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Based on western Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, because biodiversity and natural features. It would have jungle surrounding a big mountain, kind of like a tropical Sinnoh, and broad plains on one side. Galapagos Islands expy would have some living regional variants of fossil mons.
Reason I put it in Ecuador is because the country is one of the few on Earth that are considered a viable installation site for a space elevator, which is something that I'd like to feature. Nothing so gaudy and ultra future tech as Aether HQ, the whole region is kind of blue collar and lived in, but having that kind of facility in the background doing its own thing completely separate from you for most of the journey would be neat. Maybe emerging from the middle of the Quilotoa equivalent, pic related.
As far as old Pokemon, some grass types like Tropius would be cool, and regional conquistador long blade Pawniard/Bisharp with a four armed evolution, make em like Shellos/Gastrodon and make black ones to the north and white ones to the south so they're proper chess friends. Regional Trubbish/Garbodor based on mulch and compost rather than just garbage. New ones would include an arapaima, giant cellar spider/ogre faced spider mix, panther, pseudolegendary would be a pure steel type that gains poison typing - Some kind of cell sample that breaks out of containment at the end.
Pokemon League participation would be earned - IE, you have to win a local tournament to be able to challenge gyms which could be tackled in any order. Maybe types like...
>Dark
>Steel
>Fighting
>Bug
>Ghost
>Water
>Grass
>Normal/Mixed
But since you can tackle them in any order, maybe there's a couple optional ones and you only need 8 to qualify for the League championship. I imagine the semifinalists from the previous year would be called Elite Four, and after winning the finals you'd get to fight the Champion.
To match the dangers of the jungle, it'd be neat if trainers could be targeted by Pokemon in
