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: Armin Arlert |

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Badge/Gym Leader: Clair / Blackthorn Gym / Rising badge
Elite/Regular: Elite Team
Team: Hildegard the Skarmory (lvl 100); Nemesis the Sharpedo (lvl 100); Gus the Shiinotic (lvl 100); Hannibal the Piloswine (lvl 100); Himeko the Steelix (lvl 100); Aurora the Dragonair (lvl 100);
Battle Details:

Armin is going to start off this challenge, by using his Skarmory against Clair’s Aerodactyl. Aerodactyl is a Flying/Rock Pokemon who is weak to steel. Meanwhile, Skarmory is a steel/flying Pokemon. This gives her a resistance against flying attacks and normal attacks, both of which Aerodactyl has several of.

Obviously, the main strategy here is going to be steel-type attacks. To start thing off, Armin will have Skarmory use Autotomize to boost her speed and lower her weight. Aerodactyl has a higher base speed, so he hopes this will even out the difference. After that, he’ll have Skarmory use Steel Wing and Metal Claw. Both are steel type attacks. In addition, both have the chance of boosting Hilde’s stats (namely her attack and defence stat). Should Hildegard’s HP start dropping low, he’ll have her use Roost to regain it. He’s hoping this will carry him through this match, especially considering Skarmory’s much higher base defence.

For Clair’s second pokemon, Armin will withdraw his Skarmory and instead bring out his Sharpedo to deal with her Charizard. Charizard is a flying/fire type with a weakness to water. Sharpedo meanwhile is a water/dark type. Additionally, Nemesis’ ability Rough Skin means that each time Charizard makes contact with her, it’ll lose 1/16th of its maximum HP.

For this battle, Armin is going to go with speed and water. He’ll focus on having Nemesis use Aqua Jet. This move has a +1 priority, so it should go first on each turn unless Charizard uses a move with an increased priority as well. Essentially what he is hoping for is to get Charizard good and well soaked before it even has the chance to land any big hits on Nemesis. Thankfully, most of Charizard’s most powerful attacks are fire based ones which Nemesis has a resistance to. Should Nemesis run out of pp for Aqua Jet, Armin will have her switch to using Surf. All the way until Charizard has been defeated.

Onto Clair’s Kingdra. To deal with this pokemon, Armin will withdraw Nemesis and bring out Gus the Shiinotic. Kingdra is a water/dragon pokemon. Shiinotic is a fairy/grass one. Not only is Kingdra weak to Fairy-type moves, but Shiinotic is completely immune to dragon type moves and it resists water type moves. Additionally, as if this battle wasn’t terrible enough already for Kingdra, Gus the Shiinotic has the ability effect spore. This means that any contact has the chance of leaving Kingdra either asleep/paralysed/poisoned.

Gus knows two damaging Fairy-type moves: Dazzling Gleam and Moonblast. Moonblast has the higher pp, so Armin will start with that. It also has a chance of lowering Kingdra’s special attack. Also, should Kingdra manage to lay a good hit on Gus, Armin will have his use Giga Drain (and mega drain if Giga Drain is out of pp) to recover his HP. He’ll choose this move over Moonlight simply because it both restores HP and damages Kingdra. More likely than not, this match won’t last long.

For the next match against Clair’s Salamence, Armin will leave in Gus the Shiinotic. Salamence is dragon/flying. Again, as a dragon, it is weak to Gus’ fairy typing. Meanwhile, Gus is still immune to any of its dragon type attacks. Salamence does have a few fire type attacks that will need to be looked out for.

To start things off, Armin will continue his strategy from his previous match with one small change. Because Salamence strongly resists Grass-type moves, he won’t use Giga/mega drain to recover HP. Instead, he’ll switch to using Moonlight. Additionally, Armin will have one elixir on hand to use, should the PP of Gus’ two Fairy-type moves run low. Both don’t have that much PP (15 + 10) and they are the only two damaging fairy type moves Gus has access to, so it is very important to keep him topped up. Essentially, Armin will use one of Gus’ damaging fairy type moves while his HP is more than half full. Should his HP drop below 50% he’ll use Moonlight to recover it. Meanwhile, he’ll also keep his fingers crossed for any contact between Gus and Salamence so Salamence might end up with a nice (for Armin) status effect.

(I am assuming Gus will be enough to take down Salamence as well. Should he get unlucky with a few critical hits and go down, Armin will bring back Hildegard the Skarmory. This mainly because Salamence has a 4x weakness to ice and Hildegarde has been tutored to know the move Icy Wind, which should hopefully be enough to finish Salamence off if Gus didn’t manage it.)

Onto the fifth of Clair’s six pokemon. For her Garchomp, Armin will bring out Hannibal the Piloswine. Being a Dragon/Ground type, Garchomp has an unfortunate 4x weakness to ice. Piloswine just happens to be Ice/Ground, so ice ice baby.

Hannibal’s strategy for this battle is going to be pretty simple. He’ll use his heavy Ice-type moves like Ice Fang, Blizzard, and Powder Snow. All of these also come with the additional chance of freezing his opponent. Garchomp only has one move that is very effective against Piloswine (Fire Fang) while Piloswine has a whole bunch of very very effective ice moves. Armin isn’t all too concerned about this battle, to be honest.

Onto the last of Clair’s six pokemon. Things have finally come down to her Dragonite. Dragonite is a dragon/flying type and also has a 4x weakness to ice. Like before, Armin is going to leave Piloswine in this match. He will start with using a full restore on Piloswine to boost his HP back up to 100% as Piloswine lacks any HP recovering moves.

This match is going to be much the same as the last. Armin will focus on using Piloswine’s very very effective ice moves (all with the chance of freezing Dragonite) against it. Meanwhile, like Garchomp, Dragonite has only one very effective move Piloswine needs to look out for (Fire punch) but this move doesn’t receive a nice STAB bonus. In this battle, Armin is mainly depending on Piloswine’s ice type and his high HP stat to make him last until the end.

Should Piloswine be knocked out during that second match, Armin will replace him with Himeko his Steelix. As a steel/ground type, she resists Dragon moves. More importantly, Dragonite also has a weakness to Rock-type moves. Himeko has several Rock-Type moves in her arsenal (Rock throw, Rock Tomb, Rock slide, Stone edge) and while they won’t receive a STAB bonus, they should still do quite a number on Dragonite.

One final note, Armin hopes to get things done with these five pokemon. But just in case something goes awry, he will also bring his Dragonair Aurora to the fight. She is a Dragon type. Seeing as Dragon type pokemon are weak to their own type, he’ll use her as a last ditch effort to bring down Clair’s pokemon, but because Aurora will be dealing with the same weakness as her opponents, he’ll avoid this as much as he can.

Edited 2018-12-30 23:55 (UTC)

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