Why was this allowed? Isn't this against regulation? Literally

>>29391909
Gary Oak can do whatever the fuck he wants.

>>29391909
fwibble fwobble bibble bobble

>>29391931
This is true.

Too bad Gary =/= Blue, so it doesn't answer my question.

Yeah, it's bullshit.
Theme team fags and Blue apologists cite this as evidence that guns shouldn't be type specific. They are wrong. Type based trainers are the better choice.

>>29391909
This is a perfect Flying/Psychic gym, fuck off.

The Johto gym leaders are fighting you as part of your League Challenge and are thus using specific teams tailored to your badge level and a certain type. Once you get into Kanto, the gym leaders do what they want.

Wow those movesets are awful

>>29391954
They still give you badges though, so you're still technically taking the League Challenge.

>>29391931
kill yourself stupid faggot, that stupid meme's older than you

>>29391970
Well when you have awful Pokemon it's par for the course.

>>29391909
Gym leaders are type experts by choice not by regulation. If you lived in the actual pokemon world, its provably more practical to gain mastery over a single type and learn its nuances rather than mastering a varied team. Otherwise every gym leader would have used a varied team in the PWT

>>29392028
respect your elders you fuck

>>29392102
>Gym leaders are type experts by choice not by regulation.

Is this mentioned anywhere in the series?

>>29391909
In the original games the elite 4 couldn't stop him

>>29392102
I find it hard to believe that out of 48 Gym Leaders (72 if you count the Elite Four), only a single one thought to himself "Hey, let's try using more than one type".

Flint doesn't count.

>>29392125
Most just choose their type.

Olivine used to be a Rock gym before becoming Steel.

In different mediums it has been talked about how gym leader choose wich Pokémon to use depending on the experience of the challengers.

>>29392179
>Aaron

Jokes aside, i find it harder to believe that every gym leader would show up to a world to tournament to crown thr best o the best, and stick with their preferred type.

The gym leaders also usualy boast about he strength of their type, and leaders like Bugsy dedicate their lives to learning about it. It makes sense to me that focusing on a single aspect and mastering it is easier than rolling with a varied team. Again, the only people who seem to get to the top that way are champions and the protagonist l, whos basically the fucking chosen one every game post gold/silver

>>29391909
>Literally no other gym leader does this shit.
Blane and Giovanni in Yellow
Every Gym Leader in Pokemon Stadium
Every Gym in Platinum
Clair in HeartGold and SoulSilver
Striaton Gym

We can assume that monotypes are just a tradition, if anything. Gary must use a level 8 Rhyhorn against newbies, more than likely.

>>29391946
Blue Oak can do whatever he damn well pleases, too.

Being the grandson of Professor Oak has its perks.

>>29392323
Also all of those, seriously I think Candice medicham is one of the worst offenders.

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>>29392323
>Blane and Giovanni in Yellow
Are based on the anime.

>Every Gym Leader in Pokemon Stadium
Spinoff.

>Every Gym in Platinum
Wrong

>Clair in HeartGold and SoulSilver
Uses a Gyarados the same reason Lance does. Limited Dragon Pokemon.

>Striaton Gym
Is a mess. I'd chalk it up to lack of Pokemon at this point in the game, but eh.

>>29392384
What are you talking about?

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>>29392442
You heard me

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>>29392473
>mentioned Platinum
>posts about Diamond/Pearl

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>>29392500
>thinking two separate posts are by the same person unless otherwise stated

>especially when one of those posts has a name and the other one does not

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>>29392533
>agreed with post that mentions Platinum specifically
>brings up a trainer's D/P team

>>29391909
>regulation
what regulation?

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>>29392442
You know what I'm talking about, don't put the platinum team to sugarcoat it, DP did this a lot.

>>29392633
OMFG, best friends forever with DP flint!

>>29392619
You specifically mentioned Platinum in your post, of which there are no problems with.

Platinum's team adjustments showed D/P was a mistake.

I wouldn't mind it if Gym Leaders used different kinds of Pokemon but stuck to movesets and strategies depending on their typing specialty.

>>29392667
No I didn't mention platinum, I replied to the guy that posted about Candice.

You are clearly retarded if you think that guy and me are samefagging, at least two people here are talking about DP Candice.

>>29391970
For gen 2 that's actually pretty good

>Loses Gen 1 starter
>Doesnt get Eevee to mirror Reds Pikachu, doesnt evolve into Umbreon to mirror Reds Espeon
>"Ace" becomes an underleveled Route 1 shitmon
>Then just drops it and the concept of having an ace at all

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>>29392710
>at least two people here are talking about DP Candice

>>29392710
I didn't say anything about samefagging, you assumptuous retard. The post you originally replied to mentioned nothing about Candice.

Please get a trip so people can filter you.

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>>29392744
>not knowing how to filter someone with a name

You're a retard.

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>>29392759
>not knowing names are easier to feign than trips

Might as well filter "Anonymous" while you're at it.

>>29392323
>Every Gym in Platinum
you mean in Diamond and Pearl, right? Platinum "fixed" most of it, and often to the detriment of the team:
>Candice had a icepunch Medicham she got from Maylene
replaced with piloswine
>Volkner had shockwave Ambipom and chargebeam Octillery
replaced with jolteon and electivire

and they weren't gym leaders but...
>Flint had firepunch Lopppuny, firefang Steelix, and willowisp Drifblim
replaced with flareon, houndoom and magmortar
>Aaron had xscissor Drapion
>Bertha had earthquake Sudowoodo
replaced with gliscor/rhyperior

>>29392778
If someone's posting with a name you don't like, then why bother? Do you think someone impersonating the person you want to filter is gonna be somehow worth enough to read when the source material isn't?

>>29392442
>Wrong
Sorry, meant Pearl, but you get the idea. Lots of Gyms that use pokemon outside a specialty.

>Uses a Gyarados the same reason Lance does. Limited Dragon Pokemon.
The Elite 4 all use pokemon of multiple types even when there are more than enough, though..

>>Striaton Gym
But there is no reason to use Pokemon that had only been available until then. Onyx in Red/Blue only shows up until after the third Gym.

And judging by the way some Pokemon appear to drop levels between games, or others seem to drastically level up in a short time, It seems rather obvious that Gym Leaders have multiple teams. So the weak ass mono-teams are probably used against newbies to teach them about Pokemon types, while the real teams used against powerful trainers can have whatever they want.

>>29392835
>It seems rather obvious that Gym Leaders have multiple teams. So the weak ass mono-teams are probably used against newbies to teach them about Pokemon types, while the real teams used against powerful trainers can have whatever they want.

I understand that, and it's perfectly reasonable.

Blue is just a faggot who feels like he needs to prove something by going full force against every random asshole that comes into the gym. And he still loses.

>>29392744
And you still haven't realized I talked about just Candice, not a specific Candice.

DP gyms are an atrocity and Candice is a big one since there is a lot of time between the 5th gym and the 8th that she is supposed to fill.

>>29392835
>Sorry, meant Pearl
you really need to quit while you're ahead. the english language is just not for you

>>29392875
>DP gyms are an atrocity

And they were "fixed" in Platinum. What's the issue here?

>>29391953
Did you not notice the Arcanine or Rhydon mate?

>>29392911
Platinum fixed a lot of problems with DP, not just the gyms. Still other games showed us that gyms can change specialities and have different teams for different challengers.