Your Pokemon League

[Satoren]

We've all been League Champion before (Most of us being Champions of several leagues, in fact) but ingame it's always been just a title that was rarely even acknowledged by your many NPC acquaintances.

If you truly had the reins and perhaps even more, what would your League be like? Where would it be located? Who would your Elite Four be? And of course, what team of Pokemon would you greet your many contenders with?

Since the Pokemon world is already a pretty fantastical place, I'd have my league on a set of five floating islets which can only be traveled to by airship (said airship requires your 8 badges as a boarding pass)

Four smaller islets for the Elite Four orbit around the larger landmass where the champion awaits; Each of which has a different environment pertaining to the members' type specialties: Dragon, Fairy, Psychic, and Ghost. You may take the airshipto challenge each of them in any order; and once they are defeated, the airship brings you to the largest islet for your last duel.

The Islet would have large crystals and a dense forest forming a wall around a battlefield made of stone bricks with a large symbol of the League logo on it. The Champion waits for you seated on a throne at the base of a largest tree on the islet; it's roots wrapped around as parts of the throne.The final battle is at hand.

Champion's Pokemon:
Volcarona
Vaporeon
Trevenant
Rotom (fan forme)
Tyrantrum
Altaria (w/ Altarianite)

After the Champion is defeated, you both head back to the airship, which reveals that it has the Hall of Fame device where your Pokemon will be registered. Congrats, you beat the Pokemon League!

Bonus:
Champion's Pokemon during a rematch:
Volcarona
Vaporeon
Torterra
Articuno
Tyrantrum
Latios(w/ Latiosite)

 

[RLRL]

I was always a huge fan of the battle mountain in colloseum/XD, naturally I'm not talking something completely the same, but I love the idea of the protagonist having to scale a mountain to finally challenge the champion at the top,
I'd have the entire region be based on a mountainous island, with towns and cities all littering the foothills, and the top of the mountain sacred ground, thus requiring the 8 badges to begin the ascent.

Each member of the elite 4 would be at different altitudes, but unlike a standard pokémon game, find them in their chamber/whatever, I'd want to literally have to hunt down these trainers, have them training in various different places, heck even have it that wherever you find them, their team could be vastly different. Say for example we keep it traditional, ice, fighting, ghost, dragon as the elite 4 members. As it's mountainous let's switch the order around, so the lowest part of the mountain is where the fighting type trainer is, their house is at the top of a gorge, there is a waterfall nearby, and there's forest all around. You find them in their house, they're angry you invaded their privacy (could'a knocked!) they send you out back to their arena, a large boxing ring, there they proceed to face you with a team of 6, all fully evolved pokémon, all around the same sorts of levels. You defeat said trainer, they tell you to scale the mountain and look for a cavern in which to find the ghost trainer. However, if you find them training under the waterfall, they will talk to you about the necessity of balance between power and compassion (or some sorta bull like that, c'mon we know it happens) facing them here they have a team of 5 pokémon, however the levels are slightly more varied between the pokémon, with one clearly being an anchor as such, the moves would be slightly more tactical on the pokémon in this instance, for example, the first battle would involve a machamp using focus punch, this second would have it using substitute beforehand. Defeating them this way, after the battle they ask you about your goals and how you train your pokémon, warning you that the ghost trainer is likely to take exception to you wandering around a "cavern filled with bones". Finally there's the third option for finding this person, the forest. Somewhere in the forest you'll find a clearing, lots of tree stumps and low and behold there's fighting-type-member and their unevolved fighting type. Talking to them they discuss training and how not to underestimate a pokemon just based on its evolutionary stage, in turn you can accept a 3 on 3 battle with them, the first pokémon being an over-levelled unevolved pokémon, the other 2 being the strongest 2 from their other teams e.g. Level 90 Gurdurr, level 75 Machamp, level 75 Mienshao. Defeating them here, they discuss bringing out the true power of pokémon, inviting you back to rematch their gurdurr when its "all grown up" before telling you to keep scaling the mountain and find the ghost trainer "but whatever you do do not touch the alter".
Much like meeting the fighting type trainer in their house, touching an alter further up the mountain will literally cause a rock slide further up the mountain (blocking one of your paths) and for the ghost type trainer to appear in astral form, scream at you for desecrating sacred ground, before leading you to their physical location and facing you on a 6v6 battle, even if you win this battle the path will stay blocked and the trainer will use various ghostly apparitions to make your path more difficult up the mountain to the dragon trainer. Finding them in certain places will affect the pokémon they have, if you find them inside a cavern they will have a spiritomb/sableye in their party, if they're outside they'll have a frosslass. If you faced the gurdurr of the previous member the unevolved battle becomes 4v4.
Ok you get the idea I hope, finally you reach the summit, and depending on the path you took up the mountain will determine the champion's pokémon on their team, it will always be 6v6 but their team will be incredibly dynamic. Say for example you continue to annoy the members of the elite 4 so you've only done 6v6 the whole way up with your opponents using all out force continually. The champion would have a team along the lines of
- Rampardos/Slaking
- Dragonite
- Metagross
- Tyranitar
- Heatran
- Kyurem

Naturally either metagross/tyranitar will mega evolve, that team I literally just pulled together out of high base stats and kyurem being dragon and ice types, the last 2 members of the elite 4.
The more interesting combinations would happen depending on how you faced the rest of the league, I would like to see a champion with the potential of about 30 pokémon in their roster, and your decisions, even down to how long battles take you, affecting them, potentially making them tailored to counter your team (forcing you to use strategies you'd not normally want to) or even just literally sitting as an example that a champion can win using any combination of pokémon and i'm sure they can pull out some corny lines about "the true strength is from inside" etc.

It's a bit complicated, and if you hadn't guessed incredibly anime inspired, and would frankly make challenging the elite 4 an absolute pig, but as long as it didn't prove boring, i think it could be a refreshing change provided it's not as clear cut as "easy, medium, hard" for the elite 4, more of, it becomes a decision making exercise. I've already put way too much thought into this now and thats without completely calling out my idea as an absolute bastard to programme, potentially being buggy as hell, and there being the chance you could end up walking along with one of the elite 4 as they move to a new location, or the endless joys of people putting videos on youtube of them finally finding the damn elite 4 member then they disappear seconds later back to another part of the mountain they were at hours ago. Yeah, my idea is completely flawed, and could end up being really annoying, but there's that little part of me that wants challenging the elite 4 to be more difficult than doing the gym leaders, and not just because you can't heal at a pokemon centre...