Saffron Gym

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Saffron Gym
ヤマブキジム Yamabuki Gym
Saffron Gym anime.png
Location Saffron City
Gym Leader Sabrina
Badge Marsh Badge
Dominant Type Psychic
Region Kanto
Saffron Gym Battlefield.png
Battlefield

The Saffron Gym (Japanese: ヤマブキジム Yamabuki Gym) is the official Gym of Saffron City. It is based on Psychic-type Pokémon. The Gym Leader is Sabrina. Trainers who defeat her receive the Marsh Badge.

In the games

Saffron City Pokémon Gym
Leader: Sabrina
"The Master Of Psychic Pokémon"

Saffron City Pokémon Gym
Leader: Sabrina
"The Mistress of Psychic-type Pokémon"

The Saffron Gym is a maze of warp tiles and nine rooms. Seven of these rooms contain Trainers (only four in Generation II and IV), while the other two hold Sabrina and the entrance. A field based on the Gym also appears in Pokémon Stadium's Gym Leader Castle.

At some point prior to the Generation I games, both Sabrina's Gym and the Karate Master's Fighting Dojo laid claim to the status of being an official Indigo League Pokémon Gym. Due to the type advantage that the Gym's Psychic-types had over the Dojo's Fighting-types, Sabrina easily won the challenge and became the official Gym Leader of Saffron City.

Appearance

      File:Saffron Gym HGSS.jpg
Generation I Generation II Generation III Generation IV

Trainers

Pokémon Red and Blue and Yellow

Trainer Pokémon
 
Psychic
Reward: $330
  Slowpoke Lv.33
No item
  Slowpoke Lv.33
No item
  Slowbro Lv.33
No item
 
Psychic
Reward: $340
  Mr. Mime Lv.34
No item
  Kadabra Lv.34
No item
 
Channeler
Reward: $1140
  Haunter Lv.38
No item
 
Psychic
Reward: $380
  Slowbro Lv.38
No item
 
Channeler
Reward: $1020
  Gastly Lv.34
No item
  Haunter Lv.34
No item
 
Channeler
Reward: $990
  Gastly Lv.33
No item
  Gastly Lv.33
No item
  Haunter Lv.33
No item
 
Psychic
Reward: $310
  Kadabra Lv.31
No item
  Slowpoke Lv.31
No item
  Mr. Mime Lv.31
No item
  Kadabra Lv.31
No item






Pokémon Gold and Silver and Crystal

Trainer Pokémon
 
Medium Rebecca
トミコ Tomiko
Reward: $1400
  Drowzee Lv.35
No item
  Hypno Lv.35
No item
 
Psychic Jared
タクミ Takumi
Reward: $1120
  Mr. Mime Lv.32
No item
  Exeggcute Lv.32
No item
  Exeggcute Lv.35
No item
 
Medium Doris
ケサコ Kesako
Reward: $1440
  Slowpoke Lv.34
No item
  Slowbro Lv.36
No item
 
Psychic Franklin
ヒロ Hiro
Reward: $1184
  Kadabra Lv.37
No item
Trainers with a telephone symbol by their names will give their Pokégear number to the player, and may call or be called for a rematch with higher-level Pokémon.




Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen

Trainer Pokémon
 
Psychic Cameron
カオル Kaoru
Reward: $660
  Slowpoke Lv.33
No item
  Slowpoke Lv.33
No item
  Slowbro Lv.33
No item
 
Psychic Tyron
イサミ Isami
Reward: $680
  Mr. Mime Lv.34
No item
  Kadabra Lv.34
No item
 
Channeler Stacy
キリエ Kirie
Reward: $1216
  Haunter Lv.38
No item
 
Psychic Preston
ヒロム Hiromu
Reward: $760
  Slowbro Lv.38
No item
 
Channeler Amanda
フミカ Fumika
Reward: $1088
  Gastly Lv.34
No item
  Haunter Lv.34
No item
 
Channeler Tasha
ホタル Hotaru
Reward: $1056
  Gastly Lv.33
No item
  Gastly Lv.33
No item
  Haunter Lv.33
No item
 
Psychic Johan
カズヤ Kazuya
Reward: $620
  Kadabra Lv.31
No item
  Mr. Mime Lv.31
No item
  Slowpoke Lv.31
No item
  Kadabra Lv.31
No item
Trainers with a Vs. Seeker by their names, when alerted for a rematch using the item, may use higher-level Pokémon.




Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver

Trainer Pokémon
 
Medium Rebecca
トミコ Tomiko
Reward: $2160
  Bronzor Lv.45
No item
  Hypno Lv.45
No item
 
Psychic Jared
タクミ Takumi
Reward: $1440
  Mr. Mime Lv.42
No item
  Exeggcute Lv.42
No item
  Exeggcute Lv.45
No item
 
Medium Darcy
ケサコ Kesako
Reward: $2208
  Slowpoke Lv.44
No item
  Slowbro Lv.46
No item
 
Psychic Franklin
ヒロ Hiro
Reward: $1504
  Kadabra Lv.44
No item
  Girafarig Lv.47
No item
Trainers with a telephone symbol by their names will give their Pokégear number to the player, and may call or be called for a rematch with higher-level Pokémon.




Items

Item Location Games
  TM46 (Psywave) Reward for defeating Sabrina  R  B  Y 
  TM04 (Calm Mind) Reward for defeating Sabrina  FR  LG 
  TM48 (Skill Swap) Reward for defeating Sabrina  HG  SS 

In the anime

Saffron Gym appeared in two episodes of the anime. It is an unusual dome-shaped building that also an institute for the study of PSI phenomenon.

It first appeared in Abra and the Psychic Showdown. Ash and his friends found their way to the Gym after getting trapped by Team Rocket. Ash challenged Sabrina to a battle, to which she offered an unusual request; if he lost, he and his friends would have to play with her.

Sure enough, Ash lost and was forced to play with Sabrina. She shrunk him and the others down to the size of dolls and nearly knocked them over with a ball. They were saved by Sabrina's father, who told Ash that if he really wanted to defeat Sabrina, he would have to get a Ghost-type Pokémon from Lavender Town.

Ash took his advice and returned two episodes later in Haunter versus Kadabra with a Haunter he picked up. However, when he went to challenge Sabrina, it was nowhere to be found. Ash was about to be turned into a doll, like Brock and Misty, when Sabrina's father appeared once again to save him.

Once more, Ash went to challenge Sabrina with his Haunter. It disappeared again, but reappeared halfway through the battle with Kadabra and Pikachu. After making Sabrina laugh, all of her spells were broken, and Ash received his fourth Badge.

In the TCG

The Saffron Gym was featured in the TCG as both a Japan-exclusive Theme Deck and as a card. The following is a list of cards named Saffron City Gym.

Related cards
Cards listed with a blue background are only legal to use in the current Expanded format.
Cards listed with a green background are legal to use in both the current Standard and Expanded formats.
Card Type English
Expansion
Rarity # Japanese
Expansion
Rarity #
Saffron City Gym T [St] Gym Challenge   122/132 Challenge from the Darkness    
 


Trivia

  • For unknown reasons, the Saffron Gym is the fourth Gym in the anime, but the sixth Gym in the games.
  • The connections between the teleporters in the Gym is the same in all generations, though Generation IV adds a one-way teleporter from Sabrina's room to the entrance room.


Gym Leaders of the Kanto region
Pewter Gym  
 
Brock
Cerulean Gym  
 
Misty
Vermilion Gym  
 
Lt. Surge
Celadon Gym  
 
Erika
Fuchsia Gym  
   
Koga Janine
Saffron Gym  
 
Sabrina
Cinnabar Gym  
 
Blaine
Viridian Gym  
   
Giovanni Blue


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