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The Rustboro Gym (Japanese: カナズミジム Kanazumi Gym) is the official Gym of Rustboro City. It is based on Rock-type Pokémon. It is one of the eight official Gyms that form part of the Hoenn League. The Gym Leader is Roxanne. Trainers who defeat her receive the Stone Badge.
In the games
Generation III
Rustboro City Pokémon Gym
Leader: Roxanne
The Rock-loving honors student!
In Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald, the Rustboro Gym is a simple field full of rocky walls and a small amount of members. There are no significant puzzles in the Gym, although Trainers can walk behind the members of the Gym and skip directly to battling Roxanne if they wish to do so.
Generation VI
Rustboro City Pokémon Gym
Leader: Roxanne
The Rock-loving honor student!
In Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, the Gym is redesigned to look similar to a museum with fossils and other rocks on display. Much like in Generation III, the Gym is a maze where the Trainers lie in wait, with Roxanne waiting at the end. Once again, it is also possible to skip the other Trainers to facing Roxanne.
When defeated, Roxanne will give the player the Stone Badge as well as TM39 (Rock Tomb) as a reward.
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Trainers with a PokéNav by their names will be registered in the Trainer's Eyes or Match Call function after the first battle, and may have a rematch with the player with higher-level Pokémon.
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Reward: $1500
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Second rematch
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Reward: $8400
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Trainers with a PokéNav by their names will be registered in the Trainer's Eyes or Match Call function after the first battle, and may have a rematch with the player with higher-level Pokémon.
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In the anime
The only appearance of the Gym is in A Winner by a Nosepass!. After meeting Roxanne as a teacher in the Pokémon Trainer's School, Ash asks her for a battle. The academy and the Gym are connected in many ways. Most of the matches are filmed, so the students can watch and study actual Gym battles to learn more about them. Also, a few students work in the Gym as interns to gain valuable experience as Trainers. Some of the jobs are to clean the battlefield, film the matches, and be the referees. The battle is an elimination match with each Trainer using two Pokémon. Only the challenger is allowed to substitute Pokémon.
When Ash challenged Roxanne, he used his Treecko and his Pikachu. Even though Treecko was a Grass-type, it was defeated by Roxanne's Geodude because it didn't know any Grass moves. Pikachu, however, defeated Geodude with an up close Thunder attack and defeated Nosepass with an Iron Tail.
In the manga
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
Before challenging Roxanne, the challenger must take a test testing their knowledge on different aspects of Pokémon battling, and cannot challenge the Gym Leader unless they pass. Roxanne will only fight one challenger per week.
The challenger, as well as Roxanne, can only use two Pokémon, and will lose if either one of them faints.
Sapphire passed the test with a perfect score and battled here with her Aron, which defeated Roxanne's Nosepass.