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indigo_league) wrote2016-06-24 09:47 am
indigo_league) wrote2016-06-24 09:47 am
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!
Violet City  Badge: ZephyrLeader: Falkner Team: Noctowl (L: 30) Honchkrow (L: 32) Pidgeot (L: 35) Rewards:  [P10,000] TM Roost Can use Fly outside of battleElite Team: Pidgeot, Dodrio, Swellow, Xatu, Staraptor, Pelipper | Azalea Town  Badge: HiveLeader: Bugsy Team: Pinsir (L: 35) Heracross (L: 37) Scizor (L: 40) Rewards: [P12,000] TM U-Turn Can use Rock Smash outside of battleElite Team: Scizor, Venomoth, Vespiquen, Yanmega, Galvantula, Heracross | Goldenrod City  Badge: PlainLeader: Whitney Team: Girafarig (L: 40) Clefable (L: 42) Miltank (L: 45) Rewards: [P14,000] HM Rock Smash TM Attract Can use Strength outside of battleElite Team: Ursaring, Granbull, Blissey, Exploud, Tauros, Snorlax | Ecruteak City  Badge: FogLeader: Morty Team: Haunter (L: 45) Misdreavus (L: 47) Gengar (L: 50) Rewards: [P16,000] TM Shadow Ball HM Strength Can use Surf outside of battleElite Team: Drifblim, Spiritomb, Dusknoir, Mismagius, Gengar, Chandelure | |||
Cianwood City  Badge: StormLeader: Chuck Team: Hitmonlee (L: 50) Hitmonchan (L: 52) Poliwrath (L: 55) Rewards: [P18,000] HM FlyElite Team: Medicham, Machamp, Hariyama, Breloom, Primeape, Toxicroak | Olivine City  Badge: MineralLeader: Jasmine Team: Skarmory (L: 55) Magneton (L: 57) Steelix (L: 60) Rewards: [P20,000] HM Surf HM WhirlpoolElite Team: Metagross, Bronzong, Skarmory, Steelix, Magnezone, Empoleon | Mahogany Town  Badge: GlacierLeader: Pryce Team: Dewgong (L: 60) Lapras (L: 62) Mamoswine (L: 65) Rewards: [P22,000] TM Hail Can use Waterfall outside of battleElite Team: Abomasnow, Dewgong, Glalie, Froslass, Mamoswine, Walrein | Blackthorn City  Badge: RisingLeader: 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. | |||
Pewter City  Badge: BoulderLeader: Brock Team: Rhyhorn (L: 30) Golem (L: 32) Onix (L: 35) Rewards: [P10,000] TM Rock Slide HM Rock SmashElite Team: Rhyperior, Rampardos, Golem, Omastar, Kabutops, Onix | Cerulean City  Badge: CascadeLeader: Misty Team: Golduck (L: 35) Lapras (L: 37) Starmie (L: 40) Rewards: [P12,000] TM Water Pulse Can use Surf outside of battleElite Team: Quagsire, Lanturn, Floatzel, Lapras, Milotic, Starmie | Vermilion City  Badge: Thunder BadgeLeader: Lt. Surge Team: Electabuzz (L: 40) Magneton (L: 42) Raichu (L: 45) Rewards: [P14,000] TM Thunder Can use Strength outside of battleElite Team: Manectric, Electrode, Pachirisu, Magnezone, Electivire, Raichu | Celadon City  Badge: RainbowLeader: Erika Team: Jumpluff (L: 45) Tangrowth (L: 47) Bellossom (L: 50) Rewards: [P16,000] TM Giga Drain HM Strength Can use Fly outside of battleElite Team: Shiftry, Jumpluff, Victreebel, Bellossom, Roserade, Vileplume | |||
Fuchsia City  Badge: SoulLeader: Janine Team: Crobat (L: 50) Ariados (L: 52) Venomoth (L: 55) Rewards: [P18,000] TM Toxic HM Surf Can use Rock Smash outside of battleElite Team: Crobat, Weezing, Toxicroak, Drapion, Arbok, Venomoth | Saffron City  Badge: MarshLeader: Sabrina Team: Espeon (L: 55) Mr. Mime (L: 57) Alakazam (L: 60) Rewards: [P20,000] TM Psychic HM FlyElite Team: Jynx, Wobbuffet, Espeon, Gallade, Gardevoir, Alakazam | Cinnabar Island (Seafoam Islands)  Badge: VolcanoLeader: Blaine Team: Magcargo (L: 60) Magmortar (L: 62) Rapidash (L: 65) Rewards: [P22,000] TM Fire Blast HM Whirlpool Can use Whirlpool outside of battleElite Team: Torkoal, Camerupt, Magcargo, Houndoom, Magmortar, Rapidash | Viridian City  Badge: EarthLeader: 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. | |||
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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Badge/Gym Leader: he's gonna try to beat Morty!
Elite/Regular: regular team plz
Team: Charley (Misdreavous 55) and Fangorn (Phantump 63) + Orcrist (Doublade 45) and Erik (Litwick 34)
Battle Details: Hokay, so. Usually when Steven has to face a gym, he'll go with Pokemon who do extra damage against the gym's pokemon, but who also are less vulnerable to those pokemon. He can't do that here. The only type that would work with is Dark and he's only got one sufficiently high-level Dark pokemon and Matthew's part of his Rocket team. Steven is very scrupulous about making sure not to use his Rocket team for gyms, because he doesn't need them to be identified when the match is broadcast on television.
But the thing about Ghost pokemon is that they're also vulnerable to each other and Steven has plenty of them. So he's going to be bringing the two strongest ghosts of his main team for this, along with two of his more recent spooky acquisitions as back-up and hoping against hope that Charley and Fangorn's level advantage will let him carry this gym. And also, Charley's spell tag.
It's mostly Charley against the Gengar and the Haunter, because she's got a decent slew of psychic attacks as well as her ghost moves that they'll both be vulnerable to, But Misdreavus aren't vulnerable to psychic, so he'll be switching her out for Fangorn when Morty brings out his Misdreavus, then bringing her back for Gengar. Erik and Orcrist are mostly just waiting on deck to sub in if the other two go down.
ANYWAY. Charley's main tactics include Psybeam and Shadow Ball to lob damage, a Confuse Ray + Hex Combo to inflict extra damage thanks to the status effect, and a liberal use of Spite, Thief, and Astonish. (Being a chipped Rocket 'mon, she's utterly ruthless and sadistic in battle and honestly? Steven is altogether thrilled about this, even if he's not letting it show on his face.)
Fangorn is also about Confuse Ray + Hex because that's such a clutch move combo. He also abuses the shit out of Phantom Force. If it looks like he's about to faint, he's sure as shit going to throw up a Destiny Bond to take the one who KO'd him down with him. What the hell, he'll probably use Thief too at some point.
Orcrist, if he needs to be subbed in, will mostly just focus on Shadow Sneak and Night Shade.
And Erik, if subbed in, will also abuse our favorite Confuse Ray + Hex combo, while also hitting with Night Shade, Shadow Ball, and Astonish. Oh and he'd definitely be Imprisoning moves.
Since Steven himself specializes in ghosts, he really wants to win this badge. I'm not even going to lie.
Character: Steven Durante |
Badge/Gym Leader: let's smack Chuck!
Elite/Regular: still on the regular, baby
Team: William-the-Bloody (Swoobat 47) + Charley (Misdreavous 55) as back-up
Battle Details: A veteran of Steven's match against Erika, William is no stranger to matches where he's got all of the type advantage and no level advantage to speak of. But at least in this case, the level disadvantage is much smaller than it was in Celadon, being only 3-8 depending on which pokemon he goes against.
William makes liberal use of Fly to avoid being hit whenever possible, then dive-bombing back into the fray. He also makes fine use of Air Slash and Psychic to smack his opponents with lots of damage. He definitely makes use of Attract if there's any female Pokemon on Chuck's team.
If it looks like William's about to go down, Steven calls him back and sends out Charley to play distraction. The Hitmons mostly just have Fighting and Normal moves, which can't hit her at all, and she'll taunt them with Psybeam and mad dodging until William's healed up and ready to go back in. Lather, rinse, repeat as much as necessary. Steven's brought potions. He knows what he's up against.
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With this in mind, the playing field is almost TOO even: Steven's Pokemon have a level advantage of Morty's, but Morty's Pokemon have evolved and Steven's have not. This match could be anyone's win.
But Imprison is a clever way to take advantage of a challenging matchup, and a Confused opponent is a vulnerable opponent. His use of Psychic moves against the dual-type Haunter and Gengar is also well-advised. Even though Morty uses many of the same strategies himself, Steven narrowly nabs the win.
Maybe it's the bond between Steven and his Pokemon.... or maybe it's that Rocket chip implanted... somehow... in a ghost....? Oh well, try not to think about it too much.
After all that, though, it's probably quite nice when the Storm Badge is a straightforward win!
Soul Badge and Storm Badge APPROVED.