Nimbasa City Pokémon Gym Leader: Elesa "The Shining Beauty"
The Nimbasa Gym is designed like an amusement park, filled with brightly colored neon lights, floating stars and roller coasters. Upon entering the Gym, there is a huge open room, filled with transparent platforms. The roller coasters within the Gym are scattered around the room, all connected by platforms. The player must find their way around the Gym by walking into the roller coasters cars, in which they are then taken to the next platform. Within several of them, Trainers are hiding, and when the player opens the cars, the Trainer will engage the player in battle. Also, there are several switches around the Gym, which redirect the path of the roller coasters. However, many of these are also guarded by Trainers. The final roller coaster slightly differs from the others, featuring a large loop-the-loop, and partially speeds up after a slope before the loop-the-loop.
After navigating through the roller coasters, the player will meet Elesa. She stands on a transparent platform just like the other platforms, which has the Unova Gym logo on it. Behind her is a large circular spinning wheel, but it is just for show, and cannot be interacted with. Once the player has defeated Elesa, a short-cut to the exit of the Gym is available to the left of her.
In Black 2 and White 2, Elesa has moved the Nimbasa Gym to a new building nearby. The new Gym is a long catwalk where challengers must battle three Trainers before battling Elesa. The old Gym is still running with a few Trainers in it. The old Gym must be traversed before the player can enter the new Gym.
The Nimbasa Gym was first seen in Enter Elesa, Electrifying Gym Leader!, when Ash and his friends arrived there was a note saying that Elesa was somewhere else. Later in the episode it was revealed that Bianca had already requested a battle, therefore Ash had to wait after her. Bianca then battled Elesa where she fought hard but eventually lost.
Ash finally got the chance to battle Elesa in Dazzling the Nimbasa Gym!. He was almost disqualified from the match after he had planned to use Palpitoad for a clean sweep and had no back up in case Palpitoad fell. Ash then used Snivy and Pikachu for the remainder of the battle and won himself the Bolt Badge.
Just like the games, the Nimbasa Gym has a roller coaster that is used to traverse inside the Gym.
Trivia
In Black and White, Nimbasa Gym is the only Gym where the Gym Leader's monetary reward is the lower than all of the other Pokémon Trainers present in the Gym. This is probably due to the fact that the Trainers are Rich Boys and Ladies, who give a higher payout than most other Trainer classes.
Due to a glitch, if the player loses to Lady Colette while directly facing her when encountered, when the player comes back in she will be standing on the same spot and will battle the player. After she is defeated, she still remains on the tracks of the roller coaster, and can be passed through while riding the roller coaster to Elesa.
