10 Badges?!

[Teh Blazer]

I was playing the hack Ash's Quest and read that Gary collected 10 badges. Wait, 10 badges???!!!! I checked in the anime, and sure enough, Gary had 10 badges (and wanted an 11th). How did Gary get 10 badges, there were only 7 previous gyms (excluding the Kaz and something Unofficial Gyms)?

Check out the picture:

 

[Wings Don't Cry]

Actually there are more than 10 Gym Leaders in Kanto in the anime. Remember all those extra towns that weren't in the game that they went through? Well there are a lot more of those.

 

[Teh Blazer]

And these gyms do offer badges once beaten, right?

 

[Wings Don't Cry]

And these gyms do offer badges once beaten, right?

Of course, another clue to this is in a Pokemon Chronicles' episode where inspectors were closing Gyms that weren't fit to be official Gyms anymore.

 

[Myles]

There are fifteen known Kanto gyms (or at least badges), one for each of the original types.

 

[Teh Blazer]

Then, would you need all 15 badges to enter the Kanto Tournament-thing?

 

[TheAppleFreak]

I guess you'd only need 8 badges to enter the Indigo Conference, given that's what Ash did.

 

[Kirbychu]

^Yeah, I think that's how it works in most regions.

Spoiler:

I think that's still the case in Sinnoh. Here's Barry with his badges. Note that about half of these are different from the games.

 

[tee_bird]

That's an interesting picture, Kirbychu. I like how most of those badges look like modified Kanto badges.

 

[Damiano]

A trainer can get as many badges they want, they just need a minimum of 8 to meet the leagues requirements and to enter the league.

 

[CliveKoopa]

What I find interesting is in Abra and The Psychic Showdown is that Ash says back then "if I don't get a Marsh Badge, I won't be able to get into the Pokemon League". But then the anime then proves that quote wrong by having Gary win 10 badges.

 

[Lord Varion]

well he could of ( just to make ash jealous) had one of oak's aides ( or oak himself) make forgery badges O_o !!! coz i remember jessie and james making fake badges

 

[Darthbane2007]

What I find interesting is in Abra and The Psychic Showdown is that Ash says back then "if I don't get a Marsh Badge, I won't be able to get into the Pokemon League". But then the anime then proves that quote wrong by having Gary win 10 badges.

maybe Ash didn't know about the other towns.

 

[Kirbychu]

well he could of ( just to make ash jealous) had one of oak's aides ( or oak himself) make forgery badges O_o !!! coz i remember jessie and james making fake badges

How did I not see this before? It's obvious Gary is a complete fake. I bet you that he payed those hookers to hang out with him, and that dirty cheat steals "rents" Pokemon for league battles. We did it in Stadium, why can't he do it?

Does anyone know if some regions have an exact order to gain badges, or if there's conditions to face some gym leaders? Didn't Norman say to Ash that he needs more badges to face him? Is it possible that you need a certain amount of badges to face some leaders?

 

[weedle_mchairybug]

How did I not see this before? It's obvious Gary is a complete fake. I bet you that he payed those hookers to hang out with him, and that dirty cheat steals "rents" Pokemon for league battles. We did it in Stadium, why can't he do it?

Are you being sarcastic?

Does anyone know if some regions have an exact order to gain badges, or if there's conditions to face some gym leaders? Didn't Norman say to Ash that he needs more badges to face him? Is it possible that you need a certain amount of badges to face some leaders?

Well I don't know about Kanto or Johto, but Hoenn was definitely implied to have a specific order for gyms (It's in Home sweet Hoenn, otherwise known as AG003.). Sinnoh made a similar implication in that Paul was seen challenging Roark as being apparently his first gym despite the fact that he could easily fight Veilstone Gym or the other portside gyms as their first gym, not to mention Ash's badge case (Why create those indentations?)

 

[KissTheSkull656]

I wish we had that many in the games. That's not counting Gold/Silver where we also had Kanto, I'm just referring to one region.

 

[CliveKoopa]

Are you being sarcastic?



Well I don't know about Kanto or Johto, but Hoenn was definitely implied to have a specific order for gyms (It's in Home sweet Hoenn, otherwise known as AG003.). Sinnoh made a similar implication in that Paul was seen challenging Roark as being apparently his first gym despite the fact that he could easily fight Veilstone Gym or the other portside gyms as their first gym, not to mention Ash's badge case (Why create those indentations?)

If Ash had got three pokemon prior to reaching Norman's gym, he would have battled him before Roxanne. However, on the other hand, the PokeNAV did say that Dewford Island came after Rustboro City even though Lavaridge Town was closer.

 

[jasonresno]

There are probably boat loads of gyms that, so long as they are maintained, function just like the ones we are introduced to in the games and the anime. Maybe the ones we have run through are just a certain 'circuit' or something.

 

[Darthbane2007]

Keep in mind that that there are numerous more towns in the anime that aren't in the games. HopHopHop Town ( I just like to think of it as Celadon City) and the town where Snorlax plugged up the river. Also we have the Yas and Kas Gyms, so there is evidence that there is several other gyms..

 

[weedle_mchairybug]

If Ash had got three pokemon prior to reaching Norman's gym, he would have battled him before Roxanne.

Umm, he did battle him before Roxanne, but the match was interrupted, and after the blastoff, Norman explained that the first gym was actually supposed to be Roxanne's Gym, and that he is supposed to be fought later (implying that there is indeed a set order.