Which gyms can be *accidentally* skipped in each main series game until you reach Victory Road?

Question

For example you can skip Saffron gym in FrLg and directly take on the rest of the 7 gyms.

This doesn't include Cianwood / Olivine / Mahogany Gyms in GSC or HgSs, as you have to defeat all the three in order to proceed to Blackthorn City.

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Idk for every game, but iirc you can skip Dewford in Ruby and Sapphire.

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i just played through all of gen 6, and they force you get dewford in oras and you cant skip gyms in xy

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What about Fortree in OrAs?

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## Gen 1 ##

Brock (Brock Skip Glitch)
Lt. Surge
Koga
Sabrina

## Gen 2 ##

Chuck
Jasmine

## Gen 3 ##

**RSE**
Brawly
Winona

**FRLG**
Lt. Surge
Koga
Sabrina

## Gen 4 ##

**DP**
Byron

**Platinum**
Maylene
Byron

**HGSS**
Chuck
Jasmine

**Note:** This post is currently WIP, I will include all gens if possible.

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If you're counting glitches, then you can skip every gym in gen 1, maybe also every gym in gen 2, and at least 2 gyms in DPPt. You can't skip Brawly in gen 3 because Norman refuses to battle you before you defeat Brawly. Also you can't skip Byron in any Sinnoh games (or Maylene in Platinum) without glitches. You need to defeat Byron in order to activate a Team Galactic event, and the grunts will stop blocking your way to the seventh gym only after you defeat Byron and finish the Team Galactic event.

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Are you still working on this answer?
@other editors/moderators You should probably convert this to a comment if Blaziken does not respond in a week.

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I have only played a few main series Pokémon games, and all I know about the gyms that you can skip is that in Pokémon let’s go you can do the first two gyms and complete most of the story for the game. The only part that you cannot do with only the first two gyms is victory road and the elite four. Other than that you can play almost the whole gam with only two gym badges.

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Lt. Surge
Erika
Koga
Sabrina
Chuck
Jasmine
Pryce
Maylene
Byron
And that is all!

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"This doesn't include Cianwood / Olivine / Mahogany Gyms in GSC or HgSs"

Where's your source?

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This is definitely wrong. Defeating Byron is required to reach the seventh gym in every Sinnoh game.
@Mushroom Do you want me to put this question back on the unanswered list?

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If you say so. I guess I should make my question more clearer.

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Honestly this is hard because multiple can be skipped and out in different order. but because you say while your on the victory road you have to be able to have them as the last when you got to the victory road. example you can get surf from fuschia then go to cinnabar then fight logs then Sabrina or Sabrina then koga as koga Blaine and Sabrina are interchangeable as leader five six and seven. though the proper order is of course koga 5 Sabrina 6 and Blaine 7. but technically excluding glitches or hacks none can in Kanto as Giovanni is only accessed and available after all Kanto gym leaders except him have been defeated.
Editor edit: I hope I put the periods in the correct places.

Answer 1

"Until you reach Victory Road" is an interesting stipulation because it eliminates almost every Gym from every game --- no Victory Road can be accessed without obtaining eight Gym Badges, save for one. In Generation III only, Winona can be skipped until the Pokemon League, allowing you to clear Victory Road without ever fighting her.

1. You fail Route 23's badge checks in Kanto.
2. You can't get past the Reception Gate in Johto.
3. Route 120 is impassable without defeating Winona and you can't get to Ever Grande City without Wallace in ORAS.
4. You can't get to Celestic Town without the third, fourth, and fifth Badges in Sinnoh.
5. There is no flexibility in Gym order in Unova, Kalos, or Galar.
6. There are no Gyms in Alola.
7. There is no Victory Road in Paldea. Though the Gyms can be challenged in any order and the Pokemon League is visible right after Mesagoza, you won't be allowed into the building until you get the eight official Badges.

If you want to be cheeky, you could say that you can skip the Fighting Dojo in Kanto indefinitely. If you'd like to be even cheekier, you could say that Paldea's "Victory Road" storyline can be commenced without earning a single Gym Badge.

Comments

Lol I didn't expect someone to answer this.

But ye, i actually meant just before badge checking.
Thanks