>Previous thread: >>58264986>Generator: https://crobat4.github.io/vp-pro-trainer-card/>Choose your type>Choose your team>Choose your gym's gimmick>Rate other's>discuss>enjoy
>>58310939Wonder how many builds from earlier are active, and how many were just test runs.
Is it okay if I start off with a cheap reference? I just want to make sure this thread is alive for when I'm done my real idea.
>>58311274Nevermind, this got out of hand. I have a whole league now. Might be a while before I can post all of it.
>>58311274is that like a team meant to squash spiders or something?
>>58310939Made two a while ago.
>>58311452And second one.
>>58311447you could say that
>>58311471clever>>58311452presumably a strong rivalry with that guy
>>58310939How's this? I didn't figure it was correct to add a bunch of written text about the character concept to what should be a summary image, but I'm hoping to use the three character images to guide the viewer through the (Spooky Gym Leader with Comedically Overexaggerated Titles)/(Rockhound)/(Friendly Local Teacher) aspects of this Gym Leader, who I've tentatively named Marcus Owen, without being too wordy.
>>58310939>>Choose your typeFairy>>Choose your teamsee image>>Choose your gym's gimmickBoth players can go all out and use any number of megas during the battle
>>58311608the mega sexo gym, 10/10
>>58311376Alright, here's the first guy. I'm not much of an artist, so hopefully this image collage will sufficeHe's an Op Art fanatic with a passion for optical illusions. Very extreme in his tastes: his preferences for color are exclusively neon or monochrome, everything he does must be as exaggerated or as monotone as possible with little in-between. Wears a domino mask at all times, can often be found wearing a checkered cape, really really likes ties. Speaks as if he's constantly on-stage.Super mischievous, but overall very lighthearted. The only way to actually upset him is to insinuate that he's malicious. At worst, he's a charlatan-- and revels in it.The guy mostly just wants to make people laugh, but he has a bit of a reputation and he's so eccentric that he's really hit-or-miss.Probably hovers somewhere around the first three gyms so that he can fight less serious trainers more often. More than eager to display his full chops against champion-level trainers, though.Most likely to be found at some obscure art showcase or a very niche restaurant. May also turn up at a trashy gift shop or pop art repository.
>>58311763I forgot to mention his gym theme, shit. Could've sworn I threw it in there.Anyways, it's about as you'd expect. The challenge is less about the trainers and more about where the hell you're going. Everything is painted in black and white-- some walls are mirrors, some are solid. One of them is a curtain. All of them are checkered. Throughout the gym, the leader's Zoroarks will create illusions for trainers to fight. Sometimes these illusions disguise actual trainers, who actually fight-- sometimes those illusions are just there to throw the challenger off, and disappear after being looked at.Once the challenger has defeated all of the Zoroarks' illusions and made their way to the leader, he'll fight them above what looks to be an endless pit... but is really just a painted floor. The challenger would have to balance defeating the leader's team while not "falling," and if he managed to get to the end of the fight without 1) discovering the floor is painted and/or 2) "staying on the platform" without giving indication that the challenger knows he's in no danger, the leader will give him an extra reward.Next guy soon. Assume all of these teams are for gym leaders, but not in any particular order.
>>58311564Looks cool! Are you hoping for a Tyrantrum mega in the Z-A DLC?>>58311459"Support" and "servitude," right? These guys don't scream trustworthy to me...>>58311608Whose Mega stone gets to be the badge?
>>58311987God's honest truth, I played up to Platinum and pretty much drifted away from the mainline games. My 3DS was always good enough for me. Plus, I'm a huge sprite fanboy, so the transition to 3d never really captivated me. I'm sure he'd look very cool with a fresh coat of paint and a new statline though.
>>58311763Guy #2, placeholder name Steve Kent. He's a superhero fan who decided to live the dream and trained a team of heroes to pretend he has his own Poke-JLA. Secretly a comic book nerd but pretends he's cool and only watches the movies. Became rabidly patriotic and served in the air force after being told it was how he could be a "true hero," has grown attached to Flying-types as a result.The guy is pretty insecure, with a grudge against Domino and a bad habit of spouting one-liners. He sticks to his ideals and favorites no matter what, hence his favorite Pokémon (Ledian) being on every single team the regional League would allow it on.Lucky for him, Steve grew to be 6' tall and was born with a cinematic baritone voice that makes him look and sound way cooler than he actually is.His gym involves a slow escalation of general superhero stuff. All challengers are given unique costumes (paid for by the League, to their great dismay) that they can keep after leaving. The gym challenge begins with stopping a bank robber, escalates to preventing a proper supervillain from using some contraption to blow up a building, and keeps escalating until the challenger and the gym leader fight side by side......except, the leader never shows his face. He narrates all of this through a microphone, and only fights the ultimate supervillain (blatantly styled after Domino) beside a cut-out of Steve in his hero uniform. The supervillain uses Steve's team, too, by shooting the leader's pokeballs out of another contraption he made up. The badge eventually comes out of the same contraption, and most challengers never see the real leader's face.When questioned about this during League interviews, which are often done purely through audio or text, Steve claims it's to keep his real identity secret. And it works, because his real identity is only known to other League members and nerds online.
>>58311987It's Diancie's. Imagine the player's surprise when they realize that their gym badge doubles as a mega stone accessory.
>>58312102#3, Professor Connors, conspiracist extraordinaire. Grew up in a rich family with a happy childhood, so his greatest fears ended up being completely imaginary. Fell hard into conspiracy theories through college and only ended up in the League because his parents paid for him to be there so he wouldn't be unemployed. Loves his original Sceptile like a brother and keeps claiming it's his only friend (even though his family still loves him). Constantly wears an astronaut helmet covered in tin foil "to keep his brainwaves safe from Psychics." His gym is a refurbished laser tag place, bought on the cheap and hardly configured. Challengers have three minutes to shoot as many aliens as possible and avoid being shot by federal agents. Each alien grants 1 point. UFOs grant 5. Federal agents give -5 per shot. Once the time limit is up, as long as they have more than 100 points, challengers get to face the gym leader in a sterile lab setting (to make him seem like he knows what he's talking about). If not, they're kicked out.He doesn't trust the entire rest of the League because he thinks they've been hired to keep him quiet. He personally scans every trainer that manages to reach him with a light gun, pretending that it's for metal detection purposes while really being meant to detect Psychic trainers. The light gun is completely useless, but Connors doesn't know that so he just thinks he's never encountered a Psychic before.
>>58312312Last one for the evening. Glowie who's disguising himself as a retro game show host. Insanely cheesy and saccharine, never seen without a ill-fitting suit and tie. The gym challenge is a game show about the contestant's life called "Live Under Oath". The leader asks the contestant a personal question, which the contestant is supposed to answer truthfully. After the contestant answers, the leader allows a Hypno in waiting to put the contestant under hypnosis. If the contestant is found to be lying, he is challenged to a battle by a trainer. If the contestant loses this battle, his mind is wiped and he's kicked out. If he wins, the game proceeds as normal.If the contestant answers truthfully, he gets to spin a wheel that has a multitude of rewards on it. One of those rewards is another battle. Another is a berry, or a held item, or a beneficial effect for the next battle he undertakes. Kind of like the Battle Arcade from Platinum, to a lesser extent and with only one possible "punishment" (a trainer battle).The questions progressively get more and more invasive, but the leader gives them all the same amount of jovial gravitas. This continues until the contestant has, at minimum, given up:>his full legal name>where he was born and where he currently lives, down to the address>his most cherished hobbies>his political affiliation >any romantic pursuits he failed/succeeded at, including the romantic interest's full legal name, gender, and place of residenceand finally, as a lighthearted joke before the gym battle, his opinions on the show and the leader's handsome smile. Once all of this information has been given up on live broadcast, he gets to fight the gym leader on stage and destroy as much of the gym as he wants before the next showing.
>>58312636All of the contestant's information save for his first name, opinion on the show, and one hobby are erased from the audiences' minds immediately after being learned courtesy of an army of Beheeyem. Even if the program is recorded and played back, the information is impossible to retain. The host keeps all of that information and sends it to the government, then gets paid for it. This is how he's able to keep the show going despite having his entire set irreparably trashed every hour of every working day. The host is famous countrywide, and he's the only gym leader to take contestants that aren't pursuing a badge. This is literally his job, so he's got his doors open to everyone. That means fighting him is a serious pain in the ass, since his popularity guarantees that most prime-time slots will already have appointments by the time the sun comes up, so he'd probably be a pretty late-badge leader to make prioritizing gym contestants easier.He's the only leader to supposedly tolerate Connors, but in secret he's spying on him extensively and concerned that Connors genuinely knows his glowie secret.Alright. More tomorrow. Hope you enjoyed these first four guys.
>>58312312>man this guy's gonna freak when he finally hears about dark types
>>58312834nobody tell him
>>58311564>I didn't figure it was correct to add a bunch of written text about the character concept to what should be a summary imageThe walls of text were the best thing about him in the last thread. >>58312312This one's my pick of your lineup so far.
>>58313884I'll have to work on a more refined text summary when I get off work, then
>>58313884I'm glad you like him! Here's another leader for your troubles. I can probably get the rest of the league done today if I put my mind to it.This girl's a vegan activist; a rogue heiress to a giant jewelry company that she despises whose entire life can be summated to "fuck you dad". She's very big on "consensual cooking"-- that is, only eating what her Pokémon produce and allow her to use-- and loudly supports extreme environmentalism. Her main team is mostly grass-typed due to the whole Pokémon-vegan thing, but due to Professor Connors this girl wasn't allowed to use Grass types... so she used her backup dessert-based team instead. She's very salty about it and keeps lobbying the League to let her use her grass types, but they keep saying no. She thinks this is Professor Connors' fault exclusively. In reality, he partly acts as cover for their real reasoning-- they think she's fucking gross, and don't want her having snacks off her Tropius or Simisage in the middle of gym battles.Anyways, her gym is like a weird facsimile of a Parisian café. She's never actually been to Paris, though, and doesn't know any French... so the whole thing looks more like an outdated "earthy" restaurant from San Francisco and it's littered with really broken French phrases, half of which mean nothing.The main gym challenge is picking out vegan pastries from the real thing. Her definition of vegan, being as skewed as it is, makes this quite difficult: for example, a cream tart made from her Alcremie's cream would count as vegan despite looking nearly identical to a normal tart. The League actually forced her to add some crappy store-bought vegan products into the mix to make the challenge easier after challengers complained about arbitrary rulings (which she wasted no time in doling out).
>>58314290You need to fill up a small basket worth of pastries, then bring them to the counter and pretend to pay for them by whispering a code word to the attendant waiting there. Challengers will often be let in with a "shopping list" of pastries that they need, sometimes with extra requirements (eg present them a certain way, avoid this ingredient, etc.), that contain both this code word and the price for actually buying these pastries. If there are multiple challengers in the gym simultaneously, they can challenge each other to battles and demand a certain pastry from their opponent's basket as a reward. This is a valid way of earning pastries, and can be scaled up to having outright Battle Royales where one guy gets his entire shopping list just from fighting 10 trainers at once. The final battle against the leader takes place in the cafe's kitchen. Part of the challenge is trying to fight in the cramped space while the chefs are still baking, unless you decided to challenge the gym very early in the day or very late at night when the café is usually closed (which increases the risk of other trainers being there to challenge you, because everyone knows this strategy as a "pro tip" for challenging the league). Upon defeat, the leader hands you both a badge that looks like rock candy and an actual stick of rock candy.
>>58314290There is a 100 percent chance this chick has wild, food fetish sex with some or all of her pokemon. And probably some of the Trainers. The kind of legendary sex that has you seeing Jesus by the time you're done, but also wondering what the hell you got yourself into. God help you if you happen to satisfy her daddy issues. The dreaded 10 on the hot scale, 10 on the crazy.
I'll have to design a badge. I wanted to include shedinja on the team but anyone who steps on my gym will counter his gimmick without even knowing
>>58314290And here's her least-favorite coworker!The CEO of a chemical company that got rich off of the region's resources for nearly a century. This guy was the worst of his line, sacrificing the region's climate and the world's air quality for the sake of profit. He's a gym leader as part of his life sentence, and forced into the lower bracket of gym leaders to prevent him using his more dangerous team members.His gym challenge is part humiliation ritual, part advertising campaign. The guy tries his best to make the whole thing into advertisement for his company, down to making the gym badge a commemorative coin dedicated to his brand... but the League keeps handicapping him, so the commemorative coin is dedicated to that one time he fucked up the coast so badly that the entire thing was some shade of purple and/or black for seven years running.The actual challenge is part beach clean-up, part water purification gauntlet. It's all a farce, done with a pool of colored water and a giant sand box, but it's under a time limit. You have about 3-5 minutes (depends on how much trash they could throw onto the field before the challenge) to clean up all of the random crap strewn about the play-beach, then have to do a series of 3-5 trainer battles on the water. During these battles, you have to position attacks in such a way that the small amount of pure water the pool starts out with spreads to cover as much colored water as possible. If you manage to clear more than 70% of the pool with clean water, you get to fight the leader.The leader is fought on the beach. You can use both the water and sand to slow him down, but he'll use whatever trash you missed as projectiles throughout the fight.>>58314348I cannot confirm or deny this. It is up to your ~imagination~
>>58314707I deny it.
>>58314707Next up. I wrote this one as "child star," but really it's more "teenage star." Like one of those Disney Channel kids. Hannah Montana-esque.She's similarly a little bit obnoxious. Really into costume-changing, so her entire team is made up of similar Pokémon. For the sake of not going insane trying to balance her team, Pawmot is being counted as a "costume" of Pikachu here. She also really likes cute and fluffy things, and has that kind of sing-songy saccharine voice that goes naturally with her being a media darling.Her gym challenge is an impromptu three-act play, starting from a prompt given out by an announcer when you step backstage for the first time. You get to choose a costume, again, from a limited inventory that doesn't have much to do with the prompt. While you're backstage, the front of the stage will be dressed with props to set the scene for that act. Once you've chosen your costume, you have to get up on stage while dressed in it and try to start the story yourself. The leader will play some kind of villain or deuteragonist, responding to your prompt before a trainer comes in to battle with you for some plot-relevant reason. Rinse and repeat once.For act III, your opponent is a double battle against the gym leader and the trainer you were supposed to fight, kind of like a Totem in SM. Similarly to Totem fights, you don't need to defeat both the leader and the trainer to win-- just the leader. Afterwards, you get your badge and a round of applause.The region this league is based around should probably be obvious by now, but I don't know if I'll ever make anything of it.
>>58311564I swear I've heard the name Marcus Owen somewhere before>>58312834Dark types aren't real. They're a government psyop to give the public a false sense of security around psychics.
>>58315500Hopefully I didn't crib the name from anywhere accidentally. Richard Owen was a famous paleontologist, so that's where I got the last name. Marcus I just pulled out of the vibes from the void whispering in my ear.
>>58315473this guy's simpler, probably the simplest of the bunchhe's a prospector. Looks somewhere in his 50s, talks like he's in his 150s. He's pretty detached from the rest of the league, I don't have much to say about him.Gym challenge is also pretty simple. Prospecting for gold in the river while lots of Sableye try to munch on your earnings. It's another one with a time limit (probably much longer than the rest given the task). So long as you find more than 5 nuggets within the time limit, you're clear to fight the gym leader.Badge is pyrite, not actual gold. When the gym's low on funds, it's a painted rock instead of actual pyrite
>>58315983forgot the image
>>58315473Don't want to be that guy but Miraidon is not a minor legendary.
>>58316037I didn't even realize it said "minor," I just saw legendary and that it allowed Miraidon and went for it lol. Oops, I guess replace it with a Thundurus then? Doesn't matter too much
>>58315983alright, I'm going to rapid-fire the E4's teams because I honestly don't know what I'd do with them for appearances or gym makeups. This is one member of the e4. I'm not going to order them, like I didn't order the gym leaders. She's a witch with a passionate dislike of science. Her room is littered with runes and symbols, discarded tomes, weird bits and bobs in bottles. She tends to collect souvenirs from after her battles to stick in those-- once she's defeated, she'd probably comment on it. As for her magic... well, she's a Psychic, but refuses to let anyone know it. Instead, she tries to sell herself as the real deal and dedicates a lot of effort into looking like she's doing real magic. She's at constant odds with the rest of the league, with a tendency to be sycophantic towards the champion (whom I have not determined yet) and an exaggerated disdain for everyone else. Not a very pleasant person. Short, stinky, and generally pretty befitting of ye olden stereotypes (save for the warty nose and old age). The Delphox would be her Mega, for the record, but this card maker hasn't added the Z-A stuff yet.
>>58316394Next is an aging surfer bro, somewhere in his 30s but still saying cowabunga like it's cool. As part of his mid-life crisis, he's taken to competitive Pokémon and built himself a Rain team... forgetting that the e4 aren't allowed 6 mon in the process, and being too attached to his former surfer bros to sacrifice any of them for the new frog he got just for the job. Kind of a creep, keeps hitting on any women that come his way, really just lonely and missing the coast.His room is probably just one big beach, with painted water and sand and such.
>>58316443Second-to-last, there's the second-most obvious reference to the region. This girl's one of those old waitresses from old fast food joints. The kind with poodle skirts and roller-skates. She's peppy and cheerful and about 70 years out of date, but her hair looks great and her all-white smile is even better. Her room is a roller rink. She doesn't sit still during the battle, at all. Even while she's standing, she's moreso skating in place. She entertains the surfer bro's flirtations, but keeps leading him on because she thinks it's funny.
>>58316470FINALLY, the last e4 member of this region, which should be blindingly obvious by now: a bruiser stereotype!This guy's a classic greaser. He's here under similar circumstances to the CEO: he's serving time for being an asshole. This asshole, unfortunately, is very very good at battling. He's probably the toughest criminal in the region. It takes half of the other e4 members just to keep him in check, and sometimes they need to call in one of the gym leaders with a type advantage against him if things get really bad. The guy's got a temper, especially towards any fellow delinquents, and lashes out because of it very frequently.His room is an uninviting mess. Cold hard concrete with wayward graffiti tags and old gang signs strewn about everywhere. The guy actually carries around a nail bat, which he often begins battles with by intimidating challengers before they state the obvious, which has gotten him in trouble more than a few times.Overall: huge piece of shit. The equivalent of taking the CEO's terrible crimes and diluting that awfulness into a personality. But he's really good at battling, so he stays.Anyways, that's all for my California/Bay Area-themed League. I don't have any ideas for a Champion that aren't just memes, and I've been hogging this thread enough as-is. I think I'm going to let it die in peace now.Thank you for reading my fun teambuilding exercises.
>>58316508>>58316470>>58316443>>58316394Effort posting is always welcome. Between this thread and the previous one we've got enough gyms for like... three or four regions, which is wild.
>>58310939My gym uses pokemon that started off as normal types that evolve through happiness
>>58310939Rock type doubles gym. Run by 2 sisters, one bottom-heavy and the other top-heavy to represent stalagmites and stalactites. Their pokemon also reflect it with the quadrapeds belonging to one and the bipeds to the other.>Glimmora/KleavorLead, set hazards>H-Arcanine/KabutopsH-Arcanine Intimidate to give better chances for Weak Armor Kabutops to set-up>Gigalith/GarganaclBulky anchors
>>58317274That's a clever idea with the rock formations
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Nice to see people using the generator.If you have some suggestions about it (besides a reset button and Tera option), let me hear them.No promises I will do anything anytime soon but I'll keep them in account.
>>58310939I like Pinsir.
>>58319471The ability to drag icons around and swap positions of pokemon in the roster without having to wipe everything would be cool
>>58319471If there was a way to create a sidebar showing the Pokémon and its level, nature, nickname, move set, stuff like that, id enjoy it very much.
>>58319471Options for sugimori or dream world artwork instead of the gross HOME models would be greatly appreciated.
>>58319471Seconding this >>58319507 and maybe a pool you can pull from so you don't have to constantly search everytime you place the same mon.
>>58320200It’d be neat if, after choosing which type the leader specializes in, the Pokémon selection automatically populates with all members of that type.
>>58319471I feel like having a more linear progression of adding mons in might make sense. You'd have a nice smooth ramp up that way. 0-1 badges: 2 mons2-3 badges: 3 mons4-5 badges: 4 mons6-7 badges: 5 monsElite 4 and Full Team: 6 mons, with Full Team getting more powerful options unlocked. Alternately, separate 8 badges from Elite 4 teams, which might make sense anyway. Feels like Giovanni as the 8th Leader wasn't the same level of team as the Elite 4 in Red/Blue, right? So why would the 8-badge level be the same category as the Elite 4?
>>58320675It's been awhile since you've played a proper Pokemon game, hasn't it. What separates them are their Levels. You're lucky to see a Lv 50 mon by the 8th Gym with the E4 jumping to the 60s by the end of it, who never have a full team till the rematch.
>>58321012Guilty as charged, lol. Guess im still on an older vibe.
Looks fun.Gym leader looks like an island castaway who spends most of his time fishing with his Pokemon, and doesn't reveal himself to be a powerful trainer until you find his hidden island. The gym is on that hidden island, like a mirage island, and the gym challenge is finding it. This would involve having to look for the right currents and weather conditions for it to appear, which is signaled by big schools of Magikarp. They swim to the island hoping to climb its waterfall to evolve into Gyarados. The battle takes place on a shallow lake, and the Milotic, and later Tapu Fini, are sort of meant to invoke a Lady of the Lake kind of thing. The badge is called the Flowing Badge, and meant to invoke the water cycle. Also the circle of life, because the Magikarp that fail the climb tend to be plucked up by the hungry seabird Pokemon around. It doesn't stop them from trying. Neither does it stop you. You should likely wait for the rain to stop before challenging him, since obviously the rain benefits water Pokemon. But if you beat him in the rain, he might give you something better than a badge, like a mega stone.>>58311564Based Cradily/Kabutops enjoyer>>58311763Always wanted a dark specialist to be an illusion type, I like it>>58312102That's actually a fun gimmick>>58315473hey what the fuck, I also came up with an actor electric gym leader a while back>>58319471Could you add custom megas? Like, just add an option to indicate a Pokemon that doesn't have an official mega will mega, like mega symbol a player can put on one of their pokemon.
i have question, since this thread has lasted longer than i thought i was wondering if it would be okay for me to bump with pro trainer cards of video game characters to keep it from reaching page 10. Keep in mind that i will only do this if i see the thread reaching page 10. If you guy's say no i will completely understand.
>>58321378no
>Gym is an industrial toxin refinery and waste management center. Poisons taken from Pokemon like Koffing and Varoom are processed into things like perfume and fuel. Gym trainers dress like sanitation workers with gasmasks. Whole place looks like a mishmash between a junkyard, a factory, and a garage laboratory. >The Gym Leader is the Fanatical Refinery Boss, Anders. Though, his official job title is 'Executice Officer of Waste Management, Resource Allocation, and Pokemon Wellness'. >Anders is a tall, muscly guy with the low posture and brutish mannerisms of a delinquent, constantly grinning and laughs like a hyena. He enforces strict safety policies for everyone except himself: he wears work pants and work pants, but leaves his arms exposed by with a white tanktop. He's got a gas mask, but it dangles around his neck instead of being worn properly. His face has a permenent purple tinge because of how many times he's been poisoned, and he's got numerous chemical burn scars because of how casually affectionate he is with Poison-types. >Despite his appearance he's aggressively friendly, knows all his employees by name and a sincere love for all Poison-types. >Gym challenge requires powering up the latest in pollution-powered technology: the ToxiTrain! Runs on poison, outputs clean air. Challengers gotta explore the facility and collect five Poison Cans to ride the train to the end of the line. >Poison Cans can be earned by defeating gym trainers, catching wild Poison-types in the junkyard (a held Poison Can acts like a Black Sludge), or by taking a poisoned Pokemon to an 'Emergency Antidote Station' which will yield a can after removing the status>Most of the gym challengers use basic pollution Pokemon, with surprises (gasmasked Aroma Lady with an Arbok and a Gloom, researchers in a double with a Poison Heal Breloom and a Prankster Shroodle to poison it). Only actual required battle before Anders is a surprise ambush by the train conductor.
>>58322029>cont'd because word count limitHis basic strategy is to lay down layers of entry hazards, both Spikes and Toxic Spikes, while using his Levitate Koffing and Alolan Grimer as a defensive core. Uses the Trubbish to try and bait Psychic or Ground moves for switch-ins. In lieu of a Mega he has a Garbodor that can GMax outside Galar. Thought about giving him a Crobat but Naganadel is the Poison Pin Pokemon, just like Nidoran, and I guess it's a minor legendary? Beating Anders would get you a very, VERY firm handshake (maybe even a bro hug), the Smog Badge, and TM091 (Toxic Spikes). Gym theme - https://youtu.be/YcrsDLFK4cw?si=P0LOvhjx-Aj9XhM4Anders is a nickname, real name is Oleander, after the poisonous plant.
>>58322029>Anders is a tall, muscly guy with the low posture and brutish mannerisms of a delinquent, constantly grinning and laughs like a hyena. He enforces strict safety policies for everyone except himselfLiterally me.
>Gym leader got lost at sea when he was just a kid and was saved by a family of Kinglers and Krabbys that then raised him as their own.>He believes that he is a crab so he only feels comfortable around his own kind. >He became a gym leader to demonstrate the superiority of crabs over other lesser beings. >His gym challenge involves answering various crab-related trivia questions.
>>58322113Should give him a punny name. >Herm>Clawton>Claude>Crabstopher>untranslatable clacking noises
>Gym is at the top of a skyscraper with Noivern gargoyles>you must navigate through a pitch black room with an echo locator that can only be used so many times to highlight walls and obstacles for a second (but not Trainers!)>Gym Trainers are dressed as Crobatman, Gligerman and The Murkrow, with Gym Leader Wayne as Noivernman (who may or may not show up on the tops of buildings as you walk around at night!)Wayne and his friends had a hero club as kids but started taking it seriously when the Evil Team of the region started causing trouble and will show up to help from time to time (but it's totally not them!)
>The Gym Leader is Zeke, a former professional surfer from Hoenn. He unexpectedly retired from the sport under mysterious circumstances and became a gym leader shortly thereafter. He's a laid-back dude, very chill. Wears Hawaiian shirts printed with flower Pokemon patterns and swim trunks, likes to grill out on the beach and hang. Has a faint scar on his stomach that looks like a shark bite pattern. One of those anime dudes who never opens his eyes all the way.>Zeke hates being indoors so he doesn't have a traditional gym. Challengers will find him chilling on the beach, grilling out over a pet Torkoal.>His gym challenge is a 'Battle against the waves'. Zeke hangs on the beach while challengers take out on the water i custom canoes. Instead of normal gym trainers he likes to pit challengers against each other in battles on the water while he referees and uses Pokemon to whip up different weather effects and lightly interfere.>Uses a rain team. The Raichu knows Surf and Thunder. The Pelipper likes to Flip Turn out a lot.>In his post-game fight he tosses away the shirt to reveal the scarred-out Team Aqua tattoo on his back.https://youtu.be/b1HJNorghZk?si=nfRMY51HfFWr0z3_ [Open]
>>58316443>>58321277>>58322113>>583223657.8/10Too much water type specialists.
>>58323019We need more water.
>>58323041>spoiler picI can read through the pencil censor, you mercy-killing bubble spider.
>>58323088You're delirious. Have a drink, friend.
I'm brainstorming a poison gym leader. The thread can't die before then.
Are we planning on actually making a region for these gym leaders or anything?
In this gym, you must bake a pie for each of the gym leader's pokemon. While you're waiting for the pie to bake, you will battle the gym trainers. You have to defeat them in a certain amount of turns or the pie will burn or be undercooked, which will make the gym leader's pokemon angry in turn, causing them to become more powerful in battle. The further off the mark you are from the target amount of turns, the stronger the gym leader's pokemon become.
>>58321277Maybe its the genwunner in me, but I've loved Kabutops ever since I first saw him in 199-whatever, yeah. What's not to love about a big angry sword monster from prehistory?
>>58324272I mean, if you can think of one, by all means.
>>58324272Not a region for me but a league. But i have another story i gotta write first before i start working the league.
>>58310939I am running a pokemon tabletop game (PTA3), I love these threads. /tg/ is unironically too dogshit to use for this sort of thing these days, so I'm glad you guys can be creative and genuine while sharing ideas. My players asked me to make the gyms "really hard", which I'm interpreting as "we're bringing six so they bring six". The first gym is normal type and I'm trying to make it interesting so the solution isn't "apply fighting moves until victory arrives". There's 5 players so it'll be a chaotic 5v5 extravaganza, a leader and his 4 best gym trainers and everyone has a gimmick and an ace.Leader: "cheating"Litleo, Deerling, Helioptile, Bibarrel, Fearow, GirafarigTrainer: "normal is weird"Spindna, Lickitung, Kecleon, PorygonTrainer: "Farm girl"Lechonk, Wooloo, Taros, MiltankTrainer: "cutsey"Skwovet, Buneary, Bunnelby, JigglypuffTrainer: "actually normal"DUX, Herdier, Loudred, ZangooseTrainers get 4 because it's still the first gym. I can give specifics (movesets, roles) if asked. My main concern is if they're overtuned and I should mix in more early route normals instead of the more exotic ones.
>>58324987Well, Normal has a lot of single stage outliners. So it isn't that hard to give a challenge if you build the team around one Pokemon that would outclass most mons early on, like what I did here with Kangaskhan. I always find it better to find a Pokemon to hero then build around a gimmick. You can always have the Gym Leader use a Mega or something if they blitz through them too easily. Afterall, Gym Leaders aren't meant to be pushovers, they're there to test. If they underestimate them, they should be allowed to up the ante a little.
>>58324987You should definitely check out the previous thread then.
The gym leader is Hans. He's an author and folklorist known for collecting and preserving 'lost stories': forgotten fairy tales and oral narratives that have never been written down. He's a charming fellow who wears a clean tweed suit and a flat cap, enjoys libraries and evening woodland strolls. He has a strange habit of battling with his back turned while holding a mirror. The gym itself is a dimly lit library. Challengers search for clues and notes hidden away in special books (only fairy tale genre books have clues). There's really only one question the challenger has to answer correctly before fighting Hans. All of the fairy tale books that contained clues were mildly unsettling.>Question: Why do I like Fairy Pokemon so much? >Answer: Because they're scary.
>>58325411Blah, I shouldn't have posted so soon. I always forget Mimikyu is a fairy for some reason, this guy needs one. Probably replace the Clefable or the Hatterene.
>>58325411Mega clefairy is going to be an absolute menace once she comes to champions.
>>58325525clefable* my bad.
>>58325411>>58325459https://files.catbox.moe/uzdss8.pngRevised team. Didn't want to eat up image limit.>>58325525I forgot that thing was on the way. There are so many Megas that I'm starting to forget that certain old ones exist. I just today remembered Mega Slowbro happened
>>58325624>I just today remembered Mega Slowbro happenedReally? He was one of the first megas that came to mind when writing my story.
>>58325295I will. I still have some old team thread pics saved, I'll see if I can find where I filed them.>>58325201I had kangaskhan in there during planning, but it's *really* good between its raw stats, anti-hazing abilities, and exceptional move access (all fangs/punches and then some). Whoever made the game is a big fan. Maybe gimmick is the wrong word. They've all got little tricks and traps so it's not as straightforward an engagement as it appears. I'll give examples.Leader's Helioptile has an attack run play style; it wants to charge->laser focus->shock wave for a huge auto-hit auto-crit attack. This is two turns of setup for a big payoff, but it's stopped by a switch or ground or slapping him. Gimmicky, fragile strategy, but the payoff is maximized boosted damage which will drop anything at this level. Dangerous, but telegraphed and counterable. Anime villain stuff.His Girafarig ace uses reflect and starts blasting with psychic and thundershock or swinging for flinch with bite and stomp. It's simpler and better, the trick is reflect makes 10 damage disappear every physical hit and that adds up.The weird guy's trick is pokemon have multiple abilities in PTA, so Kecleon has protean and color change. Porygon is similar with conversion. They'll probably end up Steel.Farmgirl and Normal guy are straightforward, just Belly Drum+Milk Drink and Toxic Boost+Black Sludge and that's just pumping attack. It's the cutesey team that has all the tricks. Skwovet's only job is to roam around and eat everyone's berries before them with bug bite, abusing cheek pouch, stealing with covet, and resorting to flinch hax. Buneary carries jump kick and drain punch for misses and an endure (a reactive move) +flail combo. Bunnelby makes a briar patch with spikes and hides in it throwing mud and rocks. Jiggs has resto chesto and that's enough. Sing's accuracy is based on speed so she sucks at it, big flavor fail. Thanks for the interest anon. I like tinkering with this stuff.
>>58325670Different strokes, different folks. There's almost 50 Megas with ZA about to add dozens more so some let slip my mind.First ones I think of are the Kanto starters and Pinsir.
>>58310939Maze-like building. Hints are given after battles, based on type interactions found in the battles.
Gym Leader is Grigory. He's a Youngster, a child actor and big Pokestar Studios name. He's got a popular film series where he's a cool, mysterious kid detective and Dark-type specialist who solves cases with his Lokix partner. As a gym leader he's just a quiet, bashful kid who wants to be a Professor researching Bug-type Pokemon. He thinks Bugs are the coolest thing ever and gets really talkative whenever they're the subject of conversation. The Spidops is the first Pokemon he ever caught. It stays.
>Gym is located on the pier of a seaside town among other fun attraction like a ghost ship>upon entering you are given a metal detector to find a special token (usually trash or Trainers) in the sands inside to open the inner sanctum>Gym Leader Dagan, when not searching for treasure on the beach, can often be found in the ghost ship fun house as his alter ego Greenbeard!
>>58327231>There's so many ocean-themed Ghost-types that you can almost make an ocean team with no Water-typesFun gimmick.
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>Gym Leader is Sheena, short-tempered biker bitch who wears ripped jeans and leather jacket. She's rude and impatient, but honest and honorable. An adrenaline junkie, she also works as a stunt driver for motion pictures. >Her gym is actually a mobile semi truck. Gym battle takes place on a long, long stretch of desert highway. It's a high-speed mobile battle at 80 MPH. Series of fights with a gimmick effect that rewards you with stat boosts for every knockout to speed up the fight. Basically everything gets Moxie but it's random like Moody. >Sheena rides a custom, Krookodile-themed chopper but all of her gym trainers are on Cyclizars>She uses an under leveled Mandibuzz as her ace. Gonna justify that because you can catch an under leveled one in BW2.>Final form of her team is a mono-dark sandstorm team. She uses an Eviolite'd Bisharp instead of a Kingambit. Beat her and you get the Road Badge.
How much wiggle room is there for a gym? Are there ever gyms that represent a theme, but are not type linked for some/all of their pokemon?
>>58327734Volkner is an Electric-type gym leader. He uses an Octillery and an Ambipom. Flint is a Fire-type specialist on the Elite 4. He uses a Drifblim, a Steelix, and a Lopunny. All the gym leaders in Paldea have aces that don't match their type specialities because Tera. There's a lot of wiggle room.
>>58327748>Drifblim>Blimp, runs on hot gas>Steelix>As in Flint and steel, sparks make fire>Lopunny>It's hot
>>58327793anon… Flint’s Lopunny is male.
>>58327801People are gay, Steven
>>58328014They what
>>58328107He pets the rabbits, George. He pets them real nice because he loves them, George.
>>58327554>>58327470>>58326250>>58325411kino
this was fun to imagine>"gym" is a large, typical fortune teller tent>before facing the gym leader, instead of trainers you fight illusory pokemon that pop out of tarot cards and that have a statboosting aura>each of his pokemon are themed after a major arcana, Espeon - Sun, Lunatone -Moon, Starmie - Star, GSlowbro - Fool, Delphox - Magician, Malamar - Devil>beat him and you'll get a peculiar card-shaped medal, the Strength medal that...allows you to use strength outside of battles>after defeating him, you can return to visit him to have him read tarots for you once per day for 100 pokedollars, you can actually see the cards up close and they all have pokemon-themed illustrations
>>58310939It's not a gym leader, but a professor studying communication with Pokémon.
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>>58330055hes saying Joe Winko took steroids
>badgeAnthill>gimmickJust find the right foodstuffs for the picnic
Oh, neat. Didn't have the time to get to the first thread before it hit limit, glad to see there's another one in its place.The idea behind this one is that it's an old Gothic mansion in the mountains that belongs to an once-wealthy family fallen into hard times, which have negotiated with the regional League to turn it into a Gym and get public funding while avoiding completely losing the property (even if it means letting the plebs in).Between the family itself and their servants, only the maid Edel (last name Weiss) has any sort of battle expertise, so she's been given free reign to become the Gym Leader and whip the rest of the staff into shape as competent trainers. A cold, harsh perfectionist with ridiculously high standards, she takes pleasure in her gym being one of the last most challengers face due to its remote location, meaning she only faces the best of the best. She's also a neat freak who favors the Ice type as a symbol of spotlessness.Her Gym challenge has trainers wandering the mansion's complex layout to rearrange furniture and open the path to her, with any mistakes leading to dead ends and battles with other maids and butlers. Breaking or damaging anything is also grounds for automatic disqualfication. Once a trainer makes their way to her arena in the courtyard, they have to contend with her expert use of weather effects to wear them down while greatly buffing her own team.In spite of it all, she's not above recognizing other people's talents, and will spare a word or two of praise for anyone who beats her. Ultimately, she does care for others, but she dismisses her harsh treatment as much-needed tough love.
>>58330055Constructed languages: Ro, Ido, aUI, N'Ko, Toki Pona, Babm, Glosa, Lingwa de Planeta and It(h)kuil.
>>58331431Depending on how powerful mega-froslass will be she's either gonna get one-shot by a semi-decent fire type or be an absolute pain in the ass to deal with. No in between.
>>58331431I feel like in Paldea shed have a Tera Ice Cinccino with Triple Axel. Neat concept. I like how Mr. Rime works with the gimmick not just because of appearance but because of Screen Cleaner.
>>58330055Turns out pokemon arent good communicators lolAlthough it would be just like the Unown to fuck with someone studying them on principle.
The Gym Leader is Edie, a former Pokemon Center nurse who decided she needed more excitement in her life. She's the warden and lead physician of her home region's biggest Pokemon preserve, a facility inspired by Kanto's Safari Zone. She's a plump, older woman in khaki survival gear who takes joy in being responsible for the medical well-being of every Pokemon in the park. She's sweet, but no-nonsense and to-the-point. Her 'gym' is the Safari area itself. The gym challenge involves catching wild Pokemon Safari Zone style so they can be administered medicine. She'll judge your Pokemon care skills accordingly. She's a Normal-type specialist who uses a variety of sub-types to create a balanced team. Beat the doc and you get the TM for Hyper Voice and the Safari Badge.
>>58330055BTW, looks like you were retarded enough to mistake Unown-U with Unown-W, so here's a pic of the real deal to refresh your memory.
>>58331431Wife material.
>The gym leader is Lorcan, an independent film maker and the Galar Minor League Bug Gym Leader. Is passionate about both Bug pokemon and his films and uses his pokemon to help with filming, like using Orbeetle to lift the camera in the air without a crane or having Volcarona use its fire for practical effects.>Is treated as a bit of a laughing stock by the league and its fans because of bug being considered the weakest type.>Specializes in Sci-Fi and Monster movies, so his films have little success due to lack of mainstream appeal. Constantly working freelance jobs in media production in between battling and film making. >As a result, he's resentful of the other gym leaders and anyone who looks down on bug types and is determined to prove the worth of bug types to the public. >Appearance-wise, Lorcan has redish-brown hair which is perpetually messy, with two cowlicks at the front which look like antennae. Also has bags under his eyes from overworking. Wears a vest over his gym uniform and wears a flat cap (basically stereotypical director outfit). Always is carrying either a camera or a megaphone on him. >Sets up sticky web in the beginning.>Uses Armaldo as a rapid-spinner.>Volcarona is a quiver dance sweeper.>Araquanid is the tank.>Orbeetle uses calm mind + stored power.
