Spikemuth

Spikemuth スパイクタウン Spike Town "This rocking town has a punk vibe and streets crammed with shops lined up cheek by jowl."

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Spikemuth Gym - Galar Gym #7 Piers Dark-type specialist Gym Dark Badge

Spikemuth Gym - Galar Gym #7 Marnie Dark-type specialist Gym Dark Badge

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Connecting locations ← Route 9 Spikemuth   Route 9 ↓

Location Location of Spikemuth in Galar.

Spikemuth (Japanese: スパイクタウン Spike Town) is a small town located at the eastern end of the Galar region, to the west is Route 9. It is Marnie's hometown and the home base of Team Yell.

Slogan

This rocking town has a punk vibe and streets crammed with shops lined up cheek by jowl. (Japanese: 多くの　店が　雑然と　並ぶ　どこか　パンクな　雰囲気の　町 A town with a punk vibe where the streets are crammed with many shops.)

Places of interest

Pokémon Center

Poké Mart

This Poké Mart is located inside the Pokémon Center.

Cashier
Poké Ball $200	Great Ball $600
Ultra Ball $800	Potion $200
Super Potion $700	Hyper Potion $1,500
Max Potion7 Badges $2,500	Full Restore8 Badges $3,000
Antidote $200	Burn Heal $200
Ice Heal $200	Awakening $200
Paralyze Heal $200	Full Heal $400
Revive $2,000	Repel $400
Super Repel $700	Max Repel7 Badges $900
Poké Doll $300

Spikemuth Gym

Spikemuth Gym スパイクジム Spike Gym
Location	Spikemuth
Gym Leader	Piers Marnie (Successor)
Badge	Dark Badge
Dominant Type	Dark
Region	Galar
Battlefield

Spikemuth is the only leg in the Gym Challenge without a stadium or a Power Spot to facilitate Dynamax. Instead, the player's Gym mission begins soon after passing the Pokémon Center, where they must fight a gauntlet of Team Yell Grunts, who reveal themselves to be the Gym Trainers of Spikemuth and formed Team Yell to support the Gym Leader's younger sister Marnie. Occasionally, a Kantonian Mr. Mime will block the path with an invisible wall, forcing the player to defeat a Grunt before they can proceed. The battle against the Gym Leader, Piers, takes place at the battlefield at the end of the town.

During the post-game, Marnie is revealed to have accepted her older brother's request to replace him as the Spikemuth Gym Leader, and can be challenged to an exhibition match at the Gym once per day.

Trainers

Gym Leader Piers Spikemuth Sword and Shield Reward: $7,360

Types: Dark Fighting Ability: Intimidate Held item: None Scrafty♂ Lv.44 Fake Out Normal Physical   --       Sand Attack Ground Status   --       Brick Break Fighting Physical   --       Payback Dark Physical   --       Types: Dark Psychic Ability: Contrary Held item: None Malamar♂ Lv.45 Night Slash Dark Physical   --       Foul Play Dark Physical   --       Psycho Cut Psychic Physical   --       Payback Dark Physical   --       Types: Poison Dark Ability: Aftermath Held item: None Skuntank♂ Lv.45 Sucker Punch Dark Physical   --       Screech Normal Status   --       Toxic Poison Status   --       Snarl Dark Special   --       Types: Dark Normal Ability: Reckless Held item: None Obstagoon♂ Lv.46 Obstruct Dark Status   --       Throat Chop Dark Physical   --       Counter Fighting Physical   --       Shadow Claw Ghost Physical   --

After becoming Champion

Pokémon Trainer Marnie Spikemuth Sword and Shield Reward: $9,600/11,840

Type: Dark Unknown Ability: Prankster Held item: None Liepard♀ Lv.59/73 Fake Out Normal Physical   --       Torment Dark Status   --       Nasty Plot Dark Status   --       Snarl Dark Special   --       Types: Poison Fighting Ability: Dry Skin Held item: None Toxicroak♀ Lv.59/72 Drain Punch Fighting Physical   --       Gunk Shot Poison Physical   --       Earthquake Ground Physical   --       Poison Jab Poison Physical   --       Types: Dark Fighting Ability: Shed Skin Held item: None Scrafty♀ Lv.59/72 Ice Punch Ice Physical   --       Thunder Punch Electric Physical   --       Drain Punch Fighting Physical   --       Crunch Dark Physical   --       Types: Electric Dark Ability: Hunger Switch Held item: None Morpeko♀ Lv.60/73 Aura Wheel Electric Physical   --       Seed Bomb Grass Physical   --       Torment Dark Status   --       Quick Attack Normal Physical   --       Types: Dark Fairy Ability: Prankster Held item: None Grimmsnarl♂ Lv.60/74 Spirit Break Fairy Physical   --       Darkest Lariat Dark Physical   --       Bulk Up Fighting Status   --       Play Rough Fairy Physical   --

Demographics

Pokémon Sword and Shield

Spikemuth has a population of 29, making it the third-smallest settlement in Galar in terms of population after Postwick and Freezington.

Items

Item		Location	Games
	Piers's League Card	From Marnie before starting the Gym mission	Sw  Sh
	Max Revive	On the main way	Sw  Sh
	Dark Uniform	Reward for defeating Piers	Sw  Sh
	TM85 (Snarl)	Reward for defeating Piers	Sw  Sh
	Choice Specs	South of the stage	Sw  Sh
	Marnie's rare League Card	From Marnie after defeating her	Sw  Sh

Pokémon

A male Team Yell Grunt named Edmund in the booth at the Gym arena will offer to trade the player his Kantonian Mr. Mime nicknamed "Mymo" in exchange for an Obstagoon.

Pokémon	Games		Location	Levels	Rate
Special Pokémon
Mr. Mime	Sw	Sh	Trade Obstagoon	40	One
A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

Trainers

Trainer	Pokémon
Team Yell Grunt Reward: $3,360	Linoone♂ Galarian form Lv.42 No item
Team Yell Grunt Reward: $3,360	Thievul♀ Lv.42 No item
Team Yell Grunt Reward: $3,360	Scrafty♂ Lv.42 No item
Team Yell Grunt Reward: $3,440	Weavile♂ Lv.43 No item
Team Yell Grunt Reward: $3,440 Double Battle with Joshua	Liepard♂ Lv.43 No item
Gym Trainer Joshua ヨウヘイ Yōhei Reward: $4,128 Double Battle with the Grunt	Drapion♂ Lv.43 No item

In the spin-off games

Pokémon Masters EX

Artwork depicting Spikemuth is seen in Marnie and Piers's mindscapes.

Marnie & Morpeko Piers & Obstagoon

In animation

Spikemuth in Pokémon Journeys: The Series

Pokémon the Series

Pokémon Journeys: The Series

Spikemuth first appeared in Battling Turned Up to Eleven!, where Ash and Goh arrived there, having been convinced by Team Yell that Ash and Marnie's World Coronation Series battle would be held there instead of at Wyndon. At the Spikemuth Gym, they encountered Piers, who introduced himself as the local Gym Leader and told Ash that the battle really was to be held at Wyndon, causing Ash to realize that he had been lied to. Piers agreed to take Ash to Wyndon by motorcycle, while Goh traveled there aboard a Flying Taxi.

Along the way to Wyndon, Piers revealed to Ash that Marnie had entered the World Coronation Series to attract more challengers to the Spikemuth Gym, which differed from other Galar Gyms in that it lacked a Power Spot and was thus unpopular. Although Ash and Marnie's battle ended in Ash's victory, Marnie's battle skills left such an impression on the audience that many people became interested in visiting Spikemuth, providing hope for revitalizing the town.

In A Flood of Torrential Gains!, Piers, Marnie, and Team Yell were seen watching Ash and Leon's Masters Eight Tournament battle through television at the Spikemuth Gym.

In the manga

Spikemuth in Pokémon Adventures

Pokémon Adventures

Sword & Shield arc

Spikemuth first appeared in Unbending!! Meet the Celebrities, when Henry and Casey entered it. Soon after entering, a Golisopod and a Bronzong came after them, with their Trainers using communication devices attached on them to demand they hand over the data card that held information about their plans. However, when they found out that the data had been too corrupted by their earlier attack on the card for the remaining information to be any threat to them, they started to leave, only for Casey to demand they return the Pokémon they had stolen from her a year earlier in Slumbering Weald. When they refused, Casey attacked the Pokémon with her Raboot and destroyed the communication devices on them, forcing their Trainers, Sordward and Shielbert, to talk to them directly and thus unwittingly reveal their location to Piers's accurate ears. They revealed that they had stolen Casey's Pokémon due to her full strength posing a threat to their plan, as Zacian and Zamazenta had taken an interest in her and Henry.

After Sordward and Shielbert had left, Leon contacted Piers in Rumble!! The Horrific Darkest Day and told him how Sonia had found out that the two self-proclaimed celebrities were working together with Chairman Rose to bring about the Darkest Day. As such, an agreement was made to put the Gym Challenge on hold and have all the Gym Leaders gather at Rose Tower to verify the information.

In the TCG

Spikemuth in the TCG

Main article: Spikemuth (Darkness Ablaze 170)

Spikemuth was introduced as a Stadium card in the Pokémon Trading Card Game during the English Sword & Shield Series (the Japanese Sword & Shield Era). It was first released in the Japanese Infinity Zone expansion and the English Darkness Ablaze expansion, with artwork by 5ban Graphics. It makes the players put two damage counters on any Active Pokémon that moves to the Bench on their turn.

Gallery

Sw  Sh  Concept art

Trivia

• The Spikemuth Gym is the only known Gym to specialize in the Dark type.
• Despite replacing Piers as the Gym Leader during the post-game, Marnie never uses the Gym Leader Trainer class or her Gym Leader outfit when battled here.

Origin

Name origin

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	スパイクタウン Spike Town	From spike (attack in volleyball) or spikes (racing shoes)
English, Polish Brazilian Portuguese	Spikemuth	From spike and mouth (British toponym for river mouth or bay)
German	Spikeford	From Spike and ford (British toponym for shallow crossing)
Spanish	Pueblo Crampón	From crampón (crampon)
French	Smashings	From smash (shot in tennis) and -ings (British town suffix for people of) and possibly from Hastings
Italian	Spikeville	From spike and ville (common town suffix)
Korean	스파이크마을 Spike Maeul	From its Japanese name
Chinese (Mandarin)	尖釘鎮 / 尖钉镇 Jiāndīng Zhèn	From 尖釘 / 尖钉 jiāndīng / jīmdēng (sharp spike)
Chinese (Cantonese)	尖釘鎮 Jīmdēng Jan

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Team Yell
Spikemuth
Captain	Related
Piers (Masters)	Marnie (Masters)
Lower members
Team Yell Grunts • Spikemuth Gym Trainers

Gym Leaders of the Galar region
Turffield Stadium Milo	Hulbury Stadium Nessa	Motostoke Stadium Kabu	Stow-on-Side Stadium Bea Allister
Ballonlea Stadium Opal Bede	Circhester Stadium Gordie Melony	Spikemuth Gym Piers Marnie	Hammerlocke Stadium Raihan

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