Opelucid Gym

The Opelucid Gym (Japanese: ソウリュウジム Soryu Gym) is the official Gym of Opelucid City. The Gym specializes in . The Gym Leader the player battles is dependent on the version being played. In Pokémon Black, , the player will battle Drayden, and in Pokémon White, the player will battle Iris. s who defeat them receive the .
==In the core series games==
	
===Pokémon Black and White===
The Opelucid Gym is designed like a thin maze, with switches to open up the correct path. These switches cause dragon statues' heads to move, creating new paths for the . After the switches have been hit in the right order, the path will lead the player to the Leader. Behind the Gym Leader, there's a warp panel the player can use as a shortcut back to the entrance.
Clyde tells the player about the mechanics of the maze, although he says there are only two dragons, when there are actually three.
===Pokémon Black 2 and White 2===
In the two years between Black and White and Black 2 and White 2, the Opelucid Gym was remodeled to hide the DNA Splicers.
The Gym now features a white/black dragon vertically on a wall and a black/white dragon which the player can control to move to a certain position by stepping on the buttons appearing on its head. The Trainers of the Gym are on four different levels; the player must defeat at least one Trainer from each level to be able to proceed to the next level. On the topmost level, the player will meet Drayden. The DNA Splicers are hidden within the Gym. Because of this, Team Plasma freezes Opelucid City after the player has defeated Drayden.
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===Items===
==In the spin-off games==
===Pokémon Masters EX===
Artwork depicting the Opelucid Gym is seen in 's mindscape.
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==In animation==
===Pokémon the Series===
In , the Gym is a stone building with two stone dragon statues lining the entrance to the building. Inside is a dimly lit battlefield with statues of , , and overlooking the field near the ceiling.
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The Opelucid Gym was first mentioned by Brycen in Caution: Icy Battle Conditions! as the next Gym that could challenge. However, before Ash and could start on their road to there, a Nurse Joy mentioned in Clash of the Connoisseurs! that the Gym was closed, which seemed to be very happy about. As such, Ash chose to challenge the Virbank Gym instead.
The Gym debuted in Drayden Versus Iris: Past, Present, and Future!, where Drayden battled Iris there and won. Afterwards, it was revealed that Drayden was considering Iris to replace him as the Opelucid Gym Leader one day.
In Thrash of the Titans!, Iris invited Ash to the Opelucid Gym for a World Coronation Series battle. Upon arriving, Ash and Goh were shocked to learn that Iris had become the Unova League . Ash and Iris decided to make their match a battle between types to follow the Gym's type theme. Eventually, Ash's Dragonite and succeeded in defeating Iris's Dragonite and , allowing Ash to advance to the Ultra Class.
====Pokémon used in the Gym====
==In the manga==
===Pokémon Adventures===
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The Opelucid Gym appeared in The Cold Hard Truth and A Cold Reception, where Drayden held a press conference in front of the Gym. He announced that the date of the tournament had been pushed up, being held in one week instead of the originally planned three months. Inside the Gym, Drayden explained to Kimi, his secretary, that the decision was made in order to lure Team Plasma out of hiding.
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In Mr. Perfect, it was revealed that Iris had been made the new Gym Leader of the Opelucid Gym, although Drayden mentioned he had plans to reclaim his position at some point in the future. As Iris had inherited Alder's title by the time of Deduction Time, it can be assumed Drayden had taken his Gym Leader post back by then.
====Pokémon used in the Gym====
==In the TCG==
The following is a list of cards featuring or mentioning the Opelucid City Gym in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.
==Trivia==
* Iris and Drayden's teams are identical except for their genders and the Abilities of their and . Iris's Pokémon are all female and Drayden's are all male, Iris's Druddigon has and Drayden's Druddigon has , and Iris's Haxorus has while Drayden's Haxorus has .
* In , the Veterans' Japanese names are all based on the word "dragon" in different languages: Ryūsei, Tatsumi, and Tatsurō are from the Japanese words ryū and tatsu, Drake is a term sometimes used to refer to European dragons, and Long is Chinese for dragon.
* Hugo is the only in to battle the while they are not stood on an isometric grid, approaching the player along the irregularly curved back of one of the Gym's dragon statues. This is also the only ordinary Trainer encounter in Black and White where a sound effect plays and a Trainers' Eyes Meet track does not immediately play as the player is spotted.
* Due to an oversight, in the Japanese versions of Black and White, there is one panel south of a dragon tail that can be ed on. Upon being surfed on, the player will be stuck, unable to move or land anywhere. If the player saves while surfing on this panel, the only way to escape would be to start a new game or cheat.
==Related articles==
Category:Gyms
Category:Unova Gyms
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