

In Pokémon: Indigo League, if a trainer earns a gym badge but then loses it
during their travels and/or gets it stolen, do they have the ability to get it
replaced without having to battle the gym leader again?

Throughout the series Ash keeps his badges pinned to the inner part of his
jacket, but he's always flaunting them. Would it be possible for someone to
just steal all his badges and skip the process of battling gyms, or is there
some kind of registry that will verify the trainer's progress?


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If a Pokémon trainer loses a gym badge can they get it replaced?


for the **first question** In the first season ep75 "Bad To The Bone!" a guy
named Soto has lost all of his badges to Team Rocket saying "All our struggles
and sacrifices were for nothing", meaning he can't just go and claim his
badges were stolen, but in the 5th season ep45 "Why Wynaut!" after Ash's
badges were stolen Clair the gym leader tells him "If you report that your
badges were stolen I'm sure they'll be reissued in time", coming from a gym
leader it must be true, so the situation in "Bad to the Bone" is different
since it's may not be in time, given that in Ash journey he lost his badges
three months before the league started and in Soto situation it's a matter of
a day or two.

for the **second question** In the episode "Bad to the Bone!" after Team
Rocket had stolen the badges from Soto, Jessie saying "I've finally got my
very own set of badges, now I can enter the Pokemon League Competition and
prove ... " and the whole Team Rocket plot to steal the badges was to enter
the Pokemon League, saying it's enough to enter. Although in ep77 "Round One
Begin!" Ash is been asked by a clerk in the Pokemon Village an identification
to register the Pokemon League and Ash gives her his Pokedex it's been clear
since ep2 that the Pokedex serves as an ID too, so if a person will give an ID
with his badges it will be enough although he may steal them as proved from
"Bad to the Bone" episode.


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