Cerulean Gym

The Cerulean Gym (Japanese: ハナダジム Hanada Gym) is the official Gym of Cerulean City. It is based on . The Gym Leader is Misty. s who defeat her receive the .
In , 's sisters , , and share their younger sister's status as Cerulean Gym Leaders, taking care of the Gym whenever Misty is not present.
==In the games==
===Core series games===
In Generations , , , and , the Cerulean Gym is designed like an indoor swimming pool, with platforms above the water for the to walk on. In Generation 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 the that stole the Machine Part from the Kanto Power Plant is encountered at the Gym, she can be found at Cerulean 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.
In Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, the player must have a Pokémon that is at level 15 or higher in their party 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.
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Misty has one X Defend per Pokémon, using it randomly 25% of the time.
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Misty has one X Defend per Pokémon, using it randomly 25% of the time.
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=====Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!=====
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===Side series games===
A field based on the Gym appears in Pokémon Stadium's Gym Leader Castle and 's Kanto Gym Leader Castle.
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===Spin-off games===
====Pokémon Masters EX====
Artwork of various depictions of the Cerulean Gym is seen in 's mindscapes.
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====Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket====
In Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket, the interior of Cerulean Gym as depicted in can be seen in the illustration of the card.
==Walking Pokémon effects==
When interacting with walking Pokémon in , the Pokémon may occasionally show an altered mood specific to this location.
Games	Pokémon	Area 	Quote
 	 	 	
 	 	Anywhere	<Pokémon's name> is jumping energetically!
 	 	 	
 	 	Anywhere	<Pokémon's name> suddenly began crying softly!
==In animation==
===Pokémon the Series===
Cerulean Gym has had recurring appearances in . In its original design, the building was a dome-shaped, brightly colored Gym with a gigantic painting of a on top of it. On the inside, the Gym was seen being equipped with a large aquarium and a swimming pool. In , 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's Pokémon.
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It first appeared in The Water Flowers of Cerulean City. was heading there so he could earn his . Misty kept telling him not to go to Cerulean, and he soon discovered why she had tried to stop him; her three sisters, , , and , were the Gym 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 against and two other Pallet Town s, 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 by 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 if Ash'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 in The Misty Mermaid. While was on the way to the Viridian 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's , which evolved into a to protect the Gym. Afterwards, Misty's sisters asked Misty to leave her Horsea and at the Gym for their future performances, which she reluctantly accepted. She also tried to force her on them, but they refused.
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In Just Add Water, while traveling through Johto, Ash and his friends met a Water-type Trainer named Dorian, who had visited the Cerulean Gym and met Misty's sisters multiple times, wishing to make his own unofficial Gym, the , as widely known as the Cerulean Gym.
In Gotta 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.
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The Gym also played key roles in several Pokémon Chronicles episodes. In Cerulean Blues, the Gym was in danger of being shut down, but Misty, who had just returned to the Gym after her sisters' departure, was successfully able to fix it up and stop it from getting shut down. In the process, she earned a Gym 's trust. In The Blue Badge of Courage, Sakura challenged Misty to a Gym battle and won her own Cascade Badge. visited the Gym in A Date with Delcatty, and in Luvdisc is a Many Splendored Thing!, Misty and Daisy's two , Caserin and Luverin, were stolen by Butch and Cassidy.
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The Gym made a brief flashback appearance in Judgment Day!. Ash and his friends met a referee-in-training named , 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.
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The Gym reappeared hundreds of episodes later in Alola, Kanto! and When Regions Collide!, where Ash and from Alola visited it during an extracurricular lesson, guided by and Misty. After giving a brief summary to Ash's classmates about how Gyms, Badges, and the Pokémon League work in Kanto, the group was offered to experience a Gym battle. First and took on Misty, after which and battled against Brock. After both of these battles had been called off with no clear winner, requested to have a serious battle against Brock, while Ash issued a similar challenge to Misty. During the battle between Kiawe's Turtonator and Brock's Steelix, the former Pewter Gym Leader Mega Evolved his Pokémon as a response to Kiawe's decision to use his Z-Move. Although Turtonator's dealt heavy damage on Mega , 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, , 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.
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In Partners in Time!, Misty was seen watching Ash's Masters Eight Tournament battle against from the Cerulean Gym, accompanied by Psyduck and Gyarados.
In This Could be the Start of Something Big!, Goh was seen visiting the Cerulean Gym and meeting Misty, who immediately took a liking to his .
In A Fated Face-Off!, Misty revealed that she had left the Cerulean Gym in order to set off on a new , inspired to do so after seeing Ash's battle against Leon and leaving the Gym in her sisters' care. She returned to the Gym in The Rainbow and the Pokémon Master!.
====Gallery====
Original design	Original battlefield	Aquarium
 	 	
====Pokémon used in the Gym====
=====Used by Misty=====
=====Used by Daisy, Violet, and Lily=====
====Pokémon that reside in Gym====
Several Pokémon, mostly Water types, reside in the Gym's aquariums, though are not known to have been used in Gym battles.
===Pokémon Origins===
Cerulean Gym was briefly seen in File 2: Cubone, when recalled of having a tough battle with Misty, but eventually emerging victorious, thus earning the .
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==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
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The Cerulean Gym appeared in Suddenly Starmie, where and Misty trained together at the Gym for a few days to improve their skills in order to fight Team Rocket. After the training was complete, Misty gave Red a Cascade Badge.
===Pokémon Pocket Monsters===
The Cerulean Gym appeared in Obtain the Moon Stone!!, where and his Pokémon fought Misty in order to obtain the Moon 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 in Play Misty For Me. After defeating rather easily, was confident of his abilities, and headed to Cerulean City in order win his second Badge. At the Gym, Ash met , , and , who briefly talked about which one of them would battle Ash, until arrived, declaring that she'd battle him.
At the Gym's water battlefield, Misty revealed her Pokémon to be , which proceeded to snatch away Ash's hat. Misty declared that if Ash would be able to get his hat back from her, she'd give him the . With being too scared of Gyarados, being asleep, being away, and only being capable of using , Ash's chances for succeeding in the given task seemed nonexistent. However, Metapod then suddenly evolved into , allowing Ash to put Gyarados with Butterfree's . Although Pikachu was now willing to move, Misty distracted the Electric Mouse with a rice ball before it could get the hat back. Ash countered by throwing a -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 in PZ03, where went to the Gym to challenge Misty. However, since Satoshi and his 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 a , who was after Misty's due to its valuable fur, but Satoshi defeated the Grunt's , 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 at Seafoam Islands.
==In the TCG==
The Cerulean Gym was featured in the TCG as both a Japan exclusive and as a card. The following is a list of cards mentioning or featuring Cerulean City Gym in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.
==Trivia==
* In the English Generation I games, the Gym guide here refers to Pokémon of the type as "plant Pokémon". In the English versions of , 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 , due to an oversight, it is possible to fish wild Pokémon in the Gym's water. This was fixed in and (although in Yellow, the Old and Good Rods still work here).
* Cerulean Gym is the only place in any Pokémon game where it is possible to battle swimming s without ing.
* having a unique following Pokémon interaction here in is likely a reference to Misty's Togepi in .
* In Generation II, it is possible for the player to pick up the Machine Part from the Gym before learning of its location from the on . This is no longer the case in Generation IV, where the player must defeat the Grunt in a battle in order to make the Machine Part obtainable.
* In , the in the Gym are named after the Sensational Sisters (Misty's three older sisters in Pokémon the Series): , , and .
* In , the design of the Gym appears to be modeled after the Aqua Museum of the .
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