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The Hearthome Gym (Japanese: ヨスガジム Yosuga Gym) is the official Gym of Hearthome City. It is based on Ghost-type Pokémon. The Gym Leader is Fantina. Trainers who defeat her receive the Relic Badge.
The Hearthome Gym was the fifth Gym in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, but in Pokémon Platinum this was changed to the third Gym. This is evident by the significant level decrease of Fantina's Pokémon.
In the games
Pokémon Diamond and Pearl
The Hearthome Gym is a giant, five-story building constructed of gray stone blocks, and is illuminated by eerie gray-blue torches. On every floor, there is a simple mathematical puzzle and three doors corresponding with the answers. Picking the correct door leads to the next elevator up, while picking the wrong door leads to a dead end and a Trainer to fight. The Pokétch has a Calculator App, which can be used to find the answers with minimal effort. The Gym Leader waits in the final room on the fifth floor, which has stained glass windows and resembles a cathedral.
Pokémon Platinum
In Pokémon Platinum, Hearthome Gym has become much like Dewford Gym from Generation III; it is dark, and the only light source is limited. The player must navigate their way around the Gym using a flashlight to locate a blue tile on the floor, which corresponds to the correct door. Entering the wrong door will result in the player returning to the lobby, and the blue tile is reset each time the player enters the Gym. Duskull lamps are used as visible walls, to guide the player around. There are other Trainers with flashlights the player must battle, in order to make their way to Fantina.
She is the third Gym Leader in this game, able to be battled on the first visit to Hearthome.
Appearance
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Lass Molly ナミエ Namie Reward: $480
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Camper Drew シンイチ Shin'ichi Reward: $432
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Trainers with a Vs. Seeker by their names, when alerted for a rematch using the item, may use higher-level Pokémon.
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Reward: $4320
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Second room
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Lass Molly ナミエ Namie Reward: $368
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Trainers with a Vs. Seeker by their names, when alerted for a rematch using the item, may use higher-level Pokémon.
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In the anime
Ash met with Fantina upon returning to Hearthome City in Barry's Busting Out All Over! and battled her again in Shield with a Twist!, where he defeated her and earned the Relic Badge.
Pokémon used in Gym
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Drifloon → Drifblim
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- Main article: Fantina's Drifblim
Drifblim is Fantina's main Pokémon, having raised it since it was an Egg. It first appeared as a Drifloon in Playing The Leveling Field! where it was used in a practice battle against Ash and completely overwhelmed his team with Hypnosis before evolving into Drifblim.
After training, Ash returned for an official Gym battle where Drifblim proved to be more powerful than before, managing to put to sleep and knock out Pikachu and Buizel before being defeated by Chimchar.
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Debut
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Playing The Leveling Field!
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Japanese
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Miyako Itō
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English
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Bella Hudson
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Trivia
- The mathematics questions in this Gym are mostly basic addition and subtraction questions, which becomes somewhat of a running joke among the Trainers faced, some of which mention that the questions should have been impossible to get wrong with use of the Pokétch's Calculator App, and speculate that the Trainer must have chosen the wrong doors on purpose just to battle some Trainers.
- Although the Hearthome Gym is the third in Platinum, it still shows up as the fifth Badge on the Trainer Card and Fantina's face is on the fifth slot.
- The Gym in Platinum bears a striking resemblance to the Battle Pyramid, as the lighting there is also limited and a blue tile must be found to continue.
The inner part of the area where the Gym Leader stands usually is a color that corresponds with the Pokémon type that the Gym's theme is, but in Platinum, Fantina is standing on an orange inner ring rather than the Ghost type's signature purple like she was in Diamond and Pearl. This may have something to do with the fact that in Platunim, the Hearthome Gym is the third Gym faced by the player rather than fifth like in Diamond and Pearl. The orange that Fantina is standing on is similar to the signature orange of the Fighting type, the type of the third Gym in Diamond and Pearl.