You’re a big shot trainer going to open your own gym. What will your theme be?

Personally, I’d go with a haunted house for the gym. Fake ghost pokemon props giving ppl jump scares, mixed in with real pokemon. Except all my pokemon would be fighting type pokemon dressed up like ghost type pokemon.

Ash: “Haha oh what a jump scare! That’s a really fake looking Gengar puppet.”

“Oh now that one looks more like a Gengar.”

Hitmonchamp uses Mega Punch. It’s super effective. Ash gains concussion.

  • fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.comEnglish
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    13 days ago

    My gym would be the cutest cuddliest Pokemon leveled to high hell, with some level ones mixed in. Then Id give people guilt trips for bullying the weak ones.

  • Godort@lemmy.ca
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    13 days ago

    I want a gym that is entirely done in beige and warm greys, with a slight buzzing from AC and florescent lights.

    All my Pokemon will be normal type

  • c0wboy dani@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I don’t have a real answer but I just wanna say this question and your answer are awesome, I can’t wait to see some more answers!

  • Skyline969@piefed.caEnglish
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    12 days ago

    My gym would start with a trainer having the latest generation Pokemon, then each one after would have ones from the previous generation.

    Once you’ve gone through all generations and get to me, my team would be one high level Pokemon spamming its strongest move, and any time it got to red health I’d swap to a level 10 Pokemon that only knew HMs while I full restored my high level one.

    • Cypher@aussie.zone
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      12 days ago

      Swap to the lvl 1 Rattata with Focus Sash and Endeavour and teach the challenger FEAR.

  • Visstix@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    I was thinking of what type would fit me… I guess pokemon that will rage over the slightest things.

  • Crankenstein@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Giant terrarium. My pokemon would be reptilian analogues like Ivysaur, Feraligatr, Sandaconda, Serperior, Salazzle, etc…

  • Apeman42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    No type theming. The common thread is turtles. Squirtle line, Turtwig line, Shuckle, Torkoal, and I’m pretty sure there are more since Emerald that I don’t know the names of.

  • Dagobah@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    I always wanted to have a full team of glitch Pokemon:

    Ash is wading along the beach on cinnabar island when suddenly he falls over onto the hard ground. Bright light comes from all around as he looks up in shock to see a strange emtpy wireframe space.

    As he gets up, a piercing noise shatters the silence, it seems to come from inside his own head. A shadowy, pulsating form fades and crackles into view. An ‘arm’ extends and throws a ball, completely black like a void. Exploding from within is a pokemon…? No It can’t be! Ash stares wild eyed at the strange rectangular form, a chunk missing in its top right corner. It shrieks as it ripples with strange patches of incomprehensible randomness.

    Ash’s vision flashes for a moment back to the beach, he’s staring up at his friends as he lies on the sand. They’re saying something but he can’t hear it. He can’t speak, his eyes are portholes and he’s trapped inside. Then he’s gone, back to the broken liminal space.

    The pokemon is approaching. Or is it? It doesn’t seem to exist properly, a 2D form in a 3D space that only seems to grow in his vision. Ash looks down to see pikachu by his side, hair standing on end. They exchange a glance and he knows what to do.

    The fight is a blur, each new opponent more incomprehensible and impossible than the last. As the final entity is destroyed. Ash falls to his knees, his mind shattered by the infinite cosmic chaos. The strange ‘gym leader’ begins to fade and the world starts to crumble to blackness. A bright light is shining. A voice emanates from all around. “Wake up ash you’ll be late for school.”

    Ash opens his eyes and looks around, he is in bed. The world seems so much more detailed, so much more real. A handheld gaming device rests on his chest, white light flashes from its LCD screen as a pixelated title cutscene plays. A single word appears. PoKéMoN™

    • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      That’s fucked, your reward for beating the cosmic horror gym is to get put in a world where all the exciting and magical things you base your life on only exist as fiction? That’s awful!

  • Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Magikarp.

    A gym filled with thousands of gym trainers, before you reach the gym leader. Each with 6 high level magikarps with as much hp up and defence supplements that they can take.

    The sheer scale of the amount of Magikarps you need to face will make it an immense undertaking.

    At the end you get a TM for Splash.

  • Cypher@aussie.zone
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    12 days ago

    Dual types with no duplicates, so no type is ever shared by two pokemon, the gyms theme is the strength of diversity.

  • audaxdreik@pawb.socialEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Bugs. So many bugs.

    Oh did you think bug pokemon were cute? The floor squirms, the walls crawl. I am covered in so. Many. Spiders. Approach me, let’s battle!

    Team:

    • Galvantula
    • Ribombee
    • Pyukumuku (shh, no one tell him)

    I’m a low level gym (1st or 2nd badge), come on, we all know bug type is kinda weak – I’m just having fun.

    • kolmaskommentoija@sopuli.xyz
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      12 days ago

      I would do a bug theme too! But instead you would just walk into some weird shitty park, that has not been taken care of, and has grown all wild. The tall grasses would be filled with low level bug pokemon, but no trainers. Once you get through them, you would find a shed, that looks like it has been build out of trash. And then I would wake up mumbling and get out, looking like a weird hobo bug catcher, with a straw hat and flip flops, and holding a patched net. I would do some weird ranting speech, about how nobody cares about the nature anymore, and how all lawns should be banished and grow wild.
      My team would then be moderately leveled bug pokemon, maybe a leavanny and a scolipede, and two metapods for some reason. And after you would have beaten me, I would tell you should let your lawn grow out, and then give you a badge, that looks to be a lid of a tincan, picked from a trash pile, and cut and bend into a really bad flower shape. I would go back to sleep in the shitty shed, and you would leave, unsure about how to feel about all that.

      //Edit

      paljastus

      Oh, and the storyline would continue, that after you have beaten some more difficult gyms, and the plot brings you back to that town, you would find a brand new park on the site the shitty park was, with very tidy grass and all. And when talking to locals, they would just say stuff, like “The old park was really ugly” and “Oh, the homeless person? Who knows where they went”. Then later in the game you would come to an orchard, with a farmer telling you, it has been taken over by pokemon, and asking can you go in and see, if you can find a reason they are there, since he is terribly afraid of bugs.
      And so you go in there, and find the grass has already grown a lot, and there are tons and tons of low level bug pokemon everywhere. Deep in the orchard you would encounter a barely standing tent, and find me sleeping inside. I would only say “Zzz… The gym is closed, come back later…” without waking up. So you would have to go back to the farmer, and tell them, you think the bugs came from the old park. And they would be all “Oh… I guess they have no other place to go now… how terrible…”

      And then if you would go back in the town after beating all the gyms in the area, you would find the new park has its grass overgrown, and flowers been planted everywhere, and people walking around happily, and bugs buzzing around. Townspeople would say stuff like “I did not realize wild grass could be so pretty!” and “It’s good all the bugs have a home again”. And you would find me sleeping in a brand new toolshed, still looking like a homeless person and saying just the same thing about the gym being closed.