If you were a gym leader in the world of Pokemon what type would you specialize in?

I think about this question every now and then. It flip between Fighting, Fairy, and Steel for me. Those 3 types have some of my favorite Pokémon in them. Lucario, Gallade, Mega Lopunny, Primarina, Hatterene, Florges, Mawile, Tinkaton, Scizor...

I dunno which one I would choose.
 
I think I'd lean Psychic or Fairy. Psychic has some of my bigger faves, whilst I vibe hard with the Fairy aesthetic in general.

If I were to spitball a team for each in general order:

Psychic: Espathra, Hatterene, Slowbro, Xatu, Mr. Rime, Meowstic F

Fairy: Ribombee, Hatterene, Mimikyu, Tinkaton, Sylveon, Alolan Ninetales
 
Grass or fairy…leaning towards grass but my gym would have a very springy vibe
 
Steel probably, in the same sense as molayne I guess. I think my team would all be body press users in some capacity (also making it my tm I give out)! Something along the lines of:

Duralodon, Bastiodon, H-Goodra, Bronzong, Forretress (ace)

Forretress is my GOAT in terms of battling, I like hisuian goodra, and sinnoh is my favorite region (plus bronzong is good for coverage). Duraludon is honestly just a good pokemon and could be realistically replaced by any physically bulky steel type (maybe corviknight?)
 
electric 10000%. it's my favorite type and i also think it's really fitting for me, what with my love of computers and like. i consider myself a very passionate and radically optimistic person. which you could probably associate with multiple types ie. fire but it lines up with electricity too

i think my team would have jolteon, raichu (mega X if given the chance to mega for some reason btw), kilowattrel, galvantula, and rotom of any form that i'd change regularly. i'd be one of those rare double battle gym leaders with VGC related sets lol. i only listed 5 pokemon because i would like to be self indulgent and have terastilization as a mechanic because paldea kind of feels like my hometown at this point, and that gives me the opportunity to have a pokemon that isn't electric type but can terastilize into electric on the team. my heart says thunder punch meowscarada because sprigatito is my favorite pokemon of all time but there's also a pretty strong argument for flygon for me (it's one of my favorites and i have many really important flygons to me throughout the games + it has levitate and terastilizing into electric would give it no type weaknesses)
 
i think it would be flying for me! i think i would have a pidgeot skarmory and hawlucha on my team

though i also like the idea of having a gym based on a theme rather than a type. i love birds so an aviary gym would be cool! tho i dont think there are many bird pokemon which arent flying types anyway so :slowpoke:
 
Ice is my favorite type in the raw concept of the type, as I like the cold, snow and ice! But it seems weird for me to be a gym leader without my favorite Pokemon: Galarian Rapidash.
 
Water or Normal, because they are the most versatile types in terms of movesets.

Water > Clawitzer, Lapras, Whiscash, Lanturn, Barbaracle, Mega Slowbro. Depending on the region, Gmax Lapras over Mega Bro.

Normal > Pidgeot, Arboliva, Cyclizar, Stoutland, Zangoose, Tauros
 
Either Normal or Water. Normal because it's my favorite type, Water because the city I live in is on the coast and, as a hypothetical gym leader, it'd make more sense location wise.

My team(s) would be (going by some of my favorites):
Normal - Purugly, Lopunny, Stoutland, Gumshoos, Bouffalant, Drampa w/ Mega Stone

Water - Palafin, Dewgong, Walrein, Paldean Tauros (Aqua breed), Lapras, Slowbro w/ Mega Stone
 
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