Cerulean City Pokémon Gym Leader: Misty The Tomboyish Mermaid!
Cerulean City Pokémon Gym Leader: Misty The Tomboyish Mermaid
Cerulean City Pokémon Gym Leader: Misty The Tomboyish Mermaid
Cerulean City Pokémon Gym Leader: Misty The Tomboyish Mermaid
In GenerationsI,II,III, andVII, the Cerulean Gym is designed like an indoor swimming pool, with platforms above the water for theplayer to walk on. InGeneration IV, the Gym consists of a large pool roped off into lanes with certain parts of the area circling the pool blocked. There are no puzzles to solve in this Gym.
In Generations II and IV, Misty isn't initially at the Gym. After theTeam Rocket Grunt that stole theMachine Part from theKanto Power Plant is encountered at the Gym, she can be found atCerulean Cape, having a date with her boyfriend. After her boyfriend is scared away by the player's arrival, Misty will at first be angry at the player for ruining her date, but will then return to the Gym, allowing it to be challenged.
InPokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, the player must have a Pokémon that is atlevel 15 or higher in theirparty in order to be allowed to challenge the Gym. However, they are not required to use this Pokémon at the Gym if they so choose.
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.
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 with a telephone symbol by their names will give theirPokégear number to the player, and may call or be called for a rematch with higher-level Pokémon.
Trainers with a telephone symbol by their names will give theirPokégear number to the player, and may call or be called for a rematch with higher-level Pokémon.
Cerulean Gym has had recurring appearances inPokémon the Series. In its original design, the building was a dome-shaped, brightly colored Gym with a gigantic painting of aDewgong on top of it. On the inside, the Gym was seen being equipped with a large aquarium and a swimming pool. InPokémon the Series: Sun & Moon, the Gym seemed to have gone through a massive redesign in-between appearances, both on the exterior and the interior. For example, the battlefield is now a stone field, which can be retracted into the floor and filled with water to form a water field, suitable for the Gym'sWater-type Pokémon.
It first appeared inThe Water Flowers of Cerulean City.Ash was heading there so he could earn hisCascade Badge. Misty kept telling him not to go to Cerulean, and he soon discovered why she had tried to stop him; herthree sisters,Violet,Lily, andDaisy, were theGym Leaders, who didn't care much about battling and had instead turned the battlefield into a performance hall for their water acrobatics shows. Incapable of giving Ash a proper Gym battle, due their recent defeats againstGary and two otherPallet TownTrainers, they were about to simply give Ash a free Cascade Badge, when Misty intervened. She challenged Ash to a battle in her capacity as an official Gym Leader, but the battle was interrupted byTeam Rocket trying to steal the Gym's Pokémon with a giant vacuum cleaner, only to be defeated by Ash and be sent flying by their own machine. In the end, Daisy gave Ash a Cascade Badge for protecting the Gym, also saying that ifAsh's Pikachu hadn't refused to battle, Misty's Water Pokémon wouldn't have stood a chance of winning.
The Gym's next appearance was inThe Misty Mermaid. Whilethe group was on the way to theViridian Gym,Misty's Horsea became sick. Realizing the Gym was nearby, Misty decided to go and see if they could make Horsea feel better there. At the Gym, Misty's sisters told her that they had set up an underwater balette and given Misty the main role without asking her first. With the first performance due to be held the following day, Misty was left with no choice but to accept the role. During the performance, Team Rocket attacked and tried to steal the Gym's Pokémon again. This time, they were defeated by the Gym'sSeel, which evolved into aDewgong to protect the Gym. Afterwards, Misty's sisters asked Misty to leave her Horsea andStarmie at the Gym for their future performances, which she reluctantly accepted. She also tried to force herPsyduck on them, but they refused.
InJust Add Water, while traveling throughJohto, Ash and his friends met a Water-type Trainer namedDorian, who had visited the Cerulean Gym and met Misty's sisters multiple times, wishing to make his own unofficial Gym, theCoastline Gym, as widely known as the Cerulean Gym.
InGotta Catch Ya Later!, Misty received a call from her sisters, informing her that they had won an around-the-world trip and were giving their Cerulean Gym Leader status to her so that she could take care of the Gym in their absence.
The Gym made a brief flashback appearance inJudgment Day!. Ash and his friends met areferee-in-training namedJimmy, who told them how he had once passed by the Cerulean Gym, when Daisy had come up to him and asked him to help clean up the Gym's pool. Jimmy had accepted the request, and once he and his Pokémon had done their work, Daisy had given him a free Cascade Badge. Jimmy also mentioned that Misty hadn't been at the Gym at the time to battle him.
The Gym reappeared hundreds of episodes later inAlola, Kanto! andWhen Regions Collide!, where Ash andhis classmates fromAlola visited it during an extracurricular lesson, guided byBrock and Misty. After giving a brief summary to Ash's classmates about how Gyms, Badges, and thePokémon League work in Kanto, the group was offered to experience mock Gym battles. FirstMallow andLana took on Misty, after whichSophocles andLillie battled against Brock. After both of these battles had been called off with no clear winner,Kiawe requested to have a serious battle against Brock, while Ash issued a similar challenge to Misty. During the battle betweenKiawe's Turtonator andBrock's Steelix, the formerPewter Gym LeaderMega Evolved his Pokémon as a response to Kiawe's decision to use hisZ-Move. Although Turtonator'sInferno Overdrive dealt heavy damage on MegaSteelix, it was unable to deal the finishing blow, allowing Brock to win the battle with his next attack. In the following battle between Ash's Pikachu and Misty's Gyarados, the Cerulean Gym Leader also demonstrated her ability to use Mega Evolution. However, unlike Kiawe, Ash was able to use his own Z-Move,Gigavolt Havoc, to defeat his Mega Evolved opponent. Before Ash and his classmates headed back to Alola, Brock and Misty gave each of them a replica Badge to commemorate their battles.
InA Fated Face-Off!, Misty revealed that she had left the Cerulean Gym in order to set off on a newjourney, inspired to do so after seeing Ash's battle against Leon and leaving the Gym in her sisters' care. She returned to the Gym inThe Rainbow and the Pokémon Master!.
Dewgong first appeared as aSeel, holding out theCascade Badge, whenAsh was about to challenge the Sensational Sisters. Later, Seel was one of the Pokémon performing in a play hosted by the sisters. It evolved into a Dewgong while battlingJessie's Arbok.
Lily has her ownGoldeen as her only known Pokémon. She sent it out briefly to showAsh that it was the only Pokémon that she had left after she and her two other sisters were beaten by the three other Trainers from Pallet Town.
Cerulean Gym was briefly seen inFile 2: Cubone, whenRed recalled of having a tough battle with Misty, but eventually emerging victorious, thus earning theCascade Badge.
The Cerulean Gym appeared inSuddenly Starmie, whereRed and Misty trained together at the Gym for a few days to improve their skills in order to fightTeam Rocket. After the training was complete, Misty gave Red a Cascade Badge.
Pokémon Pocket Monsters
The Cerulean Gym appeared inObtain the Moon Stone!!, whereRed and his Pokémon fought Misty in order to obtain theMoon Stone she had with her. In the manga, Cerulean Gym is depicted in a very traditional Japanese architectural style.
The Electric Tale of Pikachu
The Cerulean Gym appeared inPlay Misty For Me. After defeatingBrock rather easily,Ash was confident of his abilities, and headed to Cerulean City in order win his second Badge. At the Gym, Ash metDaisy,Lily, andViolet, who briefly talked about which one of them would battle Ash, untilMisty arrived, declaring that she'd battle him.
At the Gym's water battlefield, Misty revealed her Pokémon to beGyarados, which proceeded to snatch awayAsh's hat. Misty declared that if Ash would be able to get his hat back from her, she'd give him theCascade Badge. WithPikachu being too scared of Gyarados,Fearow being asleep,Pidgeotto being away, andMetapod only being capable of usingHarden, Ash's chances for succeeding in the given task seemed nonexistent. However, Metapod then suddenly evolved intoButterfree, allowing Ash to put Gyaradosasleep with Butterfree'sSleep Powder. Although Pikachu was now willing to move, Misty distracted the Electric Mouse with arice ball before it could get the hat back. Ash countered by throwing asoy sauce-covered dumpling at Misty, causing his dumpling-loving Fearow to snatch the hat away from her. As promised, Misty's sisters then rewarded Ash with the Cascade Badge, despite Misty trying to protest that Ash's victory was a fluke.
Pokémon Zensho
The Cerulean Gym appeared inPZ03, whereSatoshi went to the Gym to challenge Misty. However, since Satoshi and hisPikachu had trouble swimming in the Gym's pool, they had to practice for a while in order to learn how to swim. The following night, the Gym was attacked by aTeam Rocket Grunt, who was after Misty'sSeel due to its valuable fur, but Satoshi defeated the Grunt'sGyarados, driving him away. As a reward for saving the Gym, Misty gave Satoshi a Cascade Badge and entrusted her Seel with him, asking him to take it back to its home atSeafoam Islands.
In the TCG
The Cerulean Gym was featured in the TCG as both a Japan exclusiveTheme Deck and as a card. The following is a list of cards mentioning or featuring Cerulean City Gym in thePokémon Trading Card Game.
Pokémon in Cerulean Gym Cards listed with ablue background are only legal to use in the currentExpanded format. Cards listed with agreen background are legal to use in both the currentStandard andExpanded formats.
In the EnglishGeneration I games, theGym guide here refers to Pokémon of theGrass type as "plant Pokémon". In the English versions ofPokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, he instead mentions "Grass-type Pokémon". In the Japanese versions of the Generation I games and FireRed and LeafGreen, he mentions the Grass type itself, calling it the "Plant type" (Japanese: しょくぶつタイプ).
In Generation II, it is possible for the player to pick up theMachine Part from the Gym before learning of its location from theTeam Rocket Grunt onRoute 24. This is no longer the case inGeneration IV, where the player must defeat the Grunt in a battle in order to make the Machine Part obtainable.
