Veilstone Gym

Veilstone Gym トバリジム Tobari Gym
Location	Veilstone City
Gym Leader	Maylene
Badge	Cobble Badge
Dominant Type	Fighting
Region	Sinnoh
Battlefield

Maylene's Gym Leader area

The Veilstone Gym (Japanese: トバリジム Tobari Gym) is the official Gym of Veilstone City. It is based on Fighting-type Pokémon. The Gym Leader is Maylene. Trainers who defeat her receive the Cobble Badge.

The Veilstone Gym is the third Gym challenged in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl and their remakes; while in Pokémon Platinum, it is the fourth Gym.

In the games

Core series games

Veilstone City Pokémon Gym
Leader: Maylene
The Barefoot, Fighting Genius!

In Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, Brilliant Diamond, and Shining Pearl the Veilstone Gym is a dojo made up of several smaller rooms intersected with mobile walls. Trainers wait in the tiny cubicles. To get to Maylene, the walls must be shifted in and out of the cubicles so that the empty spaces in the walls line up with each other and a path is clear. Maylene's students are four Black Belt brothers who call themselves the "Karate Quads" and insist they fight for "LOVE!", "COURAGE!", "HOPE!", and "TEARS!"

In Pokémon Platinum, the player must push around punching bags in order to knock over piles of tires that are blocking the path. The Karate Quads await the player in roped-off boxing arenas.

The plaques behind Maylene, from left to right, read:

"A good deed for every day."

"One day at a time"

"Treasure every encounter, for it is unique."

Appearance

Diamond	Pearl	Platinum	Brilliant Diamond	Shining Pearl

Items

Item		Location	Games
	TM60 (Drain Punch)	Reward for defeating Maylene	D  P  Pt
	TM60 (Drain Punch) ×5	Reward for defeating Maylene	BD  SP

Trainers

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl

Trainer	Pokémon
Black Belt Darren ジロウ Jirō Reward: $600	Machoke♂ Lv.25 No item
	Machop♂ Lv.25 No item
	Machoke♂ Lv.25 No item
Black Belt Jeffery シロウ Shirō Reward: $624	Machoke♂ Lv.26 No item
	Meditite♂ Lv.26 No item
Black Belt Rafael サブロウ Saburō Reward: $672	Meditite♂ Lv.28 No item
Black Belt Colby イチロウ Ichirō Reward: $600	Machoke♂ Lv.25 No item
	Machoke♂ Lv.25 No item
	Machoke♂ Lv.25 No item
Trainers with a Vs. Seeker by their names, when alerted for a rematch using the item, may use higher-level Pokémon.

Leader Maylene Veilstone Gym Diamond and Pearl Reward: $3600

Types: Fighting Psychic Ability: Pure Power Held item: None Meditite♀ Lv.27 Drain Punch Fighting Physical   --       Confusion Psychic Special   --       Detect Fighting Status   --       Meditate Psychic Status   --       Type: Fighting Unknown Ability: Guts Held item: None Machoke♂ Lv.27 Brick Break Fighting Physical   --       Leer Normal Status   --       Foresight Normal Status   --       Rock Tomb Rock Physical   --       Types: Fighting Steel Ability: Steadfast Held item: Sitrus Berry Lucario♂ Lv.30 Drain Punch Fighting Physical   --       Metal Claw Steel Physical   --       Bone Rush Ground Physical   --       Force Palm Fighting Physical   --

Pokémon Platinum

Trainer	Pokémon
Black Belt Colby イチロウ Ichirō Reward: $648	Machoke♂ Lv.23 No item
	Machoke♂ Lv.25 No item
	Machoke♂ Lv.27 No item
Black Belt Darren ジロウ Jirō Reward: $600	Machop♂ Lv.25 No item
	Meditite♂ Lv.25 No item
	Machoke♂ Lv.25 No item
Black Belt Rafael サブロウ Saburō Reward: $624	Croagunk♂ Lv.26 No item
	Machoke♂ Lv.26 No item
Black Belt Jeffery シロウ Shirō Reward: $672	Heracross♂ Lv.28 No item
Trainers with a Vs. Seeker by their names, when alerted for a rematch using the item, may use higher-level Pokémon.

Leader Maylene Veilstone Gym Platinum Reward: $3840

Types: Fighting Psychic Ability: Pure Power Held item: None Meditite♀ Lv.28 Drain Punch Fighting Physical   --       Confusion Psychic Special   --       Fake Out Normal Physical   --       Rock Tomb Rock Physical   --       Type: Fighting Unknown Ability: Guts Held item: None Machoke♂ Lv.29 Karate Chop Fighting Physical   --       Strength Normal Physical   --       Focus Energy Normal Status   --       Rock Tomb Rock Physical   --       Types: Fighting Steel Ability: Steadfast Held item: None Lucario♂ Lv.32 Drain Punch Fighting Physical   --       Metal Claw Steel Physical   --       Bone Rush Ground Physical   --       Force Palm Fighting Physical   --

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl

Trainer	Pokémon
Black Belt Darren ジロウ Jirō Reward: $900	Machoke♂ Lv.25 No item
	Machop♂ Lv.25 No item
	Machoke♂ Lv.25 No item
Black Belt Jeffery シロウ Shirō Reward: $832	Machoke♂ Lv.26 No item
	Meditite♂ Lv.26 No item
Black Belt Rafael サブロウ Saburō Reward: $896	Meditite♂ Lv.28 No item
Black Belt Colby イチロウ Ichirō Reward: $900	Machoke♂ Lv.25 No item
	Machoke♂ Lv.25 No item
	Machoke♂ Lv.25 No item
Trainers with a Vs. Seeker by their names, when alerted for a rematch using the item, may use higher-level Pokémon.

Gym Leader Maylene Veilstone Gym Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl Reward: $3,840

Types: Fighting Psychic Ability: Pure Power Held item: None Meditite♀ Lv.27 Drain Punch Fighting Physical   --       Light Screen Psychic Status   --       Bulk Up Fighting Status   --       Flash Normal Status   --       Type: Fighting Unknown Ability: Guts Held item: None Machoke♂ Lv.27 Bulldoze Ground Physical   --       Low Sweep Fighting Physical   --       Rock Tomb Rock Physical   --       Knock Off Dark Physical   --       Types: Fighting Steel Ability: Steadfast Held item: Big Root Lucario♂ Lv.30 Drain Punch Fighting Physical   --       Bulk Up Fighting Status   --       Screech Normal Status   --       Metal Claw Steel Physical   --

Rematch

Gym Leader Maylene Veilstone Gym Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl Reward: $9,176

Type: Fighting Unknown Ability: Intimidate Held item: Expert Belt Hitmontop♂ Lv.64 Close Combat Fighting Physical   --       Stone Edge Rock Physical   --       Sucker Punch Dark Physical   --       Brick Break Fighting Physical   --       Types: Grass Fighting Ability: Technician Held item: Life Orb Breloom♀ Lv.66 Bullet Seed Grass Physical   --       Mach Punch Fighting Physical   --       Rock Tomb Rock Physical   --       Force Palm Fighting Physical   --       Types: Bug Fighting Ability: Guts Held item: Flame Orb Heracross♀ Lv.68 Megahorn Bug Physical   --       Close Combat Fighting Physical   --       Facade Normal Physical   --       Stone Edge Rock Physical   --       Types: Fire Fighting Ability: Blaze Held item: White Herb Infernape♂ Lv.70 Flare Blitz Fire Physical   --       Close Combat Fighting Physical   --       Acrobatics Flying Physical   --       Overheat Fire Special   --       Types: Fighting Psychic Ability: Pure Power Held item: Choice Band Medicham♀ Lv.72 High Jump Kick Fighting Physical   --       Zen Headbutt Psychic Physical   --       Fire Punch Fire Physical   --       Thunder Punch Electric Physical   --       Types: Fighting Steel Ability: Justified Held item: Focus Sash Lucario♂ Lv.74 Aura Sphere Fighting Special   --       Flash Cannon Steel Special   --       Water Pulse Water Special   --       Vacuum Wave Fighting Special   --

Spin-off games

Pokémon Masters EX

Artwork depicting the Veilstone Gym is seen in Maylene's mindscape.

Maylene & Medicham

In the anime

Veilstone Gym in the anime

File:Veilstone Gym Battlefield.png

Veilstone Gym's battlefield in the anime

The Veilstone Gym first appeared in Lost Leader Strategy!, where it was revealed that Paul had recently challenged Maylene and easily defeated her, shaking Maylene's confidence and making her consider giving up her job as a Gym Leader. Having recently lost two Contests in a row, Dawn sympathized with her, and, to everyone's surprise, decided to challenge Maylene herself in order to restore her self-confidence.

The battle between Dawn and Maylene occurred in Crossing the Battle Line!. Although Dawn gave it her best in her first-ever Gym battle, she ended up losing. Despite this, she was happy to see Maylene regaining her self-confidence as a result of the battle, and being ready to challenge Ash the next day.

In A Triple Fighting Chance!, Ash finally had his Gym battle with Maylene. During the battle, a part of the roof was blown off, allowing Ash's Buizel to utilize its Swift Swim Ability when it started to rain. Using this in combination with its newly learned Water Pulse, Buizel fought hard against Maylene's last Pokémon, Lucario, but in the end, the battle ended in a draw. Despite the tie, Maylene still chose to award Ash with the Cobble Badge.

Pokémon used in the Gym

Meditite

Debut	Lost Leader Strategy!
Voice actors
Japanese	Chinami Nishimura
English	Kayzie Rogers

Meditite first appeared in a flashback in Lost Leader Strategy! where it was used in Maylene's battle against Paul. As Maylene was out of sync with Meditite, it was easily defeated by Honchkrow.

Its first full appearance was during Maylene's Gym battle against Dawn in Crossing the Battle Line!. Unlike the battle against Paul, in this battle Meditite was used to its full potential, being able to defeat Buneary before being knocked out by Ambipom's Double Hit.

It was next used in the Gym battle against Ash, where it was able to confuse both Staravia and Chimchar but was unable to defeat them. It eventually fell to Staravia's newly learned Brave Bird.

Meditite's known moves are Detect, Drain Punch, Confusion, and Meditate.

Machoke

Debut	Lost Leader Strategy!
Voice actors
Japanese
English	Tom Wayland

Machoke first appeared in Lost Leader Strategy! during the flashback of Maylene's Gym battle against Paul. It was called upon second to battle Honchkrow but it was quickly knocked out by Sky Attack. It was not used during the Gym battle against Dawn.

It was the first Pokémon used by Maylene during her Gym battle against Ash, where it put up a strong defense against his Staravia despite the type disadvantage. Despite this however Machoke was still defeated by the Starling Pokémon's combination of Quick Attack and Aerial Ace.

Machoke's known moves are Dynamic Punch, Brick Break, Cross Chop, and Seismic Toss.

Lucario

Debut	Lost Leader Strategy!
Voice actors
Japanese	Daisuke Sakaguchi
English	Bill Rogers

Main article: Maylene's Lucario

Lucario first appeared alongside Maylene training during Lost Leader Strategy! where it was unhappy with Maylene due to her depression from losing against Paul and, as a result, their bond was extremely strained. However, after defeating Dawn's Ambipom and Piplup, Lucario and Maylene were soon back in sync with each other which helped it to defeat Staravia and Chimchar and force Ash's Buizel to a draw during the Gym battle against Ash.

Lucario was later used to help protect Veilstone City's famous meteorites from being stolen by Saturn during Enter Galactic!.

In the manga

Veilstone Gym in Pokémon Adventures

Pokémon Adventures

Diamond & Pearl arc

The Veilstone Gym appeared in Magnificent Meditite & Really Riolu I and II, where Platinum challenged Maylene there, borrowing Pearl's Chatler and Chimler. With the help of the precision tactics she had picked up while playing slot machines at the Veilstone Game Corner, she eventually emerged victorious, earning her the Cobble Badge.

Pokémon used in the Gym

Riolu ♂

Debut	Magnificent Meditite & Really Riolu I

Riolu is Maylene's strongest Pokémon and her main battler. She uses him in her battle against Platinum and manages to defeat her Chatot but is defeated by Platinum applying her Slots skills to her Monferno. It was later used in her first battle against Jupiter but was eventually defeated by her powerful Pokémon. It was used against the Galactic Commander one last time where it defeated her Tangrowth with an Aura Sphere and Ice Shard combination with Candice's Abomasnow.

Riolu's known moves are Force Palm, Drain Punch, Vacuum Wave, Rock Smash, and Aura Sphere*, and his Ability is Inner Focus.

Meditite ♀

Debut	Magnificent Meditite & Really Riolu I

Meditite is one of Maylene's strongest fighters. She was used in her Gym battle against Platinum but was defeated by her Chatot's Mirror Move. She was later used against Jupiter at the Acuity Lakefront but was defeated by her powerful Pokémon. She was later used against the Galactic Commander once again and later to break the Red Chain on the Spear Pillar.

Meditite's known moves are Bullet Punch, Psycho Cut, Power Swap, and Rock Tomb, and her Ability is Pure Power.

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure!

Veilstone Gym in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure!

The Veilstone Gym made a brief appearance in Dialga's Secret Keys, showing Hareta earning the Cobble Badge from Maylene.

In the TCG

This listing is of cards mentioning or featuring the Veilstone City Gym the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

Pokémon in Veilstone Gym Cards listed with a blue background are only legal to use in the current Expanded format. Cards listed with a green background are legal to use in both the current Standard and Expanded formats.
Card	Type	English Expansion	Rarity	#	Japanese Expansion	Rarity	#
Lucario		Rising Rivals		8/111	Bonds to the End of Time		053/090
Machamp		Rising Rivals		46/111	Bonds to the End of Time		048/090

Gym Leaders of the Sinnoh region
Oreburgh Gym Roark	Eterna Gym Gardenia	Veilstone Gym Maylene	Pastoria Gym Crasher Wake
Hearthome Gym Fantina	Canalave Gym Byron	Snowpoint Gym Candice	Sunyshore Gym Volkner

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