Hulbury Stadium

Hulbury Stadium バウスタジアム Bow Stadium
Location	Hulbury
Gym Leader	Nessa
Badge	Water Badge
Dominant Type	Water
Region	Galar
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Hulbury Stadium (Japanese: バウスタジアム Bow Stadium) is the official Gym of Hulbury. The Gym specializes in Water-type Pokémon. During the Gym Challenge, Gym Challengers battle the Gym Leader Nessa to earn the Water Badge.

In the games

Hulbury Stadium is the largest building in the town and is the site at which the second installment in the Galar region's Gym Challenge takes place. It is located at the northernmost part of the town. Like most Stadiums in the region, the Hulbury Stadium contains a Poké Mart and a uniform shop.

Gym Challenge

Gym mission

During the Gym mission, the player is required to navigate a maze that is partially blocked by falling streams of water.

There are a number of pairs of colored pipes and grills throughout the Gym. There are a total of three different colors: red, yellow, and blue. When activated, water falls from the pipe and runs through the grill, blocking the player from crossing that grill; when deactivated, the player can freely cross the grill. Initially, some of the pipes are activated, some are deactivated.

There are a number of colored switches throughout the Gym; pressing one of these switches activates all inactive pipes of the same color, but also deactivates all active pipes of the same color. The player has to press the switches in order to navigate the maze and reach the door at the back of the Gym.

The player can withdraw from the Gym mission at any time by returning to the entrance. If the player loses a battle or withdraws, the mission is reset; however, defeated Gym Trainers cannot be battled again. Once the player has completed the Gym mission, even if they leave or lose, they proceed straight to the Gym battle from the reception area.

The player cannot use Pokémon Camp, Pokémon Box Link, or VS during the Gym mission or in the hallway before the Gym battle.

Trainers

Trainer	Pokémon
Gym Trainer Julia ナミエ Namie Reward: $2,016	Tympole♀ Lv.21 No item
Gym Trainer Heather サワコ Sawako Reward: $1,920	Krabby♀ Lv.20 No item
	Corphish♀ Lv.20 No item
Gym Trainer Lynn ヨウコ Youko Reward: $2,016	Remoraid♀ Lv.20 No item
	Chewtle♀ Lv.21 No item

Gym battle

Nessa Dynamaxes her Drednaw at the first opportunity.

Gym Leader Nessa Hulbury Stadium Sword and Shield Reward: $3,840

Type: Water Unknown Ability: Swift Swim Held item: None Goldeen♀ Lv.22 Water Pulse Water Special   --       Whirlpool Water Special   --       Horn Attack Normal Physical   --       Agility Psychic Status   --       Type: Water Unknown Ability: Swift Swim Held item: None Arrokuda♀ Lv.23 Aqua Jet Water Physical   --       Bite Dark Physical   --       Whirlpool Water Special   --       Fury Attack Normal Physical   --       Types: Water Rock Ability: Swift Swim Held item: None Drednaw♂ Lv.24 Dynamax Razor Shell Water Physical   --       Water Gun Water Special   --       Bite Dark Physical   --       Headbutt Normal Physical   --

Sordward and Shielbert

While pursuing Sordward and Shielbert, the brothers will use their stock of Wishing Stars to force a Gyarados from the Stadium to Dynamax against its will, causing it to rampage in the Stadium. The player faces it with Hop, Piers, and Nessa in a Max Raid Battle to defeat it and calm it down.

Hop's Pokémon
If the player chose Grookey: Pokémon Trainer Hop Hulbury Stadium Sword and Shield Type: Water Unknown Ability: Torrent Held item: None Inteleon♂ Lv.60 Snipe Shot Water Special   --       Sucker Punch Dark Physical   --       Liquidation Water Physical   --       Curse Unknown Status   --	If the player chose Scorbunny: Pokémon Trainer Hop Hulbury Stadium Sword and Shield Type: Grass Unknown Ability: Overgrow Held item: None Rillaboom♂ Lv.60 Drum Beating Grass Physical   --       Slam Normal Physical   --       Uproar Normal Special   --       Curse Unknown Status   --	If the player chose Sobble: Pokémon Trainer Hop Hulbury Stadium Sword and Shield Type: Fire Unknown Ability: Blaze Held item: None Cinderace♂ Lv.60 Double-Edge Normal Physical   --       Headbutt Normal Physical   --       Pyro Ball Fire Physical   --       Agility Psychic Status   --
Piers's Pokémon	Nessa's Pokémon
Pokémon Trainer Piers Hulbury Stadium Sword and Shield Types: Dark Normal Ability: Reckless Held item: None Obstagoon♂ Lv.62 Cross Chop Fighting Physical   --       Snarl Dark Special   --       Throat Chop Dark Physical   --       Shadow Claw Ghost Physical   --	Gym Leader Nessa Hulbury Stadium Sword and Shield Types: Water Rock Ability: Shell Armor Held item: None Drednaw♂ Lv.62 Liquidation Water Physical   --       Jaw Lock Dark Physical   --       Body Slam Normal Physical   --       Rock Tomb Rock Physical   --

	Types: Water Flying Ability: Intimidate Held item: None
Gyarados♂ Lv.62 Dynamax
Waterfall Water Physical   --       Stone Edge Rock Physical   --       Crunch Dark Physical   --       Avalanche Ice Physical   --

Items

Item		Location	Games
	Lure Ball	From the Ball Guy	Sw  Sh
	TM36 (Whirlpool)	Reward for defeating Nessa	Sw  Sh
	Water Uniform	Reward for defeating Nessa	Sw  Sh
	Nessa's rare League Card	From Nessa after defeating the Dynamax Gyarados	Sw  Sh

Poké Mart

This Poké Mart is located on the right side of the Hulbury Stadium lobby.

Poké Mart
Poké Ball $200	Great Ball $600
Ultra Ball5 Badges $800	Potion $200
Super Potion $700	Hyper Potion4 Badges $1,500
Max Potion7 Badges $2,500	Full Restore8 Badges $3,000
Antidote $200	Burn Heal $200
Ice Heal $200	Awakening $200
Paralyze Heal $200	Full Heal6 Badges $400
Revive $2,000	Repel3 Badges $400
Super Repel5 Badges $700	Max Repel7 Badges $900
Poké Doll2 Badges $300

Uniform shop

This shop is located on the left side of the Hulbury Stadium lobby.

Male

Female

In the spin-off games

Pokémon Masters EX

Artwork depicting Hulbury Stadium is seen in Nessa's mindscape.

Nessa & Drednaw

In the manga

Hulbury Stadium in Pokémon Adventures

Pokémon Adventures

Sword & Shield arc

Hulbury Stadium first appeared in Toasty!! Battle Against Toxapex. After defeating Milo at Turffield, Henry and Casey arrived at Hulbury Stadium for the next leg of their Gym Challenge. Henry was the first of the two to challenge Nessa, using his newly evolved Thwackey, Twiggy, to face the Water-type Gym Leader.

After Henry had won his match using just Thwackey, Casey challenged Nessa as well in Splish Splash!! Gigantamax Battle. Despite her Scorbunny being at a disadvantage, she won due to a combination of Nessa's Pokémon still being tired out from the previous battle and her Scorbunny evolving into Raboot mid-battle. Afterwards, Bede, Marnie, and Hop also challenged and successfully beat Nessa.

Pokémon used in the Gym

		Toxapex
		Toxapex is Nessa's first known Pokémon. It was first seen participating in a photo shoot with Nessa. Later, it was used in a battle against Henry's Twiggy. Though it poisoned its opponent with Baneful Bunker, Toxapex was defeated when its body was heated up by Twiggy's Sunny Day, leaving it wide open for Twiggy's next attack. Toxapex's only known move is Baneful Bunker.
Debut	Toasty!! Battle Against Toxapex

		Drednaw ↔ Gigantamax Drednaw
		Drednaw is Nessa's second known Pokémon. It was first used in Nessa's Gym battle against Henry, but it was defeated by Henry's Twiggy. It is housed in a Dive Ball. None of Drednaw's moves are known*. As a Gigantamax Drednaw, it can use Max Strike and G-Max Stonesurge.
Debut	Toasty!! Battle Against Toxapex

Gym Leaders of the Galar region
Turffield Stadium Milo	Hulbury Stadium Nessa	Motostoke Stadium Kabu	Stow-on-Side Stadium Bea Allister
Ballonlea Stadium Opal Bede	Circhester Stadium Gordie Melony	Spikemuth Gym Piers Marnie	Hammerlocke Stadium Raihan

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