The Pokemon League - six gyms, six badges, 130 Slayer

What it is#

At 130 Slayer the master at home hands you to Trainer May, and the slayer ladder changes shape: instead of tasks you take contracts for one of six type zones, and each zone ends in a gym. The ladder is the one you know:

#	Zone	Leader	Type	Badge
1	The Quarry	Brock	Rock	Boulder Badge
2	The Glacier	Misty	Water	Cascade Badge
3	The Storm	Lt. Surge	Electric	Thunder Badge
4	The Mire	Erika	Poison	Rainbow Badge
5	The Wyrm	Sabrina	Dragon	Marsh Badge
6	The Cinder	Giovanni	Fire	Earth Badge

The six zones are one 384x256 landmass split by ridges, with a dungeon under each. Fifty-six combat Pokemon fill them in three tiers.

The loop#

1. 1
   Talk to Trainer May at home. She issues a contract for your frontier zone - the furthest one you have unlocked - and teleports you there.
2. 2
   Kill your contract. Every kill pays Olympian Points and Poke points.
3. 3
   Talk to the Gym Guide at the zone's arena for the instanced arena elite. Beating it opens the gym door.
4. 4
   Enter the gym (the cave in the dungeon) and fight the gym leader at the far end.
5. 5
   Take the badge. Your frontier moves one zone on.

Every badge has a Travel option that flies you back to its own zone, so nothing is ever a walk - and the badge is not the permission: the game re-checks what you have actually earned, so a traded badge carries nobody.

Superiors and pets#

• Superior slayer lives inside the League: any contract kill has a 1-in-50 chance to spawn a superior twin - the same Pokemon, much stronger, with a bonus payout in Poke points.
• Battle pets: on-contract Pokemon can be caught with a Poke Ball. One id per species, they fight beside you, and their xp is the damage they deal.
• Boss contracts sit just below at 125 and the Umbral Deep above at 150, so the endgame reads as one line: Boss contracts, League, the Deep.