Type vs. Theme Gyms
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Speaking of Brassius's Sudowoodo, I thought that was so funny when I encountered it. Because he had a tree pokemon that thematically fits but is a rock type and that's a curveball. But then he goes and terastilizes it into a grass type. 🤦♀️
I would have had to change my strategy if he remained a rock type instead of switching to a grass type in line with the rest of his team.
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@RiqMoran Iono's a different story. Mismagius' Levitate ability gives it an immunity to what would be super-effective ground type moves.
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i remember when I was younger, my friend designed a frog-themed gym leader, which at the time mostly amounted to a water-type gym save for croagunk/toxicroak, but ever since then i've been interested in seeing themed gym leaders in the games-- I think it'd be a fun way to mix things up!
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i remember when I was younger, my friend designed a frog-themed gym leader, which at the time mostly amounted to a water-type gym save for croagunk/toxicroak, but ever since then i've been interested in seeing themed gym leaders in the games-- I think it'd be a fun way to mix things up!
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@puplover1118 funnily enough i used a Fraxure with mold breaker stomping tantrum against Iono's Mismagius. But yeah, Ionos Mismagius is the kind of variety that we need more of.
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The main issue that I have with themed gyms is that, if done wrong, they wouldn’t be very memorable. Having them be based on types would at least let people remember them for that.
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@RiqMoran I bet you couldn’t do that against Elesa, with her using Emolga.
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I once planned an unnamed region to have a minor league circuit, that did type oriented gyms, and league; and a major league circuit that was a more competitive style hyper nuanced gym and league.
It was going to be set up like a Main game, Post game type thing; with a regional dex for the first run of the region and the second run of the region having the full national dex available in game.
The Second gyms would range from weather, to hazard play, to hyper offense and or stall, to ability shenanigans, to item play. The League would probably have teams that combined two or three different strategies. As an example, a hyper offense sun team that utilizes a combination of set up, items, and sun to sweep. Maybe Baton Passing on a rain team with set up and stall? Idk could be fun.
The idea of a minor and major league exists in Sword and Shield already. I just took that idea and ran with it into the sunset. Then realized that I don’t have the capability to implement any of these ideas.
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And “typed” gyms can be used to teach other mechanics. Raihan is a dragon type gym leader, but he uses a sandstorm team in double battles, both of which are otherwise rarely seen, if ever.
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