Pewter Gym
| Pewter Gym ニビジム Nibi Gym | |
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| Location | Pewter City |
| Gym Leader | Brock Flint (anime only) Lola (anime only) Forrest (anime only) |
| Badge | Boulder Badge |
| Dominant Type | Rock |
| Region | Kanto |
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The Pewter Gym (Japanese: ニビジム Nibi Gym) is the official gym of Pewter City. It is based on Template:Type2 Pokémon. The Gym Leader is Brock. Trainers who defeat him receive the Boulder Badge.
Other known members include Camper Jerry, Camper Liam, Brock's father, Flint, and Brock's mother, Lola.
In the anime
The Pewter Gym was first seen in Showdown in Pewter City in the anime. It is a stone building apparently set apart from the rest of the city. Brock waits inside in the dark for challengers, sitting on a stone pedestal as he does in the games; however, unlike in the games, no other trainers have been seen as part of the gym besides Brock's family. The battlefield is littered with jagged rocks and boulders, and a balcony along the edge above provides spectators a spot to watch gym battles. Despite being a Rock-type gym, the building has sprinklers for fire safety, which Ash uses to gain an unfair advantage against Brock's Onix.
The gym is an important part of Brock's family, and Brock, his brothers and sisters, and his parents live in a large house nearby. Brock's father, Flint, was the Gym Leader before Brock, and when his parents left Brock inherited the gym as part of his family responsibilities. While Brock is a strong, respected Gym Leader, he does not like being a Gym Leader, and only does such for family obligation. When Flint returns, Brock returns the title of Gym Leader to him, and leaves to travel with Ash and pursue his own dream of becoming a Pokémon Breeder.
When Brock's mother Lola returns, the gym is turned into a combination Water-type and Rock-type gym, and the battlefield is redecorated, including the addition of a pool in the middle. However, Brock returns in A Family That Battles Together Stays Together and is shocked to see how his mother has changed. Both he and his younger brother Forrest take pride in the gym's strong reputation as a Rock-type gym. He battles his mother to restore the gym to a Rock-type gym.
It is victim to a second remodeling attempt in Grating Spaces. In this episode, a storage room is seen where the gym keeps many Poké Balls, assumingly containing different Rock-type Pokémon.
Pokémon
These are the Pokémon used by Brock in the official battle against Ash Ketchum. Geodude didn't use any move, it just used its arms to defeat Ash's Pidgeotto.
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While traveling with Ash, Brock keeps Pokémon he owns but does not currently have on his party at the gym. Currently, he has his Steelix, Geodude, Crobat, Forretress, Ludicolo and Marshtomp at the gym. Flint's Golem is also kept at the gym, and Lola keeps her many Water-type Pokémon there.
In the games
Pewter Gym appears in all games set in the Kanto region, appearing much the same in each: a small building with a Japanese rock garden inside, one trainer, and the Gym Leader Brock waiting on a large stone pedestal. In the Generation I games and their Generation III remakes, whenever the player tries to leave Pewter City, a boy will lead him or her to the front of the gym if the player has not earned their Boulderbadge yet.
A field based on the gym also appears in Pokémon Stadium's Gym Leader Castle.
Trainers
Pokémon Red and Blue
- Jr. Trainer: Diglett (9), Sandshrew (9)
- Leader Brock: Geodude (Level 10 in Yellow; Level 12 in Red/Blue), Onix (12 in Yellow; Level 14 in Red/Blue)
Pokémon Gold and Silver
- Camper Jerry: Sandslash (37)
- Leader Brock: Graveler (41), Omastar (42), Rhyhorn (41), Onix (44), Kabutops (42)
- Japanese: キャンプボーイのキヨシ, ジムリーダーのタケシ.
- Italian: Campegg. Aldo, Capopalestra Brock.
Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
In the Pokémon Special manga
Pewter Gym debuted in Onix is On! of the Red, Green & Blue chapter. Here, Red and Green win the Boulderbadge after defeat several rounds of trainers and finally Brock. The outside of the Gym has the regular form but the inside consist in a boxing ring that is where the trainers battle, a space for the crowd around it and a room with windows where Brock can see the battles.
Pokémon
These are the Pokémon showed in the Gym, from Brock and the Gym battlers.
In the TCG
In the TCG, the Pewter City Gym is a large, stone battlefield surrounded by rock formations that encircle it.
