Ranking Every Gym Puzzle in Pokémon from Worst to Best
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- Every single Gym in Pokémon history had a Gym puzzle, test or challenge preceding it, but not all of them are equally as good. Today, I wanna rank them ALL from worst to best. From the ones that started it all in Kanto to the newest Gym challenges added in Scarlet and Violet and even those that were changed in remakes like Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, they're all included!
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Elesa’s B2W2 gym isn’t a puzzle: it’s a spectacle, and a damn good one at that. The runway slowly becoming more illuminated and the music growing as you make your way through the trainers and to Elesa. The vibes are simply electrical, it’s amazing to experience (even with it being a straight line)
100% agree, but this is a ranking of their puzzles, and I side with the decision to place it low.
Shoutout to Snowpoint’s Gym for softlocking people. Thanks Candice, very cool.
Thanks who?
Cool 🧊
@@KABIGON4445 Thank Deez-
I think Candice is my least favorite gym leader of all time
9:46 That's just literally not true, the gym has trainers in HGSS, and is IMO one of the most perplexing spin-tile puzzles in pokemon.
His opinions are..... Out there. Tate and Liza's Emerald gym worse than Sabrina's RBY gym? HEAVENS no
Jasmine's puzzle is the lighthouse, that's why there's no puzzle in the gym itself.
Ragegamingvideos solving Larry's puzzle first try was astounding as he didn't know what he was supposed to choose he just knew it was a special food item and went with what he would have chosen. Also solving Larry's food puzzle seems to have killed some people because they show the would be arena full and then a loud noise, screen goes black and the people are gone.
Food so good you're willing to risk death
Personally i really like a lot of the "its a really simple maze but its a really cute setpiece" gyms you brushed past because they tend to look like somethibg that the gym leader put a lot of passion and creativity into designing, like walkinf through Eirika's garden/greenhouse is really cute!
I really dont like the ones that amount to battling in empty rooms or hallways with one exception, my favorite gym is actually the only one you completely missed. JANINE'S, yeah its the exact same invisible maze as her father's, but having all her trainers be disguised as her AND one in the traditional "gym leader spot" was REALLY clever and plays on player's expectations well into the post game and plays into her Ninja theme WAY better than Koga ever did. I just wish she got more recognition as the only sequel only gym locked to postgame.
19:11 "There's no way to guess the answer."
Me, who guessed half of the answer on my first playthrough: * looks away while whistling *
Brock has to have one of the hardest puzzles in the series. Walking forward? How am I supposed to know how to solve that
It could take you lightyears...
The worst one has to be Blaine's gym in GSC. He's not a gym leader, he's a homeless man living in a tiny one room cave.
Medali gets bonus points for me for having a talking parrot as part of it.
Most disappointing is Montenevera since we never get to do that rap battle. They could have done it like a cross between the opera puzzle from Final Fantasy 6 and how karaoke works in the Yakuza series where you would have to remember lyrics and put them out to a rhythm (maybe going to language class could tie into this as well)
Fantina's gym being so easy is even worse when you consider failing it is the only way you can see a Drifloon outside of Friday. I'm not sure about platinum, but it makes diamond and pearl's dex requirement even worse.
Amen. Always miss it.
I like to battle all the gym trainers so i often will do 99% of wallaces gym puzzle and then fall through the floor anyway just to stunt on him. In that subject i think we should deduct a shit load of points from fantina’s gym because if you get all the questions right you miss the only trainer in the game who has a drifloon which makes it so you can’t unlock the national dex without encountering it in the wild. There is an entirely real situation where you couldn’t play the post game for seven whole days just because you did a piss easy puzzle correctly.
Snowpoint Gym is my personal hell. I recognize it as a good puzzle but it makes me realize I don't actually want good puzzles in a Pokemon game if it's gonna be like this.
fun fact about kabu's gym: i found out a day after swsh launched during my playthrough that none of the encounters in there are shiny locked. it's how i got my first ever shiny litwick.
A lot of the Gym puzzles aren't that interesting in Pokémon, you just have to put up with them to go to the Gym Leader
Fantina's gym in Platinum does do something unique tho. It's one of, if not the only gym where you looking at trainers will cause rhem to turn and challenge you. Plus the fact that youbhavr to actually physically find the correct path with your narrow cone of light feels more impactful than just waljing around blind
I've played all of these but somehow forgot there were SO MANY amazing gyms.
In my mind, most gyms were forgettable.
Gyms not covered
Drayden’s gym BW2
Skyla’s gym BW2
Blaine’s gym HGSS
Based on what he said about Norman’s Gym, Drayden’s would presumably also be quite high. I’d be curious to see where Skyla’s second gym ended up, though.
Larry is the absolute worst of the puzzles. The directions are unclear & there's no other way to know what to do
I had to look up what to do lol
I found the instructions pretty clear tbh. You just have to find people to battle they will give you an answer and you have to follow it. After that go around town and there are some hints that the townspeople and the parrot drop.
@@Powder-Point
Nothing tells you to go find any trainers, just to ask regulars for their input.
@@mysticmongrel1289 No when you register yourself as a challenger in the Medali Gym the guy at the counter says and I quote
“Right now there are three other challengers around town attempting this Gym Test. Each challenger has been given a different clue that’ll help them discover the secret dish. You’ll be given a clue as well. Please find and battle the other challengers. The loser must tell the winner their clue! Your goal is to gather clues and use them to determine the secret dish, then order it from the waiter in the Treasure Eatery. Only the challenger who’s able to order correctly will pass the test
Your secret clue is to find out how the regulars season their dishes.”
Actually I should have read the last sentence when I first played because it makes sense why no one told you to ask the Office Worker NPC or Larry for the last hint because it was the first hint you received.
@@mysticmongrel1289
Yes the guy at the Medali Gym the guy at the counter says:
“Right now there are three other challengers attempting their Gym Test. Each challenger has been given a different clue that’ll help them discover the secret dish. You’ll be given a clue as well. Please find and battle the other challengers. The loser must tell the winner their clue! Your goal is to gather clues and use them to determine the secret dish, then order it form the waiter from the Treasure Eatery. Your clue is to find out how the regulars season their dishes. I’d suggest you start by hearing what a regular at the Treasure Eatery has to say!”
If I properly read out the last sentences then I should have known that there is a reason why no one tells you to ask the Office Worker NPC or Larry because it is the first clue that is given out to you.
In my opinion the worst one is that spicy one in Scarlet and Violet's DLC.
Sorry but this genuinely feels like you ordered all of them completely randomly
As a kid I hated the Fusha and Snowpoint gym because I did not know the way to get to them. For Fusha I never played the original so I did not know what path I needed to take and for Snowpoint as a kid I spend like 2 hours to get to the gym leader but also I thought I needed to destory all snowballs. But now they are fine gym puzzels
I don’t like any gym puzzle. I’d rather just fight a bunch of trainers
Gym challenges are fun tho
I hate Ice puzzles.
The olive puzzle was really fun. That’s one of my favourites
not me doing the bw1 gym puzzle for elesa in bw2 in addition to the runway 😭
My favourite gym is all of Pokémon Black/White.
Roxanne was just walk to her
Fairy doll house xy not really the puzzle because that's like Sabrina gym in gen 1 but the aesthetic is too good
Again same logic psychic cosmo space gym xy
Gen 3 flying type gym now it's really just the puzzle really fun to solve
Hoehn again but gen 6 remake version of the last gym thin ice water type
It's a really fun puzzle that I think can be solved with imagination and creativity because there are multiple solutions
Worst is obviously gen 1 3rd gym lt surge after you get cut the trash bins
Smh
Psychic in SV is the worst imo
I hate the snowpoint city gym. When I play pokemon I turn my brain off, but trying to figure out the right path to pop the snowballs when you are sliding so quickly from one spot to another just gets annoying after you miss 3 or 4 or times. It is my absolute least favorite, below even original red and blue surge.
I’m oliveffended.
For all the boomer Pokémon fans always complaining oh nds era peaked Pokémon isn't as good as the old days
Gym puzzles seem to be getting better and better
Literally at 6 years old I figured out you can just save scum Surge's gum puzzle lol. It doesn't reset when you save and reload, so just find the first one, save, and reload until you find the second one. I wouldn't rank it anywhere near the bottom lol, Clay's gym is THE worst in the games. It takes way too long and I literally couldn't care less about his dumb lifts lol
19:12 Unless you're Tom Fawkes, apparently