Pokémon League: Difference between revisions

:''This article is about Pokémon League Championship. For the locations in Sinnoh or Unova, see [[Pokémon League (Sinnoh)]] or [[Pokémon League (Unova)]]. For the element in the Pokémon Trading Card Game, see [[Pokémon League (TCG)]]''

In the anime continuity, the League challenge is a tournament. Trainers qualify by having at least 8 Gym Badges from the relevant region, and then an elimination tournament takes place between the qualifying Trainers. The winner of the tournament is invited to challenge that region's Elite Four in battle. If the Trainer defeats the Elite Four, it is most likely they are eligible to join that region's Elite Four whenever one of the members retires, similar to the reward for the Battle Frontier in the anime.  Other ways of getting into the [[Indigo League]] besides collecting badges have been shown ; such as by passing the Pokémon League Admissions Exam, as seen in ''[[The Ultimate Test]]'', or by graduating from [[Pokémon Tech]], as seen in ''[[The School of Hard Knocks]]''.

In [[Pokémon Adventures]], the Pokémon League consists of a regional tournament held every 3 years in each region. There are two ways of qualifying for the tournament - either by having eight Gym Badges or defeating a large number of other applicants without Gym Badges in preliminary rounds. The Pokémon League is sanctioned and run by the [[Pokémon Association]]. In addition, in the Pokémon Adventures manga, there is no Elite Four challenge. In Pokémon Adventures, Elite Four are simply powerful groups of four Trainers from each region who ally themselves with each other for power, and their activities are not sanctioned by the Pokémon League or related to the Pokémon Association - indeed, the activities of Kanto's Elite Four were villainous in nature, while the Hoenn Elite Four were a group of Steven Stone's friends he gathered to help fight Team Aqua and Team Magma, and the Johto Elite Four's members are comprised of members of ex-criminals who are seeking emotional support from each other by training together. Also, there appear to be a different rule, if you lose one of your six Pokémon, you lose the entire match.