Nacrene Gym

Nacrene Gym シッポウジム Shippou Gym
Location	Nacrene City
Gym Leader	Lenora
Badge	Basic Badge
Dominant Type	Normal
Region	Unova
Battlefield

The Nacrene Gym (Japanese: シッポウジム Shippou Gym) is the official Gym of Nacrene City. It is based on Normal-type Pokémon. The Gym Leader is Lenora. Trainers who defeat her receive the Basic Badge.

In the games

	Nacrene City Pokémon Gym Leader: Lenora "An Archeologist with Backbone"

The Nacrene Gym is in the back of the Nacrene Museum. The Gym consists of a library and a downstairs room, in which Gym Leader Lenora is located. The library contains numerous large bookshelves; 5 of these bookshelves have small step ladders in front of them. When the player walks up these ladders, the player can interact with a book. Players must find the memos within the books and answer the questions in them by finding another book. After finding all of them, one of the bookshelves will move aside, letting the player reach the lower room.

The lower room contains two glass cabinets with artifacts in them. Lenora is situated in the middle of the room. At the back of the room, there are more bookshelves around the edge of the room, with a poster of the Gym logo in the center. There is also a small table with books and paperwork on it.

Once Lenora is battled, defeated and she gave the player the Badge, Lenora's husband Hawes rushes in and tells Lenora about Team Plasma's plan to steal the Dragon Skull from the museum. Lenora, Hawes, and the player then exit the Gym back into the museum.

In Black 2 and White 2, this building no longer functions as a Gym, as Lenora wants to focus work at the Nacrene Museum. Cheren now gives the Basic Badge to Trainers at Aspertia City.

Appearance

Version	Library	Basement
Black
White

Trainers

Pokémon Black and White

Trainer	Pokémon
School Kid Carter ヨシオ Yoshio Reward: $340	Patrat♂ Lv.17 No item
Scientist Satomi サトミ Satomi Reward: $816	Herdier♀ Lv.17 No item
School Kid Lydia ノリコ Noriko Reward: $300	Lillipup♀ Lv.15 No item
	Lillipup♀ Lv.15 No item
	Lillipup♀ Lv.15 No item

Leader Lenora Nacrene Gym Black and White Reward: $2400

Type: Normal Unknown Ability: Intimidate Held item: None Herdier♀ Lv.18 Take Down Normal Physical   --       Leer Normal Status   --       Retaliate Normal Physical   --       Bite Dark Physical   --       Type: Normal Unknown Ability: Illuminate Held item: None Watchog♀ Lv.20 Hypnosis Psychic Status   --       Leer Normal Status   --       Crunch Dark Physical   --       Retaliate Normal Physical   --

Items

Item		Location	Games
	Fresh Water	From Clyde at the entrance	B  W
	TM67 (Retaliate)	Reward for defeating Lenora	B  W

In the anime

The Library

The Nacrene Gym is located inside the Nacrene Museum. The Museum is quite a historical building and features a range of exhibits such as fossils, skeletons, knight's armor and tombs. Hawes is the vice-curator of the museum. Near the back is a library where a code is needed in order to get to another library with a range of different books. Here, Lenora will test the Trainer to see what type of Trainer they are. She will point to the book that reveals the staircase to the Gym, and the Trainer, based on how they read Lenora's actions, will either try to read it or search for another book. Once finding the correct book, they head downstairs to the battlefield. The battlefield has a normal, basic terrain. In A Night in the Nacrene City Museum! a Yamask was causing havoc in the museum.

In The Battle According to Lenora!, Ash, Iris, Cilan, Hawes and Lenora went to the Gym where Ash battled her and lost. Ash battled her again in Rematch at the Nacrene Gym! where he finally won, earning him the Basic Badge.

Pokémon used in Gym

Watchog

Debut	A Night in the Nacrene City Museum!
Voice actors
Japanese	Akeno Watanabe
English	Tom Wayland

Lenora's Watchog debuted in A Night in the Nacrene City Museum!, where it activated its Illuminate Ability to reveal Yamask's presence.

In The Battle According to Lenora!, it was sent out to battle Ash's Oshawott, first using Mean Look to prevent it from returning to its Poké Ball. While Oshawott was initially able to withstand its Thunderbolt with its scalchop, Watchog quickly separated Oshawott and its scalchop, allowing it to defeat Oshawott with its Electric-type attack.

Watchog was seen again during Ash and Lenora's rematch in Rematch at the Nacrene Gym!. Like before, it used Mean Look to trap Oshawott, then used Confuse Ray. However, in spite of its confusion, Oshawott was able to knock Watchog out with its newly learned Aqua Jet, knocking itself out in the process.

It reappeared in a flashback in Crowning the Scalchop King!.

Watchog's known moves are Mean Look, Low Kick, Thunderbolt, and Confuse Ray, and its Ability is Illuminate.

Lillipup

Debut	The Battle According to Lenora!
Voice actors
Japanese	Kiyomi Asai

Lenora's Lillipup debuted in The Battle According to Lenora!, where it battled Ash's Tepig. When it was first sent out, both Iris and Ash were drawn to its cuteness. Despite its cute appearance, however, it was shown to be fierce in battle, to Iris's dismay. In its battle with Ash, it used Roar to send Tepig back, forcing Oshawott to come out. It was then called back to its Ball. Later on, it was sent back out when Watchog defeated Oshawott. It was able to easily beat Ash's Tepig with a powerful Take Down, causing Ash to lose the battle to Lenora.

It reappeared in a flashback in Rematch at the Nacrence Gym!.

Lillipup's known moves are Roar, Shadow Ball, and Take Down.

Herdier

Debut	Rematch at the Nacrene Gym!
Voice actors
Japanese	Unshō Ishizuka
English	Tom Wayland

Lenora's Herdier debuted in Rematch at the Nacrene Gym!, when Lenora decided to use it in her second Gym battle against Ash in order to test him against a different Pokémon after his hard training at the local Battle Club. Like Lillipup, it used Roar to force Ash's Tepig to return into its Poké Ball, forcing Oshawott into the battle. After this, Herdier was recalled back into its Ball. It was called out again later to battle Tepig after Oshawott had tied with Watchog. Herdier proved to be far stronger than Lillipup, using the powerful Giga Impact to make things difficult for Tepig. However Tepig was faster and more powerful than before and battled hard, finally taking Herdier out with his newly-learned Flame Charge.

In the dub, this Herdier is stated as being the same Pokémon as Lenora's Lillipup, but now evolved. However, in the original Japanese version, Herdier is not stated to have evolved from Lillipup.

It reappeared in a flashback in Certain Up, Unova League!.

Herdier's known moves are Roar, Shadow Ball, Protect, and Giga Impact.

In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

Like its game counterpart, the museum serves as the Nacrene Gym. Before Black victoriously challenged Lenora, he was talking to Musha and checked the museum's collections. Some time after, he and White encountered Hawes, who told them that few artifacts of the collection had been stolen. Black got the stolen items back and returned them to the museum.

Later, the Gym Leaders of Unova devise a plan to catch Team Plasma, with the Nacrene Gym being the main stage in its execution. The plan involves the Dark Stone, which had been excavated by Clay some time earlier, and deceivingly lowering the museum's guarding, which is purposefully revealed to Team Plasma. In The Battle Within, the Shadow Triad attempt to snatch the Dark Stone and start battling Lenora. The other Gym Leaders and Black come to help her. Meanwhile Team Plasma Grunts break into the museum and look for the Dark Stone. The Gym Leaders are defeated and Ghetsis manages to get the Stone by deceiving Black. All the Gym Leaders present, with the exception of Brycen, are taken by Team Plasma.

Museums Kanto Hoenn Sinnoh Unova Kalos Pewter Museum of Science • Lilycove Museum • Oreburgh Mining Museum • Nacrene Gym • Lumiose Museum Oceanic Museum Eterna Historical Museum*

Gym Leaders of the Unova region
Striaton Gym Cilan Chili Cress	Nacrene Gym Lenora	Castelia Gym Burgh	Nimbasa Gym Elesa
Driftveil Gym Clay	Mistralton Gym Skyla	Icirrus Gym Brycen	Opelucid Gym Drayden Iris
Aspertia Gym Cheren	Virbank Gym Roxie	Humilau Gym Marlon

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