{"id":7974,"date":"2022-07-18T04:48:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T04:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/uncategorized\/pokemon-scarlet-violet-should-finally-introduce-dual-type-gyms\/"},"modified":"2022-07-18T04:48:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T04:48:12","slug":"pokemon-scarlet-violet-should-finally-introduce-dual-type-gyms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/thegamer-originals\/pokemon-scarlet-violet-should-finally-introduce-dual-type-gyms\/","title":{"rendered":"Pokemon Scarlet &#038; Violet Should Finally Introduce Dual-Type Gyms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/pokemon-scarlet-violet-should-finally-introduce-dual-type-gyms_62d4e60b6adf8-1000x600.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/pokemon-scarlet-violet-should-finally-introduce-dual-type-gyms_62d4e60b6adf8-1000x600.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/pokemon-scarlet-violet-should-finally-introduce-dual-type-gyms_62d4e60b6adf8-400x240.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We all love Gym Leaders, but the standard Pokemon Gym format is the biggest thing holding the series back. It seemed like Game Freak was finally ready to shake up the structure when Sun &#038; Moon traded gyms for island challenges, but Sword &#038; Shield went right back to the standard format of battling Gym Leaders and collecting badges. Earlier this year, Pokemon Legends: Arceus got rid of gyms entirely, replacing them with Noble Pokemon boss battles, but it&#8217;s clear from the trailers that Scarlet &#038; Violet will have some kind of traditional gym system. It\u2019s time to reinvent the way Pokemon Gyms work, and the best way to do that is by giving every gym a second type. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/pokemon-scarlet-violet-dual-type-gyms\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all love Gym Leaders, but the standard Pokemon Gym format is the biggest thing holding the series back. It seemed like Game Freak was finally ready to shake up the structure when Sun &#038; Moon traded gyms for island challenges, but Sword &#038; Shield went right back to the standard format of battling Gym [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thegamer-originals"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7976,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974\/revisions\/7976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}