Pokémon Sword / Shield / Dark Gym Leader and musician

Piers

Dark Gym Leader and musician · Spikemuth Gym

Piers leads Spikemuth’s seventh Gym and is Marnie’s older brother.

Story: His challenge takes place through Spikemuth rather than in an ordinary Dynamax stadium.
In the game: He does not Dynamax. Scrafty, Malamar, Skuntank and Obstagoon have varied secondary types; Obstagoon is especially vulnerable to Fighting attacks.

Story spoilers.

Pokémon Sword / Shield · Nintendo Switch · 2019 · Original Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield for Nintendo Switch (2019). Version-exclusive Gyms and starter-dependent teams are labelled. · Picture: Piers: original Pokémon Sword and Shield character artwork.

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Piers

Spikemuth Gym · Gym 7

Sword and Shield

Dark

Badge: Dark Badge

Reward: TM85 Snarl

Dynamax is unavailable in Spikemuth. Piers’s ace is Obstagoon, which remains its ordinary size.

Fairy attacks are strong against Scrafty, and Fighting attacks are especially strong against Obstagoon. Ground covers Skuntank, which has no Fairy weakness.