intimidate) is to Swords Dance it up and start using Aqua Tail. Both Pokemon struggle to hit Zahand’s good typing and Zahand can steal some cheap KOs with Sucker Punch and/or Aqua Jet.

In case Zahand goes down at any point, JoJo has Ono in the back. Kakoyin’s has set up Sticky Web which has made it more likely for Ono to go first, meaning Fishious Rend has double its base power. Not only that, but Ono is a Strong Jaw Pokemon, meaning any Pokemon facing Ono (Especially Rhydon and Arcanine) is in for a bad time. If Ono is forced to face the Exeggutor then it’s ready to Crunch but otherwise it’s the mean fish attack all the way.

Ono only struggles against Gyarados and Pidgeot, who don’t get the speed drop from Sticky Web. That’s where the rats come in. Jotaro’s trained up Jerry, the Pikachu, who’s ready to use his crazy speed to Nuzzle and paralyse both the Gyarados and Pidgeot before doubling down with Thunderbolt and Electro Ball. Electro Ball is dependent on speed and takes into the account the speed drop from paralysis, so Jerry is going to be hitting hard as well as fast. If Rhydon is switched in, Blue is in for a nasty surprise since Jerry can use Surf too (but maybe Blue could tell since the Pikachu is carrying a surfboard).

But rats, as in a plural? Yes, because Jotaro has brought in Natsumi the Pawmot too. Since Pikachu is fragile, Pawmot is here to break backs if her on and off partner goes down with Wild Charge. Additionally, Natsumi can use Revival Blessing to restore one member of JoJo’s party to full health if they faint. Jotaro will try and avoid using this for a fair fight but… hey, Blue didn’t say he couldn’t do it.

This exclusive revive is mostly going to be saved for Crimson, since she’s the only one Super-Effective against both Machamp and Exeggutor. Crimson has Will-O-Wisp to lower Machamp’s scary attack stat and reduce the damage of any dark moves about to hit her. Then, she can set up with Calm Mind and go to town, using Flamethrower to clean up Exeggutor and Psyshock to finish business with Machamp.

And maybe, just maybe, that’s the Kanto Gym Challenge done!

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