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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?

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.

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

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.

I was thinking of what type would fit me... I guess pokemon that will rage over the slightest things.

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.

I always wanted to have a full team of glitch Pokemon:

Ash is wading along the beach on cinnabar island when suddenly he falls over onto the hard ground. Bright light comes from all around as he looks up in shock to see a strange emtpy wireframe space.

As he gets up, a piercing noise shatters the silence, it seems to come from inside his own head. A shadowy, pulsating form fades and crackles into view. An 'arm' extends and throws a ball, completely black like a void. Exploding from within is a pokemon...? No It can't be! Ash stares wild eyed at the strange rectangular form, a chunk missing in its top right corner. It shrieks as it ripples with strange patches of incomprehensible randomness.

Ash's vision flashes for a moment back to the beach, he's staring up at his friends as he lies on the sand. They're saying something but he can't hear it. He can't speak, his eyes are portholes and he's trapped inside. Then he's gone, back to the broken liminal space.

The pokemon is approaching. Or is it? It doesn't seem to exist properly, a 2D form in a 3D space that only seems to grow in his vision. Ash looks down to see pikachu by his side, hair standing on end. They exchange a glance and he knows what to do.

The fight is a blur, each new opponent more incomprehensible and impossible than the last. As the final entity is destroyed. Ash falls to his knees, his mind shattered by the infinite cosmic chaos. The strange 'gym leader' begins to fade and the world starts to crumble to blackness. A bright light is shining. A voice emanates from all around. "Wake up ash you'll be late for school."

Ash opens his eyes and looks around, he is in bed. The world seems so much more detailed, so much more real. A handheld gaming device rests on his chest, white light flashes from its LCD screen as a pixelated title cutscene plays. A single word appears. PoKéMoN™

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.

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!

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.

bed

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