Gym Leader

Gym Leader is a rank to refer to people who own a Gym and accept the challenges of trainers who want to compete in Kanto League. In order to provide such service, the Gym Leaders must be recognized by the government officially. Once a Trainer defeats eight Gym Leaders and collects eight different badges from the Gym Leaders, they become allowed to enter the League.

The Gym Leaders are experts on the battles and they analyze the battles to guide the trainers. Although not all, some of them request a trial before accepting their challenges, such as Misty, who requests to complete a trial of two stages which consist of swimming against a stream and finding a hidden item in a cave before facing the trainer. The hidden item is awarded to the trainer during their Gym Battle later.

Challenges
Each Gym Leader is located in a specific city. The trainers must visit the city and challenge the Leader in the Gym personally. Depending on the Gym Leader, they either get involved to a battle right away or complete a task beforehands to prove themselves as a worthy trainer. The Gym Leaders don't necessarily have to be in the Gym all the time. In such cases, the challengers are requested to wait.

Battles
The battles are hosted in the Gym on a particular battlefield. The Gym Leaders tend to design the battlefield based on their specialized typings. Brock hosts the Gym challenges on a rocky battlefield, while Misty chooses a waterpool.

Although the Gym Leaders use Pokémon whose typings are at least part of their specialized typings, the challengers are not limited to use any kind of typings. However, the challengers must use as much as Pokémon the Gym Leaders use, which means both the Gym Leader and the challenger may use same amount of Pokémon before the battle is over. Substitution in the battle is given as a previlige to the challenger. When the whole team of either side is unable to battle, the battle is over.

List of Gym Leaders
This list consists of the Gym Leaders that are introduced so far.