indigo_league | Paldea Badges

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.

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Character: Min-Gi Park |

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Badge/Gym Leader: Psychic [Tulip]
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team:
- Purple Haze [Frosmoth - lvl 100 - Leftovers]
- Ice Age [Alolan Sandslash - lvl 100 - Loaded Dice]
- Red Eye [Corviknight - lvl 100 - Zoom Lens]

Battle Details:

This is definitely a case of doing the homework you don't want to do first. Or close to it. He needed to warm himself up before he braved this one. Arguably Min should have more trauma around bug type Pokémon than psychic types, but no. He does not feel comfortable. This entire town honestly has the opposite effect on him than it's supposed to. He has a strategy in place in advance, but honestly he's going to be a lot more prone to panicking and letting that go out of the window if things start going wrong for him than he'd normally be. If one of the strategies he tries wouldn't work feel free to throw out some of the ones that might work too.

As an additional note, this one is backdated to last week.

Frosmoth vs. Farigiraf

His first tactic is going to be to have Purple Haze use Snowscape. Because he has a couple of ice types today she will be refreshing Snowscape if it if it fades. However, he's hoping he won't need to now Haze ignores the accuracy of Blizzard. If Blizzard isn't as quick to knock Farigiraf as he hopes (Min will only order her to use this once) then Haze also has super effective bug moves in her arsenal such as Struggle Bug, though she will be putting up a protective Aurora Veil first.

He's expecting her to make it through this battle. Haze can't resist any of the moves Farigiraf has, but she also isn't weak to any of them and she has super effective moves in addition to a major level discrepancy.

Alolan Sandslash vs. Gardevoir

If Snowscape has faded by now then Min-Gi will get Ice Age to refresh it again. This will be something he does throughout the battle if it lasts long enough to need it. This will keep her evasion slightly raised and boost her defence. She will also be putting up Aurora Veil even though she does already resist any attacks Gardevoir has.

Before she starts in on the offence she will be using Swords Dance.

Once everything is set up she will use Icicle Spear. Combined with the Loaded Dice she's holding this should take care of Gardevoir fairly quickly, but there are a few things that could scupper their plans. If it has Trace as its ability then it could gain the same evasion boost that Ice Age herself has by taking on Snow Cloak. Unless it uses Misty Terrain first it could also put Ice Age to sleep with Hypnosis. Honestly, there isn't much he can do to prevent this besides hope her increased evasiveness combined with the low accuracy of Hypnosis means he will be able to keep her awake long enough for his strategy to work. He doesn't love this, especially combined with Dream Eater and other healing type moves Gardevoir has access to. He just has to hope the defensive measures he's put in place earlier are high enough that she doesn't take too much damage before she can wake up and use Icicle Spear again.

Alolan Sandslash vs. Espathra

This is why Min-Gi was concerned about Ice Age losing too much health in the previous match up. It's also why he tried to use Swords Dance previously since Opportunist could be a real pain here if Espathra has that. If Snowscape is still in play then she will use Aurora Veil again to decrease the amount of damage she takes.

Whether she does this or not her goal is to use Icicle Spear next. If that isn't enough after one attack then Min will have her switch to using Fury Cutter until it faints.

Should she go down before he can beat Espathra then Min will switch over to his Corvknight. She should resist any attack that Espathra can throw at her, and thanks to Mirror Armor she is also capable of bouncing back any stat lowering moves. She will use Steel Wing to finish Espathra off. Her Zoom Lens should help with the lower accuracy of the move.

Corviknight vs. Florges

He thinks he'll be okay here. None of Florges' attacks seem to be able to cause too much damage to Corviknight even if Grassy Terrain comes into play. That doesn't mean he isn't worried.

His initial plan is for Red Eye to use Hone Claws twice over. Then he'll switch to Taunt to stop it using healing moves while he attacks. From there he's hoping Power Trip will be enough to take care of it, but if not his back up move is once again Steel Wing. This time she will terastalize first. You might guess from this decision that her tera type is steel. Honestly, he'd rather not do that when he has such a significant level advantage and so many defences, but he wants this fight over with. If this is what he thinks he needs to do to win then he'll do it.

Min doesn't think he'll need to send out any of his other Pokémon, but if he does need to he will prioritize Ice Age. She will use Hail followed by Blizzard. If she fainted earlier then it will be Purple Haze using the same strategy.

Badge approved!

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