Gym guide

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The Gym guide is a title in the core series Pokémon games belonging to at least seven characters, each corresponding to a different region. In each case, the guide is usually found at the front of each Pokémon Gym, ready to offer tactical advice to novice Trainers. He congratulates the player upon defeating the Gym Leader, and offers more advice for the player's journey. He can occasionally be sarcastic.

Some Gym guides do not stay inside their gyms. The Celadon Gym guide is never seen in his Gym, and instead appears at the Rocket Game Corner, where he plays the slot machines. Similarly, the Cianwood Gym guide is found in the city's Pokémon Center instead of the Gym. The Petalburg Gym guide will vanish after the player has defeated Norman, and, in Generation II only, the Cinnabar Gym guide will arrive after Blaine has been defeated.

In the Kanto-based games, there is a guide for the Indigo Plateau as well as for each Gym.

Some games reveal the Gym guide's name:

• In Unova, he is given the name Clyde (Japanese: ガイドー Gaidō) and if the player talks to him before challenging the Gym Leader of any Unova Gym, he will give a Fresh Water. At the Nimbasa^B2W2, Mistralton^B2W2, Opelucid^B2W2, Aspertia, Striaton, and Nacrene Gyms, he approaches the player and gives the water, rather than requiring the player to approach him to receive it.
• In Alola, he is given the name Jim Gyde. He only appears in the Kantonian Gym, making him an unofficial Pokémon League staff member as it is an unofficial Gym.
• In Galar, he is given the name Dan (Japanese: ダンペイ Danpei) and is a referee who reports the player's results to the Pokémon League HQ. Dan appears at the start of every Gym Mission to explain the player's objective, except in Spikemuth, where he is replaced by a Team Yell Grunt.

In the core series games

Sprites and models

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Overworld sprite from Generation I	Overworld sprite from Generation II (Johto)	Overworld sprite from Generation II (Kanto)	Overworld sprite from Ruby and Sapphire	Overworld sprite from FireRed and LeafGreen	Overworld sprite from Emerald	Overworld sprite from Generation IV	Overworld sprite from Generation V	Overworld model from X and Y	Overworld model from Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire	Overworld model from Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl

Quotes

Main article: Gym guide/Quotes

In animation

Dan in the anime

Pokémon animated series

The role of the Gym guide in the games are primarily replaced by Gym assistants and battle judges, who referee Gym battles and other Pokémon League matches.

Pokémon Journeys: The Series

Dan, the Galarian Gym guide, first appeared in Flash of the Titans!, where he refereed the World Coronation Series battle between Leon and Lance at Wyndon Stadium, from the top of his Aegislash. Unlike the games, his name was formatted as (Japanese: ダンペー Danpē).

In The Climb to Be the Very Best!, Dan refereed Leon's unofficial match with Ash.

In Toughing It Out!, Dan refereed the battle between Leon and Raihan.

In Aim For The Eight!, Dan refereed the match between Ash and Raihan.

From Curtain Up! Fight the Fights! to Partners in Time!, Dan refereed the Masters Eight Tournament matches.

Pokémon

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Aegislash

Debut	Flash of the Titans!

Aegislash is a Pokémon that Dan rides on while refereeing a battle.

None of Aegislash's moves are known.

Voice actors

Language Voice actor Japanese 北沢洋 Yō Kitazawa English Kyle Hebert Arabic علي سعد Ali Saad Mandarin Chinese 于正昇 Yú Zhèngshēng Indonesian Muhammad Azhari Italian Alessandro Zurla Polish Janusz Zadura Brazilian Portuguese Alexandre Maguolo European Spanish Antonio Villar

Dan in Pokémon: Twilight Wings

Pokémon: Twilight Wings

In Assistant, Dan talked to Oleana at Wyndon Stadium.

In the manga

Pokémon Adventures

The "Sunflora sister" in Pokémon Adventures

Scarlet & Violet arc

In the Scarlet & Violet arc, the "Sunflora Sister" is responsible for guiding Trainers who wish to have a battle with Brassius. In Artazon, she met with Scarlet and gave her the Gym Test of gathering as many Sunflora as possible.

Pokémon

Sunflora (multiple)

Pokémon Journeys: The Series

Dan appeared in Toughing It Out!, playing the same role as he does in the anime.

In the TCG

Dan in the TCG

Main article: Dan (Rebel Clash 158)

Gym guides were introduced as a Supporter card in the Pokémon Trading Card Game with Dan during the English Sword & Shield Series (the Japanese Sword & Shield Era). It was first released in the Japanese Rebellion Crash expansion and the English Rebel Clash expansion, with artwork by Hitoshi Ariga. It allows the player to draw two cards then play Rock-Paper-Scissors against the opponent to draw two more.

Names

Clyde

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	ガイドー Gaidō	From ガイド gaido (guide)
English	Clyde	Rhymes with guide
German, French, Italian	Guido	Similar to his Japanese name
Spanish	Conse	From consejo (advice)
Korean	가이든 Gaideun	Similar to his Japanese name

Dan

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	ダンペイ Danpei (games) ダンペー Danpē (anime)	From 断定 dantei (judge)
English, Brazilian Portuguese	Dan	Similar to his Japanese name, also from the given name Dan (either meaning "he judged", or diminutive of Daniel, meaning "God is my judge")
German	Stuart
Spanish	Paco Legiado	From colegiado (referee)
French	Guido	From guide
Italian	Cicerone	From cicerone
Korean	단정 Danjeong	From 단정 (斷定) danjeong (judge)
Chinese (Mandarin)	鄧培 / 邓培 Dèngpéi	Transcription of his Japanese name
Chinese (Cantonese)	鄧培 Dahngpùih

Trivia

• In Johto-based games a character with the Gym guide's overworld sprite appears in the Dark Cave and gives the player Black Glasses, an item powering up Dark-type moves, which is the only type that doesn't have a Gym or Gym Leader who would specialize in it in those games.
• In the internal game data for the Generation VI games and Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, the Gym guide is referred to as Danpei. This name was not used in-game for the Gym guide until Pokémon Sword and Shield.
• In the internal game data of Pokémon Sword and Shield, Dan is classified under an unused Trainer class of (Japanese: リーグしんぱんいん League Referee). This unused title appears as untranslated Japanese text in the English version.

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