Everything We Know About Gyms In Pokémon Scarlet and Violet
Screenshot: Nintendo / Kotaku
Today’s Pokémon Presents revealed extra particulars about how the fitness center system in
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet works. You’ll be taking part in as a pupil at an academy, and beating a few of the hardest trainers within the area is simply a part of your faculty task. Tough, however honest.
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Depending on which model of the sport you may have, you’ll both be attending Narania (Scarlet) or Uva (Violet). As a part of your curriculum, you’ll be embarking on a “treasure hunt” all through the Paldea area. The treasure hunt consists of three completely different storylines, and the fitness center challenges solely consist of 1 department. So you’ll be able to possible anticipate much more sprawling content material apart from the time-honored custom of taking down the fitness center leaders. There are nonetheless eight leaders who stand between you and the “champion rank,” and Victory Road awaits on the finish of the journey. The trailer additionally confirmed off the Glaseado Gym chief named Grusha, who makes use of ice-type Pokémon like the brand new Cetitan.
The trailer reconfirmed what was beforehand tweeted on by an official Pokémon account. Instead of curbstomping fitness center leaders in a selected order, you’ll be able to select whenever you wish to take them down. Giving gamers the selection to problem gyms nonetheless they need is a cool departure from the inflexible components of the collection. I bear in mind the outdated days when choosing Charmander was the “challenge mode” of the Kanto video games as a result of fireplace was terrible towards the rock and water gyms, and never notably good towards the electrical one both. Those who picked Chikorita within the Johto titles confronted an identical downside. Scarlet and Violet’s fitness center system lastly permits all starter Pokémon to be on an equal footing, and I’m right here for it.
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This isn’t the primary time that Pokémon has experimented with an unconventional fitness center system. In the Pokémon Sun and Moon titles, the collection changed the gyms with “trials” by which gamers would typically full puzzles in lieu of truly difficult the leaders (or battling the trainers who’re working on the fitness center). However, the storyline was nonetheless slightly linear in comparison with what Scarlet and Violet have offered to this point.
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet will likely be launched on the Nintendo Switch on Nov 18, 2022.