Tate and Liza

Tate & Liza フウとラン Fu & Lan
""The mystic combination!""
[[File:File:ArtTateLiza.png|{{{size}}}]] Art from R/S/E
Gender	Female (Liza), Male (Tate)
Eye color	Blue
Hair color	Blue
Hometown	Mossdeep City
Region	Hoenn
Relatives	Jin (father) and Rachel (mother) (anime)
Trainer class	Gym Leader
Generation	III
Games	Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald
Leader of	Mossdeep Gym
Badge	Mind Badge
Animated debut	It's Still Rocket Roll to Me
English voice actor	Tate: Jason Griffith Liza: Andi Whaley
Japanese voice actor	Tate: Takahiro Mizushima Liza: Chisa Yokoyama

Tate and Liza (Japanese: フウとラン Fu and Lan) are the Gym Leaders of Mossdeep City's Gym, known officially as the Mossdeep Gym. They specialize in Template:Type2 Pokémon. They give the Mind Badge to Trainers who defeat them.

In the games

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Tate and Liza's battle sprite in Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald

Tate and Liza run the Mossdeep City Gym. Both specialize in Template:Type2 Pokémon and give out the Mind Badge once defeated. They also give TM04 (Calm Mind).

Pokémon

This listing is for Tate and Liza's Pokémon in the video games in which they have appeared.

Quotes

"Tate: Hehehe... Were you surprised?
Liza: Hehehe... Were you surprised?
Tate: That there are two Gym Leaders?
Liza: That there are two Gym Leaders?
Tate: We're twins!
Liza: We're twins!
Tate: We don't need to talk because...
Liza: We can each determine what...
Tate: The other is thinking...
Liza: All in our minds!
Tate: This combination of ours...
Liza: Can you beat it?"

"Tate: What? Our combination...
Liza: Was shattered!
Tate: It can't be helped. You've won...
Liza: So, in recognition, take this."

"Tate: Looks like the bond between you and your Pokémon is far stronger than the bond that we share as twins.
Liza: You will become even stronger! We've battled you, so we know."

At and after first rematch (Pokémon Emerald):
"Tate: Pokémon...
Liza: Pokémon...
Tate: By changing the party's mix...
Liza: The battle style changes.
Tate: But me...
Liza: But me...
Tate: I'll always be with Liza!
Liza: I'll always be with Tate!
Tate: Our combination...
Liza: We'll show you again and again!

"Tate: You and your Pokémon...
Liza: It's as if you were siblings!"

"Tate: You can knock us down, but we'll never stay down!
Liza: Because the two of us, we always support each other!"

Trainer's Eyes

Strategy - We battle in cooperation.

Trainer's Pokémon - Always friendly Pokémon.

Self-Introduction - We understand each other, and we understand others.

In the anime

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Tate and Liza

Tate and Liza first appeared in It's Still Rocket Roll to Me. Their father Jin owns the Mossdeep Space Center and often goes into space to search for space Pokémon. As a result, they often spend time at the Space Center, and even have battles in zero-gravity by using their Baltoy's Confusion technique to levitate them. Rachel, their mother, is the judge for Gym Battles.

Liza is the older of the two, and is more experienced in battle, allowing Tate to relate with Max since Liza sometimes loves to remind him of such facts. When fighting together in their double battle against Ash Ketchum in Solid as a Solrock, they initially kept bickering and allowing their opponent to get hits in. However, once they were able to work together they showed an incredible ability to balance each other's Pokémon, becoming a seemingly unstoppable force that Ash had to resort to unorthodox tactics to defeat.

Pokémon

This listing is of Liza and Tate's Pokémon in the anime:

Lunatone (Liza's)

Solrock (Tate's)

At Mossdeep Gym

Baltoy (×4)

Voice actors

• Japanese
  • Tate: 水島大宙 Takahiro Mizushima
  • Liza: 横山智佐 Chisa Yokoyama

• English
  • Tate: Jason Griffith
  • Liza: Andi Whaley

• Brazilian
  • Tate: Dado Monteiro
  • Liza: Samira Fernandes

• Spanish
  • Tate: Irwin Daayán (Latin-America), Álex Saudinós (Spain)
  • Liza: María Fernanda Morales (Latin-America), Inés Blázquez (Spain)

In the Pokémon Special manga

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Tate and Liza

In Pokémon Special, Liza and Tate are the guardians of Mt. Pyre. When they somehow sensed someone had intruded into Mt. Pyre, they went all the way to Lilycove from Mossdeep in order to protect the two Orbs. However, they fell into Mack's fire illusion until Juan rescued them. Afterwards, they become Ruby's and Sapphire's teachers in double battling on the Mirage Island. They stayed on the island to ensure Ruby and Sapphire can leave for Sootopolis safely, and were not seen since then.

Pokémon

This listing is for Tate and Liza's Pokémon in the Pokémon Special manga.

Lunatone

Solrock

Spoink ×2

Trivia

• Tate and Liza are the only Gym Leader pair; all other Gym Leaders are individuals.
• In Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, Liza and Tate are the only Gym Leaders who face the player in a double battle. In Emerald they are the only ones who face the player in a double battle before he or she beats the Elite Four.
• Chuang Yi's translations of Pokémon Special manga mistakenly refer to Tate as a girl.

Names

Language	Name	Origin
Japanese	フウとラン (Fu & Lan)	風蘭 fūran, the name for a type of orchid (Neofinetia falcata). 浮 fū means floating.
English	Tate & Liza	Their names combined sounds similar to "levitate".
French	Lévy & Tatia	Possible derivation from "lévitation".
German	Ben & Svenja	Combining their names would get "Schweben" (levitation).
Italian	Tell & Pat	Possible derivation from "telepatia" (telepathy).
Spanish	Vito & Leti	Possible derivation from "levitación" (levitation).
Korean	풍 & 란 Pung & Ran	란 Ran is a transliteration of Japanese name, while 풍 Pung is from 楓, a spelling of Fū.
Chinese	楓/枫 & 南 Fēng & Nán	Fēng is taken from 楓, a spelling of Fū.

References

• Pokémon.com It's Still Rocket Roll to Me.
• Pokémon.com Solid as a Solrock.

External links

• Fu and Lan's Profile on Pokeani (Japanese)

Gym Leaders of the Hoenn region
Rustboro Gym Roxanne	Dewford Gym Brawly	Mauville Gym Wattson	Lavaridge Gym Flannery
Petalburg Gym Norman	Fortree Gym Winona	Mossdeep Gym Tate and Liza	Sootopolis Gym Wallace Juan

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