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The Cinnabar Gym (Japanese: グレンジム Guren Gym) is the official gym of Cinnabar Island. It specializes on Template:Type2 Pokémon. The Gym Leader is Blaine. Trainers who defeat him receive the Volcano Badge.
In the games
Cinnabar City Pokémon Gym
Leader: Blaine
"The Hotheaded Quiz Master"
The Cinnabar Gym is a high-tech affair featuring a series of sealed doors. Trivia questions about various Pokémon must be answered to unseal the doors. However, when the player fails to answer a trivia question correctly, a battle with either a Burglar or Super Nerd results, an alternative to unsealing the doors. The questions are:
- "Pokémon Quiz! Get it right and the door opens to the next room! Get it wrong and face a trainer! If you want to conserve your Pokémon for the Gym Leader... Then get it right! Here we go! Caterpie evolves into Butterfree?"
- "There are 9 certified Pokémon League Badges?"
- "Poliwag evolves 3 times?"
- "Are thunder moves effective against ground element-type Pokémon?"
- "Pokémon of the same kind and level are not identical?"
- "TM28 contains Tombstone?"
Even if the player answers the question right, he or she still has the option to challenge the Trainer.
In Generation II and IV, Blaine's original gym on Cinnabar Island was destroyed by a volcanic eruption. This forced him to relocate to the Seafoam Islands. In Generation IV the room increased in size, the area has trainers, and the floor designs is that of a small flame. The only way to get to Blaine is to talk and battle other trainers so that they could move to a new position, opening a new path.
A field based on the gym also appears in Pokémon Stadium's Gym Leader Castle.
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Trainers with a telephone symbol by their names will give their Pokégear number to the player, and may call or be called for a rematch with higher-level Pokémon.
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In the anime
The abandoned Cinnabar Gym
The Cinnabar Gym has two sections in the anime; one is inside of the volcano, and has an arena suspended over the lava inside one of the chambers. The other arena is in the top crater of the volcano itself.
In Riddle Me This, Ash was trying to locate the gym so he could challenge Blaine. He was told by a man who liked telling riddles that the gym was abandoned when Cinnabar Island became a tourist trap. However, the man eventually told Ash that Blaine built another gym inside of a volcano. When Ash and the others went in, they learned that the riddler was actually Blaine in disguise.
Ash and Blaine battled, but Ash had a series of misfortunes. The first was his Squirtle being defeated by Blaine's Ninetales. Then, his Charizard refused to listen to him. Finally, Pikachu received severe burns caused by Blaine's Magmar and its powerful Fire Blast. Ash called off the battle, not wanting Pikachu to get injured.
In Volcanic Panic, after Team Rocket had almost destroyed Blaine's gym (and Cinnabar Island as a result), he agreed to a rematch on his alternate battlefield on top of the volcano. This time, Ash was able to defeat Blaine with the help of his Charizard and its Seismic Toss.
In the TCG
The Cinnabar Gym was featured in the TCG as both a Japan exclusive Theme Deck and as a card. The following is a list of cards named Cinnabar City Gym.
Trivia
- This is the only gym that is located outside a building: in Generations II and IV it is in a cave.
- In the Generation I and III games, it is possible to defeat Blaine before defeating Sabrina, Lt. Surge, and/or Erika.
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