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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 Master of
Psychic Pokémon!
Saffron City Pokémon Gym
Leader: Sabrina
The Master Of Psychic Pokémon
Saffron City Pokémon Gym
Leader: Sabrina
The Mistress of Psychic-type Pokémon
In Generations I and III, a Team Rocket Grunt is initially blocking the Saffron Gym door. He will only leave once the player has driven Team Rocket out of the Silph Co. office building.
The Saffron Gym is a maze of warp tiles and nine rooms. Seven of these rooms contain Trainers (only four in Generations II and IV), while the other two (five in Generations II and IV) hold Sabrina and the entrance.
A field based on the Gym also appears in Pokémon Stadium's Gym Leader Castle and Stadium 2's Kanto 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
Teleporters
Below is a map of the teleporters' connections. The teleporters work the same in all Generations, excepting the addition of a one-way teleporter in Sabrina's room (Mid) that warps the player back to the entrance room (S) in Generation IV. The colors are purely visual aids and have no other significance.
Trainers
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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.
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In the anime
In the main series
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.
Pokémon used in Gym
Saffron Gym in Pokémon Origins
In Pokémon Origins
Red was seen visiting the Saffron Gym after the Silph Co. incident in the Pokémon Origins episode File 3 - Giovanni. Countering Sabrina's Psychic-types with a Ghost-type Pokémon, Haunter, Red was able to win his match against her and earn himself the Marsh 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.
Trivia
- In Pokémon Red and Green, there is an oversight here. By returning to the Gym after losing the battle against Sabrina, the game will consider that the player won. The player is thus registered as a winner and receives both the Marsh Badge and TM46. This error was fixed in Pokémon Blue and the international Pokémon Red and Blue.
- For unknown reasons, the Saffron Gym is the fourth Gym in the anime, but the sixth Gym in the games.