Pastoria Gym

The Pastoria Gym (Japanese: ノモセジム Nomose Gym) is the official Gym of Pastoria City. It is based on. The Gym Leader is Crasher Wake. s who defeat him receive the.

The Pastoria Gym was the fourth Gym in, but in this was changed to the fifth Gym.

In the games
The Pastoria Gym is a large indoor swimming pool with numerous floating platforms. Switches on the floor of the pool raise and lower the water between three levels. To get to the Gym Leader, the switches must be hit in a certain order so that a path will be formed with the floating platforms.

In, before heading into the Gym, the player is challenged by.

In the anime
The Pastoria Gym debuted in Cream of the Croagunk Crop!, where tried to challenge the Gym, but Crasher Wake told him that he was going to be one of the judges at the Pastoria Croagunk Festival, and thus couldn't accept Ash's challenge at the moment.

The Gym reappeared in A Crasher Course in Power!, where Ash faced Crasher Wake in a 3-on-3 battle, which culminated in Ash's Buizel facing off against Wake's powerhouse,. Buizel was eventually able to defeat its evolved form, earning Ash the.

Like most Water-type Gyms in the, the Gym's battlefield is featured as a pool with several floating platforms on it for non-swimming Pokémon.

In the Pokémon Adventures manga
The Pastoria Gym first appeared in A Skuffle with Skorupi, where entered the Gym in order to challenge it. However, since her only Pokémon were and, a  working as a Gym Trainer suggested she'd try to catch some new Pokémon at the Great Marsh before challenging the Gym.

Although she failed to catch a single new Pokémon at the Great Marsh, Platinum nevertheless challenged the Gym in Crafty Carnivine and Floatzel and Jetsam, using her Empoleon and 's borrowed Tru against Crasher Wake's and. With some clever thinking and good timing, Platinum was able to defeat the Gym Leader and earn herself a Fen Badge.

The Gym reappeared in Besting Buizel I, where Crasher Wake had brought and  there to recover after the Pokédex holder had failed to stop Saturn from capturing  at Lake Valor.

In the Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure! manga
The Pastoria Gym made a brief appearance in Dialga's Secret Keys, showing Hareta defeating Crasher Wake and earning the Fen Badge.

Trivia

 * In, Caitlyn's  is the only Pokémon used by a Gym Trainer that is not of the Gym's specialty type.
 * In the, Ash's Pastoria Gym battle was his only Sinnoh Gym battle where he didn't lose a single Pokémon.

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