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: Janine (Soul Badge)
Elite/Regular: Elite Team
Team: And so on.
Battle Details: Empedocles leads again, because so far nothing has really discouraged Dirk from doing this over and over again. He's getting a little... bored of it? Cocky and bored. But Empedocles leads with Stealth Rock, follows with Tar Shot, and proceeds to Heat Crash the shit out of poor, lightweight Crobat. Sure, Crobat has a lot of flinch-inducing capabilities, and sure, it can poison her. But she's made out of rocks and fire, and even if Crobat outspeeds her, she only needs to get in... what, three moves to finish it off? Tar Shot's effect (rendering Fire type moves more effective) makes Heat Crash super effective on what amounts to a glass cannon with no super effective options on Empedocles herself.

Against Weezing, however, her first move is Smack Down. If Weezing had Levitate, it is now groundbound until or unless Janine switches it out. Instead of doing more damage, however, Empedocles starts using Smokescreen to fill the arena with smoke and reduce Weezing's accuracy. Dirk has pretty thoroughly demonstrated his knowledge of the damage Self Destruct and Explosion can do--he's not interested in seeing that turned against him. Then she starts putting down.... Spikes? Yes. Spikes. Dirk went TM shopping, and this will be his strategy until poison or something else begins to threaten Empedocles' staying power. If Weezing has filled the arena with its own Smokescreening (god help anyone spectating, live or otherwise), so be it. He'll Self Destruct Empedocles anyway.

Because... his next Pokemon is his old buddy COS the Machoke, and she knows Retaliate. If Weezing is still on the field after that, well... it's also still Grounded, meaning it is not immune to ~~propaganda~~ Earthquake.

The entire reason she's here, though, is Toxicroak. Not that she's super effective against it or anything (well, she is, but mostly with Earthquake.) She's just really wanted to show off her prowess at the great art of Muscular Theatre and Dirk thinks she should get a chance to flex (...lol) on Janine.

Also, while eviolite boosts COS' Defence and Special Defence, her GUTS ability increases her Attack by a whopping 50% if she's inflicted with a status ailment.... like, say, poison? So with that in mind, COS throws herself at Toxicroak with the full knowledge that anything it does short of Flattering her will make her stronger.... and that she's free to use, for example, Revenge to do a ~~bass boosted~~ GUTS boosted 120 base damage. And if Dirk finds that Toxicroak has Dry Skin... that means that COS' Fire Punch will do an additional 25% damage to it, plus the chance to Burn (and reduce Toxicroak's Attack?)

Oh right, and it swapped in on Stealth Rock and a couple layers of Spikes.

Maybe this wasn't a very fair fight. Oh well.

Drapion faces the same entry hazard damage upon... well, entry, and COS will happily smack it around with a couple of Fire Punches in the hopes of a Burn before she bites the dust.

After that, Drapion faces Acorn the Rapidash... known abuser of Drill Run, Flare Blitz, and... oh, right, that obnoxious Chesto+Rest combo that Dirk so loves to kit his emotional support glass cannon out with.

When Janine sends out Arbok, though, Dirk calls Acorn back and sends out DeBeers the Sableye.

In previous battles, DeBeers has been Dirk's Mega Stone holder, but it appears that's no longer the case. (In Dirk's defence, he often had to wrestle that extremely precious rock our of DeBeers' toothy, toothy mouth.) It doesn't really matter, though. After Fake Out to thwart whatever setup (Coil? Glare? Gastro Acid?) Janine originally intended, DeBeers Disables Arbok's next move, confuses it with.... uh, Confuse Ray... and then proceeds to hit Arbok where it hurts with Zen Headbutt.

Soon, Janine is down to her last Venomoth. And Dirk still has that Rapidash.

And... uh, that's only four Pokemon out of Dirk's six.

Gamehameha the Turtonator or Salome the Mandibuzz are more than capable of cleaning up.

Character: Dirk Strider |

uber_marionettist
Badge/Gym Leader: Brock (Boulder Badge)
Elite/Regular: Elite Team
Team: And so on.
Battle Details: Empedocles leads with Stealth Rock, even though it's not going to be very effective. Why? Well... a lot of Rock types have an Ability called Sturdy, which prevents one-hit KOs. Much like a Focus Sash, though, Sturdy is rendered completely useless by the loss of even a tiny chip of health before any major damage is done.

Speaking of Focus Sash, Empedocles is wearing one. This is important because while Rhyperior is slow, Empedocles is even slower. Also, she's got a double weakness to Ground type moves. So.... in the interest of not getting Earthquaked out of existence at the word 'go,' Dirk wrapped a Focus Sash around her big craggy head.

After Empedocles comes Peaches the Smeargle. Instead of Transforming, though, she starts by making a Wish, and then... uh, Water Pulse? She's taking big chunks out of Rhyperior's health, but that's not exactly a one-hit KO strategy.

In fact, once Rhyperior is down a hefty majority of its health, she Baton Passes right back to Dirk, and out buzzes.... a Beedrill?

Oh. A Mega Beedrill.

Here's the thing about Mega Beedrill. One, obviously it's fast as shit. Two, its Ability is Adaptability, meaning all its STAB moves do 2x damage instead of 1.5x. That's basically a supereffective hit! (Did you know Rhyperior doesn't resist Bug type?)

Three, like all Beedrill, it has Fell Stinger. A 50 damage move (but with Adaptability, that's doing double damage for 100!) that, if it knocks out the target Pokemon, raises the user's Attack three stages?

Did you know that Mega Beedrill is faster than every single one of Brock's Pokemon? It also has a base Attack of 150... now boosted by three stages... and it still knows Drill Run.

Truthfully? With a little luck (or maybe without it, tbh), it's entirely possible for Mega Beedrill to sweep Brock's entire team.

If it fails to do so, Dirk has COS the Machoke and Pulse Train the Klinklang (Fighting and Steel type being supereffective against Rock. And as a bonus, both Omastar and Kabutops are vulnerable to Pulse Train's Lock On + Zap Cannon combo.)

Badge approved! x2

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