Everything we know about the gyms

Today’s Pokémon gifts revealed more details about how the fitness system in

Pokemon scarlet and violet is working. You play as a student at an academy, and beating some of the region’s toughest coaches is just a part of you school assignment. Hard but fair.

Depending on which version of the game you have, you’ll take part in either Narania (Scarlet) or Uva (Purple). As part of your curriculum, you will embark on a “treasure hunt” throughout the Paldean region. The Treasure Hunt consists of three different storylines, and the Gym Challenges consist of only one branch. So aside from the time-honoured tradition of beating the gym leaders, you can probably expect a lot more sprawling content. There are still eight bosses standing between you and ‘Champion Rank’, and the road to victory awaits at the end of the journey. The trailer also showed the head of the Glaseado Gym named Grusha using Ice-type Pokémon like the new Cetitan.

The trailer again confirmed what was previously tweeted turned on by an officer Pokemon Account. Instead of slowing down studio heads in a specific order, you can choose when to take them out. Giving players the ability to challenge gyms however they want is a cool departure from the series’ rigid formula. I remember back in the old days when choosing Charmander was the “challenge mode” of the Kanto games because fire was awful against the rock and water aerobics, and not very good against the electric either. Those who selected Chikorita in the Johto titles faced a similar problem. scarlet and violetFinally, the Fitness system allows all starter Pokemon to be on an equal footing, and that’s what I’m here for.

This is not the first time Pokemon has experimented with an unconventional fitness system. In which Pokemon sun and moon titles, the series replaced gyms with “trials,” in which players would sometimes solve puzzles instead of actually challenging the bosses (or fighting the trainers who work at the gym). However, the plot was still fairly linear compared to what scarlet and violet have presented so far.

Pokemon scarlet and violet will be released on November 18, 2022 on Nintendo Switch.