If Gym Leaders were to have Abilities

Started by Precious Tears August 14th, 2013 6:52 AM
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If Gym Leaders from across the regions were to have Pokemon Abilities,what should they be?

You may also include Gym Leaders from the Kalos region, when Pokemon X and Y versions are officially released on retailers.

Your ideas are strongly suggested to be based on games, manga and anime, so the others will understand where you were basing your ideas!

Note that this thread is more like a parody of the Abilities,
so why so serious? Have fun instead!


  • Erika should be Truant for that constant snoozing.
  • Liza and Tate should have Telepathy, for being able to talk each other with Psychic powers..
  • Wake/Chuck both should be either Sheer Force or Huge Power, just look at their body built!
  • Skyla should be Prankster, since her Gym traps screams for being a Prankster herself!
  • Brawly should be Torrent, since this man is a surfer like he said from various medias!
  • Winona and Wallace the both of them should be Serene Grace, because I think they look graceful, their words of choices are beautiful as well.
  • Maylene's should be Simple, hahaha look at her speech.
  • Candice's should be Blaze! Despite an Ice type user, her personality is more like fiery!
  • Giovanni should be Intimidate, he's one PokeMafia. Who's not afraid of this shady person?
  • Cilan, what's more suiting than Unaware? In-game he's a bit of this.
  • Iris should be Overgrow! Just look at that hair, then you'll get it!
  • Roxie's should be Anger Point! She might be grumpy, but she has a kind side of her.

All of our favorite Gym Leaders:



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Well, it's all in good fun and for imagining what abilities might suit them ^^ Hmm, I don't remember too many abilities from the top of my head. I'll have to look them up and come up with a better reply later.

I think Brock (in the games/manga, not the anime) should have Rock Head. He doesn't seem like the guy who could be OHKO'd. Though his pokémon are, if you pick Bulbasaur or Squirtle...
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I personally don't like this sort of idea. Gym leaders are all special from ordinary trainers. It's their Pokemons which make them special
Hahaha, my object is not to make Gym Leader = Pokemon,
nor make Leaders as battling assistant to their Pokemon.
The point is to make fun, parodies of these abilities if they were apply on human characters.
I'm sorry for any misunderstanding I caused.

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Byron should have Sturdy for sure, that guy will never be going down in one blow.

Roark should have Rock Head, mostly for Cranidos' sake but also it'll be a big help working in the mines.

Marlon (I think that's the BW2 Water leader?) should have Swift Swim because that seems to be all he does with his life - plus he's basically a fish/human hybrid anyway.

Wattson should have Lightning Rod - just look at his hair seriously. He's taken in way too many volts already.

Erika should have Flower Gift - she would blossom into a beautiful personality when she's in the sunlight and it's perfectly fitting for her gym, Pokémon, and character.

I'll think of a few more later but those are the first ones to come to mind haha.

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Oh right, I mixed Rock Head and Sturdy up :x I meant Sturdy for Brock but actually Rock Head might be better still xD
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Sabrina - teleportation, telepathy, psychokinesis, and or turning people, including her parents, into small dolls that she keeps in her room while the authorities don't do anything about it and she is allowed to continue being a gym leader and a representative of her city, despite being a psychopath/sadist/schizophrenic with antisocial behaviors due to her daddy-issues and should be institutionalized for kidnapping, torture, assault/battery, attempted murder, among other things.
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@FieryDash : No no It's my fault that I misunderstood not you xD. Well if it is to make a choice than I say every Pokemon gym leader who deals with a specific type should have the ability of their respected type pokes. You know what I mean:
Sturdy for Brock
LightningRod for Wattson etc

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Let's add on Adaptibility for Norman and his ridiculously hard-hitting beasts of Pokémon - that Slaking can kill anything with his STAB so why hold back?

Sabrina would suit Anticipation due to her Psychic powers letting her feel what moves the opponent has (iirc from the anime she could tell fully?) and it's a generally awesome Psychic-type feeling.

Flannery could easily have Blaze - how firey and feisty she gets during her battles are nothing short of a great power boost when you're down low and needed some extra force to drive through.

Illuminate would be perfect for Lt. Surge - he's practically a walking lighthouse with his personality and how he holds himself, plus he'd never pass up the chance to take part in as many battles as physically possible.

And I think Inner Focus would be great for Koga; a ninja can never flinch or hesitate, especially in the face of great danger, so he'd always be able to hold himself perfectly in spite of any scare or strong attack.

10 down, several more to go - I'll add some more in later!
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  • Falkner would be Wonder Guard, because he clearly hacked to get that lv12 Pidgeotto.
  • Blaine would have Imposter, not only because he wears disguises in the anime, but more importantly that his design has changed between different games.
  • Brock would have Drizzle, because he was the only gymleader foolish enough to install sprinklers in his gym arena despite fire being a common type. (I digress, I should be using the games, not the anime.)
  • Giovanni would have Run Away. He's frequently absent from his gym, and Team Rocket's goal in GSC is his grunts trying to find him after he ran away.
  • Whitney would have the ability Moody, because she won't stop crying after you beat her.
  • Bugsy would have Cute Charm, because lots of people mistook him for a girl.
  • Chuck would have Inner Focus, because he can stay under his waterfall training without flinching.
  • Erika would have Oblivious, because she hasn't done a thing about the old man that's watching her from the windows.
  • Jasmine would have Multitype, because she changed from being a rock-type gymleader to a steel-type gymleader.
  • Janine would have Illusion. Or actually, her gym trainers would, for disguising themselves as her.
That's all I got.
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  • Falkner would be Wonder Guard, because he clearly hacked to get that lv12 Pidgeotto.
  • Blaine would have Imposter, not only because he wears disguises in the anime, but more importantly that his design has changed between different games.
  • Brock would have Drizzle, because he was the only gymleader foolish enough to install sprinklers in his gym arena despite fire being a common type. (I digress, I should be using the games, not the anime.)
  • Giovanni would have Run Away. He's frequently absent from his gym, and Team Rocket's goal in GSC is his grunts trying to find him after he ran away.
  • Whitney would have the ability Moody, because she won't stop crying after you beat her.
  • Bugsy would have Cute Charm, because lots of people mistook him for a girl.
  • Chuck would have Inner Focus, because he can stay under his waterfall training without flinching.
  • Erika would have Oblivious, because she hasn't done a thing about the old man that's watching her from the windows.
  • Jasmine would have Multitype, because she changed from being a rock-type gymleader to a steel-type gymleader.
  • Janine would have Illusion. Or actually, her gym trainers would, for disguising themselves as her.
That's all I got.
I love your point particularly like Erika's, Giovanni's and Jasmine's,
I know these facts but I have not thought about them as an inspiration for Abilities!

  • Janine and Koga, as ninjas naturally should have Shadow Tag!
  • Drayden should have Huge Power, if you watch TV in the games, then you should found out that Drayden likes having wrestling with his own Pokemon!
  • Clair should also have Defiant for being confident before the battle and later refusing to give out Gym Badge after her loss.
  • Byron should have Sturdy Body for instance using Steel Pokemon and for his buff body built.