The Cinnabar Island Pokémon GymRBYFRLG, Cinnabar Island GymPE, or Cinnabar GymGSCHGSS (Japanese: グレンじまポケモンジムRGBYFRLG/グレン島ポケモンジムPE Guren Island Pokémon Gym or グレンタウンのジムGSCHGSS Guren Town Gym) is the official Gym of Cinnabar Island. In Generations II and IV, it is located at the Seafoam Islands instead, due to the original Gym getting destroyed by Cinnabar Volcano. It specializes on Fire-type Pokémon. The Gym Leader is Blaine. Trainers who defeat him receive the Volcano Badge.
In the games
Cinnabar Island
Pokémon Gym
Leader: Blaine
The Hot-Headed
Quiz Master!
What does this
sign say?
Cinnabar Gym
Leader: Blaine
Cinnabar Island Pokémon Gym
Leader: Blaine
The Hotheaded Quiz Master!
Seafoam Islands
...Somebody put a notice
under the sign!
The Cinnabar Gym has moved here.
Leader: Blaine
In Generations I, III, and VII, the Cinnabar Gym's door is initially locked. In order to unlock it, the player must first find the Secret Key from the bottom floor of the Pokémon Mansion. In Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, this serves as the prerequisite for challenging the Gym, making this one of the few Kanto Gyms in Generation VII that has no additional prerequisites required for entering.
In Generations I and III, the Cinnabar Gym is a high-tech affair featuring a series of sealed doors. Trivia questions about various Pokémon must be answered to unlock the doors. However, when the player fails to answer a trivia question correctly, a battle with either a Burglar or Super Nerd starts, which serves as an alternative to answering the questions. The questions are:
"Pokémon Quiz! Get it right and the door opens to the next room! Get it wrong and face a trainerRBY/TrainerFRLG! If you want to conserve your Pokémon for the Gym Leader... Then get it right! Here we go!
Even if the player answers the question right, they still have the option to challenge the Trainer.
In Generation VII, the Gym is set up like a quiz show studio, with the player having to answer five questions in order to face the Gym Leader. Answering a question correctly will earn the player a Blaine doll, while answering a question wrong will force the player into a Trainer battle against a Super Nerd or a Burglar. Defeating the opposing Trainer will also earn the player a Blaine doll. After the player has collected five Blaine dolls, the battle against Blaine will begin immediately. The questions are:
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Correct answer
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| Which of these is the Spitfire Pokémon?
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Magmar
Growlithe
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Magmar
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| How many Badges certified by the Pokémon League are there?
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Seven
Eight
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| A Steel-type move used on a Fire-type Pokémon will be...?
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Super effective!
Not very effective
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| True or false! TM28 contains the move Tombstony.
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False
What's that?!
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False or What's that?!
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| Challenger <player>, tell me... who are you about to battle?!
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Blaine
The Cinnabar Island Gym Leader
A Fire-type Pokémon pro
A hotheaded quiz master
A moustached old man
An old guy in sunglasses
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In Generations 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 II, the Gym consists only of a single small cave, with Blaine being the only Trainer to battle there. In Generation IV, the cave increases in size, the area now has Trainers, and the floor designs is that of a small flame. The only way to get to Blaine is to talk to and battle other Trainers so that they can move to a new position, opening a new path.
In Generation II and HeartGold and SoulSilver, the notice about the Gym being relocated to the Seafoam Islands reads:
There's a notice
here...
Cinnabar Gym has
relocated to Sea-
foam Islands.
Blaine
There's a notice here...
The Cinnabar Gym has relocated
to Seafoam Islands.
- Blaine
A field based on the Gym also appears in Pokémon Stadium's Gym Leader Castle and Stadium 2's Kanto Gym Leader Castle.
Appearance
Trainers
Core series
For each of his Pokémon, Blaine has two Super Potions, using them randomly 25% of the time.
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For each of his Pokémon, Blaine has two Super Potions, using them randomly 25% of the time.
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Burglar Quinn
ミノブ Minobu
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Burglar Ramon
ジンパチ Jinpachi
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Burglar Quinn
ミノブ Minobu
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Burglar Dusty
ノブオ Nobuo
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Round 1
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Round 1
Round 2
Items
Artwork
In the spin-off games
Artwork depicting the Cinnabar Gym is seen in Blaine's mindscape.
In the anime
Main series
The abandoned Cinnabar Gym
In the anime, the Cinnabar Gym is located in a chamber inside the Cinnabar Volcano, which is accessed from a secret entrance located next to a hot spring at Blaine's "Big Riddle Inn" and has a battlefield suspended over the lava.
In Riddle Me This, Ash was trying to locate the Gym so he could challenge the Cinnabar Gym Leader to a battle. He was informed 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 the Gym Leader, Blaine, had built another Gym in a secret location, and later gave him a hint of its location through a riddle. After accidentally discovering the Gym's secret entrance at the riddler's inn, Ash and his friends entered the Gym and found the riddle-telling man himself, who revealed himself to have been Blaine in disguise all along. Ash and Blaine then battled, but Ash suffered multiple misfortunes, with his Squirtle losing to Blaine's Ninetales, Charizard refusing to battle Rhydon, and Pikachu being severely burned and almost falling to the lava while fighting Blaine's Magmar. As such, Ash eventually forfeited the match.
In Volcanic Panic, Team Rocket sneaked into the Gym to steal Magmar, but their actions at the heart of the volcano threatened to make it erupt and destroy Cinnabar Island. Ash and his friends assisted Blaine in stopping the eruption, and, as a sign of gratitude, Blaine agreed to have a rematch with Ash. Since the Gym had been destroyed during the incident, the battle instead took place at the summit of the volcano. To Ash's surprise, his usually disobedient Charizard offered to battle Blaine's Magmar. Eventually, Charizard was able to defeat Magmar with Seismic Toss, earning Ash the Volcano Badge.
The Cinnabar Gym briefly reappeared in a flashback in Bad To The Bone, where Otoshi and his Marowak were shown defeating Blaine's Magmar in a Gym battle.
Pokémon used in the Gym
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Ninetales
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Ninetales's only known move is Fire Spin.
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Riddle Me This
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Shin-ichiro Miki
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Rachael Lillis
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Rhydon
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| After Ash chose Charizard in his battle, Blaine countered it by choosing Rhydon. Charizard refused to fight the Ground-type Pokémon, so Rhydon went up against Pikachu in its place. Blaine doubted the Electric-type could defeat Rhydon, but Ash encouraged Pikachu to use Rhydon's horn as a conductor of electricity that eventually caused its defeat. This battle sparked a now well-known Internet meme in the Pokémon fandom, as Rhydon is usually immune to Electric-type attacks.
Rhydon's known moves are Horn Drill and Fury Attack.
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Katsuyuki Konishi
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Katsuyuki Konishi
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Magmar
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- Main article: Blaine's Magmar
Magmar is Blaine's final Pokémon and his powerhouse. In the first battle, Magmar easily defeated Ash's Pikachu. After the battlefield was wrecked due to Team Rocket's influence, Magmar and Ash's Charizard ended up gaining a respect for each other and wanted to test their strengths against one another. This was done in Ash's rematch with Blaine on top of Cinnabar's volcano. However, despite Magmar's powerful attacks including Fire Blast, Charizard managed to come out on top.
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Katsuyuki Konishi
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Eric Stuart
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Pokémon Origins
The Cinnabar Gym made a brief appearance in File 3: Giovanni, when Red was seen defeating Blaine and earning himself the Volcano Badge.
Pokémon used in the Gym
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Arcanine
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None of Arcanine's moves are known.
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In the manga
Pokémon Adventures
The Pokémon Lab is located inside the dormant Cinnabar Volcano and directly connected to the Cinnabar Gym, working as Blaine's personal laboratory.
The Cinnabar Gym was first visited by Red in Holy Moltres, where he revived his Old Amber into an Aerodactyl needed to combat Team Rocket's Moltres.
The Gym reappeared in this chapter, where Blaine was seen conducting his search for the missing Red. When Yellow arrived on Cinnabar Island in Putting It on the Line...Against Arcanine, he was led to the Gym by a disguised Blaine. They soon received emergency messages from various cities in Kanto, telling them that the Elite Four had launched their attack on the region. Both Blaine and Yellow soon departed for the Elite Four's base of actions on Cerise Island to start a counterattack.
The Gym appeared again in Double Down Deoxys, where Blaine was visited by Camper Evan and Super Nerd Miles while he was going through an old photo album, with one of the pictures featuring him together with Mr. Fuji in a jungle. Blaine told the two Trainers that he had started feeling pain in his right arm the day before, the same arm which once contained Mewtwo's cells. Blaine said that the sensation meant that Mewtwo was upset, and deduced that it must be because Mew was on its way from Faraway Island back to the Kanto mainland.
Pokémon Zensho
The Cinnabar Gym appeared in Cinnabar Island, where Satoshi entered the Gym. After a brief talk about the Pokémon Lab and Mewtwo, Satoshi and Blaine had a battle, which Satoshi won, earning him the Volcano Badge. As a result of the battle, Satoshi's Charmeleon evolved into Charizard.
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 mentioning or featuring the Cinnabar City Gym in the Pokémon Trading Card Game
Trivia
- In the Japanese Generation I games, Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, and Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, the quiz that asks what move TM28 contains proposes しねしねこうせん, which can translate into a silly expression such as "Die-Die Beam" or "DIE! Beam", apparently a pun on Hyper Beam's Japanese name, はかいこうせん Destruction Beam.
- The Cinnabar Gym is the only Gym found in different locations between games. It is also one of the Gyms to be located outside a building since it is part of Seafoam Islands in the Generation II games and Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, with the other one being the Aspertia Gym in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2.
- It is also the first Gym to be located outside of a town or a city. The second one is the Glaseado Gym in Paldea.
- In the Generation I games and their remakes, it is possible to battle Blaine before battling Lt. Surge, Erika, KogaPE, and/or Sabrina.
- In Generation III, there's a photo in Blaine's room, featuring him smiling together with Mr. Fuji.
