[Sword & Shield] Gyms confirmed to return!

[Starry Windy]

So I checked the Pokémon Sword and Shield's site, and apparently they confirmed that "You'll visit the various Gyms in the Galar region, aiming for the enviable and admirable title of Champion!" If you saw the Direct, you may see a trainer entering a building that has the leaf mark in it, and I can assume this to be one of the Gyms available in Galar region.

So what do you think? Are you happy on the return to usual Gym routes? Discuss away.

 

[thedestinedblade]

Finally time for our first dark-type gym!

 

[hotsushi-kun]

I am hoping Ghost-type would be an male one, since we get a lots of Ghost-type Gym Leader that are female.

 

[Iceshadow3317]

I think what we saw in the trailer is a Sports Stadium and not a gym. There are only 5 of those buildings in the region and the Gym Symbol isn't visible. They also said in Kalos that they wanted to make the gyms unique. So I don't think they would make them all look the same again.

Obviously gyms are in the games, but I do not think that building you mention is one of them.

 

[Janp]

I'm excited for them. It looks like there is a Grass-Type Gym in the trailer.

 

[Starry Windy]

I think what we saw in the trailer is a Sports Stadium and not a gym. There are only 5 of those buildings in the region and the Gym Symbol isn't visible. They also said in Kalos that they wanted to make the gyms unique. So I don't think they would make them all look the same again.

Obviously gyms are in the games, but I do not think that building you mention is one of them.

Maybe so, or maybe not, because we still have no idea on what the Gym in Galar region looks like as of yet, but the fact that the Gyms are confirmed on the main site is what matters rn

 

[CodeHelmet]

So long as Gym's return is what matters. My speculation on what Gym Types:

Grass
Fire
Dark
Ghost
Ice
Steel
Psychic
Dragon

Elite 4
Water
Bug
Ground
Fairy

Champion: Mixed Types

 

[Iceshadow3317]

Sorry should have added to the discussion. If these are gyms, there could be 3 in the big cities, making it a total of 8. As it looks like there are 3 large cities, which I assume are the 'hubs' of the south, center, and north parts of the map.

I am very glad that gyms are returning. I hated trials. That was one massive hope for Gen 8.

As for the types in which the gyms can be, going by the images that could or could be a gym and the scenery.
Water, Grass, Rock, Ice, Steel, Fairy, and Normal.

The building in the Northeast near the giant mushrooms scream FAIRY to me.

 

[Ducolamia]

I'm a little disappointed but not surprised. I just hope they change it up a little bit.

 

[colours]

I'm not too surprised that Gyms made a comeback. Trials seemed like a thing that would only be exclusive to Alola simply because of the region culture, so I didn't expect the loss of Gyms to last long. However, I do have a concern about one thing.

What Alola did right is flesh out most of the Trial Captains/Kahunas so they were involved in more than just being the Trial Captain/Kahuna. In other words, they weren't one-dimensional like most Gym Leaders in prior games were. I worry that, because Gym are returning, that we're going to get mostly faceless Gym Leaders that only exist to give you a badge and play no real importance in anything else.

 

[Fletchling]

I hope we get leaders that are as fleshed out and as involved in the story as Gen 5 because they really nailed gym leaders down to a tee imo

 

[mysticalflute]

Yay, I guess. I just hope they actually play a role in the story.

 

[RileyXY1]

Here's my predicted Gym types (not in order):

Grass
Water
Dragon
Rock
Electric
Fairy
Steel
Ice

 

[Super Pokemon]

Maybe a new type? Therefore a new gym type? Unless they confirmed otherwise, no new types.

 

[AveeVaporGlitch]

I am curious if it is gyms in the sense we know them or gyms but in a new way. Like maybe not the 8 gyms but instead gyms that have puzzles and are done differently

 

[Flowerchild]

I liked trials :( shame to see them go back to the overused approach. I was hoping for something new

 

[Pepperton]

I think Alola's take was cool, but not perfect, and I prefer the gym set-up, but I agree with what's already been said - I hope they take time to flesh out the gym leaders and have them play a role in the story rather than be stale and pointless.

 

[juliorain]

These are my guesses:

Clocktower is a gym ??? type (dunno which one)
The town in the middle (not sure which type)
and the town to the far north, with the red roof. The tall tower in the middle could be the Pokemon League.

The five stadiums circled are very clearly pokemon gyms colored to the types they specialize in
Green one - grass
Blue - water
pink - fairy (considering that there are giant, luminescent mushrooms around it)
brown - rock
black - dark or ice, is a possibility when considerin the terrain but dark due to the placement ontop of the mansion? so either would go there.

 

[AveeVaporGlitch]

What if not all gyms are type but other stuff like one focuses on speed while another is triple battles

 

[PageEmp]

So gyms are returning? Not bad. Maybe they will reveal their names first and then we can guess the type from the names