It was always the gym leaders. They were awesome.
They had the coolest music, they had their own badges and special moves they gave to you if you beat them and it felt like a challenge. (Growing up it did. Now my Pokemon level up far too quickly.)
Plus they had the coolest Pokemon. I remember Lt Surge using a Raichu and all I could think is "What the hell is that thing?! I haven't seen that one before! It looks badass!"
So what if, after you've completed the game, you got the option to make your own gym?
Or maybe as you progressed through the game, you got more and more options for gym leader creation.
Let me walk you through it.
Ok, so you've got your first badge and you gain the option to make your character a gym leader. It'll be online in a social hub where people can choose to fight you. So someone else in America might be playing on their 3ds and decide to fight you as a gym leader. They click on you and the battle is initiated.
When you get your second badge, your options expand a little. You can pick a small basic house that the player who clicks on you will be warped to. They can then stroll up to you and choose to battle you. You can choose a couple of basic layouts from a small abandoned shed to a mini silo to a plain house.
When you get your third badge, you can choose your gym leader sprite from a select few such as Ace Trainer/Hiker/Kid/Old Man which will appear for the trainer to battle with. Just a fun customization option.
When you get your fourth badge, you can make your own badge with the 3DS stylus! The badges online players get from beating you will be stored in a different badge case that's essentially bottomless.
With the fifth badge, you unlock more sprite options, more options for your gym layout and more colours/designs for your gym badge. You can also buy accessories to help with the layout of your gym and choose a theme for it.
With the sixth badge, you can design your own NM. NM's are like TM's or HM's but they're designed by the player and you can choose the name, type, damage -accuracy ratio and the animation of the move. This will be given to opponents who face you in your personal gym.
With the seventh badge, you can write dialogue for your gym leader sprite. Naughty words are banned.
With the eighth badge, players that lose to you will pay you 2000 pokedollars that will go straight into your players moneycase. Players that beat you will get an extra reward, however. You can't decide the beneficial effect that is bestowed upon the winning opponent but they can include:
- Pokemon slowly restore hp by 1 point every hour.
- Every week your character receives two hundred Pokedollars.
- Ten unlockable gym leader sprites for them.
- Fifty unlockable gym items for the opponents gym to make it look pretty.
- A free endless Hyper Potion that restores itself at the end of each fortnight.
- A Pokeball every Tuesday.
- A random rare item every month.
These will be on rotation and the dueling trainer has no say in what they get. All evenly distributed. Your gym leader sprite will have a randomly allocated one.
Kind of like the Badass rank system in Borderlands 2. It has a soft cap, but can technically go on forever.
I like the idea. Maybe I should e-mail Nintendo?
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