xD

Well, that's a bit better for me. Though, I'm still not too sure about the gym stuff.

Completely crushing someone in a battle is no fun, regardless whether you're 'qualified' or not. You don't learn anything as a trainer from completely one-shotting and crushing everyone with a full team of six fully evolved pokemon. You miss out on the particular strategies and the usage of more subtle pokemon moves instead of just hyperbeaming/oneshotting everything to oblivion.

At least, I think that's what gyms should be more or less about. A good challenge, so the trainer has a chance to learn and grow as a person. If I was a gym leader, I'd refuse to give someone a badge that did that, league rules be dammed xD


And I mean, obviously they don't have to be type speicfic. I was just saying that it would encourage a trainer to build a team specifically designed to battle that leader if they knew what their pokemon were. Say a gym leader had a Bisharp, that trainer could go out and just get a fighting type to counter it, beat the gym leader and never use the fighting type again. Which, in my opinion is just...well, makes you a bad person xD

But well, I dunno, I've never really been one to capture and use pokemon for their types and weaknesses and I guess that's just bleeding over onto here a bit. I normally just capture a team of six, maybe seven or eight pokemon and use them throughout the games...I dunno, I never was really big into catching them all.