Cerulean Gym

Cerulean Gym ハナダジム Hanada Gym
File:Cerulean Gym.png
Location	Cerulean City
Gym Leader	Misty Daisy, Lily, and Violet (anime only)
Badge	Cascade Badge
Dominant Type	Water
Region	Kanto
Battlefield

The Cerulean Gym (Japanese: ハナダジム Hanada Gym) is the official gym of Cerulean City. It is based on Template:Type2 Pokémon. The Gym Leader is Misty. Trainers that defeat her receive the Cascade Badge.

Other known members include Swimmer Briana, Swimmer Parker, Swimmer Diana, Swimmer Luis, Picnicker Diana, and Misty's sisters Daisy, Lily and Violet, who were the leaders in the anime until the Advanced Generation.

In the games

Cerulean City Pokémon Gym
Leader: Misty
"The Tomboyish Mermaid"

Cerulean City Pokémon Gym
Leader: Misty
The Tomboyish Mermaid

The Cerulean Gym is designed like an indoor swimming pool, with platforms above the water for the player to walk on. In Generation IV, the gym consists of a large pool roped off into lanes with certain parts of the area circling the pool blocked, requiring the player to Surf through the pool to get to Misty. There are no puzzles to solve in this gym. A field based on the gym also appears in Pokémon Stadium's Gym Leader Castle.

Appearance

File:Cerulean Gym RB.png File:Cerulean Gym GS.png Generation I Generation II Generation III Generation IV

Trainers

Pokémon Red and Blue and Yellow

Trainer	Pokémon
Swimmer Swimmer Reward: $80	Horsea Lv.16 No item
	Shellder Lv.16 No item
Jr. Trainer Jr. Trainer Reward: $380	Goldeen Lv.19 No item

File:Misty Blue.PNG Leader Misty Cerulean Gym Red, Green, and Blue Leader and Professor Misty Oak Cerulean Gym Red, Green, and Blue Reward: $2079
Types: Water Unknown Staryu Lv.18 Tackle Normal   --       Water Gun Water   --       Unknown   --       Unknown   --       Types: Water Psychic Starmie Lv.21 Tackle Normal   --       Water Gun Water   --       Harden Normal   --       BubbleBeam Water   --

File:Y Misty.png Leader Misty Cerulean Gym Yellow Leader and Professor Misty Oak Cerulean Gym Yellow Reward: $ 2079
Types: Water Unknown Staryu Lv.18 Tackle Normal   --       Water Gun Water   --       Unknown   --       Unknown   --       Types: Water Psychic Starmie Lv.21 Tackle Normal   --       Water Gun Water   --       Harden Normal   --       BubbleBeam Water   --

Pokémon Gold and Silver and Crystal

Trainer	Pokémon
Swimmer♂ (Trainer class) Swimmer♂ (Trainer class)|Swimmer|Swimmer♂ Parker トモキ Tomoki Reward: $280	Horsea♂ Lv.32 No item
	Horsea♂ Lv.32 No item
	Seadra♂ Lv.35 No item
Swimmer♀ (Trainer class) Swimmer♀ (Trainer class)|Swimmer|Swimmer♀ Briana ユカリ Yukari Reward: $700	Seaking♀ Lv.35 No item
	Seaking♀ Lv.35 No item
Swimmer♀ (Trainer class) Swimmer♀ (Trainer class)|Swimmer|Swimmer♀ Diana ナミ Nami Reward: $740	Golduck♀ Lv.37 No item
Trainers with a telephone symbol by their names will give their Pokégear number to the player, and may call or be called for a rematch with higher-level Pokémon.

File:Misty 02.png Leader Misty Cerulean Gym Gold, Silver, and Crystal Leader and Professor Misty Oak Cerulean Gym Gold, Silver, and Crystal Reward: $4700

Types: Water Unknown Held item: None Golduck♀ Lv.42 Surf Water   --       Disable Normal   --       Psych Up Normal   --       Psychic Psychic   --       Types: Water Ground Held item: None Quagsire♀ Lv.42 Surf Water   --       Amnesia Psychic   --       Earthquake Ground   --       Rain Dance Water   --       Types: Water Ice Held item: None Lapras♀ Lv.44 Surf Water   --       Perish Song Normal   --       Blizzard Ice   --       Rain Dance Water   --       Types: Water Psychic Held item: None Starmie Lv.47 Surf Water   --       Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Recover Normal   --       Ice Beam Ice   --

Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen

Trainer	Pokémon
Swimmer Luis Swimmer Luis ヨウヘイ Yōhei Reward: $64	Horsea♂ Lv.16 No item
	Shellder♂ Lv.16 No item
Picnicker Diana Picnicker Diana コズエ Kozue Reward: $380	Goldeen♀ Lv.19 No item

File:SpriteMisty.png Leader Misty Cerulean Gym FireRed and LeafGreen Leader and Professor Misty Oak Cerulean Gym FireRed and LeafGreen Reward: $2100
Types: Water Unknown Ability: Illuminate Held item: None Staryu Lv.18 Tackle Normal   --       Harden Normal   --       Recover Normal   --       Water Pulse Water   --       Types: Water Psychic Ability: Illuminate Held item: None Starmie Lv.21 Rapid Spin Normal   --       Swift Normal   --       Recover Normal   --       Water Pulse Water   --

Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver

Trainer	Pokémon
Sailor Parker Sailor Parker トモキ Tomoki Reward: $1376	Horsea♂ Lv.43 No item
	Seadra♂ Lv.43 No item
Sailor Eddie Sailor Eddie ノリオ Norio Reward: $1536	Azumarill♂ Lv.48 No item
Swimmer♀ Diana Swimmer♀ Diana ナミ Nami Reward: $768	Golduck♀ Lv.48 No item
Swimmer♀ Joy Swimmer♀ Joy ミズナ Mizuna Reward: $768	Cloyster♀ Lv.48 No item
Swimmer♀ Briana Swimmer♀ Briana ユカリ Yukari Reward: $736	Seaking♀ Lv.46 No item
	Seaking♀ Lv.46 No item
Trainers with a telephone symbol by their names will give their Pokégear number to the player, and may call or be called for a rematch with higher-level Pokémon.

File:MistyHGSS.gif [[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] Misty Cerulean Gym HeartGold and SoulSilver [[Leader (Trainer class)|Leader]] and Professor Misty Oak Cerulean Gym HeartGold and SoulSilver Reward: $6480

Types: Water Unknown Ability: Damp Held item: None Golduck♀ Lv.49 Water Pulse Water Special   --       Disable Normal Status   --       Psychic Psychic Special   --       Psych Up Normal Status   --       Types: Water Ground Ability: Water Absorb Held item: None Quagsire♀ Lv.49 Water Pulse Water Special   --       Amnesia Psychic Status   --       Rain Dance Water Status   --       Earthquake Ground Physical   --       Types: Water Ice Ability: Shell Armor Held item: None Lapras♀ Lv.52 Ice Beam Ice Special   --       Sing Normal Status   --       Water Pulse Water Special   --       Body Slam Normal Physical   --       Types: Water Psychic Ability: Natural Cure Held item: Sitrus Berry Starmie Lv.54 Water Pulse Water Special   --       Confuse Ray Ghost Status   --       Ice Beam Ice Special   --       Recover Normal Status   --

In the anime

Cerulean Gym's Aquarium

Cerulean Gym has appeared in several episodes of the anime. On the exterior, the building is a dome-shaped brightly colored Gym with a gigantic painting of a Dewgong on top of it. On the inside, the gym is equipped with a large aquarium and swimming pool.

It first appeared in The Water Flowers of Cerulean City. Ash was heading there so he could earn his Cascade Badge. Misty kept telling him not to go to Cerulean, and he soon discovered why she tried to stop him; her three sisters, Violet, Lily and Daisy, were the gym leaders. However, they had turned the gym into a place for them to put on their water acrobatics shows. They were about to give Ash the badge when Misty intervened. She challenged Ash to a battle in her capacity as an official Gym Leader, but it was interrupted by Team Rocket. In the end, Daisy gave Ash the Cascade Badge, saying that if it weren't for him, the gym would have been destroyed.

Another view of the battlefield

The gym's next appearance was in The Misty Mermaid. While on the way to the Viridian Gym, Misty's Horsea had become sick. Realizing the gym was nearby, Misty decided to go and see if they could make Horsea feel better. The Dragon Pokémon felt better immediately. However, the sisters made Misty participate in one of their water ballet shows. During a Team Rocket battle, the Seel the Sensational Sisters had in their first appearance evolved into Dewgong and saved the gym. Before leaving, Misty left her Horsea and Starmie at the gym, hoping one day to come back for them.

The gym also played key roles in several Pokémon Chronicles episodes. In Cerulean Blues, the gym was in danger of being shut down. Misty, who was recently named gym leader after her sisters won a trip around the world, was successfully able to fix it up and stop it from getting shut down. In the process, she captured a Gyarados. In The Blue Badge of Courage, Sakura challenged Misty to a gym battle and won her own Cascade Badge. Casey visited the gym in A Date with Delcatty, and Misty and Daisy's two Luvdisc, Caserin and Luverin, were stolen by Butch and Cassidy in Luvdisc is a Many Splendored Thing.

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

Cerulean Gym debuted in Suddenly Starmie! in the Red, Green & Blue chapter where Red and Misty trained to fight Team Rocket using Bulbasaur and Starmie, there is an abundance of rooms but at the end Misty revealed that she was the Gym Leader and she had attacked him the night, before ending in tears.

In the TCG

The Cerulean Gym was featured in the TCG as both a Japan exclusive Theme Deck and as a card. The following is a list of cards named Cerulean City Gym.

Name	Type	Rarity	Set	Set no.
Cerulean City Gym	T		Gym Heroes	108/132

Trivia

• Prior to Crystal, a glitch made it possible to catch wild Pokémon inside the gym by fishing in the water, although only the Old and Good Rods could catch anything in the Generation I games. This makes the Cerulean Gym the only gym where it was ever possible to catch wild Pokémon inside the facility itself.
• In Gold, Silver, and Crystal, the player can walk along the path around the edge of the Gym and use Surf to go directly to Misty, bypassing all trainers lying along the normal path.
  • Ironically, in their remakes, the gym is redesigned in such a way that Surf is obligatory.
• In Generation IV, if one brings a Togepi into the Gym, there is a chance that it will begin to cry softly when the player talks to it. This may or may not be a subtle reference to Misty's Togepi in the anime.

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