"Gym" Leaders

We need to come up with 8 gym leaders and also what to call them instead of gym leader.
Also what types?

Which types to keep and which to get rid of?

NORMAL
FIRE
WATER
ELECTRIC
GRASS
ICE
FIGHTING
POISON
GROUND
FLYING
PSYCHIC
BUG
ROCK
GHOST
DRAGON
DARK
STEEL

Gyms not based on types. Holy moley.

^Laaaaame

FIRE
WATER
ICE
GROUND/ROCK
FLYING
DRAGON
STEEL
NO DEFINED TYPE

Edit: also, we could just get rid of "gym" and call them Leaders or ____ Leaders after whatever we name gyms

Hyper Beam wrote:

^Laaaaame

FIRE
WATER
ICE
GROUND/ROCK
FLYING
DRAGON
STEEL
NO DEFINED TYPE

Edit: also, we could just get rid of "gym" and call them Leaders or ____ Leaders after whatever we name gyms

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Looks good.

Cool. Should reorder it, though.
Something like:
Fire
Flying
Ground/rock
Water
Steel
Dragon
Ice
No type

It'd be nice not to have a rock gym first for a change.

What no love for psychic or grass

a psychic gym would be pretty cool

maybe based on the oracle of delphi in the greko-roman civilization or something...

GreenSonic wrote:

It'd be nice not to have a rock gym first for a change.

you mean like.... BROCK or ROARK. Heh just pointing that out..

Wait a second... Brock

B-rock

b-ROCK

OH SHI-

Mind=blown to everyone who didn't realize that

Hyper Beam wrote:

^Laaaaame

FIRE
WATER
ICE
GROUND/ROCK
FLYING
DRAGON
STEEL
NO DEFINED TYPE

Edit: also, we could just get rid of "gym" and call them Leaders or ____ Leaders after whatever we name gyms

i like that idea of fire being a the first gym, and dragon not being the last (if you are going in order with this)

Actually the order I proposed was
Fire
Flying
Ground/rock
Water
Steel
Dragon
Ice
No type

But its prettymuch the same

Fire
Flying
Ice
(This way the Ice, Ground and Steel/Metal starters all get to take on one of the first three gyms with a type advantage in their favour)

Water
Dragon
Steel/Metal
Fighting
Rock (Yeah, I'd like a high level Rock Gym that doesn't suck for a change)

If only the rock gym in gen1 had been more powerful, a challenge for charizard.

The Mighty Pepper wrote:

Fire
Flying
Ice
(This way the Ice, Ground and Steel/Metal starters all get to take on one of the first three gyms with a type advantage in their favour)

Water
Dragon
Steel/Metal
Fighting
Rock (Yeah, I'd like a high level Rock Gym that doesn't suck for a change)

im seriously liking this format

Only problem with that for me is that I want a tough water gym.R/S/E doesn't count the gym leader was gay.

I would prefer a tough Rock type gym too.

If our cultures are based loosely on Egypt, the Neolithic era, Roma, Greece, Inuit (I saw somewhere), China, Japan.

Then who/what are we going to have for the Elite Four?

I was thinking though, we could have Egypt be the place of the last gym leader, and then the Elite four would be in Rome, with a Japanese member, and a a Roman Centurion as the champion or something. What could we do for the other 2 members though?

They could be the 'Chief' of certain tribes, you have to beat them to gain the town's respect and they'll give you a badge, only once you've defeated all Chiefs in the region can you challenge the region's 'Elders' (A.K.A E4)

Or just each village's champion, I envision a chief as some 80-year-old which would get boring as fuck to fight after 3 or 4 gyms.

Maybe the cheif IS the champion?

Fire - How about having this is in your village and beating it is considered a rite of passage? It's the town's blacksmith who uses his pokemon to properly heat his metal for forging/fixing, and he makes sure the youth's of the village are ready to leave it and go out into the world? Or, if you're a slave, he's the other candidate for the job of guarding your owner/rival, and beating him get's you the job.
Gym Trainers: None.

Flying - He's the Civ's Postmaster, they use bird Pokémon to deliver news and messages, so he breeds and trains them to be strong enough to fly anywhere needed and to fight off predators. You fight his personal squad used to transport the message of royalty/rich people securely.
Gym Trainers: Bodyguards

Ice - Inuit's tribe leader.
Gym Trainers: Villagers

Water - Japanese's top fisher, who uses his pokémon team to catch the vast quantities of fish their nation needs.
Gym Trainers: Lesser fishermen

Dragon - Rich guy who's earned a reputation for being an excellent fighter, you challenge him outside his manor/villa to gain respect from the locals, or if you're a slave, he's a business rival to your owner and you need to beat him so he loses face with prospective buyers.
Gym trainers: Body Guards/Soldiers again

Steel/Metal - Very famous inventor, working on a way to harness lightning for practical uses.
Gym Trainers: Apprentices

Fighting - Famous retired warrior who fights in the arena/accepts challenges to duel only from people who've earned a reputation and can put up a fun fight. (In other words, you can run into him early but you're not famous enough to Fight him until after beating six GYM leader's)
Gym Trainers: Other prospective sparring partners who wish to defeat you to prove they're worthy of battling him.

Rock - Sage living in the mountains who runs a Monastery/Rest stop for travellers, could fight you as a 'training exercise' because he believes the best way to learn how to defend oneself is through combat, and that you'll need I to be able to take on the Elite Four.
Gym Trainers: Monks/Mountaineers who want to learn as well.

Starter villages never have gyms, I remember someone saying earlier that going into the forest to find your first pokemon would be the rite of passage. How bout that?

Love the rest of them, especially steel.

Hyper Beam wrote:

I remember someone saying earlier that going into the forest to find your first pokemon would be the rite of passage. How bout that?

That was also me, but yeah, I can see your point.

Hyper Beam wrote:

Love the rest of them, especially steel.

Thanks.

Looks good, but I'd like the inuit leders gym to be a puzzle, because he doesn't have much of a backstory.