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.

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

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Character: Jotaro Kujo |

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Badge/Gym Leader: Iono’s Electric Badge
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Star Platinum the Palafin
Chariot the Bisharp
Kosugi the Aurorus
Natsumi the Pawmo
Luna the Ursaring  
Fortress the Sandygast
Battle Details: Jotaro needs both money and more TMs for breeding endeavours so it’s time to get serious and do a gym battle. Jotaro likes swapping his Pokemon around so most of his Pokemon are about Luna/Fortress’ level, but he does have some strong swingers and his starter, which is grossly over levelled.

He’ll open with SP the Palafin but use Aqua Flip immediately to take advantage of SP’s superior speed and ability. It’s not a super effective move but it’ll allow SP switch out to Fortress the Sandygast, who will soak in what’s likely going to be an incoming electric-type move.

Unless it’s Iono’s Wattrel or Mismagius, Jotaro will be relying on his slightly under levelled Sandygast for good reason: Fortress is a bastard of a tank with an infuriating strategy. He will be using a mix of Sand Tomb to trap the Pokemon, Sand Attack to make his opponent miss, and Giga Drain to leech HP back from any nasty bites Luxio gets off. If at any point the Sandygast goes down, Jotaro’s going to throw SP back out to brute force past Belibolt and Luxio, using Double Hit to take advantage of raw power and Astonish to not give either a chance to electrocute him.

When it gets to Wattrel and Mismagius, Jotaro will switch to his Aurorus. It’s Kosugi’s job to throw as many Ancient Powers at Wattrel to get as many scummy boosts up. When Mismagius appears, Kosugi will set up Light Screen AND Hail too. After that, it’s a game of ancient Power and Ice Beam until Iono’s team goes down.

All the other Pokemon are here for backup, in case the first three don’t finish the job. Chariot the Bisharp will Night Slash if Iono doesn’t Terrastilise and if she does, he’ll Slash. Natsumi the Pawmo is here to Volt Absorb and provide clean switches. Luna the Ursaring is to check for paralysis and take Thunder Waves, in which Guts will activate and pair with Payback to deliver Iono’s Pokemon a beating.

P.S. If somehow Luna does go in and deliver the final blow, she’ll evolve into an Ursaluna thanks to her held peat block (the moon was just right somehow)

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Badge/Gym Leader: Ryme’s Ghost Badge
Elite/Regular: Regular
Team: Star Platinum the Palafin
Chariot the Bisharp
Kosugi the Aurorus
Natsumi the Pawmo
Luna the Ursaring  
Tom the Persian
Battle Details: Yeah, this is a wild second gym battle but Jotaro’s in the area. He might have a chance here, hopefully, though he’s aware sheer levels won’t make this as easy as Iono’s battle.

Like last time, he’ll open with SP the Palafin and use Aqua Flip so SP can go to Hero Mode. It’ll do a lot of damage, or at very least break Mimikyu’s Disguise. He’ll then switch to Chariot, who is the star of the show. Except for Toxtricity, Ryme’s ghosts are physical attackers so Chariot will buff himself with Iron Defence and use Night Slash to try and bring down the Banette and Houndstone. If Mimikyu is out, Jotaro will instead have Chariot use Metal Claw or even Metal Burst if Chariot is slower.

Tom the Persian is around mainly for clean switches, given he’s a normal type. He’ll also Taunt any status moves or ghost moves he switches into to stop Ryme from attacking. As a support Pokemon, Tom will be using Screech so SP can kick ass when he goes down, but he can use Assurance too. Similarly, Luna the Ursaring is there for switches, being also a normal type. She’s going to use Baby-Doll Eyes if she’s slower or Charm if she’s faster to make it easier for the others to attack. Similarly, she has Payback to take advantage of type matchups.

Natsumi the Pawmo is there for support. She will Thunder Wave whenever she’s sent out, and generally be a real pain to take down with Dig. Jotaro will be switching as much as he can between Chariot and SP to take Ryme down with the others for support. Even with SP being such a high level, everyone else is not as strong as Ryme’s Pokemon so I imagine it really can go either way.

If SP goes down at any stage, it’s up to Kosugi the Aurorus again. Jotaro will save him for the Toxtricity so he can use Light Screen but Hail, and Ancient Power is also on the table.

Jotaro is really the worst kind of Pokemon player and a menace to fight.

Edited 2024-04-06 08:44 (UTC)

Badge approved! x2

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