PokéGym Challenge Guidelines

GYMS are currently CLOSED (12/03/2022)​

How It Works:
- Perfect Pokémon will hold a new season of the PokéGym challenge with each new generation of the game, bringing exclusive gym badges for you to earn! ( the start of a new season will have its own official announcement post)
- All available gyms for the season will have a thread in this forum. Challenge a gym by replying to the thread ( the active Gym leader for that gym may accept your challenge)
- After a defeat or victory, the Gym leader will post their challengers/winners to the thread
- Victors are awarded their badge after defeating a Gym leader
- Your badges for the current gym season show up under your avatar ( gym badges from previous seasons will be displayed on your profile)
- If defeated by a Gym leader, you must wait at least 3 days to challenge that gym again for a badge
- Some Pokemon are not allowed in the PokéGym Challenge, please adhere to our community banlist: here

While You Are A Gym Leader:
- If challenges exist for badges, you have to accept at least 1 badge challenge every 3 days
- Inactive Gym leaders will forfeit his/her position and cannot be reinstated as a Gym leader for a minimum waiting period of 7 days, during this waiting period the position may be filled by another aspiring Gym leader ( unless the Gym leader explicitly states that he/she will be unavailable for a certain period of time)
- Gym leaders cannot become champion
- Gym leaders MUST post their challengers/winners after each battle
- Gym leaders will be awarded the title of "Gym Leader" and the privileges to award badges ( Gym leaders are only permitted to award the badge corresponding to their gym type after they have been defeated following a formal challenge)

Rules:
- Gym leaders must follow the appropriate Monotype clause ( 6 Pokémon with the same type. Dual typing is allowed, but they must all share a common type with the exception of a terastallized Pokemon)
- Gym leaders are allowed the use of terastallization, your Pokémons tera type does not need to follow the Monotype clause
- Badges will not be awarded without formal challenges. Formal challenges can only be issued in the gym threads (not home page shoutbox).
- Both Gym leaders and challengers must adhere to the following:
Sleep Clause (you may not put two of your opponent's Pokémon to sleep)
Dupe Clause (no more than 1 of the same Pokemon per team)
Evasion Clause (may not use a move which has the sole effect of raising Evasion, namely Double Team and Minimize)
- Battles can take place on showdown only if BOTH PARTIES agree to it.
- Gym leaders cannot use showdown as their ONLY means of battling. Meaning you must have a wifi team ready in case a challenger doesn't use showdown
- Battle format is chosen and declared by the gym leader at the time of accepting a challenge ( singles, doubles, 4v4, 6v6)