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Just kicked someone out of the house who I never wanted to be here in the first place.

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Fantasy Pokémon League (FPL) is played all over the world, but sees the most popularity in Galar and the Japanese regions. The game invites you to create a virtual team of six pokémon, drawn from the rosters of elite trainers from domestic (and sometimes international) Pokémon Leagues.

Once a team is created, points are allocated monthly based the pokémon's performances in professional matches. The assignment of points is based on a number of factors, such as whether the pokémon is actually picked to play a match, how many opponents they knock out, and how many turns they survive without being downed. Offensive pokémon (known colloquially as sweepers) can rack up extra points for one-hit knockouts, while defensive 'tanks' get the bulk of their points from surviving and weathering hits. All Fantasy teams must recruit a mix of tanks and sweepers, and they must be created on a limited budget, to prevent people from filling their team with only the top-ranked choices.

There are also ways to lose points. If a pokémon is knocked out, it comes with a penalty, though the deductions are higher for tanks. Likewise, if a pokémon commits a foul, disobeys commands, or gets withdrawn from a match, this results in a points deduction. Most Unovan FPL players will warn you against including any of Grimsley's pokémon in your virtual team. Powerful though they are, they never go a match without racking up a stupid amount of fouls.

Every week, players must select an 'ace' pokémon from their roster, whose points will be doubled. This is usually reserved for the most powerful, expensive Pokémon in the league - in Sinnoh, Cynthia's garchomp is the obvious pick; in the Indigo League, people often lean towards Lance's dragonite or Karen's ever-hardy umbreon. Sometimes, depending on the match, it can be worth making an unorthadox choice. With type advantages on their side, even a lower-ranked Gym Leader can put in a strong performance against an Elite or Champion.

The game is explosively popular among amateur and professional trainers alike. Leon plays it avidly, always putting his own charizard in his virtual team and selecting her as his ace every week. Rika famously refuses to put any of her pokémon in her virtual team. Losing a match is bad enough, she says, without ruining your FPL score as well.

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Because of their ability to sense disasters, there have been studies trialling absols as service pokémon in the healthcare sector. Prior case studies show that absols can anticipate medical emergencies, which makes them potentially valuable in hospital wards and in diagnosis. The rationale is that, even in cases where a patient's symptoms are vague or hard to describe, the absol may be able to detect if the case is serious.

Results of these studies have been mixed. Absols are notoriously nervous pokémon, so they do poorly in busy hospital environments. They work better as companions to general practitioners, but the accuracy of their disaster detection is variable - false positives are common, which can cause a great deal of stress for the patient.

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In early summer, Rustboro is plagued by swarms of dustox, drawn forth by the blazing city lights. In the suburbs to the south of the city, which are closest to the Petalburg woods, it is common to black out all street lighting on the main roads from 10pm to 6am. City councils also encourage people to draw their blinds and turn off any unnecessary lighting in their home, so as to avoid dustox being drawn to the property.

Even greater than the threat of physical damage - to trees, plants, streetlamps, roof tiles, fencing, and windows - are the health risks posed by the toxic dust that dustox produce. In badly-hit areas, it will cover surfaces like fine ash or chalk, irritating the sinuses and exacerbating conditions like asthma. Rustboro has a reputation for being one of the cleanest cities in Hoenn, and this is owing to the cleaning crews that patrol the city daily during the summer months, hosing down streets and surfaces to dispel the dust. Rustboro in June always smells of damp, warm stone.

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Purple Fatigue

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Going to the movies in 1992

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Waiting for the train

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Pokemon Headcanon/World Building; Purpose of the Pokemon League

The Pokemon League is a branch of the government, developed in order to decide laws pertaining to Pokemon, their protection, and battles. League officials (Gym Leaders, E4, Champion) are primarily deciders. These are the people most bonded and in tune with their Pokemon, knowing them best, and thus, most suited to decide laws involving them.

Not every League operates the exact same way, but it is comprised of all regions operating under the same base laws and regulations. This allows for free trade between regions, and open immigration and travel. The League as a whole is meant to bring people and Pokemon together, with goals of improvement and helping one another.

This ideal has also bled into day to day, in the form of gifts between Trainers. Be them Pokeballs, Potions, Restores, Berries, or Revives, people have learned to give good will to one another. Some even leave quality items around in planned positions, to help younger Trainers who will explore more freely than an experienced Trainer.

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Pokemon Headcanon/World Building; Age range and limit of Gym Leaders, E4, and Champs, as well as requirements of the job

Because the Pokemon League is a branch of the government, there is an age limit for its members across the board. However, each region’s League is allowed to make an exception, with the proper paperwork channels and approvals.

At the absolute minimum, Gym Leaders must be 13, no exceptions. This is a rule all Leagues need to follow.

Elite Four can be no younger than 18.

Champions should, preferably, be 18 at minimum. However, younger teens can be given an exception if they are under and approved by the reigning Champion. (IE. Alder training Iris to become Champion, and passing the torch.)

Trainers who defeat the Champion are rarely younger than 15-16. On average, most Trainers are about college age if they challenge their League, thus the sheer number of Veterans and Aces.

Red and Green were prodigy Trainers. Their win against the Indigo League, at 11 each, was nothing short of exemplary. However, they are not the official Champions who head the League, due to their age. They were too young to even be allowed to train under the previous Champion, who instead handed the torch to Lance. Neither may handle any paperwork, but they can, being Champion in title, face Challengers, if they so choose.

If Lance were to choose to step down or step aside when the two are able to handle the League work, then they will be the Champion(s) proper.

Champions and Elite Four, as primary representatives of their Leagues, should know at least 2 languages. If they do not, they need to learn a 2nd. Verbal or nonverbal (IE Sign language)  are fine, but they should be capable of more than their native tongue. This shows a willingness between Leagues that each member is willing to learn from and for each other, in a sign of good will.

Both Gym Leaders and Elite Four are under the rule to be Masters of a Type, or Specialists at the very least. But Masters are given priority in the deciding of new members.

And of course, all members of the League need to be powerful battlers. They need to be strong enough to pose a challenge to all Challengers, but not so strong that they are undefeatable. This applies especially to the Gym Leaders, who are meant to be a hurdle for Trainers to overcome, not a roadblock. Elite Four are meant to be much rougher on their Challengers, meanwhile. And Champions the greatest battle they will face on their journey.

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Pokemon Headcanons/World-Building; Spikemuth and Dynamaxing

Before the Darkest Day of long past, the town of Spikemuth was one of the most significant locations. Before Dynamaxing was even quite grasped, much less able to be controlled by humans, Spikemuth was a primary place of safety and for planning. The area the town has is something of an antithesis of the Dynamax Phenomenon.

After the Darkest Day, it became much more rooted in the local culture to overall avoid and prevent Dynamaxing. Over the years after, across the region, some humans are born with a high sensitivity to the Dynamax energy. These people can sense and locate Wishing Stars, or tell when a Dynamax is about to happen. Such people are prone to nightmares when outside of Spikemuth’s limits, of the worst types of storms in Dens.

In the town, to prevent random Dynamaxing, Spikemuth citizens would collect Wishing Stars, placing them in chests. With help from Pokemon, they would bury them under the town, where they were rendered powerless. Extra steps included encasing the chests in a mass of metal. Only a few old tomes, the founding town family, and the Gym Leaders of the town, are aware of where these chests are.

Over the years, Spikemuth became a Treasury for Galar’s most sacred treasures, such as the Hero’s Tapestries. The 5th tapestry, during one of the centuries, was stolen by a group seeking to take the crown, under the belief they were of royal lineage. The tapestry was never found after.

At the turn of the Industrial age, a proper museum was built for everything. Spikemuth, as the antithesis of Dynamax, was the absolute safest place to house the most precious artifacts. The display room was made to be the highest part, to hold up history. Along with the rise of industry over the decades, televised Pokemon Battles with controlled Dynamaxing further became the norm. The International League was formed, melding with the Galarian sports culture of Battle.

When Chairman Rose took to his position, roughly 2 decades before the events of Galar, he made a point to call the town of Spikemuth lazy for losing a piece of history. As the Chairman, he, with the side of some of the Gym Leaders of the time, had the artifacts taken from the town, moved to Hammerlocke.

In the later years, following Piers coming into the position of Gym Leader, Rose set in. Government funding was cut at many angles, in all but public health care. Businesses were bought out by Macro Cosmo, and pulled from Spikemuth. Ever since taking up the title, Piers has been fighting an uphill battle against Rose. Resentment is kept quiet, but it’s not impossible to figure out that there is bad blood.

If Rose really wanted to help everyone, he should have been offering to bolster and build infrastructure, not move the Gym away and over a Power Spot.

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Pokemon Theory; Macro Cosmos’ Type:Null and Rose’s intention for Bede

Of all the Pokemon in Galar, the most interesting addition to the Dex is definitely the Type:Null you are given in the now-Battle Tower. But why is there a Type:Null unit in SwSh?

It was intended for Bede to use, possibly against Eternatus, but certainly against Dynamax.

Consider the following;

Using a Pokedex, it would be likely that Rose would have a grasp on what Type that Eternatus would be. So, to combat it, he needed a Psychic Trainer who could assist in forcing Eternatus to yield. A child open to Type Specialization.

Thus, Bede was fostered by Rose, and given his Hatenna, plus a Gothita & Solosis. He was expected to become a top Psychic Trainer, and eventually, usurp Leon once his usefulness was through. Being given the Type:Null for it’s great potential, likely partway through the Gym Challenge.

Rose’s sole intent for Leon was to face off and capture Eternatus. It was expected that the undefeated Champion would be able to take down the goliath. Then after, with Bede’s new Specialization, Eternatus would be forced down to keep Galar going forever.

Unfortunately, because of Bede’s destruction of the mural, Rose chose to quickly quash Bede. He could not have a Champion be so blaise with Galar–otherwise, there was no way that he would be followed by the people of Galar. He can make a new protege. He could find a better Psychic. He could use the Type:Null, the Pokemon made from the shared blueprints between Macro Cosmos and the Aether Foundation.

But Rose never accounted for Eternatus using Flamethrower.

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Ghost Paradox because my not

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actually, i guess nows as good a time as any. heres all my pokemon warmups from the past 9 days! i wonder how long i can keep going

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Sorry to interrupt your scrolling

But I love Pokémon.

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I just want to be proof that good ppl w/ no hidden agenda or motives still exists.

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