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: Steven Durante |

fingersandteeth
Badge/Gym Leader: let's screw up Blue
Elite/Regular: ELITE!?!?!
Team: William-the-Bloody (Swoobat 100), Fangorn (Phantump 100), Fail Whale (Wailord 100), El Diablo Verde (Hawlucha 100), Piltdown (Dracozolt 100), and Iron Giant (Golurk 100)
Battle Details: This is Steven's first ever elite match, mostly because he's a practical man who really doesn't care if he's conspicuously overleveled for a gym, as long as he gets the badge he wants. However, if he wants to get those vacation tickets, he needs to play with the big boys, so here he is. It'll be good practice for the Elite Four anyway.

Steven did his research for this gym ahead of time, which is why he's matched up each of Blue's pokemon with one from his team to be its primary opponent. Assume that if they switch out, Steven does a switch as well to the designated opponent. We'll go with the order listed on the badge profile.

SO. Venusaur's opponent is William-the-Bloody, Steven's Swoobat and one of his starters! Yes, his Swoobat, rather than one of his Fire-types. RIP to Blue, but he's different. Besides, Venusaur is weak to both William's typings (Flying and Psychic) and none of its attacks are things William is vulnerable to. Anyway, William's had one main strategy since his first battle and that's to Fly, Fly, Fly and avoid being hit, so that's still what he's doing, but now that he's got Taunt, he'll be using that at the start of the battle and whenever it wears off to prevent status moves. Maybe he'll throw some Psychics in for variety.

Blastoise's opponent is Fangorn, Steven's Phantump. Fangorn is an old hand at Water enemies and his Grass/Ghost typing means that Blastoise's Normal attacks can't hit it and his Water attacks only do half-damage. Sure, the Steel ones do normal damage and Fangorn really needs to look out for that Bite, but otherwise he's doing pretty good. Anyway, he'll start with Ingrain both to control the field of battle and to make sure he's got a steady supply of low-level HP Drain, then alternating Wood Hammer and Horn Leech depending on how much HP Fangorn himself has. (When he's high he'll Hammer, when he's low he'll Leech.) If it looks like Blastoise is going to finish him off, he'll throw up a quick Destiny Bond to take him down with him.

Charizard's opponent is Fail Whale, Steven's lovable asshole of a Wailord, and he's going to start things off by hitting it with his Water Spout and trapping it in a Whirlpool at which point he'll... start throwing rocks at Charizard? No seriously, he's got Rock Tomb for a TM and Charizard really hates rocks, being double vulnerable to them. It'll reduce his speed too, which is always nice. Fail Whale will probably do a bit of Surfing, which is also nice.

Tyranitar's opponent is El Diablo Verde, Steven's Hawlucha, who's wearing a pair of Go-Goggles to protect his eyes (and HP) from Tyranitar's auto Sandstorm. Do these work on Pokemon? Unknown, but they were on the item page and it said they protect against Sandstorms, so we're going with this. Anyway, El Diablo burst onto the scene with a Flying Press, then does a frantic Sword Dance while Tyranitar is picking itself up from the ground. He'll Roost if it looks like he's going low on hitpoints and otherwise just fucking goes at Tyranitar with Rock Smashing punches and Low Sweeps to reduce its defense while simultaneously fucking him up.

Pidgeot's opponent is Piltdown, Steven's terrible chimera of a Dracozolt. ~~Honestly, he'd rather use Charlotte for this, but she's half bug, which is not good when facing birds.~~ Anyway, Thunder Shock to start everything off, then alternating Charge and Discharge to fry Pidgeot in due time.

Finally, Jolteon's opponent is Iron Giant, Steven's Golurk, who he notably used against Lt Surge back in December. Anyway, Iron Giant Mud Slaps to fuck up Jolteon's accuracy, then uses Dig to burrow underground to avoid being hit (because while Jolteon only has two attacks he's not immune to, one of them is super effective) and pop back up to smack it in the face. There may be some Earthquakes happening too! Possibly he'll fling himself around with High Horsepower and throw a Stomping Tantrum if he misses.

Fangorn, El Diablo, Piltdown and Iron Giant all have opponents with one or two attacks that are super effective against them, so there's a chance they might go down in the process of all this without taking their opponent with them. If that happens, one of the others will spell them out long enough to revive and heal up so they can go back in again. Steven's got a good stock of Revives and Hyper Potions on hand.

Fangorn's substitute is Piltdown, whose Electric attacks are strong against water. El Diablo could either have Fangorn or Fail Whale playing substitute, depending on who's got the most remaining hitpoints. Piltdown's substute, meanwhile, is Fail Whale, whose has those Rock and Ice TM attacks that will come in handy against Pidgeot. And Iron Giant's substitute is also Piltdown, whose Volt Absorb means Jolteon's Electric attacks will just heal him if they land.

Hopefully this should be enough to beat Blue and get Steven his boat tickets because hoo boy does he want the option of going on that cruise someday. And also, you know, he def wants to be let into Victory Road in time.

Edited 2021-01-29 00:28 (UTC)

Earth Badge approved!

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