Your gym puzzle

You're a gym leader now, hooray! What kind of gym puzzle would you want to have?

My puzzle would be like a triathlon:
1. Player has to cook a curry dish, if they get the wrong ingredient, they have to battle a trainer
2. Player has to walk through a maze, but it will be full of booby traps. If the player triggers a booby trap, they have to battle the trainer that set up the trap
3. Player has to swim through an ocean that has currents, if the player lands in a current, they have to battle a trainer
If they succeed, they get to battle me!

just thought of an interesting one. Sludge Maze. you enter a labyrinth filled with toxic sludge and it poisons your Pokemon from the get go. no use using healing items either; they're gonna be repoisoned with every step taken. you gotta make sure to take the least amount of steps possible to reach me, and perhaps try and avoid all my trainers along the way as well. if not, well then it's back to the starting line for you bucko.

don't worry though, because as soon as you get to me, your team gets healed back to full health and we can have a proper match!

My gym puzzle would be:

Nothing! I would have a straight line of trainers on a tight hallway and you are forced to battle everyone to get to me. But healing items aren't allowed in battle or in the overworld, only PP restoring items are allowed. You get healed when you get to me though.

But if I really had to have a gym puzzle, it would be Diving under a pool and finding hidden pool toys within the time limit, if you can't find all the hidden pool toys in the time limit, you have to battle trainers.

Mine would be a set of trails rather than a puzzle. The first trial would be a surfing race. The second would be a water gun target accuracy trial where mons would have to hit various targets with water gun. Trainers would need to win at least one of these trails before facing me in battle.

Simple for me.. shear all the Mareep, but be careful with the speed/timing so you don't get shocked! Or a battle will ensue. ❤️

honestly i'll just have a jasmine style gym lmao no gym trainers no bs just fight me

Lt. Surge with 1,000 trash cans

ZeoStar said:

Lt. Surge with 1,000 trash cans

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Oh dear God 😂

I think I'd go Dark and put my challengers through a series of cool movie-style supervillain death traps escape rooms, while they get to play the action hero and have to escape them in limited time. If they fail, fun consequences happen:

• Failed to escape the Carvanha tank trap? Enjoy a horde encounter with our Carvanha and then take on our Sharpedo - or get away from him, if you can!
• Stepped on the lasers in the laser hallway? The Gym Trainer will notice you!
• Didn't figure out the room with the walls closing in? Don't worry, the floor will open from underneath you and send you to a Gym Trainer!

If you make it through alive, you get to battle me!

Assuming I was a Bug-type Gym Leader, I could imagine trainers having to take photos of specific Pokémon (Poké Finder-style?) and present them in order to progress. The further you progress, the harder it'll be to find the Pokémon (for example, one of the last Pokémon you'd have to find may be a Burmy blending into a tree).

icycatelf said:

Assuming I was a Bug-type Gym Leader, I could imagine trainers having to take photos of specific Pokémon (Poké Finder-style?) and present them in order to progress. The further you progress, the harder it'll be to find the Pokémon (for example, one of the last Pokémon you'd have to find may be a Burmy blending into a tree).

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So basically, it's Pokémon Snap but a bit harder?

AquaNinja99 said:

So basically, it's Pokémon Snap but a bit harder?

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More like Poké Finder meets I Spy (no full courses, just rooms). Though I guess it'd be neat if the player could use bait, etc. to lure out certain hidden Pokémon like in Pokémon Snap.

My puzzle would be... no puzzle. Just something as simple as: here there's some trainers, want to warm-up or get some extra exp? fight them.

I honestly never understood why gym puzzles are considered so important, I'd rather want to remember gyms because of how exciting and memorable the battle against their leader was than because of a puzzle that took me more time to solve than the actual leader fight :)

wipoon said:

My puzzle would be... no puzzle. Just something as simple as: here there's some trainers, want to warm-up or get some extra exp? fight them.

I honestly never understood why gym puzzles are considered so important, I'd rather want to remember gyms because of how exciting and memorable the battle against their leader was than because of a puzzle that took me more time to solve than the actual leader fight :)

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Would be kinda boring if every gym was just "walk up to the leader and kick their ass", especially for a focal point of the gameplay.

You're not wrong in that the gym leader battle itself should be exciting, but that and having a good gym puzzle don't have to be mutually exclusive either.