Gym Rules
What are gyms/gym leaders?
As the name implies, gyms are places in which pokemon trainers can go to train their pokemon. It's purpose is to sharpen a trainer's battle skills, and have their pokemon gain experience. Each gym specializes in a particular elemental type, giving trainers room to test out different strategies. A Gym Leader is the most powerful trainer in a given gym. Every trainer's goal is to defeat all 8 of a region's gym leaders, in order to challenge the elite four, and hopefully become the pokemon champion.
Gym battles aren't all too different from normal pokemon battles, but there are still a few differences that need to be pointed out.
--> Gym Battles will be watched over by the Guild mods to insure a clean and fair battle between Leader and challenger. Common whats an epic battle without rules?
--> No using items in a gym battle. It may seem unfair, but again, gym battles are really supposed to be more difficult than they are in the games. As such, neither the challenger or the leader can use items in an official gym challenge.
--> Do not physically injure a gym leader. On purpose, that is. But considering there are cameras all over the gym, it's pretty clear that you'll get caught for doing it on purpose. This isn't so much a rule as it is a warning. Injuring a random NPC is one thing, but injuring a gym leader will get your character locked up for who knows how long.
--> Normally a challenger sets the conditions for a battle. In Rakuren , this is not the case. If a gym leader has six pokemon and you have only one, they will not reduce themselves to only one. You'll have to prepare for a full on battle, if you plan on winning your way to the elite four.
--> Loosing to the Gym Leaders is possible so don't think they are push overs because they are meant to give you a battle of a life time to prepare you for the next to come gym battles and elite four
What are gyms/gym leaders?
As the name implies, gyms are places in which pokemon trainers can go to train their pokemon. It's purpose is to sharpen a trainer's battle skills, and have their pokemon gain experience. Each gym specializes in a particular elemental type, giving trainers room to test out different strategies. A Gym Leader is the most powerful trainer in a given gym. Every trainer's goal is to defeat all 8 of a region's gym leaders, in order to challenge the elite four, and hopefully become the pokemon champion.
Gym battles aren't all too different from normal pokemon battles, but there are still a few differences that need to be pointed out.
--> Gym Battles will be watched over by the Guild mods to insure a clean and fair battle between Leader and challenger. Common whats an epic battle without rules?
--> No using items in a gym battle. It may seem unfair, but again, gym battles are really supposed to be more difficult than they are in the games. As such, neither the challenger or the leader can use items in an official gym challenge.
--> Do not physically injure a gym leader. On purpose, that is. But considering there are cameras all over the gym, it's pretty clear that you'll get caught for doing it on purpose. This isn't so much a rule as it is a warning. Injuring a random NPC is one thing, but injuring a gym leader will get your character locked up for who knows how long.
--> Normally a challenger sets the conditions for a battle. In Rakuren , this is not the case. If a gym leader has six pokemon and you have only one, they will not reduce themselves to only one. You'll have to prepare for a full on battle, if you plan on winning your way to the elite four.
--> Loosing to the Gym Leaders is possible so don't think they are push overs because they are meant to give you a battle of a life time to prepare you for the next to come gym battles and elite four
