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Pewter City Gym
Pewter City Gym
Every major city in the Pokémon universe has a Pokémon Gym, established by the official association of Pokémon trainers. Inside these gyms, you will face one or more Pokémon trainers headed up by a strong leader. The first gym leader you will face, Brock, isn't all that tough to beat -- unless you mismatch types.
Water Pokémon like Squirtle won't have any problems blazing through this battle. If you don't have Squirtle, use a Fighting Pokémon or a Level 12 (or higher) Normal type like Nidoran for an easy battle. Don't use Poison or Electric techniques, though.
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The trainers appearing in this gym are:
- Camper Liam
- Geodude (10)
- Sandshrew (11)
- Gym Leader Brock
- Geodude (12)
- Onix (14)
Once you beat Brock, you get your hands on TM 39 (Rock Tomb) and the Boulder Badge. Apart from allowing you to go on, the Boulder Badge also gives you the ability to utilize the Flash technique to light up dark dungeons. Note that you need to first find HM 05 - Flash in order to actually learn this technique. But in order to get Flash, you first need to learn Cut. So forget about it for now and move on to Route 3, to the east.