Pokemon of the Ioa Region: Pokemon Alchemy edition

[alchemyprime]

Hey, hey, anyone remember this? Norman's gym in Emerald? The one where, you know, it wasn't just the leader that had a strategy, but the trainers all pulled off different tricks too? Things like Slash Crit Hax Zangoose, Endeavor Swellow, Belly Drum Linoone...yeah, that's what this reminds me of. Which is to say, AWESOME!

So, couple questions on that. All the trainers in that gym used some very advanced strategy, but they were all the CoolTrainer class, which is about 5 cuts above any other trainer in the game short of gym leaders. Is there any way you could set the AI for other trainer classes to match that? Because what I usually get is "Gary's Arcanine is at 5 HP facing a Grass-type it could probably one-shot! Arcanine used Leer!" Seriously, just no challenge brute-forcing everything.

Aside from that, I really like the typing mixes, though the city names are a bit...eh. Finding obscure Latin synonyms for them is one way to fix that.

...and judging by the missing guy from town 2, I'm assuming your base game is FireRed and not Ruby/Emerald.

Yes, yes I am.

Okay, two more gyms to go!

Pomegranate City- The home of the dark and mysterious Dark/Flying gym leader, Bruce. His various wards are waiting for you in his gym (****, Tim, Steph, Babs, Cass, Terry), but his ward Jason has gone missing. And the new Team Shadow in his city hasn't made things any easier...

Coconut City- The island based city, said to be under the protection of Tsumanda itself, is watched over by the Water/Ice leader, Arthur! He is a bit of a pompous jerk now, but his wife will tell you how she missed back when he understood the joys of riding the waves, and surfing with a pokemon, when he found everything to be quite outrageous...

Now, there are 4 teams giving Iona a lot of trouble:

Team Shadow - Tormenting those around Pomegranate City, they have a dark and mysterious leader, going by the name of Red. He can't be Kanto's champion, could he?
Team Tomorrow - Making trouble around Apricot City, Clark always seems able to stop their nefarious deeds with ease!
Team Lightning - Showing up all around, fighting off the dark type pokemon, and pinching them from their trainers "for your own good". Why are these guys so mean?
Team Ragnarok - They say that there is a Pokemon in the mountains, locked away by the Elephants after they fought off the Horrors, that will destroy all life on the world if it's trainer so wishes. Why not start off with a clean slate in Ioa?