Paldea Badges

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While visiting the beautiful region of Paldea, your characters will be able to challenge the local gyms and earn badges. A few things should be noted however! Any badges you earn in the Paldea region will not count towards allowing you to challenge the Elite Four in Kanto. Additionally, even if you obtain all eight Paldean badges, it will not be possible to challenge the Paldean Elite Four.

Beyond that, however, the badges in Paldea work much the same as back home! 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!

Paldea
Cortondo Badge: Bug Leader: Katy Team: Nymble - LVL 30 Tarountula - LVL 30 Teddiursa - LVL 31 Rewards: [P10,000] TM Pounce Elite Team: Spidops, Heracross, Forretress, Lokix, Araquanid, Ursaring	Artazon Badge: Grass Leader: Brassius Team: Petilil - LVL 38 Smoliv - LVL 38 Sudowoodo - LVL 40 Rewards: [P12,000] TM Trailblaze Elite Team: Breloom, Arboliva, Vileplume, Tsareena, Lilligant, Sudowoodo	Levincia Badge: Electric Leader: Iono Team: Wattrel - LVL 44 Belibolt - LVL 44 Luxio - LVL 44 Mismagius - LVL 45 Rewards: [P14,000] TM Volt Switch Elite Team: Kilowattrel, Electrode, Belibolt, Luxray, Electivire, Mismagius	Cascarrafa Badge: Water Leader: Kofu Team: Veluza - LVL 47 Wugtrio - LVL 47 Crabominable - LVL 50 Rewards: [P16,000] TM Chilling Water Can use Surf outside of battle Elite Team: Pelipper, Veluza, Feraligatr, Wugtrio, Clawitzer, Crabominable
Medali Badge: Normal Leader: Larry Team: Komala - LVL 53 Dudunsparce - LVL 53 Staraptor - LVL 55 Rewards: [P18,000] TM Facade Can use Fly outside of battle Elite Team: Oinkologne, Tauros, Dudunsprace, Biberal, Stantler, Staraptor	Montenevera Badge: Ghost Leader: Ryme Team: Banette - LVL 55 Mimikyu - LVL 57 Hounstone - LVL 57 Toxtricity - LVL 60 Rewards: [P20,000] TM Shadow Ball Elite Team: Banette, Mimikyu, Golurk, Spiritomb, Houndstone, Toxtricity	Alfornada Badge: Psychic Leader: Tulip Team: Farigiraf - Lvl 64 Gardevoir - LVL 64 Espathra - LVL 64 Florges - LVL 65 Rewards: [P22,000] TM Psychic Elite Team: Farigiraf, Gardevoir, Espathra, Gallade, Delphox, Florges	Glaseado Mountain Badge: Ice Leader: Grusha Team: Frosmoth - LVL 65 Beartic - LVL 65 Cetitan - LVL 68 Altaria - LVL 70 Rewards: [P24,000] TM Ice Spinner Elite Team: Alolan Ninetales, Beartic, Frosmoth, Cetitan, Weavile, Altaria

!!! In order to give players enough time to submit badges, you'll be able to have your Paldean badges approved throughout April, May, and June.

Paldea badges will be handled here. Please put your badge challenges below.


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Character: Keldor | behindblueskin
Badge/Gym Leader: Katy
Elite/Regular: Elite
Team:
► Takami
► Asama
► Sunatchi
► Shidosanda
► Naganegi
► Kazaru
Battle Details: At some point, Keldor was going to have to start thinking of building up a team or two to do more than just challenge the regional gym leaders with, and since all but the Rowlet twins have achieved level 100, he can no longer in good conscience send in over-levelled pokemon to battle with. It's time to start thinking strategically; not just assume that you'll go in, wipe the floor for a few minutes with the leader's pokemon and add yet another badge to your collection.

He just didn't think that he'd start this leg of the journey in Paldea, but a trip like this was too good to pass up, especially when it's being paid for by someone else.

So while he flies in, he does some research to pass the time with.

It's all standard. Like every other gym, the Paldean leaders have their specialty type, but to maximise time spent making the most of his trip to the home of Smoliv Garden, he needs to make sure that he won't need to do too much team adjusting over the course of the next two months. By the time the plane touches down, he's got some idea of what he's going to be up against once he starts his challenge, and so after buying a few maps to help him find his way about the sprawlling region of Paldea, he hops aboard Takami his Roaring Moon and makes his way over to Cortondo.

Katy's gym specialty is the Bug type, and unfortunately for her and two other leaders, heat in the form of pokemon who know Fire attacks is something Keldor made sure he had enough of when he got here.

Spidops

Spidops is pure bug, so Asama with the type advantage will be going in first. Since this is Keldor's first Elite battle for any gym, he's expecting Katy to realise that he's not some novice trainer who's still learning how things work when it comes to battling, and will know that her opponent has done as much homework as possible, which means protecting her pokemon from taking too much damage too soon, and if there's one thing Spidops has to defend itself, it's moves like Silk Trap to ensure that it won't be the recipient of any effects that it might've suffered from, and String Shot and Sticky Web to lower Asama's Speed. Things certainly are off to a sticky start LOL. Spiders. Sticky. LOL, but Asama doesn't need speed to deal with the wanna-be spider spy. Laying down webbing might seem like a good idea, but all it does is give the Hisuian Arcanine something to set fire to with Ember, and if Spidops doesn't want to go up in smoke it'll need to get itself out of there fast. Sadly, though, she's bigger than the Spidops is, and any Blocks will just be used to Bite into to hold onto her opponent to deal out a Flare Blitz or two and take it down.

Heracross

Y'know, for a Bug type, Bug moves aren't something Heracross has much of, but that's okay. It has Fighting moves up its sleeves, and between its Bug/Fighting typing and Asama's Fire/Rock combo, any advantage Asama might have has been evened out. What she can use to bring on the hurt can be a reason to get even with something that will make her howl in pain. And since she's been forced to mostly observe the speed limit, she'll have to hit as hard as she can with another Flare Blitz before being recalled so that Kazaru can step forth.

Ah, Kazaru. Keldor wasn't sure if the Flamigo he didn't exactly want to catch was ever going to amount to anything beyond becoming a living lawn ornament, but being a Flying type as well as a Fighting type means that the big blue beetle no longer has an equaliser when it comes to advantages and disadvantages. If anything, it now has even more disadvantages than it did before, and even if it could hurt Asama with Fighting moves, that's not going to work so well on a bird. All it can do, maybe, is try to use something like Endure to its limit while the party favour pelts it with Pecks, Wing Attacks and an Air Slash to seal the deal.

Forretress

Now that Heracross has been defeated, it's time for Forretress to run, Forretress, run spin out onto the field. With its Bug/Steel type combo giving it a x4 Fire weakness, it's not surprising that Keldor will eventually send Asama back out, because, let's face it, Kazaru can only do so much Pecking before her beak starts to smart from hammering away at Forretress Gump's metallic shell [even if it does keep it from doing things like setting up an entry hazard in the form of Toxic Spikes]. Her Speed is still affected, but it doesn't matter. A Fire Fang to help you grab onto it to keep it from trying to spin away, and then we char-broil things with another Flare Blitz to make sure its goose is more than just a little cooked.

Lokix

We're now in the second half of the battle, and it's time for Lokix to enter the fray. Remembering what he's learned about this particular Paldean native, Keldor isn't about to switch Asama out just yet. Yes, being Fire/Rock gives her an advantage over Bug/Dark, but none of his pokemon are used to the extended fighting battling at the Elite level involves, and she hasn't yet built up her endurance. Also, Keldor doesn't want to use up all of her most powerful Fire moves, so before she gets to rest, she'll throw a Rock Slide at it, then takes five while Kazaru is sent back out.

Fighting moves won't really be any more of use here than they would've been going up against Heracross, but because Bugs just don't like birds all that much, Kazaru can use her kicking legs to help Focus her Energy enough so that if Lokix tries to hop away, she can Fly at it to deadly effect, then Brave Bird it into a body cast.

Araquanid

The Water Bubble pokemon known as Araquanid is perhaps the first pokemon Katy is using where the Fire hazard won't be a hazard at all. Its Water typing halves the damage it could've taken as a Bug type and brings it down to normal levels. It does, however, mean that sending someone like Asama back out to try and fight it to be sheer foolishness. Araquanid will have the x4 advantage against a Fire/Rock, so she'll be sitting this one out for just a little bit longer, and though Naganegi the Flamigo might've been a better choice, Keldor chooses this moment to bring out one of his hardest hitters in the form of Takami the Roaring Moon.

Katy takes this moment to appreciate the fact that her opponent just so happens to have a Paradox pokemon on his team, but she's not going to appreciate Takami so much that she'll forget she's in what amounts to the seventh inning stretch of Elite battling.

Water/Bug versus Dragon/Dark means that nobody has a type advantage or a type weakness. It's all balanced out, or so you'd think. Aqua Ring on Araquanid's part might help it stay in the game longer whilst trying to cause a rain delay in the form of a Soak, but Takami is just fast enough to Fly in with a Headbutt that by the time Katy's other spider has gotten it wet, it'll be too late. And that's when Keldor gives Katy a real surprise. See, it's not just Fly that it knows that can do damage. Takami also knows Thunder Fang, and is judiciously using them to shock the spider until it faints.

Ursaring

What? Katy isn't using only Bugs for this battle? Keldor isn't the only one who has a surprise for their opponent? Katy has an Ursaring?

Well. This is where we find out if Keldor made the right choices when building up a team to take Paldea on.

Ursaring is a Normal type, and much of what it knows are Normal moves. But its strongest move isn't a Normal move—it's Fighting, and guess what a Roaring Moon is weak to, and you know Katy will be using Arm and Hammer—I mean Hammer Arm—as soon as possible before Takami is withdrawn from the field of combat, to be replaced by Keldor's Sirfetch'd, Naganegi. Pure Normal goes up against pure Fighting, and Katy now fully understands that Keldor is actually up to scratch when it comes to battling. Soldiers know how to make use of strengths and weaknesses, and Keldor himself has put that to use in the past when he was gathering up followers to support his cause. A band of misfits and outcasts might not seem like very much to anyone else, but Keldor has thus far managed to turn weakness into strength, and is bringing out their best and giving Randor a real cause for concern.

But that's Eternia, not the pokemon world. He has a new set of troops to work with and mentor.

Naganegi is ready to be mentored.

The last matchup begins with the Sirfetch'd using a Leer-Sand Attack combo to reduce defence and accuracy at the same time, whilst boosting her own defence with Iron Defence, and her evasiveness with Detect. For all that the duck has the type advantage in this fight, that's one of the few things she has. Elite level battling is where the highest-levelled pokemon come to play, and Ursaring is as maxed as Naganegi is. Now that she's tilted the battle more in her favour, Naganegi can cut loose with a nasty pair of Brick Breaks. To no one's surprise, the Ursaring is a serious opponent, and one Katy has done much work with when it comes to realising her strongest pokemon's potential, and you can be sure that it's going to hit as hard as it can, and just look at it. That big bruiser looks like it can hit you pretty hard, especially if it used Play Rough. Naganegi's giving it her all: Rock Smashes and Brick Breaks aplenty, and then, just when the going starts to really get tough, she'll pull out one last-ditch effort in the form of Final Gambit. Yes, that means sacrificing herself in this battle, as Final Gambit will cause her to faint, but she'll go down knowing that she was fully able to punch above her weight in this their first-ever Elite battle.

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Badge approved!