Blackthorn City

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Blackthorn City — Johto

Overview

Blackthorn City Gym

Gym-leader
Claire
Type specialty
Dragon
Badge
Rising Badge

Water Pokémon

Average levels
12
Members-only
0
Extremely Rares
0

Resources

Battleable NPCs
5
Ground-lootable items
0
Berry trees
0

Adjacent areas


Ice Path
Blackthorn City
Route 45

Blackthorn City is the last Johto city, hosting the final gym of the region. Behind this gym is also located the Dragons Den, a cave that is most known for being one of the best locations to level up.

Blackthorn City is also home to the Dragon Club, a tower that is necessary to visit in order to unlock the Cerulean Cave, although the NPCs inside will make the player work hard for it.

Notable miscellanies

Dragons Den

The Dragons Den is a cave located directly behind the city’s gym, requiring Surf to reach. Unlike in the original games, there is nothing blocking the cave, making it accessible before challenging the gym.

It is most particularly known as one of the best locations to level up, as the Pokémons inside are around level 50 and mostly fully evolved. As such, it is recommended to train there before challenging the Johto Elite Four.

Move Relearner

One of the biregional Move Relearners is stationed in the north-west corner of Blackthorn City.

Any move that the player’s Pokémon can learn by level up can be relearned at the price of 2,000 via the Move Relearner, at the condition that the Pokémon satisfies the level condition for the desired move. This is helpful to recover a move that was overwritten or that was never learned for various reasons.

Dragon Club

There is a tower north-east from the city’s gym called the Dragon Club. This location is most known as being one of the requirements to unlock the Cerulean Cave, or more directly, to unlock the lowest floor of Dragons Den.

There are two NPCs at the top of the tower. The Head Recruiter will give the player a Blackthorn Club Card, or otherwise known as the Dragon Membership card, for the expensive price of 200,000. This will allow the player to receive rewards from the Prize Giver.

The Prize Giver NPC will give the following rewards:

  • 90 Pokémon Caught data: Everstone
  • 150 Pokémon Caught data: Eviolite
  • 240 Pokémon Caught data: Dragon Medallion

The Dragon Medallion is necessary to challenge the Dragonite blocking the way to the lowest floor of Dragons Den.

Shelgon Trader

There is an NPC Trader between the Pokémart and the gym who will trade his Shelgon for the player’s Dragonair. The Shelgon will be initialized at level 15 and holding a Dragon Fang.

Wild Pokémon

Surfing
Pokémon Level range Times Held Item Rod Rarity Tier
Poliwag 10-15 Night Kings Rock Common
  • Pink-colored names denote that this Pokémon is exclusively encounterable for members in this area
  • Emboldened levels indicate they are isolatable with the Repel trick
Fishing
Pokémon Level range Times Held Item Rod Rarity Tier
Krabby 10-15 Morning Day Night Common
Magikarp 10-15 Morning Day Night Common
  • Pink-colored names denote that this Pokémon is exclusively encounterable for members in this area.
  • All Pokémon tabulated here can only be encountered via fishing; they are not Surf-encounterable.

Items

Pokémart

Blackthorn City Mart
Item Price
Ultra Ball 1,200
Ether 600
Revive 1,500
Super Repel 500
Max Repel 700
Escape Rope 550
Full Heal 600
Ice Heal 250
Hyper Potion 1,200
Max Potion 2,500

Blackthorn Gym

The layout of the gym is a simple, but rather long path. Being the last gym, even the gym’s trainers can be dangerous if unprepared. As such, it is recommended to train the Pokémons in Dragons Den before challenging the gym if they are underleveled.

Upon defeating Claire, the Gym-greeter will start selling the TM94Dragon Pulse for the price of 4,250. Furthermore, with the Blackthorn gym being the final gym of the region, all Pokémons caught in the Kanto region will be unlocked and it will be possible to return to the Kanto region.

Gym trainers

Blackthorn City Gym Trainers

Dragon Tamer Leo

Dratini
Dragonair

Dragon Tamer Orlando

Noivern
Goodra

Dragon Tamer Brad

Vibrava
Altaria

Dragon Tamer Enrique

Dragalge

Dragon Tamer Julio

Gyarados
Steelix
  • All NPCs cool down after 7 days unless noted contrariwise.
  • Gym-NPC levels are not known; as such, no level data is displayed hereon.

Claire

Claire is a Dragon type specialist, although just like Lance, her team has an equal amount of Flying type Pokémons. She also leads with her signature Pokémon, Kingdra, which may throw off players that have already played the original Johto games.

With the varied secondary types she brings, no Pokémon will be able to resist her whole team. However, a Fairy type Pokémon will be the most efficient as none of her Pokémon’s moves are super effective while Fairy type moves will be super effective against three out of her five Pokémons. It is also to note that all of her Pokémons are physically offensive, as such it is also worth bringing a physically defensive Pokémon.

Claire

Druddigon
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
Dragon Tail Dragon Physical 60 90
Revenge Fighting Physical 60 100
Gunk Shot Poison Physical 120 80
Stealth Rock Rock Status

Dragonair
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
Dragon Pulse Dragon Special 85 100
Thunder Wave Electric Status 100
Thunderbolt Electric Special 90 100
Ice Beam Ice Special 95 100

Dragalge
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
Dragon Pulse Dragon Special 85 100
Hydro Pump Water Special 110 80
Sludge Bomb Poison Special 90 100
Acid Armor Poison Status

Dragonite
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
Dragon Pulse Dragon Special 85 100
Flamethrower Fire Special 90 100
Hurricane Flying Special 110 70
Hyper Beam Normal Special 150 90

Kingdra
Move Type Category Base Power Accuracy
Dragon Pulse Dragon Special 85 100
Hydro Pump Water Special 110 80
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  • Emboldened moves avail from a STAB bonus when deployed by that Pokémon.
  • Italicized moves are functionally broken; see their individualized pages for more information.