Snowpoint Gym

The Snowpoint Gym (Japanese: キッサキジム Kissaki Gym) is the official Gym of Snowpoint City. It is based on. The Gym Leader is Candice. s who defeat her receive the.

In the games
The Snowpoint City Gym is a Gym consisting of a four-floor ice rink with slides connecting the various floors and snowballs blocking progress through the Gym. To reach the Gym Leader, Trainers have to slide around the Gym and destroy the snow balls blocking the way.









In the anime
The Snowbelle Gym appeared in Sliding Into Seventh!, where challenged Candice to a Gym battle for his seventh Sinnoh League Badge. In the battle, Ash used his, , , and , even though the first three were weak against Candice's Ice Pokémon. Despite this, Ash was able to defeat Candice and earn himself the.

In the Pokémon Adventures manga
The Snowpoint Gym appeared in Striking Out Snover and To and Fro with Froslass, where entered the Gym in order to tell Candice about her plan of going to Lake Acuity to stop Team Galactic from capturing. However, it turned out that she was forced to clear the Gym before she could meet Candice. After quickly plowing through the Gym puzzle and Gym Trainers, Platinum reached Candice and started a Gym battle with her. Wanting to get to Lake Acuity as soon as possible, Platinum intended to finish the battle quickly.

As Platinum had recently parted ways with and  in order for each of them to protect one of the lake guardians, she was still lacking some of her own self-confidence, which she had previously received from her friends. Thankfully, due to Candice scolding her of her half-baked efforts, Platinum was able to make herself use her boldest strategies and beat Candice, earning her her seventh Badge. After the battle, Candice told Platinum how she had been contacted by Byron about the Team Galactic crisis, and agreed to come help Platinum and Maylene fight the villainous team at Lake Acuity.

The Gym is also inhabited by numerous Ice-type Pokémon,  was caught by Platinum after the Gym battle and later given to Diamond.

Trivia

 * Snowpoint Gym is one of three Gyms that are in the seventh in their respective regions. The other two are the Mahogany Gym in Johto and Icirrus Gym in Unova.
 * Both of these Gym's Badges share their name with Snowpoint Gym's Badge in different languages.

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