The League Challenge

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Gym Leader Positions are open. If you would like to apply for a gym leader position, please fill out the application and let us know who you are wanting to replace.

Welcome to the Bohren Pokemon League informational network! Here you will find everything you need to know about challenging the League-sanctioned gym system here in Bohren!

Like most regions, Bohren boasts eight gyms and an Elite Four. The gym cycle begins in Quakeburg and ends in Umberville City. Beginning trainers are encouraged to challenge the gyms in order, but experienced trainers can challenge the gyms in any order they choose, (if they can).

Keep in mind that some Tournaments during the circuit may require your character to have a certain number of gym badges or even a specific gym badge to participate. Your character is not required to challenge the gyms but if you want to be able to participate in all tournaments, taking on the leaders is a must.

Some of our gym leaders are NPCs, which means that their character is available to be apped. Others are currently player characters, although their positions may become available in the future.

The order of the gyms are as follows:

1. Ground: Shawn, quakekid
2. Fighting: Dean, ???
3. Water: Skyler, dudeihaveagym
4. Grass: Hazel, ???
5. Ice: Dakota, ???
6. Ghost: Viktor, pain_split
7. Flying: Elijah, headshotsavvy
8. Dark: Dist, thereaper

-Elite Four
1. Steel: Joe, ???
2. Bug: Veronica, ???
3. Electric: Alexis, ???
4. Normal: Jane, ???
Champ: ?????



Challenging Gym Leaders

-Beginning Trainers

Trainers who have begun their education in the Bohren region are required to take the gym challenge in order, starting with the Ground gym and ending with the Dark gym. The gyms will get progressively harder as the character continues on their journey. This is beneficial to the growth of your character's Pokemon. Each gym has a level cap, and none of the gym leader's Pokemon will be higher than the level cap. Your character's Pokemon will not able to use moves learned after the level cap. For example, your Trapinch cannot learn Fissure before challenging the entire league. This is to encourage a steady growth for everyone's beginning trainer. Trainers can request a Badge Case from the mods to put in their character's profile - this helps players keep track of where your character is on their Pokemon journey and helps the mods make sure your Pokemon aren't growing too fast.

A quick note on levels: if you want your character to go through a Charizard/Mamoswine situation (where the Pokemon grows too quickly and becomes disobedient) please let the mods know. We like to see this as it promotes character growth - however, this Pokemon cannot be utilized to 'sweep' through the gym system quickly.

-Advanced Trainers

Trainers who enter Bohren from other regions are also welcome to challenge the gym circuit. Gym leaders must be able to hold their own against trainers of all strengths and levels of discipline, after all. If you are batteling on the advanced circuit via shoddy or DS, you will consider that your teams are at level 100. Technically all teams are not at level 100, and if you would like to keep track of your Pokemon's level through out the course of the game, feel free to do so. Keep in mind that Pokemon can learn all moves they are capable of learning in this circuit, however the following moves are banned:

- Double Team
- Minimize
- Guillotine
- Sheer Cold
- Fissure

The cap is there to make sure everyone is on equal grounds. If both the leader and challenger want to lower the cap to level standard or to level 50, they are more than welcome to, but like EV's, this is something that must be agreed upon by other players. All gym leaders will have 6 Pokemon each for the Advanced Route, and they are not going to take it easy on your character! If you would like to do a variety battle with a gym leader (Say your character only has 3 Pokemon they can battle with normally) you can speak with the player and do a 3v3 or 4v4 or even a 1v1, but again, this must be agreed upon.

As level 100 is considered a mastery level that is rarely met by a real Pokemon, the true level of the advanced circuit would be around the same as the Heart Gold and Soul Silver re-challenge levels, 50's-60's. All Leaders and trainers Pokemon have room to grow and change. Moves and be relearned or changed and retraining can take places as often as the trainer would like.

Gym Leaders

Because Bohren's main attraction are the many tournaments held by our League, gym leaders are not required to remain in their gyms. At any time, any of the leaders may be participating in one of the many tournaments across the region. Gym leaders may choose to offer badges to the opponents they battle in the tournaments, however the League tends to frown on this since it takes away from the focus of the tournament as a whole. At any time, gym leaders may be called away from the tournament to return to their hometown and take a gym challenge - playing a gym leader is time consuming, since they must always be available for battling. Please keep this in mind if you wish to app a gym leader.

The following roster contains the current gym leaders of the region. Leaders who are not currently player characters are available to be apped. Characters wishing to take over the position of gym leader must issue a challenge in-game for the leaders gym - and be aware that the gym leaders will be bringing out the big guns for any challenge of this nature. Expect their teams to be at their max.



1. Shawn - Master of the Earth
quakekid
Fissure Badge
Age: 14
City: Quakeburg
Quakesberg Gym Challenge Thread
Backstory: Shawn took over for his father when he was only twelve years old. His father travels and studies fossils around the world, working side by side with top specialists. Shawn had been training since he was a very small child. Although he is young, his team is top notch.

Basic Team:
-Turtwig
-Phanpy
-Hippopotas

Advanced team:
-Marowak
-Donphan
-Hippowdon
-Flygon
-Claydol
-Torterra

Other Pokemon:
-Cranidos
-Tyranitar
-Sandslash

2. Dean - Dojo Master
???
Fist Badge
Age: 49
City: Sheercliff
Backstory: Dean has been studying Karate since he was a very young child. His younger brother went on to become the star pupil of his class, While Dean spent most of his time training with countless Fighting type pokemon. He quickly surpassed his brother when his Master realized he was learning the ways of fighting through pokemon, and now Dean is the prized master of the Sheercliff City Dojo where he trains pokemon and people alike in the ways of defense and offense.

Basic Team:
-Tyrogue
-Machop
-Rilou
-Meditite

advanced Team:
-Blaziken
-Lucario
-Hitmonlee
-Hitmonchan
-Machamp
-Breloom



3. Skyler - Lover of the Waves
dudeihaveagym
Tsunami Badge
Age: 25
City: Crescent Beach
Backstory: Skyler is the daughter of a wealthy hotel tycoon and a native to Crescent City. When she was young, she traveled across the continent with her pokemon out of boredom. When Elite Four Member Alexis left her Crescent City gym to join the League, Skyler easily took over the gym with help from her father. Despite her laid-back and lax attitude, she is a talented battler and challenging her gym can be difficult.

Basic Team:
- Marill
- Lanturn
- Floatzel

Advanced Team:
- Lanturn
- Azumarill
- Ludicolo
- Altaria
- Floatzel
- Kabutops

Extra Pokemon:
- Crobat
- Qwilfish
- Kingdra
- Omastar
- Scizor
- Bronzong


4. Hazel - The Kind Gardener
???
Root Badge
Age: 86
City: Magnolia Town
Backstory: Hazel was an original member of the Bohren League when it was first organized over 60 years ago. She had promised her eldest daughter the gym when she was ready to retire, now at 86, Hazel is already a Great-Grandmother and has yet to retire from her position. As the eldest of the Gym Leaders, she finds it is her duty to present the new leaders with a gift when they gain their position. Hazel is an extraordinary breeder, and she breeds one special pokemon for each trainer based on their specialty. She has been known to give away pokemon eggs to those that defeat her.

Basic Team:
-Tangela
-Sunkern
-Cherrim
-Leafeon

Advanced Team:
-Meganium
-Tangrowth
-Venasaur
-Jumpluff
-Wormadam *Forest Cloak*
-Exeggutor

Extra Pokemon:
Name one, she probably has it in a PC



5. Dakota - The Ice Princess
???
Frost Badge
Age: 17
City: Snowpeak Town
Backstory: Dakota was born with it all. Her father already a champion among the Bohren area, she was raised around pokemon her entire life, getting anything she ever wanted. Dakota's father was a successful engineer in the city, and when he moved her from big city living up to the frigid Glacier Town she was enraged - until she met her Spheal. Her Spheal could do no wrong. After begging her father for use to use his League connections for something, she is now the frosty Princess of the giant Ice gym. She is as strong a glacier and is a true ice master.

Basic Team:
-Snover
-Jynx
-Piloswine
-Walrein

Advanced Team:
-Walrein
-Jynx
-Mamoswine
-Glalie
-Glaceon
-Dewgong



6.Viktor - Overlord of the Night
pain_split
Veil Badge
Age: 23
City: Abeo Town
Backstory: Viktor was always made fun of growing up. As a child he was constantly called a loser, so he spent most of his time wondering on his own. He never wanted to be a pokemon trainer, as his Grandmother's Spiritomb was always mistreating him. This all changed when he found a very sick Misdrevious, from then on he become obsessed with making her the very best she could be, raising her from the brink of sickness. After a few months he decided to take on the pokemon league challenge, becoming one of the greatest ghost trainers in the region. He is extremely mysterious and spent a year just building his gym from rubble before challenging the current gym in his area, a Poison Gym in a city not far from his own. Some say he's crazy, others say he's a genius - whichever way you look at it, his gym is tough to beat.

Basic Team:
-Misdrevious
-Gastly
-Nuzleaf
-Haunter

Advanced Team:
-Drifblim
-Ninjask
-Frosslass
-Mismagius
-Persian
-Dusknoir

Extra Pokemon:
-Dustox
-Shedninja
-Arbok



7. Elijah - The Sniper
headshotsavvy
Pinion Badge
Age: 37
City: Zenith City
Backstory: Despite his beginnings in high society, all Elijah Kelly ever wanted to do was raise and battle with pokemon. Eventually this became such a point of contention within his family that his father kicked him out of the house. Determined to prove that he could make it in the world of pokemon, Elijah went through both the Bohren and Sinnoh circuits before successfully challenging the old Zenith City gym leader. He now runs the gym out of his ranch beyond the city limits, giving aspiring trainers the wake-up call he feels they deserve. Being a pokemon master isn't easy. You have to be willing to scuff up your shoes a bit.

Basic Team:
-Skarmory
-Blissey
-Dodrio
-Togekiss

Advanced Team:
-Aerodactyl
-Dragonite
-Steelix
-Togekiss
-Staraptor
-Blissey



8. Dist - The Reaper
thereaper
Thorn Badge
Age: 35
City: Umberville City
Backstory: Not many can claim to know Dist's history. Oh, there are whisperings - that he murdered the old Gym leader, that he's a former Team Rocket admin, that he runs illegal experiments in the broken-down buildings in Umberville - but nothing much can be confirmed. What facts people can agree on are that he came to Bohren a few years ago, that he was on the run from something or other, and that he has most assuredly earned his position, and his title, in the Bohren league.

Basic Team:
-Roserade
-Absol
-Sableye
-Honchkrow

Advanced Team:
-Roserade
-Weavile
-Tyranitar
-Spiritomb
-Scizor
-Umbreon

Extra Pokemon:
Murkrow
Milotic
Bellossom
Cherrim
Seedot
Lileep



The Elite Four

The Elite four members are not allowed to enter tournaments, as they are part of an exclusive tournament held at the end of the tournament season. They will occasionally show up as official judges for tournaments, or as just spectators to admire the competitors and their pokemon. Elite Four members will have some important roles in plot, as they work closely with The League and with the RTF. After each Elite Four Tournament, if a challenger is successful in beating each member of the Elite Four in succession including the Champion, they will be declared the new Champion of the Elite Four. In the case of multiple wins against the Elite Four, a separate tournament will be held to determine the new League Champion.


1. Joe - Tough Man Joe
Age: 44
City: Glacier Town
Backstory: Joe wanted to be an engineer all his life. He was always hypnotized by machines and how they worked. Not only that but he always loved look at Steel pokemon, they were so sturdy, tougher than rock and ground. He trained to be the toughest in his region. He took on some of the greatest in the Battle frontier and was even awarded the roll of Champion for a year before his Daughter, Dakota, was born. He has since stepped down from his position, but still works as a member of the Elite Four. He is mostly known for his powerhouse pokemon and his mighty wall of defense.

Team:
-Metagross
-Bastiodon
-Aggron
-Skarmory
-Steelix
-Empoleon

2. Veronica - Madame Butterfly
Age: 22
City: ???
Backstory: Veronica grew up in the large woods in Borhen. She was absolutely fascinated with Bug pokemon from since a young age. Her Vespiquen has been with her since it was first born as a small Combee. It is one of her strongest pokemon. Dakota and Veronica often debate which pokemon are the best when she comes to visit her Father. Veronica is hard to sway, and because of her humbleness she has earned her position on the elite four.

Team:
-Beautifly
-Wormadam *steel*
-Ninjask
-Vespiquen
-Ariados
-Forretress

3. Alexis - Electric
Age: 26
City: Crescent Beach City
Backstory: Alexis didn't have much growing up. She worked the hardest out of all the elite four to get to her position. Her family was extremely poor, her father working at the local electric company to earn a living for his wife, Alexis and her 7 brothers and sisters. Alexis being one of two girls, she was especially tough. One day Alexis's father brought home a gift of electric pokemon that were caught at the electric company. From that day forth Alexis knew she wanted to be a trainer. Alexis ran the Crescent Beach City Gym for many years, only recently challenging the Elite on a simple suggestion from a member of her gym. Alexis is the newest member and is one tough cookie.

Team:
-Jolteon
-Raichu
-Manectric
-Lanturn
-Manezone
-Electrive

4. Jane - Plain Jane
Age: 35
city: Longbranch Town
Backstory: Jane is very simple woman. She spent her life traveling the world in search of the best pokemon. On her journey she found very simple pokemon, all of them were being thrown away by their owners because they were Just Normal. Jane decided to make it her life long dream of saving these normal types. She has gone through every league and every land searching for the best pokemon. Being the leader of the elite four has always been her dream. She hopes that people recognize the power of normal pokemon, but she is not about to lose to someone using special types!

Team:
-Ursaring
-Togekiss
-Blissey
-Miltank
-PorygonZ
-Snorlax

League Champion: *****



Becoming the League Champion

Player characters who defeat the Bohren gym cycle, the Elite Four and the current League Champion will be given the option of becoming the new League Champion. The Champion's duties are varied and many - they are the figurehead of the Pokemon League and are usually the person the League calls on to make public statements. They are a region-wide celebrity, at least until they are defeated and the next Champion takes their place. They are expected to have a presence at and participate in every tournament held by the League. In short, the life of the Champion is an active and tiring one! Please think carefully before you decide that your character can take over this position - Champions who do not fulfill their duties are usually brought up in front of the League for a performance review, and can be stripped of their title if found derelict - ouch! Many trainers every year defeat the Champion and choose not to take their place.