Gyms & Badges

Challenge gyms from the menu or NPCs, earn badges, and track your badge case.

What it is

Gyms are arena battles against junior trainers and a gym leader. Clearing a leader for the first time puts that gym’s badge in your badge case.

How to start

  1. Run /gym to open the category hub, or challenge a gym NPC in the world.
  2. Pick a gym from the menu.
  3. Some gyms expect prior badges or a badge count before you can start.
  4. Fight the junior queue, then the leader.

During a run, use /gym status and /gym stop. /gym elitefour shows Elite Four gate status.

Badges and rematches

  • Open your badge case to see earned badges versus empty slots.
  • Rematches skip juniors, use a harder leader team, and can pay money. Losing applies a cooldown before you retry that gym (5 minutes on the shipped Kanto gyms).
  • Shipped gyms include Pewter (Boulder) and Cerulean (Cascade). Those gyms scale your battle level toward 50 while enemy teams come from gym data.
  • If your party is far above the badge-based expectation, you get obedience-style warnings.

Limits

Gyms, Challenges, and Dungeons are mutually exclusive. You cannot start a gym while another of those sessions is already active.