If You Were a Gym Leader, What Would Be Your Specialty?

[domo]

i dont want to say out loud, but i would be on fire. literally.

 

[Chameleon]

Psychic.

 

[Ninja YoungLink]

*Dramatic swivel chair turn* I would be........................................the ditto type gym.

 

[EeveeChan]

I would be a Psychic type gym Leader, but I wouldn't be a power-hungry yet loney goth like Sabrina was in the anime. I would have Gardevoir- Hypnosis, Psychic, Focus Blast & Healing Wish
Espeon- Shadow Ball, Focus Blast, Psybeam & Dig
Gallade- Close Combat, Psycho Cut, Poison Jab & Earthquake'
Metagross- Bullet Punch, Magnet Rise, Double Team, Earthquake
Musharna- Hypnosis, Shadow Ball, Dream Eater, Toxic
Meloetta- Relic Song, Teeter Dance, Focus Blast, Thunderbolt

 

[Brodogs]

It obviously wouldn't be as effective as a proper weather team, but I'd attempt to form a decent team focused around weather (probably in Sandstorm or Rain). However, I would love to be a gym leader known to specialise in a particular strategy rather than type, ie a stall or offensive team. In my opinion that these strategy based teams as opposed to type based teams is where gym leader development should occur. I feel if this was done it would emphasise the importance of the battles with the Rival's balanced team.

If a had to pick a single type, a sample team might look something like this.

Politoed @ Choice Specs Trait: Drizzle EVs: 252 SAtk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd Modest Nature - Hydro Pump - Ice Beam - Focus Blast - Hidden Power Grass	Kabutops @ Choice Band Trait: Swift Swim EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd Adamant Nature - Waterfall - Low Kick - Stone Edge - X-Scissor	Kingdra @ Life Orb Trait: Swift Swim EVs: 252 Atk / 4 SAtk / 252 Spd Lonely Nature - Dragon Dance - Waterfall - Outrage - Draco Meteor	Gyarados @ Life Orb Trait: Intimidate EVs: 252 Atk / 4 Def / 252 Spd Adamant Nature - Dragon Dance - Waterfall - Stone Edge - Earthquake	Ludicolo @ Life Orb Trait: Swift Swim EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd Modest Nature - Hydro Pump - Grass Knot - Ice Beam - Focus Blast	Starmie @ Life Orb Trait: Natural Cure EVs: 252 SAtk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd Timid Nature - Hydro Pump - Ice Beam - Thunder - Rapid Spin

 

[SpartanGibbles]

I would without a doubt be poison type gym leader. But the thing about my poison types would be that they all also have other secondary types making it difficult to bring one pokemon to effectively sweep them
Crobat (Poison/Flying), Nidoking (Poison/Ground), Venusaur (Poison/Grass), Tentacruel (Poison/Water), Gengar (Ghost/Poison) and finally Skuntank (Poison/Dark).

 

[Myriadviper42]

Psychic type. I freaking love those (my favorite being Mewtwo, I saved my Master Ball in FireRed just to catch him), and Espeon is awesome.

Espeon
Alakazam
Gallade
Xatu
Sigilyph
Bronzong

 

[Ⓡⓔⓖⓘⓝⓛⓔⓘⓕ]

Either I would be a Dragon trainer, or Dark. I also lean towards a Grass gym trainer or a Psychic one.

 

[Choji147]

i gotta say i would use a mix of dark and fire types i love houndoom

 

[Wolf Sage]

Seeing as there has yet to be a gym-leader that specializes in Dark-type Pokemon, I think it'd be the perfect title for me. Most of my Pokemon may sport low Defense, but they'd more than make up for it in Attack. They would also be strong against, as well as immune to, Psychic Pokemon. My party would consist of mostly Pokemon with mammalian, quadrupedal characteristics:

• Absol;
• Houndoom (secondary Fire-type);
• Hunchkrow (secondary Flying-type);
• Mightyena;
• Umbreon;
• Zoroark.

Probably not the best choice of Pokemon, seeing as the majority of them are pure Dark-type, which are weak to Bug-type and Fighting-type. However, Houndoom and Hunchkrow are useful against said types, due to the strengths of their secondary types. Still, not a great choice overall on my behalf. Perhaps aesthetics should not be my primary focus. Heh heh...

 

[MW7]

My two favorite types are normal and water. Actually if I went with normal I'd take it a step further and just have a Snorlax gym haha. I only ever played the first generation and I had a variety of Snorlaxes. One had kind of a traditional set-up with body slam, double team, rest, and hyper beam. Another had earthquake and rock slide, and the third had amnesia along with psychic and ice beam (and amnesia was overpowered in generation one since special wasn't separated yet).

 

[Brodogs]

Great to see people's preferences coming out through their teams. :3 Just wanted to say I reworked my post in regards to a water-restricted rain team. Keep them coming, it's really interesting to see people's teams!

 

[tysonrss]

I'd be all around like Red, having all types of Pokemon, while also being the 8th Gym Leader of America lol

 

[nareky]

Grass types...damn i loves them. They wouldnt all be pure grass type tho!

Torterra

Victreebel

Serperior

Leavanny

Leafeon

and a Bellsprout that i wouldnt evolve!

 

[Ghirahimiscool]

I like dragon type the best.