Ecruteak Gym

Ecruteak Gym エンジュジム Enju Gym
Location	Ecruteak City
Gym Leader	Morty
Badge	Fog Badge
Dominant Type	Ghost
Region	Johto
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The Ecruteak Gym (Japanese: エンジュジム Enju Gym) is the official Gym of Ecruteak City. It is based on Ghost-type Pokémon. The Gym Leader is Morty. Trainers who defeat him receive the Fog Badge.

In the games

Core series games

Ecruteak City
Pokémon Gym
Leader: Morty
The Mystic Seer of the Future

Ecruteak City Pokémon Gym
Leader: Morty
The Mystic Seer of the Future

In Pokémon Crystal and Generation IV, the player won't be able to challenge the Ecruteak Gym when they first arrive in Ecruteak City. An elderly man will force the player out of the Gym, telling the player that Morty is with Eusine at the Burned Tower, searching for signs of the Legendary beasts. As soon as the player has awakened Raikou, Entei, and Suicune, Morty will return to the Gym, allowing it to be challenged. The elderly man will then assume his normal position outside the Burned Tower.

In Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal, the Ecruteak Gym has an invisible floor, with an invisible path running through what seems like a dark pit. If the player steps in the wrong place, they will be sent back to the beginning of the path. The Gym Trainers appear to float in the air, standing on the invisible floor. The path to Morty mostly follows each Gym Trainer's line of sight.

In Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, the Ecruteak Gym has changed significantly. Flames light up some dim patches within the Gym. While there is still one path to Morty, sections are lit up, revealing Trainers that must be battled in order to reach the Gym Leader. In addition, when a Trainer is defeated, the lights will go out at the section where the player is standing on, forcing them to navigate through the dark patch with the help of their memory. As in Generation II, stepping over the edge of the path will cause the player to be sent back to the start.

Appearance

Interior

Generation II Generation IV

Items

Item		Location	Games
	TM30 (Shadow Ball)	Reward for defeating Morty	G  S  C  HG  SS

Trainers

Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal

Trainer	Pokémon
Sage Ping ジエイ Jiei Reward: $512	Gastly♂ Lv.16 No item
	Gastly♂ Lv.16 No item
	Gastly♂ Lv.16 No item
	Gastly♂ Lv.16 No item
	Gastly♂ Lv.16 No item
Medium Grace タエコ Taeko Reward: $800	Haunter♀ Lv.20 No item
	Haunter♀ Lv.20 No item
Sage Jeffrey ウンショウ Unshō Reward: $704	Haunter♂ Lv.22 No item
Medium Martha ヨネコ Yoneko Reward: $800	Gastly♀ Lv.18 No item
	Haunter♀ Lv.20 No item
	Gastly♀ Lv.20 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.

Leader Morty Ecruteak Gym Gold, Silver, and Crystal Reward: $2300

Types: Ghost Poison Held item: None Gastly♂ Lv.21 Lick Ghost   --       Spite Ghost   --       Mean Look Normal   --       Curse ???   --       Types: Ghost Poison Held item: None Haunter♂ Lv.21 Hypnosis Psychic   --       Curse ???   --       Mimic Normal   --       Night Shade Ghost   --       Types: Ghost Poison Held item: None Gengar♂ Lv.25 Shadow Ball Ghost   --       Mean Look Normal   --       Hypnosis Psychic   --       Dream Eater Psychic   --       Types: Ghost Poison Held item: None Haunter♂ Lv.23 Spite Ghost   --       Mean Look Normal   --       Mimic Normal   --       Night Shade Ghost   --

Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver

Trainer	Pokémon
Medium Georgina スズコ Suzuko Reward: $768	Gastly♀ Lv.16 No item
	Gastly♀ Lv.16 No item
	Gastly♀ Lv.16 No item
	Gastly♀ Lv.16 No item
	Gastly♀ Lv.16 No item
Medium Grace タエコ Taeko Reward: $960	Haunter♀ Lv.20 No item
	Haunter♀ Lv.20 No item
Medium Edith ウメコ Umeko Reward: $1056	Haunter♀ Lv.22 No item
Medium Martha ヨネコ Yoneko Reward: $960	Gastly♀ Lv.18 No item
	Haunter♀ Lv.20 No item
	Gastly♀ Lv.20 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.

Leader Morty Ecruteak Gym HeartGold and SoulSilver Reward: $2760

Types: Ghost Poison Ability: Levitate Held item: None Gastly♂ Lv.21 Lick Ghost Physical   --       Spite Ghost Status   --       Mean Look Normal Status   --       Curse ??? Status   --       Types: Ghost Poison Ability: Levitate Held item: None Haunter♂ Lv.21 Hypnosis Psychic Status   --       Dream Eater Psychic Special   --       Curse ??? Status   --       Nightmare Ghost Status   --       Types: Ghost Poison Ability: Levitate Held item: Sitrus Berry Gengar♂ Lv.25 Hypnosis Psychic Status   --       Shadow Ball Ghost Special   --       Mean Look Normal Status   --       Sucker Punch Dark Physical   --       Types: Ghost Poison Ability: Levitate Held item: None Haunter♂ Lv.23 Curse ??? Status   --       Mean Look Normal Status   --       Sucker Punch Dark Physical   --       Night Shade Ghost Special   --

Side series games

A field based on the Gym appears in Pokémon Stadium 2's Johto Gym Leader Castle.

Trainers

Pokémon Stadium 2

Round 1

Trainer	Pokémon
Medium Holly タケ Take	Bellsprout♀ Lv.50-100 Berry
	Hoothoot♂ Lv.50-100 PSNCureBerry
	Ledian♀ Lv.50-100 Burnt Berry
	Ditto Lv.50-100 Metal Powder
	Nidorina♀ Lv.50-100 Poison Barb
	Unown Lv.50-100 PRZCureBerry
Sage Ty ダイカク Daikaku	Zubat♂ Lv.50-100 Burnt Berry
	Smoochum♀ Lv.50-100 PRZCureBerry
	Gastly♂ Lv.50-100 Berry
	Golbat♂ Lv.50-100 Mint Berry
	Misdreavus♀ Lv.50-100 PSNCureBerry
	Haunter♀ Lv.50-100 Bitter Berry

Gym Leader Morty Johto Gym Leader Castle Stadium 2

Types: Ghost Poison Held item: Bitter Berry Gengar♂ Lv.50-100 Shadow Ball Ghost   --       Night Shade Ghost   --       Psychic Psychic   --       Fire Punch Fire   --       Types: Bug Poison Held item: Burnt Berry Ariados♀ Lv.50-100 Psychic Psychic   --       Sludge Bomb Poison   --       Dig Ground   --       Night Shade Ghost   --       Type: Rock Unknown Held item: Berry Sudowoodo♂ Lv.50-100 Strength Normal   --       Rock Slide Rock   --       Low Kick Fighting   --       Earthquake Ground   --       Type: Ground Unknown Held item: Mint Berry Marowak♀ Lv.50-100 Bonemerang Ground   --       Headbutt Normal   --       Bone Club Ground   --       Iron Tail Steel   --       Types: Normal Psychic Held item: PRZCureBerry Girafarig♂ Lv.50-100 Psybeam Psychic   --       Thunder Electric   --       Swift Normal   --       Nightmare Ghost   --       Types: Normal Flying Held item: PSNCureBerry Noctowl♀ Lv.50-100 Fly Flying   --       Confusion Psychic   --       Take Down Normal   --       Foresight Normal   --

Round 2

Trainer	Pokémon
Medium Holly タケ Take	Gastly♀ Lv.50-100 Spell Tag
	Noctowl♂ Lv.50-100 PRZCureBerry
	Weepinbell♀ Lv.50-100 Mint Berry
	Qwilfish♀ Lv.50-100 Bitter Berry
	Seaking♂ Lv.50-100 Gold Berry
	Ditto Lv.50-100 Metal Powder
Sage Ty ダイカク Daikaku	Haunter♀ Lv.50-100 PRZCureBerry
	Grimer♂ Lv.50-100 Mint Berry
	Jynx♀ Lv.50-100 Ice Berry
	Golbat♂ Lv.50-100 Bitter Berry
	Muk♂ Lv.50-100 Burnt Berry
	Murkrow♀ Lv.50-100 PSNCureBerry

Gym Leader Morty Johto Gym Leader Castle Stadium 2

Types: Ghost Poison Held item: King's Rock Gengar♂ Lv.50-100 Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Psychic Psychic   --       Fire Punch Fire   --       Thunderbolt Electric   --       Types: Water Flying Held item: BrightPowder Mantine♂ Lv.50-100 Surf Water   --       Ice Beam Ice   --       Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Wing Attack Flying   --       Type: Normal Unknown Held item: Scope Lens Granbull♀ Lv.50-100 Take Down Normal   --       Lick Ghost   --       Shadow Ball Ghost   --       Sludge Bomb Poison   --       Types: Water Ice Held item: MiracleBerry Lapras♀ Lv.50-100 Surf Water   --       Ice Beam Ice   --       Headbutt Normal   --       Thunderbolt Electric   --       Type: Ghost Unknown Held item: Focus Band Misdreavus♀ Lv.50-100 Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Shadow Ball Ghost   --       Psychic Psychic   --       Thunderbolt Electric   --       Types: Grass Psychic Held item: Quick Claw Exeggutor♂ Lv.50-100 Psychic Psychic   --       Giga Drain Grass   --       Stun Spore Grass   --       Double-Edge Normal   --

Spin-off games

Pokémon Masters EX

Artwork depicting the Ecruteak Gym is seen in Morty's mindscape.

Morty & Drifblim

In the anime

Ecruteak Gym in the anime

Ecruteak Gym's battlefield in the anime

The Ecruteak Gym first appeared in From Ghost to Ghost, where Morty was seen teaching a group of children about Ghost-type Pokémon before his Gym battle with Ash. Mostly thanks to his Noctowl's Foresight and newly learned Confusion, Ash was able to defeat Morty and earn himself the Fog Badge.

The Gym reappeared in For Ho-Oh the Bells Toll!, where Morty and his friend Eusine told Ash and his friends the legend of the Legendary beasts. When Ash mentioned that he had seen Suicune before, Eusine accused him of lying and challenged him to a battle. However, the battle was interrupted before it could even properly begin, due to a large number of Bug-type Pokémon attacking the city out of anger of Team Rocket having accidentally broken one of the Crystal Bells they had stolen.

Pokémon used in the Gym

		Gastly
		Morty sent out his Gastly as the first Pokémon he used in his match against Ash. Ash started with Noctowl, using Foresight to make Gastly vulnerable to physical attacks, but switched for Pikachu shortly afterwards. Gastly defeated Pikachu easily, but was then defeated by Ash's Cyndaquil. Gastly's known moves are Night Shade and Lick.
Debut	From Ghost to Ghost
Voice actors
Japanese
English	Ed Paul

		Haunter
		Haunter was the second Pokémon Morty used against Ash. It used Mean Look to force Ash to stick with Cyndaquil, and with Hypnosis and Lick, it won the round. Ash now had only Noctowl left to battle with. Things looked bad for Ash when Haunter managed to confuse Noctowl with its Confuse Ray, and was ready to finish it with Night Shade, but then Noctowl learned how to use Confusion, and beat Haunter with one try. Haunter's known moves are Mean Look, Hypnosis, Lick, Confuse Ray, and Night Shade.
Debut	From Ghost to Ghost
Voice actors
Japanese
English	Ed Paul

		Gengar
		Main article: Morty's Gengar Gengar is always out of its Poké Ball and hiding in the shadows, always coming out whenever Morty needs it. It loves to play tricks on people, especially on those who enter the Burned Tower. When Team Rocket tried to steal Ash's Pikachu as usual, Morty used Gengar to blast them away with a powerful Shadow Ball attack. Morty used Gengar in the Gym battle against Ash in From Ghost to Ghost. Gengar was shown to be a formidable battler. It is able to attack opponents even when it is invisible, making it almost impossible for its opponents to find it. Ash's Noctowl was able to reveal Gengar's location by using Confusion through the whole building and then using Foresight to keep Gengar visible. It then finished Gengar off with a Tackle attack and Ash got the Fog Badge.
Debut	A Ghost of a Chance
Voice actors
Japanese
English	Ed Paul

In the manga

Ecruteak Gym in Pokémon Adventures

Ecruteak Gym's interior in Pokémon Adventures

Pokémon Adventures

Gold, Silver & Crystal arc

Ecruteak Gym first appeared in Hello, Lickitung and Really Remoraid, where Lt. Surge arrived at the Gym to ask Morty's help to locate Gold and Silver, who had gone missing after their battle against the Masked Man at the Lake of Rage. Using Gold's cap and goggles and Silver's boot, which the two Pokédex holders had lost during the battle, Morty was able to use his special power to locate Gold and Silver on one of the Whirl Islands.

HeartGold & SoulSilver arc

Ecruteak Gym reappeared in Pleased as Punch With Parasect, where Gold came to the Gym to ask for Morty's help in finding Lance, who was missing after he had been attacked by Petrel on his way to the Pokéathlon Dome. Morty was able to draw a crude image of what he saw, later leading Gold to the Ruins of Alph, where Lance was hiding.

In Raising the Stakes with Rhyperior, Silver also arrived at the Gym to ask Morty's help to find the 13 remaining Plates. At the Gym, he was confronted by Falkner, Bugsy, and Chuck, who were protecting the place per Morty's request. At first, they were suspicious towards him, but when Silver revealed that Blue had entrusted him with the Rhyperior he had helped Blue to evolve, they allowed him to enter. Before Silver could ask Morty anything, however, Arceus appeared and blasted the Gym, destroying it. Despite being weakened by the attack, Morty was able to use his last remaining strength to mark the locations of the Plates on a map, allowing Silver and his Weavile to track them down across the region.

Ecruteak Gym in Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys

Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys

Ecruteak Gym first appeared in A Promise Given to Miltank, where Gold tried to enter the Gym in order to challenge Morty. However, since he only had two Badges, Morty refused to let him in. When Gold later returned to the Gym after having received the Plain Badge from Whitney, he was dismayed to learn that since Morty was going to the grand reopening of the Moomoo Farm and then to a month-long conference in Kanto, he was unable to accept Gold's challenge. Because of this, and for feeling he had seen Gold's true strength already, Morty chose to give Gold a free Fog Badge, telling him to keep it at least until he would be able to battle him to see if he could earn it for good.

In the TCG

The following is a list of cards mentioning or featuring Ecruteak City Gym in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

Ecruteak Gym 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	#
Morty	Su	Lost Thunder		186/214	Fairy Rise		048/050
					Tag All Stars		155/173

Gym Leaders of the Johto region
Violet Gym Falkner	Azalea Gym Bugsy	Goldenrod Gym Whitney	Ecruteak Gym Morty
Cianwood Gym Chuck	Olivine Gym Jasmine	Mahogany Gym Pryce	Blackthorn Gym Clair

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