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Hearthome Gym ヨスガジム Yosuga Gym
Location	Hearthome City
Gym Leader	Fantina
Badge	Relic Badge
Dominant Type	Ghost
Region	Sinnoh
Battlefield

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

Diamond	Pearl	Platinum

Trainers

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl

Trainer	Pokémon
2F
Youngster Donny テルヤ Teruya Reward: $464	Gastly♂ Lv.27 No item
	Haunter♂ Lv.29 No item
Lass Molly ナミエ Namie Reward: $480	Misdreavus♀ Lv.30 No item
3F
Picnicker Cheyenne アサミ Asami Reward: $448	Drifloon♀ Lv.28 No item
	Misdreavus♀ Lv.28 No item
Camper Drew シンイチ Shin'ichi Reward: $432	Gastly♂ Lv.27 No item
	Gastly♂ Lv.27 No item
	Gastly♂ Lv.27 No item
4F
School Kid Chance ガクト Gakuto Reward: $600	Haunter♂ Lv.30 No item
School Kid Mackenzie ユミカ Yumika Reward: $560	Drifloon♀ Lv.28 No item
	Drifloon♀ Lv.28 No item
5F
Ace Trainer Allen レイト Reito Reward: $1800	Gastly♂ Lv.26 No item
	Haunter♂ Lv.28 No item
	Gengar♂ Lv.30 No item
Ace Trainer Catherine ユウカ Yūka Reward: $1800	Misdreavus♀ Lv.30 No item
	Drifblim♀ Lv.30 No item
Trainers with a Vs. Seeker by their names, when alerted for a rematch using the item, may use higher-level Pokémon.

Leader Fantina Hearthome Gym Diamond and Pearl Reward: $4320

Types: Ghost Flying Ability: Aftermath Held item: None Drifblim♀ Lv.32 Ominous Wind Ghost Special   --       Minimize Normal Status   --       Gust Flying Special   --       Astonish Ghost Physical   --       Types: Ghost Poison Ability: Levitate Held item: None Gengar♀ Lv.34 Confuse Ray Ghost Status   --       Shadow Claw Ghost Physical   --       Poison Jab Poison Physical   --       Spite Ghost Status   --       Type: Ghost Unknown Ability: Levitate Held item: Sitrus Berry Mismagius♀ Lv.36 Confuse Ray Ghost Status   --       Psybeam Psychic Special   --       Shadow Ball Ghost Special   --       Magical Leaf Grass Special   --

Pokémon Platinum

Trainer	Pokémon
Second room
Youngster Donny テルヤ Teruya Reward: $352	Gastly♂ Lv.20 No item
	Drifloon♂ Lv.22 No item
Lass Molly ナミエ Namie Reward: $368	Misdreavus♀ Lv.23 No item
Third room
School Kid Chance ガクト Gakuto Reward: $460	Gastly♂ Lv.23 No item
School Kid Mackenzie ユミカ Yumika Reward: $420	Drifloon♀ Lv.21 No item
	Drifloon♀ Lv.21 No item
Ace Trainer Allen レイト Reito Reward: $1440	Gastly♂ Lv.21 No item
	Gastly♂ Lv.22 No item
	Haunter♂ Lv.24 No item
Ace Trainer Catherine ユウカ Yūka Reward: $1440	Haunter♀ Lv.23 No item
	Misdreavus♀ Lv.24 No item
Trainers with a Vs. Seeker by their names, when alerted for a rematch using the item, may use higher-level Pokémon.

Leader Fantina Hearthome Gym Platinum Reward: $3120

Type: Ghost Unknown Ability: Levitate Held item: None Duskull♀ Lv.24 Will-O-Wisp Fire Status   --       Shadow Sneak Ghost Physical   --       Future Sight Psychic Special   --       Pursuit Dark Physical   --       Types: Ghost Poison Ability: Levitate Held item: None Haunter♀ Lv.24 Confuse Ray Ghost Status   --       Shadow Claw Ghost Physical   --       Hypnosis Psychic Status   --       Sucker Punch Dark Physical   --       Type: Ghost Unknown Ability: Levitate Held item: Sitrus Berry Mismagius♀ Lv.26 Confuse Ray Ghost Status   --       Psybeam Psychic Special   --       Shadow Ball Ghost Special   --       Magical Leaf Grass Special   --

Items

Item		Location	Games
	TM65 (Shadow Claw)	Reward for defeating Fantina	D  P  Pt

In the anime

The Hearthome Gym first appeared in Dawn's Early Night!, where Ash and his Pokémon were ready to challenge the Gym Leader. Nando was there too, and, much to Ash's disappointment, he told him that the Gym Leader was away at the moment, and thus could not be challenged. After defeating Maylene and Crasher Wake at their respective Gyms, Ash and his friends returned to Hearthome City in Arriving in Style!, only to find out that the Gym was still closed.

After meeting Fantina in Playing The Leveling Field!, the group once again returned to Hearthome City in Barry's Busting Out All Over!, allowing Ash to finally have his long-awaited Hearthome Gym battle in Shield with a Twist!. Using his new Counter Shield tactic, Ash was able to defeat Fantina and earn himself the Relic Badge.

Pokémon used in Gym

		Drifloon → Drifblim
		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.
Debut	Playing The Leveling Field!
Voice actors
Japanese	Miyako Itō
English	Bella Hudson

		Gengar
		Gengar first appeared in a flashback in Playing The Leveling Field!. It was the first Pokémon to be used during the Gym battle against Ash in Shield with a Twist!. Gengar went up against Buizel and Ash struggled against the quick Ghost-type, however Buizel was able to use the newly-developed Counter Shield technique and was able to defeat Gengar. Gengar's known moves are Shadow Punch, Hypnosis, and Night Shade and its Ability is Levitate.
Debut	Playing The Leveling Field!
Voice actors
Japanese	Kiyotaka Furushima
English	Bill Rogers

		Misdreavus → Mismagius
		Mismagius is one of Fantina's main Pokémon, the Gym Leader having trained it since it was a Misdreavus. It was first seen battling Zoey and her Glameow in Playing The Leveling Field! where it was able to easily defeat the Catty Pokémon using Contest combination moves. It was seen later when Fantina was with Ash and his friends in the Pokémon Center. It next appeared during the Gym battle against Ash's Chimchar where, like Gengar, it was unable to withstand the Counter Shield and was eventually knocked out. Mismagius's known moves are Psybeam, Magical Leaf, Psywave, and Dark Pulse.
Debut	Playing The Leveling Field!
Voice actors
Japanese	Chinami Nishimura
English	Sarah Natochenny

In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

The Hearthome Gym in Pokémon Adventures

The Hearthome Gym's interior in Pokémon Adventures

The Hearthome Gym debuted in Drifting Drifblim, where Platinum entered the Gym with Diamond and Pearl in order to challenge Fantina. After clearing the math puzzles, she made it to the Gym Leader's room, where the Gym battle begun. Using Diamond's borrowed Lax and her own Empoleon, Platinum was able to defeat Fantina's Duskull and Drifblim without too much trouble. Fantina then sent out Mismagius, whose hallucination powers immediately took effect. Having studied the three Pokédex holders, Fantina knew exactly what kind of illusions would be most effective against their Pokémon.

Thanks to the illusions, Mismagius was easily able to defeat Platinum's Empoleon and Ponyta, leaving her with just Lax. Against the gluttonous Pokémon, Fantina had Mismagius create an illusion of masses of food to distract it while the Magical Pokémon kept attacking it. Platinum was too confused by the illusions to fight back, making her chances of winning look slim. However, Pearl then noticed that Diamond, being a glutton like Lax, had no trouble with the food illusion, causing him to realize that Mismagius's illusions affect each people and Pokémon differently. Due to Pearl and Platinum's strong sense of reality, the illusions were causing them to have a headache, while Diamond and Lax had no trouble accepting the illusion and enjoying it. Upon realizing this, Pearl conveyed his findings to Platinum, who started playing along with Lax, much to Fantina's irritation. Just as Fantina was about to have Mismagius finish Lax off, the Big Eater Pokémon flung the Iron Ball it had been holding at Mismagius, defeating it and winning the battle for Platinum.

After the battle, Platinum revealed that she had chosen to use Lax in this battle due to Fling being a Dark-type move, and thus super effective against Ghost-types. Adding to the move's power was also the fact that Iron Ball (which the group had discovered earlier in Celestic Town) was the most powerful item to use Fling with. Also, thanks to the Speed drop provided by the item, Platinum had been able to turn Mismagius's Trick Room (which it had been using to create its illusions) to her advantage, allowing Lax to attack first. As a sign of her victory, Platinum was then awarded with the Relic Badge.

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 Platinum, 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.

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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