Gym Leader: Difference between revisions

* For [[DP009]], [[Professor Oak's Big Pokémon Encyclopedia]] is about Gym Leaders. He writes this {{wp|senryū}} about them: 「ジムリーダー　いのちをかけて　かかってこい」 ''"Gym Leader, put your life on the line and challenge me."''

* The {{t|Dark}} type did not get a Gym until [[Generation VIII]], twenty years after the type debuted in {{game|Gold and Silver|s}}. Previously, there have been three [[Elite Four]] members ([[Karen]], [[Sidney]], and [[Grimsley]]), as well as an [[island kahuna]] ([[Nanu]]), who specialize in Dark types. The other seventeen types have at least one Gym associated with them, with the new types, {{t|Steel}} and {{t|Fairy}}, getting Gyms in their respective debut generations.

* Every Gym Leader that specializes in {{type|Steel}} Pokémon uses {{p|Steelix}} in battle.

* In the Johto saga of the {{pkmn|anime}}, none of the Gym Leaders had exactly the same lineups as they do in the games.

** However, Volkner only used three of his four Pokémon in his battle with {{Ash}}.

* In the games, every Gym Leader has at least one Pokémon in their party that knows the [[TM]] move they give out upon defeat. Former Gym Leaders do not count in this, as Wallace when he is faced as Champion and Giovanni when he is faced in Generation IV do not have Pokémon that know the move they gave out as TMs when they were faced as Gym Leaders in previous games. Koga, despite not being a Gym Leader in Generation IV, has several Pokémon that know Toxic, the move he last gave out as a TM.

* [[Marnie]] is the only Gym Leader who doesn't use the {{DL|Pokémon Trainer|Trainer class}} "Leader" or "Gym Leader" when battled at a [[Gym]].

* Prior to [[Generation VII]], all the Gym Leader's English names are puns based on their respective specialized types. In [[Generation IX]] and VIII, they all possess flora-based names similar to the [[Pokémon Professor]]s. The same applies to each Elite Four member of those generations.

==In other languages==