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: Bruno Bucciarati |

nellacerniera
Badge/Gym Leader: Misty, Cascade Badge
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Diletta (Appletun, Lv70), Arancini (Togedemaru, Lv70), Buttons (Skitty, Lv70), Lucetta (Eldegoss, Lv70), Angelica (Hisuian Lilligant, Lv70)
Battle Details: So Bucciarati thinks he's maybe... somewhat overprepared for this one. Not that he actually thinks there's such thing as being too prepared. Most of the Pokémon he's bringing to this battle are Grass-types. Lucetta, having had her time to shine against Brock, is mostly here to act as backup to the rest.

(Note that he does not foresee needing said backup.)

Instead of opening with Buttons against the Golduck similarly to how he did in the last gym battle, he's instead opening with Diletta, who will immediately use Sweet Scent. Normally, from here, he'd launch right into having Diletta do some self-buffs (and a self-debuff, in the case of Curse's speed drop), but the risk of that Golduck using Psych Up is too great for Bucciarati to ignore. In lieu of that, then, Diletta will use Sweet Scent a couple more times before dropping a Leech Seed. Anything particularly nasty will be met with a Protect, but in between, Diletta will be alternating Seed Bomb and Apple Acid until the Golduck goes down.

Misty sending out Lapras prompts Bucciarati to immediately swap Diletta out--Lapras's secondary ice typing is bad news for a Grass/Dragon type, after all. In her place, Bucciarati will send out Arancini, who immediately uses Fake Out. With the time bought by that guaranteed flinch, the Togedemaru will also set up an Electric Terrain, to prevent any sleep shenanigans from Sing. The next step would be Nuzzle, mostly for the guaranteed paralysis. From there, Bucciarati has Arancini alternate Charge and Zing Zap, refreshing Electric Terrain or using Spiky Shield as necessary.

Now, unfortunately, there is still a Big Problem in going up against Lapras unaccounted for here: Confuse Ray. If at any point, Bucciarati's intended strategy with Arancini gets disrupted via Confuse Ray, he will switch out the Roly-Poly Pokémon and switch gears, with something that would probably be a far more foolish move if Angelica were lower-leveled. The Hisuian Lilligant will immediately use Sunny Day to activate Chlorophyll for a speed boost. Bucciarati will have her use Poison Powder next before just letting her go to town with Rock Smash, and one very carefully-placed use of Close Combat. If the sunlight fades, she'll refresh Sunny Day before continuing her pattern, and if her HP dips below 40%, she'll be using Synthesis if the sunlight's still going strong or Drain Punch if she has yet to refresh it.

(If Angelica gets hit with Confuse Ray herself, he will simply swap back to Arancini again and use that appropriate strategy.)

If Arancini's out and still standing at the end of that particular match-up, he's going to stay right there to take out Starmie. If it's Angelica that's finishing things up, she's going to be promptly switched out... for Buttons. Because of course she was going to inevitably make an appearance in this battle at some point.

In the case of Bucciarati's Togedemaru being out, it's a whole lot of the same as before--immediately jumping into using Nuzzle and setting up an Electric Terrain (it's mainly for the power boost this time). Charged Zing Zaps (and Sparks, should Arancini no longer be able to use Zing Zap) are the name of the game here (with Spiky Shields and Eerie Impulses and refreshing Electric Terrain in between), and once that Charge juice runs dry, if the Starmie is still up? Well. Starmie's a Psychic type. Fell Stinger should work just fine, even if Arancini doesn't get STAB off of it. (Of course there is still Confuse Ray to worry about...)

If Buttons comes out to play, she is, perhaps unsurprisingly also leading with Fake Out. Same ol' "flinch to buy time" idea, now with Normal-type STAB. She'll be using Thunder Wave after that to paralyze the Starmie. Tail Whip is going to be Buttons's stat-lowering move of the day as opposed to her others, considering those go after attack instead of special attack, generally, but that's mostly going to be in case Buttons needs to land a Payback as opposed to the other moves that are going to be relied on--Grass Knot and Shadow Ball. Yes, Special Attack isn't a Skitty's strong point, and no, those won't get STAB, but Starmie isn't exactly light and 80 in the power department is nothing to sneeze at!

Confuse Ray will just have Buttons switched out for Arancini and vice versa. Nothing changes about either of their strategies either way.

That being said, there's one more angle to consider with Starmie, and that is if Starmie has used Minimize too goddamn much. If Bucciarati gets sufficiently frustrated with his Pokémon's attacks not connecting, he will swap out whichever one he currently has out... for Lucetta, because she's now apparently necessary backup. She'll start out by laying down a Grassy Terrain... and then jump to her one "always accurate" move. Woe, Magical Leaf be upon ye.

Ideally, Bucciarati will be coming out of this with the Cascade Badge, but he will also be expressing his desire to face off with Misty's Elite team at some point in the future.

(... And maybe asking for some tips for training Water-types, but only if she seems inclined to give them.)

Badge approved!

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