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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

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.

Oh, you mean layout and decoration, and not music?..
You Will Be Reincarnated As An Imperial Attack Space Turtle

Space I guess?

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…

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?

Dual types with no duplicates, so no type is ever shared by two pokemon, the gyms theme is the strength of diversity.

Cork board and lots of string. My gym gimmick would be sane type composition, which was not much of a thing in the three gens plus change I played. I’m writing this as a casual who, when I replay this, still use 99.9% straight damaging STAB moves and just don’t intentionally hamstring myself with the picks. Pokemon battling is apparently very deep, but most of it still feels like doggy paddling. If you want to do “clever” things you need to go out of your way to not wipe the enemy out too quickly, and is it really clever then?

Besides, Pokemon writing/characterization/whatever being what it is, e.g. “super nerds” use poison for some reason, instead of using the purported super nerdery to, y’know, pick a team with more than 2-3 types total in it. People in-game even mention type composition all the time, because exposition, and then even the Bestest Guys in all 3 countries mostly don’t give a shit.

So without putting together any actual teams or anything, the idea would be essentially minmaxing based on type strength and weakness. Possibly my player-POV “however many types I can slug with a STAB” or the inverse “however many types I can guard against”. It doesn’t need to be super strong in an objective sense but would make sense late-ish in the game.

Dark type. A bunch of tall goth chicks on the path to me.

Bugs. So many bugs.

Oh did you think bug pokemon were cute? The floor squirms, the walls crawl. I am covered in so. Many. Spiders. Approach me, let’s battle!

Team:

• Galvantula
• Ribombee
• Pyukumuku (shh, no one tell him)

I’m a low level gym (1st or 2nd badge), come on, we all know bug type is kinda weak – I’m just having fun.

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.

All food based Pokémon. I think that was a gym though? Lady with a cafe though, had a fidough maybe? Me and my Pokémon would be just trying to have a garden, give out food to travelers. We’d all be objecting to being a gym leader lol.

My favourite type is fairy so it would be something pink and comfy. You come in and rest and in the end don’t even want to leave. Maybe some kind of café

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.