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"

Before entering the Gym, the player is forced to battle N outside of the building.

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; five 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 in the anime

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 entered the Gym, where Ash battled Lenora 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

Watchog is Lenora's first known Pokémon.

In Ash's first battle against Lenora in The Battle According to Lenora!, it was used against Ash's Oshawott and managed to win. It was used again in Ash's rematch against Lenora, once more battling against Oshawott. This time, it lost.

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 was only used in The Battle According to Lenora!, where it was used in a Gym Battle against Ash and his Tepig. It was recalled when Ash sent out his Oshawott. Later on, it was sent back out when Lenora's 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.

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 was used in Ash's rematch against Lenora in Rematch at the Nacrene Gym!. It was up against Ash's Tepig, but used Roar to force it to return into its Poké Ball. When this brought out Ash's Oshawott, Herdier was recalled back into its Ball. It was called out again later to battle Tepig after Oshawott had tied with Watchog. It was ultimately defeated by Tepig.

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

Nacrene Gym in the Pokémon Adventures manga

Like its game counterpart, the museum serves as the Nacrene Gym. Before Black victoriously challenged Lenora in Battle at the Museum and Defeating Stoutland, he talked 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 from a group of Team Plasma Grunts and returned them to the museum.

Later, the Gym Leaders of Unova devised a plan to catch Team Plasma, with the Nacrene Gym being the main stage in its execution. The plan involved the Dark Stone, which had been excavated by Clay from Desert Resort some time earlier, and deceivingly lowering the museum's guarding, which was purposefully revealed to Team Plasma. In The Battle Within, the Shadow Triad attempted to snatch the Dark Stone and started battling Lenora. The other Gym Leaders and Black soon came to help her. Meanwhile Team Plasma Grunts broke into the museum to look for the Dark Stone. The Gym Leaders were ultimately defeated by the Forces of Nature which Giallo of the Seven Sages had caught earlier, and Ghetsis managed to get the Stone by deceiving Black into revealing its hiding place at the museum's basement. All the Gym Leaders present were subsequently taken by Team Plasma, except for Brycen, who had managed to replace himself with an ice decoy before being captured.

Trivia

• In the Japanese version, the gym books are about cooking. This was changed in the western release to pokemon trivia due to racist issues.

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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