Part 13: Sootopolis Gym & Juan

Navigate the ice puzzles and defeat Gym Leader Juan to earn your final badge.

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Things To Do Before the Gym

Sootopolis Gym

Gym Leader Juan specializes in Water-types. Electric and Grass attacks are highly effective, but watch out for Whiscash (immune to Electric!) and Kingdra (takes neutral damage from Grass and Electric).

Gym Puzzle: Cracked Ice Floors

What is the puzzle: The gym features three platforms made of cracked ice. Stepping on a tile cracks it. If you step on a cracked tile a second time, you fall into the basement filled with trainers. You must walk over every tile exactly once to unlock the stairs.

How to solve:

  • Platform 1: Start at the bottom, walk left, up, right, right, up, left, and up the stairs.
  • Platform 2: Start center, go left, left, up, up, right, down, right, right, down, right, up, up, left, left, and up.
  • Platform 3 (30 Tiles): Snake back and forth horizontally, ensuring you cover every edge and corner tile, ending at the center tile directly in front of the stairs.

Trainer Pokémon (Lv) Type Strong Against Weak Against (2x/4x) Less Effective (0.5x/0.25x/0x)
Lass Andrea Luvdisc (Lv. 35) Water Fire, Ground, Rock Electric 2x, Grass 2x Steel 0.5x, Fire 0.5x, Water 0.5x, Ice 0.5x
Luvdisc (Lv. 35) Water Fire, Ground, Rock Electric 2x, Grass 2x Steel 0.5x, Fire 0.5x, Water 0.5x, Ice 0.5x
Beauty Connie Goldeen (Lv. 35) Water Fire, Ground, Rock Electric 2x, Grass 2x Steel 0.5x, Fire 0.5x, Water 0.5x, Ice 0.5x
Lady Brianna Masquerain (Lv. 37) Bug/Flying Grass, Fighting, Bug Rock 4x, Fire 2x, Flying 2x, Electric 2x, Ice 2x Ground 0x, Fighting 0.25x, Grass 0.25x, Bug 0.5x
Beauty Bridget Azumarill (Lv. 37) Water/Fairy Fire, Ground, Rock, Dragon (Immune), Fighting, Dark, Bug Electric 2x, Grass 2x, Poison 2x, Steel 2x Dragon 0x, Water 0.5x, Fire 0.5x, Ice 0.5x, Bug 0.5x, Fighting 0.5x, Dark 0.5x
Beauty Olivia Clamperl (Lv. 35) Water Fire, Ground, Rock Electric 2x, Grass 2x Steel 0.5x, Fire 0.5x, Water 0.5x, Ice 0.5x
Beauty Tiffany Carvanha (Lv. 35) Water/Dark Fire, Ground, Rock, Ghost, Psychic (Immune) Electric 2x, Grass 2x, Fighting 2x, Bug 2x, Fairy 2x Psychic 0x, Fire 0.5x, Water 0.5x, Ice 0.5x, Ghost 0.5x, Dark 0.5x, Steel 0.5x

Leader Juan's Pokémon Matchups & Counters

Pokémon (Level) Type Strong Against Weak Against (2x/4x) Less Effective (0.5x/0.25x/0x) Top Recommended Counters
Luvdisc (Lv. 41) Water Fire, Ground, Rock Electric 2x, Grass 2x Steel 0.5x, Fire 0.5x, Water 0.5x, Ice 0.5x Manectric, Magneton, Vileplume
Whiscash (Lv. 41) Water/Ground Fire, Electric (Immune), Poison, Rock, Steel Grass 4x Electric 0x, Poison 0.5x, Rock 0.5x, Steel 0.5x, Fire 0.5x Breloom, Sceptile, Vileplume
Sealeo (Lv. 43) Water/Ice Grass, Dragon, Flying, Ground, Rock, Fire Electric 2x, Grass 2x, Fighting 2x, Rock 2x Water 0.5x, Ice 0.25x Hariyama, Breloom, Magneton
Crawdaunt (Lv. 43) Water/Dark Psychic (Immune), Ghost, Fire, Ground, Rock Electric 2x, Grass 2x, Fighting 2x, Bug 2x Psychic 0x, Fire 0.5x, Water 0.5x, Ice 0.5x, Ghost 0.5x, Dark 0.5x, Steel 0.5x Breloom, Hariyama, Magneton
Kingdra (Lv. 46) Water/Dragon Fire, Water (Resists both 4x) Dragon 2x Fire 0.25x, Water 0.25x, Steel 0.5x Altaria, Rayquaza, or toxic stallers
Top Pokémon to have for this Gym:
  • Breloom: Grass/Fighting. Easily 1-shots Whiscash (4x weak to Grass) and dominates Crawdaunt and Sealeo with Fighting moves.
  • Magneton / Manectric: Electric attacks easily clear out Luvdisc, Sealeo, and Crawdaunt.
  • Dragon-type (Rayquaza / Altaria): Dragon Claw is super effective against Kingdra (who has no other weaknesses in Gen 3).
Rewards: The Rain Badge (All traded Pokémon will obey you, allows Waterfall outside of battle) and TM03 (Water Pulse).
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