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.
Is sloth a theme?
I’m not sure what pokemon I’d be using (probably dark/psychic) but I know I’d want the gym itself to have an optical illusion theme. It would have a lot of fake walls and floors, floors that look like bottomless pits, and all of it would be encompassed in a series of rooms designed to make you feel like your walking through a maze like MC Escher painting.
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.
It’s just Snorlax, Slowpokes, and Slaking. We’re just hanging out watching old movies
We don’t even have to fight, if you bring snacks I’ll give you a badge
I forgot to bring any weed but there’s a gang of oddish out front
This is the winner. Where do I apply to be one of your gym trainers?
Under water gym. No, not water like Misty. Under water.
I haven’t figured out all the logistics. How will people breathe?
Seaweed mazes and cool cave grottos, sunlight filtering in from above,
There’s rocks and plants and corals and shit under water. My trainers will use all those Pokemon. Not sure about ice yet. That can be in the sequel game – the icy under water gym.
Mine would be an unassuming mostly empty room with a table and comfy chair in the center and instructions to put on a VR headset.
You do and the headset activates to reveal it’s a Rotom that transports you into a fantasy realm where your Pokémon team is reduced to level one and you have to fight your way through a gauntlet of wild Pokémon and trainers to quickly level them up until you reach me at the end, the electro gaming master.
If you lose, you are booted out and have to start over from the beginning, but the currency you earned remains that you can use to unlock permanent bonuses your next attempt. A ghost of you will also spawn where you fell last time and challenge you to a fight. Are you strong enough to conquer yourself and the gym?
Your team is the porygon line and a shiny dito with mimic, metronome, substitute, and reflect.
dispensary
Dual types with no duplicates, so no type is ever shared by two pokemon, the gyms theme is the strength of diversity.
The Mosaic Badge.
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.
Swap to the lvl 1 Rattata with Focus Sash and Endeavour and teach the challenger FEAR.
Literally the same exact thing you said, but with actual ghost types wearing low effort ghost costumes.
We’re watching the whole original series as a family and we’re partway through orange islands, ghosts have appeared 3 time so far. Maidens peak has ghastly straight up trolling horny men during an annual festival. Second has all 3 living their best lives in a haunted tower and dicking around with people that try to enter. 2.5 is a continuation of that and I don’t count it as a stand alone, but haunter goes with ash to become the personal jester for a Sabrina. 3 has ghastly and haunter raising a ghost ship to return their dead master’s property, despite being ghosts on a ghost ship, they’re running around with bedsheets on pretending to be ghosts. What do they do when togepi gets lost on the ship? Take it to their comfortable cabin and play baby games with it because ghosts aren’t here to scare you, they’re here to have fun pretending to be ghosts.
Carnival style haunted house, but all of the really dumb pop up ghosts and animatronics are actually my ghost Pokemon lulling you into a false sense of security before scaring the shit out of you. If they think you got what it takes, your cart diverts down an underground rollercoaster to my secret crypt style arena under the spook-house. After the battle, the cart looks like you’re going to take another roller coaster out, but it diverts at the last minute, take a low 30ft roll and ends at a gift shop where ghastly sells you “I survived the spook house and all I got was this shirt” t-shirts and you take a short elevator ride to the exit which is literally right next to the entrance.
Giant terrarium. My pokemon would be reptilian analogues like Ivysaur, Feraligatr, Sandaconda, Serperior, Salazzle, etc…
Dark type. A bunch of tall goth chicks on the path to me.
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.
Love the energy lol. Guilt trip is strong against all types
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!
Thank you kindly!
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
Pokémon beat you to it with Norm
Norm’s gym is Normal-type, but it’s a dojo. There are wrestling mats and wood paneling.
The normal meta is unassuming but powerful. Love it
