Ecruteak Gym

The Ecruteak Gym (Japanese: エンジュジム Enju Gym) is the official Gym of Ecruteak City. It is based on. The Gym Leader is Morty. s who defeat him receive the.

In the games
In and Generation IV, the undefined won't be able to challenge the Ecruteak Gym when they first arrive in Ecruteak City. An elderly man will force the player out of the Gym, telling the player that Morty is with Eusine at the Burned Tower, searching for signs of the Legendary beasts. As soon as the player has awakened, , and , Morty will return to the Gym, allowing it to be challenged. The elderly man will then assume his normal position outside the Burned Tower.

Generation II
In, the Ecruteak Gym has an invisible floor which can cause many problems for someone who doesn't know what they are doing. The body of Morty's Gym is a dark pit. If a challenger steps in the wrong place, they will be sent back to the beginning of the path. Trainers appear to float in the air, standing on an invisible floor. A challenger able to navigate along the invisible floor using trial and error can safely reach Morty and challenge him.

A field based on the Gym also appears in Pokémon Stadium 2's Johto Gym Leader Castle.

Generation IV
In, the Ecruteak Gym has changed significantly. Flames light up some dim patches within the Gym. While there is still one path to Morty, sections are lit up, revealing Trainers that must be battled in order to reach the Gym Leader. In addition, when a Trainer is defeated, the lights will go out at the section where the player is standing on, forcing them to navigate through the dark patch with the help of their memory.









Round 1




Round 2




In the anime
Ecruteak Gym has been in a few episodes of the. Unlike the, the Gym does not have an invisible floor that challengers can fall through.

battled Morty in the Gym in From Ghost to Ghost. Using his 's ability to use and other  attacks, Ash successfully defeated Morty and earned his Fog Badge.

The Gym also appeared in For Ho-Oh the Bells Toll!. Eusine, an expert on Legendary Pokémon, was in Ecruteak learning about the Tin Tower. After stole the bells in the tower, Ash and  met up with Morty to find out what was going on. When a swarm of Pokémon began covering the tower in, everybody took cover in the Gym. It was also where Eusine challenged Ash to a battle, claiming the young Trainer was lying about seeing both and. However, the Bug Pokémon crisis prevented them from conducting their battle.

In the Pokémon Adventures manga
Ecruteak Gym first appeared in Hello, Lickitung and Really Remoraid, where Lt. Surge arrived at the Gym to ask Morty's help to locate and, who had gone missing after their battle against the Masked Man at the Lake of Rage. Using Gold's cap and goggles and Silver's boot, which the two Pokédex holders had lost during the battle, Morty was able to use his special power to locate Gold and Silver on one of the Whirl Islands.

Ecruteak Gym appeared again in the, where Gold visited the Gym to ask Morty help to find Lance, who was missing after he had been attacked by Petrel on his way to the Pokéathlon Dome. Morty was able to draw a crude image of what he saw, later leading Gold to the Ruins of Alph, where Lance was hiding. Silver also arrived at the Gym to ask Morty's help to find the 13 remaining Plates. At the Gym, he was confronted by Falkner, Bugsy, and Chuck, who were protecting the Gym per Morty's request. At first, they were suspicious towards him, but when Silver revealed that had entrusted him with the  he had helped Blue to evolve, they allowed him to enter. Before Silver could ask Morty anything, however, appeared and blasted the Gym, destroying it. Despite being weakened by the attack, Morty was able to use his last remaining strength to mark the locations of the Plates on a map, allowing Silver and his to track them down across the region.



In the Pokémon Gold and Silver: The Golden Boys manga
Ecruteak Gym first appeared in A Promise Given to Miltank, where 🇬🇼 tried to enter the Gym in order to challenge Morty. However, since he only had two Badges, Morty refused to let him in. When Gold later returned to the Gym after having received the from Whitney, he was dismayed to learn that since Morty was going to the grand reopening of the Moomoo Farm and then to a month-lasting conference in Kanto, he was unable to accept Gold's challenge. Because of this, and for having seen Gold's true strength already, Morty chose to give Gold a free, telling him to keep it at least until he would be able to battle him to see if he could earn it for good.

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