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: Bug [Katy]
Elite/Regular: Elite
Team:
- Echoes [Noivern - lvl 100 - Sitrus Berry]
- Killer Queen [Azumarill - lvl 100 - Sitrus Berry]
- Rodeo [Alolan Marowak - lvl 100 - Focus Sash]
- Glimmin [Glimmora - lvl 100 - Sitrus Berry]
- Red Eye [Corviknight - lvl 100 - Leftovers]
- Ry [Plusle - lvl 100 - Sitrus Berry]

Battle Details:

Noivern vs. Spidops

First up will be Echoes. He will be starting out with Supersonic, then depending on whether or not that succeeded will be using Double Team once or twice. After that he will start using Air Slash to wear down its health. Once confusion wears off (or, if it didn't land, once Echoes has got a couple of hits in) he will once again use Supersonic to keep it unreliable.

He'd rather keep Echoes in for the duration of this match, so if his health is starting to look shaky Min will accept losing that sweet STAB for flying moves and have him use Roost. There's no real counter to Circle Throw, except for the fact all but one of his Pokemon have moves that are super effective. He does want to keep Echoes in so if it's early enough in the fight (or it's been switched to Ry) then Min will switch back to his Noivern. If it's pretty late in the game then he'll just suck it up and use super effective moves to finish it.

In an absolute disaster Min will switch to Corviknight and have her use Drill Peck, but hopefully that won't be happening this early on.

Azumarill vs. Heracross

Once Katy sends out her Heracross, Min-Gi will be turning to Killer Queen the Azumarill. Although she does resist a lot of its attacks, Min won't be taking chances with her. He will try to get her to Sing it to sleep. If that doesn't work or it gets in a Throat Chop first...

That's okay. He has other ideas.

First she'll use Aqua Ring to help heal her up a bit, then she'll use Charm (if she couldn't make it fall asleep) and Play Rough. If she did successfully get it to fall asleep she will use Charm once it wakes up instead.

If it survives an attack by using Endure then Killer Queen will use Tackle to take out the last of its HP.

If her health gets too low he will switch her out. Echoes will be his first bet if he has enough health left. If not, his Corviknight will take the field. In either case, they'll be taking advantage of that 4x weakness against flying moves.

Alolan Marowak vs. Forretress

This is a tricky one. Although Rodeo does have very strong moves to use in this situation, he's also weak to some of Forretress's moves and can't stop it using Spikes for whoever follows him to deal with. He'll equip him with a Focus Sash to help if it uses Explosion or Self Destruct right away, but there's not much else he can do against it.

For that reason he'll be going straight to offence. Thanks to Rock Head there's no downside to using Flare Blitz. It's a very basic strategy, but Forretress is extremely weak to fire. They're crossing their fingers here and hoping for the best.

Since Forretress does have some very nasty tricks up its non-existent sleeves this is one battle Min can't afford to be losing. If Rodeo's health starts looking low and Forretress hasn't eliminated itself in doing so then he will be using a Max Potion on him rather than switching to another Pokemon.

If it has... welp. That's fine. He doesn't want to be reckless unnecessarily, but he'll just be glad to get through this part of the battle.

Glimmora vs. Lokix

Presumably Glimmin will be coming out onto Spikes. This is unideal, but he'll be taking care of that for whoever comes next using Mortal Spin. To give himself a bit of protection he'll also be using Acid Armor.

Since Mortal Spin should poison Lokix, Min will be getting Glimmin to use Venoshock as well as Power Gem. He will also throw in the occasional Spiky Shield to try and keep Lokix on its toes. If Glimmin's defence is dropped then Min-Gi will get Glimmin to use Acid Armor again.

When things start getting close to the end he will use Stealth Rock, and ideally Toxic Spikes.

If things start looking bad then he might use Self Destruct, but only if it seems likely to finish Lokix. If not then he will switch back to his Azumarill and save Glimmin's last bit of health. If it still has a decent chunk of health then she will try to use Sing first, ideally she will be able to finish things off quick with Play Rough will do the job.

Corviknight vs. Araquanid

With any luck she won't have been out already, but if she has then Red Eye has a decent heft to her and should have a decent chunk of health left. She has also been equipped with Leftovers to make extra sure she will last this long.

She will be starting out by using Taunt to prevent the use of Soak, then Iron Defense. He will get Red to use this at least once, but twice if he thinks he can get away with it.

From there it will mostly be Drill Peck and throwing in Taunt when the effect of that would fade.

That will be the main strategy from there, assuming no spanners are thrown in the works. Once he's got a few hits in with Drill Peck he will get her to use Brave Bird once before he switches back to Drill Peck to hopefully finish things off a little quicker.

If Red Eye faints before she can defeat Araquanid then his back up option will be his Noivern. To prevent being hit with Mirror Coat he will be using physical moves like Wing Attack. If his health gets too low then Min-Gi will get him to use Roost.

Azumarill vs. Ursaring

This isn't the real play. Honestly, it's kind of a cheap trick. Killer Queen gets to come out here to show why she got her name.

She will immediately use Perish Song...

Then she's switching out.

Plusle vs. Ursaring

Is Plusle strong enough against Ursaring? Maybe not. Maybe not even with terastallization. Especially considering his tera type is fire... and Ursaring has High Horsepower. However, Ry is his precious son and deserves his chance to shine. With that in mind, he's going for it. They're using the orb. He'd be weak against a ground type move either way. Thankfully Plusle outspeeds Ursaring so if he can survive the turn used to switch him in he will get at least one shot and look very pretty while he does it. Ry will be happy even if he does faint.

If Ursaring used a status move last turn Min will have Ry use Encore, then Charm to lower its attack. If not he will have him use Protect^* for as long as he can get away with.

Of course, there's a strong chance Ry will go down before that count ends. In that case it's down to whoever's left. Red Eye will be the priority with Iron Defense, then Drill Peck if Ry went down early enough she needs it. If Red Eye's too weak at this point in the fight it's Killer Queen again with Protect.^*

^*Due to not seeing Protect as an option for these Pokémon on some sites but seeing it on others I checked my copy of Scarlet and they are both capable of learning it through TMs there.

Edited (Please forgive me for all the edits... it's very late and I forgot to double check some stuff) 2024-05-01 02:31 (UTC)

Badge approved!

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