Is it necessary to have "Jimu Rīdā" in there when that's just the Japanese pronunciation of "Gym Leader" to begin with? --BJG

Of course it is. JAPANESE IS GOOD AND ENGLISH IS BAD. Jimu Riidaa is obviously a different phrase than Gym Leader, and NoA CHANGED IT AND BASTARDISED IT when they translated the games! Just like Kurisutaru and Crystal are also DIFFERENT WORDS and so are Reddo/Red, and so forth. --Ketsuban

Assuming you were kidding, Ketsuban, I changed the Japanese to "Gym Leader"... also I got rid of some of the info at the beginning that was already covered under Gym AND Badge. If anyone thought it was also necessary here, feel free to revert back. Also, regarding this page, do we need to have the USE of the Badge if that's already covered under Badge? Also, shouldn't all the Badges be linked to the Badge page? --Greengiant 01:49, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I agree with linking the badges to the Badge page. surskitty 21:03, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I thought the Badge page was mostly there so that individual illustrations of each badge would have a place to go. - Zeta

Leader name and badge change

i changed Wake and Candice's stuff because of this SinnohGymLeaders.bmp.jpg
--- unsigned comment from DSDark (talkcontribs)

Not too surprised that they're calling him Wake. After all, his full Japanese name (Maximum Maxi) was shortened to just Maxi. --PAK Man 14:54, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Jasmine comment

An NPC in the Lighthouse in G/S/C mentions that Jasmine used to train Rock-type Pokémon. Her badge's name (Mineral) also sounds a little like a Rock-type badge. Therefore, hasn't every region technically had a Rock-type gym at some point?--Nebula 22:55, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Unless there is a source that gives some of the Olivine Gym's history, we don't know for sure if it was ever for Rock types. --FabuVinny T-C-S 23:50, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
NPCS confirm that Jasmine did used to train Rock types as a Gym leader. IIMarckus 18:31, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, there's a bloke (I think he's a sailor) in the lighthouse. He says he returned from his travels to Olivine and was shocked to find that the Gym Leader had change the type she specialised in. Hope this helps. Flicky1991 19:52, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Trivia, Trivia, and MORE Trivia

So last night I was really bored and decided to see any patterns in the Gym Leaders, along with some awkward stuff too..

  • There are *usually* 4 females, and 4 males, however Johto breaks this rule, with 3 girls and 5 males. Unless Bugsy is a girl.
  • Hoenn, has 4 Special-typed gyms, and 4 Physical-typed gyms. Hell, the gender is split evenly along Special and Physical, with 2 females and 2 males specializing in Special-type, and vice versa. Otherwise, the amount of Special-based and Physical-based are uneven.
  • There was something else, but I can't remember it at this moment.

..yeah, I was bored alright. Tina  05:16, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Usually 4/4? No... Kanto's 5/3 in I/III. Johto's 5/3. Hoenn's got 5/4 in both RS and E. Sinnoh's 4/4. Neo Kanto's 4/4. Though Hoenn's Physical/Special split is correct. TTEchidna GSDS! 06:44, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
  • The face of Bugsy is truly male, not female. That's why Johto have 4 males gym leaders and 4 females gym leaders. Joannes
Bugsy being male makes it 5/3, not 4/4. God, why can no one count... or spell. TTEchidna GSDS! 14:01, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

good trivia, I think

All the kanto gym types, before blue and with the exception of saffron's gym, are followed by a gym type with an advantage to them. Also all the johto gym types, with the exception of goldenrod's gym, precede a type they have an advantage against. Kanjo 18:20, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

See, whenever there's an "exception" in something like this, it makes it a lot weaker. --Martonimos((Argh|Blargh)) 18:36, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
Normal-types are immune to ghosts, so that might not really be an exception. I think this is very interesting, since I'd never noticed that pattern before. IIMarckus 18:37, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Redundancy

Why is there a separate list for the Diamond/Pearl and Platinum gym leaders? Redstar 20:28, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

The order changed in Pt.--MisterE13 20:32, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Orders can't change. Most of the time you either go down a set path, or you have some freedom in going to towns in what order you like. Now, unless the path was set and they rearranged the landscape to put one city before another, I find it highly unlikely that the "order was changed". Redstar 20:36, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
It was changed. You must fight Fantina in order to go further than Hearthome City, or else you're blocked in. The order is changed and set. --ケンジガール 20:45, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
That's not reason enough for me. Removed. Redstar 20:48, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
I'm sorry but you do not have the authority to do that. Try a stunt like that again and you're blocked. --ケンジガール 20:59, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
How do I "not have the authority"? This is a Wikipedia, and is freely edited by its users... I'm not some guest, or low-level, never-edits user. I feel that that information is redundant, and should be removed. You cannot block me for doing something that is not in any way vandalism, or addition of non-notable, or un-verified information. Redstar 21:03, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
I am an admin and I do not want this changed. You are going against an admin decision and that's what you can get blocked for. BTW, this is verified information. Why don't you try playing Platinum before you call something un-verified. What you were putting was not true. Fantina is not the fifth Gym Leader fought in Platinum. Crasher Wake is. --ケンジガール 21:10, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
I don't care if you are an admin. This is a freely-edited Wiki, and you can't have the articles exactly as you like them; they have to be encyclopedic.
I never said that that was unverified information. If you had read what I said clearly, you'd know that I was using that as an example to block someone; not as to the information in this article.
Finally, in Red/Blue/Yellow, you could fight Erika or Sabrina in any order. Heck, you could outright skip some gym leaders... So how were the lists for those gym leaders compiled in that specific order? We might as well make lists of every conceivable order, right? This article is about the gym leaders, not the order of said leaders. Including the same leaders twice is nothing but redundant, and clogs space. 21:16, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Besides, you just called this wiki a Wikipedia. Bulbapedia's license and most of its practices are different from that of Wikipedia. Maybe if you read over our manual of style and Wikipedia's manual of style, you'll see just how vastly different Bulbapedia is...--Shiningpikablu252 21:17, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Your point being? I have read the manuals, and I see nothing on Bulba's that suggests this Wiki is not freely edited. Redstar 21:21, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
If we let every user do what ever the hell they wanted to do then this place would be a mess. Admins need to take charge at times. It's not entirely free as you say. --ケンジガール 21:23, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Umm... You make me out to be an anarchist. I fully realize that admins are needed to police the edits and make sure nothing extreme is done. And by extreme I mean what I said earlier: outright vandalism, and non-notable or un-verified fancruft/rumours. And edit pertaining to the article itself, and in no way harming, only benefiting it, is clearly outside the range of an admin's stated purpose, and falls only into your personal opinion. As an admin, you cannot have a personal opinion that gets in the way of intelligent editing. Redstar 21:26, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
The point is you did not ask proper permission or talked it out on the talk page. You just went ahead and removed it. Anyway, were working on a solution so both parties will be happy. --ケンジガール 21:29, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
I apologize for not going through the proper channels. Like so many other people on the Internet, I was "in a bad mood". Lame excuse, but at least I've gone through it quick enough that we can discuss this right. The article can remain the same if you like, though I feel it's redundant, but a notice explaining the redundancy would be a fair compromise. Redstar 21:32, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Attention all

Gym Leaders all go in badge case order as of the most recent game they appear in. Since that order doesn't change between games (RGBYFRLG all use the same one, that is), that'll be our standard. Especially considering the ability for you to do badges out of order in some games (Kanto especially). TTEchidna 21:34, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Badge case order in Platinum is still Maylene-Wake-Fantina for those of you who don't feel like checking, so I guess the above argument could have been diverted x.x ~ solaris 21:39, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Trust me, we really don't want to go disputing the order of gym leaders, especially in the case of Kanto in Generation I if we bring Pokémon Stadium 2's Color Case exploit into things...--Shiningpikablu252 21:43, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

HG/SS Kanto Gym Leaders

Do the Kanto Gym Leaders in HG/SS have VS sprites like the Johto ones? --Shiny Noctowl 20:46, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Don't know but since there details coming in it is better to wait a few days and see so just be patient. -Tyler53841 20:50, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
The answer is yes. Blaine's in particular is amusing, because he does a peace sign.--Ryuutakeshi 23:15, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
Someone should upload them, then. --Shiny Noctowl 03:03, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
Already have. MaverickNate 03:04, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Interchangeable Sprites and VS Sprites

Do you think we can make it so that the sprites will change from the VS sprites to the regular sprites every so often? It seems kinda weird that only the GenIII ones won't have the VS sprites while everyting else will. --ケンジガール 03:06, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Yeah felt the same way of roaming the images and finding that not all Gym Leaders are going to get headshots so I will support your proposal. -Tyler53841 03:08, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
It's a very good idea! I support it also. -- RikkiKitsune 03:10, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Johto Gym Leader new Sugimori art

Why do the first four have it but the last four still have the artwork from Gen II? --Shiny Noctowl 20:46, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

'Cause the others haven't been uploaded yet.--Dark ICE (User:Cold)(page, talk) 20:51, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
Do you know where whoever uploaded the first four got them from so I can upload the rest? --Shiny Noctowl 21:16, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
They're on the official Japaneses website. So far, only the first four have been revealed. --Mr.lol 21:20, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
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